skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google experiencing billing notification issue
Getting dozens of emails and push notifications from Google Ads, Cloud, etc. that there is an issue with the payment method stored.

Will update this post once an official message/post is published, but looking at https://twitter.com/search?q=google%20cloud%20billing&src=typed_query&f=live seems pretty widespread.
Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline
All taxes come with an overhead required to process them. I oppose all such arbitrary wealth redistribution as unjust in principle.
We should eat less meat, not none, just.. less.

Like, anyone who tells you "everyone must be a vegetarian" is in my opinion, a fool.

Meat should cost a bit more, and we should feed our meet sources as naturally as possible, cows from grass, pigs from offal (and other sources, pigs will eat anything), and less factory farming of poultry - quite arguably poultry should cost 2-3x more.

Similarly, if folks want to lose weight, the best answer is just to eat less, and I say this as a fat person.
You do realise that the keyboard shortcuts existed before Windows existed? Microsoft introduced ctrl+c/v/x, basing it on cmd-c/v/x in Windows 3.0...
> harvesting zero point energy

Even if that were possible, it's only 6e-10 J/m^3 [1].

Want to keep a 10W LED light on? That's 10 J/s, so you need to extract all dark energy from 17e9 m^3 of space (roughly a cube with a side of 2.5 km) every second.

[1] http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_10/notes41...
Not a fan of that analogy. Walmart can't brick your home thermostat, voice assistant, tv box, cable service, federated logins to Uber, DoorDash, your email account, cloud storage account, and so on.
Being a contrarian fits that description somewhat.
So it just needs subsidies to be economical then.

I suppose this is a bad time to mention that commercial airlines would all have to close down years ago if it wasn't for the tax free fuel they get to use.

If something's useful enough we can make it happen regardless.
The first one is because we have to use native code with our partner for a user hosting a call to create one. After the call is up, any modern browser can be used to join, given the unique link provided by the host.

The second one, I addressed directly for all Brave products that have significant fixed and per-user/usage costs, the other week on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/pl2lgi/comment/...

Quote:

"A free browser is a free lunch, and TANSTAAFL. Brave has sponsored images on by default, we don't pretend to be free by selling default search to Google as Firefox does. Privacy-conscious users know that nothing on the Web, no app or service, is free.

The salient difference about Brave in this context: we put users first and deal them in for >= the revenue we make on any attention-based revenue where we take the gross. This can't be done with search deals: Google, Bing, and others forbid paying users a share of the revenue that the search partner shares with the browser maker. But we aim to do it when ready with self-serve keywords-at-auction private search ads.

Before then, we hope to offer private ads via a partner, but that's not a sure thing. Details if and when we have a deal. That's the free leg of Brave Search. The premium is ad-free search for a small monthly fee (a few dollars, discounted if paid annually).

This is necessary because Brave Search has per-user as well as fixed costs, which we must cover with a reasonable margin. I think users understand this. In all cases, Brave Search remains private: no tracking or use of IP even for short-term query-refinement "sessions". But if users won't pay, we will put private-until-and-unless-clicked ads in the free leg. This freemium model goes for Brave News too."

End Quote

TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (popularized by Robert A. Heinlein).

Hackers here on HN may be able to self-host a Jitsi instance, even build their own browser. Most users cannot. We at Brave aim to provide all users with a truly user-first, privacy-designed+engineered-in-&-on-by-default products to take on Big Tech with its centralized data collection, surveillance based ads, fraud and abuse problems, and monopolistic, user-hostile tendencies.

We know TANSTAAFL is true so we don't pretend to offer a free lunch and we don't track users. We will work to add more "buy out my ad inventory" ease of use, including for Rewards as well as News. Those who can't or won't pay can still use Brave as a fast, tracking/fingerprinting-blocking browser. We aim to get enough of you using Rewards to keep our lights on, and we'll have to work on distribution and promotion of search to get it covering its costs (premium ad-free or free private ads leg, you choose).

I hope this helps explain what we're trying to achieve, and that you'll give us a try.
Plenty of brown rice, soy, nuts, beans etc for people to stop eating meat altogether if they actually needed more protein (they probably don't). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe we should direct funds towards advertising meat-free and the benefits of not consuming carcinogenic meat instead of all of this meat replacement. [1]

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/11/03/repo...
Why Your Car Remote Works from Farther Away If You Hold It to Your Head
just like now, the car does cross the bus lane. in some places, the bus lane is used by cars as a right turn lane, or if there's a dedicated right turn lane, the bike lane is routed around it, and the cars still merge into it across the bus lane, while yielding to bikes (and buses) as need be.
hmm, this sounds like this could create a lot of jobs though.
My first thought is that will be great for repair shops sourcing donor boards.
Free and open-source software is driving physics forwards
> This shouldn’t be true

Performance isn't about what you believe should be true, but about what actually is true. Kinda like science. (versus religion)

> ObjC’s only innate advantage is compile time

Objective-C has a bunch of advantages. Compile time isn't really one of them, except when compared to Swift, which is ridiculously slow to compile.

