skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that Chrome itself is a problem but rather the way that Google releases updates for Chrome which damages the ecosystem. Build a good browser that helps users load elements faster and enjoy the web more? Always good!

Changing this same browser to make your sites load faster while not announcing these changes so your competitors scramble while meanwhile you go "what, me worry?"

Just pathetic really. It's not like they were trying to push us past some inefficiencies, just taking us to ones they owned.
This could certainly be done. The biggest hurdle is money and people. There just aren’t that many patent attorneys qualified to do this kind of work, and most are not terribly idealistic types. In other words, you’d have to pay them at least semi-competitively. Just the filing fees alone for an IPR are ~$20k. I’d work on killing bad patents just for funsies, but I imagine there’s not many if any other attorneys out there that know how to do this kind of work and are unencumbered by an existing law firm. FWIW, most attorneys who get paid to do this stuff absolutely suck at it, I’ve seen it first hand. The few who are good at it are doing it at law firms that wouldn’t allow them to work on something like this.
Save your trolling for Reddit.
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Thanks for the interest. Right now, the AI request lets people listen to content from most links available online. Once we see there's demand for a particular article or domain, we create the human-read version of it too. In terms scalability, we've discovered there are a lot of people with really good voices who are interested in creating a portfolio of voice-over work. We made it very easy for them to generate and upload the audio of the articles every day, through a narrator platform. The business model will be based on a freemium subscription, with the paid version introducing premium features.
> And strange because if 200 find a way to revolutionize the lives of billions. We still have to pick 30? Why not celebrate everyone who markedly improves the lives of 10% of the planet or some other absolute measure?

I mean, you could say this about anything. The Nobel Prize has limited slots. Nobody's saying those are the only people on earth worth honoring.

I'd say the real problem is putting too great an emphasis on youth and hustle. Who makes their magnum opus in their 20s? Why would you even want to? Most people's greatest accomplishments happen in their 30s and 40s, even 50s. Setting up early burnout as something to aspire to feels pathological.
Lots of people communicate with octopuses. Just as my dog and i can converse (ie "do you want food or to go out?") similar interaction can be done with an octopus.
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Privacy deprivation. It's cruel.
My preference is the ones I have experienced in national labs. Probably too many meetings, but when you are done with your meetings you get to go to a dedicated office where you can close the door and get your "deep work" done.

This is counter to my experience in a _dedicated_ WeWork office. Have a neighbor that takes calls throughout the day, you'll need to wear headphones because it's basically being in an open office. Have an office on a busy corridor? Get ready for people walking and talking past you all day. The sound design at WeWork is pretty awful, to the point it is non-existent.

I made a complaint at one point before moving offices because the music was too loud during nights and weekends in the lobby. I was told they would see what they could do but that the CEO [Neumann] preferred there to be loud music in the lobby.
Tweet gives some context about the survey.

Link to take the survey:
https://surveysoftware.net/hostss/microconf.htm
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How many times we we all have to see the Times cover and this History Channel pop science piece. 99% of climatologist agree on the science and the effects of warming are plainly visible to the layman.
I truly do not mean to be flippant - but don’t the words under the photos provide all the necessary context? Right under the Kenyan photo, which could be staged, the article says “The ensuing floods displaced 76,000 people and left nearly 100 dead. Kenya experienced more lethal floods last year.”

This particular Nature article gives a brief overview of a number of the consequences of global warming accompanied by photographs. Every article can’t be everything all at once.
Do you seriously expect Google and Cloudflate to make basic web development easier when they are making tons of money by "managing" its complexity for others? It's in their best interest to make hosting your own content or using smaller hosting providers absolute hell. Just like it's in Google's best interest to make browsers so complex that other browser devs just give up and Chrome derivatives become the only choice.

I'm predicting that eventually Google will start deranking HTTP 1.1 websites.
Suggesting that the postal service will charge $2 more for X and $2 less for Y so it all balances out is not "trickle down".

Maybe they'll save more to that pension fund, but I can't in good conscience say "The USPS should keep that policy where I can get $3 cheaper shipping from china and the money to pay for it comes out of the USPS pension fund."

If most of the money stays inside the realm of shipping, the average cost for local businesses will go down. (The first order effect just shuffles money around. More to buy from china, less to send to customers, on average the same. A second order effect is that more purchases from china will shift to being bulk, dropping the average cost.)
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That’s a little misleading, if the American government wants to do some surveillance on its citizens using military resources he can do so via partnership with the CIA and the NSA or any other domestic agency that has the authority to do it.

The CIA and the NSA or whatever civilian agency will make the actual program and then “use” (let) military resources do their thing.
It sounds like they did ask that question first, but only validated it after all the following questions were asked.
That is indeed our approach, and the reason we started out with articles posted on HN.
http://nsidc.org/soac is a pretty good resource.

