skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When an expert is explaining things to non-experts (like a marketing page would), you use terms that your audience will understand and relate to. The goal is not perfect technical accuracy. The goal is to convey the basic idea so the reader can understand it.
I also recommend this podcast, just finished it this week.
> I worked at a company where Sales thought "@channel" was a person they should ping as often as possible

I find some people just don't know (or care about) the right way to use Slack. They need to be taught "Hey, don't bother 100 people in this channel for your niche question." Some are oblivious, some don't care about other people. Either way someone needs to pull them aside and say "stop it".

Having management that allows that to continue indicates an unhealthy organization.
Congress certainly has some extraordinary powers. The exercise of those powers also requires an extraordinarily large hurdle be cleared.

Whereas the President can issue sweeping policy changes via executive order and veto non-supermajority legislation (a ONE person decision), Congress requires a majority in one chamber to initiate impeachment and a super-majority in the other to convict.

Look at Trump. Every reason in the world to impeach, and even that failed. So much for supremacy, it seems.
This news is basically a nothing burger anyways since blocking out your branding on different platforms is pretty much just SOP so this response seems way overblown.

So the strategy you're giving to Meta is to take its ball and go home? Meta might or might not be a relevant company in twenty years - it's definitely relevant today and it'll certainly be relevant in a decade barring some congressional intervention - while they're still earning off older generations they're going to make a whole bunch of attempts to hook Gen Z and hey - the fad after ticktock might just be the fad they successfully capture.
I'll go with yes, private companies are psycopathic entities that will ruthlessly exploit everyone and everything for their profit.
Well they did one of trump and that was pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jrebvmPlk&t=14s
https://www.gd.com/Articles/2021/10/06/general-dynamics-at-a...

See: GD's TRX concept w/ loitering munitions and a tethered surveillance UAV

> [vs distributed systems]

See: USAF / USN Next Generation Air Dominance programs, or the European Future Combat Air System, which are declared as "systems of systems" to get the desired capabilities. We'll see how far they ultimately lean into distributed though.
Thailand faces perfect storm as it seeks more LNG supply
> 3 barrels of the stuff

Barrels? Based on what the LD50 was / what the data sheet said, the bottle I briefly had in my hands - and yes, they did start shaking - would have done for a good proportion of the residents of a small city had it managed to be spread around in a form that would have been ingested.

Chemistry labs are typically well-stocked with quite a lot of fairly unpleasant things. They're also the places where a lot of genuinely amazing and potentially live-saving work gets done!
There are quite a lot of shorter-range conventional systems. In practice you don't need that inter-continental range for most purposes. For some modern examples you have the Chinese DF-21 and the Russian Iskander system. And a lot of those systems are dual-use: capable of delivering both nuclear and conventional payloads. It's not totally clear what that will mean in a conflict between two nuclear powers. What do you do when early warning radar picks up a ballistic missile coming in when you can't tell if it is nuclear or conventional? Plus this isn't a video game, you won't hear some alarm going off after it detonates indicating it was a nuclear explosion. You'll need to send someone to do a damage assessment, and that takes time.
Hope today's was not the foreshock to something bigger.
The difference is contextual, as with anything. The parent obviously disagrees that the data provided rebuts the article's content (I too disagree, and think it mostly only serves to spur hatred in this particular context, the same way the title of the article does).
F1 and Lego and Netflix = This
Design can mean many things. I am a backend developer and we also design, but our designs are for abstract structures with certain qualities required for humans, machines, and ilities. I thought that this might be related to backend design. I looked into the website looking for a definition of what hey mean by "design". I did not spend a lot of time but I could not find it. I guess they are talking about UX design. Then suddenly I am not so interested. Not because I feel that UX design is not interesting; it is extremely important. But I think we also need to talk about backend design so much more.
Someone pointed this out to me on Twitter this morning and it's an aspect I didn't even think about. Most third-party SDKs have a JS version which generally (not always) works with React Native. Can't really say the same for Dart, so you're almost always doing a native integration or building it yourself.
I'm applying for Amsterdam, I think the recruiter is from Western Europe. But my interviews did kind of coincide with the Russian war on Ukraine, so it might affect it indeed.
Clearly the parallel is that types come before identifiers in declaration contents.
You can’t beat that kind of productivity.
> We played around with Flutter for a total one day before ditching the idea altogether (in favour of native Android with Kotlin)

I've made several apps in Flutter and so far I'm actually happy with it. I look forward to the next project. I can easily understand why it's not for everyone, as it's true that not all standard SDK's has been ported.

And of course, not all projects are suited for hybrid solutions in any case.
This doesn't square with my experience in defense. I worked in software and we saw plenty of combat and aftermath footage and were always aware that the design decisions we made and the tools we built meant life-and-death for someone. We did our best to make sure it was the right people.

