skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what Spotify is doing with the Android app. They seem to be pushing podcasts really hard and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the app from doing that. I didn't enjoy using it at all.

I finally bit the bullet last month and moved to YouTube Music. Migration was a pain but I find the generated playlists better and the UX less painful to use.
I had a lot of fun with Kawa back about a decade ago, and one thing I was missing was something like Maven support, but that eventually led me to Clojure which I really like. But the simplicity of Scheme is really great too.
Doesn’t seem like it was an accident, rather protectionism written long ago to make sure they were the only “game” in town.
Sure did. Did. As in already done. What else, aside from security fixes, needs to change software-wise?

Edit: I realize this can be read with a pile of snark that I didn’t intend. Apologies.
It's funny when it's done for laughs: https://www.instagram.com/nathanwpylestrangeplanet/?hl=en
Ask HN: Why there is no DNS for the paper mail?
Why can't my mailing address be decoupled from my physical location? Why can't mail follow me wherever I decide to go next? Fighting paper spam would be trivial if there was a mail DNS.

Are there any examples of such approach in the world?
True. I cancelled my spotify sub the same day I discovered soulseek. I keep my music collection (~100GB) offline now, all organized in folders.
miniKanren definitely exploits a lot of the syntactic dexterity of Scheme/Racket/Lisp to do some really cool things -- or at least to express them more succinctly.

Yes, it is always possible, in fact, since logical arguments can always be rendered as proof trees.
...or simply the need to have version 6.0 after version 5.0, somethings gotta change.

Sometimes I think it would be an interesting mental exercise to convert most (all?) web pages and PC apps to something like a bog simple Windows 3.1 application. You could melt an online banking site to a handful of drop down menus and dialog boxes.

You have to wonder what the effect of ever-more-obtuse interfaces combined with visual gingerbread has on people with vision problems.

OTOH, there's apps that have been around for years where you have to wonder what they were thinking to begin with. Calibre. After Effects. Gimp.
The article missed the worst regression in modern times: Windows 8 and then Windows 10.

These operating systems are harder to use, have fewer features and are uglier than Windows 7.

Hundreds of millions of people battle with Windows every day.
The architects of the really big atrocities, the holocausts, genocides and purges, argued them necessary for the greater good.
Agreed, given that this is fiction, everything is possible, however...

... since this is an in-universe account of Newspeak (because of the way the essay refers to Newspeak, we know it's not just Orwell the author speaking), and since this account wouldn't be possible in Newspeak itself, and furthermore, and because this is written in past tense, we have a pretty good indication that Newspeak failed. And because Newspeak and Ingsoc are irrevocably married, we also have a good indication that Ingsoc itself must have failed.

This is a coda explaining in-universe some details of a failed regime, much like the similar one at the end of The Handmaid's Tale (though that one is way more explicit).
Could always just watch The Grand Tour on repeat. That's what I do
I was wondering whether they were going to follow that sequence - I know it as the ‘fair share’ sequence.

It has a number of interesting fairness properties, but I don’t I don’t think I’ve ever seen it suggested for turntaking in a game like Chess.
So they are assuming that the photos are independent. Common error with probabilistic reasoning. What if the same photo (or photos of the same scene taken seconds apart) gets uploaded more than once? The likelihood no longer multiplies. I don't believe the "one in a trillion" claim.
the point was:

> A bank doesn't need a full-time development team for example.

all of the areas I mentioned are subject to constant change, mostly from regulators

implementing the Payment Services Directive, Solvency II or MiFID II all require developers

the developers working on the app/website that you interact with are always going to be a small fraction of the developers that work for a bank

and if you think this isn't the case (in a very cut-throat industry), I would suggest you start a bank and put the rest of them out of business with your vastly reduced costs
Do you know the artist/song but are just looking for the video, or do you just remember the tune/video and are looking for the artist? There is also a reddit forum devoted to this very thing called /tipofmytongue/
Or when they add in the next "helpful" feature. Then you can turn that one off too.
> The point is that they are small, inconsequential institutions that are predominately located in rural and semi-rural towns.

Wow, coastal elitism much?

There are surely many degree mills and garbage universities, but to conflate their worth with their location is both injurious to discourse, and incorrect.
> In plain English, there’s precedent in the constitution and law for the government to regulate business if it promotes the general welfare.

There are a lot of things that "private entities" aren't allowed to do when doing business with the public in the United States.

They can't discriminate based on race, or religion, or national origin, or handicaps, or (in civilized areas) sexual orientation.

It wasn't always that way. At one time all of those things were perfectly legal. But we, as a society, after a great deal of argument (sometimes contentious) decided that they were wrong and changed the laws to prohibit those things.

