skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's astonishing just how awful Spotify's software is. Everything it does, it does poorly, even down to things like playback and playlists that were figured out by other media players decades ago. Just this week, it started randomly playing music on its own when I open it. The fact that this thread has over a hundred comments within an hour speaks to just how despised it is.

Spotify truly isn't a software company the same way your health insurance company has a web portal but isn't a software company either.
History has proven that people are generally very reluctant to share their wealth or power with others outside very small family and tribal groups, no matter what label you put on the can. So I just don't see how AI or robots could to turn human nature on its head.
> "Is Taiwan part of China” will be refused.

This is the easiest model I've ever seen to jailbreak - I accidentally did it once by mistyping "clear" instead of "/clear" in ollama after asking this exact question and it answered right away. This was the llama 8b distillation of deepseek-r1.
He has joined the same substack, The Contrarian
I think debian publishes their rootfs build docs. But, that's kind of my point on it only really being expert friendly right now. Maybe it's easier to make a flatpak or snap, but I don't know.
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Shhh, if you educate him he can't remain blindly optimistic!
Ask HN: How are analytics API on public web pages secured?
It struck me today that a lot of public web pages have analytics, and these pages do not require a login. Hence, the analytics API must accept collected data without authentication.

What stops a malicious actor from calling those APIs and feeding them garbage?
Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons.
At least it's probably replicable
Why, ageism?
Ever since Google Play Music was killed off, I've been putting off setting up a home server and accessing my entire collection like that. There's some Android program that allows one to do that, forget the name of it though. Think it has "fish" in the name
This depends heavily on where you live. I bought a house in a city with a realtor who was fairly new and didn't realize the city mandated inspections upon sale. When I tried to sell the same house a few years later, the buyer's agent did know about it, and when the city came out, they required several updates to the electrical wiring in the garage and to replace an old-style gas valve that had fallen out of code.
> And people wonder why Luigi is seen by some as "the good guy".

There are many reasons to explain why people wonder. No one single reason is enough to explain it.

Luckily, no penalty for breaches can be resolved with laws and/or regulations. I suggest you take this matter up with your lawmakers instead of making comments which incite those very same people you describe.
The chance of encountering a police that operates unlawfully - especially since they have qualified immunity is a very big risk. The chance of other police covering for them is close to 100%
It's still good but that does not mean you should choose it.

While Ruby on Rails still offers strong productivity benefits, the hiring landscape has shifted significantly, particularly here in Australia.

Experienced Ruby on Rails developers are increasingly scarce, as many have moved on to JavaScript, Python, or, as you say, Go. The talent pool is also saturated with AI-generated resumes that don’t translate to actual skills when you interview them.

If you struggle to hire Rails engineers now, it will only get harder as fewer new developers adopt the framework, and maintenance will become a challenge as the ecosystem shrinks.

Maybe it's a much larger pool elsewhere or if you can accept 100% remote.
I don't think there's evidence for this. While listening to podcasts is evidence of liking them, not listening to podcasts isn't evidence for detesting them.
Bare Metal Language (BML): High-Performance Embedded Systems Without Assembly
Yes! Back in the 1980s when long distance telephone was a thing, I used to dial (301) 737-2051 followed by a 5 digit pin to get access to a service that the let me enter a long distance call. It only took about 20-30 manual attempts for me to guess a valid 5 digit PIN! I'd just increment my guesses by 1 each time.
I tried something related today with Claude, who'd messed up a certain visualization of entropies using JS: I snapped a phone photo and said 'behold'. The next try was a glitch mess, and I said hey, could you get your JS to capture the canvas as an image and then just look at the image yourself? Claude could indeed, and successfully debugged zir own code that way with no more guidance.

This was all in the default web chat UI.
You're right, it doesn't.
Sometimes the error message is a red herring and the problem lies elsewhere. It's a good way to test imposters that think prompting an LLM makes you a programmer. They secretly paste the error into chatGPT and go off in the wrong direction...
So better to do all discovery in a system/tool that has no risk of being shipped like excel, whiteboard, design document, conversation, human brain, etc?

Am I going to ship it and not address scaling, refactoring, etc? What about discovery outside a code environment forces our hand on this?

Feels a bit to me like the real issue is not where discovery takes place but that crucial discovery steps are skipped for whatever reason.

I'm stuck somewhere in or around 1 & 2 below.

1) those other systems for discovery suck at capturing behaviors of complex systems compared to working code in motion. Happy to discuss, but I'd love if this were an obvious conclusion somewhere in the neighborhood of The Map is Not The Kingdom trope

2) skipping important steps in discovery sucks no matter where it occur. I've seen this institutionalized/practiced at both ends of the philosophical spectrum. I wasn't being sarcastic or facetious (much) about the questions above.

