jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
WinAmp, FooBar2000 (Plugins) and Windows Media Player (Win7) store the music metadata in the mp3 files itself (IDv2 format). Using the Windows search advanced syntax I can find all songs that I rated with >=4 stars. One can also add various metadata columns to Explorer details view (like album name, stars-rating, etc.). As playlist format use M3U or its unicode sibling - a format that every music player supports; avoid WPL or other lesser known/supported formats.

It would be great if more music players like car entertainment systems, iTunes, iOS Music would show the stats rating that is stored in the mp3 files itself (metadata). Monolithic databased based music management systems may be convenient for some users. I personally prefer to copy the mp3 files (with embedded metadata) to my other devices.

My wish list: More intelligent playlist playback that e.g. recognises song skipping as down-voting and manual replaying a song as up-voting and plays similar songs based on the music fingerprint like iTunes Genius but as completely offline feature.

Casual people nowadays listen music on streaming platforms like Youtube, Spotify or old-school radio stations. So it's unfortunate but we saw no new exiting new features in music players for some years.
From a comment I noted down some time ago where the user provided a comparison between Decentraleyes and LocalCDN:

- Decentraleyes has the advantage of being a "recommended" webextension which "undergoes a thorough technical security review to ensure it adheres to Mozilla’s add-on policies."

- Decentraleyes' has public ownership; Thomas Reintjes.

- Decentraleyes' last commit and last activity by the maintainer was 4 months ago; there are 78 open issues, and 9 merge requests with no indication of being merged in anytime soon. So I assume

- LocalCDN was forked because Decentraleyes actually appears stale which is unfortunate.

- LocalCDN doesn't have public ownership.

- LocalCDN isn't a recommended webextension and thus updates won't undergo "thorough technical security reviews."

- LocalCDN does support more assets/CDNs (which increases privacy beyond Decentraleyes) and will support more.

- LocalCDN has not slipped a new permission in. Compare LocalCDN's manifest.json with Decentraleyes'.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/fc05uh/comm...
Tsung is very solid, and high-performing. It lacks real scripting though - you can't write test cases as code.
> I get it, you start ignoring alerts when theres so many of them. That's also the moment you go back to whatever manufacturer and tell them that you can't work with a safety critical software that will emit spurius alerts to no end.

Who do you think buys the equipment or has contact with the vendor?
I also realized one day that certain errands were opportunities to go out that I welcomed. And of course when I don't use Amazon I can get something faster, too, but that's just a side benefit.
Posts like this and people like you are the reason why those who really need help don't get the help they need and deserve.
The exact title of the email I just sent my wife, with the url to the story.
10x is still an order of magnitude too low. This type of behavior should be financially debilitating for a company. $4 million is a rounding error for Facebook. The fine should be $4 billion.
Maybe they were bloggers just afraid the police would have knock down their door...
There were 17 comments when I wrote this one. Pretty random!
Microwave or lasers, moderately efficient.

See the discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
Zero Hedge has been my main source of financial news for almost a year. They've been out in front of some big stories that shine a light through some dark spaces.
You certainly show a level of maturity that is not common among typical hunters. I understand that you enjoy the process of hunting, not only the result, and I can sympathize with that. Thanks for augmenting my perspective on the subject.
I am thankful to my belief that it still hasn't given up that I will make big one day.
>In other words: Microsoft thinks it knows what developers want better than they do.

Haven't they always? .NET is riddled with "safety" features like sealed classes that make programming a living hell.
A suggestion to you and anyone else who doesn't like Monopoly - given the chance, try the video game versions of it. The game progresses much faster, the standard rules are enforced, and you'll start seeing the strategy of the game peeking through behind the monotony of dice roles and rent payments.

It's all about getting monopolies, and preventing other players from doing so. Luck is still part of the game, but certain parts of the game (go to jail, advance to nearest unsold property/boardwalk) give weight to certain parts of the board.

In our household, we like to play with the speed die, which adds an additional strategy that I like: It forces players to advance to the nearest unsold property, or if all are sold, it advances the players to the nearest unmortgaged property.
Lest the Stiglitz bandwagon go wholly unchallenged, here's a great reply by Russ Roberts:

http://cafehayek.com/2011/04/theres-no-their-there.html

Since the link to the source of the (preconception shattering) intergenerational income graph he references is borked, here is a correct one:

http://www.economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/PEW_EMP_GETTING_...
(or: how to know when to yell "fuck the police" after uploading images to the global nexus of free communication known as the internet)
FTA: "it appears that Square could be losing money on this"

What a naive statement. The author was doing some good reporting, then says something like this? Obviously selling the hardware is not Square's business model; collecting transaction fees is. Basic economics says they would want the devices in as many hands as possible.
Discovered this a while back and was pretty excited. This was my favorite show in the 80s. I think I actually hated my parents for a while cos my room didn't look like Richies.

