skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bot I made for a couple of servers that I am in that allows a user to associate their Last.fm account with their Discord account (works across servers) and then allows the user to pull data from their Last.fm. Currently this data is the currently playing track (or the most recently scrobbled track), as well as a 3x3 chart of their most listened to albums in the last week.

I made this using Node.js and the Discord.js library because the Last.fm bot that we used previously (fmbot) was becoming unstable and we needed a more reliable alternative.
Slack could just block access to IPs from banned countries. Why are they retroactively blocking accounts? Sounds like Slack is punishing regular people who visited those countries.
Maybe I’m the only one, but I like this project. Yes, we need to prevent plastic from going in in the first place, but what about al the plastic that’s already there? There’s a lot of it. Does this system address every single issue? No. (Like the plastic that’s more than 3 meters down). But to me this seems like an “and” project. Let’s prevent plastic from entering AND try to remove it. Let’s get rid of the top layer AND develop a solution for the lower depths. Let’s try this AND another idea.

At least they are trying something rather than twiddling their thumbs and conducting studies and not taking action because the thing isn’t perfect. The oceans are in a dire situation and action needs to be taken.

Maybe this thing doesn’t work. Maybe they have to start over. Maybe someone else comes up with something better. Great! Do that.

People pointing out that it might harm marine life. Ok I get it. You know what else harms marine life? Damn near everything else humans put into the oceans too.

At this point the oceans are basically screwed if someone doesnt start trying to fix something. And to the people pointing out that it’s a waste of 20 mil, come on. 20 mil is basically nothing and it’s no skin off your teeth. Better than money went to this than making more juceros or whatever other dumb ideas that get a lot more funding than 20 mil, and have no possibility of a net upside.
Passing a law is easy, but putting it in practice is enough thing. We of course won't hear about that side of it because "secret".

I have no doubts that the big companies which this seems mostly for will be doing everything to decentralize and remove themselves from the problem citing "systemic weakness" and then doing nothing for the government.
Facebook offered partner companies the access to almost everything, report said
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

I was recently getting a dental procedure done and the Periodontist kept using Alexa while he was treating me. "Alexa, play the Eagles!" "Alexa, skip this song!" He seemed super impressed like he was really excited to show it off... I thought it was annoying. I think voice command stuff is lame. I have siri permanently disabled on my iphone and apple watch.

I've heard some people like using siri with the apple watch, but I never got into it- I would always accidentally set it off when I was weightlifting.
So that's interesting. That answer on stackexchange purportedly quotes Wikipedia, stating "Almost 90% of plastic debris that pollutes ocean water, which translates to 5.6 million tons, comes from ocean-based sources."

But actual Wikipedia page [0] says "Almost 20% of plastic debris that pollutes ocean water, which translates to 5.6 million tons, comes from ocean-based sources."

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pollution
From the OTO members I’ve run into this sounds about right.
In this case it seems that the courts are ruling in favor of what the legislators didn't want to happen. Fashion is intentionally not subject to copyright.
What about Crowley and the climbing expedition? I can’t imagine that story paints him in the best light.
If something is that important, I schedule something just before. E.g. for a final, I'll schedule an hour of study right before and go to bed early. That way if I'm late to that first thing in the morning, I still make the important event.

The only time I asked someone to wake me up was for an early morning (started at 7 or something) class I took with my roommate. We went together, so we agreed that we'd both make sure the other was up. After that semester, I never signed up for an early morning class again (but I did okay in the class though!).
>At its core, the app and anonymous social network allows users to sign up using their corporate email address, which is said to be linked only to Blind’s member ID.

People just trusted it?

I get that to seem legitimate the users have to be confirmed in some way, but as a user... now way am I exposing myself that way.
Isn't that the fishing equipment mentioned in the parent comment? If not, what are 'ocean-originating plastics'?

Edit: From the Wikipedia article linked by balfirevic:

> "Merchant ships expel cargo, sewage, used medical equipment, and other types of waste that contain plastic into the ocean. [....] The largest ocean-based source of plastic pollution is discarded fishing gear (including traps and nets)"
You can only replace them in hardware terms. Apple will still need to pay Qualcomm in 2G-5G patents fees, as well as all other patents Qualcomm holds, from Graphics, Power Management, DSP, etc etc. Of Course the reverse is also true that there is a high probability Qualcomm would have also infringe on certain Apple's patents.

Most customer already has a deal in place with Qualcomm or are using Qualcomm SoC. The only one who could try to have a go against Qualcomm would be Samsung and Huawei. Both seems to have a decent relationship with Qualcomm, for now.
Hubbard and Sara absconded with a bunch of money Crowley has entrusted Parsons with for OTO purposes and bought a yacht and partied in Florida. Crowley pretty much wrote off Parsons after that.
HTML to PDF Conversion and Saving Images to Disk Are Enhanced inside Java Apps
Tsk, but this was an upgrade from the old log that stored the first three letters of the passphrase.

