skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So which costs have risen out of proportion to the point that none of that is possible today.

Basically all of them.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

Which I think is partially due to institutions becoming less efficient with time as more organizational scar tissue accumulates (certainly seen a lot of this at the companies I've worked for). Plus gov departments tend to accumulate extra low-return responsibilities from politician gimmicks (the mismatch between what sounds good in a headline and whats cost effective).

Which in turn I think comes from scope insensitivity, we just aren't good at understanding scale and underestimate defuse costs.
No, because the human does not need to process the entire screen contents with every frame, only the delta from the last frame (usually). Therefore getting those deltas into eyeballs as quickly as possible increases how quickly the human can interact with the computer.
It is not even remotely up to date.

> Cursor (editor, not yet released)

Well, it is up and running, https://cursor.sh/. I recommend it a lot - finally, not just a chat, but a tool in which a considerable fraction of programming happens in English.

Two weeks ago, I converted my blog from Gridsome to Nuxt 3 - the latter is a framework I haven't used yet. It was able to generate whole files and debug them line by line. Or write scripts that change folder structure - well-written, well-explained, and just working.

Still, I needed some knowledge of TypeScript and Vue, but it saved tons of my time - for writing, googling, and debugging. It felt more like working with a diligent, smart, and fast junior.
Russia has a history of intense state surveilance und state sponsored hacking. Pair that with immense corruption and an authoritarian law system.

Do I think that the USA does the same and is allready in our system? Yes, though a bit less likely and more 'with an option to'.
But the big difference is, that we are formally on the same side and I do not have to fear my systems to be made into a Spam-Bot network that undermines individualism and western ideas of freedom.
>So which costs have risen out of proportion to the point that none of that is possible today.

It's not the costs that have rise sharply, it's the revenue and taxes that have declined since WW2 due to increased competition from globalization and the offshoring of jobs abroad, plus tax heavens aiding big corporation avoid paying taxes locally in western european countries, meaning governments today are missing out on a lot of income they used to get in the past, income which is now in places like China and in tax heavens.
Yeah had a close person getting passport after marriage, took years, they made a mistake, another 1.5 years. Took over 5 years in the end.

Lawyers making mistakes, civil cervants making mistakes, making mistakes themselves. Big mess. They are actually breaking EU law while doing these things.
A threat Intel briefing in NYC
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I think that by now most of the people have started putting the blame on the US aviation and air-transportation industry as a whole, it's not just Boeing anymore. That includes the FTC, the carriers, yes, Boeing, and a ton of other sub-contractors.

It's systemic by this point, and I feel that it's not only the fault of those "pesky MBAs running Boeing" anymore.
They do care, they're just exploiting the indie musicians' lack of leverage. Together they matter a lot, they're just powerless individually.

It's the same dynamic companies use against ununionized labor.
My argument boils down to "there are other views onto implementing userspace runtimes other than the libc view", and "general purpose operating systems should not demand everyone use their own language-specific userland runtime implementation just because its what their favourite language uses".

You were the one trying to justify that layer as a de-facto ABI interface. For some things, it is not actually necessary and - in my opinion - should not be the target as a system ABI compatibility. Its a bit like saying "MSVC++ Runtime should be the de-facto runtime for every Windows application". There is a clear distinction between having a posix-compatible POSIX system (which targets source-code portability, focused mainly on C as the lowest common denominator) or a System V compatible system that provides POSIX compatibility.

> Eh. Whatever. Call it libunix if you prefer.

It is not not "whatever". A language-specific library should not - in principle - be a core dependency of every userland application on a general purpose UNIX system; A given language may implement its own runtime, as well as provide pure statically linked binaries. You may have a different opinion, but it seems a bit childish to discard the fact that not only there are use cases, but this has been somewhat of a problem in the past just because you don't agree with it. No one is stopping you from using libc.
You can either try to make that ideal work, or accept reality.
Hey, call to action here: we need a standard way to let all these AI coding tools know which files shouldn't be touched by them.
Call it .copilotignore (or .aitoolignore to be more vendor-agnostic), but we need this standard to be enforced.