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/imagery-and-data has a nice display of actual images.
But legally they are two different things. Just because you feel it's a subset of hate speech that doesn't mean it is.

In a lot of countries with hate speech laws, but no blasphemy laws, this would be allowed. She did not say anything about the people following Islam but about a religious figure, these are not the same thing.
Since when was nature.com a political organization?
>How do you define "lower classes"? If you mean household income

It's interesting that in the USA "class" refers almost exclusively to wealth. In the UK "class" has a slightly different meaning and relates to everything from genealogy to which school you went to social grace. As an example, a "Lord" who went to Eton and comes from an old family will always be upperclass, even if they are bankrupt and worth less than nothing, with no income at all.

It's not quite a caste system as class mobility IS a thing but it's not simply wealth either.
Yep, they have done an exceptional job at that ever since the more subtle forms of union busting occurred during the 70's and 80's. I am getting a sense that idea is starting to change though, thankfully.
It is always amusing when climate change deniers, uh, sorry, I mean skeptics, cite historic climate data to try to discredit climate research.

The historical record they cite was collected by the very community of researchers whom they attempt to discredit by those facts. It is as if they think the researchers are unaware of those historical facts and that they never realized that there have been warming and cooling periods before.

It just exposes their motivations: scientists are charlatans who don't understand anything when the climate scientists support AGW, but the data from the same scientists is heralded as the real truth when the deniers/skeptics think it supports their own beliefs.
Have the courage of your convictions and don't use throwaways to lay down the law with your opinion please?
Sometimes the only way for people to learn a lesson is to be burned.

As capitalism accelerates, inequality grows, poverty spreads, and pain/suffering become more widespread, people's eyes will open to con's as well as the pro's of capitalism.

So it's more than just 'fuck it' it's instructive.
Thankfully they don't. It's the package manager's job to update packages and the vendor's job to repackage upstream.
Rentier capitalism does not come with a reset button
Protonmail is one of the few mailers that allow registration over Tor. I like that, because I value my privacy, but of course this also opens up abuse.
Anyone can claim responsibility, and moreover, being 'responsible' doesn't mean you had some capabilities. Such as with skiddies who employ a chinese DDOS botnet. The people responsible are the ones running the botnets and selling their useage, not the people trying to utilize this.
I've switch 10 years ago from bags to loose tea and since that moment I can't drink tea with sugar anymore - maybe all that bagged dust stuff was more palatable sweetened back then? No idea. But one thing is sure, I can't switch back to bags and each time I have to drink such, it's a nightmare - esp. the occasional Lipton cup tastes like worst thing under the sun.
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iTunes WiFi sync is going to be deprecated, because iTunes is being deprecated.
"Idiom" and "idiomatic" are connected. You've just demonstrated that the use is correct.
There's another pop sci argument I hear very often:

Bad weather event: see, that's undeniably the effect of global warming, we're all gonna die by 2030.

Climate improves: climate change is not weather, you can't judge by short term effects.
I'd love for someone to chime in with specifics, but I'm pretty sure it's both--depending on the feature.

I remember reading a story where Spotify either bought or sued an app that allowed streaming to the Apple Watch (it may have been something specific like via LTE with no phone involved). Here's an article from June harping on Spotify not allowing offline playback on the Apple Watch [1]. Spotify launched https://www.timetoplayfair.com and sued Apple in the EU because they can't work with Siri and Apple's Home pod.

On the other side, Netflix disables Airplay requesting you use the app on that device. I'm sure this is to enforce their per-device limits at different subscription tiers.

So it could be Apple not offering APIs, inaction on their part, or strategically not allowing that feature.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/09/watchos-6-spotify/
I think the whole point is human suffering. Sometimes it's the only way to wake people up to the ills of a system.
It’s kind of mind-boggling that people keep themselves up at night over this. Seems like it requires some level of egomania.
discuss today, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21083092
Wordpress is open source, but the plugins that people "null" and upload to a directory with write access usually aren't.
Climate change is not political
> This only works if people are excited for what you are making.

I suppose I should have been more specific. I'm not talking about a public announcement, I'm talking about announcing it to my personal friends and colleagues. Whether or not they are excited by the project itself isn't really a factor -- they'll still want to know how the project is going.

I tend not to make any public announcements until at least beta.
FWIW, I'm able to create an automation that runs a shortcut to start playing podcasts in Overcast when connecting AirPods. It's not super-clear, but you need to set the automation to "Run a Shortcut" from the Shortcuts app, rather than pick a shortcut from the app itself.

