skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Animated cover art is here: https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/10/apple-music-adding-animated-a...

However, it still feels very limited. They're all looping cinegraphs, they don't 'do' anything.

For an example of a genuinely imaginative liner notes experience, check out the floppy disk that came with Billy Idol's ambitious 1993 effort "Cyberpunk": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjl6As2lRGU
My bike has one so I don’t know how a car couldn’t.
Bad analogy, seatbelts aren’t intended to operate in the course of normal driving rather their effect is observed during accidents. It’s a weird nuance but easier to see if you take a step back - it’s obvious why “I take a shower everyday and I’ve never needed a seatbelt” is flawed, namely, there’s no causal linkage between showering and seatbelts. The same is true for driving in this case, driving may be a necessary condition for an accident but it’s not sufficient.

To put it another way, your sample size for the test case of seatbelt value, i.e. an accident, appears to be zero rather than large as stated originally.
>I know I'll never use

Well, let's see.

Improved tree navigation - you'll use that.

Improved shorcut configurartion - you'll use that.

Faster terminal rendering - you'll use that.

Better debugging - you'll use that.

Annotations on tabs (e.g. tab has modified content git-wise) - you'll most likely benefit from that.

Terminal profiles - you might not use that. For many it will make their work several keystrokes lighter.

And so on...

It's not like they add some exotic features. If you don't have a use for any of that, sure use Joe, Vi, whatever...
Spotify has what you are looking for.

But on the topic of Apple, I would say its just not that deep. Their UI/UX is factoring in the relevance of certain things, while also using some of the image metadata that all their audio files have associated with them. The graphics team factored in an ongoing music collector culture and their own preference and the medium its being played on (the phone and app system). It wouldn't be surprising if a future update did have basically a simple list, with a drilled-in view of what's playing, similar to most other music discovery apps.
Of course he was. I was just reusing OPs same argument that britney's use of a choreographer is evidence that she is talentless
I did something like this once. There was this critical bug in a system I had designed. It was no big deal, 2 days to fix.

Privately, the management had forbade me from fixing the bug. Literally forbade me, and assigned me lots of support work (that didn't have tickets-- it would look like I wasn't working). Then a month later the project manager makes a show of coming over to yell at me in front of everyone for this bug not being fixed.

I zero'd my personal data, walked out of the building and never went back.
Like when SUSE popped up a few weeks ago. It was a collective "well huh..."
Re-read my comment.
Only because you live in a pleasant neighbourhood, doesn't mean you are not living in the neighbourhood that is causing tremendous suffering to the rest of the world.
"their basic needs met plus a little bit of cushion to enjoy life"

Who's responsibility is it to meet these needs?
If China had the same attitude, yes. The military is in a constant race with China to get a leg up on them. It goes back and forth.
Sorry if the argument was too subtle.

The article is arguing that there is a proper engineering choice to be made (Do I include Easter Eggs? No, primarily because it is an unnecessary bug vector that erodes user trust). The root of this thread is an argument observation that users shouldn't trust the software anyway. Fair enough, that is certainly true.

But there isn't a choice for MS about whether they help with PRISM. The US government is going to force them to. In a framework of what decisions the developer makes there are no choices to be made - they have to implement PRISM.

It isn't reasonable to argue about something outside their sphere of influence when assessing what principles are good and bad. PRISM doesn't erode anyone's trust in the competence of Microsoft's engineering, it is just a general erosion of trust in American software. Nothing MS can do about it.

I'm arguing that the article should be seen as trust in engineering competence. Not trust in the abstract.
I've also recently (during the COVID-19 outbreak and afterwards) noticed a lot of fish I buy seems to be much more watery than before.

For example I like baking black cod (sablefish) but now baking the same fish causes a huge pool of water to pool underneath the fish and it also makes it hard to fully cook it through in the oven. After some research, it looks like this is due to an additive called sodium tripolyphosphate being added (maybe in greater quantity than before)? This is added to "help retain water" but obviously adding more makes me pay more for the same amount of fish as I'm now buying more water.

For things like this, I don't know who to report it to, as the local supermarket doesn't care and I don't know where in the supply chain this was added (obviously for more profits).
Yeah, that one is funny

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I had a similar experience. Surgeons can be excellent at performing surgeries but very poor at diagnosing our understanding the myriad issues with ergonomics.
A lot of the talk around getting rid of skeuomorphism was about putting the content front and centre. This seems like the opposite of that. The content is reduced to a little box and the miles of padding that seems "necessary" for a modern UI is the real focus.
"I imagine what the possibilities would be if we funded general non-military projects with the kind of money that goes into the military."

Amen.

China is. They are building a new silk road that they will control.

