skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming a fixed fee, it's a tradeoff. Do you let the people with more plays steer everyone else's money, or do you let plays from different people be worth different amounts?

I think the first option is worse.

Neither option pays a fixed amount per play, so that factor doesn't favor either choice.
I honestly think not. Today's climate sidelines generalists.
It is not exactly the new kid on the block, but I find tons of interesting music on the music blog aggregator Hype Machine. YMMV depending on your preferred genre.
You could just listen to your buddie's streams on loop while your asleep so they get a portion of your fees.
I read this as splitting each user's monthly payment only across the artists they themselves listened to (like how YouTube premium works) instead of pooling everything together. So artists with more paying listeners would get more, while artists who only get listened to by free bot accounts wouldn't get anything.
It’s infuriating.

Spotify for instance had some Spotify exclusive “DJ mixes” that were all an hour of well-mixed playlists. Spotify got artists to curate them and would have “XYZ’s DJ Mix”. They were perfect for seamless music listening at the gym. No breaks between songs. Non stop music. I listened to them all the time.

But one day a few months ago they all just vanished. Every one. I had added several to my Spotify library. For a bit they were playlists of grayed out songs. And then the playlists themselves vanished too. This content was all Spotify exclusive- the music is just gone now. It’s not available elsewhere.

It was all “mixed” versions of songs with smooth transitions in an out. Luckily I had added most of the original songs to other Spotify playlists that I had. But still, the mixes themselves are gone.
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True, I suspect something is written by AI when -
- focusing on the sentence feels like it was written by a native English speaker
- focusing on the paragraph feels like author is just trying to fill space

Poor writing in freelanced work/low quality blogs often come from poor grammar and lack of continuity or smooth flow of thoughts. When written by AI, the grammar and spelling seem to be immaculate but the thoughts though linked well just go round and round.
The 1k streams limit will probably only financially effect "artists" that spams the platform with new tracks. It is not like it will make any difference for real artists.
.gitignore unless there’s a specific .codyignore ?

Or maybe a set of sensible global default ignores, based on the usual suspects from gitignore.io or suchlike ?
No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
How accurate is table detection/parsing in PDFs? I found this part the most challenging, and none of the open-source PDF parsers worked well.
Gate A20 famously was responsible for the original XBOX getting hacked. It redirected execution from the special hidden ROM into ordinary flash ROM, bypassing all security.
I use YouTube Premium 90% of the time now for this reason. All the remixes and other indie mixes that I listen to are on YouTube and YouTube has so much more that I find it a hard value proposition to beat.
Apple has real support people you can speak to in person.
We're talking about an interaction with the authorities here. In all developed western nations I am aware of (there's maybe 4-5 countries I've interacted with personally) public authorities will communicate in clear and direct language.

No the point is my wife was struggling, and she asked for help integrating, and the state refused to help her integrate. Even as a hardcore capitalist you should be in favor of getting immigrants into the labor market ASAP.

The irony is that fifteen years ago when she was a new immigrant to Australia, the state sponsored TAFE system was amazing for her, taught her English, and totally turned her life around.
If that's all they wanted to achieve, then maybe they can pool that "demonetized" money and raffle it to the smaller musicians. If the outcome is only that Spotify stops paying out on something they used to pay for, by unilaterally changing the terms for the users without any bargaining power, then it feels like any effect other than increasing net profit is just the cherry on top.

You can't just say "in order to improve your experience we've decided to stop paying you" and expect people to trust your motives.
Finally a terminal benchmark that isn't just cat-ing a huge file. Would love to see the same test with a more diverse set of terminals, especially the native linux console.
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Discogs and RYM are great for discovery. Slsk is also still alive and well
I liked the books and television shows of both but I personally thought The Terror was in another league entirely.

Which is to say people should still watch/read them both.

Although I could've done without the gratuitous and seemingly unnessecary sex in The Terror (novel), but that seems typical of Dan Simmons.
how would this work if i listen to 1000 bands? the split would be miniscule.
Yes, they're just in my ~/Videos directory. I copy stuff in there when I want to watch it immediately, or in the near future, and then delete it when I'm done, with my main archive on offline storage. I guess I don't fit their assumed use-case which is having your entire library online for your whole extended family to watch; I just want something I can use from my TV so I don't have to copy files onto USB sticks, and can watch files > 4GB.
Here a large collection of 'Havana Syndrome' related information and similar microwave weapon patent information:

http://www.gbppr.net/mil/havana
JvN, the finished product, probably you're right.

But of the people born with his tools? How many were born into a setting that even cared for intellectual things? How many of them would be born into a wealthy family that could afford to hire private tutors for all their kids?
Whatever Neuralink is missing, it's none of these things. They're certainly missing a lot, as is their owner, but it's absolutely none of these things. Like, we've been using brain electrodes to control devices for a very long time now. They know the issues. As they are originally a neuroprosthetics company whose whole goal was to develop means for paralyzed people to control limbs and devices, they're perfectly in their zone. That's not their issue.

