skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not currently for me

all the properly licensed streaming services are about as and a little more convenient than 2004's piracy-scene was for me

the licensed music scene is top notch for me between soundcloud, shazam and spotify

just need to let youtube know that youtube music is never going to happen, and let the other guys know not to mess their things up

for music I only pay for spotify

and if spotify messes up in the availability, I rip the same song from youtube in HD and put it in my spotify library
Yeah, I don't quite understand what the goal of this voice is.

Confident and helpful -- shouldn't that be the aim? Doesn't that sound different for men and women? And across different nationalities?

Q sounds unsure of itself to me... and just weird. I wouldn't prefer this voice to Siri or just about any of the old MacOS voices.

* Mac OS X TTS (Text-To-Speech) Voices - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4hqUxb9MmY
> (with the exception of the phone booth still being a thing).

Many phone booths are becoming wifi hotspots, so, with some minor historical revision, they're not too far out.
OpenJDK is GPLv2.
Posted to YouTube 13 years after they aired, 13 years ago.
My guess is the density of potential blackmail material _is_ what sets it apart from the others -- the very act of being registered on Grindr is almost a smoking gun for being non-heterosexual if you wanted to out somebody. Much better odds of finding a target that matches with your other info and much more "damning" evidence to scare people with.

edit: Furthermore, what other Chinese company owns a dating site used frequently by westerners?
+1 to this. If you try to live the same way as you did in the States, without trying any of the more hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and only go to like, Pizza Hut (which is considered a decent mid-end fine-dining restaurant), for sure you will spend 100 RMB+ per meal. But getting buns, dumplings, beef noodles for 10-30 RMB is in no way a remote possibility, but they definitely don't look Western.
> A computer assistant doesn't have a gender so why should it represent itself as male or female

A human has to be in the recording booth to create the vocal library. Also you can change the Siri voice to not only be Male, but also have a different accent.
"History has shown that basically all your assumptions about how the next war will unfold go out the window once the next war actually starts."

Also, don't forget that nuclear weapons still exist. Nuclear powers shooting down squadrons of each others fighters to achieve "victory" does not seem likely.
Well, to be fair, he's in a similar (but less wingnut/out-of-touch) boat as John McAfee: the media decided they're celebrities so they hang on their every word.
Computerphile, clojure TV, google tech talks, lex friedman, the signal path
University of Florida Taser incident (“Don't tase me, bro!”)
Stop Ignoring Those ‘Update Your Device’ Messages
Or say some Spanish politicians comments re Gibralter basically right wing nationalists who want use Brexit as excuse to annex Gibraltar.
Pro-ISIS speech isn't illegal but it's still banned. Pornography isn't illegal but it's still banned. So the legality argument here isn't particularly compelling.

> Perhaps it shouldn’t be up to them, or you, or anyone to police what someone else MIGHT find offensive.

You have got to be kidding. If it's on a platform I control I can make any kind of legal judgments about the content I find acceptable. And if you're banned, again, so what? Facebook is not a government or even a government-adjacent entity: I have no right to participate on the site, and they have no obligation to platform my speech.
> The JVM doesn't run languages that weren't designed for it, like C or C++ or Rust.

You can run all those languages on top of the JVM!

The JVM also runs many other languages which weren't designed for it, like Ruby and Python.
Yeah, definitely. I think it's arguable the same rational could even apply to a dating site for straight people. It would take a little more work and probably be less fruitful overall, but an adversary's intelligence agency could use it identify straight people (with security clearances) who may be trying to cheat on their spouses or whose marriage is disintegrating. Both of those situations could open someone up to manipulation (a honey trap [1], for instance).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment_of_spies#Love,_hon...
I like this characterization a lot. Thank you!
I recently decided to learn Elixir because I had heard good things about it from happy Elixir developers. It was the first functional language I learned and I found its concurrency model to be particularly interesting.

I don't think it's a language that will solve everything, but it certainly seems to excel in its specialty, which is concurrency and robustness. I'm looking forward to learning Phoenix, which will allow me to develop web applications in Elixir.

If anyone is interested in Elixir, I've been regularly writing about Elixir as I've been learning it at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/. The idea is that you can learn Elixir along with me as I learn it and write about it. I make some comparisons to Javascript and C#, as those are the languages I use most often at work.

I was expecting to encounter a lot of very unfamiliar concepts, but to my surprise, I was already familiar with most of them. I guess my experience with the functional aspects of C# and libraries like Bacon.js and Rambda in Javascript really prepared me well for moving to a functional language.
> how do you know it won’t be used against you in the future

I think it's foolish to wring your hands over the arbitrary machinations of a multibillion dollar corporation's online platform. They don't care about you or me and frankly they have no obligation to do so. This logic is akin to complaining that McDonalds puts too much lard in the fries, maybe that's true, but if that's the case then don't give McDonalds your business; the fact that there is a McDonalds on every street corner doesn't mean they are obligated to modify their business process to be within the parameters of your approval.

