skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched from digital news to paper and I couldn’t be happier. It took a little getting used to not checking the 24/7 news cycle, but it’s less stressful and the quality of articles is higher.

I did specifically chose a news paper with high quality content, and one that only arrives once a week to further the distillation of what News makes it my way, but it’s danish, so it wouldn’t do you much good. I’ve really grown to love the format though.
That's a good attitude to have, 'just do your piece, every day.'

It makes sense, and after a few years you have much more freedom bc of the savings.

I'm a recent grad though, and I find my work very boring and tedious. I'm given tasks to do that may not even be useful. The lack of ownership + feeling like a cog makes it hard for me to do good work. I have been rational my whole life, but it is difficult to remain this way. Any advice? How did you like your first job?
Nostalgic for good music? yep, that's me.

Good DJ's prove their qualifications with every record they spin. I don't need an ISP and a subscription. The genre I like is music written by talented composers and performed by talented musicians. What's the name of that playlist?
Has reading national news or keeping up with politics ever benefit you in a real life scenario? If so, in what way?

Also, what do you think of Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent'?
We think the economy is booming because these costs are increasing (inflation). Stupid.

Same with GDP. A 50 car pileup will increase GDP!
Global warming won't do them any favors.
I think doctors / nurses / etc would be very resistant to making less. Not sure if it can be avoided but I think we're not in a good situation where someone could make it big being a video game developer but not being a doctor.
> "If someone PMs you in slack that is taken to be the equivalent of an IM "

How is a Slack PM NOT the equivalent of an IM? It's exactly the same thing, isn't it?
A "mere $0.75" in 1972 is worth $4.60 today, perhaps not quite the bargain the article implies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100243
I use stuff like that. But my rule of thumb is that I try and make it readable by breaking it up into multiple lines and using indentation. If I can't make it readable, then I will consider another way of writing it. This is mainly for self preservation, since I'm likely to be the person who has to read it later.
Saudi PIF has a large stake in SoftBank. SoftBank has large stakes in a wide range of unicorns in the US and globally.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/softba...

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1324941/business-economy
New York Times solicits paying subscribers to disable their ad blocker (on mobile).
Absolutely serious question:

What fields of research should I study - for example game theory, advanced psychology, etc - that will allow me to contrive laws with embedded side effects that politicians will never be able to figure out before ratification?

This GDPR thing - and the impact it's having on privacy/tracking/advertising - is nothing less than awesome.
I just want to live a good life with my wife, family and close friends, maximize the amount of free time I have, minimize the time I spend working, while avoiding the downsides of other peoples decisions.

I'm much more likely to be able to push the dirt on this glorified ant hill we call earth through the outcomes of my actions, than anything that I could ever say with words.
The Germans kind of have that (formerly called GEZ) and people complain about that, too! It pays for the wrong content!

And the private news sites hate it, too! It’s an unfair advantage!

I don’t think it will make a difference if a private company collects the cash, but who knows?
DDG is arguably worse than Google. Can you estimate what year of google search is DDG equal to in terms of search quality? Eg. Is DDG2018=Google2012?
There are two major levers to recover from a down turn - monetary policy and fiscal policy. In the last downturn, 2008, both were heavily pulled - most people forget this but monetary policy was (rightly in hindsight) a near instant drop and fiscal policy was all the hundred billion programs like TARP.

Raising rates in good times means more of a lever to pull in bad times. Letting the credit bubble continue to inflate, while keeping rates arbitrarily low to let a bull market run for benefiting the wealthiest, makes little sense historically.
For those of you advocating for a payment model over the ad model, I want you to consider two perspectives. First, consider the people who will be denied access to information on the basis of class. People who consider it a luxury to be online at all, let alone logging on to find a paywall for basic news. Now consider the editors at the Washington Post, who now have to cater the demographic who can pay their fees. Instead of reaching billions, the Washington Post can now only reach tens of millions. Instead of providing economic opportunity to small businesses that need to advertise online to compete with larger companies, the Washington Post now has to compete just to pay it's staff writers a fair wage.

Things are never as black and white as we think they are. Privacy should be respected, but we should also respect that the internet could be much less free without advertising. We might not have the many amazing websites and services that we take for granted everyday without ad funding. Many small businesses run by entrepreneurs might never grow their bushinesses without the equalizing opportunity of online ads.
All the paradoxes disappear if we use Quantum Field Theory instead of Quantum Mechanics. I would really like someone with deep knowledge on Quantum Theory to explain if something is wrong with a theory that otherwise makes a lot of sense to me. A good read on the topic is the paper "There are no particles, there are only fields" — https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.4616.pdf
So WP is afraid I'll shoplift articles? Because the purpose of CCTV cameras is security, not marketing.
Worth more than a pre-shredded Banksy, and looks better too!
Sport is where I go to forget everything except what I'm doing right now.

