skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you're a liberal, you hate Trump and everything he stands for as well as the Republican party. You post a lot of anti-Trump and anti-Republican content on social media and discuss it even more candidly with friends through IMs and email.

The mid-terms come and it turns out that Russia has perfected their hacking of our voting machines to the point that even when analyzing the data, it can't be proven. Republicans maintain control and therefore Trump as well. Congrats, you not live in a completely fascist state!

Whatever reigns were left holding Trump back are now gone as well as any kind of checks and balance braking system. Trump leverages NSA data and powers to root out and purge any liberals in federal agencies and replaces them with alt-right Republicans. The justice department becomes the revenge department. Laws are passed giving the government complete access to all private company data (as if they don't already have it).

Trump can now leverage the full power of the deathstar. i.e. full access to the data, tools and power of the NSA, FBI, CIA, ICE, ETC... It's just a matter of time before one particularly enterprising alt-right official run the "SELECT * from citizens WHERE has_criticized_trump = true;" query. Congrats, you're now a political prisoner! I hope they treat you better than ICE treats immigrant children!
Can anybody explain the important differences between this and Briar/Bramble[1]?

[1] https://dymaxion.org/essays/briarvision.html previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18027949
I'm not sure what you mean there. If you put a table with rows and columns in the narrative text portion of a CDA that will be preserved across systems. At least I've never seen a real world application that actually modifies the pseudo-HTML narrative text beyond applying some basic style sheet formatting.
A contract can say whatever it says. If it says that in event of your being asked to leave the company that you get 6 months salary, then you get 6 months salary upon being asked to leave. Regardless of why you're asked to leave the company.

This kind of contract term is not given rank and file employees. But I personally know executives who have been fired and kept a salary because it was in their contract, including one who was fired in the last year, and another who maneuvered to get fired a few years ago because the company was going out of business.
Gnome 3.30 Release Notes
machine generated passwords should strive to be uniform. all possible passwords should have the same likelihood of being chosen.
Inaccurate headline — according to later messages it does delete the Google cookies, but the auto sign in feature (discussed earlier) recreates them, as it obviously must. I don’t think an additional wave of hysterical dismay is justified here.
The Bosnian Pyramid Complex: Larger, Older
It's funny how Android is considered to be Linux when comparing marketshare, but talk about malware stats, and suddenly Android is not Linux.
When I try to picture the “smeared out” gravitational field of a single “smeared out” quantum particle my head hurts. Try to nail down its position by hitting it with a photon and you thereby increase its momentum and thus relative mass and gravitational field... plus all those gravitons have energies of their own and therefore associated graviton-mediated gravitational fields... it’s a heroic mess.
> The app will soon offer its experience ad-free for all users so everyone can enjoy the best of Shazam without interruption.

Probably, one of the best results from this acquisition.
Ask HN: Why not voluntarily start UBI on a small scale?
Why not start UBI on a small, voluntary scale, and demonstrate its success? Every one advocating for/supporting UBI could go to a poor neighbourhood / country, pick a poor person (or several), and start transferring them a portion of their income every month, in exchange for periodic check-ups on how they are doing. The collected data could be beneficial for studying the impact of UBI on people's behavior.

If anything, a small number of people will start to benefit from UBI right away. That number will grow as more people join the effort. Who knows - voluntary UBI might be enough to the point where we do not need any government action for a pretty good approximation to "Universal" in UBI.
Ads are evil.

The term 'brand' was borrowed from the cattle industry, where they take a red hot piece of metal and burn an image permanently into a cow.

It's the purpose nearly all advertising serves - to establish a brand. That means they've permanently burned an image into your mind by constantly bombarding you with it.

I consider it a form of assault.
YouPorn launches personalized weekly video playlists powered by machine learning
Anyone managing nas/san storage? Curious what you are using to manage disk space on these storage systems with many TB/PB.
lack of CORS headers on most podcast file stores (making cross origin fetches a black box of mystery errors) and the lack of a background audio API puts a damper on any sort of PWA podcast app currently.
I grew up here, and have always wanted to stay, but the affordability bar for that has been constantly going up. I switched into software engineering in the hope that I could afford to keep up with rising housing prices. I'm just hoping all the people planning to get out do so soon in the next recession. Because god knows the NIMBYs aren't going to allow enough housing for everyone in the meantime.
Funny thing is, I actually got to pick my name as an adult (I'm transgender).

I made sure that my new first and middle names were both common for my birth year. Both names were in the top 20, and my middle name was actually #2.

