skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$15 is already equal to the proposed federal minimum wage under the current administration. They should automate because lugging batteries isn’t a healthy fit for many of the humans that they are attracting at this low wage.
What's interesting is that the majority of her speech is discussing the suppression of free expression, saying how "authoritative" sources are given priority, advertiser-friendly videos are rewarded and given priority, and others are suppressed.

You can argue the necessity of those actions, but trying to call those actions examples of free expression is the kind of corporate double-speak that erodes trust.
If you're okay with self-hosting then keycloak or ory.sh seems like viable alternatives.
At least when the Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to Obama before he trotted into the Middle East they have the excuse of not having a crystal ball into the future.

Here despite all evidence to the contrary and its being a commercial endeavor, which entails conflict of interest, they grant this antithesis to freedom of expression an award for freedom of expression. Excuse me if I feel disturbed by their apparent lack of awareness or gross farce.
Shitty design. Doorbells should never need batteries. Even a tiny, tiny solar power panel and a method of power storage would be able to keep it going indefinitely.
You'd hope that there wouldn't be a single person involved with such a lack of self-awareness to suggest that a video about a freedom of expression award should have user expression blocked.
This is the link contained in the QR code: https://game.bilibili.com/pcr/1anniversarytocode/
So is Ashley Madison despite the revelations that every user of the service has been exposed as a guillible chump.
Case of sex assault victim fined for breaking publication ban
If I absolutely had to guess, it'd be that there's an early out/special code path for the delete key where they forgot to add the "checkupdate" before the break/return/whatever ^^
The title on HN was also changed.
By that logic, doing anything you aren't expert in is an act of faith. It's pretty reductive.
> How do the champions of FOSS battle this?

That's not easy. The problem is infrastructure and that costs money. Apps[0] that use distributed architectures, with rare exceptions, still just aren't non-nerd friendly.

[0] In general, not podcast specific.
If we had no grocery stores we would all own farms. Please stop providing these services
It will vary by household and with 330M people you will be able to find a group doing anything you can imagine so beware folks trying to prescribe their lives experience as representative of Americans in general.

In my household we do not trust the tap and would never drink from it directly. We have something called hard water here and came here from New Mexico where our tap was frequently brown. Both were “safe” to drink, but we choose to drink neither directly.

We buy 20 ounce water bottles from the grocery store which are filled from the “local” spring. We keep a Brita water filter pitcher in our fridge that we fill out of the tap and replace the filter on regularly. Generally we each open a new bottle in the morning and then refill it from the brita filter for the remainder of the day.
>I liked JRE, but even as a Spotify user, I don't listen to him anymore.

Same. I don't know why that is though. Perhaps because he sold out open podcasting? Especially as he has had Adam Curry on a couple of times. But then I defy anyone to turn down such a payday (I wouldn't).

Perhaps it's the abandoning of a very large community (YT comments). That doesn't affect me personally but I know it affects others.

A subconscious sour taste somewhat?
My understanding of notepad.exe is that it's a very-few-loc wrapper around a fundamental windows UI element. That's why it can be fun to see that there are bugs in its implementation.

It reminds me of this joke: Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
HN Title used to read : YouTube Sponsored Freedom of Expression Award Goes to YouTube CEO
There's another bug... open a file, make a single change (asterisk appears), press Ctrl-Z to undo, asterisk does not disappear.
Personally I don't think there's a practical difference between having 1000 bits of entropy in your password versus 256 bits of entropy, but fair enough.
Yes you interview them over the phone in an initial phone screen before you invite them in for an in person interview.

The phone screen should cover lots of technical areas with deep follow up questions and examples.

I work in a specific niche (not coding) and can tell you that I bat .1000 on technical fit... cultural fit cannot be assessed until you meet the person and they meet the team, or at a minimum, hiring manager.
I was aghast when I read this comment until I realized it was sarcasm, and then I got a good laugh thinking about the look I still had on my face. It made me wonder... how many people in any given echo chamber are simply fanning the fire due to a misunderstanding? Probably a lot.
Was it because the music was bad though, or because you were opinionated against it?

One may not like certain music, but like with other art it gets into tricky territory to objectively call it bad :) Anyway: yes, it was because we found the music not good. Or not up to par with our expectations. Or not matching our current mood.

I don't have strong opinions against music styles anymore since I went through puberty, the only period in a lifetime where that can be forgiven. Haha, I was one of those idiots who thought metal was the only true music and anything with an electronic beat under it had to die and rot in hell and fans thereof needed to be actively made fun of.

