skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I looked and couldn't find a name for it

The bullwhip effect[1]. Although in this instance, it's inverted from its traditional direction. Generally the closer you are to the consumer/end product in the supply chain, the less impacted you are by the bullwhip effect. Tiny deviances between your actual and forecasted/expected demand can result in reactionary changes to materials orders, which grow in magnitude and volatility as you follow the downstream supplier chain. So the whip goes from those closest to the consumer upstream to those further away.

Car companies canceling chip orders at the beginning of the pandemic are an example of what's generally considered the bullwhip effect. Suppliers generally have little choice but to put up with the volatility, because if they don't they risk their customer sourcing a different supplier that _will_ and losing the account entirely.

That said, the power dynamics now are different. Many suppliers have more demand than their ability to service it right now, either because of constrained materials supplies themselves, lack of manpower, or lack of additional capacity. And those capacity constraints are hitting suppliers industry wide, so the "upstream" consumers of those materials have no alternatives to source. Hence why the bullwhip is going in reverse from how it typically does, where the ones closest to the end product are the ones at the mercy of the suppliers they source materials from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
I keep Google location history on so I can have evidence of where I was.
Lyric interpretations was already an existing market, but most implementations weren't great. Genius built a nicer interface that allowed them to take that market.

For everything else they'd have to create a market from nowhere. And people would have to be willing to donate their time and content to Genius to make it work.
Take an incremental approach.

Establish the core needs, what must be shipped as a basic system, and ship it. Then extend over a series of iterations where you incorporate more needs and wants. You won't totally avoid the deadline, but you will mitigate one of the deadline problems: All-or-nothing.

If you establish a deadline 1-3 years from now it is expected the entire system will be finished on that date. Well what if it's not? Establish quarterly releases (or more often, especially if you can work with the team deploying the system like if you're an internal dev shop) and aim for a first release in a few months that hits the essentials. Everything else is an extension, you may still take 1-3 years (or longer) but you'll be releasing and getting value from the system right away.

I've even done this with safety critical real-time systems in my work. We built what was necessary for flight test, but not desirable for operations (missed a few needs, a lot of wants). By the time the plane was rolling off the factory floor for release to airlines, we had all the needs covered and most of the wants. The rest of the wants were covered in the next year or so as well as some newly discovered needs. But if we'd waited to have everything done, the plane wouldn't have been delivered to customers for several more years (because flight testing would have been delayed by about 3 years).
At least in the EU, they run the (qualified) risk of a collosal statutory fine. It wouldn't be easy to get them audited (particularly in Ireland where the Data Protection Commission favours discretion over valour), and they'd have to actually get caught. Assuming that they didn't hide the evidence, and the auditors found it, and the necessary hoops were jumped, it could be financially and reputationally painful, even for big G.
Thanks to the maintainer's great responsiveness, Pyright will implement such a warning soon: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/issues/2308
> The way we use slack is start a top level topic and group all related discussion in a thread.

Same at my company: Top level comments initiate a thread, and all responses must be made as comments within the thread.

If I had my way, I'd take it a step further and require that Slack be treated like a message board, not a chatroom. If you have something to say, then say it all at once in one cohesive paragraph or set of paragraphs -- just as we do here. I do not want to be pinged multiple times in rapid succession while someone sends every thought they have in a stream-of-consciousness fashion, e.g.:

>> hi

>> can you help me with a problem?

>> i need to do x with y but i'm not sure about how to handle z

>> oh wait

>> nvm

>> figured it out

Awful.
This is really interesting to me. I absolutely love SQL and the power it has for modeling complexity.

I also don't think this whole thing has to be absolutely pure either... I would have no problems seeing user-defined functions that have side-effects in this kind of scope. You can certainly wrap a declarative + gateway pattern around domain registration or other global one-time deals, but perhaps exposing that side-effect to the SQL user would encourage more robust application development. Exception handling is something that is very hard to perfectly abstract away in a declarative sense.
> I don't understand the point you're making (unless you're being snarky.)

I am. I'm referring to my brain in a "tech industry buzzword" way. It is, technically speaking, a trained neural network. Just a biological one, not a silicon/code based one. I happen to like it, and it can also do things like tell the difference between a low moon in the sky through a smoke haze and a traffic light.

> Another way of framing is what utility Location History can provide to users.

"If there are any positives, then the technology is worth using!" style thinking misses, entirely, the concept of opportunity cost, and the various downsides.

I won't argue that it's not pretty cool to see everywhere you've been - but it's also an exceedingly detailed record of who you are, and anyone who claims it can be suitably anonymized is full of crap (see the Grindr Bishop for a solid case study here).

