skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook could ensure these people have access to mental health care and counseling. In the article Facebook claims that this is already the case, but I happen to know a Facebook content moderation contractor who tells me they do not have access to care, despite having to look at extremely distressing content all day, every day. I guess now it’s for the court to decide.
Maybe my listening tastes are just _that weird_, but I've found that it's only accurate about 50% of the time for those times when I really need it.

It's also pretty garbage for classical music.
What Is VMware? Virtualization Broken Down for Everyone
"Luck" is a BS excuse, including in said argument
Does SSB still make it impossible to share a single identity across multiple devices? (I.e. I'd like to log into my identity from my laptop but see that same identity's feed on my phone.)

I want to participate, but periodically I check https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/applications/multiple-devices... and it hasn't changed, and for me, having a single device to which the entirety of my identity is tied is a non-starter. Even so, the tech seems interesting, and I hope that limitation goes away one day.
Akufo-Addo Receives 2018 Outstanding Leader’s Award
> “bombarded” with “thousands of videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder,”

Those aren't "shitty users" those are vile and criminal people doing extremely horrible things and sharing them. Most or many of those people should be, where possible, referred to local authorities for judicial processing. FB can very well ID these offenders. It's not like they don't collect enough information to know who they are.
Yeah, that number seemed low to me as well. I always assumed there would be more rodents in a city than humans. Odd to see that there are a million more humans than rodents in barcelona.
Well acktually, in my admittedly limited experience, Shazam is not capable of recognizing any music at all without the digitized metadata encoded with sound files. I've tried multiple times to sing very popular songs to it. It never recognized them. You could attribute it to my poor musical skills (and I'm fine with that), but 100% of humans would recognize the songs in < 10s timeframe.
Why does such a feature have to be safe? It's for an edge case where something is misbehaving badly, and your only alternative is a reboot. Why shouldn't the user be able to do this as long as they accept the risk?

> Linux is all about enabling people

Since we're talking about the kernel, I agree for the most part. Which makes it all the more annoying that "reboot" (and sometimes even that doesn't work and you have to smother the system with a pillow) is the only option in this circumstance. I can overwrite disks and memory at will, destroying who knows what data, but I can't kill a useless hung process because it might be unsafe?

Admittedly I am ignorant of the details of the kernel implementation, but I have difficulty believing that there is nothing that can be done.
I'm in the market for m43 and have been reading into some of this. One of the things I get told is that full frame produces 'better looking' images due to differences in focal length. Things like certain bokeh effects that aps-c/m43 cannot achieve, even with wider apertures and zoom lenses.

Also the sensor resolution trick only works on stationary subjects, so probably a no-go for sports photographers.

But I'd love to hear otherwise, as m43 seems a lot more appealing to me, considering cost, weight and size.
> use an invitation code from another user. They don't have to use their real names, but if they do something fraudulent or awful both the inviter and the invitee get banned.

Interesting. Like a regular meatspace party. Gmail used it and I got the feeling of them using it as social network tracking, so I wrote it off. But this is a great application. Will have to check out Dribble if anyone will invite me on ;).
Makes sense, since Shazam already powers the Siri "what song is this?" capability that links to iTunes.
Where any UBI funds would have to come from - from individuals with high incomes. But instead of enforcing it through law, supporters of UBI (many of who on HN certainly would fall into the high-income category) start voluntarily supporting individuals that they think would benefit from BI most. The benefits are:

1. This starts creating positive effects of BI right away, just not for all.

2. It gives a practical example of the beneficial effects BI might have.
How to convert a project to Golang modules using the newest syntax
I really like that. In interviews they are Robert, and at home they can be Percival if they want.
I don't understand why you do expect others to know about that when Shazam is ubiquitous and you haven't bothered to try it yet. See for yourself.

Expecting people to know how is it different from an LG Chocolate is just absurd...
To anyone curious how Shazam works, it looks for similarity in the spectrogram of the music. This is not too different from how we identify certain chemical compounds with mass spectrometry.
> Does this follow the relevant standards, which I presume exist?

Yes.

For <video> and <audio>, the spec only says the UA "may" (RFC 2119) follow the autoplay steps, and the play() method only does anything "if the user agent and the system allow media playback in the current context".

For WebAudio, the spec says, "An AudioContext is said to be allowed to start if the user agent and the system allow audio output in the current context".

So the UA is always allowed to decide whether or not to start playing media.
Or, it could be the only way to get a great product out of your basement and into the hands of millions of users. It's a tough balancing act but TANSTAAFL.
Instagram was huge even before Facebook took over. It has gone from strength to strength in the 6 years since but I'm pretty sure that would've been the case without Facebook's involvement (see also: Twitter and Snapchat).

