skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I am being told above that India is a secular democracy? So how come India wants a religion as an identity?

Keeping that aside though:

1. What is Hindu culture? Answer: It is a way to subjugate and bulldoze minorities and their culture. Hence the insidious name, acceptable to the majority and any opposition instantly termed as anti-Hindus. There is no need for such a divisive slogan when Indian culture already exists. It intentinally conflates Indian culture with made-up term 'Hindu culture'.

2. Why is the slogan being given by a Hindu Nationalist party? Answer: Hindu religion is their raison d'etre. They carry out their activities with justification as being benefitting Hindus solely.

3. Why does the slogan involve similar tones and reach as, "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"? Fact: Members of this Hindu nationalist party (B.S. Moonje) met Mussolini and transported same bullshit to India. Golwalkar openly admired Hitler. These are people in power in India presently.

4. Why are the Indian cities names given by Muslim rulers being changed on lines of Hindu religious basis? Example: Allahabad has been changed to Pragyaraj, because Allah-abad is deemed as a Muslim name. Answer: Subjugation on religious lines to consolidate majority.

5. Try going to North East India without a special entry pass. Doesn't matter if you are India, you cannot certain North-East states enter without an Inner Line permit.

6. You cannot buy real estate in certain Indian states, like Himachal Pradesh. Doesn't matter if you are Indian or not.

7. They are Hindu Nationalists because they are using Hindu religion to consolidate majority, and are carrying out actions that they have wanted since independence. Hindu Nationalists killed Gandhi and were outlawed afterwards.

8. Let's not paint whole nation or its government as tolerant. In recent history, India has supported several terrorist movements in other nations.
Why would they if they can still not pay and get ads, which hurt less short-term (spending money can feel like losing hit points), and can be ignored either through effort or an ad blocker? Ten times more so if you still are going to show them ads.

You want people to pay, make them pay. If you worry about ad-driven competitors, then maybe this should serve as a good argument to advocate instituting regulations against funding services with ads.
So QT should be paying for the hospital stay and the drug if they are using this data. Drug trials aren't free either.
They chose the option to have their voice chats transcribed by a machine. Not by a person.
I find the term “oppresive” to be more and more difficult to get a handle on when everything is on a spectrum now.

People draw the line somewhere that puts them in the “non-appressive” camp, and justify it in so many ways (“you can’t compare because the other side does really bad things”), but it tends to hide how the lines are much more murky, the “oppressive” side is supported from the other countries, which also look at it like a live experiment to see how far they could get away with it.

Before Huawei it was european or US companies that where eyeing the market, and I feel like Huawei just happened to win the bids so we can now point the finger at them.
The thing is that most people don’t know what they are doing.

The 401(k) is the only retirement program we have. At the end of the day when companies go public and then go bust the money is often coming from the collective public in some way.

You are right, it’s a very small detail. But it’s one of those cogs that turn while making the rich richer by extracting value from the public.

The founder of this company is a billionaire. A man that runs a company which makes no money is a billionaire. Where did the money ultimately come from? Who pays the bill? He’s added no value to society by any objective measure, he’s just taken.
Great work. I will start adding stories to this repo using https://storytime.dev
This is an interesting insight -- definitely aware of Dunbar's number but haven't thought about the best way to incorporate it into Dex. Appreciate the suggestions!
As a Nest owner with multiple cameras, I find it hilarious that no real features have been introduced in years, and this is what they come up with instead.

If they would spend more time shipping features I might not care as much but they have done nothing and instead they ship this stupid “feature”. They don’t allow us to train the cameras to ignore moving trees or shadows, repetitive noise like birds cawing, or fix their “familiar face” functionality. I’ve had complete strangers identified as being a familiar face, and I’ve also had cars identified as a familiar face.

