skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'll just have to trust that the Intel Management Engine backdoor and radio chipsets you have no access to aren't taking advantage of you.

And that's dumb and we should fix it, but there is no evidence that they are actually doing this. Conversely, there is plenty of evidence that e.g. John Deere or Apple is doing this.

> Good luck using the entire internet and your local library to train your own personal AI though.

Presumably you would use Common Crawl and Project Gutenberg etc.

> Microsoft has access to an incredible amount of non-public data including the emails of corporations using outlook and the files on people's hard drive. If they were to fully leverage their access to train AI you'd have a hard time keeping up.

Then they'd set their credibility on fire, lose their customers and get sued because their model would be capable of emitting all of their customers' confidential private information.

> Even if we had that kind of access to raw data, could we realistically process it?

Yes. Training is a fixed cost that can be amortized over everyone using the model. There are various methods of spreading the cost or funding the model:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39964361

> There are a lot of different versions of "AI is bad". One is "AI is bad when it's only controlled by corporations"

That one isn't really "AI is bad" at all, it's really "market concentration is bad" and has nothing to do with AI except insofar as AI is another thing that could be monopolized by robber barons.

> They're more likely to say that "AI is bad" because of terrorists and spammers and pedos or whatever other boogeymen they can summon up to scare the ignorant and provide some justification for keeping that power out of the public's hands.

These justifications are all horse manure and should be repeated only sarcastically in the tone of Helen Lovejoy.

AI is bad in the same way that electricity is bad. "Electricity could be used by pedos" is an argument so weak that the only thing it proves is that the person offering it is arguing in bad faith.
Fun fact, the main reason I developed rpgp in the first place was to power the pgp portion pf deltachat, as we ran into the same problem of not having a good library based implementation. And spawning gnupg on a phone was never an option.
AI will reduce executives

- AI
Because they rather operate at a loss with high revenue rather than have 0 revenue and loss?
Formal Aspects of Language Modeling
Something noteworthy, efforts dating back from 2005, from another part of the world - https://www.linux.com/news/linux-thrives-left-leaning-kerala...

1. https://www.opensourcefeed.org/it-at-school-linux-20.04/

2. https://icfoss.in/home

3. https://itsfoss.com/kerala-linux/

4. https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/how-switching-linux-bas...
> Example - a customer (UK Ltd) who declared bankruptcy owing us a money and then then next day founded a new Ltd company and tried to act like he didn't owe us the money because it was a new entity.

Depends. This can be illegal and he is personally liable for the amount. That being said, he might have done things by the book and his previous venture is bankrupted.
But then that would apply to every company that has datacenters and provides services both in US and Europe?
Entrepreneurs do, so the even more depressing thing is how low EU's entrepreneurship rate is.
Helpful. Do you know of any way to export the screen time from iphone/ipad?
The split would be fair, and if the same algorithm applied to every subscriber, popular musicians would get paid more.
I wouldn’t want Cody interrogating my local Terraform state or tfvars, for example. There might not be unecrypted secrets in there, but there’s configuration data that I don’t want to disclose too.
Do you mean, how do you handle $0.001 monthly payouts? Spotify could set a payout threshold. If the threshold is not passed in a given month, the balance carries over to the next month.
I think they should basically turn it into Twitch, where I can "sub" to an artist and maybe get their tracks earlier than others or some other additional content that costs artist $0 to produce for the most part (podcast, making of, e.g. a la Patreon). In addition, if you add "donate" button you'd see a lot of artists being showered with cash. It's a shame that these hacks (streamers) become multimillionaires while real talents make pennies off actual art.
> Austerity ideology dictates that there simply must be inefficiency in public services, and cuts are the cure to this disease since this will cause the public sector to "make do and mend"

There is some weird notion in populace that if we cut the funding, the public services will "get handle of themselves" and become more cost efficient. That's what a reasonable individual would do in tougher times. What happens in reality is that the nepotist core in public services will entrench and be fine or even better off, while the society will be told to suck it up.
> I highly doubt anyone would hire an 18y/o over an MBA into a role like that, even if the 18y/o is much more experienced.

