skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the comments here are people that use Spotify complaining about Spotify. I don’t understand what makes it a “sticky” service that people feel they have to put up with.

They have many competitors, and tools to copy your music selections between services exist. For example:

https://www.tunemymusic.com/

Also, Spotify pays musicians less than most other services:

https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-streaming-...

Spotify’s pricing is also inline with competitors. I don’t get it.
We don't actually know what the "ingredients" are for recommendations.

I don't think it's possible to draw conclusions from one's own experience with youtube recommendations and extrapolate it to others or to any sort of judgement about the quality of the algorithms. We are simply not privy to what, exactly, youtube is doing.

I think it's wise to heed Guillaume Chaslot's warnings. In the same way that youtube exploited (inadvertently or not) glitches in the brains of preschoolers (remember "Spiderman and Heidi" videos? if not, don't look it up). There's reason to believe these things can fly under our radar and influence adults in ways that are not perceptible and not something we would approve of in advance.
I believe so, however I already have a little experience with some of the concepts they use (layers particularly, although that's not too hard to grasp). Then again I'm probably only using 10% of its true capacity.

What I did was search for a few simple Procreate youtube tutorials and mimic them. I found these ones good--even if the end product isn't something you are aiming for, you get the basics down in creating them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqRhbjUQ7Qg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQpezkDuCQ&t=876s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZI-qM7PdDM

I've tried Adobe Sketch and a couple other smaller names, and Procreate is the best to me so far. It has a HUGE community behind it, so similar to a popular programming library like React, you'll be able to find a ton of online resources to help you.
You plug the GPU into the motherboard and it then asses the displayport over the thunderbolt connection.
Fortunately I've been able to find native alternatives for almost everything. If it wasn't for games and Winamp I'd probably not bother installing wine. (Winamp is the only player I've found that I can get midi files to play to my Roland UM-ONE).
Try checking this website for the model of phone you have https://dontkillmyapp.com/
This is useful but it's pretty opaque to the user as to what exactly this does.
Perhaps dang can change the link to https://catchjs.com/Blog/PerformanceInTheWild
This algorithm is bloody rude! But I get it, and to be honest it's not my fault I keep listening to the same stuff, Spotify doesn't recommend anything good. And I'm sorry but nobody can convince that Fleetwood Mack isn't one of the best groups of all time!
It rated me 6% basic... what's sad is that I'm now proud of that. I've resisted being called hipster, maybe inappropriately.

My spotify was 'heavy-eyeliner-post-punk-boomer-relaxation-dads-still-cool bad'
> When the result is predefined it's not research anymore, it's advertisement. Still calling it “research” is fraud.

Like, when you see someone who's an amazing software engineer with a great salary, and you know they spend a lot of time doing research. Then you suppose the research must be paying off. Over time, survival tends to equal truth.
Reality is too boring to film.
Year in Review 2020
2020 waves started with pretty innocent semi-politics posts aimed at discussing the impact of tech from a “biased” perspective, then it went on with Covid and semi-blatant xenophoby pointing fingers at entire countries. More recently, whatever irks a very thinly supposed neutrality, it just goes under without even trying to acknowledge its merit. 2020 has been a very bad year, surely one of the worst in the modern age, but are high level social platforms like HN just becoming another casualty? In case, is it casual or planned?
No, I had homebrew dev kits. I had Doctor V64 for the N64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_V64

For PSX, I used Ezoray which was flashed over a gameshark. and had a chipped PSX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameShark#PlayStation_GameShar...

