skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Music is definitely an acquired taste. My family was not very good at nor into music. I didn't understand the point of instrumental music until my mid teens. Before that I only listened for the lyrics.

On a different note, people often think of the octave as the most fundamental interval, but the most fundamental is the very same tone twice. Even here people like a little dissonance. Two tones at nearly but not exactly the same pitch will produce a pleasantly shimmering chorus effect.

Anyway music is subjective and there's is no sound that is better than everything else in all respects and contexts.
I'm a fan of easy ability to downvote and upvote.

What I would be interested in is a more sophisticated ordering than by net number of votes. For example, I'm sure some people's upvotes correlate well with my own (and probably some people's downvotes correlate with my upvotes!) If comments could somehow be ordered by how likely I am to upvote them, based on historical correlations between my and others' votes, that seems like an interesting approach.
Is J.D. Power even trustworthy? I remember doubting them ever since Chevrolet starting spamming all their J.D. Power awards ads with "real people".
This needs legislation. Apps should not be allowed to inspect foreign private content if they don't manage it. Only a few apps would need that.

That new technical solution in the beta certainly comes handy, but legislation is better.
That's the point it wouldn't. It's not a question of free speech but rather the assurance that periodical's leadership can be protected from their workers or general criticism about poor direction that their periodicals are taking or are being forced to take due to changes in the media landscape.

Put more succinctly, imagine someone blaming the failure of their news organization on their readers opinions of free speech as opposed to their own shoddy workmanship, or an inability to compete with more modern forms of media.

And I was specifically referring to the ideas of free speech that the news outlet is striving to defend or at least define.
Not quite. ETP blocks access to third-party storage from .doubleclick.net, .google.com, and any other source in the Disconnect.me list. You can easily verify this by visiting a site that runs Google's remarketing tags, and see the console messages and the missing "Cookie" headers from cross-site requests to these domains.

ETP doesn't block resource loads by default, unless they are known fingerprinting libraries or cryptomining sources. Only in Strict / Private Windows ETP mode is content actually being blocked, and in those cases most Google services won't work at all (as the domains have been blocklisted).

Facebook doesn't generally leverage third-party cookies anymore, as it uses the &fbclid parameter to enable first-party cross-site tracking. Thus ETP is somewhat weaponless against this behavior (except in Strict / Private Windows mode) because, as stated above, ETP doesn't block resource loads in default mode.
Black cat, white cat is excellent. I especially liked the Czech dubbing.
Thanks! I agree, was surprised to learn that there aren't that many good open source no-code tools out there.
I don't see the logic of this. If you like PC laptops better than the current Mac offerings, then you should have switched already. Otherwise, best to wait and see what Apple come out with in a few months. If the x86 emulation is as fast as they say, and the laptop processors are significantly beefier than the A12, then the whole transition might turn out to be a total non-issue for developers. I'd hate to switch to a big clunky thinkpad and then find that Apple had, say, released a 12" MacBook with good performance.
It’s not just threats of violence. It’s also speech that incites violence.
If anything censoring them makes their opinions more credible.
Extremely useful thing. Thanks
I saw a video. Facebook app tries to connect to your local network.
https://youtu.be/mclethck3sQ?t=71
There's a great episode of Snap Judgement with Daryl Davis where he talks about his interactions with KKK members. I haven't seen Accidental Courtesy, but I'm curious to see how BLM members respond to Davis in the documentary. They have wildly different intents.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/snapjudgment/episodes/r...
yes I think it's somewhat dated. I travel (well traveled) to the US frequently and there was basically no Whatsapp user I met. (compared to 50% of the pop. In Germany). Apparently now there are almost 70 million users in the US.

It really always baffled me why Americans were using text messaging for so long (and complaining about lack of encryption and so on)
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"I'm unable to put into words why the design frustrates me" is the best summary of 99.9% of users.
Our family's rule of thumb has been "nothing that goes on your body or in your body" can come from amazon, but after hearing about the counterfit bolts and ladder, think I'm gonna just not buy anything from there anymore. Have moved to ebay, Sephora, getting things direct from the hardware store and Target in person, and purchasing from other merchant shops that have their own websites.
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Would be exceptionally fine if Europe leave out this round of overall extremism...would be a first timer ;)
I disagree on Clean Code. It puts too much importance on superficial "5 easy steps" points that put too much priority on the wrong things. Reading quality open source code is a better way of getting that understanding IMO.
Ask HN: What rating system should I use in 2020, 5-star or boolean?
We know Netflix moved out from 5-star ratings to like/dislike buttons. What's your recommendation for training machine learning models in 2020?
Ask HN: Has the business community trumped the medical professionals?
Looking at the haste in which the covid-19 related lockdown is being scaled down, without any proper vaccine available, has the business community trumped the medical professionals? The decision to scale back lockdown looks like a decision made due to the economic impact felt by politicians rather than the availibility of any cure for covid-19 in sight.
I wonder if the "humour" in switching the scale of well know songs will make sense to you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVzAFzmjW8
I think the point of the article is not whether the tracking apps are relevant - or damaging to privacy, which they very well may be. The point is that these decisions should be made by European governments, nót (American) corporations.
Is this Amazon's disruption of VisualBasic?
In my area, OfferUp has a significantly larger selection of items than Facebook Marketplace. If you mainly use Facebook Marketplace, it's worth looking at OfferUp, Letgo, or other local marketplaces to see if that's the case for your location.
Every stable community already has things you can and cannot say (try arguing the merits of pederasty, war, or heroin and see how far you get!)
There could be two kinds of downvotes:
* "I disagree" downvote
* "This comment has no value" downvote

