skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a huge tragedy of the commons when it comes to RAM. I get all the arguments about unused RAM being wasted RAM, and that it is more effective to drop a cache at the last moment, just in case it would be used before then. But those arguments only apply if you have a single entity handling the allocations. Otherwise the program holding the memory has no idea that it should drop a cache to allow a different program to use the memory. If the single program is the OS, great. If there's a single large program using RAM such as a browser, then it's still workable but not so great. If you have more than one program each trying to eat 80% of the RAM available, then you're in a world of hurt.

And of course, every program thinks that it's the one and only important program running on the computer, which is how we get into the situation we're in.
> meet its business goals

I don't want to work at a place that has "business goals". I don't want to work on a proprietary product either. I just want to use my skills to make the world a better place, and moving money around ain't that. I don't want to participate in the rat race or help it in any shape or form.
I think the downsides associated with having a common codebase are grossly underestimated. It inevitably leads to compromises for which a native UX would have been superior. Speed, layouts, native idioms, and continuity come to mind. Sure it’s a lot to ask for a truly native Android app to keep parity with a truly native Mac desktop app, but compared with a React Native codebase, the experience is sublime and the fussy platform shims aren’t needed.
Other than not coming preinstalled on every operating system and having reply capability, you mean?
I'm not assuming anything.

You were complaining about being modded down, so you quite clearly had a problem with it.
I'm not sure that the other end of the rationality axis is "nuanced".
> The irony being that you were served this great luck just before you got handed the ultimate unluckiness

The irony in crashing in your newly bought sports car (or private jet) is in the fact that you were longing for a lottery win your whole life, hoping that it will bring you happiness, but instead it brought you death.

Dying for a reason that is not directly related to your newly acquired wealth is something different.

That's in line with the definition I found in the Cambridge Dictionary: "Irony - a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result."
Resume driven development strikes again! Everyone just wants to use the latest shiny thing then switch jobs and leave the pile of burning mess to the next sucker.

Some of the best software I've used are mostly developed by solo developers or small teams (Sublime, YNAB4) because they actually care about their product instead of the underlying tech.
Since I'm not a Libertarian, I'm the wrong person to ask to mount a defense of it.
The author of this article purports to have done a ton of research into this system, but appears to have missed basic information that I’ve acquired from a few podcasts.

Namely the “1-in-a-trillion” false positives per account per year is based on the likelihood of multiple photos matching the database (Apple doesn’t say how many are required to trip their manual screening threshold).
Are you missing the ‘and then’? It’s a compound sentence, I was just stating the point at which the losses occur. I didn’t ‘choose’ that date, that’s just when things happened. The start point was the 20s as is the point of this entire comment thread.
I wonder if this is it - kids making logical inferences to connect ideas in school, and not being given quite enough information to realize there’s a gap there. And then they think that that’s ‘what they were taught’, even if no teacher or textbook ever actually joined those dots up.

Similarly, I think a lot of people think dinosaur fossils are all dinosaurs who died when they went extinct, because if fossils are dead dinosaurs, and dinosaurs are famous for dying out, those must be connected, right?

Whereas of course dinosaurs had actually been dying (and starting on their way to being fossils) for millions of years before the extinction event which… actually stopped them from dying any more.
Can you expand a bit on the "deep emotional healing techniques", or point me in the right direction to read more on the topic?
just to point out - you pay more on disney+ because you can rewatch + watch with a family which is different than a single person theater ticket
He wrongly interpreted CSAM scanning. He said that Apple will scan your photos and if finds something, it will send photo to Apple. Which is absolutely not how it works. Photo is only scanned before uploading to iCloud Photos. Apple already confirmed it to iMore and it’s clearly stated in Apple papers from press-release.
The Slippery Slope Is Not a Fallacy
At high levels of play and in computer-vs-computer games, the problem is too many draws. This paper's idea would exacerbate this problem. If you want a fairer outcome, just do what's done already and count one match to be two games, one with white, one with black, and five possible outcomes.

One interesting variant that I would love to see tried is no-black castling (or no-black-short-castling) chess. Draws would count as wins for black (called Armageddon scoring). You could still play two games (one per side) to get the most fair outcome. This starting position should still allow a large variety of openings and it would always be balanced on the edge without the large dead zone of draws. All chess programs can already play this variant as well, though maybe not most optimally.

Chess960 is also a pretty good solution that reduces the value of memorizing openings.
So we’re on to time machines this early in the discussion?

Government is toothless and unmotivated to reign them in for the same revolving door issues you wrote about already happening today. The only thing that changes any of this will be whistle blowers and exposition from the inside of these companies. Then you have the issue of what media company will run that story? Think about how much the media rely on Twitter for “content” now.