This also benefits these tool developers: What responsibility do you have when receiving sensitive information from .env or other secret files?
What if a secret escapes because you've trained an AI model on sensitive data and someone found a consistent way to access it?
> Since going public on the stock market in 2018, the company has lost money every year

they don't even have a business model

the whole thing is a massive scam that devalues music just to earn some VCs a big payout

it's like if I said I was going to "disrupt the supermarket industry" by giving away free food
It's interesting in the sense that it demonstrates a shift in the Zeitgeist. It's probably true that this isn't Boeing's fault, but the media have taken to reporting every problem encountered with a Boeing plane which reinforces the narrative that Boeing make poor aircraft, which ultimately is a bigger problem for Boeing than them actually making poor aircraft.
Spotify should then be run as ad business—charge artists to let them advertise on Spotify.
Good point, the comic was published Oct 2008 according to xkcd and Apple stopped selling DRM music in Jan 2009.
High government spending doesn't mean the government is bigger necessarily. The big expenses are just getting moved right back out to the private sector for agricultural subsidies, energy subsidies, etc...

The better metric would be how many employees work (directly or indirectly) for the government and then compare those numbers.
Imagine them finding their grandfather's current PS5.
Okay, thanks. I guess I just didn't see it prominently enough (on Android/Crome) and was a bit triggered.
i guess the economics are not favorable because the music industry is already well positioned to extract wealth from populism and will give a hell of a legal/drm battle if threatened. the long-tail of indy artists doing essentially nothing for the bottom line doesn't help either.
Reading this has made me buy the last two physical items on my Bandcamp wishlist.

Bandcamp isn't perfect, but it fits well with my listening habits and I'm glad it earns _some_ money for you in the grand scheme of things.
Now what the heck do we do about data centers
What would the avatar look like? Would it be a puppy to prevent human characteristics from being a factor in electability?
This.

Which is also why most science published is hard to verify. Pretty much every topic out there is niche enough that the amount of people able to review it (let alone test it) is extremely small and they all know each other.
"You wouldn't stream a car for free would you?"
This is just playing with meanings but for most musicians having their music on Spotify or on torrents is pretty much the same. the only difference is that only in one case there's a company profiting in the process.
Hi there, I work for Groq.

Groq's system was designed to run arbitrary high performance numerical workloads. In the past it has been used for a variety of scientific computation tasks, including nuclear fusion and drug discovery.

https://www.alcf.anl.gov/news/argonne-deploys-new-groq-syste...
With enough tasks and/or small enough timing precision, that worst case may only occur once every thousand years or more.
It is extremely common and often perfectly rational for creatives to do things in exchange for exposure. There is nothing fallacious about this.

> People don't go to indie concerts because of a spotify track.

Yes they do.
They could. They are however not interested in working for the catch.
Thank you. I'll keep polishing the UX :)
MIPS stacktrace: an unexpected journey
See [1] for my visualization of this 4-cycle and the fractional fourier transform

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/frft-cube/
Can you pass around a crypto currency physically? I don't think so.

The main reason is that you are thinking in the context of a "modern" country, try to travel around villages in Africa and you'll see why cash is still king.
Somewhat recently a lot have started using extensively mobile cash, using literally any phone which can make calls (which I think is genius in terms of accessibility).

Of course, you could base their mobile cash off crypto but that doesn't make any difference to the user.

But that requires a strong and stable mobile network infrastructure which one cannot take for granted over here.
> I did not understand what I was doing, so I just did something random, and it did not work out for me.

Sounds like that one was largely on you…
> Why do US people keep trying to route control of major parts of their life through a system where ..

Because sometimes you don't have a say, or you don't expect to use it. No politician ever campaigned on making the lines at the DMV move faster. But we (mostly) all agree you should be required to get a license before you drive. Most Americans drive, and few have chose to route this "major part of their life" away from the DMV.

Immigration process (as this thread illustrates) sucks. It's also not a process used by voters.

The process to apply for welfare in most parts of the US sucks, but the actual welfare is valuable. People think by making it harder, it will instead result in people who are less reliant upon it. Welfare recipients are a huge political target constantly. They're the individuals who are "actively hated" in this example, and they're entirely dependent on the system in that moment, because thats how misfortune works.

Many cities making construction permits hard to get, because local residents don't want their neighborhood changing, so they petition local politicians to make the process slower/harder/more-expensive. In this example they "hate" the new construction.

If you're not a high schooler and you're applying to a state-funded university, the process to prove you're a local resident can be surprisingly complicated. This is because it's designed for high school students and all the edge cases are optimized to avoid accidentally providing tax-subsidized "in-state" tuition to an out-of-state resident. For example, I wanted to take a for-fun class at a local university and because I didn't have a local high school to vouch for my residency, I needed to provide (among other things) 50+ pages of tax documents. It took 2 semesters (1y) to prove I lived in the state, and the minimum amount of time you need to live in-state is 1 year.

