skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they're not paying and blocking ads, they're not customers. And if they weren't willing to pay for Spotify, why would they suddenly be willing to pay for Apple Music?

Well, because they have been terminated by Spotify, of course. I mean, it is pretty easy to imagine that your preferences are "free Spotify with blocked ads is better than Spotify / Apple Music / etc. for 10+$", but that after the "free with blocked ads" option disappears you will (grudgingly) end up paying.

And the right move by Spotify would be to support this transition in a way that does not drive this business to their competitors. If you end up moving these people to choose between "ok, now I have to contact customer support to get my account unblocked so that I can then start entering my credit card details" versus "ok, I can just use this big 'Start Free Trial' button here on Apple Music", I don't think that is a very difficult choice.

Also, while Pi-Hole might be quite niche, the point I was trying to make was more that many people use adblockers (about 20% in Europe[1], far bigger than a rounding error), but many of those probably don't do so specifically for Spotify, this is just a side-effect of running Spotify in the same browser. So they might be amenable to a warning that they should disable their adblockers on Spotify, while just terminating their accounts will just drive these users to competitors.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-use...
If you stream movies from sites like 123movies, they play a similar obfuscation game but are moving towards your hypothetical.

While many players, despite deeply nested html, still point directly to where the content is hosted (ex, a file on openload.co), an increasing number take your mentioned approach and load the content as a blob so folks won't bypass their ads.
I did not read the other book. I have no idea how different it is to Jemisin nor to history. I have no idea whether I would personally consider it bad or whether I would not cared.

In any case, fifth season is not parellel to real history nor contains stereotypes. The author goes out of her way to give distinct personality to each character and no group is composed of same-like individuals. All biological groups have members of differing opinions and personalities. Shared traits are carefully explained as result of situation.

I don't know what you mean to say by that description of orogenes and fulcrum. Black could not blendin (except few very white individuals at risk to have dark child), they were not separated to largely self-governing institution). Instead they lived in households and plantages. Blacks indeed had own dialect, but so did any group of people separated by livestyle or rules. Different classes and separated places always grow to differ in language and habits. None of it is specific to black history in United States or very closely parallel to it.

It shows that Jemisin do know how groups of people develop cultur and shows her opinion on race being social construct. It does not show special closeness to black history in USA except in some taking cues of how people behave. She is educate and knows psychology and likely sociology well.

I think that you read too much from wordplay+callouta and ignore massive massive differences between orogenes and real world blacks - both during and after slavery.
Not at current fertility rates. If the current trend continues we're in for a world-wide population decline.
Heh, no worries. I got it wrong too... I meant to write “addition and subtraction” and ended up writing “subtraction and multiplication”... so that’s what I get for trying to be a pedant (and boy do I deserve it).
What makes you think this was the first audit? Shipping a bug doesn't imply that zero QA was done.
Hence the importance of the other half of Amazon's policy. Not just "written form", but "written and of easily digestible length X". You want there to be nowhere for bad reasoning to hide. Neither in the disconnection that comes naturally with slide shows, or in a forest of spurious verbiage that long writing encourages.

As Dijkstra famously commented about writing, "You cannot sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. Nor will 10 blunt axes suffice."
Dune started out as journalistic research.
It pauses it if you put the in-app volume too low. I think the desktop client also reacts to the system volume setting, but it's been a while since I had the free plan.
I'm still unable to unsee https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... :)
+100000 - New York and Federal government fails to address the massive difference of income value between places. An annual income of 50k in Houston is equal to 100k in NYC... That also leads to lower middle class being subsidized heavily by the rest of the middle class. Which leads me to the ultimately retarded 80/20 rule in "affordable" housing in NYC.

Who pays the difference between that $1200 600ft2 apartment occupied by a single New York "artist" and the market price of the rent for the same apartment occupied by a working family of two?

That middle class in NYC needs 2x more money to have as much as middle class in Houston...
Adios Spotify.
Great stuff. Kudos for the content.
Regexes can be evaluated in linear time, so you'd have to send gigabytes worth of text to cause any noticeable slowdown.
> Can I do a few hours work for this guy without losing my unemployment?

UBI doesn't really make sense as a replacement for unemployment insurance, unless benefits are really high. If you replace UI with a poverty-support-level UBI, it makes unemployment a lot worse for anyone but the lowest-paid workers.

UBI might reduce the perceived need for public funding of additional unemployment benefits in extended downturns (though if the be benefit level is poverty-support-level, probably not that much; that's more of a support for middle-income dislocation.)
Obligatory Hammerbacher quote: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."

