skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is generally why one is encouraged not to judge a book by it's cover, or a one sentence headline. There is only so much one can get across in one line, and generally speaking, headlines or titles are far more prone to being tweaked for engagement than any substantive material.

This is a literal example of filter bubbling resulting from a visceral reaction to first impressions, and tge perverse feedback loop created by social virtue signaling.

The sad thing is, you may not get a publisher to take up a work without consenting to this type of engineering for audience engagement.

I wonder what people's reactions would be if it were titled "Mistaken Identity: the Tragic Tale of America's Youth Surgically Scarred by Careless Profit-Seeking Surgeons"
Yeah, I generally agree with you. Mostly just exploring thoughts here, the gp comment prompted a kinda unexpected re-examining of my hitherto un-examined ideas on the ethical basis of the advice in the post.
I'd generally consider myself something of a utilitarian/consequentialist, and would normally accept the premise that apologizing in front of the Twitter mob would at best do nothing positive, but for whatever reason my brain wants me to say "apologizing is right, and consequences be damned"
A few comments pointed out that the 1992 ARM 250, as the first SOC, would be a better comparison for the M1.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures...

1000 nm CMOS process, two metal layers, 98,019 transistors in 58 mm²
Hi, the developer of Pyxell here. Thanks for sharing!

I'm currently adding some features and changing the typing syntax from C-like to Python-like, after the discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/jlnqf....
Author uses all the latest technologies to spread how "software is not working" I'm reading this in my mobile browser, which can also run my game development tool inside of it.

So yes, software is working, and yes, new cool software is released all the time (eg deep learning)
Ask HN: How do you find new music?
Hi folks, how do you find new music?

I find myself every year that I find less music that I like. I use a mixed method to find albums and artists. I follow various groups on social media networks (vk), read music magazines and use youtubes recommendations to pick up new stuff.

What are your tools to find new music?
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In my mind the problem isn't the fee. It is that Apple decides what you can run on your hardware.

They could charge 80% as far as I am concerned as long as there was the possibilities to get apps another way (and ideally run alternate stores).

Of course this is my opinion and a major reason that I am not an Apple customer.
I’d love to hear more about your use case and the consistency limitations you’re running into!
I suspect that the massively negative first year margins due to, what I assume is CAC, creates a moat. Very few companies are as "backed by Masayoshi Son," i.e. willing to set fire to the huge quantities of money necessary to establish a foothold. This is a network effect business in a lot of ways, and metros tend to be dominated by a particular food delivery provider.
TLDR: Hear a new form of music by listening to a forrev stream for a few minutes.

Hey everybody out there using HN --- I'm doing a (free) music system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like Spotify or Apple). This has been brewing for a few years, and is starting to get ready. Here's a list of some of the things I'm most excited about:

- Celody uses a new form of music that includes bidirectional playing, web api embedding, and token generation.

- Streams can be forked, merged, and/or configured like software (~similar to forking or merging a github repo).

- Streams are composed in real-time using open source modules with web api connections. This enables the music to adjust to external data (e.g. drive faster in a car -> the music's tempo gets faster).

- Listening to music generates tokens which then powers a digital world. Tokens are currently used for voting on elections, voting on laws, playing games, artist rewards, chatting with digital people, editing digital people's data, mating digital people and more. [1]

- Two digital people can mate (using the token) and produce a child inside of Celody. This process occurs through music. [2][3]

[1] https://celody.com/lifeWealth.html
[2] https://celody.com/life.html
[3] https://celody.com/evolution.html
Ask HN: Why are we receiving thousands of fake users?
We are a small company (<20 employees) who publish an popular app (within its niche) used by millions of people. The majority of our real users reside in North/Central America and Western Europe. Recently we began to see hundreds of thousands of installs showing up on Google Analytics from unexpected countries. The installs did not show up on the Play Console analytics, implying these users obtained the .apk from some other source. The bulk of these users are from Pakistan, India, Egypt, and Iraq, but these installs are also occurring in dozens of other developing countries. The event data we get from Google Analytics implies that most of the users quickly uninstall the app after installing it. About 5-10% of them create an account and verify their email address. We've gotten a handful of support emails and a couple of Play Store reviews wherein the user claims our app was installed without their intent or knowledge. We are concerned that whoever is behind this has a malicious objective, but haven't come up with a plausible explanation, and thus are hoping someone else has experienced similar phenomenon and would recognize this pattern.
I think it's interesting the UK's "emergency" requests list is so high relative to the overall requests made: Either the UK marks nearly all their data requests as emergencies, or are only requesting data in the case of an emergency.
>Antifascists aren't holding rallies chanting "Jews will not replace us" and showing up to peaceful protests with weapons to kill protesters.

