skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not just use another service instead of Spotify for podcasts?.

User Convenience. You just have one app for your music and your podcasts. From a podcast creators point of view Spotify has a large userbase for your listeners to fid you on. Looking at the stats for a couple of podcats I help in the backend of, we tend to get more people listening on Spotify then we do on any of the other platforms.

> If you pay for the Spotify subscription I'd expect _all_ ads to be removed.

Spotify doesn't share the subscription with most podcasts (Obv exception being Joe Rogan, but thats an exclusivity deal, I'm not sure if it even went "Ad Free" after the Spotify deal as I've not listened to it in years). The vast majority of podcasts on Spotify are from podcast creators submitting their RSS feed to Spotify because it has a decent userbase. This is the same for Apple Podcasts/Google Podcasts/Tunein/Stitcher/Etc.

If Spotify removed the ads from podcasts to serve ad free versions to their paying subs without the permission of the content creators that would most likely be copyright infringement.

If Spotify asked permission to remove such ads to avoid copyright issues, creators would want to be compensated for the drop in Ad Rev. Creators would have to report lower listener numbers to advertisers because paid Spotify listeners wouldn't get the ads being sold. If Spotify did this it would be easier for Spotify to just ask creators for an Ad-Free RSS feed for paying subs (which a lot of podcasters have to give to their own paying listeners).

Edit: Spotify does have a "Spotify Podcast Ads" system, but thats just for content that is "Spotify Original and Exclusive titles" and not (atleast yet) open to podcasters who also distribute their content on other platforms.
> The leaked personal information included telephone numbers, dates of birth and, voting intentions and party leanings of over 330,000 individuals affected.

Any clue where this data originates? It mentions a client, but what sort of client would have that data? Do Maltese voters officially register this data with anyone (sounds like a serious breach of voting privacy)? If it were inferred from normal web tracking, it wouldn't be limited to Malta..
>> We still vilify the unvaccinated when both are susceptible to transmission.

They are still more likely to be infectious for longer, they are still more likely to clog up the hospital system, occupy ICU beds, and indirectly harm others who would usually be able to be treated but now can't.

And they're still dumbasses.
Okay, but presumably they used the same metric for all the countries, yeah?

Our giant American malls have a ton of roads, sidewalks, parking and enclosed interior space (which is still not within a shop)
> I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account

No no no, companies should not be allowed to this kind of bait and switch:

1) provide a free service

2) gain market dominance, push out competitors, and turn into a necessity for millions of users

3) create lock-in and exploit the userbase

Essential public utilities are regulated (properly, in many countries) to avoid this.

In 2022 services like ISP, mobile carriers, email and instant messaging are almost essential. Millions of people need them to work, buy food, have access to health and government services.

And yet tech companies are never held responsible.
I know what you mean, but I’m pretty confident OP is talking about the wild strip mall variant that plagues the American countryside.
The important part is finding someone else who is more to blame, that way nobody needs to do anything. The rich countries can blame the poor countries for not modernizing their industry, the poor countries can blame the rich countries for being larger emitters, the producers can blame the consumers for demanding the wrong things, the consumers can blame the producers for making the wrong things, the voters can blame the politicians, the left can blame the right, the right can blame the left, dogs can blame cats, cats can blame mice.

I'm sure if we just find who is the most to blame, fix up a big bonfire and burn that witch, then all our problems will go up in smoke.
A digression, there is a meta-strategy here I like to use: when researching anything you're interested in getting, try searches like "complications", "issue", "troubleshooting", they'll often reveal a lot about what can go wrong that you won't find out if you only search for stuff like "opinion" or "review" etc.
Its somewhat important that this principal only applies to criminal court.
With government, the FIRST place you look are benefits to employees.

In this case, they are paying $570,906 in 2022 in Pension benefits for 4 active employees. Now they certainly aren't paying $142,726.50 to each active employee so that means they have a string of retired workers that they're paying a good amount of money for.

An appropriate thing for an auditor to do is to then research how those employees earned their benefits. Did they "buy 15 years of tenure" for $3,200 thereby increasing their yearly benefit $40,000 per year? Did they "work" 120 hours per week of overtime in their last year to jack up their final year salary? These are real examples from a town near me.

None of these things are illegal and won't necessarily be flagged by a CPA who is being paid by the people giving or receiving these benefits. But they sure stand out to taxpayers who are footing the bill!

Think about it - all a CPA will do is check to make sure a supervisor signed off that someone worked 120 hours of overtime. They aren't going to investigate how that is even possible or likely.
That was a great story. Thanks for sharing. Ignore futharkshill‘s comment. Life’s too short to be taken too seriously.
Me too, but sometimes there are multiple commands to remember in the same root.
If you think you have worms get yourslef checked. It’s all in your stool and can be easily detected.
>Who writes the 2 different implementations of the protocol?