People who live their life in the "happy-path" case often don't deal with the government, and don't understand the struggle of these edge cases. Plenty of activities require the government. No way around it. Sometimes, people who think "small government" is the solution end up making those processes terrible by making it understaffed or convoluted to "avoid waste".
The solution is actually quite elegant: a long tagged key required to open the door which remains in the lock until it's closed again.
https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/preventing-fan-cowl-door-loss...
I would encourage you to do these sort of tests yourself, the hardware involved is pretty inexpensive (I'd expect you should be able to get something for <$50)
isn't this partly to combat people who commit search listing flooding by abusing the upload ability to upload 100.000 variations of the same thing?
You're missing the point, obviously water based gas radiators are expensive in the US, because almost nobody uses them.

We're discussing how certain changes in the last 100 years contribute to overall housing costs.

If something has become ubiquitous it might be more expensive than to just go along with the flow for any individual house, e.g. I'm sure most new housing plans in the US are designed to account for running HVAC ducts.

Instead you need to look at what e.g. a typical house in western Europe is spending on the heating system as a percentage of overall construction cost.

I don't know that offhand, but I'd be very surprised if it even reaches 2%, whereas apparently US HVAC systems cost 6%.

A 100 meter roll of aluminum coated PEX pipe is around €100 (all you'd need for a typical house here). You can run it directly through structural beams (only requires around a 20mm hole). The rest is just the central gas burner (maybe €2000) and some radiators at say €150 a piece. If we very generously call that €5000 with plumbing/installation that's 1% of a €500k house.
They set the culture from the top.
> "Judge Alexandre de Moraes, speaks during the inauguration of the Center for Combating Disinformation and Defense of Democracy"

So, a judge and a Ministry of Truth?

I don't know who's right or wrong here but to me it doesn't feel right to have a national entity controlled that decides what I am allowed to say.
the going rate is probably what spotify pays for that 1000 plays, minus tax
Listening on Bandcamp right now - the song 'drop'. I like some pretty out there stuff, and this is right at the outer limits, and I mean that as a compliment.

I might not "enjoy" it as one would traditionally enjoy listening to music, but I enjoy that it exists and the uniqueness of the experience it provides.

If you can handle LAMC by Tool, you can handle this.

'kabelbrand' is giving me flashbacks to Providence by King Crimson, just a bit more raw and industrial. All build-up without the instruments actually synchronising together for the payoff as per Providence.

The band name is great; apt.
When they say demonetize, are they saying they aren't playing any ads on them or are they just not giving creators a cut of the ads? Those are very different things.

These platforms have every incentive in the world to continue monetizing them but just cut the creator out of that monetization their work earned.
Yeah, no cash in it but I figure it's mainly to gain exposure to hopefully later on get those into the "playing gigs" / merch audience, because reach is on the other hand massive on Spotify.
> Any large org tends to get more inefficient with time as it accumulates inefficient components it can't get rid of

This is really the crux of it. Same incompetence and inefficiency, we see in tech industry. Are there any serious studies on the disease that comes with scale, and possibly its cure?
Show HN: A web app to add timecodes to YouTube links from mobile
Peak HN meta-argument.

It is easy to guess that the original comment meant that a manual re-write of a function:

foo(a,b) {...}

to a class (example in pseudo-C++, since C++ supports operator() overloading):

class Foo {
Foo(a) {...}
operator()(b) {...}
}

is equivalent to currying the original function:

// curried foo:
foo(a)(b)

// class-curried foo:
Foo(a)(b)

But instead of explaining or mentioning this, you both went into a rant about intentions and motivations, which completely bored me, and informed me of nothing, as a member of the general audience.

Congratulations.
This is more about responsiveness than batch-processing speed.
Because after 18 years, Spotify’s net income looks like this:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SPOT/spotify-techn...

And their market cap looks like this:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SPOT/spotify-techn...

And your competitors are Apple/Amazon/Alphabet. And your vendors with whom you have zero negotiating power are Universal/Warner/Sony, and their whole interest in supporting a music streaming business like Spotify is to maintain leverage against Apple/Amazon/Alphabet, so music sellers only need to keep the streaming business limping along.

There is no play here without reform to copyright laws that limit copyright to 10 years.
Nee, ich mag's. Danke für den Link, und Grüße nach Hamburg!
What do you mean by that? Did Finland change location over time?

Also, two Eastern European countries that I have first-hand knowledge of: Poland and Estonia are much more digitised and efficient at those things than Germany (and, from what GP wrote, it seems Finland as well?).
idk but this seems usefull

https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader
It's the pesky MBAs running Washington?
You need to be very careful with how you phrase that and what exactly you mean — as (for example) 3M and Boeing pay taxes and make stuff broadly useful across society, the set of people benefiting from misbehaviour which these companies are deemed responsible for is… basically everyone.