> if Mark Zuckerburg who you may generally agree with leaves Facebook and is replaced by let’s say Donald Trump and his assistant Mike Pence; do you still think it should be Facebook as a service provider’s policy to gauge what offensive speech is?

That's Facebook's prerogative. I don't really use Facebook, but if I felt like Facebook was unfairly targeting me I'd stop using their platform, if they elected Trump to the board of directors I'd stop using their platform. The solution to all these Facebook problems is very simple: stop using it.
Wow, MIDI continues to show up in so many places! I recently gave a talk about how to reincarnate the <bgsound> HTML tag with MIDI support and included a huge list of surprising ways that MIDI is used, but I'll have to add MIDI Maze to the list! https://youtu.be/BmfDMylKo5I?t=624
I did the whole country on that (although didn't do a sleeper car).
Tips: If you're gonna get off and on, especially in Western Canada, know when the next train leaves. Sometimes it's 4 days in between. Also don't get off the train in Thunder Bay, no matter what they say, you don't have time to get to the Subway sandwich shop and back.
One thing that I've been thinking about, and I'm curious on your thoughts on, is Facebook's "Internet.org" project.

If you're not familiar, Facebook is offering low-cost (or free) internet access in less developed countries to a hand-picked selection of sites [0] and has roughly 100m users. [1]

It's been argued that they're essentially acting as an ISP and are significantly violating the principles of net neutrality. [2]

You say "people [are] making the choice to reside entirely there", but for millions of people around the world, Facebook is the only social media platform available to them at a reasonable cost.

Should operating this platform be enough to treat them differently? I could see arguments both ways.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/internet-org-100-million/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/27/16050446/facebook-net-neu...
There's a Lockheed A-12 on the USS Intrepid that you can get very close to with a guided tour. One of the facts the tour guides tell you about it is the titanium for the planes, as well as that of the SR-71s, was mostly sourced from Russia via shell companies for all kinds of bullshit reasons. So, America flew spy planes over Russia that were made from materials mostly of Russian origin.
I run the bridge and it's really a non-issue. It runs in the background without a peep and auto-configures my mail client. Easy.
I'm sorry but I really have to point out that it is IMAX, not iMax. It's not an Apple product. Apparently the name is supposed to sound like "Eye-max".
> like the US with its right to bear arms

I find this funny because the SCOTUS basically can change the Constitution whenever they want.

The second amendment only states that the United States itself has a right to bear arms in order to defend itself (have a Militia)[0]. It didn't provide citizens the right to personal protection by guns until a 2008 Supreme Court case [1].

0: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
But Google and Facebok can ban your website and you would not receive any visitors. And you probably would lose old visitors who don't use bookmarks and type your site's name into an address bar.
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Interesting. Just last year we implemented improved re-replication (https://github.com/apache/kudu/commit/79a255) which sounds very similar to what you did with LEARNER roles, and we added manually-triggered rebalancing (https://github.com/apache/kudu/commit/ccdcf6 and https://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.8.0/docs/administration.h...).

I'm curious if you did anything to prevent automatic rebalancing from being triggered at a "bad time" or have throttled it in some way, or whether moving large amounts of data between servers at arbitrary times was not a concern.

I am also curious if you added some type of API using the LEARNER role to support a CDC-type of listener interface using consensus.

By the way, we also recently added support for rack/location awareness in a series of patches including https://github.com/apache/kudu/commit/ebb285

We should really start some threads on the dev lists to periodically share this type of information and merge things back and forth to avoid duplicating work where possible. I know the systems are pretty different at the catalog and storage layers but there are still many similarities.
Is a "cold deck" anything but another way of saying unlucky?
Technically, it is. Don’t throw political and philosophical burden and anti-American stance when we are discussing technical achievements.

The parent comment simply talks about engineering challenges and it’s frankly amazing.
Googling "Wittgenstein missing train" returned me page 44 of "Ludwig Wittgenstein" by Edward Kanterian from "Critical Lives" series, which attributes this story to David Pinsent's diaries, but talks about "hiring entire train" instead of buying it:

https://books.google.ru/books?id=yfeJH-1KcD8C&pg=PA44&lpg=PA...

Bing returned this HN thread and a link to the relevant part of Wikipedia article where this is also stated and "Portraits of Wittgenstein, Extracts from the Diary of David Pinsent 1912–1914" are referenced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#Sexual_ori...
Are you also on Tidal? I was looking for your music but I couldn't find it. I actually prefer their service and I hear they pay 4x the artists compared to Spotify.
For what it’s worth, email is not a private protocol/platform - some degree of encryption-at-rest and privacy-respecting SOPs can give services like Fastmail a fairly good screen against private malicious actors, but you should never count on email as a means of communication to have any decent way of protecting you from state surveillance, especially when you live under the jurisdiction of the state surveilling you.

