skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a testament to the Unix philosophy that after all these years, Dropbox has grown and morphed into something that people no longer enjoy, and yet if you simply followed that advice years ago, you would still have a system today that works exactly as you intended, and in 50 years when Dropbox is long gone as a company, that system will still be working as built, and even after you die, that system can be inherited by your children and grandchildren and still work as well as it did on day one. This is the timeless way of building.
To be honest, an internet censorship regime feels like an increasingly inevitable part of the future right now. It will either be about preventing copyright infringement, misinformation, inappropriate content, widespread cyberattacks, preventing harassment, or controlling AI-generated content; take your pick, or mix and match. So much so, that rather than trying to maintain the current status quo where the internet is mostly "free," I would be in favor of passing a law with some censorship in it if it had extremely strict safeguards, legal processes, and minimally-biased enforcement rather than letting some random court make the law for me. Or worse, because we won't budge, letting lawmakers create bills like EARN IT that go too far the other way.

As for the alternatives: Bitcoin, IPFS? I have very little hope. The US DOJ has shown that Bitcoin is anything but private, it's probably even easier to trace than actual cash at times. IPFS? Well, let's just say they allegedly have a list of "bad hashes" that they quietly report to law enforcement for anyone asking for them on their main gateway. Monero might be private... but, well, all they have to do is pass a law saying "anyone who uses Monero for any purpose is automatically presumed guilty for 5 years imprisonment", as well as require ISPs to log and report Monero traffic, and that's the end of that.

As for "we can always use VPNs?" Well... China (basically) banned them successfully, India (basically) banned them successfully, and your ISP always knows if you are using a VPN and where you are logging into. A VPN ban if crap really hit the fan wouldn't be that difficult. As for Tor, well, do you really trust the US Government who built it and no doubt has wiretaps on the lines for what goes in and comes out? ;)
Facebook is a "marketplace" for all sorts of crimes by virtue of having three billion users. Which is about 37% of the world's population. The fact that some horrible crimes slip through the cracks, as is inherent to every large population, is no excuse to treat that 37% as criminals.
They never specified H1B.

They were probably on a treaty visa, Like E2 (which i have, it's not just for business owners/investors, employees can get this too) or T2 (The NAFTA equivalent). These visas allow you to live and work in the US for a very long time (extendable indefinitely for 2 years a pop in my case), but they have no dual-intent attached to them. They are a dead-end and if you want to stay in the US you need to start from square one with an H1B/Marriage or convince your employer to start a standalone green card sponsorship, which costs like $50k and 2+ years of processing, where the only benefit to the employer is that you can now get a different job.

It's actually kind of a problem, there's a lot of people on these visas who've lived and worked here for 20+ years with no viable route to permanent residency.
> The stroke of a pen makes police do whatever they want so yeah.

You mean like when an order telling the police to remove people camped in front of military bases asking for a coup was signed in early December, but it took until the actual coup attempt in January for the police to actually do anything about it?

Okay, no, let's be completely fair. The police was since December making sure the camped people didn't spill over into the street and block traffic. So yeah, the supreme court controls at least Judy Hopps.

> Hell, I remember watching a video of one of these judges literally say out loud he was proud of being partial towards the communists.

Assuming this is true, I'd really like to know what communists they were talking about. The current party in government was already considered in the 80s to be center-left, and they only mellowed more towards the center in recent years, with pretty much all internal factions that had moderately radical ideas leaving the party. Emphasis mine on the last line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Party_(Brazil)#Fact...

- Workers' Cause (CO) – seceded from the party in 1990 as the Workers' Cause Party (PCO)

- Socialist Convergence [pt] (CS) – seceded in 1993 as part of Unified Workers' Socialist Party (PSTU)

- Workers' Socialist Current (CST) – seceded in 2004 to form the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL)

- Socialist Left Movement (MES) – seceded in 2004 to form the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL)

- Popular Socialist Action (APS) – seceded in 2005 and joined the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL)

- Tendency for the Workers' Revolutionary Party (TPOR) – Trotskyist faction that seceded in 1990 as the Workers' Revolutionary Party (POR)

- Marxist Left (EM), the Brazilian section of the Trotskyist International Marxist Tendency. Marxist Left released a statement saying that "for the revolutionaries, there is no more room for the construction of socialist ideas within PT".
Similar idea here. I take notes as if I'm explaining it to someone else or expecting someone else (or myself in a few years) to read it.
Impressive Tool.
I would love to have the same for movies.
That's a great scene and I would definitely enjoy seeing the Gulf Coast.

I believe Ridley Scott was inspired by the steel works of Sheffield at night to create the landscape of Blade Runner.

Similarly it wouldn't surprise at all if James Cameron used Gulf Coast oil refineries for inspiration.

