skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that most electronics have China influence. But there’s a pretty big difference between influence and actual state control.

I have no insider info but from reading the news it appears that what China is doing is several levels sketchier than Amazon/Ring when it comes to infringing on civil liberties.

Protecting your self is one thing; supporting that kind of regime with your money is another.
How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn
Tradeoffs are at https://github.com/segmentio/encoding/tree/master/json#trade.... Maybe we should move that upfront (or at least link to it for discovery).
My mother-in-law inherited a mid-90s Trinitron TV when her father died in 2005. It's been the TV in their guest room since.

Their flat panel TV died a couple weeks ago and they put that TV in their living room as a stopgap.

The picture tube on that TV is still so good after all this time, they now don't want to bother buying a new TV.
Yeah, I use DDG and only get crappy amp links on reddit and other forums. Either don't click or manually remove the amp. Google can [insert insult here].
You're clearly dodging the points you're responding to. Ecuador also claims he worked with Russia. Do you have any links showing countries claiming the opposite?
If users aren't willing to support a podcast then that's a big signal as to what the value of that podcast is.

When I look at the list of podcasts I subscribe to there aren't really any that I would miss terribly if they decided to stop. I have too many options when I want to listen to something.
Next best alternative is automated turrets. Just have to get the image recognition right.
Except in California we had proposition 13, so that property taxes are severely hamstrung; I wonder how much impact that alone has on the overall analysis given the size of California as part of the US economy.

I really think we should bring them back but it's anathema. The usual argument has something to do with a little grandma living on a fixed income who suddenly can't afford taxes on the home she's owned for 40 years. (And not, say, a landlord who owns dozens of buildings, though it benefits him far more)
That's certainly true, but what other option do you have? When you have Lyme, you are an explorer in an alien landscape. Medicine has not caught up to the incidence of the disease, and people with Lyme must do something. They can't all just wait around in pain and misery for the FDA to approve a treatment.
True, and it is good you have it turned down. But all your neighbors don't have too. They could be filming you 100% of the time you are outside. The biggest issue with these things is that they are networked and can be viewed 24/7 by people not outside your house right now. It is the scale of the surveillance that is most disturbing to me. I'm most worried about the people and cops turning my life into The Truman Show.
> Edit: also, it's super unethical to have a paid app that profits by taking away any scope for content creators to monetize. Leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

Absurd. Software's whole deal is wrecking people's jobs to save someone else money or make their lives easier. This time it's ad-supported mp3 makers instead of any of the tons and tons of other people who've been tossed around by software. Often this does suck but to single out helping people avoid ads as the one thing you must not charge for is silly.
There's seriously no need for a personal attack.
That's one of the top defining characteristics of "economic leftist" type systems.

Either you don't fully grasp the implications of such a policy, or you may want to re-evaluate your economic self-identity.

I'll add- it's not just the rich that this hits. This means taking a family's home when parents die, unless they pay for it again.

Which means it's basically an incentive for people to rent everything and own nothing. A Subscription based economy for everything. And companies will love it, since they'll provide the subscriptions and corporations never die, so it won't affect corporate wealth.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but it's not difficult to see a floodgate of unintended consequences. And only the rich will be able to afford the accountants and lawyers to double-Irish/ Dutch-sandwich loopholes.
Scala has a REPL and instant feedback. Clojure is fine and expressive for sure, I just find that static typing is superior to dynamic typing. If you can write perfect code, maybe it isn't, but I personally have a level of peace of mind with Scala that I never gotten with Clojure. I have programmed with both professionally, if that matters, btw. Of course, people are different, and theoretically speaking, Clojure should have as much power as Scala.
You are the perfect customer for this app. $1.99 :)
If you value your podcasters' livelihoods, don't tell him.
Always one step ahead of the rest of us...
> I agree that Java is almost unwritable without an IDE, but that strictness has led to Java having better IDEs than most languages.

I think the conundrum of java is not quite the same thing as strictness.
For servers (or Linux workstations) this is a great strategy. For Windows 10 / macOS endpoints you get the filesystem provided by the OS.