Though that’s not to say that we should accept these laws as they apply to email services lying down. Any reason to refuse to use the services of Australian companies when foreign services of similar quality exist gives those Australian companies all the more reason to press the government to reform these laws on the grounds that they’re losing valuable business for negligible gain to national interest. If the government doesn’t listen to individual constituents, it might listen to companies which are hurting in their back pockets.
Qwest had similar commercials in 1999 [0]. "Every movie ever made any time" was kind of mind blowing at the time - then 10 years later it happened.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno
I'm just like you in the morning, but I was asked to keep a dream journal for a creative writing class. I was sure it wouldn't work, but it did.

Put the journal (opened to the right page) and pen right beside your bed where you can't miss it when you wake up. Write down anything that's in your head, even if it's just, "I don't remember anything." Eventually, you'll start remembering dreams vividly and be able to write them down.

Or at least this seems to work for most people. I have no idea why. Of course, it probably doesn't work for everyone. But then again, what does?
Thanks, but there is no point in emailing - I've been through this with Stripe reps in two different countries.

(BTW, the Stripe categorization lists differ from one country to another).
Sounds like a South African accent and a recording (or several) at that. Then some filters.
If they ban it like they claim to ban ISIS content or respect our privacy (Zuck's "privacy first" vision), nobody needs to worry.
There are plenty of benefits that don't apply to me that I'm getting shafted on. If I didn't commute, for example, I would be missing out on commuter benefits that I otherwise have no way of getting. Same thing for vision care if I had 20/20 eyesight or parental leave if I have no plans to have children. Benefits don't benefit everyone equally.
I’d agree with all of those except instant messaging providers. The others involve massive capital investments to replace them at all; a small IM server can be run on a $5 VPS.
Let's use a concrete example of technology being overpromised to the public - self-driving cars. Now there is some debate as to whether or not general AI needs to be invented in order to make self-driving cars a reality, but I don't want to dive too deeply into that. One thing that's obvious is that self-driving cars have already been promised to the public (Waymo claims to have launched last year but it's really just a private beta with a handful of users). Cruise is supposed to launch a public service this year in SF. Zoox is supposed to do the same in 2020 (and in custom built cars, no less). And there's no doubt that machine learning plays a critical role in the advancement of self-driving cars.

Now if you talk to the actual researchers/engineers when they're not afraid of hiding behind their NDAs (basically a friend at a bar), these people will talk about the challenges and how much work there is to do and so on. But the company's public stance, and the many billions of dollars chasing this area, is that it's just around the corner.

The point is, there is a lot of hype and it's easy to understand why. Elon Musk is happy to proclaim that Tesla is already selling the hardware for full self-driving vehicles, and it's just the regulators holding him back (which is absurd, to put it kindly). This is the same person saying AI is a bigger threat than nuclear weapons. So arguably the largest tech celebrity isn't even talking about when, he's saying it's here and we need to be prepared. This is the kind of person shaping the public's opinion.

But the money chasing these investments are mostly from private VC firms and tech companies, not public research grants. Once investors realize AI just isn't good enough for self-driving cars right now they won't want to keep throwing billions of dollars behind it. And that's when we arrive at a winter. Even Alphabet is starting to get weird about raising its stock price, so not even the tech giants are immune from this.

There are many other verticals that follow the same story, I was just using the most obvious example of an industry that has billions flowing into it despite nobody having a real product on the promise of advancements in AI and "the time is now!" But eventually (my guess is next year, but I'm old enough to know it's impossible to time these things) the hype will come crashing down to reality and that is when funding will dry up.
It doesn't seem to reflect any misunderstanding at all to me. Did you read the following explanation? For example, reducing ad spend for growth was considered a possibly good answer.
F# and ocaml are very similar, adn if you learn one of them you pretty much learn both, there are some problems with ocaml, for example it has two std libararies, the normal one and core by Jane Streeet. It also has to competing async libraraies. But the main code is pretty similar there are of course some things that are in ocaml that is not in F# (for example functors) but there are also things the other way.
I can see you're not from a hot job market for software engineer.

Here (Bay Area) people usually don't apply for jobs, specially jobs at startups, unless they're really into the products/team/tech/... Even old-school walking-dead companies like Cisco/IBM/HPE pay way better than most startups in term of cash compensation. And given the high risk of failure, startup should sell itself hard to attract talents.

