skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no prior knowledge of Droidscript or even android development. I did, however, manage to find this page https://symdstools.github.io/Docs/docs/app/CreateAdView.htm

This presents a component which Droidscript developers can use to display AdMob ads in their apps. AdMob appears to be a Google property.

Some interesting quotes:

> The AdView shows advertisement banners from the popular AdMob platform.

> Ads are not touchable when running in the DroidScript IDE.

So there's a confirmed experience where actual ads are displayed in a non-standard way? Any guesses if this violates Google's ad fraud policy?

> Warning: Don't repeatedly click on your own ads unless you are using a valid testId, or Google may suspend your Admob account!

So it's the responsibility of individual users to correctly configure their ads to avoid committing click fraud (accidental or otherwise).

I can see how Google might come to the conclusion that Droidscript has built a platform for committing click fraud, whether that's their intention or not.

This seems incongruent with the wording in the original post:

> they ask you for a "complete analysis of your traffic or other reasons that may have led to invalid activity in your appeal". Well, we had no idea what could have caused this and couldn't think of anything we could do

Really? No idea?

Edit to add: I get that there's a larger debate here around the general fight over device ownership and access to general purpose computing. I'm side-stepping that because I don't have much to add. What I do believe is that this particular piece is hardly concrete enough to bolster the case against Google.
Ransomware literally would not be possible it today's world without cryptocurrency. I think that's plenty reason enough to blame crypto.
I too am left scratching my head trying to understand who the intended target audience is.
Audience reach estimation with Theta sketch based distinct count on Apache Pinot
Multiple times I've had bugs that disappeared when print debugging was added. To say that that was frustrating is an understatement.

(But where there's a will, there's a way. It just takes longer, sigh.)
It's not lying because there is some implicit information in the "we are unable" statement. What is implied in statements like this is that they're unable due to their policies.

If not for implications like this, almost every single use of "unable" (or "can't", for that matter) ever in a sentence would be "lying" unless something is against the laws of physics.
Welcome to the real world. As you point out, NASA lives in Wonderland by comparison. Good software handles real-world issues and changes without continual fundamental architectural redesigns. 95% of the bad software I've seen has been a result of not understanding one of two things, (which are really the same): 1) What the software needs to do to function in the real world, and 2) what the people who use the software need to do and how they think about their environment and the problems they need solved. It sounds trite, but in almost all cases, this really is all that separates great software from unbearably horrible software, and the astute observer will note that this has far more to do with understanding people than it does computers....
Thanks. Paletter's feature set goes quite beyond what the mainstream tools offer, but maybe that needs to be more clear.

Cloud palettes are probably coming. As for Linux, would be a tough call since most designers are on Mac and Windows.
I don’t think it’s “pay $0.99 to remove ads” that’s the problem.

It’s more about “Share your contacts for 500 gems” or “enable location tracking and we’ll give you access to all these cool filters”.

N.B. Snapchat recently stopped doing this. You can now use filters that don’t require location when location is turned off. I wonder if Apple stepping in is the reason why.
Oh yes, this is a rich area for writers. There's also the famous quote from Gravity's Rainbow:

"A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it."

(please don't try to read that wretched book on the strength of this single quote)
I'd argue as well that type systems in the extremely popular programming languages make it difficult to reduce the surface area of your problem appropriately as well.

Some more fringe languages make significant strides in this with dependent types.

The burden is much higher on tests than it needs to be because we can't express these constraints in code well enough.
> I've never head of Gojek but I'd imagine it does too.

You imagine wrong.

> I thought WhatsApp also had a web interface but I wouldn't use it anyway and there are similar chat apps that do so why would you?

The web interface is just a proxy to the phone app. The other "similar apps" don't have all my contacts on it.
I don't know where you heard this, but it is not true. The CPI tracks rent/housing, food, energy, tuition, medical expenses, and everything else that people seem to think are excluded.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_1...
Microwave powered drones. Have a mothership or tower track and send energy to the drones.
Even when GDB’s record and replay works, it’s terribly slow. I hope that one day GDB has features equivalent to Pernsoco, but putting a breakpoint after every single instruction is not going to scale.

I hope you’ll give RR a try; it’s been fantastic for me. (rr-project.org)
You can add retry logic in your genServer, but for anything but the most simple use cases, you would want to add a Supervisor and define a retry strategy.

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/supervisor-a...
They would be just as happy screwing their own people.
Small airfcraft fuel gauges are notoriously unreliable. If it's reading low, yes, be alarmed. But sometimes the float gets stuck, so if your estimate for how much fuel you should have burned puts your fuel lower, trust that.

