skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to be a little more explicit (like, you know, which country/city that is, the kind of the store, its size/personnel needed, etc.), it is not like all "brick and mortar" businesses are the same, and they do not stand in a vacuum, in some cases the location is everything, in others it is irrelevant, the specific nature of the store might need nothing in particular or years of experience, etc., etc., and in different countries/places something may be promising in one and declining in another.
His org used jira but not confluence? Why couldn't they just document these things in confluence?

Edit: This is a serious question. What is that value prop of backstage over confluence?
> The GBD was specifically couched in terms of total harm reduction

So were the lockdown, mask mandate, and social distancing policies. We had far less severe lockdown than China in explicit recognition of the potential harm of more severe lockdowns. Again, the idea to reduce total harm is not unique to either side here, you can disagree all you want, but almost everyone is interested in reducing total harm, the debate is over how to do that, not whether.

BTW who are you quoting with “naive”, and why do you believe taking some action to reduce death during a pandemic is naive compared to a Libertarian backed idea to do nothing and let nature sort itself out? With hindsight, we actually know now that the GBD’s suggestion was naive because immunity rates after contracting Covid are not as good as they hoped for.
Why would they disable Atmos?
it's not a real solution, but one can always use a forwarder to ship it from the US (that's what I did)
The study uses historical data, change in mental health before and after Facebook was introduced to a campus. Which is a very cool way to make use of a natural control. Nice study.

Seems clear facebook had negative impact on mental health on campus.

Facebook then was also likely very different from Facebook now. So not exactly sure what recommendations for today can be drawn from it.

It's interesting to note that the data shows facebook was damaging mental health at the same time that many readers of this comment were most enthusiastic about Facebook.
> where do you work that requires ethics reviews on roaches?

A university.

> and where is the line for where it's considered cruel or not?

I don't know. I never needed ethical committee approval and was never part of it and never asked this particular question.

> tbh i have 0 issues killing bugs.

I'd bet the same about the ethical committee members.

> do you not believe in pest control?

Sure I do believe!
I've long suspected that these "megacorporations" are nurtured for national security reasons, to consolidate and project power. The disproportionate influence is by design, a feature not a flaw. Especially since those who make the rules are owned by such powers themselves, including those responsible for intelligence (corporate spying, undermining workers unions) and regulation (not preventing Metalphabetamazons from dominating a wide range of industries).
That's why you have your own link shorteners. There is no reason to use some third party shortener that may or may not be alive the next year.
There comes a point where the evidence and consensus are so strong that dissenting opinions are no longer worth considering. If someone in acadamia tries to say the Earth is flat, would you expect them to be taken seriously, or laughed out of their profession?
There have been some interesting ML gems rolled in the past few years:

https://ankane.org/new-ml-gems

Any thoughts on what the Ruby community would need to build in order for it to become an attractive tool for AI work?
The Playaway is a one-book audiobook player, which is great for easy use but pretty expensive for avid readers. https://www.playaway.com/
That's not a NYTimes article. Furthermore "vast majority" does not mean every single instance, it means significantly more than 50%.

Google results will vary from person to person, but for me only 2 of the first 10 results are from the past 20 years, which is especially surprising since Google tends to prefer more recent results. I think 80% counts as "vast majority".

Finally since I'm at work I decided to just ask 4 women colleagues and they all agreed unanimously that referring to women as female is weird. It's clinical and unusual in the same kind of way as referring to people as "human" (said in a kind of alien/robotic voice that people use to make fun of Zuckerberg).
We will never be free.
It's a good idea and fills a needed niche. Don't let the haters get to you.
That's valid, but a bit depressing. It means that YouTube will never be able to accommodate me. Hmmm... maybe that's the realization I needed in order to finally give YouTube the boot. Thank you!
Telescreen, newspeak, mass surveillance, perpetual war, "officials" acting as if what they are saying now is always what they said, etc. It's almost easier to list the things that we don't have in common.
The Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act will change a lot of things for both Apple and Google.
Show HN: Vim Tutorial as RPG
While I don't have sympathy for proprietary formats that come with an added use charge, alternative Google formats forced upon the world in the name of a “healthier, broader ecosystem” tend to create friction and unwanted overhead. Thinking of AMP and webP in particular.

And uncertainty ... how long will such efforts last before Google loses interest or is forced to abandon them?
> As in, you can't sign on to several business organizations like you can in Slack. It's so dumb and disqualifying. Utter nightmare if you work with several organizations.

