skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was never about you (the customer), if you were thinking that. It was always about they keeping the control so that they can monetize every possible part of the ecosystem. Giving you the freedom takes that opportunity away. You see how they kept chanting "privacy" and slowly started tracking every move of yours in the app store and started showing you the ads, and you kept on believing "you're not a product when you buy an Apple device". No one stops to think how they removed the headphone jack because "courage" and chargers from the box because "environment", and customers still have the illusion of choice while they've been milked constantly.
Possibly redirect to localhost:<port> where the port is one forwarded over ssh could do the trick?
Macs allow installing apps not from the Appstore, and I'm hearing they are quite fine and not a mess.
Hi everyone! I’m one of the co-authors of BenchGraph[1], a platform for Graph Database Performance Benchmarks. Our platform shows the results of running benchmark tests (via mgBench) on supported vendors. It shows the overall performance of each system relative to others.

Inspiration came from ClickBench, a Benchmark For Analytical DBMS.

We previously developed mgBench as in-house testing infrastructure to benchmark Memgraph, and now we are adapting it to support other graph database vendors. In order to test graph database performance, mgBench executes Cypher queries on a given dataset. Queries are general and represent a typical workload that would be used to analyse any graph dataset. Running this benchmark is automated, and the code used to run benchmarks is publicly available. You can run mgBench yourself to validate the results on the BenchGraph platform. The methodology is explained in detail on GitHub repo [2]

As you can see, at the moment, we have two vendors on the platform. We would like to add more vendors to our platform. If you want, feel free to contribute.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

[1] https://memgraph.com/benchgraph
[2] https://github.com/memgraph/memgraph/tree/master/tests/mgben...
From 3 lines written by someone on some social media site you can infer something is true and a fact? ~Cool!~
It is a fact that this is a widely held belief that has been expressed by many philosophers. That you dislike it is another matter entirely. Why is it relevant that you feel that is controversial?

More related to your actual problem with it: To date, I have only seen refutations founded in religion. I call those the "dad" argument ("but my dad says that [...]"). Those stopped being relevant a number of decades ago for me. Do you have something that is a little more compelling?
Speaking of publication pressure, motivation etc.:

I spent my post-doc trying to tackle a rather fundamental challenge (in the architecture of analytical DBMSes). The result of my efforts took a long time to materialize, and their form was not a short article of the kind you put in conferences, but a long tract. I believe it is very useful for my (now former) field; but I could simply not get it published. Not because I was rejected for lack of novelty or anything - it was simply not in the "least publishable unit" form, and not easily (or at all) reducible to that form. The large chunk of preliminaries required motivation in use, and the motivation required the preliminaries etc. But in my field, people don't publish new research as monographs. Bottom line - put the monograph on arxiv, very few people noticed it, and life goes on without it having left a mark.

Plus, by the time this was done, my post-doc had ended, and my weird former career and lack of "publishable paper generation skills" meant I didn't have much chance at another position.

So, in a sense, my personal experience is a bit of the flip-side to that of Feynman, described in the post. Still, the sentiment definitely resonated with me.
I enjoy using Vim, but I feel like it's a pain to use with lesser known languages. Especially when it comes to compiling and such.
That does seem like a plausible nightmare scenario. That they are somehow set loose generating content, are rewarded for virality, and completely drown out content generated by humans. At that point they would exhibit accelerating non-sense. And this would be disruptive for all of society. Maybe.
> You can always Jailbreak your device?

No, you can't and this isn't a serious alternative, especially since Apple goes out of their way to prevent and break jailbreaks.

> Once an App is allowed to break out of the sandbox or be installed away from the AppStore the likelyhood of an average users phone getting into a broken mess at best and becoming infected with a virus at worse goes up my an order of magnitude.

And yet multimillion dollar scams flourish on the App Store[1]:

> That man’s name is Kosta Eleftheriou, and over the past few months, he’s made a convincing case that Apple is either uninterested or incompetent at stopping multimillion-dollar scams in its own App Store. He’s repeatedly found scam apps that prey on ordinary iPhone and iPad owners by luring them into a “free trial” of an app with seemingly thousands of fake 5-star reviews, only to charge them outrageous sums of money for a recurring subscription that many don’t understand how to cancel. “It’s a situation that most communities are blind to because of how Apple is essentially brainwashing people into believing the App Store is a trusted place,” he tells The Verge.

Apple is also responsible for distributing 500 million copies of Xcodeghost to users via the App Store[2].

The App Store model is about profits, and security is an afterthought that makes for good PR.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22385859/apple-app-store-...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bbmz/the-fortnite-trial-is...
And more dangerously, whenever they are trying to influence you it will be more subtle. People get used to them being "clean", where that state is essentially impossible due to the input. It creates a false sense of security.
The TV detects the static and replaces it with solid blue.
So. What medicine?
> While we are at it we should point out Spotify has no clear ways to export your listening history, playlists etc that you can easily recreate on other portals.

