skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeh, I can imagine that feature spiralling in complexity (up to pre-checking server-side if they provide CSP/Frame headers, then outright download and proxy the page :P )

Yeh, I could maybe image a 'p' button that would show a preview, that would just be hit-and-miss... I wonder what percentage of submissions on hacker news actively disallow iframes... like actual blog posts and not things like 'new apple product' from Apple's website :wondering:
Is the "Merges" section true? In factorio, since belts have two lanes, a T-intersection merge like the one pictured doesn't zipper; instead, the left belt feeds onto the left lane of the central belt and the right belt feeds onto the right lane. If the central belt already contains an object, that object has "right of way" over merging objects.
Yeah no one outside of Google does including the developers who got banned, that's kinda the whole problem...
No. It is cancerous, because it erodes our privacy and degrades our user experience.

And for developers, you are forced to enter the spy-on-your-users rat race because everyone expects free shit.
Shorter Cummings: "we need a better grade of fascist dictator for 2024"
I'm curious how extensively you use automated tests in dynamically-typed languages? I find that the types in statically-typed languages, especially OCaml, take up a lot of the load of tests.

Of course, types can prove things tests can't, and especially the linear types you're using in Austral.

I've been wondering what a "tiny Rust" would look like, so Austral looks pretty interesting.
Reddit is like the #4 site in the USA. Can get pretty targeted too.
First lines of the article

"[...] mid-1990s [...]. Now it is coming to the end of its functional life and the old turbines are set to be replaced by more powerful machines. "
Very handwavy most of these stories seem to revolve around Google tying ad accounts and play store accounts, and having a VERY EXTREMELY heavy hand on ad accounts, which results in the banhammer smashing distantly related play store accounts.

The safest way to handle this is probably to not use both google play store and google ads. Going to be pretty hard to make an app without Play Store so I guess that means no using Google Ads. Too dangerous and Google will not support.

If you used, say, Facebook "audience network" ads, then no matter how angry Facebook gets, regardless if they're correct or not, at least your app would remain up.

Also if you're launching a startup you're probably not making much from ads and as using google ads is a HUGE existential risk for any app developer, you'd best not use ads. Its not like any end user ever used a startup's app because they like how well they implemented the ads.
Not looking to defend Google, but the API 30 target has been there for almost two years and they've asked for people to migrate ASAP.

Mostly because their new file handling APIs are honestly the biggest load of dogshit I'v ever seen.
A snake, you see,
Has no legs to flee.
When frightened
He does not dither,
He slithers.

(high school poet me, neither lovely nor deep, but I can't help myself)
> Can you explain where the veiled racism is in that?

Sure. It implies his success is because of his race. It also implies his bad behavior is because of his race. Both of these statements ignore his agency and individuality, and suggest white people are, as a group, poorly behaved and undeserving of the success they work for.

Attributing negative stereotypes to people based on group characteristics is bigotry, and doing so based on race is racism.

Imagine it were attributing his succeed to being jewish, or his bad behavior to being black. It should be pretty obvious that those would be socially unacceptable. The fact that it's currently popular among some groups to hate white people doesn't make it any less racist.
If this hasn't changed, Amazon combines the inventory of different sellers. Even if you buy from a particular seller, you may get something from a different seller that may be a knockoff.
This isn't a one-day implementation.
With alternative app stores, you have to approve every single app update, ehich is way inferior to play store.
> Effective October 1, 2021, the Postal Service™ will stop selling international postal money orders destined to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, as well as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. A customer who wishes to purchase an international postal money order destined for these countries must do so before October 1, 2021.

I know there's a lot of talk in this thread about commercial flight disruptions and supply chains, but what's up with this? That's almost the entire non-US Caribbean that you can't send money to through USPS.
You took ibogaine, a drug known to be cardiotoxic. You are a former heroin addict that is projecting your inability to use medicine responsibly onto other folks with medical conditions.

You talk about a high despite me never mentioning getting high, only the pain relieving effects. I could care less about a high. I use Kratom medicinally to help me live a better life.

I am sorry you took pain relieving agents and misused them. I'm sorry you thought street drugs like heroin were suitable quality and safe. I'm sorry for the pain you endured when withdrawing from these drugs. Now, I'm sorry you are projecting all of this on responsible users of much safer therapeutic agents.
Simpler to build, and even simpler to overbill for them. Is insane to charge over 1000$ for some replacement logic board.
You claim a fusion scientist would not tell you a bald-faced lie to your face, and yet that's pretty much what Bernard Bigot did in that congressional hearing shown in the video. If it becomes a norm for scientists to discard or shade the truth in this way, then the public should become skeptical and stop listening to them.

