skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a weird ethical boundary here that makes me sort of uncomfortable with this app in the same way many content based firewalls for kids does.

We don't want kids looking at certain Hub sites, obviously, but, like, those same filters also often prevent high schoolers from looking up necessary safe-sex information.

As a music app, that's less of a concern, but I do think there's risk of parents over-controlling to only provide, say, conservative podcast audio and Christian music. Weather or not that's a parent's right also depends on the age. 4, like your daughter. Sure. What about 12? 16? 17? Age of majority in Nebraska, where I'm located, is 19. Should a parent be able to restrict their child from listening to, say, NOFX, Flobots, or The Narcissist Cookbook, at 18?

I lean no. Now, you're not the moral police and, arguably, it's not up to you if parents abuse this app against their more-adult-kids wishes, but have you put any thought into this? Have you made an effort to only target parents with kids of an age range or to put a "What should I let my kids listen to?" guidance section in the app?

I'd also like to ask if the app is obviously branded as for kids to kids, so that those "kids" or maybe some highly sheltered romantic partner, can take it as a hint?

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> Exiting the audio player mode requires the password set by the parents

How does this work? I'm an Android guy, but over there, to my knowledge, there's no good way to tell the OS "Users shouldn't be able to kill this app", so how does it stop kids from closing it/switching apps?
The test appears to have been implemented as a JavaScript button with a timer.

How many people would have simply set a timer for 10 minutes, then wait for a bit and return to the page to see if they had won a prize?
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Cities are far more kid-friendly than suburbs, especially for kids from age ~9–18. Everything is walkable or can be reached by transit, many more amenities and activities are accessible, kids are dramatically less dependent on parents or other caretakers to constantly chaperone them, and there are a wider variety of other kids around with many niche interests.

Some kids' parents irrationally believe cities will be bad for their kids for one reason or another or consider the suburbs to be more personally convenient for the parents. For the kids themselves, cities are wonderful while suburbs are often boring and repressive.
But have probably increased the total traffic flow. It's the Fox News effect, outrageous statements and inflamed rhetoric keep people engaged. This is why algorithms that maximize for engagement inevitably amplify the worst people and corrode the discussion.
> Regardless, as another commenter pointed out, the quote is missing some important context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41174244

It's a stretch to call that "important context" given that:

1. There is an entire article between those two sentences.

2. The desire to work for the company is not couched by that conditional
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your ignoring that, or not understanding that, is like a person saying that 10% is equal to 0%. I cannot argue with such people. it's a dead end, and a waste of my time.
Thank you very much for point me to this amazing resource.
I am not sure if I am going to engage asking over there because as much as I love learning from other people so I can implement some of their ideas into my life, at the end of the day is all about action I suppose instead of searching for the holy grail on what's the best way to put a product out there. Thanks again for taking the time to answer my question.
A lot of mitigation actions but nothing to really stop it happening again: a fail safe system in their boot start driver. Bad programming and QA caused the issue, but bad design allowed it to happen
I might have missed it in the article but I'm not sure why the prefix is stored for strings that can't be inlined.
The following list will still include their retweets, "person you followed liked this random's post", and the ads.
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It has become a national security concern in the aftermath of the recent UK race riots which were almost entirely amplified by Twitter/X [0][1][2]

[0] - https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/from-rumours-to...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/business/uk-riots-social-...

[2] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/31/southport-st...
I worked on a ~350kloc (dry) code base for 10 years. It was perfectly fine.

I also worked on a much smaller C++ code base for 9. It was very bad.

Types or not isn't the big thing here. It's having a good engineering culture.
> it's tough to stomach paying for a utility that has been free since the 1990s.

No such thing as a free lunch. I'd rather pay to not have ads splashed in my face than have some corporation sell my data to the highest bidder.

And an open source search engine isn't exactly a feasible endeavor (e.g. one that can be produced in 5-10 years without some reliance on existing tech). But I'd happily donate if anyone wants to take a gander at such an initiative.
I get it, but that's just going to annoy me and probably annoy thousands of others.
> You might think of this chart as the shape of attention. After clicking to start, thousands rapidly exited, some immediately, some after a minute or two. But if you could make it past three minutes, you were more likely to finish than to give up. And once you hit five minutes, your odds of completing the exercise were very high. A quarter who started made it to the 10-minute mark.

This is interesting but the whole experiment is completely undermined by the fact that one cannot choose the painting, or at least choose from a list of paintings. Personally I clicked through to see what it was, then left after 10s because I didn't like what I found. I do like impressionism but not the out of focus and "about to go blind" cataract kind, which actually gives me a headache. For me at least, a blank wall would be preferable to a fogged up scene, assuming a 10 minute timer and a computer screen.
I think there's a lot of variance between the different groups people here are part of and the different conventions they follow. That's broadly the case with HN actually.
Not OK. It's bad enough as it is right now.
The definition you gave has the word "force" in it. And a synonym for compel is force. All paths lead to defining "force".

