skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The idea is, I guess, you can do in some sense, the moral equivalent of what NTP does with the two middle timestamps. Where there are two timestamps in NTP that come from the server that’s reporting time. It’s like when it receives and then when it sends out and you get to subtract out from the added noise that gap between those two timestamps, and then the idea is you can do this over and over again across the network, and so delays and noise are introduced by, for example, queueing on the switch, would go away. Like you would essentially know how much those delays were and as a result, you could potentially be much more accurate."

In other words, every node of the network starts clapping, and listening to others. If it's off-beat, it'll adjust.

Humans do the same kind of heartbeat synchronisation all the time: with hand clapping, finger clicking, drumming fingers, dancing to flashing lights... the unity makes us feel more connected and builds trust because we have something in common.

Thank our mothers for teaching us to clap when we were babies. And thank the Source of our universe's clock, whose power can place a breakpoint and pause the debugger whenever we call on His name.
I think many people's first foray into understanding this is grokking the difference between dBi and dBd, and then understanding that "gain" in antennas is another way of looking at directivity.
Have a look at YugabyteDB then.
I believe it would because other image systems will probably have to make similar implementations and trade offs that PhotoDNA did.
I suspect it's a combination of advertising and marketing materials (e.g., educational videos, comic books), many produced by the oil industry itself, which promoted the meme.

Sinclair Oil's mascot, dating to 1932, was a factor. I looked through Google Books with some date-ranged searches for "dinosaur" and "oil" or "petroleum". That excludes the video and comic-book evidence, but what seems to show up, even in congressional testimony, are references (mostly tongue-in-cheek) beginning in the 1970s. Given the archive's limited scope, I suspect that the concept could have been picking up in the 1960s or 1950s. Note that this corresponds largely with the widespread adoption of television, which goes in hand with simplified and infantalised messaging through both advertising and mainstream programming.

But the notion was definitely "in the air" as of the early 1970s.

Airplane II was released (or escaped) in 1982.
Sorry, I misunderstood you.

Were you convinced with that defence? In any case, he must understand that his usage of the word is inflammatory and will be perceived as mainly racially contingent. As long as he is aware that people will assume racist intent when he uses the n word his claim is entirely invalidated.

I mean, if I called a disabled person retarded and claimed that I am simply referring to his declining state of acceleration I doubt anyone will let that pass. Two people are involved in an insult, the insulter and the insulted. The insulter can't define the meaning as if words exist in a vacuum. The insulted is free to take offence at perceived intent if this perception falls within the realm of reasonable possibility.
> trying to make money from people who actually create value is not really the future of the web I want to see.

Isn't this a fundamental principle of business? How are they also not creating value, if value is more or less defined as money earned?

The web is literally dominated by like 5 companies, and every smaller company's stupid 'mission' is to build some platform for everyone else to 'create value' and change the world with their SaaS. Maybe I'm just cynical, and I understand that you disagree with sort of scummy extortion tactics, but the wording you chose seems to me to already be what the web is.
Here's a short case study.

I am the maintainer of Red Moon, a FLOSS screen filter app for Android. Over a period of several years, the location of the toggle has moved from a switch at the top, to a switch and a floating action button (FAB), back to just a switch, and will soon move to just a FAB.

I can provide more detail later if someone would like, but the short of it is:

1) As other features changed (permission prompts and moving the growing number of settings to their own screen), one location or the other made more sense.

2) I thought I would like the single top switch better than a single FAB, but after using it for a while, I think the switch feels more confusing than fresh (the action bar is a nonstandard location for a switch).

Overall, I would say it's because design is really hard. But not like that! It's hard because when you spend so much time close to a system, you start to overthink things, and then second-guess yourself. So you can't trust your intuition, you need to listen to users with fresh eyes. But they're also telling you 5 different, conflicting things, and if you listen to everyone you'll have a settings section 9 miles long. You can try to rely on data, but that's mostly good for reaching a local maximum, not staying cohesive. The best designers are able to keep their "fresh eyes" even after working with the system for a long time.
I recommend setting up a Pihole.
It was apparently an issue in Vietnam, where individuals were rotated in and out of existing units. Units that had bonded over training, death, and suffering - and then a new guy (sometimes a new leader!) shows up. From what I read, people were not always welcoming and this was also a way to avoid becoming attached until after that first battle
Two nice native apps for MacOS that I like are Craft and Eagle.
> now you have to play the video, watch 1-2 ads

I think it's pretty obvious why they got rid of it...
Ah, that makes sense! I always wondered why any search term would just return 8 year old stuff at the top.
I disagree. I'm a early Algolia adopter(and an engineer) and as an engineer they are a no-brainer for me.