What's our answer? A bomb?
YouTube Won’t Pull YG’s “Meet the Flockers” Amid Staff Outcry over Anti-Asian
Latest T2 Linux on an 486 with Just 32MiB RAM
Ken Thompson Hack (1984)
But that was always the case. I have the (perhaps incorrect) impression that over time, pop performers perform someone else's materials more and more.
Using bar soap has stopped the issue for me, and it's also been much cheaper and more readily available (in stock) than liquid soaps.
This is half true, today religion is the primary driver of conflict.
YC backed a company in this space: Prometheus Fuels. The science is sound, and the scaling is economical as you look at renewables for the electricity. Some links:

https://www.prometheusfuels.com/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-ai...
Artificial life made in lab can grow and divide like natural bacteria
This is probably related to training.

Apparently, training is quite expensive - actually flying planes or firing guns and missiles, especially large ones, is expensive.

I think in an ideal world they would want to just strap soldiers into 'the matrix' and train them for free in a computer. Maybe they are hoping that they can do the cheap parts of the training with AR headsets on, and see the results of what they are doing (firing a very expensive missile at a helicopter target that would burn fuel if real) in simulation?

Traditionally I understand this has been done by shouting 'bang' and pretending a helicopter exploded. Do Hollywood special effects that only they can see actually make soldiers more effective?

Huge military research budgets usually mean that this kind of spending is driven by something like a clinical trial - maybe a 3rd military research contractor trained some soldiers the normal way, and some with VR, and then compared their performance at doing 'the real task'.

This was probably then sold as a cost saving.
When we say "military spending", much of it is not actually spent on wasted resources - it is sort of welfare for the military industrial complex and its dependent people.

It is just like social security, medicare etc, some amount is earmarked for a different group.

What we shouldn't assume is that "not spending on military" automatically implies spending on stuff that is actually good for the country.
contract award doesn't mean all 22B was spent, that often means the contract ceiling where money can be obligated to it as we buy
Half of the US family has less than $500 in the bank. A large portion of people spent less than $10 per day on food. That's an absurd stand to argue that people can afford to go hungry for 7 straight days just so the military get some headsets.

I'm not into heavy politics. But if you want to argue about job creation, I can bet that spending the above money on infrastructure (like last mile fiber internet) will create multiple magnitudes more jobs/opportunities for the economy than this.
nahh just give me $73
I'd like to mention that while Belgium did not everything right.

Having a rather small company "devside" to build the app ( it had references and a credible portfolio of > 100 apps) was a good thing for a good price.

They won from those that build the app in Germany and wanted big belgian telecom to join for the infrastructure for a much higher cost. While they only needed to change some parameters and localize it.

Result: 1 week of
delay ( 8 weeks was budgeted) and everything opensource from the start, is what I consider a good result.

Respect where it's due! Hat off

https://github.com/covid-be-app
Have you tried getting better coworkers? /s

One possible solution is to see if there are independently-run stations in your area. I live near a university, so there is a student-run station that explicitly is not allowed to play top-charting songs. So I get some good music discovery, and awkward banter from new djs. If you have access to a computer, then you have access to basically any station. soma.fm is pretty good.

It definitely is frustrating to see the same songs on the radio over and over, but that's really an issue from iHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel) owning stations across the country. Boycott iHeartRadio if you can.
Usually the goal...

Our toothpaste contains 0% raw sewage!
Huh, I find it weird that Amazon and Msft fought so rabidly for the $10B JEDI contract, and this $22B contract seems to have gone through without any fanfare.

This is 10x what Facebook paid for Oculus.

I wonder what MSFT showed to them in the demos. I imagine it must have been mindblowing.
This makes me happy as we don’t lose out to technologically leapfrogging China and their military.
"-There's an app for that."

That in my opinion is Apple advertising the iPhone as a do anything software device, a personal computer. Considering the only thing holding back the iPhone from doing everything like running GCC, Blender, etc. is a locked bootloader keeping people from easily hacking Linux or Android on there doesn't IMO make it not a personal computer. Whether you are happy with the walled garden approach or not doesn't make it not a personal computer either. But it's frankly ridiculous IMO to state that an iPhone is not a personal computer because Apple's ad copy doesn't say so and not on what it does.
Considering that there are around 150 million taxpayers in the US, this is around $150 a taxpayer. That's CRAZY.
Most of them run RTKit, I believe.
Mission planning in the field, reducing costs for the field tents that the more senior officers use, 3d maps with plans shared to the team

Imagine Battlefield like HUD for the soldiers, green is friendly, red is adversary. Think of these as a part in an overall sensor fusion and information asymmetry in the field. There are larger initiatives around info fusion across the branches and the real-time access to those who need to know
Right, but our gnee-jerk response can't just be to smash the pedal on military spending. You need to have a strategy for trade and innovation.
" Stop the cycle of war and poverty, and then see how naturally malevolent people are."