Google is a terrible consumer product company.
It isn't about the iPhone though, but rather it is used as a generic example of the type of product built in China that is exported internationally. Being involved in that sector, there have been cracks forming ever since the first round of tariffs were implemented. None of my Chinese vendors are particularly busy, and I'm getting more cold messages than ever from vendors in China. My vendors outside of China are all talking about how they are growing. I was visiting a manufacturer in SEA at the end of May and they had at least 3 or 4 containers full of machines they had just received to open up a new section of factory.
Tabris.js – native mobile apps in JavaScript
Site appears to be down for me.
Don't forget that pretty much every part of your's and a whales body has nerves in it to detect pain & contract muscles.

More body mass means more nerves that need to send and receive information from the central nervous system.

So even assuming a constant amount nerve endings in cm^3 of flesh between whales and humans a whale will have significantly more.
How India used big data and computers to jumpstart its economy in 1950s
God I wish it was only twice the memory. Twice would be acceptable. Discord by itself likes to push to a full gigabyte to show me 50 lines of text with avatars and 0-5 thumbnails of images.

Even worse it's using significant amounts of video card memory, and I have a tenth as much of that.
My mother and her friends are completely lost to Facebook addiction. It’s like they grew up without any immunity or incoulation from video games, MySpace, etc. and Facebook hit with full force to their naive social media immune system. It’s like crack, you can’t get them off of it. Reminds me of the first time I played Everquest. My mother will be at actual family events like birthdays and instead of interacting is mindlessly scrolling her feed in a room alone on a couch instead of making actual memories. It is the only “socialization” she and her friends seem to do now and that is a terrible thing in my opinion.
Virtual desktops finally come to Chrome OS
> the lenders will only lend up to 80% of the value of the house (an ordinary bank loan must be used for the remaining fraction)

From olau's explanation, it seems that there is enough money flowing, that more than 80% can be financed (in some way) even if it is not in a single or collateral-backed loan.
Wow, you are on hyper drive in the entire thread.

When what how did you come to the conclusions from my post? What exactly made me a propagandist?

You have got to be kidding with Sikh regiment being one of the most valiant branches of Indian Army and a really high number of Indian Army soldiers per capita from Punjab.

There was Pakistan sponsored terrorism in Punjab, there isn't anymore.

Also citation needed for everything you said.
It’s easy to be sentimental about Tumblr now, but as we grow increasingly aware of the ability for social media to create echo chambers that radicalize people, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Tumblr is in many ways one of the worst examples of this phenomenon. And this was no more abundantly clear than during its porn heyday. I don’t regret the downfall of Tumblr one bit.
> As if that is any cleaner!

To further emphasize your point, coal emissions and other air pollution from fossil is currently killing 4.2 million people per year [1]. Nuclear plants in their entire history have net saved over 2 million lives simply by displacing some of these air pollution deaths (while also preventing over 70 billion tonnes CO2-eq). Nuclear is far far cleaner and safer than coal, and that's an understatement.

[1] https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/
Ads without allowing tracking networks. You know, like print ads. And sites already annoy you to download their godforesaken apps. See Yelp, Reddit and Quora.
Could you tell why you would not recommend react native?
I'm also in that approach for the same reasons. Currently I have an app I'm cross-developing with separate iOS / Android codebase. the only 'shared-code' is Firebase libs for each platform (which seems to be written in itself cpp and bind to Kotlin / Swift).

C++ itself is pretty portable.
There are actually frameworks (QT / JUCE) that allow true cross-platform builds.
They work, but you'll eventually end up having a lot of branches for specific platform.

Still if you just need basic algorithms (signal processing or anything expensive CPU based) C++ might be good enough to write simple callbacks with bindings.

