skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how do you attribute this to Google and not to the web exploding in size several magnitudes.

Finding a needle in a 3ft haystack is one thing, finding it in 3 miles of hay is another.

I feel it's not Google getting worse for some queries but the internet is just so much larger now, and the evidence is that the other major search engines don't bring back that same simplicity and ease of finding high quality technical information from smaller sources that I also remember from the late 2000's
I find waitgroups to be similar to condvars
> My lawyers argued that AMI has no right to publish photos since any person holds the copyright to their own photos, and since the photos in themselves don’t add anything newsworthy.

Wait, is this really true? If it is, then why do wedding photogs claim they have copyright ownership?
Well this seem legit </sarcasm>

Everything is backup up for 1 dollar a month, typo's on the website, no name what so ever except for the savefileme authors. No mention what backend this ends up.

Looking at the source code I can't find the encryption, it just basically uploads or downloads a file.
Without going too far down the moral philosophy hole, I think we can both agree that there's pros and cons to either side of this one, and just part on good terms. This is classic "maximizing joy" vs "minimizing suffering" axis stuff.
A county prison decides to ban cheap postcards in favour of a commercial service and this is a good thing actually.
Signal forces you to use a phone number(unlike facetime for example)
I think the direction that science is going is that the distinction between person/not-a-person is nonbinary but a spectrum, with a fertilized egg rating only a tick above bacteria on the scale, and a newborn close to the top (but not as much a person as a fully formed adult). We've been debating and will continue to debate the threshold at which we're okay with deeming a fetus not a person - I'm not sure that's a debate that will ever end.
Why is the HN echo chamber downvoting you? /s
It feels weird to say but the zune marketplace was the best music platform so far. Who knows if it would have stayed that way if it ever got a decent market share though.
"We can push anything we want to your device but don't you dare try to block it. That's a Terms of Service Violation."

Well, it was nice knowing you Spotify.
Hasn't there been cases were a person born with an inherited disability while the parents were well aware of the risks has successfully sued the parents?
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Can we all just agree Trump is corrupt already and get him out of office?
This is harder than it seems nowadays (especially if you actually want to read the data you cloned later).

As an example: consider the FBI pushing Apple to help them decrypt a terrorists phone from several years ago. They finally got in because the phone was a particularly old model without a secure enclave and (from memory) they ended up buying a 0day for a considerable sum to do it.
It's not "derived from" chromium. It uses exactly chromium. They are only wrapping code around it. That code is not a browser.
Thanks, Nice list! I’ll look into these.
How do you go about discussing these topics online?
Back when I Lived in Germany a colleague used to have fun when I said "meine Deutsche" instead of "mein Deutsch" when referring to my knowledge of the language.

After 2 years I just stopped worrying about articles, knowing that I would anyway always sound like auslander to them.
You have to think deeply about the topic - certainty about what you are trying to express prevents equivocation.

The structure for the document comes from knowledge of the intended audience and their purpose combined with knowledge of the topic.

Economy of expression is gained from careful and continuous 'refactoring'; restructuring what you say, optimising for simplicity and leverage of the language.
> This argument was always embarrassingly stupid, but anyone still making it after Trump shut down the government for a month over literal wall construction has forfeited their right to be taken seriously at all.

Whether his statements during the campaign were taken literally or not it appears he was taken seriously by enough people to win him the nomination and the election. I think more than anything they bought into his intent. And his values however we may choose to the define them resonated with them.
It would've continued to work just fine if Trump hadn't run for President. Breaking the NDA doesn't make financial sense when he's a C-list celebrity; it does when he's suddenly the President.
Maybe the wars only managed to set Germany back and delay the inevitable. If only they had seen it.
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Totally agree with you. It's not something you solve in a permanent way anyway. I'm not looking for a magic bullet either, and I know it's something that will always be here and will always require effort.
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I read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" when I was young and impressionable. It made an elegant argument denying Climate change and it took me almost 10 years for myself to get back on the right side of the argument. The argument centered around a lack of sample size to make a judgment on climate change. He testified in front of Congress just as convincingly in 2005. Both the right and left both agreed that climate change was real and needed to be addressed quickly until the mid 2000's then the right did a 180 on the issue. The right still uses his argument against climate change to this day and his books are recommended to young people. Let's fix the damage he's done before celebrating him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/sep/29/comment....
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/michae...
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How many articles have you read about rogue Stingrays around DC? If the FCC wanted to take these down it would take 45 minutes of triangulation, but they never do it. Instead we get vague statements about the devious Chinese.

