skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contrast in that article is very much what I mean. Kids are not using files and folders today, they don't understand what is going on under the hood the way many of the previous generation did because they have never had to. But when it comes to navigating Insta, grandpa had better take a seat and watch the experts.

There has definitely been a loss of capability and effectiveness in one sense (and that is a very serious concern, just not the one I'm talking about here) but in another sense the kids are very naturally navigating things like social networks and phone apps in a way many of their elders find similarly unintuitive. I think Big Tech challenges the assumptions modern kids make about how their devices should work at its peril.
> The example on web.dev is a chat app that would automatically set an active/away status: seems useful!

That's exactly how Google uses it. They will make an interesting feature, that absolutely require this to be enabled.

It's similar to how to get list of recently watched YouTube video on your phone you need to give permission to Google to log your history, because it's impossible, of course, to store that locally on your phone.
> The Times, etc. charge for access, are happy to sign you up via web form, but then force you to call them if you want to cancel.

Check your state and local laws. It is illegal in California. If they have the means to provide signing up for service via online, they are required to provides the same way for cancellation under California law.

Change your address to California and you should see a section to cancel your subscription.
So you cite a sample of N=1 and then claim than anything else must be from within a bubble? Interesting.
Facebook recommends spending your way through its measurement problems
DeleteInstacart: A Message from Instacart Workers
Every job board is a free speech job board. Maybe what you’re looking for is a no consequences job board.
Survey of 1000 children aged 5-16 reveals 8% are vegan, 13% vegetarian
It doesn't presume anything of the sort. The dependent intellectual property is still intellectual property and would be subject to the exact same considerations. (Per the proposal: If copyright, code for that dependent IP would need to be registered with a source code depository or be subject to forfeiture of said copyright in a court of law; if patented the code would need to be open source and maybe even copyleft to begin with.) The public may need to play whack-a-mole to access the full source code of larger projects, bring dependents and then their dependents and so on to court until the entire thing is open source, but that's still a better deal than the current situation where the public domain is owed nothing ever.

(ETA: And "incompatibility between legal regimes" is mostly moot due to the Berne Convention anyway, at least per my lay understanding of it. That said, the proposal is entirely hypothetical and no such legislation would likely pass in any country so worry about international complications is mostly cart-before-the-horse.)
I had trouble that for one of my addresses forwarding to my gmail account systematically all of them got sent to spam, even if it's literally a reply to a message that I sent from gmail and repeatedly set "not spam" at it. In the end the only thing that worked was to add an explicit filtering rule saying "never send to spam" for that address.
He could have protected himself by making his shares the same voting rights as common class and not selling them, signalling his loyalty to shareholders. It should be illegal to issue shares to public with lower voting rights in my view. Our world would be a different place if google/facebook had only one type of voting class and I dont think what I view is strictly political.
Hats off to the lispers, they do some cool stuff. I think treating code as data they just have a different view of what computation means to the rest of us (or to me at least!)
Sony? Who promise only 2 years of security updates on their 1300€ phones, which turns out to be only 1.5 years after their usual delay to HW availability, and for most of their better phones they never provide any open source support? Nope...
Project Foghorn was technically successful but couldn't hit the economics. The tech lead on that project is now a scientific advisor for Prometheus - Matt Eisaman
This is why I still use the console model with my gaming PC. It is exclusively for games without exception. I would have it boot directly into steam if I could get steam to boot other games like from Battle Net without so much work.
"Why?"

Why not?

"If the alternative is garbled text, is that what you choose?"

No. The alternative is not garbled text and thats not what I choose.

The alternative for me is a subset of ASCII. I choose what characters I will accept, delete the rest.

For example, something like

tr -cd '[\12\40-\176]'

This has worked for me for several decades. Nor am I the only one who uses this approach. I once saw an HN commenter say their favourite regex was

tr -cd '[ -~]'
Whatever else, I can guarantee you that they are not doing it on purpose in order to make it harder to repair them. They have just been prioritizing thinness.

> or if you're paying them that much to replace the entire top case assembly

The link says that "previous" MBAs had replacable batteries, and I know that 2012-2014 had it, so I don't think it was ever the case.

> For comparison, the previous-generation MacBook Air has a screwed-down battery that can be removed and replaced by Apple and its service providers without a top case replacement, in line with other non-Retina notebooks.
"Shareholders" doesn't mean much here.

Facebook has Class A shares that each get one vote.

Facebook has Class B shares that each get ten votes.

The board has Class B shares.

The Zuckerbergs control most of the Class B shares.

Enough to have a majority of the votes.

That's what owners of Class A shares bought into when they bought their Class A shares.