First downvote can be used for arguments like "let's increase taxes to the rich because, this way we can build more fair society, European countries have shown that high taxes..."

Second downvote can be used for comments like "Let's tax these rich bastards".

I want to also mention reddit voting system which I kinda like: they have downvoting, but they also have a sorting by "controvervial": top comments are the comments with high number of both upvotes and downvotes, such comments really help to see the full spectre of opinions in discussions, while the universally true and not interesting comments everyone agrees with like "we should not kill people", are below controversial comments.
> Black Cat, White Cat

I was introduced to this region's cinema with Kusturica's Underground.
Ironically, I found this style of presentation difficult/annoying to navigate through
Oracle: Coherence Community Edition
interesting idea. and not a bad implementation.
in my opinion, it can save a lot of time on the manual preparation of such data and explain the format to each of the participants in the process (both internal and external).
My wife recently upgraded from a 2015 (14?) 8GB MBA to a 16GB Pro (don't know processor, 2 USB-C ports) and had a OMG experience, mostly when running R stats analyses.
Xmysql, an instant REST API generator for MySQL was a side project which led to XgeneCloud[1]

XgeneCloud now generates REST & GraphQL APIs on any SQL Database. Plus there is much more! :)

Supported databases : MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, MariaDB & AWS Aurora

[1] : https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBsq6HBBzw
I personally have read very many fanfictions in the novel length category. I would say that 60% of them were never finished and might not ever be.

I'm still happy that I got to read them. Maybe there is less sunk-cost-fallacy given I didn't pay for them.

But it's still a given that sometimes, people just die, or move on.
But, saying that "the unification mechanism could get confused" and that developers "needed" to use the cuts to control it makes it sound like backtracking is somehow wrong or unwanted, or a defect in the language. This risks confusing someone who is unfamiliar with the language.
The only UX that matters in video conferencing software is connection UX, which is where Zoom excels.
You can watch some Polish movies with English subs on Studio Filmowe TOR channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPZJOdnu_og&list=PL2gv9m758a...
Consuming Too Much Caffeine?
I agree. Reading HN/Reddit it seems that FB is dying any minute now (for past couple of years), in reality they are still growing.

Beside couple of people, everybody else from my social circle seem to be just fine using FB (and others). Though there's definitely more usage of Instagram than FB nowadays (FB Messenger is still super popular)

(not from US)
who would be he people in congress backing this bill? is there a list?
> in real systems a small simple loop will perform better due to icache pressure

Do you have a source for this? Seems surprising GCC would leave such low-hanging fruit. G++ makes the effort to reduce std::copy to a memmove call when it can, or at least some of the time when it can (or at least, it did so in 2011). [0]

Related to this: does GCC treat memcpy differently when it can determine at compile-time that it's just a small copy?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4707028/
I guess in this case it's a little different though, as the question is about either buying something now (which isn't really needed as you say), or being in a position that you need to buy a semi-experimental machine that could potentially break half your workflows.
This is not news. Every Tesla owner knows that if they spent the same amount of money on a Mercedes or even better a Volkswagen that they would get better finish.

But quality isn't just about finish. It's about having the features you want: mind bending acceleration in what is essentially a family or executive car, a good electric car before anyone else had one, a better driver assistance package, a simpler ordering process, a service organization that comes to you to fix things, a user interface built for this century not the one before, a charging infrastructure that not only works but is nearly ubiquitous.

The old car companies could have done all those things but they chose to protect their existing product lines instead.

When they finally get their act together then Tesla will have a hard time, until then, I'll stick with my five year old Model S and to hell with the fact that the finish isn't quite as good as a Mercedes E class.
Orthodox vs Catholic became much simpler after Turks invaded Europe. Austrians got along with Russia reasonably well.
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Title is "How Zoom works".

It's a good article with valid points but nothing about Skype.

