skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this is all applies only to easy listening music suitable for the background (I checked the author's playlist at the end). Not something emotionally intense or overly energetic that demands your full attention. Spotify is optimizing for muzak, and artists who thrive in this ecosystem are muzak.

I could (and soon will) go deeper to prove my point, but Liz Pelly already did a lion-hearted job covering the problems with streaming platforms and Spotify specifically — they have a catastrophic effect on music.[1]

Spotify is the No. 1 enemy of music culture and artistic expression.

[1] https://lizpelly.com/writing
John J. Mooney, an inventor of the catalytic convertor, dies at 90
YouTube however lets you create multiple (sub)accounts that you can easily switch to. Just create one for "sleeping", one for "animals", "news" etc.

This is what's perhaps missing from Spotify, an easy way to namespace your account activity.
Well, you’re right, but the hypervisor under-the-hood is better.
>Currently, this runs at approximately 0.7 megapixel/sec on a GPU with unoptimized TensorFlow.

Forgive me, is that in encoding or decoding? And size of library required to decode it? ( Edit: Looks like answered below )

It was only an hour ago I was looking at some pictures encoded with VVC / H.266 reference encoder, it was better than BPG / HEVC, but this HiFiC still beats it by quite a bit.

This whole thing blows up my mind on limitation I thought we had on image compression.

May be I should take back my words on JPEG XL is the future. This seems revolutionary.
I mean there is a hypocrisy to this, you are effectively voting that folks who cannot afford or are uneducated about taxes should pay more.
You might try selecting a song that you enjoy and listening to the playlist radio for that specific song, it's an alternate take on the discover weekly.
I agree that it's definitely not a foolproof analogy. But good food (like good music) is usually a table-stakes ingredient for a successful restaurant. Again of course again, there are exceptions there too.
RationalWiki (or more precisely its admin) has a strong opinion on which political opinions are the valid ones, and treats other political opinions as pseudoscience. Debating your political opponents is considered a bad thing, because you should not provide them platform to explain their beliefs. The proper way to discuss people who disagree with you is using the "snarky point of view" (yes, this is the official policy).

Scott Alexander is the opposite extreme. He tries to find the good parts even in the Time Cube (yes, literally). Although Scott himself mostly has the usual liberal opinions, he does not enforce them in the comments; he usually only enforces civil behavior. The result is a highly intelligent forum where liberals talk to conservatives, Christians talk to atheists, etc., mostly in a friendly way, on a wide range of topics, some of them political, some not.

Each of these styles is attractive to a different type of personality. Sadly, the former often have a problem with the latter.
I want to know what happened to the jackasses that thought it was a good idea to lay mines with poison gas on public lands
Show HN: Timeleft – See how much time is left of the hour, week, year
@kleer001, click on the options button (the three dots) for any video you’re uninterested in on YouTube and select “not interested.” This should help your generated feed.
Did you miss the part where the person you're replying to is from Bangladesh? I suspect that he knows better than most "what the people in the countries calling for decolonization want".
I'm skeptical climate change will be stopped because of what we're seeing with the pandemic: many countries and individuals won't take preemptive action against a threat we scientifically know is going to happen until the impact can literally be seen on their own doorsteps.

With the pandemic:

1) deaths/impact directly from the pandemic can be relatively easily identified

2) deaths/impact happen in the space of weeks

3) the positive results of mitigations can be seen in weeks

4) countries can largely isolate the impact other countries have on them regarding the pandemic.

None of these 4 points are true with climate change so it's going to be even worse in terms of getting people to take it seriously and act in time. We can't even get countries to agree that masks are a good idea.
My spotify wrap for 2019 was a giant list of assorted noise tracks. "You're in Pink Noise's top 5% of listeners!"

Great
Yes it's killed at (supposedly?) the end of the year.

I'm bummed because I really don't like Youtube Music.
Does the graphics system hold up? I wasn't able to find anything with reasonable CUDA cores (I do parallel algorithm development). Anyone have experience with Precision mobile workstations? Still seem quite slim form factor.
All the worry about saving the environment is really a worry about preserving the viability of urban/suburban lifestyles.
Except macOS isn't Linux, so that is the problem right there.
> Ah yes, the Hindu model of caring more about cows than untouchables.

