skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to work best with songs in English grom the 70's-90's (Billy Joel, Gerry Rafferty...)

Luttle luck with French songs, got weird matches that didn't sound at all like the original.

Zero luck with tunes from clqssical music, even with very well known arias.

May be an artifact of how this has been tested, and by whom...?
I thought it was a material measure of some form of cards being literally smoked in some form of industrial factory, and figured this was strange news to appear on HN.

IMO the title could be less dense: "Data breach of 3 million cards at Dickey's BBQ"
3/3 for pop, 0/3 for Bach, Sousa, Aaron Copeland.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24794948

You second paragraph has some good questions
AdSense issues are harder to win. Google has more discretion there. But their terms for ordinary accounts don't seem to allow arbitrary cancellation. That would attract unwanted attention from consumer protection agencies.
The author makes a bunch of statements like:

“Twitter needs to have a damned good reason to censor people from even sharing links to a major news story in private messages”

but doesn’t really explain why it needs a reason, damn good or otherwise, besides that it felt like it.
So is all piracy hacking?
Two thumbs up for Melvin Bragg and In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. An archive of the last several years of his podcasts were, and probably are, available online. Magnificent moderation of a sometimes prickly crop of English-speaking academics. The most fun for me is hearing the personalities of the subcultures of the intellectual disciplines peek out of the discussions: geologists v. political historians v. literary critics v. physicists v. ...
Yeah this article mostly makes me feel very old.
It's not available in my country
Going even further back, the issue of idolatry was a major point of conflict in the early days of the Orthodox Church.
Have you ever interacted over a period of time with a crack addict?

Crackhead does not think the same way or act in any sort of reasonable manner. Well sometimes they do and then next day they break into a house crack a woman on the head killing her and get put into prison. While having enough money in the bank to stay high for years. It does not make sense but that is what one former classmate of mine did.

None of it surprising in any way.
This seems like a surprisingly bad idea. I would think the vendors' engineers would be able to identify the parts that qualify to be 3d printed, given how well the expected material characteristics match what the printer could produce.
I remember talking to the whoever was developing moodle at the time about 10 years ago and he didn't like the "MVC" pattern because it had too many files.

It took forever to implement at our organisation (it was a non-profit) and was generally a waste of time.
WebEx sucked. So this seems to be a silly question.
You make an API change.

The API change is communicated and approved by both parties.

You build the first thing.

Canary fails, because API has changed.

You change the other to match the new API.

Canary fails again, because it uses the most recent non-failed build.

???

Owner of the canary build is now shunned.
That's what I feel too. I am a big fan of machine learning but I just wish it wasn't the first thing people jump to.
> I'm surprised so many young people believe that covid is no big deal.

Have you ever entertained the idea that perhaps you're wrong and they're right? I mean it's at least possible that you've been lead to the wrong conclusion by systemic errors that have yet to be identified, and perhaps wont be for many years into the future.
> > A certain group of highly educated urban liberals is shocked by Trump.

> 3 million more people voted for Hillary than Trump.

As I said, I’m not using this as a pejorative. I’m not just talking about folks who voted for Hillary, but ones who were despondent when Trump won. I worked late on election night and got home to an election watching party with DC yuppies and when I walked in the door I thought someone had died. These are the folks who were so stunned the started looking around for an explanation. And social media just happened to be rising at the same time.

Not all Hillary voters reacted that way. My mom and dad voted for Hillary. But they weren’t shocked by the existence of Trump. They didn’t see it as an indictment of the system. They didn’t go on the whole Russia collusion ride like all of my friends. (Not coincidentally, they supported Biden from the start. Meanwhile, I was shocked when Warren and Harris did so poorly, when it came to voting, because that’s who all my grad-school educated urban friends supported.)
I've been called names and threatened, and I've been attacked. I know which one I consider violent actually physically dangerous vs stressful :)
I had the same impression. The only other alternative possibility I could come up with was that the author was willingly playing in meta irony, or that they were someone who feels extremely specialized in something and must cast aspersions at those who are not.

My counterpoint to this article would simply be:

Beware of opinions of self-selecting experts, especially those with a chip on their shoulder.

As mentioned above in the discussion, you do really need specialists and generalists working together to solve the hardest problems. The specialists deserve no more credit for progress than the systems thinkers who choose to operate at the macro level and understand full well why this is essential.
If they actually didnt use those rules to suppress a political faction youd see tens of articles censored about Trumps tax returns, russiagate, snowden, wikileaks, etc. But we dont see that behavior, so theyre clearly censoring to conrtol US politics.
Scroll down or ctrl + F "free"

It's just lower down the page
I think it is of great public service that the email is out in public domain. It warns many first time CEO's of the dark side of raising money from naive VC's who never ran a company before becoming VC.

