skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t off hand, but it is an excellent question.

An obvious area that iOS and Android are more mature than the FOSS alternatives is accessibility. You could easily spend 10 years just marshaling a project in that area.

Another obvious area is data persistence across devices. I’m sure there is a better name for this, but what I mean is that signing in to an iOS device is pretty much all that is needed for my data to start appearing. Apps and data will be populated from the cloud, whether it is from iCloud Drive or from a backup. Losing, upgrading, or adding a device has very little impact on workflow other than the cost of hardware.

This is an extremely valuable and sticky feature, and is part of what makes these devices into consumer ‘appliances’ rather than traditional computers.

The architecture to achieve this in Apple’s case is exactly where most of the complaints are targeted. E.g. the App Store, iCloud backups, and other services like photos.

The challenge is to engineer a set of alternatives that yield similar end-user benefits, but without creating dependence on a trusted (or distrusted in Apple’s case) central actor.

This seems to me like another area where many people could spend 10 years working.
My tinfoil hats say that they realize that we are in the age of ultra loose monetary policy, so abundance of capital. Therefore it's time to clean the house. Gonna spook investors of course, but hey all other places offer zero or minus yield rate, China still has positive yield anyway.
Which specific feature of PWAs is non-standard?
Hypothetically speaking if Tether had been squeaky clean and open about holding a fraction backing assets in cash. These companies could have still bought a crap ton of it and caused a bank run if they wanted. That's just how fractional reserve works.
Can you explain for those of us who've carefully avoided reading the RFC for all these years, how faster retransmit timers would work?

I would've guessed a longer timeout or UDP wrapping a custom protocol maybe.
I was really pleased when Stack Overflow switched to system fonts [0] and hoped this would be a trend. With system fonts there is less cognitive load going from app to app. The font stays out of your way and serves its purpose best: presenting textual information.

Here we have the opposite: Twitter decided that tweet bodies should perform a marketing function. They sacrificed utility for brand cohesiveness. I understand the motivation, but there's a middle ground that serves both purposes: use your own custom font for the UI and use a system font for user-generated content. Gmail does this: the UI is Roboto, while the default font is "Arial, Helvetica".

I'm sure I'll get used to it, but eh.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27063991
Firefox doesn't support PWAs...
Not OP but since you're asking: next/image was unusable last time I tried it. I ended up using next-optimized-images, which didn't feel a lot better but was at least usable for my case. I wanted to compile the images at build time instead.

While I'm at it, next/link also had some bonkers defaults such as the link prefetching on view instead of on hover (neither of which could be disabled, either…).

I hope all that is getting some attention soon. If I can offer some frank feedback: I've had an overall positive experience with the framework, but there have been clear quality issues here and there and I'm always concerned when I see a large feature churn without a high amount of attention being put into existing bugs.

I filed three bugs while porting an app over half a year ago (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/20984, https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/21474, https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/21461). None of them have even been acknowledged by a dev yet. (That last one was a doozy, too; I'm not actually sure it's a nextjs bug)
A Title change might be good too, because like others, I thought it was Google Docs snitching on a downloader.

A possibly more accurate title would be: "Activist raided by London police after downloading docs found on Google Search"
It is what we have. A president could discard all pledges as Trump demonstrated during his mandate.

Maybe different kinds of governments, with less variation of ruling parties (China, Russia) or broad agreements in their political systems (EU?) may keep their promises in this topic.
> So why does it have to go?

It doesn't.

> even if the trucking sector is not as far ahead as the passenger cars seem to be.

Trucking fuel emits carbon, so getting an EV already reduces that footprint. Buying more durable goods also reduces shipping volume.
I guess you could consider Paypal/Venmo which scan for words: https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/paypal-venmo-iran-syria...

Another is that Google Photos and Facebook both do classification for objects and text within photos - eg. a Kohl's ad in my timeline on Facebook has image alt text of "May be an image of 1 person, standing, footwear and outdoors". I'm sure their detections look for TOS breaking content or other pictures showing illegal activities.
How long do you suppose it will be until the US gets into another crazy Asian adventure? GW Bush ran on a platform against nation building, and still got into two nightmare wars. Who will be the next president to be led down this path?
All they need is flip a few bytes in the software and all newly sold screens only work if they're registered with an active, unbanned and non-anonymous account and were online in the last 12 hours.

And then you won't just get randomly banned from Facebook or Google with no human support staff to talk to, you'll also lose access to half your media devices. This is already true for Oculus/Facebook (and probably some others).
This is really cool, thanks for pointing me to that. I'm still probably going to migrate to postgres because I'd like the functions to exist in the db and not just in code, so I can use them in ad-hoc queries.

