skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but a Westerner would hardly be the objective judger of such gulags/guantanamo bays of China. That being said if too many people were being sent to prison in China, unjustly, they'd have another revolution.

The fact is that even if evidence was revealed they had absolutely 0 gulags, or whatever it is you're claiming, it would not do much to silence anti-China sentiment. The presence of the gulags are not falsifiable, since opponents can always claim fabrication by the authoritarian regime. The only objective way is to defer to the majority of Chinese citizens, which currently approve of their government.

There's little point in arguing if the communist party is a party of saints—they'll always be doing something wrong, and they definitely are. The question is do they have a legitimate control of China? That's something only someone under their regime can answer and fight for, not a Western imperialist.
Yes, that wild time of discovery, and adventure, and at the time cutting edge. It really was a golden time. I'm sure many generations think that.
So, one more time, care to explain why you think that it is? Or am I to understand this correctly that you think it's "cancer" on society because you have just heard other people say that (like Bill Hicks and perhaps others you respect) and you assume it was prevalent?

It would be interesting to understand your original arguments if it was more clear what you based that assumption on (which is by no means universal).
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Accidental Tech Podcast dealt with this recently: Apple's support and bug tracking is really low-standard, by all accounts. Apparently, they frequently mass-close bugs (e.g. after a new release) with a comment to the effect of "if this is still a bug, please reopen it". You can understand the circumstances that might've led them to do this ... but it doesn't sound great.
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Alteryx - limited functionality, doesn't scale, can't debug properly. But they have a great sales team I suppose.

Also SAS.

It amazes me how much money some companies are willing to spend on products that are worse than their open source alternatives.
Are there any widely used hardware specs that a "big and stable" corp hasn't gotten wrong in some implementation? Back when Ethernet was a lot simpler than it is now there were plenty of big players who couldn't even manage to provide unique MAC addresses. Is IEEE754 being too complex to blame for Intel's FDIV bug?
Not the GP, but for software development I highly prefer https://clubhouse.io/
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I just don't think that content owners will get on board without asking you to implement DRM or invasive severside analytics.

Good luck though.
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Jio does have a positive impact on India for sure. It has increased data consumption in India and made Indians more aware.

However, Gopal, just look at data prices world wide. India was already the cheapest in the world for telecom, and now the prices are unsustainable. Indians don't care about privacy, but this kind of pricing would require monetisation from a lot more sources than just user data. Not to mention the drop in QOS from all telcos after Jio moved pricing below cost.

I'm happy you're happy. But this isn't rational, and you don't know what kind of corrupt practices have made this possible.
For a large amount of tabs, it is more important to have them visible and easily accessible than to have them loaded in memory. It's ok to keep only recent tabs in memory and reload older tabs, but it's good to have both shown in the same way and avoid "out of sight, out of mind".
Where do you go that doesn't have Lyft, but has Uber?

Lyft is US/Canada only, while Uber is much more global.
Interesting and makes sense I think. Thanks for giving this background info on the name :)
Why US based? Spotify is Swedish.
For every employee resigning from this project, there's a magnitude more willing to fill in the position.
Ben Thompson on Spotify: https://stratechery.com/2018/lessons-from-spotify/

He does list as one possiblity that Spotify will one day cut out the labels from the value chain. I personally think it is inevitable; the labels used to source, market and distribute music, and there is nothing (except the "admission cost") that I can see will prevent a distributor such as Spotify to become a label. Spotify has a strong brand name which can be leveraged as a strong asset for "great music" if they do it right, whatever that means. Can't see them put other labels out of business though. Their blue ocean can be to completely ignore physical and go fully virtual, perhaps even as far as offering immersive 3D concerts online, with artists that never appear in person - or perhaps in the future with virtual artists that never even existed irl.

There is also nothing inherently wrong in just being a distributor. Sometimes harvesting a stable profit over decades is better than growing like cancer and then crashing because you're yesterday's news. However the record labels are a threat against the stability and hence it is most likely that Spotify will push to become independent, just like Netflix.
Is that worldwide or in India?
I'm not an Apple fan boy by any stretch but years ago I discovered that the Apple 104 key keyboard suited me down to the ground. Despite using it mostly on Ubuntu and Windows. I've put up with strange key mappings just to use that keyboard.

The MacBook Pro I've just gotten at work is a nightmare. I assumed this was just getting used to it until this weekend when I finally setup my desktop at home with the old 104 key keyboard. The difference is night and day.
Buyers don't just want the rarest sneaker, they want to win at a game of being in the know. Taking the arbitrage in-house would ruin that.
That's quite a harsh comment without anything substantial. It's really unfair to the parent comment who attempted to help the HN reader crowd with a summary.
The issue is that you might think that you are in a monogamous relationship while you are being cheated on, and this is not that rare.

