skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube Shorts (TicToc competitor) is pure evil. If I accidentally click on it I can find myself two hours later after watching hundred videos I can't even remember anymore. Sure it's high engagement, but it's truly bad for user satisfaction and long-term user retention. On top of that they blatantly and prominently push their political agenda in "news" section.

But I don't think there is deep evil thinking behind dislike change - in large corporations people need promotions, some entrepreneurial PM and couple devs identified the opportunity and went for it. Directors/VPs are too disengaged to truly understand impact of changes.
Criminals don't carry lockpicks because a brick is easier.
Yes, it's just horrendously flaky. I mean I haven't run it for a few years and people say it's better now, but people have been saying that for about a decade now.
What good does this do for anyone though?
Nerves might be interesting https://www.nerves-project.org/

BEAM (Erlang, Elixir) on a RTOS, targetted at IoT.
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I'm blown away by the value in this review from a regular customer. Both in terms of reassuring others of the value of the product, and providing incredibly valuable real-world feedback to the company. I hope OP gets at least a personal thank-you from Engo, if not a free pair of their next iteration to review.
Not astigmatism. But the true reason makes me seem dumb as shit so I wont get into that. :)
Does it also make tons of plastic waste?
This implication is about who would care if NSO gets shut down. For that, current investors are what is relevant. If someone already divested they don’t care and wouldn’t pull strings to keep the company around.
I got in trouble with PayPal in... Like... 2007 maybe, not entirely sure when. I remember that I never got an email about it, the account was just restricted one day when I logged on to make a purchase and they asked for A LOT of papers and faxes and scans to unlock it again. I never got an explanation for that but since then I never had a problem again.
You’re assuming an even playing field.

Once a corporation reaches a certain size, do you really think it’s possible for any other company to overtake it?

There is in fact something stopping them. There are in fact many things stopping them.

When you have $100 billion war chest, are you really going to let someone just walk in and eat your lunch?

Regulatory capture, lobbying, price manipulation, etc., are all things stopping these companies you just referred to, FYI.
I didn't work on HyperTalk, but Kevin Calhoun, who worked on HyperCard 2.0 and 3.0, was just around the corner. AppleScript was spun out of a wildly ambitious project spearheaded by Larry Tesler, the head of Apple's Advanced Technology Group, to make end-user programming a reality, but HyperCard and HyperTalk were arguably far more approachable and productive for end users. And in the end it was AppleScript that survived the internal politics while HC/HT were killed.
Toyota empowers workers to stop production to fix quality issues. But they earn less than unionized workers.

Empowering line workers makes sense when there's growth and healthy margins to pursue. If the industry is mature or even shrinking then there's a heavier focus on cost cutting and metrics/Taylorism to maximize free cash flow and pay it out as dividends and stock buybacks.
Content likely to end up killing someone should be flagged and removed, not community-downvoted.
This is good, we wouldn't want to stifle the innovation in the killer robot industry.
I don't think he has the power to fire his colleagues. I think that's reading too much into it, for a lot of people 20 is a lot and for a lot of people you just don't trust others with stray cash laying around. It doesn't say much about humans, except that a small portion of people are willing to commit crime and that's why we have to protect ourselves
That was 2016. I don't know the state of unikernel debugging today, but I can imagine a unikernel having all the observability goodies that Solaris/Illumos have, or Linux for that matter.

mdb? maybe via a console just like on Solaris/Illumos, or from the hypervisor.

gdb? maybe via a gdb server in the unikernel, or from the hypervisor.

DTrace, eBPF? maybe via a server like a gdb server, but for those, in the unikernel.

I can't imagine why those things wouldn't be possible.
Did they sue or was it "just" an Abmahnung?
Ask HN: Does it feel like Jerry is abusing posting privileges?
I see Jerry is Hiring posts pop up what feels like multiple times a week and rarely see these posts from other YC companies. I wonder if others notice this and feel they're posting too often or if I'm just over sensitive to it...
If you can operate without democratic control and do things that would be illegal for anyone else to do, are you an "illegal conspiracy against democracy"? I think every intelligent US president since Eisenhower (which makes sense, as the relevant institutions largely came into being after WW2) has recognized that such a thing exists, with varying degrees of openness (Eisenhower), paranoia (Nixon), and glee (HW Bush).
> Why would the tail wag the dog? America benefits so much from all the R&D (in e.g. encryption) that can't happen on US soil.

As far as I know there are few (if any) restrictions on encryption R&D (and even publication) in the US.

What is restricted (due to encryption being classed as a 'munition') is the export of robust encryption products to specific countries.

