skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you need to have a subscription to get the weekly playlists?

I wonder if you could you "scrobble" your local non-spotify song plays into a free spotify account and then scrape the generated playlists. You'd need a way to use whatever song metadata you have locally to find spotify's copy (if any), a way to drive plays (if you have to use the official client, have it dump to a null audio sink), and a way to scrape playlists.
I gave Deezer a try and I've been quite pleased. The main problem I had with Spotify was missing music from specific genres/countries. Deezer let's me upload my own mp3 files, which means it has the most complete catalogue for me that any service could have.
As somebody who has lost a family member to suspected CTE, fuck off.
> Not a crypto expert, but isnt possible to remain e2e and yet giving you have a central middle-man, that this middle-man have access to all the unencrypted data?

No; this is specifically what end-to-end encryption is designed to prevent. In E2E, the data is encrypted at one end and it is not decrypted until it reaches the other end, because no one in the middle has the decryption key.
And if LOST were only 3 seasons it might be remembered as a classic and not a train wreck.
Yet they all are.

There have been a long time since I saw any FTP link in a page that random people are expected to visit. I'm not sure anybody will miss this functionality.

About people that can't install software, those are probably behind a firewall that prohibits FTP too.

But anyway, browsers are paranoid about never breaking anything, so this is surprising.
The expectation with all forms of useful insurance (health, auto, umbrella, home/renter's, life, etc.) is that for most people most of the time, they'd be better off not having it.

But in the rare cases when someone does genuinely need it (e.g. your house and all of your possessions burn down, you need treatment for cancer, etc.), it prevents financial ruin.
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At least in California, they can't make the choice to purchase alcohol or cigarettes until 21. The more the science links football to permanent health effect, the harder it is to sustain the logic to let them play as "consenting adults". Say nothing of the lengths to cover up some of these effects by the NFL and probably the NCAA.
That's true that it's everyone's right to make their own decisions, but it's a little grayer when that decision-making process is as exploitative as it can be.

I'm happy to watch pro football, because the players there (at this point) are grown adults who know the risks and are getting compensated for their part in my entertainment. I find that more difficult to justify for college football, where (in the most generous interpretation) many students are playing unpaid as their only route to getting a (in-name-only) college education.

I can't see a justification at all for high school or youth football, where it's not at all clear that the participants are in a position to consent to the damage they're risking on themselves.
They have removed two items from the box. That saves them money. The price is the same. That means that they are saving money, unless there is evidence that the cost of the phone manufacturing went up. You have provided zero evidence of this, even in the face of the well-known trend that manufacturing costs go down over time. Good day, friend. You can continue having this argument with other folks on the thread, but I'm signing off here.
>Most organic matter decaying behind dams is carried in by the river after the initial flooding.

What is this based on?
The dams producing the most methane have actually flooded forests without removing the trees.
>> unbelievable amounts of olive oil

Out of curiosity, how come?

I have a close relative who has kidney disease and was forced to cut all salt from their diet. I cook for them (I don't mind unsalted food myself). I think I understand a thing or two about such a drastic change to one's lifestyle. It's not an easy thing. My relative was mad for everything salty - cheese, cured meats, chips, everything. But they have found the discipline to cut it all off. Unfortunately, cutting salt from one's diet doesn't bring kidney disease into remission. I don't believe anything does :/ Anyway, more power to you and all that.
While this is a good idea, having a `.dockerignore` reduces how much Docker has to load into the build context. For projects with large histories, the `.git` directory itself can be rather large. Add to that directories that hold build artifacts, documentation, and you are unnecessarily increasing the time it takes to start the build process.
“The meeting didn’t happen” isn’t what you said in your previous comment.
I have an issue which may or may not be a sinus issue:

I have phlegm in my throat, constantly. I need to clear my throat (through voluntary coughing) every few minutes. If I don't do that, the phlegm dries in place and I end up with a restricted airway and difficulty breathing. I can't really sing because my voice will catch on the phlegm.

If you know of anyone with this symptom, or who is familiar with this symptom, please let me know.

So far I've seen an allergist, an ENT, and a gastroenterologist, and the response from each has been "that's not my problem, see someone else". (The ENT did at least stick a camera through my nose and photograph phlegm stuck to the sides of my throat, which gives me a response to the people who say "what if you're just imagining it?")
How long does it take to generate boards?

