skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for Reed Elsevier for a few months in the 01990s (on an outsourced IT contract). They were already internally distributing propaganda encouraging their employees to promote extensions of copyright to factual information (so-called sui generis database rights). They are a profoundly evil institution to their core, in a way that the American Chemical Society just is not.

Your position seems to be that impact factors and bibliometrics are crucial to the progress of science. Nothing could be further from the truth.
>This isn't exactly a compelling argument for our continued support of Afghanistan's government...

I haven't made such an argument. Just outlining the problems.
HackerNews is not about India.
> the single biggest user of UKs camera system originally intended for serious crimes are housing councils checking to see who didn't clean up after their dog.

Which camera system? Do you have a citation for that?
YC put money into this?
Unfortunately, that just sets the world record for the farthest freestyle javelin throw even farther back, to 1977, when Voyager 1 was launched.
I don’t tend to sign contracts with people I date.
Google Maps on iOS comes to my mind after reading this article. The amount of unnecessary stuff Google has lately stuffed in there has crippled the app to and has slowed it down even on my iPhone 11. I miss the fast and no-nonsense Maps app from 5ish years ago when it used to "just work".
I used Kawa as a "Clojure" of sorts about 20 years ago. Extending Java applications in Scheme. Worked really well, great implementation.
Product Management and/or Sales & Marketing are likely to own the decision.
You can label it collusion, but when Apple does it, it's going to call it _complying with local regulation_.
There are quite regular discussions on this topic on HN if you search. Here’s an example but there are more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23153043

Might be worth including some contact details in your public profile so people can reach out to you in future.
You must have encountered a very limited cross-section of Americans in a limited array of circumstances.
To whom do you give the keys?
Oh hey cool, apple, you know that new system you built? Well we now have 4 new classes of content we want to purge from people’s devices. The system is proposed and governments are already passing laws to exploit it. Fuck all consumer tech.
> Nearly 1 in 10 children in the US will be sexually abused before the age of 18.

If you include non-therapeutic infant circumcision, which many believe to be medical battery and (infant) male genital mutilation, this number would be much higher.
This made my day;
`No PM in history has ever said “This seems to be working pretty well, let’s leave it the way it is.”`
No it is not distancing from responsibility. Governments are democratically elected by everyone. So it is clear everyone is to blame.

When you put the blame on big companies, like the person I replied to, that is distancing! Because we cannot influence those decisions.
But if it came from the atmosphere, and goes back into the atmosphere… why isn’t it carbon net zero? Out -1, in +1, net 0. Wasted energy to harvest trees? But you also waste energy extracting fossil fuels, and offsetting carbon.
No deal, if you can't see unblockable ads, you don't get a $1000 pair of high tech glasses.
Dev focused SREs do not want to take on operational tasks
Even if that were the case, which I'm skeptical of, you're missing the other side of the productivity question. One of the major shifts in acceptable language relates to inclusion, especially in regards to gender and race. Given open source's ongoing diversity problem [1], you have to reckon with all the labor lost from excluding people.

[1] e.g.: https://www.wired.com/2017/06/diversity-open-source-even-wor...
I have seen a lot of arguments about how owning an EV while living in an apartment is a non-starter. Does this service change that equation? On the one hand, I think it does. Say, I'm going to the mall for shopping. I can order up some extra mileage while I'm there to get me home (or to the next mall). It also works if I'm at home and need some juice to get me to work.

However, I'm not sure it's a scalable venture. Could you do this every day? That seems expensive and a big hassle. Then again, maybe this service could be used to suggest future charging locations. "We get a lot of requests to charge in the Blah Complex, maybe we should look into installing something permanent there".
I'd only ever seen a different video for the song, which had a setting like a music TV show lipsync before studio audience/extras (but I don't see any show branding on the set):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjz23Q92A4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRXeBKys-Sw

Wikipedia only mentions the video that's in this 2-hour MTV launch video.
I genuinely have no idea what you're trying to say.
Do you see how this underlines my original point? I brought up real child abuse that is happening today and your response is about brain implants being mandated by the government. Most people are going prioritize the tangible problem over worrying about your sci-fi dystopia.
it's the literal name of the product
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883
Yep. Also, if I want to get pleasure from a bag of candies using my hard earned money, most people expect me to pay sales tax and candy shop taxes from profits and whatnot. But if I happen to want to get pleasure by giving the money away to my kids, I should absolutely not be taxed. Or to a charity, in which case I should not only not pay any taxes, but I should also be for some incomprehensible[1] reason be able to deduct the expenses in my taxation... Well, I guess nobody has promised that people should be logical in their preferences.

