skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analysis doesn't even make sense.

"The actual financial transaction tax burden to this 401(k) holder will be considerably less than this $100 for two reasons. First, not all of the tax will be passed on to investors. The industry will have to bear part of the burden in lower fees."

Why is this assumed to be true? Fees on managed funds are quite opaque to begin with, most people with a 401k have no idea what funds they have let alone what fees they charge. The market is also not one where buyers (i.e. - holders of 401ks) are free to choose from sellers generally. Most 401ks are not self directed, they have certain authorized funds. Therefore, there is likely not sufficient mobility for competition amongst fees to take place.

This entire part of the article is incomprehensible to me:

"In this case, the cost of the tax to this 401(k) holder would be entirely offset by the savings from trading less. Let’s say that it cost this person 0.5 percent a trade before the tax is imposed. In that case, the tax will have doubled their trading cost. The expected result is a 50 percent reduction in trading volume. Instead of trading $20,000 of stock a year, they will only trade $10,000.
The savings from reduced trading are equal to, or quite possibly larger than, the tax paid by this 401(k) holder. Before the tax is put into effect, the holder is paying $100 in trading costs on $20,000 in trades each year. After the tax is in place the holder is paying $100 (including the tax) on $10,000 in trades. The holder is now paying more for each trade, with the 0.5 percent tax added in, but is paying no more in total for trades each year. The financial industry effectively eats the full cost of the tax."

This assumes that the previous statement is true that fees are reduced to cover the taxes. In addition, the idea that there will be "savings" from introducing this new tax is ridiculous. This is the type of thinking that causes people to spend $50 more buying things online in order to get $15 off. You aren't "saving" money by spending more!

"Every trade has a winner and a loser, a buyer that paid too much for a stock, or a seller got too little."

What? Nobody is a winner or loser in a stock transaction. There is just a buyer who wants in at a given price and a seller who wants out at a given price.

The fact that the impact on liquidity is hand waved away in the final 3 paragraphs by just saying "these guys are rich anyways" is ridiculous. A decrease in liquidity due to HFTs being taxed will undoubtedly hurt consumers with increased bid-ask spreads which, ironically, will result in the maligned HFTs being able to scalp even more profit.
> We want content organized in a logical manner with tags, folders, lists and search that's completely removed from the physical location.

The problem is that there's a lot of room for interpretation as to what is the best way to actually translate media metadata into an organizational scheme. Furthermore, the most appropriate interpretation is DIFFERENT depending on the type and/or genre of the music.

Most metadata-oriented media players tend to pick one scheme, apply it across the board, and completely screw up somewhere along the way. For whatever kind of music the developers had in mind, it'll work okay. For anything else, it's borderline unusable as you constantly struggle to find/browse what you're looking for.
The sad thing is that in America today you can't get access to the two big 'miracle cures' (fecal transplants or MDMA) for any reason outside of clinical trials. Anyone with a non-verbal loved one should be able to legally try the fecal transplant and anyone with PTSD should be allowed to legally try MDMA. Scientifically proving that treatments work isn't nearly as important as proving that treatments are safe.
Also chiming in for foobar2k.

Several custom modular interfaces are a tab-switch away.
Takes a while to get everything the way you like it but you've got modules for autotagging, working integration with Winamp's Milkdrop2 (and any other Winamp plugins one might have), youtube search & playback, lyric fetching, advanced playlist organization, direct playback from VGM music files, pop-up search, artist bio fetching, etc.

It's very easy to get exactly where you want to be with a custom queue within seconds.

I would also recommend Amarok, not sure how it performs on Windows, but there's a KDE build[0]. It comes a lot more configured out of the box, plus it's still fairly customizable and its playlist creation features surpass even fb2k's.

[0] https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Win...
> Because you can't live off just meat alone ...

For the record, you can.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson demonstrated this in the USA a century ago, but this was based on his experiences watching and living in the arctic where we have much longer natural experiments to refer to.

Of course, whether you should or not, and the nature of the long term effects, are separate considerations.
The article points out that, while there are occasional uses for dark mode, people shouldn't be using it all the time. I frequently see people preaching that light theme is impossible to look at and they use dark mode 24/7. It's not saying that Apple is wrong for implementing dark mode, it's criticizing people's choice to use dark mode all the time. To quote the article, "there’s a big difference between using Dark Mode for such occasional salutary reasons and pretending, as Apple’s marketers do, that it’s anything but a productivity hit."
Sure, but the email he received basically said "your account is locked. No other info. Thank You". That to me is a much scarier thing than anything else in the thread. How can anyone trust in your infrastructure if your standard protocol is literally just shutting down their entire operation without any form of review or communication?
I was an iTunes obsessive from 2003-2012. Then uploaded all my music to the cloud and moved on. Still miss the functionality though.

