skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old legacy acts account for a significant proportion of streaming revenue. I don't know the revenue numbers but you can get an idea of an artist's popularity from the Monthly Listeners metric on Spotify. I would hazard a guess and assert that most of the middle ranking artists that make up the rump of streaming listens (with monthly Spotify listeners over 1 million) are legacy acts.

A random example: Dan Fogelberg achieved some success 40 - 50 years ago, his style of soft singer songwriter has very little relevance today and yet he is getting 1.1 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

It's really hard for contemporary artists to get to 1 million Spotify listeners even if they are critically-lauded. For example, here are some artists from the top of the Album Of The Year aggregate list of lists of the best albums of 2023 [0], together with their monthly listeners on Spotify. In other words these artists' albums were widely viewed by critics as among the best albums of 2023.

Lankum - 93k
Anohni - 452k
Wednesday - 173k
Young Fathers - 461k

Sure, critical acclaim does not equal commercial success, but these numbers highlight how hard it can be to break through even if you are really good.

And with the already massive catalog of recorded music swelling further and further every year the outlook for new artists is scary.

The massive choice and availability of music on streaming platforms is absolutely fantastic for music lovers but the competitive environment for contemporary artists is one where they are trying to find and grow an audience in a massive glut of content. It's hard, and very different from the old music biz.

I came across a new artist yesterday, NIKK has just 112 monthly Spotify listeners at this time, and their debut album is really great! Described as "ambient glitchpop soundscapes" give it a listen!

https://nikk.bandcamp.com/album/you-see-me-through-your-eyes

https://open.spotify.com/album/7uPhwANGy9w6oJryJESh0f?si=vDx...

[0] https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2023/
miracast is a decent standard. i'm not sure why we'd need chromecast's proprietary equivalent as well.

the fact that google dropped it from stock android kind of says it all - they clearly think that chromecast isn't good enough to compete without being coddled.
What's the benefit of using AI over a standard non-AI solution here?
Show HN: Vite plugin for React previews (minimal config, Storybook alternative)
While I have used StoryBook since its early days, in my last projects, I wanted something simple that only provides a playground. I created this plugin after implementing a few quick-and-dirty playgrounds using Vite glob imports.

The plugin does not replace StoryBook, as it only provides a quick playground and doesn't plan to have any of its features. However, it's a fast-compatible alternative if you use Vite and want to play with your components visually.

It's intentionally lightweight and extensible. While I prefer using separate files with the ".preview.tsx" extension, you can opt for ".stories.tsx" to use it alongside Storybook. Alternatively, you can customize it to use a "preview" export (similar to SwiftUI) with minimal programming effort.
'One of the most disgusting meals I've ever eaten': AI recipes tested
assh is another project to consider, altough I falled back to just regular SSH config files and imports.
Thanks, and sorry for mischaracterization. Glad to hear it’s different than I (wrongly) assumed. I’m curious though, if the design goals never changed and there was very little breaking changes, why the version is that high then? Not that you can’t use any numbering scheme you like, and not that semver is mandatory for every project. In hindsight I think my reaction came from assuming you use semver.
Of course I can't view cross-eyed stereograms, but I can look through the image. Likely the author is the same way?

[edit]

Some people have asked how I read things that are up close if I can't cross my eyes; I close one eye.
I'd argue that most skilled teams would say an overly large hierarchy stifles technical innovation, but no hierarchy leads to anarchy. You need a well defined hierarchy, but you also have to keep it small.

Also, from the article:

> Leadership roles within a software development team should be clearly defined. If there's no leader, infighting and bitterness ensues, as everyone tries to be a leader.

100% accurate, in my experience.
"Premium" in general means "more expensive," right?
That comment is simply ludicrous.

You display enough technical pro-efficiency on the topic but then you try to compare as equivalent the usage of SearX or DDG, ignoring that only one of them has the source code available for review. If you are affiliated to DDG, please disclose openly.

If you honestly are _THAT_ worried about IP tracking on the server level, then you would run SearX inside your local machine with Tor or any VPN of your choice. Simple.

Otherwise you'd just pick an online instance from https://searx.space/

But I wonder if we are having a non-affiliated conversation.
With all due respect. That is not a bug. That's like saying python slowness is a bug or that you can write undefined things in C is a bug. It's just the way the language works. Besides in the worst case you slap `StrictData` on the relevant modules. In the worst of the worst case you disable laziness altogether with `Strict` for the relevant modules. Frankly if an entire team of professional haskell devs are chasing a space leak for weeks then something is going very wrong and it's not the use of Haskell.
Astrophysicist introduces Kid-friendly crash course on artificial intelligence
Or the white nationalist antisemite camp, which is larger than I'm at all comfortable with. As a Pennsylvania Jew, though, I must admit to being a little relieved. He's been a decent governor, for one thing, and also I'm a little nervous about the antisemitism that'd result.