Ah, yes, "the Hindu model". Meanwhile, plenty of high-status Westerners will happily donate and volunteer towards their local animal shelters, seemingly caring more about them than about Indian untouchables and other millions of people in extreme poverty, that they could donate to instead. Why do you assume it's only Hindus who sometimes push their charitable concerns too far?
I do not think "most businesses that are having to sell out are probably on their way out" is even remotely born out by fact.

Many businesses - Dell, Marketo, Informatica, have been bought by PE when they wanted to restructure or change their operating models. But, those companies are not dead or gone.

There is nuance here, and the data suggests that bankruptcy is not the end state of every PE buyout.
Show HN: Open-source (Go) proxy for sensitive data protection: encrypt/tokenize
Hi HN!

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Here are two cookbooks (demos) to show how Vaulty may be used:

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Have you had conversations with academics who are interested in decolonizing their fields? People are interested in decolonizing history aren't saying that we should throw away all study of european history. They are saying that we should add more voices. This has been a project for decades, with more voices of women and poc being represented in historical analysis.

Necessarily, this means reducing the amount of time spent on "traditional western civilization" in the classroom, since there is only so much time. But go check out a renaissance history course taught by a young faculty member. White men continue to dominate the discourse. We've just added some more voices alongside them.
If I remember correctly, Xfinity Stream used Flash as a fallback when Widevine was unavailable. I just use the iPad app now.
You may be looking for this book: https://www.manning.com/books/math-for-programmers
The thing is... functional programming has its own version of a lot of these problems, as well as its own problems.

The easiest example is the base class fragility problem. This is just a special case of the compounding fragility of any reusable component, where fragility increases with the width and depth of its dependents. If, instead of a class, a function is reused by many other functions it will suffer the same problem. Any changes to that "base" function will affect all functions which invoke it down the dependency chain.

I believe the actual issue is that isolating and defining abstractions from the landscape of necessary implementations is actually very difficult. AKA "programming is hard".

I think in a lot of cases it is impossible to correctly model abstractions, since different use cases will push and pull on different parts of the "boundaries" of the given abstraction. In other words, reality is messy and our computer models are usually extremely naive.
> mini Micro-center

There used to be variations of a lot of these all over the place. Some were exclusively software (Babbages), some had a mix (we had a local franchise called Computer Warehouse, often located in small strip-mall locations). I loved working at CompUSA (more like Microcenter; a little smaller than the Microcenter that is a half-mile from where I worked, also formerly two miles away from a Computer City).

Retail computer hardware is basically gone these days except for small, independent, shops. I'm so glad I live 20 minutes from a Micro Center. I used to live about as far from a Microsoft store, too. :)
Probably only available in the U.S. and maybe only if you support your local PBS station. It’s also available for purchase on DVD or iTunes.

https://shop.pbs.org/nature-super-hummingbirds-dvd/product/N...
You can imagine my astonishment when someone I know, a deejay and producer, came to me several months ago, at a club, with the very unexpected answer of 'how to run more Ubuntus on one box' ?!

Because... he wanted to have them subscribe and then click and play a list of alter-ego-monikers of himself, who release to unknown probably ghost-audience in Spotify

Making money in the way - without releases, without gigs.

And it is exactly 600-800$ per month he cited as the amount he made from one alter ego with several albums.

Somehow I'm sure there are others out there doing the same.

I'm leaving for folks here to imagine and comment how relevant would soon Spotify be for indie artists that will be competing with such Spotify click-botnets...
These are truly amazing results. Looking closely at the results vs original it would appear that much of the details are very different at almost a noise level. Is the perceptual evaluation allowing for these similar but completely different noise details?
> Counter-Counterpoint: if Microsoft made updates painless, users would notice them less, and defer them less, and be more up to date/secure.

But it is painless, at least for me. Just install it a few days after patch tuesday before you go to bed and you should be fine. Sure, you can probably make the experience even better (eg. hotpatching), but the current process doesn't seem hard or demanding.
Though this was also a fork from whatever "intermediate assembly language" the earlier versions used. GW-BASIC was far enough in "x86 is the only thing we need to support at Microsoft now" territory that presumably a lot of the GW-specific additions were done directly to this code instead of at the "next level up" in whatever that previous translator worked in.

This also seems corroborated in the dev blog you link, though without source control history, the upstream translation layer, and the original "intermediate assembly" code, the details at this point are relatively fuzzy.
Hackaday has been doing a series on cars; starting here https://hackaday.com/2019/12/02/how-to-get-into-cars-choosin...

