skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Improving “The Queue”
So I was looking at the queue that is developing in London and is expected grow to be miles long and couldn’t help but think this seems like a classic engineering problem, a physical counterpart to the kind of thing you’d get asked about in the system design part of a development interview about dealing with peak traffic and/or batching. The current approach to me seems really archaic, single queue, First in First out, huge waits, a lot of stress on the transport network as people pile into London unplanned etc.

I feel like it would have made way more sense to have a website ready where you could have registered and then received a QR code and an allocated slot to go view the queen. I brought this up on Reddit but it got a bit of push back, people saying how it would be unsuitable for the elderly etc but I still think there would be ways round it like a standard queue run alongside the allocated system.

Obviously you can’t scale it horizontally like you would in a traditional computer science way by adding duplicate queens in duplicate Westminster halls so I was just wondering what the big brains of HN would come up with if it was under their control?
A bet a majority of people making the "I have nothing to hide" argument actually do and just don't really think about it.

How would you feel about a system that monitored your driving in such a way that every second you spend 1 mph over the speed limit, you accrue a fine and points on your license?

I'm pretty sure the driving in my home state would change drastically, very quickly, so maybe it'd be a good thing over all.
The pasta absurdity obscures the author's attempt at communication.
For the record, this is my most downvoted comment on HN to date. As a privileged person I happily stand by it.
Maybe similar to a startup incubator/fund the idea is that most effort does fail and as long as some small percentage is wildly successful the whole enterprise continues.

The “low productivity” is a feature indicating low priority effort is appropriately prioritized. A key challenge is when something without a strategic purpose/value is released and becomes a beloved product that eventually must be depreciated, like Google Reader. It is much better to develop and never release than to release something without strategic benefit that causes problems in long run.
https://en-de.neumann.com/tlm-102

> Due to its enormous dynamic range of 132 dB [...]

Not really interested in dissecting what this means, or how to reconcile it with the SNR numbers. Just saying that Neumann does, in fact, make this claim.

Not sure what point you're making about distortion.
Nobody can type a message to a computer without knowing how the interface works. I think you are confused on this topic. Natural language is just a translation layer. If you wanted to you could put AI on top of a UI that works on intent as well.
If a product was never announced in the first place people won't notice when it gets canceled.
Yes! I immediately thought of T2's Cyberdyne Systems and Alien's Weyland-Yutani.

Real question: Does anyone know the meaning of suffix "-dyne"?
I came here to comment this too. It works surprisingly well. Perfect for using your iPad in bed (someone's got to get the Sudokus done..) while someone else is sleeping or something as you can go extremely dark and extremely red, hurting no-one's eyes at all.
If I compress an image with JPEG, I won't get the exact same pixels values in the original image after decompressing because the compression is lossy, but I'm sure you'll agree that the original image is "there". How are NN weights different from the DCT coefficients in a JPEG file?
>A metallurgist got 10 years for falsifying reports of steel robustness recently

She didn't get 10 years, she "faces up to ten years in prison... She will be sentenced in February"

Her sentence ended up actually being considerably less, 2.5 years.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/02/14/metallur...
So either (a) we're dumb and pathetic, or (b) these issues are more complicated than we give them credit for.

For example, even though my personal opinion is that royalty is an abomination, how can I be so sure that the evolution of human social organization didn't require that particular structure? What if social organization is just a hard optimization problem, and king/queen rule is a temporary equilibrium state?
Have you used aftermarket 3 point belt? A family member's Ranchero had them; the shoulder restraint slid into the lap belt near the buckle, but if you moved it would slip out. I can't imagine that being helpful in a crash, just a tethered weight to fly around.
Show HN: Location Based Trivia Game
Hi HN!

As I was travelling the countryside, I found myself wanting to know more about the cities I was travelling through, the people, their history. So I built a small trivia game to do just that!

openyoureyes.app (en-US)
ouvretesyeux.app (fr-CA)

It's a simple standalone Preact app that uses Wikidata's SparQL API to query points of interest around you. It then turns them into questions. Simple as that! There's only a handful of supported facts right now (demonym, population, etc), but I'm planning to add more as I go.

Let me know what you think!
I suspect that most people are not worried about government intrusion on privacy, exactly because they feel they don't have anything to hide and haven't (they believe) done anything wrong. They want to feel safe and believe government surveillance will help, and that people going out of their way to use encryption or privacy tools are up to shady business.

I'm not sure how to change this mindset. I just do not see how to get the vast majority of people to value privacy, especially at the cost of (perceived) safety.

Edit: And, ironically, those same people WILL be very concerned about privacy from (dastardly!) corporations, while I am not so much.
Have you tried eSIM? It’s dependent on carrier, of course, but it’s actually an incredible UX.

