skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to see this. The integration of your personal library was totally ruined (for me) several years ago when they removed the ability to "unlink" songs. When you add your own files to Spotify, the files are scanned and sometimes matched against files in Spotify's own database. The trouble is that Spotify is pretty bad at identifying files correctly and will misidentify them and "link" them to a track on the service. Once this happens, you have no reasonable recourse.

To be fair, this is a pretty niche problem - tends to only be a problem when dealing with live music. So for example, if I have a concert recording, and make a playlist of those files for use in Spotify, Spotify will almost certainly replace at least one of those files with an album cut from the service. Now I'm left with a playlist of a live show that has had several tracks replaced with the _wrong_ version by Spotify.

The thing that initially drew me to Spotify was the fact that it made it pretty easy to integrate the music offered by the service with my personal library. I've always been disappointed that this feature was broken and left broken because the vast majority of people don't care about managing their own music libraries.
> There's an explanation for the missing Java (

Yeah... I saw that. It's honestly part of why I thought the lack of Java was an odd choice. (There are least a few other languages that are on the chart that arguably have better claims to being called multi-paradigm. Common Lisp and C++ among them.)
Profits are what drives the economy forward. They provide the capital to expand operations and create new ones.

They also provide the surplus needed to deal with pollution and other externalities. It's not a coincidence that unfree economies are the worst environmental disasters.
I like that the blogger laments against statism and the French nanny state, but he should remember that the "China Syndrome" is extremely unlikely to happen in Europe.

First of all, these fines (and more importantly, "laws") are completely arbitrary so they could exist, or not. Mostly they're there to milk American companies in the EU.

Second of all, these taxes, sorry - "fines" - are meant to optimize rent extraction by the fascist elite, not to make the Americans go away.

In China, anything resembling elections would be the end of the Chinese Communist Party. In the West, all major parties are controlled by the same forces.
That's why Google has to leave China or become managed by the communist party, while in France it's most welcome as long as they pay good fines.
Because it works well at various levels and is good at producing low error maintainable code. It's also very stable and has a good stdlib so what's written five years ago is still working and makes sense. It's not really fun for me (yet?) and I think something like Django is more suitable in many cases, but choosing a core competency go is a pretty safe bet for medium or large company.
A key point here is that I'm not talking about any ol' random human. I am talking about you specifically.

That is, this experiment is science-couture, just for you. Why is that important? Well, if you indeed have consciousness then you must be willing to admit the experiments we conducted are probing and characterizing bonafide consciousness. No?

I have an if-you-concede-that-much-is-true follow-up; but do you?...

wrt. a machine designed to mimic the signals output by your brain during awake states vs sleep states (at least as they are interpreted by my electrodes) is irrelevant, i think. We are not performing a turing test here; you know you have consciousness, so you know the data we have gathered on a conscious vs unconsious state is legitimate. Building a device to trick a sensor is trivial for any number of things we can study scientifically, or have engineered to detect and diagnose a known correlate to some phenomena.

I feel this is a bit like saying "i can design a machine that tricks your tire pressure sensors so therefore we cant know anything about tire pressure". I'd admit that would be true if we didn't know, when we designed the sensor, if we were working with a tire with the capacity to hold different air pressures.
Sorry about that, you’re right too, it’s Alternate Light Source.
It is more concise. Similarly, I was a fan of using attributes instead of text elements (with their unnecessary close tags), but eventually was won over by neatness. e.g. translating an eg from
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SXML.htm...

(parrot (@ (type "African Grey")) (name "Alfie"))

<parrot>
<type>African Grey</type>
<name>Alfie</name>
</parrot>

It's more the one-variable-per-line pretty-printing than the syntax as such, but still.
Sorry, I understand less and less what your suggested billing models would be, and it seems like some of your suggestions are self-contradictory.

On the one hand, you suggest that billing should be based on peak power, because it is supposedly better for the customer to run their own battery, but then it would also be OK for the power company to offer bursting with billing based on peak 5 minute average power, which essentially means that the power company is selling you use of their battery. But then, if they are selling you use of their battery, why only for 5 minutes? What is wrong with them selling use of their battery for all your storage needs? In particular when the power company often has options at their disposal that are far cheaper than actual batteries to achieve the same goal, such as simple averaging over a large number of customers, or moving loads that aren't time critical to otherwise low-load times, which don't need any actual storage at all.