And there are languages with very comparable feature sets to Swift that are way faster to compile.

> At runtime Swift can utilize static dispatch

"can"

> where objective C is mostly dynamic.

Not true. The C part of Objective-C (it is most of the actual language) is very static.

Also, Swift has some pretty amazing dynamic performance pitfalls. For example protocols. You see, protocols in Swift can be adopted by both structs and classes. Meaning that when you call a function via a protocol, the compiler doesn't even know the size of the arguments or how to access them or copy them into the function's scope. So even that has to be handled by a small vtable, and you haven't actually done anything with that argument yet!

As this is one of the many places where Swift can lose a cool few orders of magnitude of performance, you obviously need the optimiser to specialise the function for specific callers. Which it can do, sometimes, at some cost, as long as it can actually see the caller and callee at the same time, in the same compilation unit.

IIRC, Uber had an OOPSLA paper describing the extra compiler pass they had to write to get their app's performance to at least somewhat acceptable levels, because the existing optimiser wasn't good enough.

And when you want to do separate compilation, you're sort of hosed, because you don't have access to the caller when you compile the callee.

> Good swift code should generally be faster.

That turns out not to be the case.
I remember when the creator of Swift joined google and there was a lot of noise about Swift and Tensorflow. i told people while it seemed like a nice idea, it was never going to replace Python/C++. Eventually Lattner lost interest and the project died.
Thank you! It was impossible to find anything on Google since any variant of "youtube", "latency" etc showed results for problems with YouTube or actual YouTube videos talking about latency.

The trick was to use HN search: "youtube latency" and select Comments. First result was a comment on https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/my_favorite_paradox/ which links the story in the "Bonus!" section.
You already stated it yourself: He has lost $125, until he sells. That is an average negative.

Money in: $50+$75+$100+$125

Money out: $50+$75+$100-3*fees

You can continue this chain indefinitely, and the missing final term will get smaller and smaller in relation to the total. The limit of (money out - money in) / transactions goes to simply minus the average cost of the fees. So, a net negative.
All things in moderation!

As others on here have said, I think social media use has various benefits - I've discovered lots of interesting papers and researchers on Twitter, come across life updates on FB, scroll through cool photos on Instagram. Yes it can be bad, so like many other things that can be bad, it's a matter of using it mindfully. This binary use/don't use mentality seems rather simplistic to me.
What are the hacks? I use a Pi-KVM and the latency is painful.
I think the thing to keep in mind is that this is very specific to the concept of growing meat using a cellular culture. This in no way invalidates other methods of replicating meat.
We've been hearing that line for the last 50 years. Bacon and eggs cause/cure cancer depending on the week of the year. Meat remains one of the healthiest and most nutritious things you can eat, the problem is a wild west of cancerous additives and unrestrained processed foods in countries like USA.
In which world is MacOS window management good? It's comically bad. The splittscreen feature alone is a bad joke
I'm a fan of the carnivore diet, and I hate this push for "fake meat" with a passion. Corporations are ruining the quality of meat (hormones, feed composed of "non-foods" like corn, soy, and other proinflammatory nonsense, poor treatment, destroying land quality unsustainably); and then other faceless corporations are taking advantage of this, starting a highly aggressive marketing campaign against meat and in favor of their future products, with the obvious goal of banning real meat altogether one day, preventing one from raising animals themselves, solidifying this false dichotomy between corporate fake-meat and corporate "real"-meat. With the current push, all across Europe, to ban perfectly good cars from being driven, it's obvious that the "moral emergency" of climate change will inevitably lead to governments feeling entitled to tell us we can't eat foods we evolved on, and have eaten for hundreds of millenia. Hard to think of something more dystopian. To be hurriedly replaced with unproven, non-Lindy, lab meat with zero long-term health studies, or other vegan foods (which, in today's worls, sadly isn't taken by most people to mean healthy vegetables, but mostly sugar-laden monstrosities; corporations love sugar, and sugar is a plant!)