The email also adds context to Vinod Kosla's famous message: https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/vinod-khosla/
> ISPs and phone networks, have very little "moderation" from the parent company, and yet seem to work pretty well, IMO.

I get multiple, unsolicited phone calls a day from spoofed phone numbers. I consider the phone network mostly useless.
S/hacking/violation of CFAA or similar state statute. Hacking is often used as a shortcut for “computer crime”.
Ryan explicitly calls Dan Ciporin "a great board member" in his blog post.

The selected passage:

"A great board member, Dan, called me to say, “Ryan, I’ve never in my career seen a CEO as worn out as you. Please, you need to take a sabbatical — at least six weeks”. He, and other board members, tried so hard to do the right thing and convince me to take care of myself."

Further, on LinkedIn, Dan still lists himself as a current member of the Board of Directors. CircleUp is still listed as a current investment on Canaan's site.

I have not worked with Dan but I have worked with Canaan. They have always struck me as founder-friendly. Indeed, they have several notable repeat entrepreneur relationships. It seems unlikely they would tolerate the sort of behavior Ryan described.

---

Conversely, Collaborative Fund led the Series C in November 2015. Note that, in Ryan's letter, he cites board issues from 2016 to 2019. Further, Collaborative Fund no longer lists CircleUp anywhere on its site.

Per Crunchbase, Jungju (Jay) Kim was the board partner for Collaborative's Series C investment in CircleUp.

Note that, per his LinkedIn, Jay became a VC at Collaborative in 2014.
> I grew up during the late 90s (born in late 80s) learning about the internet and its philosophies.

And with this specific case, I'm with you on your hill.

But more broadly we're usually not talking about the web from the late 90s. We're talking about a handful of modern social networks most of which use of anti-democratic dark patterns. And algorithms that are known to push a given percentage of users down a rabbithole, who can then be weaponized for who knows what purpose by who knows which nasty actors.

In essence, we're talking about factories which-- if there were a market for it-- could produce a version of the internet from the 90s with the slight difference that a sizable proportion of your 90s internet acquaintances happen to spout racist rhetoric and becoming walking, talking bioweapons this time around.

I know that's not the topic here. But that is a much bigger problem IMO and the answer of "more speech" is at most helplessly incomplete wrt it.
I think you're drastically overestimating how much money would be available per project and underestimating the cost of accessibility.
I mean the fact that it sometimes triggers compiler crashes is kind of a hint that the compiler has no idea what to do and just makes it up as it goes along.
Asking the wrong question makes for a lot of interesting hypotheses, but it’s possible it’s still the wrong question even after exploring.

What if stupidity is neither expanding (in quantitative terms) nor not expanding (in that the same volume of stupidity is experiencing expanded impact, influence and importance)?

Many of the hypotheses on both sides of the original question could be true, but the lessons would be drastically different.

If roughly the same proportion of people are roughly engaged in the same level and variety of stupidity, but that stupidity has more social sway (pandering, bullying, exhaustion, laziness, opportunism, inertia, collective trauma and coping, probably a list longer than I could compile), focusing on the stupidity isn’t much more than an escape.

Obviously I’m biased toward my hypothetical. But I think “thinking” oriented exploration might want to spend some time on “what makes people react to things that are incorrect in a favorable way” and less time on defining what correctness is when there’s a wealth of literature on the latter and a great deficit on the former that isn’t dismissed as inherently biased in this kind of discussion.
I've gotten about 10 hits of 12, with such diverse things as "Bella Ciao" (Italian song), "Space Oddity" (the first few bars are practically a monotone), the Pink Panther (no words) and Kalasnjikov by Bregovic (random Serbian (?) words that I don't know).

It got MGMT's Kids no problem, and I know I sung out out of tune.

I'm very impressed.

I found out worked better if I use "doo dee doo dee doo" rather than humming.
This feels like the filament should come with a barcode that tells the printer all the requirements
I believe they did that without needing promting from Twitter's policy censoring political speech
> Today, you can [print] insane and dangerous ... falsehoods and your message is indistinguishable from ideas presented by people who actually know what they're talking about.

I bet the response of the Catholic clergy to the printing press was probably pretty similar to this statement. And the ideas of the reformation were certainly far more dangerous than any chemtrail conspiracy.

Chemtrail conspiracy theories are... pretty insignficant. If your goal is to eradicate all conspiratorial wrongthink of this magnitude or greater, you are going to run into ~a lot~ of problems. Epstein memes are very popular.
My god. You were in North Carolina, a state that invented a type of barbecue, and the best you could find was a Dickeys? There are infinitely many better options.
This wasn't hacked. It was legally obtained as it was left and became business property after repeated attempts of returning the machine.