Broadly speaking, circumventing the export controls wouldn't be in the interest of the US Intelligence Community, unless those products have backdoors or vulnerabilities known to the IC.
I wonder what would happen if you went to Amazon's lobby and chained yourself to something solid? Would at least get some press. The only way to get these sorts of things fixed now is to have a large megaphone.
It's still not great - you're still primarily talking about changes made to the code, not the net effect change for users. Sometimes that messaging can overlap and serve both audiences (people who want to know code changes vs people who want to know functionality changes), but IME it's less common than conventional-commit advocates seem to think.

Using commit logs as part of a changelog, or as the starting point for additions... sure.
Not necessarily corp speak: permanently suspended means you cannot use their services but they will still process data about you ;)
Would this be called “lock in”?
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I expect Amazon to bring an entire legion of lawyers against you in a situation like this and basically bury the arbitrator in paperwork.

Does the contract say if Amazon would have to pay all your fees if you win? Or would you be out either way. Usually in court in the USA you often lose all your legal costs even if you do win.
> I believe the purpose of keeping Israel there

Here's part of the problem. Does it make sense to you Israel just disappears? Sounds like it from what you're saying.
Isn't it weird though - how many nation states do you think should vanish?

> but because of the human rights/colonialism problems

If Western societies really wanted the conflict to dissolve they wouldn't keep encouraging the Palestinians to "return" to their home (75 years after). Western societies keep the conflict alive. So it makes me think human rights issues isn't really the thing here.
That's an awful lot of views for something people "dislike.'

Hate-watching?
I don't think calling her neonazi is fair.
/r/antiwork may be one of the greatest psyop of our time. I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years we find out that Russian propaganda assets created and fueled the antiwork movement to accelerate the social divisiveness and strife in the US/West.
Do you find you need to make experimental changes to the linker often?

Back when I was a Gentoo user, I too bought the story that being able to re-emerge my whole system was some kind of performance or configuration boon. Eventually I realized that I just wanted to use my computer to get through life, that literally any operating system would work, and that any experimental hacks could simply be done when they were needed rather than trying to manage an over-complicated, poorly-supported hobby OS.

I use Ubuntu now. It sucks. But I spend my time on doing real world things now, rather than constantly tweaking my computer to eventually do a real world thing.

For work I use containers with any distribution at all. They all have the same result in a container.
A couple of years ago there was a talk at defcon by Nina Kollars where she described how in her search for cheap Nespresso she came across a large number of eBay merchants selling Nespresso at prices that were significantly below the market price. She ends up discovering that this was triangular fraud. For anyone interested in understanding how this works I highly recommend reading the article below.

https://mashable.com/article/nespresso-money-mules-ebay-cred...
for a fully-featured DAW there's Ardour https://ardour.org/ which supports lots of the proprietary plugins (VST etc.)
>they blatantly and prominently push their political agenda

What is their political agenda?
I'm still waiting for the silence during which the insanity of this ideology finally clicks for those going along. We don't have to politely pretend that it isn't insane. We should pose direct questions to the lumpen commmissars trying to drag everyone into hell along with them.

What is a "white person"? A "black person"? Are these metaphysical categories? Biological categories? Cultural categories? Why would a person of one category be unable to understand curricula produced by people of another?
Typestates are an excellent way to provide stronger compile time guarantees, and I wish I saw them more in the wild (I have used them myself when appropriate, though I was unaware of the terminology).

However, the article mentions:

The attentive reader may have noticed that the consumption and conversion of self into other types implies the values are moved (and in some cases, copied) around.

This is untrue; those moves will definitely be optimized away and the typestates will end up being zero cost.
There's definitely a specific reasonable brightness level for #fff, depending on room brightness, somewhere in the realm of 200 nits. But I think a reasonable setting for #000 is "as dark as it goes". It doesn't seem right to depend on screen settings to control the contrast against black.
Blender breaks their API. Maya breaking the API is huge news, and generally patched same-day. The APIs are different, with different tradeoffs, but the biggest by far is Maya isn't expected to break your automation pipeline, and that is worth a considerable amount.
A shadowban doesn't make it obvious to the target they're banned.

This is something else... Probably a bug.
More like I can't read it, it wants a login, and I'm tired of providing my data to log in so I can read s.t.
When I open an eBay account I buy a few dozen small items to get some positive feedback first. Shouldn't have to do such stupidity, but it's the only way to get yourself some "credit history".
Hey, thanks for saying so. I've never reviewed a product before so wasn't sure how it'd go. I normally write (on another blog) about software development like the rest of the HN crowd so this was quite different for me.
I think that having a person on staff who has special training in organizing would be helpful for large teams, but MBAs are absolutely not that.
Arguably, yes. Or at least USA are lacking in universal suffrage while they don’t allow long time residents to vote because they lack citizenship.

This is actually a fault in quite a lot of western democracies but USA is actually worse at this the the average democracy. Contrary to most European democracies, foreign citizens are not even allowed to vote in primaries or local elections in the USA.

