skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does blocking "on Spotify" mean? It's not as if Spotify is blocking songs within its own catalog or something: these pirate apps exist outside of Spotify, except they hijack Spotify's streaming service.

They're dealt with in the same way, by getting legitimate app stores such as Apple's to take down the pirate apps: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

Spotify has also threatened to ban users caught using these third-party apps: https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-emails-warning-to-pirates-u...

At least YouTube doesn't go that far.

> If they merged with... let's say Medium, and now blocked articles about such apps, that would be a problem.

Writing about piracy, as TorrentFreak or a Medium blog might do, is not the same as piracy itself. The former is journalism, protected by free speech; the latter is not.
Or they do, or say they do and they're simply hypocritical.
I posted this link but now the title has somehow changed. I do not know what is the policy on HN. But the title saying "[video]" might give a wrong impression that this points to a one hour long video. The link points to a tutorial which embeds an entirely optional two minute video that introduces the main content contained in five web pages.
Hugely interesting, thanks a lot for the info. I'd love to work with this stuff, but there's gotta be a client too :) Anyway, keep it up!
Thanks for the feedback! I just added a section in the README to clarify things about the license: https://github.com/dunglas/vulcain#license-and-copyright

* proprietary software can implement the Vulcain specification
* proprietary software can be used behind the Vulcain Gateway Server without having to share their sources
* modifications made to the Vulcain Gateway Server must be shared
* alternatively, a commercial license is available for the Vulcain Gateway Server
I recently learned from a recruiter that one license for one recruiter for LinkedIn is $10k a year, so that is what they are protecting.
Why would they have to make it available to startups in an easily accessible manner?
A 404 is a server side error.
The camp sites I've visited in the area seem reasonably clean, too.
Thank you for going into such depth! This is really helpful
Unless a National Security Letter compelled them to remain silent...
process it on your personal computer and use the output in your startup
I was interpreting "such places" to mean cities like Norilsk. Assuming I've never heard of the Inuit or whatever is offensively patronizing and violates the HN recommendation to respond to the most reasonable interpretation of a comment.
Seems to be better for now. Pages are now refreshing and pushes going through quickly.
Twenty's plenty! Popular in the UK, but in the US we seem to think it's more appropriate to mark residential streets at 25 but design them to encourage driving at 45+.
And not following the spec recommendation has gotten us... Here. Where Google is protecting users from both bad actors and good actors, whether the user likes it or not! The overwhelming response to this issue makes it clear that the heuristics used are simply not good ENOUGH. They can't accurately predict the best user outcome in a majority of situations. The Chrome team has wrenched the onus of autofill responsibility from all other developers, then fumbled it, badly. A good fix for this is to give the onus to the user. Popup toggle buttons, labeled: Autofill: Yes, No, Auto. This means we can all stop hating Chrome team for being patronizing, stop hating web devs for being unable to make their beautiful apps work in our godawful browsers, and start hating ourselves instead!
I think that's fine, but I also think the end-user should decide. With Google (edit: I meant Facebook) I'm able to determine whether or not I want to show up in search results. This shouldn't be an absolute is or isn't public situation.
Look at the following table that has been compiled about how much contribution from the body's aerobic and anaerobic systems are used for various race distances:

From https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20805305/owners-manua...

Distance Gastin Aerobic/Anaerobic Ratio
Marathon 97.5/2.5
10K 90/10
5K 84/16
1500m/mile 84/16
800m 66/34
400m 43/57

Marathon running is mostly aerobic vs running 1500m or even shorter distances like 800m or 400m.

So any loss of speed as marathoners get older won't be catastrophic versus competing in shorter races.
> seeing red salt makes me look again at other options.

Do you have high blood pressure? My understanding is sodium isn't a concern unless high BP is an issue.
Isn’t that an argument for abstracting that kinda back-and-forth away rather than against it?

As it stands, if it’s in the cloud and not on your device there’s an indicator. Try to open it and it downloads. Edit it and the changes get synced back up.
Unless something is edited in multiple places while offline, or someone takes your lead and tries to manually manage copying stuff back and forth, there’s no different local copy and cloud copy.

When you start talking about like, starting to edit it, well with video that’s not really how things work. If you tweak the contrast of a photo sure today’s devices abstract that in-place, but assembling multiple media into something that, if not re-encoded is at least re-muxed, why would you assume it to be “the same” file?

