skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a bold prediction that most (maybe any?) grocery stores have the level of corporate organization or even level of education to even consider a "secret order substitution to prole cart-pushers who will then have to answer customer service calls asking why their order was amended to add a more expensive item".

Someone down the line has to actually act out the 'evil algorithm', and will then have to actually interact with the aggrieved customers.
In a third party delivery service I imagine it would be trivially easy to get the line workers to betray the customer / rest of the organization, but there are also none of the incentives to, for example, try to dump low velocity items through deliberate substitution errors.
> resources to be had

We have all the resources we need here on Earth.
It doesn't have to be racism. It could be a reflection on the fact that China has a totalitarian state with strong censorship. Hidden subtexts are hard to censor.
There's a lot of options! I use Unity3D. For 2D games, I'd recommend something with a more native web build.
All security (crpyto math aside) is weak. Door is locked? Break the window. Circumventing security measures means you understood what you were doing, and can be punished more severely for it.
The current US law regarding restaurants is in fact that an commercial establishment have very little freedom to refuse to save people based on who they are.

The problem with social media is that the big platforms, like the post office or your ISP often ends up as an natural monopoly that can be just as dangerous to your political freedoms as any out of control government department by virtue of being just as powerful in the real world.
Bill Gates. Entrepreneur, billionaire, can jump over the chair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaCOHT0pmI
Yeah. It's just a UI framework for Dart
:) well not necessarily just years of gaming practice.
Cameo.com for Deepfakes
happy to answer any questions but not, "Who is John Galt"
Finding Cross-Lingual Syntax in Multilingual Bert
How to Drive a Trebant
QUESTION

How hard, on a scale of 1 to impossible, how hard would it be for Apple, or someone else to just grab the model google is using from the pixel and reverse engineer it and steal all their years of research.
“This damn rocky soil is playing hell with the tiller!”
I regularly upvote downvoted comments if it looks like someone used a downvote as an "I disagree"-button.

Just undo that nonsense.
What is "AMP?"

Critical info that's missing.
stop polluting HN with comments like this
Dawkins was a huge influence on me as a youth, but his recent musings [1] have made me realize that he does not really have more than a shallow understanding of evolution. This in turn has made me reluctant to revisit the books (Selfish Gene and Blind Watchmaker) that influenced me so much, for fear that I'll see more of the same shallow thought that equates evolution with selective breeding.

In this link the problem I see is that he is too focused on the mechanic of change. The trick of evolution is not random mutations, etc., but has to do with statistical properties of large population groups. A population that is of sufficient size will have variation within the constraints of the fitness function. How those variations are achieved is not really even that important except as regards the rate of evolution, rather than the effect of it.

But the fitness function is extremely complex; it's not just changing a few parameters. A population of land-dwellers is largely indifferent to the ability to float; so some creatures can float better, others float worse, but it doesn't matter. But at some point the floaters get good enough at floating that they can actually swim, and now there's a whole new fitness landscape to explore. And the fitness function can change over time.

The most important thing is variation -- that's the "anti-fragile" hook that makes life so tenacious.

[1] https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/122894368695366451... -- "It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology."
> you have no way to know if other person has reported the same issue, so you spend hours if not days documenting a vulnerability and creating proof of concepts (PoC) and it is only after your submission that you get a message saying “closed: duplicate issue”.

Yes. I would say 2/3 of my reports were resolved this way. Sadly I can't fault either HackerOne of the company -- I don't see a viable alternative.
Because now every asset you download from the web is a Google tracking resource.
Is it really unclear what’s going on? When you perform a GET request for these assets you are being monitored. These requests end up being part of the profile built for you which is used for advertisement targeting and content recommendation.

PS: You work for Google. Do you work on this project?
Personally I also started longing for webrings recently; they seem more personal to me than directories, and there's more excitement of surprise and discovery. Also I think they're more "slow paced" and involved: you have to go through them one by one, whereas with directories you may look at the titles and already start making judgements based on the titles alone.

I think I'd say there's space for directories (again???) and there's space for webrings (again!). Though it kinda feels weird to me how Google removed the need for directories and webrings at a time (and I distinctly remember the relief), and now Google results got so crappy (destroyed by SEO?) that the need starts to come back :/ such that even I myself feel it.
There is a world of difference between accountants, and the MBAs who are running the show.
Wasn't Bell Labs funded by a tax/surcharge on people's phone bills? I believe there was some restrictions on commercializing its developments as well. It could do research, create things for internal use at AT&T, but not traditional product development.
Wow! I wonder how many of the famous Bash people are on HN (probably quite a few)!
Is this accurate? How is it tested?
Smartphones, laptops, IoT devices vulnerable to new BIAS Bluetooth attack
> there's far less service for which you need

