skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switching to AAB would mean 0.4% savings for my own app. Which already is only 3.4MB large.

I really don't understand why Google is trying to force me into this (even for existing apps, every time you open the console it's just bombarding you with warnings that you don't use AAB).

They could just add a sanity check, if less than 50kB are saved by switching to AAB, just don't recommend/force it.

But they don't want that. Apps created after august won't even let you download the signing key so you could sign non-play store apks yourself. The only way this makes sense is if they want to prevent off-playstore distribution and verification entirely.
I may not like that my electric utility burns coal, but I like my lights to work more. You can’t sit around worrying about every single imperfection in the world and accomplish much of anything.
FWIW, I'm 41 now and don't use my personal email for much p2p comms. Maybe a couple times a year there's a family thread about a gathering. My close friends is all SMS. My non-close friends is just another FB connection. I don't even have most of my friends email addresses. Actually one of my fairly close friends I met about 5-6 years ago just asked me for my email to forward me something logistics related. Most of my comms on over text as banter, check-ins or logistics. Mostly logistics since we meet in person most frequently and that's where we talk.

I get a lot more email though. I think it's more correlated with complexity of your life. Meaning, I started getting more email when I owned a home vs renting, then more again when I got married, then more again when I had a dog, then more again when I had a kid, I'm sure as my kid ages into more activities the email volume will increase further. Also, my "personal business" generates a fair amount of comms. Like hiring contractors, getting bids on things, basically anything I pay for that is not a retail purchase requires some email traffic. But people like my housekeeper, pool guy, and lawn guy I can text them for anything I need to have them look at. It's better that way since they don't work at a desk.
Mind elaborating? All Hetchr ATOMs are embedded into your workspace.
I agree that was kind of my point. It’s different everywhere so saying it only should exist to test stable is untrue.
Your second paragraph is basically why I will never own a pet.

I can't ethically feed my pet, therefore owning a pet is unethical.

I love dogs, clumsy waggy little fuckers, but I won't subject another being to my fuckery just because I can.

edit: And yes, I teeter-totter on the ol' "you should adopt an abandoned pet" vs "feeding it for the rest of its life means other animals will die" vs "but you eat meat too you sanctimonious fuck" every time I think about the subject. At the end of the day, easier just to say "no pets" and move on with life for me.
You are demonstrating speciesism right now. One species is better than the other. Sexism = one sex is better than the other. Racism = one race is better than the other.

The way we treat animals is wrong.

COVID is largely suspected to have come from humans fucking with bats.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.h...
His tweet is grossly misleading. LinkedIn provided 6 examples of his posts, the first of which mentions a Reuters fact check. There seems to be no connection between LinkedIn content moderation of COVID misinformation and some personal vendetta with the CEO of Reuters. Take from that what you will, but I question the credibility of the author based on that as well as the claims in his posts.
There are many more things to be competitive in other than price. Plenty of business thrive outside of the Amazon/AWS economy. If you can't find a way to change your behavior on the basis of your beliefs, then the value of that behavior is more important than your beliefs. That is nothing to be embarrassed about, but don't be delusional and think that you have no other choice.
A cape made from the silk of 1.2M Golden Orb spiders from Madagascar
There's some things right on the edge, like Netflix as an example. They're never trying to sell me anything; they've got my $N/month. The emails (that I don't read until now to sample them) are suggestions of shows I might like. User retention mail and promoting the shows they own the rights to are spam, but not all of it is.

My credit union sends infrequent warnings about recent phishing and scam techniques. I never opted in to those emails but they're not useless for everyone and possibly do net good.

I think a good heuristic is to look at the value provided in emails; if the recipient stands to benefit significantly more than the sender (on average) then it's not spam. Sure, my credit union has to deal with less hassle reversing charges or resetting passwords but it's quite a lot more hassle to be a victim of phishing or other scams.
Products that rely on third party servers to function should be required to carry an expiration date that guarantees service and security patches up to that date.
The internal combustion engine was developed at about the same time as the electric car. Battery swapping already existed in the very late 1800s. The oil and gas industry delayed real research and development of electric vehicles for 100 years.

Cities would have become even cleaner, much faster, if not for that industry.
I think the difference is this: If you owe me money, I can cancel your debt. But if I won't cancel it, you could also end the debt by forcing dragonwriter to pay me. That's different because there's a third party involved.
Witch-hunt by the powerful backed by party of money.

It maybe a partisan issue at the grassroots, but it's not really such in government where the majority of politicians are in the same bubble of silencing dissidents and whistleblowers using any means to the end.

The whole fiasco is a "This is what happens to you... reporters, publishers, and snitches.. when you threaten to expose our lies and our crimes. We invent crimes and murder you slowly."

