skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to really like Google Picasa, but then it stopped working on Linux, and then at all [1]. It was fantastic and fit all of my ideas on how photo organization was supposed to work.

I got fantastic feedback when I recently asked about a personal wiki that would fit my criteria [2], so I figure I'll ask here for a photo library management app.

My use case isn't just personal photos, but also concept art. I would love to replace the scourge that is Pinterest (which I shamefully admit I use). I used Picasa for this use case before it died.

Here are the features I would like in a photo management system:

- Importing photos should be as easy as drag and drop or "add directory".

- Images in the library should be mirrored to an internal store independent of the greater filesystem.

- It needs to support rich tagging. Images should be easily enumerable by tag.

- It needs to store all metadata in a central database or file that I can easily distribute and back up. (As opposed to writing the data into the images directly.) It would be nice if the primary keys to image were signature-based rather than filename (and especially not full file path) as it could live on different systems.

- Group by GPS coordinates would be nice. Even better if it can pull the location name.

- Group by date taken.

- Find or automatically ignore/remove duplicates.

- Support for a NAS or cloud backup would be fantastic. Especially if it also backs up the database.

- It should generate pre-computed thumbnails so scrolling a large library doesn't show blank images, but keep them off to the side so it doesn't impact backup.

- It should have RAW support, but doesn't need editing/adjustment capabilities. (If not available, I suppose I could pre-process the RAWs.)

- Video support would be extremely nice too, but it doesn't need to have any editing or miscellaneous features.

- It would be nice to keep galleries separate, or at least in different namespaces so I can reuse tags. Family, real estate, conceptual/renders, etc.

- Replication across multiple devices would be a nice to have, especially if it can update tags and metadata across machines.

- Open source would be nice, but I'd be happy with paid/commercial software if it did what I wanted.

- Multiplatform support (Linux, Windows, Mac) would be extremely nice. Even nicer if it supports mobile too.

- It should be snappier than a web-based gallery.

- That said, internet web access (like photos.google.com) would be killer.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30089858
Yeah, there is a flag button for inappropriate content. Outside of that, provenance should be irrelevant. But it's often leveled as an ad-hominem style attack when people don't actually have something to contribute
The benefit of 1 shot is very high for the first 6 months, it prevents the large majority of hospitalizations and deaths, but it does not prevent transmission. The decision to have a 1 month period between doses was determined by "time to market" not the ideal dosing schedule. Had drug makers tried to optimize for the ideal dosing schedule, then we would have had 6 more months of deaths while we waited for result which was a negative outcome. Now that the drugs are on the market, and we have sufficient evidence without running an additional stage 2 and 3 trial, the FDA should change guidance to suggest 2nd dose at 6 months instead of 1 month for people who aren't at high risk.
He actually handles that distinction early in the article as a quote:

> [...] he noted that there exists not just a right to speak but a right to hear. “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

But this is of course a gray area. You don't have to listen to anything anyone has to say, but it's also possible to sideline something enough that it is effectively censored without being outright forbidden.
This reminds me of browser fingerprinting via CSS[0], which has come up quite a surprising amount of times. Sending the browser's width is a bit more convoluted though. From what I've seen, the popular (well, as popular as CSS-only fingerprinting is) method is to set a media query for each px value. When the user resizes the window, the new width is sent to the server. Obviously something like this would be generated code, not written by-hand.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794518
> A ton of conservative opinion pieces are being posted to Hacker News every single day lately.

Yes, but they end up "[flagged]"/"[dead]" way more often than liberal opinion pieces on the same topics do.
Yes, conservativism in the US in 2022 is inherently anti-democratic.
Mopar Action magazine. It's full of tech articles. I'm a happy subscriber. The advertisements alone are worth the subscription cost
I tinker a lot with watches (wrist and pocket watches) do some maintenance and modifications
Okay. If the US government, in the form of the NIH, spent 1.8 billion dollars trying to get people to exercise more do you think we’d see substantially more exercise happening than we would have otherwise?
The US government came out and said that it would guarantee Freddie's/Fannie's debt which caused a sharp downtick as the government effectively admitted there was a possibility they could go to zero. Short (on the scale we're looking at) downturns, even if large in % terms, aren't a failure of a market. So, to answer your question, no.
It's not even that, it's that education wasn't as important back then. Most people didn't even graduate high school. College definitely wasn't a thing for most. So who cares if you miss half a year, you're going to go work in the shipyards or factory.
A trick i've been using for years to help write better error messages is to simply fill in the blank...

"Well basically what happened is _____________"
Please explain why that is true.
> Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak

OCR them, then `grep`
As a matter of language and connotations, you're right.

