skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, it's not just FB, Google and the "hackers" that can influence you: FB and Google business is to sell ads using the personal information they have. So you could also be targetted by any political advertisers on those platforms.
Is that like saying “we are nothing but atoms”?

I agree that atoms are necessary, but how do we know they are sufficient for consciousness?

Can you prove the “nothing but” part?
that would just drive up the costs significantly on tvs... I do like that Microsoft appears to be working on its smart tv's with pluggable compute modules so people could replace the compute platform on their tv with one of their preference.
I have a generous email.
Yep. No one telling me no anymore and I can write Lambas to replace cron jobs, use RDS to replace DBs, use S3 and Glacier to replace Storage, etc. Fargate is awesome too. No gate keepers nor bureaucracy just code and git repos. That's why AWS is so awesome.

And, I can show exactly how much everything costs. As well as work to reduce those costs.

AWS added to a small, skilled dev team is a huge multiplier.
Having had a connection to the industry at the time, I'm quite sure that the decision was made simply as a money/frustration saver. Banking systems are the worst pile of horse-dung in existence, and no one wants to touch it if they can avoid it. It's expensive and cumbersome, and the leadership will go through great lengths to not wake the sleeping monster and risk having the card house collapse.

So, I am fairly confident when my blame-o-meter is reads "incompetence" rather than "malice".
‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter
And we have reasons to believe either the Intel Modem or its Antenna Design are not working as well as expected.

[1] https://www.wiwavelength.com/2018/09/antennagate-reduxs-if-s...
This URL only works if you include the period at the end (which HN's URL detector does not).
That seems absurd.
Fines also need to be proportional to income, or you're (potentially) doing far more harm than intended or neccessary to the poorest violators, and failing to deter the wealthier ones.
Second this. And not just for english music. I have lost track how many times I have pulled up shazam to identify a bollywood song or an Indian regional song which I recognize vaguely from my childhood. It has always recognized it.
Well... there is this thing called fecal transplant, which some may argue works.
That's pretty interesting. I think there are some downsides to taking the Netflix-style of discovery. I find it buries obscure content and it creates a limited view of content. It creates a bubble of specific content which has its upsides and downsides.

There are several other tools for podcast discovery. There is FluidDATA that has transcribed almost 11 million podcast episodes and it lets your search all of the episodes and channels by phrase or mention. The search page is available here: https://fluiddata.com/
Agreed, my mind was boggling as I considered how much more gritty and “real” most entertainment is today, yet here was a character nonchalantly using a gun in the cafeteria… now beyond the pale.
It feels like they're double dipping. Unpopular as it might be, I'd guess people would be more than willing to pay extra so that they could shitcan this "feature".
Actually free will is one of those delicious unanswerable questions that everyone has a different answer for. Think about this for a moment -- what would be different about the world or human behavior if we had free will versus if we didn't?

Talking about free will is just another way to have a conversation about God.
Assuming there is something that is similar or copied in Intel Chips that came from Qualcomm, isnt it protected by Copyright and Patents already? Besides, Almost everything in hardware can be reverse engineered, there isn't a trade secret than cannot be unravelled just by analysing the output of the chips. Hell Cyrix did just that in the previous century to create better chips than Intel. There isnt a reason why Apple would do something which Intel can do on its own.
Microsoft had a similar lawsuit last year. It sounds like their moderators had to deal with even worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/microsoft...
The 5 mistruths of data
You gotta be the change you want to see in the world, even if you know it's not going to make a significant difference by itself.

Sure, they'll hire someone else. But that's not the point. The point is sticking to your ethics.
My thoughts are a bit different......

1. Is one of these jobs easier on your personal life? i.e. taking care of kids, significant other, etc?

2. Is one of these jobs more interesting to you? Personal growth for the future?

3. Have you ever had stock options from other jobs amount to anything tangible and I mean really tangible, more than 6 figures?

4. Are you ok working for less base salary and if the stock options never amount to anything you will be ok with that?

I prefer a pay-check to plan my future not a hyped up promise most companies pitch when they mention their options package. I told a company recently that their options meant absolutely nothing to me. Neither did their free lunch or Friday night company dinners at some "new and exciting" restaurant. They replied most staff there was working for more options than salary. It became clear to me then why they were having motivation and teamwork struggles.
How is it any different from ER doctor, coroner, social worker, or investigator?
This is incorrect. The bill has not been signed into law. It can still get rejected by Gov. Brown, who has a habit of rejecting bills that come under criticism, and this one has received some criticism for its vague lingo.
I wouldn't leverage popularity of a service to correlate 100% with its competency - ESPECIALLY when it comes to tech.

I think Bing has a marketing / brand problem, as it's been the punch-line of the joke for so long.

