skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite pun i made is when SnapChat glasses came out. I stated: "OH - great! birth control for your face! I hated condoms anyway." It started blowing up. Tons of points. It was going to be stuck as the first comment the entire day. Someone (dang) made it go to the very bottom - which is fine - this isn't reddit.
it's theft of the income of the workforce required to make movies. Whole departments receive residuals based on the post box office sales and that income is required to ensure that it is a viable career. That enables talented and safe people to continue making entertainment which in turn provides a better product.
The smart home is still running into the "it's not simple/easy enough". Apple HomeKit almost gets there, sometimes, but the wireless connections still are flakey, one bulb comes on at a slightly different time than another, etc.

It works well enough with someone technical in the house to diagnose, but it is nowhere NEAR reliable enough for people without that.
OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 1 Explained
The game inspired by the course is great, too: https://nandgame.com/
I guess I'll be the first to ask. What is this?
Of course nobody used it; it was marketed poorly, and funding for marketing was cut early on, as indicated in the article.

I have no idea if the service would have succeeded under different circumstances, but as OP stated, this was the rushed pet project of outgoing executives during a merger. Any outcome other than DOA was highly unlikely.
> * Whether people should go into work

I work remote. I manage remote teams. I love it and I think it's great.

But it's definitely not for everyone. A lot of people can't handle remote work. A lot of people don't have the self discipline to get work done without being in a social context (some of my remote team members work in coworking spaces as a workaround). A lot of people see remote as an opportunity to isolate from the team and dodge important communications.

I think we need to get past this idea that one type of work is best for everyone and every team. When people try to say that remote is superior, they don't know what they're talking about. It's one the most "it depends" topics out there right now.

> * Where the pressure to go into work comes from in an org

Let me answer this indirectly:

If companies saw a net increase in productivity and employee well-being from going remote, they'd be falling all over themselves to go all-in on remote work. Getting rid of office space and being able to hire anywhere is a huge advantage and every executive team I know was enthralled with the idea.

So why would they want to retain expensive office space and limit themselves to hiring only nearby candidates? It's because for every 1 person who's great at remote work, there may be 1-3 others who aren't doing well at all. Juniors and new hires suffer the most because ramp-up times become extremely slow when the rest of the team is isolated away working on their tasks and uninterested in talking to anyone they don't have to. Interpersonal conflicts are way up because people misinterpret things as insulting or offensive because they can't see the other person's face. Fights and arguments break out everywhere because there's little difference between the company Slack and the other Discords where the person alt+tabs to argue with people.

In short: Remote is hard, creates more work for management, is detrimental to juniors and new hires, and doesn't work for everyone. If a company is willing to invest a lot of money and time into hiring more managers to deal with it and churning through hires who can't handle remote, it can work. But it's often easier and happier for everyone to just go into the office a day or two per week to resolve these issues in person.

Even as a remote team, flying everyone into the same location is hands down the easiest way to get people communicating efficiently and treating each other as human team members instead of Slack screen name enemies. Remote is hard.
That's a great point. Hashing makes it more painful to credential stuff. I had a colleague write a few thousand words on the topic: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/security/math-of-p...
> I don't even pay attention to which brand I'm buying.

My mil has purchased some seriously sketchy outlets off Amazon to install because she wanted to modern style but didn't want to pay the Leviton/Legrand premium from the home center duopoly.

If you're purchasing in-wall electrical, I strongly encourage you to buy a name brand from a reputable source. Also spend the extra half dollar for nylon plates that won't crack or shatter.
That's what I suspected. The impressive accuracy is mostly determined by the round.

That's not terribly expensive either when the accuracy can save civilian lives or the lives of soldiers using it.
Your post is based on the hypothesis that more information is better. We've done the experiment, and it's false. People's perspectives are not deepened by more information, but made more shallow. In large part this is because the information they get is mostly second order, information about other people's reactions, or even reactions to reactions. This reaction information is used to preempt and override people's own reactions, often with something extreme, which drives engagement, which represents value for the corporation.

The modern "news" environment takes the worst of our justice system, the unethical, dishonest, manipulative lawyers who consider it their duty to use every rhetorical tool to achieve their goals, and has mainstreamed it. The news, and politics, are dominated by attorneys. But most of us aren't, and most of us don't use those same techniques in our lives, or are even familiar with the techniques, and so we're left vulnerable to them.
I think this is true - you will have an easier time not blazing new trails in general - but the need of ledger-like functionality isn't the distinguishing factor.

Preserving the history of all changes isn't just for reconstructing that history later, it's a central component in maintaining ACID while allowing for distributed readers.

Datomic has a singular transactor - node that can accept writes. So all transactions happen in sequence and consistency is maintained within the data model.

