skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, this debate is not about determining whether two different audio clips A and B sound better. It's about determining whether two clips can be distinguished by our ears at all.
Political advertising is regulated in the UK.
And Python has __init__.py in the module.
It is shocking to see how few of these 10% speak up.

So maybe it's actually not 10%, or maybe just working with "personal data" isn't as automatically objectionable as you seem to think.

For example I know that whoever does IT for the local doctor's office, or dispatch for the plumbing company, is working with personal data. I don't think I'd consider either of those a problem.

Not comparing them together, but from moral perspective they seem equal to me.

Not sure how that's supposed to work exactly.
Not OP, but personally I removed it and don't miss it. But then I'm not trying to monetise everything, so analytics seem more about the ego boost in retrospect. A bit shameful I was willing to compromise my readers' privacy for that.

Depending on your needs, it's pretty easy and interesting to hack something together yourself though.
True about drivers, but Windows drivers do work for much longer stretches of time than Linux drivers do simply because you don't have to recompile them for every minor change to the kernel. There's no reason Linux couldn't have stable ABIs for major kernel versions other than that they don't want to.
> representative of what the average user wants

The use of the word “average” implies measurement. I’d be interested in seeing quantified data showing what the average user wanted from this user interface. Surely the designer measured everything and produced an optimal product. How many milliseconds is the correct transition time for each animation? What particular transparency fraction is most pleasing and to what extent did different transparency values detract? Plot the function.

I say this mostly in jest because when I was a software engineer working with designers I’d rarely see any measurement or study. I have seen design decisions made after extensive user study but not always. Sometimes there’s just a pronouncement: This is “pleasing” and that is not—because it is so. If I wanted to change the search algorithm I’d have to show with measurement that the new one was better. If a designer wants to change the color of a button or the text on a label, no such measurement hurdle exists.

It’s entirely possible I’m wrong and the designers of this site have pages of data showing this particular interface to be more effective than alternatives. Not sure I’d bet on it in general though.
Often used Buffet quotes: "If you don't know jewelry, know your jeweler". I suspect that Larry Ellison is factor in the decision to drop Oracle.
Ask HN: Behance Infintely Reloading on Firefox?
https://www.behance.net/

TLDR; What things in your web app can cause this on Firefox?

PS: Other forums where I can post this question?

I have Firefox with the basic setup: uBlock Origin and Containers extensions. Third party cookies is disabled.

Behance seems to be infinitely reloading for me. Same thing happened with Firefox Focus on mobile (with a query parameter "ilo" added every time it reloads, "ilo=<something>&ilo=<same_thing>..."). I can't debug further since it reloads within milli-seconds. Am I doing something wrong or is the page using something that causes this? How can I avoid this from happening on my websites?
That 'finally' clause might not run to flush Serilog at the end. The webhost will listen to several exit events but some like window close, cancel key, some exceptions, and others will close the program at soon as the event handler returns. This is why the webhost registers a ManualResetEvent to block the event handler until the Program.Main() is finished running.

Also if you're using EF migrations, then stick with the normal CreateWebHostBuilder() method in Program.cs because it's used to bootstrap the program to run migrations at the command line.
Yes, the government has no corruption and makes no errors
Ah yeah, I wrote that incorrectly. I meant that Bach went back and did "it" again for a grand total of 48 prelude/fugue pairs.
On the death of my family's dairy farm
Seconded, amazing book, wish it was longer!
Yes. The people there aren't, but the institutions by design are.
Hey folks! One of the authors here. Somehow this post went under our radar. Thank you all for your comments and feedback! We're super excited about the amount of attention that this project has gotten. This motivates us to work even harder and to deliver even more cool stuff.
Go and JS support are definitely on our agenda. Shouldn't be too hard to add since we first transform models into AST and only then interpret AST into a specific language. I might be wrong but this is a very crucial detail that distinguishes m2cgen from similar projects like sklearn-porter. As a result models are completely decoupled from languages and can be worked on independently. Once you implement a particular model, all languages get its support automatically. And vice versa. Plus we support XGBoost and LightGBM :)
SVM support is something we'll be focusing on from the modeling side of things.
Any contributions are much appreciated!
And Google tracks people on ALL websites, without any consent. When are we talking about that?
So this is why streaming Google Music on my fairly nice sound system ends up sounding like total crap?
How many people here track their users? How many people here track where their users come from, what they click on, who they are, etc?