My partner lost his phone (and SIM) recently and I was able to transfer his T-Mobile line to a different iPhone in a few minutes using eSIM. It was totally automated using the T-Mobile website — enter the IMEI then scan a QR code with iPhone camera.

I saved a trip to the store to get a new SIM card and didn’t have to talk to a human.
After writing this comment and reading some others, I was reminded of CDI - the dependency injection blackbox. It was advertised as the next best thing to allowing developers to focus only on their business logic and let the CDI runtime inject the dependencies. That turned out to be giant mess. Couldn't understand what a piece of code was doing statically and you had to run the code, attach a debugger to find out what dependency got injected and what its implementation looks like. And of course, things behaved differently because some other dependency implementation got picked up and injected instead of the one that you had debugged in dev environment.

Simple code turned into a complete dependency injection spagetti just beacuse CDI was a specification and advertised as the next best thing to come from the Java EE ecosystem.

I am really glad we moved away from that area.
I also find it hilarious when studies point out the blatantly obvious - but I'd rather see this way more often than tons of unreplicable crap churned out.
Oh hell yes they do. At least on rural highways in the Southeastern US.
Oh they certainly still do have some bureaucracy, but you will never see an L3 at Google being promoted to L5 in 1 year whereas that is a (very rare) possibility at FB.
Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry (1984)
What I find enlightening about your description is how closely it matches incentives and resulting behavior in much less technically complex or profitable professions. Every dynamic mentioned is basically the common sense understanding of corporate workplaces we gain by late 20's or early 30's, but with a few SWE idiosyncrasies added in.

In some ways, it's both terrifying and comforting that highly competent people in difficult disciplines are also like this.
“the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram at a rate of one centimetre per second squared”

Probably why a lot of aerospace companies used it in their name.
Yes I understand the difference between threads and fibers. That is a much different conversation than "All functions async by default and preemptible."
The Central Subway will cripple MUNI for years to come
I found this out by just trial and error.

Hold and walk until they sleep, then keep walking for 5-10 minutes, or just sit down for 10 minutes before laying them on the bed.
So, I've never done anything where lives and health are on the line, but I've built tons of stuff out of salvaged space-age transistors. What's particularly wrong with refurbishment as a practice? There is a lot of good material out there, much of which is no longer made and has no contemporary equivalent.
Why is an esim a problem?
> Because porting a small, simple Javascript library to other languages is typically very easy if you really need it

I want to use some prover lib in my Java/C#/Py code. I can wrap jni API for existing C++ library, or maybe original author already built such wrapper for popular language.

And you propose me instead to go and reverse engineer library Js code which I am not that proficient in, and rewrite all code in Java instead?..

> and C/C++ are a lot more of a pain to implement certain things in?

this is challengeable.

> more people know Javascript than they know C and C++

this people do UI, and usually not interested in utilizing prover.

> and there are numerous high-quality provers in C/C++ already that one can use if it's for actual usage

For example?
Right here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne
That’s very prestigious but orthogonal to remuneration unless one is operating a low status patent troll.
Boeing employee: Taking bids on a CEO contract, discount for disgruntled spouses and competing military suppliers.
No, but it's not exactly an uncommon thing --- search "ultra-thin lipo" and you'll find plenty.
Debussy is a common inspiration for many Japanese classical compositions (especially in anime). Maurice Ravel (of "Bolero" and "Pavane" fame) is another common one.

Since you mentioned Yellow Magic Orchestra, you likely know of Ryuichi Sakomoto. In case you were unaware, he has composed several movie and concert pieces for piano many of which were notably inspired by Ravel. One of my favorites is "Blu" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWI5aVKvkCg).
Interesting, so you've given due credit and/or monetary compensation to every single photographer you've learned from along the way? Yea, thought so.
What? My Xs is able to capture 4K 60fps video just fine and has a perfectly good camera and runs the new iOSs just fine. Having THE newest iPhone is hardly a requirement. My phone gets the same patches and security updates as any other iPhone
> It should be noted that, unlike most behavioral interventions for infant sleep difficulties, 9,10 this protocol does not address any long-term improvement of sleep regulation.

I'd expect as much since this is the first thing a parent tries to do. Holding the baby when they wake crying several times a night will calm them, not exactly revelatory, but can come in handy even for more lasting solutions.