[1] Yes, yes I know. Charities are supposed to do some good. How, exactly, providing income to candy shop owner so that they can buy education for their kids is less good than your average tax avoidance charity scheme?
> Maybe the best design would use a rail-gun as a booster.

And pitch-o-mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer. I agree though, a line should be drawn otherwise you can end up with things going a bit absurd. It's similar to hoe stock-csr and forumla 1 racing draw lines about what things are allowed to be done to the cars.
You're absolutely right, of course. We're in the process of fixing that.

The TL;DR is that we're offering customers more flexibility than the tiered model suggests. Consequently there's a large variability in what customers pay. A number on the pricing page turned out to be more misleading than helpful for our target audience.

The long-term solution is creating a more flexible pricing model that can be very transparent. We are working on that. (Though as you know, generic, modular solutions take a while to get just right, unfortunately.)

We didn't think a short-term solution was needed, but based on your comment, that might be worth reconsidering. The best I can think of is a 90 % range of what customers actually end up paying for each tier. What suggestions do you have?
> What I would buy today is glasses that allowed an overlay. Give me a screen and an API and let me tether it to my phone and push pixels and I'd buy that immediately.

An overlay was the google glass promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpNpR3XYUw
Yes, which is what I was saying in my comment. If or when it comes to Apple changing this then I would agree it's a battle worth fighting, but that is not what is happening here and that is not what I was correcting in this article itself.

Isn't it too late to fight the battle then? They've already built the infrastructure to make it trivial to scan any file on your device.
This is mainly where I come down on this. I care about what they’re doing not why they’re doing it. What they are doing is examining my private files, and that is simply unacceptable.
There is a 'magic climate change solution' it's called 'Nuclear Energy'. We can cleanly provide for our energy needs for the next 10000 years no problem. It just requires conscientious and organized behaviour on our part.

Obviously there are questions as to how well, as a human race, we are organized ... but we can 100% do it, right now. We just have to get a long and act responsibly.
Yes, irrational numbers were a great discovery (including how they were discovered) and the systematic treatment of math in The Elements was a better example of the advancement in approaches to knowledge and thinking. And yes, if the Pythagoreans actually thought that this was a formula for irrational numbers, that would indeed to quite impressive.
Burned by ‘Let It Burn’
Trump let a big chunk of the Patriot Act expire, and other parts got stripped out along the way. I think it's more expired than not now.
I'm concerned that you seem to think one can't be a leftist without supporting Stalinism.
The whole thing rests on whether Apple knows that the content is CSAM or not. And they don’t. The author gets this fundamentally wrong. They do not know whether it is a match or not when the voucher is created. The process does, but they don’t. They know when the system detects a threshold number of matches in the account, and they can then verify the matches.

Additionally, we already know they consulted with NCMEC on this because of the internal memos that leaked the other day, both from Apple leadership and a letter NCMEC sent congratulating them on their new system. If you think they haven’t evaluated the legality of what they’re doing, you’re just wrong.
It's the same story with Siri and other voice assistants. I think companies realized how costly the cloud compute for these services is, and have been downplaying then and reducing datasets ever since.
Please no.

Infinite Scroll is a detestable feature. When you hit the refresh button, you end up at the top again, and have to scroll for a long time to get back to where you were.

Pagination is always better.
It would not supprise me if Google index and cache sites on localhost, if you somehow manage to expose it to the internet...
Fair-Code
2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
It's hard to say without data, but the number is so astonishingly high that, really, the first reaction is to call it into question.

It also seems to be the kind of thing that is hard to measure.
You could almost call it _ironic_ that an article identifying a general failure to satisfactorily explain irony, itself fails to satisfactorily explain irony... ;)
How to Become Python Developer
Python Developer is a part of a software team who skills in creating, designing, deploying computer applications, and different programs using the Python programming language. In addition to this, a python developer is also responsible for finding the errors (debugging) in the development projects created with Python.
Ok. What do you think the history of OOP development, it's focus, and goals with respect to mutating (or non-mutation) of state is?
You must be young? You do remember when France is 85% Nuclear and they built out their entire national infrastructure very quickly. Or as part of 'cultural memory'? I'm too young, but I remember people talking about it.

We could literally build those identical, 1960's style designs if we absolutely had to.

Of course, we'd build something a little more modern, even just a little more modern Canadian CANDU reactors would work.

We take forever to build them for organizational reasons, not because there's something that's inherently difficult that takes 30 years to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
Whether users are worse off or not entirely depends on the rate of false positives. That's the biggest issue IMO and OP's article points out how there is zero published and trustworthy information on that.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Used SQLite as an Application File Format?
I am considering using SQLite as an application file format, for many reasons, of which the first is "free" ACID semantics. (Actual cost paid in performance, of course.)

My application could also be served well by using a database format because the information users want to know might be open-ended and possibly supplied with good SQL queries.