Should the audio track be automatically wiped, since it’s now been incorporated into the other file?
That makes no sense, and I don’t see how an iOS device treats source material differently.
I agree. And it's expensive whereas R is free and a much much much better language.
> nvidia-brick-the-install

Is this in reference to when the nvidia driver had

sudo rm -rf /usr /lib/something/something

in its install script?
This is great news. The data is public; it shouldn't matter whether you hire humans to parse it or develop a bot. LinkedIn was trying to have its cake and eat it too.
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AIUI plants don't consume nearly enough CO2 to compensate significantly for even one person's output.
My major concern is that data backup is getting more and more difficult. I feel it's increasingly more difficult to figure out what to back up and how to restore it. I have heard several horror stories from people who messed up something and had all their cloud data disappear forever.
High end databases are often run directly on block storage. The db already manages allocation and caching so a filesystem just adds overhead and wonky semantics.
Yes. The State should confiscate their assets and sell them to somebody willing to meet the obligations of a Public Utility. Lots of companies do, and make tidy, predictable profits.
For the low low price of $9999.99.

Is that the maximum you can charge on Amazon? Seems strange that they'd want to put a limit on it.
Can this language render block quotes correctly on mobile in HN? Then I think it's a real win.
Frankly, we’ve been fantasizing of moving away from the file-system-as-tree abstraction since forever, wanting to embrace a metadata rich database approach.

Can’t happen soon enough imho
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Good point, and by not citing the flawed papers you are not inflating their academic pagerank.
The i7-2600K is a desktop CPU, the i3-8121U is a laptop CPU.

A recent desktop i3 is clearly faster: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2277?vs=2413
https://www.ideasarecheap.net

^^ I built this more or less on a bet about a year ago. Give it a dollar and it will give you a startup business idea.

(No Markov chains here, it's a couple of arrays of industries and keywords and a JS function that uses Math.random()... )
“Zombie Deer Disease” May Have Already Spread to Humans
You locate using time, not amplitude, so microphone calibration isn't an issue. Take the incoming waveforms with close timestamps and convolve them on the server to line them up. Get ΔT values for each pair of phones picking up the matching sound. Each ΔT value places the source on a hyperbola. You need at least 3 phones to get a location where the hyperbolas intersect. More will be better.

Multipath always makes a delay longer, not shorter, which helps in resolving ambiguity in areas with reflective building walls.
It’s essential to point out that not all investors attempt to predict the future. There are many strategies and approaches that actually avoid such predictions.
All my projects are free software (including their docs). You are free to improve them, or to not use them, or as you stated to hire me or anyone else to do it for you.

Anyway, I'm interested in hearing more about the corner cases and incomplete docs you stumbled upon, to fix/improve what can be done.
At the same time many many many dumb corp-o-rat shit sites disable autocomplete because cOmpLiEncE. And users love autocomplete...

Naturally the problem is choice. Chrome/G should show a button to auto fill fields.

They could simply unleash some AI magic, train a network to recognize good and bad sites, etc. (Aka. the Apple way. As they also have a we know better policy, and users seem to love that.)
AMD and most ARM CPUs weren't vulnerable to the entire Meltdown class of issues.

https://openbenchmarking.org/embed.php?i=1907066-HV-MITIGATI... from https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-99...
> I might imply that your highschool teacher friend is instead falling out of computer literacy, and that highshool students are moving away from her form of a computer-based workflow.

I suppose, in the same way that people using crayons are moving away from the printed word.

> Perhaps instead of email, you teacher friend could find out how her students send things to each other and meet them half way? Make up a google drive or dropbox or whatever microsoft or apple are doing instead of insisting on whatever's most comfortable for you.

Isn't the whole point of school to learn new skills? If students have illegible handwriting and poor grammar, should the teacher really be meeting the students half way?

I actually told her that she should continue doing what she was doing, because it was a real boon to her students. They might not ever learn this stuff.

Her students objectively less able to share information with each other. I have certainly seen kids who have to go as far as taking screenshots of what an app contains and send a screenshot to someone, than actually be able to export text.

I could understand if what the students were doing was in some way comparable in flexibility, but it isn't. They basically only know how to click on the share button in an app, and text links for someone else to install the app. Or send them screenshots of them using an app scrolled to the relevant info.

But the biggest benefit is that having assignments in discrete organized bundles makes the most sense for everyone.
> The exemption for celebrities is especially troublesome.

When I saw that one, it became clear the companies involved in this know they are operating on shaky ground.

There is a perfectly valid concern of rich/eccentric/stalky people paying a lot of money to be fitted with bodyparts of their idol. I get that.

But even then the primary motivator can only be pre-emptive avoidance of PR backlash. Harvesting cadavers for big profits feels creepy enough. But just imagine the media storm if a celebrity's family goes on national TV, complaining how their plans for open-coffin funeral were ruined because the national treasure's body had been taken apart and sold for very high-value scrap. Possibly (and quite literally) even before the corpse had got cold.