So far it is only a hypothesis, that war can be avoided if people just would not starve anymore.

(I don't think there was really hunger in europe pre WW1 for example)

Also, assuming we would distribute ressources equally (nevermind the political means to achieve that for a moment):

It no doubt would be enough for everyone today.

But the world population is already going steeply up - with people starving.

So if it would go even much more up, if no one would be starving - would it then also be enough for 10 billion people? 20 billion? How much more roundup can the fields take?

So don't get me wrong. A world with no wars and where no one has to starve is definitely a noble cause I agree to. I just thinkt it is not so easy, if it is possible at all, since there was never a time in human history without. We don't know whether it can work out at all.
Clicking on "developed country" in your link takes you to [1] which doesn't seem to backup your claims in any of the listed metrics.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country
Frankly, this thread would have been better off without your response. I don't need my use case second guessed because you have an ax to grind with other irresponsible IoT products.
I agree with all of this.

I'll add one more: so much of what platoon leaders do now is teach about technology. There's only so many hours in the day for training, and (even back in 2013!) the load was starting to cause deficiency in basic combat tasks. We just didn't have the time between all the requirements to get everyone proficient in the myriad of sensor tech we ended up carrying. Plus, if it's possible to break something believe me a Private will figure out how to do it.

>What happens if your guys accidentally switch headsets after lunch?

This right here is a question I hope they're thinking about. In an actual fight, you may need to pick up gear off the ground. What happens if you can't, because "authentication"?
This is the biggest reason why I never owned an iPod long-term. Everything had to be done via iTunes.

I owned players from Sandisk, Toshiba, Sony and Creative, and they were all dead simple. Just drag the folders on to the player icon. If the folder contains an image, that's the album art.

I owned a ton of unofficial B-sides compilations and live bootlegs, so this was the only way.
Isn't blatantly ideological stuff supposed to be flagged/downvoted?
> Use a third party music player.

Any recommendations?
cheap live satellite video/image streaming.
>corporation

Public corporation, buy shares and enjoy the loot.
Lotta bleeding edges in the oral hygiene space
> We have the productivity to afford that; we just have chosen to consolidate it to a relative few.

And absent the threat of violent force, how do you suppose we take that productivity from this relative few? My government threatens me with penalties and imprisonment if I don't give up my "fair share" via various taxes. And if I resist that, they use weapons to force me to comply.

Are you not just trading one definition of war for another?
Honestly that's more of a weirness of the '==' operator, which is kind of deprecated in modern JS. On the other hand I fully agree that non-strict definitions of equality are bound to generate weird cases around nullish values.
However typescript says:

This condition will always return 'false' since the types 'never[]' and 'boolean' have no overlap.

...for `[] == ![]`. Which is ironic because it does return true, not false. However at least it flags an error!

I wonder how much of weirdness is wiped out by linters/ts/etc.
I think war preparations probably prevent war, especially in the intelligence/communications area. Also the military does much more than just fight wars. There are many ways defense and recon tech can be used that have nothing to do with eliminating a target.
Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring the Data Sent to Apple and Google [pdf]
So china does not have a big military budget, too?
also curious if we'll see whether immune systems have been weakened or not by over sanitization.
Right, from my understanding, Lisp-Stat originated with Luke Tierney.

The latest efforts to extend and work with those ideas/code base are at https://github.com/blindglobe/common-lisp-stat and work by Tamas Papp (https://tamaspapp.eu/post/orphaned-lisp-libraries/)

Forking open source code is fine, but why try to take over the name?
Yeah. No closer to understanding the licence situation, but it's looking interesting.
Since the deal was hot did you issue a term sheet rather than having the prospective investors come up with terms? The latter can lead to anchoring.
The name of one particular month is "Megabit" by the way:

https://github.com/melaku-z/ethio-european-date-converter/bl...
I suppose this makes sense, but at a personal level, the two scenarios seem similar. Interpreters & compilers are blackbox to me, at least. I have no idea how they work, and I wouldn't be able to make one for myself. But sure, someone could teach me.
Very interesting. Why didn't this reach the homepage?

I like how you managed to make a very good functional service for the first launch, not a half-baked one.

How much time did you take to build this?
The Bodyguard soundtrack could have been recorded without Houston.

It could not have been recorded without Parton.
Just commenting to encourage you to keep at it!

I was in sort of the same position, and I found that my prior experience gave me a decent framework to hang new information on. I only realized this after 9 months of solid panic.

> I've always managed to solve the problems in front of me but in a "hacky way" and now the issue was totally revealed to me.

You solved the problem in a way that makes sense for solo development. Hardcoded values suck for other people. What's been revealed to you is that you don't know what interfacing with other people looks like.

