skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Microsoft had incredible hip credibility and some more luck, the Zune could’ve been a success in line with a solid distant but respected number two.

True. I only used it briefly and I really liked it.

There was some anti-monopoly trial around that time, and some of the unsealed documents (which are now impossible to Google for) where emails from Bill Gates where he raged "why can't Creative make something similar to iPod? Bring them here, give them money, get them early API access". In the end they had to do everything themselves :) And they didn't do a bad job of it!

> I do think Microsoft should’ve kept on with the Windows Phone.

True. And it was the only one daring to explore something new with phone UI/UX. As with Zune, it wasn't half bad. I'd even say WIndows Phone was good, and onto something new.

> The PR battle would’ve been a bigger hurdle. Other major hurdles would’ve been Google being in my opinion anti competitive as hell.

Sadly, also true.

> If webOS stayed at 7.5% worldwide penetration in the west and 10% in other countries (cheap phones, deals, etc), I’d still be on that and likely never would’ve left it.

Ah, the lost opportunities that never came to be :(
I find it baffled that a company of that caliber don't have regression tests that can verify region-bound changes wouldn't affect results intended for other regions.
There were probably some who wanted to try something targeted/infrastructural to avoid that, but there were also some advocates (including Jewish ones) who explicitly supported bombing the camps, including their occupants, because even if they died, it would be net-life-saving as future waves of trains would no longer have a place to go.

PBS's "Secrets of the Dead" series did an episode about this last year: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/bombing-auschwitz-wnrzgw/47...
There's always people who work out what's needed to get the older OS running via things like https://github.com/barrykn/big-sur-micropatcher - and that 2014 iMac will still be supported on Big Sur for awhile before updates for that stop.

Sometimes it works relatively well, other times there are major performance issues (often if the graphics card is missing support for a feature needed).
Or they could attract those users by making a better product?
If it’s any consolation, I thought my wireless provider had booted me before I realized HN could be having issues. It’s generally so fast and reliable that I use it as my “is my internet broken?” sanity check page.
Wow repl.it is no longer my goto. I will be finding another service that does the same thing.
Dramatic post ;) It'd be interesting to see concrete benchmarks of the Lucene implementation, on some public dataset we could try outside of Lucene too.

Btw I didn't find the Schulz & Mihov paper that cryptic. You can check its implementation in Python [0], pretty straightforward IMO.

But I should note that in the end, we chose a simpler approach: the FastSS index. FastSS bypasses constructing / intersecting Levenshtein automata altogether, and is super fast [1].

[0] https://github.com/antoinewdg/pyffs

[1] Boytsov, Leonid. (2011). Indexing methods for approximate dictionary searching: Comparative analysis. http://boytsov.info/pubs/sisap2012.pdf
Does is work for programming? and does it work for typing in different languages?
What’s the application? Sounds like the capacity of a standard $200 (yes AUD) car battery. I guess you want to hold onto that energy for a long time?
It felt like a big Sherlock keynote as Apple seems to be expanding into our homes, cars, access systems, cross-platform video, identity verification, ad publishing, email sanctity, internet anonymity and so much more. Maybe their developers were actually more efficient being WFH.

Most of us will embrace these changes but it will leave a bunch of point-solution vendors in the dust eventually. Or they will adapt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
Indeed, but my point is that, considering there are more native Spanish speakers in the world than English native speakers, it would have been a good idea to pick another word.

Edit:

Imagine a super popular Mexican company had chosen "Niu York" as the name of one of the most popular software products in the world. Wouldn't that bother you?
Implementing pay equity (in an engineering organization)
But hey, now I'm suspicious... are there Meteor dev's here?

IIRC, right on the heels of Meteor we got Apollo from the same folks...

The thing is, I'm puzzled, given the insane unnecessary complexity all this ES2030 and "build toolchains" (who knew javascript needed to be compiled, are we making binary bitstreams? is this an embedded microcontroller? is this an FPGA?) and other esoteric "let's replicate all of comp-sci in the browser" frontend tech, why on earth do such smart folks need the backend as a service? surely such folks who can deal with webpack build scripts can write a little php or ruby or java or something...?
What is with this desire to completely neutralize and gut the backend stack? why on earth invert what a webserver is?
Request=> Response (which might possibly be a rendered webpage)
do folks actually think any of this is necessary and/or good?

Look, I'm all for web API's, web audio, webrtc, etc...
I just don't see where a database in the browser is anything but 'cruisin for a bruisin'...

it's not like databases get their own dedicated servers or anything..

or do you mean something like a mobile app using pouchdb? "offline first and syncing to a single real database in the cloud as soon as one rejoins the network"

because a browser-based database can only ever be a compromise, such that a compelling reason could force it, but that's something akin to "DB per user" aka the Couch/Pouch ecosystem.
> What happens if we go to court and lose? I have to take down my website?

