skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

I've pointed out before that the enthusiasm for micropayments is from people who want to collect them, not those who want to pay them. Unlike credit cards, which, when introduced, were easy to sell to buyers but hard to sell to merchants, since the merchant pays fees.

Cryptocurrencies are not a magic bullet here. The technology for preventing double-spending is incredibly inefficient and slow. Transaction costs are high. Right now, a Bitcoin transaction costs at least US$5. It's been as high as $20.
Spotify was the one who conspired with Facebook, Apple and Google to ban Alex Jones and others. So if Joe is moving off of YouTube because he doesn't like the censorship, he's not getting anything better with Spotify.
I don't need the article to do it, I hate him already.
My ThinkPad has two sets of buttons - one with a middle mouse button below the spacebar, and one with just left and right click below the trackpad that practically hangs off the bezel.

Fortunately, the trackpad flex cable only connects to the bottom pair of buttons, so unplugging the flex cable is a completely non-destructive process that leaves the trackpoint and mouse buttons completely functional and makes my laptop somewhat secure against other people trying to use it! I will admit that this non-destructive method lacks the catharsis that pliers could provide.
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Right, I know. A subscription is less than a Starbucks coffe. Old song.

Newsflash: perhaps I'd like to support more than a couple sites. Those coffees add up.

Also, I don't do Starbucks coffee. It's overpriced.
Those were the two I immediately thought of as well.
Is their player anywhere near as good as Overcast? Can you sync them on Apple Watch to listen to without the phone? I quit Spotify because you couldn’t do that with the music, so I’m guessing probably not?
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I think there was a further statement which mentioned only clips will be released on Youtube. The full video will be available only on Spotify.
I don't think it's weird. If there's a problem, it limits who is affected or allows them to fix it while the problem is small.
Bye bye DNS based ad blocking, hello malwares straight out of Google ads.
To summarize the copy protection itself, which is quite an interesting example of (subverting) opaque abstraction boundaries: because CDs contain physical imperfections, ordinary CD drives will automatically perform micro-adjustments on the laser lens in order to account for warped or imperfectly-centered discs. These adjustments take place in the hardware of the drive; by the time any user-provided software comes into the equation, the contents of the disc are irreversibly reduced to the data it contains, with no notion of how the lens had to "wiggle" in order to properly read it.

But as part of the manufacturing process for PS1 discs, Sony deliberately introduced pre-determined amounts of "wiggle" into the first sector that would be read by the laser, and constructed their hardware such that it would refuse to play any game whose disc did not match the intended pattern. Thus any ordinary computer could both read and copy PS1 games just fine, but any burned copies would fail to play.
I find it interesting that the radical left seeks to silence rather than find a competitor. Ideas are just as marketable as products.

I've listened to Joe Rogan for years and have found it educational and entertaining. It's fairly easy to listen while not agreeing to everything with his guests' viewpoints. I believe the content is high-quality, researched, and thoroughly unique. If you do not like the content, you don't need to listen to it.

When everything is "hate speech", nothing is hate speech. We often forget our own freedoms, especially the freedom of choice.
What exactly is known for being a field of quality software engineering?

100% of Python users find it to be fast enough for their use case. Let's stop beating this horse into a black hole, it doesn't need to be fast at converting integers to unicode 100,000 times, to allow quality software engineering.

To compare speed of CPython with quality of anything is such a narrow view, it is self-defeating.
Adding /s is almost always pointless. People who understand sarcasm don't need it, and everyone else doesn't know what /s means.
Because podcasts up till now have been one of the last remaining media types that are not owned and produced by some gigantic tech corporation, and are instead truly independent media. The fear is that podcasts will go the route of blogging, which many lament, because now we are at the whims of Twitter and medium for distribution. For at least 2-3 years, several companies have been trying to "own" the podcast medium, and it's looking more and more like Spotify may came out ahead.
I was trying to make a Hulu or Netflix simile in my head and then you brought up audio books.

I'm trying to decide if I would mind world where 'a Spotify' bought Libro, and focused on doing literary interviews and such.
I’d read that blog of yours in a heartbeat, otherwise I got nothing else to say. I agree completely with everything you’ve said here.

Although regarding mutations I dunno I think Zion Williamson might be the next player to evolve the game, or continue the evolution its been undergoing since the Golden State run.
Never understood why his podcast such a hit. I mean, I like the guy, and he's knowledgeable about MMA. But he's not someone I care to listen to on other topics.
If this was a podcast that I listened to, I would be mad. I want podcasts to be in my podcast app. I listen to them mostly on my phone and I don't have spotify on my phone. I don't want to install and open a separate program just for one show.

