skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I found better about it was the algorithm-free browsing experience.

Not algorithm free, just a different kind of algorithm. Probably a mix of marketing and manual curation. Video stores (at least good ones) would be organized for you to find exactly what you were looking for… even if you didn’t know what you were looking for. If you saw a wall full of the most recent summer blockbuster movie, you might be drawn to rent that one. Why? Because you’re perceiving that movie to be “popular selection”. Or if there was a special section of “date night comedy”, you could browse there if that was what you were looking for.

But “staff picks” might have been a shelf with movies that weren’t performing well, with maybe one or two interesting movies to make the rest look better. Studios may have even paid for that placement (at larger chains). I have no idea if this really happened, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

As I see it, the algorithms are trying to bring order to a maddeningly long list of options[*]. The main goal being to help you find something you’d like to watch. If you like it, you’re happier and you’ll go back to that source (and keep paying for it). Regardless of told the source is YouTube, Disney+, Netflix, or Blockbuster Video.

In this way, we’ve always had curation… so effectively the algorithm wasn’t a “we think you’d like this”, maybe it was a “Randall” at the counter who you could ask for recommendations, or just a well organized store that led you to something you might like.

* - except the dark pattern algorithms that want you to just keep consuming media or increase “engagement”. I’m trying to look at it from a positive side.
I always ask my academic supervisor for an advice if I want his permission for something. I present my plan that involve what I want to do and then ask if they think this plan is good and if there is alternative. Usually it is yes go for it. And sometimes it is stupid enough that I get better suggestion anyway.

My last direct request of getting root access on our cluster did not go well. And this was for a good reason.
Great book recommendation that covers this topic and many more like it: Turn the Ship Around, by David Marquet. Highly influential for me when I started managing (and remains highly influential!)

https://davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-book/
> Be careful not to burn bridges so quickly.

I don't think your comment makes sense. You're talking about a scenario where, when you ask someone to review your design, their feedback is literally "all good, looks fine to me",but when you present your design to management or you roll out your design them that same person suddenly changes their tune and has all kinds of epiphanies on design mistakes that they wouldn't have made if it's up for them.

Are you really doing the bridge-burning if you call them out for throwing you under the bus?
At most companies I have been at the devs have had a lot of say in discussions like this.
Admittedly I have not, but I did search for and find similar issues on their github before making this comment, and I do plan to investigate this more one day and possibly make a proper issue. There are indeed a lot of "X tool is broken because of Y" statements of varying credibility floating around in the multimedia community where it's unclear if they were actually ever reported upstream or even double-checked recently (people still claim that VLC uses nearest-neighbour chroma scaling, for example, but that's no longer true (except for screenshots, it's still a problem there)), and that is something I'm trying to work against by investigating and reporting this when I can.
But since I don't use IINA myself and since, as another commenter pointed out, IINA bug reports don't seem to get a lot of responses on average, it hasn't been the highest priority for me.
Enough sites don't accept + in the address.

Even if you can enter it, various backends in the same company might not handle it correctly and you enter up with an half-working account that their customer support (if they even have that...) cannot solve. Been there, tried that...

Personally I have - as the separator (not on gmail or similar). If you have to give you email on the phone it can cause lengthy discussions why their company name appears in my email address..
Isn't it be essential to provide permission to him/her if he/she is in your your management chain?

Is there a so ideal work environment, employee can do what they want when they think they have a good idea without the permission of superior? It will be so great if there is.
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Wait until you hear about German SME e-commerce and “open invoice” billing. So much trust from the vendor!
Unless they re-wrote the whole thing again it's not that bad. You shouldn't be building AI in California anyway, but at this rate I'm not sure who's going to pay for actually secure facilities.
https://github.com/rien/reStream

Over ssh (there is a demo video in the readme)
Yes...but at least in high-functioning countries, "crap" food, housing, and such are okay at meeting basic human needs.

Vs. crap art, crap movies, and crap music are more suitable for "liquidation galleries", The Other Kind of Horror Week at the local arthouse theater, and torturing captured enemy spies.
My current company uses Postgres by default and we have a lot of different usecases. Again, another million+ users company with 10+ countries. It does indeed scale.

The problem is how people think about SQL vs K/V. They fall into the normalization trap a lot and create complex procedures and read operations. This usage causes once a month DB CPU spikes and some inident.

