skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineers would tend to want to optimize a thing for efficiency at that thing's ostensible purpose. Which means there's good engineering (the result is efficient) and bad engineering, if everything is framed within that engineering mindset. But that's not the only mindset. An allegory: A traffic engineer wants to time the traffic lights for maximum traffic throughput. It's the "right answer." Just like a music search feature with a goal of straightforwardly finding shit is the right answer. But lo and behold, the mayor and/or the local merchants don't want people to just drive easily past their businesses, they want you to have a good look, and plenty of time to consider whether to go in and shop there. So the mayor has the engineer time the lights to create a longer delay, makes him do bad engineering, to try and herd mindless, hapless consumer-meat into the store. The design is still optimized though, it's just a different parameter being optimized.
There's quite a variety of music there! Surprising.
Royalty is just nice way of saying "inbred".
Stingle is a privacy-focused, open-source photo backup application
That may contribute, but we saw the same pattern in devs who had been there for 5-10 years.

I also see the same pattern in "Ask HN" posts and many comments here from people venting about how they've started so many side projects but can never finish them. Starting new projects is fun. Shipping things can be hard and requires some tolerance for boredom.

A lot of people get into the field because they like to program and play with new programming things. Regardless of jobs or compensation, there's a strong pull toward doing new and different things. There's also a strong aversion to working on someone else's project.
It’s more about PM2.5 and similar particulate pollution. But absolutely there are bigger concerns. Tire and brake pollution gets brought up as a false equivalency between ICE and EV car emissions often. Just wanted to add a factoid about how electrified vehicles really are more efficient.
Before: you would upload images to iCloud Photos. Apple can access your images in iCloud Photos, but it does not.

Now: You upload images to iCloud Photos. When doing so, your device also uploads a separate safety voucher for the image. If there are enough vouchers for CSAM matched images in your library, Apple gains the ability to access the data in the vouchers for images matching CSAM. One of the data elements in the voucher is an “image derivative” (probably a thumbnail) which is manually reviewed. If the image derivative also looks like CSAM, Apple files a report with NCMEC’s CyberTip line. Apple can (for now) access the image you stored in iCloud, but it does not. All the data it needs is in the safety voucher.

Lot of words spilled on this topic, yet I’d be surprised if a majority of people are even aware of these basic facts about the system operation.
>Most evil in the world is perpetrated not by evil people, but by people with good intentions who believe they know what is best for others, and believe that justifies forcing it on those others.

Other way around. Evil would convince you that leaded gasoline is fine, and that "good intentions" of regulating lead out of gas are evil because government power.
Oh I kept thinking if I should submit this beautiful piece ( in my view ) to HN. Sometimes people complain about these sort of submission.

But I am glad it is on Front Page now.
What ways are better?
As I understand it:

When you choose to upload your images to iCloud (which currently happens without end-to-end encryption), your phone generates some form of encrypted ticket. In the future, the images will be encrypted, with a backdoor key encoded in the tickets.

If Apple receives enough images that were considered a match, the tickets become decryptable (I think I saw Shamir's Secret Sharing mentioned for this step). Right now, Apple doesn't need that because they have unencrypted images, in a future scheme, decrypting these tickets will allow them to decrypt your images.

(I've simplified a bit, I believe there's a second layer that they claim will only give them access to the offending images. I have not studied their approach deeply.)
Fashion.

Also, in my industry, if you're software is not visibly changing, people assume its dead and no longer supported, not going anywhere.

People want to feel like they are part of something that is going somewhere. Software is not a tool, its a journey into the future!
I think the main way people get into some addictive behaviour is the social norm around them, if everybody around you are doing drugs or smoking or eating sugars or gambling there are good chances you will also do it, it has nothing to do with personal traumas. Maybe sometimes a certain personality traits can enhance the addiction but you don't always need those amplifiers to get addicted. It's true also for other bad behaviours which are not necessarily addictive, like getting knocked up in an early age for example.

The interesting thing is that many people do overcome those addictions but many other struggle, so maybe we shouldn't try to figure out what caused it since it is not that relevant to rehabilitation but focus more on why some people succeed and try to replicate it. I know it is not a simple task as the diet industry shows very clearly, but some people do become thin, so what makes them do the switch and can it be replicated? this is the interesting question.
I’m just curious because I’m not a heavy mobile app user. The only apps on my phone right now that I feel really good are free. I paid for many apps but most haven’t been updated in years and have a lot to improve. Where are the good apps?
Every visited HTTP website is a network vulnerability.