Evil UX/UI:
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Xamarin, Flutter, React Native -
It really depends on the app. but if the app needs to be in the "device" UX and the unique APIs provided by the platform. people can glorify the cross-platform all they want but,
You'll eventually end up with branches for each platform in the good case and bad performance in the worse case.
Maybe I'm an optimist, but that seems like it'd be high risk for very low gain, given the likelihood that almost nobody ever even looks at that page let alone deletes stuff, and the penalties for lying about deleting things, especially in Europe, would probably be pretty steep.
Extremely levered indeed. I imagine that they will reduce the lease terms from the current average of 15 years when occupancy rates tighten. At that point they have a different problem, their margin difference between their lease payments and their lease revenue (minus the perks, furnishing office spaces) will come down. All said and done, had they been valued at say ~$10B, this would have been still a high risk play but at least the multiple is not so exorbitant. I don't get what Masa saw in this to value them at $47B, there must be something. Isn't he super smart???
It is obviously clickbait albeit the title being technically correct. I would not have clicked it if the title mentioned the access level was being renamed.
While it is a territory, I wouldn’t categorize it to be similar to Hawaii. They are essentially autonomous compared to US states. This also means (whether anyone likes it or not) they are placed on a separate priority than a place like Hawaii or Alaska. Could you imagine Hawaii shutting down? Internet would be back up in 1 day.
Current state of sharing code between platforms is quite terrible. Most languages support only C FFI, so if you write shared code in C++, will require bridge from C++ to C and then bridges from C to native platforms.

For CRUD core, this kind of overhead makes no sense.

I think this situation could be improved with automated generation of bridges. Apple implemented this pretty well for their own purposes, you can call Swift from ObjC and ObjC from Swift quite easily.
Congrats. You all did really an impressive job. Having a ~single utility that could basically standardize on the fleet and share engineering services and operator training across the fleet really is a good example of how to run nukes cheaply too. Nukes in France are currently about 30% cheaper than natural gas. Really awesome. Climate solutions here we come!
This comes up fairly often on tinnitus fora. Basically there is some "consensus" that a shot of steroids within a very short window, ideally less than 24 hours, can help. Unfortunately, the most common response to damaging one's hearing seems to be to sleep it off for a week and hope it gets better, making it difficult to conduct a study on early responses.

There are studies though, and my conclusion is that it's still mostly inconclusive. Still, if my tinnitus suddenly worsened id be down at the doctor's begging for the steroids.
> No one wants to spend money showing ads to bots

Bots can watch TV, somehow TV ads work. Newspapers have audited circulation, it wouldn’t be that hard to have a website visit audit company to verify “circulation.”
Ever read or watched High Rise by JG Ballard? Afterwards you might not be so keen on living in the same skyscraper as you work.
I think some people prefer the asthetics of their electronics without tape
I miss tools which don't implement other tools within them (like GNU grep -r does).

I miss the fault management architecture.

I miss ZFS without having to jump through all kinds of hoops to get / filesystem on it.

I miss the no memory overcommit without having to jump through hoops to system engineer an image with it turned off.

I miss the advanced runtime linker which can check version dependencies.

I miss the brutal speed of Solaris on the same hardware when compared to Linux.

I miss the advanced features of SGI's inst(1M) and AT&T's SVR4 packaging.

I miss Solaris zones, especially the sparse zones, dearly.

I miss mdb.

I miss SMF.

I miss the strict adherence to standards.

I miss the working, reference implementations of NFS and fiberchannel.

I miss JumpStart™️ provisioning and Flash™️ compressed OS imaging technology.

I miss clustering software which isn't buggy as hell and which actually works.

I miss IPFilter.

I miss Crossbow, the network virtualization technology.

I miss the fanatical application and driver interfaces' backwards-compatibility.
I think that at a minimum, we need to get back to that model. What "reducing overhead" really bought us is tracking and behavioral targeting with all its failure modes. All because companies wanted and could externalize the costs of actually curating and targeting the ads they serve themselves.
I expect that tracking will just move to being proxied server side. It will be more annoying for the people setting it up but services will spring up to help. Little will change in the advertising and tracking space.
"detail that was never present" doesn't exist.