We're having essentially the same arguments about online speech right now.
Fascinating, right?

What I did not realize until going back in time was how these German reparations are dragging on and on.

Armistice is signed in 1918, and reparations are agreed upon in late 1919. In 1920, the payment plans are put forth. By 1921, it's clear Germany can't repay in full. For the next 3-4 years, the entire calamity will stumble in fits and starts. Until the US gets involved in the mid-1920s (Dawes and Young Plans).

Even then, war reparations aren't completely paid back until 2010.

It reminds me a lot of the Greek situation in the 2010s. Three bailouts, several different rounds of negotiations, etc.
The problem with HN Algolia search is that they never updated it after comment scores were hidden. The default is to sort comments by score, but all recent comments are ranked last because their score is just assumed to be 1 or something like that.

I also wish it searched both stories and comments by default. I guess you can set your own defaults but meh, I use many different computers and don't change defaults as a general rule because it's a hassle to keep all the computers in sync.
Discussing any elephant in room type problems with a group of people who don’t like difficult conversations or those that ask awkward questions.
Usually I don't bother with nits but in this case:

> had little difficulty speaking

Has exactly the opposite meaning of what you intend unless you turn it into:

> had a little difficulty speaking

Not too confusing in this particular comment, but I could see this causing problems down the line for you.
Having business goals isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's possible to develop a good product that improves the lives of its users, while compromising on some things so the business can sell the product before it runs out of money. The money from those sales can then be used to fund more worthwhile work. It may be hard to find a position at a company that lives up to that ideal, but it's possible. I believe my cofounder and I are trying to do that with our bootstrapped company (but we're not currently hiring). You have to be willing to compromise on some ideals though; I struggle with that myself.
Until recently I thought we already settled this:

-People you believe are saying true things get to speak.

-People you believe are saying false things get to speak.

-People you believe are saying nice things get to speak.

-People you believe are saying mean things get to speak.

Everyone gets to speak. Individuals get to decide.
You could say the same about several features in Chrome or Firefox or any other browser. Does Firefox need to have Pocket by default? Does chrome need to have integration with Google? Organizations build browsers due to their self interest, so just talking about security and speed is a small part of the decisions that the product team might make.
Also, some of the most illegal drugs that are classified as highly addictive with no medical use are literally orders of magnitude less harmful and addictive than for example meth, which is acknowledged to at least have some medical use.
Or they could use email but via someone other than Mailchimp, such as ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, Sendinblue, GetResponse, Moosend, EngageBay, Omnisend, Zoho, Mailjet, ConvertKit, Benchmark, AWeber, HubSpot, Constant Contact, DotDigital, Campaign Monitor, Sender, SendPulse, Klaviyo, Jilt, Autopilot, Drip, Keap, and probably many others.

Email is not like, say, Facebook where to reach someone on Facebook you need to send via Facebook. How you send email is largely irrelevant as long as you pick a provider that doesn't send so much spam that their outgoing mail gets blocked.
You make a lot of typical western assumptions here and also assumptions because you have a migration background yourself ("they want to (re)populate the island" - Why would they "want that"? - Edit: Now I got you, but the island is just small and populated already and also: Populating a place (making babies) isn't a problem for most people ;-), they actually enjoy it and in the case with this island they even start very young :-O. The website offers relocation to a super-remote, poor and harsh place. It's out of the category that HR pulls all the time ala "Why you should work at place XYZ". But the reality is, that they only hire one specific person out of 100, that has exactly the skill they need. I think the "child rape" cases are rather a symptom: Life is hard, there is nothing to do. If your life expectancy is 25 years, then you rather reproduce early. Reproducing (populating) a place is not a problem. If it starts to be one ("As of 2012, just two children had been born on Pitcairn in the 21 years prior.") then something is wrong with the place itself. And as the migration numbers show: "For a recent survey that contacted hundreds of islanders who have left Pitcairn over the years, only 33 participated and just 3 expressed a desire to return." something is wrong with the place.

It's like a company which pays peanuts having 80% of their positions open and complaining about not being able to find new employees and "HR (desperately) searching".

So, fundamentally everything is going the right way on Pitcairn: A harsh place gets depopulated. And someone is spinning the fairytale and roses story, because it's one of the rare things there is to do (a payed (government) job on the island).
nope, but big companies are more arrogant now, they know best, and the user has less choice.

Skins might also get in the way of showing ads.
There U.S. Constitution enumerates other powers for the government, including the power to tax and regulate commerce.

Sometimes I think people confuse what they wish/think the government role should be with what is explicitly defined within the social contract between the government and the governed.
Racists are so uncreative and unintelligent. Non-white students paying good money for an education should ask for this garbage to be removed. Anything that is racist and still celebrated is fair game. Locals and staff that got comfortable with this nonsense obviously need to learn the lessons that they missed.
Sounds cool!