I am skeptical of any positive changes for quite some time.
I think the context is missed here. It's a useful tool, but should it be an active-by-default feature shipped with the browser? It doesn't add security and doesn't enhance speed. Wasn't it more acceptable if this was an add-on?
The CDC study gives some credence to your theory but your conclusion is by all evidence wrong. It shows nothing about the transmissibility of vaccinated people who test positive. It also disregards previous evidence before the delta variant that vaccinations widely prevented positive tests. So there is SOME effect there. Taking a study that says “there’s definitely some chance of transmission” and making the conclusion “there’s no difference” only happens due to your predetermined conclusion. A real look at the actual body of evidence on vaccines necessarily draws different conclusions.

One need only look at the overlay of cases and vaccination rates across different US states to show you’re just flat out wrong.
> This means it's in theory possible to run the same code on an embedded hardware platform, a desktop app or in the browser.

Maybe want to talk to the Java guys, and ask them why this doesn't work out in practice? ;-)

Just having a common byte-code interpreter isn't enough for portability of applications.
I'm more upset at the privacy/surveillance implications than the user-facing ad itself. It can't show me lower prices without sending my browsing data to Microsoft, right?
Question: who is or will be making money on this deal? Answer that ("follow the money") and then I think we'll have a handle on what's really going on.
With applications however you are using your resources only. If you use a web app you are using their resources which they have to pay for continuously in perpetuity. To expect a one time fee for that and forever updates just isn't feasible. There is software out there for free that does what bitwarden does. KeePassX for example, so it's not like there aren't options.
"the fundamental difficulty of solving this problem at scale and how we solved it"

Time is hard and the funny thing is - it's relative! Anyone who says they have "solved" time is delusional. The best you can do is reduce errors and problems related to timekeeping to an acceptable level.

I've "solved" time at work with three Raspberry Pis with GPS boards/hats and aerials. My requirements are that logs be correlatable and Kerberos etc work - so milli-second is enough. My Pis have a spread of around 0.002ms ie 2us according to ntpq -p. It doesn't take much to make it far worse. When I update them, I do one at a time per day. Accuracy drops a bit.

I might put in three more at home. ntp needs a lot of sources to converge properly. Ideally five or more. I have quite a decent connection to work.

... reads transcript.

Oh well done - you discovered PTP.

Anyone who actually knows about this stuff like to comment on ntp vs ptp?
Younger and international HN readers*. Sorry just doing my part to make the English web less US-centric.
I mean it is the perfect expression of what a lot of us hate about modern apps. The constant sucking up of all data for advertising.

Lets be honest to follow best practice on security/privacy is a constant schlep of tweaking options and compromising on functionality. Then to have a base tool just throw in your face that "We've added a feature and even though you've got 'send do not track' ticked this is not at all the same so we'll turn it on by default". Yeah I understand the need to vent especially if he chose IE as a minor way to get away from google tracking[1].

I mean, sure, we probably won't ever reach verification mountain dew, but that meme first came about in 2012 and not surprisingly we've slid closer and closer to that in the mean time. People have had years of getting sicker and sicker of the slow visible decline.

[1] After seeing the comments about who the author is it's more likely he defaults to Microsoft products.
Most of what you say is correct, but saying absolutely that unvaccinated people are endangering other people and vaccinated people are not is also false.
> However, nothing in the iCloud terms of service grants Apple access to your pictures for use in research projects, such as developing a CSAM scanner. (Apple can deploy new beta features, but Apple cannot arbitrarily use your data.) In effect, they don't have access to your content for testing their CSAM system.

> If Apple wants to crack down on CSAM, then they have to do it on your Apple device.

I don’t understand… Apple can’t change their TOS but they can install this scanning service on your device?
Yeah in my field the general attitude is that Nature isn't all that great. I have heard the phrase "it was published in Nature but might still be right" more than once.
The trivial non-tracking implementation would be checking if the domain of a requested page matches a certain list of known e-commerce sites. If so, then on load, query the other known e-commerce sites through a proxy to see if there's a cheaper price. No tracking necessary.
James Charles, a very popular individual on Twitter, has been cancelled about 5 times. Guess what? They're still there. That's because "Cancel Culture" is largely made up by talking heads. Very few people actually get "cancelled", and when they do, it's not because of posts on Twitter by themselves.

Youtube houses plenty of conspirators, right wing news, gun channels, and they're monetized. Not only that, but youtube comment sections are notorious for being inline with "conservative" views.

Some gun channels have been demonitized. Not because Youtube doesn't want the money, but because Google doesn't control what advertisers do. In one of the demonitization dramas it was revelead that Youtube as a company would stop generating revenue if a big advertiser like Pepsi or Disney stopped doing business with Youtube.

