skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was hoping Qt would be a first-class citizen. My previous experiences with GTK on mobile have been bad (little or no docs, unconsistent APIs, etc etc...).

I had a look at their docs and I like the focus on Python, I'll probably give it a go. If I can get a decent result with PyQt I'll probably order one of these bad boys.
it is necessary
I agree with you, but...

> but that works only in horribly egregious cases like NSA spying revealed by Snowden

Did it really work though?

If government just would have people have a crazy talk on the internet and subject them to paranoia that has been validated, it could have been a nicer situation than what we are currently dealing with.
You mean like reddit? It's mostly used that way right now (afaict), but I'm missing the expertise and feel of community (I knew everyone I interacted with on the old BBS) that existed before.

Like the article stated joining a community of like minded people brought a feeling and discourse that I don't really get on modern commercially hosted platforms that offer a "one size fits all" solution.
Hoping to see this sensor filter down to the smaller models next generation, I might upgrade from my X at that point. The results in RAW look great, I've never liked the "watercolour" look of phone camera photos zoomed in, but I think the Pro Max is a bit too big for me to carry around!
Squirt: Speed read the web, one word at a time
The video spent a bunch of time basically describing ReactiveX / Reactive-Streams, specifically around the [zip](http://reactivex.io/documentation/operators/zip.html) and [combineLatest](http://reactivex.io/documentation/operators/combinelatest.ht...) operators.

I don't know if we've solved parallelizable computation in Rx, but it doesn't seem like it should be too much of an abstraction on top. I didn't get the sense that the speaker was aware of Reactive-Streams, but hopefully they're aware of the existing effort!
How come the product page doesn't list the dimensions of them phone?
I'm not using Tailwind, but that comparison is wrong. Something like mt-2 still doesn't map to a fixed style, and it also has another specificity than inline styles which makes it easier to override.

If you need to globally change the margin that mt-2 adds, you only need to change that class instead of all HTML inline styles.
That makes it even more entertaining that they end up railing against the same poor google product policies. Does nobody ever collar a product manager in the hallway?
99$ could be a fees to show "true effort" for some developers in the world, while for others it could a monthly salary.

Also how can an app that has 500M downloads cost more to review than an app that has 500 downloads (considering both are paid apps and Apple charges 30% per download)?
You are fooling noone Russian rat.
The biggest mistake the West did was not fully getting being Germany in their Anti-Bolshevik crusade to exterminate your lot.
The academic text books are known to have different test questions so US students can't buy (relatively) dirt cheap "foreign" prints. The text might be the same elsewhere in the book though.
As a former developer of software for an international shipping company: Yup. They happen a lot more frequently than most people realise, I expect. Political reasons (e.g. neighbouring states [as in Sovereign] deciding to unify timezones), coups/wars suspending DST, and so on all usually result in some kind of adjustment, even if it's just the name of the timezone changing.
Remember Palmer Luckey saying that Oculus would never require a facebook account?
Now this is going to sound crazy but what if we just extend the year by a few seconds by default? Then we can just skip seconds as needed.
>> if we leave this space and go to emerging markets Google absolutely rules

I can understand why! Google services are free, or free-ish, and work extremely well!

Do you think sudden account bans with no recourse are something to be concerned about, or is it a lightning-strike-rare kind of situation: happens, but does not bear worrying about?
I hate to see discussions moving to Facebook groups. Often the groups are closed, you have to join to see what's inside. Closed groups are not indexed by google, so everything that's written disappears in the Facebook silo.

With web forums everything is indexed and you can find the relevant info even if it's written ten years ago, and you can see it without having to join first.

There's lots of useful info written on the web and a lot of this info is hidden behind social network walled gardens.
Similarly, the instance is ALWAYS connected to the internet, but I only have to pay for what I transfer. Same with Lambda and S3 and everything else AWS sells (except a few weird exceptions like this).
Yes, but you're using that argument in the context of a software business rather than a consumer facing retail business
Indian version of the Google Pay even has games. They have beautifully gamified the payments services.

BTW chat is really useful feature in P2P payments.
If this were a legal requirement, the actual facebook employees would have been brought back.

They haven't been, just the people contracted by CPL/Accenture to work at FB, which leads me to believe that this is not a legal requirement.

It's presumably that FB said you need to ensure security to the companies, and they decided that the easiest way was to bring everyone back to the office.
This pretty much sums up my experience of poetry. Some great ideas, but an astoundingly buggy implementation that shows no sign of improving. We tried it at length in my day job and gave up in the end.
I generally agree with you and that kind of solidifies my point. Those mediocre managers won't be as impressed by the milliseconds you shaved off in your clever commit compared to the shiny CRUD front-end or nice checklist or anything else that they can actually understand and relate to. And they are the ones in charge of the comp.
I think you are digging yourself too deep into antagonistic thinking.