I find the lit/consultants have wildly varying degrees of severity for approaches, including for gradual extinction. The mistake I think we made prior to seeking intervention is feeding-to-sleep for too long, i.e. the baby would drink a bottle right before bed and get knocked out (mostly). They were always accustomed to being asleep in arms before being put down. I think if you feed slightly earlier in the routine-chain, with the lights on, you go a long ways to avoiding this issue, since you can rock them while they're awake for a time before putting them down. In some branded variants of graduated extinction, they suggest making sure your baby is super wakeful and basically dropping them in the crib right away after reading a book - this seems needlessly harsh when going from the opposite extreme, which is reflected in the baby's level of crying. We found that it went well to rock them until they were calm and drowsy (but still awake) before putting them down. The protest was mild and short-lived, but of course that's only our experience.
Is my browser broken and not displaying some comments I should see? The only response I see there is basically "let's wait and see for Apple to provide more details and/or involve third party researchers", which Apple seems to have not done at all in the last 70 days?
This results in Joel being told to review his own spec.
I independently found my way to a similar approach. However, having resources available to new parents is immensely valuable when you're at your wits end.

Actually, you could say the same about all manners of recording history; Story telling, art, education, music.

Why bother with any of it if people can figure it out for themselves? Because we progress further when we work as a team and share knowledge.
> find new music these days like Nirvana, GNR, Metallica, or Kula Shaker?

> new music like Nirvana, GNR, Metallica, or Kula Shaker

> Nirvana, GNR, Metallica, Kula Shaker

Yikes.
>Race is a social construct that only has any relevance in it's historical context

race plays a role in college admissions, and now in this layoff, and maybe hiring at the same company. so clearly it has relevance today in its current context.

>it would be very difficult to understand the point of the policies.

which policies? making hiring and firing decisions based on race is illegal in the USA.

>Most people are willfully ignorant and like to "play dumb" while making bad faith arguments about issues like this. I was merely trying to inquire if the OC was ignorant and willing to learn or willfully ignorant.

You didn't make any arguments at all, you just started quizzing them on their knowledge.

Again, it just seems like you're trying to legitimize systemic institutional racism on the basis of 'historical context' of a 'social construct'.
Sure Spotify is mentioned alot but the two sites in this comment are entirely different recommendation sites that just use Spotify as a music source
Then don’t upgrade? I don’t understand the outrage. So the new iPhone isn’t that exciting to you, so what?
Breaking Down Big Tech Revenue and Profit
> Advertisers are measuring the actual effectiveness of their ads, and paying for that only. Therefore falling effectiveness means falling prices and you have to increase the quantity of ads, to earn the same money (and achieve the same effect) as before.

Note there are significant uncertainties in measuring the effectiveness of ads. Measuring click-through rate is comparatively easy, measuring things like brand-recognition doable, measuring how much a specific ad or campaign influences purchasing decisions is quite a hurdle. Predicting it even harder.

There have been success stories, but online, especially "personalized", ads might have been somewhat of a bubble. Appearing better than they are?
If only something could be done to keep modern cars from looking like a rolling abomination.
Soooooo, it's "wide open to the FBI and any state agencies that get access to Apple's servers"-mode?
I'm sure different fields have different dynamics, and in some what you describe here might be viable and accurate.

But my own impression and experience is that your statement is naive. The key thing I think you miss is that researchers/labs/groups develop fairly specific interests, expertise and "research programs". So taking any paper and looking at the specific area or phenomenon being probed, the techniques/methods used, and the questions or interests driving the research and its analysis, and you'll get a pretty unique "fingerprint" of the researchers that anyone in the same field should be able to identify with pretty good accuracy.

The naivety of your statement I think is this idea that experiments or acts of research are kind of plucked from the air by any who are interested and then the method or technique required is simply downloaded and executed like software.

Researchers aren't generic like computing hardware tries to be. Far from it. A researcher and their research or ability to do research is much more like a tree ... grown organically through experience and pretty fixed and inflexible once it's mature.

None of this is to be really critical of your statement. In fact, I think it's very useful (provided I'm onto something and not merely bitter) to state the ideal practice of science and contrast it with reality.

That we can't do double-blind review is almost certainly a bad thing. And it also tells us something about what kind of "science" (here the global collective enterprise) we have. I think I'm correct about the "fixation" of researchers. But I also think that the culture of science we have encourages this process. I've seen it myself: researchers trying a minor change in field and technique (very minor) and hitting massive resistance from the funding agencies. The conclusion we all drew from seeing it was that the techniques you can get funding for are mostly fixed by your first 10 papers or so. This could be changed and research could get closer to what you describe and I think that would be a good thing. But, as I stated in another comment, to get there requires change beyond the peer review process.

Something else it tells us is that our science operates in a relatively closed and inward looking cultural ecosystem, which indicates to me some degree of corruption is almost guaranteed. If we don't have good diversity and competitive and corrective interactions across space/culture, then, as the "coffins in the ground" adage tells us, we have to rely on diversity across time/generations. And indeed researchers know this just from experience. Someone winning a Nobel prize is like carving their thought in stone ... it takes time for us to move on.

