skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone responsible for that decision, which effectively left that new branch to its own devices, is probably having a bit of a bad taste in their mouth right about now.

or not. we're talking about laundering Putin's money. it's not inconcievable that this decision was at least indirectly influenced by the Kremlin.
This is the same Qualcomm whose CEO said Apples 64 bit A7 is a gimmick!
Most "full ad-blocking" requires being rooted on an Android device too. And you've obviously not done very much research about what data Apple collects vs Google. Simply using each OS will show you a big difference in philosophy. Google makes you approve all permissions when you install an app without clearly stating what it means. iOS apps have to ask for specific permission the first time they want to use GPS, camera, microphone, etc. Default apps? Yeah that's annoying, but it's not like you can't use Signal. And Google is currently working with the US government on many projects, which has caused many Googlers to quit the company.
You might want to take a look at AT Internet, they're GDPR compliant and have been in the business for a long time. It's more of a B2B company though. They have big companies as clients, mostly in France and Europe (BBC)
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Believe me, I know the plant cognition literature quite well ([0],[1] or [2],[3] for the technical literature) which is why I would consume lab grown meat over free growing plants if it ever came to a head.

However, your mock poetry about plants yearning for freedom is close to being an ad-hominem attack. Are you saying you don't eat plants because you feel their pain? My guess is probably not. Instead, you are trying to deflect attention away from the suffering of those whom we know do feel pain.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/What-Plant-Knows-Field-Senses/dp/0374...
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discove...
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Sensing-Communication-Interspec...
[3]: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319755953
Maybe Intel was in an even worse position.
> Facebook had agreed to let it run independently as part of the acquisition deal.

Sounds nice on paper.

> It is about finding and developing a business model that lets you determine your own destiny.

But when you sold the business to Facebook, you ultimately agreed to forfeit your ability determine your own destiny to obtain the ability to use their vast resources.
I had an iPhone 6s+ for a year and couldn't stand the UI and poor ergonomic choices. I was also unable to do basic things easily like SSH without paying outlandish amounts of money for things similar to JuiceSSH. It's locked down in userspace much more than Android and it's noticeable. Things like unzipping/unraring files, using a file explorer, always had problems with downloaded files, etc were totally impossible.

I want to go to an iPhone because Google is starting to really piss me off, but the year with the iPhone keeps turning me away. I wish there were other options.
That was not what I was suggesting. Fact of the matter is that it is easier to get it right the first time in the browser you work in than the browser you don’t. A growing backlog of Chrome bugs and a shrinking backlog of Firefox/whatever else browser front end developers switch to with product teams pushing feature development over bug fixing and then suddenly Chrome is the “unreliable” one.
You can still forgo the trip though. It's up to each individual participant to decide whether or not they want to make the trip. The ability for more people to take the trip at the same opportunity cost. Adding a lane or a road is little different than increasing the frequency of trains on a subway.

Peak demand will always saturate whatever capacity you have but the amount of stuff you move at peak capacity is greater so you spend less time fully saturated
Ignore stock options. Unless whatever they call options - can be sold for cash (possibly after vesting) in an opened market.
If not - consider it's $0 value.

Re-compare everything afterwards. $10k signing bonus is not a biggie compare to consistent +$20k base.
Bigger premium for health insurance may mean bigger benefits - but make sure to dig that.

Free lunch saves you $10/day - multiply it by 200 - and here's another $2k after taxes or $3k before taxes.

Also - regardless of everything - which place feels more fun to work at?
I've even been using it on Windows. Love it!
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Sounds that way to me: they're looking at a specific uncommon HK2
I didn't do this because I am upvoted or appeciated. I contribute on HN almost exclusively so I have the karma to burn in situations like this. I consider threads and stories like this as one of my most important contributions to this website.

𐑚𐑰𐑦𐑙 𐑝𐑦𐑟𐑦𐑚𐑳𐑤 𐑦𐑯 𐑞𐑺 𐑲-𐑤𐑲𐑯, 𐑩𐑟 𐑕𐑳𐑥𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑢𐑦𐑔 𐑒𐑮𐑧𐑛𐑦𐑚𐑦𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑰 𐑯 𐑝𐑷𐑤𐑘𐑵𐑥, 𐑦𐑟 𐑒𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑤 𐑑 𐑒𐑰𐑐𐑦𐑙 𐑞𐑰𐑟 𐑐𐑰𐑐𐑳𐑤 𐑷𐑓-𐑚𐑨𐑤𐑩𐑯𐑕. ;)
I am equal parts amazed and horrified when I hear that some app started out as an MMS hack on feature phones. Dictionary lookups, directions, and multimedia, all on "candybars". It's one area the US never really got behind and jumped straight to smartphones and discrete apps.

How exactly did this come to be?

