skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What goes behind the process of creating a hit is something that fascinates me, but, something I never had the time to really research.

Also, I've always been kinda bipolar on this subject; sometimes I'm 100% convinced that most popular hit songs are fabricated and sometimes I want to believe that there is real talent and creativity behind them; not formulas.

I find the following to be true most of the time for hit songs:

- The singer (male or female) is young, and most of the time good looking.

- The first time you listen to the song you hate it, but after they play it multiple times on the radio you start to like it.

- At a given time, you can see the radio/popular mediums pump up a given singer. For example, I noticed a rise in Cardi B songs, previously it was Camila Cabello. This makes me think there is actually a force pulling the strings.

- A lot of time they are one hit wonders, new "artists" appear and dissapear all the time.

- They usually sing about current hot topics: feminism, be yourself, love thyself, don't worry if you're fat, let's enjoy life. And usually with very bland messages to appeal the masses.

- The music: of course the beats are familiar and following a known structure that arouses emotions.

To my point, a friend once shared with me the following "parody" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBDNvlvR8vA which expresses better what I'm trying to say.

Don't get me wrong, I love music. I love listening to all types of music, from Merzbow to the #1 hit they're playing on the radio.

But as a geek, I love to also analyze the pop music phenomenon. I'm not really familiar with the process behind them, and would love if someone who knows could share it! I mean the process behind actual hit pop songs: Post Malone, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Drake, Cardi B, Dua Lipa, etc.

- Do they write their songs? How much they get censored?

- Are they good singers? I know some of them are really talented.

- How to they rise to fame so quickly? Casting? Personal contacts?

- Do they really have a say on the structure of their songs and the music behind them?

These are some of the things that don't let me sleep at night.
> is going to ring across all multinationals as a warning

I'm not sure how that's a bad thing.
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Similar to VMs, I run a lot of docker containers, mostly with JVMs in them.

I bought an Intel Hades Canyon with 32GB to run Linux on after the new MBPs didn't turn up at WWDC. Feeling somewhat relieved right now.
Much of their entire dominance as a company hinges on pushing defaults, and their ability to force manufacturers to ship Google apps, on any phone sold in the EU, is a massive blow. The penalty is chump change for Google, but the remedy is what is going to hurt long term, because competitors can finally get in the game.
Meh. Seems like anything China-related gets to be on the front page nowadays.
I’m sure academies like this are all over the world.
Tbh, I’m much more interested in the inner workings of Blackwater type companies that operate in the ME.
https://speedof.me remains my favourite, although I still find myself using Speedtest at times because that's what everyone else uses and it's useful to pick a server that others are testing between on any given day.

Also, there are more links and alternatives under this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5mntko/other_alte...

Ultimately in most cases, I just want to know whether my connection is working or not. If it's working, it'll usually be in a certain ballpark. If it's not (or if I've accidentally left a VPN on), it's obvious.
You may also avoid such games and demand fair labeling of such titles by platforms like stream.
Yes, Wine has been around for a while, and it's pretty amazing software, but DOOM was a native linux release - cant remember how I installed it, but a linux version has been around since 1994

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Linux
> But with the KISS approach Vue takes, I've only very rarely cared about the ecosystem at all.

> Is there a particular situation you are thinking of when you say we are in need of said ecosystem?

Here's a concrete, real-world example. I spent several months researching Vue and React for a large SPA migration from AngularJS at work.

In order to migrate a single page, I had to write three compatibility libraries that already existed for React. This was for a simple page that pulled in data via an API and displayed it in a handful of tables.

Another engineer did an audit of our third-party library use and needs, e.g. complicated "excel" like spreadsheet tables, and we simply couldn't find an existing Vue solution. That meant I would need to write my own compatibility libraries for at least another half-dozen complex libraries. There was an argument in favor of using Vue because we could get a lot of open-source exposure so I'll give it that. Plenty of low-hanging fruit for the open-source Vue developer.

Perhaps Vue folks are only working on extremely small, basic, CRUD applications. The software I work on is not.

> I think that the weakness you are seeing here is a straw man from the nature of React's over-architected approach

React simply provides you components with a lifecycle. You are free to architect and compose those primitives however you see fit.

Contrast with Vue, can you please reasonably explain the difference between a custom attribute vs. a component and when it would be appropriate to use one over the other? How is this simpler? How is this "keeping it simple?" This is only a single deviation between the two.

