skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the question I don't see answered anywhere is how well this actually works. For some podcasts where the ad's are per-recorded and played across a couple different podcasts it seems the problem is pretty easy to solve.

OTOH, I've seen a number of youtube and podcasts where the Ads are read by the hosts as part of the show and are unique for each podcast. I heard one once recently where the host must have had 10 different versions of their travel ad, for the same place worded in slightly different ways. Maybe they were just ad'libing them. Either way, I have a hard time believing this can be easily detected. The flow and voice intonation was such that I didn't even realize it was an ad until 3/4 way through.
Won't the lobbyists just spend their $5B on ads encouraging people to spend their $30B on their chosen candidates?

Sounds like a lobbying force-multiplier.
Yes, I agree with you on that!
Modern computers encode the first address of memory as a binary word of all zeros. In an array, a pointer to the array + 0 is the first element. A pointer to the array + 1 is the second element. C is low-level, so it makes sense to follow the machine idiom.
Putting the dynamo on the rim does nothing to make it any easier to pedal when it's producing 15-20 watts.
Most of those images still require visible attribution, which is a non-starter for most commercial use. Advertisers don't want a big "image from flickr user foobar" right on top of the photo in their glossy magazine ad.
Are there any disney films which aren't plagiarised
You also don’t get to claim 3.6% deduction of basis of the improvements (everything but the land) plus other rental related expenses if you live in it which you would if you rented it out. This has the effect of significantly reducing the tax owed on rented property throughout the course of ownership.

Similarly, rented property has an unlimited deduction on mortgage interest rather than the capped deduction available for owner-occupied housing.
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> Yet at the same time people radically overestimate their usefulness in stopping crime: The positioning and lighting have to be nearly perfect to get a shot that you can identify a stranger with and it's easy for people to conceal their faces against an unmonitored camera. Even if you do get a clear face shot the police often can do nothing useful with it. With the low prices today I think cameras can well worth their price, ... but where they create mass surveillance risks, the case is far less clear.

If you already know who you're looking for they can be quite useful. They can be quite effective when they're used to help document violations of an order of protection or restraining order, where even a profile shot at an odd angle is sufficient.
> The data is from government stats, and the reporting threshold is the same as it ever was (basically, if an employee is admitted to the hospital)

This is wrong. It's from an analysis of Amazon's own incident logs that OSHA requires companies to keep (OSHA form 300A[1].) The government doesn't "reject" incidents from these logs. Additionally, a recordable injury is any of the following[2]

- Any work-related fatality.
- Any work-related injury or illness that results in loss of consciousness, days away from work, restricted work, or transfer to another job.
- Any work-related injury or illness requiring medical treatment beyond first aid.
- Any work-related diagnosed case of cancer, chronic irreversible diseases, fractured or cracked bones or teeth, and punctured eardrums.
- There are also special recording criteria for work-related cases involving: needlesticks and sharps injuries; medical removal; hearing loss; and tuberculosis.

That's very different than "severe injury or death" only.

[1] https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/new-osha300form1-1-04-For...

[2] https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/
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Why does it have Verizon's logo at the end? That's the first time I've seen another logo on an Apple advertisement.
> Apple implement a bypass that would allow certified recyclers and refurbishers to unlock donated devices

Sure, and now please tell me how long it will take for the non certified 'recyclers' to also know how to bypass this activation lock?
This bypass will render the whole feature useless, and can be removed the moment this bypass is implemented.
I know this is their stated, current stance, but given their sort of bizarre ball of incentives to integrate with the cop process as much as possible in order to drive revenue, I imagine that barrier - to the extent that it actually exists today - will degrade over time, if allowed to. You can't take your data back; in this case, you can't take your family's or neighbors' data back, either.
> (the equivalent would be unobtrusive static images with links)

You could also have dynamic images thank to GIFs. Just think of the possibilities that would be enabled by that - "Hit the monkey!", "Shoot the gangster!" - An incredibly effective way to drive engagement.
As I've said elsewhere in the thread, it's okay to manually skip ads, because some percentage of the users will still listen to the ad, especially if it's the first time they're hearing it.

If you implement automatic ad blockers, that guarantees that no one is listening to the ad. Which would mean no revenue for the content creators. Which would lead to a really crappy system.
Couldn't agree more.

I block ads on the web due to the invasive tracking and targeting. I'm not opposed to ethical, reasonable ad space which is why I don't tear ad pages out of magazines when they arrive. If news sites would run their ad infrastructure focused on presentment rather than tracking I would grant them an exception to my ad blocker. While they outsource ad space to adtech and use their platform as a method to execute arbitrary code on my computing devices the block stays up.