Wonder what the opportunity cost of so many talented people spending their time at FB working on stuff like. Or maybe I'm overreaching, and the business model is a necessary evil for a powerful social good that FB provides by "connecting the world".
That's what phys.org says but the authors of the paper make no comments whatsoever about applications.

phys.org is reaching quite a bit in making that statement, the wonders of science journalism.
Unless the receiving party strips them as a matter of deliverability of their spam.
> The vast majority of folks don't understand (or care) about the underlying technology beyond "5G is one better, right?"

Does there have to be? I mean, "5GE" is borderline false advertisement. Let a judge decide if this is harming competitors.
I've run a similar role playing style site since middle school. It introduced me to more than just a habit of writing. It also introduced me to programming at a young age and in a community and school system where that would not have happened otherwise.

I run mine as a charity now. Its less than 200 dollars a year. The ads just aren't even worth keeping up. Before and during college, when I couldn't afford the 200, I solicited donations from former users who had used the site as a teen but since grew out of it. That worked really well.

Good luck.
My Shiba Inu would beg to differ.

犬 = Inu = Dog
True in general, but the effect of a consumption tax is substantially more pronounced. A VAT hike of 2% hits people that spend their entire income with the full 2%. But people that spend only 50% of their income in the first place effectively only have a 1% hike.
Perhaps my wording was poor. I'm thinking of geographical regions, not the economy as a whole. Thus, despite a net zero effect globally, any redistributive effects would be unevenly allocated to various regions. And it's easy to imagine certain areas -- in particular, poorer ones -- having a higher income per capita of renters in particular.

Toy example: a population of 100, with one billionaire who owns their house outright and 99 people renting apartments. Take X dollars from the billionaire, distribute it to the 99. Why would the rentier, esp. if it happened to be the billionaire, not raise rents in aggregate by X?
Badshahi-mosque
> Right so we need to fight for knowing more information about them as much as they know about us

I don't see how that actually solves the problem.
This still seems dangerous to the stomach lining over time. Why not suppositories?
It's not really surprising. Spotify is just a pivot by the music industry. An industry that has a history of abusing musicians and customers alike. You could also argue that spotify isn't doing enough to help artists, and the subscription model had probably decimated what was left of album sales. As a musician, you bow have to use spotify or flounder alone.

It's not far off from people supporting piracy. You can argue about justifications and morality, but it shouldn't be surprising given the state of the music industry and the the last 2 decades we've had with high levels of piracy.
Can u clarify, How is it not have any basis in reality ?
All of us nerdy homeowners are looking for ceramic, marble, granite, quartzite, glass, or similar. We need a few sizes. Our square tiles are 18x18 inches (3/8 thick, 3/8 grout lines) in larger rooms and about 2x2 or 3x3 inches (1/8 thick, 1/8 grout lines) in showers. Tiles of generally similar area would be good. We also need wall tiles for kitchens (behind the sink) and for bathroom walls.

The rhombic Penrose tiling is basic and nice. The Voronoi transform of it is better I think, being less likely to chip or injure feet because there are no acute angles.
It's not cheap once you account for the typical 100-200% in cross-Atlantic shipping charges.
I don't think it is any specific "someone." I think Apple's policies/procedures itself are more at fault.

The fact that there's no way clear route to submitting security issues if you aren't a registered developer is problematic.
Actually... She is being irrational, because her decision is clearly made on emotional grounds.

But it's her right. I hope it bites her, but it's her right to be irrational.
Teenager builds his own Lego prosthetic arms
Because every Democratic candidate for President is going to have to have a position on health reform, and Medicare for All is emerging as one of the most popular options among those that have declared so far. So the question of what exactly Medicare for All would mean in practice is of primary importance to the agenda the eventual Democratic nominee will bring to the table.
So post-scarcity we should all join the Space Force and subject ourselves to the Captain's whims?

I'll take scarcity, thank you.
...And I am lightly suggesting that maybe it should matter.

Hurting others unnecessarily is the only sin in the world. Don't ever, ever be That Guy.
This is genre specific, and artist's popularity specific. I listen to a lot of smaller bands whose tours are almost never less than 2-3 hours from me. Plus, I don't really care for concerts anymore.

I'd rather just buy the album.
In practice a waiter who's taking home less than minimum wage will quit before they even get fired. Think about this critically. If waiters were in practice making less than $25 for an 8 hour day as those $2.xx/hr figures would suggest, why would they keep the job? Why is it that in America being a waiter is considered a MUCH better job than bagging groceries? Why is it that pretty people wait tables and ugly people sweep floors? Its because regardless of what you think of the system, they're taking home considerably more than the minimum wage. Obviously.
>The Saudis are positioned as our allies in the war on terror.

As are a lot of countries. Does not mean we will allow surveillance without any questions.

>As a Brit, I find your belief that US citizens are immune from monitoring by the intelligence services of other nations (when that kind of money is passing hands) touching ...