Off course USA has more problems with how they grant voting rights the just the lack of rights to vote for foreigners, this includes prisoners in many states, but also access to voting and voting registration, as well as disproportionate representation from election outcomes which reflects actual ballot counts poorly. All of this adds to make the USA a rather lacking in democracy.
Agreed. I find many of the responses unconvincing. They are in many ways exactly what you'd expect. Sure that doesn't prove anything directly, but on these matters having direct and public proof is the exception not the rule.
Well since they do the exploitation on behalf of customers, yes?

NSO is very popular with governments that don't have robust domestic intelligence because all you have to do is type a phone number into a web form and in anywhere from an hour to a week you get a point and click GUI for accessing the contents of the phone.
Hey, I do good work even if I work less time! 40hr workweek is kind of pointless anyways.

The last 20hrs have maybe a 20% return, and I work quickly anyways. I also skip BS meetings.

My managers have always respected me despite me working obviously fewer hours. Quality of work + meeting your goals > some meaningless metric.
The problem is that predicting how a business might evolve is pretty much impossible. It might make more sense to architect for ease of change in general rather than ease of change into a specific direction. To do that (aside from the advice in the article), I like to imagine a scale where static/hardcoded/build-time architecture is on the left end, and dynamic runtime-manageable architecture on the right. To avoid over-engineering, the trick is to always lean as much as possible towards the left side of the scale. Only introduce runtime complexity when absolutely needed.
Just to clarify, you're asking for evidence of secret foreign intelligence operations?

Establishing mere capability is pretty trivial: they have diplomats in the United States who can talk to people.
It's been a while since riding regularly but I would ride to my heartrate and the kms & time disappeared from focus.
Give Krita a try, it is done in a similar manner to blender.
I have used Inkscape extensively in several professional projects - in fact I designed an entire custom icon set consisting of hundreds of SVG images. The Inkscape executable even supports command line arguments that invoke various functions so it can be used for batch processing and in scripts (I wrote a Perl script to automate several tasks involving my icon set).

So yes it can absolutely be used for business!
I learned a lot from the comprehensive udemy courses, one example
https://www.udemy.com/course/the-web-developer-bootcamp/
And I am sure you find some more geared towards UI/UX.
Leaving it!
I started with Blender, but have been working a bit in Houdini over the past quarter. I feel like both models work for both programs, and I find it pretty natural to work in a vertically oriented system in Houdini (outside of VOPs) and the horizontally oriented system in Blender.
I wonder if this would be a good lightweight alternative to ES for a local development setup. At $work we use ES for deployed environments, but have thus far avoided running it locally because of the resource requirements.
I don't feel like that at all; maybe for Arch or something yeah. It's more like Linux is what you use to work with your computer and Windows is what you use to work against your computer.
Money good. More of a religion, really.
no military danger aprart from Russia and China I agree. And perhaps Iran/Turkey etc. Other than that the EU is super secure.
Anti-brigading social engineering. Without the Pavlovian feedback of seeing the dislike count go up, people are less incentivized to downvote because other people are downvoting instead of because they personally dislike the video.

That's the theory anyway. No idea if it works, but YouTube's not the only network to adopt this approach.
I'd argue it is the reason. I know parents who've had no problem helping their kids with the "right way/new math". But it's because the parents knew numbers, and realized that taking away 20 and adding 3 is the same as taking away 17. The number of teachers I've met who "know" it but don't truly grok it is way too high.
Pollution and climate change fall squarely within Timothy Morton’s “hyperobject” definition. I accept what’s happening and I try to imagine it, and I accept that I fail to understand.

I used to like E. O. Wilson’s half-earth idea, but it’s got an eracist undertone (or overtone if you can empathize with aboriginal people displaced from homelands in the interest of national parks and the many other reasons). The US National Park System is awesome, in part for the mission statement of perpetual stewardship, and it could be so much better. Allowing traditional land-use practices could help restore and preserve landscapes. We collectively need to reduce our energy-conversion demand and agree on government regulations that help keep a balance rather than promoting or allowing for exploitation. That kind of shift will not be easy.

Feral, a book by George Monbiot, discusses rewilding in Wales. The New Wilderness, by Diane Cook, is fiction about a group of humans opting into a rewilding experiment, exchanging the amenities and stresses of the city for that of a generations-long series of camping trips.
Broadly, and with caveats, Amazon could somewhat trivially prevent much of this by requiring authorization from the customer who originally uses a shipping address, before allowing someone else to use it.
An interesting area I know of where Blender is used professionally is rough animation: such as the French film 'I Lost My Body'; the Irish film 'Wolfwalkers'; and multiple anime, including the recent 'Ranking of Kings'.