I personally think it's actually quite good - I personally use it a lot with Safari.
Monero has a novel funding system[0] where contributors and academics can apply for funding from the community, which is how Monero has full time staff. Several programmers and mathematics / cryptography PhD’s work remotely on good salaries using this system, which consequently improves the Monero ecosystem as a whole.

[0] https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required
But what if your friends are boring?
information dissemination with the internet is drastically better than when MacOS lost to Windows, or when Betamax lost to VHS. Nowhere is this more apparent than in cars, where manufacturers are held accountable by numbers, reviews, and even interior design decisions that might have been ignored 20 years ago when a magazine wouldn't spend the pages to complain in detail about why you shouldn't have highly reflective chrome trim on the dashboard.

I think good, differentiated products have a better chance now than ever, but the differentiation is where things fall flat. Barriers to entry are lower across the board, but having differentiation is the key to funding/pipeline, which is the key to scaling.
Then you're in luck! Patchwork is a fairly-mature desktop Scuttlebutt app.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/applications#patchwork
They are also essential to forming the placenta:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERV-W

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERV-FRD
Yeah. So if you skipped 60 seconds on a 30 second commercial you'd cut into your program. Hence the identification requirement.
>Do you just say "fuck it", and quit, ignoring all your responsibilities? Over cookies?

If you follow the news about Google at all, you'd know its obviously not just about cookies.

>Of course, when its not about cookies, but about something more drastic

It's about the the greatest surveillance apparatus in history encroaching towards total informational awareness.
Where does it say anything about the Kremlin IP range posting child sex slave images?
> We act that way because that’s what we believe.

Don't assume we have a free will when debating if we do :)

If we don't have a free will, then the fact that we believe in free will is irrelevant, and you cannot deduce that we believe in it from the fact that we act as if we believed in it.

Free will is most probably a quirk of language, an answer to a misleading question based on wrong assumptions. There are no difference in the state of universe no matter if there is free will or not.
I once read in an article (that I unfortunately can't find right now) that the the worth of Shazam lies in the fact that it can recognise, which songs are trending. The value chain is approximately like this:

1)New song is released

2)It starts being "shazamed" by various people - it's becoming trendy

3)Large stores that differntiate themselves by being trendy want to play trendy songs first

4)They pay Shazam to tell them which songs are trendy

5)The stores play them

6)Customers "shazam" those songs in the store

7)Customers view the store as trendy

8)Now four instances have profited: Shazam, the store, the musician and the customers (for having found a trendy song very early on)
I bought one (the Sony A73). For me, low-light performance was the big draw vs sticking with a cheaper crop sensor. I'm just a hobbyist photographer, but I kept getting disappointed by things like an indoor family gathering where if I didn't want to use a flash, I had to bump the ISO up to super-grainy and drop the shutter speed lower than what my kid can keep still for.

With the A73 and a nice prime lens, I can go all the way to ISO 6400 with perfectly acceptable noise levels, and thanks to the great dynamic range, bring the shadows up further at my computer. It allows me to capture certain scenes that would be hard to get a "keeper" from at all on a crop.

For well-lit outdoor photography, including sports & wildlife, I agree that the gains over a high-end APS-C are marginal. Even for portraits, the bokeh on a full-frame is going to be better, but it'd probably be fair to call it marginally better.
for the record, it was their cmo.
Low salaries should help the startup scene, not hurt it. Where would you rather create your startup - somewhere where it would cost more to hire or less?
Concrete example: I own skis. But if I'm going on a ski vacation instead of a day trip, I rent them. That decision has nothing to do with the cost to rent skis vs. what they sell for, and everything to do with the fact that I can rent skis for about the same as what it would cost me to transport my own skis and boots to Breckenridge and back.

I suspect that there is something like that (only not at all) going on with machine learning kit: If you've got exactly one person training models, and they're doing it all the time, then yeah, it's cheaper to own your own hardware. If you've got several people all trying to share the training rig, then you start having to worry about all the costs associated with scheduling time, delays if someone else got their first (especially if they're doing deep learning and will be monopolizing the server for upwards of a week), etc. Once you factor all those full-lifecycle costs in, the cloud might start to look relatively cheaper.
It's not quite that simple: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/21/oliver-...

Relevant quotes:
> Muhammad was the 10th most popular name for boys, but if the alternative spellings of Mohammed or Mohammad were included, it would be about as popular as Oliver and its variants, such as Olly, across England and Wales, the ONS said.

> Muslims make up about 5% of the UK population, but Muslim families are more likely to call their sons Mohammed than any other name with an Islamic tradition, the data suggested.
Could Reddit moderators have a case?
>in the 1970's
I agree 100%.