An alternate approach would be to repeatedly generate the board after the first click, till the board has a hole under the click.
Today my OQ2 arrived. I created an account just for the purpose of pairing the device. I used my real credentials and a gmail email address. I got banned immediately by FB, and cannot init the device. FU FB.
Facebook is NOT blocking the Post from posting. They are limiting sharing. This headline is a good example of way it may have been the right move. Misinformation spreads fast.
A customer doesn't have a right to the attention of a human, at least in the US. It's your choice as a consumer to use googles services or not. Well almost, some you can't get away from which kinda makes more sense towards legislation.
Their excess in mortality is very low. It doesn't matter there are countries with even lower excess in mortality.
It feels very helpful, thanks. It's good to have things informed by lots of deals as opposed to speculation.

In my experience the conversation eventually has to be about the product you're selling at the moment - preferred shares in a private company. It may be that for the founders you work with, your role is to sell the actual financial product.

"This is how your preferred shares will increase the fund's IRR and fit with the investment themes and click for LPs" is really all people who actually write checks need to hear.

To some extent the preponderance of rich fools is the ultimate refutation of the very idea of a deck. You're really selling a high-risk, high-reward opportunity via a financial instrument your buyer will repeat-buy, and you should focus on communicating these fungible aspects of what you do instead of what makes you special.
Anyone know what Facebook’s benefit is from the mandatory linking? At this point pretty much anyone who wants a facebook account, has one. And the quest is niche. They don’t need it to drive facebook usage.

Is it data? If so what’s the expected value of data they’d get from quest linkage?
It's not just that, they (Twitter) were actively suspending people that were posting the article from Google/Bing cached pages. They have also seemingly prevented the story from trending very high or very long.
I can't comment on their system, and as a long-time HN user overall I find it a great place to have discussion on varied topics. That said, I'm working on a new alternative site and welcome you to check it out. It's called sqwok.im and it's a sort of hybrid between Twitter & Slack/Discord, where each post has a chatroom instead of a comment thread. In beta mode and welcome feedback.
> As somebody who has lost a family member to suspected CTE, fuck off.

Please don't do this on HN, regardless of how wrong or insensitive another comment is or you feel they are. Perhaps you don't owe them better, but the community is fragile and we need you not to put this kind of pressure on it if you're posting here.

Given your comment, everyone can understand why you'd feel that way. But it's still against the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I don't recall them treating Snowden particularly well
This really has nothing to do with liberal or conservative. It has to do with who is in power. When conservatives held the political reigns, they "cancelled" all marriages that didn't align with their traditional values. (for instance).

We're faced with many more authoritarians of a leftist persuasion these days, but that doesn't mean conservatives have any fewer authoritarians in their ranks. It's a problem of constraining power in general.
What do you call it when LGBTQ folk are disowned by their families? I know several such people, and it sure feels like "cancel culture" to them.
Nice one, thanks. I'm just waiting for my webinar confirmation, and will surely ask the question when I'm there.
Cern has blocks of metal to contain the heat in these scenarios.

There’s no way to quickly transfer the energy from a flywheel however.
Pretty much the usual: All emotions, no statistics. Keep people scared and compliant.

On Oct 05 the WHO announced 750 million cases worldwide. On that day they also counted a total of 1 million fatalities. This means the IFR is 0.13%.

Attempting to shame me won't work.

Stop restricting all lifestyles for the needs of the few.
Here's the article in question.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...
That one's got bipartisan support.
To be fair, the fact that it was published by the New York Post already seriously undercuts the article's credibility.

Edit: and also the fact that it was written in collaboration with the President's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
perfectly okay with this.
what you might not notice is that we all have the freakin chargers, too many of them!

even if you take just your malfunctioning device, by itself, to the store for repair, they give you a whole new phone with another set of headphones and chargers

maaaaybe there is a point about “and they raised the price anyway!” Yes, Apple has large margins, yes, new consumer goods cost more than they previously did. It is weird to reserve this argument for Apple or smartphones. I would pay more than +$30 for a Lidar sensor

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Why would they have documented illegal/potentially illegal activity in the "official schedule" anyway? The claim that the official schedule somehow supports the rebuttal is pretty flimsy.
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Windmills do kill birds. Not as much as housecats though, so maybe we should get rid of those first. Also, you can paint one out of three windmill blades black to drastically reduce the number of birds who die from it

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/black-wind-turbine...
> directly verifiable censorship like this is just begging for legal trouble and monopoly investigations.

If Biden loses. If he wins, it might very well do the opposite.
The dumb counterfactual assumption but "logical" reason is they already have a working facial recognition profile of everyone without a mask but they need more masked training data to work around it and can't simply digitally add a mask to their old training set.