>Come now, this is only an enhanced form of prisoners dilemma, where the prison guards do a side hustle helping prisoners rat each other out, in exchange for a "very small" commission. Everyone spending money on advertising is a strong Nash equilibrium, but it is not the optimal solution.

Imagine you are making your own craft beer in your basement and you are sitting on two crates of beer. You want to sell your beer but you don't tell anyone that you are selling beer because that would be advertising and according to you advertising is not an optimal solution. Even if we assume you are the only company on the planet and have no competitors, your business is still in trouble and about to make losses and close down.

>If everyone spends money on ads, a single actor choosing to not spend money on ads would (probably) see a loss. And in this case, you have a centralized actor (ad companies) spending a lot of resources telling everyone this fact.

Now we assume that you tell someone that you are selling beer which is basically what advertising is. People know that you sell beer now. They can now make a decision to buy your beer. If people like beer that's what they are going to do. If they hate beer they can still decide to not buy your beer.

Yeah, if you did not advertise then you would indeed see losses. Simply because nobody is aware of your products, meaning they are unable to buy your products. But again, no second party is involved, so you don't need a centralized actor to decide to do advertising.

>But if everyone decided to not spend money on ads, everyone (except ad companies of course) would see a win.

Since we are the only company around we are "everyone" and if we decide to not spend money on ads then we would see losses.

So now that I have proven that your hypothesis is not correct we can actually talk about the ad market in general.

Advertising is providing value for companies but the amount of value advertising can provide is not based on how many resources you spend on advertising, rather it is dependent on the size of the market. A big market with lots of consumers can make more money off of more advertising but there is a certain point beyond which you end up spending more on advertising than the market needs. On a planet with 1000 consumers and two companies the best case would be if both companies put out 500 ads. So clearly the optimum amount of advertising is not 0. However, a big company can put out 1000 ads and thereby displace its competitor's ads. It's best to have some ads but not too many.
Do people actually use SMS? Aren't they bloody expensive?
Show HN: SwanLove – The Dating Website Based on LinkedIn and Movies Preferences
I just launched a dating website, SwanLove (https://swan.love).

There are 2 ways to search people: using Linkedin and movies preferences.

1. Using Linkedin

You register in SwanLove website. Then you submit your vanity name of your Linkedin profile. If your Linkedin profile URL is https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragorn-son-of-arathorn, your vanity name is "aragorn-son-of-arathorn". Then you must verify your Linkedin profile by creating a public Linkedin post containing a random string generated by SwanLove. Finally, you submit the URL of the public post so SwanLove can verify it.

Then you can send "likes" to someone, for example someone who has this URL of Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arwen-daughter-of-elrond. You just submit "arwen-daughter-of-elrond" as someone you like. Then if the owner of that Linkedin profile registers in SwanLove website, the owner can like your profile after verification. Both of you are matched!

2. Using movies preferences

You submit movies / tv series you have watched or are watching in your dating profile. Then you can browse dating profiles in the movie page (for example Queen's Gambit move page). The second way does not require Linkedin account.

In the future, you can link your Goodreads account to find people based on books preferences.

That's all. I hope it will be useful for you in your romance life!

Arjuna Sky Kok
It wasn't actually that bad... Everyone likes to remember it as this massively power hungry beast with terrible performance. It was power hungry compared to what came later, but it did also provide some pretty good performance at the time - especially if you were the kind of tweaky nutter who liked to overclock.

Northwood was a relative bargain when you cranked the bus clocks up well beyond what it said on the box.
I localized my media player app into 50 languages for free
1500 per month pretax
This is a system called PhotoDNA which was developed by MS and is now used by all of the major US tech companies.
Discourse is pretty popular and easy to use https://www.discourse.org/.

And Slack/Discord are not good examples. You're just setting yourself up for a world of monetized walled garden hurt long term. Matrix however is pretty great.
For anyone wondering, ME means "myalgic encephalomyelitis" better known as "chronic fatigue".
Well, I'm from India and I still prefer Android to an iPhone. It is lightyears ahead in customization, which I prefer the most.
> platform

Platform as in software-that-you-install-somewhere (in that case: Discourse seems plenty modern for me) or platform as in forum-as-a-service that will most probably end up with a dubious monetization scheme ?
ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen3 would be a direct alternative.

Also look at X1 Carbon (lighter but only 16GB RAM), T-series (cheaper but heavier), P-series (performance, but big and expensive).
Firefox native Reader mode works great here (although I have uBlock installed, not sure how much annoyances it filters out).
Alternatively, Gman - early 2.5D and 3D, retro shooters, PS2, etc:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Gggmanlives/featured

GMan and Civvie make jokes about each other pretty regularly because their audiences cross over so much.
This appears to include an API to bank accounts, so perhaps it's trying to compete with companies like Starling or Monzo. If it can disrupt the paleolithic US consumer banking industry it might end up being a net positive.
Has anyone managed to get good results from this thing? I can only get wood-textured junk.
> 10,000m3 of contaminated rock they had to export

Wouldn't it be better left in Antarctica than where ever else it was dumped?
It still doesnt compare well to iterm2.
So many features missing.

