skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hate how little space is used for album art on iOS iTunes, it's even more pathetic if you try to plug an iPad into your stereo and imagine that it would have a nice big image of the album art filling that gorgeous display like it used to do, hahahaha NOPE, you get a crappy little popup that's the same size as the goddamn iPhone player, no cover art you can recognize when you look up from a chair across the room for you!

I also hate that despite there being a "lyrics" tag lurking in every track it is never pre-filled when I buy music off of Apple's store, I always have to go visit dodgy lyrics sites and cut and paste. Admittedly this is more a problem with the entire setup for distributing music digitally, I would bet money that even if a musician does stick lyrics into their uploads, it will get stripped out somewhere along the way when it's transcoded into whatever format you're actually buying.
...with this one weird trick your babysitter doesn't want you to know! /s

With a headline like this, I'll wait for the TL;DW
So if you say that alien scientists created life on Earth and is hence intelligent design, sure why not. Earth could be some alien civilization’s lab for all we know..

But then at some point those aliens, or the ones that created them, or the ones that ...... created them ..., must have been created spontaneously.
Persona2vec: A flexible multi-role representations learning framework for graphs
Actually my original concept was very close to startplaying.games! I ended up not pursuing it because:

1. I did a survey and it seemed like paid GMing was not ready for primetime yet, you can read about it in this blogpost [1].

2. I have been working on this by myself extremely slowly by myself since 2018. In the past year I've gotten more serious about trying to build micro-SaaS businesses. I decided to cut scope, focus on discovery, and just launch the darn thing to see where it goes.

I've been pretty lucky myself playing with strangers, but yes a rating system is definitely something I'm considering and was one of the topics in that survey I mentioned earlier.

[1] https://roleplayful.com/blog/origin-story-and-game-master-su...
I've been out of college for a looking time. I'm not a particularly nostalgic person, but there are a couple books I still have from college, and the Dragon Book is still one I like to read.
This is only going to get worse, as the price of first-class animal protein rises.

It doesn't help that a lot of mis-naming of species happens. So, Australian fish and chip shops sell "cod" and chips. It's not northern hemisphere cod.

"Snapper" is almost ubiquitous. Oh, thats "seabream" is that the same as "bream" or "brim" ?

"Flake" -thats shark. What shark!

A lot of this is the up-scaling inside a family. So, Tuna has three or four sub varieties. What's going on is that lower grade tuna is passing for higher.

Or farmed for wild.
The author mainly has an observation. To me, it looked like they were writing for emphasis and not as an indictment about Apple's view of artists or anything.

Cover art is no longer useful for music discovery or intriguing fans when an album "drops". Those were UX/UI things last ... century. Now they aren't. They're vestigial embellishments at best.
They’re outsourcing firms
Australian news organisations have been asking for this for some time now. Facebook never listened, and is late to the party.

Just how many missteps can one company make?
Is every discipline now destroyed by Intersectional nonsense?

"Analyzing the dolls of elite girls shows that playthings reinforced gendered expectations but also allowed for imaginative play."

"Barbie dolls tend to get a bad rap. Critics rebuke them for promoting harmful body standards and other sexist tropes in the minds of young children."

Except for the millions of girls who like playing with them?

"But some scholars note that the dolls also allow for versatile, wide-ranging play, because of their lack of prescriptive narratives. Despite their faults, Barbies can become anything—or anyone—the child wants them to be."

Some Scholars ?

We are now attributing 'Kids Like Toys And Have Imagination' to the narrow testament of scholarship?

"These toys carried strong messages about girls’ expected roles in society. Like modern Barbies, they mirrored the body ideals of Roman times, in this case small breasts and wide hips. Because they resembled adult women, they were likely intended to help young girls contemplate their future as wives and mothers."

So dolls aren't 'toys'?

They are just fascist propaganda?

If they are 'long and thin' they reinforce 'Evil Gender Stereotypes'?

But if they have wider hips and more 'body natural' they reinforce 'Evil Gender Stereotypes'?

The doll makers were regrouped by the 'Domninus Cultural Senate of Men' led by 'Claudius Mansplainus' to make sure they made evil dolls for conformity?

Or is it perhaps 'many girls like dressing up and being pretty and Barbie is a doll some girls like' ... and 'ancient girls also liked playing with dolls, representatives of older women who they aspired to be'?

And that despite 2000 years of advancing knowledge, we still have not figured out how to see basic truths through a wall of ideological noise?

Did they miss the most important point and how 'Ancient Dolls related to Trump's disgusting Tweets'?

This was painful to read and the scholarship was lost.

What is 'remarkable' about the toy is that it seems to reflect almost perfectly the aspirations of people in similar situations today.