Pretty sure most episodes are there, quality is bad but the magic is still there.
I ride my bike to the office and back, ~20 miles each way, ~1800 feet of climbing, keeps me relatively fit.
Unless the active noise cancelling gets it spectacularly wrong, the high peaks won’t be higher than the peaks in the to-be-cancelled noise.

So, you’d have to argue that short, sudden peaks are more damaging than continuous sounds. There is adaptation to sound volume (https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.1906477), but I think you’d need more than that.
It's not about offering subjects control, it's about weighing the impact to the individual against the public interest of the reporting.

You seem to be under the impression that journalists are under no obligation with regard to how their reporting impacts their subjects, even when that subject is not a public figure per se. I'm pretty sure that's something that even most journalists (at least those working at relatively prestigious institutions) would disagree with.

Again, you are justifying Gawker-style journalism, which is pretty atrocious and doesn't serve to create a better informed public.
Even so, I find it hard to outright dismiss claims of earbuds causing damage.

Tinnitus can be a lifelong condition and deserves investigation.

It already seems like a platitude to tell folks not to listen at peak volume for extended periods of time. It'd be interesting to see if there are common behaviors, such as use at max volume, reported amongst those affected.
1. I see it akin to a small war. We are talking here about acts of mild aggression here (if only verbal).

2. There are soldiers (metaphor for politicians) and their job is to fight, so that civilians (citizens) could live free from violence.

3. The idea to put citizens to fight and to tell them to target the neutrals and opponents has to face this criticism: you are applying a huge multiplier to the sum of all violence in the world. You better do the multiplication and run the actual numbers to be sure that in the long run you'll come good.

4. If it turns out a group intimidated 100k people to free from intimidation 90k other people, they turn out not only horrible morally, but also crude simpletons.

5. The more opinions become weapons, the less opinions will be judged objectively by these citizens in future. Circumstances can change quickly and, in democracy, the only way to cope is to have masses of voters honestly predict the real life results of their choices. They need to clear their heads, not to wield opinions as weapons. (They have politicians for that after all.)
> Comptime's lazyness is a necessary feature and not an accident. This is how Zig can avoid having a macro system.

Can you elaborate on lazy analysis replacing the need for macros?
Someone trying to short Northrop? I see them flying over my house all the time
I like the idea of aggregating mentions from around the web on my personal static site. Ideally I would want to always have the most recent data, and not expose my site in a way that could be hacked.

These are the implementations that come to mind:

- re-render entire site on receipt of new mention (live data, but dangerous)

- re-render site on a schedule (less dangerous, nearly live data)

- fetch mentions client-side (live data, safe, but requires javascript enabled in the browser)

[UPDATED] - use cloud edge worker to insert the live data as the page is being returned to client (live data, safe, works with JS disabled in browser)

Are there some implementations that I’m missing?
This is what the right-click menu looks like in Firefox on macOS [1]. Compared to the right-click menu from Safari on the same machine [2], you can see several differences. The most notable one is that the Firefox menu is not theme-aware, rendering a light-themed context menu even though the OS is in dark mode. Next, the padding around the menu is incorrect compared to a native menu. It also looks like the font is maybe a different size. Finally, the drill-down arrow on the Firefox menu doesn't match the native one.

[1] https://ibb.co/0hRpSBB
[2] https://ibb.co/wwhCypT
Better performance and bonus privacy features.
Watch the movie "the big short". It's really good. This is from one of the scenes where too guys try to get a license. Although the manage a few million dollars, in order to get the license they should have even more. Or as it turns out the right connections.
Customers have the choice to not use Amazon today, but how would you give them visibility into who takes privacy and security more seriously? Is Walmart safer? Target? How about my local retailer that only takes orders by phone and types them into a spreadsheet on a poorly protected computer?
Firefox may be snappy and feature-forward, but I am reconsidering if I should keep using it considering Mozilla seems to support censorship and deplatforming:

Agreed! My browser should not be deciding my content!
Amazing idea, just bought a copy.
> Would you like to be more rational? Of course you would.

Personally I'm not jumping on that "of course". Rational thinking only works for clearly limited scope problems where you have all the data. Otherwise even perfect rational thinking - an unattainable ideal - fails because of "garbage in garbage out". Life in general being far from a clearly defined set of problems where you have all the data.

> By “mindfulness”—a feature of Buddhism for thousands of years, and a subject of scientific investigation for a few decades—most people mean a mental state you can be in.