I actually did consider an uncommon name for my middle name, though. In fact, the name I was considering wasn't so much uncommon as it was unheard of outside of fictional characters. I figured I could have a normal name as my first name, go by that, and only write out my middle name if I wanted to have some fun. Ultimately, though, I got cold feet. I was worried I'd regret it if I picked a name, even a middle name, that called so much attention to me, and I ended up using as a middle name a name I'd previously considered for my first name but ended up very narrowly rejecting.

It worked out for the better. I like my initials better the way things ended up: AJB forms a nice three-letter ligature, while ASB doesn't. And I have a good pen name that I've started using on occasion for projects I don't want to use my real name on (e.g. anime fansubbing).
Too soon to tell.
How do you know it's deceit? It seems like you could get similar behavior if you filled two trays, one with food and the other with trash, and never provided food unless the trash tray was empty. You're training the rat to empty the tray.
How to Hire a Skilled Logo Designer
now imagine all your intimate and personal data available to anyone if any of those sites got hacked.

Or sold to the highest bidder. Google seems especially anxious to really screw their users those days. Just imagine the money that can be made by selling your most intimate details to insurers.
That’s what the gears in an engine say about the oil....until someone removes the oil.
Doesn't LineageOS still use Google Play Services?
Indeed, off-topic, but I find it fascinating that I can buy a year of Kosher, Vegan, Gluten Free Survival Food on Amazon from ~$1469.

https://www.amazon.com/NorthWest-Fork-Gluten-Free-Emergency-...

That drops to $1149 if I don't require Vegan, non-GMO, Kosher:

https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Survival-Food-Emergency-Prepa...

SNAP benefits at anywhere from $134 to $192 a month are both more than sufficient for this. So why are ~42 million people starving in America? Answer (IMO): Cloud providers reduce the friction of GPU adoption the same way grocery and convenience stores reduce the friction of food acquisition, both in exchange for profiting off of it.
Being unable to disable AGPS is not the same as "iOS spies even more". Apple charges more because they don't sell you data or spy on you. There are system-wide ad-blockers, Firefox Focus is great, and there is a Signal app. Apple is actually going out of there way to make Safari harder to track - https://www.wired.com/story/apple-safari-privacy-wwdc/

They're also the only company who has been strong enough to stick up for their customers and publicly decline the US government assistance or backdoors into their products.
Here is a clickable link for anyone interested in checking out diskover
https://shirosaidev.github.io/diskover
> Once you reach a certain size you can continue to squash competition through sheer momentum.

Not momentum. FB and Google lost their momentum a long time ago. What they have is power and market share. What google, facebook, etc are doing is no more different than what standard oil did in the late 1800s. Get big enough so that any other competitors has to either sell out or die out from underselling or external pressure ( manipulated railroad shipping prices, etc ).

Even if you have a good idea to compete with google or facebook, you aren't going to be able to get funding. Banks and VC aren't going to help you since many banks and VC are invested in facebook. Why invest in you when there are better opportunities out there.

Say you had a great search engine, but in order to get anywhere, you need to get "defaulted" on chrome or firefox. Good luck with that. Google is never going to let you be the "out-of-the-box" default on chrome. And you aren't going to outbid google for default status on firefox.

Once someone reaches monopoly status in a particular sector, it's hard to challenge them since they control almost every aspect of the environment. You either have to wait for the environment to change or move into another field. Or you need government intervention vis-a-vis window/internet explorer antitrust case.
that really is a refreshingly well-written article. well done OOP.
It's also revealing how the unique ability of humans to overcome their fundamental biological nature can be quite impressive and inspiring. Humans have many natural tendencies that are not socially accepted, and better behavior can be learned and tendencies suppressed. Addicts and alcoholics can turn their lives around, even though they remain addicts for life.
Because it's astroturf.
This was essentially announced at the end of last year, and is now being closed.
You can now search for songs on Apple Music by typing in the lyrics to the song.
This analysis assumes 100% utilization: keeping the machine busy 24/7/265. It also ignores AWS price drops and the value of being able to switch to new AWS GPU instance types as they become available.

TL;DR: Proposed machine costs $3k plus ~$100-200?/month for electricity, comparable AWS is currently $3/hr.

My conclusion: If you're going to do more than 1-2,000hrs of GPU computing in the next few years, start thinking about building a machine.
I died a little inside at this.
Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean
No. In Braess' paradox both the situation with and without the extra road have the exact same total flow from A to B. Removing flow capacity is not allowed.
Go West
Is this the same Shazam that was a torrent service back in the Napster days?
There was a choice between a "big" single monitor, or a "small" dual monitor setup. I had just not realized how much I used the framing of the 2 monitors to stay organized, and I chose the "big" single monitor setup. That turned out to be a mistake. The point is that it was easier to "dumpster dive" for a second small monitor than it was to get one in a legit way...
From what I've gathered, the developers don't work for Tidelift in any capacity, Tidelift just collects money on their behalf whether they want it or not. If you agree to Tidelift's terms, you get a portion of the money they collected. I still don't see how they're helping open-source developers though. They keep saying that it'll be easier for big corporations to have a single place to pay, but they're going to take a huge chunk of the money for themselves instead of giving it to the developers, and the amount the developers get is based on some secret formula. I really don't see how this benefits anyone except themselves and big corporations wanting to say that they're helping OSS, but not really caring where the money goes.
https://chiefmomofficer.org/2016/11/18/cost-of-cookies-is-it...

