skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The factories went bankrupt because of corruption as far as I know. An often cited scheme in the press was that the management will buy raw materials at higher than normal prices and sell the products at low prices, of course in exchange for bribes. Other sectors of the economy were similarly brought down in various ways. Trade was not done only with the Eastern Bloc, so you can’t blame everything on the loss of those markets. The people who wanted democracy didn’t anticipate all that corruption and lack of accountability.
If there's any fallacy here, it is comparing "for exposure" between a gig at your local dive bar (this is where you typically hear the phrase), and uploading your material to Spotify.

The first requires committing time and effort to get 50 people to see you, 20 of which are your personal friends. The second is making the music you have already produced available to millions of people around the world, with virtually no effort.

Surely Spotify should improve on compensating artists, but all-in-all it is still a better deal for the artist than the "for exposure" gig at the local bar.
No qualms re: removing registration. I understand! Thanks for the examples, gonna take a look!
Yeah, but it was one company subsidized by the government using its influence to bring down another company which was even more heavily subsidized by their respective government (not that it would have been possible to break into this market any other way).

Free competition wasn’t really an option either way.
Uhm, no - when did you try travelling last? I just crossed the border to Germany from Poland(both ways) and there is nothing there. And before that I drove over in January and there was a huge queue because of "checkpoints to combat illegal immigration" and that checkpoint was just a bunch of border guards standing there looking at cars passing by, they weren't checking passports or much of anything really, it's all just theatre.

Also did you forget flying?
Where did they move to? I heard something about them leaving the EU, but Europe?
Haha actually everything here is that insane :)
No, this is much brief and to-the-point than what GPT usually generates.
The key difference for me was that I didn't always have my notebook/agenda on me/at hand, so writing things was haphazard and unreliable (either I tried to remember and failed or I noted it down but consistently lost the random piece of paper I used as a fallback) whereas when I got a Palm device I always had that device at hand.

It all boiled down to the physical paper tradeoff: small filled up quickly/was too constraining a space, bigger was impractical to lug around anywhere.

So arguably I had sort of a broken system in place already but it became very intermittent to the point of being nonexistent in practice because of the constraints. Palm devices allowed me to fully realise the system.
I mean the source link is right there.
There are cases where this makes a big difference.

For a dramatic example, consider the VESA framebuffer console, a slow serial link, or a bad SSH connection with a good CPU on the other end.

With enough terminal output it will bottleneck whatever you're doing. Sometimes extremely dramatically so. To the point of adding hours to a task in really bad cases.

For such situations, it often helps a lot to run remote tasks in something like screen and only switch to it to check progress once in a while.
> Bulgaria might have been compelled to send the troops for the invasions USSR might have started

List of countries which happily participated in USA's invasion of Iraq wants to say hello!
true, I first wrote it in my own words, and then I used gpt to improve the English since I'm not English language native. So well spotted. However, what would you/ people prefer, lesser formulations, or precise GPT? Of course, I should improve my English skills. I'm always working on that.

Here is the work process: https://chat.openai.com/share/648d0c85-9661-4096-afcc-f92779...
The way this should work is that there can be some minimum earning threshold the seller has to achieve to be paid out by the platform. But! once the seller achieves it, they should be paid in full for all the units sold/streamed before achieving the threshold as well.

E.g. App Store requires you to earn $100 equivalent to pay out earnings in Colombia. In many countries the threshold is currently $0.02, but it used to be much higher.

https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference...
I think it's better to allow people to lie in public than let the government decide what's the truth.
Where do you store the files, how do you take your music with you on the go?
Patrick Matthew wrote about natural selection in the 1830s, but he did it in an appendix to a book about naval timber, so it didn't register with anybody at the time.
It's an assumption from my side, that they will utilize GenAI in material discovery for Aramco or SABIC[0]. Even if Groq won't fit that use-case a couple of billions with another hardware vendor is nothing if this paid off.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABIC
But would those cases remain in the sub-monetization bracket? If their goal is to get the double benefit, laundered gift card or identity theft money and taking popularity, then they'd surely want to focus farmed streams on fewer songs, not spread them. Or are Spotify popularity heuristics really so laughably bad that they consider a bazillion plays on a bazillion separate "tracks" as good (or better?) a signal for popularity as a less unnatural pattern?
it's important to note that post financial crisis, interest rates were very low due in part to quantitative easing. With interest rates rising, asset prices will have to come down. Leverage cuts both ways, the equity in your house can easily be wiped out.
> Despite e-fuel makers promising a major scale-up this decade, it will make an “unnoticeable dent” in transportation emissions, says Oates at BNEF. “This is down to a combination of nascent technology and high cost of e-fuel production,” she adds.
> by emulating the Postgres server in an x86 emulator

> because performance is not usually a concern in tests

I hate to be a downer, especially because it sounds like a lot of complex work has gone into this, but I can't disagree more with test performance. I think for many projects test performance is more important than runtime performance – a 100ms request time is unlikely to cause issues for most applications, but a 10 minute test run can significantly hamper engineering productivity.

