skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience only phone numbers and email addresses are verified, and only on initial domain registration. Post registration I get regular "ICANN verification" emails which all pretty much say to only act if there's incorrect information.

With the exception of the .nyc TLD I've been able to use a PO Box and a forwarding phone number for registrations across registrars for years. .nyc provided no way to demonstration the required NYC nexus except for the postal address to be a physical building in New York City so I let that domain lapse.
> _open a new market_ for advertising, and to gather data for the same

Yes, thank you. "When something is free then you are the product". And for the case of Google, someone pays Google shitloads of money to buy YOUR data.

This applies to many companies, but to Google most of all.

Also, the further they keep users away from Win10 (where MS siphons everything) and they keep them locked in Android/Chrome operating systems, then it's +1 for them and -1 for the competition.
The suspect said the picture looked nothing like him. When he was shown the picture, he picked up the picture, put it in front of his face, and said "I hope you don't think all black people look alike".

I see this all the time when working with execs. I have to continually remind even very smart people with STEM undergrad and even graduate degrees that a computer vision system cannot magically see things that are invisible to the human eye.

"the computer said so" is way stronger than you would think.
I think in the early days, Google Engineers just worked on whatever they felt like. This resulted in fantastically profitable cool technology, and vast holes in the products for things no one volunteered to work on.

Then things were turned around to today's "jump through these hoops and you'll get promoted" system.

I was there 2006-2009, and I think the turn happened in that era, though it's hard to tell from "the floor".
Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly
Not sure I want everything to be rewritten to run on a browser. How unoptimized is that..

Not all comparisons are equal there. Like youtube vs twitch? Talking about livestreaming? replays? I don't go to twitch to look up peoples vlogs, how to's, etc. Apples / oranges even though you can livestream on both.

Gmail clogged? Unsubscribe to some stuff or adjust your filters. I've had my gmail account since gmail became available and I have no issues keeping a clean inbox. Spam folder is massive, but I guess its doing its job.

I get what you're saying.. But thats how the industry works. Giants can't move as quick when they have billions of users that rely on 100% uptime and backwards compatibility. You can't upend your stuff all the time. Startups are scrappy and can do crazy stuff. But notice how many crazy things don't last.
Having worked in software for the past decade, including 3 years in games, I'm inclined to say that the culture in games is more permissive towards bad behavior and unprofessionalism.

For instance, I once saw a manager tell one of his engineers to 'bend over and take it', then gesture to the only openly gay guy on the team (who was clearly uncomfortable with the whole exchange). Zero repercussions, not even a talking to. That shit wouldn't fly anywhere else I've worked.
Secondly, what percentage of elevators even play music these days?

Pretty much every elevator I've been in for the last ten years. I note it mentally because spirit of the music is always at odds with the messages on the display screens.

I think the only elevators where I haven't heard music recently are in residential buildings.
TIL that the Americans consulted with the British before dropping the bomb on Hiroshima (but declined their request for British participation in the mission). The Soviets were apparently not notified in advance (although I could be wrong about that) and the British had veto power over what would be revealed to the Soviets about the bombing.
Also there's font-size party happening on the home's right sidebar. 16px, 14px, 12px in a rapid succession.

Meanwhile, on Pull Requests' right side bar everything is rendered in 12px size.

Just to be clear, 12px is equivalent of 9pt. That's fairly small on screen. For comparison the README body text is rendered in 16px, which is equivalent of 12pt.

By the way, HN body text is 13.33px, about 10pt.
Rosetta: The most amazing software you'll ever see (2005)
> It used to be Apple was criticized for dropping support for phones too early

When exactly did that happen? The first iPhone received 3 major updates, more than most Android phones even today.
Slack Connect: the future of business communication
I had the "pleasure" to work with Ex-Googlers which had "Project Managers at G" in their resume. Honestly, I do not wonder anymore why Google nowadays s#ck as hard as they do.

