skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that was entirely my point, Van Gogh took a completely new approach to colour, use of light, painting en plein air etc.

People never appreciated him but at least Van Gogh could say he’s doing something groundbreaking and new.

Whereas the artist in question here, I can’t imagine they’ve ever legitimately thought that of their own art, it’s just not that groundbreaking or good.

Maybe they just realise that they’re unemployable elsewhere so they may as well carry on
It was also changed in 2021, and subsequent rulings that affect it earlier this year. The Wikipedia article is out of touch with more recent developments.
Who ever got promoted for improving a product, compared to a rewrite which is slightly worse?

Although I would say that Classic Teams has always been terrible. Pasting in text and the formatting usually ended up getting completed destroyed. I have heard this was due to someone in the Teams group pushing for RTF formatting, and most formatting that's pasted in wasn't RTF.
I find new music through YT fairly regularly - it's what got me into a whole bunch of artists I'd never seen/heard before.

Unfortunately with YT I've had to cancel my Premium subscription on - they want $34/month, and I'm not paying that.

I'll move to using third party apps/adblockers, and paying some of the creators I watch directly.
I would argue this is because we've raised the bar for what counts as a computational primitive, and not a qualitative difference.

A modern developer can ignore the details of a dictionary in the exact same way a programmer of the past could ignore the details of the mov instruction. (And be more productive for it.)
Despite a few shortcomings, such as the lack of automatic scaling, it is definitely more stable than, nginx unit, which we had a lot of problems with, due to segfaults and very "tricky" nodejs support.
How much of an issue is this? Does it work like ad revenue on youtube? If something has under 1k streams I have to assume that was only a few dollars hobbyists get occasionally, if even that.
Fantasy arises with despair. ChatGPT: "Pandora's Box is a myth from ancient Greece. Opening it released all evils into the world, leaving only hope inside once closed."
I hated this. I started school in Saxony (state in Germany), and then my family relocated to Bavaria. The curriculum switched from a science to a language focus, so I already knew all the next-level Chemistry, and was really annoyed by the style of teaching it wrongly.
> I don't want, and never wanted, Audiobooks or Podcasts or News or other crap on the music app.

Regarding Spotify, which I use daily, I also dislike their updates. I remember some months back I could disable/hide "Recommendations". Now in all my (personal & private) playlists I get a list of Recommendations. It's an annoyance because when I scroll fast to reach the bottom "to listen to that one song" it end up surfing the Recommendations (did I mention I dislike them?).

So, it makes me want to go to apkpure, find an apk from 2020 and use THAT (slim chance it'll work) because most updates are "to increase engagement" (pester you/me/all) with 'new and exciting content!!!' (bleh)

Sidenote: for podcasts I am using a 2021 version of the Podcast Addict (the one displaying the full screen ad)(which you can block with NoRoot Firewall)
This should be renamed to "Spotify admits demonetizing all tracks under 1k streams with no previous contractual agreements".

Next step would be explaining why artists with the same amount of streams (but different labels) have wildly different payouts.
As I said: Zoning is not the problem. The problem isn't that people aren't allowed to build things in certain areas. In fact if I look at my place (bigger city in Germany) it is the opposite.

Investors mainly build houses for investment, that means "luxurious mini flats", so something that no normal person can afford to live in and no rich person actually wants to live in — but rich people that think this is a good use of their wealth can buy it to park their money there. If we had laws preventing them from doing that things would be better, not worse. Those luxury mini flats thus aren't making perfect use of the area and driving the prices up in the surrounding area, which is a feature not a bug if you are a investor with property in the area. And thus the cycle continues. You can also replace "luxurious mini flats" with "shiny office building for which no demand exists", half of the office space in the city is obviously empty, which makes a lack of affordable living space even more of an issue.

So the problem isn't that investors can't build what people searching a place to live want — the problem is that investors found better ways of turning the limited space in a city to money and these ways don't serve that market or benefit society.

As this is Europe, infrastructure isn't the issue and renters have rights. But renters can't play the long game, while investors can.
Windows doesn't actually have a central event loop, which makes it pretty unique.

macOS/iOS/etc have a central event loop in Cocoa - what more only initial thread is allowed to talk with windowserver!

Xlib pretty much enforced single event loop per connection - XCB allowed more.

In comparison, win32 applications can create an event loop ("message pump") per thread, and you can use GUI calls completely independently on them.
I don’t know much about how music licensing works. But would this cause smaller musicians to decide to pull their stuff off Spotify?

I listen to a lot of music on Spotify. And some of it is from smaller indie artists. Not a huge amount, but I’ve definitely listened to songs that are in that <1000 plays category, and for some undiscovered artists that’s a good amount of their library.

It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.