Gearheads are just a slightly different flavor of hacker; once you find some you'll be able to talk to them fairly quickly and they're likely to enjoy sharing their passion.

Good luck, there's a lot of fun to be had there.
Zoox was already in trouble. Covid was just the nail in the coffin. The other big names seem pretty OK so far, though that depends on how GM does and how much Cruise depends on them.
That doesn't explain Florida. The biggest days of protests nationwide were rained out in FL.
The Validity Underpinning the Diagnosis of the President
My understanding is that combined sewers are being phased out whenever possible for the reason I gave.
Have you tried Bandcamp?
I listen to a lot of ambient music normally and that ends up being seemingly 80% of my recommendations, despite also listening to a bunch of loud angry punk.

Spotify's discovery tends to be pretty iffy for anything at least for me anyway, so I mostly follow labels I like on Bandcamp for discovery instead.
The problem with this analogy is that personally reducing demand is ineffective at stopping production.

If I stop eating beef (which I have) there isn't an equivalent reduction in beef production. Instead the price goes down fractionally and someone else eats it. If a whole bunch of people stop eating beef (which I hope I'm part of) then we'll start to see some reduction in production.

The answer to global warming like any externality is market regulation. Exactly _how_ you regulate that is less important: Maybe revenue neutral tax on producers? Maybe a ration book for consumers?

Personal change is certainly helpful to demonstrate you're serious, but structural change will be necessary to actually tackle the problem.
The question is, why docker have that overhead. Virtualizing should not be very resource-intensive nowadays, everything is optimized at CPU level.
Working for Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy isn’t always easy
It's not exactly the same as your uploaded music doesn't blend with the rest, it's on a separate tab, low quality videos are mixed with the "normal" music and all you're Youtube likes related to music are mixed with your previous GPM likes (for god know what reasons). And more.
Maybe being able to mark something as a guilty pleasure which would exclude it from algorithmic use - and ideally from showing it to your friends on facebook if they still do that!
I don’t want to study math in the traditional way, with convoluted abstract examples that lead nowhere

Have you checked out Gilbert Strang's lectures [1]? They're definitely geared toward numerical/applied linear algebra rather than theoretical/abstract.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UJ4CFRGd-U&list=PLE7DDD9101...
I like the splash screens too. But they're also not professional. If I'm showing something to the big boss, and the first thing they see is an anime splash screen, he's going to look at me funny.

GIMP I don't have that problem. Yeah I 'could' mess with custom shortcuts for all of our devices, but why (also irrelevant since we're all OSX)? GIMP serves well enough and it's one other thing I don't have to do.
I get it and I have no disagreement with qualifying the numbers. It's a very complicated issue, but, if it is in fact true, when controlled for all other factors, if a particularity defined demographic group engages in disproportionate amount of criminal activity (less or more), then wouldn't you expect that that would filter down to the individual interactions?

If an individual police officer is choosing who to frisk (or interact with), and the only things they have to go on are visible superficial characteristics (i.e. age, gender, ethnicity, clothing, etc.), and the global fact that those characteristics are statically correlated with more or less crime, that would be impossible for an individual to control their biases.

We know this is a painful exercise, because people are not just those superficial characteristics, and it's unfair for an individual to be singled out for those characteristics - but that's the ONLY information available to the officer.

The officer cannot control their bias, because if they try, they will either over or under compensate and because they are human. It's why we have double-blind trials and the scientific method - we know even well-meaning humans cannot control their biases. And this isn't an example of racism, because it could clothing or gender that trigger the frisk (I guarantee you that men are stopped more than women - WHY?!?!?), but aspect of human cognition. The only way to control for that is by introducing a non-biased random decision maker. For example, in airport security, there will be a device that will randomly flag passengers for extra screening. Perhaps something like that should be the case in these 'stop-and-frisk' policies? But even that has limited value. If a particular neighborhood with issues of crime, is dominated by an ethnic group, even random sample will involve disproportionate 'harassment'.

A while back Sam Harris had a debate with an airport security expert on profiling in airport security[1]. Sam Harris advocated for profiling and security expert was not. Sam Harris was 100% wrong and didn't admit it. The security expert talked about how proper airport security should work (and the problems with profiling and how to control for that). That debate has analogues to this conversation, because police should adopt some of those strategies because profiling is socially painful and breeds resentment and has limited success ... and individuals will not make the right decision in context.