I assume people are so appalled by the concept of physical punishment (which, let's be clear, I don't do and barely experienced either), that they don't want to acknowledge... how English works.

"Spanking" implies an open palm or maybe a belt or thin switch, on the rump. It hurts; it may leave a bruise; it may be barbaric -- but it doesn't involve serious injury (say, to internal organs). The point is to inflict pain without serious injury.

"Beating" carries no such connotations of limited harm. It can be done with fists or blunt objects; it can target the face or internal organs like the kidneys; it can be severe enough to lead to death.

This difference in meaning is as much about connotation as denotation, but the connotational differences are very large. You might say that, logically, a spanking is a kind of limited beating, but not all beatings are spankings.

So, as a matter of language, you're right.
Of course it had no impact on careers. Very few jobs back then required an education. Many jobs didn't even require reading.
The rants about "cancel culture" from the US right are hilarious, given their long history of boycotts of brands they dislike and escalating hate and fear for everything up to actual book burnings of material like Harry Potter.

I'm not saying that the accusations of cancel culture are unfounded, I'm saying they are wildly hypocritical.

(It's good that efforts at censorship on the right are raised in the article as a pressing concern, the point is that this is not new, in fact it looks to me like the 'left' are the newcomers at the censor-burn-suppress game)
I think we have the opposite problem too. People ascribe way too much intentional design to shit they don't understand even where no such intentional design exists.

Like 99% of the stuff you encounter on a daily basis is how it is because of some 3-way trade between aesthetically pleasing, the economic realities of producing that object and "how they've always been." It is not engineered for performance in the slightest other than some basic "yeah that should do" napkin analysis.
>"I don’t know how this gets enforced, but we simply cannot give every lunatic a megaphone."

At least in the US you can't enforce it - and yes, any lunatic can grab a megaphone if they want.

The best way to handle problematic speech is more speech, NOT less. Trying to pretend lunatics don't exist is irrational and often a pretext to just block people that others disagree with. Screw that. Safest place for lunatics is out in the open, not driven underground.
And 10 years later the great depression happened.
Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?
Who defines what the truth is? The mainstream? That didn't work out too well for Galileo.
Perhaps the most important part of the entire paper is the final sentence:

> While our findings may be more applicable in some modern circumstances than others (e.g., when a virus is particularly deadly for younger adults and children
or when remote learning opportunities are limited), our paper cautions against over-extrapolating from the 1918-19 pandemic when making decisions about optimal policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is unfortunately not going to stop many people or politicians or media outlets from citing this paper as a justification for (or to defend) COVID-19 policies.
I keep seeing Thiel called a libertarian. He may have been at one time but I get the sense he has converted to national conservatism or perhaps even more extreme views such as neoreaction. Those are not libertarian views at all.

If that were the case he would not be alone. There has been a mass conversion of libertarians to those sorts of views in the 20-teens. Many others converted to the far left. It feels as if libertarianism is dead.

I don’t really know. I’m just wondering if he still calls himself that.
Thiel is one of the most vicious, petty hypocrites around.

Believes fiercely in free speech, but bankrolls an entire lawsuit to get revenge on a press publication that outs him.

Goes on and on about being a libertarian but his company, Palantir, is just about the worst abuser of privacy one can imagine, and then uses his connections with Trump to pardon Levandowski.

Espouses a distinctly anti-government, pro-corporate fantasy where the best in business are ostensibly the smartest and most viable leaders, yet whole-heartedly backs Trump, perhaps the least successful businessman one can name, even today and bankrolls the next wave of populist right-wing candidates who take the approach to the lowest possible denominators.

Screw him. I wouldn't take funding from any firm he's associated with.
HN Users with Most Karma
You wrote: <<roast with a bit of olive oil in a pan to unlock their full nutritional potential>>

I never heard of this technique before. I tried to Google about it, but I cannot find any scientific studies about it. (I found plenty of pseudo science websites touting it.) Can you point to any scientific studies about this technique?
There's a time and a place for these kinds of claims but underneath an article titled "Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health" may not be it. ;)
This is one of the most illiberal statement I've ever seen on HN.
I don't see how that quote addresses it. Wouldn't the relevant right be a "right not to hear", which he doesn't mention?

> You don't have to listen to anything anyone has to say

If you're a student, and it's in the state mandated curriculum, then you do.

> it's also possible to sideline something enough that it is effectively censored without being outright forbidden.