That's the anthology I want to read.
Surely you don't think there is a larger motivation behind this kind of behavior than predatory fundraising for the local department?
How is it nonsense? Someone is using their time and fuel to get to your location. It's only natural you pay for it.
Interestingly, I've always hated winter and pined for NorCal weather. But I'm really looking forward to the serenity of dark, cold, snowy streets this year.

We'll see how I feel in February, of course...
You mean like the popup of Google asking if I'd like to sync, or if I want it set as the default browser? It seems to be ok when it's in Google's favour.
This threw me off, too. I initially thought the article was trying to say that there is less empathy for those diagnosed with a biological predisposition because it is easier to legitimize than someone's feelings.
I know I'm just being a grump, but I find it baffling that these businesses are so valuable.
I can't really be bothered to install an app for this purpose but I'm constantly disappointed that Google's assistant is so bad at picking up music. I would say it works less than half the time. It only works in public areas if it's pretty quiet.
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> whereas people seeking girl names are relatively out of luck: you've got Mary, other Mary, um... Delilah (if you're okay with the whole "treachery" thing)... strangely Eve has never seen the same enduring popularity as Adam.

Just off the top of my head: Deborah, Esther, Leah, Rachel, Rebecca, Ruth, Sara(h)

Maybe if you just want to stick to the NT you'll be limited to Mary (and "the other Mary" has evolved into Marlene in modern times). But I'm not really sure... I grew up Jewish, so I'm not too familiar with what is and isn't in the NT.
The database holds fingerprints for ~17000 songs and takes 53MBs: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-2-now-playing-so...
As predicted by gary bernhardt[1].

FWIW, I don't think doing that will be a net win. I/O-bound applications might run slightly faster (I think gary bernhardt's number was 5%), but in exchange they'll take quite a bit more system resources, which mean increased power use and reduced lifespan.

1: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Have a look at AT Internet
Yes...and this is only one part of the story. You may be aware that China had already made a lot of this progress, in particular moving towards coal but other stuff too...but by the ~10th century...no Industrial Revolution... (https://economicdynamics.org/meetpapers/2013/paper_351.pdf - I am fairly sure this isn't the paper that started this research but I don't have the time to find it).

The Industrial Revolution is not particularly simple but two things are accepted: it wasn't just about technology (besides anything else, if you say it was just technology then you still have to know why technology changed? This question is a central focus of current IR research i.e. McCloskey) and finance was very important (the invention of govt finance/taxation, particularly so).

It maybe isn't worth getting bogged down in the detail but an important part of the industrial revolution was a shift from assembly at home - "proto-industrialisation", which had existed for ~150 years before the IR - to factory-based production. Finance was essential to this process (and impossible without it).
But they did sell it before they'd written a line of code.
> Why?

Hmm, I guess fundamentally I find it hard to believe that a large corporation would acquire a smaller one just to let them run completely independently - it just seems counter-intuitive unless the acquirer is a holding company, basically.

It definitely also doesn't seem like Amazon's jam. Twitch seemed to have a pretty large upward trajectory (and path to profitability) right around the time they were acquired, and Amazon's still clearly guiding at least some of those major decisions.
The industrial pioneers, if I'm not mistaken, were "old-school rich", with real wealth coming from either hard work or a rich linage.

I doubt venture capitals and other financial solutions were involved in anything that'll make its way into a history book.
I actually didn't notice until I read your comment. Seems fine enough to me :p
"what is the USP of the product"

USP?
If only Qualcomm had not charged such high licensing fees that Apple would switch to Intel.
> I think the best products do tend to win.

Ah, you optimist, you! :)

I think that if you expand the definition of product to include sales and marketing, the answer is yes.

But if you don't, the world is littered with great products that lost to better competition: betamax to vhs, apple to windows.

Though I can't think of any modern examples, so maybe the world has changed.
Isn't that why we have scihub?
>With all that said, PLEASEEEEEE don't ruin it, Apple.

This looks to me like an acquihire for the ML/AI/DL talent. So basically, yes they will be diverted to other projects.
Really now?

Say, I have a Samsung tv with internet. I hook it up to the 'net. I use the built in features intended. It updates when it needs to.

Except, for a year and a half, those TVs were vulnerable to a whole range of bad things. They were used as local spying platforms. They were used as jumping off points for local networks. And they were used in attacks on other networks.

We can quantify the damages that this malfeasant software/hardware did. They certainly weren't "intended features", nor can customers just roll their own signed firmware.

> What one person sees as "insecure and bad" another person will view as "configurable and open".

Depends. Does the default behavior leave you open to a range of unintended effects? Are there known and unpatched errors/bugs?

Yes, configurations can be made that open you to vulnerabilities. Making an open relay over SMTP is one such. But the default Postfix is sane and secure.

> Ultimately the consumer shares a good percentage of blame.

