skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"ive recently spent around the same amount on a synology nas to store my music library, but at least the tracks i own wont suddenly disappear"

I would think twice about that.

I, also, have all of my music on a local fileserver and I would never consider giving iTunes or an iDevice access to that share unless it was mounted read-only.

When I sync my music library (which is made up of files and directories, not "songs and albums") to my laptop, I rsync it over from the filesystem which is mounted read-only.

I don't need my mac to "discover" "music files" on the network and start "helping me" organize them.
If apple had the same market dominance as Microsoft did in the 90s, they likely would be pegged for antitrust violations.
I would fail this so hard
Maybe you have forgotten. "The government is reading all my emails and text messages" was 100% the sort of thing that only anti-government fringe groups, crazy people and the paranoid would have considered likely. Nowadays it seems more likely than not.
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If there is never any reason to not believe the official narrative on every event then why not just censor any evidence to the contrary? This seems to be the direction we are going.

There's a bit of doublethink here though. Does propaganda work? Well of course it doesn't because the truth will always come out because the news wants viewers and thus the official story is never propaganda! But, wait.. These conspiracy theory videos made by some random dude in his bedroom are convincing some people of things that are apparently not true! How did they do that if propaganda doesn't work? Explanations about Russian troll bots with magical mystery deception tactics and various handwaving ensues...

So does propaganda work? If not then we don't have to worry about fake news. If it does, then how do we know the real news isn't propaganda? What empowers propaganda more than anything? Lack of criticism.
I contested that this is not enough to encourage experimentation with consciousness itself.

You are reading in something I never said or addressed in any way.
partially because you're presumably paying for the amazon service, but not necessarily with an open source project. one of the ways some people 'pay' for using an OS project is by helping in forums/docs/etc. presumably, the money you're paying for amazon services is/should be going in to their documentation.

also... with an OS project, I can actually get the code and see how it runs, test patches, etc. I can't actually do that with their services, and any docs I might contribute would be guesstimates as to how things actually work, vs how it actually does work (and what's intended), which would/should come from the company that actually owns the code in question.
It can vary a lot.. much like housing prices in general.
Generally, a redback is fairly unpleasant, but doesn't require a trip to the hospital (for a healthy adult), so its unlikely to be fatal in most cases anyway (thankfully!).

Funnel-webs are terrifying.
Isn't that the point? Wikipedia is specifically licensed to allow such usage.
Now we just need to classify squished spiders.
Ah interesting I could see how this could be useful. Thank you, I'll think about how it could be implemented.
I'm afraid you're talking about a different article than the one we are discussing here. CTRL-F "minimum" returns 0 results.
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Huh. You’re right. I’m fairly sure it used to be true.
I used USS Liberty because it's arguably no longer conspiracy theory, but still more controversial than NSA snooping.

But alleged activities of Israelis during the early years? That remains highly controversial. I do see a Wikipedia article about Irgun (Zionists) bombing the King David Hotel, however.
i'd have to think it's a prestige matter. sending some patches to project X vs AWS ... one will be seen by more folks, used by more folks, probably has to be vetted by someone with known authority, etc.

why does going to one university vs another carry more weight with some people?
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They tend not to weaponize those findings putting innocent people in harms way.
I keep this answer by Keith Rabois bookmarked for whenever this question pops up [1]:

>Simple answer: American antirust law is not a mandate to "play nice" with competitors and only governs a very small set of prohibited activities.

For the most part, a company can do whatever it wants so long as it acts unilaterally. As a result, Apple can do whatever it pleases, period, so long as it does not act in concert with another company.

The only exception to this rule is when a company has achieved "monopoly power" in a relevant market, which normally requires a market share (properly defined) of at least 60% and more close to 80%. Apple lacks such a market share in any market, Microsoft was believed to have that share in Operating Systems. (The only exception is an attempt to monopolize claim which would still require at least a market share of 40% to even state a claim. These claims have other elements that would be difficult to satisfy).

Finally, even if Apple had the requisite market share to state a non-frivolous claim, American law does not recognize harm to competitors as a legitimate concern, you must establish harm to consumers, which is almost always very challenging unless there is a good theory of how you are raising prices at a super-competitive level.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Microsoft-punished-for-violati...
Yeah, it's extremely important to note that any correctness technique - tests, types, contracts, formal methods - only provides _more_ confidence, not _complete_ confidence. We have to think of defense-in-depth.
Probably because those pages with just a single toggle requires more explanation about what the toggle does, and thus the explanation doesn't really fit with other settings.
The article glosses over that there were three train-on-train collisions in 1995, and a couple earlier in the 1990s. There was another incident when an IRT sped too fast through Union Square (there's a significant bend in Union Square for the 4/5/6 trains) and derailed.
mmm bacon
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"Capitalism" isn't synonymous with "free enterprise". After all, a countryside full of hardworking farmers and craftsmen might exemplify free enterprise, even if no one got rich. Capitalism on the other hand is primarily concerned with capital and its returns. Those returns require a certain level of scarcity. Thus every capitalist society has instituted "artificial" scarcity. E.g. in USA, how many different occupations require licensure?
Evolution is only apparent after the fact and on long time scales.
here's what happens when you try to airdrop a vehicle much lighter than a tank

