skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media encourages you to be loud and post often. I wanted to try an experiment - a social media app where you can post once per day with the idea that you would share the most important update of the day. Your followers would see your posts in chronological order and after a few days old posts would go away. Additionally, there are no public likes or reposts, but I do want to add the functionality for the user to see how their post is doing.

I built it as a way to learn some new technologies and experiment.
do a `rm -rf ./* && git checkout -- .` on a git repo. then do the same thing on a linux box, we're not talking a few milliseconds difference. even our small repos take minute or more for macosx vs linux. this impacts shit like indexing code bases, spinning up the local server etc.
Because Apple (its employees) aren't actually viewing the images, nor transmitting them. They mention somewhere that it's a low res proxy of the image, or something similar.
I quit my job over the lack of a return to office.

Interacting with people to solve problems is a lot of what I enjoyed about being a software developer, and particularly after starting a new job mid-pandemic where I didn't already know people (the old company imploded for pre-pandemic reasons), work was much more isolating and less rewarding than it was in 2019.

Once it became clear return-to-office was not on any sort of definite timeline, and that I would be fully vaccinated as more places reopened, it became an easy decision to quit. And it's one of the best decisions I've made. My mental health has improved considerably, and I've discovered new hobbies and am in better shape than I ever have been. I should probably have taken a multi-month gap at least once before.

I met a colleague from my old company today (in-person, of course), who reported that ten people have left this year, from an initial number of roughly 60. It's a consulting company, and as far as I know no one has been mandated to return; most of the clients were already remote. So that's a ballpark 15-20% figure, albeit with a small sample size, of people leaving over 7 months from a company without a strong return to office movement. Many of people leaving were people with low tenure at the company, and thus not having the in-person ties that might encourage staying with their friends and colleagues.
Presumably the reviewers would not know the identity of the user whose photos are under review, as they have no need to.
> More light would be shed on this question if the two leading machine-learning chess programs, AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero, were taught to play with our proposed change in the order of the 3rd and 4th moves from White-Black to Black-White

Also, there has been plenty of exploration around this in the recent past. "No-castling chess" was briefly popular in 2020 following some investigations by DeepMind and Vladimir Kramnik that found that training AlphaZero from scratch to play this led to more exciting games. [0]

They didn't try this specific rule, or didn't publicize their results if they did. It's too different from chess to be of intrinsic interest to serious chess players. Maybe it's interesting as a variant in its own right! But this is the worst imaginable investigation of whether that's true.

[0] https://www.chess.com/article/view/no-castling-chess-kramnik...
Obviously they get started on redesigning the foundation.
Thank you for this explanation. Much more helpful than any of the lengthy articles I've read to date.

I think Apple has botched the rollout of this change by failing to explain clearly how it works. As a result, rumors and misunderstandings have proliferated instead.
Conway's law in action.
We have been here already. What did you expect?
And then start rebuilding it while people live already live or work inside.
You're very clearly missing the forest for the trees. Right before uploading to icloud, "Apple will scan your photos and if finds something, it will send photo to Apple."

This process is automated and turned on on most iPhones. Most iPhones will have automatic photo upload to icloud enabled, and that's when this scanning takes place.
this is easily and demonstrably false. I use gnome-shell, generally the whipping boy of the linux DMs. the problem isn't with the UI frameworks its with the filesystem.

macosx chokes hard compared to linux and any filesystem access suffers from it.

download a medium sized javascript git repo with node_modules
`rm -rf node_modules && git checkout -- .` my shittier linux laptop crushes my macosx laptop.
I have to kind of disagree, my experience with Spotify desktop which I use daily (almost don't use the mobile app) was from awful to bad.

I still find it hard to navigate and find things, and the performance is bad, but before was really really bad, the last iterations come out well for me.

I will like more features.

For example I really want a feature to make playlists with albums, you can create playlists with all the songs of many albums, but is not possible to see it as a list of albums with the cover arts, like the Library. For example make a playlist of favorite albums of 2021, favorite albums of 90s rap, favorite albums of Bowie, etc.

Also improve the Library feature, I want to order/filter all my albums by year, decade, genre, artist.

A "listen later" feature on albums and songs will be great too, I want to have a place to "test" music, and later add it or not to my Library or Liked songs.

Lately the streaming platforms and the music industry is focusing on songs more than albums, and this is reflected on the features that their apps have. I find great the power that playlists give to consumers, but I find that the album experience give me a layer of artistic exploration that can't be captured with playlists, discovery weekly, top charts, etc.
Looks like you’re having fun. While you’re having fun you should really try getting your hands wet with electronic design :)
What genre? This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWF3RWN1G0I
Why do elected officials act as fake representatives to the people that elected them in the first place? Has it always been this way? It doesn’t matter left or right. The governing bodies should obey the people not the other way around.
Is it ironic that in an article about irony there
is a link to an article on a philosophy premised on
the meaninglessness of life that intends to preserve
its meaningfulness?

