skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general you're better off reading the book when the film is just an adaptation, as the book can give more context, inner dialogue etc than a film can, simply due to the medium.

There are of course exceptions. Famously, Palahniuk has said the Fight Club film captured his intent better than his novel did. I also think film of The English Patient, which covers only a tiny section of what I consider a forgettable novel, is quite good, but even if you disagree I think almost anyone would say the film is better. And of course plenty of films aren't novel adaptations.

Regardless, if you're looking for a "story that could change my life" you're likely to get much more from the text than the adaptation. The strengths and weaknesses of the two media are just too different.
The real crime is Macbooks still ship with a 1080p camera when their ungodly huge phones ship with 48MP
How is that “creepy”?

Regardless, we’re already seeing the effects as manufacturing moves away from China and towards India.

Now, what happens to those increased wages when the demand for workers is gone?

That’s right. They collapse.
I love that people rediscover this every year or so. It was a really fun little distraction for me, and I'm delighted at how it came out.
> I still entirely don't understand the point of web assembly - at best isn't it a pretend emulation layer?

No ... it's a "bytecode."

A runtime for an interpreted languages like Javascript can operate directly on the code text and execute the source code. The runtime has to parse, lex, and interpret the code text into things that represent what the code should do - in realtime.

"Bytecode" is basically that parse/lex/interpretation step already done. The runtime that interprets bytecode (often called a JIT or jitter) is drastically simpler since it only has to know how to do the relatively simple bytecode operations, instead of complex high-level things like Javascript syntax and object moderling.

Benefits:

- multiple languages can be targeted to that bytecode (Microsoft does this with it's CIL/.NET)

- porting the JIT to different platforms is potentially easier and less error/security-issue prone than the runtime for a high-level langauge

- bytecode is easier to examine for security issues than high-level languages - if you want sandboxed code - a whole lot easier to do in a JIT than a full interpreter.

- if you design your bytecode right, the JIT could basically translate it to actual CPU assembly language fairly easily.
Wang Chuanfu, the driving force behind BYD’s rise. https://www.ft.com/content/22527628-733e-4188-9678-ab3210fdb...

Excerpt:

The story of the professor in nonferrous metals research turned hard-headed executive with a fastidious focus on technology, supply chains and cost- cutting has become gospel in Chinese science and business schools.

To his employees, Wang is simply known as “The Chairman”. Both revered and feared, the 57-year-old billionaire’s unassuming demeanour belies a micromanager with a Stakhanovite work ethic.

“The work-life balance concept is just not in his lexicon,”

Experts attribute BYD’s success largely to a ruthless culture of cost-cutting. The entrepreneur had instituted “absolutely aggressive cost control”

BYD has developed its own in-house capabilities. Contracting other companies for hardware or services is a last resort, so much so that an executive once told car reviewers the company made everything on the vehicle “except the tyres and the windscreen”.

By splitting manufacturing into “finer and finer steps”, Weber said, individual workers only carry out very narrow tasks. This means there is greater propensity to replace staff with cheap workers. “They basically treat people like robots,”
But that's likely only because Tesla got outcompeted.
I largely agree, although i think the author misses on some of the examples.

Reddit is not an example of being bad due to this affect, but an example of being good because of it. Reddit is not one huge platform but a combination of thousands of subreddits independently moderated. That is how reddit remains good, because small subreddits have small scale.

Running your own email server isn't a counterexample, but is legit terrible because in essence you aren't moderating a small community, you are moderating the whole world, but just your view of it, since anyone can email anyone. That is the worst because it is the worst of both worlds - no budget from being big scale but still all the problems of being large scale.
Consider the setup process for the Apple TV. The TV shows a unique one-time-use QR code-like pattern that you can scan with the camera of an iOS device. Surely something like this would be sufficient for pairing a Vision Pro with a Mac.

Also the security implications of encouraging people to add their personal Apple ID to devices they don’t own are, IMO, worse.
I was going to say this

A big beginner mistake I see if that the slides ARE the talk, but they should support your talk.
Tastes might be different. The designs and colors on his slides look like a nightmare to me.

My advice from Kawasaki:

Guy Kawasaki: "Never use more than 5 words on a slide"
Sure, but if someone wants to use a Vision Pro for both work and non-work, having two of them is a bit steep.
Widely known in the controls engineering world for the last hundred years as 'anything is linear if you zoom in far enough'
For anyone else wondering “And jail right? Someone’s going to jail for this?”

Yes, there are also federal indictments for fraud:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdil/simple-health
Those who have run meaningful amounts of ads in The Platforms will know quite well that they are very frequently defrauded and almost never made whole.

There is a fair (but tolerable) amount of click-fraud, etc that you basically factor as a cost of doing busines.