As what their owner wants them to be, with data transmission into the brain and individually addressable neurons, they're leagues off from a functional product. Extracting and interpreting brain signals is, while not simple, well-known and well-practiced. The other direction is practically unexplored and the most we normally do is poke around with a bit of electricity and hope it makes the brain work better. To move data from a computer into the brain would be a total revolution. Needless to say, their current product does not do this, and they've shown zero development to this end. Which kind of makes it feel like they're hoodwinking Musk to develop actually useful medical devices instead of playing into his naive technocratic futurism. That just means they know what they're doing even more strongly than what their other actions have already shown.
> German culture is about work, and working for _someone_, not starting your own business.

I wonder how Germany will survive the 21st century, where a key part is to make/capture a market first by some innovation that comes out of some startup scene (Silicon Valley most prominently) and push out all the other players.

German's in tech spheres keep complaining that they are being "ripped of" by the Anglo-Saxon space, but it seems to me it's actually their own mentality that is holding them back.

And of course everyone knows the story about the mp3 format, apparently invented in Germany and monetized in the US
One way it could work is if Spotify divided say $8 per user across all the streams that user listened to that month. So if a user only listens to Justin Bieber this month, he'd get the full $8 in stream royalties, while someone listening to more artists would redistribute their $8 across all of them.
I'm inclined to believe that filling the service with an endless stream of generated garbage is their ultimate endgame - why bother with unreliable and costly human creators when you can just emulate them well enough for undiscerning listeners. No substance, just vibes.
There are many more in my country too, but they don't offer the liability protection and legal personality that is usually expected of "a company". What other kind of corporation could be used in Germany to do the job of a limited liability company?
Brazil Supreme Court orders investigation of Elon Musk over fake news
Indeed, it's also supporting the (electoral) strategy of sowing distrust in every news media, so everyone is free to build their own comfort-zone away from facts that don't fit / they don't like...
Owning the music is the thing.
That was apparently a track that was not his own, he was only a partial co author of that track.
You’re free to cancel, and I’m sure customer service would give you the refund on the extra cost for the first month.

I’ve noticed this in restaurants too, they just change the price like a normal business in an inflationary environment.

I bet you get raises too, or ask for them and move on if you don’t get them.
The word Marmite is now used in British English to describe something that one either loves or hates, little or no middle ground.

"The band U2 are very Marmite"
Well written article and interesting results, thank you.

I'm surprised that there has been input latency of tens of milliseconds with the said setup. How much are typical input latencies in comparable Windows laptops and Macs?
You want better benchmarks look at the ones delivered bya ctual terminal developers, for example:
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/#throughput

or
https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench/tree/master
I would be interested in a comparision of uncomposited X11 running Xterm using this measurement method.

Xterm outperforms everything "on paper" with typometer but is it really real?
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So? They aren't performing the same computation. You can't compare the two. What you can compare is power draw at an equivalent tokens/sec on the same model for the entire system. But you don't have that number.
> I've been using this account since 2010 so you can "f off" with that, too.

The point was that I expected better from _you_, a long standing member here. But your response again shows I need to adjust that expectation.
I was involved in this field some years ago now, in one of the first randomized trials that assessed gut microbiome changes as response to aerobic exercise (with a very small effect size). Back then i felt all the evidence for exercise changing the microbiome was quite weak.

At the time most of the evidence was observational or mice running on treadmills with very little actual randomised human evidence. The ones that were high-quality intervention studies with control groups showed very small effects. Additionally, they were always done for another primary outcome, so they never controlled for stuff like people who bike more every day will also eat more.

I think it is plausible that exercise will change the microbiome, from personal experience high-intensity running for instance will increase the transit time of feces, a major determinant of the microbiome. But i believe most of the studies are low-quality and overhyped, and a glance at this review seems to indicate that the field has not changed much.
News aggregators already exist. What value add from AI are you thinking of? As a user, I don't care about getting news 30 minutes faster. I also don't care if news aggregators miss out on some stories that AI would catch. I already don't use news aggregators because it's too much news.

The problem that needs to be solved is noise reduction. I want more thoughtful and original content. I want to slow down my media consumption. If someone could build a media aggregation/filtering product that serves me instead of advertisers, I'd use it, but AI wouldn't be the point of that product, just a means to an end.
Hardware setup that produces superior hardware and extracts the benefit in house ?
Neuralink is not the first to implant a multirlectrode for mind control. More than 20 years ago, cyberkinetics was using Utah arrays for that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Nagle
I wonder how Kitty would do on these benchmarks.

Kitty is a different beast to Alacritty and has tonnes of features (many of which I'm grateful for), but I wonder what the performance cost is.
I suspect the truth around this is that it contributes to their eternal losses actually paying artists so they worked out another way of not doing it for their balance sheet.

I was at a gig for a moderately successful band recently and they said rather loudly they were bastards and buy one of their CDs instead even if you never play it because they need to eat.
This happened to me recently in Switzerland (canton Geneve for insiders, that already explains a bit), but for 12 months.

After being here for 10+ years straight, fully working. Existence of my whole family here and our whole life depended on it, yet I clealy hit a very incompetent (and completely unreachable) bureaucrat. My boss went through same process during mine, 3 weeks and done.