I never said or implied that.

Read the comment again:

>No Five Eyes member is going to randomly tap some US citizens phone because the Saudis asked without some serious investigation.
Sounds a bit like Apache Guacamole, which is sometimes used for presenting old software to users via a web setup.
> I think the only way it can happen is if leadership demands it and is absolutely unrelenting.

This seems like it would apply to any meaningful culture change. Too often "buy in" is passive at best.

I think I'll steal your "absolutely unrelenting" phrase for next time I need to have a conversation with management about a real change.
Reports: Russian authorities make deal with Google
Thats a paid post meant to sell more surface GOs, not an article about how microsoft is doing something groundbreaking.

“You know that feature you didn’t know you needed? I’m paid to convince you that you want it and absolutely must have it and will buy it and throw out your currently just fine computer”

That’s sales, not news.
Some of it could be cleaned up fairly easily - like the use of Yoda conditions and other anti-patterns, numerous spelling mistakes, dead (commented out) code, redundant casts, unused variables etc. But the major problem is no separation of concerns (business logic is tightly coupled with UI logic and Android framework dependencies), which makes writing any automated tests for the thing next to impossible right now. Resolving this issue would require major refactoring.
This is a really good, interesting point. You're probably right that it's deeply rooted in culture. In America, pictures and diagrams are just as often, if not more so, used to obfuscate than provide clarity. But I don't disagree with other cultures being able to teach from a young age how "a picture can be worth 1,000 words" and how to execute that meaningfully.
There are laws around the ways in which you can compensate minors. This may be the most reasonable way to pay the kid. That said, I assume the decision to make it an educational grant was not made without consultation with the family.
Parking in San Francisco
The problem with over promising with healthcare is that you can't walk it back and healthcare becomes the most expensive or second most expensive thing on the government budget.

The other problem with government healthcare is that you're basically giving the government some control over your body. It will be the government's business whether you're out of shape or overweight or indulge in too much sugar etc, because the government is paying the medical bills.
The font one seems like it's pushing it too far even for regular users since it breaks copy and paste.

Also this all seems like it would break accessibility regulations.
At first I thought that this might be another good indication that having "Facebook" on your resume isn't the golden egg it once was.

Then I realize it's even better than before because it demonstrates for a potential employer that you'll push whatever buttons you're asked to in exchange for money, regardless of whether it's good for the user, the internet, or society as a whole.
Researches benefit from doing peer review so that quality research is maintained. Its part of their job. I don't get
"paid" to put in expense reports for trips on the job, but I have to do them because its a job responsibility.
I think that's a joke, especially since INTERCAL preceded Javascript even though the former is listed as a descendant of the latter.
That's what property taxes are. Are you daft?
It turns out that the internet is full of information. Some of it is good, some of it bad; after a while, many people develop skills at interpreting it all.
So, so many people hate reading and writing. They abhor it. Black and white text on a page looks like history class homework. You could strap them to a chair and hold their eyes open and they wouldn't be able to make it through two double-spaced pages.

In my experience, one of the most common agendas for a meeting is "here is a document that the author is going to read to you."
Yes, it probably wasn't terribly helpful either that the rejection of Jewish physicists, many of whom helped get the American bomb project off the ground, and rejection of physicists studying "Jewish Physics" left them with probably too few qualified physicists to move a bomb project along as rapidly as the Americans did, even if they had the budget for a project of that size (they didn't), and were willing to spend it early enough (no indication of that). Considering also that they would have had to move rather faster than the Americans, since they didn't finish before the defeat of Germany. Fortunately for the world, there are plenty of reasons why is was essentially impossible for them.
It went to 2000 people already getting unemployment benefits.

> It was run by the Social Insurance Institution (Kela), a Finnish government agency, and involved 2,000 randomly-selected people on unemployment benefits.

So I'm curious what affect that had vs the general population's approach to finding employment. Particularly young people who may have never had a job before.
Other replies addressed the issues with assuming that population growth will continue as-is, but I also wanted to mention that humans are pretty creative so if we did continue to grow we'd likely start doing ecumenopolis things, deepening ocean trenches to concentrate oceans more and increase the usable land area on earth, start seriously considering the moon/mars for terraforming, building more vertically (above and below ground).

I don't think the volume of land will ever be an issue for humans, but I think that land will never be equally valued.
Nice article, but the title is a small exaggeration. There are many known of the DNA -> RNA -> Protein rule.