Manuals where PDF that was shared in private circles. Both consoles were MIPS, so built with gnu cross compilers. All we really had was the gcc compilers & libraries. All other tools were custom built.
My point is that CBTi isn't what you need if you have sleep apnea or some other treatable disorder as the root of your sleeping issues.
I've recently switched to macOS and Safari with Wipr. I don't see much difference to my Firefox setup with AdNauseam (uBlock Origin) before. More on the contrary - my selected lists were very aggressive and I had various sites where I had to disable uBlock to see them properly. With Safari and Wipr, everything seems to just work.
Love this! It needs some way to save your score.
US homeland security can now track privacy crypto monero
It's really good for hierarchical models. I used it this year to model PPE usage for a large health system. It let me easily share information across hospitals and embed knowledge of how different PPE items interact with each other. As always, there are other ways to accomplish this, but it felt natural in Stan.
Upton Sinclair was a socialist. Why should we care what a socialist has to say?
I'm big into discovering obscure music and unfortunately it's become very hard on YT, you're right. If I don't constantly search for stuff I end up on the mainstream over listened playlists which I really don't want.
The tutorial is still under the development and I will update the User model logic for sure (for payments and teams features). The 'wild' overwrite of User model was minimal to set email as required field in User model.
How else do you suggest youtube pays its costs? It probably uses more bandwidth and quite possibly more storage than just about any other website on the net.
This is yet another version of the argument that democracy is good BUT people can't be trusted to make good decisions on their own and should only be exposed to carefully curated content.

In other words, an implicit contradiction.
Seems a neat way to collect information for their startup. Maybe a Spotify competitor, or a datamarket for selling people's music preferences.
You mean... it induces apooptosis?
Absolutely. By the way, in most cases you don't have to bill it at all, because the actual cost is negligible.
The $100M/vaccine price is stupid, but I would easily pay $1000 to get the vaccine early and raise money for factories. With just 20M doses it would mean $10B income for Moderna.
It's actually much easier. Some time ago YouTube added a new tab 'Watch history'. You can open it and manually delete any 'junk' videos from your history with just one click. Algorithm changes accordingly, I've checked.
Ceramic turbine part 3D printed in orbit
I follow artists I like as a way of adding them to my library and "like" particular songs if I want them more accessible without having to go to the artist page. This is the way I listen to what I want (along with occasionally making playlists).

I actually really enjoy the ability to effortlessly
discover new music I never would have found otherwise that Spotify gives. The recommendation algorithm can be weird at times, but I hear liberal use of likes and dislikes helps though YMMV.

As an aside, everyone else I've seen using Spotify tends to strictly build playlists and not really follow any artists. Not really sure what to make of that.
This is the main reason that people use Stan---squeezing as much info out of your data as possible. That and the ability to write custom models for these situations.

There are hundreds of different applications of Stan across the physical, biologial, and social sciences, as well as in finance, education, sports analytics, actuarial sciences, transportation planning, all sorts of material and chemical and civil engineering, clinical trials and pharmacometrics, etc. etc. It's most popular in fields like ecology and epidemiology where Bayesian methods are already popular. For instance, many of the Covid models (like the one for NY state) are being built with Stan. All four baseball teams in the semifinals (LCS) use Stan for analytics, for example. Google and Facebook use Stan for ad attribution and resource allocation. It's been used for models of neutrino mass and models of galactic mass, models of supernovas, and it's even used in the LIGO gravitational wave experiments.
If it's any comfort I got the _exact_ same sequence of comments/questions but with different bands I listened to a lot in 2020..

Hope that didn't ruin the magic.
My problem with Spotify is that it almost exclusively plays music that I listened to in the past, or that's on my playlists. The more times I listen to a song, the more frequently they play it.

You can get around this by closing the account, and opening a new one, but this is too time consuming, since you need to do it frequently.
René Girard: The Last Nietzschean
What did I learn from the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 as a noob maker?
> C is generally not the problem when it comes to performance issues in the kernel, which means rewriting that thing in Rust wouldn’t magically make it faster.

Agreed.

> The point being, it’s not clear yet, and to solve that requires understanding the problem, not effecting a needless rewrite in a new language.

Which is why the first question is why btrfs has issues others do not have. Some mention its CoW architecture, system design, too many features and not limiting storage to 90% and so increasing complexity. Others mention usual kernel issues.