You should not dismiss yourself in advance. Have you tried applying to the roles you are interested in? Until you've been rejected, your beliefs are all theoretical, and you have no idea what will really happen.

Also, if you are planning to go back to school soon, consider applying to internships. They would be a lot more flexible on the kinds of experience they expect, and they would also expect you to be leaving in the short term.

Finding the "normal person" things you enjoy is a skill, and it's useful to start developing that skill now. Sometimes the false feeling that you need to be productive all the time gets in the way of that.
I can notice a slight latency in Gnome Terminal ... running in a VM ... on a Windows host ... being accessed via RDP over Wi-Fi and a 100 Mbps line. Not enough to bother me.
I never understood why people want a bunch of features on their terminal. I just want a terminal that doesn't get in the way of my tools. Alacritty is great at that
Is that a correct assignment? Austria-Hungary was a thing back then, but someone born and mostly living in Prague I would not call Austrian today.
"NoRoot Firewall" and I have allowed IPs and URLs that I've trialed-and-errored to Allow. Then . to block everything else. Fun fact: most of the garbage/ads/albums/pushes/etc, as well as your Annual Wrap-Up (or whatever it is called) it is provided by a tracker (I can't remember/see because I haven't individually blocked it - it's blocked under the . rule)(first 10-15 IPs & URLs are allowed, all else is blocked).

I believe that using an Android phone without a Firewall must be a horrible experience/it increases the positive experience by A LOT.

It also helps to see which apps are sneaky and run on their own - even if you disable the 'background run' (e.g. TuneIn Radio starts itself bypassing battery/power settings)
The issue is with the requirement of a security. Winheller do phrase it carefully as "in their view" a security is not required, but that would have to be agreed with the tax authorities in advance and there are different opinions on how likely this is without a firm legal ruling from the law courts.

(What I find concerning is the attitude of the German tax authorities in their continual attempts to strengthen and increase the scope of this law. They are always trying to broaden it leaving it to individuals and the courts to push back on them.)
so that's not the case - the Facebook guy was lying. At absolute best, he was making a much stronger claim than he confidently could.

There's continued to be intermittent bans on the Kansas Reflector site, and there's even fresh bans on blog posts talking about the ban on the site. Also, the original KR post about Facebook still seems to be blocked from being posted on Facebook or Instagram. Someone is actively adding these URLs to the filter.

There's this weird tendency to bend over backwards to assume Facebook, a company repeatedly convicted of doing malicious things, wouldn't do a malicious thing, and none of the excuses stand up to the facts for a second. Would a company run by a man who openly compares himself to Caesar Augustus try to silence its critics?
Sparse Universal Transformer is older and already did routing-based early termination...
List incomplete and dated. I think calling these long-term visas "digital nomad visas" confuses some terminology. Digital nomads generally (not always) travel and stay on tourist visas. Someone who obtains a long-stay visa in a foreign-country and settles in doesn't live nomadically anymore, I would call them expats or even immigrants. Nomads travel frequently with no home base, though I understand that doesn't apply the same way to everyone and the label "digital nomad" can include a lot of people with different travel and work habits.

Some countries created so-called digital nomad visas so they can collect taxes from people working in the country on tourist visas. The nomads already visited and spent money, but under the radar, not paying local taxes.
Show HN: Finboard – An Affordable Financial Database
I've developed a web app that organizes financial statements from SEC.

There are similar products on the Internet, but all of them I found just "abstracts" raw information into something.

For example, typical website has "Revenue" as a top-line metrics. In reality, that can be "Total Revenue", "Net Sales", "Operating Revenue", and so on. Those website can't cover exceptional values in same reason.

I believe serious investors need raw financial statements aggregated because each number reflect the companies' financial performance. Major platforms like Bloomberg does that but too expensive for individuals.