I 100% agree with this.
Well the way things are headed, we’ll be fighting it out in the open IRL soon.
The problem is that this doesn't work. The exact point of free speech is that you need to allow people to say things you don't consider true. Back then, you could've easily argued that he spreads scientific nonsense by saying people are equal and that he shouldn't be allowed to talk to such an audience.
While I don't agree with censorship, I think that companies are smart in censoring any fringe ideas, even if those viewpoints ultimately the accepted norm. As soon as a business takes a political stand, then they paint a huge target on their back from legislators and the majority who are fine with them just toeing the line somewhere in the middle. Statistically (which I'm sure they've done studies) it doesn't work in their favor, which a large business usually has one goal which is profit, to align themselves one way or another.
I see. So in your world, when I say that Trump was the worst president in history, that means that I "don't mind" Bush or Nixon?

Help me understand your logic here.
what is this mean? You don’t have a compelling enough life story for a software company?
I didn't know about Dash, it's the first time I've seen such an admission.

Need to read more about that. Thanks!
Yeah, the "you started it" tone of this article is very, very funny. I play the satanic game d&d and listen to metal regularly. No thanks to the right, on those.
Thanks for sharing that link. It was very informative. They didn’t go far enough (e.g. None of the ratings agencies were impacted) but I’m glad to be proven wrong on this issue.
Hair Force One FTW!
Ok that's funny. Thank you for not padding me with zeros.
I’ve stopped using the label “libertarian” and started using “anarchist” to mean the same thing.
I am baffled at how easy it is to fast for three days. I do drink electrolytes ("snake juice") and water, but don't eat. What I find concerning is how it affects my muscle mass. I haven't gotten weaker so far. A caveat is that I need to take 2-3 hour walks on fasting days to actually see any fat loss.
In realpolitik, hypocrisy is a feature not a bug.
Because a core value of modern conservatism in the U.S. (as expressed through the leadership of the Republican Party) is questioning the outcomes of freely- and fairly-held elections (including the last Presidential election), to place new obstacles in allowing qualified citizens to vote, and resisting changes that would make it easier for more people to vote (such as voting by mobile phone, or on a weekend).
Related discussion over at [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234026
This isn't really a problem that the federal government can solve. The President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition has existed for decades but was never very effective. We could make some minor improvements around the edges by giving income tax credits for things like sports equipment, participation fees, diet counseling, etc.

Most of the really pointless and counterproductive Covid restrictions were implemented at the state and local levels where the NIH has no real authority.
https://2600.com still has thought provoking articles, and Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley) has done a lot to advance the hacker community. The HOPE that went online in 2020 was amazing, and was really pushed through by him. The magazine is a bargain, and you can still purchase lifetime subscriptions which will give you every back issue.
I dont think the term sound is used by many to imply that the fed is simply following its mandate. if so then the fed has been doing "unsound" monetary policy for most of the last 10 years.

Sound is generally used specifically in a connotation of not debasing the currency.

Also gotta strongly disagree that the concept of helicopter money has no connotation of amount.

to each their own I guess.
Good. Too many have let things like blatant censorship go on for too long. It's time for more people to be uncomfortable, if for just a little. We are drowning in a morass of complacency :p
Political pieces are generally considered off-topic, especially opinion pieces:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's always been the odd liberal or conservative biased pieces that get posted to HN over the 11+ years I've been here. But there's been a ton of conservative pieces lately and they often seem to be from newer HN accounts. It seems similar to some of the patterns seen in some of the subreddits I subscribe to.
>pouring more water into the bowl from a bucket or jug will work.

Isn't that exactly what the article describes?

>after each us did our business we filled a mop-bucket with bathwater and flung it down the toilet pan.
> All you're doing is chattering on the web. You will never understand anything this way.

Is that why you feel justified throwing insults instead of engaging like an adult? This isn’t the only comment where you’ve directed insults my way. It seems you are only capable of name calling, not substantive discussion.
I think most people will find people being scammed out of their money through cryptos to be reason enough:)
Yes, these articles lead to flame wars (just look here for enough examples) and don't really have anything to add to the topic of hn.
TFA is choosing and fitting facts to support a narrative.
Florida men revealed to be behind Bored Apes
> Why does Professor Sachs make this assertion? On November 12, the governor signed a bill that makes it unlawful to include “instruction relating to critical race theory in any portion of the district's required curriculum ... or any other curriculum offered by the district or school.”

Now do the steel man (emphasis mine)
What about smoking and alcohol consumption, both linked to increased rates of cancer.l, as well. This is just anecdotal but alcohol seems like such an American culture and the prices are incredibly cheap as compared to Canada. I remember buying a 26oz vodka for $7.50 in Hawaii a state where they had to fly that vodka in. Vodka here in Canada would cost me about 3 times the price. Same with cigarettes they are about 2 times the cost here in Canada. People here of course still smoke and drink but I know many have quite due to price. It seems if the government really wanted to reduce cancer it would target some of the other risk factors like smoking and drinking as well.
personal opinion. in the year 2022 i find it hard to trust software that is to be installed on the local machine. with saas applications the barrier to entry is everything is compromised, so my expectation of privacy is different
I've been that guy. There are any numbers of reasons for this. Shame, low confidence in meeting yours (and everyone else's) expectations, inability to imagine a better future (which leads to unimaginable cognitive load as you act in ways your brain finds torturous without any sense that it will ever improve), etc, etc.