If the article didn't ignore this, it would be a lot less interesting. So it does.
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These emails often include an attachment with an HTML file. My guess is depending on your client, it might just open a new browser window with the file (after it’s downloaded)
At this point, I'm pretty sure any "human" pattern machines can find, other machines can fake. Simulating how a human would move a cursor towards a position definitely seems like something deep learning could approximate for cheap.

Naive aimbots will still have some artifacts (eg jumping to a new target as soon as the current one is occluded), but making an undetectable aimbot really doesn't seem hard, given the incentives involved.
That usecase could just as easily be solved through this novel concept called "manual override".
Yeah the tech seems feasible but I'm skeptical of controlling capital costs when you need carbon nanotubes membranes as a core piece.

Air capture is also quite expensive and I'm not sure how much the "only need small concentrations of CO2" trick does.
No, the language does not have self reflection, it is a domain specific language that is not even Turing complete. However Catala programs could be compiled to deep or shallow embeddings inside other programming languages, including inside theorem provers interactive (Coq, F*, Agda, etc.) or automatic (SMT solvers, abstract interpreters). You would then be able to reason about your Catala programs inside these external provers.
My sister's thinking of moving out of the state after living there for 18 years.

The actual nail-in-the-coffin for her is the school board situation, although she's pretty furious about the abortion law, the way they've handled COVID, the power utility situation, etc.

For most of the last couple decades you could be liberal in most of the big cities and basically just go about your business. Texas was pretty big on "live and let live", after all. Apparently it's not like that anymore, and the more conservative factions are very in-your-face about owning the libs now.
I don't really care about Apple store ? Like I don't care about Play Store - both have limitations I don't like. Android is more lax about permitting custom software installed on the phone but Google strongarms OEMs to prevent any competing stores.

There's good money in maintaining appstores I'm certain someone will do it better than Apple and Google, I would very much welcome Steam mobile for example.
The state legislature can craft all the laws they want and businesses can decide they don't want to associate with those states in order to protect their employees. Actions have consequences.
It is in an attached file. In my case the file is named

"Profitability 28388 .htm"
> its actually quite great that some states are willing to be guinea pigs and their citizenry are willing to go with different riskier strategies and experiments.

I mean technocracy is great an all... but I'd prefer to not be a participant in a huge uncontrolled experiment. Usually when you do experiments on humans you get their consent first. It's usually quite a process to go through.

Doing experiments on humans when those experiments can straight lead people to losing their livelihoods, their jobs, their families, their mental health, their lives.... pretty fucking evil. Not sure that would pass any university's review board at all. In saner times, it would probably get investigated by some UN agency for human rights violations but hey... who cares about all that when it's a global pandemic, right? Inalienable human rights are just a formality, right?

So yeah, I really don't consent to participating in this experiment. How do I opt out?
If this were modeled as a control loop with a external plant model it would be perfectly consistent with trying to extinguish the spread of covid.

Other points of interest:

R value eat at or higher than one increase anti-spread measures

R value a little less than one - hold current social measures

R value much smaller than 1 consider relaxing measures

However we should also analyze That just about at every turn many places are relaxing too bringing numbers back up and re-stressing icus.
I work in one of the FAANG. Every thread on HN about one of these companies has a sub thread that reads something like this. Asking genuinely, where is the line?

I now work at FAANG, but even before that I used products/services from FAANG for email/online shopping/grocery shopping/staying in touch with family and friends/electronic devices etc etc. I am not sure if anyone can completely exclude themselves from using all product/services from FAANG. I worked at a small startup before, but as a company we used tech/OSS from FAANG, used their products/services e.g. email/ cloud services etc. Even if I am not a customer, I always held FAANG stock and benefited from them in my retirement account (indirectly via index funds). So honestly, I am curious, where is the line?
Although the preferred stock holders get paid before Zuck and co.
IMF report suggests credit scores could soon be based on web browsing history
It's time for guillotines, or to make it more American, "Freedom Choppers."

Things have gone too far, by all appearances, for the self corrective constitutional mechanisms to repair the situation.

Otherwise, welcome to the new normal. Enjoy your cake.
I have exactly the opposite problem: tons of legitimate email is getting flagged as Spam by GMail.

It's now happening regularly with emails from people in my contacts with whom I regularly exchange messages.

Mind-boggling. I know spam filtering is a hard problem, but these are just obvious misses.
It's not our job to question it? If you are a citizen of the US and this law is going through the federal court system and potentially setting precedent for the entire country - it absolutely matters. And we should question it. We should also question it because it's impacting the lives of people. Texas's local government is poorly run by people like Ken Paxton who is under indictment and also tried to assist Trump in stealing the US election. This impacts all Americans (and the world given the outsize influence of the US on global politics).

