skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure what the definition of an instrument is here, but many electronic artists are using Ableton to perform live. If were willing to call turntables an instrument then we need to call Ableton one as well. Quote from the popular BassMusic producer GJONES:

"What do you use to produce & perform?
I use Ableton Live for both. I use almost solely Ableton’s built in synths/effects in my productions. My live setup is a sort of DJ-style set, in that I mainly mix using 2 audio channels and then have several more channels of acapellas, drum loops, risers, 1 shots, drum samples, etc."

https://www.youredm.com/2014/02/13/feature-g-jones/
It's a pretty tall order to ask taxpayers to subsidize the cost of a college beachfront community. We could just close up UC Santa Cruz and call it a day, no relo offer on the table. If you can't terminate tenured professors because you've closed the facility down, buy them out with revenue from selling the campus.

Tax dollars for education should not subsidize expensive real estate markets. You can still have your job, we're not under any obligation to keep it within walking distance of your beach front property.
Ask HN: Are there any smart phones not made in Asia?
I just looked at a few articles about phones not made in China, and most of them list Tiawan or another Chinese controlled territory. With the ban on zte and similar companies for federal positions, this seems like an issue of national security.
Data is like 'electronic IP' such as videos, music and computer programs in that it's a precious resource that's easily stolen.

The problem is that it's not easy to secure. Physical things can be stuck in a vault or watched over by armed guards. Electronic IP can be swiped in the blink of an eye and replicated many times once obtained.

It's a hard problem. To date, only ham-fisted excessive financial fines have been used to scare the general public. That technique isn't viable for the long term-- we need something better.
That works OK for gossip. But how does it solve the problem of keeping government honest? This was noted in the second paragraph of the article:

Without journalists digging through property records or attending city council meetings, looking for official wrongdoing and revealing secret deals, local politicians will operate unchecked—with predictable consequences.
They see chrome as the system/OS with users leaving it very rarely(chromeos is the ideal chrome setup). If you look at chrome as the OS and tabs/chromeapps as the apps,it makes sense.
Someone else said 'your chrome account IS your google account' They are quite right. Google created an identifier that makes email as an id obsolete, and its called GAIA_ID. You can google it. Basically all of their services are keyed off on their universal gmail gaia_id but they planned on using this even beyond gmail but as a 'universal identifier' to track everyone on every service that interacts with google, such as tying the gaia_id to the apple id, facebook id

You guys really don't get it do you? Google is oceania, it's five eyes / cia-nato and they wanted to have a 'global identifier' to identify everyone on the planet. If they haven't already achieved it (likely they have) then it's something they're aiming for.

google is a technofascist information monopoly, and given that they've been cenosring people politically on youtube by demonetizing and deplatforming them, that should give you pause, in case your opinons 'just so happen to evolve with new information that disagrees with the reigning silicon valley biased cult of opinion called 'the establishment''

sorry I went political here, but software is becoming VERY political. Things in firefox break more and more every day, forcing you to use chrome. FF widevine support breaks all the time, oops there goes NETFLIX and HULU and AMAZON on your linux platform... this kind of thing. Google is widevine, so you better be politically aligned with google or else....no DRM check for you, no video for your customers
I was an employee, not a contractor. Over the 8 years I worked there, probably about half my time was spent on open source contributions: not just coding but also community management and such.

Before I got hired by this company, I did consulting for a handful of clients, but I personally prefer the stability of reporting to one boss. It was my personal "business plan" you could say to get hired. And it worked! :)

The project was moderately successful over its twelve-year lifespan but has now completed its arc. While a certain amount of marketing is necessary to get people's attention, for a long-term relationship like this, value is ultimately imperative.
They also make Symproic, a treatment for constipation which is a common side effect of opioid use.
Right, according to this blogspot post, one could figure that what we've learned about entropy is completely wrong! But no! The net amount of energy inside an isolated system does not change. It dissipates evenly through the system, and the system as a whole reaches it's maximum entropy/equilibrium. That means, each part of the system which can exchange energy, has the same amount of energy.
Probiotics: If you don’t just just poop them out, they may muck up your guts
>If Santa Cruz is anything like a typical college town then there are buildings on campus or nearby that could be repurposed for this problem. Certainly there is money somewhere that could be used to purchase space (even though real-estate is at a premium) for this problem.

