skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I hate about Brave Search is that their bot disguises as a regular user and they don't publish the IP addresses of their bot. You can't target it through robots.txt and you'll never know if you've blocked one of their IP's by mistake.

Brave calls this a privacy feature. My ass.
What about trademark issues? E.g. if I buy coca-cola.net (assuming Coca-Cola forgot to register that domain) and use it to sell watered-down Coca-Cola (or software with adware tacked-on..), doesn't Coca-Cola have a valid case against me?

What if I don't sell watered-down cola, but Pepsi? Would they still have a case, and could the resolution of that case include me losing the domain?
The UK must be one of the few countries left where you have to show (often paper) bank statements and utility bills to prove who you are (or simply that you live where you say you live), and in the process revealing all kinds of personal information that is none of the recipient's business - including Government.

This could all be solved with a national ID card (and would save the public purse £millions, as shown by the Verify programme). The complexity isn't in the actual technology (which exists, and has done for a long time), but the sheer number of possible identity documents that need to be accounted for and the mechanisms for collecting that documentation for verification.

But Brits are too stubborn to accept it. These are the same swathes of people that share stuff on Facebook, install Ring doorbells, and throw bank statements in the bin un-shredded.
Resilience is impossible in C-family languages, given undefined behaviour. Any defence-in-depth checks you add can only be triggered once you're already in an undefined state, so the compiler will helpfully strip them out (this has already happened in Linux and is the reason they build with -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks, but C compilers have very little appetite for broadening that kind of thing).
Sadly, the titans of industry have become very focused on short time horizons.

Giving employees reasonable working hours, reasonable working conditions, and reasonable pay for the cost of living is trivially the right move if your ambition is to build a lasting monument of human accomplishment and a lasting legacy of human kinship and solidarity.
https://needgap.com/
It was most uneven book I have ever read. It has extreme high and lows. Its like a roller-coaster ride.

Great ideas, plot-twists but characters and their arcs are sometimes boring sometimes bizarre.

Overall I would recommend it for his thought provoking ideas.
Not the same but I admit my explanation might not be the best.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28927092 for a more descriptive example.
I worked a string of temp jobs throughout college - usually via temp agencies. I too, did some similar gigs to Amazon warehouse.

Usually, both employee and employer want the overtime - more so for the employee, if the OT pay is attractive. When I worked night shifts in a mail sorting facility (11PM to 11AM), the OT pay was almost 100%

Employees want it because they can make more money without having to balance multiple gigs/jobs, employers because less employees = less paperwork and less people to manage.
This pragma doesn't quite work for -ffast-math

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/voMK7x7hG

Try it with and without the pragma, and adding -ffast-math to the compiler command line. It seems that with the pragma sqrt(x) * sqrt(x) becomes sqrt(x*x), but with the command line version it is simplified to just x.
I know it sounds horrible, but people die during work, and it doesn't indicate any wrongdoing on any part. Highlighting individual cases is click baiting.

For example, Amazon has 950k employees in USA. Among Americans aged 45-54, 80 people per 100k die each year due to cardiac reasons. If 10% of Amazon workers are 45-54, and Amazon doesn't employ anyone over 54, at least 76 Amazon workers will die due to cardiac reasons.

1/3 of cardiac deaths occur suddenly.

If average worker spends 40 hours per week in work (23% of time), 75 * 1/3 * 23% = around 6 Amazon employees in US will die in work each year, without any wrongdoing on any side.

Moreover, poor people are at significantly increases risk of sudden cardiac arrest - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193117/ This may or may not be related to work conditions (though, I suspect rather combination lifestyle and healthcare access).

Though, physical labor is associated with increased early mortality in men, but causes aren't clear (I suspect it's lifestyle, because women doesn't display such correlation). https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/20/1320
Or multiplications or additions to avoid overflows or denormals
Ha!

The Manhattan Institute, backers of charter schools and "school choice" - on the theory that competing for funding makes schools more responsive to what parents want for their children - doesn't believe that direct funding makes schools responsive to what parents want.

> They believe, as Martin Luther King, Jr., said, that people should be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

(eye roll).

Ever notice how that's the one MLK Jr's quote people use to argue against any critical view on America's long history as a white supremacist nation?

And not, say, "giving a man his due may often mean giving him special treatment", as King wrote in "Where Do We Go From Here" - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Where_Do_We_Go_from_Her... . ("I am aware of the fact that this has been a troublesome concept for many liberals, since it conflicts with their traditional ideal of equal opportunity and equal treatment of people according to their individual merits.")

Kendi refers to this as "The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr." - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-second-assassination-o... .

> or who stumbles conjugating verbs because a classmate prefers to use the pronouns they/them.

w00t! Another eye roll!
> That comparison doesn't give anything to the other person

Hm, you are correct - I haven't looked at it in this way. I guess it's time for another round of questions around my family and workplace!
No. I won't pay for search because I don't need to.