That's why I've built "Finboard". You can see the aggregated financial statements like this: https://finboard.net/companies/TSLA/income-statement

The idea also came from "Notion". Notion is a great tool with infinite use cases. I thought it would be great if we can have financial data in a text editor. So I've decided to build Editor & Database platform.

Currently the“Card view”is the most powerful feature. You can screen a company lists (such as all US listed companies), and the result can show financial performance and/or stock price chart like this: https://finboard.net/view/sec?view=a037684a58c448a590e3d3ec5...

You may also find it useful that Japanese companies’ financial information is also available in English on Finboard.

The tech stack is: Next.js with TypeScript on Vercel and MongoDB Atlas.

Open to any questions or feedback. Hope you might find it interesting!
I have no idea how that relates to what I wrote.

Edit: Actually I see now, you're replying to where I said they bought services and raised prices without the customer consent. If we're using a restaurant comparison, it'd be like your local burger shop raising prices because your meal comes bundled with discounted carwashes. Consumers generally don't want bundles, they want to buy the thing they're interested in.
It's more than $200 but yes. Other countries can be cheaper/easier. Indonesia is heated because of Bali.
> von Neumann's fear

I'm glad we don't rely on a single man's fears, whatever are his genius and rationalizations.
Back in the day, Amiga could read Amiga floppies (of course), PC floppies and Mac floppies, using standard floppy drives.
Fully agree. The idea here doesn't seem to be to create quality content, but to satisfy people's itch to be informed about the world without actually paying a reputable source.

Next: Create real-time reports of sports events by just combining "hearsay" from random people on Twitter into ever-evolving "factual" news. Maybe with a user-option to select which team you're rooting for, so the hodgepodge of hearsay is automatically curated to create a favorable outcome for you personally...
There is no "diffusion over time" with variable premia and short terms. Insurance companies already know the probability of an event within a risk pool over a term. That's not what this is talking about. They are looking to condition on more and more information so as to slice a risk pool towards a 0-1 risk, which, because they are positive EV, will make their profit more and more certain. They are looking to eliminate the negative tail, the existence of which is the whole point of paying out that positive EV.

In the end, this is going to happen. Insurance companies will be soothsayers and get paid for essentially making advisory predictions, not offloading risk, while society will have to agree to bear the cost of known outcomes over which people generally have no individual agency.
While I wholeheartedly agree with your points about being forced to remain a wage slave for pennies (in comparison to say the US) and people relying on the government way too much— these are right on the money — I do think casually slipping in “orgies” lessens the validity of your claim in the reader’s mind.

Also I don’t think it’s fair to claim immigrants are being set on fire (with no citations) like it’s just regular business. Horrible things happen everywhere and I doubt Germany is the worst place in the world.

Overall you had me in the first half, then went off the reservation. Still I hold that your first points are valid.
Murr was right.
this was basically what I was asking. would this scheme actually make more money for the musicians? thanks for a reply.
Google has used LMs in search for years (just not trendy LLMs), and search is famously optimized to the millisecond. Visa uses LMs to perform fraud detection every time someone makes a transaction, which is also quite latency sensitive. I'm guessing "informed folks" aren't so informed about the broader market.

OpenAI and Anthropic's APIs are obviously not latency-driven. Same with comparable LLM API resellers like Azure. Most people are likely not expecting tight latency SLOs there. That said, chat experiences (esp. voice ones) would probably be even more valuable if they could react in "human time" instead of with few seconds delay.

Integrating specialized hardware that can shave inference to fractions of a second seems like something that could be useful in a variety of latency-sensitive opportunities. Especially if this allows larger language models to be used where traditionally they were too slow.
It's like that all the way through undergrad, you're just learning things that have been known for a long time. You need to know the basics before you can contribute anything new, and there's a lot of basics nowadays.

Once you get to the edge, the game changes a fair bit. You'll need to know the actual experts, rather than just watching YouTube lectures or reading textbooks.