Campus dorms are thousands of students over original capacity. All the lounge areas are converted to bedrooms, double rooms became triples and quads etc. Due to a long-standing feud with the city UCSC also cannot purchase any property in town that will house students. They are further restricted in where they can build on campus by both geological natural features, student protests (eg. 2 year tree sit that held up building in the 2000s), and also general NIMBYism. You are totally right in characterizing the situation as a sad joke. If only these emails were the extent of it..
DXR doesn’t seem to be any more high level than Vulkan RT, if you want you can go native but it isn’t clear to me what advantages you would even get considering the already low level DX12 provides.
Potentially? They already have. Now they’re just linking things because they’re wanting easier and convenient access as well as “terms of service” clarity.

I think it’s safe to say google etc don’t require cookies to track you. And they’ve already mapped out any secondary gmail accounts you have. And they have your complete browser history joined from all devices they’ve stitched into your shadow profile which you can’t delete or access. Incognito mode is only good for the little spy guy graphic.

This is the 21st century - all activity is logged for future sale.
You are not essentially logging into Chrome, well yes you are but only for local purposes and that's not so bad... the link is only local, it will not be syncing any data without your consent, it used to mean that.. and Google DID do very poorly presenting this version of their browser (proven by other posts here)
"We share the state’s concern about the opioid crisis. While our opioid medicines account for less than 2% of total prescriptions, we will continue to work collaboratively with the state toward bringing meaningful solutions to address this public health challenge"

This is such a scummy spin.
plenty of people successfully use buprenorphine to taper off heroin. some people do end up going on long term buprenorphine maintenance, but the harm there is radically less than an active oxy/heroin addiction. even in the worst case scenario, any day that an opioid addict takes buprenorphine is a day where they have far less risk of fatal overdose.
Jobs growth continues with lower wages
Purdue were aggressively pushing oxy to people who didn't need them though, and were describing it as non-addictive even though they knew it was addictive.

People always say "what about those who have pain at the 8, 9 or 10 end of the scale?" Well, the US could probably cut prescribing by 80% and leave those people still on the meds.
I can confirm on Windows, exactly the same behavior. I guess, it's time to start using Chrome account, never needed it, but whatever.
Fantastic, I use RipGrep every day and just noticed I was on 0.4.0. I wish they had a PPA or an easier way for me to have it update automatically...
The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business (2017)
Usually "misleading" is what Trademarks are intended to prevent. If it's misleading (in the EU at least) then it's most likely an infringement.

"NOAA weather" as the app name implies that the direct source of the _app_ is NOAA, "Weather using NOAA data" and similar wording disambiguates and avoids trademark infringement (and/or passing off ["misappropriation"/misrepresentation in USA] - which is a very weak unregistered version of Trademark which this situation nonetheless appears to fall foul of).
I'm pretty happy with fastmail. You may want to read this before considering protonmail[1], note that it comes from their direct competitor (ah, and you need to enable dead comments in your hn settings if you haven't already)

I recommend investing in your own domain so that you can switch between e-mail providers easily.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
Towards a Bioelectronic Computer
This happened to a friend of mine. He does heroin recreationally and isn't addicted and doesn't get withdrawal symptoms. The court mandated he go to treatment and was basically required to take buprenorphine during treatment regardless of him needing it. The treatment facility also didn't believe him when he told them how much he used and thought he was still using in the facility because he didn't have withdrawal symptoms even though the drug tests said otherwise.
Thanks for posting this - much more informative than the originally posted article.

Khan seems to be arguing that Amazon has two types of monopoly power - horizontal monopoly power in specific sectors, e.g. books, and vertical monopoly power in ecommerce.

I agree that the first type should probably be more heavily regulated, though there's room for debate as to the appropriate level of granularity. (Should regulators look at Amazon's market share for books? Ebooks? Textbooks? Educational material? Entertainment?)

But as for the second type, I'm not convinced that there are strong economic arguments in favor of regulating vertical monopolies as long as the monopolist doesn't have horizontal monopoly power at any level of the supply chain. After all, as long as there's no horizontal monopoly power, competitors are free to vertically integrate themselves through M&A or organic expansion if the benefits of vertical integration are that significant. Of course, it's possible that AWS should be regulated as a horizontal monopoly in the IaaS space based on its nearly 50% market share. But IMO, any such regulation should only impact AWS (and any other areas in which Amaon has horizontal monopolies), not Amazon as a whole.
Yeah I wish Apple let us put custom dns for mobile data. Can always just vpn to your own network.
You might want to read Dopesick because it's an eye-opening look at what Purdue actually did.
I love this and love that it's built in Python, but…

"Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard"[0]

[0] https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
ideally, no.
I tried to use Carmageddon as a viral ad but it didn't catch on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvE7_wBEvHc
I personally believe this is unlikely, because then the firms paying for this data will not be so sure that the information is legitimate, whereas collecting directly from user devices makes fraud more difficult.
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He said he got feedback from his students, but not from anyone else (e.g. more senior professors).
There is something wrong with the Hacker News algorithm if this kind of simple box drawing algorithm with minimal content gets to second place.
> to you so it comes off as a bit of a complaint for the sake of it.