The answer is not clear cut!
Large companies are starting to eliminate vesting cliffs, and moving to quarterly refreshers.
> some people in the US believe

> I don't live in the US

This strikes me as a really weird thing to casually drop in the middle of your argument. I would assert that if people from the US are over-represented on /r/justiceserved, it's for the same reason they're over-represented on /r/aww: It's an English language forum and 80% of the native English speakers in the world are from the US.
So this is definitely an interesting article with some good ideas. But the main thrust isn't particularly interesting. It's always going to be true that building and operating your own is cheaper than using "the cloud"... so long as you are making use of it much of the time; and if you have the resources and facilities to build, operate, troubleshoot, and replace the hardware; and if you are sure about your long-term needs. But the decision isn't always that straightforward for most potential users.

Also, look into using S3 for long-term storage, instead of leaving your stuff cold in EBS volumes. It's quite a bit cheaper.
Does one have a right to give a crappy life example to one's children?
They’re not selling t-shirts, but conference badges AND they’re already profitable from their email app. Quite a feat for a 3-person shop.
Hopefully we don't lose the integration with Spotify, deezer, ...
If I switch from gmail and I set up automatic forwarding of my emails to my new service, does Google still read my mail? Is there any easy migration path from gmail to another service that doesn't involve updating my email for every service I've ever used?
Qualcomm accuses Apple of giving its chip secrets to Intel
Large provider organizations are never going to totally surrender control of their patient data to some hypothetical government-sponsored monopoly. They may outsource some aspects to cloud platforms or SaaS vendors, and they may be persuaded to share data with other organizations for the right incentives, but we'll never see a major hospital or clinic totally give up control of data that's essential to their business. So your proposal wouldn't produce any cost savings; costs would actually go up.
True, startups that go for long haul are very brave. However doing something for a couple of years and getting a big win can’t be discounted.

May be those people really hate working on the startup and all they want is a big fat exit. That is reasonable.
It’s weird to think that I would find it strange if Apple acquired a company like Shazam and left the ads on, isnt it? In a day and age when all of their competitors are turning to ads to increase revenues, Apple is making great customer experiences ad-free.

I think the idea that making Shazam ad-free “makes sense” is actually fascinating because if it were google or amazon buying Shazam, I would assume it would remain littered with ads.
Just find someone else who has it and ask to add your radio to their "family plan", it's only a couple bucks
I think this is more or less what Tidelift is trying to do:

https://tidelift.com/
>Gender, sex and sexuality are in fact multi-dimensional things with some broad clustering.

And of course you can give links to scientific papers about it, don't you? Because it's simple. If you were born as male - you are male. If you were born as female - you are female. If your sex and "gender" are different - you have mental disorder.
Try this: https://www.listennotes.com
Its not too hard, but it is still something that I'd pay to avoid. I spend an hour or so rowing in the mornings, and hitting the skip-forward on my headphones takes me out of my rhythm.
It is nice to imagine that elected representatives have the same values as us voters.
Sli.do Auto Voter Script
The industrial revolution was driven by the increasing adoption of coal as a shift away from burning wood and other biomass allowing for highly energy intensive industries to develop. Steam engines, massive smelting furnances etc couldnt function without the huge energy efficiency gains from the shift towards coal. That shift was driven entirely by thermal efficiencies gained. Finance powerful though it may be doesnt outrank thermodynamics
Shazam is the one app that has been around since about the birth of the iPhone that honestly still blows my mind in it's capabilities. The fact it can so quickly figure out any song in so many environments is incredible. Call me simple, but I use it almost daily, and it is accurate close to 98% of the time. I absolutely love Shazam's iOS app, and they have done a great job keeping up with UI/UX treads for it over the many years it has been around. Easily one of my favorite and most used apps.

With all that said, PLEASEEEEEE don't ruin it, Apple. Specifically meaning I love it's integration with Spotify. I will be bummed if that goes away for an exclusive Apple Music integration.
Are you thinking of KaZaA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa
This phrase hack the hell out of me.. :)
Earth-sized clump of matter clocked falling into black hole at 30% light-speed
It is normal and expected for the executives though. Somehow, even in the worst bankruptcies or closures, they always seem to end up with golden parachutes. Must be luck.
System extensions are not really extensions, they're just parts of built-in browser functionality that have been implemented by programmers with good code hygiene.