It also irritates me off when I see a podcast mentioned online and they only give an itunes link. I am an android user. Yes, most of the shows are in pocketcast's directory if I search for it but only putting an itunes link makes it more work for me and less likely to bother.
Exactly. Spotify was the one who conspired with Facebook, Apple and Google to ban Alex Jones and others. So if Joe is moving off of YouTube because he doesn't like the censorship, he's not getting anything better with Spotify.

HN likes downvoting reasonable comments just because it contains a name people may not like.
Because the kind uncle is not leadership archetype that would be praised. It might been in the past, but not anymore.

Th asshole is praised as leader, is assumed to have greater technical skills, is generally rewarded.
30+ years and counting, Microsoft (and others) are still trying to capture the functionality of Lotus Notes. Sort of admirable in a way, but also very sad for the rest of us.
Antarctic penguins release an extreme amount of laughing gas
PayPal already has micropayments, 5c+5%

https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-are-micropa...

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#fixed-fe...

Without this, my bootstrapped company that employed over 15 people would not have been possible.
Have you seen how much a lightning transaction costs?
You make a good point. I'll revise my statement:

It does not seem plausible that reasonable people would suggest suppressing data just because some people tried to spin deaths reported May 5 as being due to the May 4 reopening.

If information sources in either of the examples you gave were later suppressed due to the extreme spin put on them, please let me know.
YouTube really, really didn't deserve his patronage though. As somebody who has had a YouTube Premium membership over the years, the general disrespect YouTube has for the people who make the videos that attract people to their platform is offensive to me.

On YouTube, your live stream can be pulled mid-sentence if you say the name "Eric CIAramella", even if you're referring to one of the many people with that name other than the one they're concerned with. Then there is the 共匪 fiasco of the last few days. The history goes back and back and back, it's a history of declining principle, and a complete lack of policy consistency, where the audiences and creators are not only a mere commodity in reality (which is par for the course) but made to feel like it too.
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It feels like another case of "our great designer knows what you want and need better than you do" developer hubris.
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You're making me want to make a simulation to explore how different behaviors among the populace of a geographic area can influence the spread of infection. It'd be cool to be able to set policies in a region as a behavioral control, and to simulate processes like hearsay and news reading as a mechanism for the spread of accurate and inaccurate information. You could have mechanics like testing materials, ppe availability, laboratory capacity, patient turnaround, symptom severity, et. al. control the effectiveness of different policies and other processes.
I like the wide array of formats, but: I know people are going to ask, so I’ll bring it up:

1) why is this something we should pay for (when there’s a variety of free PDF conversion websites)?

2) how long are files retained for? The Privacy Policy has no mention of retention or deletion.
Really? They might be able to legitimately compete with Youtube. I watch a lot of podcast clips on Youtube but would much rather view it ad-free on Spotify.
Do you think having an unusual TLD (travel) is hurting you at all? If someone told an average person to go to "Cycle.travel", I'm not sure that they would understand that to be a web address.
I forgot: no one is allowed to criticize Jewish people. That's automatically antisemitism and Nazi. I know that game, that doesn't faze me. You have no power here.

Edit: this was immediately flagged and downvoted. Immediately. How is that even possible. This is an old and inactive thread.
The headline should be "CUDA support on WSL2", but that's only mentioned at the bottom of the article.

And having all this stuff work out of the box, I can see some people choosing the WSL path over native Linux simply because there are less apt-gets involved to get a PyTorch model training.
I think only Dropbox actually put any significant resources into it?

Google has donated a few tens of thousands of dollars to PyPy and didn't actually support Unladen Swallow it was just a side project by a few employees.

Instagram did contribute the GC.freeze work but that's all I know of? Do they also donate?

It's nothing like the effort these companies put into building V8 or HHVM. PyPy was all research funding and tiny compared to those investments.
Yeah it’s pretty weird. I watch a lot of his shows in the background while working. But I won’t be downloading Spotify to follow him over there.
Maybe its the morality of society in general or maybe its the Trump effect but I think we have been too quick to assign hero status and moral uprightness to people at the slightest opportunity. I'm not calling this woman a liar but as long as I can imagine a plausible scenario that provides an alternative explanation to whatever has been claimed especially considering that I dont know this person personally, I think I for one will not be so hasty with the canonization.
Summary: "In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that penguins in Antarctica emit copious amounts of nitrous oxide via their feces. So much so, that the researchers went 'cuckoo' from being surrounded by penguin poop."
Note that the old clips WILL NOT remain on youtube at the end of the year. At least that's what he said in the Patton Oswald intro.