Another point: we're actually talking about strategy (Stratechery/MBA worldview) vs. operations (build the best product, do things well -- HN view). This is a well-worn argument in business circles and it's funny to see it manifest here under a different name. http://www.davidralbrecht.com/notes/2018/09/strategy.html

Hackers are operators :)

I get the sense that strategy vs. operations matters differently depending on the characteristics of the business. I don't really have a coherent articulation of this point yet. It might change over time (something Ben suggests in today's post), or perhaps based on industry maturity or type of product, or market concentration. But it feels like something where people are arguing and are both right, because their arguments are insufficiently qualified/scoped (X is true vs. X is true when Y, Z are true).
The action to resolve all of those is to use an AOSP ROM and do not sign into Google. Thats it.

The hard part is de-coupling yourself from Google services, if you rely on them. That may be solved via self-hosted services. See: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
I have been thinking about building an inbox alternative for quite some time. It seems like now is good time.
The Sunset is Lit. No need to keep it a secret, it’s just not trendy enough yet. Right down to tech unawareness and wide open 280 commutes, it’s a different place.
As you've noted yourself, if you allow markets most of the rest kind of emerges. Futures and forwards are pretty natural, unless you somehow stop it, large scale loans are no less natural than small scale loans, products between individuals get outcompeted by products between individuals and larger entities.

Mortgages aren't great but having to pay for a house up front would move empower rentiers even further.

I just think you need to be specific, you're already down the path of realizing that some (but not all) of this is like laws of nature, saying that there's no value in a financial sector just seems ignorant.
So you want to pay extra to not pay extra?
Although Shazam is a black box to us consumers, I'm pretty sure its recognition quality dropped drastically in the last 2 years.
That depends. Do you suffer from schizophrenia? Did I provoke you? Was it an accident? There are a lot of circumstances under which I would not blame you.

If you punched me without provocation, with no evidence of mental illness, and did it "deliberately" [1] then I will "blame" you because that's the only way I know of to defend myself against future attacks.

[1] Note that "deliberately" in a world without free will just means "as a result of unknown causes inside your brain". The more we learn about how the brain works, the fewer pathological behaviors can be labeled "deliberate". "Free will" is a sort of "god-of-the-gaps" if neuroscience.
Could you explain what you mean by saying that they'll take more system resources?
Yes! We'll just write our problems away.
I like to think that Google is just not a conventional company and that they do everything to not become one. They creatively solve challenges (like how to keep certain cookies when a user presses "remove all") and this helps them provide unbiased, accurate, and free access to the world's information. People wanting to stay signed in can rely on them to do the right thing, even if in the near term the financial returns are not obvious. Their corporate structure is aligned with this objectivity: Serving their end users is at the heart of what they do. When people are logged off you can't really consider them your number one priority, because they don't either. Many Silicon Valley companies are under pressure to keep their earnings in line with short-term analyst's forecasts, Google is no exception here. But forced and universal log-in to Google's services optimizes for long-term return. Everybody hoped, but nobody believed, that Google would end up in this powerful position: Being able to strong-arm your power users, while still providing the best, most accurate, search results for people not logged in. In the end, this business tactic of universal and forced log-in makes the world, and by extension the internet, a better place. I know some people here raise privacy concerns, but this change clearly protects a user's privacy.
well, people have been saying these things for years.

Other people have not cared for all those years.

And, to be honest, I don't think that will change anytime soon. People will only start caring about privacy when it's gone completely.
Yeah - because a company like Apple doesn't know taking away source code and giving it away to a competitor like Intel is a gross violation of any legal standard out there. And Intel, on their part, would be like sure, give it to us because this is totally cool!

I bet this is a narrative fueled up by Qualcomm vs. any basis in reality. If it is real, then most likely this was done inadvertently.
You can be a monist and still believe in physics and free-will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_monism
Thankyou for taking the time to reply to me - it's very good to hear your thoughts and I very much respect what you and the other SSB 'builders' are doing out there. I totally see why you'd want the network to be this way. I can see that there is a good momentum and common interest alive on the network and it's a very strange feeling to be on the network, but unable to participate. In a way, I'm taking advantage of the fact that you're paying attention here on HN - because I cannot reach you on SSB.

> Manyverse is the first SSB app that implements DHT invites

Ok - this is cool! I can see how SSB/Patchwork/Manyverse could be used to replace old invite-only forums (which I've enjoyed with 'real life' friends in the past.)

So, yes, I do think discovery is a huge problem for SSB (and Dat, too) because one of the blissful (and terrible) things about the Web is that arbitrary people can find each other. This seems to be an even bigger problem now that certain networks are massive in scale - so the 'island' approach is one that excites me. Not sure about 'isolated', though. With Patchwork, I begin to wonder why I'm able to read things that I can't respond to - and then I realize that I probably don't want to anyway. I may just not understand the whole thing tho. :)
There has been a money laundry scandal in its Estonian branch of epic proportions.

