skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Spotify has internal fingerprinting stuff that can handle this easily enough.

I'll admit I don't know about Spotify's inner workings but my understanding is that Spotify itself does not have its own fingerprinting algorithm. Instead, they rely on their distribution partners like DistroKid and CD Baby to use fingerprint services and prevent copyright violations. (DistroKid and CD Baby license the fingerprint algorithm from Audible Magic[1]. Google also initially licensed Audible Magic software before they wrote their own version of ContentID.)

I'm also not sure audio fingerprinting technology is enough. Even though Youtube's ContentID is a state-of-the-art algorithm with the largest fingerprint database, Google was still afraid it wouldn't be enough to satisfy the EU which is why they fought the passage of Article 13.

Maybe the EU Article 13 isn't the sole reason but it certainly gives more ammunition to copyright holders to use against Spotify's catalog of potentially unlicensed content and copyright violations.

>The shutdown is entirely due to pressure from the record labels.

Ok, let's say that the primary reason was pressure from the record labels. We need to dissect that "pressure" into smaller concepts.

To add precision to the discussion we can separate 2 different types of entities:

- record labels[2] : Universal, Sony, Warner, and EMI

- distribution partners[3] : DistroKid, CDBaby, EmuBands, etc

Look at the webpage[3] of non-record-labels that are distribution partners and they mention "protecting against infringement" and "infringement" -- 4 times. Also, Spotify's blog post[4] again mentions "protect artists from infringement".

For Spotify to offer direct uploads, they'd have to manage the extra logistical hassles of policing copyright violations that was previously outsourced to DistroKid & CD Baby.

I agree that record labels (Universal/Sony/Warner) can exert pressure... but what exactly is that pressure about? I believe it's preventing copyright infringement from crowdsourced random uploaders. If it's not about "protecting copyrights" but some other reason that's keeping record labels happy, what's that "other reason"?

[1] https://www.audiblemagic.com/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=biggest+record+labels

[3] https://artists.spotify.com/guide/your-music

[4] https://artists.spotify.com/blog/we're-closing-the-upload-be...
I don't suppose you ever compared parts of the tree that weren't present in the various sort-of-public NT source leaks or research kernel, to see if idiosyncrasies there matched as well?
Or they want to use that talent elsewhere.

It's great that the simplicity argument doesn't really apply. It's a testament to developers getting better at programming in the large over the years. The database layer can be neatly abstracted away from the business rules.
The problem is these teachers are part of the problem. A teacher that allows her class to be surveilled 24/7 is a shitty teacher, period.
Parts of Sendy are obfuscated. Those parts might contain a license checking routine that phones home from time to time.
That's why it should be legal so people who need it won't have to fiddle with the dealers. Obviously big pharma pays a lot so that won't happen.
Same here.. $1300/mo for family of 4. 10k deductible. Another $2k/year for dental.

And then it barely seems to cover any normal stuff.. physical therapy for son, still get $1k bill. Dental work for kids, another $1k.

And you are totally right all it does is make you think "is my kid really doing that bad that I should take him in?". Fuck having to get down to that mentality... I hate it, but it's the reality of the situation I'm in.

If someone is lurking outside our house, we don't think to ourselves.. "Hmm, should I call the police? I don't see a gun, he probably isn't too dangerous.. I'll just wait it out". No, you freakin call the police when you need it and don't have to worry about going bankrupt because of it.

Really sick of this backwards ass country we live in with regards to healthcare. I can afford it.. sort of.. but I have no idea how people below my income deal with day to day medical stuff. It's horrifying.
His experience was in the UK.
Yep, their CDN is down. All Facebook properties are affected.
Try your local library. Our system, at least, tries to ensure that there are always several books about local flora.
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DOIs and complete citations go a long way toward addressing this problem.
I don't think this addresses the concerns being replied to. Teaching is incredibly difficult and time consuming, and just like teachers do not have the time or expertise to also be full time social workers for their students, they also do not have the time or expertise to ensure that surveillance data about their students is appropriately secured and purged. The same applies to local school administration officials, who as you point out are few in number and already stretched too thin across their existing responsibilities.

I don't think anybody's saying that a particular teacher or administrator is to blame, but the original anecdote you shared is a bit chilling if you grew up expecting your childhood misdeeds to be forgotten over time. I remember that the most frightening thing the principal could say to you was "This is going in your permanent record"; the expectation otherwise was that it wasn't.
Have you checked out Mailjet[1]?

They created MJML[2], an email templating language that I've used quite a bit. The WYSIWYG editor for Mailjet leverages it, and creates pretty slick looking and compatible email templates if you don't want to use MJML directly.