Tennis is my sport, and takes a lot of concentration to play well. Loss of focus is death in tennis.

Also all the focusing my eyes from near to far over and over again I think evens out the hours spent staring at a screen two feet away.
I don’t follow your blog but I keep running into it, and it’s a really cool story. I hope you figure it out and keep documenting it because I’m trying to do the same and would love to maintain this level of autonomy.

Unlike you though, I think I’m taking too long to execute rather than failing to monetize something.
I think it's not simple to predict the impact of a breach. I would rather the breach itself be penalized.

I prefer incentives that prevent spilling the milk to post-spill arguments about how damaging the spill may have been.
Or how about include the parser with the file? That's self specifying.
There's been plenty of inflation in sectors like education and healthcare except the government, conveniently, doesn't count that as 'core.'
My biggest takeaway from it is that many things standardized before a certain era are based entirely on two concepts of operations:

a) only a certain elite group of people or companies will be able to use it (in this case, PSTN operators)

b) total trust between all parties using it, so there's no need for provably-hardened cryptography.

both of which are now laughable in a modern network security threat environment.

In this case SS7 was just never designed with the concept that malicious third parties might get access to it, or that it would not be operated by RBOCs (regional bell operating companies), or the international equivalent thereof (national run telcos such as British Telecom, Telecom Italia, etc).
The Things That Come to Those Who Wait
thausamiote thinks I’m at the other end of the spectrum because I forgot taxes :o)
>> We also need our standards to be flexible and easy to adapt to the needs of various companies, organizations, and industries. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework is an excellent example of this, because its recommendations can be tailored to suit the individual needs and risks of organizations. The Cybersecurity Framework — which contains guidance on how to identify, prevent, recover, and respond to security risks — is voluntary at this point, which means nobody follows it. Making it mandatory for critical industries would be a great first step. An appropriate next step would be to implement more specific standards for industries like automobiles, medical devices, consumer goods, and critical infrastructure.

> How "excellent" of an example could it be if no one follows it?

I can be very excellent indeed, from the computer security perspective. The problem of why it's not followed is probably twofold: 1) organizations don't know about it (and aren't motivated to find out) and 2) business leaders don't want to spend the money to implement it if they do know. Making it mandatory nicely solves both of those issues.

> If he's worried about low-cost devices today that don't have security teams, it seems that fining companies for having security issues could lead to some percentage of them going bankrupt, which in turn would lead to more devices that are abandoned by their manufacturer post-launch.

That's no big loss, because those devices are inevitably abandoned today.

> I wouldn't say we shouldn't have any sort of regulation whatsoever, I'm just skeptical that the government could do a good job of it.

The government will do a better job at regulating in this area than anyone has ever done before, because no one has ever tried.
There are an incredible numbers of funded startups in China. You can't make up stuff because you live in the country.
> Having the government outline minimum penalties for data breaches would go a long way toward fixing the problem.

Then companies start covering up data breaches because disclosing them would cost millions in fines, resulting in people not even knowing when they've been compromised.

You also have the problem where politicians/media have no idea what they're talking about, e.g. calling the Google+ issue a "data breach" when it was actually a vulnerability discovered internally with no evidence of anyone having ever used it. If that's the standard then every time there is a vulnerability in a major operating system or TLS library, no one will be safe from the litigious trolls.
This doesn't do anything to address the new Gilded Age we're entering.
The 5 Year Old Who Was Detained and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights
Scrum and kanban depend on a lot of upfront planning meetings that focus on the work. Those planning meetings should include product definition, brainstorming, technical discussions, etc. and not just be about estimates and schedules.

If the planning meetings are well run then all the developers should be excited about cranking out the tasks within the sprint. If the planning meetings either don't happen or leave some people with a lot of questions then each sprint becomes it's own mini-death-march.

Given your current work situation, I recommend sitting down for 30-45 minutes each day and just focus on updating the status of your tasks in whatever system your company uses to track the sprint. The value of scrum to your current company is that they probably wouldn't get anything done if they didn't have it (and given your colleagues obsession with the scrum minutiae it seems to fit them well)

Stakeholders should be able to talk to devs, the fact that those interactions don't go well at your company is a bad sign, and it suggests that the planning meetings aren't being run correctly which makes the whole agile thing null and void.
100% of it. I am, however, willing to view ads for an 80% share of the revenue.
How about Jeff Bezos pays out of pocket?
Nah, I think you’re being pessimistic here. I’m not OP but I’m in the boat and I turn down public assistance because it’s not what it was made for and the system is strained enough...also, I wouldn’t judge anyone else for taking it.
It reminds me of Homer Simpson's car:

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer
Technically it's not new debt. It's the cost of servicing an already existing debt.

