skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Hi, I’m calling about the same thing as last week”

“<Caller ID says your perferred name, and you were talking with Mr ExampleName about your contract> Hello Mr Seaton, how can I help you today with your contract?”
Change the hostname to be more explicit: 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 I've ran into issues where a host name is not resolved on one OS but it is resolved in other OS'.
Regardless of whether the economy is or is not where it should be right now, the phenomena that the market is at its all-time high is extremely common. Its weekly peak is more likely to be an all-time high than not, because its objective is to grow. This is true, whether its growing at 0.5% or 5%. Its only slightly more interesting than, for example, my age being at an all-time high. So in that sense, its a pretty useless metric (but sounds good!).

Per capita or velocity are much more useful metrics.
Ultrawealthy Ought to Help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMQZEIXBMs
And yet:
"Applications for US Unemployment Aid Fall to 49-Year Low"[0]

"Unemployment Rate Reached a Record Low in 19 States Last Year"[1]

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2019-04-04/app...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-23/unemploym...
Is it possible that that mostly just signifies the highest holiday season short-term hiring in a decade?
or mechanical construction tools
Yes. Also known in economics as a self-fulfilling crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_crisis
I've seen people put low estimates on things so they would be able to start something knowing that once started it was likely that we would continue working on it until completion.
working on a AAA game that everyone has heard of is going to get you more kudos than some hipster indie title(looking at you Papers Please)
Agreed. I do live video and a factor in going with Ryzen (a 1500X for now, a 3700X when that drops) was more PCIe lanes for more hardware.

That, and the eye-popping multithreaded performance for encoding.
Apple Music is mostly human-curated, Spotify is programmatic. That’s why I prefer thr latter.
I still find Pandora to have the best recommendation engine in that it actually finds songs I like.
Not so sure I can buy in on the idea that Apple created the music streaming market. They own the iTunes platform, but the whole marketplace? That feels a bit hyperbolic to me.
That video was one of the most jaw-dropping things I have seen recently. Thank you for sharing!
>Well, I'm pretty sure those auto jobs in Canada were also high paying and unionized.

That just supports my argument even more. It's not unions that are the problem, it's unions in America.
Title on the article is "Dog owners are much happier than cat owners, survey finds".

And the article goes into correlation vs causation, highlighting that there are likely other causes influencing the survey results including "...survey data show that dog owners, for instance, are more likely to be married and own their own homes than cat owners, both factors known to affect happiness and life satisfaction"

Got to go and walk the dog and be happy.
Family sharing accounts for Netflix, Spotify, the thermostat, the newspaper, ...
Souds more like they want a monopoly on propaganda.
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Like any retailer does with its private brands on the same shelves?
Bully: Give me $5 today.

Bully: Give me $5 today.

Bully: Give me $5 today.

Bully: Give me $4 today.

You: That bully just GAVE his victim $1.
I don't get it...

After a you have committed a crime (and you were punished for) you are free to be done crime against without repercussions?

Sometimes I wonder where the keyboard warriors on this forum get their moral compass from... This codex isn't even consistent. If your past deeds define the rights you have in court today Bayer would probably win any case against it considering their inventions in medicine probably saved hundreds of thousands of peoples' lives.

This feudal mindset is so backwards it would even make the pope blush.
The article throws a wrench in the economic argument for isolationist and xenophobic policies, though we really shouldn't need that to know that our president is not a good person.
While NVMe drives are becoming quite common in regular computers, sadly most software is ill-equipped to handle that sort of I/O bandwidth well. (I would blame OS interfaces for at least three fifths of that, though people who think using textual formats where the most fastest, least correctest parsers top out at 1.5-2 GB/s for bulk data also have their share of blame).
This is closely related to the idea of being "penny wise and pound foolish." For instance, you are actively depriving yourself a $5 coffee per day (or substitute your vice of choice) but you're leasing a new car every 2 years. In this case, you are not only cutting the wrong indulgences in the name of savings, you are giving yourself a false sense of accomplishment when there are much more beneficial steps that could be taken.

Finances are a hard thing to recommend to anyone else, as there are so many variables in personal finance. But very generally, it's worth considering where the largest single expenditures (or categories) are, and looking at how to lower those numbers first.
There are web versions based on the official API and the Android app.
Layoffs plus hiring. Will people realize at some point that volatility is a sign of health?
But then:

Job market bounces back in March with 196,000 gain in payrolls

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/nonfarm-payrolls-march-2019....