They're not [1][2]?

[1] -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/aug/08/wearea...

[2] -- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/29/key-finding...
Free market economy works to the extent it is free. The benefits of the market economy are somewhat exponentially proportional to how free that is.

India is far from a free market economy. However some modest reforms in 1990s have given 100s of millions a hope that they can reliably have 3 meals a day and a roof over their head even with almost no skills.
Well there are tons of companies for people who want full time employment (it's basically the default). It's good for people to have another option.
As Jesus said, "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a poor man enter Heaven."
Rust doesn't do tracing GC, and Nim is moving to an ARC system I hear.
You can't play Monopoly and win if one of the players has his own rules and a money printer.
It's not funny that even four tests can't give you a conclusive result. He should've taken 5?

At this point the testing infrastructure around covid19 is just a money printing enterprise. Just like you can't have a scientific discussion around covid19 anymore, you can't have one around testing either.
I'm expecting enormous amounts of fudging and 8-ball diagnostics.
When your boss goes to work sick (as the CEO at my last two companies did), it signals its ok to the rest of the employees. Ignorance plays a large role as well. Commonly (IME), someone with a viral cold gets antibiotics and goes to work the next day thinking they are no longer contagious.
I think video interpolation may play a role in video editing or animation production.
Maptasticjs: JavaScript/CSS projection mapping utility
I'd be wary of saying that exactly nothing will come to pass, especially since some of the criteria are so vague as to permit a wide range of outcomes.

> 19. Increased focus on sustainability and the environment

This is the most likely to me, although less in the sense of more action and more in the sense of more talk, e.g., political debates. I definitely don't think it will overpower other typical topics, but in the sense that it will probably be a perennial topic on the list I can see it happening.
Give us the frigging evidence at last !!!
Apple included preservation requests on the US details page:

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
> In my humble opinion passive consumption of media is entirely different from engaging in a creative process. Perhaps it's just projection on my part but surfing the web for hours reading Reddit, Hacker News and YouTube is entirely different than banging out some new chapters for your NaNoWriMo novel, updating a blog or making a github commit.

I will second this so hard, as it is my experience as well. Just staring slackjawed, mindlessly scrolling for hours on end, is a noticeable difference from writing code. I wish there were studies on these differences.
> once you do something with impact that is used extensively to help people (something everyone should strive for!)

Why should everyone strive for this? It seems unrealistic at best.
As an investor, I worry about churn. Year 2...N customers are more profitable. Great. But what happens when <New Startup X> throws billions into blitzscaling their new delivery app? There goes your most profitable cohort, to the next (temporarily cheaper) delivery platform. And food delivery apps aren't a classically 'sticky' business: it's centered on ephemeral transactions.
I don't understand why they didn't list Ant at the NYSE in the first place, were they pressured to list it in Shanghai?
"antifa" isn't paramilitary or any other sort of group. It's a contraction of "anti-fascist" and is simply a tenet that many people hold.

"Proud Boys" are an organized domestic terrorist group, not a label for a set of beliefs.

There was real, violent, semi-organized left-wing radicalism in the USA in the 1970's. Not since. It may return! But it hasn't yet.

You might want to be more skeptical of the media you're consuming that led you to believe this. Or the persons you've been talking to.
> Could we all stop eating animals please?

Since you asked, no, but if animals stop being so darn delicious, I may consider it.
It's not irresponsible. Holding these sorts of events without proper protocols increases the risk of secondary infection to society at large. The impact at the nursing home is collateral damage.

Walmart, on the other hand, requires customers to wear masks, and they have and will impose occupancy limits as needed to help minimize exposure.

While we cannot practically reduce the risk of infection to zero, we should also behave wisely. This applies both inside the nursing home and outside it.
This isn't to be taken as a show of support at all, but I had similar thoughts when the story of the kidnapping plot against Michigan gov Gretchen Whitmer broke. The militia had been heavily encouraged by multiple undercover FBI agents-provocateur who themselves were integral in engineering the plot - and it's really unclear whether the militia would have even considering doing such a thing without these agents egging them on and offering to provide explosives.