You can't be this silly, surely. Whatever strange definition you've made for yourself of force and forced isn't what the rest of the humans are using.
> Put the power to the people

But this is the problem is it not? Like if individuals are organically making crazy shit trend, then great. If the algorithm is inorganically promoting a few small accounts, left or right, at the expense of more organically trending topics than that should be looked at?
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This is exactly the approach I've taken. Current TV is 14 years old and survived numerous house moves. Still as good as new.

Most usage is via a Chromecast Ultra. I have a Chromecast 4K with TV (i.e. newer device) but it was a backwards step from an experience perspective (covered by others elsewhere).
I thought everything was space dust, in the final reckoning of things, wasn't it?
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Thank you very much for your answers fellows.
I think I am going to start with a less ambitious computer program, the one relate with how the cards are dealt and announced to the players. Thanks again!
> it aligns with the interests of the late American Empire oligarchy

More importantly, it aligns with his Saudi investors, who see lighting a large pile of cash on fire as a reasonable cost to prevent an Arab Spring in their country.
1 FPS screen sharing? Isn't that just MS Teams on a tuesday?
They literally titled the blog post "The Future of Open Source".
I don't think he started the fire but he drove the tanker truck of gasoline into it.
I didn't characterize US control as imperialist, I characterize it as hegemonic. Much of the post WW2 treatsies in region were specifically setup to enable US security presence to uphold military hegemony via forward basing and keeping basing partners denuclearized to make them dependant on US security commitments. Nuclear domino "afterwards" is also matter of time frames and geography. If JP/SKR nuclearizes, PRC will work towards south american nuclearization in US backyard when conditions enables it, including selling all the missile and launch hardware (see Saudi). That's what US has to worry about about loosening proliferation.

Export:GDP does capture sense of limits of damage. Having only 20% (PRC), vs 50% (Germany) matters. @20%, 10% of which is trade to west, PRC is simply not export dependant, it doesn't have same exposure profile, i.e. for all the talk of PRC auto excess capacity, ~10% of production went towards export, meanwhile DE is 60%+. The difference is between a mild sprain vs spine snapping.

I think post WW3, can be like post WW2, where huge consolidation of spoils under US control after every other industrial powers was crippled. Yes, capturing GDP in peacetime against incumbent is _HARD_, especially in strategic sectors with large moats (geopolitical not just technical). So hard that what ends up being easier might be to _destroy_ concentration of GDP. PRC hitting Boeing, F35 plants, mastercard / payment processors, seven sisters data centres, severing fiber optic cables... all the stuff where US has built up disproportionate control/share via various post war momentum mechanisms opens up huge global spoils for grab. It might not be PRC doing the grabbing, as PRC will be reconstituting as well, but but sometimes it's important to not just deny, but destroy, make net negative. A builder in a 100k house and a banker in a 200k house burn each others houses down, the banker loses more, while the builder has capacity to rebuild their house faster. Everyone in neighbourhood use to goto parties at bankers house, will they go to the builder's house parties after? Maybe if the builder recovers fast enough, maybe neighbours will do their own thing. Either banker likely to lose most. Which is not to suggest destroying GDP is an "easy" decision, but it is naturally "easy" escalation once the hard decision of going to war is made.
I've got some ideas to take this further... the effort to output ratio is interesting with gen ai. If you see it as a medium to work with. This is going to create some interesting output for audio and visual that is interesting in of itself and could be considered its own genre.
Stock price driver. Not growth.
> The $20 billion is categorized as "advertising" on Apple's Balance Sheet

No it isn't.

First, that's not what a balance sheet is. A balance sheet is the list of assets and liabilities. How those assets were gained isn't tracked. What you're thinking of is the income statement. Not understanding the difference is fine, but understanding the difference would have made it clear that your source is trash

Second, there is no "advertising" line item in Apple's financials. Not in the balance sheet (where it would make no sense) nor in the income statement (it is under services, but not broken out further).

The rest of your post is basically fanfic, since it is based on this invalid claim.
> “short string optimization”: A short enough string can be stored “in place” [...] An optimization that’s impossible in Rust, by the way ;).