It's kind of funny, bordering on ironic I suppose.

Irony is generally understood to involve an outcome that is contrary to expectations.

It has been said that the textbook example of irony would be the bullet that nearly killed Ronald Reagan. The bullet initially missed him, but riccocheted off the bulletproof glass of his limo -- the thing meant to save him from bullets! -- and then struck him. In fact, it actually contributed greatly to his near-death: because the shooter never had a clear shot at Reagan, the initial assumption was that he had not been shot, and had simply hurt his ribs when being shoved into the car by his bodyguards following the shooting. Had he instead been shot directly, there would have been no such confusion or delay.

Does an article about the meaningfulness of nihilism run contrary to expectations? If it was written by a nihilist, perhaps! If it was written by a non-nihilist, I'd say no -- it would not be unexpected for others to assign meaningfulness to a philosophy that has had some impact on the world, even if those who subscribe to the philosophy maintain that there is no meaning in things.
Your average person isn’t looking at this through that lens. Unless you’re doing a lot of work the amount of tracking you’re being subject to is astronomical and at least in this case there is a tangible benefit to them.

The discourse around privacy and tracking isn’t particularly relevant here and it certainly isn’t front of mind for your average person.
How do you even run a company like that? Sounds soulless af.

I mean, sure make money for your investors, but shouldn't you also try to fulfill your mission statement? Or is the mission statement only to make the share price go up?

So you just make it look good on financials?
It is the dream of every PM to come up with a bold UX innovation that gets praise, and many believe the gospel that the software is better at figuring out what the customer wants than the customer is. And you get extra points these days for using ML.

The second points are valid, IMO, but the first... I think this is simplistic.

First, there aren't a ton of example of software products succeeding by staying still for long. Not none, but not a ton. Even fewer, if you define success commercially. In CD days, version upgrades were often an indispensable part of the business model.

These days, apps exist in multiple device world. Big chunks of it are server based. SAAS, which most everything is to some extent, has its own business imperatives. Iphoto deals with a mostly iphone world today. The Economist, like most magazines, is trying to figure app how a software based magazine business works.

It seems naive to blame the PM. Constant change isn't a thing because PMs have egos. There's a big hairy dynamic at play. Not changing doesn't seem to be an option, in recent years, maybe ever.
No. Ignoring copyright law and people's desires for their own content, isn't the solution.

I suspect that using a platform where there isn't any way to profit at all is a better solution. But in this case, the CR owners have probably been burned for years and just don't want to have any more discussion around the matter. It is easier to just say no.

Finding solutions that make it harder to say no seems like a better goal... of course that probably means paying them.
Most iPhones have icloud backups enabled, which will trigger this detection automatically. Most iPhones are set up to upload every photo to icloud in case you lose your phone.
That's funny, I didn't hear any of this righteous self indignation during the last administration over its bogus antitrust threats. Were those okay with you or did it take you this long to work up a really good lather?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/trump-looking-into-antitrust...
I use to be a huge proponent of Elastic.co for search. I paid for their Elastic Cloud Enterprise product to offer an internally hosted Elastic as a Service. We ran a proof of concept with the the open source Elastic Stack before requesting the funding to get commercial support and the extra management features.

I'm not sure I can recommend them anymore. The company doesn't seem to understand their customer's journey and are rejecting the methods that brought them success.
Not to mention that there’s only three registers (A, X, and Y (and P, technically)). And each one has a different purpose; There were no “general purpose registers”
That's really not an improvement. This complex enough that you're going to run into problems when multiple systems use the same database. I can imagine the fun that comes when another system wedges a field because it used the wrong type. That's the same problem we already have with a single text column. This is way more complex and still has the same problems.
If we investigated this author if they do in fact run a photo service we would inevitably find that unless they are incompetent they have to moderate content, either blind or based on flags.

So if apple is going to jail for child porn because they moderate / report content after flagging (this is normally actually required to do - report it), then this article writer should be going to jail as well - I guarantee his services stores, forwards and otherwise handles CASM content.

My complaint is just - HN used to focus on stuff where folks didn't just always jump to worst case arguments (ie, apple is guilty of child porn and is committing felonies) without at least allowing that apple MAY have given this a tiny bit of thought.

It's just tiresome to wade through. It's a mashup of they are blocking too much, are the evil govt henchperson to they are breaking the law and going to jail for felony child porn charges.