People like you really rise my blood pressure. No, it's not important to him/her, bad defaults[1] are important for everyone because they are incorrect design. The correct design is not to synchronize anything before obtaining informed consent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
My theory is that The City was the primary force behind Brexit. They are by far the largest and most influential entity and one of the only few that are going to be better off after Brexit.

Even more, staying in the EU would actually jeopardize their special tax-heaven status as EU was moving toward more banking regulation. Note: EU rules or laws, once accepted by local parliaments, have the status of international law, which is above the local laws. Since The City has special exempt status in British legal system, accepting the EU banking regulation could potentially do away with their special "tax-heaven" status. So leaving the EU was actually a matter of survival for them.
Prices in different stores vary for a lot of reasons. One area will have higher real estate costs or higher taxes, or a lower volume of customers to amortize fixed costs over.

This is also why a new competitor opening up seems to cause prices to decline significantly. Part of it is the competition, but part of it is that the same factors that allowed the competitor to justify opening a new store (e.g. a tax cut or population growth) also allow the existing store to reduce prices.
Absolutely agree. But, they already telegraphed this by removing right wing and left wing political videos from the US their moderators deemed offensive. So, this is in the same vein.

You may say this person is more mainstream, from our perspective, but that's where freedom of speech comes from, either you allow all --or you allow yourself to be manipulated.
This makes my anxiety so bad
As a novice, it seems extremely difficult to define what's too big. Her argument is that Amazon owns the platform where the deals are done and thus has an inherent advantage that undermines fair competition. Any established company has an inherent advantage over those just entering the market. They have market share, infrastructure, marketing, and so on. Amazon has a platform but of course anyone can sell through other channels. It's just a matter (of course a non-trivial one) of gaining traction. Personally I think Amazon is way too dominate, but I just don't know how you codify what line they've crossed. Maybe it's like the old porn definition - "I know it when I see it."
What she says are all kind of basic facts for any physicist, not something new research that needs to be sourced and skeptically considered.

He just blogged educational insights.
Even though you can use Ableton to 'perform live' this is rather raw. When I say 'as an instrument' I mean as the conduit to creativity. The primary creatives in music would have been songwriter/composer, lyricist, performer. Now it's moved into production and the mechanism is not a guitar or piano, it's a variety of digital tools upon which creativity/composition is performed.
I would love for someone to maintain a PPA. :-)

I've looked into it before, but it looks like a fairly weighty process to go through.

It does look like someone is working on it though! https://github.com/x4121/ripgrep-ubuntu
> We have political movements that are committed to removing basic human rights from 50% of the population, so sure.

Are you saying the publication of this paper will lead to the removal of basic human rights from 50% of the population? If not, what is the relevance of this?

> Maybe when Roosh doesn't have millions of followers we can discuss this stuff openly.

Who is Roosh and why does them having millions of followers mean we cannot discuss this stuff openly?

> Let me give you a different example. Let's say there's a study that shows a weak link between a vaccine and autism. If it were published, it would be amplified far out of proportion to its findings and used to convince millions of parents not to vaccinate their kids. Such a paper could have a death toll in the hundreds. A paper like that should not be published unless it's been replicated multiple times, and even then with profound qualifications front and center indicating precisely which vaccine it applies to, etc.

If your hypothetical paper followed proper scientific procedures, it absolutely should be published. I'm honestly astonished that you would think otherwise. This is how science works. A scientific paper should not be censored on ideological grounds, and trying to do so will backfire by creating public distrust of scientific institutions.
How long will it be before typical households need the performance of fiber? I’ve got 4 gig symmetrical to my house (3 gig Comcast, 1 gig Verizon). I had a wiring issue where my desktop’s ethernet port was syncing at 100 mbps, and I didn’t even notice. The Web can’t even really use the bandwidth—the TCP windowing algorithm takes too long to ramp up. 100 mbps is plenty to stream 4k on the TV plus 1080p to a couple of iPads. Even games download plenty fast at 100 mbps. There is the cloud, but I can back up my entire iPhone to the cloud in less than an hour at 100 mbps—doing it incrementally, it doesn’t even register.