This also doesn't address data stored on cloud storage, full endpoint unstructured user data backup is a messy one. While large companies use policy management to force data off of laptops or non-protected cloud systems almost every employee I interact with at normal small business has critical files on their PC.
Once you already own a cellphone, the marginal privacy loss by getting a smart speaker is very small.
The latest release (.Net 3.1) finished the partial classes implementation so now you can create a `Comp.razor` template file and a separate `Comp.razor.cs` code-behind file that only contains the code. These are automatically compiled together on build.
This throwback made my day, thank you.
Forums suggest that there are others who are also interested in this ability.
I agree completely. My favorite podcasts are crowd-funded with no ads, but the least-bad approach to ad reads is when someone reads a script, verbatim, in a bored monotone. Especially when it's not one of the hosts reading, but a producer whose voice you don't recognize and implicitly trust. But this is really rare.
> I have seen multiple tech teams at different companies evolve separately towards using similar patterns in both Java and C#

Could you give us some background on your professional experience? There is no "About" section on the site.
That's basically how most Patreon supported podcasters do it - a private feed.
Hmm, I wonder if this is the first good argument for the mortgage interest deduction.
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Sounds like an easy way to dismiss any amount of evidence they're guilty by appealing to grand conspiracy.
Sorry, but you’re not going to succeed in gaslighting anyone with these kinds of clearly dishonest talking points.

It’s obvious to anyone not entirely lost to right-wing ideology that the Trump administration is built on scapegoating immigrants and targeting them for violence. If you don’t think that has consequences or historical precedent, you’re either oblivious or onboard with all the malice and horror.
For anyone curious, the actual .NET Wasmtime package source is here: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/master/cra...
You missed the biggest weapon against crime: a functioning fair society. Crime isn't entropy, something that's inherent to the laws of the universe and that can only be managed, it cannot be solved.

A society where everyone and their mother is holding guns (and have cameras) doesn't seem ideal to me. Reminds me of this cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFmrZp92QTQ
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Would you mind sharing what approach did you use to trim the ads? Did you manually detect the ads and then trimmed the file or are you using an automatic (perhaps ML-based) approach?
I don't think the multiple divisions will do any harm as you only need 4 digits of precision left at the end.
Even if you skips 90% of a 90 second ad, the advertiser still has 9 seconds to get a pitch in. Sometimes in advertising, just reminding the users you exist is enough. If you hear "Dave's Pizza" twelve times before going to the grocery store, then you're much more likely to subconsciously grab one if you see them one in the freezer.

Podcast advertisers often fall into a category of product where name recognition is important. They are okay knowing that most of us skip the ads because they know the audience will hear the name before they have a chance to skip the ad.
> Instagram told the news service that it won’t verify birthdates, but it thinks people will be honest about their birthdays, and it might eventually rely on artificial intelligence to help determine users’ birthdays. Instagram employees can already roughly estimate users’ ages by going through posts that say “happy birthday.” It’s also already trained machine learning software to predict users’ ages and gender. It looks at the posts people make and the hashtags they use for data.

It's ironic to see Instagram/Facebook claim that they are demanding more personal information "to cater privacy features." The data will obviously be used for training their machine learning models, which will be used for targeted advertising.
Not sure if you are suggesting that is good or bad. I see all those as bad. I don't like being guilted, paywalls just suck (also for the podcasters, they lose all their word of mouth), and blurring the lines between ads and content is awful
I really hate ads. I skip or block all of them as much as possible. If i can automate that, i will. It is the main reason i do not use regular magazines, tv and radio.
You're right, but is the solution to that an adblocker? Or should users simply follow the age old principle of "buyer beware"?

I'm all for adblockers on the web, due to their tracking nature, but podcast ads aren't served from some third party that eats up bandwidth, causes page jumps or autoplays video. They aren't even like Spotify ads, which seem to know when you've muted audio.

Is it really that taxing to fast forward through them?
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Advertising revenue should dry up.
It was for the execs for 20 years.
The (human) models and photographers will be in real trouble when generative models are able to make an ad on the fly with a fake person who looks like your neighbor with the best landscaping using the advertised lawnmower.
This does not tell you anything about the source of the snippet and, almost by definition, people who blindly copy snippets from SO are likely not experts in the field.

On the other hand, when I download and use Openssl (for example) I am reasonably confident that the code was developed and scrutinised by people who know what they are doing.
Not really non US listers especially in the UK find this super creepy
Snowden was trapped in Russia after his passport was cancelled en route to Latin America. In any case the US government doesn't like whistleblowers so i don't understand the big deal with running away.
What's sad, all fictional portrayals of dystopias are struggles and fights. Like, "the good guys died in battle from being killed by the bad guys".

Now, if you speak up against FAANG or some other company making bullshit promises to "save the world", it's the people that stomp out the "good guys".