That's what I'm arguing. When the customer is not much more than in a rental agreement faked as a purchase, 100% of the blame needs to fall on the renter operator.
> without internet

For anyone else finding this as implausible as I was, apparently the Pixel has a local database of 17,300 tracks. Still pretty impressive though.

https://uk.pcmag.com/news/91606/googles-pixel-2-phones-recog...
Hosting your own, ie NextCloud or others
> Just this weekend it was announced that people with welfare debts would be blocked from flying overseas.

In a few years, you could be saying the same exact thing but removing the word "welfare". That's why the ends can't justify the means. It's a massive slippery slope.
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it helps form what the person understands as his/her own 'free will'.

the Free Will (TM) state machine uses this constantly updated training data to bias its decisions throughout its shelf life. so there are rules (like you stated) but there is also a huge set of data that alters the rule's parameters, to such extent that some times, new rules are created and old ones get discarded.
> Facebook not protecting content moderators from mental trauma

> Facebook in the past has said all of its content reviewers have access to mental health resources, including trained professionals onsite for both individual and group counseling, and they receive full health care benefits.

...which is it?
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I can't speak for who you're replying to, but I find myself using it at restaurants, bars, and public locations where music is playing, as well as friends' cars, and other social gatherings. I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user.
I've never used Netflix, so I've no idea what the comparison means. I'm assuming there isn't a subscription fee to access free podcasts, though.
Addressing climate change wasn’t even on your wish list.
That's actually completely correct, I don't know how I missed that when I wrote my comment. I've never seen a rabid animal, but I know that in the US, squirrels and bats are still a significant vector of rabies virus. It's probably not a good idea to play around with wild mammals.

EDIT: From Wikipedia:

> In wild animals, bats were the most frequently reported rabid species (30.9% of cases during 2015), followed by raccoons (29.4%), skunks (24.8%), and foxes (5.9%)[29].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_rabies#USA
This "feature not a product" belief only makes sense if you pretend that the product doesn't provide the answer sought by its primary user and as byproduct produces a truly real-time stream/map of what music-enjoying people are interested in finding out more about.

This data would be incredibly valuable to companies trying to market and sell music. Like labels, and now, Apple. Not to mention keeping that data now out of the hands of others.
Very interesting perspective and glad you tied together the disparate lines of thinking. Merit in product is, unfortunately, a variable not predictive of success. The strategy component is critical - that is a beautiful, great product that is solving a non-existent problem is probably doomed. There's no path to riches designing the best roller skate wheel marketplace platform, but even a poorly designed gambling tool could probably find a way to profitability.

The only thing I think is outside both of these elements - product quality and viable strategy - is the component of luck be it right place, right time, or catching an unforeseen wave of buzz. The most well known success stories typically owe a non-insignificant amount of debt to good fortune out of the control of the product or strategy. It's a real elephant in the room and it's difficult for ego to acknowledge either in success or failure, but it's real.
I agree. Yet the models assume that gravity is the only influence for the motion of the galaxies, etc. We can see evidence of other phenomena but....

I have had this discussion with trained working physicists and the general reaction has been that these phenomena are completely insignificant in relation to stellar, interstellar, galactic and intergalactic motion. So where do we stand? If the orders of magnitude difference in strength between electric and magnetic fields and the strength of gravity is over 35. What kinds of effects do we expect with these kinds of differences? Especially when we are looking at plasmas and all sorts of ionisation.

I don't know, but it does lead to intriguing questions.
No, I definitely meant "your account". Specifically, I meant that you will accidentally trust devices you log in on that you might not be aware of, which exposes your account to unintentional reduction to single factor. I don't only log in at home.

If Google switched it to not trusting by default, you could still trust whatever device you want, just without the risk of a default behavior working against you.
Why I as developer should worry about this? It's their job.
Shazam doesn't just work on pop music, I've used it successfully on some pretty obscure stuff.

It has to have been published "properly" though, which in the day and age of self-publishing directly to the net doesn't work so well.
Not particular strong ones. I actually imagined that .txt is more accessible, maybe the wrapping must be tighter. I like it because its very WYSIWYG. The UTF-8 art looks better there than in a code block. And it's one little dependency less, if for example at some point development should migrate to another platform.
Bing is now serving AMP pages (since the new Governance Model was unveiled), so...
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This actually sounds like a pretty great idea. Self hosting content is the only reliable way to prevent the perverse incentives and costs of centralization. But only having mobile apps for it makes it useless.
While I see where you are coming from, I think we can all unanimously and irrevocably agree that posting child porn and snuff videos to social media is pretty damn trashy.
> H1-B is modern day slavery.

Eh, there's a power imbalance, but let's not go overboard.

They are offered a good job with good pay in another country. That means they have less power in negotiations, and may be deported, but they don't lose the money they earned, and it's not like they are being exiled to some foreign place, they are literally sent home.

