skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never given Spotify a try because of the crummy web/Electron player I saw everyone using. Wanted to try this out, but it only works with a premium account. That could've been mentioned more clearly, would've saved me the effort of compiling this thing.

I can't judge the main application but just the settings screen makes me feel like the UI library powering this isn't quite ready for prime time yet. I consider shortcuts and basic text handling like ctrl+a to select all text in a textbox to be basic features for any UI toolkit; the lack of such ease of use features really makes the GUI toolkit feel less native than the Electron cruft that's overtaking our desktops.

As for the legality, the DMCA sucks but this client is definitely in violation of it. Breaking the TOS isn't necessarily illegal so the tool is fine to use (at the risk of getting your account banned) but development can be quite risky. Hopefully, Spotify takes an interest and uses (a fork of) this project to write a faster player for their desktop clients instead of cease-and-desisting it to hell.
The headline makes it sound like they restored the fast food joint and it is going to be serving food to the public.
Those countries knew they would be treated as equals on the economic world forum, not puppet states for resource extraction.

The only remarkable thing is that we treated Japan so well, considering how its fellow far east countries were treated as client states or worse for so long.

I think it was latent guilt of using the nuke on them.
Vietnam, the Aftermath. Part IV: “Explain My Wound to Me.”
Is this necessarily a bad thing? If it protects the vast majoriy of people from going into the hospital and they gain additional immunity from covid, then I don't really see a downside.
The USA wasted 1 trillion just in that dumpster called Afghanistan, only to see its biggest rival, China, be the only one to secure mining rights with the Taliban. They really learned nothing from recent history.

This was a major defeat in the geopolitical chess game.
Well this is what I was thinking of: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect

I know someone claims my bank supports it but I've never tried.
Oh man, your comment is the reason I clicked on this link. EV was amazing. Looking forward to reliving some of it!
I like the idea and wish you the best of luck. In my experience, this is a bit of a “neither fish nor fowl” kind of situation, though.

Your model seems most viable for customers who need design work all the time, e.g. to replace a FT resource. However, whenever I was involved in a company that needed frequent design work, we ended up holding on to dear life to any designer we liked because there is so much variance in terms of quality, work habits, communication skills that we happily paid up for continuity and control by hiring full time instead.

On the other hand, for many customers of those freelance sites that you identify as comps, that’s not the situation, though. For them, design work usually comes up in chunks. So, those folks may attempt to churn and reenroll frequently in your service to match the flow of their design needs. To prevent that kind of churn, you may end up trying to manage deliverables and/or debate semantics (e.g. what constitutes a “task”, 50 app screens or picking the color of a button?), which ends up driving customers away.

This last bit could be remedied if you built a very detailed catalogue of tasks, but that may not be worth anyone’s while…
I think you must mean AKWF, Adventure Kid Wave Forms:

https://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/waveforms/adventure-kid-wav...

4000+ single-cycle wave files of all sorts of sounds from various synths and instruments and such. Lots of great noises in there!
Who can get a 3rd vaccine dose now–and who may be next
Yeah im thinking once you get to like 300k savings, should just quit and figure out something worth doing. What's the point of stacking cash to get to $2 mil anyway? What are you gonna do, be like 40 years old and buy a house and chill? Travel a bit? Nobody cares. Prob better to do something worthwhile now while you have the time and youth.
US elites mostly only care about the trough. They know it but apres moi le deluge is the silent motto of many. The Democratic is no radical different from he Republicans, they simply have a nicer face.
There is also an "indirect goto" where B is a variable to be appended to string A to compute a label that is defined somewhere else in the program.

:($('A' B))
ugh. sorry to hear it - didn't realize that Canada was still up to those tricks
Anki allows you to download preset content. SuperMemo appears to have paid content for languages, but I haven't seen how effective it is.
This being HN, I honestly thought there was a 50% chance that this would be about the game console.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey
I'm with you 100%. If they had a decent podcast experience, I'd be happy to switch but it's terrible. Why can't I mark something as already played?
I do understand [1] why 4:2:0 sampling is used, my question was strictly about 4:2:2.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204865
The name of the game is risk mitigation. In this case, there are lots of ways to rip a singular track. They are usually slow because you record the audio stream from Spotify.

But if you could get the original file from Spotify's servers and decrypt it yourself, you could automate downloading your entire library, offline forever at source quality DRM free. Unfortunately, that is illegal and Spotify is going to dick them with lawyers. Pretty sure that's what happened to this project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017167

History: after the developer decided to pivot from only being a tool to scrape the encryption keys needed to decrypt an individual song, the developer decided it would be a good idea to build in automating the downloading and also decryption of those files, instead of letting people develop that as a separate tool.