You mean the "routing protocol" or the "routing protocol" pronounced with a funny accent?

>In order to clearly differentiate these terms we assign the
ordinal 98 to be "routing protocols" and 0x62 to be "routing
protocols" (but pronounced with a funny accent). Protocols incapable
of encoding 0x62 should use the string "My hovercraft is full of
eels", a suitable translation of this phrase, or the ordinal 1.
> This blog post is a good description of the most prevalent convention in how to write good and useful messages.

See also:

https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/cl-d...

https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/c...
This has been tried many times, it's called "equity crowdfunding".

However, I've yet to find a single equity crowdfunding project which was a success for its backers.

Kickstarter originally allowed only artistic projects, and there were good reasons for that. Suppose you are doing an artistic project, and you go to the bank for a loan. The banker now has to guess: will other people want this product?

But if you go to Kickstarter instead, it's not some expert's belief about what people would want which decides if you get funding or not. It's the people who would want it, directly.

For "equity crowdfunding" project, that advantage goes away. Your would-be backers have to ask themselves not if they like it, but if other people will like it. We're back to guessing each other's preferences.

In fact, they should be very careful about their own preferences: If they like the product, it's easy to overestimate how much others will like it. And if they think they have a chance to get rich, they might convince themselves the product is better than it is - getting people caught in a loop between those two biases is how MLMs scam people.

And "equity crowdfunding" projects have rather leaned into that scammy angle, in my experience.
I’d love to be notified of how said bet is settled
The trials are ongoing, but the placebo group has long been vaccinated.
Wordpress-based blogs (maybe others, too) often have a timestamp hidden in an HTML Meta-tag even if the date is otherwise hidden from regular view.
> The son of two mathematics teachers who were sent to teach on farms during China’s Cultural Revolution, Dr. Chen grew up without any hope of becoming a scientist. His parents, the descendants of landowners, had a “bad classification” from the Chinese government, and were viewed suspiciously. His father warned him he would probably spend his life as a farmer. But then Mao Zedong died.

Chen moved to the US to experience the American equivalent of this.
yes, these contentless articles are just well receieved because they validate the laziness of some while invoking emotion from others.

@author - "clean code" means improvement relative to some starting point. there, problem solved.
If you don't need to comment, libreddit is significantly better, especially on mobile, than old.reddit.com.
The accounting firm isn't going to check if the funds were spent on a sprayer. They are at most going to check if there's an invoice that goes along with the line item.

Typically how corruption at small scale like this works is:

1) Person A has a budget of $5000 to buy some equipment

2) The equipment costs $2000

3) Person B sells them the equipment, but puts $5000 on the invoice

4) Person B then gives $1500 to person A and keeps $1500 for themselves.

There's obviously no record of the last transaction, and there's no way an accounting firm is going to uncover it. They just make sure the invoices are correct. They aren't going to verify that the sprayer they got is indeed a $5000 sprayer.
I call it the "ahistoric turn".

In a research project I've been doing I've been looking at the arc of human history from ancient times to the late 1700s and even the 1960s. Most people I talk to think the current situation is so unprecedented they don't want to look back two years.
> Earth is round...

No it's not, it's an oblate spheroid!

These kinds of over-generalisations and FUD only serve to reduce your credibility. Now I can't take your warning about climate change seriously!
Your comment is unproductive and needlessly pejorative.

If you are seriously trying to contribute constructively to the problem I outlined, then I think you must (a) acknowledge there is a problem, and (b) acknowledge these institutions are set up in a way to make reform difficult. (c) Figure out ways to solve it.

What is the recourse to parents who think this is a legitimate problem? They must engage in a political process, which currently involves hyper partisanship. What's going on is crazy. The federal government painted parents as domestic terrorists for their legitimate concerns surrounding schools. We are going to see more of these hyper partisan tactics until we figure out better ways to reform our corrupt institutions.

Let's not forget both sides are not impervious to racist behaviors. "White liberals dumb themselves down when they speak to black people, a new study contends." https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/white-liber...
> sips on a hookah rested gently between the two front seats

I seriously hope this isn't literal. Isn't it like bong water? With hot coals resting on the top?
I don't see how you can read the article and come away with this opinion. The author's not saying that you shouldn't make quality code, he's saying that no one agrees on the definition of clean so you should use more descriptive language.
I appreciate it a lot when a software project makes it easier to build and execute the program. So much time lost trying to figure it out, over and over again by others but also yourself. For some of my own projects, I embed required resources such as shaders and fonts, directly into the executable, to avoid having to point to the path/directory to find them. cmake build working out-of-the-box, by reducing dependencies, or making them optional.
How do terminals handle CJK characters? I remember opening something with those in konsole, and I think they distinctly occupied two columns, so I assume some width variation is supported in terminals.
Thanks for sharing your experience!