> celibacy is evolutionarily indistinguishable from death

So? Also, this is not really correct, sperm donations are a thing after all.
For punjabi songs, I feel Apple Music and Saavn are the best. Both have really good collection and atleast Apple Music has a good curation of playlists as well. Have been using it for almost a year now.
My 5 month old only took 12 seconds to figure it out. Yours must be slow.
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Because only men cheat, right?
What part of “No ” doesn't the DNS understand?
I would say it’s fairly easy to read. Easier to read than the article. Don’t shoot the messenger.
An inheritance tax exists here in France, you'll get taxed like 25% of the value of an illiquid asset like an appartement. And it's in addition to all the taxes paid on the appartment paid during your life.
> Why is Apple so resistant to making repairable products?

I think it's a rhetorical question and we all know the answer to it.
At least it's responsive :D

Putting the important content on top: TODO.
I have Spotify India on my phone, so I guess I'm a part of the 1 million that was waiting for this.

I was about to pay for it even thought it's offered as a free service as well. However, once I gave it a go, I realised the collection available in India is quite disappointing and this is clearly not what the 1 million were waiting for. PS - I'm not really using Spotify, even though I'm counted as a user.
The standards explicitly name and allow 127.0.0.1 and localhost. Is there any value in rehashing this?

This works perfectly on Chrome and all other browsers. Its only Firefox which is a problem. So its for Mozilla to explain why they are going against the standards and other browsers.
I could be the minority here, but I really enjoy the Pocket recommendation I find in my Mobile Firefox. I'd like for Desktop Firefox to show them as well, as well as sinking, so I get the same recommendations on both mobile and desktop.
And I can assure you once people lose trust, they started to question everything. And sadly there are increasingly lots of area where people find Tim Cook's Apple are very inconsistent.
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I am on an iPhone and an Apple Music user. Got Spotify premium the very first day hoping to find good curated playlists.
To my shock, I couldn't find a lot of mainstream Indian and International tracks, very limited playlists, and ever more limited regional and classical music curation.
Cancelled my subscription just yesterday and got the refund.
Apple Music still remains the go-to music platform in India despite so many competitors.
I ended up doing this last year. I bought a Sintech adapter and a Toshiba XG4 SSD for my 2015 15” rMBP. It works just fine but the battery life ended up being terrible compared to the stock SSD. I was getting around 60% of the battery life of the stock SSD with the XG4 + adapter combo.
There should be no way, but as plenty of people can attest to... it happens. Really, why would so many people be complaining if it wasn't true?

I'm still using my late 2011 machine as a daily driver, day in and day out. I think you can agree I don't generally mistreat my stuff (or the thing would be destroyed already). I'm telling you I've been careful with the charger cables, and still got 3 of them to fry this way.

You may or may not believe me, but at least you should understand that my opinion (and many others') is that those cable strains are unfit for their purpose.
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I’m not sure it is!
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> The problem was that they did not see other races as people as they saw themselves. They saw their lives and societies and thought of them as savages.

Yes

> religion (which was more unquestionable

No - America was founded as a country on freedom of religion, which is why it ended up with thousands of little groups from a state of polyamorists to some guys who really liked making furniture.

> than say, global warming is today)

Trolling

> extreme version of the modern liberal

Trolling. Also please choose whether Jefferson was an extreme liberal or a conservative prisoner of the prejudices of his time.

> they deserve some credit for their heroic bravery and ideas on liberty

Yes. There was also the question, even at the time, of how well they were going to live up to what they meant on liberty. They wrote "all men are created equal" into the declaration of independence then immediately spent the next 200 years arguing that meant "not all men". Some of the co-signatories were there at the time arguing against slavery, it's just that Jefferson was on the other side of this particular issue.
Yep, the only thing that I miss in Gaana is a desktop app (which Spotify has).
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Specially since many just learned it by doing, instead of reading the OOP literature regarding ECS systems.

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Object-Oriented-Pr...
Keeping in mind the current collection available through Spotify, the more appropriate way to state the first sentence would be:

> Pretty sure a high percentage of these listeners have downloaded and tried the free tier.

Because most of us aren't really using it, are we?
A similar idea but for neural networks is by using TVM [1]. It's built on top of Halide and LLVM. I haven't tried it myself, but it seems to support deployment to many backends.