[1] https://www.mailjet.com/

[2] https://mjml.io/
I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB.

edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.
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It’s definitely much more manageable for a business, but as one person running a small hobby project, paying hundreds per month is nowhere near worth it. Mailchimp is probably (understandably) focusing on enterprise customers that can pay much more and for whom convenience is a bigger plus.
The student loans and collections effectively give up when a borrower moves to Europe or leaves the country.
It's ~17,000 --> ~70,000 in the last twenty years.

Also, since a lot of these deaths happen early, they have a greater impact the life expectancy rate. One person dying 55 years earlier from a heroin OD has the same impact as 11 people dying 5 years earlier.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20297331
It's being atacked

https://subefotos.com/ver/?263b876bdf09824089e4b118bb4da51bo...
Lack of a stable career, terrible health insurance, high premiums, lack of community involvement, isolation from people, increased screen time and media consumption, hopelessness from always on sensational news, hopelessness in the face of global catastrophe to be coming near you due to ever worsening climate problem, student debt, not being able to afford a home, lack of healthy food options, diet and exercise misinformation, overprescribed medication, always on notifications never allowing you to relax, binge watching Netflix no time for brain to relax, shortened sleep cycles disrupting circadian rhythm.

I wonder what could possibly make people feel like shit and wanting to end it all...
https://subefotos.com/ver/?263b876bdf09824089e4b118bb4da51bo...
This is a good first-order approximation, but there are other cannabinoids which influence the effects: CBN, THCV, and others [0]. Additionally, based on first-hand anecdata, I think there is good reason to believe that the terpene profile can have a big effect on the experience, as well as the flavor [1].

But, yeah, if THC causes anxiety for you, try to never go above a 1:1 THC:CBD ratio. For comparison, most sativas are around 200:1 (20% THC : .1% CBD). Since CBD is legal over the counter, you can usually enforce this ratio, regardless of the THC source.

[0] https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/list-major-cannabin...
[1] https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/terpenes-the-flavor...
I'd wager that you just went to an 'allgemeinarzt'... they're doctors for general illnesses, which usually go away within a few days. practically just to get an AU so you can get a few days of paid leave[1].

If you're having an actual issue, you'd have to go to a specialized doctor or a hospital which has the equipment to actually diagnose your issue... such as an xray machine in your case. diagnosis is done right after taking the image, so you'd have had a similar experience if you went to an actual clinic

[1]
according to the Finanzamt (german IRS) the average worker takes an additional 12 days of paid leave like that... additional to the normal 20-30 days.
Cookie banners are only really required if you're doing things like using them for "personalizing ads" and the like. If your cookies just there to check if you're logged in and other essential functions, you don't need a banner.
Please don't do that. Although airbags are much less controversial now than when they were first introduced, there is still legitimate debate about cost vs benefit, especially given that airbags themselves are quite capable of causing injury.
Hi all, this is very timely. We are working on building a platform that encourages lush gardening. We have expert garderns who have been studying and working with lush native gardens for years. I am actually meeting two of them today. If anyone ever needs help building a garden like the one mentioned, we are more than happy to give free guidance and also guide you on where to find cheap resources and tricks we learnt over the years. The article is very much on point and give some handy tips already.

Also if someone is interested in what we are building: we are making a pass to access lush private backyard gardens for therapy, yoga, meditation etc. Some of our most interesting customers are VAs, elderly folks, stressed out engineers etc. The underlying goal is to help gardeners earn money that they put into building more lush gardens thus storing carbon into top soil.
I suspect the problem is that we've been building steam engines for a very long time, and have become very good at it. We'd be starting at zero, from an engineering standpoint, for PIDEC and ICC. It's a worthwhile task, but it would be billions laid down for something that has never been done at scale before (read: the government would have to fund the experimental reactor).
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Might want to factor in what the US defense gets out of that continued military presence, especially as a relay for operations in the Middle East.
TEXT, like all Postgres varlena types, is limited to 1GB. Which for many people is effectively without limit.
I really like the popup window for a request to subscribe to the newsletter that says "At least this isn't a full screen popup"
I don't think fraud is so big an issue as artist name duplication. I've had to report a number of tracks on my release radar from artists that have the same name as artists I listen to regularly but clearly are not the same, checking out the label/artist only leads to a bandcamp or Facebook page and it was clearly uploaded by an independent artist who hasn't done their due diligence on their naming.

Nothing wrong with it, just lack of foresight on the uploaders' part.
We need more of a Page Rank type of measure, where the inbound links (non-visa countries) are weighted by value.

In reality though the true answer is something like dual citizenship in Canada and an EU Country or similar. Example: I have friends who are Canadian/Romanian and hold tech degrees, so most of the world is wide-open to them.
This is the biggest failure point for mining cards, they're easy/cheap to replace though.
Apple can grant access to its devices? I thought they can only grant access to a subset of things saved on iCloud, what is stored on devices should be off-limits.
Why do you say that? Only the CDN is down it seems.
I would sincerely urge you to continue to experiment, as much as you are willing to, with at least few different combinations before completely writing off marijuana as a potential medical aid.