The SQLite authors claim [1] that SQlite is great for an application file format, but claims are weak. Does anyone have any experience that supports or refutes that claim?

Also, I would prefer a database with static typing, but I am willing to reconsider if SQLite's manifest typing [2] is not a problem for performance, as it seems it might be. Is it a problem?

If I do use SQLite, is there anything else I should know?

(And to head off questions, my application is a specialized Version Control System.)

[1]: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

[2]: https://www.sqlite.org/different.html#typing
Top Reasons to Log Time
The dashboards used for QA code complexity metrics to assess project delivery now look nicer.
Hierarchical hiring decisions vs peer hiring decisions is an eternal balance. If you hire hierarchically, managers may be fearful of hiring people smarter than them or more experienced than them. If you hire based on peer voting, you could fall into a vapid paper-clip-maximizing monoculture.
OPs article cites the number of NCMEC reports from Apple vs. other tech giants (200 something vs 20 million something at Facebook). It is all a bit confusing and I expect most of us are learning more about iCloud than we ever planned on; Apple has been able to decrypt our iCloud photos all along but those reporting figures make it pretty clear that they haven’t been doing so en masse. This is a big shift.
John Rawls: Visions of Justice
Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap
Say polyglot again.
MailChimp is not a tech titan.
"Have no illusions. To achieve our goal of getting off fossil fuels, these reductions in demand and increases in supply must be big. Don’t be distracted by the myth that “every little helps.” If everyone does a little, we’ll
achieve only a little. We must do a lot. What’s required are big changes in demand and in supply."

https://www.withouthotair.com/c19/page_114.shtml
absolute gem!

A complimentary read https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html
He didn't say they're as bad as racism. Inexcusable is not a synonym for bad.
This is the dumbest comment I have read in a long time.
> or other files will be scanned since now

Ok, so not other files at all then. Just photos of documents.

> And the details around matching (and groups, etc) are trivial to change in a later update.

Ok, so this mechanism can’t do more than us claimed, but they could add a new mechanism later?
I have no hope it will work. I know it won't. But so far, you all have been nice.

Edit: On second thought, I decided to remove that. Thank you for showing me that I should.
There's no double standard. The post wouldn't decide whether to deliver a newspaper based on its contents.
The one thing that doesn’t get talked about is lead leaching from plastic pipes. You wouldn’t think that is a thing but it totally is.
Auspost offers free "Parcel Collect" addresses for everyone who registers at auspost.com.au

It's approximately as good as a dedicated paid PO Box for my usage.

e.g. it's free for receiving stuff I dont want left outside on my front verandah.

I also use my Parcel Collect addresses for web service signup/registrations where I don't want to give out my actual home address.

When mail arrives waiting for me, they send an SMS and I go to the service counter of the post office and show the SMS code to collect.

It's easy to create multiple new Parcel Collect addresses at many Post Offices, on demand via the web portal.
With exception of Assembly all languages have a runtime, even C.

Who do you think calls main(), processes the command line arguments, runs functions registered via atexit(), emulates floating point when not available on CPU, processes signals on non-POSIX OSes, handles CPU faults?
> I'm quite familiar with the sport and I'm truly curious as to whether you're making this claim about JZ and if you could name 10 throwers without Googling it.

What does his claim[1] have to do with knowing who the throwers are?

FWIW, I think that, if you look at a sport and find that the performance of athletes in that sport decreased significantly after the introduction of more comprehensive drug testing, then it is not unreasonable to assume the higher performance was due to drug-related enhancements.

[1] He's just making a point about the statistics. We don't need to know the name of the data points.
Another example is Netflix. You used to click on a movie to bring up the info page so you could see what its about and see its reviews. If you wanted to play it, you'd click on it from there.

But now, if you click on a movie, it starts playing immediately. If you want to see what it's about, you hover over the movie, wait for it to expand, then click a small caret symbol to expand the movie page further to see details.

And if you want to see reviews or customer ratings, too bad because Netflix decided those aren't useful so you have to go to IMDB or some other site to see what other people thought about it.
> Cool sounding jobs are competitive

Cool sounding jobs (e.g. actor) have an over-supply of labor because people are attracted to it on the basis of either passion or prestige instead of expected earnings. This drives down wages unless there's a regulatory body that artificially constrains supply (e.g. the case with surgeons).

There's an under-supply of tradespeople because it's gritty work, not very high prestige, and rarely lines up with anyone's passions. This drives up wages. It's also a very difficult thing to scale due to geographic and other constraints, so it doesn't have a winner-take-all dynamic. The result is many a large number of tradespeople that each get compensated very well.
Android or iOS? It’s a Marketing Question
Android or iOS? Which is the best OS for your mobile app? The specifications for a lot of other software tend to start with what the software does and defining a technical stack that will do it best, and most cost-effectively. However, the Android or iOS decision is likely to be decided more on marketing factors and budget. Let’s explore why!
Not the foundation, your tools changes every 36 months. Your foundation is what makes you immediately recognise what paradigms and techniques are used in the new framework and at least have a hunch of the consequences it has for your project.