Optics are important. Checks the price of cornea.
Reddit has a decent API

The golden rule is to use the API before you start raw scraping.
Just to go into a bit more detail: 1) An auntie thought that dragging 100GB of music into her Dropbox meant that she could just leave on a trip and access her music, without having to wait for it to sync. 2) An uncle didn't know how to access his late wife's photos from her iPad. Which cloud were they in? Were they only on her locked iPad? Who knows! 3) People making public YouTube videos to share private moments with family. (Pedos exploit this to find videos of children bathing)

Have we really improved things? I find these new file abstractions we have created to be much more confusing.

Old people understand the concept of physical media just fine. They know what a record or a roll of film is. And because of this phobia about educating users, we hide so much that they don't even know if their data has been synced, or if it is private.
Not meant to attack you; I just wonder how Rational Therapy (the other root of the cognitive behavioral therapy) is disappearing from the history of psychology. I just found about it recently, and was surprised to see how big thing it used to be decades ago, considering that these days one can study psychology and never even hear about it.

Makes me wonder how much of the history of science is not about people who actually invented things, but about those who popularized them successfully. But this is not just in psychology; we have the Edison vs Tesla in physics, etc. It's like some compression algorithm: if there are too many inventors doing similar things, history will pick one of them and give him all the credit. No bad intention is necessary in this process; it's just that people don't care enough to remember all the details, and the simpler version is easier to remember.

I wonder whether our descendants a few centuries later will remember this era as one where Albert Einstein discovered relativity and quantum physics, and sent the rockets to Mars.
Does the UK or EU not have deposit insurance? In the US, as long as the FDIC insures it I wouldn‘t blink an eye. (They cover $250K at a single institution.)

(It‘s also why Robinhood in the US initially got in trouble for its checking & savings account, because as an investment broker it is not subject to the FDIC but the SIPC, which does not have the same exact guarantees.)
Bostonian?
> Perhaps instead of email, you teacher friend could find out how her students send things to each other and meet them half way?

"Please turn in your assignments via Snapchat by 7AM tomorrow"
Ads are by definition something that impacts other people.

They should be heavily regulated, with minimum information, maximum frequency, truth requirements, format restrictions, elimination of confusing language, and anything else that becomes a problem. I'm all for allowing ads and their platforms, but there is no way they can be free.
Lehman Brothers imploding, the exposure to Lehman Brothers and untrustworthiness of the ratings agencies was a black swan event.

This caused everyone retracting their credit lines as they couldnt trust the whole system any longer, revealing how highly leveraged and dependent on credit lines that everyone was, raising margin requirements - causing liquidations - and completely closing some margin markets.

If that was in anybody’s model I would like to see that model.
PRAW is also a great python reddit "scraper" that allows you to pull data via their API very easily.
I wonder what today's equivalent of Sun would be.
An earlier ruling actually ordered LinkedIn to stop attempting to block the scraping using technological measures, too.
Did you see the post recently about System 76's laptops that will soon have open source hardware drivers?

Talking about fake items, fake items surely could have fake drivers, but even legitimate items could introduce fake (as in "unofficial") drivers. I think people are maybe naturally more paranoid of something that is "an intrusion". I think the unreasonable human element is when you perceive an intrusion that was not. As in: "They have hacked me look, my screen is blue!"
"They" started that at least 20 years ago, probably 30+ years ago. I saw it myself in 1999.
I never mentioned music. I was talking about files in general.

And even with music it was easy to drag music files from an iPod; they were merely in a hidden folder. I don't remember trying to drag music to an iPod with the Finder because it used to be so easy to do that with iTunes.
You can with AWS Batch + Spot instances, plus Cloudwatch if you want to submit jobs on a regular basis. You can even tell Batch to only run the job when the Spot price is at least X% lower than the regular price.
It would only work if a strict list is the default in browsers that developers are not willing not to support. The point is not to hack around user-hostile patterns. That frequently means entering an arms race you cannot win. Even in the best case, you're doing that site developers' job. Badly: You have to remove the bad stuff while avoiding overblocking. That's a lot harder than not adding it to start with.

I'm proposing to take away tools from developers that abuse them no matter how much that breaks. If you mine bitcoins or annoy the user using pop-ups we shouldn't spend time finding out what scripts are good and which are bad but just disable all of them, till you remove the user-hostile stuff. We just broke your SPA? That's your problem. Better start working then.
Not using a particular workflow ≠ unable to understand a particular workflow.

The "zip up your files and email me" is only hard when the concepts of files and email are alien, because everything lives in its own silos. Which is the point.
It would be nice if people actually replied to you instead of just downvoting.
OK, did a quick scan on free and paid tiers and wondering about ability to bring in specialized python libraries- in my case, https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar which almost always requires hand building and migrating, and some custom packages on top of my own even more horrible C++ . - I have to run a jupyterhub ami on an ec2 instance right now
I wish!