Fortunately, despite what's going on with fusion, I think most scientists are forthright and don't believe that the ends justify the means as you apparently do.
From the article: "I have five Alexa-compatible smart speakers positioned in different parts of the house, so I have full coverage to deal with home automation issues. I also have a Google Home in the kitchen, plus multiple Siri-enabled mobile devices (Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV). And of course, I have webcams for doing Zoom calls and the like on my Mac workstation and on my iPad and iPhone — all of which aren't on unless I want them to be, presumably."

Um.
Whether plants feel pain or not doesn't impact our responsibility to reduce the suffering of animals we can naturally better empathize with.

Plants lack pain receptors and the nervous systems to process pain signals. Whatever their "experience", it's safe to assume it is so alien to us as to be incomprehensible. In that case, it's very unlikely any of the concepts we use to describe our lived experiences (ie suffering) would apply to a plant whatsoever. The correlate is trying to imagine what photosynthesizing feels like.

I can viscerally imagine what a bird feels when its beak is cauterized.
At the root is the question: "Do we make it more complex" or "Do we do try it 3 times".

The carmakers have been making the wrong call for the past decades.

One of their suppliers has eclipsed their impact on society, marking one of the first times in something like ~70 years that things didn't bend over to meet their needs.

----

And before you ask. Yes i would rather have a pace-maker with triple redundancy and thrice redesigned.
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> i doubt that we fully understand the implications of a part of those who survive COVID having certain long term complications and the impact of this on the workforce, as well as their quality of life.

And the short-sightedness of businesses that demanded re-opening too early out of concern for their profits. They didn't consider the long-term economic impacts of the repeated half-hearted "lockdown", reopening, spike in cases, lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not just talking about the probably permanent damage to the travel and tourism industries or the losses incurred by businesses, but also the loss of jobs and income by people who, through no fault of their own, were laid off or had their hours cut back.
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In the USA it's quite possible, there's no law saying otherwise, it happens all the time.
Every component ( resistors, transistors, microcontrollers, etc ) must be Automotive qualified (AEC-Q ). That's how you have a minimum standard. A button cannot communicate on the CAN bus that's why you need the microcontroller.
> But so far, I have resisted the notion of having cameras all over the place, peering inside the home's interior spaces. Sure, I have some Ring devices guarding the front of the house, but there's nothing recording inside.

> I live in a gated community with only one way in and out, and I'm alerted immediately if someone should be let through if they aren't on my regular list.

The whole tone of the article as I read it was Security & Privacy for me, not for thee (people in my community, my dogs, my hypothetical kids).
This skips the problem, again. You can trade a sheep as much as you want, between any numbers of investors. But there is some basic value to sheep, because eventually someone is able to convert the sheep into money, with effort time and process (butcher, shear, etc). Extracted Value dependent on market of derivative products, and efficiency of extraction.

A sheep can be used to produce $20 USD, and traders who never see the sheep are simply trading on speculation (how much value the sheep can be extracted for today, how much it might be extracted for tomorrow, how badly will extractors want it, etc). The traders bounce the sheep around willy-nilly but eventually the sheep has a simple answer to “why does anyone value this object in the first place?” — because it can be used to extract more wealth than it costs.

My poop can be speculatively traded infinitely as long it continues to exist. Anything can — it doesn’t matter the subject. But at some point, someone must actually want my poop for non-speculative trading it to have a value to speculate on.

The question that keeps being bypassed is: who is actually in the position to do something productive with an FB stock?

Note: I’m assuming that stocks don’t draw their value from the ether — no one wants stocks as art, at least no more than USD
Knowing our government you may have predicted a future reality.
Indeed, not too bad and this is what I did, but certainly not immediately natural, as you have to rely on the browser's tab history

(i.e. you closed this tab, redirect user to previous tab), so wouldn't work if I starting viewing a HN post, then continued work (that I should have been originally doing) then go back to the post, close it and then browser redirects me back to the 'work' tab that I came back from..... if you see what I mean.

Tab history:
* Expected: HN client -> website from post -(ctrl+w)-> HN client
vs:
* HN Client -> HN post website -(switch tab)-> real work work tab -(switch back)-> HN post website -(ctrl+w)-> real work tab :(

)*

*Think I opened a bracket somewhere in the comment and haven't closed it
Sounds reasonable, I think.
It's this type of behavior that caused me to drop google for everything except search long ago. You are not the customer, you are the product or in many cases a vessel for the product which is ads and nothing more.
The consumer hardware sector has proven over the past decade that it has no interest in protecting user privacy, and unfortunately it looks like the United States has a whole lot to gain in complacency. Pretty much anything FAANG-related is inherently insecure, if only because there's statistically no way that three-letter-agencies don't have them tapped.