This is absolutely not true.

You can export all of your data from Account -> Privacy pane, you can also use the public APIs to extract all of your playlists, library, podcasts, etc. data: developer.spotify.net

If you want to develop an app that does the migration for you you're absolutely free to do so, use the other portals/platforms APIs to recreate them.
Not sure if a literal Spotify could have been built on the web, but I recall using Grooveshark roughly around that timeframe (may have been 2009, 2010 at the latest).

Grooveshark did work for me as fully-featured streaming music player, so I find it reasonable to infer that a Spotify-like service could have worked from a purely technical point of view... though maybe there is a year of two of leeway that makes all the difference.
This line of arguing isn't nearly as convincing as you think it is.
> Unfortunately google requires either their app or SMS. They dropped pure totp for some reason.

Gmail TOTP still works fine?
Social graph? Americans tend to know other Americans, Europeans other Europeans, on account of geographic and political proximity. Possibly the divide is a symptom of the underlying communication network.
Yes HN chicken littles have been saying that Apple is going to force all apps to go through the Mac App Store since it was introduced in 2010.
Yup I have! I really wanted something that is native to the browser and not an app extension. And I wanted a design more to my preference :)
I consider it part of Apple's competitive advantage. I bought an iPhone because I want it to just work and for my apps to behave well. I can do the tinkering on my laptop, I don't want every computing device I own to be hackable.

Heck, if I could have a phone with iOS 1 (no third party apps) and the camera and screen of the latest iPhone, I would buy that.
No, but is there anything that has replaced Flash Builder? Also no.
I think the "value" is explained just below:
"Make the most of your Unstructured Data
Qdrant is a vector similarity engine. It deploys as an API service providing a search for the nearest high-dimensional vectors.
With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending..."
However, I agree that the learning materials could be organized better.
Indeed I always though Krita was an Inkscape alternative, guess I need to try it again (tried it more than 10 years ago or so).
It's, sadly, a LOT faster on a Windows machine. Performance (especially boot times) is horrid on even more powerful Macs (M1Pro f.ex).
It already happened on iOS when both Google and Facebook convinced consumers to install what were suppose to be internal enterprise certificates to spy on you.
Wait so they just mixed the metals (mostly iron and nickel) with a little phosphorus, warmed and let it cool and got really strong permanent magnet, stable to around 500(or 300)°C, while hinting no obstacles for industrial scale production? That's huge!
aren't doesn't need to have a utility but the weird thing to me about sustainability art is - is it suggesting utility? is it a nod to a possible utility? it reeks of aesthetics of improbable utility
And today is December 1st and the NYTimes continue to run deflection come puff pieces [1] on SBF. And that is after inviting him as a speaker at their DealBook conference, no less. They continue to unquestioningly repeat his ever-shifting dart throws to try to influence public opinion.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/business/sam-bankman-frie...
> As a programmer and hobbyist math reader, I found category theory to be very unrewarding (and I gave up on it) because of the lack of interesting theorems and lemmas. My takeaway was that there's Yoneda lemma and really nothing interesting before you reach that. Like, CT describes a set of rules but very little emerges from those rules.

The fact it's so rare to find a counterintuitive fact in CT, so that you rarely find yourself proving something and you mostly spend your time constructing effective tools, it's a feature not a bug!
McBride's "Don't touch the green slime!" is a great paper/saying about this principle. Work with the compiler, not against it. The compiler is very dumb so it understands only trivial things.

There's a legacy pseudomachist culture of 'hard is good' in mathematics (but really, it's transversal to science) which rewards working hard and not working smart.
Which country is good for IT career
I am 36 male from India. I work in a big multinational company here and makes around 40000 USD in an year after tax deductions, which is decent pay. I am looking for opportunities abroad and considering the immigration, Canada and Germany were easy options. Germany has job seeker visa and Canada there is PR. I am in a confusion that which country is better considering my age ? I think I will be fine with people anywhere and the living conditions. In which country I can save more money ?
Bob the Build Breaker
FWIW, I'm also coming out of the game dev world, and we shipped all our games with (custom) asserts enabled (which includes bounds checking in containers). I did regular performance tests and the enabled asserts were never a big enough performance hit to justify removing them (around 1..3% across an entire frame), the ability to get 'clean' crash reports from out in the wild, triggered by asserts instead of random segfaults was more than worth it (we also had special 'hot path asserts' which were not included in the release builds though, but those were rarely used). The only downside is that the executable gets around 25% bigger (and easier to reverse engineer) because of all the embedded assert-condition strings - but I guess this could have been solved differently (since we were using our own assert macros anyway).
Are there any words in my comment stating or implying that such capability should not be included in Apple iOS devices, ever?