Typical people are all, pretty much, the same. Non-typical folk are different in their own ways. There is no single path to getting someone back up on their feet. This is one reason why anti-poverty campaigns - particularly the "mutual obligation" style of welfare - fail.
Legitimate boycotts are against stuff that people are currently doing bad, and they end when the bad stuff does. Cancel culture goes after people that tweeted something bad 15 years ago, that they've already recanted and apologized for, and never ends.
It never works that way. This one study is never going to be directly and perfectly applicable to other scenarios. It is a valuable data point. If it had shown the opposite conclusion it would bode very poorly for the current situation.
I mostly agree with you, however I note that another person has posted exactly the opposite comment. I find it interesting that people looking at exactly the same site can have such different reads of it.

Overall though, I'd say we're all right, in the sense that most partisan content gets flagged, and presumably each is more in tune with the stuff they agree with more. I end up commenting a lot on political threads, but overall, I'm happy HN keeps them in a tight leash and usually flags/buries them, because they really don't add much to the site.

The only exception I'd say is that HN is still basically the only place where one can have a (semi)adult discussion about many polarizing issues, without one side being banned entirely. Compare it to reddit, where anything outside the groupthink is not allowed to live at all. Possibly it's the threat of having the thread shut down entirely that keeps people on both sides more civil
Sure we use that extensively and it's great but I also haven't seen a CMS that didn't have an equivalent feature in years.
What if you don’t have any “why”? How would you go about finding one?
> I have more than 15 years of experience, working on frontend, backend, doing infra level work, some SRE etc. In most of my jobs I've been also on an on call rotation and when I was at Travis CI I've been on a "support rotation". I've been fixing nasty memory related bugs that put

I feel like you’re getting defensive, although I wasn’t attacking you. If that’s how I came off, I apologize.

Your 15 years experience doesn’t guarantee you’ll be happy or successful at Amazon, Google, or Facebook (companies I worked at). The cost of hiring the wrong person is exceedingly high, and therefore, we’ve resorted to phone screens and on site loops. Which you can love or hate, but I can guarantee you right that hiring is such a hard problem that if there was a more economical way (from a business perspective), to hire at scale, it would have been implemented or at least tested.

> I just refuse to interview if there is a coding challenge involved. What I care about, however, is that it's just a shitty practice that is so popular in the industry and people with less privilage than I have might have a hard time getting jobs where they would thrive, because they have this issue.

Let’s look at the economics. This will not change unless it negatively affects businesses. And so far, it doesn’t. You don’t want to interview? Well, someone else does, as it turns out. And there are enough folks who are able to get through to keep these companies functioning.

The nice thing is that there are companies who don’t give coding tests. You have the option to work there. But to say that because technical screens don’t work for everyone, that we should change the process entirely because here’s another group whose upset - I don’t buy that. At some point, we might as well not even do interviews. Any interview, even verbal behavioral questions, can be considered “triggering”. Or looking for candidates with 15 years experience, which you have, is also non inclusive with respect to everyone who couldn’t afford the opportunities you have.
Ahh, I saw the "too many errors on one line" report once when playing with MPW.

A very underrated, idiosyncratic, clever development environment, somehow more reminiscent of Poplog than anything else I've used.
Lines need to be maintained, and when your solar sends to the grid, it doesn’t generate money unless someone is actually buying it. So sending to the grid at wholesale and receiving at retail makes sense to me. At the same wholesale that all other generators get, whether home or specialized. Maybe need to have profit-sharing from a state-owned utility instead of the BS deregulated system to fully incentivize.
Isn't this still the same distinction? That's still just saying that nobody can force students to learn about critical race theory, not that they can't go read about it on their own if they want.
Editors censor things!
> It is unfortunately not going to stop many people or politicians or media outlets from citing this paper as a justification for (or to defend) COVID-19 policies.

You seem to be reading that as saying that you should do no extrapolation whatsoever, when really what they are saying is that you should do cautious extrapolation.
>"As soon as a business takes a political stand, then they paint a huge target on their back"

Well it does not seem to scare big gorillas of companies. Their type of censorship screams "political stand"
Are you implying that these two things are somehow possibly related?