skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
downvoted, but just for idiocy
apple's pro apps have been in a weird space for a while

I blame it on Apple’s corporate culture and its relentless focus on secrecy and big event announcements. This strategy works extremely well for them in the consumer space but it’s just frustrating for pros to deal with. When professionals invest in a software tool for their business they need to have some assurance of commitment from the software vendor. It takes an enormous amount of time and effort to retrain for new tools and retool for new workflows.

Pros really like when a company that makes their tools is really open about the development roadmap and engaged in two-way conversations about issues with the tools and what needs to be fixed, what new features are needed, etc. Apple has traditionally been seen to be hostile to that sort of relationship.
Going back to 2007, so can't remember super clearly, but IIRC the db was a sqlite like thing and all info about everything was stored in this, and it was vulnerable to corruption, plus all versions and thumbnails were mixed together with original image files - a total mess. The digital photo management landscape wasn't so mature then, and some people trusted Aperture with their original images whereas later versions allowed or encouraged people to keep their "masters" elsewhere.

Because the whole thing was as slow as a slug dragging a ball-and-chain, pre-SSD, issues with that filesystem or master database were sometimes mistaken for just general slowness. I jumped to Lightroom faster than you could say Gordon Parks.
They also have techno-optimistic YouTube channels that I love. There haven't been any new videos for a while, but some of the older ones are worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/@NODEtv/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@MOSFETnet/videos

I think all of the videos have a written version on https://n-o-d-e.net/ for those who prefer that style of content.
> Is there any way this can go bad?

6 months they'll realize they can't fit in with Apple's culture and most of the team will hit the road.
California, the chief benefactor of the infinite money printer backed by a trillion dollar military-espionage-sabotage complex, will keep moving the word forward towards what, exactly? a world where home ownership and having children are reserved for the top 10% of the population, where most jobs are handed over to indentured servants from faraway lands, where crime is so rampant that the police don't even bother catching the criminals? towards that? haha.
Agreed, this is a "best of HN" class of comment.
> even if all the chimpanzees in the world were given the entire lifespan of the universe

Seems to me like a flawed “study” if the baseline assumption is that chimpanzees would type randomly even when given lifespans through the heat death of the universe, which is estimated at 10^100 (googol) years!
I think this has happened enough times for it to no longer be a “jaded” view, it is the empirically supported view.
All modern AI technology can give more power to humans, you just have to use the right tools.
Every AI tool I can think of has made me more productive.

LLMs help me write code faster and understand new libraries, image generation helps me build sites and emails faster, etc
Do you know if they have an X-server? Once they had one.
This would be very short sighted as Pixelmator adds way more value to the Mac platform than a better Photos app.
Multiple reasons. That it does happen should be reason to question your assumptions, rather than assume some obvious imagined alternative has been overlooked by everyone, right?

While poaching one employee at a time might be usually legal, attempting to poach all employees of a company might not be legal, and either way is considered unethical.

Paying off the investors may be the goal.

Eliminating the product or competition ethically may be the goal.

Buying the competition’s customers, and/or distribution channels may be the goal.

Acquiring the top talent, while giving them the expected reward for having bootstrapped a company, might be the goal. Founders are often uninterested in a salaried position for themselves, but may be interested in a return for the company and payoff for everyone in it - as backpay for their investment, completely separate from their salary going forward.

Also, your hypothesis is not accurate. Buyouts are not always, or even usually, massive. It’s common for them to be small and medium sized. It is definitely not a given that making persuasive individual offers would be any cheaper than an acquisition, let alone “so much” cheaper. Depends entirely on the situation.
On an infinite scale it seems unlikely that the probability of anything is actually zero

Near zero, certainly, but not actually zero
Can computers think? No. They can't actually do anything
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I don't really disagree, and don't appreciate Rand, but an oligarchy can be disguised as something else, and people will feel relief when it is replaced by an open oligarchy, because one means of gaining power is to give people what they need.
For some, a lot of their work is not doing "conference-style" activities (networking, meeting people, giving presentations, promoting to the public).

For others, perhaps it is, and your point would hold more water for them.

But surely you can see that yours is not a one-size-fits-all answer.
Is Perplexity Dead?
OpenAI has finally released their long-anticipated search feature. I'm curious to hear about people’s experiences with it and whether it offers any significant advantages over what Perplexity provides for free.
I'll add - I have taken to asking for an incorrect second opinion. Did this by accident the first time and it has worked well since.

