skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, my comment doesn't apply to countries with functional public transit system (the US is not one of those countries...)
any good instruction on how to run an own node?
Short answer: OP can afford that.
Depends very much on your programming environment: on Python I don"t care, but when doing bash scripting or makefiles (very often) I very much care.

I have recently decided to stop using $ in passwords (defined by me) for that same reason: of course they are valid char, but they are such a big pain to support in usual contexts that it is simply not worth it.
> I'd never be in a meeting regarding deaths of users of my software

I know what that's like.

About 20 years ago I was at a consulting firm supporting an electric and gas utility company. Among other things they had to do something called "markouts" which means they paint the ground at a location in a way that indicates exactly what infrastructure they have in the ground and precisely where it is. Markouts are a government organized thing. Before digging somewhere you can call a number and anybody that might possibly have infrastructure in the ground anywhere near your dig site is required to paint their markouts within a short time period. There are stiff fines if you "miss a markout."

Anyhow there was a data problem with a markout. The field worker was sent to paint a markout at the corner of two streets that actually ran parallel to each other and didn't meet. Instead of calling it in and questioning the task he did nothing. Shortly after a construction worker put a backhoe through an electrical conduit with 15K volts. There was an explosion that was heard for many miles. The worker died the next day. He died painfully.

> so I just cannot help but be curious as to how one of those meetings would go.

Finger pointing, of course. Data was being fed back and forth between systems and eventually somebody else took the blame. The field worker who ignored the markout also was blamed. We did add something to our system so that that kind of data error would raise an exception.

I learned a lot about care and diligence about data from this experience. Data errors are no joke.
Do you think this process can be effectively adapted to roles outside engineering?
U.S. jails/prisons are designed specifically to make the inmate's life as miserable as they are allowed to by law. Trust me, if jails/prisons could ban books or commissary, they would. What you describe is what the Swedish prison system is all about. https://mic.com/articles/109138/sweden-has-done-for-its-pris.... This is a system designed to make people not only pay for their crimes but to help them rehabilitate and reintegrate into society. Pretty much the polar opposite of the US system of mass incarceration with a revolving door attached to the end.
Our new touch keyboard - all the battery consumption of our screens, none of the tactile feedback of the keyboard you know and love!
Damn, I've made some bad decisions in this career!
C is a systems programming language. It doesn't have closures or other features from functional programming. In other words, you can't "create functions at runtime". That is why you basically never see a function returning another function.
It started out with

the easiest way to get a big, shiny product is to just re-launch the same projects over, and over, and over

As someone commented about Hangouts, and me comparing it to other instances where we see similar behavior in the video game space.

It was meant to merely be an analogy and we got off the rails a bit, this was never intended to be some kind of long-winded jab at Nintendo for its own sake.
Man, I hope so. Do you know how many times I've seen "really simple" one-line changes hose everything? Bonus points if they're to fix something that was pressing but not urgent and now you've just made it 10x worse.
Slack refunds customers 100x amount paid during outage
^ this. Weekly or bi-weekly 1:1s + read the check-ins. Check-ins don't lie. If you are not reading check-ins as an engineering manager, then you are going to be heavily affected by politics.
At most 8 flips. In many cases you'll be able to use less if you flip the most significant bits of your 8 bit number first. E.g., if you have 45 HP and the first flip is 1, you can probably stop flipping at that point.
The Israeli Tech Guru Who Helps Start-Ups Without Asking Anything In Return
Personally I have so many projects I want to work on (where the motivation is making a Good Thing rather than getting rich) that I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be the case for me. But I can see it being the case for others.
this study appears built off the assume that everyone has the same "satiation point". that doesn't seem like a good assumption to me.
I have only one question: can I disable it in GSuite without disabling the Gmail "chat" and this "Hangouts" thingy that you schedule via calendar?
I say, you JS guys doth protest a bit too much.

If you look in your package.json, you'll surely see a dozen or so "scripts" lines that run through the same shell that make does and have all the problems you just mentioned.

I'd also like to point out that Linux and almost certainly your production environment (because it's most likely *ix) will be case sensitive. Your macOS or Windows file system? Not so much. Point is, you're already up to your neck in portability issues. My macOS coworkers often forget this detail.
At least a lot of the Tasty videos have some kinda value to them, I suppose.
For the lazy: https://bitchute.com/
No. Nothing has fundamentally changed. That's merely partisan wishful dreaming, it makes people feel better to think their side isn't nearly so bad on eg privacy.