I don't understand why, as others have suggested, running Postgres in a RAM disk isn't an option. We did this on my previous team, tuned Postgres for better performance in tests, and ran all unit tests against it, the performance was excellent. Setup was trivial, still containerised like this project aims for.

Why run Postgres on an X86 emulator, in a WASM VM, in a Docker container... when one could just run Postgres in a Docker container and have all the same advantages? Someone commented that you could run it in a browser... but Postgres doesn't run in the browser normally so why would you need that for tests?
See also https://notes.dt.in.th/HDRQRCode which was discussed here about a year ago, allowing you to create brighter-than-#fff
RFID Blocking Wallets
Effective Stakeholder Engagement in Learning and Development
Woah Extism is exactly what I need for a project where I want a plugin system, nice random find, thank you!

Question: Does extism plan to support Python as a plugin language? That seems like a big gap right now

Edit: I see this issue tracking it https://github.com/extism/extism/issues/116 and the project is ongoing https://github.com/extism/python-pdk/issues/2
We had an org offsite there about 5y ago. The VP afterwards asks everyone what they most fondly remember.

One of the younger seniors says “I remember when my Dad used a palm pilot!” The room had the same experience.
I’m just estimating here from public numbers. My point is the power consumption could be 100W on that workload and the groq chip could be 1k, both ridiculously optimistic. The whole system is still crazy expensive. H100s will not have latency as fast, but in terms of concurrent users and TCO, I really don’t think groq will be worth it. You could probably get the same concurrent users and throughput with like 8 h100s. Latency won’t be as good, but price could be much lower.
This is hosted on Ethereum which got rid of Proof-of-Work. Now it’s just a slow shared database controlled by a clique.

It’s pretty easy to generate trillions of trading volume on a database when there’s no penalties for wash trading. All it takes is a for loop.
I have no data on that, but my stochastic feeling (based on conversations I had with people visiting our concerts) does not imply that at all. Most came because (in that order of frequency):

1. They saw our sticker/poster and thought the name is interesting

2. They checked the venue/festival-site and thought it sounded interesting

3. They knew us from social media

Exactly zero times I had someone tell me the found us on spotify and came because of that. Of course that doesn't mean no such people exist, my sample size might be too small. There might also be people who find us on spotify and then buy on bandcamp, no way to check on that.

But my feeling right now is that our more traditional boots on the ground marketing does a lot more than the online stuff. That doesn't mean that dynamic can be totally different for other bands or other genres tho.
It's not like you can just buy some uranium to experiment with in your home lab, so even if a normie had this idea they would probably not be able to test it in any way.
Location: Berlin,DE

Remote: Yes, or Hybrid in Berlin

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Kubernetes, (Data) Platform Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, Microservices, App Development

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NshYEFJL5_yKr8DEKxVUj9V7EUn...
Yes, but you need to keep one third of the profit in the company until you reach the €25k, then you convert to GmbH.
> As opposed to paying $5 to a singular composer that only exists because of other real composers, singers, etc., as they studied the craft

Yes.

> computers

> dangerous manual labor

If people are not in danger and don't have to do mechanical work, it's one thing. If composers stop composing original music that was used for training current AI because they don't get paid anymore then the field stagnates. Same for writing and everything else
This isn’t even true of American free speech.

Defamation laws do exist. And you cannot knowingly lie under many circumstances (for example, executives at companies, advertisements, making medical claims, etc).
Most likely - ANY (even business-class) device, not limited to storage, is prone to this, unfortunately. Most terrifying of which are routers, mobile phones and home security cams/doorbells/etc.

s/NAS/network/
Even better heh.
When I was working on Othernet (www.othernet.is), I wanted to do Over-The-Air updates of our firmware. Over a unidirectional, slow (~20kbps), broadcast satellite link with significant packet dropout this was quite a challenge. Amongst the many tools that helped in making it work was diffoscope. I used it to make our buildroot-based firmware have deterministic, minimal-diff build, thus reducing the amount of update I needed to send out.

For a few weeks, I simply iterated between building the firmware, using diffoscope to diff the new build against a previous build to find what files changed and where, fix buildroot packages to eliminate these file changes whereever possible, lather-rinse-repeat.

In the end I was able to reduce our OTA update sizes to a typical 20-50KB (base, compressed firmware image as 30MB).

