skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what I understood when I read it the GP saying:

>And yet, they have claimed copyright on my music and monitized it.

By "they," I think he meant: ASCAP, ICE_CS, not YouTube. The problem is that ASCAP, ICE_CS has claimed copyright to something, which they are right to do and that is their performance of the public domain work. Since it sounds like the same work that the GP uploaded, the GP's music was locked.

I am no fan of YouTube's profiting off copyrighted material, I think it's unethical, and in this instance I do not believe that is what they are doing. I believe they have written algorithms to prevent copyright infringement and it is over-fitting on the GP's works.

The GP said they are "claiming copyright on my music" but I don't see any evidence for that. I do see evidence that ASCAP, ICE_CS claim copyright on their performance of the same music as the GP.

Yes, the solution is to have a person in there to be smarter than the AI, but YouTube has said it's not worth it to them to do that and so I believe that is their right.

In this case, the GP's claim is that ASCAP, ICE_CS is doing something wrong, but I don't think that is the case. I think everyone here is doing something right and a bad thing has come from that.

Theft is wrong. There is no wrongdoing here.
I sold my Fitbit for a Garmin in the last month and the importer really didn't do much. Fitbit only gives 31 days of data.
> The Robotics Industry Could Learn a Lot From Puppeteers

Absolutely, positively not. Absolutely garbage.

The actual title is a bit more dreamy and more Blade Runner, but still technically wrong, but perhaps artistically interesting "The Robots of the Future Should Look Like Puppets"

Puppets don't have Force Feedback/ Haptic feedback.

This is what's hard with robots. That's what we need to solve/improve.

This allows a robot to pick something up. Puppets can't pick a thing up! (Puppets with a human can). Then the next obvious step, we will make them look pretty just like Apple does.
Plug for an Econtalk episode on exactly the topic of transparency in healthcare prices. http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/y2019/SmithKhealthcare...
I played for a bit, and I noticed as the game progresses the invaders seem to cluster together - making it easier to win (less movements between shots). Maybe the algorithm makes them all play the same eventually? As a team of invaders they should want to sacrifice more so they get at least some through the barrier.
killfiles, and you are done. Even better, slrn has a TUI assistant.

My ~/.jnewsrc

comp.lang.c!

comp.lang.c.moderated!

comp.lang.fortran!

comp.lang.perl.misc!

comp.lang.perl.moderated!

comp.unix.shell!

rec.arts.int-fiction!

rec.games.int-fiction!

rec.games.roguelike.nethack!

rec.humor.funny.reruns!

rec.humor.funny!

rec.humor!
Disagree, there are a ton of professionals that would love to play current games casually, but don't want to spend on extra hardware (or even having another device around), and waste time with game patches/updates.

For me, I just don't want to lug around a bulky/heavy device in addition to my primary notebook just to play the occasional game or two.
How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramento Kings
Device or person? I've been tempted on the "or person" part, but never actually tried it...
Let them play each other until they give up ("The only winning move is not to play"), or realize that they live in a simulation and try to break out of the computer.
This reminded me of The Oregon Garden (see below). The City of Silverton zaps all its waste water with UV light, after other treatment processes, leaving the water a few degrees too hot to put back in to the watershed. So, the water is then pumped a few miles to a manmade, multi-acre wetlands habitat, that cools the water down and naturally adds nutrients prior to re-entering a stream. On top of that, the City has built a botanical garden that also uses this water and added a conference center. There is also a free educational program sponsored by a local grocery store owner that utilizes the area to teach K-12 kids about wetlands.