I have normal hearing in my left ear, but have had two bouts of sudden sensorineural hearing loss in my right ear that left me deaf on that side. I was given a range of options after the initial steroid injections didn't work and, since my bone conduction still works, I've chosen the new Osia bone conducting implant. It looks pretty similar to a full-on cochlear implant, since it has a magnetically attached external processor (no open port!), but the only internal gear is a stud implanted in the mastoid that takes the sound from the processor and sends it over to my good ear. I still won't have stereo hearing, but it does give "true" sound, which is a priority for me since I play several instruments.
> I don't see a refusal

> The supervisors assured me that I would be able to swear in at either the next meeting

> three days after that meeting, I received an email from the township manager to the effect of, "sorry, we hired a CPA to do that job and we have no need for elected auditors to oversee the township."

Is seems these town meetings are roughly 3 weeks apart, and he has contacted various people who have not returned his call. The previous auditor (elected) describes as being given a "runaround" also.

So yes, they didn't refuse, they just ghosted his attempts to resolve the issue. What's the big difference? As long as they stay silent, they technically didn't refuse? At what point can you say they are acting in bad-faith?
Would this be a good use of a hidden Markov model?
Sort of, yeah. It’s like the moms in the PTA going on a power trip and increasing the per parent budget from $5 to $6 dollars for the year, then later realizing the money was all spent on snacks for their meetings.
$350K per year? 2 more years, and they'll cross Dr Evil's One. Million. Dollars. mark! Divide this between the several US medical professionals involved, and we're looking at life-changing payouts.
And if you push it to GitHub/Lab, it will be there for everyone that arrives, nicely rendered.
I create a file cmds.txt in project directories which contain lists of any commands I might typically use (especially in the context of the directory where I place it). That way, I can 'find . cmds.txt' to recall. Low tech and brain dead simple, but it works for me.
12ft (3.6 meters) of a single laundry soap nor a full shelf of one type of ketchup.

This allows them to have smaller back rooms, fewer warehouse deliveries, and to restock only once a day.
Which CDC recommended advice are you referring to? In the USA our official treatment guidelines come from the NIH and they do recommend therapies for at least some patients prior to hospitalization.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/
Writing a Node.js loader for native CSS modules
>the lack of values is not a cultural thing

More than the lack of values, the "getting away with that". I am not saying we are all thiefs, but little rascals/rogues doing "alegal" stuff.

It happened in every side of politics, no matter left or right, rich or poor, smart or fool.

OFC there's corruption in Middle Europe, I could say a lot of the French and the Germans, along Icelanders and the Danes. But at least they keep the ethics and resign. Here the Spanish verb for resign "dimitir" it's a Russian name, right? Because no politician would do their shit when they are caught.

Here in Spain by mouth everyone hates the cheating politics, but IRL, in the back, everyone agrees with them and they admit they would do the same in they had their place.

If Spain fixed it shit together, it would be a torch of Enlightenment for the whole Americans. But we need a slight change of mentality.

No, I don't mean we should became Nordics, as we are great in many terms, we are the 1st country doing organ donations. We should be like that on corruption, denouncing every crap, no matter left of right.

People gets politics in Spain as if they were a soccer match. And that's ridiculous.
In reality, bicycles are often trapped between fast-moving traffic and parked cars for the majority of their travel. At the end of the day, the goal here is to save lives, regardless of who would be at fault. Although, from another user’s comment, it sounds like the person opening the car door would be at least partially responsible, and that was already the case:

> It is already an offence to open a car door, or cause or permit it to be opened, so as to cause injury, punishable by a maximum fine of £1,000.

Furthermore, getting out of a car can be dangerous. This just seems like a sensible habit. There are no disadvantages.
The old internet isn't coming back
All uploads should be checked by someone working at Spotify for compliance with their ToS, which should include not allowing ads.
Never advocated that stealing was okay. I'm just making an observation...
Keep in mind that "graphics" in console is ... old, as old as ascii-art and box-drawing characters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character#Examples
Depends on if it is a practical self propelled engine or not. Our modern military (for any country with a modern military) is 90% about logistics, and all of that is possible because trucks and trains can carry so much food and other equipment overland (they had good enough ships for over water) that a military can supply itself from back home. This is a massive change to how a military operates and their generals would not be blind to that advantage. Siege defense worked in large part because the enemy ran out of food and had to leave (the food from harvest was stored in the city walls so the defenders had the advantage so long as they held the walls)

Of course practical over land transportation is a massive change, and a large part of why our civilization can advance so far. (without tractors 90% of us wouldn't be born because our grandparents would have starved, and the rest would be tillers of the ground - as in physically running a shovel)
Maybe your jurisdiction has different road rules, but this seems precisely wrong. How can a driver be expected to stop on a dime for a door that opens into a travel lane with zero warning?