Even in a more narrow case with no complications (even narrower than SBF, because he distributed money to good causes who can't pay it back), you're including the defence lawyers.

I'm (caveat: not a lawyer) more in favour of specifically criminal behaviour being handled by "piercing the corporate veil", putting the penalty directly on the humans who actually did the crime without letting them hide behind corporate personhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

But of course, it can be hard to prove who knew what, so sometimes "follow the money" is easier. And yes, I also agree with you that there are misaligned incentives in capitalism that lead to bad outcomes and we should work to improve that — just don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
>You can wave your hand at the supply chain all you want, but if you’re sticking your name on it, it’s yours.

Definitely not true for airplane engines.
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As the holy month of Ramadan comes to a close, I look back on my experience these past 30-or-so days in the greater reflection on my current stage in life.
I find that often, having a tool that enhances something you never did doesn’t make you start doing that thing.

But there are exceptions. I never had an address book or calendar until I had a Palm Pilot. It might have just been that I was becoming an adult at the time, but part of it was probably a barrier to use factor. The Palm was a small thing I could carry to class, keep near my phone, bring to my internship job, etc. It and the need for organizing did conspire to make it my first real organizer and my first time having that information organized at all.
I'm not sure what your basis is for this claim? I've most certainly discovered artists from Spotify and later on bought e.g. merch to support them. I would in a heartbeat also go on their concerts if I was given the opportunity with travel distance, vacation plans etc.

Spotify can't give you these experiences no matter how hard they try so this claim doesn't make much sense to me. A concert isn't exactly competing with streaming services or anything.
Google won search in large part because of their latency. I stopped using local models because of latency. I switched from OpenAI to VertexAI because of latency (and availability)
People have done merge sort, insertion sort, etc., by hand, for a very long time, probably centuries, and re-invented by many people. I would be very surprised if the steps had not been written down earlier. Algorithms done by hand, e.g. numerical methods, have been around for centuries too, so it's not that the concept was missing.
> So Spotify is making money from your music.

not really:
https://www.statista.com/chart/26773/profitability-developme...

> Since the beginning of 2017, the streaming service has generated a positive net balance in eight quarters, two of them in 2021.
I suppose someone who is running a ten year old system doesn’t tend to care too much about the input latency of their terminal emulator?
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The property tax thing is actually not true. Not if the company only exists to hold properties. The tax office is not that stupid.
I did think of it, but my opinion is that part of the value of the flashcard for spaced repetition is in creating the card, i.e by doing the work for creating the card, you lay down the first set of tracks in your brain that the spaced repetition will deepen.

YMMV, I expect maybe other people will still find value in this.
If only Tidal (or Qobuz, or...) would implement a Connect feature that allows me to control my PC desktop from mobile, then I would, but it's been on the "promised features" list for years now. It's a deal-breaker for me.
I still have a section on my homepage about how to create and flash custom ROMs for the Palm Vx - and somewhat surprisingly, I still now and then get emails from people asking for help with that.
Exactly. Everyone laments issues with provider shortages and resource issues, but when the people doing the work optimize their strategies to get through their work faster, we get dumb articles like the NPR one linked above.

As helpful as it is for rads to catch unexpected incidental findings, that's not the point. If I'm waiting on a stat read, I've got specific questions I'm looking to have answered quickly. I literally don't want the radiologist wasting time hunting for random oddities if it delays getting the reads back.
Noted. Bumping in the backlog. Culprit is prioritisation of the app over the website. The single dev dilemma...
I once made a lot of money by guiding a colleague over the phone how to write a program with DEBUG.com to do a software 'upgrade' consisting of 128 bytes to change in the older version .. this was pre-Internet-everywhere, and the time cost of waiting for a tape (yes we delivered DOS software on tape back in the day) to arrive across country was too high. An hour of careful hex narration later, we got it done and days of downtime were saved. Oh, what a bonus that was (went straight into a new 486, lol).

Kind of miss DEBUG.com now that I think about it.
Not sure if it counts as non invasive, but I've read research suggesting donating blood lowers pfas levels reliably (not too mention other potential benefits that are not particularly well validated).
Research suggest most answers and use cases do not require the largest, most sophisticated models. When you start building more complex systems, the overall time increases from chaining and you can pick different models for different points
Yes, for Germany you can expect at least around 5k/a in costs for accounting, audits etc.
>Spotify seems very happy to just break everybody's playlists continuously.

This is an artefact of the industry and not something they have much control over. Labels for larger artists just don't just sell global streaming rights in perpetuity. They will carve it up by region and time in order to try and maximize profit.