Tanks being "airdropped" looks very different from that. A C-130 "dropping" a tank involves flying down to within a few feet of the ground and then opening the cargo door -- parachutes are used in this case to slow the tank's horizontal movement, not to prevent it from falling.
You can try sending an email to the mods: hn@ycombinator.com

It's ok to submit your stuff here, but IIRC there is no 10-1 rule here (like in reddit).

I read a few of the articles in your blog and in my opinion the problem is that they are just a list of books with a small description and a referral link to Amazon. I guess they were banned for that reason.
is this a way for google to get a lot of data? for example, more info about players, their preferences, etc.

Also, maybe they can get a large training set of how human players act/spend/etc in complex games, which could be a very useful training data set for their own reinforcement learning/AI efforts?
It's good you added that parenthetical; one might have suspected "most of the US tech community".
Line 1 of the article:

> Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country.

Now, that isn't peer-reviewed research, and it doesn't necessarily prove anything, but it's a decent start toward being authoritative (even if I find it quite unconvincing).
my theory is that more stuff was planned and/or is on the way, or... some features might be availablr only in certain areas or hardware combos. some menus you see might have multiple options for some other variants; for your device, it's just the one.
I also get a rather empty page on Firefox. Running uBlock Origin, but I've disabled JavaScript too.

Reading this far to comments I've gathered it's some sort of landing page generator?

I wish people would at least include a short description that one could read.

Too many submission to HN just land you on an empty page if you don't feel like executing their JS. I wish they would just put an accurate description to the submission as well.

I usually just skip and move on but I guess the address was enough to poke additional interest this time around.
But the 2014 study — the first time the authority had attempted to analyze the impact of any of the revamped signals, using its improved data system — found 2,851 lost total passenger hours per weekday could be attributed to thirteen modified signals alone.

That's 84 person-years per year, just considering the weekday impact of those thirteen signals. Over a lifetime a year, to save (speculatively) one life per decade? Call me callous, but I don't think it's worth it.
Thanks for mentioning that. I'm going to remove "for free", no plans to monetize.
White space isn’t ‘wasted.’
Looks neat, the only thing putting me off is that it requires nodejs and there’s no way I’m installing that pig of a thing on my workstation.
The law against perpetuity means you can’t have an open ended bequest like that. Someone living has to get it, and in bounded time. You can mess around a bit, like leaving money in trust to your youngest living descendent, to pay out on their 65th birthday, unless someone revives you. Which also starts to sound like a movie plot.
That’s great for Europe, but there is nothing similar in USA
Nice work! I made something similar sometime back: http://shortkits.com

Although, people weren’t interested enough or I couldn’t get people to use it enough.

Goodluck with Macro!
Please nuke, this is just an app update of a random commercial software.
Yeah, definitely: I'm only trying to highlight that this sort of app wouldn't actually do much in practice because (Australian) society already deals with such bites well. If everyone in Australia had the app and used it all the time, it still would have (maybe) prevented at most one death in the last 40 years.

In fact, since the numbers are so small, widespread useful of such an app seems like it may actually increase the number of deaths: instead of people seeing an unidentified spider and intense pain and getting treatment, people may get a false classification and so endure the pain without prompt-enough treatment ("the app says it's just a [something other than a funnelweb], I'll be fine!").
There may be a third pillar of fitness beyond diet and exercise
Without verifying who controls the IP space?

If you don't verify who controls the IP space, then if you can control the DNS, you can generate certs. Certs that appear valid to unsuspecting users.

Putting that kind of trust in DNS is pretty crazy considering how insecure most DNS setups are. Not to mention general attacks on DNS. There's even a potential chicken and egg problem, if you need DNS to secure your HTTPS, but you use HTTPS to manage your DNS.

What's really crazy too is it seems like this can't even be avoided. Even if I'm not using Let's Encrypt, if someone owns my DNS, they can use Let's Encrypt to get valid certs for my domain. That's insane.