Vue tells me it is "opinionated" but when I have to research, compare, and contrast it's own core features I have to ask how is this "opinionated." If I have to do all of this legwork how is it "Keeping it Simple, Stupid?"
We can achieve a very high resolution from the ground but only in a very small field of view. To cover one typical HST image with MUSE at the VLT, we would need a mosaic of hundreds of exposures.
The reason for this are the four artificial guiding stars from the lasers. The closer they are together on the sky, the more atmospheric distortion you can correct.

Here is an image of them: https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/vlt-laser-cc...

Some parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are also not possible to observe from the ground. That's mainly UV and shorter wavelengths (X-ray, gamma-rays). We will always need space telescopes if we want to have these photons.
Yes, it is. Straight from the press release:

> Market dominance is, as such, not illegal under EU antitrust rules. However, dominant companies have a special responsibility not to abuse their powerful market position by restricting competition, either in the market where they are dominant or in separate markets.

> Google has engaged in three separate types of practices, which all had the aim of cementing Google's dominant position in general internet search.
This paragraph, which seems to summarize much of this article’s position, seems quite dangerous:

> Perfectionism is a personality trait rather than a mental health condition. There is no World Health Organization diagnosis code for perfectionism and it is not listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It can fly under the radar and masquerade as the pursuit of high standards, yet it overlaps with a plethora of disorders from eating to obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, body dysmorphia, depression and suicide.

Note how it simultaneously says “perfectionism is not a mental health condition”, then proceeds to immediately insuinate it is effectively a mental disorder. This continues throughout the rest of the article.

The domain of neurodiversity as a whole is far more complex than reducing the whole of a phenomenon to such simplistic and IMO damagingly derogatory terms as “interolerable rise of perfectionism”.

Despite the author’s attempt to interleave a few studies with personal stories, it conveniently neglects to tell the stories of “happy perfectionism”: There are many like myself, for whom pursuing this internal motivation for perfectionism turns out to be immensely intrinsically rewarding. In fact, I believe this intrinsic pleasure some (small percentage of the population) take from striving for perfection to have played (and continues to play) a pivotal role in humanity’s rise in technological advancement.

It is not the destination, but the journey (to asymptotically approach a vision of perfection), that healthy perfectionists find so rewarding. Certainly, pathological corruptions of perfectionism exist (for example, any such case where you experience distress or suffering for not achieving infinite perfection, despite it being obviously unattainable) — but this is true for all personality traits.
And how does a judge seriously decide to retroactively apply an arbitrarion agreement when none existed at the time of the transaction? Is the argument that the new ToS were accepted when Lord participated in the bug test? The article seems to be missing that detail if there even is some logic that was used in the ruling (as I assume there was, beyond not wanting to have two rulings).
>How is Google holding consumers hostage and not Apple?

It does not matter what Apple is doing this is about Google.
I would expect that there are ongoing investigations against Apples practices regarding similar issues too.

>Honestly, for the value that Android gives phone manufacturers I am surprised that Google's requirements were so low. Android gave the phone manufacturers a platform and asked for little in return.

Not being allowed to release competing OSes / forks and other software is more than a "little" in return. Google does not give android away "for free" because they want to help others they do it because they want to help themself get into everybodies smartphone.
I guess my biggest issue with this all is that it’s called a “pledge.” I pledge money on the condition that I get a game. In this case they’re just taking my money with a huge chance that I’ll never see anything remotely close to what I pledged for. My end was fulfilled, their end not so much.
Shorter link that still works with your addon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#cDpudGgtb2YtdHl...

I simply tried to find a suffix of the path that still identifies the element uniquely. Turns out that p:nth-of-type(3) is good enough already. If you want to be a bit more robust to changes on the page, you could also search for the last element with an ID in the path, i.e. #mw-content-text > div.mw-parser-output > p:nth-of-type(3).
I've dumped about a grand into Star Citizen over the course of 4 years. I've followed updates and developments with mild interest, and ever once and a while I jump back into it to see what's changed. It's always amazing to see the progress they have made, wither it be the engine tech or just the game play.

Do I think it will come out in the next year or two? No, but I think it will. Development is on going and active. Progress is transparent (which is why I don't pay attention- I like the surprise). Milestones have been reached, and expectations have been met. Do I think I've gotten $1k of enjoyment from the game back when I was playing it? Yes.
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Waterford is way ahead of the Dubs on this one - our council actually commissions street art: http://waterfordwalls.ie/

All this wonderful art greets me on the way to the office every morning - fabulous!
You just need to be aware that what you're doing is illegal. Did you even know that?

That's the problem with Tesla. They show autonomous driving, make big claims, talk about "autopilot".