No. What happens if you lose is you pay up to $150,000, plus costs and attorney fees, plus possible criminal penalties. (Here in the US, anyway.)

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#504
There are other reasons given why mrustc is not the solution. Even if mrustc was updated to 1.51 those reasons would not go away.
Cisco cards also worked pretty well back then too.
You don't need to qualify that with "once they get home". Chinese who talk or write about the wrong things will be hunted down wherever they are in the world. China managed to get the UAE to detain a US permanent resident for almost two months when he was traveling from Istanbul to New York with a connection in Dubai.

https://apnews.com/article/europe-china-dubai-middle-east-he...
Was your comment an argument? Looked like an opinion. Responded in kind.
It’s a nice tool. Found it by chance a couple of days ago. It did save me a lot of typing.
Well, Amjad, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named CodeAcademy and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.
Did they ever implement a SQL layer? They seemed like one of the only NoSQL products with the architecture to make it plausible to do so.
Ipad is one of the sucky tablets. The only tablets worth anything are the windows tablets like the Surface Pros or the thinkpads.

Besides I don't see how allowing an option to install any OS you want brings down the quality of a product. If you don't want it because you feel it's low quality. Ok that's fine. Just use iOS.
Because neither Latin or Indo-European are the second language in the world with most native speakers.
‘Floating’ Microgrids: Optimizing Naval Ships’ Power Systems
Amjad was one of the first engineers at Coder Academy. It's quite possible that that project was his baby, not just something he happened to work on.

He also spent 3 years at Facebook between Coder and Repl.it, so it's not like he walked out the door with the idea.
Once you no longer work for the company, all bets are off. Just because you employed someone for a while doesn't mean you retain ownership of the knowledge they learned while working for you.

Barring of course, specific trade secrets or patents. But I have seen none of that here. And, "this kind of looks like what we have" is not a valid legal argument.
Check out lumber
Several points; the title is slightly misleading, i initially thought (in my ignorance) that OP was referring to a company employee, also this article is surprisingly open in 'naming and shaming' his competitor.
Your First Sales Hire
and so is grammar
I replied with some questions about the safety of this, as I had some concerns when reading it.

Aside from the issue I mentioned in reply, the only real caveat would be "know the basics of working with electronics without shorting things or electrocuting yourself" and "check out some youtube videos on rebuilding 18650 packs so you don't do it in a horribly wrong way".
Federal Officials Recover $2.3M Bitcoin Ransom from Colonial Pipeline Attack
You're misconstruing the parent's point. The radiologist can be paid the same, even more. Their point is that while the cost (at least in time) of the radiologist's work was cut to 1/10, individual patients' bills remained constant.
This is nicely put:

> Smoking is the perfect kind of activity for denial: the distance between cause and effect are so far apart. No one puff can ever be causally linked to a tumor, but enough puffs are all but guaranteed to produce a tumor given enough time.

The gap between cause and effect is where denial lives, because this gap obscures causality.
The recent relevant threads:

Microsoft says error led to no matching Bing images for Tiananmen 'tank man' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400774 - June 2021 (10 comments)

“Tank Man” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397486 - June 2021 (54 comments)

The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 - June 2021 (138 comments)

There are no results for tank man - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635 - June 2021 (529 comments)

The iconic ‘Tank Man’ photo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028 - June 2021 (4 comments)

Tank Man - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394943 - June 2021 (15 comments)

Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 - June 2021 (126 comments)
For all readers... this is a US-centric attitude and you must not seek legal advice on HN.
Streaming ETL and Analytics on Confluent with Maritime AIS Data
“Could you disable your Mac's password?” asked at an Apple store (2018)
Simply because a laptop has an entirely different form factor and thinner. I mostly consume media laying down on my bed with a tablet in my hand, and a keyboard is 15 cm of accessory I do not need and makes it awkward to hold. A keyboard is 50% of the device's size which I would realistically use 0.5% of the time. Why do I need to have a physically awkward device when the only thing that stops me from using more appropriate devices is Apple's short-sightedness and lacklustre software department?

I don't need a 14/16 inch laptop to watch TV shows. And there is no touch screen on a MacBook Pro either.
How was the wallet hacked?
Thanks for your in depth explanation. The current structure for me is I have the main app which is responsible for previewing and making the edits to videos. This project does not include FFmpeg. I have a separate project which is the renderer. The renderer is loaded in a separate iframe which loads ffmpeg.wasm. Would this be separate enough that upon request I would only have to open source the project which includes ffmpeg.wasm?
I haven't asked any questions, I believe I've stated my position pretty plainly, so I don't see how this "JAQ" applies here. Again: 'you have consistently expressed views I disagree with' isn't a refutation of anything. morelisp says I should be dismissed because he doesn't like my consistent expression of views he disagrees with, you seem to be saying the same.

