skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! We don't store any data and natively connect to external data warehouses. This means we're way cheaper— no need to move data or store a copy.
Spotify runs a monopoly in uncharacteristically bad ways. They strangle the life out of independent musicians and punish the most creative ones with no visibility. It's also a means of propping up rich artists and big industry over artists that can't afford to dump thousands if not millions of dollars into promotion of their music. I hope they fail, and that independent music stores and personal music libraries come back into style as soon as possible.

Under the covers, most unknown artists must pay Spotify to get their music played, otherwise they languish in low listener territory, which makes it almost impossible to be heard or to be taken seriously as a musician. This happens because Spotify prominently displays a monthly listener value at the top of every artist profile, that does not move until each artist has spent a certain amount of money on spotify ads, or generated volumes of external traffic to their user profile... It comes across as a subtle yet brutal form of extortion and gatekeeping, similar to mob "protection fees" levied upon store owners historically.... The store owners in this case would be literally any musician that wants to make their music available to spotify audiences.

It's collusion between many major interests, and likely why phone storage has been historically kept low, so as to encourage streaming as the only viable music playing option on mobile devices, which own the largest share of music listeners currently. It's no coincidence that bandwidth is also limited, in order to discourage device users from straying off of the path of promoted playlists and platform suggestions.

We would have no Led Zeppelin, No Prince, No Queen, nor Pink Floyd likely if this type of regime had a strangle hold on independent music in the past...

If you notice now, only pop music and old chart toppers get airplay now. New artists immediately make their way onto charts within 2 years, because they are sponsored by major labels, and funded straight to the top. Many of the artists that succeed are "Nepo Babies" with industry funding and connections that use the same ghost writers as major industry artists. This is why a lot of modern music sounds exactly the same.

There used to be multiple radio stations, record stores, and many venues where new music could be heard. As Internet social media, audio, and video platforms grow to strangle and gatekeep what is seen and heard, very little independent music makes it to people's ears -- often because big industry platforms don't own rights to the lion share of that work. Musicians that do "make it" often get terrible and exploitative contracts, to which (already) rich "nepo babies" that seek fame will gladly take, because losing money does not hurt their futures.

It's all grim... We're not even touching on the dismal payments Spotify makes for streams, which is well known as exploitative. Musicians are praying for change and the demise of these greedy platforms.
I'm surprised that I'm not seeing very many "I am innocent!" Most of it seems to be thanking people and religious sentiments.
That's my biggest issue with capital punishment. You can't take it back, if you're wrong you just killed someone's child, parent, sibling, or combination thereof.

While being sentenced to years of prison for a crime you didn't commit is also horrible, you can at the very least be released if you're found innocent.
gog does what you describe: refurbish good old games and make them playable on your modern computer
Because these are probably better expressed as metrics. A good observation platform will try to weave all of these concepts together to form that picture you're describing. Some observation providers call these events or annotations.

Theres a difficult cognitive dissonance for looking at a logged event and know that it's unusual or not. Some signals are in fact positively correlated with a failure, and some times it's just noise. Good tooling hopefully makes the distinction of these two options as easy as possible.
Non-involvement is a logically faulty/impossible position long term, you can find plenty of non-involvement very obviously, but I don't think you actually make an effort to understand what is written and by whom here so what does it matter.
Not a lawyer, but my understanding last I looked into it was that names and rules cannot be copyrighted (names can be trademarked though). In very limited cases a novel mechanic could be patented (famously MTG 'tapping' of cards). The issue overall is that no one wants to risk it in court, so there's no recent precedent to take inspiration from.
Russia has massive incentive to keep Europe dependent on their fossil fuels.
> However murder is considered a mortal sin that separates one's soul from god and that cannot regularly be forgiven.

By Catholics, specifically. Evangelical Christians don't typically share this belief.
I ran into one instance just now where this problem happened:

In the first tutorial, at some point you have

> word = ‘Hello’

> your_name = ‘Somename’

> word + your_name

‘HelloSomename’

Now the course asks me to fix it so it says ‘Hello Somename’. My first approach was to enter

> word = ‘Hello ‘

This fixed it, but the course wasn’t happy. Instead I needed to type word + ‘ ‘ + your_name.

Previously in the course, the course stated that all following three solutions were correct for introducing the space:

‘Hello ‘ + ‘World

‘Hello’ + ‘ World’

‘Hello’ + ‘ ‘ + ‘World’

Because of that feedback, I thought it was confusing that one had to use the third solution in that later part of the course.

Hope that feedback helps. Otherwise, I think this is course absolutely fantastic! Congratulations on creating something so special!