I hate to say it, but we're living Stallman's future now. Post-privacy is the present, which makes it a little sad to read articles like this where people just ASSUME that their Zune, FireTV, Apple Watch, Facebook Portal and Roku aren't spying on them all the time. I guess this is the real cost of abstraction: users, so far removed from their software that they can't even tell which data is going in or out.
Mark Zuckerberg’s “Metaverse” Is a Dystopian Nightmare
I like how you've put it..
This sort of assumes you’re familiar with vector search and vector databases. If you’re not, this might be a good place to start: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/

TL;DR - They store vector embeddings and index them for efficient nearest-neighbor retrieval. Some also allow CRUD operations, metadata filtering, fault-tolerance, and all that jazz. Useful for things like semantic search, similarity search (of unstructured data), and recommender systems.
I enjoy developing in Lisp but the number of jobs are smaller than Python/C++/Java/etc.
Because it makes it clear that there might be a wrong incentive for recommending that product.

For the same reason people on here write „Company X is better than Y for Z reasons. Disclaimer: I work for company X“
Another similar series is “Object Lessons”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087JBCKV6 … I wonder what other similar book series are out there, besides these, and the also mentioned “Very Short Introduction” series.
I'm kinda surprised someone hasn't made a script to grab the new connection string and update the value in a secrets store when it stops working / Heroku rotates it.
I hope so. I had a Google Pixelbook, and with the Linux container support (aka Crostini) it was an ideal developer laptop, especially as the Linux support improved over time. I was worried they were going to drop it as the Pixel Slate is much more of a consumer device.

Would love to see another Pixelbook with great performance and stability for Linux apps.
> Finally, in possibly his most ingenious invention, Hounsfield created an algorithm to reconstruct an image of the brain based on all these layers. By working backward and using one of the era’s fastest new computers, he could calculate the value for each little box of each brain layer. Eureka!

And, of course, they glossed over the most interesting part by simply saying "an algorithm." I know that modern CT scans use Marching Cubes [1], which is what that particular algorithm was developed for, but that came later in the 80s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_cubes
Isn’t half the point of buying one of these smart assistant cans to have the same thing everywhere so that they all hit the same service? I don’t want to come home and spend hours a week negotiating between Alexa, Google and Siri.

(I suppose you could tie everything into Home Assistant but does anyone that doesn’t enjoy playing with home servers like me do that?)
What is the bald-faced lie that Bernard Bigot told congress?
The "doing everything [you] can to fix the situation" won't work if the other party isn't interested. For all we know, this may have been the case. And there are many valid reasons for someone to focus on their personal life. My point is, we don't have the full picture.
Yup that is why it is called a limited liability corp. the limited liability part
> In some parts of the world, that would be discriminatory against ex-convicts.

Please name the part of the world where I am required to hire a former bank robber to manage my bank.
Your quote is a wild guess by them. The malware explanation after that sounds much more likely
How could it not be random, dare I ask?

I don't agree with the current directions of technology in terms of surveillance and data collection for private and powerful interests, but I find it far more likely that living in SF you'd be exposed to more mobile Waymo platforms that just happen to be collecting data regularly as part of engineering work, data collection, testing, and so on.

No offense but why would Waymo care about you in particular unless you were some significantly important/critical former disgruntled employee or risk/potential asset to their business?
My guess, assuming the company is innocent and that this wasn't just a thinly veiled attempt by Google to purge the developers' gambling apps:

Google bans accounts by association. One of their accounts was logged into during a hack. They blocked the device, but the notification usually comes only after the login has already succeeded.

Assuming this wasn't the criminal's first hack, their device probably got flagged before by Google. If Google applied their logic to that device, they flagged this company's account (and probably all of these people's own Google accounts by association).

Google won't comment on this so I suppose we'll never know for sure. However, when the next company that the people behind this startup joins also gets banned, I'd consider the viral properties of Google bans proven and these developers could be considered "tainted" by our tech overlords.
Or OnlyFans. Always good to pivot to areas others don't want.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
A service for advertisers and salespeople to put paper products in a special box I have in front of my house?
I was not picking up on gossip
...
It makes everything harder.

To me, this suggests a company that isn't communicating effectively - side-channels like gossip were filling in the gaps when folks were in-office, but now they aren't.

Fixing _that_ problem may or may not be a matter of putting butts-in-seats again.
I think if all of HN tried it, a third would be in jail, and a third would need to be scraped off the pavement with a mop.

Maybe sucess chance is higher than with crypto, but the faiure is much worse
> your link shows where it was approved, those aren't usage numbers.

