skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s nothing wrong with having a few high-priced objects vs. many cheaply priced ones. My dad has maybe a dozen desktop PCs. I have just one laptop, but my 1 MacBook is probably the same cost as several of his PCs.
You win if by win you mean fool everyone to pay you for nothing, if you're someone who gets satisfaction mostly from feeling smarter than others and "winning", that sounds adequate

It's also possible to get satisfaction from delivering a big project, doing something hard with your team and so on though, instead of a purely adversarial attitude.
Let me be petty for a minute. I was going to mention it because I really liked it but I got peeved because the owners decided to ask the IA to remove the site. I can understand the need for a refreshment and to preserve the ownership but totally removing the access of an archived site seems petty, especially because a big part of the site consisted to links to other places. Ah, what the hell, the site was called The Modern Word, but you wont find it anywhere now.
The LEMUR article you linked says:

> This blog post was published on April 1. That’s a huge hint ;-)

Not sure what to think about this...
I thought he was 45 or something!
Everyone is T-shaped, so this verbiage is baffling. There’s not a single person alive who only knows about, say, dogs and nothing else.
The Economist used to be pretty solid IMO until about 12 years ago, about the same time the Harvard Business Review started to morph into a business version of Oprah! magazine.

These days The E, HBR, MIT Review etc are mostly like last century women's magazines, complete with agony aunts and advice. The Economist's geopolitical stance seems to be closely aligned with the WEF along with the FT ( slogan 'A new world is possible. Let's not go back to what wasn't working anyway').

End of an era for these legacy media companies...
She’d be happier on an iPhone. She uses a Mac for everything else. She has no digital ecosystem tied to Google/Android. She’s just used to the Android UI. No one is forcing her to do anything.

But in any case, she should be able to use whatever mobile OS she wants and asking everyone to use WhatsApp or Signal isn’t the answer either. Both of those apps have shitty integration with Android/iOS compared to the native messaging apps.

Rather, all of the messaging apps should interoperate with something better than freaking SMS/MMS and whatever this stupid email hack is the carriers have come up with.
iPhones have insanely performant GPUs for the form factor. I wouldn’t be surprised if the newer ones get better performance in Bevy than a lot of perfectly usable laptops.
> how do I help society by vaccinating? Judging by the contemporary info out there -- I don't in any way or form.
> So it's okay if people die of taking the vaccine but it's not okay if they die of Covid? Got it, thanks.

The US is sitting on 860K deaths from 60m cases. A bit over 1%.
Vaccine related deaths are about 6k2 in 187m people. Or 0.0018%.

It's only no help if you consider reducing deaths by orders of magnitude and freeing up resources for the more needy "nothing".

You also need to stop thinking about individuals when talking about public health policies. It sucks but at population levels you're talking about millions of faceless individuals.

Edit: I should really have tried to find deaths in fully vaccinated individuals vs unvaccinated. E.g https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Within the vaccine-eligible population of Scotland aged 65–79 years, the death rate per 10 000 person-years was 64·8 for unvaccinated individuals and 4·2 for fully vaccinated individuals. This difference in death rate was most marked in the population older than 80 years (14·0 deaths per 10 000 person-years for fully vaccinated vs 420·1 deaths per 10 000 person-years for unvaccinated individuals older than 80 years) but attenuated in individuals aged 18–64 years (0·8 deaths per 10 000 person-years for fully vaccinated vs 3·1 deaths per 10 000 person-years for unvaccinated individuals aged 18–64 years). For fully vaccinated individuals who subsequently tested positive, there was a median of 8·0 days (IQR 5–13) between a positive test and dying of COVID-19.
The CDC numbers (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db56.htm) say Canadians have lower obesity

Ontario also had outbreaks that aligned with the removal of lockdown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Ontario?w...)

> In early September 2020, the province showed a significant increase in new cases, beginning the second wave of the pandemic.

> From late November to mid-December 2020, the province began placing regions in rolling lockdowns, culminating in a province-wide shutdown beginning Boxing Day

So I'm not sure your use of Ontario is the greatest.
As a non american in tech, Ive found this scarily accurate

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ45ZpI...
Windows UX is ass, but it runs a lot of nice software. Runs it well too. Many things don't work as well in wine. I'm talking both slowdowns and glitches.
I find it horrendous, it reminds me of Readers Digest, summarizing local stories from around the world into blancmange prose for people who aspire to global leadership.
It would be awkward if pgbouncer were "included" in postgres as the topology of bouncers you have might involve multiple layers running on different computers to minimize things like connection setup latency.
> decades

Many decades.

Matchmaking is about as old as human history, especially in Middle-Eastern/Indian cultures.
There are a few alternatives not owned by either: eHarmony, Coffee Meet Bagel, etc. But not many, yeah.
I've had the opportunity to work on two short productions for ESPN in the last two years. My role is writing the code for the screen overlays and real time scoring system.

