skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has a very different intellectual tradition arising from a deliberate act of rebellion and a fairly static constitution. Many European countries have a history of fascist dictatorship. Britain has neither, so in my view is somewhat lackadaisical about the risks of state power. We’re rightly proud that we didn’t succumb as Italy or Germany did, but of course that means that dictatorship is something that happens to other people or comes from Brussels. It’s true that our electoral democracy is relatively safe (redrawing of constituencies is normal, new ID card requirements are dubiously motivated) but that leaves a lot of scope for far more intrusion with far less constitutional oversight than many other Western liberal states. Notably, there is less scepticism about state power in other democracies where there is a similar lack of scepticism for historical reasons—e.g., France, where the legacy of Vichy is often downplayed relative to the resistance, or Japan, which never really confronted its past.
Interestingly, on tennis courts you have the “deuce” side, which is to the right of the player, and the “ad” side, which is to the left of the player. Because you have two players facing each other, the deuce sides for each player are diagonally opposite from a neutral observer’s perspective.
They're using multiple providers including Fastly, Akamai and Cloudflare: https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2021/06/apple-private-rel...
Ask HN: Books / Resources on Leadership / Management
I am an OK manager and a good leader, at the same time I am always learning something.

I have a decent job where I manage a few people, and it's always a challenge. I try to lead and motivate people and yet it's not always easy.

So, are there any Leadership and/or Management books/resources that HN likes?

If it matters, I am in operations, a technical person, but not a SWE or similar.

Thanks in advance.
> There's so much more on the DVD service than the streaming side

This is something I've wondered about. I've never subscribed to either CDs or streaming but my impression of streaming is that there are hundreds of movies not tens of thousands. Wikipedia says that in 2005 Netflix had 35,000 different movies on disk, presumably many more by now. How many different titles does Netflix streaming have for the USA service ?
Don't miss the "Powerful" link goes to a six minute YouTube video[1] showing it to be packed with nice touches / demonstrating the features.

[1] https://youtu.be/lctkqWD7HTk
So: too many variables, impossible to pinpoint cause and effect, hence any conclusions are flawed.

Yes/no?
Supposedly, there is software that uses "internet-based signals" behavioral predictions to identify which key technical people are being courted and/or are considering moving to a new gig.

Poaching is a big part of the game. You can't get a raise compared to what you can playing the game.
I really like this.

But how is "typical download speed" determined?

It seems extremely non-obvious, particularly since congestion occurs in different spots (e.g. at the block level or at the apartment building level?) at different times in different locations. In fact I wouldn't even know how to begin to define it.

Is there some kind of methodology for this, either based on real-time monitoring, or else a theoretical calculation based on usage patterns and network topology?
I thought it was Clarence Thomas that was attacked over his porn rentals.
>> I'd love to see them build a Linux distro that deeply interops with their services (i.e. their real money-makers) that they release for free.

>> This new "Windows" would be the new OS that comes pre-installed on laptops by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. It could look essentially the same -- perhaps their desktop environment could be called Glass (get it?) -- and it could still run win32 apps via Wine (which they would be a massive contributor to in this fantasy world of mine). A headless version could of course be available for servers running Azure. Etc etc etc.

They created their own derivative of the Chrome browser, so why not create their own derivative of ChromeOS that does what you are saying? :)
You could compare it to the UK's House of Lords, where seats are (unbelievably to me) hereditary - passed down from toffs to their children.
It's not just "in mice", it's "in dead mice" AFAICT, as they must open the mouse to use LSM. Mice tend to not work after you open them. It also is difficult to get high resolution images of samples disturbed by sources of noise such as blood flow. I had an uninformed perspective that for a given field strength the resolution is limited by how long the subject can stay still. This is obviously a lot longer for one that isn't alive and is screwed to the platform.

I assume the 9.4T magnet is a very small bore and couldn't take a human. (E.g. https://www.monash.edu/researchinfrastructure/mbi/facilities...).

Of course, lots of important research will benefit from improved scanning resolution on dead subjects -- one might get mislead by the headline, especially if one isn't a research scientist mostly concerned with scanning things you've poisoned or genetically programmed to die in interesting ways.
Seems unlikely. Uber is facing significant price pressure.
> was that Netflix could buy the disks from anywhere (even the local Walmart, if they had to), and lend them to customers

Is that actually true ? I thought buying a disk and then lending it for money was a breach of the copyright ... isn't that pretty much what that big block of text says at the start of every disk delivered movie ? At least where I live !
this would explain the cost surrounding SAP :)
Mark offers a balanced view:

"My sense is that the significance of the failure of SVB (and Signature Bank) is less that it portends additional bank failures and more that it may amplify preexisting wariness among investors and lenders, leading to further credit tightening and additional pain across a range of industries and sectors. Four interrelated factors that caused SVB to fail:

1. If the bank had made more loans relative to the size of its deposit base, it wouldn’t have bought as many potentially volatile bonds.