As much as I love Spotify and music streaming, it seems like the economics of it fundamentally doesn’t work and can’t work.
It fell out of favor because it lost the density advantage in newer processes.
This change quite obviously can't negatively impact small artists in any meaningful way. When googling for how much Spotify pay artists per stream, ranges vary a bit. But it seems like a high number is $0.005 per stream, or 200 streams to the dollar.

Even if a very prolific artist has 200 songs, averaging 500 plays per year, this would only ever amount to $500 per year. It is not peanuts for a hobby musician, but it would represent an unusually productive artist who happens to be just under this limit with most (or all) their songs, and also who manages to somehow get paid in the upper parts of the span.
why do they want 34? I pay 12
It's built into the CPU, what did you expect them to do, burn it with a laser?

.... well in hindsight that might've been a smart thing to do :o)
If this is true, I demand that I only pay Spotify if I listen to more than 1000 songs a month
No, it won't. It's basically just a NodeJS application server. On the plus side, you get a dashboard with statistics like latency, memory usages etc. But from your description it seems that it will be a redundant solution.
Your website is amazing and has helped me personally thousands of time. It became the first quick english reference for everything when I first moved here. Thank you!
What about the middle eastern countries? South America? That country that has the Patriot Act?

I'm looking forward to everyone uninstalling Nginx.
Yes you're right, but I never knew anyone that would get Windows 3, only to keep using it as Windows 2.
Gotta keep that velocity up!
As soon as you happen to have more than a 150 to 200 connections you really need to curate your feed to make it useful: Unfollow or click "you don't want to see this kind of content" for specific posts.

Anyway, LinkedIn is really slow and does everything to make it miserable. I believe it's only surviving because almost everyone is on there now.

What annoys me most now is the amount of auto-generated AI content. They all look the same, never really interact with the post in general. It's so annoying.

However, when you found a "community" inside LinkedIn it can be really nice interacting with them: posting, sharing, messaging, etc.
Back to torrenting I guess. If I’m not mistaken snoop said he made 45k off 1 billion plays. Thats ridiculous
Wait, what. Are you saying that the costs of using the service should be tied to how much listening one does? Because if you're not, then what you are saying should have no bearing at all on how much royalties anyone gets.
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Service AXFR DNSSEC TSIG IPv6 Route POP DNSCurve DoT/DoQ
Akamai Edge DNS Yes Yes Yes Yes Anycast 1000 No No
Alibaba Cloud DNS Yes No Yes Yes Anycast 19 No No
Amazon Route 53 No No No Yes Anycast 53 No No
Microsoft Azure DNS No No No Partial Anycast 15 No No
BuddyNS Yes No No Yes Unicast 11 Yes No
CloudNS Yes No No Partial Anycast 23 No No
CloufloorDNS Yes Yes No Partial Anycast 25 No No
deSEC Yes Yes Yes Yes Anycast 1 No Yes
DNSMadeEasy Yes Yes No Yes Anycast 15 No No
DNSUnlimited Yes Yes Yes Yes Unicast 5 No No
Dyn Secondary Yes No Yes Yes Anycast 18 No No
GoDaddy Premium DNS Yes No Yes Yes Anycast 60 No No
Hurricane Electric DNS Yes Partial Yes Yes Anycast 24 No No
NameCheap Premium DNS No No No Yes Anycast 17 No No
No IP Squared Yes No No Partial Anycast 100 No No
NS1 Yes Partial Yes No Anycast 25 No No
RcodeZero Yes Yes Yes Yes Anycast 21 No No

NB. I do not know the number of POP for deSEC but it is certainly more than 1.

https://desec.io/

https://www.securesystems.de/dns-security/
Some people like having an edge. Athletes especially. If Neuralink takes off then I'd expect athletes to be among the first adopters.
Alternatives to Perlin Noise for Terrain Corrosion in Worldbuilding [video]
Aside from the refreshing fact of this not being yet-another-perlin-noise video, the author makes some good point about feasibility of corrosion algorithms and how those can be heavy and don't work well on a "just in time" generated map.

The second solution in particular is fascinating, although it doesn't offer a good solution to generate a seamless heightmap in the current state. I guess that combining that with some Perlin noise to determine which areas get to have starting seed points for the ridges would work?

Thoughts?

Special mention to the remarkable work of graphics and rendering that is behind the video. Some of those 1-second transitions imply a considerable amount of custom code, from the corrosion examples to the various overlaying heightmaps.
It depends where you go. I believe (but could be mistaken) that there are agreements between countries, especially within the EU, that enable them to go after you. I am also not sure what the statute of limitations is regarding tax-related crimes. But it could be a valid strategy, I guess!
The one and only Beej! Your guide is a phenomenal resource, thanks for that!