The 'dolls' really aren't that far off Barbie, and probably represent in young ladies most of the same social artifacts and aspirations.
Did Symbolics Pte. Ltd. bother to contact Luke Tierney[1] before taking both his code and name and co-opting them as their own?

Edit:
[1] https://homepage.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/xls/xlsinfo/

(I guess the downvotes for a reasonable question provide the answer)
The problem today is that you have these nice laws to protect the media, but they themselves are not taking responsibility for their own actions, instead they pander to the prejudices of their readers. They have failed to realise that "free speech" (and other rights) can be exercised in a very negative way, and are undermining their own society for the profit motive, or other political motives.

Regarding Hong Kong, this is a nice and detailed video by some Hong Kong folks including an ex-executive council member https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95VohJu-14w
My daughter literally put a smiley face on a roll of tissue paper and used it as a stuffed toy, so yeah they can be pretty creative given the chance.
I've been working from home for even longer and working from home when my children were born was awesome. Being able to be a bigger part of the first year for both children was great for our whole family. Having the flexibility to do so was great. I definitely adjusted how and when I worked but I wouldn't have traded that for anything.
US death rate jumps by nearly 16 percent between 2019 and 2020
https://archive.is/ynOm2
I love vinyl and half the reason I buy it is because of the artwork, but I've also had and love my Spotify account and have had one since the month the service came to the USA.

Folks complaining about Apple and art are just preaching to the choir, the vast majority of users could care less, and thats what frankly Apple and Spotify are catering to, micro thin Jony Ive devices that are one micron wide and cost $1k, small album art is a distant secondary consideration.
I don't know if there is a term for this already, but [1] really shifted my mindset. Basically if you own the platform / store there is a strong incentive to reduce the ability of products to keep their brand-authority.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...
It was in the Android repo, which used Gerrit.

I never dealt with readability, because Android did not require it. In fact that was part of their internal recruiting pitch: fed up with readability? Come work on Android! Heh.
Not everyone is in their 20s in an unfamiliar city.
First, your comment makes no sense:

a = 1
b = 2
c = 1
a == b => false
b == c => false
a == c => true

Is that surprising? Equality is transitive, inequality is not.

Second, if you have to reach for old javascript "features" (or got forbid PHP) to defend a language you're in a bad, bad place.

Third, the broken equality is not something that's usually praised about javascript. In fact the first rule of javascript equality is that there is only one situation in which `==` is the correct operator: checking that something is null (because that avoids having to differentiate between null and undefined, papering over one javascript wart using another). In every other situation you want "strict" (===) equality.
I was about to comment the same thing, but you beat me to it.

This sort of edge only helps if it’s scarce. If widely available, it ends up being table stakes and breaks the advantage.
Biologically Speaking, This Is Why Humans Are Born to Die
4 floors, 150-year-old brick, random steel girders in annoying places, and a broadband line that comes into the building at almost the least convenient place possible. Yeah, I need roaming.
Have you talked to a hand surgeon?

I did, after going through the months of therapy and various treatments. He told me that he sees this all the time - that some people (~10%) just have variations in how their tendon sheaths form in their wrists. For most people, it never matters. For people who use their hands a lot, it does. If you hit that Venn diagram of being in the 10% of the population with this problem and also heavily use your hands... therapy isn't going to help. You need surgery.

Now, does this apply to you? Maybe not - it is not the typical problem. But if you have tried everything else, ask a wrist/hand surgeon.
Designing Winterbloom's Castor and Pollux
I work with them on a regular basis.
You are correct, talented folks. But they get the short end of the stick when it come to who does what.
Moral is not super high.
I see. Can you talk a bit more about the review process where you work to ensure no unlicensed code is committed? I assume there's either an automatic or manual, rigorous process that's followed.
Yes. There are active Android malware campaigns sending out links via text message. I know because I recently received one.
If you're interested in a podcast tackling this sort of material while trying to stay true to facts I highly recommend Subliminal Jihad. They even have an episode on Weird Scenes. https://www.patreon.com/subliminaljihad/posts
Not all conservatives. There are some who actually advocate for a carbon tax.

Also, lots of religious people are socialist as all git-out, and some organizations advocate those political positions officially.

It's easy to hate on the stupid, uninformed conservatives. Just like it's easy to hate on the stupid, uninformed leftists.
A few use-cases I can think of: GeoIP spoofing (watching streaming shows not available in your country), bypassing IP bans from places, preventing DMCA letters from torrenting, and getting past restrictive firewalls that block websites
Another takeaway from this post is the album, as a unit of music, falling out of vogue. The album name doesn't show up anywhere on the Spotify/Apple Music UI - you have to go deep into the artist pages (?) to find it. Streaming is the main mode of consuming music for most people, and streaming platforms only care about the number of plays.

