skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. That was using Geekbench 3, which according to Linus, "showing partiality for ARM64 devices and being a bad performance measure of x86-based system." Geekbench 4 released in 2016 is much better.

2. The "2012" Mac Pro stated is actually using 2008 CPU, with the lowest configuration.
If you've got any Electron apps, you kinda sorta do already have Chrome installed.

That said, I generally agree that requiring Chrome to run an app is not great.
Not much would happen. Another minor flutter in the tech world, a bunch of people finally realizing just how much they've given up to one company, and then everything would go back to normal, and everyone would forget that Google rules their existence. Besides, GMail is already compromised - it's a Google product and they can (and do) examine the contents of your mail for potential advertisement and to build their internal profile of you.
I'd say that's because df[start:stop] mimics python's builtin list slicing, which includes start but excludes end, so this dictates the behaviour of indexing without .loc. By contrast, df.loc[start:stop] is a label-based indexer, and labels can be anything (integers, strings, datetimes, categories, etc.), so it doesn't always make sense to exclude the right endpoint of the interval.
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I agree. Its most often the case that we arrive at problem to solve based on our own experiences/or troubles. A builders passion is fueled by his own problem and he can think of selling it if he see that the problem is present in life of others as well. Most successful products starts like this.

Trying to hunt for problem that others are facing won't is not at all motivating for a hacker mentality. And even if he is able to discover challenges of others he probably won't be able to execute the solution for it as neatly as he cad do for challenges of his own life.
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Thanks for this comment. I think you articulated the thought process that this post aims to speak to beautifully. Builders do want to build, and finding an audience first and doing the type of tedious customer development work described in this post IS an impediment to building, which is precisely the point I wanted to make.

Assuming that the goal of building a product is to ultimately generate revenue, having a temporary impediment between conceptualizing a product idea and building the product is a good thing. This impediment allows for the builder to pause and objectively scrutinize his own idea, using feedback from potential customers as data about the extent to which the product hypothesis is correct.

You're right that stagnation is the worst outcome. And the inverse of stagnation is momentum, which will exist to the extent that people want what we're making for them, something that can be determined in advance of building simply by talking to potential users and customers.

I'll also add here that the process mentioned in this post in no way inhibits the type of creative and inspired thinking that developers use to envision game-changing products. It's quite the opposite - rigorous and merciless scrutiny of our own ideas is the distillation process that allows us to refine our ideas into their essence, then confidently build things with conviction, and be right.
While I understand why they are adding a limit, the concept of just deleting the photos over the 1000 limit just unsettles me, and will almost certainly cause link rot, which is both sad and annoying when I encounter it.

I don't know what my dad will do, he's been using Flickr for quite a few years now, he used to pay for pro, but then stopped doing so after Yahoo bought Flickr and started breaking the UI. He has over 1000 photos, but I am not sure if the pro features are worth the price for him. Fortunately he has local backups of every photo, but it does feel like his photos have been held to ransom. He probably would be willing to pay some money (but less than the current pro) just for the extra storage (and none of the extra features), from what I understand.

To conclude this wall of text, I understand why they're doing it, and hopefully it will make Flickr sustainable, but I feel the way it was done will cause problems when it happens (if it only stopped an account from uploading if it had too many photos, that would help a lot to avoid link rot), and might also cause problems in the future (while morbid to think about, if a pro user dies, they won't be able to pay and a bunch of their images will just get deleted, which could be bad for their families)...

EDIT: fix a few spelling errors and tyops

UPDATE: my dad's response to this is that he will pay for pro to keep his images online. In general, he doesn't feel like Pro is intended for him because it has features he doesn't really care about, he only cares about the storage and community stuff, not the statistics and software stuff.
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In the politest way possible, and without dismissing your feelings, it seems that you have discovered the placebo effect in action.
It may be a secondary effect. Most people know the feeling of having a “hot ear” from talking long on a cell phone when it’s against the ear. Frequent heating of cells can be inflammatory which in turn is recognized as a possible cause of cancer - https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2008/06/09/more-on-...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18353373.
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We do! But resources aren't infinite, so there must be limits.
>You couldn't use any technology without paying the Microsoft tax.