Don't get me wrong, it's clever on them. But it's sad and makes the coming decades unnerving if these companies aren't lassoed into control. Apple is especially guilty of the whole cult following thing where they can do no wrong in the eyes of their zealots. Their continued growth and profiting is a symbol not of parasitic nature, but of their divinity to these people.

Goddamn it, and I'm a red blooded capitalist. How do we resurrect Teddy Roosevelt, the old Bull Moose himself? We need Teddy...
Programming with encoding structural annotations in string names (BEM, object-oriented approach) is useless in the long term. By long, I say one year of cycle development for any medium or big project. The CSS will grow and the architecture will be gone as soon as the constraints will hit the team. The closest thing to "clean CSS" I've experienced is Functional CSS.
It would be interesting if a service existed where you could mark ads as "watched" to stop seeing them anymore. On the other hand, advertisers seem to believe they need to keep advertising to consumers who already know their products. Coke spends something like $5 billion/year on ads despite probably being the most recognized company on the planet.
The letter was written in the context of AOC using the term "concentration camps"; this is what caused the Museum to release the statement in the first place[0][1][2].

[0] https://nypost.com/2019/06/24/us-holocaust-museum-denounces-...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-holocaust-museum-rejects-na...

[2] https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/us-holocaust-museum-reiterat...
Metagenomics is the biological equivalent of suddenly being able to see dark matter.

Normally, if you want to analyze a microbe, you do it by culturing the organism in Petri dishes. By varying the growth medium you can find out a lot about your organism: what it eats, if it breathes, how it metabolizes various things. The problem is that only 5-10% of bacteria grow on plates. Microbiologists call this the "plate count anomaly" and what it means is this: your sample in a microscope could be teeming with life, but if you plate it you'll probably get this homogeneous little sample of not very many organisms. The rest are called "microbial dark matter."

With metagenomics, we could see them all. It made people a little funny in the head. You might remember that "The Microbiome" was a big idea in the media for a while. It got pretty flattering treatment, considering what it is: a mass of mostly proto-shit floating around inside your colon. But the enthusiasm wasn't too far misplaced, because a major area of biology is growing by leaps and bounds now.

If you are a computer programmer considering a career change you should really take a day off to look into the new genetic technologies on offer. Performance is doubling every year [1]. The world is changing. And computing is at the center of it, both practically (all that research generates a lot of data) and conceptually (because gene expression is information processing). So give it a look.

[1] Remember that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
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If you don't care about whether it's tested this startup had a plausible business model: by coming up with an algorithm to identify fashion taste, fashion e-commerce sites could show more relevant recommendations, which leads to more sales, which leads to more revenue. Then they pay this company some fraction of that additional revenue, and both win.
A world where all podcasts have lo-fi production values and only weirdos with too much time and a LOT of interest in the topic at hand make them would be wonderful. The audio version of the early web. They can have podcast web rings instead of ads!
Trapped and forced to frequently issue what amounts to propaganda every so often? Right.
> I know MSFT technologies get a lot of hate here, but ASP.NET Core is pretty awesome.

Given how bad an actor they were I guess some people have a hard time forgetting the past.
My first thought as well. :)
Okay, take the free image and apply some arbitrary "filters" just to make it harder to programmatically match. You've still paid $0, vs. the hundreds of dollars that Getty asks for.
https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-s...

As discussed here not that long ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346307
The big picture is that podcasts are economically public goods (non-rivalrous, non-exclusive), or at least would be completely if not for copyright restrictions legally.

Ads detract from the value. In other words, as a resource, ad-laden podcasts are worse than ad-free podcasts.

If you ask people to pay to access the ad-free versions, that's a "club good" (non-rivalrous but now exclusive). That also dramatically reduces the value to the world. (Also, the existence of ad-laden ones is a detraction itself, even affecting the ad-free versions because ads create conflicts-of-interest).

So, all the economics here is about about the public goods dilemma. How the heck can fund the work without all these detractions? Taxes? I'm not saying the answer is easy, I'm saying we should get the question right.

The one view I reject: that somehow ads in podcasts are a good thing. Rather, ads are an unfortunate compromise given the challenges of funding public goods. There's little room for debate there.

What is called for is specifically funding models that somehow coordinate critical mass of people without the use of paywalls or detractions like ads.
NPR inserts targeted ads when you download an episode.
Ok. It seems to be nearly unanimous here that as clever as this app is, it’s on a fast track to a tragedy-of-the-commons situation in podcasting.

Allow me to propose a pivot.