You seem to be focused on incentivizing everyone to flatten their own load curve as a supposed method for optimizing the utilization of capacity. While it is obviously true that if everyone had a flat load curve, global utilization would be maximized, you seem to be simply ignoring the fact that there are some real-world requirements behind peoples' load curves, so the actual power or bandwidth consumption of each individual can not be flattened. At best people could pay for some sort of storage (in the case of electricity) that transforms their actual load curve into a flat curve on the grid. But at the same time, it is perfectly possible to flatten the global load curve without the need to flatten every individual load curve. In fact, you can flatten the global load curve by making some individual load curves more bursty. If you sell electricity cheaper at night, that incentivizes some people to install storage heating, causing them to create an artificial load peak at night--leading to the global load curve becoming flatter.

The ability to increase utilization by combining different load curves is one of the great possibilities of many users sharing a common infrastructure, so why would we possibly want to disincentivize that?!
Matress Casper is a Tech company now?
As a Bostonian, I don't think our housing or transit can take it. I'll happily defer.
Hybrid Classical-Quantum Machine Learning on a Quantum Computer
“D. Well I was quite angry as we had kept it a secret for so long. There is me now in all the books. I didn’t like that!” Cannot stop laughing. Rip Dorothy. Uk has a fighting chance with you girls working in that industry. Would have to play a visit.

Guess no one would catch me as a chinese spy to copy that ba.
You also want to be able to version data sheets to see where errata creeps in.
Wow, a company wide standup with 70 people in 10 minutes? As someone who loves quick standups, please tell me how this worked!
It will be interesting to see how this goes.

If the users are serious about the right to choose for themselves. If they dislike adverts. Spotify may experience some business shrinkage.

That could signal a reversal of one catastrophic aspect of the current Internet.
ورژن ۲.۱ اندروید هفتادسی منتشر شد – امکان استعلام و پرداخت قبض
$100B Tech Vision Fund to Get Bigger
Oh, OK, so we're going for... who, exactly?
I used the title from the print edition, which is shorter
Yes. But the rhetoric around this is wrong. Opposing people's rationale is: "wow, the local government is cutting down a check of 3 billion to a large corporation, fuck them! They should invest in schools and public transportation, etc".

But that's not what a tax incentive is. The incentive is: bring your business here, create jobs, add economic fluidity with your workforce and you don't have to pay 3 billion dollars in taxes.

See how different is that? If Amazon decides to pull out, they just don't bring those jobs and don't get those tax incentives...but there's no extra 3 billion to spend in your community. There's literally 0 dollars more. You're not saving 3 billion in state and municipal funds. Those 3 billion in taxes (whether you exempt someone from paying them or not) only happen if Amazon (or any company) exists in that region.

The worst part is that some elected state officials are getting behind this rhetoric and that's kind of hard to understand. Either they are doing it for populism which is terrible, or they are doing it because they are ignorant which is even worse.
So I'm a bit late to the party, but I do habe some recomendations.

The podcast that recently has been important to me is: Conversations with Tyler.
Some people may have issues with hjs background, being a libertarian.
But he has the best interview style I have ever heard.
He asks the most thoughtful questions on so many different topics.
I always come away learning something new.

One that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is The Moth.
It's very liberal, but helps with keeping me compassionate.
The way people tell their stories often makes me emotional.

Hello internet is fun, for some reason.
Somebody else said. It's like hanging out with friends.
With all of the in jokes, it might take a whike to get into.

Radiolab's More Perfect.
The first teo seasons are fantastic.
It's all about the US supreme court. I don't live in the US but it still grips me.

The Ezra Klein show.
Some times hit or miss.
But still worth for some of his guests with which Ezra manages to gell with.

The numberphile podcast.
A more slow interviewing style, mostly about the personalities behind the world of mathematics.
It depends on the culture of the place, but stackexchange (like stackoverflow, superuser, etc.) sites allow users to post a question, post an answer to that question, and accept that answer as the best one (the same person doing all these). In these cases, the questions and answers act like one piece of an FAQ or a best practice to educate others. Since stackexchange sites are also inherently wikis, allowing all questions and answers to be edited by anyone (with sufficient reputation scores and reviews by others), it could help improve the quality of the content for such pieces.
uh that may and well be true, but their behavior in recent years says stagecoach.. wild, wild west.. robbers and thus their logo is now a punchline/comedy routine.
I think you are talking about Egypt and @fdsak was talking about US & Europe
The principle still stands. Why care about points? Wasn’t that the motivating factor to remove displaying comment points on HN in the first place? Facilitating hive mentality?