Do you have anywhere that interested people can read more about the project/progress?
"Users put up with this shit for decades? We're leaving money on the table by not doing it ourselves!"

- Some exec at MS
> But one of them is that they are a tricky choice.

How so? (What you follow that statement with doesn't seem to explain it.)

When I took a close look at Algolia for a project it seemed straightforward as a choice, but the cost would've been completely out-of-wack in comparison to what I was spending for the rest of the tech stack. This aligns with what a contributor to Typesense mentions in the comments, which is that what they hear from many potential Algolia customers is that it's "a great product but can get quite expensive at even moderate scale".
Are you saying the vaccine only becomes effective if everyone has it? What good is it then, since we will never reach 100% vaccination?

The claim that unvaccinated people are a breeding ground for more effective versions of the virus sounds like a Big Pharma talking point, rather than something with solid science behind it. My understanding is that environmental pressure results in mutated variants becoming widespread. Couldn't vaccines themselves cause this? The virus hardly mutated for a whole year, but then once inoculations became available it seems that more infectious variants are popping up left and right.
Tokyo Olympics: The alternative medal tables
There's a brilliant book "Inside Jokes" where authors come up with a theory of humor that to a large degree relates to what you said. In short, humor is the way for the brain to debug itself.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inside-jokes
Of course you could run Rust on the JVM (more precisely on GraalVM)!

Have a look at Project Sulong.

https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/sulong
Audible. Just let me start listening to my book. Don't force me into "Discover" every time I open the app. Discover requires a network access and keeps me from doing anything else until it times out if my connection is not good. It could show me Discover when I close a book I just finished. That would make sense and not be intrusive and rude. No, they have to shove the monetization attempt in my face over and over. What PM made these choices? Geez.
I was very sorry to notice Spotify getting worse and worse. It seems that now the app won’t display anything without an internet connection, or certain items that were downloaded don’t appear in the list. What’s the point of downloading songs for offline use if you can’t even navigate to them?

The desktop app is also getting worse. After a certain period of time clicking play simply has no effect, so it needs to be regularly restarted.

I don’t normally enjoy these pile-ons complaining about a product, but I have the feeling it’s coming apart at the seams
That may be just it. I've been a paid pro user for almost a decade (back before and when their app was good); I ultimately abandoned my subscription when I realized I don't use the service much anymore (something about them suddenly losing quite a lot of mainstream-ish music).

That brush with their current app I described before happened when my wife wanted to evaluate Spotify subscription as a source of children songs. We both quickly realized that youtube-dl and manually copying MP3 files to the phone offers a much superior user experience to the Spotify app.
“May” is the key word in that long sentence. bioRxiv certainly does not review content of submissions using the standard definition of the word “review”. They may scan for style and general content type—for example rejecting reviews.

But I agree with the parent comment that these archives are extremely valuable.

I disagree that informal community comments are of much critical value. In most cases twitter comments and micro-reviews are relatively trivial and are usually based on quick reads rather than deep perusals.
Panic for years is rather open how they can't operate profitable on iOS and as a result discontinued many of their great iOS apps. The fear is that the Mac app market goes the same way like the iOS App Store.
That fanned structure is very strong. For a one dimensional example consider an I-beam supported at the center vs having that same I-beam attached only at the edge. Which do you think can support more weight?

And again even at Mars’s 0.38g it’s already bending. It can clearly survive more force, but not at an optional solar collection angle. Use the same thing on the moon near the poles and sure it’s not going to break, but it’s also not collecting 200W/kg.
LOL this reminds me of IE on Windows Server. In order to keep your server secure, they put IE in "Enhanced Security Configuration" mode which breaks the entire web. It cracks me up that the only way IE is secure, is when it's useless. It's basically an admission that IE was not secure enough to run in default mode, when it's only going to be used on a server by someone experienced enough with tech to set up a server. But those regular desktop pelbs, you all can just have insecure IE.
When companies market themselves as the "medium for public discourse", it is easy to cross lines between staying "neutral" or influence it the way they see fit. "Social Media" has served no useful purpose beyond generating these kind of moralistic arguments. We are better off without them.
I have a twitter here if you want to follow: https://twitter.com/Roaring20sTate
I do wonder if to some extent the inherently subjective nature of UX/UI design is what keeps it forever going? Designers want to stay employed and not just become a "bring in one-time at the start" contractor, so they justify changes through continual enhancement or similar, assuming the current solution may be one of a few local optima rather than the global optimum.

Lacking objective numerical comparison, perhaps designers and product teams attempt to do metrics-based comparison from telemetry (we raised metric X by changing the design). That leads to an ever changing design that tries to optimise for business objectives, rather than what the user wants.