I get that it generates interaction (here I am), but it's annoying after a while. Clickbait sells though no question so things like "One Bad Apple" are probably going to keep on coming at us.
With the possible exception of the lyrics "rain on your wedding day," which in some ways seems like a bad thing, but is supposedly good luck.

Aside from that, the entire song is filled with non-ironic scenarios, yep. Agreed: the most unintentionally ironic song ever.
In office and proof of vaccination is exactly what I will be looking for when I look for my next job. I also don't like working remotely, so in-office is a requirement, and proof of vaccination is nice insurance against the company switching back to remote in the future due to an outbreak.
Hard to say without more details (currency and or location). What I would do is check with acquaintances (former colleagues, friends from uni, etc) what they are paid, assuming they have similar professional experiences.
But it also sounds like you live in some overpriced hellhole, assuming you're paid at least a half way fair wage.
Do you really need to live where you do? Check living costs of less central locations.
American football, play the whole game, coin toss for the ball, if the first team gets a touchdown the second team doesn't even get the ball
Right, the point was simply to provide a plausible mechanism by which we could continue to increase our energy consumption exponentially, for the sake of argument. The thought experiment of "global warming from pure energy expenditure" doesn't work if the energy source is solar, because that energy offsets insolation.

I'm not particularly bullish on fusion power, though we can dream.
> People in tech like to believe that holding people accountable is "abusive" or "bullying."

Nobody believes this. You are blinded by your politics.
It’s not some recent idea that freedoms need to be balanced against the harm they can cause others. The harm principle has been around at least as long as On Liberty (1859), and it wasn’t really a new idea then.
What happened to us?
> They mention somewhere that it's a low res proxy of the image, or something similar.

Perceptual hashes are just integer/byte encodings of images that were scaled down and had some transformations applied to them.

If you convert a hash into an array of pixels and reverse the transformations, you'll get some of the original image that was scaled down and hashed.
How do we know oil doesn't bubble up from the Earth's mantle? As far as I know, the mantle has a vast supply of carbon and water, and under the high temperatures and pressures of the mantle could form hydrocarbons that bubble up into the crust
Apple seems to have driven the cost of all (mobile) software to 99c or free, roughly. How can anyone really make any money just making something solid and usable without turning it into a "service" or something at that price? And I as a user don't want any of that stuff because I don't want a service to lock me in, I want to pay up front for something good and leave it at that.
It's hard to blame them when Amazon is eating their lunch.

Well, it's more like they made a sandwich, Amazon stole it, and now Amazon is selling it to other people. Meanwhile Elastic.co is starving.

It's not a fair game anymore.

I hope the DOJ breaks them up into three or more companies.
This is not what is currently up for debate. The current conflict is over control of private forums.

Its not a cut and dry issue either. If you were to own a site, anyone forcing you to post things to your site you don't believe is also an infringement of your rights. It cuts both ways.

In my eyes the major issue is the consolidation of discourse onto a few private forums, not whether or not those forums should be able to police themselves.
rock / pop
"This is not pipelining - this is just processing requests one at a time as they come in."

That's incorrect. This is pipelining as it is defined in RFC2616.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-6.3.2

It is not latency we are trying to save with HTTP/1.1 pipelining, it is server resources, namely the number of simultaneously open connections. (See Section 6.4)

RFC 2616 does not require parallel processing. It's optional.

Personally, I do not care about parallel processing. I want the responses returned in order. I get satisfactory performance from FIFO. That's because I only request resources from the domain I type into the computer.

A website that allows ads to be served from a variety of domains that the user never typed might have a problem with performance. However that is the web developer's problem, not the user's. Online ads are optional. There is nothing in RFC2616 that requires online advertising. The web works great without ads, and that is how I use it.

HTTP/2 is designed to serve the goals of companies that assist with online advertising. Google and others. Automatically triggering requests for ads from third party domains through webpages is a particular type of web usage, promoted by "tech" companies to support their online advertising "business model", but it is not the only type of web usage. It has performance problems. Go figure.

There is nothing to indicate any person outside of the "tech" industry is interested in this type of web use. How many users intentionally request ads. None. No user ever types in the domain of an ad server.

Requesting many small resources from the same domain, i.e., the domain the user types into the computer, using pipelined requests generally does not suffer from performance problems. It is fast and efficient for the types of web use that are not requesting ads from third party domains. Not to mention it is far more energy efficient.
> where the waiter explains the food carefully, tells you where it’s sourced and with which wine to pair it all.

These are all functions that can be served equally well by an inanimate object. Why pay someone $25/hr every night to say where a dish was sourced when you can just add a couple of lines to the description of that item on your website? I'd definitely have a much better experience if that money was spent on better ingredients, or just not spent and reducing the cost of my meal.