Try creating a shortcut in the Shortcuts app to play something in Spotify. Then search for "Run a Shortcut" when you're wiring up the personal automation, and then tap the word "Shortcut" in "Run Shortcut" to pick your Spotify shortcut.

The proper fix here should be that all the shortcuts should be direct actions.
no you're right. Antifa is not accelerationist.
If you want data:

As of 2016, academic institutions hired 21,511 full-time, tenure-track professors [1]. Your odds of getting tenure given that you're in a tenure-track position vary by institution, but seem to range from about 75% at elite private institutions to 90% at state schools [2]. Figure about 18,000 professors were hired into positions that will eventually grant them tenure.

AngelList lists about 30,827 companies at the Seed or Series A/B/C stage [3]. Crunchbase has 33,577 funding rounds that occurred within 2016 [4]. The former stat has issues in that it includes funding rounds over a broad time period, and the latter potentially has issues with multiple funding rounds for the same company happening; however, given their general consistency and the existence of funded companies that do not appear in AngelList nor Crunchbase, 30,000 companies funded per year seems about right.

The average tenured professor salary varies heavily by field, but the Chronicle of Higher Ed reports it at $104820 [5], Glassdoor at $70385 [6], PayScale at $71993 [7], Indeed at $66921 [8]. There were 12,688 mergers & acquisitions in 2018 [9], the vast majority of which were for undisclosed amounts (companies do not have to disclose the transaction if it's for < $75M). Given the distribution of the ones that are disclosed, it's a good bet that most of those are for between $1M-20M (I've heard $1M/engineer as the going rate for aquihires, where the team succeeds in delivering a product but the product fails in the marketplace). This is still roughly 100x what the tenured professor makes though.

[1] https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/10112018%20Data%20S...

[2] https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/dont-worry-t...

[3] https://angel.co/companies?stage[]=Series+A&stage[]=Seed&sta...

[4] https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/a416e3bdb17...

[5] https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Much-Did-Professors-Ea...

[6] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/tenured-professor-salary-...

[7] https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Tenure_Professor/Sa...

[8] https://www.indeed.com/salaries/Professor-Salaries

[9] https://www.statista.com/statistics/245977/number-of-munda-d...
Scientology sacred texts.
What about history not just 'sort of happening' but instead, changes in the means of production lead social change. e.g. Industrial Revolution, Factorization of production.

This is how a marxist views histories progression and I feel it is more applicable and holds up under backtesting than 'history just sort of happens'

Mao was a man of the people, who led his country to greatness, no backpedaling necessary.
We do think it’s getting closer, but the very best text-to-speech, although good, is still not enjoyable to listen to for more than 10 minutes.
> The sudden thawing of Arctic permafrost is of great concern to scientists, who say that the methane and carbon dioxide gas that the process releases is accelerating global warming.

This type of language really bothers me. That methane and other feedbacks are accelerating global warming are proven facts.
Somewhat off topic, semi-related, I have a bat that thinks I control the weather. If it gets too hot or cold, it will go just outside my window and squeak at me. There are patterns to it's communication, though I have no idea what exactly it is saying. I can talk to it and it talks back. Obviously we don't understand each other. I can tell it "get back to work" (taking out mosquito's) and it will leave. I think it understands tone of human voice.
I can’t get this page to load, but even if you only send one email per user per day, that could still very possibly be spam.

https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/that-which-we-dont.html#o...
Exactly. "Working class" means, typically, that they are from a family of blue-collar workers.

"middle class" is essentially white collar

"upper class" really means the aristocracy/ long-term establishment. Even a CEO making millions a year would be called "upper middle class" unless they came from an old established family.
40% of Americans would accept an authoritarian state, if their ethnic and other prejudices were catered to. It would be more interesting if the article had approached this, too.
> Google runs a system-level update service on Windows too. The crash handler for it is also running all the time, at least on my machine (and is running with root-equivalent permissions). If you disable it, the next time you launch Chrome they just turn it back on.

> It's bizarre. Few vendors do this.

Please correct me if I am wrong but Adobe Reader has something like this on Windows, right? And so does iTunes?
The account is 6yr old. I'd wager it's not exactly a throwaway at this point.
If it is still radioactive, it can almost certainly be reprocessed and shoved back into a reactor.
And Kenya wasn’t plagued by floods 100 years ago?
Reminds me of a quote from Sara Blakely:

“I was very careful right away, it was a gut instinct that I had, to keep it to myself because I believe ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy, and it’s instinct to turn to your right or left in that moment and tell a friend, or tell your husband, and the moment you do that ego is invited into the mix, and then you end up spending all your time defending it, explaining it, and not pursuing it”

How I Built This podcast (9m20s)
>Involuntary Celibates planning a mass shooting in US theaters for the screening of Joker.