You could use Mac or Linux. Except you wouldn't be able to interoperate with everyone else. This is precisely the situation with Facebook/Twitter.

>You don't want to use Google? Type in www.bing.com.

Their monopoly isn't on the user side, but on the provider side. If you want your web content to be discoverable, you have to play by Google's rules. If they announce that all websites have to add dancing elephants to their pages to be discoverable, most of the web will soon have dancing elephants. This kind of power can easily be used to discourage competition by creating high barrier of entry for indexing.
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> Big companies add huge value to all our wellbeing. 1000 companies with a revenue of ten million dollars can afford to spend little to nothing on research, while one company with a revenue of ten billion dollars can spend a lot.

There's a lot of space between companies with 10 million dollars in revenue and ones with 10-100 billion where lots of R&D can happen.

Smaller companies can be very good at new product development, and are probably better at supporting those products once they catch on and become established. The really far-out R&D is probably better handled by university research labs than by big-company monopolies and semi-monopolies, which then will spin off small product development companies.

> How many startups comes up with new medicines, for example?

Seems like quite a lot, actually:

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180509/BLOGS11/180...

http://fortune.com/2016/05/13/big-pharma-biotech-startups/:

> A crucial part of the allure: Pint-size ventures are driving pharma innovation. The majority of drugs approved in recent years originated at smaller ­outfits—64% of them last year, according to HBM Partners, a health care investing firm.
> edit: maybe I'm grandfathered in for unlimited photos, if I were to downgrade to Free? The wording in the announcement is unclear.

That's not how I'm reading it. It seems like it'll affect all Flickr users across the board.
I love everything about this announcement.

I've been a Flickr Pro user for ages. Flickr was one of the things that got me into photography and improved my skills. I learned how to take better pictures by looking at other photos and seeing what kind of feedback mine got.

Then Yahoo aquired it and Flickr just fizzled out. I kept taking pictures but it wasn't the same without a community to share them with. It really made me sad.

I truly hope Flickr can return to the fantastic site it used to be and everything about this announcement reads like they have their head on straight.
Well, it's the "because they're Russian" observation that drew attention to USAReally. I mean, at first glance USAReally just looks like trashy clickbait fodder posing as a 3rd rate Fox News wannabee.

It didn't take much (or any) sleuthing to discover that they're Russian government funded. At that point one has to start asking WTF questions.
2-3% vs 0 in control for brain tumors, 5-7% vs 0 in control for heart tumors. That does not sound ambiguous.

> The highest level was four times higher than the permitted maximum.

That's still not much of a safety factor.
I find the bit about mentoring people outside your org interesting. I'm interested in mentorship myself. Does anyone know if there are actually rewarding mentorship programs on websites like meetup.com? Has anyone else done this?
This is up there with the 500 mile email problem - the nature of headers inside an XLS file embedded in an email caused a signalling error in a T1 line when the email was retrieved!
> I usually take the time to write long explanations as to why these points are invalid

Could you link to one of your long explanations ?
I'm interested in a rebutal but understand it's annoying to repeat yourself.
”device-drivers were userspace programs that created files in /dev/. If your driver crashed, you could kill the userspace driver (which deleted the file under /dev)”

I think that shows not everything is a file. If everything were, you would start the driver by creating the file (say as a hard link from a file in /dev to the driver executable) and kill the driver by rm-ing the file.

(Chances are that, if you follow this through, this idea won’t support everything we want to do with drivers, but if so, that’s an indication that “everything is a file” doesn’t work)
Note that “hot ear” can’t possibly be an effect of RF, more that you’ve just held something up to your ear.