If everyone agrees with a comment it probably adds no value. If everyone disagrees it probably adds no value. Maybe interesting discussions should be sorted by controversial, but I don’t think that would be a “safe space”.
Ideal market regulations also need to discourage negative externalities and encourage positive ones. A chemical plant dumping toxic waste into a river is neither monopolistic nor fraudulent, it's simply causing other people problems for private gain.
One Game a Week 2014: A Retrospective
Freedom to do the work any way, anywhere.
I was on SomethingAwful for years (2004? 2003? regdate). There was a period of time when that was true, but I'd definitely say it's no longer the case.
you can get a nice, complete POWER9 desktop tower for $2,364.99

https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TLSDS3/intro.html

Probably more open, too.
lovely troll is lovely
And after the divorce, Bezos won't be the world's richest man anymore. I wonder if Bill just so happened to leak some compromising info to regain the title!
tl;dr: "yes"

> The demand that Bezos refrain from attributing political motive to AMI could itself be a “thing of value.” But even if that were not the case, a release of potential legal claims plainly is a thing of economic value. So it appears that AMI, as a corporate entity; Fine, its lawyer; and anyone within the corporation who approved Fine’s demands could potentially be charged with felony extortion.
Open Source Messenger App for iOS – Real-Time Messaging, Voice and Video Calls
I was like, this talk is like [nervous stab of laughter] you know like uh cringeworthy?
Location: Seattle, WA

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I am Senior UI Developer with 6+ years of experience
"...and you don't have to prick your fingers anymore!"

(Sorry, if you don't get this reference please ignore.)
These kinds of assumptions are a recipe for misery. And laws are not a way to police how things are _supposed_ to be.

If you want a reasonably good chance of knowing that your potential love interest respects you, there's really only one good way to do it. You talk with them for a long time, months, without having sex. All those things the old-timers did? They did them for a reason.
What the Hell Is Happening at Goodison Park?
Technical nihilism is all the rage but... can you really not tell the difference between be the U.S. and China on human rights?

Of course, you could reply to this comment with some gross injustice, and I could counter. But I'm generally curious. And if you do believe that that U.S. and China are the same, I guess my next question, because arguments seem to lead this way - how do you feel about what-aboutism?
Sorry for the late reply, but there's no way your company is paying $2.50 - $5.00 per hour while only charging $2.99 per hour. I understand the difference in the cost of living, but that is obvious bullshit.
Their nervous systems are not self reflective about them, however, and they certainly don’t perform abstract meta-level reasoning about those wants and desires. Impulse-response is not consciousness, even if involves a simple reflective model of self image.
SA is definitely past its influential period, but to this day stuff that starts in 4chan ends up in national news.
Yeah SA is definitely past its meme-making prime, but it was the beginning of so much that it holds a special place.
Got any samples of great six page memos you can link to?
This is only true if the company's behavior is changed by the incentive, and the parent's comment was about the view that it isn't.

Moreover, in the global sense we have been deprived of revenue. Amazon was going to open somewhere. This competition means that they overall pay less tax than without it, because they extracted concessions. If we care about protecting the public purse in the general sense, it's reasonable to object to these tactics.
Do they execute the mentally handicapped like Texas? (I think China is much worse on human rights fwiw, we just have a long way to go)
you've never accidentally locked your CAC have you?
They're not the same. For example, it's the U.S. that has the world's largest prison population and the world's most expensive healthcare, etc. China has different issues.
A lot of folks still do printed narratives, but some teams (mine) are digital now. This has become over more prevalent as our teams get more distributed.
There is a regulatory body capable of it, just not one willing to
>Is this some kind of national pride thing where I should be rooting for my home country to win?

What happens if Xi Jinping decides that he wants something that you do not want? He will not let you vote if one day his foreign policy goals involve nice Americans.
I guess this depends on the person, but for me- My boss 100% hands off on my day to day work.

I can chose what I work on for the day, week, month, or Quarter. I have my work area, but within that I have 100% freedom to figure out what I need to do- the only thing I need to do is to be able to justify it. I can select the tickets I want to work on, areas to improve, initiatives to take up, or software to build.

Also, the core business drive of measuring and qualitating your work. So, you can see the impact you are having on the business (positive or negative- NOT in a way that affects your job, but in a way that you can say "I did X which made Y faster, causing a 3% growth in click-though rates).

But I do wish I had a more private workplace. Hexes are better then the nightmare of open offices, and I work on a quiet floor, but sometimes I wish I had a door I could close.
I'd certainly consider a threat to expose me to those pics as blackmail, yes.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/chine...

from Hayden the former head of the NSA:
https://money.cnn.com/2013/07/19/news/huawei-china-spy/index...

also their code for routers was a direct copy of cisco IOS for years they didnt even try to hide it: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...
Maybe, but salaries around DC are WAY below SV or NYC. The pay and perqs of gov't/DoD contracting can never compete with SV startups or NYC finance; not even close.
In case anyone is wondering about the Blythe Institute, it looks like it is an organization that supports and attempts to promulgate intelligent design. This would explain why this paper has no references despite the fact that it retreads ideas that have been discussed in the evolutionary biology community for at least half a century.
From a software perspective, I don't believe you can deduce the development process of a software project from the dependencies and interfaces alone. Just because many websites these days have a heavy database dependency doesn't mean that websites evolved out of databases; initial websites were just static HTML content, and eventually websites started adding databases as a dependency to generate dynamic HTML content.
> But You still have to pay tax for your income though, thats for allowing you to do business.