> Maybe that’s not your thing

There's no maybe about it, but I don't think it affects my point.
I've found very limited correlation between credentials and relevant skills. In CS, the actually important skills are often self-taught or gained through experience.
> Is there any way the authors could have kept your definition, and somehow credited you, even anonymously?

It's not uncommon for the acknowledgements section of a paper to thank an anonymous reviewer for, e.g., suggesting the authors further investigate a detail that turned out to be important. But in this case, where the authors couldn't write their own explanation of a technical term, maybe it's a bit premature for them to be writing technical papers.
NewsBlur can do this for YouTube videos.
What differences cause issues?
The Dark Knight – High Frequency Generator Scene (2008)
I don’t know of one. And maybe that was why Xsolla saw 40% growth until recently. But you can only go so long without fixing problems with your product before people stop using it.

I am also coming from the perspective of someone who has implemented Stripe in a SAAS application. I can see why Xsolla will appeal to game shops, but compared to what I can do with Stripe, I wouldn’t use Xsolla.

From a general strategic analysis approach though, based on my experience working with Xsolla:

- if you already have a good customer service and know your users and fans, you do not want to depend on someone else’s customer support team. They won’t engage with your users the way you will, and now your customer service have to work through Xsolla customer service
- if you need to customize the skin and experience of the payment flow, you cannot have someone else be the merchant of record
- if your team already has competencies in writing web apps and operating infrastructure, you can do a better job than Xsolla at implementing virtual currencies, item shops
- if the people paying for the games, virtual currencies, and items are not the gamers themselves, then the many payment integrations that Xsolla offers do not matter as much
- if you are mainly operating in a few countries, then the international payment integrations Xsolla offers are not really much of an advantage
It is easy to judge another’s actions from afar when it’s their meal and roof they’re working for. It’s okay for Amazon (a trillion dollar company) to make money off of their work but not themselves?

Imho, the problem isn’t “well it’s not open source anymore then.” The problem is people who give more weight to a religion/philosophy than sustainability. Who cares if it’s open source if the people developing it can’t support themselves?

Fair code > open source.

https://faircode.io/
Yes, see Douglas v. Talk America.
We stopped watching linear cable TV.
I saw INXS in Cardiff in 1990ish, always been a fan of AC/DC - never saw them live though. I remember M@W's iconic "(I come from a land) Down Under" absolutely smashing it out of the park on the UK's Top of the Pops.

I think you'll find that one or two other bands produced videos as well as their music:

The Beatles did Yellow Submarine and a few other tunes back in the day - Sgt Peppers is quite well thought of too. The Who did Pinball wizard and the like. Sir Cliff Richard did pretty much everything, with and without the Shadows! The Strolling Bones, err Rolling Stones ran out one or two tunes and a few decent vids. Duran Duran were a bit later. David Bowie managed to keep a tune and a look. Queen have a few fans.

Why do you need to single out Australian artists? There is no need to get all chauvinistic. Music is universal. I am a fan of AC/DC, Bach, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Beethoven, Iron Maiden, Rachmaninov, Black Sabbath, Kylie, that bloke wot wrote Finlandia and rather a lot more.
Doesn't every TOS include that clause about the customer automatically accepting any change the company makes to the TOS at any time and without notification?
Is there a way to get rid of that thing where you have to manually drag out text boxes to type in? I really hated that, if I want freeform page layout I’ll use an actual notebook or Illustrator.
What happens when the index can’t fit into memory with Typesense?

Does it OOM?
Exactly. This is how the student debt process gets resolved.
If the people had their way, those suspected of child sex crimes wouldn’t even get trials. Things like privacy and due process only exist to the extent that a ruling class has the power to impose their own values, contrary to popular will.
See also https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/issues/1666
This is a false narrative. Both Elastic and Amazon are making a killing.

> Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) ("Elastic"), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced strong results for its fourth quarter and full fiscal year (ended April 30, 2021). Total revenue was $177.6 million, an increase of 44% year-over-year, or 39% on a constant currency basis.
There'll never be a time I won't be up for a bit of Jira-bashing! Can't stand the bloody software, chiefly because it's an unstable mess of a product that perfectly recreates the soupy grottiness of a hangover every time you use it.
New Tesla Autopilot Statistics Show It’s Almost as Safe Driving with as Without
Apple said it is coming in iOS 15 and when you install it, you will need to accept TOS. It might change at that point.
While this is great in principle, some people's voice is much louder, and their words can devastate the lives of individuals, the economy and our society. Should there not be something in place to prevent people from spreading falsehoods that can lead to harming others? The solution is not as easy as what you've stated. In fact, I don't think there is a solution, only a continual rebalancing.