;)
I put my phone across the room so I have to get out of bed to turn off my alarm. It works really well and I now have to consciously decide to go back to bed.

I set two alarms: 5 and 6. If I make my first alarm, I get an hour to myself. If I don't, I scramble to get ready before my kids wake up.

Since moving my phone, I have slept better (no more late night time wasting in bed) and I have gotten up at 5 more reliably. I'm not really a morning person, but I enjoy the morning schedule better than my previous "schedule" (kids wake me up by screaming).
It is you who needs an economics primer, specifically in supply and demand curves.

People are willing to pay a certain amount of time to drive on a road. This is your demand curve. Everyone willing to spend any amount of time driving makes up all of your demand.

Your supply curve is the speed the road can provide. Increase the average speed by removing stop lights, decreasing congestion, etc and you capture more of the demand.

The only way a road increases demand is if people move to a location they refused to consider before the existence of the road. However, non of the analysis on induced demand for roads analyzes this (that I’ve seen on the academic side). All of it is mistaking capturing more of the demand curve for increasing demand because the effect is always immediate.
Sounds like a good doc. Perhaps it was this one?

http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/
And you can use mypy to do some static type inference in 2.x
It would be utterly useless too, since the requirements would change a day after you start building.
Because in many cases the highways are as wide as they can get and they would have to imminent domain a ton of private property to expand...which is time consuming, prone to litigation and increases the cost of highway construction...plus you have the three-four year disruption in existing traffic flows.
Amtrak owns all their own trackage on the Northeast Corridor.
“Additionally, it’s unlawful under the FD&C Act to introduce food containing added CBD or THC into interstate commerce, or to market CBD or THC products as, or in, dietary supplements, regardless of whether the substances are hemp-derived. This is because both CBD and THC are active ingredients in FDA-approved drugs and were the subject of substantial clinical investigations before they were marketed as foods or dietary supplements. Under the FD&C Act, it’s illegal to introduce drug ingredients like these into the food supply, or to market them as dietary supplements. This is a requirement that we apply across the board to food products that contain substances that are active ingredients in any drug.”
That's neat. Thanks.
I had dinner with Professor Jeff Pfeffer in Auckland, NZ last year with a few other Stanford classmates.

My perception of our time over dinner with him and reading his book “Dying for a Paycheck” left me with the following impressions/perceptions:

We will hopefully see a social/cultural awakening to the toxic threat of workplace stress much as we did with the environmental movement in the 1960’s post “Silent Spring”.

We have made great strides in enhancing water/air/soil quality at local/national levels in the last 50 years so there is precedence for enhancing workplace quality.

Workplace stress “kills”(contributes more to the death of) more people than smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse, according to Jeff’s research(admittedly, I haven’t dug deep to look at data set or measurement methodology).

I’m an employer, a former early stage Amazon employee, and the chairperson of a large national veteran support charity.

Wearing all 3 “hats” I have seen the negative cost of workplace stress.

I left Amazon due to extreme burnout.

I have provided staff(at great personal cost) unlimited time off benefits during emergencies my peers called ludicrous, but retain

And I have seen 262 veterans suffering the consequences of varying degrees of extreme workplace stress.

I think treating stress as an injury is a very important one for both employees and employers.

I think the future is not about employers handing out free gym membership for physical well-being, but also providing training and support for mental/emotional well being.

Treating stress as akin to a traumatic injury that requires immediate mitigation as well as an ultra local environmental threat akin to breathing dirty air or drinking dirty water is important.

Well worth taking quite seriously, although I am clearly biased.
Hipchat is discontinued. Was announced a while ago. Their official migration path is to move to Slack.
> Isn't that the fishing equipment mentioned in the parent comment?

Yes. Parent just didn't make it clear that it was ~90%.
1. Do you keep the notifications on, or shut them off completely?

2. How do you create the discipline to only open / look at Slack every x hours to go through the unreads?
It's very scary how social media access by government authorities is quickly becoming a de facto requirement for people to exercise their rights, whether it's coming into the country or buying a firearm. While I can't find the text of this proposed law, I guarantee that the definition of bad speech (if it even has one) will be quite nebulous.
Squarespace? But still, a website isn’t worth $10/month to most folks.

I think the other user was right who commented that most Facebook users are content consumers, versus content creators. That is, they browse much more than they post.
Are these pictures blue as a result of post processing?
Understood, but I should have prefaced my question with “for greenfield / new development”.
Why? Seriously, JSON is lame, it's an idiotic trend, a fashion from the UI that's infected the back end for no gain whatsoever for anyone not using JavaScript. XML is better and we've just watch JSON slowly reinvent everything XML already had.
The key is also that you hire talent :)
Is Elon Musk's tunnel vision the right way to fix traffic in Southern California
> Having a voice assistant means I don't have to spend a few seconds typing, at the cost of having everything I say potentially overheard by someone who I'd rather didn't hear it.