The only way to prevent this from happening again is to overthrow the powers-that-be because it will keep happening.
If you find useful code on Github or StackOverflow, you can check for the license directly there, or you can try to find where it was copied from, and look for a license there.

Copilot isn't copying, it's regurgitating patterns from its training dataset. The result may be subject to a license you don't know about, but modified enough that you won't find the original source. The result can be a blend of multiple snippets with varying licenses. And there's no way to extract attribution from Copilot - DNN models can give you an output for your input, they can't tell you which exact parts of the training dataset were used to generate that output.
The data positions aren't up yet, when might they be?
Follow up question.

I find the problem with messaging services is that there's no central inbox and no decent handling of "unread".

If I get an instant message from someone that I can't (or choose not to) respond to immediately, then the chances are very high that I'll forget to respond.

But with email it stays in my inbox and I can easily set it back to "unread" for extra emphasis.

I find I'm terrible at keeping up with messaging unless it's synchronous chatting. Anything asynchronous goes out the window.

I suppose I just find everything else lacking in features that I've come to depend on in email. I just don't understand how everyone else manages.
>Your assumptions are showing.

Well, of course, I didn't type my comment by accident!

Regarding your point:

Number of service dogs in the US: ~500,000 [1]

Number of dogs kept as pets in the US: ~76 million [2]

It's not even 1%. I understand the argument you bring but in practice is literally a rounding error. The overwhelming majority of pets serve a function of vanity and/or entertainment.

1: https://share.america.gov/service-dogs-save-lives/
2: https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/reports-statistics/us-p...
"they discovered a chain of weaknesses that allows an attacker to remotely update a vulnerable device’s firmware with a malicious backdoor"

Once again, this is why firmware needs a hardware write-enable switch, not a software one.

Cue the arguments that remote updating is needed to fix bugs that allow remote updating. :-/
It was a major part of the Warren platform so easy to google, but here's one source. Let me know if you want more.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/01/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sand...

Also note this is a wealth and not income tax. When talking about federal taxes and progressive taxes we are generally talking about income tax. A wealth tax solves the problem of millionares/billionares using loop holes to avoid the income tax system/paying low income taxes.
The OSI does count AGPL as Open Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0

"it can be relicensed to anything as long as its attribution requirements are held to" is not a requirement of Open Source: https://opensource.org/osd
Some people are surprised to learn that, when it comes to unauthorized emissions, you don't mess with the FCC. They will hammer you.
>the Assange story isn't that important

Do you realize that it's not hyperbole to say press freedom in the United States hinges on this case? American journalists have always been protected from prosecution for publishing factual information. If Assange is convicted, he will be the first. That would fundamentally change freedom of the press in the US.
I have a mail address specifically for news letters I subscribe to, so it's like a physical mailbox with my subscription magazines dropping in every now and then. If the newsletter is worth reading, I don't mind reading it in my inbox. The problem is that most newsletters are a waste of energy and then the inbox becomes a place where the newsletters go to die. Once I notice this pattern I unsubscribe from those newsletters. This leaves me with an inbox with mostly high quality newsletters.
Tom Wolfe (RIP) wrote "The Painted Word" in 2008 which pretty well summarized all this.

Those can make art, make art.
Those who can't, write artist's statements.
And those who can't do that, write impenetrable essays about it.
What would we remember his philanthropy for? Is there something yet to come or are the mosquito nets the thing to remember?
This is the problem of capitalism. The unrealistic reliance on benevolent billionaires to do what's best for society, and not what's in their own best interest to the detriment of society.
People act like peeing in bottles is so bad. I really don't get it. Have you never peed in a bottle? Like they have access to toilets for #2 which is great.

Ask anyone doing carpet cleaning or another home based trade. Where do you think they pee and poo? They dont do it in the clients home. They go in a bottle or into a bucket in the back of their van.
You're totally right, we can't just set them all free, as it would ruin ecosystems. What we can do is taper our meat consumption down so the animals that are alive now will be killed and used, but we would stop adding new ones to the system.

That way we ween off of livestock, their suffering ends, and we avoid an ecological disaster. Farms will have top adapt, because we don't want all the folks in animal agriculture to be out of a job all of a sudden, so it'd take some time. But we can do it, for sure.

But asking those kinds of questions is really important, so thank you for posing it.
Let’s also recognize that while clearly both of these guys (Bezos and Gates) are clear outliers in talent and execution, they themselves did not build these companies and products alone. They were supported by thousands and thousands of people. And many of them coming up with the important ingredients that made it all happen.
Well, no, you can bet if I hate my employer and therefore destroy people's stuff, that stuff is getting destroyed.