[1] https://docs.tvm.ai/deploy/index.html
What are the top local competitors in India? I'm unfamiliar with the streaming music market there.
These days we have gone too far in the other extreme.

My grandfather needing a blood transfusion in 1990 and was seen as a death sentence because of how little of the blood was tested then in Eastern Europe. It ended up that my father and uncle had to take turns donating blood to try and keep him alive.

When people talk about taking blood from high risk groups and call me a bigot for being absolutely against it I always remember my father fainting three days before my grandfather died because he had given too much blood.
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India has free song service from Jio(Saavn) and Airtel, 2 largest mobile service provider. Few independent players like Gaana which are half the price of Spotify and Amazon Prime music which is at same price as Spotify but comes bundled with Prime Video and Shopping benefits. So uphill battle for Spotify.
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what causes are just?

when is it okay to protest?

are there any cases, either in the past or present, that you consider worthwhile and in good faith?
Right, also about NUMA:

> It is expected that, from late 2008 on, every SMP machine will use NUMA.

Outside servers, still not happened.

They are not that exotic anymore and are no longer exclusive to very expensive servers, e.g. Threadripper 2920X is a $650 CPU, but market penetration is still low.
ECS builds up on protocol/interface oriented programming, where COM is the poster child how to organized such components.

There is CS literature about component oriented programming.
And then you'd get laws that limits the wealth that can be given to childrens, like those in France. Yeah for taxes!
> A standard website can not access your local services.

I’ve used https://ziahamza.github.io/webui-aria2/ in the past to manage aria2c with aria2c running on localhost (see https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2/blob/master/README.m... for instructions) and the webui loaded directly from said address. That was a while ago and I don’t know if any browsers still allow access to localhost by default but at least some of them did last time I used that webui at least.
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That's not the full story, though. The legitimacy of our social structures is based in large part on claims of meritocracy and (imperfectly, but relatively) equal opportunity. Vast inequalities in hereditary wealth make this a very obvious fiction.

People might be happy to overlook this when things are going well for them personally, or when they feel hopeful about the future. When that is no longer the case for a majority, though, the status quo could be just as 'anti-civilization' as extreme redistribution.
is there a way to download the dataset and query it locally from for example postgresql or sqlite? How big is the database, 4G compressed?
I'm not a fan of promise - it makes it sound like a choice, and not something enforced by the design (assuming it's set up properly, which the CA _can't_ promise).
I use Bookmarklets Context Menu in Firefox, it's not perfect but it works.

Read about it here: https://github.com/mems/bookmarklets-context-menu
That actually looks great.
Given the state of activism and rebellion brewing in China, I am doubtful. From what I've learned about censorship in china in 2019, i am convinced we are on the same side.
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yes but as was said earlier client-side JavaScript can also be blocked. Everything has downsides.

And it was posited that client-side was needed, the reply was they couldn't see why it was 'needed', which I agree with, I can see why it might be wished for, but you do not need it to record clicks. You do need it for other things, or to improve understanding of the clicks.

Basically any solution is going to be composed of many pieces, all of those pieces susceptible to attack in different ways.
It really costs 1.67$ in India?
What’s the draw for being so into sneakers? Do you resell them to make money? Wear them? Collect them like stamps?
Not exactly the same things, ts doesn’t generate anything really, coffescript or better reasonml compiled to js would be better comparison. Ts/flow design goal was specifically that if you replace type annotations with white spaces it is precisely normal js. There are no static or dynamic/runtime transforms.
Fires can spread quickly and surround you

In a wildfire situation, you won't have the forward visibility to drive that fast. You'd rear-end the first car you caught up to.
> Today’s computers can do amazing things, but they sort of miss out on the whole human user experience bit. Maybe they need to go back to basic ;-)

It's partly because in 8-bit computers the programming environment was the first thing you were exposed to. You weren't force to program though, you could limit yourself to LOAD "*",8 - but also you were free to experiment with more commands if you wanted to.

In newer computers, the programming interface was replaced by something else, and then completely removed from the system.
Honestly, I'll rather pay $15/mo for the US version of spotify then get the Indian version. Most of the songs, I listen to are not available in Indian Version. songs from artists like green day, linkin park, coldplay, etc.
JIOSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Prime Music, Apple Music (which is much cheaper as a family account), Hungama, Wynk.