It’s hard to conclude that five eyes isn’t a domestic spying proxy program.
Actually they are very unlikely to be the same people.
I dont get why people use spotify instead of listening to free online radios from anywhere in the world. As a bonus, its like travelling. There are ads, but they target other people than you so its not even annoying (you will not be influenced to buy a car at a dealership in another country). Note that if you are the kind who likes targeted ads, this does not apply to you.
They supported the mass-murdering Pinochet because he was pro-free-market.

These people have no integrity.
This is not anecdotal information.

This is public person directly involved laying down criminal blackmail attempt accusation whose goal was to stop him from investigating the source of the information. If Besoz is lying, Pecker and AMI can sue him for false accusations and win handsome sum of money.

Things that make this interesting case:

Pecker was not worried about himself, because National Enquirer has right to publish pictures they get. He wanted to hide source of the information. That's weird.

Pecker surely is not worried about the wellbeing of some paparazzi or low level information source. Attempted a blackmail and exposing himself to criminal liability means that there is something there.
It's fascinating how we, humans, are lazy. We're lazy to the point where we'd gladly allow services like Spotify to control our computers just so they can make sure their ad was delivered. We'll even justify it by "well, I really listen to a lot of music". All I want is to push a button and get some bearable-noise during my 8 hours at work.

I don't know about the rest, but I really hate when someone makes a fool out of me. I'm a lazy person too, if a service that I like asked me bluntly "hey dude, wanna give us all your info and let us sniff your traffic so we can stick ads in, we're even gonna sell it" - I'd say - sure, you were honest enough, screw it - go ahead, I didn't have to navigate through a wall of text critting me for 9000000 to get that piece of info.

But no. No one behaves like that. Long user agreements, service agreements, catchy call-to-actions on websites that promise wonderland filled with unicorns shitting M&M's and what not just so they get those few bucks out of me...

Oh well, hello foobar2000 my old friend, seems like I'll un-lazy myself just to spite these prying assholes.
You can make songs available offline, meaning they're saved on your device. Not sure what else you could ask for, unless your problem is actually with DRM, not data usage.
"on the free version of Spotify"
I block ads on everything, and everyway I can, but I do pay for my subscription.

It makes sense to block freeloaders, especially when they need to PAY some for the song one listened. It is reasonable that they get some revenue in one form or another.

On this one, I believe people should be protesting over the nature of format of ads, not the existence of ads altogether.
I don't understand the revisionist conflation of the EU and Germany. Germany are not the main power in Europe, although they are a significant part of it.
Why risk losing the moral high ground?
This one?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/49128-polity-universe-chron...

I'll check it out, thanks!:)
Then why don’t you pay for a subscription?

If you keep listening to Spotify, surely it brings you value.

I know I’m getting value from it. I listen to music all day at work and personally I don’t have many services that I use so often.
> it's debatable on whether or not those bombings did indeed cause the surrender of Japan

They were specifically mentioned in emperor's address. Yes, they caused the surrender.

> Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military targets

They were military targets. There was army HQ, troops stationed there, factories which were producing military goods.
> His base, and most independents want a literal wall

Can you back up that most independents want a wall? The polling I've seen says otherwise.

"CBS News polling from mid-November found that a majority -- 59 percent of Americans -- oppose building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. It's a partisan issue, though. A large majority of Republicans support the wall -- 79 percent. A majority of independents -- 66 percent -- oppose the wall, and 84 percent of Democrats are also against it."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-americans-dont-su...
I wasn't gonna touch it with a ten-foot pole after the PlaysForSure debacle.
> Also if you need any more details that are not in the docs, everyone points you to paid video courses that assume you have a Mac...