2. If the bonds the bank bought hadn’t had such long maturities, it wouldn’t have been as exposed to price declines. When looking at SVB’s demise, the decision-making behind its bond purchases stands out as particularly flawed and probably the primary cause of the bank’s failure. According to public reports, SVB management “made a bet” that interest rates would hold steady or fall. While that expectation is implicit in its actions, I find it hard to believe it was a conscious, considered decision, as opposed to an example of mindlessly chasing yield, perhaps abetted by wishful thinking.

3. If the Fed hadn’t raised interest rates as much as it did, the bonds wouldn’t have lost so much value.

4. If the depositors hadn’t exited en masse, the bank wouldn’t have had to sell bonds and realize the losses.

About twenty years ago, my partner Sheldon Stone shared an interesting parable: Imagine you’re on a boat crossing Lake Erie. The captain comes on the loudspeaker and says, “Everyone run to the left side of the boat.” A minute later he says, “Everyone run to the right side.” And a minute after that he says, “Run back to the left.” It would make for an unusually rocky crossing. Today the Internet and social media are the loudspeaker, which almost anyone can take over, disseminating any message they choose. This “digital herding,” as Gillian Tett of The Financial Times has labeled it, can have a huge impact in many fields, particularly those that run on information and trust."
I used to believe in objective morality
The latency part feels absurd on its face.
* I meant in [0.0f, 1.0f], of course
Your "goal" example sounds like a more useless version of my theorem prover AI?
I doubt that. A lot of the paperwork is there on purpose, like pre auths that are meant to make it difficult to prescribe things.
> How then would one leverage 9p filesystems to solve the containerization problem?

In Plan 9, processes are sandboxed by default, so they only see what is exposed to them. You utilize mounts to attach filesystems to processes, and since all APIs are done through the filesystem, you can trivially wrap/extend/replace those APIs with different implementations.

Essentially, everything-is-a-filesystem + 9p gave you a kind of capability-based security.
That’s an interpretation. There are plenty of others regarding the integration of opposites, transcendence, and unconscious archetypes to name a few.
Could you send me an email with the issue you're seeing? lee at vercel dot com. Thank you!
sigh.................
Eh kinda - it’s that way because everyone wants the rules to be that way.

A large enough majority can just change the rules. It isn’t that hard to actually do.

But they prefer it this way.
I haven't used Express in ten years, but imo `async (req, res, next) => ...` would mainly be attractive if failure was automatically handled and you could `await next()` to post-process the response. Though it would still help you write async code inside that route.

Since iirc you send responses directly from handlers in Express, I'm not sure the latter is possible even with express-promise-router since you basically need downstream routes/middleware to return a Response object rather than send it directly.

I think Express is never going to unify with Koa's direction since it's just too disruptive to Express' ecosystem (the v5.x branch is stale) which is probably for the best.
I read the message you are replying to three times and I still don’t understand who did this and why? Can elaborate more?
I think the idea of compromise rarely survives actual scrutiny when it comes to specific values. I don't know what a compromise on the death penalty is to an anti-death penalty stance. I don't know what a compromise on abortion is to an "abortion is murder" stance. Even if I fully understand with and sympathize with someone I disagree with, I may not be at all willing to budge from specific positions I've taken because I believe there is no acceptable compromise. (e.g. I don't think I could budge from being against sex trafficking.)
The described issue exist in Lazarus so i think it'd be the same in Delphi and C++ Builder.

There are tools for automatic alignment, Lazarus has both an align property (align to the parent's left, right, top or bottom edge or to the remaining area in the center, which is good enough for many layouts) and an anchor system (allowing to either "anchor" an control's edge in place so it gets resized with the parent or to place an edge relative to another control's edge or center point) as well properties for margins, min/max size and a bunch of special-case containers that layout their children like page/flow, etc.

However the controls still have their left/top/width/height properties, the layout functionality just updates those. And since forms are just serialized objects that store a property's value if it is different from the default value, the left/top/width/height properties are always stored in the form even if they'd be overridden later by the automatic layout mechanisms (object serialization exists at a lower level than that, it doesn't "know" about forms or anything like that - in Lazarus it isn't even part of the LCL framework but instead part of Free Pascal's FCL framework on top of which LCL was written and technically these are two separate projects).

The end result is that if you open a project and for some reason the controls get resized (e.g. you have a different theme than the last time you opened it which would cause some buttons to be smaller/larger and in turn cause other layout changes), when you save the project the files in which the forms are serialized in will have different values than previously for their left/top/width/height properties - and that will show up in a diff when you have the project in version control.