There are all sorts of other neat factoids about the complex, but there really are creative/ingenious ways to address our waste.

https://www.oregongarden.org/
Microsoft to kids with Chromebooks: no 2019 Minecraft Hour of Code for you
what does it DO? Like... you can't tell unless you sign up. All i know is that it generates SVGs and somehow this is related to creating prototypes.
Stadia interests me. I haven’t played games in a long time because dabbling back into them after decades I don’t want to make a major commitment to buy equipment and keep it up to cutting edge. Plus I really like my iPad form factor for games. At the end of a long work day sitting at a desk in front of a computer I really don’t want to be sitting at a desk in front of a computer.
haha, I nominate you for the HN comment of the day.
First of all, the idea of a “wait list” is terrible in and of itself. That’s called rationing. And it’s only “okay” for now assuming the public finances don’t deteriorate. Anecdotally you’re not the first person from a rationed system to mention long wait lines.

Second, I believe Austria has great care and smart surgeons etc. But again there’s a vast difference between “good” and “outstanding/ first in class”. I’m not cheerleading the current US system, I think it’s terrible that it’s a monstrosity that leans more socialist than free market and everyone gets the worst of both worlds.

But seriously, let’s not argue where most medical innovation and drug breakthroughs come from. Before everyone goes into a rage, I’m not saying all innovation, but most. Kinda like there are tech hubs around the world but right now the center of gravitas is mostly SF.
>all the negative reviews of Stadia are by people who already have console/gaming PCs.

I think most people who like playing video games would have some sort of video game playing hardware, yes.

So, they might have opinions on what a good gaming experience is. And, if they have issues with Stadia (incl latency, graphical fidelity, and library), then it might be coming from an informed place.
It's illogical to call a hundred year old concern, one taken up by no less than President Theodore Roosevelt, "Internet".

Let's be clear:

The judicial interpretation is that "In God We Trust" is acceptable only because it is meaningless, despite the fact that it was clearly meaningful to the people who decided to use it, and despite that fact that this supposedly meaningless motto is used in thousands of little ways to mistreat atheists across the country.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust
This is absolutely no different than in the US. A government prosecutor needs to press criminal charges.

The accused has the right to a jury trial. An alleged victim has no such right.
Same and I'm kicking myself for not switching sooner. If you care about improving your running ability then getting a Garmin is a no-brainer. The PacePro feature which just arrived on my FR245 is incredible.
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Controller and chromecast is for console guys, we laptop owners can use mouse+keyboard + chrome browser to play.
But this will be available later, unless you want o throw $130 for just 3 months of Stadia Pro (and a controller+chromecast that will gather dust).
What's your definition of "escapism". How is watching Irréversible escapism?
I prefer uncensored.citadel.org. Yes, no https support, but you can login over SSH with ssh bbs@uncensored.citadel.org
and use it as a modern BBS. It works great.
Do you think HN is in the millions of users?
Ask HN: What is your favorite StackOverflow question?
Only people with a LinkedIn score above 75 were presented for us to choose from for phone screens.

Like it or not, recruiting mostly revolves around employee referrals. Everything past that is just some startup selling recruiters a piece of software that will magically change their life and make their job easy.

Source: Had to reject numerous software requests from recruiting department for shady, shady services.
This is a really cool project

That being said the code is full of TODO and other comments indicating that shortcuts were taken which should be fixed later. I would be worried about running such a thing in prod given the criticality of its function. At best you could risk performance issues under load and at worst you could have significant security issues allowing unintended traffic in/out.
I just commented first on the assertion of the title and article, and then separately commented on the fact that this is a topic where people tend to have strong biases, and the poster looked more fishy than usual.

A caveat emptor, for me, is not priming negatively, in my view - and I explicitly called for taking both sides in consideration. So I guess we both agree.

I agree that it is a fascinating topic, but there have been several discussions here with plain wrong information being spread. Enriquto below already pointed out below, before you answered, funny changes in tone and content among different translations of the article. So yeah, reader beware.
I'm not sure that's correct. The discriminator and the generator both learn to match a training set. You don't need to label the training set at all. You can just throw 70,000 aligned photos at it.