Podcast ads tend to be non-intrusive, are much harder to track and are non-executable. I listen to some very niche podcasts and am happy for the hosts to receive compensation for their creation, especially since it doesn't come at the expense of my privacy.
I think it is fair to say that Boeing cut some corners which resulted in the current situation - but even Airbus surely only prioritises safety over profit to a point - and I'm also sure Airbus cuts some corners. And this is also not really clarifying why Airbus, a publicly listed company with shareholders, is not focused on profits.

I think what is being missed here is nuance - I don't think air-travel with 0 risk is possible - most things come with risk and if we are not willing to consider anything else nothing will ever get done.
You stop micromanaging. Hire people you trust, fire people you don’t.

There are plenty of time tracking programs. Most have an interface where the worker stops and starts a timer, which creates data that feeds into time sheets. I’ve personally used TopTracker from TopTal.
Seems odd...

Most podcasts are pretty grassroots without financial backing, I think.

I don't really mind the ads, and most podcasts apps seem to have skip buttons anyway. I mostly use the iOS podcast app, but it has a 30 second skip button. That usually gets me right past the ads.
Which is completely 100% irrelevant from the end-user perspective.

Just to be clear, I hate AMP, but I also feel a sort of pleasurable vindication in the pain that developers and companies must now go through because of the horrendously slow trackers and ads they used to fill their pages with.
Uh right, sure. But then there's the Spring lifecycle to take into consideration and it may happen that your annotations may or may not work. It depends (of course it's not totally aleatory, there's some logic behind it, usually obvious after several hours debugging ;)

Another honorable mention is Spring Boot @Conditional for which adding a minor little diversion from defaults will turn a functioning happy project in a dysfunctional nightmare.

:'(
You sound like you work for Google.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...

Be sure to read the whole thing.
I think you may be projecting others' arguments onto the parent.

I did not read it as "everything should support the UNIX IDE" as much as expressing a preference for it and that it's a red flag if you can't even use standard vanilla tools (e.g. grep) to do basic things in an ecosystem.

I think it's fair to say that you should be able to edit code in your editor of choice and not have a terrible time.
By "these people" do you mean the owners of Getty?

Photographers aren't getting paid much, the current rate is about 80% to Getty and 20% to the photog. The rate used to be 40% Getty and 60% photog, some people are grandfathered but only if they've been on Getty for 20 years.

Typical working photographers on Getty probably get paid dozens of dollars a month. Typical amateurs might get a dozen dollars a year.
Immutability is neat, but you can get a long way by passing by copy and/or documenting whether a value shouldn't be mutated. I would like to see immutability added to Go, but it would break my heart if it was inspired by Java (i.e., final) instead of Rust's notion of immutability.
I would rather be able to get paid content without giving the content provider money or any opportunity to monetize via ads, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
The mantissa is linear. It's unrelated to how positional number systems work. A floating point value is split into two numbers - the exponent and the mantissa. Normally they are used to represent a final number like:

x = 2^e * (1 + m)

Where e is the exponent and m is the mantissa (varying linearly from 0 to 1).

But you could have a fully exponential number format:

x = 2^(m + o)

As pointed out though, it makes addition much more complicated, you can't exactly represent integers, and someone told me it makes quantisation noise worse too. Bad idea.
So I worked for Carbonite back in 2016 for almost a year.

About 2 weeks after training I found myself wondering what they'd do in the face of everyone and their mother offering "free storage" which while completely different than secure backup sounds like the same thing to the layperson. Towards the end of my year there most of my calls (yeah I was customer support on the consumer level) were from seniors who didn't know how it worked but were told they needed to have it. It was an interesting if frustrating job.

You can look on Glass Door for various stories or check the papers in Maine for how they billed themselves as creating jobs even after they outsourced the consumer biz to Jamaica. That I saw coming but didn't acknowledge out of fear of losing my job. Oh well. They still canned me a week before Christmas.

This sale doesn't surprise me nor does the idea that OpenText will gut then sell it. Sour grapes and all they had to know this was where they'd end up sooner or later.

Whatevs. I used Crashplan now.
> The only question that matters in this argument is whether a corporation's freedom to do business is worth more than stopping the action you consider immoral.

Can you explain to me how does people pressuring them to stop a contract affect their freedom to do business? This is a free market, Github can still do business with ICE, they just know that people won't share that same view and that theses peoples may move their business elsewhere.

Let say there's 2 business that sell chocolate, you want to buy chocolate. One is 1$ cheaper, but they kill a kittens for each purchase. Is it wrong to go buy the one that doesn't kill kittens because for you it infringe on their freedom to do business?
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It's "harmful" in it's current form, and Google hasn't yet committed to addressing all of Mozilla's concerns. Mozilla could have chosen a different label than "harmful". They did not. They didn't change it either.