Then there's another question, if someone is paying more, it means someone else is getting paid more. So, while some have less disposable income, others have more. The overall net effect on spending can still be negative, but it's not an automatic conclusion that one can simply jump to.
Take a 24-bit key, for ease of example. Split it into three 8-bit sub keys. Make a list of 256 english words. Assign a word to each subkey.

1101 1000 = chair
1101 1011 = gobble
0110 1001 = stealth

Expand the wordlist or total number of words to fit your use case. I coded something simalar to make a xkcd-compliant random password generator. Took maybe a few hundred lines of code. Too much to totally list here, but I'd be happy to go into more detail off HN if you want.
^ brings back some memories. The WELL was the first social-internet thing I ever heard of -- in a TIME magazine cover story on, I kid you not, 'Cyberpunk' -- circa 1993ish
Right. Just that the part you quoted in the original reply was about Earth. Mars mission, that's almost a given. I wonder why we aren't already having larger-scale trials on deserts or near the poles.
> Spaces matter! What if the data is literally " Word " vs "Word". This format makes them both the same.

If leading and/or trailing whitespace are significant, you can quote the value. Problem solved.

Having said that, almost always when you see data persisted with leading or trailing whitespace it should have been trimmed away before storage.
A new physical therapy biofeedback platform
> The best resources on understanding Polly are probably various LLVM developer conference talks

I don't suppose there are videos available?
Hello HN folks!
We are a physical therapist/engineer (husband-wife) team who have prototyped a new biofeedback platform. We've started a blog post on it and the first article in the series is live at the url above!

Thanks!
On HN it isn't a duplicate if there haven't been many reposts and the previous posts didn't get significant attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> First, consider the people who will be denied access to information on the basis of class. People who consider it a luxury to be online at all, let alone logging on to find a paywall for basic news.

I am confused. Haven't (good) newspapers been paid products for a long time? Whats different about the internet version of newspapers?
Similar neat trick: to tell if an egg has been hard-boiled, spin it on its side. A raw egg will immediately stop rotating, a cooked one won't.
How did people 'reserve' a chip name back then? It's pretty cool to get 555, but what if some other designer wanted to call their chip 555 too?
> I prefer incentives that prevent spilling the milk to post-spill arguments about how damaging the spill may have been.

Then what you want is subsidies to audit popular software/hardware for vulnerabilities.

This is a classic high transaction cost tragedy of the commons. The manufacturer has no incentive to make secure devices because customers still buy the insecure ones. Imposing liability is difficult because the issues are highly technical (difficult for judge/jury to understand) and the damages are highly speculative and hard to calculate. Imposing specific security standards is equally problematic because of the same bad interaction between technical complexity and politicians.

But the solutions are known -- it basically just requires money for security hardening. So have the government provide the money. Without specific byzantine standards it allows the job to be done properly, and providing the money removes the incentive to cut corners.
I'm not sure how they are doing it, but if you enable "Live Listen" mode with AirPods (basically turns the iphone into a microphone and the AirPods into a hearing aid) in iOS12 the latency is almost imperceptible.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/05/live-listen-ios-12-apple...

When using this mode to listen to my TV, I can just tell that there is a delay between the real sound and those from the AirPods but it's not long enough a delay that I can't understand the speech or really bothers me.

If anyone has technical info I'd love to know. As I have also witnessed that in normal application you easily have 1-2 seconds of latency. Obviously videos synchronize with it but it's not ideal for games etc.

I do wonder if it's a matter of some settings the apps need to potentially set or some such. If you think about it calls are also lower latency than this .. though they use a different BT audio profile (HFP/HSP) that is mono instead of the A2DP Stereo Protocol.

Last of all I was surprised Apple didn't come up with some custom protocol mode for AirPods that allows Stereo+Mic. Gaming consoles do this on 2.4GHz even with multiple controllers so it seems possible in theory (though perhaps maybe not alongside 2.4GHz WiFi? not sure).

Would love more insight on all the above.

EDIT: Side note to the OP, just use a lightning adapter :-)
I see where you’re coming from, but you’re talking about a governmental and cultural shift to restrict liberties compared to booting some people or organizations from a virtual platform.
You jest, but sillier things have been exploited to mine bitcoin or conduct DDOS attacks before.
External HDD in a fireproof safe.
Agree with you mostly, though on occasion it's nice to know if my taxes are increasing or decreasing soon, and where most people in my country stand on "Merry Christmas" vs "season's greetings" (whatever that means).
The taste difference is noticeable. I stopped going to chain restaurants about half a decade ago, but every now and then get dragged into one by relatives. Whether it's Olive Garden, Applebees, Chilli's, OCharley's, IHOP, Longhorn, Outback... they all taste the same. Mediocre ingredients, assembled in a way that is convenient for their process but detrimental to taste.