Likewise, I won't use a search engine that is at the center of an invasive, privacy destroying, global tracking ad network --- because I don't need to.

I will just use DuckDuckGo. Problem solved.
Show HN: JIPlayer – Sentence Mining Made Easy
As a Japanese learner myself, also an anime lover and visual learner, I've been trying to find a one-stop solution to do sentence mining, most importantly, a tool that I can use on my phone. So I spent all my spare time in the last few months building one for myself as well as all fellow learners. I called it:

JIPlayer, the mobile app for Japanese sentence mining. Like jisho, but for subbed videos.

One minute app preview video is available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtxZwIynGU

Three highlight features:

- Subtitles will be segmented automatically on my server, using the engine behind ichi.moe, the best of its kind I think.

- Multi-context & multimedia flashcard can be created with a single tab.

- Known words can be cross-matched, which helps reinforce your memory in a big way.

Full feature list:

- Auto-segmentation powered by the engine behind ichi.moe.

- Lookup a word manually with the built-in JMDict dictionary.

- Line-by-line play mode with auto-pause.

- Multi-context & multimedia flashcard.

- Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve-based Spaced Repetition Review System.

- Cross-matching known words.

- Multiple subtitle format (.srt, .ass) support.

- Anki export support.

JIPlayer is currently available on the app store, Android version is on its way!
It is different for phones made by the people who also make Android. Google. Which is why I was specifically talking about the pixel and the nexus phones sold by google. For example, kernel version 4.9.3 - the latest one (yes, originally released in november of 2017) supports up to the latest Android. In fact, since 4.1 supports the latest Android, and will till June 2024 according to google. I'm going to go on a limb here, and given the current timeline, project 4.9.3 is going to be supported for probably whatever android is released in 2026.

So, Nexus6 released in 2014 will be able to run the latest android, fully security patched including kernel (which is not that important), till about 2026.

Now let's keep in mind that I replied to a guy who said how great it is that ios has more longevity.
The number of available valence shell electrons, not the atomic nuclei is typically the controlling factor for macroscale chemical properties of elements. This typically is in balance with the nucleus' positive charge, but does not have to be.

Water molecules are molecules, and therefore have a more complex electronic structure than atoms, and therefore is harder to describe, especially at the extremes.
A Visual Guide to React Rendering – Cheat Sheet
Yes, you could be wrong and you are. It's a law proposal, not a law in any way.

I also guess that it's a bit more complicated than that, but I won't make any assumptions before I read it myself instead of what a Spanish TV/newspaper can tell me as they are always super biased. I suggest you to do the same.
> To be honest we didn’t get this right with GOV.UK Verify. We have an opportunity and obligation to do much better this time.

This is a misleading paraphrasing of the article. With the full context, it becomes clear that it's specifically inclusiveness / accessibility that they're saying they didn't get right:

> Inclusion is a hugely important part of our work, because anyone should be able to prove their identity to access government services, and it’s often the most vulnerable people who are at most risk of being excluded. To be honest we didn’t get this right with GOV.UK Verify. We have an opportunity and obligation to do much better this time.

This means that the rest of your comment doesn't follow:

> Something of an understatement. The project was red-flagged as'undeliverable' in 2019, after spending £154m

The second sentence could be right or wrong, I don't know. But the first half doesn't make any sense in the (actual) context of what you're quoting. If it's understatement then that means that they got accessibility very wrong.
Aye, Liu Cixin's biggest impact on speculative fiction thought was the Dark Forest's answer to Fermi's Paradox.
S3 Batch Operations list of Supported Operations[0] does not include DeleteObject or DeleteObjects.

0. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/batch-...
I was expecting the "where it collides with reality" to be at least somewhat touch the nuclear war topic with 3 players.

Even the name of the trilogy is an allegory on the "three countries" — a historical novell any Chinese speaker will instantly recognise.

Now, we have similarly 3 nuclear superpower countries: Russia, USA, and China. The question he wanted to ask was "How will the three will act when it will come to press the big red button?"
Tangential, but the first thing I noticed is that this site itself greets me in my preferred language, and allows setting my region separately, at the top of the page.

The Pixel site sets the language based on geography and does not allow changing it without changing the region, which comes with a warning about delivery and currency conversion.

One of these makes me feel understood and accounted for as a potential customer, the other makes me want to CTRL+W and move on.

I am aware that this doesn't affect the majority of people. That doesn't make it less frustrating that Google keeps doubling down on this with many of the things they do.
Realme also suffers from typical government thinking though.

We wanted to add it to our platform as an authentication mechanism. That would be good for individuals, and good for realme, as it would increase adoption.

However this is not allowed because ... Realme is paid for from taxes, so noone in the private sector can use it unless they pay.