The responsibility for not thrusting a car door into the path of another vehicle must lie with the only person who is capable of preventing a collision - the person opening the door. Anything else would be a ridiculous policy.
Good. Perhaps it will encourage some people to not post on Twitter, and use something more appropriate?

One can hope...
Sure, you tell yourself that if it is a loved one smacked at your cardoor. Instead of taking 2 extra seconds to improve safety. We are all traffic.
Yes, title click bait.
I've never understood "don't judge the past by today's standards."

If today's standards indicate that someone's past behavior was dick-ish, then the fact that the standards have shifted does NOT imply that the past behavior was somehow "just fine" because... We didn't expect better of each other?

By that logic, abusive racist parentage back in the 50's is unassailable acceptable, because as you say - we're judging it by today's standards.

Acceptability in the past is no indication of an actions morality or ethical... ness.

... Words are hard.
I don’t like being logged into Twitter on my Desktop, but I often need to search Twitter. Now it appears I need an account to search?
How would you feel if they published a remastered song with an ad right in the middle?
What’s the primary export of the United States?

> Are you all really here in 2022, being like "we can't risk a Chinese national from even seeing our American semiconductor research, they will steal it and use it against us?" Are actual scientists concerned? Or just the state, and apparently most of the fellow commenters?

It’s intellectual property. The majority of the worlds cutting edge research are designed, developed, tested, and eventually marketed in the United States. That’s the advantage of free markets and gives the US first mover advantage.

Yes, it’s exceedingly important that is maintained (to the United States). If that stops occurring... manufacturing is gone, mining and energy sectors are regulated to oblivion. There’s not much left. Food and services? Healthcare? None of those produce enough wealth to maintain the nation, only information and advanced / advancing technology can support US growth.
Really appreciate you sharing your experience - I have no idea how these work and sound like science fiction! Can you "echolocate" or know where your phone is when it rings with the implant?
> miniscule budget

$14 million?
> There's plenty of well off people that steal because they want more.

Fair counter-point. I suppose as a foreman he was probably getting paid better than most of the workers he managed.
There's a Kickstarter for startups. It's Kickstarter. But looking at the current project guidelines, I think you are right that Kickstarter is not (or does not want to be) the right platform for pure software / SaaS / etc. startups (which I guess you are thinking about). So the equivalent would be something like backers pay x amount of money to get a lifetime, one-year, whatever license of the final product (in contrast to shares like in crowd investing). Funds will only be paid to the project initiator if they get above their pre-defined threshold (similar to Kickstarter). I definitely think that this could be valuable, but I'm also not sure if that space is not already covered by existing companies. Seems relatively straight forward. Somehow similar: Early access titles on Steam, etc.
That graph is CPI-U-RS adjusted which means it's tracking spending power not actual dollars paid. You want "current dollars" not "adjusted dollars"
Rare real colour photos of WWII
Next step: turn malls into train stations, and connect via rail.
Bridge collapse in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park
Hum... Your take from the idea that quality is multi-dimensional is that the author does not care about quality?
It says

"In this new organism, the number of genes can only be pared down to 473, 149 of which have functions that are completely unknown."

But if we now can simulate this cell completely, shouldn't it be easy to figure out what those genes are doing? Just start the simulation with them knocked out.
> The real issue is that good startup teams don’t have any problem raising normal investment capital right now.

I know plenty of founders of companies that raised huge rounds from top VCs and most of them would have preferred to avoid dealing with VCs if there was an alternative. VCs are a hurdle and their incentives are not really aligned with yours. Getting buy in from your customers and peers is a much more sustainable path long term if your goal isn't to pump and dump your business in 4-8 years.

The VC path is littered with dead companies that could have been sustainable mid sized businesses and successful mid sized businesses that were pumped full of cash and ran off the cliff.
Vue supports standard js/html/css. It is react which reinventing everything
Asian-Americans (in particular ethnic Chinese and Indian) have, on average, far better ACT/SAT scores than white or black applicants to good US universities.

It is an open secret that in order to balance admissions (i.e. racially discriminate) against the former and in favour of the latter, most universities downweight test scores in favour of other subjective categories like "personality" scores where Asians magically get far worse scores than people of other ethnicities. A quite divisive practice, as it is quite clearly racist, but serves "affirmative action" of raising black representation in good schools.

See the famous case "Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College", to be litigated in front of the SCOTUS this year.