Contradicted by what we know about current facial recognition technology but in a "make sure that the bullets are sterile, we don't want any wounded prisoners to die of an infection before we get any intelligence" sort of way.
This seems like an incomplete summary. Shipping companies are subject to similar common carrier regulations, even though they're not monopolies, because "just hire some random guy to drive your packages around" isn't a feasible replacement. In a country where almost everyone with any serious media presence is on Twitter, it's unreasonable to tell certain arbitrary subsets of the media that their thoughts are off limits.
Unfortunately. Just an example. Gay/Trans rights would also be a good example.
This comment resonates with me so hard. Specifically TLS certs, private certificate authorities and Consul. Like I wanna run my PCA out of Vault (right?), but if using Consul as the backend how do I bootstrap? Sounds like the reply from Michael seems to suggest running the integrated backend, which I can get behind.
They wouldn't be fighting for their right to work, they'd be calling a guy an idiot, with tons of examples and evidence, and that'd be the end of it.

A claim like that doesn't even impinge on their right to work.
Byline: "A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it."

I don't know where the reporter gets the sense that they're "very particular." It's pretty common sense: "You are not a lawyer; don't speculate on points of law in discoverable media."
The article is talking about Elysium reactors:
http://www.elysiumindustries.com/technology
That same average person is just as apt to have a failure connecting to that FTP server in the first place because of support issues going across their NAT router.
I sometimes e-mail myself and leave the item in draft form.

Combined with webmail, this can be used to transfer files into or out of situations when you have nothing but internet access, and don't want to use a third-party service. It's also useful for keeping certain kinds of important information, which is then easily accessible anywhere via webmail.

By keeping the items in draft form, and not actually sending them to myself, I can edit them as much as I want, replacing their content and attachments, without any clumsy re-send workflow.

I'm already logging into e-mail, so using that is simpler than using e-mail, plus some other, separate, online service. On-line storage services have complicated UI, that support sharing workflows and whatnot that are completely irrelevant to this use case.

I run the mail server myself, so the data "stays at home". It's on RAID and backed up more regularly than some of my other storage locations, which is a good reason to park certain information there.
A little over a year ago, while working at Google I needed to work from home for personal reasons. HR told me “we have done extensive studies and it doesn’t work so take a personal leave”. Okay. In another issue I suggested to my manager we stop using “blacklist” and “whitelist”. He said no one else had a problem with those names and of this was a personal issue take it up with HR

Google will never change unless forced to. I quit soon after.
In case you haven't noticed, in medicine there are some conditions for which no one-size-fits all cure exists. I happen to suffer from chronic sinusitis since my youth and am actually trying this right now, even if I only see a slim chance that it will work (tried about 10 doctors in the last 30 years, had operations, nasal showers, cortisone, etc.).

Btw, did you know that a digital rectal massage can terminate chronic hickups? Look it up, it won an ig Nobel prize.
I think the NY Post story is going to be discredited pretty quickly, and even if it is true, it's nothing new.

That said, I think Twitter massively overreached on their efforts regarding this particular story. It would have been far more effective to just label these tweets as containing potentially misleading information. The story would have died out tomorrow and life would've gone on. Instead this has blown up in their face spectacularly and directly lends credibility to the idea that they have their finger on the scale for Biden. If Trump wins reelection I imagine that he will immediately use the full force of the DOJ against Twitter.

At this point, Twitter might as well just lean into it, and go all out for Biden. They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't, so might as well pick a side and hope that you're on the winning side.

FB might get off here for only "slowing down" the spread of the article, but maybe not.
And you don't even have to be good with computers to read Hacker News...
I 'm really glad that social media are discrediting themselves. Censorship has been going on for years but the blatant covid-powered covert misinformation along with the blatant suppression of competitors might finally turn off enough people away from them. I always though of them as the continuation of reality-show trash TV , which always had an audience but nowhere near to the proportions it has today (even if it's dressed up with makeup and ironed suits). If people learn to finally shut up and listen instead of shouting it will be a good thing for public life. Or they may just realize there's no way to agree and everyone goes their own way. Both are better than a fruitless stalemate.

(easy with the flagging guys. half the comments here are flagged. You re supposed to flag spam not anything that you wish wasnt there. wishful thinking isnt gonna help your cause)
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> Do you think it's acceptable for someone to circulate a manifesto that argues that conservatives are unlikely to make good engineers, because they are more authoritarian, and authoritarians are less creative, and are less likely to challenge the status quo?

The actual argument is that conservatives have lower Openness to Experience on average and they're thus less likely to be interested in working at a company like Google, that places such a high value on being open and stuff - this doesn't mean that Google is inherently ideological or biased against conservatives! It's an argument about people's individual interests and preferences, not skills or ability.
Does this [1] from 2015 meet your criteria?