Developer and project has disappeared shortly after that decision.
Still interesting. I certainly did not know this existed.
Try adding an IPv6 address. Got the tip here on HN.
do they? is there a transparent way to vote against it when both parties big parties support it tacitly if not publicly. I vote third party every election but they never when because they don't have the money that comes from donations of big lobbying industries like military contractors oil pharma etc
We should also see to it that US military is a good ol' defense business: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/02/mapped-americas-col...
> but there is still a big productivity gap between the borrow checker and GC.

The borrow checker and GC aren't really doing the same thing though. One very important distinction in some fields (but unimportant in others) is that GC only really cares about memory resources. So you are (or should be) doing explicit manual cleanup for all non-memory resources in a GC language. Rust isn't, in Rust we don't write explicit resource cleanup for a programmable interrupt controller, or a file, or a database connection -- the resource knows how to manage itself, and Rust promises to tell it immediately when it falls out of use, whereas a GC can't promise to ever clean up which is why Go doesn't even bother providing a means to do this automatically for your non-memory resources when they're garbage collected (Java does, but again, no promises it ever fires, so, don't rely on this).
A less effective vaccination keeps COVID around longer and farther than a more effective one, though, giving the virus more time and population surface to mutate into further variants. (But still less than no vaccination.)

I'm not an expert in this, so I cannot say how significant that issue is, but this is at least one potential downside that I am seeing to the vaccination being weaker for that variant.

EDIT: To clarify since some have misunderstood: I did not assert that the vaccination causes higher mutation, quite the opposite. I asserted that the absence of vaccination (entirely or effectively) gives more opportunity for mutation. I understand now that there are higher order effects that make this more complex.
I really clicked with this part of your article, for the first part of my undergrad maths modules I had been automatically trying to connect these symbols with some global definition and getting in a muddle. I still remember the combination feeling of outrage + sudden realisation when the penny dropped that they were just "making it up as they went along"! (sort of)
Normally I'd link to archive.is, but they put everything behind a captcha wall, which I'm not keen to solve.

You can bypass the paywall with scripts disabled, but the key excerpts are:

>But the era of “hygiene theater” may have come to an unofficial end this week, when the C.D.C. updated its surface cleaning guidelines (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/disinfec...) and noted that the risk of contracting the virus from touching a contaminated surface was less than 1 in 10,000 (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r...).

>“People can be affected with the virus that causes Covid-19 through contact with contaminated surfaces and objects,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the C.D.C., said at a White House briefing on Monday. “However, evidence has demonstrated that the risk by this route of infection of transmission is actually low.”
Memory Modulates Metabolism
Related tragedy: font-weight: 300 used on webpages. In combination with low contrast (the most absurd thing I have seen was #999 on white) it's completely unreadable. I have actually written a bookmarklet to fix it: https://paste.debian.net/1207934/

I also have (partially outdated) custom stylesheet that fixes that for websites I {used to,} visit often: https://jenda.hrach.eu/w/blackweb
Mind telling where you live? I’m interested in moving to London in a few years time.
Same reason Clinton was blamed for NAFTA even though it was a GOP initiative that Bush was ready to sign but they delayed because it gave them political ammunition if the bill landed on the new guy's desk.
> A nice, down-to-earth guy, too, by all accounts.

Absolutely. His interview w/ Numberphile is very matter of fact and speaks about incredible things as if they're everyday occurrences/problems - speaks as if you could have these problems too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJ-zpJeY3E
Hackers can bypass two-factor authentication security
pretty neat
Assembly lines and clever optimizations to workflow improve the efficiency of a factory somewhat over DIY. Machinery and automation makes a lot of things much cheaper through reducing labor at the cost of consuming non-renewable resources. Global supply chains waste even more resources to take advantage of underpriced labor from disadvantaged people.

If there was a real accounting of the externalities, the sweet spot for efficiency would involve a lot more numerous, smaller producers of goods that don't require big investments in highly specialized equipment. It would be reasonable to have a couple chairs made by a regional furniture maker if not for the cheapness of burning oil to send things around the world.
Hmm, that would certainly be a solution. However, I'm a little dubious as to how this would work in practice. The current signage can be thrown on the back of a truck, bashed about, subjected to dirt and weather, and is really easy to use.

Smart signage would (likely) be more fragile, (likely) require charging or similar infrastructure, and would require configuration -- so that the sign can communicate in which direction of travel it applies and so on. Certainly not impossible hurdles to overcome, but the costs associated seem very high -- in terms of manufacture, maintenance, and training.