You seem to be doing the founders and the team behind Instagram a huge disservice here by accusing them of not being willing to put in the work and riding on Facebook's coattails.
A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
No one actually believes this, including you. You may say you do, and even think you do, but you don’t. Everyone acts as if they and others around them possess free will. We act that way because that’s what we believe.

Honestly, I don’t think we understand enough about consciousness and how it arises from physical brains/bodies to make such an extraordinary claim like “there is no free will,” when the entire history of human thought and philosophy presupposes that there is.
The Russian Laundromat (2017)
Yeah, I searched "Ruby" - got almost a full page of results for random podcasts (perhaps they had a guest named Ruby at some point?) until I saw an actual podcast about Ruby.

"Docker" - 1 result, about a personal brand podcast

From a quick inspect, looks to be just a SPA sending all search through Algolia, as opposed to a search geared toward podcasts specifically. (my understanding is that you can customize the indexes setup in Algolia, but with podcasts, I assume the naive approach is to just throw all the RSS text at it and assume that's adequate)
> Others picked up on that habit, and yes, it spanned generations.

It's memes (in the evolutionary sense) all the way down.
Really? I could have sworn Sinbad endorsed it back in the day...
With a developer account.
> Keep in mind a task in `TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE` is already sleeping, it's not doing anything. Killing it doesn't change anything or unblock the kernel, it just removes the `task` from the scheduler.

....so why can't I force that? When you encounter this problem recovery isn't ever going to happen anyway.
iPhone XS and XS Max mostly fail to impress in lab tested RF power output
“When you sign into Gmail, you also sign into Chrome.” How does this feature “obviously” imply that Chrome must recreate tracking cookies? My expetation would be that, after deleting all cookies, I’m signed into the browser but not Gmail.
Google’s New Tool to Fight Climate Change
Does this mean you could be tested for the specific gene?
RemarkFS – F# Markdown Slide Creation Tool Based on Remark
So how will Apple be Apple?

>Exclusive?

>Start charging money?

>Patents?

Not to mean that people shouldn't make money, but acquisition means that there will be change.
Using grasslands for grazing is one of the prime destructive forces in riparian areas. You end up with less diversity than you began with. Cropland tends to have less diversity because the only animal or insect visitors to it are those that can benefit from the presence of the crop or the presence of some other creature that depends on that crop.

Employing pesticides and herbicides and fungicides erodes the viability of the cropland even further making it necessary for periodic supplementation.

Vegans have a moral issue with consuming anything that they think may be capable of being opposed to their consumption.

From parent:

>Most vegans, including me, are vegan because we find the exploitation of animals morally unjustifiable. Our world includes the nonhuman world. And by being vegan we are saving it.

I guess it's okay to fail to consider that there is a portion of the nonhuman world that might not want to be exploited. Hard to justify that you are saving that portion of it by cultivating it so you can eat it.

I wonder when we'll see the disclaimer in the movie credits that no plants were harmed in the making of the movie.
It creates a time series of frequencies then checks a db for that same series. A problem that is easily parallelizable. Probably does some filtering first. It's a very useful and clever application, but not that technically challenging. The most amazing feat is they got access to the catalogs of the record labels.

I wish someone would do the same thing for commercials on TV. Auto detect the commercial and advance the DVR by its exact duration
> I get that these moderators have to look at disturbing imagery, but that's the job they signed up for.

It's one thing to look at naked selfies or bad taste political jokes.

It's another thing altogether to look at rape, pedophilia and dismemberment. Hell, sometimes it's mix of those three in the same photo or video.

The responsibility falls on the employer to provide adequate support.
I have a lovely story from a friend of mine from France. He was christened with a very ordinary first name but no middle name. He always felt that he'd missed out on a middle name. Well, about the age of 10 he started to pester his parents to be allowed to have a middle name. They agreed that if he could choose one and he didn't change his mind, he could have a fully legal middle name for his 16th birthday. Sure enough, he chose a name immediately and stuck to it. And that is why the middle name on his passport, driver's license, tax return and bank statements is Crocodile.
> Even if they had implemented the recommended procedure prior to the failure, this wouldn't have mattered one bit: "ensure that decisions not to install microcode bundle updates are documented and approved." That's not a fix. It wouldn't have affected the impending decision favorably, just made it documented and rubber-stamped.

I got the impression that it was more that the goal is a more in-depth discussion of the technical aspects of the updates and the risks associated with doing and not doing the update. "Formalize the monthly microcode bundle meetings with IBM and Unisys to include documenting meeting participants, detailed meeting minutes, and discussions of risks identified in the release notes for the current microcode updates."