If you want to see "cancelling" how about the crowds of hate that target minority groups with significant harassment? Why is online canceling from Twitter talked about, but not actual real life militia groups and violent groups that gather to kill transgender individuals? One of those actually harms people.

Do you see these "cancellers" showing up to city council meetings, forming actual physical protests? Nope. Everyone is actually quite free to ignore it. The only time things change is when those in positions of power decide to change it. They make those changes not on the outrage on Twitter, but on their own personal beliefs on whom they want to do business with.

Ontop of this, "cancel culture" can be translated to "protest culture". Somehow critisizing and stopping business with people is "cancelling", and not "protest" now?

>No tech company should be enforcing their Terms of Service based on what they think their users have done or might do off of their own platforms. Yet Twitter, Facebook, Patreon and who knows who else do that.

Reworded: No individual should be enforcing their morals based on what they think someone has done or might do when not next to them.

These "I should be able to say anything I want on someone elses platform" is uniquely american privledge talking. If Youtube, or Twitter, or Facebook allowed whatever people want, guess what? They'd be regulated tomorrow to not allow it. Words actually do have harm, and words do not inherently have 1st ammendment protections.

There are already plenty of misinformed people whom want a "repeal of 230". These companies have both a moral and financial responsibility to enforce their terms of service.

>A mailer company like Mailchimp has no business even parsing the content of their paying clients, let alone summarily judging whether it is misinformation or not. Mail providers should care about two things and two things only:

Yes, they do. They have to parse them for illegal content, and then they have to parse for content that might have their services used in ways that harm others. Disinformation can easily be harmful, and a company like Mailchimp does not want to be implicated in it regardless of 230 protections or not.
NYC's New Covid Vaccine Passport Simply a 'Glorified Photo Storage App,' Critics
That doesn't make a difference. You called azodicarbonamide harmless. Companies have a culture. Their history reflects that.
They are not thoughts as sibling mentioned.

If you think any of these things in your own mind but don't take any action on it that is perfectly ok and carries no legal risk.
Does the law have a moderation carve out? There are plenty of laws that have what's called 'strict liability' where your intent doesn't matter.

I'm not suggesting that this is absolutely positively a situation where strict liability exists and that moderation isn't allowed. But the idea that "hey we're trying to do the right thing here" will be honored in court is....not obvious.
I think the most infuriating thing is azure containers don’t really work with standard FTP clients like transmit

But as long as the product is “good enough “we will see this trend more as most consumers of apps care more about features than performance
Other than advertising (legal) pornography, all of those are actual violations of the law, at least in the United States.

Clearly MailChimp (or any other service) can't knowingly allow their platform to be used to violate the law, or they would be held accountable.
Well, while the printing machines were running, the zeitgeist was fully occupied with Covid-19, BLM, a short episode of anti-Asian racism toward the end, Trump's vulgar attitude, ...

Now that the harm is done and the money circulating, the media is slowly starting to shine some light on the topic.

Although that could push one toward conspiracy theories, as per Hanlon's razor we shall not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. The media probably just got distracted as we all were.
And the market now demands ridiculousness

https://twitter.com/MTVSchedule/status/1422934028253081603
Nobody is “moaning”. We are pointing out obvious inconsistency.

What’s ironic about THIS particular virus is that if any virus DESERVES a regional origin name, it’s this one, as this one was most likely created in a lab and released on the world due to lab failures. Perhaps I could entertain the notion forgoing regional naming for viruses of natural origin, so as to not unduly destroy tourism, travel, and reputation of areas that just got unlucky. In this case, though, name and shame is more than fair — it’s deserved. And consistent!
I believe the point is that all those services have existed for Quite Some Time, don’t need consumer-facing changes, and any additional consumer-facing software changes are bunk.
I have no problems at all letting my PocketBook connect to the network.

Then synchronization works flawlessly.

Why do you want to do everything in such a manual way is beyond me.
The timings are certainly closer, but the built-in function imported from operator is still faster than the user-defined function. Not a big deal if you're doing simple stuff, but if this code is in a hot loop that 30% can make a measurable difference.
Philips Hue app on iOS.
Those who have borrowed money benefit from inflation though. If you have student loans or a mortgage, high inflation can work to effectively reduce how much you owe if salaries/wages go up with inflation.
" I find people are very tolerant of bugs and just suffer in silence a lot of the time."

Most people probably blame themself of not getting it.

Or throw hands in the air of what to do about it.

And most don't know that you can make software that fits to the user needs and not the other way around.

OpenSource could have potential here, but most free software developers are not really into UX design either and seem to expect the same tech level of their audience as they have.
Slightly different situation. I want to work in office full time due to kid daycare logistics, but there appears to be some chance that our office will be changing to 100% hotdesking for everyone, presumably to save costs while most people WFH most of the time.