Saying Apple does bad things elsewhere doesn't make this a non issue. People criticize Apple for these issues and rightly so. Apple criticizing Texas over these issues doesn't change the reality about the issues in Texas.

Apple and everyone else should be criticizing Texas.
Thank you. please don’t try and right click to steal the source though
.. and this is why I have different email addresses for shopping.
I was getting multiple emails like this per day a couple of weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/m8nmpTr.png

But they seem to have stopped... for now. It was quite aggravating.
Yes. After literally years of never having to worry about gmail spam, really obvious stuff has been coming in for the last few months.
When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?
it's weird because as yet there is no medical procedure that allows anyone but a woman to be in the potential position of getting an abortion.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1440856486280785922.html
Unfortunately big changes are ahead of us (or our kids) no matter what we attempt to do to keep things from changing, including moving the moon. We better stop lying to ourselves and at least face the music. However, not all of these changes are bad though.
Yep, got one 3 days ago that matches your description perfectly. Russian sender name, HTML attachment about Elon/Bitcoin, etc.

Maybe these emails are coming from real users that got hacked? That's probably the easiest way to get past the filter.
One cent per gallon less than the fossil jet fuel spot price - in California (we will use LCFS credits to start)
I don’t know why Thanos went through the trouble of getting all those Infinity Stones. What he really needed to do was promote healthcare and education. A Thanos and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would’ve had much better results IMO.
Yep, got them for a few days last month, then they got caught properly
Not really a new issue. I have an old Gmail account that I don't use as my primary email anymore. However since it's still attached to some services that use Google SSO I have reason to check it occassionally. The amount of spam that makes its way pass the Gmail filter is on the order of hundreds of emails a week. Fastmail on the other hand seem to do a lot better, generally only 1-2 spam making its way to my inbox a day, and never any legitimate mail marked as spam in the several years I've used them. Even Outlook (which I use at work) seems to do a lot better although it sends legitimate emails to my spam folder more than I'd like. YMMV.
I don't know if this was directed at me, but I'm not saying it isn't easier and cheaper to replace a Framework battery. My point is that almost nobody cares. You replace your battery at most once, after like 4 years. 100 dollars every 4 years is insignificant for almost all laptop owners.
Because they can get people to install rootkits on their PCs and offload the computational burden on to them instead of paying $$$ to detect these themselves?
Op here, thanks for that! I sometimes type on the MacBook keyboard and it helps to have an identical layout and feel.
Just seeing all the stories here about ergonomic hacks is awesome!
This is very cool but I wonder how effective it is. I suspect Google can trivially discard the activity it generates?
I mean, you are assuming if he is deposed then he will go to prison, whereas we don't actually know what consequences will really occur because you are talking about situation that did not happen (counterfactual to reality).
Do you mean one side is trying to extend rights to more people and one side is trying to take them away from those people (often with threats of violence)?
giving the users explicit control over where their messages are sent is a good idea.

being spied on supposedly so the system can decide where to send you messages is a bad idea.
I've been getting email-to-sms texts at odd hours from gmail addresses for a while now.

We get tons and tons of gmail spam inbound to our non-gmail email server - every single day for years.

If I complain to Google we get more, its uncanny.

Seriously, fuck Gmail. Gmail can die in fire. Biggest spam service on the internet.
The SoC vendors are doing this on purpose, in order to increase sales. Planned obsolescence. They will not change that without significant pressure.
Why? You can easily tell if someone is paying attention if they are talking in person.
This seems really selfish to me, I personally find it one of the best modern chat features. Then again, I grew up with it and have learned to be zen about several minutes of typing... followed by "k"
The article is vague (no link to docs, no formula, no block diagram), but it seems to say the fundamental process still runs via a pre-shared-secret. That is secret you're trying to secure, and one that AWS knows.

However, that secret is no longer used for the signing. Instead it's combined with a date and service-description to generate a public-private keypair, which is itself not secret (both AWS and you can derive this if you know the algorithm). Your requests are now signed with this private key (client side) and can be verified by the services with the public key (server side).

AWS still knows your secret, but it keeps it in a more secured location verses out on the farms. The farms would need a way to request your public key for the day from the secured location, so they can verify the sender. But, the farms no longer have access to your secret key, so cannot sign other requests masquerading as you.
I find myself wavering back and forth. Great fiction? Give me a big cinderblock of a book please. Full of world building and chapters dedicated to a single thread of thought going through a character's mind. Even to the point of sometimes when reading short fiction novels getting anxious towards the end, just knowing the ride is almost over.