Fun times!
Or your AI radar needs calibrating ;)

A lot of generative content is becoming hard to differentiate from human created content and it's also becoming common to see people like yourself assign false positives. I think it's good to be skeptical but as a skeptic myself I know there's downsides to considering everything suspiciously. Unfortunately I don't think we'll ever find a good solution for wanting to know if what we're looking at is AI or not.
And I thought France had it bad… There are a lot of hoops to jump through when owning a company in France, but the creation is the "easy" part. And we got rid of the minimum capital many years ago. A good accountant will even guide you through all of it (but it will be expensive).
Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would
I actually looked into this, apparently its popular across western Europe (not just Germany) and a relic of historical times when the states didn't have centralized birth and death registries. I believe the limited validity and Apostille requirement is a medieval method to combat fraud.

As a new world Australian, the fact this remains in force is completely insane. In Australia the authorities can trivially query the birth and deaths register to verify the validity of certificates.

In Germanys defense, centralized registries were used by the Nazi regime to facilitate the Holocaust.

Anyway Biometric passports/ids pretty much completely supersede this use-case and can be as equally decentralized.
Not sure, and I am too lazy to ask our drummer for that ; )
Notepad++ needs your help in "parasite website" shutdown
Have you checked Surya ?
> mp3million.com

Reminds me of allofmp3.com before the WTO asked Russia to kill it if they wanted to join.
It is about testing in general.

Also you never know, one patch that improve perf on latest gen systems might do the opposite on much more humble ones which still represent a sizable portion of the computer running today. It is important to know what you are gaining (or not) and where.

And I don't agree about your initial premise. The fact one is running an old system that might be super slow on most js hungry websites, playing AAA ganes or compressing 4k videos doesn't mean slowness has to be expected on native and/or small or simple apps.

Also, while we can expect an old computer to be slow at things it wasn't designed for like decompressing/compressing videos with much higher bitrate/resolutions, handling traffic with more cpu intensive encryption algorithm, we should not accept a computer being slower at things it was designed for and was working well a decade ago. My motorbike is probably marginally slower from wear and tear of its engine, yet still goes like stink at the green light and has no issue reaching the speed limits. My well maintain 35y old bicycle is still as fast as it ever was, even probably faster thanks to better tires. My oven and gas stoves are still heating my meal the same way it did before. Why should an old computer be slower at doing the same things? This is a disgrace and the whole IT industry should be ashamed of accepting and enabling this.
Wow, that's really Only the Shit I Love. It's now on my wishlist until my bank account allows to buy it.

Talking of Aussie bands: https://drunkmums.bandcamp.com/album/beer-baby and
https://3pod.bandcamp.com/album/middleborough-rd
I don't know. You can find targeted assasinations done abroad by democratic regimes these days. Israel kills Iranian nuclear scientists more or less routinely. I mean, yes, that is tragic, but we have worse shit tolerated on our planet in the age XXI. Number of people affected is also expected to be fairly low.

With regards to forcible assimilations, I believe France, Denmark and Turkey did more or less the same stuff in the time frame. These are all democratic, capitalist NATO-member countries which are not always in the same sentence with "repressive". Again, that is tragic, but I wonder if most countries in the world aren't having worse contemporary skeletons in their closets.

I'm not challenging the actual grinding of people between state gears, just the myopic outlook where it is customary to use it against certain regimes' life experience but not others. People are conditioned to assume it was a torment to live in Bulgaria in 1980. The same people don't assume it was a torment to live in contemporary Turkey. In practice, both had their highs and lows.

With regards to asset seizure, I don't believe you were supposed to have any under socialism.
>I don’t think a lot of instances are federating with Threads though.

The anti-Threads people are loud, but I don't think they're in the majority (or even near to it).
That there are small variations and that they can be amplified is obvious, and humans have used them in selective breeding since forever. But it's not obvious that you can take it far enough that you can create new species. Or that you can end up with very different creatures like humans and birds just by selecting for long enough.
I did get checked a few times while heading from the Balkans back to Germany. There are also random checks in buses and trains.
> Every Bandcamp Friday (when Bandcamp doesn't take a cut) I

It's great that BC still does BC Fridays... but if fans only buy music from BC on BC Fridays, BC will lose all revenue and will fold or resort to shitty tactics. BC are one of the few "good" businesses in this space, and have reached an impressive scale. I'd hate to see them fold. I reckon it's worth buying some music on normal days as well as BC Fridays.
> All the music I buy and pirate is in FLAC and funneled into my local library, where I can enjoy it without any streaming service taking it away from me.

Where do you get these FLACs? Do you have a pipeline/automated system or it’s done manually? Asking for a friend.
About five days ago, Szczecin → Berlin, stopped, had my documents meticulously examined and asked some typical questions I haven't been asked for a decade ("What's your proof of residence", etc).

I look like a typical WASP programmer in his forties, so no selection bias or something.
Imagination APXM-6200 RISC-V CPU
People use Spotify because it is comfortable and provides additional features liked by users. That has always been the only way to beat piracy.
These are the cases which Germany wants to avoid: "Scheinehe", where people get paid to marry and give the other person an "Aufenthalts- und Arbeitserlaubnis" -> allowed to stay and work in Germany.