You're underplaying it in order to artificially inflate your mileage.

Having a voice assistant means not having to learn to change application contexts inside an operating system follwed by a few seconds typing. You are ignoring the hundreds/thousands of hours you've spent learning which software is appropriate for which contexts. Not to mention the latency of instantiating them, or possibly even installing them, migrating data between them, etc.

Voice assistants have contexts but they map fairly closely to natural language. And non-technical users can teach other non-technical users what those contexts are. "Here's how you set an alarm." I've never used Alexa but I'd bet it's something like, "Set an alarm for blah," or even, "Wake me up at blah." And I bet if I asked an Alexa user how to do that I'll remember because it's all natural language. That's a huge win for usability.

Now try teaching a non-technical user about cron, its flags, and its relationship to other shell commands, using natural language. In a decade that bullshit will sound more antiquated than the amplitude modulation on the voice of a Dalek.
They expire in about a month, and then the app will refuse to let you use that data. You should treat it as a cache, not as an offline map.

If you want true offline map, you'd need to use Bing, HERE or OSM.
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knowing something is going on or is/was there can give way to investigation of course you need probable cause or more for a warrent there is also finding things with unrelated matters but in the course of that investigation. or as noja said make something up.
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Melbourne, Florida has a surprising number of people advertising on HN.

Also I don't think this is de-duplicating, and many of the Melbourne FL ads are repeated.
"Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me."
You have cause and effect mixed up. The answer to all those questions might very well be "yes" if you built a site that's actually conducive to them doing business with you.
improve the maps

The contention of the "bitching" is that they are not actually doing that.
Quantum Maxwell's demon 'teleports' entropy out of a qubit
> If it were really the case that there's an epidemic of invented reasons for warrants then parallel construction would improve the status quo by reducing the number of dubious warrants, leaving only those that "find something."

There must be an understanding here. A warrant executed for an invented and fictitious reason doesn't become "good" because it "finds something"; it's dubious precisely because of its provenance (a lie to cover an unconstitutional search). Whether there really is anything found doesn't impact the constitutionality of a search: that is the point of the "exclusionary rule" -- to exclude real, honest-to-goodness incriminating evidence of a defendant but which is found in violation of his/her constitutional rights. We cannot judge the rightness of a warrant based on whether it leads to useful evidence because then we would have no 4th amendment at all. Therefore, parallel construction doesn't improve anything; rather, it can only serve to increase the number of searches executed for fictitious reasons, and hence the number of dubious warrants.

nb: obviously, the above comment assumes/argues that Herring v United States was incorrectly decided. Also, I am not an appellate lawyer (or a lawyer at all).
Related

Abstract

Over the past 15 years, there has been an explosion of new research on the role of the hippocampus in the representation of information about time in memory. Much of this work was inspired by the ideas and research of Howard Eichenbaum, who made major contributions to our understanding of the neurobiology of episodic memory and the neural representation of time. In this article, I will review evidence regarding the role of time in understanding hippocampal function. This review will cover a broad range of evidence from studies of humans and nonhuman animals with a narrative arc that follows Howard's major discoveries. These studies demonstrate that the hippocampus encodes information in relation to an episodic context, and that time, as well as space, serves to define these contexts. Moreover, the research has shown that the hippocampus can encode temporal, spatial, and situational information in parallel. Building on this work, I present a new framework for understanding temporal structure in human episodic memory. I conclude by outlining current controversies and new questions that must be addressed by the field in the years to come.

Preprint: http://dml.ucdavis.edu/uploads/6/1/9/7/61974117/ranganath-20...

Eichenbaum RIP.
This is a dumb question, but what's the difference between geometry on discrete sets and homotopy theory on discrete sets, eg, in the spirit of digital topology?

Every set is open, so every set is closed. So something like a closed interval, or the product of closed intervals, is just going to look like the network that defines a line segment, square, etc... right?

In that sense, it seems like the geometry of numbers and the topology of numbers are basically the same thing.

But I'm going to be honest -- I know basically nothing about arithmetic geometry.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were using S3 presigned URLs[0]. I could imagine a Lambda based customer service app which would pull a customer's recordings from wherever they're stored, package them up, and then drop them in an S3 bucket and generate a presigned URL which gets returned to the customer service app. Then I would also not be surprised if a customer support rep just grabbed the wrong link.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ShareObjectP...
Show HN: “Intro to Bluetooth Low Energy” book
Which is exactly why I cringe - often visibly - at any suggestion that a duct-tape-and-bubble-gum "MVP" is in any way/shape/form acceptable. That "prototype" will end up being the final product because dev teams have a tendency to accumulate technical debt like gangbusters.