What/where are the results from those thousands years of mindfulness? If the practice has an impact surely we should be able to see some things at a society level, or at least in some individuals who are particularly good at it.
This is incorrect, and it's precisely for this sort of situation that the LGPL exists.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL

The problem for the author in this case is that a) writing their code against a GPL'd library constitutes creating a derivative work, and b) putting it on GitHub is distribution.
Ive been working with the Symfony PHP Framework since 2007 and to me it has transformed PHP completely. Many people left PHP when Rails came along and never looked at it again, and the biggest misconception is that many of those still look at PHP like it was in 2005/2006.
But alot has happened!

Symfony2, my framework of choice, has a very mature and solid architecture and offers anything you could imagine from other frameworks. The code is clean and maintainable if done right and still its extremely flexible and extensible. It also depends on PHP 5.3 which has Namespaces, closures, lambdas etc. So id argue its up there with any of the other top Frameworks, it might even be the best. While its true that there are languages that are more beautiful to work in, i dont think its all that bad. For me, the biggest flaws of PHP are present in any dynamic-typing language. The syntax is just stuff to get used to once and be done with it.
I’m not sure what you mean. How is “two people working full-time“ not equivalent to “two full-time employees”?
i used to switch our Vt100's to 132 line mode
Took a moment to realize you were naming the symbol "-" (i.e. hyphen-minus) specifically, and not using it grammatically as an en-dash.
I feel like 'sap' is maybe a bit strong of a word here which might trigger many people.

I think that we shouldn't judge others' hobbies on some intellectual basis and that people need some downtime and rest. It's fine to play chess, or improvise on a musical instrument or go clubbing without thinking whether it benefits the humanity.

Also I don't think it has to be restricted to 'obsessive tinkerer' games. You can make something cool in the 'real world' or learn more without being an engineer. Arguably tinkerer games or even chess are not any better in this respect than, say, call of duty, or some casual platformer.

If I was asking the same question, I'd ask "how can we make 'real word' activities as entertaining and rewarding as games".

To elaborate: I program a lot in my free time, I love building stuff, it's very rewarding when you reach milestones and do progress.
On the other hand very often it's kinda meh. You know what you need to do, but then you spend massive amounts of time actually achieving it. You can easily spend hours and days debugging some crap, which results in a one-liner fix. This is not fun at all, it completely sucks!

Compare this to a dopamine train while playing Minecraft or SimCity or Civilisation where you're doing steady progress all the time. I can completely understand people who prefer video games to building things. But at least I know that I'm doing something that has never been done before, it will be useful for me later and other people so it wasn't all for nothing. In comparison, after playing video games all I feel is regret is that I'll never get this time back.

I'd imagine it's similar with many other 'real world' things. It's hard to push the boundaries of what you know or capable of, so brains resist it.. in comparison playing a video game is usually fun and easy since you know the drill.
I've wondered about this myself. The best I have come up with is that the global wealth inequality is increasing. There is more demand for investments, across the board, and the demand is growing at a linear or greater rate. Therefore, the price for everything is going up.
> Do not have to go to work sick, because they act like you murdered 30 children if you call in sick.
> Do not have to be exposed to multiple sick coworkers at any given time.

This is a really important one and something that occurred to me recently. Now that we've all established that we can, in fact, work from home just fine, we should at the very, very least stop the ridiculous practice of coming into work sick. Prior to COVID it was perfectly acceptable for someone to be in meetings or sitting next to you with a cold in full flow. This wasn't something you could complain about. In fact, it was more likely someone would complain if they took time off for having a cold.

I agree wholeheartedly with all of the author's other points. At this point, going back to the office every day would be an enormous regression. I don't want to work for such a place ever again.
50% is a very psychological number. It's half, and telling people that half of their time is spent on money that they literally let someone else spend for the social-good is not a good thing. Start getting into the 80%+ range, and the conversation should rightfully center around indentured servitude and slavery.

One thing that I don't understand why were not discussing/suggesting: If we must have taxes, and we want to go above 40/50%, why not consider giving people more choice in where that money gets spent as a way to offset the "negative" feelings. I think a lot of people would be more okay with large percentage tax-values if they were in control of what that money was being spent on.
Yes, and it comes with the opposite problem of hierarchy - working for a manager who has 30-50 direct reports and no time for you or anyone on the team.
I think the definition they used of "peaceful" (given context) was different.
Up until a certain point switiching companies is the way to go i think.

I have made offers from other companies transparent to my current employer and got a fair raise as a result, which will only work if you have a really good relationship and i would not typically recommend.
Nick's non fiction: Young kid does a book review weekly, very underated.
If you meant the cryptography in your previous post , you are right. I thought you were talking about the protocol in general.
Well, if the chat app is implemented in Electron it has to load a fully-fledged browser before even starting to load.
who is this 'we' you speak of
There’s no need for the examples to be fictional, there are more than enough real world cases to share. Sadly, many of my personal ones end in “I filed a bug with an annotated screenshot of decompiled code indicating where they should fix it but nothing happened”.
> But this sorta makes the case, to me, at least, that some degree of regulation needs to be applied to the industry.