One of the most famous is the alteration of the Proline in the collagen. A big part of collagen is made of Proline, and another big part is made of Hydroxyproline (that is like proline, but one -H is replaced by a -OH). There is no code in the DNA for Hydroxyproline, you use the code for Proline and after the molecule is formed then you use a special enzyme to transform Proline into Hydroxyproline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen#Amino_acids

Also, tRNA sometimes use weird bases, that are also not encoded directly in the DNA.
Aren't private buses a more efficient way to move your employees rather than having them each drive their own car? If the local governments haven't done enough to solve the mass transit issue, it seems this is the best approach that a tech giant could implement.
There's 2 ways Apple handles music you've ripped. If the music's fingerprint matches that of something they already have in the iTunes Store, your iCloud Music Library will be populated with the iTunes Store version of the song, so you can download that on your other devices. Only the original uploading device retains the original file. This is usually a good thing as the iTunes Store version is frequently better-quality than whatever MP3 or AAC you had ripped.

The second way is if the file's fingerprint doesn't match any song in the iTunes Store catalog, then with iTunes Match, iTunes will actually upload the whole file and your other devices will then stream or download that exact file. There are some limits here; I think there's a limit on the song duration (not sure what it is but I'm pretty sure songs over 1 hour are past the limit), and there's a limit on total number of songs (at launch this was 25k; I think they've raised it higher but I don't know what the current limit is). Whatever the limits are, I do know my father's music collection (all manually ripped from a massive CD collection) is too large for iTunes Match, so he's stuck managing music the way we all used to do before Apple Music and iTunes Match came along.

As far as I'm aware, the Apple Music subscription supports the first mechanism but not the second, and the iTunes Match subscription is needed for the second option. That said, I'm not 100% positive.
If the media we purchase today is DRM Free, it will be easy to distribute when and if the legal channels disappear.

Having easy-accessible piracy channels now works against that goal by incentivizing content providers to invest in more stringent DRM schemes. DRM can rarely prevent piracy completely, of course, but it can make piracy more difficult and less accessible.
I’m glad to see more attention from law makers over data security, many companies have shown little interest in correcting or preventing issues long enough.
Google has taken over some space (unclear how much) in Starret-Lehigh and Alphabet/Sidewalk have space in Hudson Yards. The new offices down by Houston are years away.
I think writing gives you an incredible edge in life. If you really believe, you can write the story of your life.
> I would not, but this isn't about the direction of the swing. The original comment was about where the pendulum was going to end up. Apparently, the "very-left". To those of us outside the US, who have learned that what the (majority of the) US considers "left" is what we consider "still on the right", that warrants double-checking.

Didn't the OP explicitly mention the swing? As in, "When the pendulum swings very-left (as it will, American politics follow a tick-tock partisan pattern)". What about that suggests a stopping point? If the question was about where the pendulum would stop (they stop in the middle, btw), there would be no mention of a tick-tock pattern. A stopped pendulum doesn't follow a tick-tock pattern, it just stays in one place.

The interesting thing about pendulums isn't where they stop. It's that they continue to swing back and forth.

I'll ditch the pendulum analogy and just ask directly: Why are the political leanings of other countries relevant to determining what is "very-left" relative to the current political climate in the US?
I don't understand what is the uproar about regulation.

Regulations are there because companies will do whatever gives them more money, damn the impact on the environment/people/anything else.
Washington could be the first state to rein in algorithmic decision-making
You would be absolutely incorrect. I've received scores of C&D's over the years, which I've always complied with, and seen several people get sued and lose with penalties being both criminal and financial.

I would say it's unlikely that Spotify would even send a C&D to an adblocking user, but the folks that make their own apps to bypass the advertising or rip the streams are at legal risk.
>Even just small changes to TLS resulted in massive compatibility mishaps. There was about a year delay in the TLS 1.3 process while they worked around things like this.

Those are part of the problem we should be solving. Delaying TLS 1.3 to enable middleboxes is precisely the kinds of things we should be throwing away from any standard. That TLS 1.3 was close enough to 1.2 for broken middleboxes to show how broken they are is an example of how backwards compatibility at all cost bites you, and yet you are using it to claim the opposite.

It's perfectly possible that all that needs to be done for TLS to stop being a continuous problem is a sane TLS 1.4. But I'd like to see an actual argument for what that would look like instead of you just insulting me without adding anything to the discussion.
I googled "diabetes in thin people" and found the term "skinny fat", slim but with a high percentage of body fat. These are people who may appear to their body to have enough fat stored to survive a tough winter. (This was how McDougall describes the onset of diabetes.) Can people with low body fat get diabetes?
On the other hand, is spotify a benevolent entity saving starving musicians or is it something they are now forced to comply with?

How much money do you think musicians make on spotify? Do you think it's any better than it was before, or do you think spotify probably takes advantage of musicians?

Additionally, spotify has pretty much destroyed retail and online album sales (ignoring record sales), effectively forcing musicians to use the service.

Unless spotify is paying everyone well, they probably aren't the benevolent actor you make them out to be.