Search is really hard even with the best elasticsearch libraries. IMO the biggest blocker with algolia is the price. It's really hard to get company buy-in because leadership don't get it: "Just build it"
I can't believe that I never realized having multiple parallel versions is even an option. Perhaps four sounds like a lot to maintain, especially multiplied by a number of OSes or if it's a complex software with many features, but more than one is definitely not a crazy proposal.
But there are all kinds of code-level changes that end up being necessary, even if you never want any new features. You can't just have sysadmins and expect to run a service over the Internet.
So.. how well does "human review" work with copyright on youtube?

This is basically fearmongering, and saying "if you're not a pedo, you have nothing to fear", installing the tech on all phones, and then using that tech to find the next wikileaks leaker (who was the first person with this photo), trump supporters (just add the trump-beats-cnn-gif to the hashes), anti-china protesters (winnie the pooh photos), etc.

This is basically like forcing everyone to "voluntarily" record inside of their houses, AI on that camera would then recognise drugs, and only those recordings will be sent to the police.
> "There was a national Saturday night pop music show called Countdown [1], that ran from 1974"

... which was surely inspired by the BBC's "Top Of The Pops", which began in 1964:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops
C'mon. It's a dinosaur.
> we lost the ability to say "no" to updates

we... did?
> For some reason, the BiiN project was terminated in 1988 and Siemens was not interested any more in it.

You mean it was biinned.
I emailed dang and he kindly unflagged it on request, but it got flagged again soon after. Maybe he can permanently unflag it?

He also said:

'I've unkilled it so you can respond now. It's not really on topic for HN though. Too much of a provocative opinion piece and not enough significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). That guarantees a flamewar, which we're trying to avoid on HN.'

I thought it was worth posting because it was written back in August 2020, so was quite prescient.
What a scary place to live.

I’d hate to live in a place where a joke can get you jailed.
> just by requiring a compiler with the right output,

How is that different from a compiler that generates JVM bytecode?

Yes, the bytecode was designed specifically for Java's needs, but running languages that weren't designed for the JVM on the JVM is still less of a stretch than compiling C to asm.js, something which has worked quite successfully. Or targeting a different CPU architecture.
Aren't these more like proxy servers than DNS? In particular, doesn't all of your mail have to physically pass through these services, instead of the post office just using them to look up the final destination directly?
Looks like they optimized the hell of it to push shitty podcasts and local and popular artists.
I actually agree that it's a shame that AA is the only game in town and I think its effectiveness is vastly overestimated. It's also seriously dogmatic about way more than just complete abstinence (I mean it's 12 steps, meetings every week or every day, etc). I prefer to keep my past far in the rear view mirror instead of continually drudging it up.

I am just very dubious that people who have shown they have the capacity to fuck up their lives with drinking/drugs, especially for an extended period of time, are going to reprogram themselves successfully to become casual users. I don't know how black and white it is. But I count my lucky stars for the last 12 years of life compared the 10 before that.
If people load up your app and it looks like it was last updated in 2007 they're going to be immediately put off.
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I can recommend using one of the options mentioned here https://askubuntu.com/questions/16918/how-to-listen-to-audib...

Turning them into regular audio files and using your favorite player and having proper backups of the files is so much nicer. I'd straight up not use Audible if that was not an option, it's just not worth it.
> Yes it is the null hypothesis.

No, its not.

> The poster is making a positive claim without evidence.

True.

That doesn't make the alternate positive claim you have posited into “the null hypothesis”.

A null hypothesis is null. What you are stating may be your prior, but it is not the, or even a valid, null hypothesis.

> This is a rational use of ‘null hypothesis’, but it also matches the scientific use,

“Null hypothesis” is a very specific scientific term of artz it has no other meaning.

And, no, the specific counternarrative presented here does not match the scientific use of “null hypothesis”.
Some societies have limits on these votes as a means to prevent the tyranny of the majority.

In the U.S. the Bill of Rights outlines specific rights that cannot be infringed, including the freedom of speech. Now, this amendment could technically be repealed but that is a very high bar since it’s considered a fundamental right by which the others are derived.

Edit: downvotes are fine but at least add to the discussion. I would be interested in hearing what parts you think I’m not interpreting correctly
Ask HN: What Would Be Worth $10M to Your Company?
What problem solved, and/or product delivered, would be worth $10M to your company?
>Clearly nobody at Spotify uses or cares about android

I bet that they all use macOS and their app macOS is really really shitty as well.
The richest woman alive [by far] is the grand daughter of L’Oréal founder. Bloomberg puts the family’s stake all in her name. The info bit also says French inheritance says 50% has to go to one person. So for at least a few generations, the majority of the wealth can remain consolidated.
A blue whale weights about 150 times more than a cow. Ignoring the economics of raising whales for food, I've often debated whether it makes since to start ranching blue whales for food. Even if you consider them a "higher" life form than a cow, are they really 150x more valuable life forms than a cow? Probably not. So why not create ocean ranches to breed blue whales?
> I thought I would like the single top switch better than a single FAB, but after using it for a while, I think the switch feels more confusing than fresh (the action bar is a nonstandard location for a switch).