Author is not aware of https://docs.rs/compact_str/latest/compact_str/ or https://github.com/bodil/smartstring
> I feel we are absolute fools for letting this happen

How did "we" let it happen?
Seems quite pricey to me:

CPX11 - 2 shared vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB, 1TB bandwidth, €7.90 + VAT

CCX13 - 2 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB, 1TB bandwidth, €21.50 + VAT

For comparison with Germany, Finland and US with 20 TB bandwidth: CCX12 is €4.35 + VAT, CCX13 is €12.49 + VAT

People have been asking for other regions for a long time, but Hetzner is usually extremely good price for the specs but in this case the bandwidth allowance is very low (and €7.40+VAT/TB overage) and there are other providers (e.g. greencloud) who can beat this with their standard prices and massively beat this when they run promotions.
I totally believe that people are selling solutions around this idea, what I'd like to hear is genuine success stories from people who have used them in production (and aren't currently employed by a vendor).
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Also note llama.cpp with grammar support:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/grammars

Supports an EBNF-like syntax, as well as JSON-Schema.
I don't endorse the jokes. But I also don't think any government or corporation could write a policy that is anything other than a sharp wrap on free speech.
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>It’s a lot easier to pay off your would-be competitors than it is to innovate. I’m hesitant to say that antitrust is good for its subjects, but Google does make you wonder.

This line would ring more true if Google hadn't invented transformers and a host of other ML breakthroughs to bolster search. Also not search related, but inventing self-driving cars and solving protein folding are innovations that benefit consumers greatly.

I'd bet Ben himself has compared Google to Bell Labs in the past. To argue they don't innovate is insane.
Personally, I just don't trust anyone to summarize content for me. Call it my own weird quirks and biases, but I'm maybe 50/50 on conforming to populist sentiment, and if it's a story I even mildly care about I don't want to take that coin flip. I'll just take the time to at least skim the article, then read the abstract of any acedemic sources it points to.
Unfortunately there is no such barrier to my life being impacted by the people who are swayed by this dross, so I can't afford to switch off from it.
I have always thought of it as a way to figure out what doesn't work and get to a final design, not necessarily code. Personally, it's easy to verify a solution and figure out use cases that wouldn't work out. Keep on iterating until I have either figured out a mental model of the solution, or figured out the main problems in such a hypothetical solution.
Are you saying these did not originate in space? Isn't that what microgravity means?
> Sometimes companies are so big the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

So it's really amazing, then, that they somehow remain profitable and in business. It's interesting that their "largeness" only seems to create problems for their customers and never for themselves.

Meanwhile if you have a company that's too large to reasonably coordinate, then you shouldn't be allowed to exist, as you're effectively admitting you don't actually exercise any authority over the business.
I mean, the licensing thing exists as a separate anti-consumer behavior that is frankly unconscionable both artistically and in consumer rights in itself.

Companies shouldn’t be allowed to delete stuff out of my library because they don’t want to renew the contract for the music (f.ex). If they do that, they should be forced to refund the full original price of the purchase, at a minimum.

It’s also obscene for the creator of the work change the work retroactively. This should immediately surrender copyright protection on all materials covered by the first release, or the second release should not receive copyright protection (it's not a new work).

Not sure where the line is between a “remaster”/“director’s cut” but certainly by the time it’s in people’s libraries it’s over the line - I would be very upset to find out that, say, the ending of a movie changed to a version I specifically chose against purchasing (like a directors cut). If you want to release an extra ending, or a directors cut/remaster, fine, but don’t change the things people already bought.

This functionally will force them to sign perpetual licensing deals or not license the content at all. By setting the rules of the game, you can nudge them into the better behavior, and it becomes standard.

Like I'm sure they are used to abusing the consumer etc, because it's been legal to do so, and the way you stop that is attaching consequences for the behavior you want to stop. I'm sure that this will be a shift in how they negotiate contracts etc. And it will be a good one for the consumer.

Requiring separate licensing for playing my game in the cloud is also unconscionable and anti-consumer. Charging for managed-content-library services (like netflix/gamepass) is different but if I as a consumer buy a game and want to play it on a computer instance I rent from Amazon or Google, that should be legal.

In the sense that GDPR is forcing a shift in mindset for companies from "how we handle our data" to "how we handle the customer's data", there is a fundamental shift that needs to happen in the copyright mindset away from "licensing our content/protecting the copyright holders" to "protecting the customer's license". The idea of a license as an ephemeral thing that can be torn away from a consumer without consequence (because the lawyers put "haha eat shit" in some contract-of-adhesion) needs to stop. A significant number of license terms will need to be invalidated immediately etc, just like when other things are regulated (store regulations sometimes mean people can refund things today that they couldn't yesterday, etc). Mostly it will be fine / the consumer will be made whole from parties that are almost inevitably still around and actually able to pay (eg EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft haven't gone anywhere).
I have a slightly nuanced take on this in that I simultaneously believe that Musk is basically culturally retarded and needs someone he can listen to by his side, but also that he fundamentally understands the value of twitter far better than the people he bought it from.