Dentis A says tooth on the left side needs a rootcanal.

Ask Dentist B for a second opinion on the tooth on the other side of my mouth.

If they 'agree' I probably don't need either one.
> Operating as a profitable non-profit foundation with no owners, where all profits are reinvested into the project

Neither myself nor Hannah own any shares, assets, domains, trademarks, or other companies related to Ghost. Everything is owned by the Foundation.

our intention is to expand the seats on Ghost's board of trustees beyond myself and Hannah.

I don’t see how this is fundamentally different from the WP Foundation approach. It still depends on people who despite claiming an intention haven’t given up control.
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NextDNS is definitely worth the money. Setting up profiles for your kids devices is very useful functionality as well.
That only really applies to 1.

Technology in general does not have the ability to advise. Advice is already a legally protected category in many fields. Legal, medical, and financial advice are each covered by their own legislation to require the advisers to act in the interest of their client.

Technology in general has been used for years to make determinations based upon physical characteristics. Weighs more than 50g, Temperature over 20C, Item A is heavier than Item B. The distinction with AI is that it will be making semantic determinations.

Computers have also been used to implement policy decisions in a manner that makes them appear to be making determinations. When someone says "Computer says no", it's usually a human who made a decision. Attributing it to the computer just makes it impossible to argue against.

The world would probably benefit from there being regulation on processes to enable people to challenge incorrect determination in this area as well. We have all seen the news stories of a big tech company cutting a user from a vital service because of an arbitrary seeming decision. Often the only challenge mechanism that is effective is when the situation receives widespread publicity. While the decision causing the issue is usually human in these instances, it is shielded behind a wall of technology leaving the user with no recourse.
MDs most definitely have incentives to intervene as much as possible.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_value_unit

If you ever wonder why some doctors order any test they can possibly, even remotely, justify, this is why.
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Apple is all-in on services revenue. They could decide to switch this to a subscription model just like their most recent pro apps.
Yes sorry, perhaps not ironic, disappointing or deceptive would be more appropriate.

YouTube could enforce the content creator to tag the sponsored segments.
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Yeah, I see how this is confusing. I believe it's called reduce because its goal is to reduce a set of values to a single value. It doesn't necessarily mean that the amount of data is reduced.
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Not really sure what you think making up such easily disproved lies does for your case here. The only people who will agree with you on this are people who already agree with some kind of intense dogma.
Agreed, this scam is not new at all.

When you have doubts about your dentist's diagnose, just visit another one to get a second opinion.
It's an intentional tactic. You accuse someone else of what you are doing so when the complaints and accusation come out that you're doing it, people already have decided either it doesn't matter/just finger pointing, or "well, looks like everyone is doing it." It's an inoculation against future accusations.
You know, in the past, when people were complaining about the quality of Google results, there were some explanations.

I remember, there was even a guy that Google hired who was kinda somebody in the field of search engines, who was evangelizing and kind of championing Google search, who was frequently looking into these things (he sometimes even showed on HN too, though his name escapes me).

But since the pandemic, when the quality really started to go downhill, there isn't any statement from Google, seemingly just ignoring all the complaints, without even NACKing or ACKing it...
While I don't like manufacturers doing this, the comparison to government gun registries is indeed strange.

The manufacturers didn't compel buyers to provide this information with the thread of prison time, and perhaps more importantly, they didn't compel buyers to inform the manufacturer of every subsequent transfer.
It might be your preference but prop 65 warnings have basically taught an entire generation that safety warnings are meaningless and can be ignored, which is presumably the opposite of the desired effect.
People tend to forget that product is one of the Ps

Marketing is not the same as promotion
Sorry, my point was to illustrate that XML is verbose so data-representation isn't a good fit. Most languages implement some kind of language-specific builder-pattern for CLIs, which in some sense is "re-inventing" a declarative programming paradigm for the domain-specific task. Could have done better w/ the example!
So you’re saying that having a data loss condition 17 years ago which only affected a subset of users who lost their storage connection in the middle of a move operation tells us something about their products today? Does that also mean that I shouldn’t use Linux because ReiserFS lost data on local storage in some cases back then, or btrfs did so more recently?