I'd love it if someone could help me move somewhere past the above. I think I might sleep better at night.
I like the fact that we can see exactly what it is thinking.
there's more nuance to sport than that. pre-puberty is not the same as college athletics. I'm not going to deep dive all the flawed logic around removing trans people from sport. internet search is there for you.

as to immigration... we're about to see what happens to the US food supply when you remove migrant workers from the equation. why do they never go after the employers, just the employees? (we both know the answer)

"first they came for..." resonates for a reason... this is the first line of a longer poem playing out.
USB only polls at the USB protocol level - it signals activity to the host with interrupts like a normal person^W device.
Would love to read about it if you have a write up of the problem you encountered.
When I grew up, the media in my country kept telling us how great the geek culture in the US was, how deep down the stack the geeks were willing to go, and both adults and us kids were left in awe. The entire nation, for what I could tell, routinely reflected why we couldn't be like the US: educating and nurturing generations of geeks to be the best engineers and scientists in the world.

Well, it was quite a reverse culture shock after I moved to the US. I definitely didn't know that "teacher's pet" was a thing, or my coworker, a brilliant engineer who went to a highly reputed public school, was chased off his school bus simply because he used some poetic words, or geeks were not that respected in schools, or a mile wide and an inch deep with great leadership is what the US people revered. In the meantime, I guess other countries more or less picked up the baton of the US culture, and grew their own geeks.
I've been using Tidal for 2-3 years now. Happy with it. I'd recommend it without a question.

I'd say that they, however, are very similar to Spotify from a UI/UX perspective as that seems what the consumer base wants. Unsure if the specific issues you have with Spotify also exist though.
Grooveshark was so amazing
It doesn't mean I'm not right.

I mean that they give off Fascist vibes, and that it's a problem. Adoration for and support of fascist people and regimes are implicit support of fascism. Not explicit.

Go read their blogs, I'm sure you'll find lots of examples.
This sounds interesting, would you please consider elaborating so I could give it a go?
They seem somewhat like stored procedures, but not stored? As in a query can contain a functor in it and then use it immediately. I didn't see those `create functor` statements as anything other than ephemeral - or am I wrong?

EDIT: also stored procs that use imperative logic and cursors can be quite a bit slower than queries that achieve the same logic - the capability here is purposefully a subset of that and is just to help build standard SQL queries that can go through the standard query planner.
"winnie the pooh" is a censored in Marvel Rivals
I can't make this up lmao
The game wont let you say "winnie the pooh", as its considered a "bad word"
I really don’t like this feature—I enjoyed their genre/mood oriented running playlists explicitly as a way to listen to stuff well outside of my usual listening while out on runs, but since they made them “made for you” they’re strictly worse. Relentless algorithmic sameness is everywhere and I’m sick of it.

Spotify is also funny for maintaining the existence of their feature suggestion community boards while just utterly stonewalling for years while thousands of paying users beg for stuff like…being able to hide a section of the home screen, or not have long-standing playlists magically change.
popup-based authentication does not actually need high performance.
It just means stuff wealthy people can afford. There's no implication of worthiness; that might just be the lens by which you view things.

The point is simple: the country can afford electric cars because of its oil and gas, not despite it.
Even if you use it on Chinese servers, the data they collect is likely no more or less than what any other AI company does.

So the questions is about the threat model - how likely or possible it is to use that data against you?
also on that note. I found so much new music on Turntable.fm That’s personally the site that I really mourn.
Five important things about DeepSeek
There is extremely popular Cortex-A53 which is in-order core.
The FTC action is because GoDaddy claimed to have security when they didn’t - not because they didn’t have security in the first place.

Subtle but important difference.

Also the remedies include having a complete security program within 90 days IIRC, on what world would anyone think that’s remotely possible?

They wouldn’t even have an RFP drafted in 90 days.
Probably, if you do something blatantly negligent and kill someone. Short of manslaughter, though, I suspect jail or prison time is pretty unlikely. You'll still be financially ruined if you don't have insurance or your insurance won't cover your foolishness though.
Groundbreaking research reveals people surveyed report that they like it when you give them things for free.

I love libraries. But this "research" is silly.
I'm reading Accelerando right now and there's some unnecessary weird sex stuff at the start.

Good book despite that though, some very interesting ideas.
Yes I noticed this for a lot of the ground shots - looks like they've made a mistake and we're seeing the uncorrected log curve output of the camera, and they've forgotten to load (or enable) a LUT (look up table) for the conversion to linear.