It doesn't matter what is supposed to be on these sites. From security perspective they contain MITM attacker's content. They are effectively an API for issuing arbitrary commands to the browser. To shut down this attack API, all sites have to stop using HTTP, no exceptions.
I'd assert that in such an experiment I would already be doing my part to reduce the impact of covid mainly due to where I live and minorly by my choices of how I live. The extra utility of that vaccine is effectively lost on me when that is figured in. When there is 0 utility then any altruistic action is nothing more than signaling. If I could be convinced there is serious utility for others by getting vaccinated then of course I would get it. Nobody seems willing to put real numbers to this, its simply "DO IT EVERYONE!"

Lets say there are only 2 reasons to get the vaccine:

1) To protect yourself

2) To protect all those you care for.

I'm not worried about 1 due to the apparently very low likelihood I will have some terrible personal covid outcome.

I'm not worried about 2 due to the apparent very low likelihood of even catching covid.
Agreed - so dissapointing.

The idea that standard moderation steps are a felony is such a stretch. Almost all the major players have folks doing content screening and management - and yes, this may invovle the provider transmitting / copying etc images that are then flagged and moderated away.

The idea that this is a felony is rediculous.

The other piece is that folks are making a lot of assumptions about how this works, then claiming things are felonies.

Does it not strain credibility slightly that apple, with it's team of lawyers, has decided to instead of blocking CASM to commit CASM felonies? And the govt is going to bust them for this? Really? They are doing what govt wants and using automation to drive down the number of images someone will look at and what even might get transferred to apple's servers in the first place.
I'm wondering the same thing. I find it incredible that anyone thinks this, but I've never actually asked an adult (or child for that matter) where they think oil comes from. I might ask the girlfriend tomorrow.
Disruption -- technological, political, disaster, whatever -- makes people go nuts.

Plus, the way social media amplifies hysteria for profit would make William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Goebbels blush.

FWIW, I found these interesting:

Agnotology, the study of ignorance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology

The Last Archive
https://www.thelastarchive.com

Prediction: Like coronavirus, these memetic pathogens are the new normal.
Ah, I understand now. You're right, an actual parity check should reduce the bits of the final result.
I've yet to see anyone mention that Edge seems to love sending you to search the second the URL you type in isn't exactly right. Chrome seems to try to get the URL to work, MS just sends you to Bing. Waiting to see it called anti-competitive.
What recourse? how about not buying apple devices that have always locked the user into a golden cage?
Exactly what I have been looking for
> They pose a legitimate risk to other people.

This is not true, any more than it is for vaccinated people.

Viruses will still spread through a fully-vaccinated population, and they will still mutate in a fully-vaccinated population.

The CDC released a report [1] showing proportional numbers of cases coming from fully vaccinated people (74% of cases against 69% of the population fully vaccinated).

Treating people who are not getting the vaccine as enemies is not going to convince us. In fact, this whole thing has made me, in particular, suspicious of other vaccines that I will research and make decisions for myself about.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7031e2-H.pdf
Subplot: I doubt they care. Since spotify is designed to lose money it has little reason to care if customers cancel, it's only going to be concerned if investors lose interest.
Back in the day different submissions used different Lisps. Some used CL, some used Scheme. Unfortunately, I don't recall the details, and I can't find my records (this was over 20 years ago). If I do come across them I'll post a followup here.

I can tell you this: I currently have a consulting gig where I help maintain a tool for designing state-of-the-art ASICS which is written in Allegro Common Lisp. It is definitely competitive with C in terms of run-time speed.
Is it inspired by aiohttp or which web framework do you plan on using as inspiration for textual
I tried Apple Music when I realized the HomePod Mini can’t play songs from Spotify. Try as I might, Apple Music just didn’t cut it for me. The biggest annoyance was the playlists and discovery features. It was MUCH harder to find a playlist/radio station for a particular mood.
I remember when The Real World first dropped, and after a few weeks VJs spent more time talking about what happened rather than new music. I knew that was the beginning of the end.
> No PM in history has ever said “This seems to be working pretty well, let’s leave it the way it is.”

What about the Nest PMs? That app hasn't changed at all in at least 3 years. Ok maybe it doesn't count if they've abandoned it.
Us guys?

You're making a lot of assumptions. One of the saddest and most frustrating aspects of big tech's narrowing of permissible discourse is the association of defenders of discourse with red ties, right wing ideas and all of that.

An Intro to Constitutional Law course or book would demonstrate how false that is, that up until only a decade or less ago, conservatives were the ones assaulting free speech. And Progressives were vigorously defending freedom of speech. This includes hate speech. They were preventing 'consequences' as people like yourself like to remind us we have no protection from. I can suggest materials to read, but what has degenerated is this thread, so it's pointless effort unless someone wants it.

The philosophical arguments made by the Progressives in those days in defense of speech resonate timelessly, from the 1600s to the 2020s. The arguments resonate also beyond narrow ideas of what constitutes government restrictions.