They made great presentations and a grand plans using some project management saas tools. But both of them neither understood the basics of projectmanagement (Who does what when and what do they need when?) nor could react when challenged.

Both of them were lower to middle management, but sure as hell anything that you hand them would end in total mediocrity if not fail at all.

On the other hand one of the most capable front end engineers I knew joined Google for 2 years. Where he spent most of his time - with a whole team - working on .... fold in and fold out animations (for a single mobile product)

He quit. Google now is one of his customers. His work has gotten much more interesting.

Google / Alphabet - the organization - did not scale well. My bet: There will be a huge crisis soon. Lots of G-people will loose their jobs.
http://archive.is/f7HSw
GNC Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with Plan to Sell Itself
As a Brazilian living in Brazil I'm surprised that anyone would expect a service provided by the Brazilian government to be efficient, or even work at all.

This Pix thing seems to cover more than inter-bank transfers, people are expected to use it for QR code-based mobile payments for instance.
About a month ago, Open AI demoed a language model that does python code generation, using a natural language prompt. It was trained on Github repos.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250379
Language extensions do not prose a problem for the best-in-class composability that OP is interested in, for practitioners of the language, that haskell offers.

Are you absolutely sure these language extensions are as bad as you think they are?

Lets look at what they asked for:

> But what I yearn for is computer languages that feel like the design elements all work together so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, instead of languages with a checklist of "good ideas" that thrown together create a whole that is lesser than the sums of their features.

- computer languages that feel like the design elements all work together so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

+ check

- instead of languages with a checklist of "good ideas" that thrown together create a whole that is lesser than the sums of their features

+ the key here is making sure that you have "a whole that is lesser than the sums of their features". Haskell's Language Extensions do not prevent composability that the language offers, so this is not as big a problem as you make out here

that said, I think it does require a bit of a 'paradigm shift' to learn haskell well, and if you're not up do it, clojure might be a better fit. But i don't think that would be motivated for the OP by the language extensions, but more from learning about laziness and lambda calculus.
Researchers Demo a New Polarization-Based Encryption Strategy
Credit where credit is due: I think Google colab is fantastic. I've used Repl.it for a coupe of years now, but for the past year it's been Colab pretty much 100% of the time.

Whenever I have to set up a new machine with dev. environment, I get a impending sense of doom. I get the "I really, really don't want to be doing this" feeling.

The fact that you can open up your browser, and start coding in just mere seconds, is just an incredible feeling.

In February I had to set up an older laptop with Python - I did this via Conda, which is usually a pretty smooth process. But I ended up spending 3 hours tracking down some persistent and conflicting DLL errors, which made numpy crash. Turns out some other applications on the computer caused this error.
You judge how other people use their computers without knowing the first thing about their circumstances? That's a little silly
Sometimes I wonder how often these "productivity tips" mask a deeper feeling of indifference or rejection of the task entirely. People spend hours finding the right tools for a task thinking it will make them want to do it instead of examining the task itself and their feelings around it.
I feel like sheets and docs not changing for years is a feature not problem. I don't like innovation in these kind of apps. It's far too common, historically, for people to add all kinds of useless crap like Mr Clippy and rearrange the toolbars and whatnot. Once you're familiar with the tools the interface is consistent across docs, sheets and slides as well as over time. The programmability is also really good. I actually built an app for a friend using just sheets and its automation features to implement a web form for their national poetry contest.
Ah, sorry I misread :) Thanks for supporting the project, really appreciate it!
DuckDuckGo's rise feels like textbook "Innovator's Dilemma" stuff. By prioritizing privacy, something Google can't do because all the institutional values are misaligned with that goal, DDG were able to make headway into a niche market. Now they're established, and their results are getting better and better, even in the broader market. For example, I use DDG mostly because their results are visually easier to parse. It remains to be seen if they'll ever beat Google at their own search game, but Google certainly feels vulnerable for the first time in many years.
It's not that Apple is particularly good at supporting older devices, it's that Android vendors are catastrophically bad across the board.

