skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Archive.org complies with DMCA take downs (preserving it until copyright expires), lots of content is effectively abandon-ware and nobody cares enough to bother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_work
For Linux, I use Jack [0] (low-latency audio API) + Carla [1] (VST host) + Claudia [2] (session manager)

For OS X, Logic Pro is good and very affordable.

[0] http://jackaudio.org/
[1] https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla
[2] https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia
>> Work clothes not required
> alcohol, gambling

Both of these are strictly regulated, right? I don't think you're suggesting that media companies should be similarly regulated, but I don't know why you'd mention them.

>We collectively need to toughen up

Unfortunate phrasing in the context of vulnerable children killing themselves.
It's been around for years, out of principle when I get a new phone, I pop on a zip-bomb of two out of principle against anybody scraping my phone in any capacity without my direct approval - then I'd tell them.

Though those truly paranoid - there are many ways to curtail such actions, re-wire the USB lines demanding you use a equally rewired USB cable and many other avenues.

But back to the police - what irks me is that whilst they can pull all this data - it is futile unless they use it. Alas the level of data-mining is very much lacking here - unless however it is related to a headline case and then the full PR budgets kick in and the real policing happens (cynical I know, but based upon decades of observations, that are equally shared amongst people in the force I know).

The real thing many overlook is that UK laws are already in place that telco providers have to keep copies of all calls made and text messages for many years (3 iirc at least).

However, things change and it is how long they retain such images of phones content that makes things concerning. After all, laws change and what was legal yesterday, probably won't be tomorrow. But more so - perception and interpretation. As an example the fad of planking could be classed foul of many a law in most situations if zealously applied it could be classed as a performance and as that fun planking video in the local park needed a performance license from the local authority. Then lottoiring laws and many others that came in to curtail real issues but.....if social perception changes could render innocent and well mannered acts foul of legal redress down the line due to cultural change. But been many a innocent fad, all harmless and an edge-case accident happens so that fad then becomes demonised. That happens. But with social media and other snapshots of your life moments via your phone immortalized. Whilst the spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law, that spirit over time can change and yet facts do not and afford reinterpretation at a later time of the event. That end up recontextualizing it all and some innocent, totally harmless and socially acceptable action of the time could become antisocial tomorrow. Cigerrettes - classic upon that, and who knows, maybe in a few hundred years time, pictures of this era of people smoking will garner cries of murderer in future minds and classed as terrorist poisoners murdering the innocent around them with their polluting weapons of mass destruction.

So yes, how long they retain it - would be the real concern about all this.
There are a million articles about this all over the internet. Why does a paywalled one (that too from a non-tech focused publication) make the front page?
Yes it is true. Even if you use an adblocker and don't see explicit ads, for popular queries all the top results are highly SEO tuned and have paid for this placement in a different way than buying an ad directly from google. But it's an ad nonetheless.

Google Maps results - ads

Yellow Pages - Yellow pages are the original local ad! "organic", sure

Wikipedia - an ad for wikipedia itself

Quora, stackoverflow, etc - highly tuned ads

Many of those results are actually useful and don't want you to buy something from them, they want your attention. And ... we are in an attention economy today.
> I'd love to be able to watch a movie in the language I'm studying and understand 90% of what's going on. But that seems like an impossible dream given the available tools and my current rate of progress.

You could try making your own tools. Export a vocabulary list from the flashcard program you're using. Download subtitles for a bunch of movies. Cross-reference them with the vocabulary list to find the movie you'll be able to understand the best.

That's the basic idea behind a tool I'm building for myself, but for finding relevant example sentences on https://tatoeba.org instead of movies.
And yet, when I point out that I find The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to be a story about a god-like entity that appears, saves the libertarians from their inability to play well with others, and then disappears before we get to ask any questions about its existence, or The Puppet Masters to be tedious (yeah, I get it, commies bad) and to demonstrate that Heinlein wasn't very good at seeing the consequences of his ideas,...I get a lot of crankiness from the same "humanities are about punishing disagreement" people.
>I don't think that's actually true.

Really?

>If you're of the mind that you're going to find fault in the messenger to ignore/distract from the message, you're going to find some fault regardless of how well the messenger behaves

Yes, but the mud sticks a lot better if it is made of fresh shit. To only regard the people bickering is a mistake. Is the people watching you have to really consider.
Hahahaha, already there buddy, already there. Can’t say I hate it though, it’s a different stage of life. Use it to learn and grow in different ways.

Also I’d take a Bud Heavy over an IPA any summer day.
>> I cant believe people reacted so emotionally to my comment when i wasnt even passing a value judgment and just stating a fact.

This is why I'm so emotional. This isn't a fact. This is an assumption, and a really weird one at best. Here's what we have for facts:

About 5% of the US population identify as Vegetarian or vegan.
"Most" vegetarians are liberal.
Liberals are not evenly distributed among the general population.

