skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still have biopsies, SEEGs and anything else that requires deep brain invasive action.
> Quality matters if you care about having a cash cow and not just a one off.

I'm not trying to be provocative, but how do you explain superhero movies then? They all seem to be the same and are a huge cash cow.

IMHO, if you throw hundreds of millions of dollars at something and the same in marketing, they will come because the majority of people will just watch what's on.
Disclaimer: I used to care enough about problems to write to support. I got canned responses to the point where I have stopped writing to them.

I am two years into Fastmail. Fastmail's web UI is meh.

I find that when I accept invites from customers, and then move the event from eg. my Billable calendar to Sales, the event is listed as "No response" -- when I respond again, the customer is sent another accept.

Showing other people's calenders gets confusing due to the default choice of colours.

The iOS app does not work offline.

The default SPF records are much too relaxed. I could understand if they just didn't enable SPF by default but allowed you to enable sane records.

You only need to scratch at the surface to find problems: https://internet.nl/site/fastmail.com

I could go on.
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Btw, it was someone's school project from 2012 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3790034).
Are there stats on PC vs mobile for HN? I expect its much higher than most other social media and this format is great on a proper screen.
I am on IG since a few weeks meeting a lot of new people. Based on those experiences, I feel you’re completely right.

I could only wonder about the tiktok world but that is a step too far for me
I've done the same thing and come to different conclusions about the degree of severity and about how hard economically it will be to overcome. Not saying I'm right but I do think the debate needs to be had, be open and be free from censorship. If the 'other side' can't offer that, then you'll see more extreme reactions.
Ah, the pleasures of agile development! There is never time to implement something properly, but at least we are sure that all developers are kept busy every week.

If you think about the problem, discuss it, and then implement the solution properly, it's only one ticket. But if you make a half-assed solution, change it twice, and fix seven related bugs, that is ten tickets, with a potential to make even more tickets in the future.
"A new CEO was hired to take over a struggling company. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. “Open these if you run into serious trouble,” he said.

Well, six months later sales and profits were still way down and the new CEO was catching a lot of heat. He began to panic but then he remembered the envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first envelope. The message read, “Blame your predecessor.” The new CEO called a press conference and explained that the previous CEO had left him with a real mess and it was taking a bit longer to clean it up than expected, but everything was on the right track. Satisfied with his comments, the press – and Wall Street – responded positively.

Another year went by and the company continued to struggle. Having learned from his previous experience, the CEO quickly opened the second envelope. The message read, “Reorganize.” So he fired key people, consolidated divisions and cut costs everywhere he could. This he did and Wall Street, and the press, applauded his efforts.

Another year passed and the company was still short on sales and profits. The CEO would have to figure out how to get through another tough earnings call. The CEO went to his office, closed the door and opened the third envelope. The message began, “Prepare three envelopes...” "

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=the+three+envelopes&ia=web
> I hate washing the dishes but they need to be done everyday.

I do too. That's why I insisted my apartment have a dishwasher—they're surprisingly uncommon in entry-level New York studios. I dump everything in there, it's great. No pre-rinsing, I just throw stuff inside and it comes out clean 90 minutes later.

I don't like vacuuming either, so I got a Roomba. Also highly recommended. It goes out, cleans the whole floor, and then comes back to charge itself. I just have to empty the bin. Sometimes one or the other speakers gets unplugged, which is a tad annoying. Much less annoying than vacuuming.

I firmly believe that some day, humanity will discover an exercise pill. Sign me up. There's nothing inherent about using muscles which makes them stronger. Using muscles tells the body that it needs to make its muscles stronger, but we could just skip to the second part.

None of this really contradicts your point. As of today, we don't have an exercise pill, so you've got to exercise. But I also believe in constantly looking for ways to make life as engaging as possible.

(And I also found the dishwashing example triggering. Too many of my acquaintances don't have dishwashers. They're like $300 y'all, you spent five times that on a marginally faster iPhone but scrubbing plates is as slow as ever...)
Nobody really cares about UI as long as the moderation (and => content) is amazing.
I see, that makes more sense than is probably the more charitable reading I should have taken.

I agree that my perspective isn't Universal and therefore doesn't apply to everyone, but I don't think that is a prerequisite for being good advice in the general sense.

The concept of understanding and preempting emotional responses is a fundamental Concept in cognitive behavioral therapy and typical emotional growth.

Typical individuals have the ability to modify their emotional response with training and practice . The idea is not to suppress an emotion but not have the reaction in the first place.

For example, anger management might teach someone not to feel so angry when they encounter traffic. Instead of entering a escalating feedback loop of anger, they might rationalize it as impersonal and continue their Drive without the unpleasant emotions.
Apple annual gross profit for 2021 was $152 billion.