Specifically, I would try a different method of delivery and different potencies. If you aren't inclined to smoking or vaping, perhaps an under-the-tongue spray.

Depending on the concentration you have tried, I would try lowering the concentration of CBD and perhaps choosing something with a very small (1 - 5%) concentration of THC.

Obviously if you are not comfortable with experimenting for fear of another episode like you described, then don't experiment. A very large part of any drug is being in a mental state where you are comfortable using it. I don't have concrete numbers, but I would posit that the majority of bad trips are due to mental state of the user (comfort level, environment, preconceptions, etc.), not the drugs themselves.
Might be off-topic, but in general, US is very harsh on poor people.

Apart from healthcare, Two more things that are harsh on people that don't have money (like students) are:

1. You need a car, which costs thousands of dollars (depending on how much reliability you need). Then, if your car breaks down and you're poor, you're really fucked.

2. Eating out is a big expense (e.g. tip makes it worse). It's ridiculous that eating out every day in a month could cost as much as a round-trip flight to Thailand. You could also buy a macbook with that money.

Back, in Thailand, when I was a college student, my allowance was $15 USD a week, and I ate out pretty much every meal. Most of semi-poor/average-income people in Thailand eat out. Granted, the food safety standard is way worse. But I'd still prefer that than spending time doing the cooking myself.
True, but they should also not be required to secure surveillance infrastructure and purge collected data at regular intervals.
I don't see how this scenario is changed by having video of the child's misbehaviour.
Please don't do what? Debate the topic?

Learn to communicate respectfully.
Yes, that's generic advice about finding local advice, which is about the best you can do without giving any local advice.
Especially since a lot of us Ameticans are already in the streets
I run mine on a raspberry pi zero w. I wouldn’t waste the power of dedicating a whole server to it.
Also, a National Security Letter may require that the takedown not be publicized in any way. This is in part what led to the concept of warrant/NSL canaries: a statement in a legal doc such as terms, etc. that says there have been no warrants or takedowns orders received. If the canary is removed from the doc then it is not publicizing the NSL, but the canary's absence is supposedly required by law (IANAL) because keeping it in there would be a falsehood in a legal document, and so the absence indicates the NSL/takedown occurred.
Thank you. I appreciate the info.
NASA has procedures in place to wash their space going equipment with hydrogen peroxide washes. Alas strains of Bacillus pumilus have been shown to survive these washes. I had a chance to work on these strains that had been on the space station in experiments to see how they responded to radiation etc there. The resistance to hydrogen peroxide in this strain is incredible. It was so far past resistant compared to the hardiest bacterial strains in the lab that it was off the charts. Life as they say...always finds a way.
Most of the plain ESPs like AWS SES, or mailgun accomplish that same reliability for comparatively peanuts.

The main thing you lose with them are UX for sending newsletters, handling bounces on those lists etc. that's what sendy covers.
This exactly.

And hell in the US it's not even "poor people". My family makes over $100k but are self employed, so any little medical thing turns into a huge fucking bill every time. At least I can (mostly) afford it when that comes up..

But yeah how is 80% of the country supposed to function when they can't even feel comfortable medically?
Ask HN: Language builders, what programming language are you working on?
I have a bit of an interest and fascination with new programming languages especially ones with new and unusual paradigms.

If you are a language builder, what are you currently working on and what are the advantages of using it? Are there any specific software domains it is designed for?

Also please post a link to a site or repo if you have one.
Well, Space is dead, for one thing :)
Sounds like GDPR having its desired effect
Oklo was critical 1.7B years ago. Definitely no fungi.
The particles in question are likely dust specks, and destroying them probably just means breaking them up into smaller pieces.
I’m surprised by the negativity of this comment. For every case of conflict there are others that can be cited of cultural change.

Lawns have some legitimate uses, entertainment and play space come to mind, but for the most part are a cultural statement.

I recommend keeping an open mind that “changing aesthetics” is the right way to go. More local biodiversity, less water use, more bee forage, insect habitat, birds, etc.

Often (but not always), just “doing nothing” is a great step forwards.
Glad to live in Canada. As of 2016, life expectancy was nearly four years ahead of the US, and trending in the right direction.
I see the issue with false positive, but I don't get the privacy argument here. Scanning your face vs your passport is not any different from privacy perspective.
Don’t expose it to the internet please. Or if you do make sure you know how to secure it first.
In USA, because they're funded by house taxes
Virginia bans 'deepfakes' and 'deepnudes' pornography
It's a Chinese company. If they know how to do one thing well, it's "moderate".
People are probably ok with trade and flow of people, but probably a lot less so if you propose reassigning Alsace-Lorraine to Germany or Provence-Alpes to the control of Italy. In other words the “land” which is what borders are about and protect.