I'm quite skeptical of the ad model myself, but I'm relatively sure that "you are not the customer" is not altogether the most salient argument to make in this thread.
A million tank men may be needed to topple stupidity. China will undergo major change this next century as they shrink 500,000,000 in population, and their system will inevitably change during this time. Hopefully for the better - maybe Tank Man was a necessary seed.
Where is the wall to wall 24x7 coverage of this? I guess if it's not a company that is competing for eyeballs and clicks then it's not a big deal...
Ask HN: Setting Up a Marketing Dashboard
Looking to setup a Marketing Dashboard for my startup. Unsure of where to start in terms of products/solutions.

We have a good sense of what we want to measure, so that takes care of that- how to view it- I am facing an issue here.

Any particular products/tools you'd recommend or references (links, articles, blog posts) on how to think about this that influenced you through your company building journey- it'd be massively helpful.

Thanks. :)
I don't agree. I may have been a crappy partner when I was young, but making those mistakes and facing consequences rather than having a for loop kiss my ass was probably necessary for my growth.
Honestly the real problem with security is the whole passcode -> Face ID -> passcode flow.

It is relatively easy for someone to see the passcode that unlocks my phone, in one way or another.

All of my banking apps are locked behind Face ID. But if you lock an app with Face ID, you can just override with the phones passcode. This is dumb.

The app Face ID backup passcode should be separate from the device unlock passcode, or that should at least be an option. Maybe I'm at a party and I want someone to be able to unlock my phone to use Spotify, but I don't want to also give them access to all my banking apps.
Employers could be free to restrict use of such devices via MDM policy if they wanted.

Also, how many of us have purchased keyboards, mice, displays, headphones, etc with our own money that we happily use with employer owned computers because it’s safe to do so?
I think wikipedia serves as an example of community governance on a large scale. Not quite facebook scale, but en wikipedia has 126,000 users who have taken an action in the last 30 days, which is pretty big scale.

Then again the wikipedia community is full of drama.
I just tried the latter with gab’s AI and it was excellent.
That would be a ~ three or four person shop in my experience. It’s small enough that you the founder know how to do everything themself. That’s a fine business, but often it’s tough to take a vacation and leave it on autopilot for a few weeks. And heaven help you if you ever come down ill.
> I’m 16 years old, I’m planning to go to college to become an animator. It has been my life’s dream to become an animator and to share my artwork with people, to create, to show love in every piece I make. And now, I don’t think I’m ever going to have that future. <

When I was 16 I wanted more than anything to be an astronaut, but reality got in the way.

Change is inevitable, so we all have to adapt throughout life. Fortunately, adapting one of humanity's greatest capabilities.
I was part of a HN-style tech site many years back that used an interesting system where new submissions would actually require you to spend your karma points. Points would accumulate based on your standard karma voting for comment history, but a small amount would also accrue for free on each day you logged in.
Looks like it has become abandonware, or at least the component they open sourced. Oh well, such is life in the Haskell ecosystem. https://github.com/facebook/Haxl
I'm being more cynical and assuming it's probably to do with AirPlay screen-mirroring encryption and how tying everything to the same Apple ID account placates Hollywood's technophobic licensing execs.
I don’t understand the downvotes to this comment. Obviously you can disagree, but it’s the obvious question in response to lots of commenters implying this isn’t possible.
He made $1m by somehow evading Adobe's litigation against him.

It's quite a feat and amazing. It's a direct clone of Photoshop and I have no idea how it has been up for so long.
>Any video that is 9 to 11 minutes long, I automatically skip because that's the sweetspot length for maximizing ad revenue.

I think that may be outdated? 10 minutes was the sweet spot for ad revenue a few years ago, but I think around 8 minutes is the sweet spot now.
> which isn't actually a good thing

Maybe not for competitors but seems like a pretty good thing for the country doing the subsidizing?
The truth is, as usual, probably somewhere in the middle.
Considering just how effective their claimed attempts at stopping the spread of ordinary fraud, scams, fake reports and so forth have been up to now, color me doubtful as fuck about their pulling it off with AI deepfakes. If anything, these very companies will be what most helps the spread of this kind of content, for elections and so many other things.

In brief, this pledge smells of heavy duty PR bullshit for the sake of feel-good political goodwill.
you mean the user's family choosing not to use Signal or WhatsApp?

also stop derailing please
I have looked at the newsboat logs with the most verbose setting and there’s nothing standing out, other than the run taking 1/10th the time as when I just run newsboat -x reload interactively, and no writing to the cache.db file. Nothing in std err or out. According to those newsboat specific logs it seems to connect to the feeds and output some new article titles along with the time to connect. It does manage to generate the cach lock file but thats it. Its maddening for sure because I feel like at this point I’m out of levers to try and pull.
Part of this thorough process of verification and checking open source projects is also ensuring that those critical projects are also funded appropriately to reflect their mission critical nature in your corporate software stack.