There are unsavoury things on Twitter, but the alternative is basically something like Instagram, Threads, or r/all, where people are basically being dosed with Soma every day.

At the moment it seems to filter for the extremes - the very smart, the very dumb, the very wise, the foolish.

I think there is real utility in that. Where else on the internet do you see bond traders chatting shit about each other just below people arguing if manchester is red or blue.
no - UPCs are U for a reason.

the only thing that is needed is to be able to query the UPC for the price at the location.

The only way to scan the UPC for a price per location is... at the register...

Instead - what we need is an app where every single person uploads their receipt.

Several things here - have AI scan the receipts for the same item from the same [VARIABLE] tree and look for gouging, fraud, mis prints etc.

How much is that spaghetti in the ghetto vs the grotto?

etc.

If we could have every single receipt from EVERY supplier include a QR code of that receipt that they need to have scannable for the digital json of the receipt to last as long as the return policies/laws allow.

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I did this for cannabis labels for a company a few years ago: The cannabis had to have a publicly available PDF of the lab results for chemical testing.

I made a lable through a tiny.url for each product and the dispensary to go to that lead to the lab's PDF posting of the results..

Then when the QR was scanned - you could see which products from which dispensaries were scanned against the lab results for it and also report the sales location for them....

(there is an amazing labeling software thats free from Seagull Scientific called BarTender (as-in Barcodes):

[0] https://www.seagullscientific.com/software/starter/
It is not clear that you understand the comment you are replying to.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167622.
In the spirit of constructive feedback, spend the time and effort to record your product demonstrations in a more professional environment. Or generate a fake background at a minimum.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167622.

You posted this at least 3 times. That's not ok, and it's also not ok to post a comment as a reply to a high-ranking comment when it isn't actually a response to that comment.
You don’t really need an e-bike to go from the Mission to SoMa as it is pretty flat. I don’t think it will take you much longer on a regular bike. But your statistic that you showed is a bit flawed as it includes people that commute from outside and into SF, hardly any of whom does so on bikes, so this methodology will always show bias against walking or rolling (I don’t know a better methodology, it is just something to keep in mind).

Even so, this methodology still shows 13% walks to work in SF in 2019, and 36% took transit. So if we thinking about the typical worker in San Fransisco, they do indeed either walk, bike or take transit.

If we are only thinking about a typical worker that lives in the Mission and works in SoMa, I wouldn’t be surprised if this goes well over 80% that walks, bikes or takes transit (and most likely a mix of all of the above). And I very much doubt they spend more than 40 min commuting each day in each direction.

https://vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/indicators/commute-mode-choice
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This idea that there is a solution to every problem if you only knew about it is a hallmark of these things. A lot of products are solutions looking for a problem, and they work very hard to make you think you'll have a problem if you don't buy the product.

As an example, a pest control company canvassed one of my friends' cul-de-sacs and essentially threatened to send all the pests into his house by poisoning them and repelling them from all the neighbors. If you have a pest problem exclusion is usually cheaper and better than poison or repellent. My wife paid for trapping and control on her house for years and then I went around over the course of a couple of weeks and closed the gaps in her siding that were added by telecommunications companies like Verizon and AT&T and Comcast over the years. Mysteriously the pest problem went away after that.

So it's not always the case that the product being advertised is a net positive. Often it's net neutral or net negative. But the advertiser sure wants you to do it anyway.
Translation: I’m Elon Musk I will compel you to advertise pampers next to porn and alt right trolls.
Too true, Many people, including myself, tend to say "ha, I have never bought any thing based on an ad or salesman" But often that is not the point, the point is to get it in your head that the product exists. and when you do need one, when faced with several indistinguishable items, you go for the one that feels familiar, the one that was infiltrated into your head months ago.

There is nothing super wrong with this, I mean, sales is necessary evil of doing business. necessary, because the whole point is to sell the thing, and evil, because you are coercing someone to do something they otherwise would not have done. But I think there is a healthy ratio here, and I try to make a point(often failing for the reason in the previous paragraph) to avoid products that lean too heavily on the unhealthy side of that ratio. those companies that believe sales is more important than the product.
Are there any co-founders left?
>45 bot-like accounts on X collectively produced around 440,000 posts, garnering over 3 billion impressions. In the 2.5 weeks following the election, their roughly 170,000 posts racked up over 1.3 billion impressions.

How do these accounts not get caught by the most rudimentary filters, this isn't even remotely subtle.
François Truffaut expressed that sentiment, though the various quotes I've seen attributed to him were not verbatim. The closest I could find was "Every film about war ends up being pro-war[1]"

1: https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-it-is-imp...
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