[1] It’s Time to Put an End to the NSA’s Bulk Collection of Americans’ Metadata https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/04/its-time-put-end-nsas...
> Fermi exclusion principle

This is the Pauli exclusion principle, in case someone wants to learn more on the subject.
I am amazed how civil and illuminating this particular discussion thread is. Thank you all!
> We as the United States trained his staff in torture in the School of the Americas at Fort Benning

While the School of the Americas would eventually move to Fort Benning, it was in Panama (in the US controlled canal zone) when this was happening. I don't think it was moved to Columbus until some time in the mid-1980s, about a decade after Pinochet's rise to power.
>This is the point of standards

Except apple doesn't use standards. They use their own proprietary ports.
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Have you ever read an article in the mainstream press that spent space publishing metadata?
The question is whether our institutions of higher learning (high school and college) should be sponsoring a sport where the vast majority of players are getting brain damage. They've shown CTE in people that never played past high school football, and they didn't get a dime for playing the sport. We don't let kids in that age group buy cigarettes or alcohol, why do we let them play a sport that has a pretty high possibility of causing long term health effects?
Middle-click is the devil's button.

* Attempts to hide the 'middle click & drag' line.

Obviously you're referring to the rectilinear mechanics. But, would middle click work on a hex grid?
Is it really true that an employee speculating about the monopolistic nature of their employer might get themselves into legal hot water? If Google got taken down by one of their developers saying 'our employer kind of seems anticompetitive to me...' in an email, would that developer really have anything to fear from the government? It seems like the corporation is protecting itself with this sort of advice.
They seem top quality to me - what am I missing?
That’s a powerful set of scare quotes around “legacy”. FTP, by any reasonable definition, is legacy, and if you need FTP, you have FileZilla, or the terminal.
This just means that companies are predictable. Google is at least thinking long term and takes on huge projects, unlike most non-tech companies. I love that they finally launched Waymo even if the scale is small right now.

Tesla wants to make money just like Enron, but their strategies are quite different.
This is something AWS gets right, and Digital Ocean and Linode both get wrong (they offer no cloud firewall of any sort, to my knowledge).

It should be trivial for me to lock down the ports of my instance, from the VPS web UI. AWS lets me create a new instance which is entirely closed to incoming connections except for port 22, which is closed except for whitelisting my IP address. This gives me good assurances even if my instance is running a vulnerable SSH server. It's also trivial to block outgoing connections, where that's appropriate.

It also means my instance is spared from constant probing, which keeps the logs clear.
Here's Jens Mönig's opening keynote address to Snap!Con20, in which he discusses HyperBlocks, which add APL-like vector and matrix processing to Snap!

His delight in programming is so contagious even with social distancing and teleconferencing!

Snap!Con20 Keynote - Hyperblocks

Opening keynote address of the Snap! Conference 2020, UC Berkeley, about APL-style hyper-operators (working on scalars, vectors, matrices and multi-dimensional data) and the fun to be had applying them to media of all kinds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qR4vTAw4w&ab_channel=JensM...
It has a clear upside. I don't think it's a secret at this point that the values of Silicon Valley are in sync with those of the right wing of the Democratic party. These companies are acting in their self interest.

We can make appeals to the ideal of free speech or point out instances of hypocrisy all we want, but it's a futile and demoralizing thing to focus on. It probably makes more sense to view Facebook and Twitter as media outlets with their own editorial agendas, just like the Washington Post, Economist, Daily Mail, etc. And then disengage if their agenda is at odds with yours.
> regulating this space of tech will only lead to less innovation

You might be ultimately right about this, but you certainly haven't proved it. A common theme is a large company will use its leverage to make a product that is better and cheaper than the alternatives, demolish their competition, and the sit on their laurels for the next decade, with the exception of a few updates that provide vendor specific features to encourage vendor lock-in.

In short, Occulus could become the new IE 5/6.
Miniseries are very expensive. Once you have your sets and art assets and actors and costumes you can crank out 2-10x as many hours of content at a much lower marginal cost.
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Parent might be flagged because Facebook didn't censor anything. Twitter did.
But… you have no idea what the reasons were and how much each argument weighed.

The CEO of Anker (they make chargers and charging accessories) estimates that 1 year of smartphone sales leads to 300,000 tons of e-waste from charging bricks. This matters way more than speculations about shipping costs. Have you seen Apple packaging? Nothing about it is light or cheap.

I really hope other companies follow suit.