Where I really start to get upset, though, is that there's no opt-in for this, other than some vague, generic, "nobody reads this and it doesn't say anything anyone would understand anyway" clickthroughs.

Android doesn't have a, "Would you like us to keep a record of your location and everywhere you've been? You can review it later and see what cool places you've been!" sort of opt-in. It just does it.

Google clearly is getting some value from that data, and it's not at all clear what it is.
The counterfactual is right next door. France has half the emissions per capita of Germany since it primarily relies on nuclear power.
I remember, as a kid, playing copy protected games at night and hoping my dad didn't wake up mad at me because of all the CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACKing that the drive head was doing as the protection scheme was slamming it all the way to one side to read some bit of data.

Good times, man.
I'm from Pinecone so I can chime in...

The biggest difference, as cyrusthegreat pointed out, is that we're a fully managed service. You sign up, spin up a database service with a single API call[0], and go from there. There's no infrastructure to build and keep available, even as you scale to billions of items.

Pinecone also comes with features like metadata filtering[1] for better control over results, and hybrid storage for up to 10x lower compute costs. EmbeddingHub has a few features Pinecone doesn't yet have, like versioning -- though with our architecture it's straightforward to add if someone asks.

Hope that helps! And I'm glad to see more projects in this space, especially from the feature-store side.

[0] https://www.pinecone.io/docs/api/operation/create_index/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5CsJ_S9_w4
>Evidently not to a sufficient extent.

Please avoid these snarky comments, this is also rude and unhelpful and against the rules. I'm continuing to talk to you as a show of good faith even though you're discouraging me from doing so, I ask that you please be respectful to me and maintain the same show of good faith. We can disagree and still respect each other.

>Roughly 100% of Linux users are extensive GNU software users.

If you meant just people using the Linux kernel, then this is very wrong. Android is the majority of users and does not really use any GNU software. If you meant people using Linux on a desktop or server, then it's still probably not 100%, there are various non-GNU distros. Also this is really not related to the FSF/GNU relationship at all so I'm not sure why you brought it up.

>And Linux uses a license whose authorship and legal defense both fall under the purview of the FSF.

This is also false, the defense of the license of Linux falls to the authors of Linux. The FSF has no bearing on their actions, they can attempt to influence them but it carries no more weight than any other outside group. For some obvious examples: the FSF asked them to switch to the GPL3 but they declined. People have asked them to follow the FSF's interpretation of the GPL, but they declined. In any case I think you may be confused as to what the FSF actually is.

>Would you argue that Richard Stallman, the founder of both the FSF and GNU and the author of both gcc and emacs, might not still do something to benefit the FSF and GNU software--and therefor all Linux users--in his remaining life?

I'm sorry, I don't understand this question. Many people could theoretically do or not do things at some point in the future to benefit any given piece of software, so any answer would be purely speculative. Also, enhancements to any given GNU software do not benefit all Linux users. There are a large number of GNU packages that aren't popular at all and aren't even available on some Linux distros. Also, Richard Stallman is not the sole author of gcc and emacs, and AFAIK has not contributed code to either of those projects in many years.
I think they're referring to the subhead, "In a few weeks, Windows 11 will arrive. Should you upgrade to it? Let me answer with a question: 'Should you stop hitting your head against the wall?'" which is not only challenging to parse but (as I read it) contradicts the headline.
No one is talking about banning anything, at least I'm not. Yes, everything can be misused, which is why it's important to at least ask the questions about how and in what ways. When some technology can be so badly misused, more so than a knife, it's important to have a culture around the proper handling of that power. Take nuclear energy for example. Yes it can be used for great evil, but we should not ban research into nuclear energy because it can be used for good as well. Nonetheless, there are still grave ethical considerations that go into producing this research. The greater the ethical considerations, the more thoroughly we need to consider all the implications of this technology, good and bad, rather than "move fast and break things".

Social media is one of those things. It doesn't present itself with the same raw force of nuclear power, but it has proven to have an undeniable power over the human mind. Despite the evidence we have now, though, it still seems that ethical considerations of social media are not being taken seriously enough by the people with the most power of social media platforms, and this worries me.
The cynical take is that Nicki Minaj is intentionally creating this controversy to distract from her legal issues. She recently pulled out from the MTV Video Music Awards immediately after her husband pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender.[1] She and her husband are also being sued by her husband's rape victim for alleged harassment and intimidation.[2]

[1] https://jezebel.com/nicki-minajs-vaxx-flap-is-distracting-yo...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/arts/music/nicki-minaj-ke...
Well! That's an honest-to-God discount then!

