skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like: When I was taking an AWS certification class I sometimes got giddy with excitement thinking about how easily I could build anything at any scale, paying no money down! Anything you need to create a technical product is there. Security can be complex but it is possible to enforce minimum access to every component in the architecture.

Also, there are plenty of resources available online for AWS, both official and unofficial.

Dislike: There is no truly safe way to experiment and play around, even in the free tier. I set up billing alerts, but even with that it can be tricky to identify exactly what is costing me money (EBS snapshots, NAT gateways, Route 53 hosted zones, etc)
Some Android phones have a feature now that actually lets you charge another phone wirelessly (using the energy in the Android phone's battery). Power Sharing, or something like that, I forgot the name for it.
Numbers tell a different story.

Getting the jab is less risky than not.

I'm most surprised to read comments like yours on hn.

I don't know why but I wouldn't have expected this. People who read hn should be able to Research better and be able to read numbers better than the avg.
Thank you so much. This is wonderful
I know we talk a lot about ageism in this industry, but does this not happen in other industries? I genuinely don't know. I just don't think this angle has been explored.

How many associates at top law or accountancy firms are over 40? 50? From my crude linkedin survey, not very many. It seems that in these environments you either progress up, or move down the tiers until you can progress.

I think it's fair to compare programming roles to these 'entry' roles in other professions, with staff engineer and engineering management roles more analogous to 'partner'.

I'm not trying to discuss the merits of older programmers - I'm just unsure that the ageism is more of (or only) a problem in tech narrative is that strong.
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Genee – a privacy-centric AI personal assistant in your phone
>Google removed the app in Russia under pressure after officials threatened to imprison its local employees, a person close to the company said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-16/russia-ta...

>Google removed the app Friday morning after the Russian authorities issued a direct threat of criminal prosecution against the company’s staff in the country, naming specific individuals, according to a person familiar with the company’s decision.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/world/europe/russia-naval...
I believe NordVPN has a no-log policy, but legally that's analogous to giving your post to a man who says "I'll take it to the Post Office for you!" then assuming he won't read it. I know HTTPS makes it a lot harder to snoop, but metadata is valuable.
Not really. It is totally different policy. Somebody asking removing content from the whole world, because of their limited local legalization versus just not showing it for this limited area. From the perspective of some users, it might be the same result. However, the content is still there and can be accessed from the different route.
The linked Google doc is not reasonable, it sounds reasonable because it is a one-sided depiction of the situation that is a) wordy b) completely omits the other side and c) is written in a style that resonates with CoC enforcers.

IOW, the most ruthless and stylistically talented person wins.

Here is the conversation that triggered the tribunal:

https://imgur.com/a/yPnWGXp

If that is a reason for a ban, you can ban 50% of people at Google and 100% of people at Google hired before 2010.
A/B Test of in App Purchase Paywalls
Hi Guys,

I'm an individual app publisher and ex PM at some big apps. I have an idea which is automation test tool for A/B pricing testing.

Firebase + Figma + Revenuecat mix. You will choose paywall screens on the screen, add pricings and export the code. That's all you need. You can run the A/B test first easily. Looking for technical co-founder btw. HMU for any feedbacks and matching.
> I think what changed their mind was that the market changed.

Yeah, the market valuation went from 10x revenue for a early stage company to 30x revenue for a mature company.
Search engines should be something you pay for. Surely search engine powerusers can afford to pay for such a service. If Google makes $1 per user per month or something, that's not too high a bar to get over.
You were FUD-ed, right to repair is not about making things less thin and not water proof.

Making the same software and documentation Apple partners use available to all does not make your phone less sexy.

Making it possible to recycle say a screen from a device and put it into other device, those reducing waste will also not make your phone less sexy.

Allowing me the choice to replace a battery at an Apple approved store or let a random dude do it for me it will not make your phone less sexy.

The part about filling the device with glue is debatable, is it done for the user benefit or is done to prevent repair or done to gain 2 cents. If is done malicious to fuck the user then I think they should stop.

And I mean this in general, including washing machine, consoles and other devices, there is always a very cheap part that breaks, that could have been made stronger with a few cents more of materials and for some reason each year you get a new model of the thing with a redesign so the parts will never fit.
And then the resulting flood destroys an industrial chemical complex and the dynamics shift to complex and long term.
Great article. The JVM is one of the most astonishing pieces of software ever created.