What am I missing here?
Actually now that you mention sock puppets I guess with this research it pretty much shows you how many sock puppets vs humans you need to take over a sub,

As long as you out compete the defenders, it's done.
Elon Musk Wanted to Buy the Onion, Now Poaching Staffers for a Secret Project
The Bloomberg article this HN discussion links sure does discuss turnover.
I'm working on a massive-scale game server deployment engine that utilizes docker for a new startup, and the fact that this is open source is tremendously beneficial to the scalable gameserver community. Currently we're deeply integrated in the Google cloud platform and are currently expecting a release within the next few weeks or so, which is one of the reasons this post came as such a surprise to me! We're planning on releasing most of our codebase under the Apache and MIT licenses, but doing so has been complex and slow. Hats off to them!
That documentation devolved over time into a tire fire of bad and dangerous advice.
Google is hiring internationally (e.g H1-Bs) for that you need to publish all positions afaik - because you need to give Americans the possibility to apply and have the position public for a while.
Are you sure it will be sustainable for feeding ~8 billion people (Yes, I am talking about the world in general)? Agriculture also creates ecosystem needed to sustain the planet. Not just feed people.
I've experienced this as well. Incredibly disorienting, and yet honestly it is the most relaxed I have been in my entire life. It was nice, nothing mattering; nobody mattering; nothing. Freedom from the weight of my own mind, for just awhile.

I've tried for years to recreate the effect with no success.
You sound like you've thoroughly confused yourself.

If the mind is software then it can be duplicated. There is no dilemma here, and it's irrelevant what the copies think of it.
On the contrary, I reasoned myself into believing the moon landing was a hoax, and I have yet to be presented with acceptable evidence that contradicts my theory.

Obviously, I have stricter criteria for "evidence" than what the general public accepts, but I nevertheless consider myself a rational person with excellent reasoning behind my theory. And I am willing to consider fresh evidence, if such were presented to me.
Japanese ATC and ATS-P, used on all Shinkansen lines and most busy metro/commuter lines, just apply service break until the train is under back speed limit. AFAIK no overspeed allowance.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Correcting obvious falsehoods seems fine, but something about a platform moving from being (_vaguely_) neutral to directly critiquing content feels off. Further, where do you draw the line? Correcting things that are unequivocally, proven wrong casts a small net, but adding information to loose speculation, or discuss of events that are denied but not disproven, risks making a stronger statement than the evidence allows and risks shutting down legitimate discussion.
I think if you want to hire internationally it's quite different in the USA.
That shouldn't happen under normal circumstances. That's whole idea behind railway signals.

Rail segments (blocks) are supposed to be automatically locked off while a train is on that segment of track. No two trains can be on the same block at the same time. If a train stops, the signal guarding that block will remain red, ordering the next train to stop before it gets anywhere close.
I think there are many parallels between functional programs and electronic circuits. Many design concepts and disciplines of software can be applied to digital design. The idea of actors and message passing very naturally applies itself to digital design.

Combinational logic is functional as long as you keep feedback loops out of it. For a given input, you will always get a particular output. Eventually. Time is a factor.

Unlike software, this bit of functional logic is "on" or "active" all the time though. At any given moment, there is something at the input and something at the output. It's like a pair of sunglasses. They are always sunglassing, light is going through them and being filtered, whether you are using them or not.

Adding state is necessary for anything but the most trivial designs. And like software, state makes things more complicated. We call the logic that implements state "sequential" logic. By that token, instead of Combinational, we could call it Concurrent logic.

Actors could be a logical grouping of combinational and sequential logic. Pure functions and state. With ports for messaging.
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> Related question: if a "food security researcher" discovered a vendor was selling contaminated produce - would it be reasonable for them to give the vendor 90 days notice before telling the public?

This example is absolutely farcical. It's not even close to the same thing and you know it. A security flaw is not equivalent to poisoned food - it still requires outside action to be exploited.
Which is about as reassuring as saying "we don't store your criminal record, just the bytes that make it up".

What you want to do with fingerprints is compare them to fingerprints found. Hashes let you do that. THAT's what we want to prevent from happening in order to have privacy.
That's a nice clean tool - works well on Windows too.

My only suggestion is when copying files from subfolders, to show which subfolder a file is being copied from.

My example moves all files starting with test to a BACKUP folder

Folder U:\My Documents\_working\python\test_ORIG:
File test.py:
- [Move] Move to "\\...\My Documents\_working\python\test_file\BACKUPS\test.py"
File test22.py:
- [Move] Move to "\\...\My Documents\_working\python\test_file\BACKUPS\test22.py"
File test1.py_ORIG:
- [Move] Move to "\\...\My Documents\_working\python\test_file\BACKUPS\test1.py_ORIG"
File test_bell.csv:
- [Move] Move to "\\...\My Documents\_working\python\test_file\BACKUPS\test_bell.csv"