As for Trump, all the people they'd be familiar with are either in jail, realized he's terrible, or he tried to kill them (Pence).
Is there a replacement device out there for the ability to cast a tab or your full desktop to a TV? We use this functionality all the time and I would rather not deal with HDMI cords.
Over the ~10 years of US involvement in Vietnam, the US had 58k dead and 150k hospitalized. In less than two and a half years of SMO, Russia has had probably around 315k casualties? 61k have been confirmed dead for sure.

The other thing to consider is that sure Russia had 2.1M professional soldiers and reservists, but how many knew how to fly a Ka-50? How many were well trained tank gunners? How many were competent, experienced members of the NCO corps, or well trained and equipped paratroopers, or artillery officers? How many are left, and how many have to have their positions go empty or be filled by someone new without adequate experience?
I just bought a Chromecast because my TV doesn't support the latest apps.
I suspect that being a dongle is part of the appeal of Chromecast for many people.

At least I definitely don't want more visible external boxes behind/next to my TV, especially if they don't even need line-of-sight to the remote since that's all Bluetooth anyway these days.
Asia's 5k-year-old rice terraces are inspiring modern flood control
Can anyone more business savvy explain deals like this? $100M isn’t chump change and CNET is actual garbage. What’s the strategy here?
Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership
So you want new artists to be promoted and you're willing for those artists to be paid less to make it happen? Spotify Discovery Mode seems to fit the bill. Artists agree to take a lower rate, and Spotify is incentivized to include their music more often in their algorithmic playlists and radio, so they can be discovered. Of course, this was not exactly uncontroversial!
14-hour days are crazy. I work for a company that outsources lots of work to eastern Europe. We basically cut our deadline in half last year because of mismanagement, didn't change the contract, and the team still had to complete it in this timeframe.

I know for a fact many people on the team were going to meetings at 7pm-10pm their time for months (and also working long hours). The project ended up being a success with very few issues, which surprised me.
Just this morning, I was chatting with a colleague about how much I love Chromecast and how relieved I am that it hasn't been discontinued. Then, an 3 hours later, I read this news, and it really bummed me out.

Honestly, I'm not sure which company frustrates me more right now. Updating apps on Google Play has become a nightmare compared to Apple, where review times can stretch to two weeks (sic). Plus, the google search is practically useless.
Hi, I found the name of the KIT spinoff, it's called Glassomer.

Unfortunately, they have been undercut in terms of temperature. Some guys in the US claim they can 3d print glass at ~200 deg Celsius..

So Glassomer is probably dead in the water (from the POV of VCs) unless they can find someway to beat the 200 deg C record, or to do it without UV.
I'm not sure $100 million is nickels, but yeah. CNET used to be ok, if not good, now they're an SEO/AI trash company.
Chinese firms stockpile high-end Samsung chips as they await new US curbs
Thanks for this! I have used macOS for ten years now and somehow I was unaware of this. This is such a useful feature, it’s a shame it’s not better documented.
The rebranding makes sense, because I don't think people see it as "Google Chromecast", but simply "Chromecast" and not associating it with Google.
> Respectfully. Bollocks.

No. You get one or the other, not both.

Angry partisan fighting is why topics like these get stripped from the front page within minutes of showing up.
Snatch up some 4k chromecasts on eBay while they're still available
As a quite skeptical and secular person, I have been spending a fair bit of time and energy reflecting on what is precious / miraculous in recent years. An idea born in her now passed mind still reaches you across time and me across the internet, and is capable of touching both our hearts. That's not magical thinking, that's _magic_ <3.
I've definitely tried that and it doesn't work for the problems I've tried. Claude's answers for me always have all the hallmarks of an LLM response: extremely confident, filled with misunderstandings of even widely used APIs, and often requiring active correction on so many details that I'm not convinced it wouldn't have been faster to just search for a solution by hand. It feels like pair programming with a junior engineer, but without the benefit of helping train someone.

I'm trying to figure out if I'm using it wrong or using it on the wrong types of problems. How do people with 10+ years of experience use it effectively?
I am reminded of the Perry Bible Fellowship strip "Now Showing".

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/
Btrfs Stakeholders in Fedora Eye Bootable Snapshots and Transparent Encryption
Seems like the perfect opportunity for an open source dongle that does pass-by-reference content streaming to replace Chromecast.
> It links up addresses to host names so that you don’t have to remember ip addresses of servers.

