skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In extremis, if it's the President that decides which parts of Congress to implement, then they have broken the separation of powers. Either the Supreme Court should explicitly rule that the President can weigh e.g. macroeconomic impacts when choosing not to implement laws Congress passed, or Congress should act to avoid those economic consequences.

Aside from today's specific issue, I'm very concerned about the decades-long trend of power being ceded by Congress to the Executive and Judicial branches. This is would be another big jerk in that direction.

"Current law thus often catches the executive branch in a vise: Presidents can neither spend money without an appropriation nor refuse to spend funds once Congress has provided them. From both directions, Congress has reinforced its “power of the purse”—its authority to control the use of federal money." - https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-primer-on-the-impound...
DeepSeek Censoring Questions Related Certain Indian States
And you can have multiple Backeds for Frontends different types of clients (i.e. browser, mobile)
Bold of you to assume that management will notice this bug or care if it's something minor on the frontend!
This is an area where Apple can choose to Be Different and not allow their platform to melt into a puddle of slop. I hope they have what it takes.
I stopped paying for Spotify years ago and instead make playlists on there that I can feed into any of the various websites that will rip mp3s for you. Yes they are 128kbps, but for casual listening, it's fine. Some tools will try to match against YouTube and download audio from there, since apparently in some cases YouTube will have higher audio quality.

Unfortunately the free version of the Spotify iOS app is absolute unusable garbage.
Yes, but practically with todays technology there is no feasible way of getting to a speed where time dilation matters over that distance, we run out of fuel so we need some external power source like a laser or solar wind that have other issues, iirc one only gets to 2x time dilation at 0.9 c. That’s a lot of acceleration.
Not sure I understand here. Are you suggesting that the new president will cut off arms to Israel? That makes absolutely no sense.
Grindr got bought by str8 tech Bros and is now heavily profit driven.

Plus as a gay dude I don't even really use it bc it's just a vain wall of abs and conversations about the most inane meaningless things on there.

There aren't even really that many actual geeks in the "geek" tribe. Just pretty dudes who think they're a geek bc they play fifa on their xbox.
After re-reading the letter this was a very slick move.... they never promised anything more than (very obtusely) the $25k. The article's wording has been repeatedly edited and the Editors Note has changed a few times as well: "Editor's note: This story has been updated with background on the administration's memo.", "Editor's note: This story has been updated with confirmation from the Office of Personnel Management."
> My interpretation of Krugman's departure is that higher-ups edited and re-edited his columns to reduce the possibility of calling up a kerfuffle. They wanted him to soften his words and blunt his message because they were sensitive to calls of media bias. I think that's exactly the wrong response.

This seems to be how Krugman is framing it, but is editorial oversight actually bad?

In the past this kind of pundit class could basically make things up and papers like the Times would just regurgitate whatever they claim.

We know what Krugman is claiming about the editors, but I could imagine a counterfactual where they were striking misleading or unsupported statements from his posts.
Where do you get the highest quality audio if you want to put in some work? I'd like to jump ship back to a personal library but don't know how I'm gonna extract these 2000 songs I only have 1/4 of locally
I mean nobody can pretend that this level of investment will continue forever, but even before the LLM hype NVIDIA was printing cash.
Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
Every web developer is fine with 10% of the feature set, it’s just a different 10% for each dev. I am regularly annoyed by the inconsistent browser support for Web MIDI, something 99% of web devs probably don’t care about at all.

It would be easier to sandbox if there were fewer features of course, but in practice we rarely see exploits even in complicated low-level APIs like webgpu (which must be a nightmare to make secure given how many buggy drivers and different devices it has to support). So it seems like in practice we are able to sandbox these APIs securely, and having them provides an incredible benefit to users who are able to securely and easily run applications (how else do you recommend people do this on desktop platforms?).
What do you think about DeepSeek-r1 privacy?
Lots of companies have execs who do those things that still don't fly private jets today and may not even have execs who always fly business class unless they have the status to routinely get upgraded. Certainly no company I've ever worked for and I've worked for some pretty large ones.
My understanding is that it was profitable if you got the aircraft for free and already had pilots capable of flying them.

If the Concorde had been an actual financial success they would have developed it further and made a successor. And if BA and Air France had thought that the Concorde would continue making them money they wouldn't have retired it after one tragic accident in 30 years of operation. The 737 Max is still being made after much worse.
Thought it was going to be about Shopify.
Krugman did not say anything about money in his reasons for leaving...
I stoped using Spotify when they committed the unforgivable UI sin of "loading a page and then moving elements on that page when web calls complete" that resulted in me clicking on something other than what I had intended to because it changed with my thumb a nanometer from the screen. It was a good 20% of the time and it made me insane.
np ;)

I am amazed these days people lacking knowledge about hardware, and the mass benefits of undervolting/power limiting hardware. Its like people do not realize that what is sold, is often overclocked/too high vcore. The amount of people i see buying insane overspec PSUs, and go O_o ...