I think I see what you're saying, but that might be a different definition of "supervised". It seems impossible for one half of the same algorithm to be supervised and the other to be unsupervised. But I like your definition (if it was renamed to something else) because you're right that the discriminator is the only thing that pays attention to the training data, whereas the generator does not.
I like the graphic examples in this question (besides the obvious attempts at answers): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/what-is-the-diff...
Absolutely, a practical understanding is enough. It also suffices for monads, monad transformers, etc.

> Every time that functional programming patterns get discussed, though, there is a mad rush by functional programmers to impress upon everyone just how complicated they are.

I... haven't observed this behavior personally. FWIW, I don't think that saying (for example)

> Hey, we can actually define what "|" and "(_,_)" means in a mathematical way

detracts in any way from a practical understanding. Can you elaborate on why you think it's detrimental? (I understand that it can come off as a little bit smug, but beyond that... meh?)
In Defense of Latin
You could use k-Anonymity to request a handful of results, without the dns server knowing which result you were looking for. hash the hostname, return all results that have the same x letters as the beginning of the hash. at no point, would the actual site you are requesting leave your lan. your dns resolver would know within 1/400th (how every many results it replies with) which site you were asking for. After time, and recording patterns, they might be able to make educated guesses of which site you were requesting, but it would not be concrete evidence.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...
ughhh now I lost the game too why would you do that
As the saying goes, "patriotism is the last refugee of the scoundrel." "Then leave!" is the argument for those who have run out of arguments.
It's the physics of the arrangement of satellite, sun, and Earth. The satellites are only visible due to reflected sunlight, and they're flying quite low for satellites, i.e. near to Earth. The nearer an orbital object is to Earth, the larger percentage of the arc of its orbit is occluded by the Earth's shadow.

Given their close proximity to Earth, they can reflect sunlight at dawn and dusk (when the sun is shining "along" the surface relative to the observer) but when an observer is in nighttime (i.e. within Earth's shadow), Earth blocks the path of light to reflect off the satellites and they won't shine. Hypothetically, they could still pass in front of distant objects and occlude them, but I'm assuming based on the way the problem is described that flooding a telescope with reflected light is more of a problem than occluding a distant object for a few moments.
Tory Rebrand and rename their account to seem like neutral fact checkers
Because it did - and then it tried to claim adjusting the amount that the deliverers were being paid by an amount that exactly matched the tip amount was not wage or tip theft.
> The Tamil Tigers intentionally attacked civilian targets in an attempt to achieve their political goals.

The United States Government has performed missile attacks (via drone) on a hospital, several weddings (At least eight, according to a 2 second search), and at least one Mosque. And yet the Military arm of the United States Government is not considered to be a terrorist organization. Sounds like a double standard to me.
> The regular 1080p stadia is free

Will be free, somewhere in 2020
This will just mean that they get to write their "amazing journey" post from prison.
Clever hack senses IoT-device “heartbeats” even when WiFi gives out
My understanding is that Youtube will allow the supposed content owner to monetise your video. They can choose to let you keep it up as long as they get the advertising revenue from it.
I often think about the applications of distributed generational AI in realistic multiplayer FPS games.

You could then take the evolved AI and shove it into real world Terminators. :)
Yea I was running into problems with my gmail address to other gmail addresses, even before I split off and started running my own server. Their spam filter has a super high false-positive rate.
Yes, there're a lot of tricks.

I used to run a mail server in the past, and initially had problems with reverse DNS resolution not setup correctly, it's an easy oversight depending on where you host.

https://mxtoolbox.com/problem/smtp/smtp-reverse-dns-resoluti...
The lifeblood of FOSS drivers, or coreboot in this case, is developers who are using/interested in the machine. Unfortunately, I don't see many Pentium-III fans in the coreboot community. And there was a major refactor in the coreboot codebase since 4.0, the support of many old platforms have been killed.
And of course, for your privacy, Microsoft will send a copy of all your DNS requests to its telemetry servers unless you opt out with a registry key!
I don’t think the head pressure feeling is something the brain automatically adds to silence. I get that feeling from noise-canceling headphones but I don’t get it from a sensory deprivation tank.
> there is only so much space below us