It's unfair to describe these as "installing random extensions without asking" because you would then have to admit that it's equally true of every new feature of every software program that is ever updated.
I think you're confusing it with Kazaa.
That is already how you program Prolog, no proof reading or machine learning required. I also think that specifying the problem is one of the harder aspects of software development.

On the contrary, I think machine learning might be more immediately useful for things like low-level optimization.
where is money coming from if its all voluntary. Not sure I follow what you are suggesting.
DaisyDisk on my Macbook but ncdu (Ncurses interface for du that is AMAZING) is great for everything else.
Are you thinking of Kazaa?
Google Open-Sources “GraphicsFuzz” for Helping to Spot GPU Driver Bugs
Paperspace is great for the price(especially for storage) and easy for deployment. However, the customer support is horrible. Turnaround time is around a week, and sometimes they seem to have billing issues. One time I got charged around $100 for trying out a GPU machine for 2 hours(which is the number of hours showed up on the invoice), and it took them three weeks to eventually issue a refund. That made me decide to switch. Hope you guys can hire more people for customer support or have better solution for issues like this.
It's already compromised. Who cares how much times it was?
There is a simple way to deal with shitty users. The problem is that it runs counter to the interests of the organization that hosts them. Require every user on the platform to 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.

This is why Dribbble is still nice and most other places turn to garbage.

HN is a rare exception. It's likely because the subject matter requires a certain degree of intelligence, which tends to negatively correlate with trashiness.
How many programs are running on your computer right now with seccomp-bpf policies?
Doesn’t sound like a feature related to this though.
> It's also revealing how the unique ability of humans to overcome their fundamental biological nature can be quite impressive and inspiring.

That ability is itself part of the fundamental biological nature of humans, or whatever. The way you phrased it suggests a Cartesian dualistic interpretation.
I quit using all websites that use Google captcha. I also don't want to train Google's models and spend 2-3 minutes doing free work for Google just to sign into Discord. It's extremely annoying using a VPN with Google services too, as you 9/10 times have to do lengthy captchas. I miss early-mid 2000's captchas.

I'm pretty much done with Google now, and I think a lot of tech users will start pulling this way too.
Most of the music recommendation services I know of are based on meta data of the songs (artist, genre, etc.). Is there anyone out there working on recommendation systems purely based on the music itself, now that we have deep learning? I'd kill for that.
My favorite disaster of all time:

http://fortune.com/2012/08/02/why-knight-lost-440-million-in...

More details with references:
https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-caution...
In general the healthcare system can't rely on patients to store their own data. Patients lose devices, forget their passwords, get hacked, etc. Certainly we should make it easier for patients to obtain copies of their medical records but it just isn't feasible to put the patient at the center of the data flow.
I’m working on exactly that, full time since March or so. About to launch. See a demo walkthrough (2:52m, silent) here. https://vimeo.com/287330735
To be fair, they also had $700 MM in FB stock (now worth $4b according to the article), so there was incentive to help instagram succeed at FB.
I have so badly wanted to be able to Shazam and automatically add something to a Spotify playlist via IFTTT or whatever.

I wonder if that will be more or less possible now. Maybe with a Shortcut?
Those two goals are only separated by about a decade of normal work, which is not even much more time than it takes to bring a startup to an exit.

If you can put 1-2.5M dollars into investments you can pull safe returns of enough to live on indefinitely and never need to work again.

Making >$200k a year and being frugal it is not that hard to put together 1-2.5 million dollars in capital.

At 10 years of 250k with a 40% tax rate and 30k in annual expenses with 7% average returns, you pull down about 70k in capital gains at 5% returns in year 10 (so you can keep 2% extra nominal in to keep up with the fed's inflation target and maintain that purchasing power forever). $70k is less than you made, but is more than enough to live on without working for the rest of your life.
In 4,5th,6th grade my plan was to change my name to the letter ‘X’ when I grew up. “ that’s soooo coool!” plays some mega man
Re #8: how does black listing work? Is there a suspension or eternal ban? Is there a dispute process?

I ask because those are as major a concern as payment processing, if anyone is to invest their livelihood in the system, in the cultural context of deplatformimg political opponents.
I've installed this, if anyone wants a friend, email me an invite thing or I can email you one. Email in bio.
How long ago did Siri integrate with Shazam? Seems like a year or two now.
Pandora has an on-demand library for paid users but the catalog has inexcusable gaps for a music service in 2018 and isn’t s pleasure to use.

Frankly the user experience for their app has needed help for at least a couple years.