ML can insert "its best guess based on a training set". A human-tuned algo can insert "its output as defined by the handwritten aglo", which presumably is based on the human's own "training set" of personal experience.

but the truth of any lossy encoding is that... information is lost, period. best you can do is guess as to what was there.
They don't have early termination provisions!?? That better have come at a steep discount for WeWork to take such a risk.
No one in public office or campaign for it supports “oprn borders”, it's only deployed as a strawman of opposite candidates (or sometimes an attack on a real or also strawman position outside of declared candidates) to define oneself against. And, yeah, it's not uncommon for people who have used the strawman to have it used against them. It's not a sign of flip-flopping unless you can find someone endorsing open borders after having criticized it, something essentially no candidate does (certainly no Democratic Presidential candidate, all of whom have called for strengthening border security and continuing to enforce policies limiting total legal immigration, while disagreeing with the particular policies and practices pursued by the current administration.)
> Perhaps we can cut out the middleman here. Maybe the answer is not for ML models to come up with human-understandable algorithms. Perhaps the answer is for them to produce optimized code that implements the algorithms they've discovered.

I would rather a high level algorithm description as an output -- which could definitely be fed into some sort of compiler that ultimately outputs executable code.

I feel like going straight to executable code isn't solving the problem GP was interested in, which I believe to be the problem of transferring knowledge from machine to engineer in much the way an engineer would transfer it to another engineer.

An algorithm that outputs code without any high level understanding or documentation is about as useful to me in a large project as an intern who can copy-paste from Stack Overflow and produce volumes of code with no documentation, in the long term.
No sorry it's not "all sides", Fox News is uniquely terrible. CNN sucks, but FN is cancer
Interesting post. I wonder if the major pain point was the fact that they were doing dev with a language that had nothing to do with either platform.

We’re currently investigating Kotlin/native and it looks really promising. We don’t have to write stuff in a foreign language, but can repurpose our existing Kotlin code and share with iOS. This model seems promising.

Does anyone have any experience with Kotlin/native?
Yes, mature OpenTelemetry could replace vendor specific SDKs like AppInsights SDKs though we are not there yet today. As mentioned vmarchaud and manigandham, Microsoft could implement an exporter and has implemented an exporter for OpenCensus Python SDK. Microsoft is on path to implement the similar exporter for Python and other languages. Not only has Microsoft implemented exporter, it has joined force with other community members like Google, Dynatrace etc. to actively contribute to the OpenTelemetry project. E.g. it has been playing leading role in creating Python OpenTelemetry SDKs while in the process to contribute to .NET heavily.” Meanwhile the existing C#/Java/Node.js ApplicationInsights SDKs are still under active development and production support.
Well, for starters, now they're tracking that you are willing to pay a ransom. That's the same kind of knowledge value as spammers get when a user clicks the "unsubscribe" link in one of their emails.
Unification of languages movement in India has an incredibly bitter experience for minorities. Just one example, a Hindu Nationalist group in Punjab opposed Punjabi as a language of Punjab, and if not acceptable, as a compromise they wanted Punjabi to be written in Devnagri, same script as that of Hindi. Same group led a very successful campaign in 1960s for Punjabi Hindus to change their mother tongue to Hindi instead of Punjabi in national census. They opposed Punjabi on religious lines.

Let's not bulldoze diversity with the sole aim to unify. The consequences are disastrous.
Bond is formulaic and predictable, but glitzy and absurd. That is what I felt the TV adaptation brought, along with ropy directing and scripting. The book was far less of all of those, retaining some subtlety - but probably one of his weakest books I can think of for characterisation.

The TV adaptation could have made it feel more le Carre, by adding more depth to the supporting characters, and more of the tradecraft and blurred grey areas.
> You can switch the history off

And trust Google, Ad company, to erase it in its backend?
The point is they are upscaled to 1080p and few are produced at 1080p. Yes, I didn't label every in-between resolution that they get produced at. This seems rather needlessly pedantic, since as you cited, the resolutions are in the link I provided.