> It's 2019, "someone else has had this problem."

Sure, and that format only support 98% of what I need, and they're not interested in adding one new feature, or no longer available to maintain the format. Now I have a choice: write my own from scratch, or extend theirs in an unofficial way.

Or maybe they are willing and able to make a "1.1" version of their file format, and now 10 other programs that support the 1.0 file format won't support my files consistently, since they were never designed or tested for it.

As your LTU link suggests, in many cases:

> your solution belongs in a library, not a language

Sounds great, but what's a "library", in the world of file formats? It would be fantastic if every file format were extensible in all the ways that were useful to me, but they're not.
The only real pain point I've had with hdf5 is with writing or reading separate files in parallel. I can understand problems writing to the same file in parallel, but it was a bit of a shock to realize writing two separate files in parallel isn't supported.
I'm currently pricing out a new home workstation build, not looking at intel parts.
Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?
I hate the built in Finder app (who doesn’t?). XtraFinder is a great replacement.

https://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
This poll has been shared a number of times in this thread, so I’ve seen it. I’m not sure how it holds more value than actual legislation sponsored and passed. Again, looking at individual states, there a plenty of Democratic controlled ones with significant nuclear production (Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut). Considering how long it takes to build a nuclear plant, that means they must have supported it for pretty long.

It’s ok to admit that something isn’t R or D. Republicans support oil and coal most, Dems support wind and solar most, both support nuclear. The Gallup analysis itself talks about the cost of other energy sources playing a part in the perception. As solar, natural gas and oil have become cheaper, expensive nuclear plants have become less popular. Your link about the Georgia plant says it is years behind schedule and costs have doubled, maybe Democrats see that as fiscally irresponsible and that’s why they don’t support it as much. Either way, this simple poll can’t answer those questions and actual legislation tells its own story.
Doing so in Europe is a clear GDPR violation.

I think that's a reasonable balance - you can scrape data, but not personal data without consent of the scraped person.
I had almost the opposite reaction. It was too long, but I didn't have any trouble figuring out what was going on (and guessing the ending). I was wondering what the purpose of the article was, given that it's perfectly obvious to me that modern life is too loud, corporations are usually to blame, and tend to refuse to clean up their act. Just listen! How can you not hear it?

This is a difficult topic to report on, because some people will not understand at all, and some people will not understand how others cannot understand. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground on this issue.

The real mystery is why they didn't use multimedia, which would be the perfect vehicle for this. Instead of (or in addition to) writing some poetry about noise, play some noise! Instead of describing the mathematical foundation of white noise, when you're at that part of the article, play some white noise! Alternate with sections of silence, which everyone will then be able to appreciate.

When you care about communicating a message, you've got to match the medium to the message. Otherwise you're not a reporter with an exposé. You're just a writer who wants to show off your clever writing.
> We can thank our government – and luck! – for this result.

A wild statement, considering the US has one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, and has recently pursued an even more aggressive policy of nuclear armament and renewal of an arms race with Russia, including withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty under Trump. Buffet wrote this prior to Trump's election, but the story would to be familiar to him, recalling Regan's dangerous games of nuclear posturing against Russia in the 80s. The current nuclear threat (which incidentally, extends beyond US corporate interests) is as real as ever, and the known record of close calls is a sobering read[1]. That's just to mention the close calls that we know about. In this sense the US goverment has been and remains an aggressor against its own people and the rest of the world, by continuing to pursue its hubristic and irresponsible policies.

> There is no way for American corporations or their investors to shed this risk.

Options to mitigate the nuclear risk abound for US corporations: for a start, they could use their enormous wealth and political influence to lobby their government to engage in diplomacy with other nuclear armed states, rather than continuing to pursue their current suicidal path. More broadly, US corporations could remove support for Republican candidates, whose party in power has continued to amplify the danger through various policies and actions. Another major avenue is financial: divestment from the military industrial complex, which is instrumental to the threat of nuclear war in obvious ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
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> I can't help but think prospective employers shy away from me assuming my short-lived C-level role ended by termination

I understand that if they're not enthusiastic about the rest of your resume in the first place, they might not bother checking your references, but generally, isn't that why one provides references? So the prospective employer can check your story?

Or perhaps ask for a letter of recommendation (though it's probably a bit too late for that now, I'm just thinking of the general case)? Not sure if that is a thing for C-level jobs.
Files still doesn't have the concept of a 'home folder' on the local device. I heard they even had this feature in early betas but took it away.