The machine that has been consistently moving these things along for 40-50 years now, transcends the parties. The parties have their marching orders, they largely obey. Politicians come and go. Feinstein for one example, if she gets replaced (which she will eventually, she's 84 years old), the anti-privacy pushers will find a replacement vessel.
What's a jock culture problem? Where everyone talks about sports and it's alienating?
I don't understand - I thought you could stream any audio from their collection that you wanted on Spotify? Do you have to add audio to your library first? Otherwise why does it matter what is in your library and what isn't if you can stream anything?
That's weird. I don't get that impression from the review at all. Pinker is a Harvard Professor, and hardly a prole from anyone's point of view. You have to bear in mind that Pinker has put out a series of publications in the past 5-10 years that are extremely patronizing to scholars in the humanities. If you're going to tell entire disciplines that they're doing it all wrong, and that you know how to do it right, then you can't really expect a friendly response. One can imagine the reaction if, for example, historians wrote articles telling physicists how to conduct their research.
> There'd be politics too, probably, but not as much as in Google

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“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
-John Maynard Keynes

Looks like another case of this applying. Though it's sad, I am heartened to know that giants can succumb to this too. Lord knows it's hit me enough.
I’ve compared the two, not blind, periodically. I seem to notice a bigger difference when using my higher-quality headphones and on certain albums (typically newer ones), but have not tested blind.

A confounding variable is that Spotify may use different bit rate heuristics than Tidal when streaming, so I’d need to preload the albums to be compared on both platforms, but I’m willing to conduct it blind.

A bigger complaint for me, honestly, is that Spotify’s navigation does not do what I want it to. (e.g., when trying to go to an artist’s page from a song, it just won’t do what I want.)
Pentagon’s $1B Cloud Deal May Signal New Era in Government Buying
Try to offer code escrow (for a fee) instead. Larger companies are worried that small services go out of business. In case you close your business (or get hit by a bus) the customer then has the legal right to get a copy of the code from the escrow.
I believe that many/most organizations have policies to convert unstable assets asap.
And regarding slashes: are you bemused that unix does not support them in filenames?

(Thanks for correcting the nul reference)
I've been a subscriber to Google Play Music for a few years, initially I think my choice rested on being able to upload from my personal library, which was more significant back in the days when there was much less parity in music service catalogs - this was circa no Beatles. Then they added the youtube tie in where you don't get youtube ads - very valuable. I agree with the general UI complaint, it isn't great. To add to the crit, the branding is weak - 'Spotify' is meaningful, 'Play' is not. Despite all that, I've decided $100/yr for music on demand and no youtube ads is a good deal for me.

I tried Spotify a couple years ago and the experience was terrible and I haven't been back. I don't recall exactly: there was tons of hype, I had to download and run an installer, then create an account and validate email, and then I could play a song, so I picked a song and got some audio ads and subsequent more ads and suggested songs that were not at all related to the song I picked. It wasn't just not good enough to get me to switch, the onboarding was repellent.

I probably won't be their customer but I'm happy to see them succeed for a variety of reasons: customers love it, they aren't FAMGA, and that slide deck on their organizational squads and tribes [1] was significant in my work life.

[1]: https://blog.crisp.se/2012/11/14/henrikkniberg/scaling-agile...
The trades are undervalued I think as a career choice these days.
If packages worked more like containers then:

* the producers of the package could produce a universal container that would run on all distributions.

* the distributions would only need to be sure they properly included a suitable container runtime. After all, Microsoft doesn't worry about packaging every third party software.

* the registry of software packages would need to include the software package

* this would work regardless of the technology a particular software package uses. (eg, whether it's written in C, Java, Python, .NET, etc) The package would pull in the dependencies.

* another thing that would be really nice, that I wanted since 1999, is that when you install a package it doesn't vomit files all over the filesystem.

* it might even be possible to install multiple versions of the same package (eg, Gimp 2.6, Gimp 2.8, etc)

Aren't Snap and Flatpack somewhat like this?

What I am describing may work great for end user software applications -- like Gimp, Inkscape, Audacity, Eclipse, etc. It might not work so well for languages, eg Python 2.7 vs Python 3.6.
Amazon Prime perks at Whole Foods are creating problems for Walmart
Didn't a lot of that military production capacity come from repurposing civilian infrastructure, like auto plants and the like?

Also, it would probably be harder to bootstrap 2020s-era manufacturing infrastructure than it would be to bootstrap 1940s-era infrastructure.
Has the wallet (or wallets) they have been sending from been revealed?

Edit: They link to the transactions on the pineapple fund site
Oh thanks! So it means it's not completely anonymous, someone at the registrar can lookup the info if I got this rigth?
Actually, as the article points out, the ISPs have done all these things inthe past and AT&T is already rigging up fast and slow lanes. Are VPN providers perfect? Oh heck, no. But, for now the best of them are an excellent option if you're worrying about your ISP looking over your shoulder.
> That being said, my personal opinion is that money does not make people happy, but it definitely prevents a lot of causes of unhappiness.

I generally have found this to be a tautology. Being less unhappy means being more happy. In fact, I've found that being content with things has improved my happiness significantly.