Apple tends to drop support when some hardware feature or limitation doesn't play well with the new OS. For instance, the iPhone 6 only has 1GB of RAM.
> There's no requirement that the domain owner's contact be a "registered agent."

That’s not what I said, or the point.

Example: If I launch fortran77.com and am infringing on your registered trademark, step 1 is for you to find the registered owner of the domain. Once you have that then you can find the business owners RA.

You can’t skip the step of identifying the owner of the infringing website to get to the RA. Assuming you are right and the infringing business would waive service of process (they won’t of course) but if they did you still need to identify the owner of the site to get request waiver of process.
"Now" being the key word. It wasn't for a very long time.
I only switch for maybe 5%
Redash has been acquired by Databricks
Also, the tasks we're accomplishing on our phones have not fundamentally changed over the past five years. (The five years before that, sure, but things have slowed down.) If my phone is performing the same actions as when I bought it, why should I have to buy a new one to get security updates? If nothing else, it's clearly bad for the planet.

And, for that matter—and this is where iPhones do miss the mark—why does my phone not perform those actions as well as it did when new? That we have even faster chips nowadays shouldn't make the old ones slower.
Apple makes money from services, more devices supporting the latest features == more potential money.
That's not what were talking about here. Were talking about indiscriminate hacking/doxing of police, and the people who are cheering that on. How is that going to effectively address the root causes of police militarization?
First Intel Macs were released in January 2006 and OS X dropped support for Power PC in August 2009 with 10.6 Snow Leopard. If the same timeline is followed here, Intel support will be dropped around 2024. I wouldn't expect to get 10 years out of an Intel Mac.
I wonder how much of this has to do with the stripping-away of Section 230 protections that was started/attempted recently. A bit more paranoid response to published content that could create legal issues for Twitter now.
I assume you meant Mwh? :-)
But first they have to make their own programming languages and frameworks.
Google was the oppositive of boring:

- GMail with "unlimited" (never-seen-before 1GB) of storage when everyone had 10MB quotas was a "holy shit" moment, and fast web mail was a fresh breath of air

- Google Maps, yet another "holy shit" experience when you used Mapquest before

- Google Translate, so much better than everything that came before

- Google search - OK that's late 1990s but I remember the "aha" moment of trying the Google beta after needing to become a power user of lycos/altavista/askjeeves

You notice that all of these were more than a decade ago before their IPO. Larry and Sergei have gotten old and lazy, and so have their CxOs and VPs. No goals, no focus, no discipline because who cares if all the execs already have their private jets.
Ask HN: Can I add someone emailing me about my product to a mailing list?
If someone emails me about my product, is it ok to add them to a mailing list for product updates?

Or do I need to obtain explicit consent to add to a mailing list?
Can you activate them with fake data / without ID card?
Yup. If you strace an attempt to run a PE executable in WSL2, you can see how it ioctls an interop device to talk back to Windows and execute it over there.
> and most importantly, as a development platform, chrome os din't do well

Microsoft completely lapped the industry on this with VS Code. It has a mode where it runs the editor backend the cloud, and the frontend in a browser.

Edit: I thought I just read it just got to 53% market share. It was at 18% and growing fast in 2018, so it’s plausible they have majority market share now: https://triplebyte.com/blog/editor-report-the-rise-of-visual...
This works out really nicely when combined with variadic template tricks. (Taken from CPP Reference)

// Helper for creating anonymous visitor functions
template<class... Ts> struct overloaded : Ts... { using Ts::operator()...; };
template<class... Ts> overloaded(Ts...) -> overloaded<Ts...>;

using var_t = std::variant<int, long, double, std::string>;

std::vector<var_t> vec = {10, 15l, 1.5, "hello"};

// Type matching visitor
for (auto& v: vec) {
std::visit(overloaded {
[](auto arg) { std::cout << arg << ' '; },
[](double arg) { std::cout << std::fixed << arg << ' '; },
[](const std::string& arg) { std::cout << std::quoted(arg) << ' '; },
}, v);
}

Outputs: 10 15 1.500000 "hello"
> If the mandate is to do what is best for customers, then the best solution I can think of is to let FB function as one entity but toughen the norms on data collection.