At least in the UK, getting a private pilot's licence did involve a couple of hours of simulated IFR. Not enough to do anything complex. But enough to turn 180, and be able to follow detailed controller instructions.
If someone came along and pulled the rug out from under your ability to earn a paycheck you might be a bit excited and hyperbolic as well especially if all they told you was "you hurt our feelings" but wouldn't tell you why. The situation is ludicrous.
$30-50/month is a wild price point for this

16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources.

They are probably doing things somewhat inefficiently in the beginning, like renting whole, generic VMs for every customer. Both the price and the resource balance should get better when they catch a little scale.
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I've done some, although not a lot of, native Android development and I'm not quite sure what's so bad about sending intents. "Could access other applications" sounds dangerous, but as far as I know that "access" is limited to things those apps have explicitly decided to allow external apps to access.
This article is simplifying things in very self-serving ways to make a political argument by leveraging a tragedy. It ultimately aims to blame the rich but the article is poorly-written, vague in making that connection, unfocused in what it covers, and ultimately incoherent:

The first part of the article seems to be a criticism of how India handled the pandemic. But until the recent second wave, India's strategy was considered to be highly successful. This article describes the initial lockdown in very negative tones, but I would say that given all the unknowns and the high density of Indian metropolitan cities, it seems that a harsh initial shutdown followed by numerous phases that relaxed restrictions/handed control to local governments seems fairly logical. If there wasn't a strict lockdown early, critics would be making the opposite argument right now. This second wave is also not well-understood. This article, like others, uses anecdotal examples of election rallies or sporting events as contributors, but it ignores that the sudden growth in cases from 3/1-4/1 may just be the result of aggressive, poorly-understood COVID variants (or a mix of all these factors).

The second part of this article criticizes private healthcare. But in many countries, state-run healthcare is low quality to begin with, which is what spurs on the advent of private healthcare. Developing nations in particular have state-run hospitals that provide a DMV like level of service. Why shouldn't citizens be free to seek out better care? The author begins to make an argument that the difference between public hospitals and private hospitals is somehow problematic but doesn't ever get specific in terms of evidence for claims, instead resorting to low-quality ranting with phrasings like "clutching their pearls". It's also not clear how the public/private aspects are connected to the current second wave.

The third part of the article is about the Bhopal disaster, which doesn't seem related to the current situation at all. Bhopal was a story of corporate corruption (ignoring safety standards), government corruption in India (allowing this kind of behavior), government corruption in the US (denying extradition requests, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Carbide#Bhopal_disaster), and the lack of accountability in globalized/international economies. I re-read this part a few times but it too doesn't seem relevant and the author's meandering introduction of the Bhopal disaster into this article just adds to the incoherence.

In the end, I am not sure what the point of this article is or why The Atlantic thinks it met their standards.
Reliance on non-repairable electronics everywhere, fully sealed mechanical parts, etc. Efficiency comes at the cost of more moving parts, more sensors, higher pressure, tighter tolerances, which all introduces more failure points harder to debug/replace. Not to mention lighter thinner non-cost prohibitive materials are easier to damage.

As a rule of thumb, I will only buy pre-2008 vehicles, things only went from bad to worst after that era.
A good Print style sheet is essential if you want your website and articles to be easily archived and saved and/or distributed offline. Especially if it's content that gets censored somewhere on this planet.
i think this problem happens on brave because there is no user account and it needs to have an email to create the account.

there are a couple benefits to building it this way, for example sharing commands across an organization is now possible (so for example you can create a command and make it available to your company to use.)

for example, we use it at my company AirGarage to search django admin, open company zoom links, open reports, etc and if one person adds a command everyone can use it
> I think a lot of companies should be seeing their logos on this page as a sign that they have failed to create accessible software. If your target market is considering renting cloud compute to run your webapp, maybe that's something you need to fix.

The goal of a company isn't to create software that's runnable on as many computers as possible. It is to create a product that is valuable to their customers. If those customers are willing to spend loads of extra money running your product that is a strong signal that you are doing something right.
Coolors[1] has never failed me. It's got a great UI, great workflow and is totally free.

[1] https://coolors.co
Very high interest rate loan?
Fuck that. Interest rates are at an all time low.

How much money do you owe him?
Can you refinance with a personal loan from a bank?

Get rid of this guy he is bad news and emotionally blackmailing you. You will regret it if you go forward.
Wars are economic. The € currency makes the southern countries hate the northern ones and vice-versa.

