skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given it was all downhill from Winamp3 not sure this really means anything...
Because supply chain externalities are fair game when evaluating electric cars but somehow diesel cars are magically grown in forests without factories building them and diesel itself is fairy power source that flows from magic fountains?

It's amazing how many of these articles talk about the "dirty factories" or "dirty electricity" of electric vehicles, but just happen ignore that diesel and gas cars come from the same factories, and just happen to stop follow supply chains at gas pump, as if the complex, carbon-heavy supply chains for extraction, refining, and shipping oil/gas/diesel to gas pumps don't make even the most noxious, mountain destroying, coal-powered electricity look like a wonder of efficiency and green energy.
> This is what health insurance is for. You buy insurance so that you don't have to worry about monetary decisions and can make decisions based on quality of life.

When it comes to big medical problems, health insurance is rarely 100% effective against monetary problems.
UNHCR and IOM appeal to European leaders to tackle Mediterranean deaths
I installed it and was confused, I guess I assumed this was supposed to be the 'new winamp,' it's not. It's just the same WinAmp I had when I ran XP years ago but with some bug fixes. The new WinAmp won't be released until next year.
The “good reasons” is backwards Compatibility. Which is why I keep taking about a new ground up standard for web applications.

You also made a point that some users might not what those options and frankly thats irrelevant if your aim is robustness, which you keep harping on about.

However I agree that there will have been some bad ideas there and some which need more fleshing out. You were basically asking me to do the work of hundreds of people over the last 20 years by myself in one evening. A point I did emphasise in that post in fact :)

Re GDPR and cookie laws, I was using that to illustrate how bad the problem had gotten. I don’t agree with the cookie concent law either but I do disagree with your point about GDPR. There are measures you can do to mitigate data collection (or at least the current modes) but You’re definitely right that it’s imposs to prevent entirely.
Relatedly, from a colleague for whom I have a lot of respect: http://gael-varoquaux.info/science/ica_vs_pca.html
It also has no wireless and has less disk space than your Archos.
Haha! This exactly!
This reminds me of "An Anthropologist On Mars" by Oliver Sacks. The first story of seven is of a painter who gets in a car accident. He develops Cerebral achromatopsia[0] and loses the ability to see and think in terms of any colors other than basically a gray-scale. It was this story (among the others in the book) that helped me become aware of just how interconnected and bizarre the human brain is.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_achromatopsia
Pay was (industry) median in my case.
You're probably better off waiting for 3rd gen Ryzen which sounds like it will be a nice all-around performance bump. Should be arriving in ~6 mo.
With a "Win" in the name and it being a primarily Windows-only product for all of its ~20 years of its existence, I'm hardly surprised that it is.
> As soon as I find some time, I'll try to think of means of organizing such a committee and, if required, securing the funding for it.

That would be great!
For anyone with a stoic, scientific understanding there is a point where both beings become equal during gestation. This probably occurs somewhere around 20 weeks. However, <2% of abortions are had after this time. It is a necessary evil that nobody should feel responsible for unless they are directly involved (even then, the best choice out of two bad options).
That's not really true. A few cancers can be put into permanent remission (eg Hodgkins'), but most cancers kill you regardless of what you do.
One element of such a case would be showing that the claims are untrue. Discovery on that question would dig deep into all sorts of areas that no one besides Bloomberg would want dug into.
can you explain how QSX is different from the other SDRs being mentioned (ADALM-PLUTO, HackRF One, etc)? Is it just more transmit power than those other SDRs? I feel like i'm missing something.
Do you have evidence or are you just being unnecessarily unkind?
Al Gore got the same amount of ridicule for proposing a satellite that would live-stream the earth 24/7. The trouble is that to get a good view, you have to be so far away that the resolution isn't scientifically or commercially valuable. And to get a daylight view 24/7, you'd have to be in a Lagrange point which is crazy far away - about 4x the distance to the moon. Eventually after years of pushing and shoving, someone came up with a reason to have a probe at L1 (studying solar weather), and they stuck a camera on the back, and now we have daily 2048x2048 multispectral images of the earth, always in full daylight! https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Sometimes it gets photobombed by the far side of the moon, and the images of solar eclipses are the best. https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/galleries
The EQ and plugins in Winamp is amazing. I’ve yet so see any of the other players come close. You notice the difference when you play this through a PA/DJ system.

Back in the days the tools were Winamp, Audiogrbber and Xing MP3 encoder.
It's not that useful, but is another way to help illustrate what I'm trying to say.
Not that I know of, don't imagine Spotify being happy with that either.
I remember reading cases where elderly people in nursing homes who have lived in (Sweden?) for almost their entire reverted to speaking Finnish as that was the language they grew up speaking.