There is a cost to doing fiber build outs before there is a real demand for it. If people don’t need more right now than what cable and wireless can offer, you might wait a very long time to recover your investment.
What Western nations are doing is absolutely nowhere close to the Great Firewall of China.
So what did they mean? GDPR is basically what they said, plus that you have to show you have made a meaningful effort to stop data breaches from happening before they happen. Is that bad?

Intentional data breach is basically the business model where you sell private information without getting meaningful consent from your users. Do you think that is okay because you need that to stay competitive with US companies?
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To be fair, I don't think the bulk of the cost of the university goes to the real estate of professors. That said, of course there should be incentives to get professors to move.
> Perhaps there are medical reasons to prescribe some patients a take-home opiate for this

...and to prescribe so many that the GP commenter has enough left over to be used in future.
I wish I could just have multiple Chrome installs segregated from each other for different purposes.

I used to use Firefox for work and chrome for personal stuff. My new employer uses Google's business apps so it is easiest in Chrome....but that knocks out my two browsers at once system.

Often I'll need something I saved to drive (sample code, doc, something) or bookmarked in my personal account that suddenly was relevant to work.... swapping logins is a pain....
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My guess is he replied to the wrong comment, and meant comic sans
Yes, when you’re a trillion dollar company a billion dollar fine drives home the point.
Significant Update to Anna
Very interesting article. I believe the next major change in the news industry is the change from news articles -- which were designed for paper -- to structured news data, designed for interactivity.

My project, NewsBlocks [1], puts this idea into practice by aiming to convert all the world's news articles -- past and present -- into unbiased, verified data and storing it on a censor-resistant blockchain. Anyone will then be able to use the data - which will be the first global, permanent news archive -- to create new kinds of trusted news applications, such as unbiased news feeds, fake news checkers, voice and chat apps and more, creating a global marketplace for news. We just launched and would love to hear your feedback.

[1]https://newsblocks.io
Exactly. It's not about the teachers.

My sister was an award winning teacher when she was at a good school. Now that she teachers on the edge of a reserve she has suddenly become "low performing".

Take 50 ideal teachers who have all the best training and have learned all the best techniques, and put them in a low scoring school. The test scores of the school will not improve. Most of the teachers will be focused on surviving until they can transfer elsewhere.
It is simple, but all art starts somewhere. Beginning artists in traditional media normally produce simple (dare I say, bad) artwork their first few years. The important question is what they do next - how do they improve it, how do they make it their own unique expression, what do they do with the resulting work?

Simple is fine. Starting something new is good. Sharing it is how you get feedback and decide where to go next.
Ask HN: As a technical founder what is the best business book you've read?
For what its worth, this is the ultimate calculus for a search engine; The revenue you can produce is proportional to your query rate, your query rate is proportional to your recurring user base, and your recurring user base is proportional to the usefulness of your searches, which is proportional to the number of pages in your index which is proportional to the number of servers you have running which is proportional to the cost of running the service.

One of the things I would have done differently at Blekko is that I would have created our own in house ad serving system (network) way earlier in the life cycle (Blekko never did have an in house ad network). It gives you better control over advertising latency and the quality factor of the ads. You also get to keep all of the ad revenue rather than just some of it. And you can deal directly with advertisers rather than the ad-tech crowd which can be quite scummy at times.

I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor, if you can crack the secret of surviving in a market where Google pays people over $4B/year just to send their search traffic to them, then you will be one of my heroes.
Everything you do in chrome is called back to google servers. Even if you block cookies you can look at the network tab in dev tools and see it calling back; also it sends the links you click on to a malware check service (you know, safe browsing) that server tracks everything you click on: no cookies needed; there are also endpoints for transmitting your urls for 'quality of service' (to optimize bandwidth), that tracks, and then all the performance data called bakc to the google servers could potentially have your data steganographically included in that data

There are many things that chrome is doing that are dubious, quasi legal

one thing they could be doing is a kind of reverse beacon or barium meal beacon where they generate a unique code and steganographically insert that as an overlay into images...you won't see the difference when your webpage loads the image, but then some javascript will send that image back to a server, and there you ahve a cross site tracking mechanism. This concept has been used in browser fingerprinting, but now that has evolved with html5 with the canvas tag which generates unique ids and sends that back in order to track your browser everywhere around the internet without needing cookies or websocket sessions or any other newer session mgmt mechanism
I don't understand why is there not more competition / options in the BaaS area. User management is stable, almost boring functionality required by every single product.
I just read it as alternate time-line, a bit like steampunk.
Inside Look at Modern Web Browser
Why do you want to replace Pinboard/Instapaper? What feature do you miss?