The risk is now a massive fine to Danske Bank. Not by the Danish state. But by either the EU or more likely the Americans.

Danske Bank is the biggest bank in Denmark with +50% of all banking business. It is a liability of the Danish state meaning that if it gets in true trouble the state will bail it out.
That's only true if you don't lose capable talent due to the low salaries. If most of the talented French engineers move to Germany to get higher pay, then the low pay will hinder the startup scene.
> "It's not the technology that matters, it's the strategy". I don't think that's right. A big talking point that comes up over and over with Instagram was how well-built the app was.

Yet that wouldn't have mattered if they hadn't pivoted from a location based app to photo sharing. Technology/product matters to get your foot in the door, but it's strategy/execution what ultimately makes it or breaks it.
Make new ones! But really though, this is the first social network where I've been able to deeply connect with complete strangers. Some of my friends are on there too, but the sense of community is strong and contagious.
Firefox is sandboxed via seccomp-bpf on Linux.
I'm not sure about the psychology of incentives angle, but this old post from reddit shows the monumental difference in wealth between $700M and $4B:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...
Of course. I have no choice, remember?
The less empty detail is regulatory. "Big tech" is getting increasingly scrutinized over both monopoly abuse and privacy issues. Certainly this is another piece of evidence to regulators that Google is abusing their position.
Awesome, looked it up on Wikipedia. Strike was actually three separate strikes, just over one year in total duration. Dates as follow:

May 7 – July 30, 1966

May 1 – November 17, 1970

June 28 – September 6, 1976

According to Wikipedia[1], the banking strikes had little affect on the preexisting economic woes, namely both high unemployment and inflation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_bank_strikes_%281966%E2%...
I think what _nardi_ is trying to say is that there's no functional difference between having free will, and acting as if you do.

What decisions do you make differently with your knowledge that free will is an illusion? What choices do you make differently?

(fwiw, I agree with you; I just think it doesn't particularly matter now.)
https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebot/wiki/Pub-Servers
Funny you should bring up God. Just yesterday I published a formal proof that God is logically incompatible with free will:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/09/the-last-word-i-hope-on-f...

You might find this interesting as well:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/01/a-multilogue-on-free-wil...
The default configuration syncs up to 3 connections away (friends of friends of friends). So you'd be able to find lots of interesting content and discussions in the extended network. In Patchwork (the most popular client), just go to the menu item labeled "Extended Network".

Also, you could join as many "pubs" as you like - based on your interests. You'll start receiving feeds from other people who share the pub, and their friends as well.
Unless the Glassdoor reviews are a red flag, it seems like startup A is significantly better based on the base salary and potential for personal impact and growth (and even higher salary).
OK, so you're not just spewing nonsense, but it bears repeating that the internals of HFS+ were horribly dated towards the end of its life. This prevented them from adding features or fixing bugs in a way that would be forward looking.

The system requirements for HFS and HFS+ reflected this and partially explain why there was little progress for literally years at a time.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/#hf...

Eventually, you have to start over.
On the silkscreen, it appears that TX (transmit) and RX (receive) are designated backwards.
There is no such regulation. We're a B2B French company, based in Paris, and there's only one user interface language (English) that even our French customers have to use. Even for B2C, there are no language regulations.

For public and almost-public organizations, there is a regulation: you can communicate in exactly one language (French) or at least three languages (usually these will be English and German).

On the other hand, trying to sell to the average French person will require a French translation, and the same is probably true for most other EU countries if you wish to improve your chances ("have a translation in that language" is likely in the top 5 of improvement suggestions for a new market). 300 million people sharing the same language is a boon, especially for B2C or B2SMB.
Explained: regular expression (regex)
I want one!

"We are no longer selling Milkymist One. If you want one, you can ask about buying a second-hand unit on the mailing list, or take the open source design files and manufacture it yourself."

oh. I think I'll try programming stuff on my basys2 fpga card.
Planet Earth Wobbles as It Spins, and Now Scientists Know Why
@Dang can we get a (2016) tag on this? Also people this is satire... You can read any of the past discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251162 [6 comments, 2 years ago]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789 [8 comments, 2 years ago]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300157 [13 comments, 2 years ago]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13379750 [1 comment, 2 years ago]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14048958 [5 comments, 1 year ago]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444962 [1 comment, 3 months ago]

PS: If you like this article you will probably like this one:
"Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084575 [123 comments, 2 months ago]
> I am interested in your statement "I use it almost daily" -- what for?

I'm not the original commenter, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest—they use it to find out what a song is that they hear & like?