I was looking at gRPC benchmarks the other day (https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/wiki/2021-08-30-b...) and 6 of the top 7 performing gRPC implementations on 3 core CPUS were on the JVM.
> I don't understand why they would remove turn signal stalks

Money!
Yeah, not for me either.
React State Management Using ES6 Classes
That would make the US more of a pariah than it already is. Already most of the west only follow sanctions imposed by the US screaming and kicking unless it plays into their own agenda.
> The person mugging you surely realises there is a possibility you have a gun and will shoot the moment he/she thinks you are pulling a gun out.

There's a study bearing this out:

> Results. After adjustment, individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 (P < .05) times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession. Among gun assaults where the victim had at least some chance to resist, this adjusted odds ratio increased to 5.45 (P < .05).

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/

* https://dx.doi.org/10.2105%2FAJPH.2008.143099
Wishing him a successful and speedy recovery!
Agreed. Navalny’s behavior is seen by many as “election meddling” backed by a hostile foreign power. Sound familiar?
The taxes on equity are substantially lower than on salary. Also equity compensation can be an order of magnitude higher than any market-based salary would ever be.
>designers need to perpetually change the UI

That's a bit unfair. The iPhone 13 just came out and one of the memes and jokes going around is that it looks the same as the previous phone and users are just buying the same thing again. Even tech people I know are joking about it.

So the UI people are always going to be busy because even people in the industry equate looks to changes. If the looks don't change they will all be scratching their heads confused why this is Windows 11 when it looks identical to 10.
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Split image into smaller grids.

Overall, it's the only tool that you'll ever need to grow your engagement..
https://design.ideaonce.com
There should be some perfect balance where this search engine is N% as popular as Google, where Google soaks up all of the gamifiers, but this search engine is still popular enough to derive revenue and do ML and other search-engine-useful stuff.
There are usually no border controls from France as far as the EU borders with Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia and Andorra.

Romania and Bulgaria's borders seem fairly porous, and Bulgaria borders Turkey.

There is a marine border with North Africa, which is probably the closest equivalent to the US/Mexico border.
"There's Nona Gaprindashvili, but she's the female world champion and has never faced men."

Is this a factual statement or did Netflix broadcast lies in order to boost their fictional female heroine?

> this doesn't have someone's greed written all over it.

As if Netflix is in this business for charity.
All the time, but I long ago tired of moving a hand to the mouse, finding the buttons, and moving back to the keyboard to continue typing, so I bought a keyboard with an integrated TrackPoint and the "switching modes" problem disappeared.
everybody can use "i was only following orders" as defense in court
I use my mouse quite a bit on Windows. I'm definitely not able to go full-on keyboard, although I do use the mouse substantially less when the code editor (VSCodium FYI) is open.
I think it’s continuous for people too. Do we ever drive faster than the speed limit? Cross a street outside of a defined crosswalk? Do we voluntarily report all our out-of-state purchases on state taxes? If we sell something on Craigslist, do we always report that as income?

I think a lot of people also have an optimal level of law breakage.
Having a lot of cash is not a good position to start a new product (your pivots will most likely be delayed due to that)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561941
Is this also true for random OS churn etc? Basically when using the SSD as a “persistent cache”
What’s New with Facebook Graph API and Marketing API Version 12.0
Exactly right! Part of a quote is a "ROM validity mask" which is checked on each memory access. When an "invalid" memory address is requested, we'll fire a callback which in this case just resets the game.

The durability of each quote depends on the actions taken while the quote was being made. In the quote of Metroid II, for example, many of the sprites were not recorded, so unless you do exactly what was done in the recording, you'll get a reset.

Here's a visualization of the Metroid II quote: https://tenmile.quote.games/quote-visualizer.html#drop=https...
From a pedagogical point of view presenting that as a Bayesian model and then using the error model he does, is a bit questionable. But as always his python style is inspiring.
And can you imagine how hard that would be in cases like this? Imagine having to take a week reading up on bioengineering and experimenting to be able to moderate one video! The stats would look terrible!