The data collection problem is basically independent of the antitrust problem. The only real overlap is that you can't avoid the data collection when the service is a monopoly you can't avoid doing business with, but the general solution -- more competition -- solves that anyway.

What's really needed is this:

> The other thing is Facebook should not inhibit any other social network trying to grow using FB's graph.

Adversarial interoperability shares the network effect. It lets competitors bootstrap off the incumbent instead of starting from scratch, so then you get more competitors.
Yes, especially for the top 1% and 0.1%. However, they're the ones who have enough money to pay for ways to hide their wealth from taxation, so an inheritance tax would be a high + low attack on the middle, further cementing the inequality divide.
> I found a free text editor specifically written for the dana’s wide screen (SiEd, dana version) on SourceForge in alpha, and left abandoned 4 years ago. That editor will sometimes crash the whole system...

Nice to know my crappy code is still causing problems all these years later.
>1. Some interfaces are just awful, Ubuntu default one took me ages to figure how to type addresses on the file explorer thingy it has (seemly you have to type Control+G or something).

That's GNOME. Which regular Ubuntu ships by default. If you like Win 7, use Plasma (formerly known as KDE).

>2. If you use nVidia, you are screwed, nVidia drivers just suck.

That's just Ubuntu again. On Arch or Manjaro you just install the "nvidia" package, reboot and you're done.

>3. Often even native linux games do weird unexpected things, like refusing to close

You should have a task manager to list your processes and kill them. But it's true that the failure handling mode for some games that do weird shit isn't as nice as on Windows. I recommend htop, because when the graphical system hangs, you can switch to another tty (Ctrl+Alt+an F key like F2) and use htop.

>4. Installing wine and whatnot is a pain

Don't. Use Lutris which handles installations of many games automatically for you, or if it doesn't have an install script (MtG: Arena does: https://lutris.net/games/magic-the-gathering-arena/), helps you anyway in managing Wine for you.
Good for you. Anecdotally I'd lose touch with casual acquaintances/friends and spontaneous meetups if someone had to send me an SMS to get in touch with me, and people under 30 will corroborate that.

I wasn't saying anything about government regulations, don't put words in my mouth.
They certainly should be...but they lobbied for laws that say they aren’t liable.

That is why there is a major effort to repeal those laws.
Oakland City Council approves budget, reduces funds for police
all real world outcomes of communism? Really? China being a dominant super power? I disagree with the regime, yeah, but that's a pretty black and white statement there. The left spectrum stretches as wide as the right-wing one, and communism has influenced all of them ideologically via socialism and social democracy or directly via unions. MLK was a socialist. So was Einstein. Would you stick to your statement?
Don't be so glum. We can travel across the world in a day. We have medical treatments for diseases that would have killed millions a year 75 years ago. We can communicate openly and freely with people all over the world. We can go to motherfucking space! The world is more at peace right now than any other time in recorded history. The power of religion to control people has slowly degraded away.

What a time to be alive!
I do find that failure baffling -- especially since it used to work. I don't use voice commands much, but setting reminders while I'm doing something else used to be very helpful. Suddenly last August, it's just "not available for g suite users". (https://support.google.com/assistant/thread/11607814?hl=en)

I get it for free, but g suite is valuable enough to me that I'd pay for it. The thread implies that paying for it wouldn't help.
This is an absurd objection. When a manufacturer wants to break a product, they don't need weird new chemicals to do it.

Things that biodegrade will break long before they biodegrade.
> Or do I need to obtain explicit consent to add to a mailing list?