Others mention that they had no issues to begin with and that its mixed reputation is unwarranted. I'm not clear who is right, but they are data points.

Thank you for your input in cautioning of rewrites to avoid needless work, I appreciate it.
I've spent many years working on django including production setups for 3 different companies. My strong advice is to only use Django for API calls (DRF) and the built in admin UI. Do not use Django for ANY client facing static site rendering.

1. Deploy the React static pages and JS/CSS resources completely separately from Django. Cloudfront/S3 is my personal choice. You will need to tweak the CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST and CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS in the django settings but that's relatively easy.

2. Use Gatsy or something similar to help you with static site generation using react. Remember: React is in charge of HTML/JS/CSS of any type and Django should not get involved.

3. Use https://github.com/ctrlplusb/react-async-component or something similar to help break up your SPA so the browser doesn't have to load all of it at once and only loads smaller components on an as needed basis.

Don't mess with webpack and eject unless you have a very specialized need that cannot be addressed with everything out there.
MapOut is great. Does one thing but does it very well, without distractions. Has contours (and a 3D presentation) unlike some OSM-based apps. Works well offline. No subscription nonsense, just a few dollars up front.
The article assumes the vaccine can only be sourced from the US Gov. This brings up some interesting questions about access direct from the manufacturers.

When will the manufacturers backorder obligations be filled so they sell the vaccine on the open market? Do they have any contractual requirements to sell through government determined channels?
This seems very hostile to small businesses who pay for those ads.
You ever see Taxi Driver? Apparently that movie's depiction of NYC in the 70s was not that far off from reality, and it's jarring.
Or we could just raise taxes on anyone who has enough money to pay $100 million for a dose and then give all the vaccines to the people who need them most.
Given that most public-facing websites want to benefit from SEO, it doesn't make sense to build a SPA for those websites.

I'd bet the majority of developers working on SPAs are doing so for internal dashboards/tools.
As a huge ToS fan, Robinhood did the gamification so well it forced TD/ToS to add better (simpler) PnL features to their apps. And there really wasn't anything special about their main graph either, it's just simple.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25482551

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-got-big-soc...

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid...
Sorry, I'm having trouble following this comment. In a public institution (as well as at Google) research papers are subject to peer review before publication. Now Google is adding _another review process_ after peer review, I don't believe this is something that would happen at a public university.

Do you have an example of a public university censoring research papers that passed peer review because that university believed the paper cast "an innacurate negative light"... on what, exactly?
> he only points to a specific rhetorical device used in politics

I have to clarify that I only witnessed the rethorical device being used in France, mostly in the late 90's / early 20s. It was mostly used "informally" (through dog whistle, if you want) , and usually simply by "ignoring" the debates in Brussels and hide behind the commission after decisions had been made. Only the most nationalist parties would blame almost anything on the EU. Maybe other countries behaved differently.

> The E.U. is very much a representative body

The fact that the Parliement is the most obviously elected body, and the one with the least amount of power always bothers me. Although it always makes me giggle to hear this complain from right-wingers in France, where we have a Parliement that has been de-facto powerless because of the way we elect our MPs and President. Anyway, another matter it is !
Do you have some more information about this treatment? I haven’t heard about it, but that might be because I’m not in the market for $150k medical treatments :)
edamagit for VSCode has evolved quite a bit since initially posting the alpha here. It's still in preview, but more magit and forge features are now present. Would love some more feedback, and pointers to areas to focus on. (Have had some contributions, but mostly it's me working on this)
Easy, GNOME 3 has too much JavaScript bloat, broken workspace concept, requires extensions for simple stuff like collapsing windows into their header bar, a basic feature in almost every X Windows window manager since forever.

Neither Unity nor XFCE suffer from that.
Thank you for your hard work Greg, it is very much appreciated.