In terms of difference at the level you're talking about, the one big difference is that von Neumann's parents recognized how smart he was, and could afford to hire appropriate tutors to accelerate his learning.

There's this thing called Bloom's Two Sigma, though I'm no expert on the area it would appear that having a tutor improves results considerably. Now imagine one of the smartest kids ever born having parents who got him tutors.
I see the point concerning the limitations of what a PWA can do, but as here it's a question on snooping on emails... it probably wouldn't make any difference on that matter.
>News aggregators already exist. What value add from AI are you thinking of?

Not parent commenter, but: Lower payroll figure.
Sometimes I just need dumb and cute stuff on the Internet to distract me from the stress I am having without seeing other distractions so I made this app
is there something that's oss alternative to suno ai? any research papers on how to make own model like this?
I really enjoyed it and it didn't get under my skin in the slightest, but the gloating about squares and true hackers on HN is annoying the hell out of me. I don't think the work delights in getting under the skin of squares, I think you delight in being cooler than the largely fictional squares you believe are being gotten at.
100 points for brilliant product name.
'Services' are things like education, trains, hospitals.

I don't want my taxes to pay for a desk that I have to go to to show my passport to someone so they can make me an ID card with the same information as the card that the man-with-the-gun-at-the-airport thought was OK enough to let me in to the country with, but the bank won't accept as strong enough proof of ID.
Bureaucracy is not a service.
As a side-gig musician and composer - my wife and I as a matter of fact - this is a non-issue. It's a few bucks a year, maybe $5 to $15, depending if we release some new album. It's symbolic, not even a tip, and we can't cash it until it reaches I think $60 or more iirc. Spotify is not (or barely) making money out of our work, but we otoh are "making money" by using its platform and visibility as means to reaching to our small fan base that will finance our work through concerts.

For Spotify otoh, these few bucks add up to a long-tail loss of an increasing and disturbing magnitude. Additionally, bad actors are in fact exploiting it, ruining the experience for me as a musician and as a user. The issue, if any, is that in all fairness we should all be making money, proportionally, from the platform. But under 1000 streams, as an artist, you are probably getting more value from having your work uploaded and streamable.
You can deal with the world either how you wish it were, or how it is.

The reality is that bureaucracies are full of humans – and we all know how humans are.
Thanks! I came to this thread for alternatives and you delivered.
Out of curiosity, how does Symfony compare to Laravel?
Just recently, I did a terminal latency test with Typometer for the following terminals, sorted by lowest latency:

xterm (389-1)
alacritty (0.13.1-1)
kitty-tuned (0.31.0-1)
zutty (0.14-2)
st (master 95f22c5)
urxvt (9.31-4)
konsole (24.02.0-1)
kitty (0.31.0-1)
wezterm (20230712.072601)
gnome-terminal (3.50.1-1)
xfce4-terminal (1.1.1-2)
terminator (2.1.3-3)
tilix (1.9.6-3)
hyper (v3.4.1)

I only tested for software latency (monitor, keyboard and other hardware latency is not included in Typometer benchmarks). I ran the test on Arch Linux with Xorg + bswpwm without compositor. You can find the full results on by blog https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/.
Ah. Music income numbers, where the details are not actually details. He did say that[1], but the statement is misleading (and has little to do with Spotify).

A very rough global average per-stream payout is often estimated at around $0.003 to $0.005. That brings the payout for 1 billion streams between $3,000,000 and $5,000,000. Let's go with the lower end. This is actual money paid out by Spotify for 1 billion streams, as in, a bank transfer of $3,000,000.

How do you get from there to $45,000?

- As with any legacy artist, the record label gets most (maybe 70%). Why that is, oh well. It's less shocking if you think of the label as an employer and how little an average employee gets compared to what they produce. Do you need an employer? Absolutely not. Do you need a record label? Absolutely not. Anyway, a 70% cut would leave the artist with $900,000.