Tossing a cardboard box just doesn't do much the majority of the time.
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OK. You might like to consider adopting a less confrontational tone when commenting on HN in that case, as it generally doesn't go down well here.

The answer to your question is that I once spent some time working with a network operator and on a day when I happened to be around their operations centre there was an active incident like this.

If memory serves, it turned out that the rogue device was a relatively new model that a customer had bought and was trying to use normally but something wasn't reliably operating within spec. That model would have had to pass certification to be permitted on the network but apparently this specific unit had drifted and as a result it was dumping bad data all over a control channel that was in use across a large geographical area, causing severe disruption to connectivity for everyone.

At that time some safety-critical services were using this network for communications in the field so this kind of outage was a very big deal. There were multiple vehicles with detection equipment on the road, systematically trying to narrow down the source of the interference, but of course they had trouble coordinating with the operations centre themselves because of the same disruption. I don't know everything that was going on, but I did learn that in my country there is a legal power to gain access to premises in this kind of situation and it sounded like the required formalities and officials were being arranged just in case.

As I recall, it took most of an afternoon to track down the source of the interference and get it switched off. In the end it was mostly dumb luck that it was found. I didn't quite follow what happened but possibly a detection vehicle that was out of contact with the operations centre had decided to patrol in its area until it could find another way to call in and while it was doing that it drove right past the building where the rogue unit was located and its detection equipment lit up like a Christmas tree.

The customer was entirely innocent and had no idea it was their unit causing all the trouble nor any reason they should have known. I don't know exactly what happened to that model, the manufacturer or the certification process it had managed to pass despite the defect. For sure there were serious repercussions.

This all happened some time ago and the protocols and networks have since changed but the physics hasn't. That's why I have such strong views about regulation and only allowing people who know what they're doing to have full control over transmission equipment. As the above incident shows, things can still go badly wrong even without that. If there had been a major incident requiring coordination between first responders in the field during that downtime it could have been disastrous. Minimising the risk of similar failures due to carelessness by someone who didn't fully understand their equipment and the systems and protocols they were working with just seems like common sense to me.
This is common knowledge [0], but the common person has come to this conclusion on her own without the help of media. That this would never be "a story" of any size is the point of this discussion.

[0] https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/us-ranks-last-amon...
> The objection to global warming isn't that it isn't real

No, that's usually the objection. There's a reason "climate denier" is a phrase.

I don't think anyone would mind a purely technical discussion of how to provide power, mitigate impact to the poor, etc. Instead you get claims the scientists are part of some global conspiracy.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/bigsleep/comments/o3sefy/victorian_...
Anyone who says they're "unbiased" is lying.

Everyone has biases.

Is whether someone has the integrity to recognize and air them, while reporting matters of import that go against their own views/agenda.
Personally, I haven’t seen a better option to cause change.
>you can look at them

All of them at once??
I don't think anyone trusts the IRS enough to give them money.
How are the users going to access the password? Via mobile app, browser, desktop app?

One way is to generate a temporary public-private key on the user-agent. Let the user-agent send the public key to the server. The server encrypts the data with the public key, sends the encrypted data to the user-agent and then deletes the public key. The user-agent then decrypts the received encrypted data using the private key. Once the data is decrypted, the user-agent deletes the public and private keys.
Create a Money class, or use one off the shelf. It should store the currency and the amount. There are a few popular ways of storing amounts (integer cents, fixed decimal) but it should not be exposed outside the Money class.

There's plenty of good advice in this subthread for how to represent currency inside your Money abstraction, but whatever you do, keep it hidden. If you pass around numbers as currency values you will be in for a world of pain as your application grows.
That's fine and dandy but I know how much I'll earn this month ,not this nebulous concept of "we dont have a salary policy here"
Everyone having an email address is a false assumption, or a bad generalization. There are people among us without one, and owning a phone number instead.

I'm not sure along which lines the divide falls though. Younger? Less western? Less businessy? It's still possible that the people who would be interested in a newsletter are the same people who have email addresses.
Yeah, but the most likely outcome is removing the current debt load without making the changes that prevent things getting back to the same state. The result will be that everybody rushes gleefully back into the same state, expecting to be rescued again.

At least, that's what seems "most likely" to me...
I suspect that amazon specializes in arbitrage.

They collect information in a domain (such as delivering stuff to places in a region). They build a detailed map of "easy to deliver" and "horrible to deliver" locations in that region.

After that, they take the "Easy to deliver" places for themselves and get a 3rd party to agree to deliver the rest, typically based on some rate scheme that is coarse to assume "average delivery pain" when in fact they're getting only the impossible delivery list.
> The film The Game Changers has plenty of examples of thriving humans on a vegan diet… You are just showing a bias.

