skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla is such a confusing company, and I say this as a daily Firefox user.

How can you be claim to be serious about privacy when you partner with a startup to harvest complete browser histories? Makes no sense.
Petty crimes are, in my opinion, more strongly subjected to selective enforcement than major ones.

Consider also that the US is a bad place for a previously convicted felon to land a decent job, and that poor people, people on probation or parole, and minorities tend to have more negative police contacts, which produce more arrests, which produce more convictions. Think about the number of municipalities that criminalize acts reasonable only for the downtrodden, such as overnight camping on public property within municipal limits. Think about the number of jurisdictions that criminalize loitering and vagrancy to roust undesirables out of their town.

In all likelihood, ancestor poster is not inherently more criminal than other people with no criminal record, but has a much larger enforcement profile due to circumstantial factors. Also, familiarity breeds contempt, and frequent encounters with the justice system lead to disillusionment with its supposed fairness and impartiality. It mainly exists so that the richer can keep the poorer away from their persons, properties, and possessions; and also to perpetuate its own existence.
Not once have I opened a blank browser and thought “Gee, I wish my browser could tell me what web site to go to!” I’m almost convinced that “getting opaque product recommendations” is almost never an end-user desired feature of any product. It is a company-desired feature because it lets the company market, promote and editorialize anything it wants to, under the guise of being helpful.

Users are supposed to tell computers what to do, not the other way around. I’m afraid that so much more R&D and innovation is happening in the area of computers telling humans what to do and it’s mildly scary.
the AI training data mocap was from a college amateur player. So there are many ways to improve, starting from training data.
Very cool! I think it's especially great that this is a browser plugin instead of a separate website. It's great when developers make things as easy as possible on users. Nice job, I'll be giving it a try!
Well that's part of it too. "A lower ratio of Android users are willing to pay than for iOS users" is a meaningless statistic for someone that wants to target people with high-end phones willing to pay. Because those ratios refer to the whole world. They do not mean "there are more iOS users willing to pay than Android users".
XKCD: Voting software
> a musician can provide...experiences

This is how my dad made a living his whole life, playing upscale weddings in a string quartet. The barrier to entry is fairly high, though. Violins and such require a decade or 2 of practice.

And unless you run the group, there's not enough work for a regular, full time income.
Efficacy of Ban the Box Policies
Question: If what makes AMP fast is the restrictions on size, JS, and CSS, and you know this and want to conform to this, why do you need to use AMP? Why not just develop your site like this anyways? Is the lightning bolt really that worth it? I'm not convinced that (any more) Google prioritizes AMP pages beyond the coincidence that they prioritize faster ones and they are faster.

Also, I wonder if I'm the only one that avoids AMP-based sites out of principle. I highly doubt it affects your conversions (I'm not really the easily "convertible" type), but makes one wonder if there can be effective web tech boycotts.
Very few people were demanding Python 3 support 10 years ago. Prior to 3.4 uptake was limited so we’re really talking about 4 years.

Also, old appengine was built with nacl (remember that?) sandboxing. Anything that couldn’t be built under the nacl sandbox couldn’t run in app engine. Google realized this was a problem long ago but it takes time to rebuild your whole platform to eliminate such a fundamental dependency. That may have taken most of their focus, leaving little for other projects. and of course their new arch makes python 3 free so it’s difficult to have a parallel engineering effort that will be rapidly deprecated.
You're right. Sorry I misunderstood.
I agree 100%, but I still think there is a lot that we don't know about hormones.

Testosterone replacement therapy has some great benefits, but there are 8+ other known androgens floating around that science doesn't understand very well.

Like if you have sex drive problems, very recent studies are showing that DHT may be more important than Testosterone.

It seems like testosterone is the important one, but a % of your testosterone is converted into DHT that's why. Some people have low conversion rates.

Similarly, there is both free and bound testosterone. Free testosterone seems to have a much larger impact on muscle growth. But you can have high testosterone and low muscle growth if you have a lot of SHBG in your blood stream clinging to your testosterone and preventing it from binding with the androgen receptors.
This is very cool.

I like the simplicity. The choice of key operations to implement results in rather concise working example code.

At first glance, this library abstracts away a lot of the boring geometric / interaction boilerplate. Impressive!
>"The iconic Parisian bistro isn't dying, it's being thankfully renewed by younger chefs who don't take their customers for granted, are more welcoming to non-French-speaking tourists, and who showcase better and more seasonal products at a fairly reasonable price."

Would you say this is also true of the brasserie?
The development of HHVM is really interesting. I spent some time a while ago dockerizing an old version of HPHPc (the previous PHP -> C compiler which HHVM grew out of) and put it up at https://github.com/allanlw/hphpc-docker - The version reflects what you might see in early 2013. It should be dockerized and easy to play with if anyone is interested.
For several months AMP regularly (70-80%) caused pages to fail to load from Google News through a Chrome browser on Android M. Often after several reload attempts it would work, but sometimes not. Loading through Firefox was always a work around, but URL copy and paste was annoying.

