skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a colleague who would block out almost his entire calendar as a defensive strategy against being given new tasks.

He even tried it once with his wife to avoid clearing out the garage. That tactic he only tried once, though, for obvious reasons.
Wired did it back in 2009:

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/st-whatsinside-6/
Sounds more like SQLite in the browser.
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Steve Jobs would have told the FBI he was doing E2EE and he'd see them in court.
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I agree that TV rights are a complicated business problem. But Youtube TV managed to solve it in a way that doesn't just break for some bizarre technical reason most TV viewers don't understand.
They are also redefining "Privacy" to mean "only you, the person you're talking to, and Apple know".

/r/apple has a large number of robots suggesting "on device scanning is more private!"
I got Pong as a kid (specifically Telstar Marksman) and I have been 100% all in since that day. Every doubling and incremental change has been exciting to me.

The way technology today is implemented repulses me. The surveillance, gamification, addition psychology all seem so unrecognized by the public but have made me less interested.

But for me the biggest grievance is the poorly working software. So tired of it. So so tired.
The ‘custom’ font has been identified¹ as Grilli Type GT America² with minor spacing change and a Twitter logo in the PUA.

¹ https://twitter.com/jeffjose/status/1425626162219286529

² https://www.grillitype.com/typeface/gt-america
Uber doesn't have the same risk profile. When demand drops for wework, they are still on the hook for longer term leases. When demand drops for uber, drivers eat the loss of fewer transactions. As long as they can keep their overhead in check (and this certainly isn't clear) then they should be be able to have an operationally viable business.
We are social animals. Other people make me happy. Other people make me miserable.

Quality of life depends far more on the integrity of a person's human relationships than these trivial material gains.

I can remain bright eyed through all kinds of horribleness if I believe my suffering is meaningful and valued.
When did you buy the house? 2021 prices are not 2011 prices...
Why is this worse than totally proprietary & closed source icc?
Was just thinking this about their Photos and Music apps on Catalina. Pretty bad UX but they’ve had plenty of time to fix them and haven’t. I guess snooping through data after customers throw them loads of cash for their devices is the new business model.
Noob question but when they say ES Modules support will be integrated does that mean for the server side stuff / serverless functions?
Hi there, I'm the CTO of Secoda so happy to answer your question. Our dbt integration works with dbt cloud, and are working on making it compatible with dbt core as well. What we'll pull from dbt via their API is the metadata associated with the models, docs, and, jobs. We have a free version of the platform, so you can sign up and test it out if you'd like to see what that information looks like in Secoda.
Anonymity is the default, we don’t walk around with our names and all our interests and thoughts attached to a label to be read by anyone. If anything, internet made it go away. Eg. even if you knew a person’s name you wouldn’t be able to look up other information about them before, now you can. Previously, you’d be able to go to a store and buy a thing without giving any information, now you have to give the “email” that collects most information about you. Your examples of loan, licence etc are not like 99% of interactions, and those can be handled as special cases like before.
I'm not the only one!

I thought it's something with antialiasing or whatever on Mac, figured out I will solve it later with some setting or whatever.

It literally physically hurts to read it.
There's something really strange that happened to me for over a year, and it's stopped. I can't remember what it was or why. I think using https://twitter.com (without the www), forcing https, and using Safari. Some combo of those things made the site almost never load properly. Try adding in a WWW or a different browser if you're interested.
> seems to take 10x longer do encode MOV files vs. raw MP4

> So you are saying there shouldn't be a difference then?

There should be no difference if the video coding (codec aka "video format" aka "compression-standard" ) is already one of the standards (e.g. AVC, HEVC, etc). For example, AVC video in a RIFF file[1] should be able to be converted to AVC video in an ISO BMFF (aka QuickTime MOV) file without performing any transcoding at all, so it should take however long it takes for your computer to literally copy bytes from one file into another.

The evidence suggests that Apple's screen-recordings are made using the "ProRes 4444" codec, which explains why other programs need it to be transcoded, and why YouTube takes longer: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202410

[1] I believe this is theoretically possible, if utterly impractical
Dropbox is great, but their app? Not so much these days. This is absolutely awesome.