How is your performance with the different models on your setup?
lol this is the wackiest non-news; every serious project has at least some parts of their kernels implemented in PTX/AMDGCN.
I feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.
If you want to DIY something similar, check out the LXmin and other Linkwitz designs

https://www.linkwitzlab.com/Store/LXmini.htm
Do you think that the data centers which have already been built are sitting idle, and that's why people are tripping over themselves to spin up new ones?

It's an objective fact that many people find these things useful. Whether or not they're willing to PAY is another issue.
https://bower.sh/react-is-bad-because-its-great

If you are building an SPA there is no reason to choose something other than React. Many of these other frameworks focus on apps that aren't full-blown SPAs. Htmx, deno fresh, astro, remix, next.js, these are all designed for users that don't want SPAs.

I think that's great, but often we conflate these use cases which cause mass confusion. Htmx is not great for highly dynamic "desktop class" web apps and the same goes for next.js.
AI-Driven, Self-Healing CI Pipelines Can Transform Development
without any hate to the well intentioned engineers working on the thing, spotify has just exceedingly poor product taste in any number of dimensions

- the godawful ai dj they tried to force on pple

- buying gimlet media and running it into the toilet. some of the world's best and favorite podcasts, gone because some swedish billionaire decided to throw all his money into foie grasing a perfectly fine niche media company.

- buying anchor and going absolutely nowhere with it. it was never good so whatever. nice try i guess.

- locking up joe rogan and whoever to try to put walled gardens around podcasting (to this day when you go to a spotify page for a podcast it acts like it has never heard of "RSS" or "mp3". fucking offensive)

- they habitually screw over musicians https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...

- reggie watts: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEhAr7lx7CI/?igsh=bXBpZ25kczMyZ3...

- bjork: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/bjork-spotify-streaming-...

- they faked spotify wrapped numbers https://x.com/hello__caitlin/status/1864367028758565216?s=46

- this is petty but they are a big step back from winamp and that is just slop https://x.com/riomadeit/status/1878556039676666024

i will say ONE nice thing. Gustav Soderstrom himself does make a pretty damn good podcast about spotify https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-03-11/introducing-the-new-... . its a real shame his product is mostly riding the highs of early good decisions.
if you are a l33t h4ck3r you too can despotify your life:

- get youtube premium, has youtube music with it. youtube music is basically straight superset of spotify.

- https://github.com/jam3scampbell/music
ping(8) has no particular access to the filesystem, and can only do inet and stdio. At least on OpenBSD. I have a modified version of vi(1) that cannot write outside of /tmp or ~/tmp, nor access the internet, nor can it run programs. Other text editors could easily access ~/.ssh keys and cloud them. Whoops? sshd(8) and other daemons use privsep so that the likely to be exploited bits have no particular access to the system, only pipes off to other portions of the OpenSSH complex.

Maybe if rsync were better designed exploits could be better contained; alas, there was a recent whoopsiedoodle—an error, as Dijkstra would call them—and rsync can read from and write to a lot of files, do internet things, execute whatever programs. A great gift to attackers.

It may help if the tool does one thing and one thing well (e.g. the unix model, as opposed to the "I can't believe it's not bloat!"™ model common elsewhere) as then you can restrict, say, ping to only what it needs to do, and if some dark patterner wants to shove ads, metrics, and tracking into ls(1) how about a big fat Greek "no" for those network requests. It may also help if the tool is designed (like, say, OpenSSH) to be well partitioned, and not (like, say, rsync) to need the entire unix kitchen.

Image libraries have had quite a few CVE or whoopsiedoodles over the years, so there could be good arguments made to not allow those portions of the code access to the network and filesystem. Or how about a big heap of slow and expensive formal verification… what's that, someone with crap security stole all your market share? Oh, well. Maybe some other decade.

A non-zero number of people feel that "active content" e.g. the modern web is one of the worst security missteps made in the last few decades. At least flash was gotten rid of. So many CVE.

P.S. web browsers have always sucked at text editing, so this was typed up in vi yielding a file for w3m to read. No, w3m can't do much of anything besides internet and access a few narrow bits of the filesystem. So, for me, web browsers are very much in the "don't want to access the filesystem" category. I can also see arguments for them not having (direct) access to the network, to avoid mixing the "parse the bodge that is HTML and pray there are no exploits" with the "has access to the network" bits of the code, but I've been too lazy to write that as a replacement for w3m.
There is nothing dark about it. The paid version of ChatGPT can do web searches. I see that you aren’t using the paid version.
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Spotify is terrible but mostly because the interface is bad. It has so many frustrating changes that no one asked for that have accumulated over time and little annoyances / bugs that’ll never be fixed. I feel like basic things such as managing playlists or navigating my library are harder than they need to be. They deserve to lose.