Heavy industry is a raw old sight.
Early AM
1. Drudgereport (I like the format)
2. HN
3. WP, NYT, WSJ

RSS, HN throughout the day

Reddit is a distraction for me

I’ll lurk on Twitter later in the day, but not engage
What product do you use? Is it toothpaste or mouthwash?
I thought tesla used Panasonic exclusively until after they expanded into China with the Shanghai Gigafactory?
I don't think Tim Cook has had much impact on Apple however.
Many? To the shareholders it is. But as a consumer I prefer innovation and not money hoarding. Shareholders think otherwise.
I didn't realize that air dominance prevented enemy missiles from hitting surface ships. That's a rather unique definition of air dominance.

If your enemy has access to satellites, long range sensors, submarines that can fire hypersonic anti-ship missiles, and modern air defense systems, then a strategy based on the assumption of air dominance will fail.

Let's also not forget that the U.S. has never achieved air dominance over any nation with sophisticated air defense systems. The last time the U.S. actually tried to fight an air war against an enemy with access to relatively modern air-defense systems was in Vietnam, where 3700 US planes were shot down (and about 5000 helicopters). Air defenses are much better now, which is why Israel - with its advanced F35s -- is so afraid of Syria's S300 systems that it only uses standoff weapons when it raids Syria, proving once again that long range missiles are what matters, and outdated concepts like "air dominance" are only relevant when the enemy is limited to RPGs and Toyota trucks.
there is, if you're in the new section like some of us
Good that also journalists picked this story. Now, I am not entirely satisfied Qualcomm's answers:

"As disclosed in our publicly available privacy policy, the relevant Qualcomm technologies use non-personal, anonymized, technical data to enable device manufacturers to provide their customers location-based apps and services that end users expect from today’s smartphones."

Location data is personal data in the EU. I also wonder how they can provide "location-based apps" based on allegedly anonymized data.

Then:

"Qualcomm Location Service periodically sends us a unique software ID, the location of your device (longitude, latitude and altitude, and its uncertainty) and nearby cellular towers and Wi-Fi hotspots, signal strength, and time (collectively, 'Location Data')," the Snapdragon goliath explained on its website. "As with any Internet communication, we also receive the IP address your device uses."

Contradictions after contradictions.
PocketBook InkPad Color 2 brings faster processor, IPX8 rating, and more storage
Speeds don't matter when your data caps are ridiculously low. Can't use 5G for anything without zapping that up.

The other half of the equation is now in rural areas I notice way less coverage area. They seem to have shut off 4G towers in favor of "5G" and now there are several places I used to get strong 4G coverage that I get 1 bar strength of 5G that is basically non-functional. In those areas my phone shows connected but won't load anything. One of the main ones I notice it is within my local walmart. Used to have full 4G LTE there but now that 5G is "available" I can barely load websites while inside.

5G wasn't worth the hype.
Maybe you need to keep objects centered when you take pictures :)
> meaning of the underlying text

The meaning is so highly disputed there are literally thousands of denominations.
That is true, but just calling it the TSMC 2024 Process also allows comparing. But they don't like using dates because then if they stay on the process for a few years it is more obvious that it is "old".
Intel's scheduled release dates tend to be... optimistic.
I still don’t understand why VSCode is so popular. I don’t like it very much. I’ll stick with IntellliJ for Java / Scala and Neovim for everything else.
If by "the poster" you mean me, the person you replied to, then yes that is what I was alluding to.
You know, reading these comments is absolutely hilarious. It's because of this and that, hundreds of excuses that dance around the simple truth: you're an incompetent programmer. That's it. No, you're not capable of making something twice as fast if only you cared or had the time. If you haven't done it as a constant exercise, you can't.
Yes, but Dropbox Photos still:

Lacks an exclusion mechanism, so icons leak in
Includes STL files as photos and fails to display them
Sometimes misses photos for no obvious reason

It's difficult for auto-tagging to add value in the presence of unrelated dealbreakers. Laying off people working on unsexy features does not inspire confidence that they have these priorities in order.
Yes I know. However it was a failure from 40 years ago, the story deserved another try in this case
im pretty sure nearly every single person in existence wants a tv that connects to the internet dude. people dont want to plug in an hdmi cord to access streaming services.
Satantango I’d seen after a couple hours sleep after a going away party. It’s great and definitely benefits from the detail of 35mm film. I saw Turin Horse three times in theaters (NYFF then its release) not to mention the 4-5 times on video, and while both are rewarding the theater is best if the audience is fine and it’s actually a good projection.
I recall that verse being edited out on some radio stations even when it was new. The music video on MTV still had the full song.
An essentially no-risk intervention plausibly reduces infection risk and all of a sudden the bar of evidence to practice basic hygiene ratchets up to randomized phase 3 studies. Meanwhile, the same people will cite this preclinical, speculative, provocation of a paper and say masking is murder. Look at Japan’s experience with COVID. Look at the United States. That’s epidemiological data. Look at how elastomeric masks reduced TB infection rates to nil at the Texas Center for Infectious Disease. Masks (of any type) don’t work? That’s a political slogan, not evidence.
Mine as well unfortunately. My wife was a German literature major but is very focused on math education for the kids.
They didn't license the source form to you, so still no.
Is attacking intersex people a political platform? I believe you're referring to transgender people who, while subject to all those horrible things you mention, have nothing to do with the biology of sex.