I'm all for flexibility, but of the two choices we have today, I prefer Apple's proposition more. If they decide to add more flexibility without compromising their quality, I'd be more than supportive of the feat.
Adobe Animate, formerly known as Adobe Flash.
Chinese company YMTC, 1st to 200-plus layers, is now the leader in 3D NAND Flash
2022 Advent of Code
How many problems do you have that would be solved with greater intelligence alone?

Greater intelligence plus years of study and hundreds of job applications might fix someone's material situation, but just being smart doesn't guarantee it will happen.

Enhanced ability to perform repeatable actions and responses is probably correlated with happiness though.
>Maybe I'm in a bubble, but most people I know who wear glasses don't actually enjoy doing so and would really rather not if they can avoid it.

I think you're in a bubble. We have a way of avoiding glasses: contacts. But people choose glasses instead. I wear contacts, not glasses, but every time I ever talk to a glasses-wearer about why they wear glasses instead, they usually can't imagine wearing contacts and think glasses are just fine. I've never heard anyone complain about them. And just looking around me, most men wear glasses; it's usually women that wear contacts.
> instead of going on the basis of some kind of points/job offer based system

Personal opinion: I think the point based systems are unfair.

For example, you get points by merely finishing college. Someone who didn’t have the opportunity to do college is not necessarily a low-skill worker neither are they less intelligent. A fairer thing will be to access people individually on their capabilities.

The US has things like the O1 visa which in my opinion is not random and more fair than most systems. But a random system is also valuable and necessary, so you need both.
I looked up what you’re talking about and the good news is it looks like that chart was pulled with an apology, so you should be able to rest easy now.
Protecting Small Businesses from Scammers
In my experience, most technical people these days still don't know the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode for example.
Explaining types, sorts and universes in Lean
> Macs are just as reliable, but far more configurable.

As a user of portable Macs, I concur. I use Linux desktops, Mac laptops and iOS mobile devices.

> All I want is the for the iPhone to be as open as a Mac. Let me run binaries signed by legit devs!

That should be nice, indeed. It'll take us to the good old PalmOS days.
Yes, there are more suitable solutions than faiss or annoay. For example https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant
I know, I'm wondering if switching to something like GraphQL or tRPC would solve many of these issues, which seem to be around violating the OpenAPI contract
I really like this kind of projects, because they broaden the access to GPGPU programming beyond the usual ones (C, C++, Fortran, shader languages).

Kudos for going at it.
Redirected aggression in baboons has been proven to reduce stress hormones.

I also redirected my aggression to weaker kids in school, and I also got redirected aggression from stronger kids. We need to accept that in many cases we are not better than baboons, and try to find ways to accommodate our primal behaviours, not ignore them or pretend that we are so superior as a species.
If you are planning to start a family and have children, I would go to Germany.
Retinal scans do not help; however, 'eye tracking', which is currently available in Quest Pro and should filter down to the consumer tier headset in a year or two, does. When Meta knows what you look at, and for how long, and in which patterns, then advertising will legitimately have some 'next level' shit to work with.
> Which projects to provide with funding?

There's a somewhat old adage (?) that says: "Don't fund projects. Fund people."

The gist of it is that by funding projects, you're funding a somewhat myopic view in that anything discovered adjacent to the project is now out of scope of the funding. By funding people with interesting ideas, you get a much more creative and free-flowing research program.
I recommend Apollo instead of Reddit to browse Reddit:)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned vector-based animation, which was a primary tool in Flash. AFAIK there's no SVG solution that comes close in performance or flexibility to keyframe- or programmatically animating complex vector graphics (with user interaction!) the way you could in Flash.
They either give way too much, or nothing at all.
As a beginner user for decades, some basic like visual mode is not covered even in the intermediate one. And so is plug-in not in advanced one.

Not sure about this arrangement.
ChatGPT writes my MBA strategic management exam
Is this about Trump, Kanye and the Babylon Bee being unbanned?
Plot twist, you didn't know how to implement inheritance properly in Java therefore you withdrew your application.
Sure you can walk away from Apple completely like 80% of the world does.
"Very interesting person at Neuralink is Autumn Sorrells, the animal care director. I have been to some grim, grim animal labs at universities and elsewhere. Sorrells and her team do actually care about these creatures and are advancing a number of new, kinder training techniques"

https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1598163890546053125

"As a big time animal softie, I've been impressed with Sorrells and her team's work. Is part of the BCI story that does not get touched on very much"

https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1598164196453396481

Her LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/autumn-sorrells-3368b519

I'd argue that Autumn is more than qualified for the job...
> As a programmer and hobbyist math reader, I found category theory to be very unrewarding (and I gave up on it) because of the lack of interesting theorems and lemmas. My takeaway was that there's Yoneda lemma and really nothing interesting before you reach that. Like, CT describes a set of rules but very little emerges from those rules.