You characterizing me as not engaging in good faith is unfair and absurd, just more ad-hominem. And regarding "harm people and erode their rights" I want to know how you regard the rights of women in prison, and whether their right to be housed safely (not with a male rapist) is a right you consider important. I suppose you'll regard me disagreeing with you and challenging your worldview as some sneaky and nefarious form of trolling rather than what it is (argument) so I don't expect an answer, but I do hope you think about it.
That's not the price of batteries in general, that's the price of Li-Ion batteries. Were Li-Ion batteries mass produced in 1991?
OP can you send me your code please? For reasons...
Apple’s Craig Federighi on WWDC’s new privacy features
Closer to 40 years, depending on how you look at it: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
im very glad that negative coverage of a YC startup is so highly upvoted on HN. we still only have your word for it, but thank you for doing what you can to err on the side of caution when it comes to YC startups.
Online ides worry me because I worry ip ownership and lawsuit stuff. Knowing that my ide is run by a litigious company who loves to throw money at lawyers to attack innocent people is a hardcore dealbreaker
The non-fungiblity is the point. Fungible value tends towards centralization, but non-fungible value necessarily remains distributed. Even with something like bitcoin, the "central authority" is the network consensus.

In this proposal, we don't even need consensus. The only thing that matters is human trust between individuals.

That said, it is definitely worse than money if you want to make an exchange with someone more than a degree or two distant from you.

Anyway, right now it's just a thought experiment. I think the critical feedback is sufficient motivation to just make the thing and see how it works or doesn't in practice.
You're missing my point.

I'm not saying should have used the original name, but rather that it should have picked a different location.
I think Replit knows that their entire business can be built by an intern with a few weeks of effort, and as a result is not valuable as a business in it's current state. They are obviously terrified that other people will realize this and there will be 500 clones out there by the time they figure out some defensible business model that locks in clients.
Thank You, North Face
Yes, it's probably heavily subsidised so I expect fees to grow substantially if it becomes more popular. And the thing is the small fee is not the only fee that there is to pay. Apparently in order to open a "channel" the user needs to pay one BTC confirmation fee and another one to close it, but bitcoin enthusiasts somehow never mention this detail.
Heck, domestic SMS costs money for lots of people!
If you would override the default microcode update, which should be doable if you have that level of access, you could call it persistent no?
UK is the only country in EU giving dental care as the package. Also you have to either look for work or work at most EU to get medical coverage.
Also, people from the general public don't know how to write random bits to a drive. Deleting files doesn't actually wipe the information, it just marks the space as available on the OS. Repair agents could still take an image of the drive and recover many of those secret documents.

It should be standard procedure in the repair world to hand the hard drive to the user to take home and keep only the PC for servicing.
You can just look at this from the outside w/o any startup's opinions: Why are some products and services' costs growthing faster and out of lockset with the rest of the economy. Some example niches come to mind: college textbooks, college tuition, specialty medical costs.

No one on the outside has to opine -- you can just look at the prices for some of these and know there are abnormal market forces at work.
There was a time when, if you wanted to put a site online, you (or somebody that represented you) made a point of understanding everything that went into it.

I've been making websites for 24 years. Making a website has always been quite hard, especially for a nontechnical user, and there has always been scammers happy to take their money. What's worse is that a lot of the time the scammers believe they're actually selling a good service. There have always been people happy to chuck any old rubbish up on a domain and call it a website, even if it was full of scammy links, stuffed keywords the same color as the background or in tiny text, with JS that overwrote your browser history and blocked the back button, with no context menu, etc etc.

Its annoying, and sad, for those of us who care and consider ourselves professional. But it definitely wasn't any better years ago.
I'll second Frankl. I enjoyed his (other) books around love and searching for meaning, drawing from his experience. I'll have to check that one out as well. Very humbling stuff.
> Any sound reason

The job of a GP is actually probably one of the top hardest to automate, because the GP's main (and often only) job is to extract information. And that _does not_ consist in performing plenty of tests, but in speaking to and most importantly listening to the patient.

> You don't need a ton of training to get the above from a patient and into a computer, and to ship the samples.

Great! And you know what good that would do to improve diagnostic accuracy? Zilch. Zero. There's a saying that '90% of diagnoses are done on history'. Now tell me why that would be different for an algorithm given identical information? If there was a simple answer to that, we'd already be running statistical models over patient labs all day long, which we're not.

> are you either a) a defeatist, or b) a GP?

