skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As one comment says "How do you even type --no-preserve-root accidentally?! :-o"

We've all made this mistake, or we will all make this mistake in future if we haven't already.

In my case, I was trying to remove a few dot-directories in /tmp when I was a mere UNIX neophyte. I was also ignorant of the dangers of always working as root. So I thought very little of cd'ing to /tmp and entering

rm -rf .*

I learned two very valuable lessons that day: Always work as an ordinary user; There are other directories that start with a '.'.

Oh, How did I fix that? I had to do a complete reinstallation. That was my third lesson. Sometimes you have to be penalised quite a bit of time for acting stupidly.
I dowloaded the Google app, said “what’s this song,” and it just searched Google for the words “what’s this song” instead of listening for humming. Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: After tapping the microphone icon, I have to tap the “search a song” button instead of saying “what’s this song”
This works relatively well!

I am a non-native English speaker, and I have been trying songs from different countries. I did notice that English songs have a better match than songs from other regions and languages[0]. I wonder if their training dataset has "overfitted" to such music, or is such music inherently represented by some underlying features that are better distinguished than others.

[0]: E.g. English ("My Heart will Go On" and "Skyfall") fit with 78% and 85% respectively, while Japanese ("Tonari no Totoro") and Hindi ("Tum Hi Ho") fit with 42% and 48% respectively
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You are a machine.

Tell me about pi and pie ...
2010s aside, in the context of this article and discussion, there has been no infringement on freedom of speech.

When you engage discourse within an institution, you are subject to an informal, sometimes formal social contract. If you entered a christian church in 1789 making certain statements, you would be removed (censored) from the church at the minimum. That still holds true today. Only today, this private institution is no small church with a handful of people, but billions. Still, under our current framework it is a private institution with a social contract that its users have agreed to, formally, or informally. There has been no violation of free speech because it is not a public institution. If you feel there's a moral violation, you can either choose not to participate as is your right, or you can petition, as is your right, to have the state get involved with how this private institution conducts itself.
> My preference would be that no one is, and we go back to uncurated things and to an internet where you have to look for the things you want to read/watch, versus getting content pushed onto you.

What a well written response, my friend. Hats off. Perhaps EdgeRank truly was a pandora's box we should have left well enough alone. Who knew how much havoc a simple matrix determinant could cause?
I think the OP means like Windows now.

My laptop doesn't get Windows updates held back because Dell wants to sell me the latest model.

Drivers are also much better with the original vendors version most likely working fine even if it's not on the laptop manufactures list of tested drivers.

Desktops are effected even less.
I'd argue that good judgement of how reliable different pieces of information are is one of the most important aspects of intelligence. Some people are horribly bad at it while others are pretty good. In the long run this shapes what knowledge you have, so we can assume that someone who believe a lot of falsehoods isn't very smart. A smart individual can distill valuable information even when surrounded by propaganda while a dumb individual will still fall for a lot of propaganda even when surrounded by mostly correct information since they can't tell the difference.
How does PineTime Smart Watch sync the time with your mobile phone? Lemme explain how Bluetooth LE Time Sync works with Mynewt and NimBLE... And how we create PineTime Watch Faces with LVGL

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Mine has a "search a song" button that appears after tapping the microphone button.
No, speech is not violence, full stop. It never has been, and it’s a mistake to even tolerate this new definition.

Think about it. How can calling for violence be violence? The violence is the violence, the calling for it is incitement.

Redefining terms like this is nothing more than subverting the truth to control a narrative.
Huh! So it is. But the couple versions I found started with a verse with a different melody before going to Happy Birthday.
Jaynes argument makes a lot more sense when you take the modern psychiatric view that the way we respond to voices in our head is socially constructed. His claim that it is literally caused by the corpus collosum was bad biology (which was not his field).
> Generalists are typically far better at motivating the relevance of a problem/situation and filtering out the important details from the unimportant.

Couldn't agree more.

John von Neumann is a perfect example. His colleagues would often lament his unwillingness to adopt a narrow specialty, but I think it was his wide range that allowed him to maintain the passion that made him so effective. [1]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/genius.html
Ditto over here, just updated and search a song is nowhere to be found.
It’s always the same issue; trust doesn’t scale. You need to trust whoever is providing the review, there is no easy way to magically make a bunch of random reviews trustworthy.
> This feature is currently available in English on iOS, and in more than 20 languages on Android. And we hope to expand this to more languages in the future.

What? Humming is not different across dialects.
As the author of a moderately popular open source project, I have to agree. Whenever the government intervenes, they tend to distort markets and cause a huge amount of suffering.

They will end up funding low quality competing projects which will harm my project by using money and media coverage to steal attention.