$1.00 + 30% = 1.00 + 0.30 = $1.30

then

$1.30 - 30% = 1.30 - 0.13*3 = $0.91

PROFIT!
Lightroom (or at least Lightroom Classic) defaults to embedding all metadata, but it’s exposed fairly prominently in the Export dialog, so I suppose people turn it off to, I dunno, hide their secret sauce.
Though before basing life-and-death decisions on this, consider reading the "about" page first: https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/about.gmi

> The purpose of the tool is primarily to help you find and navigate the strange parts of the internet. Where, for sure, you'll find crack-pots, communists, libertarians, anarchists, strange religious cults, snake oil peddlers, really strong opinions.

and

> If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool.
Out of curiosity what are the things that you look for in a marketer?
I've read most of the comments here and people are evaluating the search results: all good information.

I'm looking at "punishes modern web design"... This thing IS modern web design. I think it's called "marginalia" in reference to the huge margins they chose!

I'm using a browser on a linux desktop and side-by-side, HN's page design is old-fashioned tasteful making pretty good use of space, and maginalia has a font that's more than twice the 2D pointsize and is so spread out with whitespace that the "Tips" on the home page are off the bottom of my window.
The World of Teletype Computer Games
If I worked in hospitality I would wear a mask. This is no different to me going to a pub and the wait staff wearing a mask and I am not. Some people are always looking for a problem.

Does Glenn greenwald think we don't that know that at some point he has been served by hospitality staff wearing a mask while he as not worn one.
You have to like the JVM, though, because all the errors are pretty much straight Java stacktraces -- very little encapsulation of any of that. So Clojure effectively means you have to know Java/JVM and Clojure.
Sure, the 1K of RAM was a bit limiting...

1K of RAM seems an unimaginably miniscule memory limit today, but incredibly you could squeeze a game of chess in that limit using a bit of creativity. The YouTube channel Nostalgia Nerd compares a game of chess on the 1981 Sinclair ZX81 1KB computer vs. a modern PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3By_rdwxSg

When you think of the oceans of RAM available today, a 1KB limit feels like something from a completely different world.
Congrats on the MVP!

Did you have a hard time convincing users to sign up for TestFlight? If so, how'd you overcome it?
A lot of users and in-video sponsor spots that will never go away (YouTubers can edit them out using YT Studio but the sponsorship contract might impose restrictions on if/when they can remove it).
1. you need to evidence to convince a grand jury to indict them

2. discovery doesn't exist for criminal cases. you can't ask the accused to turn up relevant evidence.

3. they probably have all the relevant evidence, from the case against perdue pharma (the company)

4. the juicy evidence that proves their guilt is probably destroyed by now, or at least stored with a privileged party (eg. their laywers).
The reason I brought it up is because when I read mailing list archives, I see both threading, and certain messages which top-quote previous messages multiple layers deep. Deeply nested top-quoting is inconvenient for me to mentally parse.
The QL was one of my first computers too, I loved that thing!
> Don't put it on a computer, don't say it within earshot of a computer, and don't have it visible to any computer's camera: getting pretty impossible to follow this advice.

I predict an increase in the number of golfers and boat enthusiasts in my lifetime.
Software developer assessment platform CodeSignal raises $50M in new funding
New Photos Give a Glimpse into the Hidden World of Tiny Things
Ah, that's good to know. I've been meaning to set up OwnTracks with iOS, so I'll report back with how that goes, see if the accuracy/battery tradeoff is any different from what you're seeing on Android.
Our first computer was БАЙТ - Belarussian clone of ZX Spectrum. It was mid to late 90s and it was already super obsolete at the time, but every time we took it out and connected to TV it filled me with a sense of wonder and unknown that started my fascination with electronics and programming. What an amazing impact Sir Clive had on so many lives.

Even my nickname on this very website comes from my favourite game I played on Spectrum when I was a kid. Now I'm a game developer myself.
> when Gawker outed him as gay when he was in Saudi Arabia, where gay people are often punished by the death penalty...

This is why I have never held the Gawker thing against him. That little detail didn't make it into any of the articles I saw on the subject, and it makes Gawker's behavior really low.

Also: if he were female, outing him this way would properly be considered sexual harassment. Publishing a sex tape without permission, which they did to Hogan, is basically sexual assault. Gawker was sleazy as hell and deserved what they got.
It's a fair characterization of the mouse utopia experiments of John B. Calhoun, modulo some anthropomorphism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28555652
If you are in high demand right now, you will probably be in high demand after the first of the year.

Companies have plans for next year.

Good recruiters are working with those companies.