Putting this together, your assumption is highly flawed at best. There's no logical reason we can't assume that while liberals aren't equally distributed, vegetarians are. Being a vegetarian means you're likely inclined to be liberal, it's a correlation not causation. There's nothing I've seen that shows anything about expected distribution of vegetarians based on where they live. The best thing anyone has come up with is the thanksgiving gallup poll below.

Also, your OG statement was that they aren't common outside of meto areas. This is so vague and meaningless. What's common? That 1/100 people are a vegetarian? That people know someone anecdotally that is a vegetarian?

My point is that your asserting that you know that vegetarians are uncommon in the Rural US. I posit that it's impossible to know that. That's not to say you're wrong or not (I'm not claiming I know either) but that making a statement of that type is problematic in a fact based discussion.
Poseup - Open source lib for pain free containerized development and testing
At Least One in Six World Heritage Glaciers Will Be Gone by 2100
As a casual reader of HN, thank you for your efforts.
The FBI works within the USA. It would be the CIA that would does meddling in other countries' elections. Seems you have been spending too much time watching cartoons.
Telegraph and radio operators used to write down the messages, character by character, as soon as they heard each character in Morse, and only once the entire message had been received attempt to read or interpret it. There are artifacts of this even in modern voice radio usage; e.g., "do you copy?" meant originally, did you successfully copy down my message?
Spotify now has 100M paying users
I know about this way, but it's basically building CI upon CI, doesn't sound good from any perspective.
>.. we'd be living in huts.

As someone who has actually lived in a hut, I would like you to know that living in huts should not be used as a derogatory example. In fact hut living was the best time of my life and I long to replicate the simplicity and freedom it afforded.
I have an // unfounded, with zero-evidence // suspicion that WSJ is seeding articles here... or manipulating rankings. I agree with you, it seems very strange.
The Lifecycles of Software
Mods fix title: "Life of a binary"
Seems like a perfectly reasonable comment, nevertheless being silently downvoted. Mysterious.
From the screen shots, it looks a lot more like Instagram now. I wonder how long it takes them to merge IG into the mothership at this point.
It's PIA, look at their Google Play screenshot.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/R3_hK1xk1oBWLb_jXB9EsWETnO...
Everything is a conspiracy with you guys.
Depends, my parents were always conservative.

Another friend was allowed to do whatever he wanted.

When it was a lot of fun, he stayed. Other times, he went home early.

I stayed till I was allowed too and tried to make it longer also.

It depends on personality also ofc, but when I was a student. It was new to me. Ofc, I stayed a hell of a lot longer than my friend the first year consistently.
I'm not a UI guy, and I'm definitely not seasoned or have even had the chance to personally test this assertion.... but..

I thought a lot of people disliked Flexbox and preferred CSSGrid? I watched a talk a while back that made it seem like CSSGrid was better in many ways. Primarily being far more inline with peoples natural mental patterns (ie, what they expect). That talk basically had me thinking that the next frontend I write I'm not touching flex box and instead writing it in CSS Grids.

So am I mistaken? Why would people base a framework around Flexbox? Thoughts?
I think we'll probably want hot-reloading of sub-graphs in a larger graph, but that'll be a project for 1-2 years down the line when we're more involved in building DAW engines using it.

Re: building a 3rd party back-end, I guess that might be technically possible but we'd rather keep control of that side of things. We've not fully decided our approach there yet.

Why not WASM? Well.. quite a few complicated reasons, involving things like the ability to generate continuations, and to get good auto-vectorisation, and being portable to weird DSP architectures. Also, the system can't just be a straight program, it had to be proprietary, at least at a high-level. And secure, so LLVM IR also wasn't quite the right shape for it. We sweated over this decision, believe me!
Impact that formed the Moon might have splashed into Earth’s magma ocean
Logic Pro to my knowledge cannot host VSTs. But many VSTs have Audio Unit ports which it can use.
I would argue that sentence diagramming is of dubious use outside of an ESL or primary school class. And even then the English language is such a self-contradicting mongrel tongue that it's effectively rule-less.

It's a living, evolving, consensus language. It can't be nailed down to an algorithm. It's a language in which writers who break the rules become legendary. Would James Joyce or Charles Dodgson or the Bard himself have diagrammed a sentence? Heck no. They played with grammar and spelling the way a child plays with a pile of lego: with enthusiasm and imagination and a gleeful disregard for the instructions.
Ask HN: Are their any politicians that know anything about technology?
I've been reading a lot of articles recently that plain scare me... Figured I would ask if anyone knows of any politicians or candidates with even the slightest understanding of technology?
As I understand it, the designer used freertos. At that point, he can just give a readme with hand-wavey "get sdk, install freertos, find firmware files here... and here's all my code which I'm free to license as I wish" and no license infringement necessary. Not sure why a backdoor is needed, but then I've never built a project like this.
Post unsubstantive comments, especially snarky or indignant ones.