But this is worth considering as an option.
> Like rake them over the coals for lying about having assets they didn't but if Tether had been from the start open about holding only a small fraction in cash would it be a problem?

Sure. If the Nigerian prince was actually a Nigerian prince and actually gave me $100M, that changes the scenario substantially.

They acquired their dominant position via fraud. Their website claimed audits they never completed. They issued bank attestations showing funds they didn't have legal rights to; transferred from Bitfinex in the day before, and then back out the day after. To this day, there's no way of knowing if that fraud continues; they've yet to complete an audit or provide the transparency promised for years.
> Harder, we must learn to let go across all sectors of the economy, for all countries, for all society strata.

I fully appreciate your frustration. I have a similar reaction when I hear cycling being proposed as a solution, with one difference: flying is largely an optional luxury, driving to work is not.

As an individual, flying roundtrip once from LA to NY, is sufficient to eat up about half the CO2 budget for the year. That is too much in itself. It does not mean that there mustn't be deep cuts everywhere else too. Americans, and especially well off Americans like the ones I expect populate HN, fly around without even thinking of the costs.

Therein lies the immensity of the task ahead: nobody is willing to give up their creature comforts. Not even relative luxuries like the vacation in Cabo. No, we rationalize our inaction by pretending the problem will solve by itself, via some futuristic tehno wand: carbon capture, fusion, solar power, anything but downsizing our expectations and desires.
Meanwhile in the real world, my brilliant friend, who cares about privacy, called me in a panic because she couldn't work out how to shift/right-click a video in her browser to download it to her hard drive, and you believe Linux is a viable alternative to the vast majority of ordinary people?
>My key question, though, is how would this affect the app-store-like world of game consoles? It'd be kind of neat to install Steam-for-Switch.

I think this got played out with Apple v xCloud, although it is far from being over. Your wish of a synergy between Valve and Nintendo will most probably never be granted, with former entering the fray with their own offering. It is about to get juicy, which is probably good news for some consumers.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22421290/microsoft-apple-x...

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/
> I match the query's embedding to the document embeddings,

I assume the doc size is relatively small, otherwise a document may contain too many different topics that make it hard to differentiate different queries?
Still a shame that the nominal emergency procedure is so broken and inefficient.

Also, special points to the 2 a*holes that ignored someone needing assistance.
When I feel myself approaching overthinking, one strategy I try is to identify if there are different requirements or criteria I may have missed and write them down. A lot of decisions involve complicated trade-offs, and it is often too easy to punch holes in ideas, move on to the next idea, punch holes in that one, and end up back where you started!

By ranking the relative importance of requirements you can at least try to optimize for the most important requirement, and be able to see that other ideas may be better for other requirements but not the most important one!
Yeah this is just a bad idea all around. You've re-marketed cheats as "virtual assistants". Sorry, this will either end up with your clients getting permanently banned from the game they are using it on or you getting sued by the publisher of the game.
There was only a year that India has higher GDP growth compared to China, real GDP growth of course is still way behind. Yet after that year it went downhill, before COVID their growth was only around 4%.
I don't think this is accurate.

If they're just specifying a font (e.g. 'Helvetica') in their CSS, it's loaded from the users' machine and doesn't cost anything.

Otherwise every site on the internet would be paying fees for fonts.

I could be wrong. Please inform me if I am.
Pity on anyone who was fool enough to work with the Americans.
I use to love techlead until he started shilling his crypto haha
Oh I know. I'm being downvoted to oblivion already— that's the reality of HN being US-centric (I'm Canadian).

But my point is less about taking a stand on any of one of those issues and more just that US-based advocates making slippery-slope arguments often resort to wide-eyed speculation about the future rather than evidence because they're unaware of or unwilling to acknowledge what the realities are elsewhere in the world.
User complains that all of a sudden they can only get Netflix originals from home. Netflix suggests they call their ISP and ask why their IP is associated with proxy/vpn activity.

The assumption of the article seems to be that Netflix is performing some action on it's own to determine whether a residential user is on a VPN, and that this type of response is unhelpful buck-passing. But IIRC, for years now ISPs in the US have had the green light to monetize customer metadata. It seems possible that either Netflix or an industry-backed anti-piracy entity is buying lists with timestamped VPN usage per IP (based on packet traffic patterns?) for Netflix to compare to their usage time-stamps per IP and just assuming causation.