Your average recruiter isn't.
Why’d they have to give a JS environment the name of a guido.
Fintech company GreenSky acquired by Goldman Sachs in $2.24B deal
Traditionally, many mailing lists set the Reply-to header field to the mailing list address, so that replies would go back to the mailing list by default. For various reasons, that has fallen out of favor. Nowadays the message headers of mailing list messages usually indicate the list address in a separate header field, and mailing-list aware email clients provide a “reply to list” action. Unfortunately, too few email clients are mailing-list aware in that way. “Reply all” is the fallback, but make sure to remove the non-mailing list address, or else the original sender will receive two copies of your reply (one through the mailing list and one directly), which can be annoying.
The murder rate varies widely by state/area. Chicago's murder rate is significantly higher than its suburbs.

The murder rate in the town (37k residents) I live in (in the south) is effectively zero. I wouldn't doubt that all of my neighbors around me (most of us are originally from a northern state) have guns and we've managed not to kill each other.

Do you think the French revolution didn't require violence?
Articles like this are usually very cutting in their criticism but devoid of actionable suggestions. Kudos to Matt Yglesias for cutting right to the chase at the end:

>So what should we do? A boring but earnest place to start would be with some good old-fashioned congressional hearings.

>I think ultimately, members of Congress should make the point that the downside of television news coming under the control of Chinese censors for the American people is extremely large, while the upside of U.S.-based conglomerates gaining access to the lucrative Chinese box office is modest. So even if the censorship risk is low, the cost-benefit isn’t there, and unless the companies can offer very clear guarantees, we should look at passing laws that would break up these conglomerates.

He also pre-empts the potential issues with this:

>To get there, legislators are going to need to try to actually address the issue and not just use it to lob tomatoes at each other or call various people hypocrites.

I think this is understated. The average citizen does care about corporations groveling to Chinese censors, but cares way more about what it means for culture wars (as can already be seen in this very thread). So there's a prisoner's dilemma between the Left and the Right on top of the preexisting one between these corporations and the sincere bipartisan consensus that wants to counter the "Chinese chilling effect".
The (original) leadership team is notoriously horrible. Here's a lot of more examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801084

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801028

https://www.businessinsider.com/rap-genius-cofounder-moghada...
Shameless self promotion: https://blog.windscribe.com/consolidation-of-the-vpn-industr...
We also had some issues with Bunny's FTP origin, but that was around availability for serving to the CDN tier.

We didn't want to split the origin and CDN, so we switched to Google storage. Vastly more expensive though.
> McCoy later found out the request was part of an investigation into the burglary of a nearby home the year before

Just wondering, if he would have still shown up in the search results, if he had setup auto deleting Google data older than 3 months.
And to cover up crime.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds
Would it be possible to have a link to a page with operators?
Sure, it won't happen if everyone's life is still comfortable, that's the point. It's a safeguard against life becoming so extremely uncomfortable that the people started fighting.
It can not be used to prove that you actually did travel though. You can also put in only approximate address locations.

Google isn't going to be running some inference algorithm to identify your most probable location or residence, they are just going to give LE the raw data. Unless you are a extremely wanted criminal, LE probably doesn't have the resources to do extensive analysis of google maps searches and a jury is not going to interpret those results the same way they would of actual location history.
I think the question the parent is asking is how should the bankruptcy of one entity (Purdue Pharma) be allowed to protect individual members of the Sackler family?

The answer is, of course, that prosecutors have quite a bit of leeway in coming up with deals that will get the best outcome that they think they can get. But I agree that it doesn't feel right, that the Sacklers can further use their corporate structure to protect them from their actions.
Nothing.
Just another day in the office and collecting the paycheck.

It is the same for NSA intrusion teams and countless entrepreneurs, as someone recently shared here "The world is big and complicated".
A lot of other commenters have mentioned the subscription paywall being a big issue, but even beyond that I find it very difficult to take a community "for photographers" seriously when it can't be used from a computer.

I get that iPhone cameras have come a long way, and the photos they produce are now of professional quality, but the fact I can't even use this service at all from a computer with a old-school traditional lensed dslr is absolutely wild.

Without that, it's basically just a less-usable Instagram (Instagram has a website with login at least).
> Anyway, calling the US system "anti-democratic" is absurd

It was clear from the context that I was talking about the Senate bias towards rural states, not the overall system.

> I'm not sure how to have a reasonable conversation if we're throwing out overt falsehoods.

Don't worry, I think the conversation has run its course. It seems we're in broad agreement about many things. I hope you'll call your Senators and Representative to express your support for the Freedom to Vote Act (especially if they are Republicans). It may not fix the Senate issue but it's a step in the right direction.