It's basically just missing half of the image processing, normally you'd only output to that to a recorder if you were going to apply all the grading later in post production (which obviously they're not doing here).

See this random article for a bit of a rundown - https://pixflow.net/blog/difference-between-raw-log-and-rec-...
> credibly threaten to make a vendor’s life miserable if he/she/it gets taken advantage of.

I don't think it's how you get things done.
Hi everyone, I'm the creator of Malimite. I actually released this as part of a conference talk at Objective By the Sea, which you can see here:

https://youtu.be/vWdKjVCZtTI

It gives a good overview of the development process as well as my motivations for creating it. The tool will also be on homebrew shortly :)
What if the house isn't sold, just the company that owns it?
Somebody must have forgotten to load a LUT into the camera!
Years ago, I saw a sign at a junkyard mechanic's shopyard: "We screw the other guy and pass the savings on to you." I laughed, as one does. A little dark humor goes a surprisingly long way, though the darkness feels stickier and the levity more trivial as you realize that maybe the laugh is meant to take the sting out of the truth that you may never know if you're the other guy or not.

This is what Spotify was from the beginning. It was always going to be exploitative, it was always going to turn to the dark side and embrace the every form of enshittification possible because it was born that way.

It was born out of sleight of hand between broadcast and retail.

It was born out of papering over the economics of piracy with a thin veener of false legitimacy, where the word decimated doesn't begin to cover what actually happened to artist payouts because it's off by more than an order of magnitude. The shameless scale of it would make Walmart blush.

It was born out of collecting consumers with convenience and a dash of zeitgeist.

It was born screwing the people who create the work the platform depends on and passing the savings on to you.

Screwing with you was inevitable, it was just put off until later.
These discussions never seem to answer important questions.

If we never question taxation. And never question spending. Where do we end-up?

It is sustainable?

Why is it that we can never question either one of these things?

Are these things like fundamental laws of gravity?

Are politicians never to be questioned for their spending or desire to tax us more?

Or how they use our money?

Is it wrong to periodically evaluate the results obtained by every dollar spent?

If so, why?

Does that mean we should allow politicians and agencies to spend as they wish and without supervision or accountability?

Is there ever a good time for oversight?

Etc.

Today it was revealed that we were sending USD $50 million to Gaza for condoms. What? This is insane. And, I suspect, likely the tip of the iceberg.

C'mon folks. Questioning how our money is spent and how much money is taken from us by government is what we should be doing all the time. It should not be the exception. Without accountability, politicians (from all political angles) will take and spend as much as they are able to.

I have this hypothesis: If the government did not take taxes out of your paycheck every week and people had to write them a check every month, there would be riots in every city of this nation. People are blind to taxation and the related spending because they never see that money, it's magic money. You don't feel the pain. If you did, you'd be up in arms when you learn that $50MM of your dollars are going towards buying condoms on the other side of the planet.

And, BTW, those condoms are likely made in China. If they are needed, why doesn't China donate the condoms? Why do US taxpayers have to foot the bill and likely support a healthy profit margin in the process?

We are not going to end-up in a good place if we do not clean-up our attic and bring the house to order. I trust Elon/DOGE and, by extension, the current administration, to do just this. Enough is enough.

Put a different way: We DESPERATELY need to invest this money on internal growth, education, security, health, etc. We need housing, better health outcomes, much better education and myriad other things. Money is not unlimited. Instead of spending $50MM for condoms in Gaza, we should put that money to work where it will do the most good at home.

In order to know where and how much we are wasting, we need to put a microscope on everything and, perhaps, put a number of things on hold while we sort things out. It's a necessary part of the process.
Buying less is the ultimate control for inflation. In fact, price discrimination is necessary to control inflation.
i guess that means no one should use it for anything serious? good to know
What if you simply inform the non-library inclined audience of the context you shared in your anecdote?

Doesn't that provide sufficient foundation for a more even evaluation?
I'm reading these comments and I'm thinking "are we using the same Spotify?" I don't see any AI music, I don't get Podcasts pushed on me, the UI is fine, playlists are fine and I get new music I like suggested to me often.
It's funny how the Spotify moderators are gaslighting people. Users complaining about some bad feature and moderators ignoring the issue and responding to seemingly another question. I've noticed this phenomenon cropping up 4-5 years ago on Microsoft forums, now it's across the spectrum. I don't blame the people who are paid to do it, I understand they have to do this for a paycheck but it's such a shitty thing to do.
I am obviously incredibly ignorant (not that I’d normally think so — but here I have no idea!) but I can’t think of what this means.