This makes some sense, but also obviously it makes no sense for a web site to pay e.g Google for "sign in with Google". Google is obviously more than happy to underwrite the costs, since it means greater adoption of their identities and more power to their platform.

As a result realme is stuck in a public sector prison. It's a shame as some of it has been well executed.
It's possible that my habits don't represent how the general population uses the search. I've read that many people are asking questions, not simply searching for keyword and as a result Google tries to optimize for that. But then again, when I ask questions it's also hit and miss for me.

I also no longer get good navigation suggestion from Google Maps, maybe my constant frustration with Google lately is pushing me to be too dismissive about all of their products. Surely they do great things but I'm not as happy with Google as I used to be.

I find that systems trying to predict my intent are unbearable when they fail, it just feels like trying to interact with a very stupid person.
This is a brilliant article, it answers a lot of questions that I had no opportunity to ask.
So, this person is surprised about the amount of data that Amazon collects on her and posts a video about this on _TikTok_? Oh, the irony :)

I do find it praiseworthy that privacy advocates are present on all channels though.
Some people value convenience more over privacy and that is okay. Lots of companies make that way money.
Giant carbon-sucking fans to clean our climate
I did not make a comment on the issue of legality, and if you read my comment with an ounce of good faith reason and logic, you would never have put the words you just did into my mouth, and instead focus on what I actually said.

I was commenting on the casualness and callousness with which he uses "consenting adults" without regard to the power imbalance as well as the statistics with regard to sex workers and their "freedom".

Look at the attitude in the other replies:

> At least a woman can take the easy way out and become a prostitute. A man has no such "luxury". Society does not pity weak men the way it pities weak women.

> what you described applies to every single person in the world with a job.

> We all do stuff we'd rather not do for money.

And then there's the guy comparing strangers putting their penises into your mouth and vagina, always in fear of sexual assault, disease, degradation to "attending Scrum meetings and fixing CSS bugs."

Even you, with "but blame their johns", ignoring any notion of exploitation of the desperate and vulnerable.
> which was actually spelled out in their initial announcement (there will be a system API for accessing it).

That is completely false. They announced, a week after the initial announcement, that the on-device nudity-detection they planned on implementing in iMessage would also be open to Snapchat and other messaging apps. That doesn't report anything to the police, isn't hash-based, and is done on-device; it just pops up a bypassable warning to allow child users who are part of "iCloud Family Sharing" to avoid seeing things they don't want to see. It has nothing to do with CSAM detection.

I continue to be frustrated by the amount of misinformation on the anti-CSAM scanning side of the debate, including on HN (and it's orders of magnitude worse everywhere else).
This is very common with writers. You (usually) don't know who produces content for the website (it can be the author himself or a third party). Plus it makes copy/pasting of the bio way easier, and you don't want, for instance, your author bio at the end of your books or on Amazon to be written in first person (it sounds very amateurish).
See this would hold if the money supply is held relatively constant. We are not in that environment.
I've been using Brave on Android for a couple of years now, and it's great!

It asked me once during initial setup if I wanted to use Brave Rewards (or whatever the crypto component is called), I said "no", and it's never bothered me with anything crypto related ever again.
The ideas are far from complex enough to require people to suffer through the first book, just to get the necessary context.

I think there's probably a decent short story to be extracted from the key idea in the second book.
People who are born men and rich have the option of paying for those services, so what's most unfair?
why not just plant trees
Better reactor designs that can’t basically self-combust through accidents or operational errors are an improvement of course, but I’m not aware of any design that eliminates the need to produce relatively large quantities of waste. That in itself poses a large risk.
Audio tape interface revives microcassettes as storage medium
Altitude and child development
To be fair here, capital and politics have always been married and wrecked havoc, for the last few thousand years, which is why the history of humanity is full with slavery, serfdom and bloody wars. There's no way around that, power and money corrupts and concentrates in the hands of a few who fight tooth and nail to further entrench their power and wealth at the expense of everyone else.

Our major break came from having two devastating world wars that affected the ruling class as well, and broke the traditional wealthy feudal powers, right before an industrial boom that gave the working class a leg up never before seen in our society, to which everyone looks back fondly as that situation will never happen again (at leat not until the next violent global war/revolution).

But now, during a prolonged period of relative peace and stability, our situation is reverting back to the feudalism of lords and serfs, haves and have-nots, exactly how our civilization has always been like.

The difference is that now, instead of being the serf of a lord for food and shelter, you're the serf of a giant megacorp for employment(food) and to a giant real-estate conglomerate or a giant bank for shelter, and with a much longer life expectancy and higher standard of living.
> Generally if you're seeing a NaN/Inf something has gone wrong

That’s a bold claim.
That seems like a weird way to do it. Wouldn't it be better to have compile errors if the compiler figures out that it can remove a null check?
Some questions from someone who is simply interested in the topic and seeks to expand their understanding.