I'd add, the weight of violence—if anything—is going up. People today are devastated when a dozen soldiers and scores of civilians are killed in a suicide bombing or urban conflict, but go back to Vietnam and those incidents barely register because they happened all the time. The number of people killed in any given armed conflict has dropped quite a bit in the last 50-or-so years. (The Syrian Civil War is one big exception.)
Twitter's mysterious “shadow ban” feature
Thanks! Our goal is that no matter what preprocessing function they pass, the only end up accessing outputs that comply with the privacy policies. The code gets access to the real data but it is shielded from the vendor who can only see protected outputs. It should address the risk of private information being exposed to them, but for sure, the more sophisticated the preprocessing code will be, the more challenging it will become. Deep learning on Dicom data is pushing the system to the edge a bit.
With him, everything was a calculation. Admitting COVID was a serious issue was thought to bring an end to the stock market boom, which was the big economic win for his re-election campaign. The market crashed anyway, before recovering ahead of the election.

In any case, 2020 might be the first time enough voters realized that a bull run on Wall St doesn't move the needle much for their own economic well-being.
13/52 is a known hate symbol: https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/1352-1...
...which also have their problems, e.g. text encoding handling in Python 2.x was horrid and full of traps. This is better in 3.x, problem mostly solved. The same goes for many of the warts in PHP which have been fixed or are scheduled to be fixed in 8.1 and later. Given a choice between a world without PHP and one with it, warts and all, I choose the latter. Not because of its elegance or correctness or performance but because of its utility. In this respect it is a bit in the same situation as Bourne/Korn/Born_Again shell, languages which surely could be better in many ways but excel in just being there when you need them and for the purposes you need them.

The language at hand is often the best language for the job, just like that phone camera in your pocket is the best camera to snap that shot of whatever event you just happened upon. Sure, it would have been better if you could use a DSLR on a stand, shooting raw to be processed in some fancy tool but that DSLR and stand and tool generally complicate matters far more than they add in quality. Sometimes this is worth it, often it is not.
> there are relatively few terror attacks that go beyond commercial-off-the-shelf compounds and almost none that do it well

The 2011 Norway attacks, 2002 Bali bombings, 2005 London underground bombings, 2008 Mumbai attacks... There is a long list of deadly terrorist attacks using homemade explosives, I don't think this is something to be dismissed.
Tell HN: Amazon's book search is gamed, keyword-stuffed, and inaccurate
In short: horrible.

I know this won't be new to most of you, but I wanted to share an anecdote (and a rant!)

I have a friend who has brain cancer. I went to Amazon searching for books on the subject and I typed ‘brain cancer’ in the search (books) field. What did I find?

Amazon UK

As you scroll down page 1 of the search results, you find examples of “brain cancer notebook” or “brain cancer journal”. Empty notebooks with nothing to do with the subject.

Amazon US

Same search term. The search results were even worse. The “no content” ranked even higher on the first page of search page.

Here is a screenshot of the search results for Amazon UK and US: https://i.postimg.cc/JRDkSGRK/amazon-book-search.jpg

Try an Amazon book search for “Ukraine war” on Amazon UK and US and already the search results are populated with “Ukraine war” blank notebooks seizing the opportunity to profit from war (these blank notebooks are not donating to charities, they are simply seizing on keyword searches).

The reason so many of these "no content" notebooks pollute the books category is because of Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service: a print-on-demand service. It has opened the flood gates to “low content” or “no content” journals and notebooks which allows "creators" publish hundreds of notebook titles. These are simply empty, lined or blank print-on-demand notebooks. Amazon includes these in book search results rather than confine these items to it’s own search category. You can find hundreds of YouTube videos on how to publish “no content” notebooks via KDP and how to game Amazon search results to rank higher.

I know Amazon simply doesn’t care, but I had to rant. I might be overreacting by the results I saw and I won’t be offended if you say so :-)
Einstein applied to higher institutions where he wanted to work, but he was not admitted. The patent office was the available job, so he took it.
Worse is better in a nutshell.
And TikTok is on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tiktok

Who cares?
Original HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30671894
Your first and last paragraphs seem contradictory. You Hope experienced folks weigh all costs, but a post mentioning the cost of hiring gives you hesitancy?
I would bet on tiktok myspacing before meta. Tiktok right now is riding one big trend which will move on to something else at some point. Will they be able to pivot?
I suppose this is going to become part of the HN lexicon now...
"more recently allowing posts promoting violence against Russian speakers in those regions"

This is false. Russian invaders != Russian speakers

> As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders.' We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-facebook-inst...
Let's see what mine is
Edit: I love it! A little bug :)
It's as if you ignored my statement to deliver the most trite boiler plate reply you could muster.