Let’s say there are two countries, Denmark and Sweden. If one day Denmark is going downhill and 50% of the pop would want to move to Sweden because life is much better there and Denmark is going nowhere but down, why shouldn’t it be in Sweden’s interest to one, either stop the flow or alternatively take control and annex Denmark in order to bring it into the fold?

In any case, I see it eventually resulting in a new colonialism where elites and businesses are the main ones deriving advantage and wealth from this new arrangement. Localities lose power to distant and disconnected power.
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Yet people blame Obamacare for the prices you just mentioned :).
(Not parent poster)

Because many women don't want power over others, preferring co-op over hierarchical structure, while a lot of men don't want equality but to fight and climb the ladder (or die)?

I'm not asserting as univocally true, just musing that the environmental structures in which "normative" men and women thrive might be quite different.

In other words, are men collectively squeezing women out of the game, or are men playing each to the death for personal victory, not handing out free passes to the other opponents, male or female? While the former might regrettably happen, I feel the latter is really the common case.
What does this show?
The ODroids peak at ~20W of power each, and idle at a lot less. All six together, at peak will be ~120W, which isn't so bad, and it seems to idle at around ~40W, which is a number I'm ok with, especially since these things live deep in my basement, far away from the AC, meaning that the heat they generate at least isn't being re-cooled.

That said, I also use these things for a whole ton of things; I watch a lot of movies on there, but since I use docker swarm liberally, pretty much any pet project I have gets deployed there. For example, and I forgot to mention this in the previous post, I built my own basic home-security system by using ffmpeg with a bunch of webcams and Raspberry Pi Zero W's, which communicates to a docker container that streams HLS to hard disk.

Of course I could probably get away with turning these servers on at an as-needed level, but I like being able to just spin up a container whenever I want.
Amazing. Glad I have paper books.
Well, that’s how these organisms do it as well.
Great, let's keep doing that instead of mass surveillance of all of our digital artifacts.
looks amazing! keep it up
A worldmap with some shiny dots.
I set up a gitlab ci/cd server. It was fun, just the right about of challenging. Although gitlab has free hosted accounts so maybe not too useful.
I hadn't heard of ReactOS but a quick glance at it's kernel source on GitHub and it's OBVIOUSLY straight from Windows.

Not that I work for MS but I used to work on NT graphics drivers and had a copy of the leaked NT kernel source for a while (strictly for personal interest!). This so very like what I remember.

IMHO such blatant theft shouldn't really go unpunished.
Thats what it appears to be. Pi-Top (the brand) has always been geared towards maker-centric use cases. The previous Pi-Top models allowed you to incorporate plug-n-play modules into the laptop itself. Perhaps they thought the built-in peripherals limiting for those who want to use the Pi-Top for a headless project. They showcase drones, bots and similar use cases on the announcement page.
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Back to the future. Selling perpetual license was the old software game - great for bootstrapping
> Please click HERE to GO to the next page

The word HERE is a link, with styling and cursor set to look like normal text.
Ask HN: Why use geolocation instead of browser language settings?
When I'm in Germany, I frequently find websites that display English in the UK that display text (especially cookie pop-ups) in German even though my browser and system language settings tell the website to use English. I would understand this if it were significantly easier to find a user's location from their IP address instead of use their browser settings, but it is clearly not - the language setting is there in the header of every request my browser makes to websites.

Is there some benefit to this practice from the point of view of website developers?
" I think the system stayed in place after the war and without a threat of invasion, why wouldn't the Germans and other Western allies dial down the defense budget even more?"

I think it's time for Europe to grow up and stand on their own feet.
Really? Can you give some ballpark estimatives?

I’m really interested on how much of your salary can you save after paying not just taxes but kindergarten, health insurance, unemployment insurance, pension plan, 25-ish paid vacation days etc.

Living in Germany I manage to get around 45% of take home money after fixed costs and taxes, from this I manage to save around 35% and could probably push a little bit more if I wanted to have a more miserable life and didn’t travel that much on vacations.
It even works on my latest Firefox beta on Windows 10 (on this HN page). Hmm...They may not the same thing.
I believe "facial recognition for crossing an international border" is an obvious benefit because, look, the world is not all sunshine and daisies and it's important that we're able to validate that a person going from one country to another is who they say they are.

You seem to be operating under the core assumption that because we as a society allow facial recognition in that situation it will inevitably expand to others, and that's exactly the point I was trying to make in the first place. If an educated and well-informed populace says "no, we will not allow this technology to be used outside of these specific circumstances" and then enforces that position at the ballot box, there won't be a problem. Unfortunately most people just don't care, and no amount of technological backtracking will fix that.

In other words, don't worry about the tech; worry about the people that make the tech matter.