Today the question is around whether the FB's and Twitter's and YouTube's should be regulated as utilities and in the public interest, rather than an outmoded ideal around private ownership rights and the 1st Amendment not applying. From misinformation to viewpoint discrimination, it's the real question of our present time.
The very first song was "Video killed the Radio Star". How amusing. I'm sure, however, that today much more people listen to the radio than watch MTV.
This is the reason Frendster failed. Friending someone automatically made you a friend with all of their friends, even the ones that were jerks or you had never met.
In my relatively recent experience they are letting it die just by not replacing content that they once had. That said, I am probably underestimating how difficult it is to find replacements.
What about a pie-slicing approach? White makes the first move, and black decides whether he wants to switch places.
When has any of this not been blurry?

Tech gets all sorts of tax breaks to innovate. That's okay, but if they proactively kick people off the platform so as to head off government regulation, that's not okay?

Or wait, let me guess, all tax breaks are good! How'd I do?
Good point. That is a flaw with all these scanning schemes.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't think reciprocity helps you much here. There is a contained radiation field when the antenna is excited; there are no fields far away. Now when you start with no fields far away, it doesn't tell you much about the excitation near the antenna.

You can envision some radiation pattern from far away antennas which have overlap with the near-field modes. As a consequence, some amount of energy will be received by this antenna. Naturally it depends on how well the near-field mode is excited as to how much coupling occurs.
For comparison, there's a lot of different ways to make chess games more even between differently skilled players through chess handicaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_(chess)#Main

Paul Morphy (one of the greats) commonly played mortals a rook or more down
OpenPGP implementations suck for usability. All the other messaging implementations also suck for usability.

Having obscure arguments about the underlying cryptography is fun and all, but doesn't really make the world a better place.
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Ares 1 was a terrible idea. Putting humans on top of solid rocket motors is bad enough when they are boosters alongside a more traditional liquid fueled stage that can smooth out the oscillations, but that still does nothing about the fact that you can't shut down solids, and all abort scenarios involve just waiting until the SRBs burn out. Having humans riding a rocket that's just a giant firecracker is insanity.
Will are there examples of how to use textual with Rich ? Thanks
It's OK. I forgive you.

It wouldn't be right to let a good deed go unpunished on Hacker News. Or unflagged.
And it will be exactly as infuriating as Flash was (except for the artist). Change my mind.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. I think bugginess just doesn't affect bottom lines of most companies these days, hence the state we're in. Also, anecdotally, I find people are very tolerant of bugs and just suffer in silence a lot of the time.
No worries, and thanks for the advice about /r/visualsnow. I hope that advances in the understanding of one condition ends up helping both of them because that link definitely makes sense!
> Banks and finance are like the number one employer of software developers outside of pure tech companies.

Right now, with all the churn that only serves to update various financial numbers in databases and is generally useless for the society at large. As an end user, I view a bank as a box to keep my money so I don't have to deal with cash. That's really it. It already works for me as it is right now.

A rather popular bank in Russia is now trying its damnest to become a super-app. It's developing a voice assistant. Its mobile app has stories. A bank. Is developing a voice assistant and becoming an operating system. Where did we make the wrong turn?

And maybe, just maybe, regulatory change doesn't need to happen in the first place?
They're not just thoughts but also actions. Actions are typically what's regulated by governments, not thought. Maybe by "thoughts" you meant "ideas".
If you grow 2021 grain (taking CO2 into the grain’s carbon), then burn part of that carbon back into CO2 in 2021, how is that not strictly better than taking millions of years old carbon and turning it loose into the atmosphere?
My rough understanding/working hypothesis is that the vaccination protects you (90+%) against becoming infected. That is also the mechanism by which it prevents further transmission - you don't transmit if you're not infected.

However, once you do get infected despite vaccination, your chance of transmitting it and your chance of hospitalisation/death might not be significantly reduced (vis-a-vis no vaccination). (This would imply that the vaccination does not significantly change the IFR.)

A nicer scenario would be that the vaccination gives you 90% protection against getting infected, then, if you do get infected, 90% protection against getting hospitalised, then, if you do get hospitalised, 90% infection against death. This would imply, though, that the vaccination confers 99% protection against hospitalisation (1-(1-90%)^2), and 99.9% protection against death (1-(1-90%)^3).

It would be good to find authoritative information on these ratios; I haven't seen it.
>18 U.S.C. § 2258A is specific: the data can only be sent to NCMEC. (With 2258A, it is illegal for a service provider to turn over CP photos to the police or the FBI; you can only send it to NCMEC. Then NCMEC will contact the police or FBI.) What Apple has detailed is the intentional distribution (to Apple), collection (at Apple), and access (viewing at Apple) of material that they strongly have reason to believe is CSAM. As it was explained to me by my attorney, that is a felony.