False. Here's the note on the image showing vaccine usage:

"Note: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is known as Covishield in India. Only countries that report doses administered are shown. Other countries may have approved vaccines but have not administered them yet."
I see enough feel-good emoji-laden bullshit posts on LinkedIn, why would anyone subject themselves to an audio chatroom of the same?
Librarians spend years studying just cataloging to be able to take a publication a library acquires, put a Dewey or LoC number on it, and shelve it, and do it all in a way that makes makes it possible to find it again later when someone wants it. Cataloging is an entire sub-specialty of Library and Information Science. A week of data entry would just scratch the surface.
15% of the consumers is, I'm guessing, based on US marketshare?

The company in the OP here is not American, and outside of the US, Android has the majority of the smartphone marketshare in most of the world.

Despite what Americans often think this is not only true for "poor countries" either. In the UK it is pretty much 50/50 between iOS and Android. Most people have either an iPhone or Samsung. Usually the flagship models.

So there's very good reasons to target Android and it is very possible OP's company is simply in a country where Android smartphones dominate the market, not iPhones.

But yes regarding the Epic thing, you can indeed submit your apps to third party app stores including ones that come preinstalled on the major brands. Samsung Galaxy Store for example.
And with cards, you're a call away from unlocking it or getting a replacement overnight shipped to you.

Good luck getting to speak to a human at Google. And when you do find one, they'll tell you they can't overturn the dumbass AI.
>My credit card issuer locked out my Visa after I bought some clothes from a French web site. They didn't notify me and I didn't find out until my card was declined at a restaurant, which was fairly embarrassing.

>People get locked out of their financial accounts all the time and despite persistent rumors to the contrary, it is way more likely that your bank or credit network is using a blackbox AI to do it, with a shit vendor like Feedzai.

That's not being locked out of your account. You weren't able to charge but, should you have had the need, you would have been able to log in to your Visa account online to diagnose the issue. You would have also been able to dial a number or email for support. With Google, you are indeed locked out of your account and every other account you authenticated with using your Google account. There is no phone number or email address. There is no support. The scenario you bring up pales in comparison to Google's behavior.
What does not pre-funding a retirement account look like? Social security I guess? And we all know that's a great system.
Disappointed it is not about pentesting by physically sending drones into data centers through the ventilation pipes.
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Don’t some people eat sea creatures alive there?
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He wasn't the only "eccentric engineer" associated with the Beatles and Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Alex
I personally would rank Tesla's Supply Chain to high, so.
I'm trying to find the part that should outrage me and I'm not finding it. Startups fail. You can make up whatever internal metrics you want ("graduation rate" "are students happy?") but at the end of the day, revenue needs to be greater than expenses. If they lose money making students happy, that's a charity, not a business. If they structured the organization as a business, then that's an existential problem.

I look at startup employees as being very similar to investors; instead of investing money, you invest time. Most startup investments fail; the investors lose everything. You have to know that going in.

Nitpicking the instagram posts also seems pretty petty. We're criticizing the CEO for spending time with his family and walking around in the rain? People do stuff outside of work, even though there's work that they could theoretically be doing. Most people consider that healthy, and even CEOs that failed badly still deserve some recreational time. (It would be pretty cringey if the CEO looked up your Instagram account and posted a blog post like "why are you visiting your parents when there's still bugs open against your component!", right?)

(I take particular exception to the "Carson enjoys a climate-related disaster (#hurricanehenri) two days after announcing a severe reduction in force" caption. It's not like he willed the hurricane into existence, or could do anything to stop it. Why are we mad at him for climate change and random natural disasters? The dude is bad at being a CEO, but he's not God!)
I would go with Amazon because I pay out of pocket assuming a lower price.

My two drugs are not covered by Amazon though.

I'm for any company that wants to reduce our reduculiously priced American drugs.

I have paid cash for my meds for years. Costs between pharmacies vary a lot. CVS charged me 50% more than Costco.
We need an anti-Kafka law to force tech companies to disclose the reasons behind account bans and provide for an appeals process.

This will naturally make their jobs a whole lot harder, but currently they're just externalizing their costs onto people like in this article.

Just like all the recent articles pointing out that "identity theft" is a term offloading incompetence of the companies onto the individual.

We need to stop putting up with this shit.
> And for developers, you are forced to enter the spy-on-your-users rat race because everyone expects free shit.

I would happily pay for a quality product that respected my privacy.
I don't see how it's "way inferior" to manually hit an "update" button, it's a minor inconvenience at best.
That too is a travesty. And apparently they have a fringe practice of eating animals alive but as far as I understand it, much of this is only furthered by older folks in Japan. The same thing in Korea is happening - older folks ok with eating dog while younger folks have them as pets.

I suppose my initial statement was not entirely factual. Japan, get with it!