Of course life is so much better if you just listen to literally anything and decide based on what you hear. Which didn't take long to realize. That being said, there are a lot of genres which usually don't do anything at all for me, i.e. which don't make me feel a thing. And others which I almost cannot stand listening to. Most of the time individual songs though. Completely normal, but not the same as being opinionated against it.
I'm in Canada. My neighbor is in this exact situation. She's an electrician turned electrical engineer -- and then went back to electrician cuz the work was steadier and she got harassed less on a job site, go figure -- but got hurt on a job site right before COVID.

It's easier for her to work towards Master Electrician via courses than it is to actually get any random job. Her unemployment + COVID boost + schooling stipend + insurance payout makes enough that she'd probably make less at a shit-tier service job.

Why bust your ass for 10% more, when you can focus on skilling up and getting back into EE or waiting for a better job? Plus she works out like an hour a day, practices piano 3+ hours, and has time for schooling.

Outside of failing to meet someone else's implied capitalist strivings, I can't see the downside of this approach.
That's true. There is more intra-group variation because within any group you have geniuses and you have morons, which is the widest spread you can have either intra-group or inter-group.
Joe who?

Seriously, I think that there are a number of reasons why this won't pan out as predicted:

- There aren't really any tent-pole, must listen podcasts. They thought Joe Rogan was one but I'm hearing a lot of people have stopped listening to him on Spotify (I have).

- Spotify (and others) don't have the money to buy out the whole podcast ecosystem and many podcast makers I think would resist going Spotify exclusive.

- I like my podcast player a lot and there is no way I'm giving it up for the inferior Spotify experience.

I see podcasting as being more like YouTubing - sure there are outfits generating substantial revenue from advertising but many have more diverse revenue streams and reaching the largest audience is more important that an uplift in advertising revenue. Plus not everyone on YouTube is there for the $$$
Meh, cities are quite small. Their expansion can lead to eg draining marshes and wetlands (especially coastal cities), but in many places in the developed world, that happened long ago.

If you care about ecological collapse, you should be worried about intensive agricultural practices and agriculture in general. I think one should always be wary with topics like climate change or ecology that issues may exist at many orders of magnitude and it is important to focus on the bigger issues. (Yes there are very small areas to which some species are endemic but general hand waving about density is not sufficient for them: a farm is not dense)
There's already a very good, popular encrypted file sharing system called Magic Wormhole, with implementations in multiple languages.

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
I'm sure many municipalities in the US offer it but if you live in New York City, the city is happy to ship you a kit to check the lead levels in your residence for free. There's even a map that shows you where the lead-based water lines are. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/monitoring-for-lead.page
In my time at MSFT there was at least one staffing firm that was founded by a couple contractors who decided to just fuck it and make their own LLC so they didn't have to "pay the pimp" as some put it. If you went through them, you could do so as a 1099.

Given their "fuck it" roots, I'm not actually sure how much of a shield they provided between you and Microsoft's Accounts Payable. I bet they paid you every week like most of these staffing firms no matter how fast or slow Microsoft felt like paying its invoices. I'm also pretty sure they provided you with equipment (though how that works if you are also a 1099... I'm not sure).

What a lot of people who haven't done true 1099 work don't realize is... people and companies can be incredibly slow paying you. And as a 1099 you are your own collection agency so it's upon you to hassle them into paying you.

What I'm saying is... if there is a will there is a way. I bet there is more than a few Microsoft contractors who act like their own agency. It's probably a lot of paperwork, and I have no clue if it is worth it.
Of course, if our claim is that we want to avoid security bugs, and we accept the principle that (without some more specific definition) all bugs are security bugs, then any time ring fixes a bug we want to avoid using the old version...

Now for all I know, ring has never fixed any bugs and it just loves adding new API features so that this pruning has no desirable security properties at all, but in principle I can see that this is the equivalent of the standard boilerplate Linux release text which tells you that you should update to the latest kernel because they fixed bugs.

If you have a complete threat model and if you are capable of the insight needed to examine all changes and determine how they impact that model, you could successfully choose whether to upgrade based on whether a new version fixes a bug you care about. But chances are you don't have such a model and even if you did you aren't capable of the inhuman levels of insight needed, even in a language like Rust (and forgetting that we're talking about this because large parts of ring aren't even in Rust).
> I generally don't try to win given arguments at all costs, though I'll do my bit to nudge discussion in what I see as more interesting areas, both in terms of topics and insights on those.

This is pretty much my approach.