The constant articles deriding Facebook ring hollow considering most of HN’s audience is engaged in similar behavior.
Shared housing is one thing. Shared housing with which you share major financial responsibility with someone else is another matter. Houses also require maintenance, are often upgraded over time, etc. and reasonable people can disagree about what needs to be done when and how—especially if people have significantly different financial situations.
It's a fine line between

> bet $30k on a broken car

and spending $30k on your "hobby". I think it's just a shift in mindset.
Hospitals don't want you to visit more often. At least not in any healthy society. Hospitals that do prefer ill people over healthy people are indeed predatory and dangerous for a society to have, because it operates on very harmful incentives.

I guess this is the clearest case ever of why regulation is important. Good regulation provides businesses with incentives that help rather than harm society.
The Techcrunch article ballparked the price below $5000. They had already reduced price by 90% about an year ago and insiders say that further reduction has been achieved since then. ( written in the TC article)

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/waymo-to-start-selling-sta...
you can try blocking these on your homenetwork to specifically block facebook domains. then if they swap em around ips etc. you will still block them
https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...

there's more of these kinds of lists out there for other intrusive ad companies.
Because in order to make an informed choice in a democracy there are regulations in place to ensure spending limits and puts an identity on political advertising.

An example of what you don't want is the heavy investment in Brexit and Trump by Russia
What are the benefits of that?
Great JRE podcast episode with Matthew Walker (Professor of Neuroscience, Founder of the Center for Human Sleep Science): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
I don't have a source, but my understanding was that deer tend to learn when it's safe to cross the road. When all of a sudden people change their driving habits by an hour, deer start to get hit by cars that they didn't expect to be there.
This seems like a great example as to why that's a bad idea.
They can no longer pass as a nuerotypical while they are burnt out, which I'm guessing can make things more difficult.
Tell that to the current UK government.
The update function does not work well. It is very cumbersome to have to do an in-place update. A frequent bug I see is

def my_func(d1, d2):
"""Returns a merged dict"""
d1.update(d2)
return d1

The problem here is that now the d1 you have passed in has been modified to contain all the keys of d2, overriding any keys that appear in both with d2's value. Having a first-class operation that does a merge without mutating the inputs will make the language easier, not harder.
I probably don't need to read about C++ patterns anymore, so if this was an article I'd probably have skipped. The cartoon dog was pointless but somehow made me read it. It felt like there would be a punchline.
I wonder about one thing. Sure you can't hear above/under certain frequencies, but these frequencies still resonate with parts of your body (that are not ears) and you might feel it in other ways than just hearing, and also their presence generates harmonics. Not sure if it is observable to a human, but just because you don't hear N hertz, doesn't mean you can't hear its harmonics/it doesn't affect your _perception_ of the rest of the signal at all. Cutting off some frequencies can create patterns that are not hearable per se, but might induce unwanted sensory feelings (*opinion, not a fact). I think using physics to break this down doesn't make much sense, and that the most practical debate solution would be to do a double-blind test on a statistical group of the so called audiophiles.
Ahhh... I think I misunderstood your “dialup noises” as dial tone noises. You’re talking about the high pitched squelch-y initial negotiation of a modem.
Would any bank use FB for sign-in? That would take things to a whole new low.
I think internally C++ STL set<T> is similarly just map<T, void>
MongoDB would be a great acquisition target for Oracle. Their recent acquisition of mLab along with their Atlas offering could create a nice headline to help boost the perception that Oracle is actively moving its database business to the cloud.

Mongo trades at a premium, but its market cap is in the single-digit billions & is nothing Oracle couldn't afford right now. Plus, Oracle's massive legal machine could move the licensing innovation needle even further in the direction of Mongo's recent move to SSPL.

Disclaimer: I work for Salesforce
> How many people here track their users?

Right across the Internet? Very few, I imagine!
What about a system where wolves aren't allowed to eat sheep, and everybody just chooses for themselves what to have for dinner (so long as that choice doesn't involve coercing someone else)?
Sure. I don't need to invalidate someone else's experience.
I hike a lot and hate using my phone's battery power for music. On top of needing that power for other things, it just feels wasteful. I bought a cheap MP3 player to try out in 2016 and have been hooked ever since. These devices are smaller and lighter than spare phone batteries or power banks.

In addition, I find that I use the MP3 player when I'm out running normal errands precisely because I've organized my music by hand and even edited tracks by hand in some cases. Examples would be things like rare covers that can only be found on YouTube, or favorite songs from niche internet music communities which were poorly mastered.

It's also a bit of a gear hobby now since there are so many MP3 players on the market. Prices are low and performance is great.