Yes.
It's good that this is finally happening. Games has been long overdue for a reckoning. There's a really strong culture of worshipping individuals in games, particularly lead designers/creative directors, and a whole lot of bad behavior by them is overlooked/forgiven.

Having worked in the industry I'd believe basically anything anyone told me about the horrors they've seen.
Show HN: Take Notes While Listening to Podcasts – iOS App
That was a daylight robbery of all my words.
I loved Lumia 920 and chose it over the iphone 5s at the time. Wanted the industrial design to succeed so much. Sad that with so much clout, MS could not get enough apps.
Ask HN: How come the Fugaku supercomputer's room has no beams floor/ceiling?
Anecdote: the majority of non-tech business owners I know passionately hate Google. These are guys in their 40s and 50s. The reasons may differ, but the hatred does not.

For them, the reasons are more about manipulating search results to control public opinion.

For me, it's things like hiding organic search queries from Google analytics and saying they broke it for "privacy reasons". Even though I can still see search queries for paid traffic. And the terrible quality of search results now. Oh, and the completely selective enforcement of rules (looking at you "unfair advantage" policy).
> This new WhatsApp feature, to me, looked like a bold attempt to kill PIX at launch.

I don't think so. FB is using UPI in India, they could have used PIX too. Looks like Brazilian government was just a bit late to the payment party and FB had already implemented something in-house in the meantime.
Windows 10 can install on a typical 2005 PC? I'd be surprised if that's the case.

Anyway, the point of the article isn't that five years is all that long, it's that Android's two-year policy is despairingly short.
I would love a text-only Reddit if that exists.
All organizations that grow rapidly face an "Alexander bias" where the sort of incentivizes, perspectives and people that allowed them to rapidly capture territory cause them to value capturing new territory even when it is no longer possible or in their organizational interest to do so. Even when organizations identify the problem, evolving from the cult of the new to the cult of incremental improvement is always hard.
Don't design for future use cases, unless it's a library that may be extended. Instead, write concise code.

Modify the code when the use cases change. In most of the times, open-closed principle is a trap.

However, over-engineering is not only a technical problem. It's more of a problem on project / people / finance, here are some examples but it would definitely not limited to these:

1. The margin is big and the team is big, so we need to keep these people busy.

2. The current stakeholder will cover the budget these iterations until we finish these features. after that, the maintenance costs maybe partially falls on us, or there's will be no budget at all. The less problems in the future, the better.

3. The current budget is for functionality A and someone pays it. And we plan to implement another feature B that is similar to these, and the budget comes from our own. Better make the solution generic so we can use it almost for free.

4. The list goes on...

Better fix those root problems first.
They can't be broken up fast enough.
>Wish you didn't have to worry about being poor.

What? Are you suggesting I don't use iOS and macOS because I can't afford Apple's hardware?

I have multiple Macs and iPhones in the house - I recently switched because I don't like Apple's direction. Not because I can't afford their products.
It seems like they're experimenting with it, but claim it's just for exploring stuff and is not the "future" yet. I've read on HN that it's much slower than Linux thanks to it's micro-kernel design.

That said, I've been very excited for Fuchsia for a long time.
Is emailing them back then and asking them to add them an ok practice?
they've run an unsuccessful funding campaign to bring this device to western audiences: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2132003782/pomera-pocke...

quite unfortunate -- i think they needed a little more hype.
Apparently the flu might be able to cause type 1 diabetes too: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22456-diabetes-linked... (In general, it seems like other viruses have a lot of odd and rare effects that just don't get as much attention as anything involving Covid-19, giving the dubious impression that it's somehow different from other viruses in this regard.)
I think it's the latter, but it is also an under-reported aspect of Tim Cook's regime: a focus on sustainability. They have a whole page on their site about their efforts [1], including how they had to invent new materials and processes to achieve some environmentalist goals.

[1]https://www.apple.com/environment/
Perhaps someone has info on the building?
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