The world is not going to crush their economic lifeline, regardless of what the US and 1st world wants in its garage. We are the cleanest, most conscientious producers and consumers of fuel for energy. Though certainly not as consumers of petrochemicals, side note.

So you would crush the poor and middle class of the first world in order to effect an arbitrary advancement that cannot be supported by our current Energy infrastructure
& push coal and fossil fuel consumption & production to the least discerning countries

Truly, I suggest you seek out new opinions regarding the viability of some of these new green ideas championed by politicians and corporate hacks
Great blog post, throughput is very often overlooked when talking about model inference.
I wish we had more exploratory ideas on HN (and in life). People are so focused on finding fault and on avoiding the risk of being shamed that we don't post incomplete, exploratory, creative ideas. I think the GGP was a great post; thank you.
Any idea how long it should take? I don't do frontend, but when I tried making GUIs back in the Tk heydays, it was feasible to cook up a very functional GUI in the first day of learning/usage.
The problem is not just the availability of information.

The problem is the time that capitalism requires just to survive leaving very little extra time to do stuff even for a genius.

It takes not just genius to do great things but a mountain of free time and resources, which the aristocrats had in spades back in the day.

Elon Musk is one of the few people with the confluence of all of these factors and is doing great things.
> “People have a lot of choices for how they want to spend their time, and apps like TikTok are growing very quickly,” Zuckerberg said. He later added that “TikTok is so big as a competitor already and also continues to grow at quite a faster rate off of a very large base.”

If that's not "Zuck is scared" I don't know what is.
Anonymous has declared cyber war against Russia. Here are the results
Using Flutter for my app was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I did my work experience at SGI the week that the first Reality Center was opened. A side room held racks of Power Onyx and Infinite Reality2 tin to drive the wraparound projection screen, and there were some very impressive demos.

Six years later I was at a university seminar where one of the exact same demos was shown off, running on a laptop.
This particular issue, toxins, doesn't seem like a huge problem in practice.

You can already buy extremely potent toxins that also work against humans at the hardware store (some pesticides/insecticides/rat poisons).

New toxins might be interesting for covert operations, for example killing someone without being detected by a toxicological report, but this seem to have limited usage.
Heh yeah, you don't even need to do TLS.
$20 billion in US, $36 billion in Europe and they spent 5.4 billion overtaking Tower semiconductor. This is not nothing.

Moreover south korea plan to invest that amount in next 10 years and their plan does not seem much concrete as of now
I don't think you'd necessarily have deniability. We have early warning radars and satellite networks now capable of identifying an ICBM missile launch in the boost phase. Even with only ground-based sensor detecting the missile in the midcourse, it is a ballistic missile, which means the missile follows a predictable trajectory. This can be used to fairly precisely determine what it is aiming at, but also could be used to trace the missile back to a launch site.
Maybe thermal expansion, since March means warming after winter.
My guess is that a failure to report is essentially be a regulatory violation, not a crime. Thus, a regulating agency will determine how to enforce. Which likely means they start with notices of violation and finally escalate to "reasonable" fines after repeated violations for normal cases. And finally the regulating agency/agencies may forward cases to the DOJ for civil lawsuits for extremely egregious violations.
Really? What about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician whose solutions to problems were generally considered completely novel and unconnected to other's results. Eventually he worked with Hardy, but sadly died early.

Or Alexander Grothendieck, who when given at university a choice of 14 open problems to pick one to work on one over a period of several years, solved several within months. Again he had a mixed experience of early training, and worked independently at first. Of course, he later collaborated with many others.

Newton literally said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" because he acknowledged that his work built on that of others. Indeed, if he had communicated his results earlier, maybe he would have worked with Leibniz on the calculus.

While people do like to focus on a singular visionary - rather than a history of invention or scholarship - that does not mean that there were not extraordinary individuals in history. Yes, they also had to be in the right place and the right time. They also had to have the time (usually, enough money) and the connections.
Flutter is far more enjoyable for me, but in terms of actually publishing a production ready app, React Native all the way.

At work you have deadlines, you don't have time to re-implement solutions that have been solved with React Native for years.

Still, for my hobbyist projects, I absolutely love Flutter
They are likely quoting DOJ arrest statistics [0]. Lots of interesting stuff there, and the overall conclusion one can draw from them is quite different than what the GP asserts.

0 - https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
> Youtube shorts is the only good competitor

This is false. Instagram Reels is a LOT more popular than YT shorts.

Source: I work with Gen Z teens extensively
Anyone got a nice alternative?
>They had me at the combination of the words "scriptable" and "DNS."