He's been a critic of yt's policies for a while. I hope that he comments on whether this is a purely monetary call or, in some part, due to those policies. Maybe he or Jamie-pedia read hn? :>
Does it say that they're storing messages? The examples are all the metadata "Signal provides private groups, private contact discovery, private profiles, etc". I interpreted this as saying that my groups and contacts are synced, not the content of the messages.
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Re permission, that's not quite true. His show is on YouTube, and his shows are allowed on there only at their pleasure. Censorship there is not unheard of, and though I've watched only a couple, his shows seem like something that could set them off.
Not all the new TLDs are terrible. A few of the short ones like <dot>me [for a personal site], or <dot>info for a reference site are OK. But I think a lot of the other ones do sound really dodgy. If I saw a link to a company website with a domain name like <dot>bargains, <dot>blackfirday, <dot>creditcard, <dot>discount... [to pick just 4 at random near the top of a very long alphabetical list] I'd avoid them like the plague.

They just set off alarm bells in my head that, at best, I'd be venturing on to some godawful spammy site, loaded down with a dozen hacky-tracky javascripts and, at worst, I'd be opening up my computer to god knows what insecure data processing.

Funny how the <dot>xyz domain [which, to be fair, wasn't one of the worst of the new ones] attained a measure of respectability when adopted by Google, in their Alphabet guise.
The previous status quo was that nobody had the data other than your device.
It seems alphanumeric PINs are allowed now. At least on iOS, I do get the option to change the PIN to an alphanumeric one.

The whole PIN thing has changed quite a bit in the past 6 months or so.
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"FFS they fired the person whose official job it was to make information available to the public and she reports it was because they wanted to censor it. "

I think you are misreading my point and definitely misunderstanding the nature of the person's job.

We don't know what happened and 'censored' can mean a lot of things.

My quotes are not 'red herrings' - they are examples of what is happening right now.

The Miami Herald is upset that Flordia would not publish the names of retirement homes?

What if this is literally the issue in question? What if this 'whistleblower' wanted to publish said names, but the Gov. didn't want her to? Is this worthy of whistle-blowing? I don't think so.

What if she wanted to make a graph where the landing page highlighted 'total new cases' (which looks bad because it's always rising) but the state wants 'daily new cases' (which looks better because it's ostensibly flat. Is that censorship?

And by the way - disgruntled people are fired all the time.

What we need is more information, and it's odd that the state employee did not actually give more specifics, it would validate the cause a little better.

Finally - it's not her job to decide what goes out and whatnot. Definitely not, that's a fairly high-level decision. Her job is to communicate and coordinate it effectively. But again, using my example the decision as to 'do we name the long term care homes or not?' is definitely above her pay grade. That's a communications job it will touch the highest levels.

So again - we need more information in order to determine the severity of what happened here. Maybe there is fraud rising to criminality, in which case I hope someone goes to jail, but it may not be that.
Absolutely agree with everything here. But I'm curious what you're considering as an Excel replacement? For anything more sophisticated than Google Sheet's can handle I can't think of a single alternative off-hand.
I find the guests pretty interesting most of the time and it tends to be laid back as he doesn’t get confrontational with people. It helps that’s he’s a funny guy and can carry a conversation with pretty much anyone.
From the screenshots, this looks like a shameless rip-off of Airtable. In the same way that Bing Adcenter is a shameless rip-off of Google Ads. I understand why MS do it, but anyone who works on either of these products should feel a bit dirty.

BTW Airtable is a great product. I used it to create a database system for a local charity and it has been transformative for them.
"Data last updated on May 19, 2020 3:45 p.m. EST."

Was it really updated then? Because most of the Eastern US is observing EDT right now, not EST. Is this time truly in EST (1 hour behind New York)?
I sometimes listen to Joe Rogan using Rhythmbox audio player. Occasionally I'll check the corresponding YouTube clip to see what the guest looks like.

I've never used Spotify and see no need to sign up for anything. If I can't download/stream to open players I probably just won't listen anymore. There are plenty of other good podcasts and books and, although I enjoy Rogan, he does get a bit redundant after a bit so not that big of a loss.
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Micropayments won’t take off because a service to send or collect them is illegal in the US without carding every user and $1mm-per-state legal and licensing fees to be a money transmitter.

This was to be my next company, and it was effectively banned.

We have all of the tech to anonymously demand a real-time irreversible penny payment for a pageload, a download, or an API call. Pervasive, suspicionless financial surveillance demands of the government have made the resulting businesses mostly impossible.
I agree with JRE leaving YouTube over the censorship but I disagree with him moving exclusively to spotify for following reasons:

1. Spotify was the one who conspired with Facebook, Apple and Google to ban Alex Jones and others. So if Joe is moving off of YouTube because he doesn't like the censorship, he's not getting anything better with Spotify.