Now can someone do this for OneDrive? As bad as we might complain about the new Dropbox app, OneDrive is a giant garbage fire.
It’s time to ban autonomous killer robots before they become a threat
Stanford requiring weekly Covid-19 testing regardless of vaccination status
“neutral map” is just going to be used as cover for “favors democrats in republican states”
Nope. You can say Austrian Hungarian Empire or better, Prague. He, and the people of the time, would not say they lived in Austria -- which didn't exist either. The people of the area spoke Czech.

You can't shorten the Austrian Hungarian Empire to Austria or Hungary. It's both lazy and wrong.

Also, the Czechs fought hard for their independence and achieved it during Kafka's lifetime. In the same way, literally no one says, "George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who lived in 18th-century England..." We don't call them English, despite having been born in a colony of England, because they identified themselves as American and were officially recognized as that in their lifetime.
And if that regulation disappeared overnight do you think everyone would stop selling cars with seatbelts?
Thank you! We strongly believe Rust is the future of JS tooling[1] and will be investing heavily in this ecosystem. It's been in the works for awhile[2] and I'm happy to start seeing these changes land in Next.js. `npm i next@latest` for perf improvements every time is the goal!

[1]: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1417861178290851842

[2]: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/979525321882984448
Twitter does the kind of stuff Twitter users are into.

This approach might also be better for engagement.
We have pre-built integrations with many popular data tools (Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, etc.) that can be setup in less than 5 minutes. If those don't fit your needs then we can definitely setup some time to discuss the API.
Quicktime screen captures use H.264 Main@L5.2 variable-framerate (and normal 8-bit with 4:2:0 chroma subsampling), it's possible that Google are enforcing a transcode because of some rules they have on decoder complexity / limiting quality of H.264? I know Google prefer their own VP* codecs everywhere.

You could test whether the container format makes a difference by using the following FFmpeg commandline (e.g. if the output of this is any faster to ingest than the original .mov it could be that Google's ingest process sees some unexpected atom/table in the .mov that aren't used in .mp4?

ffmpeg -i screen-capture.mov -codec:a copy -codec:v copy capture.mp4

Edit: typo in the original post (had codec:c rather than codec:a)
More tweet-based journalism. Isn't there a better article somewhere that actually shows the font?
I think the most important advantage of vaccines is that you get them (J&J aside) twice, which helps build long term protection. Which is why it's recommended to get a single dose of a vaccine if you caught covid, bringing you up to two exposures as well.
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yet reddit feels like it is dying.

non-political subs with very obvious political agendas.

The illusion of popularity-based ranking of articles when in reality it is mostly curated

Zero transparency on the moderators the big news and political subs

Control freak moderators on special interest subs.

Some big investors don't seem to be able to accurately gauge what an internet property is worth. Look at Verizon buying tumblr for $1 billion
Semver also allows you to make breaking changes at anytime with the bump from one major version to the next — e.g. if you look at something like RxJava they use semver well in this way & don't shy away from breaking changes to deprecate and tidy the API.

If anything I think perpetual v0 dilutes the concept as gets people used to projects being stable at v0 rather than considering them alpha
From the Wikipedia link you provide - "modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined"

Lines of code != system's components.

It's why we don't split a 20 line function into twenty 2 line functions (where the first line is one of the original, and the second is the call to the next function), and no one would say that doing so has made the code more modular.

This is itself backed by the wikipedia link, 'In software design, modularity refers to a logical partitioning of the "software design" that allows complex software to be manageable for the purpose of implementation and maintenance. The logic of partitioning may be based on related functions, implementation considerations, data links, or other criteria'; what we have done by splitting up the code this way has not helped it be more manageable.

So no, by the definitions you yourself cited, splitting up the code does not translate to more modular code.
A while back I registered a couple of domains to use when store clerks asked me to supply an email address.