I don't get it. We've had lots of obvious scam apps available for ages. We've had problem with moderation. We could see lots of faults with both the marketplace and apple's policies.

But what tips the scale for you was an app which literally said in the description it does nothing and is just a status symbol? It wasn't even trying to trick anyone. Why is that bad in any way?
A frustration that I don't hear mention too often is the mess that is MS software licensing. From my perspective, there is often confusion over what is covered and what it will cost and nobody will answer simple questions.

I have been to five TechEd's and it is becoming common that speakers start a presentation with "do not talk to me about how to buy this" or "please talk to the license guys". I get this same answer from my local and regional MS sales reps.

Sometimes getting pricing on the virtualization and what is covered by SA is a royal pain. Perhaps I have it bad because I work in higher ed, but it was that way when I worked in private enterprise.
Because it wouldn't save costs. Manufacturing most drugs is trivial nowadays.

That's why theres so much money being spent on patents and patent enforcement. Once they know the active components, a generics producer in India can make the drug for mere cents.
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, I spent my afternoon working at a local food pantry.
That is actually a pretty interesting point you've made.
My intent wasn't to argue that Coinbase should be illegal. That would be silly. My goal was to show that regardless of how we feel consumers should act, those links show how they do act.

Consumers take risks far beyond what's reasonable. It's up to Coinbase to protect them, and for them to inform consumers if they can't. But Coinbase is doing just the opposite: they're advertising that they're insured while handwaving the fact that they only insure 2% of their coins. And so on.
Given that getting Ruby installed on those servers involves doing literally nothing, no, it isn't as easy.
Wish 1password worked with Chrome. Looks handy.
Forgive my ignorance, but does "flat file" mean "prerendered static HTML page" in this usage?
Your dreams and desires have nothing to do with living a fulfilling "dignified" life. His answer is so full of truth. You don't need to live in Manhattan to be happy, the same way you don't need to be in the bay area to start a successful startup. If you think that the only way to be happy (in your case) is to live in Manhattan, then you have bigger problems with your priorities than the amount of money you need to live comfortably.

I've love to buy a sporty Jaguar coupe which costs around 110k over here, but since I don't have that kind of money to spend on a car I make due with my 1998 truck. I'm happy. I'll probably buy a 370z in the next six months. It's not a Jaguar, but I will still be happy and live a free and dignified life.
Sounds like exactly the kind of purchase a company like AOL would make. It's a high visibility addition to their portfolio of eclectic randomness. Which makes money. "Who knew they'd end up savvy?" is my only response... Oh and I suppose, "Yahoo was on this trajectory a few years back. I wonder if AOL will end up in the same place or if they'll keep their savvy..."
Doesn't Varnish handle many times more concurrent clients than apache does, at significantly lower system load? It could just be pure optimization.
So I ran some tests for a 10 second countdown. I'm pretty sure you are right and my mind changing 13 year old self was wrong.

I can do 21 "7"s in 10 seconds (given ok legibility) and 18 "9"s. So it looks like 7 is indeed better.
No-one own the public personal page space. Facebook, et al are about sharing with your friends and not the wider world.

Linkedin comes the closest, but it's purely professional, pointing someone to your linkedin will only give them a limited view of yourself.

Being your own brand is an important socially as it is professionally. So it makes sense that people are going after this market.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=piloerection
It wasn't the 7-bit salts that let the crackers get access to the passwords. It was DES crypt that did. They could have used 1024 bit salts and the passwords would have been cracked just as quickly.

I just ran a quick shell script over the database file. There are only 3329 password collisions. Of 700,000+. Sure, a bigger salt could have reduced that. But was that in any way the cause of the problem? No.
Regarding Japan, they had two buffers to prevent complete zombification - they started their deflation with about a 15% personal savings rate (which is now around 2% iirc). And they still had trade surpluses with the US and Europe. Both enabled them to avoid the worst of deflation.

The US is starting at negative savings rates and trade deficits, so we have to find our buffer elsewhere. Apparently QE, more stimulus, and screaming at China to let their currency float to even the trade deficit are it.
CUDA actually is open, but ATI chooses not to implement CUDA support in their drivers.
The key value is not as much in the data itself, as much as the _timeliness_ of the data. Access to the halfhose allows you to answer a _very_ valuable question:

"What's happening right now?"

This question is worth a lot of money, and something that doesn't have a good algorithmic solution(e.g. Google News.) Twitter is probably the only company that has a privacy-compliant solution to this, hence making it a very monetizable product.
We constantly address performance issues and it is our top priority. On that note, yes, it can take a bit longer to load than embedded comments (server-side), but they load asynchronously so your content isnt waiting on your comments.