An interesting study in this regard might science during the USSR. I've read glancingly that mathematics research progressed differently between the West and USSR and that, for this interested, cross-pollination was fruitful. An analysis of this could prove insightful. I wonder whether something similar is going on in China at the moment.
That particular C-Corp or LLC, sure. The people behind it that know all the secret sauce, connections, etc, to get awarded contracts just go mint a new one.
I mean why work hard if they don't force you to? It's not like it's an orphanage or a power-plant or something, but a gigantic data-siphoning ad company.
I'm just guessing, but perhaps it's that the comment mentions Meta without vilifying it?
Sure. A few years ago all that stuff was in Find My and they split it out for some reason. Honestly I just assumed it would be there, checked, and sure enough it was.
Weather changes. It's when enough weather changes that the overall climate changes where we begin to have issues.
Pointless and insecure. Who benefits? Why would we let them have this?
Shouldn’t take an Ivy League degree to figure that out
It is not your role to move this forward. This is part of a large struggle for control between different parts of your org. In a good org this would bubble to leadership and get decided in a poor org blamed gets passed so do what you can to avoid being labelled as the cog.

The pm is doing a poor job here. This person needs to meet with the boss of services and let them know the priority and buyin of the project at the leadership level and let them purpose a solution (like a new service)
I think an arms race is a better way to describe the increasing weight of road vehicles.
ProRAW is regular DNG raw files. In the DNG format you can store metadata like tonemapping masks etc but those are non destructive adjustments, it’s like a layer on top of the raw data. You can open the ProRAW files on any app that reads RAW files and undo any processing without loss of information and do your own processing.
I continue to find the iPhone's "night" photos underwhelming compared to Google Pixel's (haven't tested other Android devices). Google seems to be doing a much better job at stacking or other Computational Photography tricks.

Considering Apple's marketing focuses so much on the camera, and they have so much experience in the domain, I'm kind of shocked they continue to be so disappointing.

Perhaps it's a style decision.

(I certainly haven't tried playing with RAW, that's beyond my level of care.)
Yeah so you know send the hulking virile Atlas down to re-education ca… sensitivity training.

Anyway, they [the tellers of the anecdote] seemed to think it was an acceptable reaction to fire young Atlas for his faux pass.
Possible to import from Qownnotes for those who may want to switch?
It's so hard to keep straight, dead children, dead pigs, live children, other politicians... the upper wrung of British society seems to be two thirds disturbing fringe sex stuff and one third terrible decision making.
Another good reason not to give up the Garmin just yet is having two-way communication on your emergency beacon too. It's not really confirmed or known what Apple is offering here and if there will be any way to communicate with rescuers if you have to initiate a rescue.

With Garmin devices you can text both ways and it has been shown in many rescues to be a huge advantage at getting the right search and rescue or other team to you faster--they can find out what the situation is and if they need to skip right to a helicopter rescue for example. If I were an avid hiker I wouldn't ditch the Garmin just yet (but hopefully in a year or two we'll see if Apple and others try to compete in the satellite rescue beacon world and offer comparable features).
2022 Russian businessmen mystery deaths
I am from the US! Probably living in the Bay Area has influenced my ability to use tap to pay almost everywhere now. Covid definitely accelerated this though.

As for parent claiming my life is “uncomplicated” and “predictable” I won’t say they’re wrong. I have a pretty boring yet comfortable life.
Gephi [1] is a software suite to visualize social media datasets.

Demo / feature pages [2][3] show different approaches to visualizing different social media datasets.

Uncertain about current status of software support/development.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gephi

[2] http://www.martingrandjean.ch/gephi-introduction/

[3] Gephi home page : https://github.com/gephi/gephi/releases
There was a really good article posted the other day here, and while focusing on windows, gives a lot of interesting tips for investigating the history of how the driver package was put together and who wrote the driver and using that to help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714806
I have an old barbed wire fence on back of my property. The previous owners put it up in the early 80's and they salvaged the wire. The wire has to be like from the 40's or earlier (it's very dry here). They don't make a barbed wire like this anymore, I've looked. The barbs are really different and it's more primitive looking.

It's just a small section of fence and doesn't actually connect to anything, but I don't have the heart to take it down. The next guy might want to see it in 30+ years and I think it will last that long.

One day I'm going to research it and see if I can figure out how old it is.
The whole "verified person" / "credible account" went out the window years ago when it became a "twitter approved politics" badge. Remember when the drama around 'SJW's were at its height, people started creating obviously fake accounts and spamming the talking points (e.g. #killallmen) to get their accounts verified..
Its having to shutdown, and having to boot into another OS. That's fine if you're targeting a mining rig, but for a home pc, you can't do anything else with the machine. Hence the deal breaker.
Difficult to overstate how much you're in an extreme, extreme minority position if you own a smartphone and don't carry it around pretty much everywhere.