I'm not disagreeing with you about this being a CYA report, but at the same time, to me this feels like a problem with no solid solution. The only thing I would venture to say would have helped, based solely on the report, would have been notification of the issues the other IBM customer had in January to customers who had not upgraded; at the very least to disseminate what the condition looks like and the monitoring script much sooner.
This is part of the standard. It basically leaves the choice up to the browser:

> An AudioContext is said to be allowed to start if the user agent and the system allow audio output in the current context. In other words, if the AudioContext control thread state is allowed to transition from suspended to running.

https://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#AudioContext

Also, I think Apple did it first, (on mobile Safari) and then Google on mobile Chrome, and now on desktop Chrome.
Apple's first Android app?
Agreed. Shazam has failed for me too often where Soundhound has returned the result, that the only reason I use Shazam anymore is out of curiosity after Soundhound, to see if it can also find the track.
How long until they kill off Android, like they did with TestFlight and Buddybuild?
I'm not criticizing the current state. Sorry if it felt that way. I'm suggesting to change the communication of what the product is about and have a good thought about what is the USP of the product. This is why I said that there may be a product but the way it is brought now is not what triggers me to use it or feel I need it. Maybe suggestion is enough to build a product around, who knows, but right now I came in expecting a service like netflix and it wasn't which made me close the product after a few seconds.

The title literally suggests me to compare the product to netflix.
If only it actually helped intel make better chips.
They don't actually believe it. Deterministic processes in their brain are making them THINK they believe it.
Nuclear startup to fold after failing to deliver reactors that run on spent fuel
What about more mental health days? More breaks? Are they pressured to consume more than that can handle for metrics? What exactly is the mental health care plan that Facebook provides?(eg. If it’s only one psychologist meeting a month, when standard therapy is often weekly) Etc.
This is looking at things from an engineers perspective, "Oh the technical solution wins because it was just better". How would this industrialists get the capital to purchase their machines? The raw materials? For their suppliers to have the product on hand, or go a long time with without repayment? All this was enabled by the finance revolution. Finance gets a bad rap (rightfully so) because it's ripe for theft and manipulation, but I don't believe we would have seen even close to the same industrial revolution if it wasn't for the progress to the financial system.
I wouldn't use Pug to show a demo. I don't know how intuitive it is to people that haven't used it. Seems like you're going to turn off audiences that are not using node/pug.

But, other than that it looks interesting!
It's an interesting idea, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't take advantage of the fact that all usermode code is sandboxed. You could potentially run everything in supervisor mode/ring 0 and remove a lot of the systemcall overhead.
IIRC that flag is broken in canary 71
Whilst this is a good idea, you can already upload images to Instagram without a dedicated Instagram based plugin. All you have to do is change your browser's user-agent to match that of a mobile device and you will be able to see the mobile version of the website.
It says that scrolling up should go to the previous slide, but it advances to the next slide for me. (using Apple Magic Mouse 1)
You can bet they will kill integration with Spotify though. And maybe no more Android support. I'll take ads over that.
About 20% of the human genome is endogenous retroviruses. We've all got them, and there is significant evidence that they become more active in old age, and may be a factor in dementia and other illnesses.
I came from a research background - PhD dropout and although I made money selling my time in consulting there is part of the research mindset that stuck around.

One of the best ideas that didn't really work out came out of a casual conversation with a tech friend and my statistical background combined with his programming background suggested that we should just try it. The proof of concept worked. No one else seemed to be doing what we developed and competing techniques didn't get as good of answers. The application would have been in search. But at the time no one had yet made significant money in search. Google was still burning through VC cash and the investors that we had access to just couldn't see how search would ever become a big business.

In the end, we just walked away and went back to making a living in more ordinary manner. About 7 or 8 years later the kind of techniques/technology finally became hot with VC firms but we were not in a good place to circle back around.

So that is a long answer to "making money" versus having "fun". Building the proof of concept was mostly just for fun. After seeing cool results we spent some time and effort trying to figure out if it could be a business. In retrospect it feels like we should have found a way to persist.
My phone on Lineage OS 15 without Google stuff just works. There is nothing that does not work. It is flawless.

Actually, it works better than an average Android phone, or than the same phone with stock system:

- better battery life (it used ~ 2% battery during this very work day, with a few texts and one call) because it quite literally does nothing if I don't use it (granted, I use ForceDoze and that helps a lot).

- It never shows any sign of slowness, is never laggy like I can witness on many phones around me (and I use Firefox Mobile, which is supposed to be slow from what I read).

- I didn't have to disable any unwanted app.

Well, except for EAP SIM Wifi authentication, which does not work on any custom ROM that I know of and flashing a custom ROM is indeed a stressful experience, especially the first time.