I have very little knowledge in cameras but did have to review all the production guidelines.

Netflix doesn't mention image sensor size (CCD) but ESPN requires 2/3" or more. I'm guessing every camera they list as approved would meet that spec even though they don't specify it.

At the time I was surprised to learn that ESPN wants you to deliver all content in 720p. Wikipedia says that their Digital Center is equipped for 2160p, but they still broadcast in 720p. The archivist in me would want to receive the material greater than 720p even knowing it is to be broadcast in 720p, but I can understand the additional complexity that such a small thing can add, especially when dealing with hundreds of production companies.

I speculate that Netflix wants you to turn in higher quality video because they are factoring in that over time encoding and streaming algorithms and increased bandwidth will allow them to push higher quality feeds to end users, and they want the highest possible raw capture so they can improve the stream as technology improves, whereas ABC is content with airing footage in the future that looks as it did when it aired originally.
> Unfortunately, in practice the start of the range for both system UIDs and GIDs is fixed.

Not a bug, but a security feature. You don't want an unbounded amount of privileged users. And certainly don't need it.

Same for ports, string lengths, array lengths, ...

The real problems are well-known dpkg quirks on updates.
This is a monopoly (Match own 40+ other companies) every way you look at it and muzmatch have my support.

This all seems like a classic jealous bigger guy that couldn't get it's way and is throwing its toys out the pram.

I hope this backfires and Match get stung in all this. If anyone from Match is reading, your conglomerate won't do this app or its complicated community any justice anywhere near as the founder would.

Keep your (very) rich hands off.
Ask HN: I'm looking for ideas for API or dataset projects to build on vacation
So my vacation plans fell through, I was supposed to travel but because of COVID, I've had to cancel. Which means I have 3 weeks to do absolutely nothing. I want to occupy myself. I'm not much of an idea guy, but am a seasoned engineer.

I want to work on building either an API or a dataset. Any field, the only requirement is that is it be useful to someone or some people.

So if you have any ideas on what might be worthwhile or useful to work on.. or even just lots of fun, please let me know. I have way too much time on my hands. Thanks.
No one is claiming that was better, just giving a brief history of how we got where we are.
I would like to add to this list: be clear in your writing. If there has to be a back and forth for your comments to be understood, you are not writing clearly enough!
There are certainly intrinsic motivations as well, but what the company incentivizes is performing, whether or not you achieve anything. You can still achieve something if you wish, but achievement is not a requirement.
They’re probably thinking of this wrong. Some people may indeed have trust funds.

But the funds come with strings: stop doing drugs, stop being gay, go in to the family business, etc.

The liberation is having an autonomous life from controlling family, not the act of being homeless.
Isn't AWS Aurora PostgreSQL a completely different (but compatible) product to PostgreSQL? If so it would make sense that its ability to handle many connections is just an implementation detail
After developing a tennis elbow injury due to mouse overuse I've built an app that completely replaces mouse or touchpad. You don't need to use the keyboard. While tools in Vim style are nice you also put a lot of load on your wrists when typing.

Meet Cursorly, it's easy as waving your hand in the air (or moving your head). Powered by machine learning that tracks your hand you can move the cursor and do all mouse related operations like clicking or scrolling without any pressure on your muscles or wrists.
Feel free to check it out. I would love to hear some feedback!

https://cursorly.app/

My solution before this was Tobii eyetracker. What didn't work for me with an eyetracker is that the support for large and curved screens is just awful, especially when you are reaching the edge of the screen, it just refuses to work. Not to mention that you can't use an eyetracker on multiple displays. It was also very hard to set it up on multiple OS's.
Thank you for linking to one of the invidious instances. Youtube itself has become so annoying it's no longer workable for me.
> People act like RCS is a solved problem. It's not and while I'd love to see it integrated into iOS, it's not as trivial to do it as just saying: okay add it in.

Why?

I don't mean that flippantly. Let's not pretend that there are major technical hurdles to something like this for a company with as many engineering resources to throw around as Apple.

The reasons are pure business.
It is what it is. People will get sick in school like they always have with colds and flus. The students (who are essentially at zero risk) are going to have to get over this fear eventually; we can only hope their young minds haven't been permanently warped by two years of fear mongering. The teachers should get vaccinated and ensure they aren't obese.
"Newtonian physics is an accurate model of atomic scale physics, and that is what we will be teaching in this class" is not a lie, well within the understanding of a freshman, and very accurate. It might be worth discussing briefly when you need non-newtonian physics!
I don't know where you got your information from, but Omicron doesn't change any of the physics of virus particle spreading.