What policy are you saying we should use to evaluate software? In particular, what’s left if we’re saying it’s no longer good enough to have learned from mistakes? I supported a lab full of computational scientists who heavily used their Macs with external storage at that time and this caused no problems for anyone, so I also am looking for something more quantitative like whether a bug which only affected handful of users disqualifies usage for everyone.
I've got one of the Steven Black hosts files. Besides that I have Floorp set up with uBlock Origin and NoScript. On Brave, Edge, and Chrome I don't have anything special set up.
I don’t think that’s their point.

Their point is that all the hand wringing over privacy they use as the reason to prevent any kind of registration (whatever you think of it) seems very incongruous with giving away warranty information, which often they explicitly said they wouldn’t do, to whatever political cause they want.

It looks extremely hypocritical and in many cases violated a promise to the customers.

Yes the consequence of the government having a list instead of a lobbying group is very different.

The issue is the lobbying group shouldn’t have had it period.
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Asking a question isn't worrying.
As someone who has probably has severe ADHD, I've never felt like it's a disorder. It's just the way my brain works. It's the way it's always worked.

I was good at school, despite having a complete inability to study. I have a very successful career and just have a set of good and bad habits that work for me. I see the exact same behavior in my father and in my children. I just consider it part of my personality.

I don't understand why people are so obsessed with sticking labels on everything. It's really easy to draw a circle around any set of behaviors or attributes and give it a name.

I was given the exact same set of challenges as everybody else growing up. I was also given the freedom to solve them in my own way. And now I can solve the same set of problems as everyone else can, just in my own ways.

I don't know if my peers who received intervention faired any better. If anything, it seems like attempts of making their childhood easier through medication and special curriculums just left them blindsided by adulthood.
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You guys need to clarify if it's truly remote or not.
> the jump from an abacus to an Intel i9 processor

Call it 75 years (1942 - before electronic computers to 2017 - first i9) which is about 39M minutes. Assume human innovation can work on an minutely cycle[0] and you've got 39M iterations from "no electronic computers" to "Intel i9".

I'd put decent money on there bring several orders of magnitude more chemical reactions than that per second in the primordial soup (good conditions for fast reactions and there was A LOT of it.) And it had about half a billion years (fifteen quadrillion, seven hundred seventy-eight trillion, eight hundred billion seconds) to cook before things really started happening.

Statistically, it was likely.

[0] Obviously optimistic but giving parallelism a chance.
No, you can't: https://apnews.com/article/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb
I would like that default, but otherwise it is a bit silly assumption.

1. You can't demand something that cannot be enforced/monitored

2. You can't enforce/ push monitoring if there is no regulation in place, and systems are not transparent.

3. Enforcement/monitoring does not matter if there is no stick (fines) present

In the case of OpenBSD, you are using open system that you can verify your self. That alone makes them less likely to do something malicious (since they might get caught more likely!) and changes the trust.
There is no financial carrot to make Apple products visible, as most of the users don't understand a thing about the technology and marketing might be more efficient than opening technology, which might result in intellectual property theft and lose of market position.

Since everything cannot be transparent in a competitive and commercial world, I think it would be okay to put at least 10 times bigger fines for those who do not have transparent systems and get caught on not following the regulations to get some balance.
One can only hope.

Although it's not totally unlikely either. There's a decent sized market of prosumer/enthusiast photographers where CaptureOne is a bit overkill, but DarkTable isn't intuitive enough compared to Lightroom. They don't want the subscription, but have no other real choice ever since Aperture was killed.

If Apple continues development of Photomator and continues to improve on it I can see it starting to eat away at Lightroom's marketshare for the enthusiast/semi-pro market.

Cross-platform is a non issue as that market is majority macOS already.

I'm hopeful, as someone that has a photography business on the side, that this works out. I miss Aperture, and CaptureOne isn't as good as batch editing for events as Lightroom Classic (although it's improved quite a bit lately). If Apple can get it on par or better than LR classic, and keep the one-time purchase model, I'm all in. Screw adobe.
That is very cool. May I ask, how does the compressed stream seeking work? Does it keep state of the decompressor at certain points so arbitrary access can be faster than reading from the start of the stream?
We're in the universe where it did happen.
Who is "fretting". Someone just asked one question.
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Yeah I’m currently using lightroom for my mirrorless. I export that to photos then share / keep the flattened images in there.
Note that this hasn’t happened with Shazam, miraculously