For what it's worth, I suspect that we will see FSD cars operating with infrastructure likely along the lines you outline in the not-terribly-distant future -- but I suspect that they will operate within very clearly prescribed zones, like freeways and highways.
I'm baking thousands of cookies and not letting anyone eat them
Related to the Spotify desktop client, I still don't understand why I have to restart the app when my internet connection is interrupted.
You are being downvoted heavily and I know it’s against HN etiquette to meta comment like this, but it feels worthwhile. I don’t even think you are wrong. However clumsily this is going it’s not even hindsight to say this was a probable and even a more likely outcome. Realistically, there wasn’t much Biden could have done, unless we endorsed another trillion plus dollars to maybe effect some change that would let a more democratic government possibly survive. It was always a tall order. The military industrial complex thrives on this permawar and it’s a net loss because that machine is greased with blood and pain.
Sure, and that's a great goal, and they can get 99.9% of the way there—but that last 0.1% may require bad compromises that aren't worth it. You brought up the Kim Il-Sung flag was rejected, that seems like a good decision, even if it means they can't entirely fulfill their goal!
Yeah but GP said this was the time Terry Tao saved mathematics. I’d like to know what he meant by that.
There are better and deeper ways of understanding money. You think fiscally sovereign nations need to borrow their own currency, and that isn't correct. You think government spending necessarily precipitates a currency crisis, and this is not only incorrect but goes against the demonstrated history of the United States from the 40s until today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

It seems like you are conflating the role of private and public debt, which is a very common mistake. Private debt does cause economic crises, public debt is a misnomer - it's generally speaking not even correctly referred to as debt. It's referred to as a debt for historical reasons, its not owed to anyone, for example.

A paper by the CATO institute showed that world hyperinflations have not historically arisen from monetary policy changes. They have more to do with... eh, its complicated. Collapses of industry in wartime, famines, militarily-imposed foreign debts and single-resource economies living beyond their means. The understanding you are demonstrating is called the Quantity Theory of Money and its being more and more called into question. The Theory of Ricardian Equivalence is toast. Not sure if you know that those are the high-falutin names of the theories you are describing as being patent fact.
Tell that to Carvana. This is their method of identification when they deliver a car. I told them I would just show the driver my license when he got here. Nope, they wouldn't do that.

Terrible company IMO. I ended up not doing a transaction with them and they wouldn't delete my data from their systems. Companies are just asking to be hacked when the store all this unnecessary data for people who are not even their customers.
I don't think 1/3 is "not far behind". https://www.statista.com/chart/16878/military-expenditure-by...

Actually you don't need US's level of spending if you are not "actively" into wars like ones in the middle east.
It’s still around! https://subspace-continuum.com/
I think you are mistranslating lupa.
I am good friends with 3 doctors, and talk to them a lot about the amazing science behind the vaccines and the incredible speed with which those were designed and developed. All agree it was done at pretty much the software speed - custom designed on the computer in weeks and then built to order - and both them and I think it's pretty neat.

It is very refreshing to talk to them because they, being good doctors, deal calmly and reasonably with probabilities rather than absolutes.

Very early, even before general public could get vaccines, all 3 of them told me to expect something like that - the virus mutates, it is expected to develop, the mutation for reproductive number going up is likely to occur - and it did - and the vaccines will likely be needing to adjust.

Even the highest levels of vaccination are no protection, and I am pretty tiny Israel in a sea of the largely unvaccinated is going to be swamped.
That's a fair critique. I feel like I've heard concerns about the potential for the virus to mutate because of the high level of vaccinations, but like you, I don't know how significant of an issue that is.
Sure, fake or stolen passports and (often preliminary) ID Cards from public offices exist and are traded on the darkweb but ID fraud is so rare it´s almost unheard of compared to the rampant fraud in the US
It's going to mutate regardless of how many people are vaccinated. The entire point is to make it so that people don't have the runaway immune system responses that are melting lungs and brains.
Did you pull all transactions on plaid auth requests? Did you store that data to build out your risk score product? You’re standard customer(one verifying their account for an ACH pull) more than likely didn’t know all their transactions were being stored and mined. They just wanted to fund their robinhood account. That is the issue.
Governments are not households. Using this metaphor only causes more misunderstandings.
Are you the teacher or the parent? I can't decide which I think would be funnier.
I'm pro crypto as a financial tool but everything that uses it for social media seems like a mess.