They were of the form:

notmyrealemailaddress.com
thisistotallyfake.com
inevercheckthisaccount.com

But joke's on me, because then there would be this long, drawn-out process of "How do you spell that? Are there hyphens between the words? Did you say 't' as in 'toy' or 'b' as in 'boy'? Now let me read that back to you."
> The company will use the new funds to improve product features, focusing on how to make it easier for newcomers to explore and quickly understand the site, Mr. Huffman said. Reddit is also enhancing its video products with an eye toward more advertising. And the company is building its self-service advertising system, which could help appeal to small and medium-size business marketers.

> Reddit is also focused on expanding internationally. Most of the site is U.S.-centric, Mr. Huffman said — something he hopes to change.

When it comes to advertising, other platforms offer a much more lucrative user base. Reddit users aren’t worth very much to advertisers. International users will probably be worth even less. And there is no guarantee that Reddit would hit it off with an international audience.

In short, I just don’t see them doing well if they go public.
Mozilla’s success had a lot to do with Microsoft practically abandoning internet explorer. IE6 which came out in 2001 was only replaced with IE7 coming out in October 18, 2006. Meanwhile Mozilla 1.0 came out in 2004 which was effectively the perfect time to gain market share.
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it does mean though that a system integrator could extract the keys ahead of time, likely without any way to know this has happened. adding a way to generate a new key or otherwise rotate the key material should fix that issue though.
On the whole, I think people's happiness depends on those people, rather than their material circumstances. After all, there's only so miserable you can get (or so cheerful). Most people are wealthier; but even very wealthy people evidently think they don't have enough money.

I don't mean to suggest that miserable circumstances don't make you miserable; just that circumstances that are twice as awful don't seem to make people twice as miserable. I suspect that most mediaeval peasants were about as cheerful as most ordinary people today.
> SpaceX didn’t start from scratch. The goal for Falcon 1 was to be as conventional a design as possible and save money via vertical integration.

This is still starting from scratch. The design may be conventional, but you're benefiting from a modern approach to processes and design from the beginning.
So, pretend you are in charge of spending $410 million dollars at Reddit. What would you spend it on?

From my amateur perspective I've got,

2 web devs, 1 backend engineer, 3 devops. Pay them very generously and that's $1.2 million spent.

I have no idea what I would do with the rest..
> Would love a citation for that.

Are you living in a cave? How can you not have seen all this. UCSF has this amazing review, and it's right at the top of the google results page: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...

You are claiming not to have seen this not because you have looked for this evidence and failed to find it, but because you have been CONVINCED BY YOUR MEDIA that this evidence doesn't exist.

You also cite lies. Texas is one of the worst areas in the country for both total infection count and current infection rate: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states...

> So the statement you make with arrogance may actually be wrong misinformation.

Ditto.
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> «Languages live», but uprooted they go astray.

That is nonsensical. There is no such thing as a line language should not stray too far from. Languages are what they are, plain and simple. The fact that you speak English, is already a horrible affront to the French, the Celts, Angles, Saxons, both in their current day form and that of yesteryear, and any precursors to those languages in turn. English shouldn't even have the Latin-derived 'master' in the first place, if we're going that way.

I am absolutely sensitive to the argument that 'master' originally, or in some other context, is not opposed by 'slave', but 'inferior' or somesuch. And it is how I've used the word, and how it and its native equivalent is used in my native tongue. But that is no argument for fixing a particular meaning or context as more important or 'native' than any other.

Language is fundamentally, deeply promiscuous, and English may be the most promiscuous of them all. If this is a problem for you, your best bet is a dead language, or one you create yourself. You can fork anything you wish after all, that's how languages work :)
Ask HN: What more can I do against Apple (and big tech)?
After Apple betrayed my trust by announcing they are going to install malware on my phone, I have taken some actions "against" them and other big tech companies.

1) Deleted all apps which are not absolutely essential to me. Realized that for most of them the website functions perfectly well.
2) Ordered for a basic Android phone. After a 7 day wait period, I am going to root it and install Lineage OS+microg on it.
3) I have 2 iphones which I am not going to sell, as I consider it unethical to impose Apple's policies on the buyer.
4) Donated 200 USD to FSF.
5) Signed up with posteo and am going to use their e-mail service from now on - already migrated 90% from Gmail and the entire process should take a month.
6) Going to remove Windows from all my laptops tomorrow and replace them with GNU/Linux.