I figured it was just tehGoog reminding me to pay attention to other human beings rather than staring at my phone. Then they fixed it with some update, when they realized I was incorrigible (actually I never figured out why).
Cash bail for nonviolent offenders is human rights abuse and completely unnecessary in the age of ankle bracelets and gps. I assume it still exists because people are profiting from this or because of the hate and desire to punish those simply accused, even if they are innocent. The desire for retribution and cruelty of such a system are definitely intentional factors, as much as profit, in the U.S. One should never underestimate hate and racism or their consequences here in America.
AMP pages rarely work for me when opening from Feedly and sometimes Twitter.
> I don't get why Lambda gets all the love while Google Cloud Functions doesn't.

Lambda existed first and was already all in on AWS. I haven't even tried GFC because of those facts. However I probably will now.
I have done that for a long time.
.NET Core?
> What I am saying is that now some lenders — banks — are under rules so tough they can’t support equality-enhancing mortgages

What is an equality-enhancing mortgage? My guess is that it's akin to an equal opportunity / affirmative action campaign. The thing is, actuarial tables aren't oppressive - they're merely reflective of reality. If a particular group presents a higher risk profile than another, the only sane course of action is to be more restrictive when lending to members of that group.

The alternative is for banks to give out easy money again like in the leadup to 2008 and that didn't work out well. I'm sorry that some people can't get mortgages but the answer is not to aggregate out their financial problems onto those of us who do, in fact, pay our bills.
We are at a time in history when we could benefit from reading _alternative_ points of view rather than remain trapped in our ideological bubbles.
Previous discussion (September 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12558053
Love it. Thanks. Even better if tag is visible btw.
I noticed that too. Maybe as the models evolve they'll start looking like Rondo.
Forget money. As a musician I struggle to even get people to listen to my music for free.

There's an absolute glut of content out there, due to two things:

1 - The increasing ease of making music. It used to be that you had to invest time in acquiring some skill, some relatively expensive instruments, and some in-person relationships with other musicians to make music that was palatable to a significant number of listeners. Today all you need is some free software on a phone or computer you probably already have, and it all but makes the music for you.

2 - The ease of distributing music. You used to have to get contracts with record labels, make other connections with the music industry, or spend a lot of money to get much of an audience. Now we've mostly cut out the middle men, and distribution is virtually free.

As a result there's vastly more content and much more competition between artists for an audience. No longer are consumers limited to a dozen radio stations or having to read music reviews, physically go down to the record store, listen to and buy records. The consumer has virtually the world's entire musical output at their fingertips and far more free content than they even have time to listen to.
We got feedback from Robotic community, they are interested in the hand simulation, as well as the bipedal natural movement. Still a long way to go but we are making exciting baby steps
Delete all of your Slack DM's
Craigslist does fine [grasping for a number] 95% of the time.
I'll work on it!
Yes, exactly. Prostitutes can sell themselves for money, every man has the power not to give her his money.

What's the problem?
>Too many good indie musicians are just a publisher away from success.

But with the GP argument one could say an algorithm away...
This is not a problem worthy of legislation. It is a minor inconvenience. We have both Android and iOS devices, it just requires a few extra cables, which is already becoming less of an issue since most of our devices are wireless charging compatible.

It's annoying that the apple charger is different, but at least it really is a superior connector in every way except compatibility.
> Well, let’s see how deplatforming InfoWars turns out before trying to create general rules about it

We can act before we have figured it all out, but we shouldn't postpone thinking about the broader question of when to step in, because the answer won't be simple and we need to have it as good as we can get it BEFORE the next issue comes up, because:

> The people who would misuse rules against hate speech will ban good disturbances of the status quo anyway.

Sandy Hook deniers, Holocaust Deniers - these are terrible people doing terrible things. I don't want to say otherwise AT ALL.

Often an important claim is initially unproven, not generally believed, and _induces discomfort_. Are you suggesting that a colored person is my equal? A woman? A savage? Are you suggesting that the military conducted secret experiments on troops? That the FBI targeted MLK? That the US uses warrantless wiretaps on citizens? That humans can do to other humans what you describe from the concentration camps?

Now we know those claims to be true, but they were initially unpopular. Heck, MLK was disliked/distrusted by the _majority_ of Americans. Silencing the people making those unpopular and uncomfortable claims early would spread injustice.

That's why we want rules - not so that the bad actors can twist them against us, but so that we have a defense against the bad actors shutting down the good actors, and most importantly, so that we have a defense against ourselves being unwitting bad actors. How do I know Sandy Hook was not faked but the DDOS attack on the FCC was? Because both sides were allowed to be heard long enough for evidence to come together.

