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There are web/mobile apps that can handle the playlist/“liked” songs migrations, but I don’t think they’re widely known.

As a part-time working musician I also wonder about this because they aren’t very artist-friendly, either.

Their discovery-specific algos/UX are ok, but I think becoming the global de-facto music/audio-specific social network is their biggest moat. It’s been so tough to replicate that apple/google/amazon have yet to make much of a dent despite spotify’s actively hostile UX and practices.

Edited to add: Music generes and fandoms have always been tribes and spotify was the first to capitalize on that aspect of music culture. Other companies approached their products in a “building a “digital CD-vinyl collection” kinda way, but there are few network effects in that.

Yes. But more specifically, the author of this post uses Pólya’s framework to examine their 3D graphics problem and illustrate an interesting solution.

I first heard of that book via HN a decade ago and I was amazed by how useful Pólya’s approach can be across domains.

As somebody who would prefer to return to California—- The Blue Ridge line between Roanoke, VA and Greenville, SC is probably where I’ll end up myself. But sadly the mountains are not nearly the same, I’ll miss that elevation.

Interesting. I’ve been using the Wikipedia iOS app (which saves history by the day) to keep track of my personal rabbit hole journeys…

I think this is an important point since the cost of money is a big part of building and buying housing. There are other nuances contained in this exchange too.

But beyond cost of money what, if any, specific argument are you making regarding housing? Lower subsidies in hopes the market follows? Further restrict the money supply to try and contain inflation? There are lots of second order effects that are too broad here, like high interest rates acting as a de facto subsidy to the wealthy (who then, maybe, buy more real estate, etc...

Not OP, but ‘collabos’ was a slang word for ’traitor’, describing French nationals who collaborated with the German military occupiers of France during World War 2 (a synonym for ‘quisling’).

Source:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/collabo#French

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/collaborateur#

While this also feels hyperbolic, I noticed this attitude while living in Northern California myself. But I saw that exceptionalism state-wide, and most especially with young people. The first time I saw a notable break from that attitude was during 2020 pandemic when moving to Austin, TX became de jour (even though many returned).

The irony that people would leave a large, wealthy state full of exceptionalist attitudes for a similarly large, wealthy, exceptionalist state was not lost on me!

But I maintain close personal and business ties to CA and my networks there and won’t live long term more than a days drive away. Maybe I’m part of the problem.

Like when you visit “cancer patient support resources” and read for a while…

If this question had a reliable (and public) answer then the world would be a very different place!

That said, this is an important question. We, particularly those us who work on critical infrastructure or software, should be asking ourselves this regularly to help prevent this type of thing.

Note that it's also easy (and similarly catastrophic) to swing too far the other way and approach all unknowns with automatic paranoia. We live in a world where we have to trust strangers every day, and if we lose that option completely then our civilization grinds to a halt.

But-- vigilance is warranted. I applaud these engineers who followed their instincts and dug into this. They all did us a huge service!

EDIT: wording, spelling

I nearly edited my comment below to add a mention of Pine Mountain but selfishly (…yes I’m sorry) wanted to keep it obscure in the hope that it’d be less crowded when I visit it myself periodically.

If I’m going be less selfish, I should probably mention that my next favorite stargazing spots are Star Valley, WY (yes, named for the celestial views); the high mountain plateaus (8,000-10,000ft+ altitude) between Bozeman, MT and Red Lodge, MT; and Central Idaho (Sawtooth or White Cloud Ranges).

I haven’t made it to Steens yet, thanks for the prompt ;)

Happy Stargazing!

The skies there are brilliant! But that also means it is one of the most remote areas of the US. There is very little but high desert and ramshackle cattle ranches in all directions. There is a reason that they named this county “Malheur” (it’s the French word for ‘misfortune’). I drive through a part of this area every couple of months and it’s agonizing, but on the rare occasion that I’m solo and driving it at night I always make time to stop, turn the lights off, and look up.

This has been true for several years. An insurance agent once told me that there are life insurance companies dropping the requirement for blood draws / medical exams and are just buying prescription records to correlate with financial, educational, and other behavioral data.

Edit: changed prescription “data” to “records”

Checked it now:

“This incident has been resolved. Posted 2 minutes ago. Feb 13, 2024 - 21:12 UTC”

I recall a certain prominent fictional billionaire from The Simpsons creating a parasol to block out the sun (with murderous results...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjJbhuwGkU

(And tinfoil hat time-- how does this not get used as a geopolitical football?)

It takes real courage to stand up to a request in those circumstances. A notable example from a few years ago was this nurse [0] who was unlawfully arrested and forcefully dragged away by an officer when she refused to take blood samples from an unconscious patient without a warrant.