There's obviously no 'groupthink' on HN about Huawei.
Very few actual social dynamics are "a grand conspiracy".
Everybody should try not drinking for 1 month a year... I did it for about 2 years (non-stop). It's pretty hard and it really feels poorly accepted to the point that people didn't ask me you out because I didn't drink (meaning I was not fun, and tbh I can imagine it's less fun for drunk people with a sober person).

Anyway, It was quite an eye opener, also, the times I see this behaviour in series and movies also became a shock: "OMG I have an emotionally hard time! Grab the bottle, start slammin', look at me being all depressed but still cool lookin' like a Marlboro cowboy!". It's so deep in our culture.
> Zuck beats me every night but he makes me feel special and promises to change
Or people are upvoting based on headlines, not article content.
If I was an online ghost I would never get hired. In my line of work you need a CV with publications. While you become a public figure in the process of publishing papers, its actually proof of work vs. trying to talk about your proprietary little thing you worked on at company X that you aren't really allowed to go into specifics about, or doing an interview exam on one tangential problem you may or may not ever encounter in the job like you are in undergrad again. If the recruiter wants to see what I can do, they can just read what I wrote, and ask me for clarification rather than total explanation.

Another massive benefit of being a public face is that collaboration is now possible. Two people in the same Uber pool ride in SV could be struggling with the exact same issue and have no idea that the other person exists because the CS field is closed off and proprietary for the sake of shareholder profit. Think of all the investment and engineering by a half a dozen companies towards the same exact goal of a self driving car. Imagine if all those NDAs were ripped up, and every engineer met up at a conference, gave talks, held poster sessions, troubleshooted common problems, set up meetings, emails, collaborations, joint efforts, shared resources and data, etc.

But then, of course, no company will be able to 'win' and dominate market share and print money for the shareholders.
Informal vs. formal and the gradient between them is always going to be an issue in any language, especially when comparing languages.

French also has more built-in structures for formal address/politeness, though many of them are being left by the wayside just as we left feudal lordships with a peasant class.

For what it's worth, I'd say that the more "stuffy" version of "de rien" in French would be "il n'y a pas de quoi".
It isn't quite speculation when that is the exact reason Facebook has given, and is right there in the article you linked.
PayPal makes a big marketplace play with its $500M investment in Uber
The merger began a while ago.
Our BS drinking laws artificially elevate alcohol's badass status among the under 21 crowd. Rolling back the drinking age to the modern world standard of 16 would drastically reduce student drinking by equating it with kid behavior. Nobody's interested in doing highschool shit in college.
forgot to say, if it already fits your data (i.e. you will have a createdAt column anyway) it is a great choice.
Smalltalk is a family of dialects and implementations. Most of them are indeed compiled to bytecode which is then executed by a JIT VM. Most of them use the "image" concept where you are always in runtime like in a classic Lisp, and yes, the VM handles shape changes etc etc. But some Smalltalks actually have other characteristics, like non JIT or even compiling via C (Smalltalk/X does that I believe).
> If I were a billionaire there is no way in hell I'd wait for a standard drug trial to progress on an FDA timeline.

You don't have to be a billionaire for this. There aren't many drugs which sit between proving efficacy in clinical trials and FDA approval, and ones that are like that only sit there for a few months. Of course, those could be important months for a particular patient, but there are ways to handle this. One such program is called "compassionate use". The idea is that if you have no other hope, you can be prescribed a non-approved treatment.

There aren't as many potholes in this as you seem to believe. Drugs which are proven efficacious and safe usually are submitted for approval, because it's expensive to run trials. It wouldn't be the first time a billionaire decided to do something medically unwarranted or ambiguous, but that doesn't mean it will become a norm.
Have you been paying attention to anything regarding government surveillance in the past decade? NSA? Five Eyes? Governments are thirsty for any new tech that allows them to amass data fast about public behavior. There's startups that exist right now that use ML techniques to analyze security footage for bad actors. There was a Japanese one on the HN front page a couple days ago. This isn't a slippery slope argument, this shit is happening right now.
You can throw Google in a container but it comes with its own annoyances.
I'm curious what you mean by "wrong shape"? Because GPUs are for for very data-parallel workloads? Or because the latency is high?
This is incredibly dangerous and I’m going to push back hard on this narrative. If informed citizens of a democracy don’t need art, how are they supposed to differentiate between propaganda, nationalist myth making, hate speech attempting to clothe themselves as legitimate attempts at artistic expression? When my mom’s nationalized school in Pakistan had dance classes cancelled by the dictatorship, that wasn’t an anti-democratic attack? When they covered up that statue of Justice in Bangladesh, is that OK because citizens don’t need art? When they said that the national fruit of Bangladesh was the jackfruit so why not have a national religion, you don’t think any time to stop and smell the rose of aesthetics reveals that argument to be the equivalent of GW Bush saying his favorite political philosopher was Jesus Christ?