If the British Empire had the technology and infrastructure of today's intelligence agencies, the founding fathers would have been arrested as terrorists before they could get 10 people in a room together. There would have been some undercover agent of the Crown showing up to meetings trying to convince George Washington that they needed to go kill the king - and history would remember them all as nothing more than evil terrorists justly apprehended for plotting violence against the state.
If you use Exim on Ubuntu, you probably want to skip Ubuntu 20.04
and yet ... do you not believe that if open street map (or others) could collect this sort of data, current map/routing software could just use it?
> professionalisation of even the free software community

Never heard it put like that, but it's pretty on point. The bigger changes I've seen in free software these days, all the way down to systemd, feel very corporate. People try to argue whether it's corporate or not but even that feeling when enough people feel it is detrimental to free software culture. A culture which isn't very much minded or respected by our corporate cousins.

I do not understand peoples literal obsession with grading apologies these days. I've screwed up in big ways in my life before and I had to apologize. The harder work was eventually forgiving myself so that I could move on. I cannot imagine how the expectation that someone is going to be waiting around to grade and critique my apology would weigh on me. I can't even begin to imagine the mindset of someone who engages in that kind of activity must be, what other benign or symbolic things do you question in life? What other baggage have you carried all your life and used to wallop people over the head with?

This "you owe me an apology" trend is wild. Certainly, if you screw up you should apologize if the situations suits it. Rarely are those situations so black and white though. Leaving this to the jury of the public to take sides, to form camps, and to inevitably invade with their pitchforks is the stuff that the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp controversy is fueled by. If someone has wronged you bad enough, take them to court, deal with it there, and leave it there. If things got to that point then no apology will make anything better. At that point, everyone has lost and we're just trying to maintain order.

When I see people grading apologies on Twitter (and at times here) all I see is people propagating a reason to abuse public figures and at times companies. If someone has come to the point of writing a public apology, whether you think it's for damage control or not, it takes some level of humility and self-evaluation. Maybe that triggers nothing, maybe it begets change even in some small way, and maybe it leads to some life altering conclusions. Humans are not machines and we can't just cast people out because we don't feel the vibes of someones apology. For a culture like tech that likes to comment on how terrible cast systems and social hierarchy are, we seem awful quick to throw people into an "other" category because we feel some type of way.

Personally speaking, I think people who grade apologies have a darkness of their own and that darkness begets darkness. The darkness that calls for a public apology and eagerly awaits its arrival for swift and empirical dissection is no better than the incurred darkness of the act itself.
The answer is ... no.

Not because it wouldn't solve the problem, but because at some point cameras will be so ubiquitous that there's no point in banning the State from putting up cameras, because every tom, dick, and harry has a camera on their phone and on their glasses, every store has a camera system, some jackets and hats have cameras, etc, etc, etc.

Sure. The State doesn't have cameras. It will develop a automated warrant-generator to pull all cloud footage from cameras that were in a specific area at a specific time. They will have agreements with the major cloud camera vendors. All legal, above board, reasonable, protective of rights and process, and exactly identical to if the State had camera towers.

Same for biometric ID. Fine. You don't want the State having in-house biometrics? Great. It can set up agreements with Facebook and Google: "Identify this person" - a few flatfeet go run down those leads.

Net effect is to have the same result, but now with less accountability (private firm), more expense (private contracts getting profit), and less safety (private firms with the data).

That's why we need to assume the existence of these technologies and the followons, then design the world we want to see given the followons.
There are few more odious Internet pass-times than relentlessly harassing someone for some perceived infraction until they give an imperfect apology and then nitpicking until they ritually humiliate themselves exactly according to your wishes.

This document is a would-be harasser's checklist for extracting forced confessions and atonement schedules.
That sounds very interesting. Do you have any technical sources that I could delve deeper into? I've always thought that SSH tunneling / port forwarding suffers from the exact problems outlined in TFA.
Show HN: SeeLink – The easiest way to share and collaborate on links online
GP comment said L1 - what connection does that have to your comment, which seems to be about L3?
>5. An idiot called Raz, and his boys start providing 'security'. Nobody asked them for it. People who ran the protest didn't ask for it. People living in the area didn't ask for it. Smells like a gang moving into a power vaccumm to me.

So you blocked the police out of a whole neighborhood of a few square blocks, and a gang moving into the power vacuum is a surprise? Come on!
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Hello HN!

After being frustrated with not being able to share and collaborate on links with friends and family, I created SeeLink, a platform to simplify sharing and collaborating on links with friends and family.

Conventionally, sharing links with people was done through messaging apps, where they would get lost in the sea of messages. SeeLink allows its users to create boards to share links with individuals / groups of people, allowing them to save and share human-readable links at the click of a button.

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I was also struck by this:

"Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was ‘expected to’ participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."