The difference? He is from western part of EU, I am from eastern. Shouldn't make a difference just like colour of skin shouldn't, but it does, in 1000 ways, subtle or not, but this was by far the worst and coming from state/canton.

Utterly miserable and prolonged experience, being in legal vacuum with small kids, while doing everything precisely and timely just like Swiss do and like to see in immigrants. Lost quite a few ideals about Switzerland during those desperate times.
I bet that most people (even tech-savy) can't reliably differentiate real content from AI content. Instagram and Threads for example are already full of AI content and AI "models".
This shouldn’t be legal. It’s a massive abuse of power. Small artists need to be on Spotify (pulling their music in protest is not viable and not going to lead to change anyway). What gives Spotify the right to arbitrarily decide “you make so little money it’s not worth our time paying you”? There’s no other business you could get away with this in. Scum.
You are pretty naive if you think these choices were made without thinking through the implications.

That someone has to use icognito/private mode is a barrier.

Sometimes it's an insufficient barrier, but in practice what we see is that often minor little limitations like that are the right tradeoff between restricting access in ways that starts to cause problems vs. adding enough friction to deter a whole lot of unwanted behaviour when your goal is to keep the system as open as possible.

Going to encrypted private groups when just throwing up a minor limitation is enough to achieve the desired effect for most people would be wildly excessive. E.g. I don't care if people I block can see my posts - I care that I don't have to host their stuff on my instance. Others do care if people they block can see their posts.

As it is, Mastodon instances, and other parts of the fediverse, operate with multiple levels of privacy, from fully open, to somewhat selective blocks, to authorized fetch + limited federation (whitelisted federation only, w/only logged in users or whitelisted servers able to access posts at all), to at least one group with a dual-level instance setup where the "inner" instance only federates with the "outer" instance and outsiders have no direct access to the inner instance at all.

That we can pick and choose on a sliding scale how closed off we want to be rather than pick a binary is a feature (and nothing prevents anyone from adding encryption to posts using ActivityPub if they want to; in fact I have a side-project that probably will add the option of encrypted content).
€120k salary does not make you a king. And prices compared to pre pandemic ones also skyrocketed. Germany was once nice average salary/low living cost country. Now only average salary left. But it’s ok when one is already inside. Not recommended for newcomers though.
There is no performance cost, there is a performance gain: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/#throughput
Never trust a conservative think tank on taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Foundation

>Payroll taxes are typically flat-rate taxes levied on wages and are in addition to the taxes on income. In most OECD countries, both the employer and the employee pay payroll taxes. These taxes usually fund specific social programs, such as unemployment insurance, health insurance, and old age insurance.

Social security and pesnions aren't financed by taxes, in Germany taxes are not earmarked for a specific purpose.

If you would replace social security and pension contributions by private insurances with the same costs people wouldn't have more money available but the Germany's index position would be better.

You could even double the costs and the index would claim an advantage for workers even though they would have less money.
I used to collect magnetic ore from sand using magnets in childhood. If magnets were available in history, then a certain tribe didnt have to pimp their women to obtain iron nails from sailors who ripped them from the very ship they were supposed to maintain, or modern western countries didnt have to burn down barns to recover nails.
It's called Price discrimination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination) almost all SAAS use it.

In this context, it means that I (a hobbyist) get to enjoy copilot at a discounted rate because there are some feature (context exclusion) which were costly to implement that I am not using. So it makes sense for me to take a less expensive plan which only includes the core features without the cruft. If there is any of these additional feature that I need, then I just need to pay for the engineering time that went into them, which takes less than a few seconds, it's just a button to click on. Fair and square.
Some directories require an email address. Would that be controlled by you or the startup? Can a startup send you an email to use for submission?
Academics (the mass noun, meaning something similar to "academia") does indeed learn and progress. Academics (the worker bees in the academic hive) can be super intransigent and in my experience learn a couple of tools in their younger days and never again. As they say, science advances one funeral at a time. I've found that new ideas and technologies are almost always brought in by new students, and not old academic dogs learning new technological tricks.
You’re making a good observation that there is a very big difference between a project and a product.

Converting a project to a product is incredibly hard.

Especially if you have not first verified if anyone has the problem that the project is solving.

What is the problem you’re solving?

Have strangers confirmed they have this problem badly enough to pay you?

If you are not solving a problem for strangers that they will pay for, it’s not a business.

In such cases releasing less but well done is important to get feedback instead of building a solution looking for a problem.

Get it into the real world, your thinking doesn’t matter, only customers.
To be fair, that's because the label siphons the rest. Spotify pays $4 per 1000 streams.
> Extracting and interpreting brain signals is, while not simple, well-known and well-practiced. Their current product does not do this, and they've shown zero development to this end.

I was following you until this. Can you clarify? Isn’t their most recent work precisely an example of inferring and applying a person’s intent by deciphering their brain signals?
> Vendor lockin

That, but also lack of feature parity. Unfortunately Libre Office is just not very good
Same is valid in other countries. Germany isn't the capital of worker exploitation.
Free Users don't pay anything. But Spotify still wanna money from ads. So tying royalties to what users pay would be unfair to the musicians.
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If you listen to one or two songs each from a thousand bands, the amount each band gets is minuscule with either method.