- Expenses: There are various costs associated with producing, distributing, and promoting music, hotel costs. Let your imagination run wild. Safe to say: This is a black hole, depending on how you want the process to look. If Snoop wants to sit in a big studio for months, he pays prices, for month, but that's not required to make music. Renting a high end studio on end is lifestyle. Sure, it's an expense, but it's like complaining about your profit while driving a Porsche. Awkward. Let's assume a 20% deduction here, reducing the revenue to $720,000.

- Focus on Publishing Royalties: Publishing royalties are just one part of the total royalties an artist earns. So there's quite a bit of double accounting going on if you want to pretend that the above costs are all deducted from your Spotify income.

If we assume publishing royalties make up only 10% of the total, that brings the figure down to $72,000.

- tldr: Snoop is living the big life, confused about money, and then proceeds to confuse others about money.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/s...
I am in a small and new band. In 2023 we earned roughly

500 Euros via Bandcamp (digital, physical and merch)
300 Euros selling merch on gigs
2000 Euros playing gigs
20 Cents on Spotify

There is no monetary reason to be on spotify, the only reason we are on there is because fans asked.
> But would this cause smaller musicians to decide to pull their stuff off Spotify?

It's already happening. Even some artists which are above the limit pull out to show their support for smaller artists.
What works well for me is a metal discord community (run by writers of a review blog [0]). Tons of interesting recommendations, including sometimes non-metal stuff, my favorite album of the year so far is chamber folk / Americana [1].

For new music, I tend to at least give a few seconds to every new release that is of an even slightly interesting sub-genre, older stuff sometimes shows up in what people post they are listening to, but there are also listening pods (me and two others are currently doing a one album a day discography run of Necrophobic), and adopted months: March was Screamarch, where two people curated a list of Screamo and adjacent albums/eps for every day, now it’s Finlapril where a Finn curated 1-2 albums a day moving through the history of Finnish metal.

Since joining, my monthly bandcamp purchases went pretty far up, though. And I’m only buying digital albums, there are quite a few who do vinyl purchases for even higher bills.

[0] https://www.angrymetalguy.com/

[1] Vera Sola - Peacemaker https://verasola.bandcamp.com/album/peacemaker
Radiophobia
You should know: Apple Music filled that niche to perfection. Hands down, better than it ever was on Spotify. More choices, easier discovery, more collaboration with external brands, etc.

https://music.apple.com/us/curator/apple-music-dj-mixes/1441...
If GP is a sociopath, this might have been the best thing for the kids.
This looks like the typical black or white view about things.

Germany has 80+ million people. Having nobody on Instagram/Tiktok would be unthinkable.

However, historically speaking, this hesitation to have privacy over "convenience" is implemented still everywhere.

You can't just minimize it with "people want to evade tax", although it's also true.
It’s probably because you graduated from a university? :)
I in fact did not ;)
You can't even post titties on Facebook/Insta. Big corps are intensely politically motivated, they succumb to American prudery through advertiser pressure.
> I believe the original idea was to ship with like 64k or something?

Yes. Both the 6809 based design and the first 68k one targeted 64k. See https://folklore.org/Five_Different_Macs.html
Maybe you can combine it with other production, make bio-diesel say?
The contrast to red carped rolled out for Arab, Chinese, or Russian billionaires is staggering.
While it might not have a big impact on smaller artists financially, the idea of a multi billion dollar company deciding unilaterally to steal a few cents from you could be enough to drive you away.
The problem is when developers having virtually no background in actual computer science (e.g. algorithm complexity) start implementing their own algorithms because what thy want is not directly available as a primitive. I have the impression that this tendency to use more and more complex software primitives, while at the same time introducing further levels of indirection in the actually run machine code, is one of the reasons that many applications are now as slow (or slower) than they were 10 years ago despite the hardware being much faster. Just compare the performance of an Electron-based application (which seems the go-to solution of most developers nowadays for desktop app implementation) with a native one...
Ah yes performative postering by people who 'really care' about artists getting paid.