Current vegans might rejoice, but all the ex-vegans and other dieters who switched to keto or carnivore and experienced immediate and (sometimes) lifechanging health benefits will be very, very angry at this prospect.
You can do cattle ranching in a regenerative way that would be better than doing nothing and making a place a national park. [0] Are there problems with current chicken, pig and some ruminant ranching? Yes. Does it have to be done this way? No. Are there major environmental issues also with monoculture plant farming that nobody seems to bring up? Yes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI&t=1s

Getting rid of ruminant cattle farming will just make the world worse off as food demand gets redirected to a smaller amount of arable land and missing cattle would accelerate climate change and desertification. Humanity does not have a lack of land to live on, there is plenty to go around. City land is expensive because everyone wants to be on small space.
You analogized it to smoking - there is no safe amount of smoking, it will kill you, sooner, and more unpleasantly.

You can consume meat safely, consuming only meat is bad for you in the long run, but a balanced diet is good. Broadly, we need to eat less meat, our meat consumption needs to look like it did 80 years ago, not like it does now.
I guess I wasn't clear. We were happy with Rust from almost day 1. After five years, we're still happy.
It isn't? It seems to me like it is. We have groups of people discussing issues in these online forums. Isn't that social media? And although we don't seem to have "clout mechanics" for users, we do have the upvote/downvote mechanics for posts and comment count per post. Admittedly I quickly scan all posts for these numbers to help me decide where to click.

So it seems like what can make social media a positive or a negative in a person's life is pretty complex. What each person brings to their interactions with the media varies a lot and the ways mechanics are used in the different sites and apps vary a lot.

So it seems like a lot social is going on here on this site. The social group here is responsible for all of the content, I think? Right? It wouldn't be the same if it were posts selected by an elite group and we were just allowed to comment on them.

So I think the article's suggestion to "quit social media" is too simplistic and lacks the nuance it would need to be helpful advice.
can confirm, monthly mortgage payment + taxes is about twice the monthly rent on similar property in HCOL US cities
> Mark my words: if elixir takes off, someday someone is going to write the equivalent of how gamedevs solve this problem: client side logic to extrapolate instantaneous changes + server side rollback if the client gets out of sync.

most games have the benefit that they're modeling the mechanics of physical objects moving around in the world and are having their users express their intentions through spatial movement. the first gives a pretty healthy prior in terms of modeling movement when data drops out and the latter can be fairly repetitive and thereby learnable and predictable.

whether or not user interaction behaviors can be learned within the context of driving web applications seems a little less clear, to me at least. it does seem like there are a lot more degrees of freedom.
> It's only recently that the project has been paying off via community funding/patronage.

Another way it is like a PhD - a ton of up-front work for an uncertain payoff, largely dependent on the whim of others.
Someone else already mentioned this in a separate thread, but Pragmatic Studio's courses on Elixir and LiveView are outstanding. They're not free but they're worth the cost. You can get both for around $200 if you buy their Pro Bundle.

https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/elixir
What do you mean by "hollow path forward"?

Sourcing it from environmentally responsible sources might work in your case but isn't feasible on a large scale required for mass consumption.

And all that obviously doesn't take the animal cruelty aspect of it into account.
My question may sound silly here. What’s the advantage of an isolated-vm over async function with graceful error handling/time out?
Each time I read about this I'm a bit underwhelmed by the number of arrests. Tens of thousands of users, presumably almost all of them criminals, and only 600 arrests? That's a very leaky sieve.
> Getting China to stop coal would be more effective than getting the USA to stop beef.

Fighting climate change is not a game of "what would be more effective" and ranking solutions (especially in between countries), it's a game of "what are ALL the things we can realistically do". Both _must_ be done.
Apple bans Fortnite from App Store indefinitely
Manatee farms when?
You're probably right. The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe and they just didn't want even the possible miscommunication to be displayed.
This is just badly written announcement, which doesn’t answer basic questions:

1) How is JupyterLab App different from the JupyterLab? Is it just the same thing packaged in the electron app?

2) It comes with it’s own conda environment. But can it ran in my conda environment? Which is pretty much a requirement for any serious project.
> So educate me: since Gemini has limited formatting and is text-only, why can't a screen reader just read you the text?

In practice there's a lot of stuff that isn't just plain text. Things like embedded Figlet images for one. And languages for the other; UTF-8 makes it trivial to switch languages, but how do you get the screen reader to change which language it's reading? That's usually the problem. Plain-text fans, like CLI fans, often claim it's easy to wrap things or display things in other formats, but in practice, only other techie workflows actually become well supported. That's also why most Geminauts are techies.
That doesn't change the question though. It just changes who it's posed to.
Technical minded people might want to skip the popular article and go straight to the Open Philanthropy analysis: https://engrxiv.org/795su

The punchline: muscle cells are much more fragile than yeast, don't grow as fast, and need more expensive feedstocks. The bioreactors have to be smaller and run much longer, making them vulnerable to bacterial contamination. You'll never get to the price of commercially produced bulk yeast, because muscle isn't yeast.