The editorialized title "Turns out Zoom isn't all that different to Skype after all" has no appreciation for how hostile Skype's technology has become in the past 10 years. It went from nicely working Qt program that worked well on OSX, Linux, and Windows to Electron beast that maybe works on Windows, could possibly be mining bitcoins on OS X (judging by how much it spins up the fans), and I think it stopped working on Linux altogether, replaced by a web client.
Rumor was always that Skype used to have E2E, then Microsoft bought it for a susprising amount of money and as first action removed server-side encryption... And therefore of course the rumor/assumption thay the NSA or similar was in the back funding the deal.
Amazing how quickly that went actually looking at how long it took to uncover this mess.
No. Really. Driving while tired is considered to be as bad as driving under the influence. HGV drivers should really be seeing rigorous testing for this but - hurdur - freedom
> You are not responsible for those people being offended.

There are different ways of communicating the same basic fact. Telling my wife she has a fat ass and telling her she probably shouldn't wear those pants contain the same basic information but will have vastly different outcomes.

The one message carries the side-band information that I am insensitive, lazy or just plain don't care about her feelings and the other shows that I am trying to state an uncomfortable fact honestly while taking her feelings into consideration.
So if someone has your phone and your face, not only can they unlock your phone but also the services that you are using?
Actually, Skype was designed from the start to use e2e p2p communication. First thing after the Microsoft acquisition was to remove e2e and introduce dozens of new features no-one actually asked for.

In addition, they turned the UI into a dumpster fire and allowed Chinese, Russian and United States law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop on any Skype conversation without intervention of a judge.
Doh—the irony. What'd you prefer?
Yes please move.

And even when i say take Linux or FreeBSD, you should probably consider Windows with WSL2.

If you had no contact with windows for a longer time here you can test it out (virtual machine)

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...

EDIT: The downvote shows that apple really is a fanboy-company and not the revolutionary Macintosh/Jobs era stuff anymore
> I find it really easy to share emotional vulnerability with strangers

You and almost everyone else. It's much easier to be emotionally vulnerable using a "throw-away account".

For an example, if you come out as gay to some stranger on a train, it's almost certain that there will never be any real-world repercussions. But if you come out as gay to someone in your hometown, it will likely change your life forever.

> I've made meaningful connections with people in every country I've lived in for more than a week. [...] This is likely not true for most people.

Funny, I've heard some variation on this speech from most people who get to travel around the world for a year.

I attribute it to not having to worry about money, myself, and it's my belief that a majority of humanity would be that way, if they could afford it.
> as they're in most cases slow-paced, melancholic

Only Russian.

There is a whole genre of crazy Czech comedies from the 60ies which are even better than the wellknown Japanese crazy comedies.

Hungarian movies from the 70ies were the best in the world, likewise Romanian neorealistic movies starting with the Death of Mr Lazetescu end of the 90ies. Poland dominated the 80ies.

Russian movies from the Petersburg producer group around Balabanov were outstanding in the 00ies. Still very influential.
Is J D Power a real company? I just assumed they were some made-up bullshit. I don't think I've ever believed they were worth anything.
Exposure to unfamiliar ideas is exhausting. Doubly so when the social behaviour that typically becomes second nature in adolescence no longer fits (IMO that’s why video calls are exhausting too - the usual subtle social cues don’t apply).
Off topic: but why do we always warn for PDFs? It's not as if they contain malware, crash phones or freeze your OS, is it?

I too add a "PDF Warning" to links most of the times, but have no idea why I should continue doing it, now that I think about it.
> Berlin treats commas as whitespace.

Because whitespace as whitespace is so 2019.
Does it though? I've found that Jitsi Meet makes it pretty easy join by just clicking an URI. No apps to install, just clicking a link.

Zoom on the other hand pesters me endlessly into installing their software, making it unnecessarily difficult to just join by browser.
But don't you think that if you are exposed more to comments that correlate with your own preference, it would lead to creation of an echo chamber?
Why would anyone write purescript when we have typescript?
It seems Google is feeling a hot breath in the back of the neck since news and publishing orgs were lobbying for draconian interpretations/implementations of the Copyright Directive (which probably would be judicially questionable, still)
I came away from that somewhat nonplussed.

Think I've maybe used Zoom 3 times, but even I was mentally shouting answers to the rhetorical questions. "Well it does that because.." or "Well if it didn't do that, then users would.." etc
There's nothing to be gained by trusting a large corporation.

By defending user privacy, Apple is able to have a direct affect on the bottom line of its rival corporations.

All corporations behave according to incentives that will help they to progress further than their competitors. If they don't rival coporations will take the lead.
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they may get reprimanded, but not meaningfully. I mean Shell was complicit (allegedly) in rape and murder https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/12/o... and they haven't been meaningfully reprimanded by consumers, I doubt someone getting fired for offending some people is going to amount to more than a slap that misses the wrist but moves the hair on the wrist via the vigorous breeze.
Fair enough - you're basically erring on the side of caution, although it limits the usefulness of the network to you. Can't say I blame you. :)
While you're at it, you can try opening your page in Chrome and watching the log afterwards.