Jack's response came much after the censorship actions were taken. You have to analyze with timelime. his PR firm told him he needed to do damage control.

Moreover why was this policy not applied to Trump's alleged tax return? This is one of many examples one could give. You may be too far in the SF bubble or not have a diverse news list.
I understand the sentiment here. But there are different lifestyles. For some, home is where they spend a majority of their time outside of work. I've optimized my home around my lifestyle.

WFH doesn't require building a sensory deprivation tank.

Since going remote, I work in a swimming pool about 50% of the time. I have a good pair of noise cancelling headphones, a Panasonic toughbook, and a "floating standing desk" (a raft turned upside down). I smoke a cigar, sip a nice whiskey, and crank through my work. Then I go spend time with my family and friends.

It's not quite a concrete bunker beneath my house. But I'm not coming back to an office anytime soon.
Facebook launch 'Conduct in VR Policy' to protect users from abuse
This “(supposedly) incriminating data” is incredibly valuable and (presumably incriminating) circumstantial evidence of illegal drug use is not?
Political communications like that must be parsed extremely precisely if you don't want to be tricked. The phrase "as alleged" is a huge loophole. The thread that the sibling comment linked to goes into this: https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1316442180358213632
I don't consider any of their posts "award winning". They have had award winning reporting, including the National Press, the Sydney, and the Online Journalism Awards. They have also had reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizes in International Reporting. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News#Awards_and_recog...
Searched for 'violence' and derivative forms in that wiki link:

> limitations on free speech balance rights to free speech and other rights, such as rights for ... protection from imminent or potential violence against particular persons.

The speech is not violent. However, we can say that speech that promotes such might not be allowed under "free speech."

Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is not violent though it can cause people to panic and cause harm.
The English language version I'd always heard was the 4PM cover [0], which I just found out was originally by A Taste of Honey in the 80s [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVjrc7YYoE

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFkUNqBwMw
The anomalous heating is very difficult to measure and it is not going to convince anyone.

The new elements they got, are much more interesting. The problem is that:

* Cooper and Zinc that are the parts of brass.

* Iron, Chrome and Manganese that are common in stainless steel.

So the most simple explanation is contamination from the surrounding vessel and plumbing.

It is also very strange that they didn't get Cadmium and Indium that are the direct product of fusion of Palladium and Silver with Hydrogen, Deuterium and Helium. It is like if there was a fusion and then the new atom split into smaller atoms like all the ones I listed before. It is strange.
A git bisect script + 'timeout' would let you find the specific commit in a few minutes.

Not to mention CI should prevent that from merging in the first place.
How would that work with Common Law?

Life isn't software engineering where anyone can just contribute. I literally had a conversation today with someone that thought Common Law was "Christian Law" and then called me Dumb when I explained where that didn't really make any sense.
Do inverters communicate with the grid operator, or do they just monitor the frequency they see on the mains? And how do they all agree on what UTC is with sufficient accuracy? At 50 Hz, a 1% deviation is only 200 uS.
>So what if Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft/Bing, Apple and Amazon all refuse to carry the content (including advertisements next to this content).

Then the content will probably go on to achieve gigantic commercial success; as is usually the case it appears that something is being banned. See e.g. Spycatcher, this story.
Yes. And it is absolute rubbish.

The rest of the article seems (I skimmed it when I lost interest, so I could be wrong!) to be about something very specific: media outlets no longer relying on true domain experts, but rather outsourcing that expertise to the same group of rotating general-experts. The Daily Show had a running gag where the same set of comedian actors were used, but every time they were shown on-screen as Senior (Farcically Specific Domain) Expert. This is now reality as you see the same talking heads speaking authoritatively on whatever the important issue of the day is. That is a problem.

But yeah, the quote that starts this article reaches way beyond this specific problem and makes a bogus claim.
>But that is a much bigger problem IMO and the answer of "more speech" is at most helplessly incomplete wrt it.

Why? Why can't the leftists push people down rabbit holes and make them rabid communists? Serious question.
Fun! https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

For JavaScript, see: https://github.com/feross/simple-peer
It's time to read this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611328-ishmael
I wondered whether pitch might play a role. EDIT: singing in a higher key got me English results, so I guess so?

There's no way it would do much locally, but maybe they just wanted to make sure the audio passed to the API has a certain sample rate and encoding?
That's the crux of it. There is surprise that Twitter even has a "bar". People used to think of Twitter in one way, and now Twitter's actions have encouraged people to think of Twitter in a different way.
What I'm expressing is not a novel or unique perspective. This is a very basic critique of modernity.
I could imagine national security reasons for not saying specifically where one believes the laptop to have come from, but why would the campaign be prevented from simply saying that the emails are fake and that the meeting definitively did not happen?
Yeah they wouldn't be allowed to do this in lots of countries.
Wow, so much divergence in the comments from what the OP is telling us.