And in the fine print they say in legalese that few people understand or even notice that this all isn't available right now and you must never leave your autopilot unattended.
I suppose it should mean something like "full-size luxury AWD limousine", as death rates vary with car size, type, price and driven wheels [1]

[1] http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr5203.pdf
Let's read the law: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

>Article 102

>Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the internal market in so far as it may affect trade between Member States.

>Such abuse may, in particular, consist in:

>b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers

>d)making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts

Ok, so, Google said "You can't use Google Play unless you force users to have Google Search installed".

How is that not clearly breaching d?

Then they said "You can't use Google Play if you try to help develop any android forks."

How is that not clearly breaching b?

>but simply saying "Surprise....enormous fine" is ridiculous

They've had at least two years notice, so could have reduced their fine by complying when they were first warned. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm The article literally warns about the exact things they're still doing.
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>In particular, Google has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google (so-called "Android forks").

Sounds a lot how Microsoft abused licensing agreements with OEMs to discourage them from selling PCs not bundled with Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
The problem with systems like autopilot is that the human still needs to pay attention. The driver needs to take over in a matter of seconds when the system encounters a situation in can't handle. Autopilot makes things simpler and more monotonous while still requiring perfect attention from the human.
Actually, I'm very happy with PyQt. It works great. But I'm afraid that its more restrictive licensing limits the global audience of "Qt & Python" users. My hope is that Qt for Python will make the combination even more popular.
Since the EU wants Google to stop within 90 days, I assume they can give them a fresh €4.5bn fine if they refuse. At least that's something.
Always had a soft spot for WordStar. Last version used was WS 3. Took WordTsar for a spin... Fast comments: Seems to be missing N (non-document edit -- used that for editing program source). ^KH (hide block) is ^K> Not sure why (WS 4?). ^JH0 is missing (get rid of help). As are the other help levels. No pure console display. And its big. 16M for GTK3. One file, though, which is very nice. (compare to the original, 81536 bytes).

Congradulations! Very nice work
Show HN: Prism, idiomatic style manager for React Native
> If Russia had stayed Tsarist, or -- even better -- become a normal western democracy, it would have been much better than the Bolshevik rule.

There's a lot of "if onlys" that could be said about the period between 1905 and Stalin's takeover. To stay Tsarist seems a peculiar focus.
Can you explain for the uninformed what exactly is illegal about OP's actions?
In Yekaterinburg lies the “Church on the blood”, an impressive edifice with portraits of the Romanov. The museum beneath the church has many details of their lives and how they got executed. It is a place not to miss and a traumatic experience, for who wants to understand Russian history.
Google is controlling profits from advertising and playstore sales by using Android to route traffic to those endpoints.

The profit isn't from the direct sale of an Android device, it's from the system the device is a gateway to.
Learning Haskell definitely affected the way I write and read code in other languages.
It definitely feels like it caters to the casual player more than Elite Dangerous, but it’s still a pretty good game all things considered. They just fell into the hype hole.
We need better number to do this comparisons, similar car models, similar roads conditions, similar driver population, since Tesla keeps the data hidden from the public I incline to believe the data is not in Tesla favor.
Not necessarily untalented, but not as talented as they wish they were.

Edit: In other words, it's easier to have good taste than it is to be good at designing/producing something.
Rising Seas Could Cause Your Next Internet Outage
Yes, the person you’re replying to has appointed himself Tone Police for this discussion.
"not paying attention"
Those are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years. What the article does and what you're describing are cross-country comparisons in a single year, just at the opposing tails of the distribution.
Your parser is misinterpreting some information. I clicked on a R8 and that is showing as $29,000 when in fact the mileage is 29,000.
In Praise of Email
But how would you do something like that with companies like Google? So many organisations probably rely on GCP, GMail etc that you couldn't stop them from operating without stutting huge numbers of businesses too.
I guess this is one of way finally getting Tech Revenue in Europe. Might have been easier and less alienating if they just created something instead
I prefer https://testmy.net, personally. It's supposed to be more accurate.
Maybe Elizabeth Holmes could head up the project.
Jolla have a collaboration with Sony to get Sailfish OS running on their Xperia phones.

However, Sailfish is available only as a post market firmware.