An animation company in Wales, https://www.clothcatanimation.com/cloth-cat-awarded-epic-meg..., is using Blender, but I'm not sure what for.
What is open sauce?

My point being to the users of the products we create, software licensing is not what they are thinking about.
HN is popular because of its moderation, not in spite of it.
> I can't imagine something like this not being in the cloud. The potential for a customer to give their local NSA/8200 the tool to figure out the 0days used is too large

Heck, forget about bothering to extract 0-days; if you have access to the binary, straight-up warez techniques would be applied to nerf any restrictions (licensing or otherwise) on the operation of the software, as well as any monitoring functionality that can "phone home".
> Screen manufacturers optimise for high brightness way too much. I guess because it looks good on the shop floor.

Or it's because they don't expect anyone to sit and compute in an unlit room.

And HDR content can look really good if you have a high peak brightness.

I'd use comfortable lights and window screens myself.
Yeah, but they don't expire within 30 days!
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True, but what I've done should say a lot about humans in general right? I'm told I'm human, after all.
For the past 3 years I've written almost all of my users' system tools in Bash v3. Nobody has yet reported a bug to me. Runs fine on Linux, Mac, and WSL, on every architecture. Single file, easy for anyone to read and edit, gets the job done. I don't even have to care that it's unpopular because there are no installation steps. Just 'bash foo.sh'. Sometimes that means they need to download some Go app that my script uses, but that's much better than me having to write and support all that other code.

If I have to do weird things with data structures or complex logic, I reach for Python, but I do it one of two ways: 1) so stupid that "python foo.py" works (no external deps), or 2) publish it to pypi so the user can just 'pip install foobar'.
Got it and we don't even mention Uganda in all of this. Makes sense.
Yes, those are not all recurring, most are just one per merchant, generated via 1Password.
I wonder if a Nomad/Consul stack could make this clusterable.
I'm not at the level of evaluating whether what you say is correct. It's not "difficult", because I'm not even trying. I understand that I don't understand.

I remain at the level of believing you are making a stronger claim with fewer qualifications or assumptions than is on the Wikipedia page that I was directed to.
https://pagespeed.web.dev/report
Considering neko translates to cat, it may be the most relevant.
A bad DIY video is an innocent example. Removing dislike counts is a blanket net gain for people publishing misinformation.
What happens if you move? Can the new occupant of your previous residence no longer use Amazon?
Blender has been showing up in more and more professional studios, particularly in the gaming and media segments - I think it's still pretty rare in the ArchViz space.

Blender isn't THE industry standard by any means, but I don't think it would be a stretch to call it an industry standard. EA uses it for a lot of their concept work, Ubisoft uses it for their animation studio, it's the modelling tool at Infinity Ward, etc.
I don't know where you live, but laws like that don't exist everywhere. And of course the photographer gets copyright. But most family snaps are taken by the family. I'm taking about phone photos here, not studio pics.

Are you really suggesting that all photos posted to Facebook or WhatsApp should be in the public domain?
It seems in this example you do accept that there's an objective reality (beauty) that isn't affected by space dust? If so, I don't understand why you say that doesn't matter, and instead attach significance to the camera noise or whatever measurement artifacts that space dust causes. A central goal of science -- and making sense of the world more generally -- is to distinguish between such measurement artifacts and more interesting theories that describe what's really out in the world.

I would reserve the usage "X affects Y" to where there's an interesting theory involving both, and I had the impression the OP did as well.
love to see blender popping up here on hacker news and you folks liking it. Blender is awesome and has grown into a really polished piece of software.

It would make a really good research/documentary to go behind the history and the growth of blender. I bet we can learn ton of lessons in software engineering, open source software management, creative tool creation and herding open source communities.
The problem with this discussion is that (presumably) neither of us will ever have the data to back up our position. We can only disagree based on how we ourselves use YouTube, and maybe how we've observed friends and family using it.

So what is the point? Unlike a lot of people I've discussed this with, I can at least respect your position as being based in some kind of believable and relatively well-developed use case. But nothing we've said here has even touched on the (alleged) negative externalities of visible downvote counts that (allegedly) motivated this change in the first place. And, again, we just don't have the data to understand the tradeoffs there.

I entered this discussion because I really, honestly don't understand why so many people are so angry about this. And, despite your efforts, I still don't. I have no trouble believing that these legitimately bad, long-tail, high downvote count videos exist, but I still see them as exactly what my original comment characterized them as: an edge case.

I guess I'm just looking for a bombshell that will make me understand, because that's how obvious the downvote count stans make this issue out to be. You aren't wrong just because you don't have such a bombshell, but you aren't going to convince me you're right just by telling me that the way I use YouTube is wrong.
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And that somehow means they are making decisions optimal for users or society, contrary to their behavior history?
Progress after writing online for ~9 days (tl;dr: pretty good)