I'm thinking more like fixing even a minor fender bender. Anecdote but I personally know of someone from an Eastern European country who had to ferry the damaged Tesla Model 3 on a platform to a neighboring country to repair it because that was the closest authorized garage. It took months and the insurance premium exploded. You get a simple cracked headlight? There are no aftermarket parts, and even if you have an original one no garage can "legally" install it. Knowing someone in a Tesla authorized service partner I can confirm the practices are... not great. According to the agreement they signed to become an authorized partner and under the threat of withdrawing said authorization, they have quite a few limitations that make for longer wait times and more expensive repairs. They are not allowed to order extra parts for stock (they have to "tie" them to a car in service) and they are not allowed to use aftermarket replacement parts, only consumables. These are real issues and even if recently I was looking for electrics I just wasn't willing to take the chance. I have to consider the plausible worst case when making a purchase decision.

The yearly maintenance for my car just meant a maximum 45 minute visit to the nearest shop to my office that I did in the morning on my way to work.

> high mileage repairs and most people, particularly the ones who buy a Tesla, won't own the car long enough to be concerned about that

That's not good advertisement for a car. You're saying it's great as long as you can get rid of it fast enough? I'd really like to have the option to stick with the car without such caveats. I mean every car's maintenance increases with age and perhaps Teslas today involve the same overall effort and expense except distributed differently over the lifecycle (lower than average for the first few years, through your nose when it gets old). This may be ok for expensive cars like an Model X or an MB S-class, but not for something like a Model 3. And it suggests the very same Tesla owners talk out of both sides of their mouths. On one hand they are just trying to be green, on the other they're changing cars every few years? Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for a justification, just pointing out the dissonance.
Why should it be desastrous? I hope you do know the odds.

The COVID-19 fatality odd is 0.3%, the Dragon-lost odd probably much higher, maybe at around 5%. The Falcon 9 has over 80 starts now, but this is only the 3nd Dragon 2 start, and one of it failed.
How times change. Back in 2012, many of the expat bankers I knew were abandoning Singapore for Hong Kong.
I believe supermarkets then sell it to the next group, which are restaurants or wholesale purchasers that send to factories. Highly unlikely that non-rotten food of supermarket quality is wasted.
Check which ones don't get any suggested search results :-)
Man, seeing the guys cruising out there in the Teslas... Just think about how cool this scene is. Something that is in line with the vision of the future people used to have.

Very inspiring.
And summarily pulled out after Google employees revolted, showing that the employees at Google care more about privacy than money than the employees at Apple.

Google still doesn't have access to China and even if they tried it again, the employees would leak and stop it again.
The Famicube Project
I don't understand what this is. Banned by google in what way? I can google for all these words.

> As they closed the api

What api?
Well, it wouldn't be, because he _couldn't do it_. He's not a dictator, despite apparent aspirations.
Ah, very insightful.

Is there a consensus on what makes it bad and how it should be remedied?
Buying starbucks, etc. People who work at one cafe spending money at another cafe, etc. is the economic version of busy work. It doesn't really impact the countries ability to produce food and goods. Yet with out it the economy grinds to malaise that may last for years. That is pretty fragile.
Hmm, I'm not understanding your point. You say you haven't seen a criticism of JWT that's not just "they're very hard to use correctly", as if that invalidates that criticism.

JWTs are very hard to use correctly. That's the entire problem. Don't use them. Use PASETO.
Again, though, what's different about the current situation than the last 20 years? There's constantly been a "steady push of the drums of war" over that time.
Did you own the domain and redirect it to Dawkins' publisher's website?
perhaps the point I missed, is that because he is so visibly un-sellable, yet successfully sold himself, he wins, because Blair and Obama had underlying competencies. Trump is the best salesman, because he is selling.. nothing. And its being bought.
> Amazon literally didn't make profits for 10 years. Many other tech companies haven't made a cent yet, but investors are looking 5-10 years into the future for those.

Amazon went public in 1997. Boeing went public in 1962.

You get leeway as a young-ish public company, which will expire once you are an established player. How do you think markets are going to react if the bottom falls out of Amazon's business in 2055?
I hope 'Flight' from Armor Games where you fly/upgrade a paper airplane gets an HTML5 treatment.
This is actually a brand new capability for NASA: human spaceflight that isn't ruinously expensive.
How does this compare to Trilium? Looks similar.

https://github.com/zadam/trilium
Carve out an area for new HK in England?
Wow, based on your history of submissions you've really been obsessing over this problem for quite a while. Kudos on continuing to improve your products/positioning.
> “Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for crafting beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.” [1]

[1]: https://flutter.dev
You're being needlessly dismissive and combative, and calling an individual selfish "in aggregate" doesn't even make sense.
In addition to recording, you may want to make some stills for download or for custom formatting, highlighting, etc. You can use Carbon - https://carbon.now.sh/ - which will do some auto formatting, but allow you to override. This is a bit better than just screen-shooting the IDE.