2. Currently, Spotify doesn't have video (except album cover clips which occasionally show up). I prefer JRE's video format instead of audio. Think of Elon smoking weed on video vs on audio - very different. Seems like Spotify might be adding video later in the year but until that happens, we don't know what we will be getting.

3. "Exclusive" deals in the podcast world is bad. Podcasts were supposed to be platform independent audio files. Making things exclusive is going backwards.

4. Spotify is not available in many countries.

5. Spotify's desktop player isn't the best imo. Their web player is only for audio so far, so they need to make major changes.
Signal and Matrix are pretty different thing honestly. It's like Whatsup vs Slack. I am not sure you would want your Dad to sign up to your Slack channel.
Video games still target pretty mainstream pc specs. They have to, or no one can run the game. Sans Crysis.
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Really, a typo in the very first sentence?

> Over the past couple of years, Spotify has demonstrating a long-term commitment to the podcasting format . . .

I feel like editorial quality has really gone to shit lately, especially at less mainstream outlets like TechCrunch (where I seem to spot at least one mistake in every article I read without trying). I wish I could say it didn't matter, but sloppy writing undermines your credibility, especially with so many voices competing for attention nowadays. Your [sic] doing it wrong.
This is the correct answer. They are a distributor that sells medium-end tools. More expensive than entry level, but less expensive than professional.

They are decent tools, but most people don't understand they are not a manufacturer, just a distributor.
> I don't care about their Intel SGX whatever because I don't want to have to trust their servers in the first place.

Yeah: particularly given how Intel SGX gets broken every year :/... prime+probe, foreshadow, load value injection, plundervolt... Moxie's fetish for Intel SGX is extremely concerning.
I've avoided Spotify for all these years because it always felt like it was part of the Facebook / Apple universe, which I generally find annoying. But I love Joe so I thought in preparation for this move, I'll go ahead and sign up, not wanting to be a sourpuss about it. Sure enough, I could sign up with Facebook, or with Apple (but not Google etc), or the old-fashioned way with email and password. I filled out the nosy little signup form and the next step was to install an app on my computer! No chance.
If you are pro, there seems to be only Fein, Makita and Hilti.

Every other brand is just 'who cares'.
I’d really like to have a more sane version of Signal as a fork, which allows the maintaining of compatibility, but given how hostile they’ve been towards this sort of thing I suspect it would be unmaintainable.
My understanding is it's designed around making short passwords more secure by trying to limit brute force attacks. Seems interesting.

https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
When widespread outrage is measured simply by twitter likes, I feel there is no end to the outrage machine. The cost of participating is zero while the dopamine hit of lending your support to some presumed moral issue non-zero. And therein lies the problem with adjudicating moral issues through social media. There is zero cost to join in the mob and so these tempests appear to be much stronger than they actually are. If there were a tangible cost to signing on to these outrage mobs, there would be much fewer of them and it would also be a more accurate metric.
I use recipe blogs all the time. I'd guess it's just a matter of choosing the right ones, because they do have ads, but they're hardly unusable — they're better than, say, my local CBS affiliate.
Will there also be an option for client-side encryption without using your sync service?
Visual C++ 6 and Visual Basic 6. I remember them fondly but there were plenty of warts.
Windows incrementally removed the "Start" button and had to roll back.

This is simply an issue of creating generational products that adapt to the new ways your demographics are using technology. You can incrementally change a product but you will never be able to use new interaction patterns in a product that is used by people who don't know them and don't want to learn them.

Generation Z and Generation Alpha kids are not going to use Access. They will be using this or whatever succeeds this. That's for sure.

This is the same reason why Apple is going full steam into making the iPad its core productivity and creativity device. Newer generations have way better dexterity when using touch as an input, than let's say my generation (millennials). They know Macbooks are products with a UX expiration date.
If you lose your phone and pin, how much does someone have to bruteforce to recover your messages on a new phone?

Surely they'd have to do more work than iterate through a possibly as small as 4-digit key?
This explanation does not really make sense:

> Bringing the JRE to Spotify will mean that the platform’s more than 286 million active users will have access to one of culture’s leading voices.

Spotify has podcasts, JRE is a podcast, so I assume those users already have access to JRE before this deal.

> By partnering with Spotify, Rogan and his team will enjoy the support of the world’s leading audio platform.

Vague. What can JRE do now they couldn't do before?
I personally would not go far as this very cynical take, but I think it's totally fair.

I think the HNer thing to do is 'believe whistleblowers no matter what' but I'm of the inclination everyone is tricky and that we are deluded by our own egos quite a lot.

We need more context.
Well, Google has their own Python type system and employed Guido for years. I'm sure they've spent millions on improving Python or their usage of Python.

I suspect Instragram has spent > 1M dollars of eng time on Python.

Agree, nowhere near v8/js.