Is this actually a practical limitation? You could go a mile deep, and pack the tunnels way more densely than roads on the surface (since we don't need to put buildings in between the roads).
I don't have a high enough volume for my personal e-mail to even show up on the postmaster tools.
Gmail seems to have no trouble with my mailserver. AT&T/Yahoo used to, but there was some online form I filled out at one point to get myself whitelisted (it was years ago; don't remember the details) and that stopped being an issue. The main problem right now is Craigslist (which outright refuses to deliver my server's mail, so I have to use my Gmail account or stick to SMS / phone calls).

Stack: OpenBSD VM (on 1984.is) running OpenSMTPd + Dovecot + a DKIM proxy + ClamAV + spamd.

The more relevant pain point is that the VM hangs every couple months and I have to hard-reboot it from the VPS web console. Also, I've been pretty lazy about staying on top of new OpenBSD releases. One of these days I'd like to go redundant (whether with both mailhosts on 1984 or putting one on a different provider), which would make it less stressful to do OS upgrades (I could keep one host running while doing an offline upgrade of the other, as opposed to hoping the online upgrade process doesn't break anything).
Sound is one of those “incalculable” issues that, because it’s very intangible how it affects people it is subsequently difficult to put a dollar amount to fixing.
The new, not evil, Microsoft™.

It's only a matter of time before Linux itself becomes a victim.
I think the _real_ problem is that our current social, political, and economic systems are ill-equipped to deal with the advances of technology. It's not just the increase in propaganda (which I argue is enabled by technology) that creates instability. It's the fact that our environment is collapsing, the capacity to modify human embryos is within our reach, longevity researches are showing promising results, millions of jobs will be replaced by automation. It is my belief that the real task is not to combat the PRC, but to figure out what systems will provide the most value in the future, and work toward those goals.
> Some awareness of the possible impact of leaks, and awareness of the contents of leaked documents. Both Snowden and Manning appear to have failed to read all the content they leaked, which is dangerous. In practice, we have gotten fortunate in that there were no obvious immediate lethal consequences to the leaks. But hope is not a strategy.

You are suggesting they make judgements, but they are not independent authorities on making such judgements. People who are, are making judgements arbitrarily too, hence why being a legit whistle-blower in any organization is a problem. If you read or listen to Snowden, he worked with journalists to proof the leaks. Yes, he handed them to journalists, because if he went through official channels, nothing would have worked out.
Squarespace service problems continues after a week of disruptions
Great headline.
Not really. The satellites will be too small to see unaided in general, and their proximity to Earth means that outside of twilight hours, they're generally invisible.

(Also, "destroyed" is a matter of perspective. I think it'd look kind of cool if every twilight you could look up and see a web of satellites drifting quietly overhead ;) ).
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Miners have taken a hit and now GPUs are plentiful. That wasn't the case when VR tried for a big push in 2016-2017
Doc Holliday Is Dead but Tuberculosis Is Still Killing Us
But what should I do if I hate using conrollers? I'm a mouse+keyboard person can I use it on any console to play games?
> It will be the most enjoyable option too

No it will not be, because latency exists. It will be the opposite of enjoyable unless you like feeling motion sick.
> Those who cause the innocent to suffer deserve vengeance and suffering. Why are we so concerned about the comfort of people who, the majority of the time, are in prison for violent crime?

My understanding is that vengeance and suffering are not good teachers and once the vengeance is exacted and the suffering is complete, the criminal comes and and causes more suffering to the innocent.

If this is true, then by arguing for harsh treatment for criminals, you're arguing for a state of affairs in which more innocent suffer.