This is can be a bit annoying since when you want to see what changed in a form you have to mentally ignore all the position and size changes. Though TBH in practice personally i never thought much about it.
Interesting. I always assumed “stage left” meant from the perspective of looking at the stage.
I don't know of any highly developed nations where you can easily get permanent residence in less than 1 year.
It’s funny because posts on Reddit don’t belong to Reddit, they belong to the users who created them.

Why would I, as someone who’s made tens of thousands of comments, care if someone scrapes and reuses my comments. I don’t want them to pay up.

This is a really rich comment from a company that relies entirely on user submitted content and has never “paid up.”
Show HN: AI Powered Game Master Tools
A clock has never made me feel so anxious.
In the first couple of months after the pandemic hit, a lot of friends and family were suddenly shopping for better internet and this would've been great to have.

Even after explaining that upload bandwidth is pretty critical for good video calls, most people I was helping simply couldn't find the up bandwidth number in ISP service offers. You have to dig deep into the fine print currently unless service is symmetric.
There’s a complex relationship here; the change diminished all states greatly, in favor of passing power to their citizens, but it also empowered the citizens of the big empty states in a way that the citizens of the small urban states were already empowered.

It occurs to me after typing this that when you said “as entities” you were probably alluding to this dichotomy.
A hacker is an engineer.
I'm biased (since I work at Slack) but, as a casual user, Workplace seems like an un-loved afterthought.

I don't think Meta is well-configured to make consumer-facing products that "surprise and delight", and Workplace's slightly janky interface is a clear symptom.
No, not even close.

We have a complete map of C. elegans, a small worm with 302(ish) neurons. We have a complete wiring diagram of the adult worm’s neurons as well as a “fate map” showing how those connections form during development.

Nevertheless, it’s fairly hard to simulate. Neuromodulators cause all sorts of “spooky action at (synaptic) distance” that the wiring diagram can’t explain, for example.
Yes, but websites want us all to believe that they just want to put these cookies on our machines to help us with required features but the regulations require this annoying pop-up just so we can use it. A LOT of people still believe this is true and do not understand they are consenting only to being tracked. So re-stating it is only helpful.
“Don't be a Sucker” (1947)
Software was targeted directly because they couldn't agree how to change 230. There are those who want to punish the "tech" people who were "censoring" things they didn't want censored. It was designed to be tactical retribution.
If anyone is this concerned there is always the option to downgrade to a dumb phone. Or the classical landline.
I never brought up mass evacuations?

But just pointing out gas and electric both cause them?
Er hardly anybody in Britain cares, as much as I am outraged personally.
What the Bloody Hell
I am getting sick of companies who are raising millions even in this environment, without a proven business model or even a working product.

I have built products & having a very hard time raising money.

Here is an example

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arketa-fitness-wellness/id1451028025?see-all=reviews

Company has barely any reviews past 2020, growth is going down yet raised 7million in Feb 2023. Biz model relevant for the covid era. WTF?!!?

Here is another one

https://partiful.com

Raised 20 million in November based on 1 article in NYT. Barely any traffic on site, less than 10k visits and no business model. WTF?!?!?

The founders have no deep domain expertise, no from FAANG. Not even tech background.

What am I missing here?
Yes, exactly. It's bad for both mental health and productivity because it denies reality (promotes dishonesty) and puts distance between people with phony, exhausting expectations. Being exceptionally good and real is the real thing. ;)

Life is so short, so why not be legit?
Yes, several hours per image. This resolution is still an achievement. But in vivo images (alive) are much more useful as they enable longitudinal studies, but obviously far more challenging to get anything close to good resolution in a mouse. More like 150 micron in alive, sedated mouse brains, even from 9.4T.
Aside from the other things people have mentioned, GDPR prompts (unlike typical ePrivacy Directive prompts before that) don’t only apply to client-side stuff.

Without obtaining consent or having a legitimate (i.e. functional, not economic) reason, the website operator cannot collect server-side logs or fingerprints either. Or they might not need consent to collect data (e.g. remember your purchases for refunds) but do need it to disclose that data to third parties (e.g. to feed the purchases into a recommendation engine... or, let’s be real, an advertisement profile).

None of this nuance is enforceable browser-side. It could in theory be communicated in machine-readable form by the browser, such as with a DNT header, but before somebody sues over that I doubt it’s going to be honoured.

(I remember that the SameSite cookie proposal had a follow-up, even more web-breaking same-origin-policy cookie proposal. That’s probably the most meaningful thing you can do client-side. But it had seemingly died when FLoC did, and I can’t find it now.)
>since their bones and joints are relatively weaker and therefore more susceptible to injury.

Regular 50-year-olds, sure. But if they find some genetic mutant who looks like he's 25 even though he's 60, and passes all the physical tests as well as a 25-year-old, age isn't going to be a factor.