To continue with the mediocre carpentry analogies floating around: a (competent) carpenter doesn't build a sturdy table by first building a shitty table and reinforcing it later.
/r/whoosh
jQuery, gulp... Makes me sad and probably I won't use this. But their UX is good.
Yeah. I'm remote at a mostly collocated company and I'm always trying to get my face on other people's screens whether that's a stand-up or not screen sharing off the bat during demos or even just over-commenting in group chats to get at least my name out there.

It's worth it though, and when I'm on-site I get people talking to me that I've never met who recognize me from somewhere I was on a screen.
I rarely use google outside of work. At home, I have a few regular sites I keep up with, I know the URLs and I just type them in.
So ... because Facebook didn't reveal our SSN or credit-card details, it's "ridiculous" that people decide not to use it?

The difference is that when sites/companies are cracked, and our personal information is stolen, people get upset because the site/company was incompetent.

When Facebook knowingly sells information that we consider to be private, revealed only to our friends and family, or (in the most recent cases) to the person we're messaging with ... that's not a mistake. It's not incompetence.

Quitting Facebook when you realize that the deal is actually that anything you post, even things you write but delete before sending, is considered product, and will be monetized in any way they think they can get away with, is a perfectly rational response.

You can argue that this realization is late in coming: in hindsight, that was clearly the deal all along, it has just taken us a while to recognize it. That's fair. But quitting is still a perfectly good way to stop compounding your earlier error.
A few autonomous gps-guided drones are all that is needed. No one would need to come back to get them. $200 could shut down an airport for hours
I've tried reading this release and this page https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421168.h... but still can't figure out if CBD oil is legal or illegal. Are CBD gummies suddenly illegal? Or are they suddenly 100% legal (and no longer in the gray area)?
Book Review: Architects of Intelligence
In the kitchen, I use a real mechanical timer. Twist, set, done.
did you forget a zero on that figure? Where do the expenses come from if they do not pay editors, reviewers and authors? Is the discount for libraries so big that they can claim a 60% to 80% loss over a fictive idealized price?

Also, it's less the price but how the money is (not) redistributed, I thought.
I would go again in a heartbeat.
That objection doesn't make sense. Queries are nothing more than a tree of predicates, how the backend end uses those predicates is not relevant to the API of specifying the predicates. Things like indexes whether in Mongo or in SQL are implementation details that can easily be hidden and not infect the API. You can interpret the tree of predicates into a SQL where clause or into a Mongo index search.

The OP is correct, your app can speak to an internal API without the underlying database infecting your domain code. That in no way implies you can't take advantage of the best of each database.
Found this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1196856/You-...
Or hire a private eye.
Actually wasn’t the latest gov standard pushing for quantum-resistant algos? I vaguely remember some controversy over it on HN, because the switched recommendation was sudden and came out of nowhere (with at least one suggestion that they must be nearing it, or someone else is). Dont follow this topic normally, which is why I’m so vague on this, and possibly wrong.
No but there were very few bands of their stature that did it.
> given how cheap the echo dot is ... they’re the perfect small gift.

At the Real Canadian Superstore you get a gift when you spend over $300. It changes weekly. Sometimes it’s a box of cereals or chocolates. Sometimes it’s houseware, a plant or a lawn chair. At thanksgiving it’s a frozen turkey. That one time it was 2kg of bacon. Last week it was an Echo Dot.

Based on popularity within the family, and compared to the alternatives, it’s far from being the perfect gift. That said, it does seem to be cheap.
I find it equally likely there's an undisclosed request from the DoJ involving their accounts -- and that they're trying to get a narrative out before something like indictments come out.

There's a lot of very clear slant in this article.

It leaves unanswered the question why a front laundering Russian intelligence should expect to be allowed to operate on a US platform.
Thanks for your detailed response on RFE. I just wanted to have conversation on your post move on how you are getting adjusted. Good luck :-)
> while a synthesizer just emits a note

Well, maybe a crap one, or one not designed for that. Trumpets have some convenient physics that are (comparatively) simple to model, the problem you're thinking of may have more to do with the control system (i.e. not based on actuation of valves, but skipping right to the oscillators) than some inherent weakness of synthesis.
I dislike voice commands.

I have tried using speech-to-text for text messages and emails, and I usually spend more time correcting the mistakes than it saves.
Actually, the track from New Haven to New Rochelle is not owned by Amtrak but by Metro North (the local commuter rail). Apparently Massachusetts (via the MBTA, also the local commuter rail) also owns the NEC in Massachusetts.