So your database goes

DB (0 transactions) ->
DB' (1 transaction committed) ->
DB'' (2 transactions committed)

With normal databases, when DB'' is created, DB' is lost. You change stuff in place. This means that anyone wanting to observe a consistent view of the database needs to coordinate with writes. This is why SQL dbs are single giant machines.

For Cassandra, Dynamo, Mongo, etc you still change stuff in place, but you just accept that things will be potentially inconsistent ("eventually consistent") for your readers. Once you drop that part of ACID you can scale your readers and your writers arbitrarily.

With Datomic DB, DB', and DB'' are still maintained. If you want to read the database "now" you can get a handle to the state that your reader thinks is the most recent. This might not be behind the absolute newest state that the transactor knows about, but it is still a consistent view of the database.

Its because of this you can scale your read nodes independently of the system. Because if you are reading DB' you know the value of that won't change you can load chunks of the indexes into the memory for caching and even embed the querying into the application making queries.

The proprietary-ness and JVM-ness of Datomic are its biggest weaknesses. I choose to believe those weaknesses can be addressed.
IMVHO it's just a stupid middle-ground who makes all unhappy to avoid making all unhappy.

With hybrid works you need or fully portable gears or two set of them, witch means not just a craptop in a backpack but also docking station, monitor(s), keyboard&other stuff etc. Long story short or the company spend the double in hw or at home you'll probably use something from you, maybe also the entire desktop with all relevant security risks. Not only working less in the office, but still having an office the company spent essentially the same amount of money and the workers still have to live around, perhaps in an expensive area or in little houses since around the office perhaps there is no room for better accommodations and still need a home office to be in comfort at home.

Personally I think hybrid will last for a short period of disastrous time and here the sole possible ruse might be provoking and using the hybrid disasters to state "look, remote working does not work, we need business as usual". After since we can't sustain the current social transformation in a classic way of life WFH will be the standard for a little slice of potentially remote workers, while others will be forced in the classic South Korean's Goshiwong model with a combination of hyper-stagflation and false environmental claims.

Then the many who still can't understand that:

- no, we can't continue as usual, we can't keep going on oil etc

- no, the Green New Deal is green in the dollar and stereotypical chem waste corroded barrels not spring grass green.

Will finally understand that the new neo-feudal society is now built and they are well f*ked up, too late to change anyway, as usual. Than we still see the reactionary cohort from today saying that we need to came back and the progressive ones saying that no the fault is having not done much more.

That's the real "ruse" (and not much a ruse, since countless think tanks have published black on white since years) but hybrid work is just a small step not specially linked with "the plot"...
If I pay for Netflix, which offers Friends in some countries but not my own, and I want to watch Friends, am I stealing it by torrenting it? Who has less property now than before I torrented the show?
(2000). Hah, that's before The War(which one? Russia-Ukraine War, Iraq, Afghanistan? Syria? Before any of those!), before Covid, before Trump, Brexit, Obama, the Bush admin which you thought was worst government ever, before 9/11, before the catastrophal Afghanistan Exit, and even before the Afghanistan invasion!

Tech-wise, it's before social media (no Twitter, Facebook, IG, MySpace, Friendster) and I think even before the term "smartphone".
How much are you paying for a carrier plan if Netflix is bundled with it?
Hi HN:

After some work, I have made my Glicol (https://glicol.org) audio library written in Rust as an NPM package for browsers! I would like to hear your feedback on that, especially on the language APIs or the potential use case for this NPM audio lib, so that I can further work on the project. Thanks!

Please comment here or on the GitHub repo:

https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol
If you wish to learn how COMPUTING works not computers.... then Rosens book on Discrete Mathematics is the MASTER KEY
Serious question. Why is Netflix software engineering comp so high? Is it a small team working on all technical problems?
It seems that every other content provider built a decent enough streaming service and from anecdotal experience they offer between 60-70% in TC of what Netflix offers.

Is Netflix on more devices? Does Netflix have technology that make content distribution more efficient compared to other streaming services? Is it the location of the team, CA? I am genuinely interested.
I doubt most of the subscription loss is attributable to reasons that most HN types go on about (the rants about wokeness, not enough scifi, carousel UI, pirating etc...).

What's probably going on is after after a few years of pandemic isolation and Netflix binging, the arrival of pandemic triggered inflation, and overall higher employment rates, people just have less interest, time, and money to binge watch longer form content. Many are probably consuming shorter form content (like TikTok), or enjoying more time in public.

We economize by scrutinizing our spending of both money and time. When we feel we have less of both of those, streaming services are an obvious "nice to have" for a lot of people that can be cut from their lives with minimal feeling of loss, especially since it can be substituted with fulfilling time spent with other people.