I also found those questions are normal, far from being arrogant.
Bad example. The college newspaper acts as an editor and has to review what content to publish before it's being published. The college will be held responsible if there's misinformation or something of criminal nature being shared.

FB pretends to be a medium of information for anyone and they don't moderate what is being published before being published. They do however have an obligation for content being distributed after if it's breaking the ToS or the laws. They have to take that down after the fact.

Here the controversy as I see it, is to prevent a group from publishing if it's been labeled as "hate", or "white supremacist" content, where the labeling aspect is very subjective and arbitrary.

Who's to decide the labeling?
That's one of the big problems with self-help material or other advice. Instead of telling you that you will have the best chances for success they give a guarantee and if you fail they will tell you that you did it wrong.
I wish more SR-71 stories focused on the sensors and defensive systems. Although not a sexy as the aircraft, in some ways the SR-71 could be considered a "sensor truck." Post-mission processing and analysis of raw data was a huge part of the total SR-71 program. The system and sensor manufacturers were on the cutting edge of airborne reconnaissance and remote sensing. Good page on some of the sensors here:
http://www.sr71.us/sr_sensors_pg3.htm
Yes, and I'm of the position that there is no such thing as an inalienable right; that that too is a human invention and that that too is entirely up to people to defend. I also think this is a defensible position, hence my request to see the "rights molecule".

That isn't to say I don't think certain rights should be held as universal, or that some aren't worth dying for, I certainly do.

I just think there isn't a facet of human society that is not, in fact, ultimately a human invention (within the constraints of the pressures evolution has wired into our brains, like proscriptions on incest.)

And, frankly, we should all be proud of what we can build, as a species.
>Raising everyone's salary serves as a permanent increase in compensation. It's very difficult to back-pedal from a salary increase.

Even with google chipping in aren't we talking a decade or more to pay off a student loan? What percentage would even still be at google by then? For all practical purposes it seems like a permanent increase. Is it more about weird accounting?
Yeah. For some reason it reminds me of S.E. Lain.
To be fair this isn’t solved via constitutional rights in the US either - look up eminent domain law.
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Yes indeed! Those views inherently advocate for the genocide of non-white people (and even some people who are white but are "degenerate," like gay people, trans people, Jews, or whatever ethnicity they believe isn't sufficiently "white"). I do believe that some people don't understand what they've gotten themselves in to, but all white nationalism is essentially advocating for the broad extermination of many people.
Modi heads the Department of Space. He has every right to announce it whether you like it or not.

As far as overstating positions go, the opposition in India was quick to jump to conspiracy theories after the Pulwama attack saying that Modi orchestrated the entire attack for political gains. This ridiculous conspiracy theory mongering has gone on to unprecedented levels this election. After failing at making a dent for the past 1 year by parroting Rafale lies, the opposition is now trying to find a new issue to latch onto.

It can't be that you keep throwing darts until one of them sticks! That is not how a responsible opposition should behave!
The U.S. actually goes a step further... the only rights the constitution actually spells out are the rights of government. Most encroachments have been under the guise of "interstate commerce" or "taxation" in general...

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

As to the bill of rights, so long as the police are armed and can act with impunity... imho, the populace should be able to be armed. I don't personally own a firearm... I also don't spew racist rhetoric. I am a strong believer in all civil rights.
Depends on what you mean by mostly. Almost all code runs on EC2. All object storage is in S3. Almost all service asynchronous interactions are decoupled via SQS. Almost all notifications are shared via SNS.

Yes, most legacy systems use Sable but most new development for the last 2 years uses DynamoDB.

More and more event-driven applications with highly variable throughout are on Lambda. Even on AWS Service teams.

The Sable outage had a particularly laughable interpretation by the armchair quarterbacks from CNBC. The kind of scale involved makes Oracle-based approaches completely infeasible. (the internal Correction of Error document leaked and was wildly mis understood)

And the scaling timelines involved are so compressed that no company in their right mind "dynamically scales up as a result" - it's always projected scheduled scaling. There were other cascading effects.

I know it's fun to dunk on Amazon but their commitment to operational excellence is unparalleled as public AWS post mortems after major events should reveal.

If you read the entire Correction of Error document on tbe Sable outage you'd agree, of course CNBC would never publish that, one gets more clicks by getting a professor out of touch with the realities of production software engineering to blurb some juicy quotes.
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I've heard people predict that the future of the web is to replace userland, to make every program cross-platform and sandboxed close to the metal, and for JavaScript to fade into a family of "web"-targeted languages. Looks like it's happening.
> entire towns and regions that ignore their official time zone and every house, business, church, pharmacy, etc... is on a more convenient time for the locals.

Fascinating, and I've never heard of such a thing. Are these towns near a time zone line, that find it more convenient to be in the time zone of a nearby large city on the other side?