Dunno is the ‘feature’ is still there, it was over five years ago.
I agree that there are almost always some guardrails in place, and certain viewpoints that are considered beyond the pale. And so there is a balancing act between an Overton Window that is too wide and wastes people's time with nonsense, and one that is too narrow and prevents bad orthodoxies from being challenged.
Swi-Prolog, a popular, free and open source implementation of Prolog, has good support for web development. The Swi-Prolog website itself is written using Swi-Prolog's http libraries.

There are a couple of tutorials listed under Tutorials > Web applications on the website. Probably the place to start is:

Tutorial — Creating Web Applications in SWI-Prolog

http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/html/index.html
“When surveying computing device owners we found that an average abacus user reports 14 problems in the first three months and a laptop user reports 18”.
>I am a bit curious on what is the minimum standard? It does feel to me (an outsider that took 1 class of ML in college) that you need at least Master in ML to get intuition on the probabilistic and linear algebra theory behind ML concepts.

On the computer science side it makes sense to understand how to build a tree, not just know how to use one. In computer science you're learning how to write algorithms, not just use them. On the MLE or Machine Learning Software Engineer side, the same rule applies and knowing linear algebra as well as probability theory is helpful so you can write your own ML.

On the data science side you're rarely inventing new ML. What you want to specialize in is: 1) data mining using ML, 2) data cleaning, by knowing what kind of input ML needs, 3) feature engineering, also by knowing what kind of input ML needs, and 4) What kind of ML is ideal to choose, eg, due to the bias/variance trade off.

A lot of these boot camps, classes, and books teach the underlying structure of ML to become an MLE, though for some sort of reason they often advertise it as data science. I find this odd, because MLE pays better and is in higher demand.

On the data science side we rarely need to know these finer details. We just need to know the ML's characteristics so we know when it is the right tool for the job, similar to knowing how to use a data structure but not needing to know how to invent new data structures.

A data scientist needs to be a research specialist which is more of a phd than masters skill, so knowing the underlying math also doesn't matter as much because we know when it is necessary to research it. It's not that a data scientist can't know it, and many do know it out of hobby or classes, but it's far from mandatory. Knowing probability theory and how to digest a problem into multiple paths forward, like how to collect data, is far more valuable as a skill.

And finally, many data scientists barely know how to write code. They're a kind of analyst. I feel like the job title isn't sufficiently explained so software engineers make a lot of assumptions mixing up MLE with DS.

edit: Also, Linear Algebra isn't that bad and is an undergrad class. Probability theory is taught lightly in DS101 freshman year, but the first year of getting a masters probability theory is often taught again to a much more rigorous. This can get a bit harder, but if you understand the basics it's not bad.
LoL... Why doesnt it block it in addition to revealing it? I don't think that it would break any features that I want to use.
Mainland China.

I’m still convinced that it will eventually implode. But it hasn’t yet, and I may well be wrong.
Yes, but the thing is, I had always wanted to write a novel. Reading GoT and finding it incomplete just gave me a push.
> Hard drive speed is one of the slowest parts of your computer

I guess the SSD is also slower than the RAM, so generally, storage is always slower. Ethernet/wifi is generally as fast as a HDD, in order of magnitude.

There are many possible ways to avoid accessing the HDD, by buffering things and storing them on ram as often as possible. If HDD worked well on windows 7/xp/linux desktops, there are no credible arguments why it would not work properly on windows 10.

Again I would say the problem is Wirth's law, which here easily benefits SSD. At one point, for an OS like windows is becoming so much complex that it becomes just impossible to optimize things appropriately for something else than a HDD. Backward compatibility and hardware compatibility might be one source of the problem, but I'm sure there are other things at play.

I'm suspecting that in the end, the hardware people and people at microsoft decided to abandon the idea of having an OS that works well on a HDD, because the SSD industry would obviously benefit from this.

Wirth's law has completely replaced Moore's law, in my view. I say this over and over, but when climate problems will cause economic problems, computing will return to an era of lightweight software and hardware.
When news sources are receiving money from Google there remains only one news source: Google.
I also have a question if someone could help me please, althought it might be a little off topic.

Currently I am developing mobile apps (or at least trying to) in Flutter, and I am using a Lenovo running Windows, and I love it, I cannot stand Linux or MacOS. The problem is, while I can make 1 codebase for Android and iOS on Windows, I still need XCode to deploy and test my app.

So does anyone have any recommendations or advice on what to do? I would like to avoid paying $2000 for a Mac which I will only use to use emulator and deploy. Thanks
For the czechen war I recommend Balabanov's War (Wojna).

Kusturica is of course an old classic, but they have many more and better comedians. Selimir Silnik for example.