2 of the above files came from a subfolder in test_ORIG, but there is no indication which (fine for contrived example but would be an issue with large moves)
I definitely agree with some of what you're saying- I guess my point would be that I don't think that these smart speakers are anywhere near the innovation that the smart phone was...and I think that people who aren't early adopters have a valid place in the consumer space because we are the majority and therefor we are growth. If things like Alexa want to be as ubiquitous as a smartphone then I think they're going to have to become a lot more novel.
Many will say “cut food stamps and Medicaid”
When I was on-call I didn’t get any kind of bonus, but any significant amount of time spent working outside of work hours my boss let me take out of normal work time.
> In particular I think open source communities should have 1) threaded discussions that are 2) searchable results on google. (for hopefully self evident reasons)

Open source communities that communicate via mailing lists do have threaded discussions that can be found via a Google search. Though the websites they link to have a rather limited interface for viewing the discussion. NNTP gateways like gmane make it much easier to read through the threads (though it would be better if the web pages presented a more HN or reddit type view of the discussions).
yeah, it worked for me... (the AU Store)
Yeah, this seems likely to be true, and also arguably really sad, since it means your consciousness essentially is "dying" every second. Fun times!
repl.it looks awesome. It'd be interesting to hear more about how you're doing provisioning and orchestration. Are you running a Kubernetes or DC/OS cluster by chance? Are you spinning down idle instances after some time? What actually happens behind the scenes to make a deploy go live? etc

And then some more general questions - Can I hook a CI into the deploy loop? (Maybe that doesn't quite make sense given the model is something like Jupyter notebook meets Glitch.) Also, is there a repo being managed behind the scenes like GitHub does in Gist, and if so, any plans to open access to those?
Ironically, the Wikipedia link related to "cooked food is poison" might actually support it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product
The best one I've found is using a news reader with the gmane NNTP endpoint for browsing those mailing lists.
“Hey Siri, play me the first Miles Davis album.”

“Hey Siri, play the top song from 1987.”

“Hey Siri, play some Delta Blues.”

“Hey Siri, who’s the guitarist on this song?”

“Hey Siri, play some sad music”

“Hey Siri, play something I might like.”

“Hey Siri, play John Williams radio.”

“Hey Siri, what album is this from?”

And with HomePod, it also sounds great.
Doesn't httplib2 support python3? Out of 200, 8 are from Mozilla. Supervisor's next version will support v4(i think they are in testing). So, that will be pretty soon, i believe.
Could you elaborate? Do you believe all moon landings were fake, or just some? What about unmanned landings?
I miss using a macbook keyboard for exactly this -- could easily use the trackpad with my thumb with little hand movement. My ideal keyboard would be something similar to the current microsoft surface natural keyboard with a macbook trackpad below it.
The problem with venture capital is it optimizes for bullshit. If you bootstrap, you have no choice but to actually be a legitimate business, because you don't get paid otherwise.
What kind of integration do you want to build?
It's rather a key theme of the Kovach trilogy. Envoys get reconstructed to resist digital torture. "Get to the next screen."

Edit: The novels are much better than the Netflix videos. They are, in my opinion, crude hacks. Randomized and simplified. The virtual torture sequence in Altered Carbon is vastly more horrible than the one in the video. Even if I didn't care about spoilers, I'd hesitate to describe it here.

And if you like Kovach, check out Stover's Caine novels. He also wrote the Star Wars novels, but don't hold that against him.
I tend to imagine that if Intel were doing this they’d do a better job of it. Even if CTS-Labs are completely legit, the way it’s been done has led to immediate suspicion of the claims and people involved, in a way that feels much more like a small group straining for attention or to make a quick buck and making a bit of a mess of it. If Intel were involved, I’d expect it to be done more professionally and simply better, so that people don’t suspect foul play and go looking for problems. It is possible for a company to deliberately obfuscate the trail by doing it this way, at the probable cost of some effectiveness (though if the claims are overblown it might perhaps be more effective this way), but it seems less likely.
I don't believe this to be particularly new/unique, e.g.:

> A Sept. 20 [2016] concert at Tokyo Dome by popular band Babymetal featured facial recognition systems at some of the gates. The system required guests to pre-register a photo of themselves, which the system used to confirm that the concertgoer was indeed the original purchaser of the ticket.

(Facebook link as the original source appears to be down) https://www.facebook.com/babymetalnewswire/posts/80628173280...
In my view, no-questions-asked returns is a marketing strategy like any other. The larger retailers who can absorb the cost of accepting returns gain a competitive advantage over stores that have a less efficient returns process. It also reduces or perhaps even eliminates credit card charge-backs.

All other things being equal, I would prefer to shop at a store with a pleasant return process. This advantage could outweigh the cost of taking back a few returns.
Matter + electricity.

What problems and contradictions?
One scheme I saw while employed at a Best Buy store many years ago. Employee uses employee discount to purchase greatly overpriced $35 usb cable for employee cost $5. Non-employee accomplice returns cable without receipt and receives store credit for $35. Rinse and repeat. I assume that loop hole has been closed, but it was my department manager's sibling who first explained this to me.