That's basically the story of my career. The government, working with corporations have been ruining my career so far.

I would be much better off if VCs and governments had stayed out of our industry entirely.
There are some people who try to assess this.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi#

This is only perception, but it's still pretty interesting and useful.

FWIW according to that the US is more corrupt than some European countries, less corrupt than others. You can probably even guess the countries that are less corrupt and more corrupt in Europe.
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Same here, and I have no "search a song" button after hitting the microphone

edit: now the button does show up. Tried humming "Peter and the wolf" and it failed.
my business partners in china report day to day life is basically mask free, and when there is a reported outbreak there is massive testing and contact tracing.

Youtubers in china show that same story in street footage; so on balance yes, I think it’s generally accurate.
> Add in Dunning-Kruger, through no fault of their own, and then people think there is a rational reason for denying objective evidence.

No, this isn't true. References to Dunning-Kruger need to die. I haven't seen a case yet where using Dunning-Kruger to explain behavior is not misinformation.

Dunning-Kruger's data actually demonstrated that the more confident someone is in their ability, the higher their ability, statistically. There was a positive correlation in people's ability to judge themselves, in the experiments. The only question was why the correlation wasn't higher.

https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-...
Yup, SoundHound existed, and before that, Midomi.
Not only is this incredibly Kafka-esque, it's archetypally Kafka-esque! This is effectively exactly the plot of The Trial!
SoundHound already did this long ago. It works pretty well.
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I was confused too at first. Installed the app and pressed the microphone icon, but didn’t notice the button. Was it even there?

But then after I’d uninstalled the app I went back and reread the article and saw it say to press microphone and then button for search a song, reinstalled app and then I saw the button there.

Still don’t know if it was there or not the first time around. Maybe I just didn’t see it? Either way, it’s there now. Using iOS btw.

I was curious to see how it would fare because for example when I’ve tried to hum into Shazam or SoundHound in the past they’ve never come close to finding what I was looking for.

But I read in the article that Google is using machine learning and that they have actually trained their hum to search on recording of humming so I got my hopes up.

So in the Google search app I hummed a part of the melody for the song What is Love by Haddaway and... it recognized it! I’m impressed!
The information in question was obtained very clearly illigally, where linking and consuming the source information is illigal. Twitter has a legal obligation to not allow people on their platform to use their service to do this.
5% is not insignificant, and it is that low because electricity is routed to nearby consumers as much as possible.
On the flip side of this, ever seen the 1980s movie Teachers? A major plot point of the movie was that inner-city students in the 1970s and 80s were graduating high school being functionally illiterate. That was a real thing.

The universal adoption of information technologies like the smart phone has definitely not been the utopia many of us thought it would be. HOWEVER, there is no such thing as an illiterate teen any more.

For what it's worth, I think that's incredible progress for society as a whole.

Now we have to figure out how to provide universal quality education and prevent ignorance and misinformation from spreading. This is a different challenge that we weren't expecting to have to address.

Hopefully in 20 years we'll have addressed this issue as well and look back at the 2020s and be amazed that there were so many climate science deniers, flat-earthers, etc.
The trouble with machine conversion is the machine cannot know which edge cases and quirks the code relies on, and which it does not. For example, if translating C, does the program rely on two globals sitting next to each other in memory? (Yes, this happens, I did it myself earlier in my career.)

I've done many translations of large programs from one language to another. This includes two large assembler programs that I didn't write into nice, clean C. I don't see any way a machine could determine what effects were important and what weren't.
If we continue the metaphor they should sell excess capacity to other companies with a spot price.
Honestly I'd prefer if the process didn't even have to "know" sites.

Let me just supply the URL and the price string... and let it automatically figure out the right <div> or class or id or surrounding text it can be extracted from. And if it ever breaks (can't be found, or returns something in a different numeric format) then just notify me to visit it and see what's up.

Command-line is one way to do it (can be the canonical version), but then a browser extension makes it even easier. You'll need a headless browser even from the command-line in any case, since the product info isn't always in the HTML at all.
Silence detection is awful, and there's no way to manually end recognition, so I literally cannot use this.
What's the melody? Vocaroo it!
Telling someone to grab an electric fence is not violence by anyone’s standard. Nor is shouting fire. As a society, we have never considered those utterances to be violent crime.
I think that, as of this moment, the tool does not take the user's current region into account. I know two songs that are very similar[0][1], but from vastly different regions, and I could easily get them both detected by this tool just by humming slightly differently.

[0] https://youtu.be/E8gmARGvPlI?t=17

[1] https://youtu.be/mSu5cz2GFts?t=43
That and the Twitter drama today have probably driven up traffic. Not sure if that's enough to test their limits, but maybe.
Do you think that stupidity also is something which we’ve created a perfect environment for and which it can’t thrive ?