I don't know how far-fetched this is, but it fits with Netflix's response to these people's inquiries and it also removes the question of how Netflix might know if a user was streaming over a VPN through thier own residential ISP connection.
GTC 2021 Keynote with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
This is incredibly frustrating to read as someone who just spent a week writing logic to dump sql.js queries into json persisted with LocalStorage.

Only mad because it’s so much better in every way.
Reads aren't as bad, but any kind of writes seem terrible. Take "10ms" with a grain of salt and view the numbers yourself here: https://priceless-keller-d097e5.netlify.app/

I was profiling on an older computer. On my newer one, summing 100 items takes ~8ms (use the raw idb mode). When I said "simple operations" I meant simple queries that you'd expect apps to write, not just 1 single read/write. It is a little faster for each read/write, but there seems to be a bottom floor. Even if reading an item itself is fast, opening a transaction is slow. So any query, even if it only reads one item, is going to suffer the perf hit of opening a transaction.

It's only twice as fast as Firefox, so overall IDB is still super slow when compared to running the same queries with native SQLite. We're talking summing 100 items taking ~.01ms or less. I have no idea why it's so slow.
The Statute of Frauds requires some societally-significant contracts to be in writing, and makes oral contracts in those categories unenforceable. The law-student mnemonic is MY LEGS — a written contract is required for agreements concerning: Marriage (e.g., prenups); Year (contracts that cannot be performed within one year); Land; Executor (when the executor of a dead person's estate agrees to pay the decedent's debts out of the executor's own pocket); Guarantor (of another's debt); Sales (of goods for $500 or more). [0]

Nit: Strictly speaking a written contract is a "verbal" contract, because in this context, verbal means, in essence, using words, as opposed to, say, gestures or drawings. ("Verbal" derives from the Latin verbum. [1])

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/statute-of-frauds.asp

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbum#Latin
I think there are a few theories here:

1. CSAM production may be incentivized by consumers (either because they pay for it or because they serve to encourage the producers).

2. CSAM may (as, famously, with Backpage) be an advertisement for real-world meet ups and further abuse.

3. Having pictures of one’s own abuse further disseminated is itself abusive and morally wrong.

Obviously producers should also be prosecuted, but while I do think the American approach is in many ways informed by puritanical beliefs, there are perfectly rational reasons to pursue the spread of such material.
The law must have a different definition of "password protected area" if it can be accessed without entering a password. It's like the people who get tickets for speeding or for going through a red light while their car is parked, because their street-side parking in front of their house is in the field of view of the license plate reader.

They're denying a tautology! A document is not password protected if you can access it without a password. A person not in a vehicle cannot commit a moving traffic violation. However, the automated computer system which issues those tickets does not actually comprehend those concepts, or any concepts at all. It merely follows rigid rules to send an alert on access to a particular file, or to issue a ticket with to the owner of the license plate number identified by the camera when a speed sensor returns a value not less than the speed limit (eg. NaN).

But who is the "they" who are denying those tautologies? As we abstract more and more to automated systems, it's important to remember that these systems are as dumb as a brick. A brick connected to the Internet and with very complicated melted sand inside, but a brick nonetheless. When decisions recommended by these bricks have significant consequences, it's important to keep a human in the loop.
Outside of meat, China is self sufficient, calculated by calories produced.
Because the sound unregulated one looks like, walks like and talks like the first regulated one. Just imagine there were realtors split into two similar camps, and you bought your house only to find it was a hollywood facade and people just laughed when you complained.

Nah - we have this nanny like state because there are millions and millions of people and despite what Libertarians say, they cant all pay that much attention all the time.

Honestly the only way most of us make it through a year is because all the shit we rely on just does as it is expected.

In short, if you can't trust one politician/bank/sewage plant it breaks faith in all politicians/banks/sewage plants - That's no good for anyone
I mean I have a clinical problem with overthinking (I am diagnosed with OCD) and I'm not disputing at all there are cases where overthinking is irrational and unproductive. I'm just pointing out that just like there are risks of overthinking, there are also risks of underthinking. And I usually see advises about how to prevent overthinking, and not underthinking. If I were to make a perfectly rational choice, I'd risk overthinking more than the opposite. So, although balance is ideal, if a balance is not possible (you don't have enough data to make a perfect decision) then I think, rationally speaking, you want to err slightly on the side of overthinking.
Some airlines are offsetting carbon emissions, e.g., https://www.jetblue.com/sustainability/climate-leadership.