That said, I think only a very small proportion of videos would take that amount of verification, most could be dismissed far more easily.
>If they are willing to remove the app, what's next, disclosing personal information

Both Apple and Google share all requested information in the US, so why is this any different? If Apple or Google should "do better" the change need to be made in the US at first. Pointing fingers while down in the mud doesn't really do any good.
How to add ISSN metadata to a web page
It's not a weird sarcasm, it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp....
That's extremely cool, thanks a bunch for the clarification! I'm working on an NES emulator that runs in the browser, and while it's not fit for purpose yet (lacks save states and recorded-input playback), this might just inspire those features. Seems like it should be a fun weekend project :)
This looks good. Hope it takes off! I'm really rooting for AI to become a bigger part of open-source, instead of being turned into another word for "Corporate Big Data tracking software that takes everything it can, and then sells it".
I tried too and the same thing happened. But it doesn't start until tonight (really the first talk is tomorrow) so maybe that is why?
They stripped assets from the company so "it will be there for us when we get sued" and not distributed to people courts found the company injured.
It's a statistical fact, last time they killed this many was before the war.
It is very uncertain, who has added the word "certain", as quoted statement is just talking about offering:

> users will be offered a choice of applications from Russian developers, which they will be able to choose for further installation on their iPhone or iPad
I don't know about Germany but here in The Netherlands Face ID falls in same ballpark as fingerprint. The police can use reasonable force to have you unlock your device with fingerprint, or with your face.
>> unlike lawyer based government in the West.

Maybe for state-backed projects. That "lawyer-based" government means very strong and predictable rules that protect investments. It starts with property law. People building big things, thing bigger than skyscrapers, want strong ownership rights enforced by a responsive legal system. The west has that. China does not. Protecting fixed assets in placed like China or Egypt means keeping politicians and soldiers on side, most often by giving the government a large ownership stake in the project. That limits innovation. That limits mobility.
From article:

> This would make it possible, for example, for a 256-byte demoscene production to have an interesting and varying audiovisual structure with a strong, inherent synchronization between the effects and the music.

6 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
Ah you are probably a well educated vaccine researcher? Any papers you like to share?

It are you an established doc?

It's great to have independent experts here on hn.

So we don't need to trust those experts who are in the global pandemic circles since beginning.

Tell me more how you were able to conclude your Statements based in how you Google articles from the Internet which align with your world view :)
I’d be willing to risk that liability.
You don't see any benefits to garbage collection at all? Would you even prefer to do your own memory management if you had a magic GC which never paused? I'd be interested in your reasoning if so.
Alternative headline: Researchers do not know that FDE exists.
Here is an article that mentions the threat of jailing employees:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/17/apple-google-delet...

It's all about Navalny's tactic of 'smart voting', where they are picking candidates from parties other than the 'United Russia' party of Putin, in an attempt to bring in members of parliament who would not be in exact alignment with the politics of Putin. These candidates are often not even in open opposition to Putin, and that is currently the worst opposition and nightmare of the Russian government...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Voting
The US government allows Google to operate in Russia (unlike Iran for example). So how can it arbitrarily ’sanction’ employees for complying with the laws of a country their company operates in. Do that sound fair to you? It wouldn’t make any sense.
Governments falling woefully short of Paris climate pledges
Taking on the government isn't the reason most people own guns. There are other much more common reasons such as sport, hunting, self defense, etc. That said, if the armories are only stocked for roughly the population of the military, then there's little chance of arming a significant number of civilians that way. Not to mention the logistics would be a nightmare. The real usefulness of civilians owning weapons in that sort of scenario would be self dense, because the social/legal/etc structure would not be there to protect them. These are things we've seen to a limited degree in areas with violent rioting.
> A backup medium (SSD or whatever) which only allows writes to empty space. Unless a switch is manually switched from "write" to "update".

Why is your backup medium not encrypted?
Needless complexity is a sin. But easy/difficult is an orthogonal axis to simple/complex.
10MB max per image seems extremely low for 2021.
Every police officer should know this, and try to work around it when the situation arises.

My fingerprint reader on my smartphone is so fucked up that if I just quickly move my finger on it, I had to many attempts and its disabled. Then it requires whatever you use else (PIN, password, ...)
NYT and Bloomberg report that threats were real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28563916
It's worth noting that different PDF-to-text tools (and different PDF-display tools that have text-copying) get different results and it can be worth trying a few. For the most part, the vector parts of a PDF and the association with the text is sufficient to discover spacing information.
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NYC should contact a Rat Terrier Club in the area. I believe only a couple of these dogs were bought by and ' employed' by those in charge of the stores of grain in Egypt. ( They had reached the maximum amount of 'poison' that they had been using on the grain.) Within days, they had it cleared out of rats. As the terriers spent their off time with their handlers and families, very soon those neighborhoods were also devoid of rats. As an aside, the dogs were taught not to eat their prey, thus safeguarding them from contracting whatever disease the rats may have been carrying.
Of the crimes where the victim was present, using a gun or another "weapon" led to roughly the same outcome:

> Of over 14,000 incidents in which the victim was present, 127 (0.9%) involved a SDGU. SDGU was more common among males, in rural areas, away from home, against male offenders and against offenders with a gun. After any protective action, 4.2% of victims were injured; after SDGU, 4.1% of victims were injured. In property crimes, 55.9% of victims who took protective action lost property, 38.5 of SDGU victims lost property, and 34.9% of victims who used a weapon other than a gun lost property.

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...

There's nothing magical about guns: seems that using a baseball bat is just as effective and poses fewer risks in other regards. Hence the title: "not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions".
It looks like they finally choose between smart and dumb. It took around 6(?) years, but hopefully this marks another step to actually getting it in JS engines.
I love these articles. At the end there is this bit:

"The Sinclair Scientific came out in 1974 and was the first single-chip scientific calculator (if you ignore the display driver chips). It was stylishly compact, just 3/4 inch thick. It originally sold for the price of $119.95 or £49.95 and by the end of the year was available as a kit for the amazingly low price of £9.95.

Unfortunately, as calculator prices collapsed, so did Sinclair Radionics' profits, and the company was broken up in 1979 after heavy losses."

In a nutshell that is both the genius and the curse of Clive Sinclair, he moved markets with complete disregard for the consequences effectively out-competing himself and the would move on to some other field. I always thought that was the best kind of inventor, the one that doesn't care about milking the cows they field, but that democratizes a field to the point that they themselves become obsolete.

Imagine if he had not shown that you can have < $20 calculators or < $100 computers, that would have had major impact on so many people, their careers and the solutions they built that the world would probably look different today.

More Sir Clive, less Zuckerberg and the like.
Get a CLOO'? App will rent your bathroom to strangers (2011)
WWDC sessions from the 90's and early 2000's
Some things are hard to do outside a PhD or research context. I knew my PhD probably wouldn't "pay off" financially but that wasn't the goal to begin with. It gave me the opportunity to do some great research and work with amazing people, so I'm really happy to have done it. I also did research as part of my Diploma (M.Sc.) thesis, but it's just not comparable to a PhD.
I saw this start during my internship at Red Hat in 2012 :) cool to see it kicking around
I worked for Canada's largest telco and colleagues would regularly print emails they had sent to me and then bring it to my desk asking if I'd seen it... also the newly hired Director of Network had to stop an all-hands meeting to ask what IPv6 was and the final straw for me was being told in a meeting of VPs that a huge push for 2016 would be to get a fax line into every business.
In recent years, there were fewer fires due to fire suppression, which results in catastrophic large fires
Facebook’s new commitments on climate misinformation miss the point
So Texas is also too big a market?
If that. I used to be pretty good at reading them and depending on where you were in the range two would already be quite impressive.
It's worth mentioning IP law is applied on a per-territory basis (i.e. you have to register your IP in every territory you would like it enforced, and that territory's courts are solely responsible for its enforcement in that territory). Many countries government have laws which restrict IP in national security concerns [0], which nuclear reactors may come under. Furthermore, patents require the innovation used is published publicly, which may not be desirable for sensitive technologies like nuclear reactors. Trade secrets and the like are more likely to be used in this particular case.

[0] - https://www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/nat_sec.html
It's region-based, the regions serve a similar purpose to generations but in a more granular fashion.
As a Russian, I agree. Boycott Putin, Lukashenko and other bloody murderers. Otherwise it's just talk.

You can post whataboutism under this comment (e.g. "what about China?", "US is bloody too", "US always supports dictators" and other useful idiot[0] stuff).

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
How long would other western companies continue doing business in Russia if that started happening?
Add an OpenSearch file: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch

Maybe something like:

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xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
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<Description>Marginalia Search - a search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">https://search.marginalia.nu/favicon.ico</Image>
<Url type="text/html" template="https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query={searchTerms}" />
<moz:SearchForm>https://search.marginalia.nu/</moz:SearchForm>
</OpenSearchDescription>

and then add:

<link rel="search"
type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
title="Marginalia"
href="/opensearch.xml" />

to your page's <head>.