Librem 5 will be pricey but seems like a good option when it is ready.
You have to be able to trust your tools.

Imagine if “rm” just decided to occasionally set aside files instead of removing them. The “star” in “rm star” means “remove everything”, not “remove, asterisk” where at the bottom of the page the asterisk lists exceptions like some kind of marketing weasel. Sheesh.
Sounds like the problem was your singing.
Depends on the impact of sitting in traffic on quality of life.
WebAudio is caught in standards limbo. I learned to just stay away from it a while back until it's fully standardized.

What had happened was, Mozilla and Google were working on making their implementations compliant, when Google did the thing they love doing that really makes Chrome no better than IE: implemented their own, incomplete version of WebAudio and sent it out the gate. Mozilla then felt pressure to follow suit.

Then we decided the standards needed to be improved again. So now both browsers have a slow, half-assed, broken implementation of WebAudio that isn't good for too much and that neither of them seem intent on fixing until the standards clear up.
Yes shazam's algorithm is aktually pretty simple math, but there's nothing wrong with creating a busines sbased on simple tech!
Like most companies in tech, it's the business part that is hard, not the technical part.
Filelight, comes default on kde. It's freaking amazing.
Not everyone is in a position to walk away from a job in hopes to land a new one in a week. People have families, bills, obligations.
I find it strange people worry about a 300 milliwatt gigahertz radiation source while walking around outside under a nuclear fireball emitting terahertz radiation at 1000 watt per square meter that is known to cause cancer.
Don't take away the illusion of free will when you can't give it back. Some people might actually like to think that they have free will. Or at least you could ask them which pill they want beforehand ;-)
Huawei Mate 20 Pro pictures show off new triple-camera setup
Where did powerpoint viewer go in win 10?
All of a sudden i can not view ppt files anymore.
Then a window popsup with adverts for drivers, then another one, but still no alternative for a ppt viewer. The do a android suggestion somewhere between the ads after 5 clicks and 7 ads.
Start the timer when Apple Music for Android stops getting updates.
I'm no expert but I believe it follows standards. Quoting the spec:

> Note: For example, a user agent could require that an AudioContext control thread state change to running is triggered by user activation

https://www.w3.org/TR/webaudio/#allowed-to-start

That's essentially what the Chrome policy does - it changes when the AudioContext moves from the "suspended" state to "running".
They have an Apple Music App for Android
Money^, benefits^^, ample PTO^^^, and a 8-5 workday allowing plenty of time for the important things in life like my family are exactly the reasons I do.

^: You know, like real money, not 90k plus 2.5% of something that will probably not exist next year

^^: You know, like real benefits such as low-cost, low-deduct. health insurance, matching 401k, etc.

^^^: As in, real, actual PTO, not this "unlimited" bullshit some startups and now sadly companies are replicating. If you decide to quit and can't "cash out" your PTO, you don't have real PTO.
Possibly, but it’s way too early to give up on fusion now, especially considering its benefits - clean fuel, clean byproducts, less risk of meltdown and similar disaster vs fission.
that doesnt mean it has 'beaten windows', i.e. people did not uninstall windows to replace it with desktop linux. Windows was never in android phones, and not too deeply into servers.
Just as another data point, I've had the opposite experience. SoundHound doesn't work most of the time for me. My tastes are eclectic though.
To the best of my knowledge, Shazam works on frequency spectrum analysis and how it changes over time. This includes all aspects of the music and not just melody.
>If they make bad things, they should be liable for them.

Define 'bad'.

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

Ultimately the consumer shares a good percentage of blame.
I await your plan for a society with no markets.
I would love to see something like the Pixel's Now Playing feature come to Apple devices. If you haven't seen this, it periodically, passively listens for background music and displays the currently-playing song on the lock screen, using a local database of IIRC 20,000 songs. There's a paper about it (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...) – but I'd have to guess it's patented and we won't see it soon.
So what does this say about all the studies on rats, dogs, and all the other animals we have been using to study addiction? The rats that choose cocaine over food, are they running a different retrovirus?
An interesting thing to note for those that care:

Danske Bank has acquired several banks over time, and integrated them into the brand. The Estonian branch is such an acquired bank.

After being acquired, the normal procedure for Danske Bank would be to move the newly acquired bank completely over to Danske Bank's banking platform. This platform includes all the Danske Bank business logic and procedures, such as money laundry checks as per EU regulations.

However, in this specific case, it was deemed too expensive, and the new branch was left as is, running its own banking system separate from the rest of Danske Bank.

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.
It does follow standards, and it does break a lot of old browser games, some of which aren't maintained or can't be easily updated.
Not quite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apple+Inc.
Wow that seems like a pretty weird limitation. Wouldn't you be able to use the same password on a different device?