That does not work for me. I work with hardware. I constantly have robot bits or DAQ/RT systems on my desk. I'm not hauling that stuff home every day.

I have already told my employer in no uncertain terms that I plan to quit if they impose hot desking.
Huge agreement to keeping up with the iOS and arbitrary app update requirements. My personal projects are in a place that releasing even minor updates is an endeavor I just don't have time for anymore.
Ideally? A jury of your peers supported by a system that at least purports to provide checks and balances against the system being dominated by any single person or groups' judgement.

If factual veracity faced a similar system that tries to balance the needs and desires of all participants, then censoring misinformation would be a lot more palatable (and would still, like our justice system, often be wrong.) The current system of supressing misinformation has none of the check and balances contained in the legal system and adding those in would do a great deal to facilitate trust in that system.
They already revoked his MSDN subscription, and everybody else's.

They also killed off the magazine, the last issue is from November 2019.
About as useful as Amazon search, Kindle giant list o' books interface, Amazon Prime Video on Android TV gizmos etc.
> Unless someone explains to me, in plain English, why we ought to abolish the very important freedom of deciding for themselves who and how private entities do business with

Just to set some parameters here, you would be fine with, say, a landlord refusing to rent an apartment to a black person?
Yes, true. I wish Spotify artists/playlists or Youtube channels etc. had RSS.

So, the next idea would be a service that scrapes contents and builds an RSS feed.
Book recommendation:

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed. It is more interesting than the title, I think. It covers WW I, great depression, and the beginning of WW II, with a focus on monetary policy (gold standard, etc.), but also gives general political and economic background.

My main take-aways:

1. Things were slower. The Governor of the Bank of England wanted to confer with his counterpart in the US. So, he'd board a boat to the US anonymously, travel there over the course of several weeks, chat with his pal for a few weeks, and travel back for a few weeks.

2. Things are hard to predict (market collapse, inflation, fascists taking over your country). In particular, by the time it becomes clear that the threat is real, it is too late to protect yourself against it.
Thanks for the kind words!

It's definitely a deliberate leap back to the old logical/symbolic era of AI.

Not mentioned in the article is that logic makes it much easier to emit "proofs" that end users like physicians can understand.
Does exist DB, list or equivalent with all the titles of every video transmitted by MTV ordered by year ? I'm desperately looking for a video transmitted continuously in 2001, 2002 or 2003 by MTV in Europe that has a special meaning for me.
Sultans came 3-4 years before MTV and ~7 years before "money for nothing" but it's a funny example artist to choose, I agree. "Money for nothing" was an early iconic video and interesting early use of CG.
I think Librewolf is a Firefox alternative that needs more exposure.
This is exactly why I disagree with everyone who argues it’s an issue of personal freedom.

You may have the personal freedom to get drunk—that doesn’t give you the freedom to drive around while under the influence and you endanger everyone else on the road.

The choice to be vaccinated or not is not a choice that affects merely the individual; its consequences affect communities. Regardless of whether it is valid or not to refuse vaccination, it is not solely within the realm of personal freedom and should not be treated that way.
Show HN: Vinix, a 4 month old OS written in V, can already run GCC
Yes. And they somehow existed even before computers were invented. Computers sure did help streamline the processes tho.
Fair chess is trivial.

The first player chooses white's move. The second player chooses whether to play as black or to take over playing as white.

Problem solved. The first player is incentivized to make white's first move as value neutral as possible. It's exactly the same principle as the "sister cut's the cake, brother chooses which piece to take" trick many will have used as kids.
> I'm surprised, and honestly disappointed, that the author seems to still play nice

Stopping to that level is what they want, CNN: “‘privacy activists’ have released a tool to allow the spread of CP”
We’re already too late, we just don’t realise it yet.
Jumped to the Carly Simon track at the end & landed on Tony Levin playing bass.

I saw him last week in Orlando, playing with King Crimson.
But I never said cherrypicked the 80s, I merely described what happened then. The entire point of this comment thread is that buying an index in the 20s is a strategy highly dependent on the index one chooses, with certain indices suffering for decades. I never said that one would be down overall, merely that anyone holding over such a long timeframe may need to wait decades to recover from certain losses (so in fact the opposite of losing money). The whole point of index investing is buying and holding, so anyone in the Nikkei for the long time had to hold through the bubble in the 80s.
A couple of weeks ago I saw a sign in front of Aldi that said "We're Hiring $10.50 per/Hour" last week the changed it to "We're Hiring $15.00 per/hour". $10.50 doesn't seem to cut it anymore. How long until it spreads to other industries like Trucking where they make like $5.50 an hour when it's all said and done. At least working for Aldi, you're home every night.