Last I understood, Apple had similar concerns. I find it unlikely that both of those orgs are making noise for no good reason.
While those are your parameters for why ads are objectionable, they aren't universal, and concerns about privacy implications AND user experience both apply to ads in podcasts. Personally I don't mind listening to ads in podcasts, but I don't see the doomsday scenario here; plenty of podcasters already paywall episodes on Patreon. As with online publishing, the alternative to ads is the subscriber model.
Stock imagery is an art in its own right. Every newbie photographer thinks they can do stock images, but they can't.

Knowing what people want is key, along with the ability to perfectly execute it. For example "woman in blue dress sitting under fall tree looking at moon" might convey some of of commercial message that is used to sell everything from ebook readers to insurance and nets the photographer a fortune in licensing or royalties, but on the the other hand maybe nobody is interested in it, and if you cannot execute it perfectly, nobody will accept it into their catalog.

Why this Hanukkah photo is better than others, I don't know, but Shutterstock is featuring it right now so I guess it sells well and the colors and tones capture a popular trend:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/jewish-holiday-hanu...
Big fan of Arq! Been using it to backup to my NAS + Wasabi + Google Drive for the last year or so and it's been rock solid.

https://www.duplicati.com/ is a solid FOSS option as well though I've found it to be a much less polished experience than Arq.
No. Repair means broken parts get replaced but the same owner (thus the person who activated the mac) will get the device back.

This new feature simply means macbook robery will go down like the cellphone robery went down after activation lock became normal.
Thus, a better world.
How would you deliver paid-for podcasts otherwise? You could put them behind an RSS feed with a ?passcode maybe? Not sure.
I think people are making too big a deal out of this.

Popular podcasters do make money through Patreon for example, not everything comes down to advertising.

And for frank, honest commentary, I think I would rather not have advertiser influence over podcasts, just like the news.

And many people do podcasts just out of passion or a hobby...they are more like blogs than anything else.
Could you provide some insight on why you think blockchain would be applicable here?
Is PBR really that different from Bud?
I thought just a glance towards France was enough for the ol' British Bulldog
Dynamo lights are required in Germany. I wonder if these guys will see business there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_lighting#Legal_require...
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> Amazon tracks people who refuse to hand over video to the police directly and they share stats about them with police.

What are you talking about?
I believe Yandex has the best reverse image search engine on the web today, Google's image results have considerably deteriorated in the past few years. Though if you're looking to compare stock photo prices, the engines of stock photo sites can also reliably find images.
I have a neighbor that owns a consultancy. They've started shipping the Meeting Owl videoconference camera to all of their high profile clients.

I personally haven't used it, but he spoke highly of it. I think the intelligent focusing of whomever is talking looks interesting. Certainly looks better than those "cameras in the sky looking down" views that are typical to most office setups.

https://www.owllabs.com/

P.S. No I'm not an investor, owner, or anything. Just a product that seems to take a different approach to remote meeting presentations.
I think "a tiny bit better" underestimates how big the gap is between "median income" and "1% income." The median individual income for the US in 2019, from data I can find (on "Don't Quit Your Day Job," which uses census data rather than Social Security data), is $40,100; the average income is $48,380. The threshold to enter the top 1% is $328,551.

I live in one of the most expensive cities in the country (San Jose, CA) in terms of both cost of living and taxes, and I'm making well under that $328K level. And I assure you I am doing more than "a tiny bit better" than someone making under $50K in a metro area closer to the national median.

tl;dr: I really don't think anyone who's in "the 1%" is having a huge problem with their finances, unless they're staggeringly bad at money management.
I agree. On the web, I've actually stopped using a real ad blocker over the past few years and just use EFF's privacy badger. That only sets out to block tracking, but coincidentally enough it effectively blocks most nuisance ads.

With podcast ads that are just inlined in the audio stream and based only on content, not user tracking, I'm perfectly happy to either listen to them if they're interesting or tap the 30 second skip button if they're not. (I probably only bother fishing my phone out to tap the 30 second skip button 15% of the time. They're more frequently interesting me enough for me to do a web search for the company that's advertised.)
That's a good point. If everything we do gets politicized, then that'll pretty much grind productivity to a halt, and our society will devolve into a bunch of warring factions. There's probably good grounds for keeping most domains apolitical.
I've been studying program transformations for 7 years. Cosmin has a technique, context rewriting, which makes it easy to build refactorings that were hard to do previously. This tool can move is out of the Stone Age for making mass changes.
To each their own, but I personally would rather have someone saying "here's some cool power tools / skateboard equipment / digital pianos you might be interested in buying" than "don't you feel terrible for not sending us money for this thing you can get for free?"