;tldr
Generalists are good for some things, but why educate yourself on a topic from a generalist when you have access to the experts?
> when they want to block content on a political basis

And what about when the want to block content because they believe in an objective reality?
Epidemic, but a “casedemic” but not a “deathdemic’ in the second wave as presented, unless I’m misreading it.
I bet Facebook executives beg to differ
“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.”

- Johnathon Rausch

1) no one owns the blessings of what is knowledge by virtue of any sort of implied authority.

2) all accepted knowledge is open to revision upon new evidence or proof

This is a good read that articulates this more than I can.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703086.Kindly_Inquisitor...
8chan was only served because they managed to find some very shady Russian hosters. They were very close to being depeered from the Internet backbone.
I feel like the author wrote this with Eric Weinstein in mind.
Forthcoming paper from Church Lab gives a peak at a possible future. First line: "Xenotransplantation, specifically the use of porcine organs for human transplantation, has long been sought after as an alternative for patients suffering from organ failure"

Extensive Mammalian Germline Genome Engineering

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.17.876862v1
(offtopic) You might be missing an '== 0' in the second line there? I've never done fizzbuzz so I honestly don't know, but the ruby version has it.
This is event for event what happened to me with a Pixel 3 XL, except I chickened out and ate the charge. I filed an FTC complaint and emailed my AG, though.

Could you share your process and arguments? I'd really like to pursue it while I still can.
I saw the same thing with Slack stats at a company. Plotted over time, private messages started at like 10%, but eventually reached something like 80% after a couple of years.
One of my best friends from high school (in the 90s), highly conservative back then, asked me two years back, about how he was rethinking "this whole free speech thing"

I've lived in 3 countries. I've visited over 15. I had problems with America's foreign war involvement, and the corruption that bled from the Bush years into the Obama years. But I still came back, because despite all our issues, the Freedom to Speak is the bedrock of America and it is the only thing that can truly fight the type of corruption we are seeing today. I wrote this a few weeks ago:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer...
Meanwhile Steve Scully was suspended, reportedly because his twitter account was not hacked, as previously claimed, so sometimes the "hack" claims are spurious and need time to be sorted out.
i actually think it's useful to create a flow graph of all your most critical accounts, and how you might recover them if lost.
If you find many of them flow back to an account you cant control and may be shut down for arbitrary reasons, may want to reconsider your recovery/hierarchy.
And all the newly found elements are elements that you'd find in a gas regulator and are at levels close to detection limit. It's all so reminiscent of polywater.
>Whether the repair shop owner had copyright to the content is totally irrelevant. He had legal possession of the drive, and handed it to a journalist who found something newsworthy on it.

No. He handed it to a lawyer working for the President of the US' personal lawyer (Rudy Guiliani), not a journalist. Guiliani handed it to the NY Post and then worked with them.
Who would do this when a Software Engineer can get paid £400 a day working in the private sector and live well while saving money up for things like property or a new vehicle?

That is before we get into the potential problems of UBI itself. Which there would be numerous.
> Dunning-Kruger's data actually demonstrated that the more confident someone is in their ability, the higher their ability, statistically.

It also demonstrated that the worst-performing individuals estimated themselves to perform MUCH better than they did, while the best-performing individuals expected to perform slightly worse than they did.

This comports with the average reference to the phenomenon ("stupid people think they're smarter than they are, smart people think they're stupider than they are").

The article you linked for some reason makes this comparison:

> So the bias is definitively not that incompetent people think they’re better than competent people. [...] they typically still don’t think they’re quite as good as people who, you know, actually are good.

This is just categorically false, and the chart linked not one paragraph above completely torpedoes it. The bottom quartile of people thought that they would perform at around the 57th percentile. They clearly expected to perform better than more competent individuals.

Perhaps the author meant to write "not that [they] think they're better than competent people do", which would be correct, but the rest of the conclusions seem to follow off of this flawed reading of the data.
If nothing else, they could provide the cad files.

These arn't irregular shapes. You can draw them from the part if you need to
From the article:

“But digital models simply don’t exist for vast inventories of older parts, some dating back decades.”

I presume that this has something to do with their approach.
Correct. The popular vote is meaningless for the same reason who is leading after 500 meters in a 10k is meaningless. Nobody is trying to win the popular vote. Most of the voting eligible population doesn’t vote, and we don’t necessarily know which way things would break if folks campaigned for those votes.
Not sure that has anything to do with what I said "a solid 40-50%" being Conservative/Republican leaning. Obama didn't even get close to 55% in his best year. I wouldn't call a ~.5-2% difference "massive" (especially when most Americans don't identify with either party) but anyhow your opinion of the electoral college and the Senate is completely off topic and not even related to what I just said.