It is sort of sad, because some of the best pieces of music over the last century have been albums where the songs are tied together in some sort of progression - these are often called concept albums. The Wall, Ziggy Stardust, American Idiot are a few examples that come to mind. Soon there might come a day when nobody actually takes the time to listen to an album from start to finish.
other interesting related article and HN thread:

- [Continuous Typography / Max Kohler](https://maxkoehler.com/posts/continuous-typography/)

- [HN Discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26523550)
Please don't post cheap ideological flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Btw the opposite side thinks that HN is dominated by your side (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
Can you please give more concrete example that is valid js but is absurd logically?
The Art of Detached Focus
It is not that hard to fork. Just look at the sheer number of Chromium forks.

Even Firefox had one or two until recently.
> 1 and 2 -> easily duplicated by some Asian country.

This implies some curious assumption that Asian countries are somehow innately better at this sort of work? I'm not sure that holds up.

Certainly the environments are different, different standards for acceptable pollution, acceptable levels of corruption, wages, safety, government subsidies, etc. These vary as wildly within Asian countries (Japan, Korea, China, ...) as they do between western countries and Asian countries though, and it's really not clear to me which countries environment is superior.

Assuming you're comparing to a high corruption low safety/environment/wages country... Lack of corruption and fraud goes a long way. Wages and safety cost less as things become more automated. I'm not sure how subsidies break down, but I suspect that there are more available for this sort of technology in the western world. Etc.
As a kid, the only real toy I had was Lego (and a bike, etc). I had other odds and ends but we didn't buy toys (my family was financially secure, my parents were just cheap/not into material stuff). Being the youngest grandchild of a large extended family, there was a lot of Lego. If I wanted to play "space", I'd build a rocket ship.

I had friends and cousins in a similar situation but because thier families were probably cheque to cheque or worse. They didn't even have Lego. We'd make toys with sticks or stuff we found on garbage day, etc.

As I got older, I had school friends with everything (full collection of Star Wars stuff, etc). They were always bored. "There's nothing to do!" :)
I do the same thing! I find that with vinyl I’m more likely to listen to the whole album. With streaming, I’ll hear a song I like, remember another song, hop around all over the place.
I’m pretty sure even a computer would agree that whether a defendant is sentenced to prison or not shouldn’t depend on whether the judge has eaten lunch yet.
That's interesting, are there more examples of such languages?
This is an open source BMS if you want to see how it's done. https://github.com/Teslafly/OpenBMS

Otherwise, there are lots of BMS's you can just buy a hook up to raw cells.
For that to end diabetes, you'd need to keep the cells in the body... which has two difficulties: first, the cells need to be protected from the immune system destroying them and second, the cells need to find a place in the body to live... and then you have to find a way to keep their numbers regulated.
Are We Automating Racism?
I rarely look at the control panel. It's usually easier for me to type in what settings I'm looking for in the windows taskbar search and it pops up immediately. Although I can type in "Control panel" and go straight there as well. Seems like it may have been a while since you've used Windows.
Not to mention WP:CANCER [0], though it's less of an exponential curve today than 5 years ago.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
I collected a bunch in an article: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe.... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429942

I'd also be interested in any search engines I missed, but only if they use their own crawlers/indexes.
They kind of say: "look good, sound good."

Having worked in this industry myself, is it definitely a talent to have good stage presence, good presence in front of a videocamera, photogenic and modeling skills. Not to mention charisma when dealing with radio and TV interviews, fanbase, etc.

It's also a talent to sing well, to sing consistently, to be able to channel inflection and emotion on command in a studio or on a stage.

There is more to being a pop star than the songwriting.

(Note I'm saying all this while still holding huge respect and value for the songwriters and producers themselves. I'm a total music fan.)
This was (is?) the idea behind Paper & Plastick Records [0] in the MP3 heyday. The "paper" is a download code, and the "plastick" is a vinyl record along with it. Pretty fun concept IMO.

[0] http://www.paperandplastick.com/
Nukes very much did not prevent North Korea from counterfeiting US dollar bills: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/3819345.stm
If that’s true every paper that references life’s origins needs to be retracted. If natural processes can be responsible for abiogenesis then intelligent design becomes much less likely, which is as close to falsifiable as you can get for a statement of history.
How about having some understanding of complex numbers? Wasn't it an Italian who started to use sqrt(-1)? I don't see how that'd be practical.