I think they were really hoping they could make that cross-tenant thing work where you only have one account that you can use as a guest in other orgs, but that really doesn't reflect how things work in the field (you have separate accounts at each organization).
> too many issues

Such as?
Depends on the way you're pronouncing it maybe. To be intelligible IMO it must be read differently from a modern text, with well sounding liaisons, and all vowels very distinct: "un" sounds differently from "in", "â" clearly differs from "a", "ai" and "è" from "é" and for instance the "e" in "étendues" must be pronounced, though not loudly.

My test gives that, much better than yours:

Mes *rêverants* pères, mes lettres n'avaient pas accoutumé de se suivre de si près ni d'être si étendues. Le peu de temps que j'ai eu a été cause de l'un et de l'autre. Je n'ai fait celle aussi plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de *l'af*faire plus courte. La raison qui m'a obligé de me *ra*ter vous est mieux connue qu'à moi. Vos réponses vous réussiss*ez* mal. Vous avez bien fait de changer de méthode. Mais je ne sais si vous avez bien choisi et si le monde ne dira pas que vous avez eu peur des bénédict*eurs*.
Google forced them to take the Play Store and search widget (including default search engine) as a condition to get Play Services.

Play Services is required by a majority of android apps and developping and maintening a compatible system layer is just out of reach of most(all?) device makers.
Preventing JS injection would make lots of legitimate use cases impossible. I really hope Apple doesn't punish all developers for Facebook's actions.
The fallout from this should be interesting. This fine is a substantial part (roughly 25%!) of Google's overall revenue from the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa), of which the EU is probably like 90%, at least, of the total, so it's probably toing the line of actually making the EU unprofitable to Google considering the costs of future compliance to avoid being fined again. Worse: this was not as steep as the fine could have been, they could've fined them about double this amount under current regulations, but chose not to. Probably because that would have pushed Google's EU operations into the red for sure and made the decision easy for them.

To be sure the company won't be in trouble financially, their global revenue can cover the fine, but that doesn't stop the EU from potentially being a net loss for the company going forward. Abandoning the EU would be a drastic step, though. It's going to be interesting to see how they adapt to this. Another fine on this scale and I think they will pull out.
YouTube supports HDR via existing HDR-capable file (MP4, MKV, MOV) and media formats (VP9 Profile 2, AV1, HEVC/H.265, ProRes 422, ProRes 4444, DNxHR HQX, H.264 10-bit), but this article is about Google creating new open/royalty-free formats (under unified branding) for HDR and 3D audio.
> Covid death numbers could also fall if hospitals stop routinely testing people for the virus. That's because the current death counts may include some people who tested positive for Covid when they were hospitalized but died of other illnesses.
More of these are in order,

https://fee.org/articles/we-failed-danish-newspaper-apologiz...
And to buy Chinese goods. Especially when China and USA are no longer "friends".
It's the local optima.

Government censorship is worse, and everything becoming 8chan is worse, so we're here.

Maybe there's some new paradigm out there where users can self-select into their desired open source filters or something. But that's a while away at best.
> Next up I'd like to see them do the same for the plethora of incompatible cordless power-tool systems out there as they did with insisting all mobile phones standardise on a USB connector.

We should all be glad that didn't happen with micro-USB or some of the worse connectors years ago, because we would still be stuck with them. USB-C was innovated by the market, not by EU bureaucrats.
Don’t Read the Proxy Statement
Not my problem. You're the one collecting the data. You pay for the costs. Can't afford to collect my data? Go out of business then.
> Sure, it can occasionally be interpreted as meaning something, but so can random gibberish.

Some gibberish is better than others. For instance, on x86 (64-bit, 32-bit, or even 16-bit), filling with the 0xcc byte means that, if executed as code, it will trap (0xcc is the single-byte INT3 "single-step breakpoint" instruction). And for most Unix-style operating systems, which put the kernel in the high half of the address space, the filler bytes should have the high bit set, so that treating them as pointers will trap (the pointer will have its high bit set, pointing to kernel memory, which user space is forbidden from accessing).
I mean the incompetence is only a tiny part of why I feel this way - with how much they improperly use the data they already have on us I'd rather not let them record every login I perform etc.
Measuring BITS/h (butt-in-the-seat/hours).
There's a large difference though between what governments could presumably buy from ad trackers or data warehouses and what they can get by intercepting unencrypted web traffic at the ISP level.
Most of the industry uses HDR grading tools made by Dolby.
They’re paying to use Dolby’s encoding schemes. It’s not the idea of “stereo audio” that’s patent encumbered, it’s some of the encoding schemes that can output stereo audio (much less so these days, patents are expiring and all of MP3’s have). Same with surround audio and spatial audio and HDR: Dolby has an encoding scheme that works well and gets the desired result, is high quality, usually higher quality than the alternatives, and they market it well.