Nobody's freedom is being taken away, and nobody's rights are being infringed (that I know of). It may not be morally acceptable depending on your point of view, but it's not slavery. Using that word here lessens how strong it is when used in other contexts, modern day (human trafficking) and historically (in America and eslewhere). We don't need that.
There's been a good bit of discussion since but unfortunately a lot of it has disappeared from the web and has only been viewable from within the Scuttleverse ever since this change was introduced: https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay/commit/b5b3732069d413e92579...
SSB is basically a database log that syncs with your peers. Your log is immutable and message order is preserved - every message+previous_hash is signed - a hashchain that enforces order. Your peers can verify that the log has not been tampered with (both order and contents).

This doesn't work with multiple devices, since they'll be two different logs. However, there is ongoing work to support multiple identities. One identity could broadcast that another identity is a "sameAs" - causing friendly peers to sync with the other identity as well.

Personally, I haven't found this to be a problem. I find separate identities less distracting. (My favorite reason to use SSB is that continuous syncing is not an expectation.)
What does Qualcomm have to gain from making public statements about allegations like this? Isn't it like talking to the police voluntarily, where it could only hurt your position?
I'm not that rich. That said, two thoughts.

First, money at at level isn't earned to spend -- you're right about this. It's more a way of signaling status. Someone getting paid $30 million is less important than someone getting paid $40 million at the same company. This comes up a lot in athletics, too. It establishes your location in the pecking order, which is important in any hierarchical organization. You have to know who's boss.

Second, I think money can be a basis for talent competition. If one company offers $5mil/year and another offers $10mil, you'll probably take the $10 over the $5. Not that it will actually make a difference in your life, but just because it's 2x as much. Perhaps not everyone would make that choice and I think at those levels of wealth, it becomes quite a personal, idiosyncratic decision. But it does get hard to turn down.

Just some thoughts from a guy who isn't that rich.
Though a musical version of Heathers did come out just a few years ago.
It still says around 50%+ make less than minimum wage or lose money. Not good.
Twitter is hard to scale, you have to make trade-offs all over the place.

AFAIK that's not the case of Shazam where a read-only database would be enough.
Sure eventually you have to manage multiple versions of your app and be able to gradually update your DB, but that's still simple stuff compared to the problem of how to make money.
I wonder if maybe tighter integration with law enforcement would help the situation? Part of the problem may be that people feel so helpless when all they can do is ban the image and maybe send a copy up into the black hole of law enforcement.

It has to be incredibly demoralizing to see yet another child sex slave image posted from that Kremlin IP range taken in what is clearly the same room they've been seeing for months. You can forward all of the pictures to the FBI, but they can't do anything about it and you're seeing victim after victim paraded around the Internet. Facebook's jurisdiction stops at the uplink from their datacenter.
Shazam is also on by default [1] , so they are both creepy

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8ee3/shazam-kee...
What is with the H1B bashing? Have you met a representative sample of people in H1B? How is your prejudice any different from being a racist or sexist? Just because visa type is not a protected class?

I highly recommend talking to many more people on H1B and if even a few doesn't fit your preconceived notion, kindly stop this bashing. It is people you are dealing with.
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As far as I know, the way Shazam uses fingerprints it is not supposed to recognize any song this way. Or even when a cover or a live version of a song is played.

I remember Adam Neely (A musician/jazz composer/youtuber) mentioning in a Q&A, that for songs they played live for a television broadcast, backing tracks were added underneath and it was mixed as close as possible to the originals, among other reasons for the purpose of them being better "shazamable".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH_5j3Wm9qM&t=11m38s
Probably not true, but he is indeed super rich. If common state-media-brainwashed folks in Russia knew how rich he is, and all of it is stolen from all Russian citizens bit by bit (actually billion by billion), they would hang him on the nearest street light unceremoniously.

I would expect that he diversified his wealth all over the world via 'friends', stored in shady wealth management companies, well located banks, and probably few tonnes of good old $$ and gold. Some bankers in one Zurich bank might give you some info (but might not be alive to confirm it afterwards).

But he has good PR - it often looks ridiculous to western eyes, but for most russians it hits some obscure sweet spot. And of course he is not some lone wolf, rather guy on top of a massive pyramid with tons of FSB people who know their stuff a bit too well.

Who else would you be expecting to run huge broken country like Russia for so long so successfully? I mean, even Arafat died as a billionaire, and Palestine ain't some Eldorado to begin with.
> No one actually believes this, including you.

I'm pretty sure that I'm in a better position to know what I actually believe than you are, and I'm telling you, I really do believe this. There are only three possibilities: either free will is an illusion, or dualism is true, or consciousness is the result of unknown new physics. The first is by far the most likely from a scientific point of view, and the evidence for it is actually pretty overwhelming.

But just because it's an illusion doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't live your life as if it were real. It's a very compelling illusion as long as you don't know how the trick is done, and so far, we don't.