I have to agree about the iPod though, as I found the need for proprietary software, and really annoying software at that, made me use it less and less until my 32GB iTouch was mostly used as an ebook reader. I also prefer physical buttons for my mp3-listening while on the go.
Yeah this is probably a pretty common phenomenon. Somebody claims to have a billion dollar artificial intelligence; what they really have is a file full of frigging regular expressions.
I don't care who invests in advertising. If someone has something to say, they should be allowed to say it and I as the reader can decide for myself if I agree or not. I don't need to government doing that for me.
From the article, Facebook already disclosed this information to the government via the Information Commissioner's Office who is free to share with parliament.

From their refusal letter:
"You will appreciate that it would be inappropriate to provide personal data of our users to any third party absent a lawful basis for such disclosure."

I think this makes sense, today it's about this advertiser, but if they set this precedent, what is stopping them from requesting information on their competitors in their next election?
Correct. And #1 is a really big problem because while theoretically you could make a perfect piece of software that accounts for all fragments in current and future PDF format versions, its not likely.
Dont you think some of the mobile space and exemption certain data from data caps fits somewhere in there?
I am wondering whether one of the first use cases could be places with really bad traffic, where 20 miles by car could easily take you several hours, like Jakarta, Sao Paolo, etc. Or transfers from one airport to another in NY, London, Paris, Moscow, Silicon Valley, etc.

These niche use cases might kick-start it, and pave the way for what you describe.

Wondering, by the way, to which extent governments should get involved beyond regulation. For example, the ride-share you describe, would that constitute a natural monopoly, justifying government intervention even according to eg Milton Friedman?
The phone app is a bit useless on its own. However, they do provide more explanations of grammatical points on their website, plus you can set it so you can type in answers rather than using the "word bank" on the desktop, which makes it a lot harder to guess answers!

It's definitely not as good as having a tutor or structured lessons, but for getting the basics down, when complemented with other study, it seems perfectly fine to me.
Heavy? I thought it they only found ~$20 million ad spending by Russians. When either side spent a billion dollar.
African-American dialects are often misinterpreted in U.S. courts, study finds
From my perspective, the paper reads like a far-right "survivalist" piece from the early 90s. It's almost laughable in the way it presents the view.

That said, the 90s anti-authoritarian survivalists did nail some things, especially in light of Snowden. I think it would be wise to take it under advisement and pay attention to what's going on, but to go buy a farm and a bunch of heritage seeds based on this paper would be pretty ridiculous.
The Case Against VPNs
Any speculation about specifications of this device? How many points per second does it produce? No info in the article and on Waymo’s page. What it can do more than current lidar from Sick or Teradyne?
Then you have either developed an immunity, or you are proofing my point: since it is possibly to move around in a sane, creative and/or interesting subset of the internet, the internet from 20 years ago is still out there :)

On a side note: this "good" internet may be hard to find, but don't forget that for the majority of the population even in highly developed countries, it was still uncommon to have access to the internet at home 20 years ago, so it was "hard" to find the good internet also back then. This is somewhat thought provoking, as it seems to indicate that the "good" parts of the internet were, and are, elitist circles.
> and they have a point

But they don’t: the usage of “hack” in the title was squarely within the original definition of “to hack” (for instance, it’s covered by definition 6 in the Jargon File if we accept [as is generally done in hacker culture] that such hacks aren’t restricted to computer usage). In non-technical usage the term “hack” tends to mean something else but given that HN literally has “hacker” in its title, shouldn’t we accept correct usage of the word on this site, even if it doesn’t fall outside its non-technical mainstream definition?

Speaking as a biologist, the usage of “hack” in the title is completely idiomatic within the field (compare: “genome hacking”). The claim that this usage is bait is simply factually incorrect.

> Also, the GP comment was heavily upvoted

On the contrary, it was downvoted (greyed out) at the time the title was changed. It’s now back to black.
I've worked with a public company whose stack is Oracle services. Pretty much every company on that field is Oracle as well, that explains (to me) much of how is Oracle's customer base: this field has been under Oracle & Java database->bus->services->cms since forever, why would one company start and not hire them to have access to the same features, be able to grap a few engineers, and skip "reiventing the wheel"?

What this company (and every other in that field) is doing: moving small, microservice-able tasks to AWS. Scale and costs are way cheaper. But it's a very long-term move: a couple of years pass and bam!, here's another Oracle multi-million extension contract they must pay to continue to have the lights on. But to the executive's perspective, this is just the cost of doing business in that field, it's the same for the competition. You could argue this is the same "no one ever got fired for hiring Microsoft/IBM" mentality.