I’ll welcome anyone that wants to enter the space that thinks they can do better, but Dolby is good at what they do, and Google often has massive commitment issues for new projects (although notably, not usually when it comes to codecs). I suspect what will happen is YouTube will develop their own HDR and audio codecs, and it’ll just be used on YouTube and almost nowhere else. That’ll be enough to drive client support, but it’ll be one more HDR format in addition to HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, and it’ll be one more set of audio codecs in addition to like the half dozen to a dozen they already decode, and ultimately this will be to increase the quality of YouTube while minimizing their licensing costs. That’s fine.
Dolby vision playback effectively doesn't work on PCs, so if you are a consumer that uses PCs, you have a reason to care.
SpaceX announced the plan for cross-world rocket flights cheaper than a business class ticket in 2018, by 2028, and Musk doubled down on the timeframe in an interview in 2020. Boom doesnt have a chance of earning back its investment if it will only be able to operate for a few years before Musk comes through on his aggressive timeline. Passengers will need to be fitted for spacesuits and there is no launch abort system.
And that in fact is how the law works, with of course a couple of fringe cases [0]. If you're walking down the street and stumble over a folder of TS/SCI/SAP material, you can publish it all you want. The only time you have a duty to protect classified material is if you signed a non-disclosure agreement.

[0] exceptions: nuclear secrets as outlined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and the identities of intelligence officers acting clandestinely. The former is a wreck of a law (how would Grandma Smith know a document marked S/RD is special, plus there's the whole 'Born Secret' bit), and the latter hasn't been tried out that much in court.
Colab is using one of the larger models. Tiny probably runs in realtime on a single core of an RPi.
They only need a court order (which can be from a secret court providing secret guidance, and can be a infinite standing order that covers vast amounts of arbitrary collection AUMF-style) to force companies to turn things over. Companies can just hand your data over because they don't want to be retaliated against (or in return for favors), and nobody needs a warrant, nobody ever has to tell anyone. Depending on agency internal rules, they may not even have to keep a record themselves of having done it (if they break their rules, they'll be responsible for punishing themselves though, I'm sure they'll be harsh.)

That's your targeted ads (and your cellphone tracking, and your transaction records.)
That only happens in specially marked Rust-advocacy posts.

More people pick up C++ to use professionally in any given week than the total population of working Rust coders. Rust is practically invisible outside hipster media.
Show HN: RLP Records an ETH music registry prototype using acoustic fingerprints
Hi HN, I wanted to share a little prototype I was working on to create an ethereum music registry system.

The idea was that an artist could upload their music to the app, and the app would fingerprint the track and create an NFT using the derived data so that the music is claimed and searchable.
There's a demo video showing the project in the README.

The app is written using Hardhat, React, IPFS, Django, MVP.css and pyacoustid (the fingerprinting library). I had some ideas of how you could create on-chain record labels too
So is it safe to say Monero is a sort of Bitcoin 2.0? I mean if Bitcoin had 'versions' that would be great. Then we wouldn't have to invent entirely new cryptocurrencies, we could just iterate on existing ones, and have our userbase intact without having to 'gain traction' for an entirely new alt-coin.
Anticompetitive practices are stopping them. That’s the point of these fines. Google controls the predominant non-Chinese marketplace for apps that are compatible with android-based operating systems, and they use it as a hostage to force other device manufacturers to arbitrarily force other google products upon their uses, for the purpose of unfairly expanding their market dominance.
What is the fix exactly?
> Strangely, the issue is similar to COVID.

It would have been career suicide to go against the narrative with covid. Witness what happens to any paper published that suggests things in covid-land might not be as bad as claimed. They first get discredited as "not peer reviewed" and their authors get thrown to the wolves. Same with anything that shows masks don't really work very well. Or lockdowns don't work well. "Not peer reviewed" and "authors are bozos".

These same people have absolutely no problem accepting papers that are based on crazy computer models using garbage data or "studies" that don't mimic anything real with very small sample sizes.

Anything that goes with the narrative that covid is the worst thing ever and that masks are awesome was cheered on. It didn't matter how flimsy the research was. As long as it supported the cause it was golden.
The "Closing Thoughts" section. Wow. Two quotes:
"The first query's time is the fastest I've seen among any of the Cloud-exclusive offerings I've run benchmarks on. It's great to see these times without the need for any sort of complex tuning or extensive hardware planning."
and
"Hybrid storage is a real game changer."