I don't try to "win" arguments on HN at all. I try to provide my perspective when it differs substantially from the prevailing, but I try to do that in a way that's not confrontational. I rarely get comments in reply that are directed at me (as opposed to the idea I've presented), but when I do, I almost always just ignore them.
This would require a degree of confidence in the benevolence of pharmaceutical companies that I do not currently have.
s/alternative/dangerous
I'm not reducing it to entirely faith, but faith takes part in it.
That whole site is a treasure trove for anyone looking to do ROM hacking or development on gameboy. I encourage other readers to poke around and see what’s there.
https://www.centerffs.org/sites/default/files/webform/intern...
Elon Musk denies Autopilot was active before deadly crash in Texas
This is exactly why the co-inventor of podcasting, Adam Curry, launched the "Podcasting 2.0" initiative last year:

https://podnews.net/update/podcast-index-open-directory
"...treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to hard labor in prisons."[0]

To grind flour, hence mill. But that is the useful version of the concept. "Reverse treadmill" is what we should call the consumer product that cost emissions to produce&operate (simulate a "load" that needs to be pushed against by a citizen with no where to go).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmill
The West Coast could use a new metropolis somewhere near SW Oregon, to fill in the gap between the Bay and Portland.
That deniability is plausible to no one but cryptographers. People don't generally keep gigabytes of random data on their hard drives for their entertainment. Of course the assumption will be that it's encrypted data, because the probability of it being anything else is vanishingly low.
A Malaria vaccine would be awesome. I have no idea if that’s possible though. I’ve known people with Malaria and have personally taken the (expensive) pills to protect myself. It all sucks.
It’s a good question; the exact instruments used would be for the employees to decide, but I would propose either restricted or common stock for the initial grant.
> nothing else comes even close to just immediately giving you a textbox to spew characters into

On my machine, when there's an Emacs daemon running in the background (so no existing windows, which might make this process faster), opening a new window ("frame" in Emacs terminology) and then closing it again takes 165 milliseconds total.

Google gives various values for "human reaction time", but one of them is 200 milliseconds.

I'd say that that's pretty close.

Unless you need to save those 12 MB of memory that the Emacs daemon consumes.

You're free to use whatever editor you want, but I find the claim that "nothing else comes even close to just immediately giving you a textbox to spew characters into" a bit doubtful.
I think we probably place too much hope in improving technology, in general.

It's a tremendous breakthrough, I'd say. But rather than focus on the tech, I'd rather see a rethinking of our governmental approach to issues concerning public health and how approval processes are set up. I'd rather focus on how we incentivize breakthroughs on issues that are most important, rather than developing another medicine that's 1% better at treating acne, for example. And I'd rather see cultural changes around adopting already existing technologies -- less than half of folks take flu shots!

I'd argue that getting flu shot numbers way up would be more of a breakthrough than any benefits from mRNA, as incredible as it is. Not that we have to choose one or the other. I'm just saying I'd like these other issues to get more prominence.
Yeah, seems like the OP goofed when parsing the date:

> Last updated 2021-04-18
Do Spotify actually manage to sell any significant number of subscriptions due to podcasts?

Personally when ever I hear about an interesting podcast, and it's followed by "available on Spotify/Podimo, whatever", my reaction is always: Okay, never mind then.

There are so many great podcasts on the open web. Those available on platforms like Spotify always seems to be people with existing celebrity status trying to "cash in". Those shows are rarely that interesting, and even if they are there are so many competitors.

Assuming you have an existing successful podcast, I don't get why you'd move to something like Spotify. Are you really going to make that much more money? Your share of $10 per month cannot be high. Of cause it Spotify throws a large sum at you, to effectively buy your listeners, then I see the profit motive.
Two economists are walking down the street. One sees a $100 bill on the ground and says, "Hey, isn't that a $100 bill?" The other laughs-- "Of course not. If it was, someone else would have taken it by now."

While I agree with you in this specific case, this joke always pops into my head whenever "efficient markets" are brought up.
> There's no privacy invasion

Slight but worrying privacy invasion. Podcasts are increasingly inserting targeted ads based on download analytics. Just the other day, I was listening to a British podcast that advertised for a local company in Seattle, where my IP address tells them I'm from.

The extent to which a podcast can target users has been somewhat limited until now. But if you use Spotify, they know what content you're listening to, and your exact listening behavior, as well as who you are. There's no doubt in my mind that they pay attention to that data internally, and very little doubt that they'll move to expose more and more of it to advertisers.
> The stealing of IP and then undercutting the bids of Nortel with the same tech but cheaper is where Huawei got their break.

There are a lot of unsubstantiated claims here. First of all, the stealing of IP. Next, that this is how Huawei got their break.

As far as I understand it, Huawei grew by developing cheap telephone switches in the 1980s and early 1990s, long before it had anything to do with Nortel. Huawei focused on relatively simple components that it could manufacture more cheaply than Western competitors, and it gained market share inside China. It only moved up the value chain as its revenue increased and it had more ability to spend on R&D. By the time Huawei was beginning to move into more advanced markets, Nortel was already a basket case.