I'm an epidemiologist and also a practicing anesthesiologist, which is why the statistical theories of people who have never set foot in the clinics to see what's the job really about make me want to jump off a bridge.
That’s right, and 200000 in Warsaw. It’s not certain, however, approximately 1.1 million people died in gas chambers. Let’s not forget about the atrocities of those who were not sent to the gas chamber. It’s all ifs and maybes but maybe the camp would have to be abandoned if mass gassing wasn’t possible.
That's what happens after 40 years, I'm afraid: You get your doggerel out of order and accidentally correct it.

I recall those lines that my Latin teacher prefaced with something like "I can't remember the whole thing but ...". I was 10 in 1980 and he was quoting probably from his youth at school or a further 20-30 odd years before then, so I'm recalling something second hand from around 1950-1960! There were some errors. Who knows if he got the "correct" poem to start with. You should hear my rendition of the Jabberwocky.

I feel quite sorry for historians.
Benchmarking iOS Builds on M1 Macs
Yeah, previously the same team found a JTAG like mechanism that exposed microarchitectural internals like R/W access to microcode storage.
SNR is the censorship mechanism for the English web, not GFW-style.
This twitter thread has an interesting take based on the warrant: https://twitter.com/jordanschachtel/status/14019885434933329...
You can't, and you don't know who is private labeling what, either. If you can get a data sheet, the better companies have more detailed data sheets.

Personally, I like the Energizer (primary, i.e. disposable) lithiums for nice things like my old HP logic dart that will sit in a drawer for a long time between uses, and Panasonic (formerly Sanyo) Eneloop NiMH batteries for most other things, and the cheapo Costco batteries for when I really don't care.

The three major US brands of alkaline batteries all have warranties for corrosion damage. I don't know of any other brands that do. I have seen corrosion in every brand of alkaline battery I've ever bought but have never tried to collect on any warranty.

“Energizer will repair or replace, at our option, any device damaged by leakage from Energizer MAX® Alkaline batteries either during the life of the battery or within two years following the full use of the battery.”
https://www.energizer.com/about-batteries/battery-leakage

“Duracell guarantees its batteries against defects in materials and workmanship. Should any device be damaged due to a battery defect, we will repair or replace it at our option.”
https://www.duracell.com/en-ca/technology/battery-care-use-a...

"In the unlikely event of alkaline battery leakage, any battery operated device that is damaged by RAYOVAC® Alkaline Batteries will be repaired, replaced or refunded, at our option, as long as the batteries have not expired or been mixed by expiry date and/or battery type.”
http://www.rayovac.com/support/warranties-and-guarantees.asp...
Sequencing a genome is the easy part -- the difficulty is making sense of all of the data in a clinical/medical sense. I got my DNA sequenced/analyzed by https://www.nagenomics.com and found some interesting things that matched personal/family medical history.
Well, what she says now and what is shown to the customer at purchase/before use is what matters. That's why repos have a LICENSE file - you need proof that someone improperly used the work without adhering to the license or were reckless enough to not read the license before reusing the work.
You can re-use the textures in your own works. You can even create a new original work, using the textures as a reference, and pay nothing. The only thing you can't do is use the reference textures directly in a new work without securing an additional license.

I'm pretty sure that, by volume, most art is not sold in a commercial environment and its creators could use the book without concern.
That would be amazing to me in the US, I assumed everyone had unlimited SMS/MMS/within the US phone calls. I have not shopped for mobile plans in over a decade though.
I think you should switch if you think this action of Notepad++ doesn't reflect your values.

Not a Windows user, but I were I'd be using Notepad++.
They get paid per review. They're now doing considerably more reviews thanks to the new software, paid for by donations.

Cost to patients is the same, but processed faster. Doctor making bank.
Ahahah, similar situation here. I thought maybe our IT department had noticed my activity here and decided to throttle my connection (which would still be an odd solution instead of just outright blocking it), but still it took me a few minutes to suspect that maybe the problem was with HN itself.
Hopefully a Russian is reading this right now, and cloning Replit bit by bit. (Don't like bullies, especially new money guys.)

Never thought I would have to say that as an American, but it seems like wealthy plaintiffs win too often, and it's not worth the risk?

Hell--this jerk sounds like he might threaten you next with a Libel lawsuit. Think about deleting this post?

If they do sue, and win you have a judgment against you. If you don't have any assets, they can't do much, but you don't seem judgment proof. Those judgements can attach your salary. They last 10 years, and can be renewed perpetually forever, at 10 percent. Ten percent people. (They should not be 10 percent. I'm in CA.)

It's too bad our civil court system can be so unethically gaguged by money.

I'm thinking about doing my own Chapter 7, and it's been scaring me for years now. I'm so broke I could probally ride it out, but I want that judgment off me. It has really affected my life in a bad way.
Listening to Last Year This Time (Jason Fried)