However, may be in a few years they could catch up ?
It's hard to follow this thought process. Somehow you claim that you are entitled to do business on one company's systems on terms that you decide. This doesn't make any sense what so ever. It sounds like those people who think they should own all the movies, music or software for free because they pay for an internet connection.

If you don't like the business proposition, just don't do business with Apple. Go make apps for Google Play store or Huawei or anything else.
From the comments:

> Maybe there needs to be a special on how Disney hated anyone but White Christians, embraced McCarthyism, and hired nazis.

I am looking forward for it.

https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/#comment-214...
awk-raycaster
My understanding (from talking to FB employees over the years) is that they have been trying to do this for at least a decade (as have Google).

The fact that they haven't fired all the moderators yet should give you an idea of how difficult it is.
Yeah Discourse is great modern forum software in my experience as a user. So much so that I can imagine it helping lead a resurrection of forums, so much more pleasant to use than Facebook Groups (which I refuse to use)
It's already been tested in court - in several jurisdictions. It's fine for your (or any) corporation to house you, but you can't get a material impact from it. Either you have to pay market rent, or claim the taxable benefit.
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis I believe.
It was as also known as 'Yuppy Flu', or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Have you ever considered that what you're posting/discussing may not be found to follow the posting guidelines of this forum by some majority of it's users and they're simply trying to tell you that by using the built in feature to do so?

If you haven't in a bit, please re-read the guidelines.
It factually doesn't matter which citizenship one holds.

An under-utilized protest mechanism exists in the fact that citizenships can change. Most modern republics allow for this.

>It’s completely unacceptable and should be prosecuted

It cannot happen until and unless citizens inform themselves, and most of all: strive to remain informed.
I wasn't talking of bribes, but Leader's Group and Treasury Group. Donations to parties are more than enough to move mountains.
We got a Cthulhu image generator

https://i.imgur.com/F95uksf.png
100% this. I really hope this trend starts to reverse. Forums are one of my favourite things about the internet for all the niche knowledege you can find, but if it's locked behind Facebook (with a useless search feature and a terrible UI), it might as well not be there in my opinion.
Beat me to the edit
They definitely are.

If people had any idea of what crap these people prevent them from seeing, then they would realise the value.

In general, the treatment of content moderators in tech companies is a deep stain on any professed goodness of these companies.
Practicing Graph Computation with GraphX in Nebula Graph
A new strain of card-skimming Grelos malware is on the loose
A Google ban would be immediately devastating to me, but I would certainly recover over time. I could weather losing family photos, 15 years of emails, calendar, not to mention countless 3rd-party services I verified with my Gmail address that I'd have to deal with.

Add financial services into the mix? Especially banking? Gah, I cannot imagine. It would wreck me. I cannot responsibly use Google Pay for anything other than paying for Google services.
The left actually has the same criticisms of the mainstream media as the right does, though usually on other subjects. The media in the US has an extreme centrist position on most issues, leaning to the right on foreign policy and immigration (with no exceptions), but to the left on social issues (with notable exceptions such as Fox News).

I stand by my characterization of Breitbart though - they absolutely knowingly lie about facts. I would also add that you know that your political view is extreme far right when you start calling The Economist "left-leaning".

And I don't think that journalism, especially in the mainstream, has ever been more than an opinion & public relations (propaganda) piece. News organizations are usually owned by rich owners and financed by rich corporations through ads, and so can't stray too far from the mainstream capitalist right-wing/centrist view on most issues of consequence for their sponsors. It happens that lately, corporate America and the rich have generally become much more open on social issues, so you see that reflected in the press.

But you'll be hard pressed to find a mainstream journal or news organization that shares the left's more extreme beliefs on economic issues (e.g. pro unionization, shorter work week), and extremely hard pressed to find any news organization that is against armed support for Israel, that is against the coup attempt in Venezuela, that is against US support for Saudi Arabia, that is for US nuclear disarmament, that is against escalation of the conflict with Russia etc.

Note: if you want to see left-leaning media, look at The Jacobin for example - you'll probably be shocked at how vastly they differ from the NYT. Here is an example: https://jacobinmag.com/2015/05/the-new-york-times-goes-to-wa...
Given that the year is not yet finished, only one of those analyses makes any sense.
If only. Too many people sadly go for the path of least resistance, which also has a plus side. People on forums are probably more likely to seek them out because they have their own issues with Facebook/Reddit.
Look at the other comments at the same level. No need to add what has already been said.
I think they're both a rare lightning event, and something that people in emerging markets are probably more used to happening from other sources.