That ~19B in 2020 is before CC fees on 64B or internal expenses. App stores have a lot of customer service and charge backs on relatively tiny purchases. Actually reviewing apps isn’t cheap either, and all the relevant IT adds even more expense.

Further they upped the developers cut to between 70% and 85% from the flat 70% in 2020. So sure they might make 3-5 billion from the App Store in 2021, but that’s like 2% of total profits.
I was thinking about Rick Belluzzo's time at SGI when I read your comment.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo
Will that be regulated, though? It looks to me like the EU is just taking steps to give companies freedom (by allowing sideloading) but no steps to regulate that freedom (by enshrining app privacy into law).
Dunno my companies all used regular sms, teams or xmpp in the past.
$465m was a pretty standard price tag for a single Ferrari/Red Bull/Merc F1 season pre-covid, and I think the merch opportunities and addressable market are probably pretty comparable
Maybe he's turning to the graphic stack (eg a grand unified graphics driver architecture), or redoes large parts of the kernel in Rust ;) Or something like that; I've got a hard time thinking what could be challenging enough seeing as, though controversial his creations are, he sure is able to deliver.
When Apple went public, Massachusetts warned investors to stay away (2017)
Compare the annual gross sales of video games vs. Hollywood blockbusters. Yet gaming is given short shrift.

My kids are all on their phones watching tiktok and youtube. They were traumatized
when a prominent YouTuber died this weekend of cancer.

Movies? They used to be into the MCU when it was relatively fresh, but now it's stale, like Harry Potter. My youngest went to see TopGun Maverick with me, but wanted to spend time with me more than seeing an old boomer movie retread.
What about a ladder workout? We did these in track and field and it was a brutal burn that would send people puking by the fence by the end and not being able to walk up stairs for a few days after. You'd run a 100m, short rest, 200m, rest, 300m, rest, 400m, rest, 300m, rest, 200m, rest, 100m, then you are simply cooked. Two weeks of this though and you are whipped back into shape for track season.
What parts of these generalized arguments have anything to do with CEOs? As a mental experiment, put them into the mouth someone making excuses for why a crew of expensive painters did a horrible job painting your apartment.
Your longer explanation would be much more meaningful to a child. Using your analogy, telling a child to "use the right hand rule" before you've explained (and they've internalized) the relationship between current and a magnetic field will not be helpful.
It's pretty nice. Loads super fast, super usable. And the parts that actually matter (e.g. the search function) have improved significantly in recent years.

However there are some things that could improve.

For example, in text posts (like this one), the font color is a relatively light grey which has rather bad contrast. Also, my mind is trained to ignore grey comments since those are usually quite downvoted so I have a hard time focusing on the text post.
OP sounds like someone not from 'the west'. Water has always been political in the western US and will always be. Like, there is this little Rep.-Dem. divide out here, but when push comes to shove, the real divide is water rights. Hell Chinatown was all about water. California's water wars [0] go back a long ways, and those struggles are emblematic of all western US states to some degree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars
You can’t put dinner on the table for 150k, you can only do that with at least 180k + 250k RSU (I have no idea what designers make at MANGA so I’m using average senior engineer comp)

Come on now!
Yes, the phone experience suffers. I wouldn't call it an advantage, especially since the worst problems (itty bitty upvote/downvote buttons, for example) could be fixed with maybe just a couple hours of CSS tweaking.

But as a whole, and particularly on desktop, the signal-to-noise ratio for this site is so high that it naturally attracts a certain type of technologically-conservative, nonsense-resistant developer, I think.
The issue is not with the casting.

The issue is with the lack of new stories and the idea that just putting some color on "stories where the classic characters is white" is enough.

Diversity is something to be cherished. But if all we do is to, e.g, take Mozart pieces and give to conductors of different races and backgrounds, are we really promoting diversity or are we just putting a corporate spin in institutionalized racism, and implicitly perpetuating the idea that "classical" (or better, "erudite") music can only be valued if it comes from dead white people?

I haven't been watching much TV or movies lately, and one of the main reasons is that it seems that most of things come out are just re-heated servings of old stuff. The one exception that I can think of is Atlanta, which deserves praise exactly because it is more focused in telling a story and taking risks than in merely following a certain formula to please the audiences.