Some inconveniences I will face
a) not sure how some essential apps I need will work with Lineage. Need to figure out alternatives, which I will.
b) will never play a PC game again - as an introvert and loner, games have been very important for my mental health. But removing Windows is even more important.

Would love to hear more ideas from the community on actions I can take to help free software (not open source) and reduce the power of big tech.
I have the newest most expensive (well, not the most expensive, but close) M1 MacBook and it's the same.

It's weird how unpleasant it is. The new font seems rather nice, and I would not even notice it looks different, but... it really hurts to look at.
I don’t know much about this but wiki says QTkit was deprecated and superseded by AVFoundation

Edit: Not QuickTime, qtkit. QuickTime itself hasn’t seen an update in two years but isn’t considered deprecated I guess.
Your whatboutism is profoundly unhelpful here.

Yes, other companies are doing bad things, and they should be stopped.

Doesn't by any stretch of the imagination mean that Apple should be allowed to do something even worse.
Now I cant unsee that. tbh I need an editor for most of my comments, so I can hardly talk. They obviously drafted the same statement a few times forgot to delete 3 of the versions of the same thing. Sloppy in the comments section, but really poor on the headline article.
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> My employer agreed I was useless and decided to turn that into 9 days notice.

Did they say you were useless and changed the notice to 9 days, or are you inferring the former from the latter?
Alright, you have me sold - link me to the mask?
Expectations and company culture can be difficult to communicate during an interview. Sometimes the interviewer doesn't even realize what would be relevant to the jobseeker.

If the company fails their 'job', you end up with the black mark of a missing block of time on your resume, plus the major hassle of switching jobs and re-interviewing. It isn't "No problem" as you say. It's a major problem that could set you back by months.
How do they come up with this?

Is the long death of reddit, really the TikTok-isation of reddit into yet another vapid commercial meh-space?

Will this actually succeed, or is this the pump before the dump?
I feel like individual productivity is a pretty much solved problem and comes down to sitting on your ass and doing the actual work (yes, I sometimes have trouble doing that, but in the end 'just sit down and start doing it' is the best advice to listen to).
I remember when Quicktime Player was a pretty capable video editor...
.coop (for cooperatives) is especially strict about this. You need to provide proof that you're a worker/consumer cooperative that is either actively doing business or has a documented business plan.
Thanks, we hope so too! At Secoda, we really want to make data less intimidating for anyone in the organization to explore and use. When the whole company can use data to help inform their decisions it really does make a big difference.
And on the flip side, sometimes internal version 11.3 is a boring release with only small changes since 11.2, but if one of those changes was a feature that marketing cares about then bumping to The New Exciting 12 may be in order.
PR and sales. Always PR and sales.
You never know when something is going to crop up that causes you a headache. Personally, I can't use a phone with curved screen edges or a curved monitor without incurring a piercing headache after fifteen minutes or so.
I'm honestly surprised to learn that Reddit is still VC dependant.

Seems strange to me that a 16 year old company still isn't self sustaining.
My threat model right now is to trust no one except (1) people I know personally, (2) people they know and trust personally, (3) people who have proved their reputation for integrity publicly, and (4) well-designed systems built by either (1), (2), or (3).

I know someone at Apple who knows their head of privacy... so #2 may be in question, given the design of this system and its capability of further compromising the privacy of millions of Chinese citizens on the Chinese government's whim (and any other strongly-authoritarian government).
reddit has always been dying to people who have been using reddit for a long time, but don't see how that's even remotely true

as someone who has used reddit for 7+ years now, the culture is definitely very different (not necessarily good) - but it has only continued to grow in terms of users
Oh, nice, I didn't know that. I've edited my reply, thanks!
I suggest running ffprobe first, just to make sure we know what the input really is.

> 4:2:0 chroma subsampling

It would be very un-Apple-like to make screen-recordings with chroma subsampling: that's the best way to make colorful hard edges look awful, and macOS is full of colorful hard edges.
But we aren't speaking french. We are speaking english and in english en masse doesn't mean a tiny fraction of people/group.
1) File > Export as > Save

2) Change file extension .mov -> .mp4