Being a derivative work of AOSP courtesy of libhybris, it would seem Sony are prevented from factory installing Sailfish on any future Xperia device.
However, in the process they seem to have fully embraced the waterfall method which seems to me to be the root cause of the problem. They could have delivered the original concept as an MVP and continued to build towards their long-term vision through patches and incremental updates, much like rockstar did with GTA V online. Instead they're working slowly towards shipping a gigantic monolith where all that's playable in the meantime are very small vertical slices that don't really represent a game in their own right.
Bloomberg Launches a Twitter Feed Optimized for Trading
EC-Net: An Edge-Aware Point Set Consolidation Network
The advantage of MUSE is that you get all color information, i. e. the flux at any wavelength from blue to red.
In principle, one can use this together with the sensitivity curve for our eyes to construct a natural image.
In this case, I think, they tried to imitate the color scheme from the Hubble image which is more limited.

In short: Not sure how realistic this is, but one could make a realistic image from the new data.
Because they don't control the devices of 87% of users. Their profits are good for them and all, but have no direct bearing on their ability to exert unfair influence, especially in other markets (e.g. search engines).
I saw the best minds of my generation wasted making hyper-toys for the hyper-rich.
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Would highway/motorway/autobahn miles be an acceptable substitution?
The claim is that this mitigation avoids putting fences everywhere, and it is not clear to me that the performance hit on an interpreter's own code would necessarily be worse than for any other binary. I would guess the specific additional issue for interpreters is any sequence of instructions it creates dynamically (e.g. JIT compilation) and then has executed, and whether the interpreter provides the means (either intentionally or through a bug) for the attacker to influence that code generation such that it tests an address that the attacker should not have access to.

I would guess that any program, whether interpreted or compiled, that is capable (again, either intentionally or through a bug) of generating instruction sequences and then having them executed, could be used to exploit Spectre. This would include any program capable of writing a binary file and then running it as a process or dynamically loading it as a library or native-code extension, if allowed to do so by the OS.
The Air story is incredible. It went from compromising, underpowered, overheating, pricey, loathed and ridiculed, to everyone's favorite laptop, with excellent performance across the board at a stupefyingly low price point.
Fine them for the anticompetitive practices, then - not success...
"as last night Autopilot decided to slam on the brakes at 150 km/h on the autobahn for no reason"

Holy shit! That's a hell of a caveat!
Look at how fast the curves on the 2018 flatten out after 3 or 4 cores.
This is not a first for Apple.

I remember buying the 2006 Macbook with a CPU upgrade. A Core 2 Duo with 2GHz instead of 1.83. Due to heat, the CPU throttled under load and ended up with the same speed as the standard model.
>For all the hate that Autopilot gets, it really is a game changer

Only if it works and has a better than human average driving.

Which might not even be enough itself.

If someone is a better than average driver themselves, then by using a "better than average" but lower than his capacity auto-pilot, they increase their risk, not decrease it.

Consider that the "averages" in accidents per miles also include drunks, elderly, people never really knowing how to drive well, people crashing in bad conditions (e.g. snow and heavy rain) and so on.

The average accident/miles for a fit good driver that usually drives in good roads in a state with good weather can be bigger than the average of the above.

So having an autopilot be merely better than the general average is not enough to make it "as safe".

>At the moment, there remains some bugs to work out, as last night Autopilot decided to slam on the brakes at 150 km/h on the autobahn for no reason, but given how close it is to perfection on freeways

Yeah, who cares if it can kill you at any moment with some bizarro sudden move, since it's "so close to perfection on freeways".

Thankfully, early adopters will help improve both the autopilots of the future and the human evolutionary pool.
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Perfectionism is fine if you can concretely define measurable goals before you start working, and trust yourself to have a process of refinement that doesn't feel like a circular loop to you. This can be very validating for some people in a sense that it's autonomous - independent from validation via the economy and independent from validation via culture, both being dynamical systems and consequently difficult to predict shifts in preference.

Establishing dependency primarily on anything besides your own standard is a shortcut to misery when someone just doesn't care enough about every little detail you lovingly put into something.

You may annoy the fuck out of everyone around you if you are actually successful, and it's important to be in a social environment where people are tolerant of perfectionism and thrive from it.

It's just called being devoted. It doesn't have to be trivialized to a pejorative and mapped to a set of things approximately related to whatever goal you define. People can pick up on all of these things and get it wrong because unless you explain to them the point of all your work they won't necessarily understand it. It's then easy to internalize their issues as your own, which can implicitly shift your own standards, preferences.

'Better' in comparison to others is a state of mind that is ultimately destructive. If you like details and like feeling a sense of progress you define, better is perfectly fine to want to be. Muted, dull sameness has it's own tormented unchanging cyclical state that can be just as challenging to direct oneself out of once you convince yourself into it.