This seems to be addressed by one of my complaints. Was this feature not tested before pushed out to users?

I get that design is difficult. Anyone saying otherwise is biased. But it seems like a big problem is just trying something out first. Design can take months of use to realize something is bad. It seems like what should be done is: create new UI; use internally and push to everyone's version, use for a few weeks to a month; push to beta and get user feedback and pay attention to web traffic like HN and Reddit complaints about the new design; then decide if it should be pushed or not. I've seen apps that seem to follow this but just push despite bad user feedback and bad internal feedback. Going through the motions isn't enough, it has to be used as iterations.

> So you can't trust your intuition, you need to listen to users with fresh eyes. But they're also telling you 5 different, conflicting things, and if you listen to everyone you'll have a settings section 9 miles long.

A good piece of advice I heard was "listen to users for problems. Don't listen to users for solutions." Because people are actually really good at identifying problems. But most people are really terrible at solving problems (I mean if they were good at it we wouldn't have 90% of the problems we do). The addendum is to only take solution advice from experts that understand more of the nuance of what you're doing, but then to still be careful.
Well a lot of the time when you are looking at something you are trying to diagnose some problem or another, which means you want to be 100% sure of what something is doing. Even if the function provides a good abstraction you might still want to make sure that it is doing exactly what it says on the tin because you are desk checking some weird behaviour and you want to make sure each step is acting correctly
Didn't they rewrite the client to share more code between the ballooning number of devices they're supporting?
I'm just wondering how long it will take before average people, jokingly or otherwise, imply that buying an android phone makes you a criminal.
How much of Elastic's usage is ELK logging vs. application search?
Exactly, never listened to a podcast on their app and never will, yet they keep pushing that shit.
It turns out that a fossil isn't "a thing turned to stone", but rather, "a thing dug up". I'd not realised this until earlier today myself.

Fossil fuels are fuels that are dug from the ground, rather than harvested from plants (as with wood or olive oil ... itself the original "oil") or animals (as with animal fats and oils).

https://www.etymonline.com/word/fossil

Oil indeed comes from olive: https://www.etymonline.com/word/oil

Coal is a piece of wood: https://www.etymonline.com/word/coal

Carbon is from coal: https://www.etymonline.com/word/carbon

Effectively, the word fossil has done something of an orbit such that an attribute used to describe an object ("dug up" -> petrified remains of plants and animals) came to be ascribed to the word itself, such that "fossil fuels" comes to be popularly interpreted as "remains of ancient plants ... or animals" rather than "dug up fuels".
That’s nothing, my version lets me levitate
> My point is that "misinformation" should always come attached with an "according to X". Some Xs are more reliable than others.

The value of specifying epistemic sources is as important when putting forward information as it is when labeling misinformation. Yet most people are generally pretty lax at including and verifying epistemic justifications (especially for claims they are inclined to agree with.)

It is true that the act of labeling things as misinformation can itself be a form of misinformation.

The issue, as I see it, is that we have accepted the practice of deliberate misinformation as long as it is "for a good cause". We don't place as much value in people trying accurately convey information and nuance as we place on the function that information is serving.

I see this everywhere: in the statements about masks that were made early in the pandemic to make sure healthcare workers had supplies. You see this is narratives about the last election. You see this is in a lot of the reporting about Russiagate. There are little to no consequences or reprobation from people who agree with the end goals.

The incentives are all wrong and I don't know how they get fixed, but the problem is much bigger than just "Big Tech", "Social Media" or a bunch of stupid people on the otherside of the partisan divide.
I agree about the radio, but "similar artists" is still pretty reliable ime.
"As she found one error after another, he became more and more amused, rather than more and more defensive[.]"

This has to be one of the snowballing keys to success. Soliciting and rewarding negative feedback, in a way that doesn't threaten the overall.

Works for bugs in code, also for life stuff. Being teased/mocked gives incentive and direction for positive change, so long as it doesnt send one spiralling.
Thank you, this is one of the best posts I've read on here.

>on behalf of their main essential coalition members - the worst, wideley acknowledged, most objectively evil and mendacious organizations in the history of world.