Non-fiction/fact-based/instructional books I flip-flop hard between enjoying a brief enchiridion on leadership and management styles one moment while cradling a tome of a physics text book the next.

Such indecisiveness heh.
Ask HN: The St. Petersburg paradox and optimising the geometric mean
I recently asked myself whether the argument behind the Kelly criterion - that optimising the geometric rather than the arithmetic mean is more appropriate for repeated bets - can be applied to the St. Petersburg paradox.

Assuming one only has enough money to pay for one round of St. Petersburg with a fee $X, the highest price one should be willing to pay would then be the highest $X still giving a > 1 geometric mean:

(2/X)^0.5 * (4/X)^0.25 * (8/X)^0.125 * (16/X)^0.0625 * ...

Resulting in a max fee of $4. Now if one had enough money to play two rounds one can again take the probabilities for the possible outcomes ($2+$2, $2+$4, $2+$8, $4+$4, etc.) and calculate the geometric mean. The same applies for any number of rounds, one just needs to swap the geometric distribution with a negative binomial distribution, giving a different max fee $X depending on the money available to one.

Of course, when playing sequentially, the money paid out by the game can be used to fund more rounds, but this should only prolong the times one can play before going bankrupt by a constant factor, leaving the argument intact.

Any thoughts on this?
> Is there a benefit to companies all using the exact same web service request signature scheme?

Well, there's some things to consider.

First, Amazon AWS is a very rich target. It hosts a very large quantity of services that would be ripe for exploitation. I'm sure attackers would love to find holes in the AWS mechanism.

Second, because of number 1, I'm sure the AWS services are not only a prime target for attack, but also actively being attacked. By both nefarious black hat ne'er do wells, to state level agencies. I would fully expect US, Russian, Chinese and other state intelligence agencies to be very interested in an exploit of something as ripe as the AWS system.

Third, Amazon has the motivation, due to number 1, to keep on top of and ensure that its technique is sound and robust. Not only that, it has the resources to do it.

Four, the technique is open, and documented, and available to all. No skullduggery is required at an algorithm level to analyze it and understand it. Thesis seeking white hat PhD students can have at it and advance the field.

So, if there were to be "one algorithm", Amazon and AWS have the experience and know how to hold theirs up high on a pedestal labeled "You could do a lot worse".
why just new ones? delist the old ones.
> As far as "it has always existed", I don't think that's true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

> Like any kind of social ill, if you rewind far enough you can find a time when it was common, but at least in my lifetime it was never normal or valued.

Keep in mind social media has drastically amplified the attention we point on cancel culture. Both the "cancelling" itself but as well as people talking about it. Perhaps that has also increased the amount of events happening, but it doesn't mean it hasn't existed (see Boycotting above).

> Like everything, opposition to cancel culture is political for a sufficiently broad definition of "political".

You have to be able to define what cancel culture is first. As my little story pointed out, there is nothing I can do as a business to recourse clients not buying my product as a result of an employee getting "canceled".

> Maybe the more interesting question is whether it's partisan

Maybe, but trying to assign a political party to the use of its weaponry you're only further creating a divide and therefore creating partisan. In other words, if you conclude that the left/right they're using cancel culture they'll only dig their heals in more and project that the opposite side is weaponizing it.

> Similarly, there are folks on all sides who oppose cancel culture.

Ultimately the fact that there isn't a commonly accepted definition regardless of political affiliation is what holds us back from either eliminating it or accepting it as simply free market principles.
I agree. And I say this as someone who lives in a house with two iPad Pros, air pods (three pairs)/pro (two pairs) /max (two pairs), home pod, home pod mini, iMac, and two MacBook pros..I’m a big fan of Apple products. But I’m more than happy to talk about all the stuff they do that I don’t like and the lock in which seems to get worse each year…it’s so crazy to me when people make their favorite products/brands/politicians part of their identity when truthfully most of these entities see you as nothing except something from which to extract value.
Methamphetamine-involved overdose deaths nearly tripled between 2015 to 2019
One benefit with mechanical keys though is that there's a massive variety of types, so you can easily find something that works for you. You can get short-travel (i.e. Kailh speed series), soft bottom-outs via something like the Boba series or by using o-rings, high resistance or low resistance with varying spring weights, tactile vs clicky vs linear for feedback.

With a membrane keyboard you have zero choice beyond moving from one brand/model of keyboard to another, but with a hot-swappable keyboard you can try multiple switches until you find one that suits you and doesn't aggravate any existing RSI or trigger new forms of RSI.