Imagine how much more difficult it would be to resist this when you're a clerk in a retail store working in public.

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/321440980fd54809a5bf8e404cfe4367

(Edited to add context)

I think the lower 2022 numbers reported for Moxie Marlinspike reflect that he was only involved as CEO until February 2022, so $80k would make sense as ~2 months of salary before Meredith Whittaker stepped up to the role.

I was also curious, so I web-searched it for you and came up with a couple of promising items:

A USB Voltmeter with E-marker and protocol testing: https://www.amazon.com/ChargerLAB-KM003C-Portable-Charging-V...

A very basic but maker-friendly signal/capability tester: https://www.tindie.com/products/petl/usb-c-cable-tester-c2c-...

Nathan Marz created Apache Storm, coauthored the book "Big Data", and founded an early real-time infrastructure team at Twitter. It's likely the 'curse of knowledge' of working on this specific problem for so long is responsible for the unique and/or unfamiliar style of communication here.

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This is a misdirection.

I hear people discuss this issue all the time and the focus, like TFA, is focused on compensation and ‘labor demanding too much from consumers’. But consider that processing fees (at least in the US) are generally a small fixed fee of some cents + a percentage of the transaction.

Including tips in the default POS checkout flow has more to do with card transaction fees determined in large part by the transaction size, which creates a strong incentive to boost that transaction total in any way possible.

Similarly, do you ever wonder why everyone wants to you donate to a charitable cause at the grocery store all of the sudden as part of a similar flow in industries that don’t have a tradition of tipping? I suspect that card processors have discovered guilt is more effective than up-sales at increasing transaction size and has been a major driver of increased revenues over the past years.

Edit to add: transaction fee clarity

The guy that created orb.farm[0] is the same guy behind sandspiel.club[1], which is a browser-based Rust/WebGL powdertoy-like implementation. I added it to my phone's home screen so my kids have been playing with it for years!

[0]: https://maxbittker.com [1]: https://sandspiel.club

I think I agree with this in general. And my own experiences line up with this documented rise. But I also wonder if the rates for men, even white men, are undercounted here. My impression is they’re the group least well equipped to recognize some of the more subtle signs of depression or be vulnerable enough to seek help or admit it on record. Suicide rates for white, middle-aged men are the highest for all groups currently. Either they’re more effective at it (possibly?) or this methodology isn’t capturing something.

You can start by utilizing the "noprocrast" (no procastination) flags and timeout delays (maxvisit and minaway) in your HN user profile settings and build a routine around that ;)

For context: This is regarding the function of "group" as it is implemented in the K array-oriented programming language (dialect of APL).

Hundred of bank closure, higher bar to starting De Novo banks, and 14 years of Quantitative Easing means a LOT more assets have been siloed in fewer institutions.

Thanks for posting this, it wasn't on my radar.

Couldn't this also contribute to increased home prices in older single-family home neighborhoods? Or it could go the other way, too, depending on the desirability of new neighborhoods versus legacy neighborhoods. I speculate that this type of legislation, despite the benefits, might serve to further entrench generational and class differences between neighborhoods. I'm generally for this type of legislation, but I'm seeing some potential unforeseen consequences.

I developed a knack for this in practice (thanks HN and 2010's Twitter!) and formalized it on paper just days before I heard an interview with the author David Epstein regarding his then-newly-released book which gave my instinct a better name: RANGE.

Merely consuming content for other roles hardly builds range on its own. But It DOES help solve a related problem: it helps you learn about what to learn to begin to see/think/empathize with others in those roles.

Amphetamine-based drugs are Scheduled substances in the US and other countries, so they keep a tight grip on supply. I've been able to get as much as a 90 day supply at once however, that was handy.

I noticed that there seems to be a 3-6 month reset of my dopamine baseline after stopping stimulant meds, so things like emotional modulation, eating impulses, motivation, and even digestion took a bit to return to something I'd consider normal. Honestly, it took some discipline to get the physical habits right (overcompensation with caffeine caused problems with sleep, etc.).

Finally, for me at least, it was the harder task of prioritizing regular F2F social interaction and attention to developing quality friendships over many months that contributed to my biggest gains in executive function. I did this for other quality of life reasons at the prompting of my partner, and was surprised by this unexpected positive result.

Godspeed, stranger!

I understand the cheekiness of this comment, but reproduction in many societies has indeed become more difficult for many of the same reasons (among several others). The sex hormones that orchestrate lactation and mother-child bonding are largely the same that regulate menstrual cycles, sexual desire, pregnancy, and childbirth. If disruptions to these hormone balances are found to be a major cause in an increase in breastfeeding issues, then this likely correlates strongly with issues effecting the entire reproduction “stack”, if you will.