So, to repeat: the story of LoTR has been told already. It has its context and its place. To get diversity now, I rather see these talented people telling new stories, with their own voices and their own perspectives, not just put on some kind of display by the studios and used to manufacture fake virtue.
As a regular user, I am dreading the day when I am forced to sideload an app with no privacy regulations in order to use key services.
One exception is the movie "Over The Edge" with a cast of all unknown first time acting high school kids. It worked well. The movie made Matt Dillon a star. I'm surprised more directors don't take a chance like that.
It sometimes feel like me learning Prolog completely ruined me for SQL. Doing even simple things seems ridiculously hard with SQL.
this is from the group run by Prof Andy Pavlo who is the founder of ottertune (referenced in other comments)
Vivaldi is making quite an effort to replace Thunderbird. They recently released very powerful local email management. Still has some ways to go for edge case features but seems to be a very nice local client overall.
Anthony Mackie on why Hollywood movies are of poor quality and why there are no movie stars anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8JK6c5x3M
A surgery is a closed task. Driving is an open ended task interacting many actors and novel challenges. It’s probably slow enough that it can visually confirm assumptions with a human operator if need be.I would bet on the autonomous surgeon over the autonomous driver any day.
I saw Tom Cruise at the Silverstone racetrack with Mercedes during the British Grand Prix. Seeing him without makeup was a huge change from how he looked in the latest Top Gun movie. He actually looked his age.
All that already exists on Android and the negatives didn't happen (with modern android versions), on the contrary. My phone supports multiple payment vendors using nfc. I can have Tasker do magic with my phone etc.
That's not even close to being adequate for the kinds of things good REPLs are good for.
FBI Child ID App
This looks really nice! This is by HtmlStream who create very polished templates.
Suffix Aliases (-S) in Zsh
> Re data, I think egress rates are going to start disappearing over the next few years.

I'm not sure why you think that. AWS hasn't budged on their egress pricing for a decade (except the recent free tier expansion), despite the underlying costs dropping dramatically. GCP and Azure have similar prices.

Fact is, egress pricing is a moat. Cloud providers want to incentivize bringing data in (ingress is always free) and incentivize using it (intra-DC networking is free), but disincentivize bringing it out. If your data is stuck in AWS, that means your computation is stuck in AWS too.
Porn aficionados are not a protected minority group...

Are you really saying at someone who likes porn and isn't able to buy it is comparable to a gay man being indicted (or worse) for loving a man?...
If you don't want to use Apple services, why are you buying an Apple device? These facetious arguments make no sense.
> Totality

Best of luck. Dhall is a current language with totality, but it runs into impossibly high memory requirements as a result. We had CI workers with 16 GB RAM run into out-of-memory issues because of the sheer size of the totally expanded type space (sum types of types which are themselves sum types of types which are themselves sum types etc... Exponential growth is easy).

I appreciate that this is scoped as a hobby project for now, not recommended for production, so like I said, best of luck :)
I haven't seen a conclusive answer. My search results suggest that she may be 22, but it is mostly based on the fact that she has some voice acting credits from 2003. Someone on Reddit mentioned that they read an article saying "(...) she moved to LA w her family when she was 6, and then took up acting classes “a while later”" and this suggest that voice acting would probably be after this. So she would be from 1997 at least and that would make her 25 (or more). The show had its premiere on January 2021.

Regardless it is remarkable or even more remarkable.

I looked her up, because my daughter was asking about her.
Sure. It's all a manner of economic and political pressures and weights. We can also colonize the Moon or fill in the New York Harbor, but there are much cheaper and more realistic alternatives.

Israel is an unusual case: it's a state that exists more or less by religious mandate, meaning that its residents have gone above and beyond ordinary economic and political forces to make it livable. Lots of individual outcomes there can be applied elsewhere (like drip irrigation), but much is also politically infeasible in the US (like Israel's central authority that progressively taxes commercial water use.) Ecological variables also differ: the majority of people in Israel live in the Northern half of the country, which is wetter and greener than the American Southwest. That's also where agriculture is concentrated.
Millions of people downloading .exe files everywhere are why we have an infosec industry. I trust indie developers on the App Store because of the restrictions and the review process. I’ll never side load a small developer’s app. And I worry that major players (I.e. Facebook) will require side loading so they can be free of the App Store rules about privacy.
And Tom Cruise is 60.
Heard Mark Andreessen drop this tidbit in an interview, thought it was so startling that I had to look it up.
Why do you think Apple's decision makers would make the same decision to mine based on the same information? I'm pretty sure that Tim clearly understood the trade-off and his leverage was on a more predictable path via more market controls. You gotta understand different people make different decisions even with the same input.
There is not a consensus that the baby was alive when she delivered it. The prosecution claimed that it was, based on a very old testing methodology called the “lung float” test, which posits that if the lung floats in water, the baby must have drawn at least one breath. It is an old and discredited methodology.
…or you could pay developers what they charge.

Stop participating in a race to the bottom.
More like "after Tim Sweeney suddenly became obsessed with Apple and started demanding things".

"...they would still have a monopoly on app distribution..." on the platform that they've created, supported and maintained over the years, in the market that already has alternatives.

"Steam isn't comparable..." ah, so Steam charging the same percentage is a whole different thing...i see.

"...competes against other distributors." on the Windows, Linux and MacOS operating systems, operating on a platform that is not exclusive to any manufacturer in partucular.