Once you get a handle on communication I think you'll find that a lot of your experience is directly transferrable. What makes you a senior developer is your understanding of the process you're operating within.

Good luck and go get em, tiger!
Not true, you can watch YouTube in HL2 out of the box. There are videos of hobbyists visualizing a self-driving RC car from the HL2.
Prof. Ullman's opinion on the Middle East:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120806135022/http://infolab.st...
> no REPL

Personally I don't find it necessary, but the proposal for REPL has been accepted: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/596
How about putting AR helmets onto generals, politicians and soldiers, all at once due to some special occasion, and never ever bringing them back from that alternative reality where they can keep playing eNdlessWar[1] while we get on with a better reality?

[1] maybe we are already playing it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eXistenZ
tribalism is the primary driver of conflict and has always been
Thank you so much for this thorough response! I have the Armaid and use it regularly, though I haven't done any focused massage therapy. Can I ask how you found your massage therapist?
If the US army wants to supply one to every soldier then they will need much more than 500K units.

Military equipment breaks all the time and it’s not because of poor build quality, it is constantly being put through the most extreme conditions possible. Conditions that are hard to imagine as a civilian.
Let's not forget how the Internet started. Maybe a huge portion of the military is relatively low tech, but they're definitely on the cutting edge (probably have to).
> However, if a government does go down, then its currency evaporates.

Sometimes, sometimes the successor regime accepts/redeems it; I think that has been far more common when governments actually failed in the modern era.
It is how humanity has (in large part) progressed though unfortunately. Not sure when or how we can ~ever expect that to change, raw capitalism doesn't have the right motivations.
After a quick scan of the article, I can tell you that not much has changed in the interim.
> In this type of economic environment why would dentists allowed everyone to have perfectly healthy teeth?

This is utter nonsense. As someone close to the dental field, I can tell you that 99% of people already can have perfect teeth if they cut down/eliminate sugar consumption + brush and floss daily. No one does this. Pretty much all dentists want them too.
...But only because there are other rough men ready to violence against them. What was proposed was getting rid of rough men willing to do violence, not rough men willing to do violence on our side only.
Personally, I've always preferred moderation controlled by the client (i.e., a killfile in a NNTP client) rather than relying on moderators. That way, I can decide what I see.

Theoretically, bad actors would end up in everyone else's killfile, but in reality, it never really happened. Some clients at least allowed hiding a subthread so that you wouldn't see messages that were essentially a dispute between two people.

But one way to slow down the flame wars would be to rate limit the number of comments that can be posted. If you require people to wait 10 minutes to post a subsequent comment, that would definitely slow down the discussion and probably would lead to them moving on to something else.
That's maybe a good thing. Surgery is a fairly drastic solution. I get the impression that a fair amount is psychosomatic - a lot of people mention Sarno's book. Personally a 10 day Vispassana meditation retreat has given me the best relief from chronically tense muscles from my wrist, under my arm and should blade and side. I guess it depends on the person.
Veritas is Latin for truth. The first principle shown in the leaked document is to "tell your truth". I expect the name is chosen for that meaning rather than an homage to Project Veritas or Harvard.
Yes! AND strategies for innovation and trade that are well underway.
HL2 consumer version weighs less than 1lb and will likely be built directly into your helmet. Might get to 1lb for extended battery life
Curiously, many mathematical curricula used to include analytical mechanics, and some of the mathematics departments of universities around the world had the word "mechanics" in their names.
Love the "Made with" section at the bottom :)

Cool
The only reason that this may not be accurate for ML is because machine learners generally make no attempt to quantify their uncertainty in their predictions with e.g. confidence intervals or prediction intervals.

And there is a whole field of non-parametric statistics that doesn't make distribution assumptions.
The ACLU used to be my favorite organization to donate to. They had a set of principles and defended them rigorously. Due to the way US jurisprudence works, most people who are victimized by laws and courts are criminals and general scum. It takes maturity to rise above that initial distaste and accept that criminals and scum not only have rights too, but are the most important people to defend from victimization. Not every civil rights case will be Rosa Parks.

Needless to say, I no longer donate to the ACLU. I know why they have changed, but I do not like it. I will not support it. They can take their dirty money and play their political games by themselves. There are many good charities that need support.
Why would they want riyal for their oil? That would cause massive price action and destabilize their currency causing wild swings in the value of the riyal depending on the demand for oil. The last thing in the world an export economy wants is a currency that becomes stupidly expensive when people want it and worthless when people don’t. Settling in dollars allows for a stable riyal.
I think pocket reviewers probably account for the generally short time. In my day-to-day I usually did not send changes to people who weren’t already primed to receive them and sitting right next to me, so I could turn around and say “I sent you the thing” and they’d review it straight away because we were working towards the same goal anyway, and in some cases had already pair-designed or pair-coded the thing so the review was already a formality.