Mask are absolutely working. Even cloth masks. But of course when we are talking masking nowadays we mean N95 for everyone which provides roughly a 25x reduce risk of contracting covid if both source and target are wearing it.
Yes, because for schoolkids, Omicron is literally a cold, if that. The other variants, call it a bad cold. The only reason to stop them catching it is to stop them spreading it. Had someone three years ago been that concerned about someone with a cold, yes, that would be minutiae.
In this case it is included hardening/sanity checks that is creating these "problems". If you change something that triggers them to "harden" your system, you're probably doing the opposite of what you intended.
The answer depends on the risk profile of your situation. If you are the military then you have much more to lose from something random and unexpected than to gain from it. So it makes sense to eliminate the quadrant IV.

If you are in a different situation, say a student or an early career employee, the upside of Quadrant I and II are probably known and limited. Though Quadrant IV can potentially bring in large unknown gains. Example, minting bitcoins in 2010 was unimportant and non urgent activity, those who did this activity gained a ton.
Andrey Andreev sold out to Blackstone, a private equity firm [1]. The parent company of those dating apps you listed is now publicly-traded [2], but still majorly owned by Blackstone.

Still doesn’t change your point that there are two major monopolies in the online dating sector.

1- https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/08/badoos-andrey-andreev-sell...

2 - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BMBL/
It is actually a wealth transfer. Think of houses as denominated not in USD, but in labor hours (let's say median wage). If the house price appreciates in labor hours, that is actually a wealth transfer from those performing labor to those holding on to capital (and vice versa).

In reality it's a little bit more complicated since the financing cost of the house has to be considered (principal + interest over the lifetime of the loan), instead of the notional value of the house (and refinancing throws another wrench into the equation).

But as a first order approximation, if houses got more expensive in labor-hours then that's a transfer from labor to capital (and a "hidden" tax on anyone holding USD).
1. Its resolution might be high enough to image [big] surface features on exoplanets, and alien megastructures if they exist[0].

2. JWST has extraordinary spectral analysis capabilities and it should be able to characterise gases in extrasolar planetary atmospheres [1].

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/telescopes/a19346/jam...

[1] https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/science/origins.html
This path leads to burnout.

You have three weeks to find a new hobby. Your challenge starts now.
Seek professional help. There's no shame in having somebody to talk to about things like anxiety, and they are there for you. I stress professional. You're probably going to have to pay for it.

I continue to see somebody regularly for my mental health, been going over 15 years now. It's a cost, sure. But so is gym membership.

It's hard sometimes to just let people be "people" and not sexualising the work relationship is very important. This is a fast path out of a company. You'd be sacked for cause in an instant if somebody complains.

Don't let this rumble along. "Man up" and deal with it. Life is better if you face up to mental health issues I assure you, from personal experience.

Some employers have schemes to help. You need to be circumspect finding out if your one does, because asking HR can have negative consequences even if this is strictly illegal. My employer had signs up in the coffee rooms and toilets. If you have work provided health plan it will have a component for mental health and you can ask the health provider whats available with some assurance of confidentiality.

If you're being bullied there is an HR path for help which does not have to raise the obsessive sexual thinking issue, and when you get to a competent mental health professional you could maybe raise it there.

Good luck. Look after yourself.
I find it's easier to do performative work in the office.

Having face time with people can be a really good way to imbue the feeling that you're working.

"I saw that person working, therefore they weren't slacking off"

Whereas at home, maybe it's easier to trick an inattentive manager, but you have to let your work represent you even more.
In Australia it's been on Telstra for a bit. I got it working on Optus last year. I don't know what happens to other companies running over the Telstra or Optus networks though.
Performative work is just another term for one of the main topics exposed in the book "Bullshit jobs" by David Graeber. I finished the book last month and it was a very compelling read. It tries to explain the psychology behind trying to understand why almost everyone knows that it is unrealistic to expect employees to be productive and hardworking for 8 or more hours a day, but at the same time nobody is ending our current corporate wage slavery system, in which actually being there is more important that actually doing a meaningful job!
I used to own a lot and now I have almost nothing (not by choice), and I still prefer it that way. Money, big properties, even cars bring lots of headaches and worries that I am not so sure are really compensated by the upsides. I am not trying to be edgy here, of course having money is better than starving but I am pretty sure that most people could cut their "ideally fuck you money" amount down to 20-25% and still be very happy, saving the time and miseries of trying to get the other 75%. I was there, I risked a lot trying to get that other 75%, lost almost everything and now I realize I could have perfectly retired with what I originally had, by just implementing a few POSITIVE lifestyle changes. I am not preaching here, every life is different but that has been my experience.
My point was: Australia is the only non-asian country from which I still have heard voices of aiming for a ZeroCovid strategy. Everybody else has given that up (for now).
This… isn’t true, unless you think everything in here is a lie:

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

If it were all lies there would be lawsuits from the FTC and EU regulators, and there simply isn’t. Because advertising is not a significant part of Apple’s business model, profiling users is a liability that they prefer to avoid. This does slow down the introduction of features. For instance Google images had usable face recognition for years before Apple because Google does it in the cloud. It happens on device for Apple, and it takes longer to scan photos for faces. A slightly worse experience, but worth it in many consumers eyes.