I don’t think “allowing you to do business” is the arbitrary motivator for taxes. Societies deem it more efficient to pool resources for common needs we all have. This is taxes.

Conventional welfare also provides for a person’s “basic needs”, usually with the condition that that person is actively searching for an opportunity to add value.

People need to add value for societies to prosper. Wealth doesn’t just appear. Bear in mind that the only reason, e.g., Sweden can spend so much on welfare is after long periods of wealth creation through Capitalism.

If enough people are on free money with no incentive to work, there isn’t enough wealth generated to pay for the people living on free money.

> And for people who can't or won't produce value, fine, here is basic income for you so that you can still fulfil your basic needs.

Who gets to decide what a basic need is, anyway? Since I’m paying for it through taxes, I would deem your basic needs as shelter, food, and water. Warmth? Luxury. Television? Luxury.

> So its not one happy person at the expense of someone else.

It really is though. There’s no other way to put it. It’s the consumption of wealth on the back of someone else’s labour.
There are serious debates about these issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombing...

Your stated confidence that there was no difference in the way Germany and Japan were viewed in terms of racial difference from the US—come on, how is that supposed to demonstrate anything other than a personal desire to prove that racially-tinged animosity wasn't a factor?

Protip: don't expect a historically sophisticated, humane, balanced historical account to emerge from HN comments.
> But that's not what a tax incentive is. The incentive is: bring your business here, create jobs, add economic fluidity with your workforce and you don't have to pay 3 billion dollars in taxes.

It's true, but it's not like your employees also get a tax break. It seems again like the workers are shouldering the burden.

The only reason why this works is because it's a race to the bottom where big companies get huge benefits to their taxes because they can shop around (just like Amazon did with the whole HQ2 thing), and then pick who treats them best. Most businesses don't have that kind of leverage.

If no state offered any tax incentives like this, then companies would just end up paying more taxes, right? We could get into moving your company to another country, but for Amazon this would mean a lot of things, like increased shipping times, customs, etc.

From https://theweek.com/articles/754007/are-corporate-tax-incent...

"Economists say that most of the time, the incentives are counterproductive — a zero-sum game in which jobs created in one community come at the expense of jobs lost somewhere else. The real winners are companies, which are able to play municipalities against one another so as to be freed of paying taxes other businesses (and homeowners) do. The result is a "race to the bottom," leaving cities with less to spend on infrastructure improvements and public education. At the same time, companies increase expenses for communities by drawing on public resources, including sewer systems, roads, power lines, and schooling for workers' children. Last year, Wisconsin pledged $3 billion in incentives to electronics manufacturer Foxconn to build a plant in Racine County that the company says will eventually employ 13,000 workers. But according to Wisconsin's own estimates, the cost to taxpayers per job created is $230,700, and the state won't recoup its investment until 2043."

And now more recently, Foxconn has been saying they won't even have as many jobs as they thought!

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-foxconn-plant...
6 pages is not mandatory. It’s up to 6. A lot of decision meetings are a a page or two when it’s a very clear decision which doesn’t require too much framing.
Sure, but the point is that the colours aren't real, isn't it?

It's like, say, a movie or novel based on a historical event we don't know much about - it may aid understanding of the event, but the details are made up. It's fictionalized, "based on a true story", and to present it as fact or as history would be misleading.
LOL!

It took millions to answer the question a low skilled laborer could answer in one second.

On the other hand, just answering the silly question created a lot of jobs (especially in social sciences) so a success in its own right :-)))
Comparatif montre femme
Just like the Chinese got no chance to vote on America's unilateral sanctions against Iran, but are still subjected to them.
You might be interested in Starlark [sic], https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/language.ht...
Amazon sent me to a Tufte seminar. I had no problem applying what I learned at work. In fact my manager required me to give a presentation on what I learned. Guess how I did it.
I really like this idea - and would recommend it to many of my tech friends who have lost their sense of purpose or contribution to the greater good. one piece of feedback is that it makes the project feel less sincere to have your promotion for your 12 in 12 project within the page, so i'd consider removing that
Some of that sounds like a nightmare to me.

- open office - impossible to concentrate.

- constant pair programming - ughhh

- I have a family and friends outside of work. I’ve gone out of my way not to mix my work life and personal life. I have no desire to “play games” and “watch movies” with my coworkers. I come to work to work. I have friends who are former coworkers.

- regular lunches together - again, my lunch time is my time to get away from the office and recharge.
I wouldn't say never.