Everyone just kinda shuffled around it seems.
For me its simple. I get most of my info on the web from RSS, and pocket is able to get through paywalls on articles with a right click.
When I got to use the web version I thought it was a joke. Even Slashdot back in the day had more style and grace.

LassPass is ugly in a way that makes Oracle's Java download page look well-styled: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ind...
I’m feeling similarly this year too. There’s nothing wrong with HN as it is but it’s getting a bit trendy and a bit faddy for me and like OP i also feel drawn into responding to rubbish and wasting time.

Perhaps the adult decision is to just disengage and go do something else instead. Problem is fear of missing out but honestly the arrival time between gems seem to be growing exponentially bigger.
If the deficit is 3.8% of GDP [1] and growth is only 2.9% [2] during a supposed economic "boom", something is wrong.

[1] https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/federal_deficit_percent_gdp

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-economic-...
Is there any automated playlist converter to move from Spotify to Apple Music ??
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Also, on a note directly applicable to this example, if you think hammers are unusable by folks without arms, might I suggest the documentary Right Footed? I can't say whether or not she uses a hammer without arms, but she flies a plane and drives with her feet, so I can't imagine her not using a hammer if she didn't want to.

It feels a bit inspiration-porny at times, and my girlfriend and I both cringed quite a bit while watching it, but I think it makes the point I'm trying to much better than I am. Please don't dismiss a challenge out of hand because you can't imagine in 15 seconds of thought how it might be overcome.

"you" being a generic term applicable to anyone reading this, BTW.
The marketplace in this case is iPhone apps.
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Did I read 12% rate of return?

Come on, it has happened for several years now (well, more or less) but everybody knows it will not last. And, in any case, it has never happened before for 40 years...
For someone already invested in the Apple ecosystem, Apple Music makes the most sense because of the seamless integration. I don’t see the appeal of competitors given the similar pricing and features.
This is necessary only if you apply to Google and co. Most companies will never ask you to reverse a binary tree. Especially if the company is not in the US.
And many don't want these changes because they also want to make money before things change. This is one reason such change is not going to happen any sooner unless money stops mattering anymore.
Salaried vs hourly doesn't matter that much when looking at opportunity costs. Most salaried folks stick to a fixed set of working hours.

> It is a pure luxury expense.

Practically speaking, purchasing coffee at all is a luxury line item. There's no actual need for it for anything other than the caffeine hit and flavor. At least with a Latte, there's the protein, calcium and calories from the milk.
Totally wrong! The employment population ratio age 25-54, just climbed out of a sewer where it has wallowed BELOW the lowest gross employment ratio since the recession bottom in 1992!
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

You read too many Clinton-era Arkansas lies. Clinton's racist "discouraged workers" unemployment stats - that only racists quote - says that poor people and minorities don't matter and a lack of jobs for them is their own dang fault, due to a lack of internsl motivation! signed - another Democrat.
Show HN: Make more with your Instagram posts turning your images shoppable
I actually know this article, so I'll summarise it for the readers.

It covers de-risking data if it isn't required for ML models or is of low impact. Through removal of it, masking of it, or entropy injection to it. Every single one of these approaches is detrimental to an ML model and just make it useless unless the fields being controlled are't correlated to the outcome in the first place.

This article is an acknowledgement of the issue and the fact that solutions don't exist. Only risk management strategies which disable potential solutions.

Their ultimate answer is 'protect the data and give it to only a small restricted set of people'. Right back where we started.
Ah, but she's uphill on that investment banking job as well - she's looking at vast odds for getting into Harvard. Tina's mom went to Harvard, so she's legacy and has classes to improve her SAT and her grades from her private school Ivy League feeder are artificially inflated.
10% of what? Revenue? Profit? Assets?

Companies already engage in all sorts of shenanigans to show lower profits when it suits them. [1]

Taxing revenue goes against decades, maybe centuries, of established tax law and tradition, which roughly operates on the principle "The state makes money when you make money."

If you start taxing assets, you're going to need very invasive government bureaucracy that knows everything you own, down to the last paperclip.