But, I mean apple even does wacky stuff like creating unique ids for each trip you route on maps that isn’t tied to your user id, and fuzzes the precise location using differential privacy for product improvement. You can read all about it in the white papers at the link I provided above.
A messaging service that cannot interoperate across platforms is strictly non-inclusive by design.
This post hit close to home. About 15 years ago, Ubuntu got decent enough to replace Windows on my parents PC. They needed to access websites and receive and send email, something Linux could definitely provide. No more worrying about malware or other Windows demons. Fast forward 15 years and their PC has been fully replaced by iPads with keyboard cases and iPhones. Yes, they are in a walled-garden curated by Apple but for the technical illiterate this is actually a good thing because the experience is seamless across devices. I’ve downloaded apps for all of their financial services and they've learned to never log in to a website when dealing with their banks which minimizes the risk of phishing. They use iOS’s native password manager to create unique passwords for all there sites, minimize password reuse risks. But most importantly, they know how to keep their devices up to date with the latest OS release without me having to do a monthly patch for them. Strongly recommend exploring this setup if you struggle with supporting your parents’ tech the way I did. Life is much better now.
Where lightning hit the most in the U.S. in 2021
This is a street with two ends, and it looks different depending on your point of view.

And yes all IP laws (copyright, trademarks etc) exist to both stifle and encourage innovation.

To be clear, _copying_is not innovation. And trademarks are the easiest to innovate in such that you don't infringe. For example Lindows was a clear case of "not innovating" and MS protected their trademark. Personally I don't believe you can trademark a common word (match) but when you enter a space its not terribly clever to use a compeditor name as part of your name.

Regarding acquisition, of course product cloning is an alternative. Little guys clone big guys, big guys clone little guys, everyone clones everyone all the time.

And yes the legal system can be used as a weapon, by big and small against big and small.

To this you can add theft of trade secrets disclosed while having talks and a bunch of other risks when in the process of acquisition. If you're going down this route specialist advice is recommended.
And a transfer from those earning salaries as well, even if the salaries keep up with inflation (due to the Cantillon effect - the holders of capital will have access to the money first, so they can use it before it's "fully devalued", versus wage indexing which comes later).
Signal? Telegram? WhatsApp?
A personal favorite example of notation improving my ability to think is Named Tensor Notation, which has gotten some attention in the machine learning community.

https://namedtensor.github.io/

Some diehard mathematicians have said it's a crime against linear algebra, but I think it's much more useful for talking about things like neural networks than conventional notation.
Outrage nonsense alert.

What you wrote, who bought who and why, is 100% incorrect. Even company relationships are wrong.

Sole intention part...this is simply made up, conspiracy style. Where do you keep pulling this from?

Get facts first, opinions second, or based on your logic, ideally never.
Nowhere? I suspect few people actually read the report [1]. They asked teen girls (and boys) how Instagram made them feel. The most common response for girls was "no effect" 43%, followed by "somewhat better" 29%, then "somewhat worse" at 18%, then "much better" at 8%, and lastly "much worse" at 3%. The media conspicuously ignored that substantially more girls felt that Instagram made them feel better than worse.

1. https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...
Scribble to generative anime head via 3D model[video]
Do you remember the outlet by any chance? I'm curious how something ended up being both so specific and off at the same time.
I think I just fundamentally disagree that we pay our teachers, workers and other frontline workers like yourself enough (though I'm not sure how much firefighters make) to warrant them risking themselves if they don't have to.

Teachers can teach with remote learning. Maybe it's not as good, but it's doable. You can't stop a fire remotely.

We really need to reevaluate society by making work safer and making sure people are paid better.
In high school debate, people can initiate arguments about the "rules" of the debate and argue that their opponent broke them in some way (like not staying within the topic) and thus should lose.

A big problem cropped up where this style of argument was essentially a "no-risk" proposition - because the issue was orthogonal to the actual content of the debate, teams could without risk argue that their opponent had broken the rules - if they convinced the judge, they won the debate, if they failed to, the debate just continued as usual.

Eventually, to deter the ever-growing proliferation of these objections, people started arguing that anyone who initiates one of these "rule violation accusations" should lose the debate if they fail to prove their claim. I'm wondering if a similar penalty could become commonplace (perhaps by default/presumption) in US courts.
I lost a few from getting Omicron so there's that.
Wow! This is great information. Now I am embarrassed I didn't even think of it from this perspective.
I am on vacation til March so I don't think that will be an issue. It's just these 3 weeks' plans that fell through otherwise I still have other vacation plans after that.
So messaging services must be "inclusive" now ? What is that supposed to mean