You could imagine tweaking the temp range and growth rate with genetic engineering or adding in an immune system. But now you're talking about decades of investment, not years.
That may have just been cleanup on unpaid slack-chamnels. They don't keep the stuff on free tiers forever.

Edit: it's not this ^^^
> some [healthcare ministries] are scams. That goes for pretty much any service out there.

Not really? Which of the highly regulated healthcare insurers do you feel are scams?
> But I can't do that if I want to do gradual typing. If I type a function, but the type system cannot figure out what's going to call it, that's when I want it to perform a check: at the boundary.

Unless you start using # type: ignore - the only way to interface with untyped code will be to use asserts or other checks (if + throw), i.e. perform checks at the boundary.
It should work. I have one outputting digital to my hi-fi via TOSLINK.
Nope, sure won't. Typical clickbait headline. Not to mention, how clean does it need to be kept to stay reflective, how much will it cost, how easy to apply, etc. Yet another lab result that may or may not have practical application.
> so that you can handle things like BIOS configuration fully remotely.

Yeah, the important distinction here is that these devices somewhat fulfill the role of a standalone IPMI[1] device. IPMI is typically built into server motherboard (SuperMicro) which allows an administrator to reboot a machine or configure BIOS over a network. Your typical KVM does not feature this.

However, where these lack is that they still require a video card. IPMI built into a motherboard can run on an entirely headless system.

There are also commercial versions of this, such as the Lantronix Spider KVM over IP[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen...

[2] https://www.lantronix.com/products/lantronix-spider/
We should eat less meat, not none, just.. less.

Like, anyone who tells you "everyone must be a vegetarian" is in my opinion, a fool.

Meat should cost a bit more, and we should feed our meet sources as naturally as possible, cows from grass, pigs from offal (and other sources, pigs will eat anything), and end factory farming of poultry - quite arguably poultry should cost 2-3x more.

Similarly, if folks want to lose weight, the best answer is just to eat less, and I say this as a fat person.
Lithuania let Taiwan call its interests section an embassy or something and China is pissed so they were probably expecting blowback
The Status Game: Male, Grandiose, Humiliated
The global food market is worth trillions of dollars. People in many countries eat insects. It doesn't have to start with people in the US who have never really given serious consideration to it.

I've traveled a lot and seen how people's perceptions of foods change when they are exposed to new things. I don't think edible insects is a huge stretch if it were done in the right way.
Lithuanian Defense Ministry says Xiaomi phones shouldn’t be trusted
Certainly one of the most important shared attributes between getting a math PhD and working on the same game for 15 years is the stick-to-it-ness required.
Google is f'ed up with bots.
I don’t think it’s a matter of blocking, they’re just filtered by default. You can edit the filter list though so those files are backed up, and that’s what I do.
To be frank, I think the most parsimonious theory for why these trades involve so much violence is because we've made them black markets and forced the entities that successfully operate in those trades to be equipped to contend with increasingly military-like police forces, as well as incentivized to be secretive in their dealings, removing the reputational and regulatory pressures that many other industries are subject to, and giving them reason to harm people more often

But even if criminalization isn't creating these problems, it certainly is doing nothing to solve them, and making it harder for anyone who's found themselves involved in these activities to seek out help from more above-board sources (Including the police themselves, but also for example medical practitioners, who might report them to the police)

And of course this all leaves aside the philosophical objection I have to hunting people down and putting them in cages, not because they've harmed people, but because we think maybe something else they're doing is associated with that harmful behavior in many instances. This is just not something I can get behind

But at the end of the day, all of this pales in comparison to the systemic consequences of creating a powerful police state that has license to surveil and invade people's homes, confiscate their property, or even gun them down because of suspicion about contraband. This social cost is more than I would pay for murder investigations, let alone controlling what substances people can ingest or what motivations they have for their sex lives
Oh I like this very much. The previous idea I read about was a crawler that had essentially a giant microwave antenna pointed down that would "pave" where it drove by melting regolith under the antenna and then letting is cool.

Of course that required landing the paver near where you wanted your payload to land, and then it had to finish before you lander came in. This is, I suspect, the "$120M" solution they alluded to on that web page.
IIRC the last time Apple was forced to switch to USB in Europe they just included an adaptor in the box.

Ironically, as I understand it, Apple was a major contributor to, and advocate for, USB C in the first place! If USB C (especially USB C + Thunderbolt) had existed at the time then Lightning probably wouldn't exist.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple already had plans to migrate its entire product line to USB C by 2024.

Be that as it may, I have a lot of lightning cables and I like being able to charge my AirPods/trackpad/keyboard/iPhone with them. The automatic bluetooth pairing, which I assume is a software feature (PS5 and Switch also have it with USB C) is also something that every device should have.