Disclaimer: I'm not a mathematician.
You joke, but they have Makita branded UBB drives lol
Just brick that's old enough will do it. Mine's something like 150 years old, and it's absolute murder to drill into, just incredibly hard, and it's either dense enough to act like stone, or it's absorbed enough moisture over the years to look like a faraday cage to wifi.
One isn't better than the other. This thread itself is full of people saying the same shit about both android and iOS.
The QuickTime Player wasn't that bad considering that all other media players like boxes and the best 2nd place looked like RealPlayer. Taste shifts over time and display technologies also add to our preference. It may be bad today but back then, we wanted the UI on computers to look like real electronics with a 'brushed aluminum' material finish.
Some first numbers on how Google News Showcase is working
Not "lots". In terms the entire music consuming industry, "more than previously (which was nearly 0)" at best
> If this is what it takes to get people to wear a mask when sick (as habit) and wash their appendages

That’s the noble goal, but in reality it seems this strategy has led to enormous divisions, eroded the credibility of our institutions, and required the support of a censorship appendage clothed modestly by the fig leaf of private enterprise.

Telling the whole truth without trying to manipulate the behavior of adults feels like it would’ve been a wiser approach.
>In terms of speed, we find that developers have to wait for initial feedback on their change a median time of under an hour for small changes and about 5 hours for very large changes. The overall (all code sizes) median latency for the entire review process is under 4 hours

I worked at Google from 2014-2018. I'm extremely skeptical of these numbers.

Based on my experience working on three different teams and sending changelists to many other teams outside my own, I'd expect something more like 3-4 hours for small changes (<50 LOC) and 1-2 days for large changelists (500+ LOC).

Google has so many automated changelists that I'm wondering if that skewed their numbers. Like if someone just clicks through 10 auto-generated CLs and approves them all, did that count for a bunch of near-instant review cycles?

That said, I was a big fan of Google's code review process. I know people complained about the unnecessary level of process and the hassle of getting readability, but I found it all a great way to spread knowledge across teammates and improve programming skills.
An investment isn't marked by the expectation to rapidly sell. I have many assets that I've held for years and intend to hold for the rest of my life, they are still investments.

I am not an expert on the German real-estate market, but the first search results on Google indicate that Germany has a very active real-estate investment market and that home ownership in Germany is among the lowest in the world, the majority of Germans rent their home.

Either those people are renting from the government, or they are renting from a private landlord, either an individual or a corporation. If they are renting from a private landlord, and once again my very cursory research indicates 96.7% of housing is privately owned, then that's a big sign that the landlord owns the property for the purpose of deriving an income from it. Given that 56% of homes in Germany are rented out (one of the highest rates in the world), that indicates that at a minimum, 56% of homes in Germany satisfy the textbook definition of being investment properties.
TL;DR - a bunch of people died from COVID last year, which hadn't impacted the country before last year. ~345k in 2020, about 547k since pandemic began. Third leading cause of death in US behind heart disease and cancer. Still about 1000 people a day dying from COVID, which is a rate that's decreasing as vaccines roll out, but variants still present some risk of new spikes.
> One easy way for a cell to do to increase the yield of a stuff is to have literally more genes.

Wat

How does this work? Do they encourage expression of the genes that actually make stuff?
Eh?

So, while this whitepaper is news to me, how is this an "NSA backdoor".

Reading up on this, it sounds like

* it was required, much as with phone tapping, by the US gov

* ergo, ISPs needed it, were mandated to have it

* therefore, CISCO implemented it

* this protocol was for lawful intercept. Police, FBI, everyone.

While beyond annoying, this is not a back door for the NSA. Nor is it even secret. Before you get all pissy, you should at least state fact as fact. Not exaggerate. Not make it about a specific actor, when it isn't. And not during a whataboutism.

If your goal is to let people know, I assure you, spouting unvarnish, direct truth will help a lot more.
Deflation incentivizes delaying purchases. Less purchases means less revenue. Less revenue means smaller budgets for employed staff.
> 4.5 kilograms of CO2

So, an absolutely negligible amount of CO2?

By virtually any metric? i.e., you, as an individual, exhale that much CO2 in a week.

Hold industrial processes responsible for CO2 emissions, not your website. (Unless you're bitcoin, I guess?)
> You have really odd expectations of a small team making a targeted tool and for which you have expounded at length about how it doesn't work for you

I actually agree with the parent.

I've been a long time ST, and I've found significant limitations and bugs; since they haven't been fixed/improved for a while, and there were no news, I switched, and I'm not going back again.

While the parent's post may have been better phrased, I think that it's correct that with a better communication, they could have retained more customers.
I would not worry so much about that.Not for a while.

The actually concerning aspects about AI safety in my opinion are more about misuse/abuse as well as critical processes/decisions without human oversight. To be deliberately malicious, AI has to be strong, if not general. Both are very difficult. It is good to think about those things though

Perhaps you will enjoy this:
https://heurolabs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AIS/overview