Two days ago I wanted to rent a movie for an airplane, so I opened up iTunes on my Mac. I'm not kidding, in order to rent this movie I had to type in my password 8 times and confirm so many dialogs I almost gave up. If your purchase flow is that bad, you just don't care anymore. So not surprised they're gonna end it.
Apple just released a new iPod Touch, so it seems it will survive in some form:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/remember-the-ipod-ap...
This is one of those things I have in my list of things to try out one of these days. If I'm not mistaken, this is what Google use to implement their image algorithms in their Google Camera Android app. Marc Levoy is one of the co-authors of the Halide paper [0] and is now working at Google, so it's natural. Do you happen to know how widely used it is in industry?

[0] http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/halide-cacm18/halide-cac...

https://halide-lang.org/
No? Accutane is often the last resort option when everything else fails.
Where are these smart folders in native Windows? The closest I see is a “saved searched” and this is really more obtuse than creating a playlist.
Hallelujah.

iTunes is the single worst piece of software I have ever used. It’s the only software I’ve seen bring someone to literal tears. And it’s done that to more than a couple of family members.

May it rot in hell forever.
The Mystery of Fogbank (2009)
You are right! Sky crane still blows my mind!
Imho, that point was reached in hosting over 15 years ago (which is why I sold the hosting company I had back then). We’ve seen some short lived upticks periodically since then, but they all end up going back to shit as they tried to scale.
I don't think you could publish a clinical trial that does not already consider the placebo effect, so it's unlikely these findings are related to it.
The "components on this scale" are pretty light so there's not much force when you accelerate them. If a drop doesn't crack the silicon wafer it's not going to shift the bits and bobs on it.
You don't have to worry about rich people if all money is worthless I guess.
Mistakes happen, and algorithms are sometimes a necessary part of scale/efficiency. Everyone understands that.

That said, what's highly troubling as a DO customer (and someone who is planning to deploy startup infrastructure of my own with DO) is:

1) The discrepancy between this customer's experience and clear assurances made on this very forum by high-level DO employees that:

a. warnings are ALWAYS issued before suspensions.

b. even in the event of a suspension, services remain accessible (though dashboard access and/or the ability to spin up NEW services may be impacted), ie. the affected customer could still retrieve data or SSH in to droplets.

2) The relatively trivial nature of the customer's offending usage (temporarily spinning up 10 droplets). What happens if, for example, a startup gets a press mention somewhere that leads to a massive traffic spike, necessitating a sudden and significant spin-up of new droplets (especially if this is done programmatically versus by hand in the dashboard)?

3) The apparent lack of consideration of the customer's history, or investigation into their usage. It seems the threshold for suspending services of longstanding customers who are verifiably engaging in commerce (taking a moment to look at their website and general online presence for indicators of legitimacy), should be SUBSTANTIALLY higher than for, say, an account who signed up a week ago. Context matters.
Frankly, console/command-line players, mostly mpv/mps and kin, hit that spot for me now.

You might try VLC for a GUI.
Reminds me of when Piketty's "Capital" was sold out everywhere. I was one of many people who bought it due to the hype. Apparently I was also one of many people who never read it:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/piketty-book-no-one-read_n_55...

MMT is very "in" right now but most people won't finish a 600pg novel, let alone a texbook.
You want normal people to use hard links?

But iTunes didn’t “slurp up and rename files” unless you enabled the option for it to manage your underlying file.
Nice article with a bit of low-level details. We are indeed encountering the problem that light wavelength is now small enough for us! So using 15nm EUV for multiple patterns to get 5nm. Only two foundries left in the entire world which can do such process (Intel and others are years behind).
not nice.

Apple is very open about their long term plan to convert to a media and services company. Their business plan is to 1) get you to change over to these 3 new apps now when they are free, 2) convert each to a paid monthly subscription plan once enough people use them.

so soon you'll be paying for 3 things instead of being able to use iTunes like it is now.
We evaluated Hasura and the only problem we found is the integration with our own authorization system. Otherwise Hasura is quite frankly amazing.

Our auth system has many roles per user, then each role has its permissions, pretty common setup. The problem is that Hasura expects a single default role per request to then evaluate against its permissions. The Hasura team has been looking into accepting an array of roles and merging permissions and whatnot, but AFAIK this hasn't been solved.

If you start with Hasura from scratch this is not really a problem, it happened to us because we had to figure out how to integrate Hasura with our current permissions.
Same as any other document on my disk: it doesn't matter. Just dump everything in there and let Spotlight index it.

(That's basically what iTunes does now, except the exact behavior is hidden behind a mysterious "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" checkbox, and the index is stored in big opaque XML files rather than Spotlight.)