It's not just about maximizing every positive experience, but minifying the negatives as well.
Psycho-Pass is excellent. They also released a visual novel in the states, Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness. I also found when watching it it felt like it was decently inspired from the older anime Cyber City Oedo 808, which had the plot of the criminal enforcers hunting others.
spotify premium (if you select “high quality streaming” in settings) uses 320 kb/s ogg vorbis, whereas tidal streams in a lossless format. on most audio set ups those will be indistinguishable but my understanding is that people who know what to listen for can tell the difference on a suitably powerful/nuanced sound system.
You should check out Saavn for more Indian music. I worked at their parent company as an intern back in the day.
That raises a few questions:

I wonder if that's still possible. The US was an industrial country at the time; they had to convert existing factories to other forms of production (e.g., from cars to bombers). Now, manufacturing is much less prevalent; the US would have to create capacity from scratch.

Also, manufacturing is much less productive than other economic activities - that's why it's done in poorer countries that don't have better options while the US does higher value things (ignoring for this purpose the very important issues of the distribution of those higher returns). I wonder what the blow to the economy would be if the US suddenly had to switch large amounts of resources to manufacturing.

Finally, given that manufacturing is no longer the cutting edge of business, I wonder if it might be easier to build capacity than we think. As an example, t-shirts are mostly made outside the US; I would guess that if there was suddenly a critical need for them, the US could ramp up capacity quickly.
For anyone interested, the documentary Betting On Zero is very good (on Netflix). I'd be curious to hear how the film came together and got financed. It certainly has an agenda and Bill Ackman comes out looking pretty good vs Herbalife.

That said, Ackman looks a lot less good in episode 3 of "Dirty Money" regarding Valeant (also on Netflix).

Obligitory "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" quote.

EDIT: Just noticed Herbalife owns bettingonzero.com. They put up a "FAQ" saying Ackman secretly funded the doc and they're promoting the link with ads on Google.
Bitcoin as Prosecution Futures: Coinbase Agrees to Turn Customer Records to DOJ
Thanks for taking time to explain your point. I understand what you mean.

As a consumer product marketed towards masses, it is highly improbable that there will ever occur an event when we have to prioritize one type of users over another.

Also, it is wrong to think that creators who we don't charge a platform fee are not valuable to us. Like I mentioned in my previous comment, BuyMeACoffee has an innate virality where each creator who shares his BMC link attract more creators to join the platform, making all our users more or less equally valuable. Does that make sense? I hope this answers your question.
... until Google Play Music goes the way of Google Reader :'(
While I agree that Herbalife doesn't seem like a very kosher company, it's probably also good to realize that that documentary was probably heavily skewed towards the viewpoint of (and probably somehow co-financed by) Ackman.
In this thread: Google needs to stop making chat apps that I'll never use.

This is a core G-Suite product for businesses. Right now, Google has no internal products that compete here.

Their MO so far is to move Hangouts to be G-Suite/Business centric, whereas Allo/Duo are consumer. If you are still using Hangouts as a consumer, you're behind the times.

Yes they need to clean up their Hangouts naming scheme. Yes they have Voice that's just kinda dangling there unloved. Yes, they could integrate SMS/Voice/Allo/Duo better.

But frankly, I don't get all the hate. HN loves startups and experimentation and mistakes, but Google isn't allowed to do that? HN hates when Google deprecates products, but they have too many messaging apps? They'll get there. I'd take their messaging ecosystem today over 3 years ago; Allo is amazing.
Mostly it's millisecond lag when changing songs or opening up new playlists. I get that everything is on the cloud but maybe more aggressive caching would be helpful.

If it were any other application, I wouldn't care. But because this is the second most frequently piece of software I use (browser being first), I'd love for it to be as performant as possible.
They could but if part of the process is proprietary or hidden how can you know what it is doing?
2013 was about the parliament, this is about the government administration.
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> The US State Department, and the entire US government, has for generations made human rights central to US foreign policy.

Rhetorically; the substance is less consistent.

> Democracies don't start wars against other democracies, as an historical rule.

There is basically no empirical evidence for this popular claim (the relative rarity of democracy-on-democracy war does not require any more than the small proportion of potential historical pairs of nations that consist of two democratic nations to explain it.)
Yeah, I kinda wish that Apple, as a condition of repatriating its billions at a lower tax rate, had to spend that money standing up Shenzen-like infrastructure somewhere in the US to build its products.
Already reverted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16479204
It's an abuse of HN to use it primarily for ideological battle. We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines.

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I've experienced all of these issues before, the 10k/disappearing albums is really debilitating for music lovers who like to collect full albums. I switched to Spotify from Google Music a few months ago, and my experience is mostly the same--mediocre, but functional enough.

At least Spotify has an open API, so you (maybe) can solve your own problems given some time.