1. For electrical circuits we are interested in properties like resistance, capacity, inductance etc. for passive elements and in the characteristic curves for active ones.

What are their equivalents in photonic circuits? Which properties matter here?

2. In digital computing I think we abstracted the electrical analog properties and the differential equation level of the problem away pretty much. Can't we achieve that with photonic ones as well? Or do you mean a paradigm shift in higher level things like memory bandwidth and latency vs caching etc. ?

3. When I look at the state of photonic circuits I think miniaturization and fabrication are the most obvious problems. Let's assume for a moment that these can be solved, what else makes photonic circuits worse than electric ones?
not that I've heard of anyone popping out a DIMM over time, but I'd rather pop it back in rather than having to ship it to a repair shop with BGA workstation to replace if a DRAM chip develops fault over time.
Storing data on a cassette using Arduino and Python (Diff. Manchester encoding)
Come on, "dates in Cambodia"? How do you search for local trendy music, "Hot singles in my area"?
Fascistbook
Working standards and labor laws are different in those countries,e.g. in Germany unions are pretty strong and warehouse workers are better protected (only 2 shifts are allowed), whereas in Poland those sweatshops run 24/7. Hourly pay for this job in PL is equal to €5.3/$6.2/£4.5.

Cheap workforce is the sole reason of Amazon's presence in PL (until very recent, they didn't even have a local domain) and the backbone of their logistics for Western Europe.
Amazon's PR team got here quick

Did you miss the part where he was asked to continue by a manager despite being unable to breathe?

Pushing people to breaking point makes them break
There are also legal limits on working time, although it's not clear to me which would apply to a warehouse worker.

https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/emcc/erm/legis...
I've never seen a sermon in Singapore (usually shown from a projector) in Jawi. Maybe the Imams there do read the same copy but in Jawi and the congregants in latin alphabets because i don't think the masses can read Jawi.

Maybe i should check on MUIS's (Singapore's Muslim Religious Authority) website to see if there are Jawi copies of the sermons.

On another note there is Arwi which is an Arabic-Tamil script, which is in a more dire state than Jawi. Unlike Jawi, Arwi is not preserved (or protected by authority) in anyway like how Malaysia does and most of the corpus written in Arwi is now being eaten by termites, which is a really sad thing that the knowledge specific to the Indian muslims is getting lost in time and is not being digitized.
The problem with this argument is that the "adversarial environment" argument applies to a worse degree to all cloud storage services who do the scanning in the cloud, since they have no threshold mechanism, and lack transparency on whether there is any human review whatsoever. You would still be reported to the police if someone hacks your Google Photos account and uploads CSAM to it.
I didn't enjoy it much either, and also thought the characters were lifeless. Beyond that, it so read "weirdly" - it really felt like a direct translation from Chinese.
SF’s In-N-Out Refuses to Enforce the City’s Vaccination Mandate for Inside
There is a special case: pumped laser amplification of signal in underwater fiber optic cables. That's all optical for the signal path as far as I know.

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/fiber-optics/article/1655109...
With the internet and the massive amount more things that can be done by less people then there has been a trend towards stratification of salaries generally. Even companies like Amazon that still have high demand for physical labour in warehouses have an efficiency far higher per worker than would be possible before (think of the overheads there would've been to managing a company of the scale of amazon in the 70s). The gains from this mostly gone to central offices and people who can build and manage these systems (software people among them) so I think that trend goes someway to explaining increasing stratification.

OTOH while companies as a whole have become more productive per person I'm very dubious that CEOs of companies have grown thousands of times more productive than everyone else without some pretty sketchy credit stealing of vast improvements in enterprise productivity.

RE: Abolish billionaires that would be more to do with government policy. As much as corporate lobbyists talk about Tax discouraging enterprise etc there's very little evidence of reduced productivity in high tax economies like found in western europe. If we went back to 90% tax rates and wealth taxes etc you'd still have billionaires short of actual hard stops of 100% tax or whatever. It would just be harder to get there.
Buy three smart speakers with microphones and several light bulbs and then you get shocked that someone is listening to what you're saying. This is the really shocking part. People need to get educated.
Except the difference is the Americans never had to deal with a hostile next door neighbour with the personal financial and arms backing of the world's largest military superpower so this is a laughable attempt at equivocation.

You might not like the DPRK (I'm not a fan either though then again it's hard to have a firm stance on an area in the world where there is almost no non-propagandised information on) but it makes a lot of sense why somebody from Pakistan of all places would be sympathetic with their situation.
> My point is rather that in Germany at least one can work on their tech stuff

I'd bet Amazon tech workers in Gdańsk and Warsaw have more purchasing power than their German counterparts