All the above currently have more songs (except Prime) on them than Spotify in India does.
I was joking man.
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yes it does, but for the time being a lot of artists are not available there. so worthless for some people.
They will have the Data when it was actually repaired by their Store. Notice How most of the Street Laptop Repair Store advertise with Apple repair? There is a whole Apple 2nd Hand, Repair economy out there. If they have an 3% repair rate on Apple Store, you can bet it is at least double that amount on total repair outside of Apple.

Which is one of the Key Point of Genius Bar, these front line Genius were suppose to Report back all sort of problems with their Product so the design team would know. Steve make sure this so they can services their customer better. Look at the Genius Bar now.
> And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.

1 million people using Spotify and wasting data pack to brag to their friends? Seriously?
There's overlap between the fields, just as there is between, say, physics and genetics - but we don't usually end up telling physicists that they should be busy curing cancer rather than fucking about with subatomic particles. Different people have different aptitudes, and there aren't many people I've met in the FAANG space who'd I'd say would be well suited to wet lab work no matter how smart they are.

(And hey, I'd finished my revisions before I got the job, submitting them just ended up being a lower priority than moving to America and getting married…)
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Certainly. I recall seeing a video of a pump shotgun firing while the safety was on.

But as long as you always treat your firearms as loaded and never point it at something you're not willing to kill or destroy, you shouldn't have any "accidents".
My 2018 MacBook Pro arrived last week £2.6k and I turned it on to find the right speaker crackling. I now have to make a trip to Apple to get it fixed.
USB-A can be 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 Gen 1, 3.1 Gen 2.

Same for USB-C. It is just a standardized connector with a defined pinout.

If you force the standard to always provide 15 watt, then how will you do that on phones or a raspberry pi or other low power devices? If you force SuperSpeed or SuperSpeed+ over the connector then you won't see it on budget or midrange phones.

It makes perfect sense to differentiate between the supported protocols and the connector itself. Otherwise you would need a ton of different connectors that you may never need on your device.
Sounds good, as Youtube music is coming for the market.
Go Spotify!

PS. Still miss you in Ukraine
we have the unique advantage of being able to learn from the wreckages of societies past

Why do we have that unique advantage? Plenty of civilisations had historians.
Can't argue with that, but these repair houses have special tools which make the entire process almost as efficient as repairing a bulkier and modular device. At the end of the day, we can call it a user hostile measure and it needs to be tackled with government policies.
I agree completely. Many of the comments on this article are plain ugly. It’s a depressing revelation to me the state of HN on this topic.
The passage you quote makes it clear the disparity is in absolute numbers, not proportions, as your earlier comment suggests.

Btw, note that this passage (that I also quoted yesterday for a comment of my own) is now nowhere to be found in the article, that has been heaviy edited since it was posted on HN.
This is just positive PR now that Spotify is publicly traded. It's not a serious indication of their success in this market.

This truly just means that 1 million people in India "downloaded" the app: a good share who were waiting for it and wanted to pay and a great share that are using it since it's also offered here for free. Plus there's already strong competitors with cheaper services and a lot more songs (including Apple Music).

If Spotify's only USP will be its song discovery, I doubt they'll get a lot of Indian users to switch just for that.
I blame inheritance of wealth and the possibility of unlimited accumulation of richness for this.

In my opinion, property and money, which someone amassed during his lifetime, should automatically be devoted to the common good after that person's gone. In my opinion it's insane, that someone lucky can inherit a fortune by basically doing nothing. There are things which make sense to inherit, like family enterprises, but there should be a limit.

I also believe, that as an individual, there should be an upper bound to how rich you can be. Does it really make sense, that an individual person can have more than a seven-digit pool of money on his bank? Is there a way to limit the crazy strive for individual richness? If there would be a limit, we could basically invest the free money collectively into old and new enterprises which would not simply act as money printers for a few individuals, but actually profit society as a whole... Just a crazy idea...
When you put it that way it almost doesn't make sense, but if you change "1 million" to 0.075 percent of the population, it starts to.
And vice versa. We had a very infamous case of it in my country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mol
A few women brought HIV back home catching it from that "activist".
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> There's no point to client-side JavaScript: The baddies just write JavaScript that rewrites basic objects using Object.defineProperty so that document.visibilityState always says so (and so on), or that lie to the visibility sensor. Or they just make a whole fake web browser that runs on a Server. You are in an arms-race, and verification companies simply can't/don't do a very good job.

You cannot overwrite javascript properties in frames from another domain, right? Am I missing something?

A fake webbrowser requires a lot of IP addresses. Wide-spread abuse seems hard to me, especially when combined with Google's hidden "I'm not a robot" thingy.
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What is the point of children..?
Why don't the manufacturers raise the price to meet demand?