This sounds exactly like PSYOPs

Heck, this whole "mass shooting" wave sounds like PSYOPs

Which means those guys deserve their promotion
This is precisely what they do. In addition, if you don't believe their hocus-pocus, then you're a "climate denier", whatever that's supposed to mean.

TBH I don't know what this post is doing on HN anyways. I like to browse HN for technical news, not this kind of stuff.
Caveat for team and organizations: often leadership announces grand initiatives with great fanfare and the lack of follow-up, perceived or real makes people cynical.

Unfortunately, you cannot avoid announcing your plans if you expect others to follow you - its possible people don't understand what you want to achieve and end up just as frustrated. This is part of a leaders job.

I like what TA said about "make sure not to say it as a satisfaction but as dissatisfaction"- definitely keeping the focus on what you want to fix is better than the specific solution you've devised - you might end up finding a better solution anyway and people will help you do it.

Make announcements on small sub-plans often and follow-up even more often, so that people know feel that whatever you want to implement in your team/organization is happening. Definitely tell them a long-term goal, but keep the focus on the next task that needs to be done. And make the "small" announcements at the moment you feel you are ready to answer all questions the team might ask you, but not earlier.

So, to be effective in an organization you need to do "continuous announcing" of small plans.
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I believe it's fundamentally impossible to test for consciousness. You can't know if it feels like something to be any other thing but yourself. The domain of scientific knowledge is completely cut off from subjective experience. Even if the octopus could speak and told us in English "I feel therefore I am" we could not know for certain that it produced those words having a conscious understanding of what something feels like. Feeling is fundamentally in a different class of thing from those things which the scientific world can explore. And that to me, is absolutely bizarre. What does that mean? How can that possibly be true? Is it definitely true? What on earth is "feeling"?! What is qualia. It's the deepest question and I think probably holds the key to really understanding why the univers exists.
I don't see how the two aren't linked to be completely honest. Yeah the cold war "softened" a bit, but with conflicts arising due to climate change, the future wars could turn incredibly nasty, _especially_ with nuclear weapons and unstable people with access to them now asking why we can't use them....
>Nothing about a tracking system actively precludes your being able to jump tracks later in life

Nothing necessarily precludes it but does it really happen that often? I couldn't find any data on this. Is there any evidence that "changing careers" is easier and more likely under the German VET system as opposed to the US system? In fact, evidence suggests that the permeability between the academic and vocational tracks is quite low in actuality [0]. One would logically think that making long "on the track" prerequisite chains a requirement for a career change would add significant barriers to entry. And there is some evidence that supports my theory that VET-like systems increase social stratification and socioeconomic inequity [1][2]

>They don't assign you a vocation.

A difference without a distinction IMO. They assign you a track of schooling which will leave you qualified for only a certain subset of jobs.

[0] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/a-skills-beyond-scho... page 38

[1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40461-016-0033-0

[2]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-social-stratificat...
I would agree that using list comprehensions over iterating is idiomatic Python, but I would not say that the task of applying a function to a list is an idiom like how the website seems to indicate. There may or may not be an idiomatic way in a given language, it's really dependant on the language which is why you can't map tasks to idioms. C# has Python list comprehensions, but it's not the preferred way to do things and so I wouldn't call it a programming idiom. I'm not trying to argue that programming idioms are the exact same thing as idiomatic expressions, I was trying to explain what programming idioms are by appealing to the sense in which the term was coined.
The thing that I keep wondering about is, why don't octopuses have higher aspirations? Like building octopus cities, and forming an octopus empire. Or figuring out how to pass on information from generation to generation. Could an octopus be taught English?
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Late to reply, sorry. Yes there are ups and downs, but you can setup automatic deductions from paychecks straight into an HSA. I haven't done the full analysis and asked everyone at work, but if the trend continues for the next few years it's going to be really hard for a high deductible HSA plan to not come out ahead. Whether or not we eat the extra cost to keep the convenience will be a decision to be made then.

My comment was only to serve as counterpoint that companies aren't all looking at an HSA because they want to screw people over. Many are looking at an HSA based health plan because they are increasingly becoming more attractive as benefits shrink while becoming more expensive. Again, I am friends with my coworkers, my family is on the same health plan, and I have everyone's best interest in mind, and I wouldn't approach the decision lightly. Obviously there are shitty people out there managing employer plans, I don't speak for them!
Climate change is a process. To be clear, I believe it is happening and that human lifestyle decisions contribute to it.

That said, snapshots of floods and droughts - which happen all the time regardless - are a distraction. At an extreme, they give ammo to the deniers as they can look at such and article and say, "Floods? Droughts? No news here. Mother Nature at work."
discussed today, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21083092
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What sources do you have for this, or is this just your opinion?