(10k is really not that much at all if you're into a few genres.)
What does "capacity" mean in this context?
Mods, the title please. It hurts.
In that case given Spotify premium and just setting the config to use 'extreme' there should be no reason to pay for a separate subscription service? (At least for quality reasons).
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? That is emphatically not what this site is for.

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Oh.

Well, stuff happens; thanks.
>The difference here is that presumably fewer record companies have the money to fund the development of their own streaming service.

They don't need it. With Apple Music, Google Play and Spotify majors can afford to destroy Spotify with royalties as they please, and users will just migrate to other platforms and continue to pay.

It's kinda funny once you think about it. Back in early 00's, when Napster appeared, everybody was "dude, record labels are dead, new business models, bla-bla-bla".

And now we are 18 years later, and majors are quite fine. And they did literally nothing for 18 years. No investments, no development, nothing. They just milked different internet services with their royalties.
I cannot relate to any of this, but the clergyman’s approach / perspective definitely seems bizarre.

Gaming has much to offer, as does the social scene at a bar. Where I’ve been these two aren’t at odds. I wonder why they have been in your experiences - maybe it’s the military scene (referencing where you said mess hall).
Well, I think you have a location problem.

Look at the cost of a local home suitable for a family. Let's say it is on 0.3 acre, has 2500 square feet, and has 4 bedrooms. It is within a 20-minute commute. Consider the mortgage payment on a 30-year loan with a down payment of $40,000.

No, you can't assume there is a second income.

After paying taxes and that mortgage payment, what would the person have left? I hope it is something like $80,000 per year. I fear it may be negative. Conventional loans require that the loan payment not exceed 28% of gross income.
Hire someone to represent the fund, and have them do the registration for you.
If someone tells you that they personally dug up some gold in a mountain in Colorado, how exactly would you go about verifying their claim?
> Instead of trying to find ways to divide ourselves why not focus on empathy and the reasons to work together.

Don't knock division. It has its place.

What division does is it stops contagious phenomena from running rampant through the world. Division (we call it "quarantine") stops infectious diseases. Division keeps your codebase sane. Division protects startup A's funds from those profligates at startup B.

In particular, division is, if not a solution, an emergency fallback for the prisoner's dilemma. If Bob and Alice have defected on each other for the last hundred turns, maybe it would be better for everyone if they stopped playing.

I don't have to find ways to divide ourselves. I'm saying that if you do away with nations, everyone will be forced to, because division is a good thing.
That's also a major (and non-spoiler, if you're familiar with films at all) plot point of Equilibrium.
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> I mean patsubst? What a terrible function name! At the very least I would have added the 'h' in path.

The "pat" in "patsubst" means pattern, not path, so adding an h would be incorrect. (https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Text-Func...)
>The infiltration likely lasted more than a year.

Wow, that's pretty significant... How was it only now they caught on?
I would not expect this type of linkbait article from a mainstream UK news site be on the top of hackernews.
Ackman has purchased put options, which, in my understanding, is not surrender.
TiVo is to DVR like Mac is to (Windows) PC. The DVR more or less works most of the time, but the TiVo provides an excellent experience while being mostly hands-off and “just works”. You can tell it to record a show, and it just knows what to do. Only gets first runs. Doesn’t fill up with duplicates of every rerun. Remote control is superb. On screen interface is intuitive and doesn’t make you want to rip your face off. Isn’t full of ads trying to get you to buy some other pay per view product. Every time I use a cable company DVR I’m floored by just how it is utter crap and that people put up with it. The only reason they do is because they don’t know any better.
The N8 wasn't their last hurrah with Symbian, far from it. There was a massive difference in usability between that and the later Symbian Belle releases, and they were on a pretty rapid upward trajectory. Those last versions never reached the N8 (not enough memory?) but later Symbian models like my 700 did get them.

Symbian was always likely to be clumsy, but I was surprised how well they made it work by the end. (I should say, my Nokia 700 was my first and only Symbian phone, and I came into it expecting the worst, having heard a lot from other developers.)

I'm sure the N8 lost them a lot of fans though. I had some friends who were positively angry about it.
They're skewed towards wage income, because that's how the majority of people in this country make their living, so it's automatically more relevant.

Just because 1-2% of people make their ends meet with their wealth working for them doesn't mean their presence requires them to be represented with equal weight in research.

Not sure how this isn't self-evident to you.

> The people conducting these studies have their own biases: justifying taking other people's wealth via forceful means such as taxes.

Uh-huh. Taxes are theft, government is bad? Are you sure you're not the one with the biases?
For managers: better metrics or fewer metrics.

For programmers: jump ship. A well-executed handoff process will not only maintain goodwill but remind others of your value.
It probably can be handled by a lawyer and/or trust as well. Even if they get past the registrar privacy, they get some business entity or lawyer contact.