My email has hierarchical folders, too, but I don't know anyone who worries about the folder structure of their email. All messages are indexed, and search is quick, so there's not much point.
Stacks of thin silicon chips of 100 layers or so with microfluidic channels between the layers, or in the layers, sounds like the way of the future to me.
Why can’t it read what’s what and generate a map without all the mv’ing?

The answer is probably in the realm of “That’s how we wrote desktop apps back then.”

Files are not real things. Just identifiers for an organization of bits that sound like a Neil Young sing when played through the correct decoder.
Yes and if there are any weaknesses around ARM loans left in the financial markets it could trigger another debt crisis when not careful.
> that looked further out than you did.

Very much so. You were presenting how there would be no danger to the ecosystem if these three sub-species were successfully destroyed. I never got as far because I wondered about the similarities of population regrowth after destruction with insecticide and destruction with modified organisms.

> Before you bring up the recent boeing failures

I don't need to. Building nuclear facilities is (usually) a very rigorous field with the highest quality of engineering, but sometimes factors of design considerations interact in ways that create new conditions that were impossible to predict. And since you mentioned aeroplanes: if you look at NTSB reports, you often find the cause of crashes is a long chain of trivial events, every single one of them meticulously checklisted and tested with fallback modes to avert disaster. It's not the components, but the intractability of the web of interaction.

> Why do you think that evolution and resistance are novel failure modes

Because evolution and resistance are novel failure modes in the context of genetically designed natural enemies. Previous statistical models might not hold even though the situations modeled appears exactly similar.

> why do you think they'd have been missed in the analysis?

Genetic modification is a statistical process, much like an AI network where something goes in and the output is measured for fitness and fed back. Random artifacts are to be expected and accounted for, but cannot be known to exist before the fact. As such their model might be complete, but it might not be sound.

As you implied, rigor is important, and faced with potentially irreversible consequences, skepticism is not an unnatural or irrational response.
“create a list of all of the songs I haven’t played in X days” - this can easily be done in winamp. they got full query language that can be saved as a playlist. i even think they got this as one of pre-sets.
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> iTunes is the single worst piece of software I have ever used

I mean sure it's bad, but I find it hard to take this statement literally for any HN reader.

*Note that is not a comment about HN UX, just that anyone who uses software and technology extensively has to have used some pretty terrible software products in their lifetime.
What about sub-atomic particles? It sounds artificially limiting, academically speaking, to say that a single atom is as small as we can go.
It's possible to take a lower dose for a longer time period to lessen the side effects.
> it’s not fully compatible quite yet https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues?q=is%3Aopen+....

So you're waiting for CockroachDB to implement features before you suppoort it?
> Obsidian is currently under development and is not ready for general use. For more details about Obsidian, for now, please read our papers. Want to help? Participate in our user study.

What you are looking for is not in scope for this publication. Keep in mind that this is an academic project.
I don't think the things you're saying are really accurate. Bitcoin isn't used very much for payments because it isn't easy to use it for payments. The scaling technology to enable it is in development but not good enough yet. Once payments hit a certain critical level, the network slows. Lots of people spend Bitcoin when they can.

Additionally, lending and borrowing is becoming a really popular application for crypto. You should take a look into things like Compound, Dharma, dYdX, nuo, BlockFi, and others. [1] Decentralized lending + borrowing with collateral is super hot, with amazing interest rates. On dYdX right now you can get a 6.2% APY on USDC, which is a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. My bank savings account only gives me 2.2%. That's a 2.8X multiplier on the best bank rate available right now. And not on a volatile asset - a pegged-to-USD asset.

It's actually practical - more practical than traditional finance - if your goal is to save via compound interest. The idea that crypto is sitting around doing nothing isn't accurate at all.

But besides all that, the idea that "money sitting there doing nothing" is bad is wrong anyway, since the money that "does something" becomes worth more. This argument confuses numbers for value. Economic output doesn't care about how we quantify it, it cares about resource allocation. The value of our flappy paper tabs changes to reflect economic activity and its own scarcity in the economy, not vice-versa.

[1] defipulse.com
This is the side effect calling "surveys" as "studies" and then confusing them with science.
It might be the excuse I need to try out rockbox … https://www.rockbox.org
> It must work (for some set of work) though or they wouldn’t do it.

Tired people, busy people, people who don't understand any of it. I too sometimes just click through consent forms without reading, 'cause ain't nobody has time for this crap, but I'm happy with the knowledge that GDPR makes this mostly safe (and in cases where it doesn't, at some point I'll start sending data access and removal requests just out of spite).
Public Schools force you to deal with a wide cross-section of society, especially compared to private schools (mainly mid to upper crust society) and colleges (people are there by choice, often after being part of the workforce and deciding to further themselves).

In many ways K-12 schools are run like prisons, with administrators playing god and throwing fits when challenged about their petty actions, students trapped in an environment not of their choosing, and society enforcing this structure.

