skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think there's very much diversity of bias in today's publications. It mostly breaks down into a very binary partisan split. You have 'liberal outlets' that mostly sound identical and 'conservative outlets' that mostly sound identical.

In the past there was less child-like black and white conflict, but there was vastly more disagreement on views and papers willing to publish things that fell outside the expected grain. The New York Times was a real leader in this regard. My favorite example is probably from an article from 1920. The NYT ran a featured editorial arguing that rockets could not actually work in a vacuum, like space, since 'there would be nothing for its thrust to push back against.'

They were obviously very wrong, but nonetheless were willing to consider views that ran against the grain even for the time. And that is a good thing. Many of the things they were right on were also equally 'out there' at some point, but I'm not mentioning those as we have the bias of 'well that really happened' so the truth doesn't seem as bizarre as it really is.

The problem we have now a days is that the media has become so collusive and incestuous that they rarely publicly disagree, again beyond the partisan split which I can only describe as child-like. And, in my opinion, this is likely intentionally done under a belief that having a unified front would increase their apparent integrity or confidence. Collusive groups like JournoList turned CabaList would work as some evidence towards this. However, at the same time it also completely destroys any notion of competence when everybody gets something so completely wrong. A very recent example of this would be the so-called 'sonic weapons' used 'against' US diplomats in Cuba. In spite of the media going into a unified frenzy of speculation and finger pointing, literally no major outlet took the logical, even if outsider, position that this probably was not even an attack in the first place. And now that it seems like that it indeed was not, it leaves the entire media system looking like a joke. Even when there are only two options (is a weapon, or not a weapon), nobody managed to get it right. That's sadly impressive and again something that was far less frequent an occasion in the past.
I think bold and links are enough. If you need more formatting just attach a document.
Facebook Insider: That is nothing compared to how Facebook uses your phone number on a another persons contact list then aligns that with cookie activity on your computer to get friend recommendations to other accounts that are unrelated to your phone number. The use of your personal phone number internally at Facebook is perverse.
Sometimes art is an umbrella for things that don’t obviously fit anywhere else.

I think art remains in the eye of the beholder. An AI can definitely create things I and others will consider art.
There are several, including Amazon, that will stream most any movie for $3-5 a pop.

If you think that's worth it up to you, you can watch pretty much any movie at any time if you accept this price range.
Sounds like jwz's "intertwingle"[1] strawman with a smidge of "unity of interface"[2], or JetBrains's old Omea information manager[3].

1. https://www-archive.mozilla.org/blue-sky/misc/199805/intertw...

2. https://www-archive.mozilla.org/unity-of-interface.html

3. https://www.jetbrains.com/omea/features/
But Apple's JavaScript engine uses a JIT as well, doesn't it?
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Around holidays Google Play Movies usually has coupons that let you rent any movie for 99ct.
I think so but the artist is the AI's creator.
But Brave wouldn't be able to warn you about Onavo VPN. Or maybe it could?
It's a lot easier to answer the question "is music created by AI really music"

https://soundcloud.com/user-95265362/symphonic-fantasy-in-a-...

Is it?
> It seems like you've put no thought or analysis into my comment

Wow, that's a strong statement. If anything, your inital comment reeks of thoughtless-soundbite-repetition - I also find that statement meaningless and annoying in most contexts. What is it supposed to prove? That Google cares less about its users than it cares about advertisers? Obviously a company needs to take care of its products, or it'll lose the customers too. In fact, most companies invest more in their products than they "invest" in their customers - arguably, as soon as they get a monopoly (or lock you into their ecosystem) they stop caring about you as a customer, at all - and start thinking how to extract more value from you (as opposed to "provide more value to you")

> It's a subtle difference, but it's worth discussing.

Well, discuss it, don't just state it as if it means something obvious.
> I'd take these warnings seriously.

Between the likes of "Iraq WMDs" or "FISA memo", I don't think I'm going to trust anything the U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence community says, thank you very much.
as a kid people asked me if I was an atheist or not. I learned to tell them I was an Apathet, that I am Apathetic.

while I recognize there may be impacts to such a decision, I feel apathetic about the decisions of "the elite". I sometimes imagine that we would all benefit from taking this view.
> foreign bots

Everyone I disagree with is a "foreign bot". I swear this is the new form of American elitism. The fact that the leftists of the coastal regions apply this kind of thinking to even their countrymen only proves my point further.
Well, one can always advocate that they can validate and secure as much as possible their own JIT compiler, including special OS paths, whereas for 3rd party ones everything goes.