Ask for a rare steak, you'll either get something medium-well (because the manual says to cook for at least X mins) or something rare but with no browning whatsoever on the outside. Fish will always be overcooked. Sauces are all cornstarch based to give them a thick texture, yet don't make use of interesting fats like olive oil, butter or the meat fats from cooking. Bread tastes like it's a week old...
This is nice. I've started building two ideas for this, but I always stopped.

1. A website where you uploaded a design and was guaranteed feedback on it once you gave feedback on someone elses design.

2. Exactly the same, except purely though email. You'd email your design to X@Y.Z and you'd get another one in your inbox that you could reply to. Once that was done, you'd receive feedback on your design.

Oh and as a bonus I also have this page, that I've never shared anywhere before http://jontelang.com/feedback/.

--

On your site, this looks nice however for the 'see roasts'. It is unclear if the roasts there are free ones or kinda the proper paid roasts.
Playing today's games in a thousand years
So are you saying that if the Fed prints $x money, it gets back $x money + interest. It is using the interest to pay back the $x money... and then in theory it erases it from its balance sheet. What does it do with the excess money it collects?
He must be living like a king. I lived there for a year and struggled to spend more than $20 a day.
There's the overall creepiness of hordes of data containing your entire online history being used for the sole purpose of predicting what you'll buy and manipulating you into buying it.

But I think there's more to it than that:

It's customary in trade to not have hidden costs or unintended consequences of using your product, anything otherwise is dishonest. And insisting a product is "free" while having hidden schemes to extract value from customers is scam-y.

Then to say ad-hoc that its a "fair compromise"... but if it was a "good deal" why not be upfront about it, why try to hide it? "You should've read the EULA." Well, a bet a bunch of people being targeted/tracked by Google & Facebook are children, many too young to consent, some maybe even too young to even read...
Please don't break the guidelines by going on about downvoting. When you see an unfairly downvoted comment, simply give it a corrective upvote and move on. Other users will typically do so too, correcting the problem, but comments like this one linger on as noise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's a common mistake to think otherwise, but downvoting for disagreement has always been ok on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
No, the civil rights movement almost always was at the mercy of those willing to commit violence and kick people out of businesses. Your ideas about how people can kick you out of businesses and punch you if they don't like what you're saying benefit only those with power.
How is Vegalite different from Muze?
There are!

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCv2_41bSAa5Y_8BacJUZfjQ

https://youtu.be/A8E5KgzZPMM

https://llvm.org/devmtg/
I'd like to think they do, but Cisco and Juniper sales guys have been rather cagey on the scale of their testing.
I think this “cheats” a bit by putting quite a bit of emulator functionality in the custom bios image. Nevertheless very impressive.
The CMOS 555s draw 110 μA vs 3 mA for the original bipolar ones.
MongoDB Atlas
I think the gp’s point was an analogy, not actually what is being used.
Whereas I agree that FK is right there when it comes to technology, this seems a little far fetched headline. 4 yrs back during a mega sale, FK servers crashed and they rightfully earned a lot of flak for that. From then on, they have been doing a pretty decent job (adopting actor model, PWA to name a few). But Walmart is also not living under a rock. I have consulted with them and they are just as good as any other Enterprise. Their biggest challenge is their vast team size with each group doing their own stuff in silos. FK will not help them address that
Are we really blocking ads or are we really blocking malware? Calling our privacy tools adblockers is a misnomer don't you think for any site can simple put ad in a div and not get it blocked.
> Oboe provides the lowest possible audio latency across the widest range of Android devices

The "lowest possible" on android might not be low enough for musical instuments (<10-15ms). It's revealing that they don't reveal latency for any devices at all. (If I sound cynical, this isn't the first low-latency offering for android.) It's just "low" for android.

funfact: consoles also have terrible audio latency. Rhythm games like rockband/guitar hero don't actually need this, they need only relate it to the audio playing (and also config compensation for input latency). The latency is shocking if you use the mode where you free-"play" the instrument, and is why actual musicians often a tough time with these games. The surprising thing is that delayed sound effects from games in general aren't so jarring.

FWIW iphone audio latency also isn't good enough, despite being far better than android. That's how bad android is.

EDIT 7ms claimed in screenshot at https://github.com/google/oboe/blob/master/samples/hello-obo... - doesn't include input latency: average latency of the audio stream between data entering the stream and it being presented to the audio device

EDIT they know they need latency figures "Publish a list of Android device latency" https://github.com/google/oboe/issues/235
http://archive.is/rmrdO
So lets put it this way instead: As soon as CCTV starts being used for marketing, any employee asking me to remove my sunglasses will have the effect of enforting my desire to wear them indoors.