Saying "the solution is just to never silence anyone" is a popular solution, even though I think it's the wrong one. But "We should only silence those that are wrong" completely dodges how we know who is wrong. Finding a healthy middle ground between these extremes requires work and diligence. If we choose to err on the side of NOT silencing, as I would prefer to, it means the work and diligence becomes all the more important.

Just trusting our intuition as to who is the bad actor that should be silenced has a bad track record.
I am certain that "chewy with a shiny exterior" bagels that I get at a bakery are made with yeast. They aren't some sort of secret or rare thing any place I've been, from New York to Arizona.

The mass-produced-in-a-factory-with-lots-of-preservatives bagels (e.g. Lenders) are very different, but also obviously made with yeast, and they don't really resemble fluffy white bread IMO.

When I go to my local grocery store in the northeastern US (the chain is in fact owned by a Jewish family), both kinds are available, the one in the bakery area and the other on the shelves with rolls.

Talking about these as though the dividing line was Jewishness or the use of yeast strikes me as both weird and incorrect.
Dev.to is now open source
I think it's a realistic one. Is the integrity of your votes more important to you than your bank account? Or your medical history? It's not to me.
Is that more efficient than building locally and pushing changes to a repo?
Play very slowly through the piece at least a couple times every time you practice. So slowly that it's hard to discern what piece is being played.

Repeat the same process when you have your piece memorized. Then play your piece from memory but hands alone. You will build up the muscle memory required to keep the piece in your fingers, rather than your head.
Right. Absolutely. People should just follow some of these restrictions to get speed without AMP. I went down this AMP path though because of yes the Icon. Google was testing the Icon in Paid Ads I had read, and wanted to see if that could also improve our Click Through Rates. I also wanted to see if officially being AMP could improve things like our Quality Score in our ads, which would reduce our click cost, etc.

So yeah, just me trying to get blessed by G so everything else improves from G for us :)
Ask HN: Elastic Cloud – conversion to annual billing prior to new pricing model?
I’m Elastic Cloud customer for multiple years now and I have always been on monthly billing so far. In April this year a sales rep proactively reached out to me and suggested to switch to annual billing in order to get some discount – which I did.

As of August 1st, however, they launched an entirely new pricing model that effectively cuts all prices in half.

I don’t want to allege something, but the timing of that strikes me a bit as odd. Did that maybe happen to someone else as well or was it just bad luck for me?
> tracking is tracking

But as another commenter here mentioned, simplifications like that do far more damage than good. In the broader world, "tracking" on the internet generally refers to companies following you all over the web and selling your data. By saying "tracking is tracking", you lump TDF's use of Piwik (for our site, for our own use, with obfuscated data in storage and a clear privacy policy) with that of advertising providers, who really do track you all over the web, don't tell you what they store, and sell your data. By saying "tracking is tracking", you tar everyone in the same brush. That's lacking nuance and really, really unfair to volunteer-driven FOSS projects (many of which use Piwik) that are just trying to do their best.

> You should not care how much time users spend on your site, etc.

Well, that's your opinion! But many of us in the LibreOffice community see the website as a major part of the product (and project). Do we want to spread the word about FOSS? Compete effectively with MS Office? Build our community and attract new contributors? Encourage donations so that we can support the community? Then we need a well-structured and useful website. Analytics tools help a lot in that.

> In fact, your web site can be pretty basic for downloading new software.

Again, that's the way you see it, fair enough. But actually the site needs to do a lot more than that. It needs to encourage people to try the software (screenshots, videos etc.) It needs to provide help, and support options, and front-ends to mailing lists. It needs to provide infrastructure for the project and community as a whole. The more we can optimise that - with the help of some analytics tools - the stronger we can make LibreOffice and the community. That's very important to us; if you disagree, join the LibreOffice project website list and put forward your case :-)
> You mean China's current aging population with a reverse pyramid demography due to one child policy is where global growth is at?

Given we're talking about the CCP, I suppose they could right their reverse pyramid using the same brutal means they used to create it. Say, by heavily pushing euthanasia options onto retired folks who can't care for themselves, with financial sanctions for their families if they refuse to comply.
They have a little carousel at the top of the search results containing only AMP pages, right?
Maybe it's an acronym for "Nile Is Like Ebay".
> I suspect ["used in anger"] is a Perl thing

It predates usage in the context of Perl, or any other software. Indeed it probably predates the existence of software :-)

I think it originates in a British military context (i.e. shots fired in anger rather than in training).

Edit: These answers [1] include a citation from 1798. Sorry if you actually just meant first use in a software context.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30939/is-used-in...
> it seems clear to me that from a macro economic perspective, the only scarce things a musician can provide are (a) experiences and (b) physical goods

As someone who is close to people in the industry: this is very true.