This is correct. The only somewhat interesting result in Category theory is the Yoneda Lemma, everything else is machinery for diagram chasing. It's ubiquitous in the same way that short exact sequences are ubiquitous -- and about as interesting as short exact sequences.

I think most hobbyists or those who are intellectually curious would be better off studying physics or engineering first, and then picking up the math with applications along the way. For example, you can study multivariable calculus and then complex analysis, which naturally leads to questions of topology as you find try to solve integral equations, and then obstruction theory can come up. Lots of cool stuff to study that is actually interesting. I would never foist category theory on someone who finds math to be interesting and enjoyable -- that would be like throwing a match that just caught flame into the rain.
Doing CS puzzles in a timed environment with someone watching your every move is a lot different to solving such puzzles leisurely.
It's anti-semitic of you to assume he was referring to that. SBF isn't Jewish, but he is a Democrat, which is presumably what the poster was referring to.
At 5%, banks can create 20 times more new money then they hold deposits.

Obviously they don't have to go below 0%, as at 0% they are already at inifinity.

Also, they don't have to have the reserves when they are lending, they can just borrow the reserves later, which is a huge difference, as just as we've discovered - lending creates money, so you can stuck it up structurally and keep expanding.
Dragons' Den
Krita was initially release as a painting program rather than a photo editing program and that was where most of the initial 'advertising' was focused. Also looking at their home page the first thing you see is a screen shot of a digital painting and the words

"Krita is the full-featured digital art studio.

It is perfect for sketching and painting, and presents an end–to–end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters."

So it is not at all clear to most people that it is a tool that can also be used for photo editing.
I agree they are not entirely fair.
However lottery/random systems have a lot of burden of work that ends up wasted, leading employers to shy away from doing it. If you have do X amount of paperwork per candidate and there is only a 20% chance of getting through to the lottery, why do it?

In the absence of enough funding and employees at USCIS to be able to individually assess people, having some kind of cutoff criteria is better than a lottery. Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
It isn't 2003 anymore, operating system vendors have been taking security seriously for a while now. Abuse and malware are not a problem on macOS despite barely anyone using the Mac App Store to install apps. Same goes for Windows, it isn't Windows XP anymore, and despite nobody using the Microsoft Store, abuse and malware are much less of a problem than they were in the past.

Billions of machines use software distributed via package managers like Apt that have existed for decades, yet there is no epidemic of rampant malware proliferation via Linux package repositories despite trillions of dollars worth of assets being managed by Linux machines.

This argument is typical FUD, and it's very common for App Store apologists to not argue based on what's happening today with other app distribution methods, but via Y2K-era fear and the classic "but what about Facebook!" refrain.
> You could also say "Sure, if you'll compensate me for my time and subsidize a means to get there,

And Silicon Valley giants are famous for offering this. Proving that companies will provide if people want it enough.
hopefully before the next decade
It only harms people if people choose it.

Just look at all the harm caused by the game SecondLife. Oh wait, it hasn't really caused much, if any, because it's not exactly popular.

I predict their VR social network will be even less popular.
However, the salary after taxes (and health insurance) might not be much better in Germany... but the cost of living might be significantly higher.
Well they did ship out official Linux discs for the PS2 and PS3.
That's not totally true. For instance I blocked USA Today on my Apple News stream because of the low quality of journalism and clickbait titles. The problem is that this has minimal impact but more importantly, USA Today probably doesn't even get a report letting them know that end users are doing this and probably get paid anyway so they are blissfully unaware.
> Would giving people the ability to opt out of Apple's ultra-managed experience and take more control over their device harm your ability to continue to enjoy those benefits?

No.

> It might just be me, and I'll definitely fret about whether I'm being unreasonable for at least the next couple of hours, but this kinda frustrates me.

The thing is, I'm stating my position and not telling that just because I choose something, everybody should be happy with that. I have only stated that Apple's proposition is better suited to my mindset and current preferences, given the choices are Android and iOS.

> I'm supportive of your choice, but you already get to do the thing you want, and nobody is trying to take that away.

I expressed no such fear or concern as far as I'm aware?

> Expressing that you wouldn't behave any differently given more options is a distraction in a discussion about whether other people should be allowed to make a different choice.

I don't think so. I skimmed the discussion and didn't see the position I have expressed here, and the parent asked for a counter-opinion, and I presented mine in a concise and polite manner. I guess we're discussing by expressing our opinions here, what am I missing?
In previous years there have always been several I can just use a massive swapfile to get it
Ha, so it does. A small world. :)
Exam on the 25th! :)
Its courts? At least that is the only thing that keeps the EU Commission from going full police state.