What were the consequences of acting foolishly and not concentrating 5000 years ago compared to today ? 50 years ago ?

Maybe you’d starve, maybe you’d get eaten by a lion, or ruin the hunt for food and your crops.

Today, that doesn’t seem relevant, you can spend all day believing in and talking nonsense and end up getting paid and receiving essentials. You won’t starve or freeze. You might even end up being the President of the United States by doing so.
They are free to do whatever they want with any message on their platform, private or public. If they were regulated as a common carrier, this would not be the case.

I believe that Twitter and Facebook have no desire to be regulated as common carriers.

There is no way this is an unlawful wiretap, as they own and operate the wires.
There's a timeout, so if you're patient it eventually stops
Exactly. I can see a million scenarios where a developer blames Apple for a bug in their app and puts it in the notes and then it turns out not to be anything related to Apple. Apple isn't going to get into a catfight with every developer who thinks their issue comes from a bug whether it does or not.
Can you give an example? I’ve seen some teachers/dev teams build some wild stuff in Canvas, which worked just fine.

And Canvas is GPL 2 as well, so it’s licensed a heck of a lot better than Blackboard.
I tried a couple of pop songs from spain from the nineties (not known internationally at all) and it worked.
Tried a bunch of Indian (and not even Bollywood) songs, worked just fine. Seems to use YT / Google Music content as a reference.
> What is being said is that the police shouldn't be the instance to handle incidents where what is really needed is counseling, or social working. We're talking about shifting funds to those and let police do what they have been trained for.

I wish that's the discussion, but I failed to see that's what actually happened. I'm aware that many people argue that "defund police" means allocating fund for better use, but it sounds revisionism. The word "defund" means stop funding, simple and clear. BLM/ANTIFA's demand is clear too: abolish police. The word "abolish" does not mean restructuring, nor does it mean improving. The Minneapolis council woman was specifically asked for her view about "dismantling police", and I don't see how the word "dismantling" can be interpreted as routing fund to a better org.

So, no, the left populists did ask for reallocating funds to "handle incidents where what is really needed is counseling". They were asking for dismantling police. People may take "defund" as "reallocate fund", but that's interpretation that is not supported by facts.
In Europe at least the PIN for making payments on your "Chip & PIN" card is to NEVER be given to anyone (or typed on a phone call). Banks will make this very clear.

A security "password" for doing phone banking is different.
You can publish data dumps and the internet will do the rest. I'm sure there are more than enough people out there who might either not care about the law or are located outside of that jurisdiction who would be more than happy to call out a scummy company when their existing bad reviews suddenly disappear from the latest data dumps.
I believe they should be treated as a common utility, because this is what they are because of network effects.

In that case, I think they would be under obligation to not silence people like this.
Meh. I read this as a bunch of whining that reflects poorly on the CEO. He even admits to taking this investment and giving up a board seat without ever meeting in person. Embarrassing frankly.
Fair question.

The radical left as some name them. But more specifically the activist culture motivated by “critical theory” to dismantle scientific-liberalism and enlightenment principals/philosophy.
Twitter can't afford to become a publisher, so if the law didn't let them do what they do now without being a publisher it would force them to stop. Currently they get to eat and keep the cookie.
"Just educate users" didn't work when there were a few hundred to a few thousand users. It's one of the reasons, though granted not the only one, why Usenet was a hole and people migrated to saner pastures when they were available. What makes you think it's any more feasible when it's "now you just need to go administer your ration of racism and transphobia and personal threats" on a millions-to-billions scale?

If you're being legit with your post, you're falling for a tremendous okeydoke here on the part of people who wish to do civil society harm. Literally all this approach accomplishes, literally and exclusively and without exception all it does, is cede the public square to people who want to export misery or deal with the exporters of misery--a vanishingly small fraction of the decent people out there. We can and must be better and that means that no, we are under no obligation to waste time or resources on people who were never socially potty-trained.
There is an update available to the Google app. It worked for me once I updated the app.
If you care about your freedoms, you need to take a bullet and chose to replace it with a less restrictive operating system, perhaps sacrificing some convenience along the way.

So - what good laptop systems do you recommend?

That don't involve troubleshooting (literally) 14 different major dependency issues just to get the thing up and running on commodity hardware (as was my last experience with desktop - granted about 15 years ago)?

That is to say: which just work (and fast, and well) -- like MacBooks used to work, until a few years ago?
It becomes an issue when people do try to start their own networks, those networks get smeared and service providers (credit cards, hosting, dns) start cutting them off.
Are they using the Zoom LTI or doing something themselves? The Zoom LTI automatically adds links to the calendar and the front page schedule view (I can see them right now).