Simple evaluation based on the size of the battery in a phone tells you that there can be no significant heating effect on anything, given that there’s no functional difference between a call and a phone just using data, this effect would be constant to everything around it. There’s simply not enough energy capacity in the battery for this to be true.
Thanks for posting this. It's all too often people (like in this article) want to lean on bureaucracy and legislation to fix their problems as opposed to actually doing something about it. Not using Twitter and Facebook has a positive step for my sanity, much like not watching 24 hour cable news was another positive step. I don't need the government to break up CNN or News Corp to solve that problem.
no idea they had some guy squeezing cash out of the foundation
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It’s largely irrelevant because the revocation bloom filters are cached on each service, and if the auth service is down then tokens can’t be revoked anyway so the list is still accurate enough.

TBH I don’t think the author of the article has expirenced the nightmare that is a hot session store at a large scale before, you end up with needing to troubleshoot IO latency issues with basically no tooling that can show you where the problem is and you’re up against the hardware limits and what ever black box your cloud provider has made. Where as with JWT everything happens in normal user space and can be reasonably reasoned about with a bit of complexity without razor thin latency deps on IO performance.
The documentary on it is also excellent.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18350261 and marked it off-topic. Could you please stop posting angry meta muck like this?
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It's worth noting that the overwhelming majority of drug users never have a problem related to their drug use.

Just like the overwhelming majority of alcohol users never have a problem with their alcohol use.
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Ah, for that case -- we are the experiment
It would be interesting to do a study comparing this effect with a group of people who wear large bulky headphones/ear protectors for hours a day.
Weird. I have an electric toothbrush (the exact same one as the author of the article-- funnily enough I also have the exact same Zenbook as his) and a manual one.

I use the electric toothbrush if I've had a significant amount of sugar that day (not often), and otherwise use the manual one. The manual one is some sensodyne super-soft-bristle shit. If I use the electric toothbrush every day my gums hurt. I once went to the dentist as a kid and he told me I'd brushed off a lot of my enamel. Maybe I don't know how to brush my teeth or my enamel is just really soft. In any case, the manual one helps me get everywhere without fear of hurting myself.
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Not to nag you, but have you seen my suggestion of using the number of translations of each entry as an indicator of their cross-cultural value? What do you think if it?
I didn't see any mention of deleting photos that were over the limit. Hopefully they do what Flickr used to do, which is make only the last 1000 photos publicly visible.
On the contrary, doing it the other way ensures that when you’re done someone is willing to buy what you built. It’s not about what one customer wants defining what you build, but rather having commitment from a handful of customers that they would buy what you propose to build. There’s a huge gap between securing a commitment to buy a future product and announcing vaporware you have no intention or ability to ship.
Same with governments and the attempts at state capitalism you're referring to. Everything always is good unless it's bad, the question is how easily can it be constrained when it goes bad (and monitored for the signs of it going bad).
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GP: I’m convinced this is how people with poor email management skills feel. It’s how I felt until I stepped up my filter, unsubscribe, and delete game and really developed a strategy for managing my inbox. It’s not heavyweight but the goal is to reduce your inbox to a task/todo list of sorts—only the things you need to worry about. Might be a direct inquiry or a notification about an upcoming sale, etc. Eventually you get to a point where you realize that _everything_ uses email. The internet _is_ email. It’s just really easy to end up being bombarded by so much of it that it feels useless.
This can be dangerous as well though. Most people aren't naturally adversarial and get uncomfortable pushing down paths where you don't know the answer or seem unprepared.

You often won't get someone to really challenge your assumptions unless they have some meaningful motivation. So you may have to listen in a different way than you're used to, or push people a bit to get them really comfortable with telling you things they might think you don't want to hear.
When AT&T was a monopoly and you had to rent your phone from them at an outrageous price, you could also walk away. But having to either walk/drive around or send slow mail to communicate was not very efficient. Perfectly doable, mind you, but very inconvenient. Sometimes the cost of walking away is just too steep, so abusing a dominant position becomes very easy and tempting.

I don't think Twitter or Facebook are anywhere close to that threshold. Maybe that's just because I barely use them. But I'm sure some people were also not using phone in the seventies, so I won't conclude based on my individual case.