Backend code can be optimised and honed and improved with objective measurements (CPU cycles used, latency, perceived performance, download time for user), but design doesn't give these.

In saying that though, rewrites in new languages and frameworks do seem to be becoming the problem for backend - optimisation isn't seem as exciting or career advancing, I guess... Few are optimising code for performance these days though, I'd wager - everyone just assumes your user won't mind your software using 15% of their CPU when sitting idle.

Maybe it is just as simple as that metrics individuals are measured on for job performance?
Again... how many times do we keep having to disable things? Maybe you should have to enable it.
The engineers that worked on this should honestly be ashamed of themselves. We need some sort of oath of ethics in computer science.
That was until we collectively decided harm reduction is a greater cause than freedom preservation. Now any and all freedoms we previously had can be temporarily, permanently, or conditionally suspended in the name of harm reduction (saved lives, fewer offended, etc.)
Can you post a link to the feature or annoucement instead for people to try out (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)? Linking to just a tweet was a big feedback in the last submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27571786)
It also includes some survivorship bias. The Dow only includes companies with a market cap above a threshold.

In order to get a better estimate of returns it would have to include the cost of redistribution of investments due to the changes in companies that constitute the Dow. Some of these companies that dropped out of the Dow would also have been trading near insolvency, and the losses associated with investments in them need to be accounted for.
> The Ancient Greeks knew what it took to grow stronger, but their ideas about the body's physiology were a little mystical. They believed in harnessing an ethereal substance called pneuma, a bit like the Chinese chi. This involved suspending and holding the breath, tensing all the muscles of the breast and relaxing the stomach and diaphragm, therefore "pushing the excrements" down, according to Christopoulous.

This techinique along with muscular programming is really powerful. It makes possible running up a slope at full speed while making footsteps completely silent, for a long time, without feeling tired or sweating, and then recover your normal breath instantly.
hmm... goes to homepage. Yep, not biased at all.
Edge is also, by default, showing coupon codes:

https://imgur.com/a/BTilK9U

I'm sure it's pulling them from the normal sources for such things. It all makes me feel uneasy about using Edge, but I've got to imagine if my less technically inclined family members saw this, they'd welcome the feature as a way to save a few bucks.
Let's eat grandma!
> impossible to find again

Except, apparently, for people who are offering

> a year's income

To informants
You're talking Windows users. They already either know they're being tracked and don't care, or who don't know they're being tracked. Why would they care about a different browser?
Not sure your before is entirely correct. Apple has admitted to scanning iCloud photos, so they are already accessing them at some point.

https://digit.fyi/apple-admits-scanning-photos-uploaded-to-i...
TIL: one can write a Postgres hook to enforce this in the database at 'create table' time. This would fit nicely in the ProcessUtility hook.
I will assume anything written under such a link to be false unless proven otherwise.
List of songs linked below and of course they had to start with Buggles "Video killed the radio star" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_music_videos_air...
That's the excuse given, not the reason. It's like saying "evil starts with science papers" because some scientists affiliated with the nazi party published artificial information that made racism look scientific and correct.

The bigger justices, like the U.S. bill of rights - that's for the greater good. Having laws and order. That's for the greater good too. As are judges, police, government, etc. All the greater good that requires people to comply.
> Why there is no DNS for the paper mail?

Because thousands of years ago, there was no DNS, nor network communications systems, yet there was "the mail".

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail#History) the concept of a courier service may date back to the Egyptians:

"The first documented use of an organized courier service for the dissemination of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the dissemination of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BCE). The earliest surviving piece of mail is also Egyptian, dating to 255 BCE."

Wind that forward to today, and "mail delivery" is largely the same as then. A letter/package has an address inscribed upon it indicating a physical location, and a courier carries it to that location and delivers it. Among things that have has changed are the transportation mode, and the accuracy of the address location. But the overall high level operation remains very similar. Because it is an age-old system that still functions similarly to how it did before computers and computer networks it is likely no one has thought the concept of an "address lookup" for the historic "mail system" was a necessary add-on.
What Does Databricks Do?
In general the admixture from that source has been more widely mixed into the human population in the subsequent centuries. But it should be emphasized that the Ancient Greeks themselves are much, much closer to us in time than they were to the era of human-Neanderthal hybridization. It's not unlike asking whether our grandparents' generation had less dilution of their Neanderthal heritage compared to ours Kinda? Maybe? In a sense that doesn't really matter, since it was already well-mixed into the human population by their time. As it was in the time of the Ancient Greeks, tens of thousands years after the last first-generation hybrids were probably born. Even "ancient" history is contemporary from the paleontologist's point of view.