Also, if you click on an assignment you should be able to see attempts allowed in the top view. If you can’t then your teacher may be hiding it (or you only get one). If they are hiding it, you can still see it through graphiql if you feel like looking (your-institution.instructure.com/graphiql)
You are incorrect here. "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is one litmus test for speech not protected by the 1st Amendment. And telling someone to grab a wire that you know is electrified and they don't is pretty violent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
No.

The Sixth Amendment applies to criminal action by the government. Google isn’t the government, and even if we were to pretend they were, they are neither applying a criminal law nor imposing the kind of punishments which are inherently criminal no matter how the law authorizing them is characterized, so the Sixth Amendment is far from applicable.

Were they the government, either 5th (federal) or 14th (state) Amendment due procesos rights might be an issue, but, again, Google is not the government.
I must suck at humming and whistling, or I have very esoteric taste in music, as it hasn't guessed a single song out of half a dozen.
Government funding will always come with strings attached. Whoever pays the bill calls the tune.
There are many good ideas that aren't in one programming language or another.

Does that actually mean they are bad ideas? No.
It only means that particular language didn't copy that particular idea.

There may be bad ideas that are in many languages, that doesn't somehow make them good.

---

Quote-words are used regularly in Perl because they are clear and useful.

for (qw' alpha beta charlie ') {
say
}
for (split '', 'alpha beta charlie') {
say
}
for ( 'alpha', 'beta', 'charlie' ) {
say
}

The `qw` emphasizes that we are dealing with `alpha`, `beta`, and 'charlie`. The other ones have extra noise that is only there to satisfy the compiler.

Now imagine you have to add `delta` to the list.

With the `qw` you only have to press the spacebar and the letters `d e l t a`. You don't have to worry if you accidently left off a `'`, because you didn't need to add one.

To be fair, the `split` would have the same benefit. But it is still more error-prone. For example I wonder how many people didn't notice that the first argument to `split` was an empty string when it should have been a string with one space in it.

I didn't even notice it, and I've been programming in Perl for decades.
ISPs aren't a remotely relevant comparison. Neither are point-to-point phone calls, though as an aside the phone system certainly doesn't work. I get elderly-preying spam calls at a rate of eight to twelve a day and the Caller ID gets spoofed so numbers I block are useless. And because I use the phone for my job, I can't go contacts-only.
Re-read the article until you hit the header: "Self-Reinforcing Churn"

Think about what you have recently read and dump it!
I was very happy to get one of the first Gmail accounts in my country, when it was by invitation only.

But this is a distant memory, and nowadays I avoid relying on any single big corporation for anything. Particularly I avoid Google.

My main email is in my own domain(s) (paid in intervals of ten years) with gandi.net.

Using Duck duck go everywhere I can.

I have an Android phone by necessity and because there is no real alternative. I download all my pictures and store them with pCloud instead. No G-drive or Dropbox, as I can't trust these services at all.

My Gmail account is used for things that can get spam. All important accounts are in the email of my domain(s).

If Google decides to cancel my Google account, it would be a minor nuisance, mainly related to reinstalling the smartphone apps with another account, and that's it.
That last point is really intriguing. My comparison was unfair. Also the products are very different. With Wikipedia you get collectively curated and moderated content. With YouTube it’s many competing part-products that try to get attention. Apples and oranges.
I've seen a successful effort to turn COBOL into Java, from 2018:

Phase 1 (18 months): COBOL-to-Java code automated refactoring to x86/RHEL platform. This was the most complex and risky phase.

Phase 2 (12 months): Code advanced refactoring to remove COBOL design overtones

Phase 3 (3 months): Infrastructure moved to AWS GovCloud (US)

Article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/automated-refactoring-of-a-...

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19839563
Because phone companies and ISPs only facilitate private peer–to–peer connections between a small number of parties, whereas the platforms we’re discussing host often-public interactions involving millions of people.

It’s a fundamentally different problem. If people use my phone company to have racist companies, I don’t have to know or care. Whereas if I had to deal with people saying racist shit every time I went on Twitter, I’d stop using it.

Consider also that most people’s biggest complaint with the phone system is a consequence of them not moderating, i.e. spam calls.
I was shocked to find out that canceling a card isn’t enough. a merchant can obtain the new card info directly from bank.

I had to cancel my bank account to stop payments.
The Google search app named “Google” on iOS 13.7, iPhone X. Norway.

The button is there for me, and hum to search works.

Screenshot: https://snipboard.io/ITZN9A.jpg

When I first installed the app after reading the article, to test it out, I couldn’t find it even when I pressed the microphone symbol.

But after rereading the article I installed it again and when I went and tapped the microphone I saw the Search a song button.