Managing databases is a pain. If the price is right, let someone else manage it while my team gets to focus on business-value projects.
And the hybrid storage... so nice to have that data accessible, without paying a premium for once-in-a-while access.
Same here and I'm still young. I'd guess it's more a result of the accessibility of information rather than getting old itself.
By that Wikipedia description I don't really see how it could be used for such.
> It would hardly be a conspiracy theory to pin this on Israel rather than women suddenly waking up and deciding to riot after thousands of years of oppression.

Or, you know, it could be that Iranian women just want that freedom back that was taken from them some 40 years ago. It's not like they've had to cover their hair and follow islamist rules for all of history. If you have any trust in pictures left, go look it up. You'll find plenty of photos of Iranians looking very much like Westerners 70 years ago.

I understand the love for conspiracy theories, but this one is just lacking any effort.
I actually use a third party, because I'm not a dev and have no idea on how to do one myself.
when people say '1984' they dont always mean Winston and Julia, sometimes they mean the Proles.

> If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.

https://www.abhaf.org/assets/books/html/1984/47.html
Do they have researchers working on new audio and video formats?

Short answer is yes. Search for "Dolby" under "Author Affiliation" in the AES paper search [0] and you can see the research they publish. (the papers themselves are unfortunately behind the AES paywall, but if usually authors will send you the paper if you ask nicely).

[0] https://www.aes.org/publications/preprints/search.cfm
Actually, it's about 35 fathoms.
It's still not clear.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0313....

Now don't get me wrong, I would rather our energy come from clean sources, but as a principal of healthy lungs not changing climate. There's much much much stronger evidence that the actual sun is affecting our climate more than anything right now.

When things don't fit the narrative, all funding and direction is cut off.
What is the exact model? Would you sell it?
What about TimescaleDB vs a lot of other OLAP databases like ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, Databend, etc.?

Or hybrid databases like StarRocks or TiDB?
Oh, so you do know that without having to see them smoking joints and napping all day at a glance.
Wikimedia Sound Logo Contest
"Through an open contest, organized by the Wikimedia Foundation, we are inviting the world to create The Sound of All Human Knowledge. This sound will help communicate what the Wikimedia movement stands for — trustworthy, reliable, open, and accessible knowledge for all."
> digital privacy as a fundamental human right

Why would digital privacy be a fundamental human right before normal privacy?
Because it's just a webpage bundled with an obese web browser masquerading as a standalone desktop app.
I did something similar with https://statico.link when I couldn't find a cheap, free and easy service to do this.

It started as a simple nginx URL map since I was already running nginx (https://gist.github.com/statico/14fa84d7e79722031d5e49694191...) but is now a tiny containerized app because friends requested an index page. The requirement is that all links need to be named (i.e. no random hashes).
C++ lambda is particularly adapted to the needs of C++, and C++ programmers. It would be very surprising if it matched any Lisp's. Lisps differ from one another, too.
As with all studies in the social sciences, one of two principles apply.

First, if the conclusions are counterintuitive or unexpected, then when you look closer, you will find that the methodology is garbage and that it does not support the conclusions given.

Second, if the conclusions reflect things that you believe are true, when you look closer, you will find that the methodology is garbage and that it does not support the conclusions given.
> Would never clear filibuster.

A filibuster by who? Neither party would support any privacy rules that placed any undue importance on privacy.
I think love languages are good tool for getting on the same page 1:1 with a partner, but they're only marginally more useful than horoscopes. Things like "my partner really appreciates if I've got my arm around them while watching a movie" or "my partner appreciates if I get a pot of coffee going while they're in the shower" are good things to establish, and love languages are a good lens to establish them. But so many people want concise objective measures of who people are, and put way more weight on things than they deserve.
Review and Collaborate on Your UI
The topography and history are closer to Baltimore than Indy? It's historically been part of the Rust Belt. It's considered part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis [0]. It's on the Western side of the Appalachian divide. Culturally it has far more in common with Cleveland or Columbus than Philly or NYC. The only reason it's even a question is because its in Pennsylvania, which contains Philly which is clearly East Coast. But cultural, geographic, and economic regions aren't defined by stat borders. If instead of being a part of Pennsylvania, there was a "Western Pennsylvania" and "Eastern Pennsylvania", no one would question lumping Western Pennsylvania in with the rest of the Midwest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_megalopolis#/media...
Ooh, I have a good one for this. If you have a C++ `std::string` object passing into a C API that takes a null-terminated `char *`, there's a convenience method `std::string::c_str()` to produce the C string from the C++ one.

char const* inputFilename = std::string("path/to/file").c_str();
call_to_C_API(inputFilename);

Boom. You can typically access `inputFilename` until the next allocation on the stack, but it will almost always go bad quickly. This isn't allocation on the heap, which usually requires another level of indirection, but you get the idea.