Also, if you're paying an extra $150 a month for energy utilities and gasoline, it kind of makes sense that you might cancel a streaming service that you watch once or twice a week.

These days the time I spent on streaming services during the pandemic is more likely than ever to be spent having a beer on a neighbor's porch (with them of course!).
What does "low level" even mean here? Lisp is second only to Fortran in age, so it certainly runs bare metal if that's what you want.
Is there? Denying people's right to exist, war on bullshit excuses ( they aren't a real country), brutal methods up to and including genocide ( like kidnapping and resettling children). They're not that far off.
I use it every day as my primary method of talking to non family members. That's been true for at least a year, probably about 3-4 years now.

Texting is not nearly as engaging. So much of communication is visual and tone. Emojis can only go so far
Is anyone not completely cynical about Urbit able to provide a summarization of the aesthetic and technical choices of the platform? It is certainly on the high end of interesting projects in crypto, but is also quite complex and perhaps a bit flawed; it all adds to its mystique, however.
100% agree

> I'm not sure Matter is going to solve this because it doesn't do away with this business model. Zigbee and Zwave

Matter, Zigbee, Zwave…

https://xkcd.com/927/
See my comment above about She-Ra.
> That really does happen better in person.

Prior to 2020 this was certainly the conventional conjecture, but the world has had two years of full remote. That’s a natural experiment, and the results are in. Companies didn’t collapse. Therefore, that’s not true.

Even in The Before Times, I lead a team that was effectively 100% distributed across North America, with only about half us capable of physically meeting once or twice a week. There as no difference. Slack the person, or hop on a call.

Personally, I think the real reason that’s driving return to work is big companies wasting literally billions of dollars on real estate. Better stick folks in those boxes, or the execs made a huge mistake, and of course execs didn’t make a mistake, because the execs are geniuses to revival the demigods.
It's not easier. I've got a BS in EE and am old enough to have downloaded episodes of the TV show 24 over 56k using early BitTorrent. I've successfully set up plex (which requires an in house server/spare pc), sonarr, radarr, usenet, etc. I'm probably the 99% percentile in ability to pirate. And its not easier than netflix.

90% of people I know probably couldn't set this up. And the other 10% would spend more time dicking around with the set up than they would using netflix or the other services.

GabeN is not correct. Piracy is a money problem. Free is very enticing.
High Performance in Dynamic Languages
A picture wouldn't feed anyone, so this example is heavily flawed.
Was just showing the subject to a youngster recently. Other folks mentioned the Code book, I liked that one. The MMM by Brooks of course. We also looked at the following videos on youtube/Kanopy and other places:

- The Story of Math(s) by Marcus du Sautoy to set the stage... school and taxes in ancient Sumeria, Fibonacci bringing Indian numbers to Europe, and other fascinating subjects.

- We watched short biographies of Babbage and Lovelace, full-length ones of Turing and Von Neumann. The "code breakers" of WWII.

- Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII, another good one.

- There's more history in PBS' Crash Course Computer science, than you might expect. It is great although so peppy we had to watch at .9x with newpipe. Shows relays, vacuum tubes, to ICs, to the Raspberry Pi. As well as the logic gates they model.

- "The Professor" at Computerphile is a great story teller about the early days.

- There are great videos about CTSS being developed at MIT I think, where they are designing an operating system via paper terminal and trying to decide on how to partition the memory/storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk

- The Introducing Unix videos by ATT are straight from the source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

- The movie/book "Hidden Figures" touches on this time as well. Facing obsolescence by IBM, one of the characters teaches herself Fortran.

- The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a fun dramatization of the late 70s to 80s PC industry. It specifically calls out the meeting between MS and IBM as the deal of the century. We also watched a "Berkeley in '68" doc on Kanopy to set the stage before this one. Interesting, but a tangent.

- The "8-bit Guy" is also great, he dissects and rebuilds old home computer hardware from the same era, and teaches their history as he does it. Even his tangential videos on why there are no more electronics stores (besides Apple) in malls is great.

- There are good docs on the "dead ends" of the industry as well, such as "General Magic" and "Silicon Cowboys."

- "Revolution OS" a doc about the beginnings of FLOSS and Linux.
I guess the irony that I've observed here is how little HNers know about the rest of the world. Usually rural areas are in this exact scenario.
The apples haven’t got any better lately, and they now have a DRM coating which prevents your photos working. The coating is a continual irritation to apple eaters. There is also a terms of service for apple eaters to sign.
> The average age of CNN watchers is over 60 years old, not exactly a prime streaming demographic. But who would want to pay for the news monthly for a streaming service? Newspapers have enough trouble getting people to pay a bit for text. CNN needs to compete with other streaming services, and all of the free streams out there and podcasts (which are typically higher quality than CNN ).

> It's all baffling.