Oh, hang on, no that's not part of it.
What I learned in the last 6 years is that the US is simply not the good guys that everyone makes them out to be and China is not the bad guys. It's all a game for resources and survival. That's it.

The way the US does it is the same way any other government would do it - propaganda.
My employer requires you to use a work Apple ID if you use an Apple ID (optional for just MacBook, required if you have a work iPhone). I think it's perfectly reasonable - I don't want my personal Apple ID intermingled with my work computer.
> good bedtime stories

May I suggest this? https://garethhinds.com/wp/the-odyssey/

Excellent graphic novel adaptation. The gore is mostly a set of a dozen pages towards the end, when Odysseus kills the suitors, that can easily be skipped.
> their employer should issue one

iPad is not in the list of "standard" hardware for my company (with thousands of developers and a good balance sheet). Good luck getting that approved as an exception.
What about living in a small town now? Uber does not operate in most small towns. Small town (and big town) traditional taxi services still suck massively. I would pay a premium to use uber/lyft over traditional taxis.
I don't think that's true or we would have several clones of popular software that are just changed in name and raking in tons in just undercutting.

It is remarkable that Adobe hasn't attacked Photopea as it's a direct 1 to 1 clone.
This tool is really awesome - love the fact it has integrations as well!
It could have been epic!
> 128 bits vs. 64 bits doesn't matter much when the table has five other columns.

!!!!

But those 5 other columns are not indexed.

---

There are three levels of database performance:

1. Indices and data fit in memory.

2. Indices fits in memory, data does not.

3. Neither indices not data fit in memory.

If you can do #1 great, but if you don't have that, fight like a madman for #2.

---

Doubling your index sizes is just makes it harder.
I found the comment fueled by propaganda.
To elaborate, personally I draw the line at peripherals. I do try to use different devices for work and not-work, but I use the same monitor+keyboard+mouse+headphones (and desk, and chair...) for both.

The Vision Pro is a weird middle ground of device and peripheral. When it's operating as a virtual display it's more of a peripheral, and it'd be nice if it acted more like one.
No worries; I was oblique in my phrasing, for fear Ptacek might notice what I was saying and weigh in on how I'm full of it. ;)

It's not even so much 'as the government has instructed'. The laws around the associations grew around the associations, with much generous assistance and advice from their own paid lobbyists - much as with the darlings of the modern tech industry, in their day the associations were 'disruptors,' too.

When I say 'under current US law,' what I really mean by it is 'until the Sherman Act is applied as written'. It would be nice to think that might happen in my lifetime, but it has been some years since I could reasonably consider myself young.
All grounds?

It's an exact clone in 9/10 places.
This is an incredible point that I had not considered.
before/after:<year>

Works on Google and Youtube
The OP isn’t making a point about the software stack insomuch as they are making the point that your developer has you by the short hairs if the stack is too specific or if you have no idea how anything works. Use something that someone else will have a fighting chance to take over when the day comes that your developer gives you two weeks notice. And be sure to document everything.
That's honestly why I love hacker news. There are so many talented and intelligent people here and the site drives for high quality posts.

I'd argue yes overall the Internet has devolved into what reddit is now which is low quality discussion, Though sites like this are what makes it as awesome to me as Usenet or IRC did to me in the 90s.
I think you misread what I wrote. No disrespect meant, good luck to you.
I wrote a little post about the typechecking algorithm I devised for SaberVM, a typed stack-based bytecode language like Web Assembly, designed from the ground up for being the target of functional programming languages
Related: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/02/...
Making noise music with light – Photovoltaic Sound
This is a musical hack where a photovoltaic cell connected to an audio jack turns vibrations in light into sound.
Some employers are just straight up control freaks.

Sometimes it's misguided thoughts about security and third party keyboards from "unapproved vendors" (which is not entirely invalid to be concerned about, but unlikely to be an attack vector)......

But other times, they really do want you to use exactly what they provide you and nothing else. Things like "looking uniform and professional" or not wanting employees bringing their personal belongings to the workplace or whatever nonsense they come up with.
> but AMZN made it work with twitch).

I don't know that the Twitch acquisition was smart. What was the strategic reason to acquire?

Amazon announced cutting 35% of Twitch staff (500) in January to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year.
The last two places I've worked I added a custom "debug bar" of sorts. We typically use in dev and lower QA environments, and they quickly become indespensible to help answer questions like "which version of service X is deployed", something that may be easy for a dev to answer as they can look at what is deployed on the server, but harder for a tester who can only access the frontend.

Other useful environmental information we find useful includes "which DB is being used", which OpenShift namespace (with a link to the console), traceability for the deployed artifact (e.g. links to the GitHub release tag, CI pipeline which built the artifact, docker registry with the correctly tagged image). Especially useful if you have downstream or upstream services, is to have colour coded status info about whether the services are up.