Greece was devastated after the German-enforced austerity after the 2008 economic crisis. We the EU taxpayers had to give the biggest loan in history to the most bankrupt country in history, so that they could repay the German banks, who overinvested in Greece in the previous decade.
Don't worry. It's a Google browser with a Microsoft logo.
Synthetic terrain photography was one of the example applications for the original Image Analogies project (https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/flightsim.ht...) 20 years ago in 2001.

But this article is making a huge mountain out of a tiny molehill. None of the alleged attack scenarios seem particularly plausible or serious. And...like...yeah...photos can be faked. Hello literally the entire history of photography.

The linked publication says things things like "geospatial data has become such a fundamental resource for everyday life such as in real-time traffic provided by Google Maps". Ok...but so what? Guilt by implication from an incomplete syllogism, I guess? Are we supposed to suddenly develop a fear that Google Maps is going to start maliciously sending drivers over cliffs? This rhetorical sleaze was fine for Aristotle but has no place in journal articles.

The Verge writer says "Deepfake geography might even be a national security issue, as geopolitical adversaries use fake satellite imagery to mislead foes". What military sea slug is using unverified satellite images provided by an adversary instead of their own?
It's multithreaded but what about Redis running on a single core in a cluster? Like running 8 Redis on a single 8 cores CPU. I don't really understand the reason to run Redis on multiple core since you can run multiple Redis on a single CPU with clustering which will have better perforamce than running KeYDB with the same number of cores.
No, the Facebook app most likely does not have any special permissions. These are typically granted by manufacturers based on their own signing keys.
What kind of target audience can drop this much monthly, but can't afford a computer with 16GB of RAM? Genuinely curious.
The AnLinux app is great to setup a linux rootfs on linux.
But it's limited, you can't run docker for example.

I would love to recycle old phones into Kubernetes nodes !
I don’t know the stats but from what I read a lot of accidents are not tourists but more serious divers who go below 20-30 meters. I haven’t heard about people getting injured while on regular tourist dives.

Same with motorcycle riding or paragliding: it gets dangerous once you are beyond the beginner stage.

I really don’t know what could go wrong on the typical tourist dive if the dive master keeps an eye on people and you don’t panic.
sorry, thanks i forgot to set that up. if you email me at scott@jumprope.ai i will add you to the firefox list
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Android's fine-grained permissions system isn't a good fit for something like Droidscript; one script could use a permission for valid reasons, then another could do something bad.
The articles says so.
What makes you think ethics are rational? I see no evidence for that.

Who decides what the correct moral framework is? Christian ethics are different from Critical Theory or Scientology informed ethics.

Should you be required to take a course in Scientological ethics, if there is a political majority that votes that you shouldn't be able to be professional without completing that course?

Boy I'm glad I didn't finish college. What a bunch of crap.
Extended wearing of ffp2 or n95 will reduce vo2 max.
Reduction of vo2 max may lead to increased risk of injury.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342729638_Effects_o...
It's the police who are really dangling the threat of violence. If we're not ok with those threats becoming public, we should not have police make those threats
Steve Klabnik: “I am at a breaking point and so here it is.”
Apple can and will do that. See Fortnite:

https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/fortnite-c75/battle-roy...
Facebook calls for data portability laws, expands types of info transfer
Then tell the person attempting to manipulate you to get lost.

Business is buisness. Do what’s best for you and your possible future company.
BLS tracks many inflation values, including those for housing, food, and energy, and they have done so for over 100 years.

You're confusing core CPI, which excludes them so analysts can see the difference, and the CPI values as reported generally in the media, which do include housing, food, and energy.

The most reported CPI is CPI-U (and is called CPI in the press), which is the CPI for urban consumers, which includes housing, food, and energy, and most comparable to historical and inflation values from other countries.

But BLS tracks many forms. If you want to learn about this read https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
I found this in their hiring page regarding file uploads.

> We’ve implemented cross-platform Drag and Drop file uploading. When you drag a file into a Mighty window on macOS, we simulate that same sequence of Drag-and-Drop events on Linux. We trick Chromium into thinking it's uploading a file from the Linux filesystem while, behind the scenes, we stream the file from the user's Mac; we accomplish this using Filesystem In Userspace (FUSE).
I worked on a number of CASE tools and worked with them. You will NEVER see any diagrams describing the tools or how they were built.

Eating one's own dog food was not part of the road map.
Ask HN: What Is End-to-End-Encryption?
> there is probably a better way to do this though

There is, read the manual page for the "date" command. You can use the --set argument to provide a human readable date/time value to which to set the clock.
The sooner you start smacking people with tribal knowledge, the sooner many people start to back away slowly.

I used to interview ex-coworkers. I don't do it as much anymore because it gets old/depressing and the answers tend not to change that much.