I wish there were more diverse options for schooling, as I would've been much more interested in K-12 school had I been encouraged to dive into a subject, then asked to prove my knowledge, without the distraction of other subjects splitting my focus. College definitely offers much more flexibility in this regard, which has made for a much better experience.
You are talking about implementations of the nodes. This is targeting smart contracts that will be executed by those nodes.
WedMap: From $100k/Y Job to Failed Airbnb for Weddings
I have a fairly long internal list of topics where the comments are generally a rehash of past discussions. To mention a somewhat top 10:

Affirmative action.

Privilege.

Piracy.

Gender segregation.

Ad blockers.

Permissive vs GPL license.

Trump.

Fake news.

Diet and climate change.

Weight loss.
We lost everything, our servers, and more importantly 1 year of database backups. We now have to explain to our clients, Fortune 500 companies why we can’t restore their account.

And yet, the explanation is very simple:

Because you neglected basic principles and elected to put all of your backup eggs in one basket.
It would have been helpful to get the bill number so we could know who voted for it... Oh, wait, the president just declared that this is the way it is (justified by "terrorism" of course.)

I thought we had rules.
Do you walk with your iPod in your pocket?

The reason I am asking is because I am surprised yours has lasted so long. I had two and they broke within two years due to the mechanical hdd inside. (the headphones also broke, within a month each time; really put me off buying Apple products again)
Firebase? No, not at all. It's all Hasura and Postgres.
A class-action suit imperils California freelancers
How do I organise my album collection? Alphabetically? By genre? Year? Record label?

You can organise your collection how you like. There is no right answer (although its obviously by genre).

If you're indecisive then just dump everything into one huge flat file, or just add links.
New York Schools Will Test Facial Recognition Despite Objections from State
I am so glad I left the US to get a PR in Canada. I have a multiple entry 10-year tourist visa to US now. The immigration system will never get reformed. Once the recession follows in a year or two and unemployment goes up no when is going to talk about immigration(no one cares now but they will care even less).
1nm is about 5 atoms so I guess the next metric would be the number of atoms. Single atom features would be kind of cool but not buildable with present technology.
If anybody doesn't know about the Mtgox collapse, this man is the reason why creditors haven't seen any money after 6 years and he recently submitted a ~$16b claim against the estate. All the money and coins in the estate are customer deposits yet entitled Mr Vessenes feels he has the right to all of this because he couldn't possibly make money through legitimate business practices.

How bout you recognize customers entitlement to what's left of their deposits?

You are garbage made flesh.
> This has gotten me wondering: how many people might be sick as a consequence of their poor diet? It's probably a good idea to carefully scrutinize your diet as a potential influencing factor if you have a medical condition.

If we separate microbiome from diet a little here, then it's quite easy to say that many people are sick because of their poor diet. Heart disease and cancer are by a large margin the largest killers of people in the United States, both of which have obesity as a major factor. Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and a host of other diseases also result from poor diets. I'm practically certain it's one of the primary causes of premature death.
Probably not strict enough. ISPs are just going to shrinkwrap their contracts with an extra clause saying they're selling your data unless you write them a letter to some address which they will check at a ridiculously low frequency or have to call through a call center and deal with every salesman and their brother and sister flabberghasted at such a request while passing it on to their "superior" for an hour at a time while you sit on hold waiting... and in the meantime will sell your data. The law really should have made it completely opt-in only (which nobody would reasonably do) or just bar it completely.

They already know all the tricks to stop people getting out of their contracts, they're just going to start applying that to this kind of opt-out situation too.
My reply (pasted from original tweet)

This is why you need, at minimum, a nightly mirror. Ideally you stack on top of that a load-balancing device or service to redirect traffic in the event of an outage from your primary farm.

Never go on holiday again until you have backups and failover.

#idothisforaliving
To be clear, you believe that everyone working these gigs is really working full time for a company, on a set schedule that the company decides, without the choice of using what tools they want to, and who's work is being monitored by the company?
It's cool you're a vegetarian, glad it works for you, but I fail to see what that has to do with the price of tea in China, let alone this article.
I've been with Linode since 2009, and only got bitten once when their entire Atlanta DC went down near Christmas.

I was eager to try the new DO managed Postgres service, but I guess I won't after this blunder.
My sister and I were both in gifted programs, back in the late 80's and early 90's. Neither of our lives turned out the way we expected. We also have a few gifted friends, some who have severe mental illness or drug addiction. Though most quite lead very ordinary lives, I know none of who achieved anything incredibly extraordinary. I know I've done better than most, it doesn't feel like enough...
How did that work out in the short term and then in the long run?
On a plane, I have a terminal on my laptop. Mosh? Less likely...
Username checks out, as they say on Reddit ;)

The last line was unnecessary to get your point across and against HN guidelines.