Merry Christmas/Isaac Newton's Birthday!
> Doctors and lawyers are not making $50k a year

For the most part, no.

> $50k is not even the average annual income in this country

That depends which average you are referring to. It's well above the median personal income (around $35K)—the median being usually the useful average for income statistics, but a little bit less than the mean personal income. (The most common “average income” number, though, is neither of those, but the median household income, which is close it $70K, but it doesn't really make sense to talk about an individual's income being average or not and looking at a household, instead of individual, metric to judge that.)
Yes, I have a couple of notebooks. One for doodles and the other for journaling (the kind of stuff which oughtn't go on my blog).

But I have to say, I've received the new ReMarkable2 [1] about a week ago, and it's awesome and might replace my doodling notebook - I mostly draw with just black ink anyway. I made this quirky Xmas "card" [2] with it.

(It won't replace the paper journal for writing, though.)

1. https://remarkable.com/

2. https://juanuys.com/assets/posts/2020-12-19-twenty-twenty/Xm...
>That, regrettably, is what it discovered. The SEC’s investigation revealed the secret behind Robinhood’s high order-flow revenues: The company charged principal trading firms much more than the going rate. Typically, the SEC found, payments for order flow equal about 20% of the average price improvement that investors realize on their trades. But Robinhood insisted on receiving what amounted to 80% of the improvement: 4 times the customary level.

>When Robinhood made that demand, the principal trading firms with which it was negotiating informed the company that something had to give. If Robinhood were to take that much of the proceeds for itself, then “there would be less money available for the principal trading firms to provide price improvement for Robinhood’s customers.” In other words, Robinhood explicitly was informed that more for it meant less for its customers. The company accepted those terms.

There's a missing logical step here: if 80% fees mean there is less money available, so will 20% fees. So is it just that payment for order flow is inherently bad for the customer, and RH are the worst of a bad bunch?
Polar Foundations and a Primer on Logic Programming
Honestly find it confusing how almost everyone from the outside could see that teams reason for existing was PR but the team itself seemed totally oblivious to the fact.
Why didn't you click on "Not interested"?

It only takes a couple of days for interesting stuff to disappear.
Men Who Lost Their Wives to ‘Eastern Lightning’
AI is marketing, not science. That's called data science.
Well, you can decide. Do you care more about the sites you visit frequently or the businesses that use Google Ads?
I wear the scars from comp.lang.c with pride, old songs never go out of tune apparently.
How much did the first hard drives for PCs cost?
You can read the whole thing without an account, it is a public channel and the entire message is displayed on the t.me link. It's a bit jarring on a desktop browser because it looks like the post is cut off, but it's just a really really weird overflow with scrolling
Depending on how you store this data (the number of physical disks involved) you may also want to explore ZFS. ZFS and BTRFS have pretty comparable features, but given how battle-hardened ZFS is, and its ever-increasing integration into the Linux ecosystem, I'm seeing less and less reason to prefer BTRFS.

Both do checksumming and regular scrubbing to help detect bitrot, but both need sufficient redundancy configured to actually be able to repair the corrupted data when it is detected.
If you wanted to build this with Apple Music, you'd need a $99 developers account for the privilege
Das ist voll fett! Will it work for Tennis serves?
“Liberals can view it as a wealth tax”. Not really, a tax is something that the government levies on everyone subject to some tax code. What is suggested is not a tax because it’s entirely optional - you’re not paying a tax you’re buying a vaccine.
Also, what's the story with Youtube deleting and disabling all comments for autogenerated music videos? That was a really messed up move.
4% checking in here. You should be sad. You're such a basic bitch.
Any researcher who thought they could publish research about 'race and gender' and not have it reviewed by a corporate sponsor is incredibly naive.

It's an extensively sensitive subject and particularly in a field with such vague and 'subject to interpretation' results, the sponsor corp. is going to want to have a look. Considerably more so if the research is about the institution itself.