I put Sweden in parentheses with a question mark because I can’t be sure that is in fact Sweden. It could also be the US. I read about it awhile ago and not in English. Sorry.
>* Removed: All former "Pro" licensed functions (Winamp is now 100% freeware again)

Now if only it would be FOSS so that I could get it running on Linux, I could drop Audacious and return to my first love.
Oh no, mind you, the work time is billed separately. I have no issues with that, obviously.
Self-documenting code base, right?
The problem requirements.txt doesn't solve is "what I want" versus "what I end up with".

There's no concept of explicit versus implicit dependencies. You install one package, and end up with five dependencies locked at exact versions when you do `pip freeze`. Which of those was the one you installed, and which ones are just dependencies-of-dependencies?

If you're consistent and ALWAYS update your requirements.txt first with explicit versions and NEVER use `pip freeze` you might be okay, but it's more painful than most of the alternatives that let you separate those concepts.
I'm American and live in Norway. I have to remind myself that when folks ask how I'm doing, they actually are curious instead of merely polite :)
They probably are. There's a ton of interesting research going on at Google that is not being capitalized on economically. They just need a few ambitious visitors or ex-employees to "liberate" it, the way Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did to Xerox. In some cases (eg. TensorFlow, Chromium, protobufs, or LevelDB) it's already been open-sourced.

Note that neither AT&T nor Xerox were the prime beneficiaries of technologies developed at Bell Labs or PARC, respectively.
That is not a difficult thing to accomplish.
It's Winamp 5.8, I imagine the "new" winamp will probably have a version of 6.0 or higher.
In many situations, people benefit from working together. Skill at connecting with people accrues benefits to the persons with that skill. Of course, more simply, management wants:

• Visitors with unique needs or problems checked for;
• Visitors who prefer interaction made more likely to be repeat customers;
• Determination of employee skill level at interaction;
• A touch point for visitor questions or concerns;
• Business branded as being interested in their customers;
• Control over setting of social morays;
• etc. etc.
I feel like we don't really know enough what is happening. It is very possible, as another commenter mentioned, that both sides are acting in good faith.
Half the population have below average IQ's, and even people with above average IQ's still struggle with abstractions. These topics are complex and it's easy to frame the negative state in a way for low IQ and poorly educated people to grasp, so they tend to side with what they "think" they understand.
Getting as much as possible from real food tends to be preferred.
Why single-sharded MMOs encourage religious expression and other shared culture
thanks for the comment! I thought about something like that too and believe there's something I can do on that side.
Literally every fucking time there's an article in the press someone posts this stupid Paul Graham article as if it's an original or clever contribution to the discussion.

Yes, that last sentence was a bit harsh, but stay with me. Constantly saying "Hey guys, PR exists" except in code is one of those weird HN tics that drives me crazy. Allow me to elaborate.

1) The concept of public relations is not novel or unheard of. Like at all. PR companies have thousands of employees, are traded on public stock markets, and so on. It's an often sophisticated and well established professional discipline. I personally am aware of it because I spent 10 years as an executive at a PR firm, so I feel some ability to speak on the subject.

Pointing out that PR exists is like noticing there's a bright shining light in the sky half of the time, it's completely devoid of insight. Of course when companies are mentioned favorably in the press it's likely that PR was involved. That's literally intrinsic to the concept of companies being in the press. The details of how that works might be interesting, but...

2) Even within that context the linked article is facile at best. It's pretty long but it's clearly written by someone who doesn't really have all that much exposure to or understanding of how journalism or PR works on a day to day basis. Or didn't at the time at least. He's a great writer, I loved his book, and this works just fine as a personal anecdote, but not as a canonical comment for decades on dozens of business stories.

3) And lastly, literally nobody on the planet calls a pitched press profile story a "submarine" ever, like it's thirteen years later, it didn't catch on.

Stop trying to make submarine happen. It's not going to happen.

I'll show myself out.
The scenario the parent poster is describing is where ACA is repealed and replaced, and presumably that replacement would also do away with the 80% medical loss ratio. In that scenario the insurance companies will likely just not reduce premiums from what they are today, netting them a huge windfall.

This is also why states like Alaska have seen ACA premiums fall over the past year or two. They instituted a state-wide reinsurance program, which means insurance companies' losses are capped at a reasonable amount per claim, then the state comes in and pays for the rest. This reinsurance program is funded in sort of a complicated manner, but basically it funnels the ACA tax credits that would have been paid to taxpayers, absent the reinsurance program, into the reinsurance program.

Rates go down when insurance company losses are capped, either by a lifetime or annual benefit limit or by legislation that says they'll be made whole, because losses are predictable.
Everybody wants to copy Google apparently; there are a variety of Spanner or Percolator clones although some of them do not meet the original guarantees of their reference systems.