Aviation is also a sector where emissions are pretty much unavoidable (long distance electric flight is untenable), and offsetting emissions is the only path forward. Drawing a line and restricting aviation can't work: think of all the important connections, collaborations, business deals, etc that require aviation. One might argue they aren't needed, but such restrictions will reduce the rate of progress/innovation, which is a necessary prerequisite for climate change action. A new solar cell (for example) will not be developed in isolation.

The fact that governments don't mandate carbon offsets for aviation at this stage is appalling though. Trivial to do relative to the impact and doesn't really raise ticket prices a whole lot.
Great way of looking at it - good to have on deck even if you haven't yet gotten a data request, because you never know when the "flood gates" might open and bog your company down.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/567493-dysfunctional...

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2021/08/03/fading-beacon-...
> i wonder for how long tencent and the other conglomerates will obey these orders

Probably as long as the regulation exists. It is amazing, but once there is the real threat of personal, physical imprisonment, most CEOs are pretty good about making sure regulations get followed despite any impact on the stock price.
In the link to his hiring by Sonoma State University.
The only thing I see is everyone giving snooping for "advertising" a free ride while crying about the same technology working against CSAM, scams and malware. I don't get it stop complaining about stuff when you only complain about it when it hurts your bottom line.
Jobseekers are sending applications to a large set of employers with a click
Agreed. I'm working on some hardware that I intend to open source and prepare a ZIP with all the files necessary to order your own boards from some place like JLCPCB that also does assembly. For the user it's a matter of dragging the ZIP to the manufacturers site and filling in some details. But that also means that they can easily swap out parts and customize it any way they want. Together with a 3D printer to make a case, you could make OSS/HW replacements to a lot of the crapware products that we have to use.
Have you compared those to contemporary plane crashes? Even today plane crashes are quite bad.
> I've never heard a chef say that getting a pan hot and staying hot quickly is their number 1 optimization

I am certainly no chef. Just an engineer trying to optimize my time as much as possible, especially in areas where I do not really enjoy spending it.

Reduction of delicate sauces, et. al. is not something I am strongly concerned with. Fast meal prep is the name of the game for me. I do still have the ability to use gas if I really wanted to, I just like the speed of induction.

Do you prefer the cleanup required for a gas range as well? My induction cooktop can be perfectly cleaned within 10 seconds and I don't have to wait for it to cool down either.

When you look at all of this through the lens of time-value, I think it gets much more complex.
There is no logic there…I mean sure there is logic in the sense of computer instructions that don’t appear to crash.

But the business logic is a black box. It only aligns to your interests to the absolute minimum necessary.

Reverse engineering the black box is completely empirical.

Try a set of operations and see what happens. Repeat.

It is an ocean. It can’t be boiled.
The entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches.

More like Darwin's finches if designed by H.G. Giger. Cant say that I'd recommend googling "sparidae teeth".
> The Titanic is unsinkable!

This doesn’t engage with my point. How many nations with nuclear arsenals and a large ocean on either side have been invaded? It isn’t a likely occurrence, and definitely not one worth subsidizing the war industries for decades in preparation for. It makes no strategic sense for another nation to attempt. Why pretend this is the reason we are doing all of this?

> Pointless and destructive won't stop them.

We agree here. My point is that what they are doing is bad, not that they won’t do it anyway. Of course the U.S. military will continue to try and keep the U.S. hegemony alive and continue expending precious resources to do so.

> There is nothing that the US (or anyone) can do to stop the manufacture and usage of the most advanced weapons of war available which have a massive carbon footprint.

I disagree. The U.S. is one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of military equipment, including jets and tanks. If we stopped making and selling them, we could make an impact on emissions. Sure, other people would likely increase their production, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. has to contribute or provide its technical expertise/resources.

> The sooner you come to the conclusion that _somebody_ is going to do it the sooner you can ask the real question of who would you rather it be.

I think this is a weak argument. This is a lot like the Onceler’s line from the Lorax: “If I didn’t do it then someone else would!”, which may be true, but does not mean you have to continue the current path. The U.S. military could commit to ending its foreign wars and reducing its emissions massively if it wanted to, but it does not.
I have to give Apple credit for unintentionally making this a well-known topic. Suddenly people are realizing that their content is being scanned constantly. Now they care.
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It's not trivial. Archive.org intentionally makes it an annoying process to either have material removed or excluded from their index/ing. You also must own and control the domain in question where the content is located, which nullifies the premise here (waypointnda.com is owned by someone else).

It used to be trivial to hide existing content in their index from being viewable (for your domains). They entirely changed that a number of years ago.