Exempting them from bans on genital surgery for infants/children certainly is a political choice.

That's very interesting, I didn't know that. Personally I believe in a blanket ban of all unnecessary surgical procedures/body mods on newborns and infants, including "genital correction", circumcision, and piercing.
Here is a brilliant video on Why Europe Lost Semiconductors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZdmS-EAbHo

It boils down to education and economical structure differences with US and JP.

To be on the cutting edge requires extreme scale and multidisciplinary talent. Europe, despite being in the front lines of the innovation, falls off as the European industries and military don't create the demand at scale required to keep up with the Americans.

It's probably a similar story with the US today. China is 5X the population and they do all the manufacturing, they have amazing talent which vanished from the west with de-industrialisation.

It was way more profitable to design stuff in California and make it in China. If everything is made in China and you demand fat margins, why would you have large scale cutting edge chip manufacturing in EU or USA?

This become problem only after the break down of the supply chains and increase in political conflicts.

But as the rest of the world catches up with IP and R&D, the manufacturing is bound to come back to the west. When you can do so much with a laptop and brains and China and India having so much from those, the West will have to start doing the low margin "uncool" stuff like producing physical goods.
There's a thing I saw on LessWrong a while ago where he says, "Before declaring a thing impossible, ask, 'Have you put 5 minutes on the clock and just brainstormed?'"

In that spirit, here's me doing this about AI at Dropbox:

- Get consent from users and train a personalized AI on user files, to answer questions like, "Where is my meeting with Thiago?"

- Provide built-in support for number crunching on unstructured meeting notes: "How much revenue did we make, from last quarter's notes?"

- Automatically fine-tune a model using your own writing so that ChatGPT talks more like you

- Apply an AI to recognize security threats in your files("Hey you might have stored a secret in plaintext in file Y. Do you want to encrypt it?")
Everyone is cutting off these days, however i have not seen any saying, we are cutting directord bones and cutting theier salaries. Any trie leader will do that
Yes, and in this case there are property owners who stand to lose hundreds of millions. They need to get permits to convert, but they can apply political pressure. I think things are different in that there are some powerful forces aligned to make this work, rather than just government ineptitude. Andy Jassy, as example, who owns part of the Mariners and a new NHL team. He's going to be motivated to protect that wealth by protecting downtown Seattle.
This is the best way I've found for clarifying and cementing my understanding of a nonfiction book. Two great opportunities for this conversation can be discussing the book you're reading with your partner, and recommending a book to a friend.
> Only include reviews which came from users who had at least 10 reviews.

Not sure if that's a good idea. It shrinks the set of genuine readers and overweights the set of professional spammers.
"lager beer" in title would be more appropriate, IMOHO
Two poor decisions. One is to not use a real rain sensor and the second is not to pay a couple bucks to put a physical dial on the stalk. My other cars i don't even need to mess with the wiper controls because the rain sensor works great.
It gives the licensee the ability to distribute the binary, use or include it in their products in the same way as an open-source product. It just merely prevents modification without decompiling (which i assume is not easy given it's clojure, not to mention obfuscation?). And presumably it makes it less likely someone would just produce a competing product if they should choose to re-monetize it?
When reducing one problem to another, you are allowed to have polynomial expansion in the problem size. If you are trying to take a practical problem and reducing it to MAX-2-SAT, you may have an n^2 or n^3 expansion. If you get lucky, the expansion may merely be a factor, like 2n or 5n. So now you're solving a problem that's at least O([big constant]*n^5), but could likely be O(n^10) or worse for any real problems.

Also, this algorithm is not easily parallelizable, so even O(n^5) can be an issue for n > 1000.

Also note that in this particular problem, n is a count of bits and logical ORs of pairs of bits, so getting to n > 1000 is a lot easier than you may think.
I'm "in the middle"; it's certainly not a bad movie, but it also failed to really capture me. I still prefer David Lynch's Dune – yes, it has its issues[1] but it's so much more creative and bewildering than the almost sterile "Villeneuve look". I certainly don't begrudge Villeneuve for following his own creative vision, but I wish it was more Lynch-esque, minus the problems of course.

[1]: The DVD copy of Dune I bought at the store many years ago has a cover with visible JPEG artefacts. It's a perfect cover.
Do We Still Need Journals?
Prohibition was a change in the established order, so it was by definition progressive.