Meanwhile, over in the aviation field, that same genetic mutant would be unable to become a pilot purely because of his age.
Which rights against self-incrimination? The right to silence has been gone since the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
Artists don't generate art in a vacuum. Everything is a fake knockoff of everything else.

I believe the cream will still rise to the top, and the best artists will still create something totally different, and/or use AI tools to generate something better than they could create otherwise.
Can I play Valorant on Linux? I don't think Riot Vanguard works on it.
That’s “breaking off”, not “breaking the West”.
Good idea, but the time between announcement and deadline is pretty short. Hopefully this doesn't delay anything for redesign, and kill anyone who needs the device sooner than they can update it.
xscreensaver is still very much a going concern.
How do I get LTSC? I'm going crazy with Windows 11. It's one of the worst OSes I've ever used.
I always felt that this is just because TV shows (and any story, really) happens to follow the winners of these improbabilities :)

The first or second crews to have been wiped out (even if their chances of survival were higher) would have made for a much shorter story.
LOL, comparison shop... Many places are operated in complete monopolies. 1 cable provider. 1 DSL provider. Questionable cell coverage.
I mean sure, one way is keeping yuan cheap against the usd.

But the real issue is still the commoditization of debt.
Because you are supposed to crawl the page not scroll it.
No, it says "specific website content." The IAB already tried to interpret this text as enabling a full-site cookie-wall and lost the lawsuits.
I just got fiber. 5-20 ms to most websites as far as I can tell. Blazing. It is the lowest bandwidth package, but the latency is still far superior to cable. And because of issues with the ISP's DNS, I am happy with 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare).
> What you are describing here isn’t illegal activity.

Yes it is.

> You’re describing the State determining that Apple incorrectly reported where the sales tax should go

Failing to report as legally required is illegal.

> (no one is saying deliberately).

Sure, but that’s not germane.

> From what I was gathering there’s been a change in law regarding online sale tax in 2019 or so.

There was; mainly, from looking at the CDTFA information on sales tax (which calls out the 2019 changes) affecting sales through internet marketplaces and in some circumstances making the marketplace, rather than the seller-through-the-marketplace, the retailer for sales tax purposes, and requiring registration and use-tax collection by retailers in certain cases. The change doesn’t seem related to the Apple/Cupertino sales tax issue.
Awesome response. You've answered a lot of questions I've been wondering about. Thanks!
Oh really? Damn. Like an independent retailer or megacorp?

Are there any specifics to DM me worth running up the flag pole?
This whole site and related github is a little trove of ideas and other treasures. I will be doing some digging
Assuming you have a physics engine you could set up constraints between faces of the boxes that make up the numerals.
The fact that this model is unsupervised blows my mind. Genuinely so freaking cool that this much useful info can be learned without any labeling!
The only interesting question in here so far and also the only one that got a downvote from someone. 4 microns is about the size of the cell body of the smallest neurons so this technique could potentially give you the position of every neuron in the brain but isn't going to pick up the dendrites and synapses. You'd need resolution closer to 10 nanometers for that. 1 micrometer (micron) = 1000 nanometers
There has to be a check on the inefficient and unprofitable things that a government undertakes, though, because otherwise all of the citizenry gets tied up doing inefficient stuff.

In theory democratic government is the check on this - if the government wastes too much money, the electorate is supposed to vote out their representatives and elect new ones that will cut the budget. (In this sense, Reagan-style conservatism is working as intended). In practice, this rarely happens, largely because the average voter is terrible about judging opportunity cost, and every expenditure seems worthwhile in a vacuum.
Cool, but as described, this wouldn't work on humans. The light sheet microscopy technique that the suped-up MRI data is paired with to create these images requires tissue to be "cleared" (or made transparent) with solvents, which obviously you can't do with a living human brain. To be honest, I don't quite understand how light sheet microscopy works with living _mouse_ brains.
Prior to spending reform, the party had some broad behind-the-scenes levers to “encourage” support (read: pork). Today, power vests in subcommittee chairs which typically go to those with tenure (e.g. DiFi who can’t manage to do her job because of old age but also can’t really be kicked out by Schumer)
Ruff is definitely faster by lacking type-checking. That requires way more analysis.

Ruff will work fine without type hints.

I believe it rightfully leaves it to mypy for those who want those features.

Mypy transpiles itself to c using mypyc and that can still take a while to complete when caches get invalidated.
I really regret getting Windows 11. Not even auto HDR is worth this crap.
Just FYI but on the store page Steam lists features a game has. If it does not list Steam Cloud, then it does not use Steam Cloud for save games. Bloons TD 6 does not list Steam Cloud.
Internally, everything and everyone uses Workplace. There is no email except for rare things. It's basically the same thing used by customers.