FoundationDB also forged its own path and is worth studying.
I get the feeling that Ubuntu is basically a finished product. What major changes would you have expected to see if Canonical had more money?

The only thing I can think of is to replace the god awful default text editor. I noticed they changed it a while ago (from when it was called Gedit) but it's still garbage. Not that this really matters when we have Emacs...

As a user, I'm happy with ubuntu. Stability is important to me.
Does someone know something similar for men in London? I'd be interested in this too! In the article, it sounds like it exists, but then Im not aware of it.
What way? That things are in a constant cycle?

Are you suggesting that there be some perfect steady state of companies that are neither too big nor too small and nobody can ever gain or lose in life?
Post-Quantum Cryptography Lounge
This is especially true when there are no obvious and politically viable good alternatives. In the US everyone outside the center-left or center-right seems to be an absolute lunatic of one sort or another, and even if that weren't the case the two party oligopoly system is deeply entrenched and guarantees that alternatives can't succeed. There's nobody who is both sane and electable that isn't part of the mainstream duopoly.

The more polarized people become between the two major parties the more deeply entrenched the duopoly becomes. People don't dare vote for anyone but D or R because otherwise the hated other side will win. It completely rules out any third party or independent.

Only two parties means there really isn't that much diversity of thought beyond a small number of hot-button issues, and it also reduces the work load for lobbyists and other influence peddlers. Fewer parties means fewer people that have to be begged, bribed, misinformed, or blackmailed to get whatever you want. It makes regulatory capture a lot easier to achieve.

I really don't think the American two party system is working. We need more of a parliamentary type system where you can have many parties and a greater variety of views can get a hearing.
So nostalgia, much wow!

But to be useful at least for me, it'll need to both accept streaming inputs (i.e. be a client for Google Play or Spotify) and to stream its output to Chromecast.

It's a different world now.
There is the web version:

https://webamp.org

They are working on an electron wrapper too
I think so. I'd bet that the reason Intel is removing HT is for market segmentation rather than architectural reasons.
Sorry. That got me riled up. Troll successful.
When I used to teach AP Computer Science, I'd have my students make paper airplanes on the first day.

I'd have them write down the instructions to make their airplanes. Then I'd follow their instructions in the strictest, most literal sense possible, resulting in some lopsided airplanes.

It was a great beginning lesson in algorithms.
I have a CFFA3000 and an SDFloppy II. Both are great, but I prefer the CFFA3000 and use it regularly.

CFFA3000: http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforA...

SDFloppy II: http://www.a2heaven.com/webshop/index.php?rt=product/product...

Another good option, the Floppy Emu: https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/
>I grew up using Winamp, but I wonder how it will fare in the age of Spotify and streaming services

Fares wonderfully to play my MP3 collection (...which includes hours of music I made myself and isn't available elsewhere).

EDIT: to clarify, that's to say that in the age of Spotify and streaming services there's still a place for something that's just an MP3/audio player.
Per se
Feeling nostalgic, the wasted hours looking for the perfect skin and visualization plugins.
Runs well under Wine FWIW.
​Samsung opens seventh AI centre in Montreal
Alibaba-backed Hong Kong AI lab names first batch of startups for funding
Tech Company Brings Jobs and Optimism to Colorado Coal Country
And many states are enjoying the government that jerrymandering and voter suppression efforts provide.
Is This Creepy New AI Assistant Too Lifelike?
An Electron wrapper?

Awesome. I can't wait to use 900 megs of memory to play an mp3.
I think you're over-estimating how much the federal government actively does to protect people's rights.

The federal government doesn't seem concerned that the state I live in requires you to pay about $200 and get the local chief of police to sign off before you can exercise a particular right in any capacity whatsoever.

Civil asset forfeiture is still a thing in many states.

Some state could adopt an obviously unconstitutional hate speech law tomorrow and it would take years before it's struck down and even then there'd be no recourse for those already punished under it. If the state continued to enforce the law then what would happen? After another year or three of hearings and court whatnot they'd get cut off from some funding or something.

The best you can hope for when your state is violating your rights is a supreme court ruling that makes your state go "aw shucks boys, guess we can't do that anymore" and that your state actually does stop doing it. I don't see a weaker federal government changing that status quo.

The danger of putting all your eggs in the federal basket is that when something dumb happens on that level it affects us all (e.g. the net neutrality debacle). At least with the states the stupidity has to happen on it's own in each state.
The government is the people. Just like corporations at that size are far more than a single person. To reiterate for the 3rd time, all things eventually become too big and need to be managed, but that has nothing to do with value creation leading to wealth generation. I've yet to see a comment on how that's invalid beyond emotional complaints.