Oracle stack is obsolete, but as a business they aren't, simply because it will still take a very long time until most companies reliant of their stack be able to move out without great risk to core business.
Which ones are not BS? Something tells me a fully honest company would not survive, just like honest politicians don't survive.
If you ask me, the actual problem is the tree data structure... Maybe post order forms lend themselves better to processing.

The even deeper problem is what ASTs are meant to represent, to which the answer would be "possibly a lot of diverse things". Diversity is never good in a computational context. But I don't see a good way to avoid it in the context of programming languages and ASTs. The reason for the diversity is that programming languages should allow humans to specify what should happen in very few keystrokes.
https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1101402001907372032

This is a pretty annoying part.
It was 74% in 1970 (50 years ago). It is not a massive change.

The massive change in urbanisation is happening in developing countries. In developed countries it happened earlier and is not really a thing anymore.
I agree with you up to the point of claiming that having experiences is not a worthy reason to travel. The issue in this article is that people aren't attempting to 'experience' Rue Cremieux but instead to picture it and make it their own. The first is a complicated and respectful process whereas the second does not require understanding or compassion.
Bringing 3D perimeter Lidar to partners
docker & kubernetes maybe. but i dont see AWS going anywhere.
Would you support having New York State work toward forcing all other states and countries to adopt universal healthcare that meets your standards?

If so, then I think you're being consistent but I would also suggest that you look into the history of colonialism and how many of the residents of the countries under rule felt about it (Gandhi did a lot of writing on this for example).

If not, how do you avoid being labeled "callous" using your own standard? Do you not care about the people in other countries as well?
You don't want a company to abide by the law of the lands in which it operates? Political advertising is regulated in many countries.

So why would you draw a distinction with breaking into a house? The only difference is they have not chosen to break that law, yet.

Not liking the law is an entirely different matter.
Some bands still refuse to be available on streaming (ex: Tool). Some will never be on streaming.
> what is stopping them from requesting information on their competitors in their next election?

Plus equally important is it chilling the political speech of their opponents out of fear of state retribution.
Yes, I know, analytics (especially outsourced analytics) are fundamentally evil.

Just like paywalls are evil. And just like ads are evil.

But, I'm not exactly clear on how these things are supposed to all fit together.
Can you recommend something better?
It was less fun in my town: pedestrians wandering obliviously into traffic, etc. Still entertaining though.
All they need to do is get a warrant/subpoena or the British equivalent. Why would Facebook agree to give out user info voluntarily?
I use Opus for music playback for all my archived music. The reason it's not more widespread was opposition of the likes of Apple to free codecs. Today they are losing this, and Opus is making its way even to Apple's systems.
>Depends on what you mean by wings.

No it doesn't. I have arms. Certain machinery has arms. They may mean different things but they both have arms, just as both birds and planes have wings
I don't quite agree with you, taking into account it's an analogy designed to help illustrate the issue for general audiences. It's not as if we don't have ProPhoto RGB or other wide gamuts or don't understand the issues of rendition accuracy and resolution within the visual spectrum. There was never any debate that sRGB alone in particular was quite limited, or that dynamic range was an issue. It's just that it represents a ton more data and is technologically and commercially much, much harder. As tech has caught up displays have continued to chase human visual limits, starting with resolution, then frame rate, and finally major industry wide improvements to gamut and range with BT.2020/2100. I mean heck, it wasn't that long ago that we barely had color at all. I still remember well the first 8-bit system I ever got, or back when I regularly had to manually change between 16-color/256/16k to prioritize resolution or color because my system just didn't have enough VRAM to handle both at once. Audio did far better at matching human limits much, much longer ago.

But within the visual spectrum but not showing on the screen is still within the visual spectrum. The article examples refer to infrared and UV+ for contrast, and that's entirely correct. Monitors displaying either of those would make no difference (well, beaming ionizing EM at your face raises significant concerns audio doesn't at any level) at any point. They're simply beyond human eyes period. It's an accurate analogy. Failing to reproduce something within human limits would be what you're talking about, but that's a solved problem and not something 24/192 offers you anything with.
This is the blog post I mentioned I was working on in an HN comment[1] from a couple of months ago about dairy farms that got some traction. Unfortunately it took me a couple months to finish rather than a couple weeks.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18942467
> But why the F... would my bank want to notify FB that I am using their app?

It's not that they want to notify Facebook. It's that they get useful functionality from libraries that Facebook makes available. And they've either decided that sharing your info with Facebook is a worthwhile tradeoff for the engineering time, or they don't realize it's happening.