We are currently advocating for; de-normalized tables with K/V usage of Postgres and pushing the complexity to the application layer. Essentially, use Postgres at its bare minimums.

In short, to make Postgres scale; you essentially need to forget your "expert SQL knowledge" and use it as a K/V.
Fair rules that apply to everyone doesn't have any organized political opposition. The debate is about redistributing the fruits of labor.
As a physicist, I think this is correct too :). You don't start to see problems with things under that, unless they are deviation from standard model predictions.
Who is preventing someone from criticizing the US government? Maybe I’m dense but I don’t understand what that has to do with anything being discussed here.

Also, once again, even if you’re banned from saying something on social media, no free speech rights (in any sense of the term) are lost. You are free to say it elsewhere via a mechanism that does not give you automatic free reach.
Terraform and Handlebars = DRY as a Bone
They got no balls to go after Apple even though it is much more of a monopoly and a bully.
By law, Chinese citizens must install the gov't spyware – ''anti-fraud'' app
>I would love to understand where the war-like anti-Chinese sentiment is coming

Maybe from China's war like anti the rest of the world actions?
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The heart of the argument for the person advocating democracy here is centered on the idea that democracy, by its nature, must protect certain fundamental principles, even if those principles are threatened by a majority or by actions claimed to be in defense of democracy itself.

They emphasize (in good faith I might add) that certain actions, such as censoring the opposition, canceling elections, or jailing people without due process, are inherently undemocratic and would destroy democracy if allowed, regardless of the intentions behind them. The argument is that democracy must adhere to its own rules and principles, even in the face of threats, because violating those principles in the name of protecting democracy ultimately leads to its destruction.

You can’t “protect Democracy” by violating its core tenants.

I feel like your arguments are more whataboutism than substantive.
The staff member clearly did not have a fair choice. His terms of employment were unilaterally changed in a way deemed to be illegal in Ireland. "Be more hardcore" is not a sensible description of a working environment to anyone but the most hardened of Musk apologists.

The law stood up for the employee in this case, as it should.

Ireland's tax regime is notoriously kind to tech companies, so I doubt they'll go anywhere.
Time for management to take the responsibility, that they so often raise as a point, when it comes to salary negotiations.
I’ve certainly had off days reviewing someone’s work and only realised certain feedback later. If I happened to surface that in a meeting with others, and got labeled a sociopath for it, I’d be concerned for sure.

I can’t speak to your personal situation or experience, but it’s important to caution against labelling people sociopaths because there are many variations of this scenario where that’s simply not the case. It can and will damage relationships.
One could argue video players in general just lose relevance in an age of streaming ...
And everything has definitely not crystallized around h.264. plenty of sources will give you widely different things, for instance digital cameras, webcam, even screen recorders. Basically most of the input is in completely different formats. If you were thinking about pirated movies then it is of course more the case, but I wouldn't think it is the biggest use case of VLC.
I for one appreciate being able to read both Mac screen recordings and clips from my DSLR with the same software without installing a bunch of weird stuff.
I live in The Netherlands, we have do not have a constitutional court and we still have a monarchy. A proposal to amend the constitution requires a simple majority in both houses of Parliament after which you have to call a general election. The general election is the only opportunity for someone outside of Parliament to stop it.

After the general election the amendment has to be voted on by both houses of Parliament again and win by a super-majority. Thus it is technically possible to disband Parliament and return all power back to the King within a year without the courts having any power to stop it.

So in case Parliament suddenly decides we should go back to an absolute monarchy, then we're only one general election away from completely dismantling democracy.
Ask HN: How did manufacturers ship CRT monitors back in the day?
I was reading this article:
https://int10h.org/blog/2021/04/safe-crt-monitor-shipping-5153-makes-it/

And it comes to me that shipping CRT monitors through commercial shipping companies is hazardous. How did companies such as IBM, HP, etc. ship new CRTs back in the day? I assume that because they were new monitors, buyers would have higher demand (no scratch for example). How did they manage to do that?

Or is it because shipping becomes more shitty (or to put up a better phrase, cost consciousness) nowadays? After all it seems to be easier to ship LCD ones than CRT ones.
If you replace crap with no value, it becomes clearer.

Most art has no value to anyone. People would not have it even for free. That's why most artists struggle and do something else to pay for their living.
Back in the 90s, at least in the UK, it wasn't called "big tech"; and it wasn't a major part of our direct culture as a family home might have one personal computer if they were well off but it wasn't all that important.