When Milorad Pavic wrote that book “Dictionary of the Khazars” that was not too far from a call from genocide in print, no aesthetic training would have been useful then? Art correlates with history and I daresay you wouldn’t maintain informed citizens of a democracy don’t need to know history. Art tells you something about the motivations of an elite (which some of those citizens might be a part of someday), and what is chosen for a high culture tells you about where the place might be going.
Yep. In that case, I wonder why they would list PIA as competition at all.
ATMs in Japan are saying they’ll transfer your money back in time to 1989
If you do like software, it's still not a great place, because of groupthink. disclaimer : worked with a high rank in a FAANG company for several years...loved that microcosm, but quit because of the boredom of groupthink.
There is definitely a heavy frat culture here in NL, where the drinking age is 18 (and used to be 16 until recently), so I don't think that reasoning holds.
This is only true if you don't use a type checker. If you do use a type checker...types are checked.

It's still not really a sound type system, though. Many safe languages have some kind of escape hatch for the type system, but the escape hatches are very close at hand in Python's typing and you see them used several orders of magnitude more often.
I always love reading about weird/esoteric transistors... <g>
See my reply to him above. I think the demos is taken as a given by him without any thought whence it came.
Flashcard tools like Anki and Tinycards are nice, but they lack enough readily available content to be really useful. Anyone with the expertise and perspective to use these tools in a practical time frame to assemble a deck of the many thousands of words necessary to achieve mastery doesn't need the tools.

For tools like anki, you don't want to use someone else's deck in the first place, because making cards is a learning process in itself, which will improve retention.
It's still very fruitful compared to PhDs in terms of the pharma industry.
Of course I agree with you. I was initially quite surprised to discover how many deaths it caused. It's a world we can't even imagine when good chunks of your crew dying was just a regular part of a job. But of course intuition should never replace facts. Maybe next time a more productive idea would be to ask for a source? I'm certain you're far from the only person who found the fact surprising!
Plogue Bidule is an interesting little app; It just uses node graph with a few basic primitives and a VST container for plugins. I use it all the time if I just want to fire up a virtual synth without loading an entire DAW.
Did they control for regional cultural attitudes towards sex?

For example, these genetic factors could correlate with people whose hereditary upbringing was in a more promiscuous culture, but not necessarily causing it.

Edit: Your first citation says they didn't find a link between infidelity and genetics, but did with environment.
I can understand the aversion to GPU (with "Graphics" being a primary point). Most ways of interfacing with the GPU use x,y,z, color, lighting wrappers around what is essentially a super powerful vpu. I also wonder how the traditional pipeline (e.g. vertex shading, fragment shading) can be repurposed for audio.

I don't have any experience with Metal or Vulcan but my intuition is that audio DSP is going to include a healthy dose of linear algebra and multi-variate calculus. That points towards some kind of fit with the GPU. Given that basic GPUs are available on practically every device (including phones) it seems like a fantastic fit. Even audio hardware developers would benefit since it would open up access to commodity priced chips (rather than custom asic/fpga/whatever).
Has there been a single incident where the NSA stopped any terrorist attacks, mass shootings etc? There is SO much data that its entirely possible the NSA can't screen everything thus things slip though. This is still a clear violation of the 4th amendment imho.
The Valley of Mismatch
The Tough Tomato Principle is not a mere side effect of innovation.
It’s necessary for the new technology to express its full potential.
You can’t use your shiny new tomato harvester until you’ve got the
tomato that goes with it.

We're seeing a lot of this in blockchain.
My comment was 'substantive', as you put it. Sarcastic, but substantive.

It's funny how you felt you had to use the word 'obviously'...
Idiotic? That's marketing departments literally everywhere.
Taking one step forward everyday. Start with small victories and build on them over time.
Pitcairn Island is even more of a tipoff. The nation's Internet access is provided through a 5 Mbps satellite link, and the electricity shuts off at 10 PM. [1] There's no way a company has colocated a VPN server there.

[1]: http://visitpitcairn.pn/already_booked/
Comparing New Memory Types
The Navy Admits Something Weird Has Been Going on in the Skies
Using your radio has been shown to be just as distracting or more distracting yet we allow that. Their is no data presented in the article that shows any even attempted casualty. For example, they note that usage of devices is up and yet fatalities are down: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/us-dot-announces-2017-r...

And lest anyone claim this is due to safety items like advanced airbags, that same article shows _pedestrian_ fatalities are also down.

Now this could be for a host of factors. But the article isn't anything other than a scare fest and a reminder that anyone from FB talking about potential privacy issues should be shamed into silence.