Anyone who claims they can make taxes simpler is either lying or doesn't understand the subject.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Plenty of people by 2, or 3. Then think of streaming services and other subscription services, gold-plated cable TV packages, etc. That meal box kit that costs you $240/month. It's pretty easy to get non-essential luxury spending up in to a few hundreds of dollars a month. Not to say you ditch it all, but judicious pruning of it down to the essentials/most used/biggest time savers etc isn't impractical. Obviously if you're already socking away savings and retirement, living 10% below your means etc., this may not apply. In my case though, the spouse & I have do the math in war-gaming things like one of us losing their job, having to take a pay cut, etc., and we could cut $1000/month in "extra" expenses with a bit of pain, and twice that if we really had to. Once you start looking for these small non-essential purchases it's not hard to find them, and triage what's more/less necessary.
It's the best way to understand things designed by humans to fit in with that way of understanding. Some humans can design things which operate without hierarchies (see The Story of Mel) but normal humans will struggle to understand them.
That's what left wing economists have been saying for ages. Cutting taxes for the rich does not create more jobs. Cutting welfare programs for the poorest destroys jobs. Trump did both:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-official-the-trump-tax...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/t...

According to them, cutting taxes can create some short-term growth spurs (like what we have been seeing) but is not sustainable. In 2022-2023 we'll see what state the US economy is in and who was right. Maybe Trump is the financial genius who will finally make Reaganomics work after so many neo-liberal failed attempts. But I wouldn't bet on it.
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Yup, it's a problem. Checks are way more frequently used in the US than they are in Europe, and all you need to create a forged check in the US is someone's name, address, routing, and account numbers. (Theoretically they're supposed to check signatures too, but who knows if they actually do on a regular basis.)

Combine that with bank apps that allow you to take a photo of a check to deposit it and, well, game over.

There are also lots of places that will let you pay bills by giving them just the routing number and account number, which are all that are needed to initiate an ACH debit.

The US is way behind the rest of the first world when it comes to payment tech.
For me Spotify is terrible. I don't know if it has been improved now but the UI experiences other than the look were unpolished and confusing. Worst of all, I didn't like the idea of playlist-based organizations over album-based organizations like iTunes/Apple Music. The songs were just so messy for minor music listeners like me.
Fun fact: you actually can! Or at least used to be able to. About seven years
ago I was on vacation in Turkey, somewhere close to Kemer. Besides the Lira,
the Dollar, and the Euro, many vendors and cafés accepted Russian Roubles. The
exchange rate they used was sometimes rather unfair, but they did accept them.
Not sure if this is still the case there.
I disabled that too but I still use pocket to manage my reading list. My new tab screen is completely blank, its oddly calming.
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One where expenses <= income. Yes, you can move forward with debt, but that debt accumulates over time and if you stay in that state indefinitely eventually you'll go bankrupt. Ergo, an average of break even is the minimum to be sustainable.
The Vortex: Why Users Feel Trapped in Their Devices (2018)
I made a game as an applet a long time ago. This makes me want to find that old code and try it in TeaVM.
> You pick up your phone to send a text to your friend. On your lock screen, you see a Facebook notification that someone liked your post, so you open the app. While scrolling in your Facebook news feed, you see an ad for your favorite shoe brand. It’s running a sale, and you do need a new pair of gym shoes! Fifteen minutes later, you’re on your bank’s website checking your balance, and you’ve completely forgotten to text your friend.

Yup. Happens to me all the time. Super annoying.
Maybe it would help if I read the entirety of Sen. Warren's statements, if you have a link at the ready I'd be happy to read it for myself. Otherwise I'll try to hunt it down and share for others who may be curious/interested to do the same.
might not be the technical term for the bigotry involved.

If you look at the signs, there was a black man concerned with the identitarian nature of Black Lives Matter. Are you trying to tell me that he's bigoted? Rather, I think he's concerned with bigotry masquerading as activism.

aside from the fact that the person who asked him to "bless" the statue

Again, this is weak "guilt by association." I have no idea if that other party is a bigot or not. It doesn't matter. Again, it's narrative generation, with the purpose of effective silencing by tarring.

Silicon Valley is largely encased in a bubble produced by and consisting of accusation, name calling, and narrative pushing. The purpose of this is to gain the power to demonize and silence people. The devious thing about it, is that more outrage is generated when the accusations are false, and that fuels more noise and breaks down discourse even further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

sure, if you say so, dude.

In history, there have been many examples of arrogant groups who achieved economic success and power, became arrogant, and got trapped in bubbles of perception.

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-t...