I’m curious about some of the newer services such as Qobuz or Deezer or Tidal. Are they any better?
Not everything has to be a gotcha moment about Americans
Art models, to me, are very powerful paintbrushes. The technical skill of the artist is less important, but their ability to create art that makes people FEEL is more important than ever.
Late Stage Social Capitalism
Desmos completely founded my understanding of how many things in digital signal processing work. For example convolution or time delays
Reinforcement Learning by AI Punishment [Fiction]
Look at what crowd is saying.
Crowd is usually wrong or at least off the point.

Im tired of repeating this over and over but there is no real “i” in current AI.

It’s nothing but a fancy advanced auto complete in the hands of a good software engineer (and even that is half the time bad and requires skills and experience).

If your goal is to become an engineer - you’re safe in any predictable future.

Because there is not yet developed even a theory of anything that is capable of actually solving any meaningful engineering challenges
I switched to Tidal about 8 years ago after discovering how bad the Spotify encoding was. With some songs the high end is just complete garbage that physically makes my ears hurt, for example Enigma's Cross Of Changes. The encoding on that is so bad on Spotify, or at least used to be. What a waste of money, effort and computing resources.

Of course, the best way is to buy either digital or physical releases, which I do for the ones that stick with me.
We're actually entering the timeline where you have to migrate to some Neal Stephenson Anathem-esque (digital) monastery where people cultivate knowledge. He really was onto this trend, in the newer Dodge books as well.

Maybe this is one of the few pro-social use cases for crypto, some sort of alternative net where people are verifiably real and content is authentic. I genuinely cannot understand how platforms are not taking more aggressive measures against this stuff.
It's the time we live in.
The wiki on lagrangian points also has a bunch of useful info on this stuff. Gravity is absolutely incredible

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
Does anyone have any good tools for migrating off of spotify?

And where to go?

I’d like Apple but their apps are horrendous and they completely bastardized the classic Music app pre streaming.
I think GP knew full well what GGP was talking about. Swift also avoids this type of bug; and moreover, it answers GGP's question about what language Apple is actually rewriting with.
The biggest advantage of DIY over buying is no taxes or regulation. I built a house without codes or inspection for $30k, meanwhile it would cost you $300k+ for same.
You can model that here https://economicmodel.dshr.org/
> locking up joe rogan and whoever to try to put walled gardens around podcasting

Not to mention blowing >$250M of their subscription revenue to lock down one podcaster when most of their subscribers joined for not podcasts. That money could have gone towards paying music artists better rates like Apple Music and Tidal do.
Likely LOG settings in the cameras, a color profile aimed at color correction. If LOG footage is not color corrected it looks like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ap8k564N_w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_profile
Do you have a source for the claim that poor GenZ are worse off than past generations?

I'm actually curious, I've only seen the numbers in aggregate.
What were once considered conservative values have been completely tossed aside. It kind of blows my mind.
I’ve been reading opinion columnists at the New York Times for nearly a half century. My opinion is that the paper should stop giving de-facto lifetime tenure to columnists. All of the long-term columnists I remember—with the possible exception of Russell Baker—became predictable and repetitive.

Paul Krugman was not the worst in that regard by any means. The champion was A. M. Rosenthal: Israel good, China bad, drug legalization bad, again and again and again. But I still became able to predict with confidence what position Krugman was going to take—and what positions he wouldn’t take—without reading his columns.
But the future is obvious right? If an AI citizen pays taxes, contributes to society, and has the same rights as humans, why would their creative expression be considered less "real" than a human's? They would be a legitimate member of society expressing themselves through music, just like any other citizen.
this plane doesn't look like it was made to produce a low boom. It has a very distinct von Karman ogive [1] fuselage and typical delta wings. I would guess that it's shape is primarily optimized for fuel efficiency at 1.5 mach or above.

If you take a look at NASA's low boom demonstrator [2], you can see that it's much skinnier and the nose is crazy elongated. This is intended to break up the bow shock into multiple parts, thereby decreasing the amount of energy each one has.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_cone_design#Von_K%C3%A1rm...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_Quesst
Nearly two decades ago, I spent my time as a young teen on a Korean MMO called Flyff. It was pretty cool to read a forum post from one of the EDGE writers gathering people's opinions on the cosmetics they liked using for their characters. I posted my reply and then a few months later got to see my post on print! A neat little core memory.
It’s not. If you’re truly interested, I can send you the video.
Wait. You think the problem is "children" on the VC cult website?

You see no issues with the CEO of five companies who bought his way into U.S. politics and being a complete clown show of K-hole takes that go against everything the Constitution was written to hold as sacred being criticized for his BS?

Cool.

Nicknames help us deal with the reality of an Apartheid cult gaining influence on our government.
It mostly works. I get a lot of "No results." and !images doesn't work
Maybe. But perhaps unlike cigarettes today, the entire Internet is structurally conspiring against people.

I keep comparing[0] advertising[1] to a cancer on society, and that analogy applies to influencing in particular too. Thing is, a lot of those influencers, aka. "content creators", actually do create good content on a regular basis[2]. Yes, this is kind of what makes this advertising vector effective in the first place, but it gets harder to make people think about how they're being manipulated when they can rightfully say they watch it out of genuine interest and get real value out of it.

Which is why I bring up the cancer analogy. Many cancers induce the body to route more blood towards them, which also benefits the healthy cells in the vicinity. From the point of view of such cells, the tumor is great - it blesses them with plenty. But of course we know, that benefit is short-term and localized - eventually, it leads to premature death.

I see the work of influencers to be like this. They pull in money and use it to produce exciting content, making the platforms thrive - or at least it seems so, for a while. In reality, they're slowly but surely burning the platform out (and over longer timescales, also public consciousness).

--

[0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

[1] - Well, particular subset of sales, marketing and advertising. AFAIK there's no good term that describes it; the closest one I found over the years is "marketing communications".

[2] - Especially if we consider entertaining content as good, too. Which, honestly, I think we should - humans need and value entertainment.
Is there an app for AI music exclusively?
Also true of those old "lockbox" key lockers that real estate agents use to "protect" the keys to your house.

This made me uncomfortable when I was selling a house, so naturally I wrote some code to generate a string of digits that would cover the full solution space most efficiently.

Armed with this "master key", I had the lockbox open in negligible time. Honestly I think it was just a few minutes, and I was about halfway through the string.

This let me put the key out only when a showing was happening, and I brought the lockbox to the closing, which baffled the real estate agent.
It is so exciting, I never found anything better than my pebbles.

It would be great to have a good map system on the watch. Not a GPS but a good communication with LocusMap, OSMAND, Google Map.
Rails is pretty amazing to get started. Rails is definitely the gold standard when it comes to Get Shit Done fast. I think the Active Record model can lead to some technical debt down the road, but for getting started nothing is faster from a dev perspective.

All that being said these days I'd start with Elixir/Phoenix.
I'm building a company in this area that looks like something similar. The goal is to provide a safer source for open source application dependencies that augments/replaces e.g. NPM.

We take open source dependencies and:

- Patch vulnerabilities, including in transitive dependencies, even for old or EoL versions that teams may be on

- Continuously vet new versions that are published for malware; and don't bring them into the registry if so

- Inline dependencies that don't need to be separate packages (e.g. fold in trim-newlines, a 1-line NPM package, into a parent package) to simplify dependency trees

This is then available to developers as a one line change to switch to in e.g. package.json. Once you switch, you no longer need to manually review packages or do any of this scanning/upgrading/vulnerability management work, since you can trust and set policies on the registry.

We're in the very early days and working with a few future-minded developers to get feedback on the design. If you're interested, I'd love to share more! Please email me at neil@syntra.io
it's the same bias this grandfather has: https://youtu.be/KiPQdVC5RHU
Seems like speculative execution is just fundamentally insecure. With SPECTRE/MELTDOWN mitigations, doesn't CPU performance drop below the same CPU performance with no branch prediction at all? Should we move back to CISC? Or maybe VLIW?
This reminds me of an old Perl magic spell for invoking it within a Bourne/POSIX shell wrapper along with allowing arbitrary command line arguments[0]:

#!/bin/sh
#! -*- perl -*- -p
eval 'exec perl -x -wS $0 ${1+"$@"}'
if 0;

# It's Perl code from this point.

0 - https://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun
Our knowledge of good and evil is fundamentally incoherent, philosophers typically have a lot of fun with that. We rely heavily on instincts that were calibrated to make 200-strong tribes of monkeys successful and break down hard when applied at the scale of million-strong capital-based societies where we can reshape our environment to taste. It only gets worse if we do what we seem on the verge of doing and learn how to spin up superintelligent yet perfectly malleable consciousnesses on demand.

TLDR; it'll all end in tears. Don't stress too much.
It may be the worst thing that's happened to musicians but as a listener, I feel like it's been the best for listeners?
- https://github.com/jam3scampbell/music

- youtube music
> What did the project 2025 people expect was going to happen?

Given that one of their goals was "de-emphasizing college education" and encouraging high school graduates to focus on a (Christian, of course) family, and raising children... I don't think they much care.
It's the manifested fear of AOLesque internet silos to hang on to their ~prey~ users by the claw. It creates a less open, less federated web.