Edit: excuse the weird ticks; I’m writing this comment on an iPad
Australia and Canada famously have awesome, fast, and cheap Internet access compared to the United States.
Comcast now offers vastly higher upload speeds (10mbps -> 100mbps) so long as you rent their modem, which is an additional $25/month, but also comes with unlimited data. Paying for unlimited data separately costs $30/month if you own your own modem, but doesn't yet support higher upload speeds. It's unfortunate that this is the case, but for those who need higher upload speeds, it's at least possible with Comcast now.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/want-faster-comc...
And honestly if your answer to this is yes, you’re in need of deep help.
They recently(?) locked everything useful behind a paywall, unfortunately
Those can all easily be emulated in software, if you're determined enough.

There's nothing about the WebAuthn protocol that forces hardware backed key storage, other than everyone collectively agreeing it's a good idea. A bot author would just ignore that.

Firefox already includes this functionality, gated by flag (security.webauth.webauthn_enable_softtoken).
> However murder is considered a mortal sin that separates one's soul from god and that cannot regularly be forgiven.

Don’t think that’s true. Murder is considered a grave sin but not one that can’t be forgiven…remember Paul (who wrote several books of the New Testament) was a killer, so was Moses in the Old Testament.

I think the only sin mentioned as unforgivable is “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” which is very vague.

(Was raised Christian, no longer one).

Edit: Another comment there’s a Catholic-evangelical disagreement on this, so maybe that’s the case.
I am sharing these two links on the danger of supplements. I am inclined to believe they are at best useless and probably harmful.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161208-why-vitamin-supp...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2022/08/01/stop-...
I think Signal takes its community temperature from their forums rather than other places that people normally talk on the internet like HN, Reddit, or Twitter. It is rather odd and those forums are pretty trash if I'm to be honest. There are a lot of people that fight tooth an nail on there to make Signal as static as possible, meaning no new features or anything else. A particularly interesting one I saw was a user saying Signal has pretty much solved the E2EE part and needs to focus more on privacy and anonymity[0] and a user just said that's not what Signal is about. I've seen users argue about deletion as "well you can't guarantee message wasn't seen, so don't 'trick users'" and argue that data sent to you is unequivocally yours and no one else's (even saying if someone accidentally sends you a nude that this is justification to not delete. Because they want the nude). So I've stopped going there because the environment is toxic at best. But on the other hand, I think places like Reddit/Twitter (and even HN) are critical on Signal in ways that don't make sense. Just creates too much noise (Twitter threads are just full of users asking about usernames no matter the topic. Come on people. I'm frustrated too, but you're just noise).

I love Signal and think it is a great problem. I think it is too slow (e.g. username rollouts...) -- especially with Moxie's famous fuck decentralization speech -- and needs to actually adapt to the moving ecosystem, but people complain about it in weird ways. For better or for worse, right now it is the best game in town simply because messaging apps require networks. We'll see if they last though, because they aren't adapting fast enough. I think this would be a shame. But it is also a shame that Signal is failing so hard.

[0] https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-needs-to-shift-to...
I think other people have sort of answered it, but a more general version might be:

If you observe an extremely unlikely event, you should update your Bayesian prior about how likely that event is.
Yeah I love that one.
> work in embedded debuggers

That is extremely interesting. I always thought that the debugging tools we have are cool... but we could do _so much more_ to observe the systems we develop. And the scripting languages in most of the embedded debuggers I had worked with sucked.
Note, jury doesn’t necessarily decide sentencing. Just guilt or lack thereof.

If you mention you know about jury nullification you’re going to get dismissed as a juror.
Absolutely and then some! I personally would argue that D&D itself—5E in particular here—is actually a fairly middling tabletop game. It's held back by a lot of historical cruft because even new editions end up being forced to stick to decades-old design decisions for the sake of tradition. A simple example here is the distinction between ability scores and ability modifiers: this is an old D&D-ism and trying to remove it sparks complaints about how it's "not D&D", but it's frankly some unnecessary complexity and other tabletop games lose nothing by dropping scores and just using modifiers.

Apart from the core design, D&D is also pretty middling as a product. Being a DM for D&D is hard—a fair bit harder than running many other tabletop games—and the book are at best a so-so resource: there's a lot of extra prep and careful balance that rests on the DM's shoulders, and doing it right means either falling back part-and-parcel on adventure modules or doing a lot of careful tuning and reading forums and Reddit threads. In an ideal world, the core books would include everything you need to know, but in practice the best DM advice is outside the core books (and sometimes even contradicts the books themselves!) Many other games don't have this problem.