"...they just need to compete with other service providers to ensure they're providing a fair deal." They already do compete, look up alternative iOS stores.
I think you might be putting a bit too much stock in what a recruiter thinks. Recruiters generally do not know the first thing about the industry they're recruiting for, and in my experience, having a history of solving problems across a breadth of domains is received well by hiring managers.

You just need to find the right hiring managers. But the trick is, the ones who don't value that? Aren't the ones you want to work for anyway.
As a byproduct it does give a measure of privacy so what's it to you if apple users just don't care about your idea of freedom? I hope this European legislation at least lets apple customers opt-IN to these new features or choose the old way of doing business. I would prefer to keep access footprints to a minimum to stuff like NFC, contacts, hardware APIs, apple pay, etc on my phone.
See my edit. Equity means your outcome is determined by relevant metrics, and not by irrelevant metrics.
This is a great feature. We manually added the indexes it recommended for a while but eventually found ourselves always adding the suggestions so we turned on the automatic creation.
> I don’t recognize the actors at all.

That's a good sign. First, there are far more great actors than famous actors. Second, that's how you get someone to make a 7 season (or longer) commitment. Look at the MCU. They don't get A-listers (except Ryan Reynolds), they make them in return for an N-movie commitment.

The MCU also seemed to transition to hiring lesser-known directors, etc. so they could be trusted to be willing to follow the directions from corporate.

I don't particularly need something done super-artistically. I need a long-running series to be managed well. Otherwise you end up with all the situations where the series takes an abrupt turn and fucks itself up.
Privatize gains, socialize losses!
Nope, they will not get to keep their App Store restrictions. From the DMA Q&A page (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_...):

> Ban on requiring app developers to use certain of the gatekeeper's services (such as payment systems or identity providers) in order to appear in app stores of the gatekeeper;
infosec, like defense (stuff like the internet and apollo missions) are how humanity progresses. Power plays always keep us behind
It's true. And Kubernetes is not the magic sauce that fixes all problems either. It _can_ be a pretty efficient problem generator itself :-)
Edit: Yep, I misread this
> Search is a good example of this, HN's search is basic keyword-based search, and I find it practically unusable because I don't always know the right keywords. A significantly smarter version, of the calibre that FAANG style companies could put out, would be great! Of course it would take more effort than it's worth for this user base to create it because investment like that only makes sense at scale.

Elasticsearch would be a good fit for this, and it's such a delight to use, once you understand how it works. Just tweak some parameters, and you get a fast search engine with immensely useful features like stemming, parameter ranking, and so on. It's one of those things that I love to use on client sites because it makes me look like more of a genius than I really am.
You're ignoring the massive ecosystem of vendors, managed service providers, colocation facilities, consulting firms, etc. whose profit margins are paid to manage most on prem deployments. Very few entities are doing it all with in-house staff.
>We ended up explaining the challenge and giving them access, plus up to two weeks to submit. (We’d always give more time if they asked).

Sorry, but I'm not spending "up to two weeks" to answer some made-up problem you have for me

I have better things to do in life (like kids, current job, hobbies, etc)
If we could just fix navigating back to the homepage on Safari scrolling to the top of the page :(
Why would one have to hire a whole new cadre of technical talent? Wouldn't it just be taking existing talent and/or ops teams and having them work with the autoscaling APIs as opposed to working with the data center teams. If the skillsets don't match then you can either train existing talent or, yes, hire new folks.

I agree the occasional phone call removed from your workflow isn't reason enough to justify a giant cloud migration... but it is one of many reasons.
The part about Apple is not accurate. Apple operates several dozen datacenters, has spent north of $30 billion building them and expanding them in recent years, operates their own Kubernetes (was Mesos) cloud platform that looks a lot like Heroku internally, and leverages public cloud for a couple parts of iCloud as a redundancy play, and no more. Maps helped prompt the expansion from single-homed iTunes legacy datacenter strategy, but even that iTunes legacy has been online since the early 2000s. Note that my context ends almost a decade ago, so, there’s that. The fleet dedicated to Maps alone when I worked there was large enough to be its own FAANG/MAMAA.

They’re in the datacenter game long term. In no universe does Apple “host iCloud in other company’s clouds”. Apple is notoriously a control freak and would never place their strategic services at the whim of cloud AZs. That idea was proposed and quickly eliminated. (Believe it or not, it is possible to spend that much on Azure/GCP and still only use it for basically blobs. How do you think they moved so easily
in 2018ish?)
The Swerve
Here's a detail: iOS stopped apps from tracking you, and it worked so well that Facebook (an ad company) fought it tooth and nail and lost quite a bit of money because of it. Do you have any such details of similar things happening in Android?
Landmark EU rules will finally put regulation of Big Tech to the test