Very few people seem willing say this out loud. These groups are not your friends, and are often the biggest offenders of many of the things they claim they are trying to prevent. 'the coalition' is social engineering on an industrial scale and it's disgusting regardless of the stated or unstated intentions.
For the last 30 years, I've used an Australian Post Office box as my official mailing address, and they just forward the mail to wherever I happen to be at the time.

It saves needing to update my details with everyone whenever I move.

But it's not really like DNS: my PO Box address isn't really any more memorable than a physical address, for instance.

There are commercial services that do the same thing in the US, at least.
> What it looks like to me is that Apple is planning on releasing end-to-end encryption for iCloud

This is Gruber's optimistic take on it as well. If so, why not make both changes at once? Given that they've walked back E2EE on iCloud before, I'm not holding my breath.
> Measuring “engagement” is far easier to orchestrate practically and organizationally, even though it produces awful software.

Engagement is such a terrible metric. I'm not saying it should be thrown out, but it is classic example of Goodhart's Law[0]. Rage is engagement. Too much reliance on engagement is what got social media into a race to the bottom. That's not the mark of a quality product.

Measuring is hard, you're right. But if you're going to use bad measurements (which often is our only choice) they shouldn't be targets. We should understand where they fail and use the information accounting for that, not ignoring it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
The Hindu mathematicians Baudhāyana certainly discovered the theorem before Pythagoras [1] and Bhāskarāchārya independenly proved the theorem [2] (though the latter seems it was after Pythagoras).

It is also possible to discover mathematical truths without providing a formal proof. Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan "independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations). Many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta function, partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research. Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct." [3]

The mathematical statement versus rigorous proof was also a cultural difference: "Their collaboration was a clash of different cultures, beliefs, and working styles. In the previous few decades the foundations of mathematics had come into question and the need for mathematically rigorous proofs recognised. Hardy was an atheist and an apostle of proof and mathematical rigour, whereas Ramanujan was a deeply religious man who relied very strongly on his intuition and insights." [3]

To the highly-material Western mind, Hindus can be a little weird sometimes: "A deeply religious Hindu, Ramanujan credited his substantial mathematical capacities to divinity, and said the mathematical knowledge he displayed was revealed to him by his family goddess Namagiri Thayar. He once said, "An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."" [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana_sutras#Pythagorean_...
[2] http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT668/EMT668.Student.Folders/Hea...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
> Making compilers slow and complex doesn't mix well with JIT compilation.

Funny, I was just thinking the opposite: Compiler-driven parallelism loses against CPU-driven parallelism because the CPU has live profiling. With a JIT the compiler can have it too.

The debugging problem on the machine-code level becomes less of an issue when most people write higher-level code too.
It’s not enough to disband the NCMEC, I want jail time for these people.

This is literally conspiracy to undermine the privacy and security of over a billion devices (and their users) to catch a “small minority” of criminals.

These people deserve to lose their homes and freedom for this, along with every engineer and executive that participated.
For me, if the work isn't really rewarding or I can't summon the motivation to do it, then where I do it doesn't matter, because quite frankly an authority figure's impression of me in person or not doesn't affect it. Maybe for others this does matter, and the only thing motivating them on an otherwise stupid project is fear. Perhaps the fact that the project in this case doesn't impact the bottom-line is indicative of it not being sufficiently rewarding work on it's own.

In recent interviews, when asked about what I want in my next position, I say that I want to be able to see where my work is going. I don't want to just write code and contribute to an opaque profit machine, because it doesn't keep me going when the work itself gets boring.
I guess pretty much all the languages around the world use some variation of the work kava/kafe, don’t they? I can’t think of any language that wouldn’t use the word. Obviously I don’t speak all the world languages.

More interesting situation is with the tea - half of the world uses some variation of the word tea, the other half uses some variation of the word chai.
In terms of pure UI, I agree. There were a few peaks in Windows UI/UX: 3.0, 98, XP, and Windows 10. Since then, the trend has been toward more and more bloat. But, if the long-term trend continues, maybe Windows 15 will clean things up again. :)
If that’s how they play then the only winning move is to respond in kind.

>shadowy government affiliated agency abuses its role of protecting children to install malware on a billion devices
> All the ambiguity had to be hammered out.

Which meant there was no place for a deeper level of meaning to hide, making a censor's job easier?
I recently learned lisp, and did some macros to optimize some functions that were getting called billions of times a day. I compared the output of a common case (compiled by SBCL) to hand-written C (which I've been using a very long time). The lisp was generating equivalent or better assembly than GCC. So I'm a fan.
This is incredibly interesting. Not something I had read about before.

Literal knots in RNA! It’s like a sabotage (in the etymological sense), a wrench in the gears of protein.
>The usual square law still applies.

Would that still be true for a light (or w/e) beam that is perfectly collimated?