If, for the purposes of thinking about turnover, you look at a former colleague as an 'aggrieved party', we are generally somewhere in the neighborhood of mediocre at agreeing that certain things were the 'final straw', and work backward through that to actions to increase retention.

One of the things that interested me about these conversations was that people tend to work chronologically backward through many of their complaints. But what was surprising was that some people would go all the way back to their first weeks. To the first straws. The warning signs they ignored. In a way this is not unlike talking to someone who just broke up with a romantic partner.

And while their ex may realize that his/her problems started back with some early inconsiderate behavior that snowballed, and resolve to 'do better next time', I rarely see companies do this, unless I instigate it.

Point is, these petty slights stack up, and can become a big part of someone's narrative for abandoning you (often in a huff). First impressions are important, and you dismiss them at your own peril.
I am aware that novel techniques for building mud huts are created all the time, and none of those new techniques address the fundamental issue with all of them — this building technique is only suited to single-story buildings on large tracts of land. 3D printing the mud hut doesn’t meaningfully alter that constraint.

The “environmental sustainability” gains you get from using on-site materials would be totally erased by the fact that if you actually built houses like this at scale and expected people to live in them, we would have to massively increase the land area occupied by humans, which is the exact opposite direction we need to go in.

Show me where this technology can knock down the cost of adding infill housing or building vertically in locations where land and construction are expensive (that is, where people actually want to live), and it’ll be worth paying attention to. Otherwise it’s just a dumb, expensive distraction.
Hi. I created this years ago and have not been able to give it much attention lately. There is a very basic API, https://swimlanes.io/docs/api
Corny prices were creeping up for a while since the obsolete soda kegs got scarce a while ago. I haven't brewed in years, so idk how that's changed lately
> This seems like a lot of work

I see this is your first introduction to the homelab hobby. Welcome!
I think many would argue that thinking Facebook doesn't have your phone number is either massively ignorant or stupid. After all, it only takes one person you know signing up and allowing access to contacts.

That said, I am considerably less concerned about Facebook having my phone number versus Facebook being able to mine all my conversations to create a pretty complete profile of who I am and what I do.
Given the impression I've gotten from your habit of replying with midwit snark to my comments, I don't suggest that you try doing so.

But yes, there are plenty of fields full of intelligent, quantitative people that are better at basic scientific literacy and modeling uncertainty than our public health infrastructure has shown themselves to be. This isn't just theoretical; every single "heterodox" conclusion I was exposed to that was based on the science instead of whatever the fuck goes on at the CDC/FDA ended up becoming CDC/FDA policy, several months later.

Medical culture's innumeracy[1], religious adherence to omission bias, and refusal to model reality outside of the exact parameters of an RCT is potentially adaptive for the normal clinical context. But it's an extremely poor fit for a pandemic, and has cost thousand and thousands of lives over the course of this one.

It's a travesty that the CDC, FDA and WHO couldn't collectively manage to provide information a fraction as useful as accurate as (eg) Alex Tabarrok's freaking Twitter account.

For someone of your, uh, limitations, it's probably better to slavishly follow public health advice, in the absence of the ability to do any critical thinking. For anyone with a median IQ, understanding when political/bureaucratic/cultural failures are cause for skepticism of public health conclusions is a must.

[1] Famously, studies show 80% of doctors unable to do the most basic of statistics relevant to their job, like being able to interpret the chances of breast cancer given a positive mammogram. Over half of the doctors surveyed were off by a factor of NINE in their estimate (90% vs 10%). This isn't a random medical-themed math game with no clinical relevance; one's risk of breast cancer is influenced by multiple factors and false positives mean invasive procedures like biopsies that themselves are not riskless.
This is somewhat overdue but glad they've made it official.

I feel like a lot of people who tried their best to comply w safety guidelines during the worst of the pandemic are having trouble getting back to more normal life even if they've been vaccinated, so hopefully this will help.
For sequence diagrams in text format you can take diagwiz for a spin. There is also an online version of the tool. Disclaimer: It is working, but it's still just an experiment and might change a lot.

https://github.com/kjagiello/diagwiz

https://diagwiz.io/playground/ (not really mobile friendly)
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There's a lot of people living far from the potentially higher paying jobs, and unemployment pays you without leaving the house.

No matter how low interest rates get, the local gas station and drive-thru window isn't going to pay much better.
This is really a great tool. I have been using https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ in the past. Will definitely give this one a shot.

Generating quick sequence diagrams helps a lot to articulate ideas. Ever since wfh, I have used these tools a lot of communicate design flow with team mates.
Well first of all that's just total BS, but secondly this thread isn't even about privacy. None of this is. In fact your comment is the very first mention of that word in this thread.