I am showing a bias and the silly vegan propaganda movie isn’t? OK.

Btw, if you want some examples of veganism not working as advertised, look up the ongoing “vegans: the epitome of malnourishment” series on YouTube. It tracks various vegan influencers throughout the years.
And really common if you meditate, you are more likely to sleep when tired and eat when hungry and eliminate things from your life that crank you up and and displease you, so in the context of this slightly simpler more healthy life, you brain predictions may be more positive.
Okay, I think you're missing the point. What they did was illegal. Why would you not blame corporations for financial crimes? They stole money - I have no idea why you "wouldn't blame them" for that.

Sure, if it turns out they didn't commit the crime don't blame them (but there is overwhelming evidence that I have personally witnessed so I already know for a fact that they did this). What I don't get is why this guy is apologizing for theft.
Scrooge Attack: Undervolting ARM Processors for Profit
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.00416.pdf
Make a landing page. Collect e-mails for people who are interested in the value proposition. Contact them when it's ready.
It’s arguable that the reason they have fueled growth is that they killed the competing industries that would have otherwise.
Bundling seems like a cost reduction when using a shipper like UPS who charge per package. If you control delivery chain end to end, paying per hours of delivery time, there's probably less savings.
Dismissing a whole comment to focus on two out of context words is very much like Twitter. I see several excellent comments responding to the best read of it. And then there's your comment.
>...most rich people have a far higher IQ than Hollywood actors.

Not surprisingly, back when marginal rates were so high, rich Hollywood actors also hired CPAs to avoid giving 90+ percent of their income to those in power. The previous discussion on this was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031135
>Posts will be 777 characters long

That's... weirdly specific. Is this supposed to be some kind of dog-whistle to QAnon and Biblical conspiracy types?
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Exactly... Postmodernism isn't a logically consistent worldview, almost by definition.

It's full of performative contradictions in practice.

Hence the need for "safe spaces". It doesn't stand up to logical discourse when its application is confronted.
It's always Deliver Results.
I think you are mischaracterizing why Julian Assange has lost support. He has not lost support because of exposing corruption in any political parties, he's lost support because its become clear he works with Russian intelligence services.

People have leaked data on Russian corruption to WikiLeaks, which went unpublished. His leaks coincide with what is politically favorable to Russia, not with making all information free to the world.

To the downvoters: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia...

Maybe provide some feedback, so I can understand why you disagree with me?
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My dad teaches a world religion class and does a unit on religious restrictions (kosher, halal, etc.). He says one of the hardest things to get across to people, even non-religious people, is that rule systems like these are not about practical considerations, they are about defining who is "in" and who is "out". In a time where religion is no longer analogous with ethnicity, this is just not something people really understand anymore.
The lender takes Bob's business and Jim's house. How is the lender going to take Dave's degree?

Dave is the only one of the three who could keep the asset after declaring bankruptcy, if that were allowed.
> How do you know who is vegan

They’ll usually tell you pretty quickly.

> here is every large nutrition institute around the world

Why would you ever trust a “large nutrition institute”? Who is the kind of person who would come to power at a place like that? Certainly not someone who is dispassionately interested in promoting human health. It’s mostly vegans, seventh day adventists, and other dietary-religious groups.

When has a “large nutrition institute” ever released dietary advice that stood the test of time?
> Because of this brutal reality (In cooking, a dish that is 99% finished has zero value), chefs must adopt a “finishing mindset.”

Perfect is the enemy of Done.

It hurts me to read this and to think of people adopting a "finishing mindset" while also trying to get behind:

(1) planning is prime

(2) arranging spaces and perfecting movements

(3) cleaning as you go

(4) making first moves

(5) finishing actions

(6) slowing down to speed up

(7) call and callback

(8) open ears and eyes

(9) inspect and correct

(10) total utilization

https://books.google.com/books?id=l8tUCwAAQBAJ
They’ll do this to companies on our own soil, why wouldn’t they do it to “allies”?
Now, consider quake is GPL'ed. Any proprietary software using such code will have to bow to the license terms.
I've found that most places offer the same content in an RSS feed as their newsletter.
I prefer the terminal newsboat RSS reader running in Docker. :
https://newsboat.org/
https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
...and lynx is also in the container for browsing.
I've never said there weren't differences. Only that the specific aspects being pointed out in this thread as signs of continuing soviet corruption of American values are actually aspects of bureaucracy as a whole older than recorded history.
Thankfully, due to the principle of object permanence, it suffices to look at them one at a time.