I don't like being guilted, I really don't. But I understand that some feel differently.
java.lang.Object has a few methods though. At least those should be known when one starts writing productive code. Otherwise one produces even worse bugs than relying on toString behavior (equals and hashCode, god forbid).

Cover to cover would mean understanding the memory model and maybe garbage collection. That's too far certainly but a few basics would do no harm. toString is surely one of them.
Founder here:

I think that many people already skip the ads using the 30 second skip forward button. I know I did before building this app.

I'm also thinking about safety -- people driving their car and reaching for their phone to skip the ads.
Would it then be reasonable to fabricate injuries in order to game performance assessments?
They paid for it. Just like broadcast Apple-produced iPhone ads are co-branded with some regionally-appropriate service provider.
I wonder if it's possible to wind a new yoke and make a vector monitor out of a Trinitron. That would be the ultimate gaming experience.
How is the ad-free feed hosted? I'd love for this to be a widespread thing, but I listen to podcasts almost entirely during long drives, so I worry that paid content will fragment distribution.
Hikvision is based in China and partially owned by the Chinese state. Not sure if that would be my first choice for surveillance gear.
No one cares if you plea after you flee. People who are innocent don't usually flee the country. Same with Snowden and Russia to anyone who isn't drinking woke kool-aid still.
> tech startups is specifically because of tech's unique promise of both worldwide scale and zero marginal costs

This theory fails to adequately explain WeWork.

I mean, I think you should be right, but in principle I do not see why WeDryClean should not work while WeWork does.
What does Amazon have that you can't purchase at any other retailer? With the exception of Amazon-branded products, you can find almost any item on another online marketplace.
Your own link proves you wrong. Starting with the following quote and proceeding from there, explaining exactly how what githubbers are doing would be protected:

>As interpreted by the NLRB, employee communications are "concerted" not only when he or she acts with or on the authority of other employees but also when the employee seeks to initiate, induce or prepare for group action or brings truly group complaints to management.
Registered on Shutterstock 11 months ago, added 9 photos, sold 3 for a grand total of $0.75.

Selling stock photos made sense for photographers 10-20 years ago, not worth it anymore unless you're at the very top.

For the reference: https://www.shutterstock.com/g/MateoSan
Blockchain is sooo 2017 keep this crap in the past, please.
At this point I think the only options are using the built in OS security for personal use, and endpoint protection like fieldeffect.com or crowdstrike.com for businesses.
Until their phone-home rootkit CDs[0]. Or is that also “listening to your customers?” /s

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
> Wait, in frequentist statistics getting, say, a p-value of 1 is not a bad thing--unless you erroneously assume that value is evidence for your null hypothesis.

That's exactly what I'm saying. Suppose you get HHTHT. Then you run the following statistical test:

Hypothesis: a government conspiracy has been hatched to make you get HHTHT.

Null hypothesis: this is not the case.

The p-value is 1/32, so the null hypothesis is rejected.

This is bad reasoning for two reasons: first the alternative hypothesis is incredibly unlikely, and second the choice of alternative hypothesis has been rigged after seeing the data. These are exactly the two reasons so many social science studies running on frequentist stats have done terribly, and why we would benefit from Bayesian stats which force you to make these issues explicit.
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Startups should not create new markets. Too risky. Do what amazon/google does, just with a twist.

You dig where the gold is.
It's boilerplate - I'll update it.
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Looks cool. Does anyone know if the compression artifacts are from the camera or youtube?
Raspberry Pis + cheap USB webcams or the camera module would work. (The official Pi Zero case has an optional faceplate with a cutout for the camera, so it can all go in one box.) There are existing software packages that can start taking pictures and run scripts when motion is detected.
That is different because your face is now evidence something happened.
Some podcast companies are inserting user targeted ads into the file.
Got some suggested skills/etc for the kids?
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I believe you can disable Chrome's reader mode in flags. I know you can force it to show up on all pages, as that's how I have it set up on my tablet (I use Firefox and Brave primarily, with Chrome or Bromite as a fallback)
The locus of sensory perception is not in the brain, out-of-body experiences indicate that.

Thoughts are a kind of stuff different from the stuff that bodies are made of. They kind of hover around your head, and with practice, you can learn to see the thoughts around the heads of other people.

Emotion is again a third kind of stuff. Gurdjieff identified emotion with the "blood" of a kind of emotional "body" that was co-extensive with but not the same as the physical body.

This is basic, run=of-the-mill, kiddie-level metaphysics. The so-called "hard problem" of consciousness begins with the exclusion of all the relevant information.

( If you really want to know what consciousness is, there is a wide, short road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi#Self-enquiry )