I assume you're referring to laracasts.com... what does having a mac have to do with the videos there?
At my current startup, we sell a rather pricy physical product and have been using Intercom to nurture leads. It's been very useful, as we have lots of leads that have specific questions that they want a human to answer.

We found that conversational engagement works the best for these leads, but Drift does a far better job than Intercom at this. Currently planning on migrating.
But that's not the same. You have the right to control your content, but that's not what's happening here. Presumably in this example you want to use Spotify (otherwise the whole conversation is moot) but they don't want to you circumvent how their service works. You're not the one controlling this situation, Spotify is.

Your statement sounds very akin to "fine, kick me out of this party I was clearly enjoying, I don't want to associate with these kind of people anyway..." which feels disingenuous.

I think you really just don't care that much about using spotify, which is a perfectly cromulent opinion.
We should be concentrating on biological cures . Not turning us into cyborgs; or finding ways to furnish the executives of pharmaceutical companies homes with the finests of wares. The cost of synthetic insulin is insane , humalin is cheeper but , glucomoters ; pumps cgms , their parts ,accessories are killing me faster then this stupid disease.
There is no such method in the standard library. You'd get a pointer to the underlying memory (there's `Vec.as_ptr()` for example), and make whatever (C) system calls you want.
The problem I see with everything you said is that people are going to vote in their best interest.

No one is going to vote for a system that if you can't cut it because of a disability, health problem, or just plain life circumstance then you are basically screwed.
Looks really good. Any ressources on how you wrote the x86_64 backend ? Or Thema Compiler per se?
I can see why they're targeting type 2's, as they may need more of a fixed insulin boost than full insulin replacement that I and other type 1's need. Part of the fun being type 1 is figuring out proper adjustments to your insulin dosages based on food, activity level, stress and other factors. It's a clever design, though, and may help some people stay more compliant with their treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump#Lawsuits_and_bank...

> Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy, although in 1990 he came within one missed bank loan payment of doing so, agreeing to a deal that temporarily ceded management control of his company to his banks and put him on a spending allowance.

Personal bankruptcy in all but name.
What if a random file from a directory of my favorite movie clips plays instead?
I think this is misleading: Dialects exist but they don’t change the rules of standard German grammar. In German, only “die Butter” is correct, regardless of where you are. Upper Bavarians may use “der Butter” but there’s an understanding that this is dialect, and not correct German. It’s fine in daily usage but not in more formal speech or in writing.

(A better example is “Mus”, which has multiple correct genders.)

German is a lot more prescriptive than English. This is only different for neologisms and anglicisms (“Newsletter”), where a generally accepted gender hasn’t been established through usage yet (Duden now lists “Newsletter” as masculine, but both “die Newsletter” and “das Newsletter” were common until recently).
Janus: Static Guided Dynamic Binary Modification
Ask HN: Are there people who just experiment with tech and make a living?
Independently, without having to worry about commercialisation like entrepreneurs do? Like modern Leonardo DaVincis?

If so, how do they get paid? Writing books or something?
National Enquirer claims "good faith negotiations" with Bezos
Yea, but there is no way to distinct why ads don't reach the target, and as it's worded, they can't block service for technical difficulties but for intentional behaviour.

I haven't seen even if they specified whether it must be the account user or not. E.g. your network host or isp can do it.

So that seems interesting, unless they can do it on a whim anyways and dont have to prove anything. Though they could just say, "no free service if we cant serve ads".
This portfolio showcase page doesn't contain software project blog posts per se but has a lot of solid designer portfolio examples that might be interesting to check out: https://www.semplice.com/showcase
How do discriminatory tax breaks not violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution?
You can't claim he doesn't mean what he says literally after he shut down the government quite clearly over a literal wall he wants built. Or has harangued the Justice Department in public over not going after Hillary Clinton as an extension of his "Lock her up" campaign. Or his attempt to literally repeal & replace Obama Care. Regardless of whether you're pro or con on these and all of his other policy statements, it's clear through his words and his actions that he means it all literally. Up until it either a) becomes clear it's simply not going to happen (Mexico paying for the wall) or b) a statement is revealed to be patently untrue (see his various stories about his involvement with payoffs for affairs).
> because immigration is "bad".