There was a specific case recently where the researcher criticized Google for something, but Google asked the researcher to include truthful information about the changes the company has already made to the system in question wherein it's been improved etc. This is a perfectly fair request by the sponsor, I think.

It's also naive for us to consider that what people chose to research, how they approach it, the results they are looking for isn't somehow altered by the researchers own biases. In fact, it's hugely arrogant for researchers to believe that they have some special access to the truth in this regard.
The issue in the context is MSG tastes like what “mono-sodium glutamate” would taste like.
I see a lot of comments about how bad spotify recommendations are. I have had great experience but I follow a methodology to keep the recommendations curated. I'll also note that I listen to a wide variety of music ranging from EDM to metal to high enery jpop to classical. What I have found is:

- Adding things to playlists makes a big difference. If you really love a song, hit it with a heart, if you want to hear more but don't love it, add it to a relevant playlist

- skip mildly bad songs

- actively dislike terrible songs (hide it on mobile, hit the no smoking sign on desktop)

I got into a chill beats phase and it took a couple months for me to eradicate it from my discover weekly but now it's pretty on point. Just my 2 cents.
As far as I know, there isn’t any real need for more factory investment. Have you heard otherwise?
I watched some of one video whose content would be described by half of the US as political opinion and protected speech. It was mainly misogyny and incitement to racial hatred.

YT’s algorithm seemed to think that I needed to keep being exposed to this, so filled my recommendations with more.

Like the parent, it has taken over a year of me choosing ‘not interested’ for YT to stop trying to persuade me that I should hate most of mankind and actively seek to hurt people who are different from me.

I’m not sure how far from ‘Do no evil’ it is possible to get but this seems like it’s the opposite to me.
Large-scale errors at Malagasy Wiktionary
Nearly all Ad Networks do not use Click-Through as their payment metric anymore
I have to give huge applause for the quality of writing. I genuinely can't tell how expansive the responses are, which is huge for AI.

It definitely has the UX feel of being a bit creepy on how well it responds.
I was really impressed with the Dell WD19TB dock I was issued from work for COVID. I had never used a dock before, but having all my external displays (I used 2 DP, but I think it could handle 3 at once if using HDMI too), Ethernet, all the USB, and charging all through one port was amazing.
A point of interest, not mentioned in the article, is that loperamide is actually an opioid. All opioids cause some degree of constipation, hence why loperamide helps with diarrhea. Loperamide is unusual, in that it doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, hence why taking it doesn't get you high.
MuZero: Mastering Atari, Go, chess and shogi by planning with a learned model
I was wondering as well. One manufacturer wants to use one charge for his employees (to ensure production), but this is sidetracking the official process.
Ah, the old "this guy bought a car, let's show him ads for cars since he's clearly a car-buyer" style of advertising/recommendation.
Had KFC a few weeks ago for the first time in forever. The MBAs have optimized the flavor right out of it. Biscuits tasted like flour. Only flavor the chicken had was the seasoning in the batter.
Clearwater
If the federal government acted like a scalper, I wouldn't feel bad about it.

Open auction, with price going as high as it wants, right down to zero.

Special categories (e.g. multiple co-morbidities, medical workers) cut to the front, and pay market rate.

Let businesses foot much of the bill. If I need to pay $1000 to reopen my factory, it might be a good investment. Free market will allocate resources.
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I don't think django tempating is as bad as you've described but one reason is that a project is long-standing and dev resources are already familiar with it.

A product manager may establish customer demand for an experience on the site that a react SPA would facilitate very well.

The org may want to dip its toe in react without throwing out or re-writing vast, stable aspects of the site that may also need ongoing changes.
My answer does not in any way reference the quality of ZFS. It only addressed the GP's question which I quoted.
I just submitted the Algolia OSS alternative I’m working on to the list: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

I’ll report back on how much traffic this brings.

So far awesomeopensource.com has brought the most traffic among all the directories mentioned in this thread.