Would you feel better if I said "they upscale 720p and 837p and 900p and 810p and 806p and 873p and 864p and 957p and 878p and 719p to 1080p"? I excluded non-standard resolutions for simplicity since it doesn't really change my greater point: most 1080p releases are just upscales. 19 of 41 listed are 720p and 720p is the most common resolution listed.
> IMHO Wordpress itself is grossly undervalued.

It's kind of hard to put a monetary value on a product that is free
You're right on both counts. The company started approximately 9 months ago, focused on different ideas in the relationship management space; traction prior to YC was minimal.

The plan to grow the userbase is content marketing + advertising as we figure out unit economics. The plan to make money is to charge $7.99/month for the product. Market size estimates this early are tough to get right, but we believe anyone who uses LI (645 million users) can manage relationships better with Dex.
This is wild. So Unreal/Unity and others somehow get to run their arguably vastly more complex engines on mobile desktop and consoles, but sharing some logic between iOS and Android is too complicated for Dropbox. What are they smoking?
Because they are an ad company and ads revenue has nothing to do with your satisfaction.
> The point is whether they're right or wrong, not if I don't like the type.

Precisely. The point is saying Tumblr is/was "primarily a porn site" is simply factually incorrect. At no point have I expressed whether or not I "like the type".

> I believe Statista and SimilarWeb have no particular reason to lie about Tumblr. They just post their stats.

And what's the source of their stats?

> Are they off in absolute numbers? That's neither here nor there.

So it's "neither here nor there" if their stats are blatantly inaccurate, but you trust the relative proportions of their stats anyway because they "have no particular reason to lie". And yet I do have some reason to lie about this? I no longer work for Tumblr, have worked on other things several orders of magnitude larger than Tumblr, haven't been an active Tumblr user in years, and had no involvement whatsoever with the implementation of Tumblr's adult content ban. Why on earth would I spend my free time making supposedly false claims about the relative percentage of adult content on Tumblr? Why not have a good-faith discussion where you assume positive intent of the person you are conversing with?

> I'm simply accusing you of being biased and giving no numbers.

I've repeatedly linked to the only publicly available numbers (posts per day stats publicly provided by Tumblr itself). What is your expectation here? It seems like you expect me to somehow retroactively capture internal confidential statistics from a former employer and then post them publicly, in order to satisfy the whims of some random pseudonymous person on HackerNews?

> I can't see how anyone would insist Tumblr did OK after the ban

At no point have I made any statement on whether Tumblr "did OK" or not after the ban. Rather, what I have stated is that the impact of the ban is a drop in the bucket relative to the much larger decline in usage over the preceding 5 years. And the reason it's a drop in the bucket is because the amount of adult content/usage on Tumblr was much smaller than you and others claim, which was precisely what tptacek theorized and I confirmed.

In any case -- you certainly aren't going to somehow change my mind regarding my personal first-hand experiences, and it seems unlikely you will change your position either, so for the third time let's please disengage and stop discussing this!
so.. if they just added a simple disclaimer when you start a chat with translator enabled would that fix the issue?
For me, it has to be Tinker Tailor. A truly great novel about the lies people tell to themselves and others. A spy novel in the same way that Crime and Punishment is a police procedural.
From understanding never density in mammals is mostly the same. So large body mass means more nerves that have to communicate with central nervous system.

Also some people have argued that fish can't feel pain or are less sensitive to due to their lower nerve density from my understanding. A whale is a mammal so I would assume it's going to have similar nerve density. Which means the brain has to be able to take input from a larger volume of body so that brain in large animals would make sense to be larger.
“Our core "business logic" lives in Rust.”

Uh oh. So immediately you do understand that you have taken on the risk of potentially being unable to find any good(or bad) Rust engineers in the future, correct? Also they won’t be cheap as there won’t be many of them.

A smarter, business-friendly, future-proof approach would be to have done that in Java. Future you will want you to have done that in Java, but if you’re trying to retain good engineers maybe I get the Rust thing.
Probably 500 Hz. Haha