You may not want to just make one big long video - its hard to follow and then find specific key points in time. Unless you are showing a lot of interactive things and just input/output, copy and paste-able code is going to be easier for students to see and adopt. You may want more of a long tutorial document with small videos where it makes sense or you want to show something interactive.

In addition, its a lot more editing if you want something good without mistakes, etc (there are a lot of videos from big name schools online where professors do not correct themselves and just post the single unedited take). I would actually use video selectively. If you want students to easily run something you may want to utilize one of the many only IDEs that can execute code.

Depending on the tools available from your school or what you can find online you can make something very useful and interactive or you could try to use something like https://www.adaptlearning.org/
It's a classic case of supply/demand dynamics. There are a lot more JavaScript developers than demand so the prices are low.
'back in the day', storage space was always at a premium. (As was RAM, CPU, ...) UNIX system administrators spent a lot of time thinking about saving space. I suspect the joke is that the idiot just got fixed on that one aspect.
This list is way too short. What is its provenance?
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I am stuck and can't figure out what my next blog post should be. Do you have any suggestions about what I should write or what you would like to be published etc. It can be a topic explanation, javascript or react project building or a bug that you face.
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Somehow technology needs to help bridge the divide here. Literally the ONLY argument that needs to be had is "what are facts and logic". Unfortunately not enough people know what these are, which is severely hampering our country's ability to function as a democracy.
Folding the Koch Snowflake
We had an internal GraphQL API driving our product and users asked for a public API that will provide that functionality programmatically.

We offered to expose our GraphQL API publicly (or some subset/version of it), but the majority of our customers insisted on getting a REST API.

(They had good reasons to ask for REST: they were used to RESTful APIs in our previous API offerings, it seemed that the market adoption of GraphQL for public APIs is not that wide, etc.)

In any case, we had to offer a REST flavor of the API providing the same functionality we had already implemented in GraphQL, and instead of writing a new REST API (and then testing it, maintaining it, and keeping both parity over time...) or manually wrapping the existing GraphQL operations -- we decided to develop a graphql-to-rest converter that we later open sourced.

You can read all about it here: https://medium.com/swlh/graphql-api-or-rest-api-why-not-have...

Other people might have different use cases for using it - that's also mentioned in the article.
> i have dealt with google europe, i even visited the offices in dublin

I guess I should be perfectly honest: ads is obviously no my specialization and I only worked with Google Ads for small businesses with quite a small budgets not more than $10000-$20000 a month.

So obviously my impression might be limited to quite superficial questions or problems. It's very much possible that if you work with something actually complex their support isn't anywhere as useful as it's for entry-level customers.
Stress is not just a matter of the facts of every day life. That's almost like saying all that matters is if you can eat and sleep. That is not what most people want out of life. They want meaning in their life, respect, and love. Those are all things that are way way way more difficult to get today than at almost any time during human history.
Somewhat off-topic, but it's funny you mention Iran contra and not Operation Ajax [1] where the CIA literally distributed propaganda and overthrew the Iranian government.

This lead to huge stability in Iran and the middle-east and arguably lead to the rise of Al-Qaeda and a super unpopular right-wing religious government in Iran that they have now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Purely speculation here on my part - I know there's other factors involved.

Doesn't it seem silly for China to be wanting to take over Hong Kong NOW, when all they have to do is wait X more years (ideally, I'm sure HK would protest to extend the autonomous-isity (lol))

Without knowing how financially locked HK is to Mainland China, it seems to me that China's economy is trashed and they're grabbing HK as a last ditch effort to keep the economy going.
U.S. Says Hong Kong’s Autonomy Is Gone, Sowing China Trade Doubt
You both have valid points; I think OP is talking about the U.S. economy being built on consumerism, materialism, and need to spend for growth. Growth requires the citizen base to continually spend more.
This looks very interesting. Very similar to Cloudflare Access. How does it handle auditing? Is there an ability to log SSH or HTTP traffic?
No idea, ISS is also moving very fast (> 7.5 km/s, that's more than 27000km/h), so even short delays will change the position massively.
It's important to point out that it's low speed, aging infrastructure that's a big problem for French rail. Bullet trains make a lot of money and in general people complain because as a result the SNCF invests a lot more into the high-speed infrastructure than to maintain the old, slow, regional lines.

The high-speed axes like Paris<->Marseille or the Paris<->Bordeaux are definitely not underused and the tickets are quite expensive, often more so than plane tickets but trains are generally a lot more comfortable and convenient (and about as fast or even faster door-to-door).