I suspect that even today you'd have a hard time finding a random person on the street who even knows that Oracle is a company and not a character from The Matrix or ancient Greek mythology. And if you tell them they bought Sun they'll think you mean the newspaper, if you talk about Java they'll either think you mean the island or are talking about a brand of coffee.
Usually, when I have a good idea, I will ask advise from my manager several times unitll she can't not provide more advise to me and give me with permission that I can start do that, I won't start that without permission. I'm too junior to take all responsibility of whole project or bear the risk of failure
To make sure you watch ads
A total propaganda or opinion piece without any actual fact. With people involved as writers or interviewed not related in any way with life science...
Nothing outstanding with this spec (can buy the same from commercial satellite imaging companies). So either they thought it did not harm to publicise or the actual capability is better than they tell us.
In general, prison time is for the peasants, not the royalty.
I've always wondered if privacy conscious engineers who work at Google do actually use Google's services for their personal lives (Google Drive, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Keep, Google Docs, etc.)? And if so, do they continue to use them when after leaving the company?

I ask this question here because there seem to be quite some (ex-)Google employees in this thread.
> I have seen these behaviors only when I work with toxic engineers.

I think it is pretty clear that the need to have all team members commit to projects after the design review is to prevent backstabbers to stab other team members in the back with sudden epiphanies and claims they would never make such a mistake.

You only need seat belts and airbags if you crash your card too.
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The idea that another judge or an independent judicial body should intervene if a judge is overstepping is consistent with how a system of checks and balances should function in a Democracy and I think you are largely correct.

However, whether the judiciary in Brazil is actually overstepping or properly fulfilling its role is a matter of interpretation and context.

The broader and very much core question is whether the actions taken by the judiciary, such as censoring social media or jailing individuals without trial, are justified under the circumstances or if they themselves undermine democratic principles. This is the same basic issue I made my other comment about in your series of replies.

This is a nuanced issue that can be debated from different perspectives and much more of a subjective question, and it’s important to separate the issues.
I made my own WebGL engine to show middle finger to modern websites
I think modern internet is lame and boring.
Websites are oriented on mobile devices and all look the same one being a copy cat of another.
Webpages use 1% of what browsers are capable of. And still they do it laggy, slow and anti ux.
I'm working on images portfolio that leverages webgl to change status quo.
I would be willing to pay based on usage. But my usage is so low that the current price feels horrendous per hour.
They can say whatever they want to my friend. It doesn’t mean it’s the real spec.
He learned that the state of California, which is funding the station buildout, is far behind schedule — 200 stations were supposed to be up and running by 2025, but only 54 exist

Seems like a bad plan to rely on that state to come through on any sort of infrastructure.
This is what it looks like:

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D22AQGbFrotEJ8sDA/fee...
Media player projects are in an arms race with exploit devs, though, especially since Google keeps introducing and popularizing new media formats.

Speaking of which: which project tkaes security more seriously, vlc or mpv?
> C# has every feature

Yes it does. I just don’t understand why does everyone want every language to be the same language? If you want all the sugar then C#, Java, latest C++ all are perfectly mature and usable and fit that niche
It mostly revolves around; understanding your primary business concept that write operations revolve around (aggregate root) and duplicating data for different read scenarios (view models).

For example imagine you have an "E-commerce" product which you can change details about. The "Product" would be a write-model that you store as K/V. It would accept operations such as; "change price", "change category" etc. Your key would be "product id" and the value would be the whole object represented as json etc.

For every write operation you would read the write-model from the database, deserialize, modify it, put it back. Changes to the write-model would trigger events and you could build different read-models to access the data.
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Only needs to be done once though. I tip and buy things all the time with my crypto wallet now, and it's less than a cent per transaction. Just waiting on more sites and stores to support it.

Credit cards were also a PITA when they first came out.
Masking does nothing to stop the spread of viruses. Neither does social distancing. Look it up. The vax was hugely destructive to healthy people and did not prevent transmission. These things are well established facts. The argument was never ”I'm too selfish to care about grandma”, it was always about the facts at hand.
Beep boop, it's a bot. Too bad my flags go straight to /dev/null
To be fair China is a threat. For the last 200 years we've lived in a world dictated by the West. All other nations have always agreed to abide to the Western world view.