Also Microsoft does exactly the same on store apps.

Just Google doesn't, because they never bothered to ramp up Java AOT compilation at the store level, rather using everyone's batteries and since that went pretty bad, now they have a mix of interpreted/JIT/AOT.
I was too. For personal use I eschew new products by Google. iPhone is starting to have big issues but I'll never go back to a Google phone, computer, tablet etc.

AMP has gotten me to finally switch to Duck Duck Go. Gmail is too difficult to leave, but AMP for gmail may finally get me over the edge.

Still wish there was an rss reader as good as G. Reader.
> The argument is that being exposed to any peeping tom is bad, no matter who it is

This is not the argument I refute. I specifically state what I am refuting: "the Chinese having all my information is better than the Americans." Two things being bad doesn't make them equally bad.

Buying a Huawei phone to safeguard against the NSA is akin to leaving one's door open so there is no peephole for peeping Tom to look through. Yes, within a narrow construction, one is correct. But practically speaking, now both the peeping Tom and the person who opened the door can see in.
Wow. This blog post literally parallels what my colleagues and I have been writing and working on for the past 6 months at Intercoin.

I mean, look at the video right here: https://intercoin.org/

It even uses the same terms, such as "Power to the People". https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/12/power-to-the-people/

I am glad that these challenges in crypto are finally being recognized and publicly written about at YC. Perhaps we should apply!
They have been most likely brainwashed by company culture. I had an argument with a friend working in ad tech abot blocking ads.
That's what I found interesting about this too, there is a whole rabbit-hole of similar 'experiments' or what have you that people did after learning about Sokal. Another wikipedia page is devoted entirely to scholarly publishing stings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...). They took place across all of academia, and like you say, end up proving that even the scientific journals are not as rigorous as we may like or think.
I encountered an exception. It was a government contractor that billed the government to do various tasks. Federal contracting law includes requirements for overtime pay.

I think the worst legal behavior would be to demand 7 hours and 59 minutes of unpaid overtime per week. Past that, federal law steps in. So at worst you'd be working a tiny bit less than 48 hours per week... or you'd get paid more, which is a solid disincentive for the company.
Agreed. I actually think it could be possible to make transit faster than driving by implementing the right infrastructure. For example, bus only lanes. I think there's still big issues with first and last mile though. One of the things that kills bus time is stopping at many stops and waits between transfers.
In Europe, you have three phases (R,S,T) and neutral.

Is that everywhere, to every building?

In the USA, of necessity, power generation is three phase, large scale power distribution is three phase. What's confusing is that the previous discussion didn't differentiate between residential and commercial.

In USA residential areas nobody gets all three phases to their house or apartment. As discussed in previous comments, a house gets two hot wires and a neutral. In fact, to save money, sometimes entire neighborhoods only get one or two phases[1]: "spur lines" branching off the main line to provide power to side streets often carry only one or two phase wires, plus the neutral

In commercial and industrial settings it's common and necessary to deliver all three phases to the building. E.g. large electric motors require all three phases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_pole#Power_distributio...
Ostensibly there are dozens, since it feels like everyone makes their own….

Honestly most of the time I use autotools. I hate autotools, but it breaks less often and is usually easier to fix when it does. CMake will occasionally just refuse to find dependencies or will generate bad makefiles for me on less-common OSes like QNX and even on the BSDs.

I did use Premake for a time which is basically like CMake with less awful syntax and doesn't pollute all your subdirectories with files. Don't expect it to work on OSes other than Windows/Mac/common Linuxes though.
This is very well done. As a synthesist, I'd suggest (since you got so close) that you add one detail towards the end:

the amplitude and frequencies of the overtones are ALL that gives (apart from attack/decay and modulations) any instrument (physical or electronic) playing a single note its individual character.

It'd be really cool if you could demo that.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Hierarchical-PLABs%2C-...
These publishing stings have occurred across many fields. I believe this is just the most famous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...
Blockchains boil down to one thing:

Where before you had to trust one server, now you can have many. Multiple writers, multiple readers. That's all.

They are a drop-in replacement for having to trust admins.

On the other hand, backups and replicas could prevent other things, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1d5VvCa8Fo
Paintings aren't painted by humans, they're painted by paint brushes. Therefor, they are not art.