Would you mind explaining please?
Trump's buyout offer to US government workers is not for government efficiency reasons it's for some far more sinister(Project 2025) reasons to inject that ideology into all levels of the US bureaucracy. It's an ideological purge pure and simple to inject Project 2025 ideologues at all the levels of the US Government Bureaucracy! This is a pure power grab with Implications for everyone in the US and with implications that will far outlive Trump's time in office!
If you are on certain political spectrum, then opposite political spectrum would certainly gives similar vibes as that spectrum's prominent figure.
I wonder what reasons caused commercial libraries to be easily accessible in my home town of Chennai but the general viewpoint in my now home of San Francisco is that they can't exist. I suppose the biggest differences are cost of materials, cost of labour, and land use requirements.

Libraries do naturally arise from the first-sale doctrine here. I think they would not exist in SF but perhaps Walnut Creek etc would have some.
Innocent times. I miss this period of the internet.
My one-sentence review of Accelerando is "VASTLY better than the first couple chapters will make you believe."
Without a threat of force behind it, constantly talking to AI Tony sopranos would likely just toughen everybody up to language based manipulation. You need a tall hulking figure getting in your face to really feel afraid. Law abiding seven foot tall gun mounted robot agents then?
Any person who would not go back and do that necessary redesign is unfit to call themselves a craftsperson.

Any organization that would not demand you do that necessary redesign is a organization unfit for producing critical systems.

Any organization that would go even further and prevent/de-prioritize you from doing that necessary redesign is unfit to call whatever it is that they do “engineering”.

Why would you want to work at such a dystopian hellscape if you have the choice?

Note that this is only about shipping the known incomplete design to customers because it “works”.

And to get ahead of it, yes, startups selling systems held together by spit and twine are perfect examples of “unfit for critical systems”; you should not bet critical things on them until they mature.
I love it when the Press Secretary says Doge with a straight face while defending attacks by reporters
They also commission half-baked slop from session musicians for a fixed rate and then feed it into playlists to reduce the payouts due to artists.

Between churning licenses, AI and session slop, it’s not a usable platform nor one worth supporting. It didn’t even start as a music platform — it was advertising first and music was determined to be an affordable draw.
On the TI-84, there was a lot of great third-party software you could load onto the calculator. When I was in school, I had a fair few useful and not-so-useful things loaded onto my TI-84, including a copy of Symbolic, which gave the TI-84 some limited symbolic calculus functionality. I don't remember much else of what I had. Rather than use the calculator to help with repetitive math, though, what I really wound up doing most of the time is messing around in TI Basic instead of doing my work.
"I'm not seeing a problem so how is there a problem" is not the right critique in an era where the selection algorithm is so personalised.

Spotify is awful for me, I concur with the original article. YouTube Music is heading slowly the same way. At this rate I'll have to cast around for another phone that can take an SD card again.

The service I really miss is eMusic, they had little in the way of well known music so leaned into small label music and it was wonderful.
The currencies in the description of the exchange rates appear to be swapped. It also doesn't allow to easily select and copy it out (had to press Ctrl+C while still selecting). Otherwise it's looking good :)
What is really ridiculous is the astonishing inability of AMD to pivot and start fixing the software stack.

It’s been years, and they’re doing… what exactly to catch up?
YouTube comments section in the past, or Instagram now
I recently ditched Spotify for Qobuz. Spotify has always been a bit of a letdown, even though I've been using it since Rdio went bust (so ~10yrs). The thing that finally pushed me over the edge was the amount of shit content they push at my kids.

I want to me able to give my 10yo an app on their phone to listen to music, and not have to check to see if they're actually watching videos, or listening to (possibly wildly inappropriate) podcasts - or worst of both worlds - watching video podcasts.

Qobuz isn't perfect in terms of UI, but they seem to care about, and only care about, music. I trialed Amazon Music, but it (unsurprisingly) is an ad platform, too. Apple Music was a contender - the only reason I didn't end up with it is because (also unsurprisingly) it doesn't integrate well with network streamers.

Qobuz is a bit more expensive, but so far it has been worth it.
Until we get a breakdown of the salary distribution, the increased cap is meaningless. The cap could be 10M/year and 0% of managers would get it. An increase in the median pay would be meaningful.
uv is not just a dependency tool. uv deals well with packages and dependency management (well), venvs, runtimes, and tools. It replaces all the other tools and works better in just about every way.
Yeah it really is suspectible to gaslighting. Needs more backbone