We already have Mastodon and that works very well without any crypto nonsense. I wonder if this is twitter's attempt to make decentralized platforms look unusable in order to drive people away from them.
It also breaks the drm. Search for "decrypt" in the repo for psst.
A staggering sum, but not surprising. I wonder how the last 20 years would have played out if we reacted to 9/11 with humility and soul searching instead of jingoism. I mean, the blowback in the Middle East didn’t come out of nowhere. Hopefully we will learn from this and back to walking softly.
Spaced repetition actually took off in recent years. But there's another component of SuperMemo that didn't, incremental reading: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_reading

It seems a lot more effective than spaced repetition, but also a much higher level of commitment and a higher learning curve. It's sort of like using a power tool. I haven't tried it, but this is a good reminder that I should.
Anyone know/remember Skyrates?

http://skyrates.net (Ya no HTTPS :S
They don't. Historians follow other historians on twitter and facebook. It is professional networking. Joe Six Pack doesn't care about the stuff my wife is posting on twitter, but the editor at some press who would be reviewing her book might.
Music publishers could demand better DRM in their contracts, though. That would lock out any devices incapable of receiving DRM updates, but it's certainly a possibility. If Spotify would refuse to budge, their platform would lose access to a lot of songs. If they agree, their users would have a terrible experience, only being able to play some songs on some devices.

In order for Spotify to have any decent user experience, they need to nip any DRM bypass as scale in the bud before the publishers find out, through cease and desist or worse. If better DRM becomes the only solution, everyone loses.

The difference between official and unofficial clients is that Spotify can have some (contractual) power over the official clients, like demand that music is cached encrypted, demand a certain limit for cached music, etc. Unofficial clients aren't bound by any contract, so the developers could easily do something they shouldn't be doing according to the terms and conditions Spotify lays out (or the terms and conditions of the copyright holders that Spotify must uphold).
We needed them to operate the structures of the government and military. They commanded loyalty from the people under them in the hierarchy. Most of those people - except for the worst of the leadership - should have been given government jobs, a steady paycheck, and amnesty.

Instead the US had to attempt to rebuild all of those structures of command largely from the ground up anew, which takes years of time and tremendous resources. During those build years, you get constant intense chaos and instability fighting you while you attempt to make progress. It was exceptionally stupid.
> years of expected life lost is the more important metric imo.

If you start doing this, you start valuing peoples lives differently, which is a horrible thing. Going just from this, you could say that an Afghan citizen is worth about 82% of an US citizen (64 vs 78 years life expectancy) or that burning down a whole palliative care unit is less bad than shooting a 20 year old (or 16 year old Afghan).

I can see where you are coming from, but this is really not a good road to go down.
Covid Patients fighting for their lives are still refusing the vaccine
I'm not sure if it is coincidence, or if it is really helping, but I play SIT code to indicate a number that is not in service at the beginning of my voice mail message. Since then, the number of spam calls I've been receiving has been steadily decreasing.

Install sox

play -q -n synth 0.2 sin 950;play -q -n synth 0.2 sin 1400;play -q -n synth 0.2 sin 1800
This will be an issue as long as the US has first-past-the-post elections.

In the current system, many people simply vote for the least bad option, because voting for a party that actually represented their beliefs would make their vote irrelevant (or worse, give an advantage to the party they really dislike).
People are still dying from breakthrough cases. Children (w/o vaccine) are dying of delta. Not to go full scaremonger but we don't know that much about long covid at this point. Plus the CDC admits that there is likely an undercount of people who got COVID post-vaccination https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

It's an "ounce of prevention, pound of cure" type of situation
There are 26 days before the 20th anniversary of 9/11. I expect the volume of frustration and anger with us politics on this war to increase substantially over that time.
Previously Unpublished Emails Of Satoshi Nakamoto Present A New Puzzle (2020)
What about valgrind? https://valgrind.org/
Although state income/capital tax is not deductible right now, after the $10,000 cap, you can still lower your AGI to zero or negative from the usual concoctions, which leaves nothing to tax, that way.
Health care. Food stability. Road repair. Energy grid repair. Public transport. Education.

We could have done so much more with that money. It is heartbreaking.
Reminds me of the ole "I'm with stupid" shirt.
Is that true? Intuitively, the more virus exists (in absolute numbers, even), the more virus may potentially mutate into worse variants. More infected people -> more individual virus instances, each with a given chance to mutate, and more time for that mutation to occur (because expired virus is replenished with fresh virus in available hosts; though you can probably fold this into higher virus numbers instead with the same result).

I'm gladly corrected if I missed something!
The scope of this thread expanded beyond CDNs several comments back.
There were several prominent epidemiologists who said early on “Covid will end up like the flu, you’ll need a yearly vaccine, we’ll have new variants and we’ll get waves of infections through out the year”.

And here we are.
I personally hold him and Jon Von Neumann at a level above everyone else in modern mathematics
6.4T / 20 Years ~= 320B for one year

Offhand, the entire broadband portion of the budget for the next 5-20 years was 65B.

Maybe healthcare lacks effective resource management. I sure as heck know I always hear quoted prices in other first world countries that are far less, often 1/10th of what we pay in the US.
4T? No, more like 1T Here is 2019:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324

Medicare + Medicaid = 1T.