There is quite a business around this.
The big advantage of electronic machines was speed. Early* digital computers didn't have much more memory than the card processors (64-128 bytes), but they weren't limited to cards/minute.

For 150 cards/min, see http://www.righto.com/2017/11/identifying-early-ibm-computer...

* EDIT: like ENIAC early. By MANIAC they already had ~5K of memory, which would've been unthinkable with the dieselpunk registers used by card machines: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k0YcX-Qhvrw/WfxzfKNG1wI/A...
Considering that according to what I can see online, artists get around $4 per 1000 streams, it doesn't look significant and it probably saves on processing fees.

One would need to be an artist with a lot of songs just under 1k to make it more than enough for a cup of coffee. The kind of money it isn't even worth the time putting songs on Spotify (it may be worth it for promotion though).

The general issue with underpaid artists remains but this particular case doesn't seem to matter much, in fact, if what they imply is true, it is arguably an improvement since what they save in processing fees will go to artists instead of banks.
There are media servers you can host locally and Bandcamp has an app you can play music in.
Unraveling the Power of Property-Based Testing in Unveiling Our Own Biases
Key Bridge Collapse Shipowner Could Legally Skirt Liability
Hey, I am an experienced frontend developer with no backend experience tho willing to learn and go full stack on the job. Are you open to accepting applications like this?
This is a huge discovery. I can't wait for the day when someone finds the MH370 wreck as well
I wanted to post this article I found on PBT as I've found few good examples and discussions on PBT that aren't simply demonstrating how to reverse a list. It demonstrates how to use FsCheck for .NET, but the principles are language agnostic.

Also, don't be put off by the cucumber/gherkin nonsense, that's only mentioned the once.
It's not hard to define, it's an extreme version of "us vs them", divide the society into explicit in- and outgroups and kill the outgroup, repeat forever. Also kill everyone who opposes this, even if a member of in-group.

So it's just a matter of time an "intellectual", or any individual really, says or does something that will be used as a pretext to accuse them of not being a good enough member of in-group (this will earn the accuser status as a guardian of purity). Soon enough the society is full of people accusing others and also of those that want to appease "the authorities" by proposing the most extreme ways of purifying and enhancing the in-group. It's easy to see this is not the best environment for seekers of truth.
https://imgur.com/a/ssxiS6X

God. GPT is going to fucking ruin online discourse.
It's the new proposal by the PPBE Reform Commission in the senate [0]

[0] - https://ppbereform.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Com...
Created the first version of an app that took large long PDFs of train driver/conductor schedules in my country and presented them in an nice way in an app. The previous sources were all hard to navigate and had ads. I spent a weekend parsing PDFs into SQLite, and shipped the app with a preloaded database. Then kept updating and tweaking and added some fun intersections of the data ("who else is operating this train").

8 years later my source of data stopped providing data because of data protection concerns and the company introduced their own app/functionality for the same. Never earned me a dime directly but did get me my next job - it was a great sample for the interview
Building Your Life Story, One Memory at a Time
For what it's worth, while it does not often come up in a positive light on this forum (and others), Hungary has almost all processes digitalized. Passport renewal is an exception, but after a quick in-person appointment, you get your passport shipped to you in less than a week (usually), even to a foreign country.
You have your taxes prepared for you automatically, you just need to click a button to accept the draft. That said social services is pretty bad, especially for elderly care, but to no fault of IT services. They even have a free, state-provided VPN if you want to watch TV programmes back home, from abroad.
Your 1a and 1b say completely different things, and 2, 3, and 4 are even further away.

In 1a, someone says something. In 4, you seem to have an objective fact about a patient.
I'm not sure the technical overhead is high enough to bother to do this... Unless the money made for it comes out to be too small to be worth bothering with after transfer fees.

It may be as someone else said, that there should just be a minimum threshold for payouts. Like, you get your money after it's at least reached $10 or $100.

Demonetizing the first 1000 streams is probably not a big deal, but it still sounds a little wrong.
> And I prefer GUI terminals for this use-case...

This probably isn't to your liking, then, but perhaps it will be of use to someone else: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

(You can, of course, use tmux with any GUI terminal emulator you like.)
I'm currently working on comparing 2 directories of around 3000 JSON/YAML files each, and while meld can open the diff viewer in a few seconds, diffoscope can't seem to process them.

I love meld, makes my life so much easier :3

EDIT: diffoscope got unstuck after some minutes, but I still prefer the default GUI viewer from meld.
How does that make it okay? You're basically buying an external Blu-ray disc drive for the PS5. Why does it require Sony's permission to hook up and use if you've bought it? This is just another way modern companies are encroaching on our rights, it's literally online DRM for a peripheral. Imagine if you needed online activation to be able to use a new controller you buy. It'd be just as absurd as this.