For the few days investment getting this up and running, it pays itself back in terms of time gained answering questions such as "Why doesn't this feature work? Oh, after investigation, this service was down during testing".
The Neo-Luddites Warning of an AI Apocalypse
Except that you can have a different AppleID for your system versus content.
Raspberry Pi Display Library
What does anyone use the Macbook camera for except video calls or meetings. 1080p is more than enough for that.
The climate is a non-issue for almost all Americans. I think your point about HSR is more important because it’s really saying that the entire country isn’t designed around individual people driving everywhere all the time, and that’s the problem the United States has in so many forms: housing is spread out and often intentionally bad for transit, transit and bike infrastructure is terrible because most funding was used to subsidize private car travel for most of a century, people have car parking because they’re required to pay for it anyway, etc. Gas prices going up could change that but it’d be hard on many people to the point that elections are lost.
Logto SDK new website offers helpful guides for integrating Logto into your application.
IMHO it's nothing to do with "funding" (look at what comes out of the demoscene, for example); or perhaps you're espousing the same mentality that causes this. There isn't a need to "prioritize" anything, because these are really problems caused by doing unnecessary work in the first place: generating code for which the results of its execution will never be needed.
Its going to be an unpopular take, but crypto solves this. As in currency. Make people attest to things with locking a very small amount of money.
Huh? That must've been a recent change. I used to log into apple music via itunes with my personal account while MacOS itself was using my work account.. yep, two separate apple IDs.

That sucks.
From the fraudsters/spammers perspective large platforms provide the economies of scale.
Most of the time it's fine. But it can become a very major problem, and the risk is easily avoided. If you need some equipment for work, work should pay for it. If you can BYOD and want to do that, don't use it for anything else.
> It’s logically obvious. You can recreate any linear regression using a neural network. So a neural network approach will always be at least as good as linear regression.

Well, maybe it's logically obvious, but it's also empirically false: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7psGHgatGM (Skip to 13:36 to get to the point)

> But a neural network can model non-linear relationships as well. Now ask yourself, what is the likelihood of there being a non-linear relationship in the data? As with most real-world data, the likelihood of non-linear relationships is extremely high. That’s why we can be quite certain a neural network approach will able to outperform linear regression.

As I've said elsewhere in this thread, a deep neural network of N layers can be decomposed into a complex nonlinear function of N - 1 layers followed by a linear combination of the nonlinear features generated that function. There's no law that says that you have to use a neural network to generate your nonlinear features. You can use any method you like and then linearly combine those.
Thanks, but is that when it was first crawled?
Western companies have been basically shut out of the Chinese market since the beginning-even more is now.

Sometimes I wonder what people actually read to write something like that.

China is Mercedes' biggest market. Audi sells more cars in China than in all of Europe. Tesla is one of the top EV sellers in China.

It's actually the US who has shut off China's access to the US car market.
There are plenty of VNC clients for Vision Pro.

Seems easier to just use those if all you need is a virtual display.
Thanks for that!

I was thinking of focusing on others lifestyles. Things like food, exercise, shakes, etc
> A concept that's specific to the English language is probably a rather idiosyncratic disjunction of properties and not worth writing philosophy papers about.

Sure it does. To English speakers/linguists it could have a ton of reason to exist. In the same way a paper on wanderlust or schadenfreude would be useful to contextualize a realized phenomenon and how culture/language reflects that.

This specific paper has no reason to exist because it is simply bad, however.

> E.g. German has no proper translation for "creepy", we would use different words for various cases described by it.

Do you think creepy is the universal word for an unnerving feeling in English? There's "menacing", "sinister", "eerie", "ominous", "macabre", "ghoulish", "distasteful", "repugnant", "offensive", "cloying", "odious", etc, etc, etc. All with different subtleties to their implications.

The fact that German lacks a word for something has no effect on the lexicon of another language.

> It's like thinking there is some global concept "can" that includes both "being able to" and "being allowed to", just because in the English language "can" can express both. Chances are, it's just an ambiguous word.

The difference is cultural contextualization. English defers more to the agents in discussion to defer meaning. There are multiple words that all express a functionally equivalent meaning of "to be able": "can" (capability), "might" (desirability), "ought" (necessity), "may" (permissive), "able" (strictly neutral), etc; but each is used in a context that grants it more specified meaning.
I most certainly do not, if it’s bad it’s bad. If a movie tries to do something stupid and succeeds, it has just succeeded at doing something stupid. Being successfully stupid is not something to be proud of or celebrated.
So the resulting stochastic parrot will be pendantic, opinionated, redundant, and have a fondness for extremely cheap jokes?
> alcohol

Please tell me it's not the drinking kind?
China is developing self driving cars.
A Tailwind Post
That's a weird rhethorical flourish. If there isn't a need to prioritize work to fix the thing we're complaining about, I guess we can stop complaining about it.