That statement is ridiculous on the surface, but humans have always used tools and machines to produce art, which have gotten more and more sophisticated over time. No matter what machine is used, there's still a human designing the thing.

There's no magical cutoff where you can say "This was not produced by a human". It's just that the degree of indirection has increased over time.
My old boss's kid (well, prolly his wife, the kid was pretty young, but the kid gave it to him) bought him a nice clock for his desk... So he'd know when to come home.

Not hating on the guy, he was a really hard worker and afaict a great father, but something has gotta give. He eventually left for a less demanding job at a larger outfit.

Take care of yourselves.

/throwaway
The security argument is bogus. The benefit over W^X is miniscule. The battery life argument is even more bogus, as JITs are likely to be faster for dynamic languages.
A) you're wrong. Google is still almost completely ads as far as profit is concerned. Still almost 97% of all profit Google takes. Google is ads, whether you like to think that or not.

B) Why should any of us care if there are human engineers doing human things behind any of this? Are you trying to throw a pity party here? "People are vocal about their concerns." That sounds like whole lot of, well, concerned people. Good for you. The occupy Wall Street clowns were also very concerned. And a minor irritation for a lot of people who were not the 1% but were just trying to get to work.

I honestly put about 0% of interest into people who say they are concerned about anything. If it's really that important to you, get off your ass and do something about it. Otherwise I really don't care. And here's the sad truth for you: no one cares about what people are concerned about. Not a single person. No one at Google, and no one anywhere else. No one. No one cares who is vocal about their concerns. Not us, and not the management at Google.

I walked away from the highest paying job of my career 6 months ago because I thought they were making bad decisions that damaged people's lives. I was vocal about the bad decisions before I quit. I was ignored. And that's all fine. I lived off savings for a while, and then I ran out and had to do odd jobs and even some manual labor to float me until I landed a new gig a couple weeks ago.

You can do that too. You don't have to do what I did and walk out of a meeting and not go back, but you can do this. If you really think that bad decisions are being made, the only meaningful way of making your voice heard is to not work there anymore.

Until people start doing that, literally no one cares about what you think or if you're concerned or voicing your opinions. The only things that matter are the product decisions your leadership team makes.

I suspect you are a sincere and caring person who doesn't like every choice that Google makes. That's wonderful. So do something meaningful about it. Stop making those things happen.
There's no personalized targetting in content. It's really one size fits all, or at least the regular S-M-L. It is, obviously, impossible to make different shows for millions of individuals.

What Netflix has is more detailed data of what people watch. So will its competitors is just a few years.

What matters in content is the content of that content. Ideas, emotions, excitement. Technology is irrelevant.
What a coincidence. Just today, I released the project that I've been holding off for more than a year: Basically, it is a distro [1] for the Raspberry Pi that sole purpose is to clean the Intel ME automatically using me-cleaner from Chromebooks and Thinkpads. The whole idea is to make it dead simple so more and more people can DIY the ME removal process with their own laptop/desktop.

I thought to myself, it's nice to not have the problem in the first place. It won't help you with certain problems such as Spectre, no, but reducing the surface of attack is not a silly thing. There are things you can't avoid even with the best intentions. But there are things that you can.

The name of it is ezpi4me [2]. Of course, it's pretty experimental. You might not want to experiment with it (yet?). It's not very practical, yet, for an inexperienced individual to open a laptop, risk bricking by fiddling with a flash chip.

I put a lot of thoughts in it before I decided to release this. To me personally, it's more of a symbolism/a protest than it's practical. The project is the inner me saying, maybe instead of complaining, I'd have to get up my butt and do a tiny thing to help the cause I believe in. I despise the practice of shoving mandatory opaque, backdoor binary blobs to their hardware -- and incentivizing people from saying their shitty binary blobs have security problems by offering hackers/security researchers a shitload of money so they shut up and cooperate. What it entails is that what can be bought by a lot of money from Intel can be bought by even more money from other people. It really rustles my jimmies.

We'd have to start somewhere. Perhaps a year from now, someone will figure out an even easier, better way to achieve the same result. Or perhaps, it will be easy enough to the point that some guys on eBay/Amazon/brick and mortar stores will use my software to clean the ME from laptops they sell en-masse as a factor of differentiation. I hope it will be another step up in terms of usability and adoption from me_cleaner. With that hope, I'm just donating a couple of sleepless nights of my life working on a software that might jeopardize my career and make a lot of people upset. But fuck all that, I'm doing it anyway, for once I can say I'm the change that I want to see.