I'm not sure, after reading the article, who is/has the most insane system of Apple or NCMEC.
> To counter your point, it's not just that product managers are easy to blame; it's that it's literally their job to change stuff.

Sure, but companies aren't being blindsided by project managers who sneak into their org charts and start driving change unbeknownst to company leadership. They're hired to do these things and their performance is based on how well they do them, just like anyone else.

This might be a good example of the struggle of middle management: You get blamed from all sides for just trying to do the job you're assigned.
There should be a new category of apps, where you can still get the contents offered by a given service (Spotify, Youtube, your favourite news service etc.) while at the same time not using the built in UI.

For example, imagine a web app that embeds Youtube videos, that will show you every new video published by channels you choose. No home page suggestions, no "trending", no "you might be interested in".

You could do the same with Spotify or with one of those terrible news websites.

Some examples of this already exist: Nitter (shows Twitter contents), Invido.us (shows Youtube contents) but they are not mainstream and not particularly polished.

Also, I'm aware that this concept when applied to news websites results in something that is terribly close to an RSS reader.
They're a great example of selling an audience a fast drip of Morphine. The original idea - music - was viable. This [1] is a fascinating study of how the switch happened.

[1] https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-11...
Firefox has been embedding ads in the interface since way before Edge started doing it.
Humor is the unit test suite of life.

That is, we validate our existential understanding by cracking jokes about all aspects thereof.
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As much as it is sad that such a thing is happening, this is hilarious.
I'd be dubious of this unless the paper examines age as a confounding factor.

Retired people can show up as "poor" (particularly poor old people) and as mentioned in the article, didn't go on to higher education as much as later generations.

If that's the case we can just wait for them to die to see a shift in politics.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/520954/brexit-votes-by-a...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/03/18/is-brexit-a-contes...
Regulatory change, 3rd party API changes, new financial products (often arising out of the regulatory changes) all require ongoing development.

Plus I don't know about you, but my bank's website and app are a hot mess. In theory I suppose they could be feature complete, but in reality, nope.

So, just visiting Earth, or are you here to stay? :)

I've worked for banks and while there's certainly plenty of unwarranted churn the notion that they're done and the dev team can go home is ... hilarious.

Edit: addressing your comment in an adjacent thread, a box to keep your money in (or, canonically, a sock under the mattress) does not need to offer/support:

- Debit cards

- Credit bureaus. Yes, even if it's just a deposit account and no, this isn't optional.

- Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations

- Anti Money Laundering (AML) checks

That's before you get into other account types, offering credit, currency conversions and the zillion other things that sock doesn't have to do.
I would add that Joplin is great because it's plain text. People keep trying to shove OneNote at us at work and all I want is one text box per note, that doesn't move around when I try to edit it.
I personally believe many of these metrics are negative indicators of UX quality. Session length, pages viewed, number of clicks could very well mean that users aren't finding / getting what they want from your app.
I generally agree with engagement being a BS metric, I'm not sure I agree in this case, unless we separate out time I'm actively interacting with the app and time I'm listening to music and only call the former BS. When I first switched to Spotify from Google Play, I listened to a lot more music because the recommendation algorithm pointed me at a ton of music I ended up looking a lot. Now its recommendations have gotten to samey and my engagement declined. I'd love for them to improve recommendations and drive my engagement up that way.

Now, similar example is Netflix. I've at times reached a point where I think I had watched everything on the platform I'd enjoy. Their UI keeps showing old stuff as new tough, different pictures for the same show, etc. This led to wasted time and frustrating engagement. (Aside: the best Netflix UI ever was a script I wrote myself when they still had a public API that just listed all movies ordered by how much they predicted I'd like it. That paired with IMDB ratings and filtered by what I've already have seen would be the holy Grail but it would be obvious when it's time to unsubscribe for a while)
Oh I'd __love__ to change the specification of Farenheit so that people get confused and stop using it.
I think theres good reason to be concerned about investing in an OS which doesn't have the kind of well funded security team capable of actively hunting for APTs with rigor and reacting promptly to zero days once they're found.

It is depressing, but phones are unique in that they need to work flawlessly in an emergency which I think is a factor in preventing people from straying from the path "well-travelled".

This is much to my lament as well, because I would love to feel more free to experiment with phone operating systems and hardware addons.
Professionals by and large do not use traditional/manual TA. If you find some features/indicators that work, you include them in your algorithmic trading system.

There's absolutely zero legitimate reason for a human to look at charts and use TA.
In a perfect world, all of those would work in an RSS reader.