Same, but then they lost me at Javascript.
It’s literally a crime statistic that’s true.
This article highlights one of the things that really bugs me about tech hiring. The availability of developers who know a language or tech isn't a limiting factor if you're willing to hire people and give them the time to learn. Yes, it's expensive, but if there really are productivity benefits from using a particular tool then you should end up better off in the long term anyway.

The expectation that another company will train your workforce, or that they'll train themselves in their spare time before joining, massively inhibits the proliferation of different, new, and interesting technologies and keeps 90% of the devs in the web and mobile world on the same 3 platforms (JS/TS, Swift, and Kotlin).

Unless companies start hiring to mentor people this will not change, and probably TS will just eat all the others in the long run.
It's simply switching to the preferred local transcription to not offend by using the oppressor's ways. Sensible, IMHO. I'd not want to call it the Russian way if I was a content producer too, especially a place like the capital city.
I don't think AI/ML is really used for simulating nuclear explosions. There's not much point, better techniques exist.
We have satellites which can detect a double flash (characteristic of a nuclear explosion), the US and probably most other nuclear powers with the exception of perhaps North Korea and Pakistan would know instantly of any nuclear detonation above ground.
So by interview I mean the initial one, after I applied for a job and got a confirmation that they'd like to talk to me and we agreed on a date/time and had a zoom meeting set up.

These are roles in Amsterdam. In case of Microsoft, I think it's a very recent development that they started hiring engineers in Amsterdam, so that might play into it.
Ah! Thank you! I knew PCI was a later standard, but I'll be damned if I could remember the one that preceded it...
> Einstein and Newton are products, not individuals, of an ancient marketing campaign.

You managed to pick two of the most alone geniuses in history. Newton was afraid to even tell anyone about calculus because he was worried about being mocked. Einstein's miracle year was done completely outside academia and the only two other people in the Olympia Academy said they had nothing to do with it.
Capitalist tech investor with piles of cash and political influence, yes. But is Musk a genius? That case really hasn't been made yet.
Thanks for the info!

I hate both Windows and VNC. Is there any solution for me on Linux with RDP level performance?
No expert here, but I assumed the difference was that the model created "hidden connections" that weren't explicitly added by curators.

From what I remember, the Semantic Web was intended to be a big library science type of project, where people described things for computers, so that people could find them. This seems more like computers describing things so that people can find them, and then updating based on how people react.

> Qu’s vector search engine is able to discover hidden connections among products, such as sloped ceilings, ceiling fans, and downrods...

And

> Perhaps Home Depot knows that a particular customer is in the middle of a patio renovation, which instantly narrows the search down to outdoor ceiling fans.

It's not clear to me why that part couldn't be done with conventional searches, but maybe it's something this technological makes it simpler to use. /shrug
I'm not at all dismissive of crypto. I actually think there's a ton of opportunity to build a decentralized version of the large cloud providers like AWS and GCP as their pricing continues to increase. For example, I'm interested in seeing how [the Graph](https://thegraph.com/en/) develops. The current implementation isn't a totally decentralized GraphQL service, but I think it's a step in the right direction.

One the other hand, Worldcoin is just another layer-2 coin built on top of Ethereum, and a regular CRUD app and database to upload/verify a hash of someone's retina scan. I just don't see anything novel about what they're doing, besides having a large VC capital infusion. It's just another crypto coin giveaway.
> A pop singer I'll not name performed on a late night show and was a target of internet ribbing for having brought only some semi-awkward samba-like side-stepping

For anyone wondering, I believe this is referring to Lana Del Rey. Not sure what the purpose of redacting the name was...

Maybe that's not who you were referring to though? Iirc, the criticisms weren't just about her swaying, but singing that was described as "mumbling". That latter criticism is explicitly the opposite of what we're discussing.
I really enjoy the dev experience of Flutter. The tooling is great and Dart was easy to pick up with my experience with C#. The various batteries-included features are appreciated as well.

Unfortunately, the lack of "Code Push" killed several attempts of using Flutter on various projects for us.

ReactNative has been good to us but I really wish there was a bit more built-in for commonly needed features.
A normal user will have anything that any cpmpany offers to sell them.

A normal user does not know about common unsafe assumptions in every aspect of programming and IT integration.

Once the option to get foo.pizza exists, absolutely a ton of normal users take it, just like they do everything else.
It's about UI and UX design. When people mix both, they usually mean "UI only, but we have to talk about UX", but this one seems honestly aimed at both.
@dang I think most people assume the headline means "Facebook has a TikTok [clone] now", (which wouldn't be new since Instagram reels has been around awhile) rather than "Facebook has a TikTok [account] now". Should the headline be changed?