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1: Technically, it's just a script to create a distro based on raspbian lite, so everything can be inspected. That is on purpose because I don't want to advocate replacing the 3MB Intel ME blob with jimmies' blob, which is a 2GB image that you run on your Pi and program your computer's UEFI firmware/BIOS.

2: https://github.com/htruong/ezpi4me/
Spotify doesn't have a moat. They're not profitable.
What would be your proposed alternative to engineer?
In most Western music there are 12 tones in an octave. So if you play a note with a fundamental frequency of 440 Hz, it will repeat itself (one octave higher) 12 steps later at 880 Hz. Notes one or more octaves apart all have the same name!

Diving deeper: a 'C' on a piano is actually made up of -multiple- frequencies. The 'same' 'C' on any other instrument is made up of a -different- set of frequencies. See: overtones.
You have never been able to do what CSS grid can with table layouts, or any other layouts.
Grid allows you to freely position your content anywhere on the grid regardless of the content position in the HTML, which was not at all possible with the tables and was limited with floats/other layout techniques. I do not count position: absolute, because that's brittle as hell.
It's the first convincing argument i've read against AMP email, assuming it's a valid argument. It doesn't look like amp4email is any less immutable than standard email is - it fetches some resources from external servers, but mandates that those resources must be static and cacheable. Gmail's current behaviour is to download and store all images in emails when they are first opened, which makes the images in emails as immutable as fastmail wants them to be, and i don't see why they would treat any other resources delivered in amp emails differently to images. To me, this seems perfectly reasonable - the responsibility to store email contents in the state they were first recieved should be on the recipient's client, not the sender's server.

i love this blog post, because it's great to write down in clear terms why email being a read-only log is so important. but it looks like in the case of amp it might be a bit of a straw man.
Critics wary as Google’s Chrome begins an ad crackdown
So, you're the target market, and that market is "people who care about music enough to spend $350 on an Apple product to play it, but not enough to spend $850 on decent speakers, but still insist it's important enough that they want to spend more than $100 for the Amazon product that does the same thing only with the rest of the non-music features."

Sounds like a genre-defining winner to me.
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Template areas make responsive designs trivial. You just redeclare them for desired viewport sizes and that's it.
Also grid gives you more independence with regard to content position in the source.
you need to .bind(document) as querySelector aparently acesses its parent object (or use @bind or related : syntax when it's released)
Yes, but that requires an expensive far-IR imager.
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Only the publishing is compulsory license. The performance is not — if Spotify wanted to carry Taylor Swift songs against her wishes, it would need to hire a musician to re-record the tracks.
On the other hands, there are some "tricks" that someone trying to duplicate that functionality in a higher level language can do, too.

For example, our computers nowadays are much faster and have much more memory. So suppose you have some long, tricky section of assembly code that you know computers some sort of function of a single 32-bit input.

You could simply run that section, in a simulator, with all possible 32-bit inputs and make a table of the results. Then instead of trying to understand what is going on by following the convoluted assembly, your task is to implement the function given by that table. With the function in table form you can do things like look for sections that are linear, or constant, of follow other common patterns.

Hopefully you can get some idea from context in the assembly code what, at a high level, the function is doing, and that should further help you see patterns in the table.
Some of what I need to arrange can be done with calendar invites.
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Most evaluators?

I have both, and for discovery spotify is way behind Apple Music, and i often find things on Apple Music that i cant get on Spotify. But one of those factors maybe my taste, but i have one friend with totally opposite taste to me that has had the exact same experience.
/r/marketing is a fairly decent resource, this topic comes up often there.
There is always the "mark as spam" button.
I respectfully disagree. I love both urban fantasy and Shadowrun and was really looking forward to the movie as it should have been practically made for me. And I found it unredeemably terrible.
> both wires have a 0V difference between each end

Obviously voltage is relative. So I'm measuring with respect to me. With respect to me the hot has power, and the neutral doesn't.

i.e. If I attach a light bulb between me and either of the two electrical wires, will it light?

But you're right "carrying power" is a poorly defined term. The problem is that it's hard to use a term that is both clear, and strictly correct.
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I've seen people reach pretty hard to blame various things on Trump, but blaming him for your own lack of reading comprehension is a new one.
It’s a good thing they have Instagram and WhatsApp, because their flagship property seems like it’s going down the tubes. Those acquisitions were in 2012 and 2014 though. Wondering what’s next.