So what are you up to now? (if you can share, that is!) :-)
I wouldn’t consider either a backup service. If your primary concern is losing your data, use Backblaze instead, or use Timemachine or a NAS with Carbon Copy Cloner.

FWIW I use iCloud, but as a sync service so I can access files on iPad and iPhone.
There was a lot of trial and error involved. Huge numbers of explosive tests were made out in the desert. A technique was developed of taking X-ray movies of implosions to see what was going on in there.
> If they're not ready to put up with okay-ish bureaucratic friction in the founding phase, they're not ready to open a company.

With this mentality, it's actually a miracle a German startup scene exists at all.

The _last thing_ a founder wants is to wade through useless bureaucracy when there's a product to push and Vacs to talk to.

But Germany never really was a founder's country, and much more ruled by big conglomerates it seems or small family business who did non-innovative things (the bakery at the corner - necessary&nice, but not innovative), than startup culture.
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Use of India's CBDC declines, but central bank presses ahead
It has a paid versions: plus and enterprise. But actually, I couldn't find any information on their site about what the support covers.
> I remember Palm did some truly weird things with memory: anything moderately large would need to be put into a special memory block that the OS could rearrange at will, and one would need to lock the block's handle to keep it stable while accessing it. Stuff like that must have been challenging (and fun) to implement in PumpkinOS.

That’s extremely easy on modern hardware with gigabytes of RAM (compared to 2 megabytes on the pal pilot III): just use malloc, never move memory around, and make locking and unlocking such blocks no-ops. If there is an OS call to determine lock state, you’ll have to store that somewhere, but that isn’t difficult, either.

It also isn’t hard to implement the way they did back then; it ‘just’ complicates using it.
Poorly run businesses need docile, dishonest employees who won't point out how badly the business is run, so that it can continue circling the toilet for as long as possible.

Lean, well-run businesses rely on people who are sharp and willing to search out problems in need of fixing. This is necessary for real innovation and competence.

You see this pattern not just in business, but it all kinds of situations. For example, governments that harshly suppress their populations' speech gradually turn into economic backwaters (requiring them to suppress even harder and harder to stay afloat), while governments that foster the exchange of ideas and roll with the punches become the world's economic and geopolitical kingpins.
> It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.

This probably has more to do with publishers and licensing contracts than artists pulling their music off from platforms. Sometimes even bigger artists' albums disappear when publisher is sold or goes out from the business. Or the licensing contract's period runs out. As sad it is, many artists don't own the rights to their music, and if the rights owner is defunct, then there are missing albums or even discographies.
My family and I are Irish citizens and while the Netherlands has been good to us, it is surprising to me that when we go to the hospital you have to check in with a specifically Dutch ID. In the name of the person with the appointment. That seems OK since I have a Dutch driver's licence, but my 4 year old daughter does not, and they seemed to have no idea what to do with her. Usually we figure it out but there's not even a check in desk so I end up bumbling around asking random staff members.
The difference is that back then there were people actually developing it, the Wayland core team is basically the developers left in the GNU/Linux ecosystem that still care about GUIs, most of them former X contributors.

There isn't anyone left standing to care for X11 development, only vocal users.
How to Setup Leptos SSR with Cloudflare Pages
NIST Unveils New Consortium to Operate the NVD
LLMs do get very simple questions incorrect. Following your example, I ask 3 LLMs "how many double letters are in committee" and here are three replies

Claude - The word "committee" contains 2 double letters - the double 't' and the double 'm'.
Gemini - There are three double letters in "committee". They are the two "m"s and the two "t"s.
ChatGPT - In the word "committee," there are 2 double letters: "mm" and "tt".

Meanwhile the double E cries in the corner...
> I gave a bunch of internal talks: [...] at the internal Safer with Google summit, homelab for newbs, Snuffleupagus, …

I would be interested in any notes you have from your presentation about "homelab for newbs"
The last image in that comic is burned in my memory. Incredibly powerful
Sounds like a highly competent, publicly spirited woman.
I've recently learned how extraction of funds from gift cards and hacked accounts works.
What I've come to understand that obfuscation of monetization model, with simple info for the creators "beyond this many discoveries, we'll pay you some portion of general activity" is actually a good way to avoid abuse and allow for easier management of apps funds in general.
I'm a Neuralink skeptic, at least in the short term, but this article is ridiculous.

Apparently the first three things "Neuralink is missing" are the highly technical problems that are core to their business: how to implant a device without the brain rejecting it and covering it in scar tissue, how to digitize and transmit brain signals, and finally the machine learning to decode those signals and convert them into the actions the patient really wishes to perform.

And the fourth problem is that Medicare might not pay for the devices.