The labels are often misused but really that's all it is. Progressivism wants things to change, conservatism wants them to stay the same. You need a balance of both.

As for examples of things that were forbidden, then allowed, then forbidden again there are already good examples in the other comments. Things around family, sexuality, forms of government. The postulat also assumes that all societies in the world are uniform and accepting/forbidding the same things.
As a systems-minded reader-person:

I like to ask an LLM for 3-5 good ways to know that one really understands the content in question.

Then I ask for examples of each of those, used in a specific setting (code for an app or script I need / project I'm working on, for example).

I also like to pre-read the book based on podcast interviews, YouTube summaries, and so on.

If the book is written from first principles, I will probably find it easier to work through it backwards, as the back of the book is typically where the most functional interfaces to the "world I already know" are demonstrated in such books.

To me this is also a common sign of someone who's a natural systems thinker (since you mentioned the topic): First principles are the wrong end of the learning process.

A natural systems thinker may even hear the phrase "first principles" and immediately start to feel boredom, impatience, and time escaping their grasp. :-)

A systems thinker needs access to working interfaces for systems components first and foremost, not internal components and logic.

This is due to the broad nature of systems work, the interconnectedness of its scope, and so on. Internal logic and single-component foundations focus will effectively block efficiency here.

If it really is more about internal logic of a system's individual component, then this is not systems thinking. Generally here is where you find departure points from systems thinking into more academic-style criticism or analysis. Arguments are definitional in nature and less about work products, economy, or outcomes.

(I also keep a running log and own-structure system if the topic is important to me)

Just some thoughts, good luck.
Dropbox's revenue is about $2.5B/year. They want to grow too. You need a lot of people to support that. Sales, marketing, customer success, etc. It's not just the engineers who build and maintain the product. You cannot ignore revenue and growth potential when comparing head counts between companies.
Many Roman and Greek statues had their penises chiseled off in the late antique period by Christian nobles who were uncomfortable with a naked expression of sensuality. Many other statues and paintings (including Michaelangelo's David) were "amended" due to moral panic. This kind of censorship is nothing new, we just focus on different things now. But imagine all the ancient works of beauty that have been destroyed due to the people of a given time not being able to come to grips with art.
I'm a driver and I hate touchscreens.

I don't care about the aesthetics or performance, because I don't want to look at it to control it. Touchscreen control is for something you look directly at, focus on, and use as an input. That's incompatible with driving.
> People who think it's an unfair shortcut to lose weight with a pill. That fatties should just have to exist until they can make the identity level genetic changes on their own to lose it.

That's quite the straw man. The actual position is "while there's a shortage of these drugs, people who merely want them as a substitute for self-control should have to wait in line behind everyone who actually needs them for what they're meant to treat".
Yeah, AC is usually the only thing I touch the screen for. And since they have such good voice commands for it I’m trying to get in that groove.

But, I don’t drive every day, and when I do it’s usually a short trip, so I’m slow to build the habits.

AC voice command examples https://www.tesla.com/support/voice-commands

A generic command like “make it warmer” will bump it up 3 degrees.
The HN rule of headcount: if you have to ask, it’s because it’s Sales.
I guess NuBank (Cognitect's owners) have concluded that the paid licensing business wasn't worth the hassle compared to having the developer time involved spent on other things.

Releasing only binaries, while I understand people being grumpy about it, seems like an interesting way of keeping their options open going forwards. Since it was always closed source, it now being 'closed source but free' is still a net win.

The Datomic/Cognitect/NuBank relationship is an interesting symbiotic dynamic and while I'm sure we can all think of ways it might go horribly wrong in future I rather hope it doesn't.
In case of NFT, I would round the number of companies that tried to pivot to it to zero.

Blockchain there were a lot of hiring and experiments for sure. Actually to try to pivot a company to it after these experiments, very little.
Nitpick - the "Feyd-Ruatha/Raban" is just Raban, Feyd-Ruatha doesn't appear until part 2.
It subverts the themes, and, relatedly, it's kinda whitewashing. "These future space-witches didn't synthesize a complex mythology and religion based on all Earth's religions—nah, it's just Christianity, because why do you need any of those others?"

"Jihad" also has a much-broader meaning than "crusade" without needing to reach into figurative senses of the word, which colors the whole thing rather differently.

[EDIT] Oh, and the book pretty clearly draws fairly heavily from Lawrence's Seven Pillars (at least a couple scenes or sequences are practically lifted from it, aside from the general vibe and structure of an untested officer from lush England being sent to a distant desert, proving himself among the locals, gaining insight during a nigh-fatal fever, and playing a major role in leading them against a superior occupying force while leaning heavily on the local forces' distinct mobility & supply advantages, with the ultimate goal and final culmination of the project in the taking of a major capital city) and downplaying the Muslim elements of the Fremen pushes that aside a bit, which is... fine, I guess, but not exactly an improvement.