More broadly the problem is whether you consider that the SNCF should be run uniquely for-profit (in which case they'd probably end up closing all the small regional lines and only run the bullet trains) or if it's a public service that can lose money if it provides an important service for the citizens (in which case it makes sense to maintain the local lines even if they lose a lot of money).
> Rocket scientists can work on fuel efficient cars

In all honesty, that's like saying that Jack the Ripper could work as a surgeon.
Can somebody help me understand something about Markdown and Obsidian?

Why would I ever want an edit mode and a preview mode while taking notes? Don't I want to be able to both see my note and edit it at any time?

I mean, I guess I could just ignore preview mode if the edit mode actually allowed me to see all of the content of my note, but it doesn't. Images are only visible in preview mode. So all the talk about transclusion seems dumb to me. I can't see jack unless I decide to stop working and start viewing. I just don't get it. Is this really what people do? Switch back and forth between editing and viewing all the time?

Or perhaps they just decide to put all the content of the note on-screen twice? But why would I ever want to look at the same content twice? We're not talking about folding, so I can see two different places in the same note. We're talking viewing the exact same content twice, cutting my usable screen real estate in half for displaying the content of my note. So I have 50% of the context I could have... And don't even get me started about how synchronized scrolling is impossible in this view if you use images in your note.

I feel like I must be taking crazy pills, because everybody seems to love using markdown, and I really want to like it, too. I know the benefits of plaintext. But I just don't get making that sort of usability sacrifice.
The efficiency gains of pulsed drive isn’t in the LEDs, it is in the drive electronics.
My wife bought into one of these services, the $25 box we received contained about 10 - 15 dollars worth of produce from my local store but at a lower quality. It was also random and often contained undesirable items in large quantities (who needs 12 lemons for the week?, What am I supposed to do with 3 fingerling potatoes?). I used to work in food service and it was pretty obvious to me that they were sourcing items from Sysco or US Foods by the way the items were tagged and packaged. I think the shipping costs eat away any value you could expect from something like this.
It is my understanding that the protests originally started over HK residents frustrated that they would never ever be able to afford decent housing inside of HK, and they blamed a couple of central figures in HK (who are not Chinese residents).

The protests seem to have become much more than that.

The final form of the protests don't address the frustration of HK residents over living costs.
The NASA Orion suits are super ugly IMHO. Very different.
https://youtu.be/yj6LYpZosRU

The xEMU suites even more.
One can hate or like Biden, but he put it perfectly: This is a prostitution of the presidency. Nothing more, nothing less.

Republicans are willing to look away, and let Trump run rampant, if it means that they'll get their part in return (judges, etc.)

Trump, in turn, will say anything. He has no restrains, and knows this - he can say absolutely anything, and no-one within will do or say anything.

Right now, the presidency (for Trump) is a case of survival. He needs to remain in power, in order to escape whatever civil charges he'll face.

For his own sake, Trump should have never ran for Presidency. He hates his job, and got lost in his own ego.
Companies with shitty UI often make unfounded claims that "users prefer it." Adobe is another prime offender here.

If anyone's word should NOT be taken as gospel for UI or branding, it's Google's.
> now Google results got so crappy (destroyed by SEO?) that the need starts to come back

That is exactly my thought process. You can't get quality content on Google any more, it's all lowest-common-denominator paid content from huge content farms.
I think this is yet another manifestation of online discussions amplifying shallow and simplistic "analysis" that appeals to human biases and stereotypes. So I'd say it's not bizarre, but another sign of our times.
Shortening the developer commute with Docker and Microsoft Azure
On engineering managers considering the “whole engineer”
And what happens during launch when — I assume — everything starts vibrating wildly? They better be enormous virtual buttons.
Exceptionalism.
In which alternative universe is Wikipedia objective? From my experience it is far-left, sometimes deliberately spreading fake news if it fits their narrative. This is especially visible in articles about politicians and historical events.
if you're on Android use Firefox as your main browser, if you wanna avoid the shit called AMP. on iOS safari does a little better on showing the url. Changing search engines to say Bing, is not really helpful. Bing on chromium android, still shows AMP pages.
Twitter must have automation for this, since they do it for tweets generally. How do they do that? Anybody know?
I think you're conflating job losses with not prospering.

Boeing's stock is up on the news. Lost jobs = lower payroll = improved cash flow. That's the bottom line. Shareholders couldn't care less how you arrive there, just that you do.
Correct, the US (and by extension its allies) considered Hong Kong separately from the rest of China in areas like export controls and trade tariffs.[1]

China took full advantage of this, and the US is probably betting that revoking this special status hurts China more than it hurts the US.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Hong_Kon...