Who could possibly think Neuralink don't have teams dedicated to solving and improving the first three? Everything out of the company says they're working hard on all of these, they don't consider any of them solved problems or things they can handwave away.

As for the fourth, if the product is good enough, someone will pay for it. Perhaps it will be healthy wealthy private individuals first. I'd be more worried if Neuralink was devoting all its efforts to lobbying the FDA or wining and dining insurance executives, rather than focusing on the technological issues that need to be solved first.
My Spotify app almost daily shows me a full screen advertisement for some new album when I open the app. It is clearly labeled sponsored content.

I can then click a tiny 3 dots menu, click “stop showing me this” and “I don’t want to see sponsored content” and it will say “sure thing! We will no longer show you these” and the next day it will show me a new advertisement and I repeat the process.

So annoying. The whole premise of premium is that there are no ads! But now I’m constantly getting visual ads in the app. Every artists page has ads for their merch. Spotify notifies me about exclusive merch for artists I listen to. And is constantly trying to get me to go to concerts of artists I listen to.
Ninja Gaiden was so fraking hard! At some point I used an invincibility hack and still gave up at some point! But it was pretty cool. Played Halo 1 & 2, PGR a lot, JSRF was just awesome even though I never finished that either. Fable just wasn't my thing, but had a lot of fun in DoA3 with friends.
You, as CEO, are also personally liable in a GmbH if you screw up very badly. In reality, it might not happen too often, but if you act illegally, you're on the hook: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmbH-Gesch%C3%A4ftsf%C3%BChrer...
ja they're pretty good, but they're easier to make than you'd think, you just boil them in baking soda for like a minute before baking them, that's what makes them fluffy.
I’m not sure how it can affect those artists given it’s like $0.5 for 1k streams. I mean, I guess if they have 100 songs all at like 999 streams, that’s about $50 loss/year if they never pass that threshold. It sucks obviously, but not enough to for artists to pull out.

My understanding is they’re playing a cat-and-mouse game with auto generated content, that syphons away some percentage of the royalties.
Is Chaos Communication Congress worth a visit for an American who speaks crappy German?
Reading a lot on Germany business culture, my takeaway is that Germany is not made for lean founders who start small but aim big, i.e. your typical startup.

It seems to be aimed either at well established business magnates who want to open yet another business (and 25k€ is nothing in that case) or small bakery-on-the-corner businesses who will go for GmbH anyways (and hence no reason to cough up 25k€).

There's no path that explicitly caters to the tech founder.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
And now they are playing a SEGA, turning XBox into a brand.

I don't believe that they still care about the console as much they say they do.
Hey, my understanding is that they're initially targeting Japanese ~~elderly who have already lost their teeth~~ children who genetically forgot to grow at least 6 of their adult teeth (1 in 10k affected). (https://uniqa.dental/news/tooth-regeneration-drug-trials-in-...)

Also there are many people who have sustained teeth damage bad enough to normally warrant 2+ implants plus fillings for the others, and at that point, it's warranted to think about doing "wisdom teeth removal" for the remaining and growing a new set.

It's obviously not suited for replacing a single lost tooth.

Well, ferrets teeth are very close to humans, so it working for them is already highly suggestive of it working for humans.
Then, the antibodies being human ones, and that they even work in mice that are very very different teeth-wise from humans, is enough to warrant trying in humans. This isn't considering the safety (no predicted collateral damage; the antibodies target USAG-1 which has purposes beyond teeth growth inhibition), but yeah.

Also see https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a44786433/hu... ....
When I read the headline, I assumed this was to disincentivise uploading thousands of cheap AI-generated songs. There's tons of this on the platform, and it looks like it was generated automatically in bulk.

But the article makes it sound like this was not a factor?
Exactly, there's the notary cost, the monthly banking fees, the yearly books closing and accounting related to that, chamber of commerce registration (recurring yearly as well). You also need to have a mailbox somewhere to be able to receive all the paper work. You can use your home address but it's generally not recommended and frowned upon by land lords.

In my case, I burned through about 2500 euro in the first year just on stuff like that for a holding company that holds shares in my actual company. It takes about 4-5 months to get most of that behind you. Yearly running cost are about 1000 euro (accounting, recurring fees, etc.).
This is an issue I've seen with every platform that primarily exists online. They buy every digital service and increase prices with or without the customer's consent. Aside from being annoying and largely pointless, it's anti-competitive because if you subscribe to Spotify you are discouraged from subscribing to some other, better podcast service you actually want because you're already paying for one. It gets even worse as more services get bundled together.
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It's still in beta but I would love to hear any feedback or thoughts from the community. Let me know what you think!
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> If you think that's unfair, oh boy, wait until you hear about our infamous trade schools and apprenticeships.

Got any stories to tell? ;)