To be clear, I don't think D&D is a bad game, but plenty of other games out there have clearer core designs, better presentations, easier-to-grasp rules, and overall more polish.
Wow! Good to know that you seem to be doing fine. It hasn't always ended well. :(
Imagine you set up Schrodinger's cat experiment where you have a photon pass through a double slit and if it goes through the left slit then it electrocutes the cat in the box and if it goes through the right slit then the cat is spared. You set up the experiment and leave the box for two days and then come open it to "measure" if the cat is alive or dead. The mystery is that its hard to understand how performing the measurement of opening the box can change the outcome of seeing a healthy cat or one that's been dead for two days.
Yeah but if you sue they have to at a minimum respond. It might just be a bunch of affirmative defenses but at least you'll have a human rep "at Apple" working on your case. I don't know if they are incentivized to wrap up suits via no-pay settlements.

Just $10k would be 50 hours @ $200. Maybe his cashflow was such that he couldn't manage this by that time but coming up against like $1M revenue a year it seems silly to do all that other weird stuff (like crashing some kid's birthday party? hope that was an exaggeration) and not do the one thing that guarantees some type of attention & response.
No, it’s not like sticking a voltmeter on a circuit. The double slit experiment definitely does not show something obvious. If you look into it a bit more about the wave function collapse, you will see very surprising results, if you are not familiar with it. I never heard anyone say it was obvious when they learned it. :)
Easy, 100%. Do you imagine that fusion occurring in the parent body makes any difference? Tidal locking involves nothing but gravity and friction.
I use a pretty cheap refurbed 10' Android tablet I got. But I would love to have a big e-ink tablet for further work.
No. Most of these systems use enough "bits" in the key or whatever that brute forcing it would basically require hiring the entirety of AWS for a hundred years and also winning the lottery in terms of luck.

Raw number crunching power of silicon would need to double like 5 to 10 times before it's even a thought in the NSAs mind, and I am in the camp of that never happening. There will never be enough computing power for cheap enough to crack a wallet holding $1500 in bitcoin, unless quantum computing literally magics up a solution, which might never happen, even in theory.
Maybe not "vague", but "underspecified".

ZFC models the set of real numbers, but only provides a model for a measure-zero amount of specific individual real numbers. It just says "yeah they exist".

People like Wildberger believe that anything that exists in math should have some way of determining its exact value, otherwise, what is "it"?
Not sure about the countries you mentioned. The link shows top 5 for broadband speed:

- Monaco

- Singapore

- Hong Kong

- Romania

- Switzerland
Three simple changes which improved my life in 2022
There can’t be anything more profound than a state execution and I read these with a great deal of some feeling I can’t put my finger on… respect? reverance? seriousness?

Insight into the very final moments of a persons life — especially with such clarity — is incredibly rare and yet, on this web page, distressingly common.
One of the many reasons to not carry a cellular device, or at least leave it off or in airplane mode.
What makes a good standard library?
I've been working on a new programming language and I've started to think that the design of a language's standard library (in terms of error handling, consistent naming, consistent argument ordering, types, etc) has a greater impact on the learning curve and ergonomics of a language than the more commonly discussed syntax differences and unique features.

For example, I can _never_ remember if a function in JS or Python mutates a list/object or returns a new copy. Without editor hints this was an annoyance, as I'd have to try it out, check the source, or search the docs. Such issues never happen with a functional standard library (as in Clojure) where you can always assume immutability.

Meanwhile in Clojure, if I've been gone from the language for a while I forget which list functions return a lazy sequence, a seq, or a vector, and I find myself making frustrating errors as a result. Or how some functions (like map and filter) take the collection as the last argument, and a few others take it as the first.

It seems like a poor standard library design requires acquiring much more 'trivia' about the language to be successful, to write performant code, and (sadly) to pass many technical interviews.

What do you think makes a good standard library? A bad one? Do you have any favorite features you'd like to see more of?
>but certainly there are a few wrongful convictions in there.

And that's the best argument against capital punishment.

A wrongful conviction with a long (life+$X years) sentence allows for wrongful convictions to not only be reversed, but then the wrongfully convicted can be released, hopefully with some restitution.

If someone is wrongly convicted and executed, there's no useful recourse.

If someone is correctly convicted of a heinous crime, keeping them off the streets is effective enough to stop them from committing such crimes in our society. What's more, I'd say that decades in a 10x10 box is much worse than the sweet release of death in a few years.

I imagine some folks would disagree with that assessment, but that's how I see it.

If it turns out later (cf. The Exonerated Five[1]) that they're not actually guilty and we'd heeded the rantings of some people[2], they would likely have been murdered by the state for a crime they didn't commit. How is that fair or appropriate?

Sadly, we seem to have forgotten about Blackstone's Formulation[0] here in the US. And more's the pity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

[1] https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/central-park-five

[2] https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-news-trump-death-pen...