Um.
Eight-year-old me used to trawl the CNet Downloads section for hours looking for video games to play (which were more often than not bizarre half-baked DOS RPGs and adventure games). Later on I religiously checked their MP3 player reviews to see whether I should sink my hard-saved cash into a Rio Carbon or the Creative Zen Micro that I eventually bought. It's unfortunate but not unexpected to see them relegated to the second tier of internet publishing decades later.
In this case "premium" just means "expensive, right? What new features are there? AI summaries? I don't think there is anyone that would think AI summaries would be worth paying extra. But I do think people would pay more if there was a version that completely removed any and all AI integrations.
So, a lesser version of Grafana, got it.

These vague landing pages that steal my time kill me. I get the whole “create a landing page to validate my micro saas”, but this is just clip art with no info
Thanks for the tip. For streaming from the web I mostly find that just connecting a laptop to HDMI works pretty well but you obviously have to be near the TV. At one point, I bought a second Apple TV for another TV and I confess I haven't really used Chromecast--which at one point I considered pretty essential--in a while.
Mozilla could be a big loser.

Firefox doesn't have much left to lose (<3%).
Like others are saying, this just looks like a rebrand. Hopefully this competes in performance with the 2019 Nvidia Shield TV Pro which is to date still the only streamer that performs well enough for high quality audio and video, but is starting to age (and no longer works with things like google home audio groups). If anyone knows of a comparable plex streamer let me know :)
I still have one. A few years old but still works, rock-solid and what I love best is the form-factor: unobtrusive, in fact, totally hidden from view.
yea... don't really want to have to change OS for a CM tool
That quickly comes to mind while reading HNers boast about their feel-good milkweed garden.

We step over dollar bills to pick up pennies, and it’s very hard to get red pilled out of it.
Review of the Quantum Thief Trilogy
Roku has always been pretty great -- simple, straightforward, limited UI clutter (source: have been a user since 2013).
However, lately they've been adding more and more suggested/sponsored content to the home screen. Most of these things can be turned off, and even with them on, it doesn't slow down the experience significantly (I'm looking at you, Fire TV) but it is a shame. I suppose they've got to make money somehow...
While Delta may have poor IT practices, CrowdStrike still fucked up the update, which causes millions of dollars in damages. I can't see them not paying anything in terms of damages .
I find that extremely hard to believe, unless you're exclusively talking about sending drones to attack a specific location with a time crunch, I don't see any reason why a drone wouldn't be charged to full. Especially since that figure probably includes unarmed drones used for ISR
This makes me sad as I have multiple chromecasts, it has its issues but for the price they're amazing. I guess they need to throw more money at AI search nobody wanted or likes instead.

I feel like nobody running product at google has any idea what they're doing.
This is really just a rebranding. For the past few years, we've already had a Chromecast with Google TV, which is pretty much the same thing. This is just a hardware refresh, adding AI freatures and doubling the price.

I'm hoping this hardware is faster. The previous model was very laggy compared to the Apple TV or Nvidia Shield. But probably not. It just looks like the Chromecast team is tyring to shoehorn in AI features because it's 2024. I guess the description summaries could be helpful, maybe.
Wasn't there one in mid-July too? What's going on with Azure?
GMail offers this when you pay for Google Workspace.
What happens when a beloved rock star gets fed up?
Roku is just as creepy if not worse than Google. They do sell your data AFAIK, not just use it to deliver ads...
> Are they a livestreaming "first" business-man/company/sole trader?

Yes. And if you press them economically, it will show.

The only difference is that most people do not optimize their lives for profit.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/force - read the verb section.

There is no tight definition of "force" in US market regulation. You are making things up.

The phrase "market forces" is directly quoted in the ruling. Market forces are incentives pushing market participants to behave in certain ways. This is econ 101.
From the article

> According to the Times, Shah wants CNET because it’s a “well-known industry brand” and still has an audience that’s large enough to be attractive to tech advertisers.
I wish they'd sort out the actual experience of casting, maybe it's OK with a Chromecast - but with AndroidTV and an Android Phone, it's a complete gamble how well it's going work, and there are always so many options you can choose (most sub optimal).
Have they lost their minds?

Chromecast is a great device to have with you on the road. Now it's this massive brick?. Why would I want this?

It's just another reason to not get invested in anything Google related. Whatever you do you'll always end up with a discontinued product or a brick in the end.
I was wondering if that was a thing but no. It does have a little panel for more advanced operations and a toggle to invert them (roots, logs, exponents etc) but seemingly no reciprocal.
It's digital pimping. Google are fully-automated, mass-scale digital pimps. They pimp your eyeballs out to Johns who pay for the privilege of mindfucking you, with the help of an extremely sophisticated matchmaking and realtime auction system. In return, you get nice handbags (YouTube) and get your hair did (GMail).