[1]https://samharris.org/to-profile-or-not-to-profile/
That's a huge claim without much data to back it up. I am very sceptical.
Crabtree has one too. It's just as crowded and awful.
> We already paid for nationwide broadband installation several times by now.

If this isn't a reference to how the money has been spent, I'm not sure what you think is being argued. The downvotes are wrongheaded.
We cant we just dont care to.
We have an awful lot, though. And people like me, who are eating far less meat (and in particular beef) than they did years ago specifically because of energy concerns.

In fact the whole premise of the article is just wrong on its face. In fact people who care about climate issues do tend to have lower energy footprints than climate change deniers! We drive smaller cars. We commute shorter distances. We live in denser communities. We eat less meat. We eat local food. We use less water. This can all be measured.

Is it enough? Of course not. But in fact to the extent individual action can be used in service to this goal, we're doing it. Get on board.
You can also reject a recommendation. Click on the Options button for that video (three vertical dots), select "Not interested"
People are missing the point of the article. It's not about hipocrisy, or the ability of ground-up change to solve climate change, but instead about the credibility of people demanding sweeping government intervention to address climate change. When someone who advocates for banning abortion turns out to have paid to have his girlfriend have an abortion, it obviously doesn't have any bearing on the moral question of abortion. Nor does it have any significant aggregate effect on the number of abortions. But it eliminates that person's credibility, for the simple reason that it highlights the negative implications of the person's proposed policy. It underscores that having an unplanned child can drastically change the course of a person's life in ways they may be desperate to avoid. And it suggests that the person may not even believe their moral premise, and wants to ban abortion as a pretext for something else. By contrast, people who lead by example signal that they're willing to live with the consequences of the policies they wish to impose on everyone--and in the process demonstrate to people that those consequences can be lived with.

The same thing is true for climate change. When people who demand a war-time mobilization of the economy to combat climate change still emit gigatons going on foreign vacations, that signals to people one of two things. One, the reduction in standard of living required to address climate change must be enormous, because even those who believe catastrophe is at our doorstep won't suffer that reduction unless the government forces them to. Or two, those people don't really believe climate change will be that bad, and their demand for government intervention is a pretext for something else.
(coauthor here) The 0.7 megapixels/sec is PNG decode
(to get input)+encoding+decoding+PNG encoding (to get output we can visualize in a browser) speed.

Thanks for your kind comment!
Are Streamers (Netflix, Youtube, Amazon) Muzzling Controversial Documentaries?
I guess I should be happy that there was a microcenter within walking distance of those schools, but if you live on the other side of the Charles like me and the other commenter, you will experience many a frosty 20 minute walk across that cursed bridge to get from the Green line to the Red line :)
Well, it is not In my experience. Sample size of 1, though.
I liked developing in php. But, the language itself is horrible. It COULD have been good, though.

Like if(1 == "0.999") which iirc evaluates to true.
He said explicitely "most well-off Americans". That excludes people who cannot afford taxes.
I grew up playing Atari, Nintendo, and Commodore 64 connected to battered old 13" and 19" analog TVs via an RF modulator. Sometimes even a black and white TV. The CRT glow and pixel-adjacent color fringes and distortions were part of the experience and take one back in time. There's just something magical about it for those who grew up with that.
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Can there be a [PREPRINT] flag or the like added to titles for posts like these on HN? It's really important to keep in mind that preprints are not peer reviewed, and with the increase in interest in healthcare papers on this forum, it would be really helpful to be able to make that clear. It's more likely that the march 2019 sample is a false positive, not a true finding, and in peer review the statistical validity of that finding would be called into question and further validation would be required. Just posting the headline makes it seem as if this is something that has been conclusively determined without the disclaimer that medrxiv itself puts at the top of each of these publications: that preprints aren't peer reviewed and should not be used to inform clinical decisions etc.
This seems to just be something that's going to happen when you have satire of any substance.

A similar thing happened with the 1970s TV show "All In The Family". Its main character, Archie Bunker, is uneducated, chauvinistic, bigoted, and selfish. Many people got the joke, but I think plenty of people saw Archie and their main thought was, "This guy is just like me." They did a good job of portraying him as a real human being. (If he had been a one-dimensional punching bag character, the show would not have worked as well.) He was a working class guy whose frustrations with his situation were rooted in reality, so you couldn't fault him for that part. He just responded to those problems in all the wrong ways. But seeing the right ways to respond requires a certain kind of enlightenment, so this part went over some people's heads.