I remember a while ago there was an outbreak of news reports of people being wrongly declared dead in India, which gave them all manner of bureaucratic trouble. I don't know if Aardhar has made that better or worse.
> France alone probably has sufficient military power to balance Russia

On its homeland. France has limited excess ability to project power to e.g. Lithuania. Or Greenland.

About 10,000 troops abroad to Russia's nearly 50,000. (Though an advantage in carriers.)
Do they release such APIs so that the CCP won't need to put up so much infrastructure because subjects will analyse content on their own devices?
One of the things I took from the book, is that thinking fast is practically inevitable, for neurological reasons : it's effectively 'baked in' or at very least, deeply ingrained into the braing by the time one reaches adult hood.

My understanding of neuroplasticity leads me to think it could be unlearned, but would take extensive active practice.

Day to day, the best we can do perhaps, is to remain aware of how trivially easy it is to make poor judgement, and more troublingly, be deliberately primed to make poor judgements.
> But I think a small, un-elite media is exactly where the problem is right now. All these blogs and YouTube channels that wants to spread the truth, then discover you can make money pushing conspiracy, have actually been crowding out actual journalistic organizations that have actual reporters.

> To me, they are the spiritual successors of the small journals which would have great original reporting on local labor or environmental issues and would also casually report on medical myths and other pet causes of the authors.

These are very good points, that I'll have to think about more.
Sequential performance is only one facet of overall SSD performance. Some older Apple SSDs weren't the greatest at random reads and writes - it's possible these new ones are quite a bit faster in that department, FWIW.
Of course they do. That's the whole point of expelling poor people from where they live. Who doesn't seem to know that are the employees, who prefer to trample on each other instead of (gasp!) force a collective negotiation.
These look like great improvements! I've been using Tailwind one a medium-large solo project and I can confidently say the whole project is MUCH better designed than it would have been without Tailwind, while still looking very custom.

Tailwind is not the one true way to do CSS, but it saves me from myself. I think of Tailwind vs Regular CSS how I think about TypeScript vs Regular JS. I could do everything and more in JS, but I'd make so many more mistakes along the way.
Ask HN: Reliability of APIs vs Webhooks?
Currently choosing a 3rd party membership system to integrate with to check members with (Memberstack) and they offer webhooks and an API.

As I am always thinking in the worst case such as if an API fails to load or an important webhook is missed, I'm having a hard time choosing which approach to take based on reliability.

Extra curious if you were also in this situation to use one or the other.

Thanks.
> I wonder why no one tries to colonize Antarctica as a stepping stone for future space colonization.

Most of Canada and Russia (still) qualifies for that in the winter, and there's more frequent airline service.
That's an unfortunately heavily overloaded name, the FPGA builder is way down the search results behind the football club and the swimwear vendor.
Ask HN: What is your process to decide which projects to fully commit to?
I always have loads of ideas for apps, websites, books, games. All sorts of things. Sometimes I pick something to put my time into well and make something I’m proud of, sometimes I waste a tonne of time and then give up / get bored / get excited by something else before I’ve finished.

I’m at the point of just finishing a year long project that turned into a published book (good choices, yay!) and now I need to start something new.

So I wondered, how do you, the good folk of HN decide which self directed projects to put your time into? How do you decide when to go ‘all in’ or abandon? Do you have a process for that or just a gut feel?

Thanks.
>> I meant in the sense of denotational semantics, so looping (or rather, finding a fixed point of a loop) is one ‘step’.

I understand, but we don't need to take that term into account. We're only interested in the cost of a blind combinatorial search. Even if we added that term in, we'd just get a higher complexity.

>> How exactly would you suggest? By the nature of my criticism, I can't construct the Louise BK blind.

I mean, try to define some BK and generate combinations of it until you solve the problem. You say that I made the problem easy because I defined some BK by hand. I suggested you try doing that to see whether the problem is as easy as you think.

>> If anything you agree here; you say there are only 1,280 clauses it could construct, so I only need discriminatory power of 1-in-13 to have a >1% chance of getting the answer right.

There are only 1280 clauses, but there are about 2 billion programs of size n = 3 that can be constructed with those clauses, one of which is the target program. The challenge is to find the target program in that 2 billion.

The advantage of Louise is that it only needs to look at the 1280 clauses, not the 2 billion programs. The trick is to find how to do that. It's like the difference between sorting a list with bubblesort and quicksort. Quicksort has to do a lot less work, but the trick is figuring out quicksort.

>> Yes, and as usual for GOFAI it doesn't solve the problem.

Deep learning doesn't "solve" that problem either- the point is that you can't learn only from examples.