If you aren't a top act, money is made through merchandise and gigs like writing and recording music for video content, events like weddings and if you're lucky enough to get your act to the point that businesses will pay you to play at their venue, shows and touring.

There are businesses who approach musicians with the 'free shows at our venue for exposure' or 'perform at our venue and possibly collect on ticket sales' angle. Inexperienced or desperate acts will fall for these.

> Is anyone here that is more knowledgeable about the industry able to comment on what tech-enabled avenues exist (or may come into existence in the short term future) for younger musicians to make a living

By necessity, musicians need to look at these tech platforms not as sources of revenue, but as marketing platforms.
Windows 10 build 17733 now rolling out
Many of the topics I had cards for are solidified, but I'd say the majority are not. The scheduling is the software's responsibility, and I've found it does a pretty good job. So if I've truly solidified something, Anki will tend to schedule for months or even years away.
Also on Github: https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to
Anything else.

The points system seems sufficent to me for most driving offences, beyond costs. But community service, prison time, curfews, anything which is equivalent and not open to manipulation.
That was exactly the meaning/claim - that because PV prices have fallen, it doesn't make sense to build new thermal plants.
AVERAGE!
Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation
I've tried AMP a couple times only to get rid of it.

It's a nice bar to set for websites to compete against. I think Google rightfully so should penalize bloated & slow sites.

It's easy to create something better than AMP's experience. It takes a little time optimizing your site to create a pleasant interface & experience.

The majority of sites I see that are below the AMP bar, are sites that choose to be that way with lots of ads & pop ups. They do it because these things help them make money. So for them they have little incentive to use AMP. A lot of them make some of that money with Google Ads though.

So at the end of the day, I really don't see who AMP is for.
Yes! It first started as Pt (in coffeescript) a few years ago, and it's an experimental project to explore "a single point". Last year I started rewriting everything from scratch, and focus more on sets of points and how functions can transform them.

The performance should be a bit better (with Float32Array) though I haven't compared them.
Ah, yeah, that's true too. Wasn't critical for us on this landing page stuff. But yes, that's another reason blogs and news sites are AMPing their stuff.
Ask HN: Is this routine on GitHub?
Anyone else get something like the email below? I am not finding any discussion(s) about it.

During recent routine maintenance, the “Allow members to create repositories for this organization” setting was mistakenly enabled on an organization for which you are an admin from approximately 2018-07-18...
> After that do a tennis tournament. Compare two photos side by side. Pick a dinner. Delete the loser. Walk this down to 1 photo for that scene and be amazed at how much better that photos is than the one you thought you were going to get.

It's also great for static things with too little light and no tripod. With enough attempts, at least one of them will be a lot less blurry than the average.

In good light with static objects, I'll take a handful of shots even of the same framing. Even though one "would be enough", and nobody would notice anything wrong with it, if you take a bunch and compare them you can get rewarded greatly. The focus will never sit in the exact spot.
Yes, in your own code, it is easily fixed...
With third party code, like dependencies, it becomes more of a problem...
Addendum to my previous comment: Look no further than the man who claimed to be Leonardo himself [1] for proof that a lawless blockchain protects no one and hurts original content creators.

[1] https://bitcoinist.com/leonardo-da-vinci-mona-lisa-blockchai...
Is AI Ready to Prevent School Shootings?
Funny, I just made something like this today (but more primitive), mostly so that I won't miss Walter Bright's comments.

// ==UserScript==
// @name Hacker News VIP highlighter
// @version 1
// @grant none
// @match https://news.ycombinator.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

function highlightVIPs() {
'use strict';

const VIPs = [
"WalterBright"
];

const userTags = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("hnuser"));

userTags.forEach(tag => {
const username = tag.href.split("=")[1];
if (VIPs.includes(username)) {
tag.style.fontWeight = 'bold';
}
});
}

highlightVIPs();

(I'm not much of a JavaScript programmer, but it seems to work.)
Also I would personally prefer for the "tag" box to have a save button next to it. It wasn't clear to me whether it autosaves or if I was supposed to type the name before clicking "add friend". Could just be me though, but I would like this feature. Added this issue so that if people agree or disagree, they can vote on it through thumbs up/down in the Github interface: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends/issues/1
>I don't get why Lambda gets all the love while Google Cloud Functions doesn't.

The cynic in me says that a in lot of cases this has something to do with people ensuring their own job security. A lot of AWS technologies I've looked into seem to be way, way more complicated to get started with than they should be. There is a also this curious incongruity of people sinking tons of time into "figuring out" how to make something prod-ready in AWS, while saying the technologies they are using are "simple" and "easy to use".
AMP also pushed me to switch to DDG as my default search engine.