They all had disparaging names for outsiders/underlings and thought of themselves as "betters." Most of the time, they thought of themselves as benevolent and benefactors. History is pretty clear about the lessons when those groups start imposing their misguided will on the people.
I was on Spotify and when apple music came did a quick check with 10 regional language songs from one state in India. Apple music had all 10 and Spotify missed 6-7 of those. Pretty unscientific but good enough for me to move to Apple Music.
Apple arguably created (or at least played a huge role in taking mainstream) a la carte digital music downloads. They certainly didn't create streaming. Arguably, Rhapsody did although I haven't really researched the history of paid/ad supported music streaming.
I can't honestly, apple music like many apple services is impossible to use outside their ecosystem, while play music (which I use) I can use in my iPad and my Google pixel for instance. Apple is able to dominate the US market in ways very hard for me to understand, another example is iMessage.
I use a MBP, iMac, and my phone is an iPhone XR (which I steadfastly and wrongly call the "ex-ar"). I'm a very happy user of Spotify and after doing the trial of Apple Music cancelled the latter and still continue with the former. I tried Google Play Music a while back and honestly thought it was just terrible, though maybe it got better since.

Spotify has all the music I've ever searched for. It has great curated playlists, and great algorithmic playlists. It has great "related music". They've gotten that all down brilliantly. Of course it has the ability to download playlists if you will be offline.

The app is available on everything, and the integration between devices is brilliant. It's on my LG TV, my Windows desktop, the xbox...every device. Spotify has no platform bias -- their entire business is modeled around streaming music, and not pushing some secondary goal which inevitably is what Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc have in mind.
> "...[glitches] break the system and every player is hated for using them."

That's not my experience, having played numerous competitive games. Bhopping in CS, wavedashing in melee, all of the various glitches necessary when speedrunning almost any game, are pretty universally loved and players that can perform them well are looked up to.
There's nothing wrong with the idea of password managers, even physical ones might work for some people, but LastPass is just such a lazy, ugly, clunky implementation of one.

One organization I worked with accidentally created a password manager and it looked better than LastPass. Since it grew to become a huge security risk it got migrated to LastPass, which was barely useable and, at that time, got hacked, so that's a plus, and then migrated to 1Password the instant they added group vaults.
Getting one during the work hours does seem a bit odd to me. Before work or over lunch, however, seems much more reasonable.
CloudFlare is a greater threat to the web than AMP could ever dream to be.
Amazon music has two variants, the kind that comes with prime, and unlimited. The unlimited variety is price competitive with Apple Music I believe.

My experience with the prime version has been poor. Aside from selection, it is just not a well written service. Replay bugs are common, and it regularly decides to change what station I was listening to for no discernible reason. The “stations” are clearly just playlists, because if you listen long enough they end up looping.

If it wasn’t free, I wouldn’t use it.
I found that Spotify was worse at music discovery, and I use Apple Music across Windows, iOS, and macOS, with little to no trouble.

The discovery features in Apple Music are seemingly more tuned into my varied tastes. When I tried Spotify last year, no matter what I listened to or added to my library, it kept recommending a small selection of Rap albums, even though I was listening to far more than just rap. Spotify latched onto one thing and just ran with it. I haven't seen Apple Music do that to my recommendations.
Yes. I did this recently. I used SongShift (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/songshift/id1097974566).
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This is another reason I miss iTunes. For all its faults and unintuitive UI, iTunes was highly scriptable.
Yeah, but it also says we won't quit, even though we all know it's divisive. That's because it's also addictive. And that addiction also affects people who pointedly avoid engaging in politics at all online.

The ability to create your own echo chamber is contributing to divisive politics, yes. But that's not the media... that's self-selection. We tend to be friends with people like ourselves culturally. And we wind up unfriending/blocking (or at least muting) people whose politics and lives make our blood boil, out of self-defense. The media isn't actively enabling this... we are.

My own social life is mostly around the Minneapolis performing arts community - my friends are either active participants in or fans of local music, theater, and dance. So it's a bunch of educated upper-midwest liberals. That's a formula for political echo chamber, but it's not because the media is manipulating me! Likewise, I have a childhood friend who runs a Harley-Davidson shop in rural Pennsylvania. His right-wing politics are an echo chamber made up of his social life of bikers and rural white people. He's not a victim of the media. He just lives a different life than me.
Intel segments the market across every single facet they can find and that won't outright keep people from buying their stuff. Hyperthreading, ECC memory (I ranted about how insane this is before, on numerous occasions), I/O options, GPU options, cache size, TDP, network and of course socket compatibility (where Intel figured out that not only can they sell you a new CPU with 0-5 % more performance every two years, but that they can also make you buy a new board to go with that just by adding or removing a couple ground pins).

And Intel got away with it because they had no competition. Monopolies are always very, very bad for consumers.
LNS12032194 - Employment Level - Part-Time for Economic Reasons, All Industries - Lowest its been since 2007

LNU05026645 - Discouraged Workers - Has gone up in recent months after having been lower than its been since 2007 for most of 2018.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln