skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how that gets you downvoted on here immediately. It's just an honest response to a legitimate question.
I listen to about 200 or 300 songs a day since I need music to get into the zone. It's listens not listeners.
Also seems like this could end up being a case of multiple hypotheses -- if the false positive rate is very low but all the large cities are performing this test right now, someone's going to hit what will seem to them to be a very unlucky false positive.
It depends on the artists you are following but I tend to only buy albums on Bandcamp :

* Artists get most of the money, Bandcamp takes a fixed rate.

* I can have physical albums and/or .flac numeric version.

* If I am lazy, I have access to the streaming app of Bandcamp for the music I bought or to discover (actively, not through playlist) new artists.

Not perferct but better than iTunes and Spotify for me (and only for me not in general).
What, you don't appreciate an ad between the Happiest Days of our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall part 2 or 2112 Overture and The Temples of Syrinx?

This comment may date myself
Employees do get their wages, but most were probably working on depressed wages in lieu of equity compensation -- which will now be zero. Further, if anyone left/laidoff, and they forcibly exercised options due to windows, they are underwater.
I don't really see the connection. If the only traffic to the stores was a handful of people, how can this have any significant effect on customer good will? They can't be both empty and influential.

It seems like the stores were a missed opportunity, but they always had the odds stacked against them. Whatever you can get in an MS store, you could get a much cheaper alternative running the same software at another electronic goods store or online. I suspect the theoretical opportunity was really a mirage and never really there.
Smaller nitpick, it was Cypher.
I can't even remember the last time I needed touse Chrome for Flash support.

My company's spam filter service requires Flash if you're on desktop. There's a mobile version that's non-Flash, but it's feature limited.

The web site of one of the larger pre-FAANG online advertising companies is all Flash. You can't even change your password without it.
"Stupefy by Spotify as a Service" : a mentorship service to protect those who get stupefied by spotify
A good chunk of educational tools. I've had to fight with Chrome quite a few times since schooling from home started.
I just listened to the WTF episode with Jerry Seinfeld and he talks about how early in his career he started writing jokes for several hours every day. He gave the impression that most other comics don't do it that way. Seems like it worked?
As a humble band once said, I think their name was AC/DC:

Gettin' old

Gettin' gray

Gettin' ripped off

Underpaid

Gettin' sold

Second-hand

That's how it goes

Playin' in a band

It's a long way to the top

If you wanna rock 'n' roll
Microsoft Office 365 and Data Protection: Risks in Shared Responsibility
Interesting. Possibly also relevant: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260
It might be our active directory setup but I could have sworn I experienced this on personal devices too.
2021: 50% of black people are now dead due to facial recognition. Trump suspends summary execution.
The alarming aspect of this bill is that it extends to government contracts as well. Reading the wikipedia article for this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly_Constituti..., I see that one of the primary motivations is to give women and minority-owned businesses 'their fair share'. If we apportion everything according to race and sex in this manner, where do we stop? It is reasonable to have affirmative action to help advance young children (integration in schools, for example), but is affirmative action for college-goers and government contracts appropriate?
It's not anyones responsibility to ensure indie artists, or any kind of art for that matter, exists

It would be nice if people cared about things beyond $$$ and worked on art for the sake of art
I remember reading about this stuff years ago, it's public knowledge. You could call this government agency obscure, but I wouldn't say it's secretive.
I heard a rumour once that artists did not actually need to eat.

/s
The takeaway I have is basically what you said - stressing about something may make you feel like you're working harder, but really just burns up your emotional energy. From the end of the article: "When I notice that I'm all stressed out about something or driving myself to exhaustion, I . . . try dialing back my effort by 50 percent. . . . [H]alf of my effort wasn't effort at all, but just unnecessary stress that made me feel like I was doing my best."

Stress and anxiety can be a signal that you need to take something seriously, but if you're already taking it seriously, it's not helpful. If you can drop it while still responding to the situation appropriately, you'll be better off. Focus, don't obsess; progress, don't stress.

This is something I also learned in my time working technical product support - at first, when emergencies happened with the product, I would panic and scramble. But I eventually realized that didn't actually help and just made things less pleasant for me and anyone interacting with me. Everything went better if I took the emergency seriously but calmly, and just handled it without reacting emotionally.
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That's by definition not "asymptomatic." It's extremely mild/unnoticeable symptoms, but it's still not asymptomatic
The broken embedded video that he says he had the idea for has been moved here: “Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult” https://www.theonion.com/judge-rules-white-girl-will-be-trie...
Yes and no. It's definitely beneficial to travel, and the more different the place you're going to is and the more "embedded" you are there the better (e.g. staying with a host family). But you can only lead the horse to water, you can't make them drink. If you're not careful they'll just produce a little "expat" cluster of Westerners passing through without really looking at the unfamiliar.

This often shows up as "voluntourism", or things like the Peace Corps.

I agree that a trip to Eastern Europe would be hugely valuable for any actual communists, especially actual "tankies", but for fairness you should also include a western european "social democrat" country which is not at all the same thing.
I am curious to know the number and demographics of people who survive Covid and have no apparent after effects. Haven’t really seen this data anywhere.
It’s the confirmation when deleting that bothers me every time, the one when emptying is appropriate.
One more reason why I prefer Google Play. The recommendations are based off a single station. If you start a new station it starts from scratch.
Seriously though, doesn't it strike any of you as absolutely hypocritical? We're attacking data collection in public spaces in real life, while defending it in our own domain (virtual life). I know that a lot of tech industry paychecks come from monetizing people's data...
You can’t have it at $2/year though - my distributor only cuts a check when you reach the $20 threshold. I had forgotten I had music on there by the time the check showed up!
That sign is 6 inches tall, and it is neither OSHA nor ANSI style:

https://www.safetysign.com/help/h55/osha-format

Also, the text explaining what it does is so small you’d have to put your head near the device to read it.
I was pretty sure I had read this before on HN but it turns out it was the previous blog post, when he was only earning $400/month:

https://www.stevebenjamins.com/blog/spotify-and-discover-wee...

Still it would be better if the posts had a date.

I have 14 "weekly" listeners on Spotify but I only started a month ago. Still, I'm short of ideas on how to grow this.
It would be very unlikely, but in theory this coronavirus could have spread very weakly for months up to a year before evolving the set of mutations that allow it to spread so rapidly in humans. Indeed, it's exceedingly unlikely that the coronavirus could have had an R0 of >3 right out just after the zoonotic crossing, it's much more likely that it would be significantly lower than one and needed to infect a few people and mutate to adapt to humans.

But to such an extent, and in Barcelona? It's still quite unlikely, though in the realm of possibility.
that's one of the pathetic excuses I've ever read

they're an OS developer and they can't spend a day figuring out a floating point bug?

maybe redirect some of the time integrating Candy Crush
Grace Must Come for the Debased and Unworthy
I figure the major reason they don't just run DEVS under the hood is that they don't know about it?
> Where are the soldiers?

Without doing any research, I'm guessing it's one of two possibilities:

- They're not in the top 25 because death rate among soldiers is low overall. The vast majority of soldiers are clerks, mechanics, and other support personnel, many of whom will never even deploy. Of those who do, many will spend their time on a large base in minimal danger. Those who are in danger from combat and IEDs are those who venture outside the base frequently (infantry, drivers, combat engineers, etc). These are a small fraction of what would be considered "soldiers" on a list like this, which brings the overall mortality rate down significantly.

- This list doesn't account for soldiers at all because, to put it bluntly, calculating this for the military is a pain in the ass. Doing it properly would likely require an entirely separate and more detailed study and breakdown of the data. One reason is because of the variance in jobs. Another is because the danger varies wildly depending on whether we're actually in a war. Being an infantryman during WWII, Vietnam, or in a place like Fallujah circa 2004 was risky business. Right now, not so much. It's worth noting that the military has its own government-funded life insurance program (SGLI) rather than contracting it out to a civilian agency. I suspect this is because no civilian insurers are willing deal with the unpredictability.
This[1] works fine in every version of PHP since at least v4.3.0 (released in 2002). Do you have a concrete example of this supposed breakage?

[1]: https://3v4l.org/DWDLn
How Facebook was used against American elections would not work if American democracy was healthy.

And of course, once actual crazy people control the government, who is going to install and maintain the guard rails?
YES! I played Daddy Yankee's Gasolina at a party once as kind of a joke and for weeks my Discover Weekly was filled with Spanish music.

I wish they had a 'stealth' mode or at least an option to reset your tastes.
Nope I'm taking issue with this maybe in large cities NYC, Chicago, LA they do, but remember most cops aren't in those cities the majority of them are paid for by small municipal budgets and aren't having hours and hours of OT to bill. Remember the vast majority of cops in the US aren't generally violent aren't working in huge cities with thousands of people and may only have a couple dozen people on their force.
I see what you're saying.

I think the author meant the same thing as Feynman when he described the "Greek" and "Babylonian" approaches to mathematics.

For all but a select few (pure mathematicians), the "Babylonian" approach is a lot more fun. Both approaches are clearly necessary and useful in different settings.

With the advent of systems like the Lean theorem prover, the two approaches may start to see a lot more overlap.
Facebook ad boycott grows over hate speech, but company refuses to back down
A Home, Not a Mortgage
Cell service companies track your location based on signal strength, and are known for selling this data to as many third parties as possible. There is no way to stop them from tracking your phone location, short of removing your SIM card.
I honestly don't know. RationalWiki seems to hate on anybody even vaguely associated with LessWrong, up to and including misrepresenting their ideas (or outright lying about what people have said and done) so they can more easily criticise them. Their articles are worth reading once, to get a list of Bad Things™ about a person or idea, which you can then filter down into actually true stuff at your leisure.

It's frustrating, because some of the criticism is actually warranted, but they just fill such articles with so much banal nonsense, like "Scott Alexander criticised communism, but also studied something the USSR did… :thinking_face:" (paraphrased) that the signal-to-noise ratio approaches Uncyclopedia's.

It's really frustrating, because the articles about topics they haven't got a bee in their bonnet about can actually be insightful introductions, beating out the Wikipedia articles. Nowadays, though, those are few and far between.
It seems like the whole meaning of "savings account" has been lost in one generation..

In the old days, the very point of a savings account is that it keeps the value stable, and pays interest on top. The more long term you save, the higher the interest. Compounded.
The number is far less than 1%. Other than that, your layman's perspective is correct.

I'm in the custom apparel industry, where a lot of purchases are (were - it's dropped off) driven by facebook ads. If Facebook ads were as effective as the HN zeitgeist seems to think, there would be no other kind of commerce.
btw, it is common (in france) for the police to use "scanners" to grab all the phone numbers of protesters.
It's even lower than that in most of the US where cops are basically waiting around for something to happen most of the time. But the narrative is bullets flying every time they enter the war zone of placid suburbia.
It's really a gambling addiction. #YOLO-ing your paycheck for tendies is fun... most of the time...
If I want to run Big Sur, it's my only legitimate option.

So yes, if I want to continue to use macOS and want to stay on the latest release, then "having to upgrade hardware" is the only route. If you take issue with me calling that "forcing" then fine, but it's obvious how I'm using that term.

Plenty of hardware from 2013 runs current operating systems- basically only in the Apple ecosystem is this a problem. I doubt there's any _technical_ reason older hardware cannot run newer versions of macOS. Apple just draws a line whereever they want.

I understand this is a "known concern" of being a part of the Apple ecosystem- but it's one of the first times I've encountered it personally, so yes, it's frustrating.
Last time I went in to get my PC laptop repaired at Best Buy it was about a 45 minute wait just to drop it off. Then three days before the repair was made.

I have also dropped off Macs at a local non-Apple-Store authorized repair shop and it was 20-30 minutes before I was helped. I think it's just how things are with support/repairs.
Not just that, many acts are splitting the royalties amongst band members, song writers, producers, etc.
The article essentially comes down to this quote:

"I am appalled that a student with Chinese heritage must climb a 450-point hill in order to compete against someone who is Black for a seat at UC Berkeley."

Distilling the issue to either: you support "affirmative action" or you don't.

The author of the article clearly does not. They also coincidentally identify as a "Political Activist" associated with a party not traditionally supportive of "affirmative action".

I'm not sure this is the right forum to have a debate on a political issue like this.

Potentially relevant is that the UC system is going to experiment with dropping standardized testing starting next year.
I don't think so unless you make a lot of assumptions. That it was a variation that is just as contagious. That it was a variation that could cause as severe symptoms. That it even came from humans. All samples from January 2018 to December 2019 came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019. Why just one month and then nothing for so long before the outbreak? Per the study, sewage includes rainwater from open drains. A highly infected bat could have ended up dead in a sewer. Nature is full of unexpected possibilities.

I bet there are other assumptions without which it doesn't call into question what we think we know.
One video is a poor qualifier of an organization comprising millions of people over the past 25 years.
It's a tool, not the only tool. If you have a population of 100M, even if 1M match, then you add geographic area, skin colour, hair colour/style, height, known criminality, ... suddenly you're down to enough people you can investigate.

Sure, if your police/justice system is not competent you have a problem, but you had that in the first place.
Aw, it ends when you grab it with Canadarm. I would've liked to actually dock it to the ISS
GarageBuy – Search, track and bid on eBay items
I was thinking about that. Live in Southeast Asia or Costa Rica for half the year, pay a fraction in cost of living compared to the US, and invest the savings.
I believe it’s going to be great for ANE users, but let’s just say that this author’s opinions on how local Docker shouldn’t be part of the “core development cycle” don’t match my environment. This is going to mean investment in Linux laptops, for all their problems, for us.
Am I the only one that received an email from Google telling me that Google Play music was going to close soon and that I should transfer my playlists?
The author is the same guy behind a $40k/month website builder review site. Big fan of his interview on Indie Hackers[1]

It's interesting to see him use SEO to describe algorithmic playlists. He would know, SEO is a huge part of his other business.

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/besting-the-competiti...
More specifically, this undermines the stated justification for Mobilewalla's report. Which was to determine the amount of protestors who came from outside the cities they appeared in. If I'm the operator of a protests-as-a-service company the first thing I do is make sure none of the people have a cell phone that can be used to trace them back to me.

But that was the stated justification. The real purpose of the report is to advertise what Mobilewalla does. I consider this a form of profiteering.
Isn’t QI specifically an immunity against civil suits?
The author is using the term in the way that most laymen use it. In this context, asymptomatic means not showing any noticeable symptoms and/or being completely unaware that one has contracted the virus.

The author is not oblivious to this as he puts the word asymptomatic in quotes in the article.
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When people land on your webpage, give them goals. (Growth Experiment – 2 Cases)
Here is a growth experiment I ran with a positive impact and wanted to share it with everyone here.

Google uses several signals to identify if a page they sent people to is high value or not.

One of the important signals Google uses is time spent on a page.

This experiment is tied to time spent on-page and has contributed to over 100% uptick in Google organic traffic in the last two weeks.

It is a straightforward experiment that does require you to have some programming knowledge and create webpages or a blog using code (e.g., HTML/CSS, Javascript)

I used this with a blog, but you can use it with any webpage.

The task is simple →

When someone lands on a webpage (or a blog post in my experiment) give them a few tasks to do.
Typically, people like checking off tasks.

And while accomplishing tasks, they increase their time on your site.

Here are two examples:

1. Blog post with 101 Remote Work Stats with stat tracker.
I created a simple tracker on the right side of the blog post that tells people how many stats they have seen out of the 101.

Before publishing this "Statistics Seen" tracker, on average, people spent 25 seconds on this blog post.

After incorporating the "Statistics Seen" tracker, they are spending about 1 minute and 15 seconds.

Here is the link if you want to check out the implementation https://www.prospercircle.org/blog/top-remote-work-stats

2. Blog post on Video Interviewing Tips with todos.
Again, several websites provide such tips.

I created a list of 20 tips, broke them in three categories

The todo of seeing tips in each category is automatically tracked based on user scrolling.

Again, the time spent on this blog post increased. Initially, people only scrolled up to 33% of the blog post before the todo was on the site, now the average scroll is 80% of the page.

Here is the link if you want to see the implementation - https://www.prospercircle.org/blog/video-interview-tips
Steve Jobs is (or at least would have been) jumping up and down with happiness. Or more likely bitching about how long this took!
Probably from network calls (DNS and HTTPS).

An easy one is to provide a mobile hotspot with the name `attwifi` with no password and just sniff the data. You can derive a lot of data just from the network activity on a phone and since you're on WiFi, you can get approximate WiFi location. A couple of dozen laptops in a couple of buildings and you can also approximate the direction the phones moved as they go from device to device.
> Not a single other tech organization wants to provide customer service other than Apple

That's a stretch. I'd argue the level of support they're providing is the of the lowest-hanging-fruit level (e.g. how do I transfer my contacts, setup the device). Support forums are full of stories (and from my own experience) where hardware related issues are dismissed and rejected at their stores.
While I agree with your premise, I think that the availability of a store is a form of goodwill. You are given more confidence in a product if you know there's a place where you can go when things go wrong, or if you want to see something for real, and not just rely on some rendered image on a screen.

There's an Apple Store a few blocks from me. I've never been there. But I like knowing I have the option.
Decolonization seems to be a Trojan horse for a different type of Western colonization. It’s one thing to take western ideas and make them your own (Botswana). It’s another thing entirely when western influences try to attach themselves to peoples history and culture in order to change them into faithful subjects without a voice of their own.
JavaScript's async features are made possible because of its event loop (Node.js is essentially V8 + libuv).

You can use one of many event loop implementations with PHP, including libuv, if you so wish.
If you contact Spotify, they can reset your listening history and recommendations!! I learned this.
Green jelly beans cause acne, I guess. I take back anything I ever said about that one XKCD comic making a trivial point.
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People near the senior levels of management spend a lot of time worrying about dollars, to the exclusion of everything else. And since they tend to do a pretty piss-poor job of quantifying employee morale as it relates to productivity, that gets ignored. My company saved a half million dollars a year by making the lease smaller. Great, right? Except that in our building we have hundreds of developers. Let's say ~100M in fully loaded costs. So if moving them all from cubicles into six-foot bench seating (no, not kidding) knocked down their productivity by 10%, then the open office was a net loss. But they can't quantify that, so it's not even considered. Well, until we lost about 10% of our developers in a single year, but I'm not sure if even then senior management got a clue.

My last company tried to end their practice of providing plastic spoons in the break area. Probably spent more money in wages to write the email than it costs to buy a box of spoons that'll last the better part of a year. That one actually got people riled up enough to complain, because it was both inconvenient and incredibly petty. We were just going to buy a box of spoons from Webstaurant Store and expense it. LOL. Silly managers trying to impress their own managers by saving every penny.