The strange thing to me is that all these claims that Huawei made it because they supposedly stole from Nortel seem to have appeared in the 2010s, long after Nortel's demise, and they're incredibly vague. By contrast, analyses of Huawei's early history that I've seen barely mention Nortel: [1].

1. https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legac...
I wonder if that won't work as well given that we're not using this to cure COVID while we are currently sick with it. I don't know if Syphilis booster shots would make sense or if the range of things we could need to be regularly inoculated for would be far too broad for this to be useful.
If every group is a bell curve, then the curves have similar variance and similar mean as well, and the variance within each group is larger than the difference between the means, and the differences are not big enough to say in a meaningful way that one group is smarter than another.
You're being employed by IBM for 100% of the time, but you're working 40h of your time.

When it's weekend, then you aren't stopping being employed by your company, aren't you?

edit.

is this whole thread some peak of HN? when you're leaving your Google office, then you aren't magically stopping being Googler.

Same way with universities - if you attend e.g Harvard and then do a lot of shit even outside the school, then you should expect to be kicked or punished at best.

You're more or less representing them.
If ethics is confined to politics and religion, humanity is in big trouble...
This is one of those scenarios where a large organization hired a female CEO to crucify her

The wrong kind of inclusivity, California, tech, Alphabet
Aside from Joe Rogan (who's gone a bit barmy) I have no problem getting rss feeds for everything I want...
If everyone keeps saying this long enough, eventually they’ll be correct. How many economists is everyone aware of who are themselves millionaires?
I'm going to say “no”; the asterisk-in-title-bar feature hasn't been around long enough for any high-privilege systems to rely on it.
Completely agree. It seems there's no repo for this site anyway, judging be other comments.
I used LTL because it's simple enough to explain the core ideas without getting bogged down in affordances and details. It's purely a pedagogical choice, just like how nobody explains the halting problem in terms of Java.

Switching to a different notation helps with some of the practical details, but doesn't remove the essential problems that arise in composing specs.
No, I can only see their 2.4GHz networks.
Well, I can see 1 5GHz network when sitting downstairs and that's the one they have in their backyard.
Podcasts are one of the last best ways to get high quality content with easy access to ideological diversity. Given that Spotify practices censorship of content, like with the Joe Rogan podcast, I simply can't trust them with control of such an ecosystem. It would be creating another monster like we already have in so many other parts of our information economy. And I say this as a long-time paying subscriber of Spotify. Frankly their attempt to conquer podcasts makes me want to cancel my subscription.

As an aside, I've also found Spotify's presentation of podcasts to be very jarring and confrontational. For example, the Spotify home screen features grouped podcast episodes under progressive banners like "Learn about voter suppression". The podcast episodes it features are, as you might expect, all from one side of the political spectrum. I am not a fan of these companies trying to program the public based on the politics of their executives and employees. It's insulting, and just completely not in the spirit of the open podcast world.
The key word here is "trying" - still open whether they will succeed.

Agree that they should be stopped though, if it looks like they are succeeding.
Was wondering if I just invented the term, or it’s something known :)

Basically a specific semver, no major.minor or just major. Whole version including patch.
Or a characteristic of some other underlying condition that also increases the chances of being diagnosed with dementia later in life.

Dementia is a very general diagnosis and is fairly widely applied. Someone could have certain characteristics throughout their entire life, and be labelled as having dementia after those characteristics become more frequent, severe, and impairing in old age. In that case dementia can be an accurate diagnosis without informing someone about the specifics of the dementia, and the specifics can be very important.
Even if you could do that, you'd only kill a handful of bacteria. The mRNA platform doesn't contain genetic code to recreate and repackage itself.
Honestly surprised this wasn't about some internet connected coffee machine!

I expect you could make a hard developer trivia game where people have to guess if a vulnerability was found in an IOT app or a SAAS app based only on the name.
Agree, this sounds like no less of an attempt to own the employee's time, it's just better at recognizing the value of open-source contribution to Alphabet's bottom line.
Oh, I seriously thought your reply would be that they should not be called podcasts [1] since that's more of an iPod thing. Or at least with the same modus operandi of downloading files (published from iTunes or RSS or whatever) to listen to later. But then, maybe I'm just too old.

Or maybe podcasts have just evolved again, and now it's reincarnation is into streaming platforms and clubhouse rooms.

[1] This is where the word was invented, according to the Wikipedia: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/12/broadcasting.d...
In Michigan drinking from the tap is pretty universal, unless you live in a rural area with a well. Being in the middle of a couple large freshwater lakes gives you delicious water.

That said, water purification is big business. People have filtered water pitchers (think Brita) or large units that supply the whole house (Culligan)