Not really. If they thought cable is in long-term (perhaps terminal) decline, they've really only have two choices: let the business wind down or try to pivot into something that's perceived as not dying. Starting a streaming service seems like an attempt at the latter. A lot of newspapers (especially ones owned by private equity) are doing the former.
Clearly not the same, since a dividend would increase your ROI, but is not Netflix earning more money for itself.
BuiltWith says that the CMS used at forums.lenovo.com is from Lithium Technologies, and it was first detected in July, 2012. I'm not sure if this is the forum software, or something else.
Comics are mythology minus wisdom.
I am just a bit older than heavy users of snapchat. My year in university somewhat used it. The year after us were heavy daily users.
Seconded. Lutron's devices connected via apple's homekit work well for us. No problems so far, the setup is pretty much set-and-forget and apple handles the security. You can disable access to the internet for lutron's bridge so no data leaves our home network.

Pretty good solution.
Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
There's often times I want to prevent a computer/laptop/VM from sleeping and while, yes, there's various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps they're often overkill.

Instead, this small (12Kb) page does the job and only needs a web browser.

It's just a very simple usage of a web api normally used for things like video players: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...
> You can anonymize such data

...thereby destroying the production-like features for which you want it for testing, which you then need to recreate and reintroduce, so you might as well just synthesize test data in the first place, since that's what you end up doing anyway, in effect.
Having been on the other side of that... quant funds absolutely want raw data wherever possible, but I suspect for the application you're talking about there's some room for derived data; the responses for e.g. credit card data are relatively infrequent (earnings are reported 1/quarter) so using high-dimensional, high frequency data can be more trouble than it's worth. Genscape is a good example of a company with derived data that everyone in the industry subscribes to.
Netflix had a great recommendation system for their DVD catalog 15 years ago without any ML hocuspocus. The problem now is that their content is mostly mediocre and user driven ratings can't be used effectively to identify similar cohorts. That's why they got rid of the stars.
Why don't you just not partake in the content? You really don't need to spend all that time watching shows. If you don't like the terms under which it is offered, just find something else to do.
Amazon and Youtube (and maybe other streaming services) also offer some of the movies for free with advertising. So the model hasn’t changed much from going to rent a movie at the store for a few bucks or watching it on cable tv, except you’re not paying for cable now.
I wish this was a stronger shower, estimated 10 per hour with a half moon will be tough.
yes it is.

I come from country where intellectual property was treated as a western joke.

Children younger than 10 learned how to pirate - by themselves, without knowing even English.
A lot of people still can do that, and it's quite easy to find out how.
Recent and related:

Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31086310 - April 2022 (964 comments)
it's very much stealing from the residual based income of the workforce required to make your entertainment.
I think this has more lasting power. There's a lot of reasons not to take crypto purchases... but that's the merchant's problem, not stripe's problem.

They'd only deprecate it if the end users eventually dwindle to 0 and it becomes more expensive to maintain in engineering hours than fees. Which could happen, but it'll take longer than merchants who dip their toes into cryptocurrencies as a currency and find piranhas.
The problem with offices is who they are filled with.

Solve for that problem.
Feel free to reach out via any of the contact info on my github. The more the merrier chasing this magic dragon.
It’s always hilarious to see HN of all places get nitpicky about this distinction. If some megacorporation stole your code, we’d laugh them out of the room if they said this shit. “We didn’t steal your code, it’s still right there on github! We would have used it legally if you had licensed it differently!”
If the environmental impact assessment (you should already have conducted this) shows the impact of dumping your 1 ml - 1,000 l is less than the impact of your driving 45 miles, go for it!
nls.uk top level domain for the National Library of Scotland.

An interesting project, there seems to be a number of web sites for local history, half of my ancestors are from a small part of Denmark and they’ve put together a website to tie together pictures and history.

I only just found that the small hill our summer house was on is mentioned in Beowulf:

https://bibod.dk/odswiki/index.php?title=Isøre

One may need to run it through Google translate, like I did.
I clicked that link expecting to see opinions on “Trickle down economics” or “abortion” or “ownership of the means of production” being fed to children but all I see is: “Same sex couples exist.”

“Same sex couples exist” is not a political view. It is a reality of fact that children of all ages already know. My kid’s best friend since age 5 has two moms. Trust me: she has no concept of what politics are but knows what two loving parents are.

If “gays exist” is the example of politics jammed into TV, that’s a really really weak example.
You're probably right, and honestly the thought of this happening just makes me feel sad. That premise is just like the character Dixie Flatline in Neuromancer. Simply tragic.
The easiest setup I can think of is Homeassistant, with a Z-Wave and Zigbee gateway attached to it.

Then you can buy various z-wave or zigbee devices, and they have no vendor lock in and don't rely on wifi or internet access.