I was reminded of the gradual but seemingly inexorable shift of control in the digital world away from the user and towards the provider: EULAs. Register for this. Sign in for that. Do you want to upgrade now or be nagged again tomorrow? (Not upgrading is not an available option.)

Also, for the last three years I was working for a startup which was recently acquired by a huge multinational corporation which I will not name. The sudden onslaught of bureaucracy was a real shock. Before, if there was a technical problem, I could either fix it myself or, at worst, talk to a sysadmin who would take care of it, often in a matter of minutes. Now progress is measured in days. And some problems just can't be fixed. They are the result of some policy instituted by someone -- no one knows who -- and the policies are immutable. That some of these policies result in egregious inefficiencies or even security vulnerabilities doesn't matter. No one cares. There isn't even the pretense of a "suggestion box" whose contents gets dumped into the trash. They are not even trying to hide the fact that no one in power gives a flying fuck what anyone on the ground thinks.
This is not an unreasonable argument but you're negating the company and the industry ability to innovate and find new rev models. I use to frequently see this argument made about Apple and Amazon before Apple's transition to "services" and AWS. When you buy a tech stock you're not betting on a robot that can't adapt, you're betting on a corporate culture that's digging up new ground.
Idea: Let's take an expensive re-usable engine (left over from the Shuttle) and put it on an expendable launch vehicle!
I believe GateKeeper only works on first launch.
They didn't have to buy anything, obviously people want cheaper rides. We all remember how it was before uber.
This incident seems to be a mark in the column of the old argument that authoritarianism is bad for economic growth because of the ever-present potential for capricious action such as this.

While we should take the WSJ's preliminary reporting with a grain of salt, the Ant IPO halt was shortly followed by the announcement that Beijing was going to be looking at antitrust and monopolistic behavior by big tech. [0] The 'angered Xi and the old guard' narrative seems very plausible.

Also, if anyone's interested, here's a translation [1] of the speech Jack Ma gave that set off the commotion. Interesting bits about what he thinks of incumbent financial powers (or at least, what he says to that audience). It's also interesting to see what relatively mild comments could trigger this kind of reaction when power is so centralized.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-11-11/china-...

[1] - https://interconnected.blog/jack-ma-bund-finance-summit-spee...
>it's off-center in a lot of cases! How weird is that

It is off center if they have a number pad to the right of the normal keyboard layout. At first glance it looks weird, but it is 100% what you would want if you were using the laptop. Otherwise the trackpad would end up being right over where your right wrist is.
The plans for Starship are haisy, not scrutinised and it has not been delivered. So far design has changed massively, it was scaled down a lot, and it's stil a vehicle looking for a purpose.

I have significant doubts that we will see it launch at that price-point withing the next 10 years.

All the best luck to spaceX, but you can't base the entire national space programm on something that flaky.

SLS solidly gets you to the moon, and you van make real plans on it. If it turns out to be redundant, that's ok
SLS: $17B and Counting, with First Launch Still a Year Away
Thank you for elaborating on that point. From some of the other comments, it seems that it's maybe a contentious issue.

There's a lot of pressure to include hand-wavy references to "heritage hardware" in the risk assessments for various reasons, but it's not well-substantiated where it exists.
From what I recall, don't expect more than 20% performance improvements with Vulkan on common 2D scenes
Given that 99% of animals come from factory farms, the safest choice is to abstain from consuming meat.

Given that the incentives are massively aligned with cutting corners to save money, even farms that aim to offer better treatment of animals, will be pushed to cut corners to compete. They will have more incentive to appear to treat animals well, not to actually treat animals well.

Given that there are sensible alternatives to meat, the question for a meat eater isn't between meat and not eating food, but instead eating a slighly-differently-tasting dish.
> In the field that I work in (audio software) there are dozens of things that we can do in software now that were unimagined even in 1990.

Consider that these things aren't really due to the practice of making software becoming better, but rather simply that hardware has become ludicrously powerful so as to enable this at all. It's the hardware portion of IT that deserves the gold medal here.
I’d really like to see Apple/Google or others try to turn screen time into a sort of currency.

A child does some chores? They get 30 minutes of scene time added to their bank account. They keep some screen time unused and they earn interest on that time they can cash out later. Their sibling has a birthday? Let them transfer some time as a gift.

Limit screen time and build some financial literacy and delayed gratification at the same time.
The latest NPR Indicator podcast did a good job covering this: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/934251081
Her pronunciation and accent is perfect. Couldn't tell her apart from a native speaker.