Edit: Corrected prose.
- vitamin D (at least 20-30K IU in the cold months)

- magnesium chloride (5-10g/day, 625-1250mg elemental magnesium), great on its own, indispensable with vitamin D which uses it up as co-factor

- omega-3s (in high doses), probably better a high EPA/DHA ratio as you don't need that much DHA and EPA is more anti-inflammatory

- astaxanthin (great for sun protection, antioxidant)
Hopefully, you are never in the position of facing a really hard decision. One option might lose your life. The other might, probably will, lose your soul.
It's tragic but it seems like anyone who regularly does any wilderness activities/adventure sports knows one or many people who have died doing it. I know some that have drowned, others that fallen due to badly placed cams. It's awful but, as the article says, if you know enough people it'd be bizarre if you didn't know a few...
> We already trust phones and computers not to be compromised for things like online banking

Sorta, kinda. "We already trust phones and computers" because we have no better alternatives yet.

There's a reason online banking is at the front of the push for device attestation, and thanks for Google happily obliging, rooting your Android phone is pretty much pointless now. This is coupled with a parallel push to do your banking through a mobile app, or at least to use it as a second authentication factor, which makes the app necessary just as much. This means we're already undergoing the transition I'm talking about: in the nearby future, you'll have to use a pristine, unrooted, unmodded phone from a blessed corporate vendor, to perform basic functions like paying for things and managing your account. And yes, such device will be appropriate for signing everything else too - and the vendor owning the key will be your Trust Authority.
By the "justice system" obviously.
You can't revoke it but the question is whether it can affect future redistribution of pre-existing derivatives. The license appears to say so, but even if it does it may not be legal and thus would be voided.
"are all written entirely in Ruby on Rails" ... then promptly rewritten in something else :) https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/rearchitecting-airbnbs...
In a representative democracy, it doesn't matter whether 99% of the voters are behind the issue. What matters is where that issue is in the overall stack ranking of "important" issues, where "important" is defined as "effective for the purposes of winning elections".

Basically, when it comes to voting, is this going to be the reason why you vote one way or the other? Or is it going to be the usual cocktail of taxes, abortion, immigration etc? If you have an opinion - no matter how strong - but they already have your vote, why should they care about it?
Yeah! A component of the value of pair programming is not only that they may be more correct than you about how to write part of the code but also merely that they have a _different_ way to write the code. That difference -- the juxtaposition of two approaches -- can generate meaningful insights even if _both_ approaches are individually wrong.

We pair programmer almost constantly at my work, and I've grown accustomed to the feeling of "oh yeah, good point, I didn't think of that". Coding alone misses those moments. Copilot brings it back halfway (or quarterway, or eighthway).
I can see this happening on my own git hosting too. I've started moving my Go code off GitHub and the module mirror shows up every 25min for each repo it's aware of doing a full clone. Thankfully the few modules I've moved are very small ones with very little history. This won't come anywhere near my egress allocation for that box.

But the whole thing is frankly a little rude.
I'd add to that, this is essentially a kind of auto-socratic explorer for a topic. It constantly questions the assumptions of the user, albeit in a rote and very simple prescripted way, and could still lead to insights or new perspectives for the users. This is also a major potential benefit of technologies like ChatGPT IMHO. If we expect it to know things we don't, we might be disappointed, but if we treat it as a well-meaning teacher with skills in pedagogy who depends on our own knowledge, I think we can reap great benefits.
Collagen supplementation has shown to be really effective in various meta analyses. Helps with joint degradation, tendon repair if you do sports, skin elasticity, etc.

This is a representative one focused on joints, but other studies look at appearance of aging etc:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00726-021-03072-x

Collagen supplements are fairly cheap, biggest downside is to get 5g per day you need to take like 5 pills. It's not a small amount (which kinda makes sense, it's structural)
Me too. A light socket was apparently powered via two separate circuits. I turned off one but not the other. Idk what was happening because I touched a live wire with my hand while my elbow brushed a metal door jamb so I think the juice flowed through my forearm and not the rest of my body. Made my arm buzz, but didn't really hurt and I was able to let go. New rule is just turn off every circuit in the house every time.
I use it, I am not "almost no one" :)
There was a good thread recently where a lawyer helps distinguish "perpetual" and "irrevocable", which us laypeople tend to confuse.

Basically the license is perpetual in that there's no default expiry; but it is NOT irrevocable. Consequences of license being revoked would then depend on details, jurisdiction, law,precedent,court, potentially past vs future work, and whether you're feeling lucky, punk :-/
I've kept a shielded bag in the car and house for a while now for that purpose. Rather than futz with settings, just drop it in the bag when I want some "off-grid" time. Apple's latest update clearly states that even when off, they can still location discover the phone.
I'm pretty sure he meant the Texas accent, given the number of "y'all"s I've seen.
Apple devices still operate when "off", FYI
Cool, great news for England. In France the building regulations include RJ45 in every non-wet room (including kitchens!) on a weird electrical standard that basically allows cat7 speeds but also TV frequencies. So every newly built house or appartament is internally wired for 10Gbps, which should be fine for the foreseeable future.