Ofcourse China is at its core only a symptom. The world economy- and everything that goes with it- is irrevocably shifting to Asia.
It's kinda offensive to see Americans talk about Vietnam or India. They see them as vassals not independent nations with interests of their own.
Have you tried providing five different random words and seeing whether the person on the other end will take them?
This looks great but how the hell do you pan the view?
I came across this blog as well because I got interested in writing a compiler that converts SQL into source code of a type-checked language.

Are there any blog series about the details of query planning, optimization etc?
Do you also find it hilarious that Microsoft is making completely fine working CPUs on millions of computers unusable for Windows 11 ?
I switched to MPV years ago - for some reason VLC started to stutter when opening a file, which is quite annoying. It does not matter whether it is local ol remote file, format does not matter - every open and every seek will trigger this few-second long stutter.

MPV does not do this, so over the years I began to use it as my daily driver.
A mention for Old School RuneScape as well, which is the classic version of RuneScape. It's popularity is only growing, eclipsing the main game, and has a dedicated team working on constantly improving the game.
Coinbase + USDC are essentialy this now. They've started working with many merchants both in the real world and online to add USDC pay and transactions are less than a cent with Coinbase charging no additional fees.
Again: There is no reason to start caching previous frames until AFTER the user has paused and pressed the "back frame" key. Only THEN does it need to rewind to the previous i-frame and re-render and cache frames. And there is no measurable cost to remembering the timestamp of the last i-frame, so you know where to rewind to.
I've been a consultant for about half my career and had runs of 8 years and 4 years (where I am now, so at least 4). Sticking around is harder, because there's a adrenaline rush of getting up to speed and knocking off the low hanging fruit, not to mention the salary bump. But sticking around is more rewarding in terms of long term impact, imo.

In fact, I wrote a blog post about the joys of sticking around: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2023/08/07/the-benefits-o...
> The general obsession with the idea that “software is never done, only abandoned” needs to end,

My thinking was along those lines. Or at least along the lines of "engineering and/or organizational processes should exist to know when to stop".-

PS. Thanks for your attention to detail. It was a "PS" to an otherwise one-sentence comment.-
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You are misinformed. They are going after Apple together with 15 states and the District of Columbia.
Anyone who can verify this claim?
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> So many data breaches, information disclosures, they are in the news almost daily.

#YesterdayILearned the highly-appropriate phrase "breach fatigue."
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Exercises without detailed solutions are useless. If I don't have direct access to a tutor I need solutions, otherwise there's no point - I can never check whether I'm right, I'm stuck, or I'm making mistakes that are invisible to me. This invalidates the whole point of a textbook, it's your entry to a field without access to a teacher.
Yeah, who needs O(1) deletes anyway? /s
This link has been posted by this user 3 times in the last 20 days.
Even worse when you see function X takes some parameters and then passes *args and **kwargs to a client function. Makes the available (or required) parameters very difficult to track down.
Video Player with External Control?
Wow. Vietnam is in the top 5 for most positive emotions and bottom 5 for most negative ones.
Public money paid for it and they have a right to know it does at least something useful. Also it 90% can do a lot more than that. It will probably have a higher resolution optic.
Not to mention that relief of human suffering comes mainly from technological advances and that, in turn, depends on advances in material science and basic science which wouldn't exist except for the economic incentives produced by a capitalist society which produces "stuff" for the 90%.
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From what I heard it's pretty close. You don't HAVE to install it but they really push you to do it. And once it is installed it monitors everything. Its original utility is fraud and porn detection, but IMO it has developed into a mass surveillance tool.

Some people bring 2+ phones to shield themselves from this app. The police is just shooting for some KPIs so they don't really care as long as the app gets installed somehow. But maybe in the future all phones will have it pre-installed.
Is this not how pretty much all IT megacorps operate?

Microsoft has historically pursued these aggressive embrace-and-extend tactics very successfully.
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But he didn't "just" say no:

> If it's so easy, why are you not doing it? Talk is cheap.

> I'll be waiting for your patch. Surely you're not as lazy and incompetent as the existing volunteer developers.

I'd say that is pretty toxic.

Specifically, that is no way to talk about other volunteer developers that contribute their time. It is precisely the kind of language that keeps people away from contributing to open source. It's the very definition of toxic.
> around the same time Google lost their innocence and dropped the "Don't be evil" clause

When did that happen? It's still there.
'x grade' stuff is usually just about testing & certification, it's not that it is actually necessarily any different from the 'standard' model.