The malicious simplification of argument.

Immigration will continue after Brexit, just like it does today for Canadians or Thais or Ukrainians or whomever non-EU moving is to the UK. No-one pretends otherwise except sneering anti-Brexiters.

Look, we're going into this together. It's time to stop being dickish and work out what we're going to do in the new reality whether we like it or not. Ridiculing half the population as uneducated xenophobes isn't going to achieve anything.
This might be a good tool but what is patent worthy about it?
Depending on which Fishers you're talking about -- I'm assuming larger bookshelf size -- they could easily have been $400 brand new in 1970. CPI says that's about $2650 now.

Maybe they were $100 speakers in 1980? That would be about the same as a pair of powered JBLs now, except that you still need to get an amp for the Fishers.
Read up on the matter. The culprits are pharmacy benefits managers who push producers to increase list prices while demanding obscene rebates that are never passed on to the consumers. Most producers don’t disclaim the rebates, but Lars Fruegaard (Novos CEO) is on record saying that it increased from 64% to 67% last year. So pharmacy benefits managers are pushing up the list price but less and less is getting through to the producers. The American system is rigged by the middlemen who approach consumers with ownership of “cheap drugs” because of the rebates, while they approach the producers with ownership of the consumers. As an alternative to that system Novo Nordisk is releasing cheaper insulin through a partnership with Walmart where it goes directly to the consumers.

Openness around rebates will be a great first step to help lower prices, but the PBMs have gotten the industry into a reverse price war where everyone is overbidding each other on price in order to provide the larges rebate to PBMs. Something big has to change to revert that cause.

Disclaimer: I work for Novo Nordisk.
EGEB: Floating solar panels, Morocco’s huge solar farm, Enphase shortage
Are you sure that's for paid accounts? I'm using it right now on a browser with no ad blocker and I don't get ads.
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We used to have a worldwide CDN messaging service: Usenet.

Early on (1998-1999) ISPs axed their newsgroup servers. Nobody paid them for those CDNs. But soon after, CDN companies paid ISPs to install their content.

Money. Its all about money.
I think that needs a bit of context... what is all this topic about and how should it be answered for what purposed; what happens when someone completes the test?
"I used to use food as a way to compensate for feelings of loneliness, boredom, and general self-hate." This! This applies to me too.

I never thought about the mindset behind all of this. Was always searching for a solution elsewhere but it does make sense. We'll see how it goes.
> It has become yet another community that's fighting a struggle that everyone else ended years ago, ... like the few Japanese in jungles who refused to surrender.

Nice imagery, but the wrong point.

Except for the syntax, everybody else joined Lisp.

"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." --Guy Steele

Flash back to the mid-1980's (when the mainstream was C, Pascal, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, etc.) and it's Lisp/Scheme (and Smalltalk) that have features like Garbage Collection, interactive development, lexical closures, decent built-in data structures, dynamic typing.

The fact that all of this is commonplace today, both justifies a lot what Lisp did in the first half of its existence and undermines its (technical) competitive advantages now.

> but I suspect it's because most people strongly prefer (a) visually semantically different scope delimiters and (b) function-outside-brackets syntax ie f(a, b) rather than (f a b).

It's not technical. I don't think it ever was. So much of it is around social concerns: a performance stigma dating back to the 1970's, fear of being able to hire people to do the work, fear of what VC's will think, worries that the language will still be available... And then at the end of the day, the problems whatever language will solve are a tiny fraction of the overall problem of doing something relevant and lasting and useful to others.

> As the kids say: stop trying to make Lisp happen, it's not going to happen.

Life is too short and the world is too big to try to confine other people's ideas of how they should think or work.

The point of the market economy and of the scientific process is that people get to try what they think is going to be useful and then let the world decide. The fact that Lisp is still in the conversation at all, when its contemporaries (Autocoder, Fortran) either aren't or are highly specialized, says a lot that we can learn from.
Hi HN fam!

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