Calling it "ads" and Google an "advertising company" is just making a vague allusion to what's really going on and does not carry the proper connotation of exploitation.
What difference does this announcement make to you? I am still using a 2013 Chromecast for some purposes. It does all the things it originally did, even though "support" for it ended a while back.
ISR is probably more important than hunter-killer drones, at least right now
You can buy any of the google-enabled speakers, or you can just get some raspberry pi and run your own solution.
> but we can and do drop tanks via parachutes today

I don't think that's actually true. Some quick Googling shows the US M-1 Abrams tank is not air-droppable, and maybe the best they can do is air drop light armored vehicles which are much lighter.
Show HN: Framework Wars
It is annoying that we do not have an open standard for Wi-Fi video casting.
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They’ve been getting more sluggish for years. When the Ultra launched I could stream something to the TV from my laptop or phone nearly instantly. Now it’s a 20 second wait and only 80% chance of success. Why the fuck can’t products by Google improve performance over time? What perverse incentives do they have to slowly and steadily make them worse than they were out of the box?
I think this can actually compete with, and might be better than, the nvidia shield pro. Since 2019, I don't think we've had such a device (last I checked).

The "best devices" lineup has been the nvidia shield pro, Roku ultra, and Apple tv 4k, with Roku being the cheapest at $99.

If you don't care about decoding support for all the different video formats, HDR10, dolby xy and z, etc., then these sorts of devices might not be for you.
The default on macOS is to chuck them in /cores (which seems quite reasonable to me).

Security-wise I wouldn't worry too much about the Solaris/Illumos defaults. There, dumps can be created in up to three contexts: system-wide "global", zone-wide "global", and local. All are created with mode 600 and global dumps are created with owner of uid 0. Local core dumps are owned by user that owns the process unless its uid/gid has changed (e.g. setuid/setgid), then the owner is the superuser like the global dumps.

Otherwise yeah I'm not a huge fan of leaving core dumps in the current directory. What if you're doing something on a read-only filesystem?
> Updating apps on Google Play has become a nightmare compared to Apple, where review times can stretch to two weeks (sic).

What do you mean by "(sic)" here? I'm used to seeing that in quotes to make it clear the quote is being reproduced exactly, but I've never seen it outside a quote.
I have both. I don't even know where the Chromecast is anymore.

I also have a smart TV, but the Roku has a lot of apps that the TV doesn't.
I used to use one of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series

where you kept values on the stack and could reverse the values with the SWAP key. I currently have a

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

which I use in Algebraic mode instead of RPN.
Because being scared because one drug dealer shot another makes about as much sense statistically as being scared because there was a car accident outside the office. Actually less so since cars kill far more pedestrians than violent criminals.
The decent solution to the remote-less Chromecast is to buy a super cheap android tablet to use as a remote.
Personally I prefer to manage my ssh config file manually and I like the way 'stormssh' shows the list of hosts and the options.

https://github.com/emre/storm
> the market moved on from simple wireless display dongles.

Has it? Then it must have left me behind somewhere.

My Chromecast does 4K, Dolby Vision, runs Android TV, has a usable remote. What needs to change? There's no newer A/V standard available anyway! I literally couldn't think of anything else I'd want it to do.

(Google could, of course, and it's somehow "AI", even though that probably just runs in the cloud anyway?)
Miracast is for streaming a video feed from a device. This is horrible for battery life, AV sync and cannot deal with things like HDR content and remote input.

Cast and Airplay makes the device itself fetch and play content, with local control and importantly much better display and video manage.

(AirPlay and Cast both support screen sharing, but that is not the main use case.)
I sometimes use Startpage if I need a proxy for something or to get around paywalls, as it has an 'anonymous view' for all links.
I lived on a DIY total meal replacement shake for about a year:

Pros:

- Feel fucking amazing. Not just digestive, but mind, energy, mood, all over feel great.

- Perfect poops. I'd poop the same ideal poop everyday at the same time. Two wipes and done.

- Cheap-ish. DIY made it much cheaper than commercial products. Allowed fine tuning too. Was something like $7/day.

- Never hungry. I had three shakes a day and was very satiating. I would go months without experiencing the feeling of hunger.

- Lots of water. Each shake had ~500ml of water in it, which made it much easier to stay hydrated.

- Maximized exercise gains. Was tailored for working out, so I didn't leave anything on the table due to nutritional deficits.

Cons:

- The taste and texture. Bad and worse. Wasn't excruciating to get down, but fell into the "It's not good but I'll still have it" camp.

- No variety. Basically the same thing all the time.

- Weak jaw. Your jaw muscles weaken quickly when not being used all the time. It's surprising to eat regular food and find your jaw aching and tired after half a sandwich.

- Planning. Kind of minor but I would need to plan a bit more to make sure I had shakes ready to go. They tasted best if they could sit for an hour or so after mixing, and where chilled.

I gave in eventually because regular food is just so enjoyable and because GNC stopped making the micro nutrient powder that was essential too it.
Twice the price with a chip from 2021.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-tv-streamer-processo...