If causing the innocent to suffer is so bad, then maybe we should be making policy that reduces it.
I understand the approaches of DoT and DoH but people keep talking about privacy and tracking but it just seems like you can just run your own un-DNS server and get the same info by looking up the IP to get the DNS. You can still be monitored and controlled by IP, right?
I don’t know all the details of the Swedish system, but governments over here are generally much more centralised than you’re used to from the U.S.

Prosecutors are generally not independent, but work for some arm of the justice ministry and as government officials are subject to abuse of power laws, so they can be punished for mishandling cases.

That’s the theory, at least. In practise, it’s not always that transparent what’s going on.
I had the pleasure of working with Chris at a startup competition in undergrad. Congrats to Chris and team, may success continue to come your way!
Problems abound.

"This month, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child gave Italy a failing grade on protecting minors from sexual exploitation.

In particular, the committee expressed concern “about the numerous cases of children having been sexually abused by religious personnel of the Catholic Church” and the “low number of investigations and criminal prosecutions” of those crimes.

And while other countries have taken a hard look at the problem of clerical abuse, Italy has approached it with something closer to a media blackout.

Experts consider Italy’s response to be one of the worst among Western nations, comparable to that of some African and Asian churches in which denial about clerical sex abuse is still rampant."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/world/europe/italy-cathol...
The slides are JPEG2000 compressed images in the PDF, which GitHub PDF preview doesn't handle properly, same for some Linux PDF viewers.

Fine in Adobe Reader, Apple Preview etc.
> Actually, Major Major had been promoted by an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's.

Catch 22
Dockerized Fullstack Mailserver
I'm curious if people are sick of Facebook or sick of social media in general. My only Facebook friends are people I'm actually friends with, and I mute the more obnoxious members of my family. Because of this my FB experience seemed to be a lot nicer than what most people experience, but in the end it just felt like a waste of time.
There is RFC 7858 Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858
You could try onionshare [https://onionshare.org/]
Or you could try magic wormhole [https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole]
Do you think it's unusual for businesses to deploy to production code which has TODO statements?
> This article reads like PR.

Dane here. I agree strongly.

The plant is likely to be burning imported wood pellets as well, because its capacity is way above the amount of available waste[0]. So-called "biofuel". It's quite controversial, to say the least[1]. This is similar to what Drax (largest CO2 emitter in the UK) did to wiggle around the phase-out of coal and to get in on those subsidies for green energy, which apparently includes importing wood from forests in the US, because some clever lobbyists has ensured it qualifies as "green".

[0]: https://ing.dk/artikel/trods-advarsler-koebenhavnere-faar-mi...

[1]: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/
Vertebrates became predators by tweaking the neural crest
The largest Mastodon instance is full of content that isn't exactly allowed on traditional social media (i.e. lolicon). I don't think WT:Social will have the same competitive advantage.
I don't disagree with your point, but the unsupervised aspect of NLP typically isn't useful on its own. Usually it's a form of pre-training to help supervised models perform better with less data.

From Google in 2018:

"One of the biggest challenges in natural language processing (NLP) is the shortage of training data. Because NLP is a diversified field with many distinct tasks, most task-specific datasets contain only a few thousand or a few hundred thousand human-labeled training examples. However, modern deep learning-based NLP models see benefits from much larger amounts of data, improving when trained on millions, or billions, of annotated training examples. To help close this gap in data, researchers have developed a variety of techniques for training general purpose language representation models using the enormous amount of unannotated text on the web (known as pre-training). The pre-trained model can then be fine-tuned on small-data NLP tasks like question answering and sentiment analysis, resulting in substantial accuracy improvements compared to training on these datasets from scratch."
A glimpse into the mind of a JavaScript framework author
The one-stop shop will work with you whatever your VAT liability is.

If you mean do the EU countries have reasonable thresholds, then that's a country-by-country issue. As it should be...

In that respect, tax is no different than each platform or website having its own API and TOS. We don't make every Facebook and Google use the same API and TOS, so why should we force countries to use the same tax thresholds?