>> How does the adage go? "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

And there we go. Not sure how that's rational or productive. I guess you'll be first to tell every startup that exits successfully that they're now criminals for what they've done.
There’s also that one time they published 16 anti-Sanders articles in 16 hours, probably because his ideas would reduce Amazon’s profits. [0]

[0] https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/11/headlines/washington_...
What for? Winamp works just fine. I don't remember how heavy v5 is, but be was super light. Electron app will never be even close to light
The majority of Americans voted for Hillary.
I think it's in the best interest of the US not to turn this case into international relations nightmare.

> I mean, this is just intense now. On record statements from four different huge players in this field, clearly and forcefully stating there was no hardware-based backdoor inserted by PLA with regard to Apple and Amazon.

https://twitter.com/hatr/status/1048859348489916417
I am sympathetic. From HN stories, the US health care situations seems abysmal.

BUT, i want to make 3 counter points, if only for the sake of discussion.

a. Cancer for many is a terminal disease. There are always some very very expensive and experimental or marginal treatments. If u have money, and are going to die, and decide to spend all you can to squeeze an extra year of life , i am very sympathetic but even the most generous European have spending limits.

b. This is about the US. The US has made a conscious decision to low-tax and low-safety-net. This is very harsh for the ill or poor. But this choice is reaffirmed every 4 years by sort-of-functional elections at multiple levels of government. Bernie never even made it past the primaries.

c. No one mentions the non terminally ill 95% who presumably enjoy high salaries for years and years (only in the US could a new $60K car be described as "a low cost model")
Police officers in the US charged with more than 400 rapes over a 9-year period
Isn't that niche the same as the niche of programs that can realistically max out a modern desktop CPU? Video encoding, compression, and things like that?
I don't think it's an unfair assessment about potential or actual security. And it's a fair critique. Whether it's a legitimate concern based on this particular implementation is another matter, but they are correct in that work history is probably sensitive personal history, perhaps not secretive. And there is evidence attached to the OP post - it's the link marked [0].
The entire point of insurance is to pool risk so that a bunch of people together pay reasonable amounts, instead of a few people paying enormous amounts and the others paying less. Lifetime limits give you lower rates in exchange for making the insurance much less like actual insurance.

If we’re talking about “don’t piss on my leg and tell me its raining,” don’t sell me “health insurance” that will leave me high and dry if I ever really need it.
Let’s talk about PAKE
The plurality did. There was no majority.
Even before the ACA, most money from premiums was paid out in benefits: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20101124.949788/...

> According to an April 2010 report prepared by the Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the nation’s largest health insurers in 2009 had medical loss ratios ranging from 68 percent to 88 percent in the individual market; 78 percent to 84 percent in the small-group market; and 83 percent to 88 percent in the large-group market.
"half" means half funded by local, which furthers the original point.
Is Winamp still around?
Have switched to Foobar many years ago and never looked back...
Technically we've known for decades that humans can sleep while flying airplanes :+/
I think there's more to this than just the vector story. Since we're entering a high-DPI world now, the pressure for anti-aliasing and high quality scaling has dropped significantly, a substantial phase shift from the old rules of screen typography where AA was the key feature and all formats needed to optimize for it. As a result vector glyphs are ultimately competing against not just SDF but also crudely downsampled 1-bit textures, and this latter approach, while it's very "brute force", has a relative simplicity of design, and potential for high compression rates.
You don't need to resort to spooky forces to imagine why Apple wants to deny an attack on their security. It damages the value of the company, especially in a time when they try to market themselves as security conscious.
Wow that's a lot of applications. I am actually shocked. How come? Are you not getting the jobs or are you striving for the perfect position? Were all those applications hand crafter for each position?
Oh, of course I don't believe in Google music/Spotify/iTunes proving an API for winamp.

Reverse engineering is possible here, but will result in ban/lawsuit after it gains some traction.

How they're gonna do that then? No idea.

Still I dream about alternative client every say
As someone who has moved out of their home country, and that barely speaks their native language anymore, I can kind of picture this happening to me. I've literally forgotten things about the language I've spoken all my life after not speaking it daily for just 3 years. It's very weird and vexing at times.
The real value of the work output of a single human life tends very close to zero, unfortunately.

Excepting some intrinsic value to life, in the grand scheme of things most people's lives are not worth very much.
Parent post makes a reasonable point about the problems of 5 year survival rates in a culture of massive screening of otherwise healthy people.

If you scan every man over the age of 55 you'll pick up a lot of prostate cancer. If you then do nothing else at all your country's 5 year survival rate improves because you have a bunch of people who'll die with, from from, cancer.
As someone from Louisiana, :C