Most listeners know in the first few seconds whether an ad falls into the “hey, that actually sounds interesting” category or the “no, I still don’t need a Squarespace/Casper/Mailchimp” category. Take a page from YouTube and play the first 3-5 seconds of the ad, and then give the user a big skip button that skips the entire ad segment.

Your app will still have the USP of a better experience than jumping back and forward in 15-30 second increments, and it preserves the ad-supported model with a proven UX pattern validated by one of the biggest advertising platforms in the world. You could even form partnerships with podcast networks who want insight into what ads get skipped and which get played for longer.

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Transaction? I asked for an MP3 and you sent it. Transaction over.
One incident doesn't make it "far from theoretical". I concede that it's "vanishingly small", however.

> Secondly, I found that in practice, it doesn't buy you much, and on the contrary, makes working with code more difficult (even with an IDE).

I don't know about you, but I don't like having to write boilerplate to make a third party class implement a first party interface.

> It's valuable information to know what interface(s) a type implements, not to mention finding all types down the hierarchy that implement a given interface (much more tedious and resource hungry with golang).

How is that information valuable? The only thing I can think of is "I want to change the interface and consequently I need to update the implementations". In which case, just change the interface and the compiler will tell you what broke. As for "resource hungry", who cares? I'll trade 50ms of computing time per search (note that this is a generous figure) if it means developers don't need to maintain "implements" annotations and the corresponding boilerplate discussed above.
You are mixing up correlation and causation re: married couples.
Your loss - I have found tons of interesting things that I would not have Mike Duncan's revolutions is just one.
This is awesome that I can put value on my data!
Very confusing. A free product??? An AI solution to measure how the development of SW progresses and who contributes how much?
>Photographers get paid $1000+ and keep the copyright. Almost every other work-for-hire intellectual job involves an IP transfer.

That probably means the wedding photography business is not actually sustainable at $1,000 per engagement (no pun intended). They probably need to make (example) $1,500 per engagement to make it worth their time, but the industry has consolidated around a "standard" of lower foot in the door costs where they make up the additional money required on the back-end via licensing the IP.

One could create a photography business where there is a one time cost of $1,500 and the customer retains all IP rights, but customers probably just (ignorantly) view you as 50% more expensive than the "exact same service" sans IP rights.

The other thing to keep in mind, is by breaking out costs associated with IP ownership, the service isn't just hiding total up-front cost, they are also offloading some of the burden of cost from the purchasing decision maker (ie bride/groom) to the wedding guests.

I have no idea if the above is correct, but wedding photography is a commoditized service so odds are there's a reason it's standardized this way.
> And yet I've bought many items with patience at those prices. There was a bike I wanted originally listed at $1800. I offered 1000 as that's what it was worth. Every week it was relisted $50 lower, every week I dropped my offer by like $25. Ended selling buying for $700 (I emailed the seller so much they were chatting with me). Took 7 months but the demand was just not there. At the end guy was like sigh should have sold for $1k.

I like this strategy.
The only thing I can share is that it does not modify or trim the podcast.

It downloads the podcast, finds the ads, plays it, and skips over the ads. The ads are still in there. After it skips the ads, you could manually skip backwards and hear that they are still there.
Frequentist has a prior also though. The uniform distribution.

No. Experimental design affect frequentist conclusions in a way that is inconsistent with _ANY_ prior.

Here is a real life example. My aunt and uncle had 7 children. 6 boys and one girl. Were they biased towards having one gender over another? If the null hypothesis is that they aren't, the p-value that you get is easily calculated as 16/2^7 = 1/8 = 0.125. (There is 1 arrangement of 7 girls, 7 of 6 girls and a boy, 7 of 6 boys and a girl, and 1 of 7 boys for 16 equally likely arrangements.)

If I add the fact that they planned to have children until they had a boy and a girl, then that changes the p-value. In fact there are only 4 ways that their first 7 children can come out to give evidence this strong against the prior. So the p-value is now 4/2^7 = 1/32 = 0.03125.

However a Bayesian looks at this and says that no matter what prior you pick, the knowledge that they planned to have children until they had both a boy and a girl does not affect your posterior conclusion. It literally has nowhere to go in the formula and can't make a difference.

Therefore the frequentist's differing conclusions are not consistent with ANY prior, implicit or not.
This is what I was wondering as well, it seemed bizarre to me and I expected there to be much more outrage here about it. I wonder if it's a bit like local parking regulations, which tend to be written in ways that allow towing companies to abuse you as much as possible.
Finally I can put a value on my data