If you lack those foundations, it will of course feel like everything is new all the time, because you don’t recognise the patterns and you just see a lot of trees everywhere.
As I said, incredibly naive.
Yes, and that path dependence isn't limited to mathematics, but people love prestige.
Sorry, should have said "outside of the UK" then.

I have been living overseas for a couple of decades, and Bells/Grouse/Teachers are not that easy to come by. Internationally, at least in my experience, Johnny Walker and Chivas Regal seem to be the more common "name" blends, supplemented by all sorts of weird "only for export" brands. You can also get hold of the big single malts pretty easily.

Its actually not always that easy to get hold of the standard Scottish "cooking whiskies" which means that a lot of people outside of the UK have a different starting point for defining what Scotch is.
It doesn’t matter what you label it. Hand wringing over making things worse in China is not a valid concern.
What are the main instances where these claims were made fraudulently?
I agree with GP, and I'll pat myself on the back for having pretty damn well organize data going back over ten years, which has come with me over four computers. I still want powerful search on top of that, but I'm usually much more efficient at locating my own data than Spotlight is. Back when I had an MP3 collection, it was the same. I had a well-organized folder structure and it felt easier manage than Spotify.

I recognize that us power users are a minority, but I really wish there was a shop out there that would build software for us instead of everyone converging towards "user-friendly."
Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?
>presumer

Eh. I've been using assumer and arse-sumer, for the exact same meaning. e.g. "the four donkeymen of Reddit: the assumer, the dichotomiser, the illiterate, and the genetic fallacist".

On-topic. The issue with slippery slopes is that, by chaining arguments, you're increasing the likelihood that your conclusion is incorrect. Lemme give you guys an abstract example:

* Premise 1. if A happens, then B will happen.

* Premise 2. if B happens, then C will happen.

* [...]

* Premise 6. if F happens, then G will happen.

* Conclusion: if A happens, then G will happen.

That only looks sensible until you ask yourself "how much do I trust each of those premises?". Even if you put 90% trust at each of those six premises, the conclusion has only (90%)⁶ = 53% trust, it's on the same level as a coin toss.

(If this reminds anyone about Ockham's Razor: yup, it's the same reasoning.)
I find it remarkable that modern Fortran implements many advanced features while remaining backward compatible with Fortran 77, which, visually, looks like a different language.
Blasphemy to the new official religion of the USA, The Science. There is one true Science, in Fauci's name we pray.
> There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the sub-Arctic.

The remainder of the article never considers any region or country not mentioned in that statement.

What about African nations? How about Southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh? How about the former Soviet satellite countries?

There are plenty of countries where the entire population doesn’t have full access to electricity. Air conditioning is a luxury, and central air is unheard of.

Not to sound all doom and gloom, but I’m concerned about mass migrations from the developing world, which politicians will use to instigate fear of foreigners and further divide people.

Will the nations who are the largest contributors to climate change pick up the bill? Unlikely.
The experts on this topic are better able to answer OP's question than HN is. They publish documents that OP can read to learn about what is an effective approach and what is not.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/balsillie/

https://www.withouthotair.com/
Thank you. I sometimes wonder if it is that I don't write clearly enough or if some people have poor reading comprehension. Perhaps both.
No, the two are wildly different:

- in stackexchanges case someone is killing even popular questions with valid, helpful questions and answers because of their subjective opinion

- in this case it is quite obvious that anyone who asks for localhost/127.0.0.1 to be taken down either has no idea what they are doing or haven't vetted the data.
Those are more logical progressions from a software engineer.

It would be shocking if there were a large number of animators vying to be technical directors.

There are many TDs who may want to be an animator, and some animators who want to be TDs. But they're the minority. Ones a heavily art based discipline, the other is heavily tech based. There's significantly more demand vs supply for TDs than animators. It just doesn't make logical sense that they'd know multiple animators trying to get into a TD role, because it's the easier role to get. It makes equally little sense for them to know multiple animators trying to become lighters.

The person I replied to is probably commiting the age old foible of describing all people working in animation as animators.
You are still wrong. I don’t make a positive claim.

All images that do not actually trigger detection are fakes in terms of the poster’s claim.

That’s not my prior. It is the null hypothesis for any set of randomly selected images.

The poster’s claim is that the images have a special property. That is the positive claim which they failed to provide evidence for, and is logically false based on their description of the method.