skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like it would be a pretty heavyweight solution to a lightweight problem.
Surely, Google knows that Pinterest gamed the algorithm and made image search a total farce.

So I wonder why is Google choosing not to ban Pinterest?
> I thought this has been known for awhile

What, in particular, are you referring to?
I've been recruited by different FAANGs, and was also actively recruiting people at them. Your suspicions are wrong.

Bar is the same (of course, there will some bias from specific people, but those are one-offs). Even more - hiring H1Bs is harder than hiring a citizen and it's more costly to the company (immigration sucks). If they could, they wouldn't hire H1Bs.

Equation is different at sweatshops, where you don't hire specific people, that meet specific bars you have. They have no bars - they just need code/ops/qa monkeys. They apply for as many visas as you can, and get whoever they can get as a result. As long as they got enough people, they're happy.
But what if they don't want a patent on the vaccine?

Moderna has patents on seven inventions that are used for making the vaccine, and I'm sure it uses parts or processes from other companies too. AFAICT it hasn't even applied for a patent on the vaccine.
Just in case you're not familiar, a Jesuit is a member of a Catholic men's religious order known as the Society of Jesus. It was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola almost 500 years ago.

Some Jesuits are priests (meaning they've been ordained and can do things like celebrate Mass and hear confessions), others are brothers, but all take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, along with a special vow of obedience to the Pope. (Pope Francis himself is a Jesuit -- the first pope to come from that religious order.)
In fact, in the UK and some other places what is illegal is "indecent" images of someone under 18, not nudity or sexual content in and of itself. So the sexual pose would likely be a problem whether or not the nipples are exposed. In the UK for the lowest severity images the context the pictures are found in also matters - even a picture that is ok in a family album (e.g. an innocent picture of a child in the bath) would not be ok if found in a collection of pictures clearly intended for sexual gratification.
I'm very happy with the recent progress in GA Avgas. My flying club recently switched from 100LL [1] to UL94 [2] with no appreciable change in aircraft performance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#100LL_(blue)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#UL94_(formerly_94UL)
I think it's either an embarrassingly stupid business move made by execs who have no idea what they are doing (best case). Or worse it'll be a success and make Facebook an even more dystopian force. The potential for VR/AR to deeply damage society and sow discord is huge...assuming it's ever a thing.
Agreed — but I'd imagine that intentional failure to disclose best mode could still be a basis for an inequitable-conduct holding.

(It's been a few years since I did patent work; a quick search in scholar.google.com didn't reveal any case law on point.)

And in a close case, in jurors' minds, evidence of a best-mode failure might help tip the balance against validity on other grounds.
Ask HN: What Stack for mobile/desktop cross-platform native development in 2021?
If I want to build a cross-platform native app for desktop and mobile devices these days, targeting Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows and Linux, is there a known "good" stack out there that works well, is pretty smooth and easy to get started with? I'm primarily familiar with Go and Ruby for server-side development, as well as front-end HTML/CSS/JS, but I don't want to build an electron app since the overall experience for the end user can be sub-optimal there. I'm not really a fan of C and its derivatives for various reasons, so I'd prefer to avoid that if possible.

I've read that you "can" build apps this way with .NET and Xamarin, but I haven't seen any good beginner-level content for that stack anywhere that's relatively up-to-date, shows how it actually works when building for the various different platforms, and I'm not entirely clear on whether you'd have to buy a microsoft visual studio license to do that or not. Plus, I'm building on MacOS and would like to release the code as open source for the project (I want to build a series of offline, no-subscription music players that sync over your local home network.)

I've heard of using Qt for this, but I can't find any information about how to use it in a non-licensed way (I'm not paying them for a software license for something I'm going to open source anyway). Plus it looks like the language bindings are only available for C, which I'd like to avoid if possible, given the relatively steep learning curve and the fact that I haven't touched C in ~20 something years...

React Native would be a good place to start, but as far as I can tell there's no way to use that for building a desktop application, which is absolutely not optional for this endeavor.

I'm aware that we're talking very different build targets, design languages and such here, but it just seems ridiculous that in 2021 we don't have this yet, which makes me wonder: what am I missing?
Users may 'hack themselves' when an attacker persuades them to paste something into a website, for example. These are very basic XSS questions by the way, you don't seem to know enough about the subject to be this incredulous.
So facebook will not be accessible from abroad? Great!
According to some sources, one factor is that Newfoundland was so heavily populated with indigenous people that there wasn’t enough room for a Norse colony to grow. By the time the English made it back to Newfoundland, smallpox and other epidemics had devastated the indigenous population.
Concrete example is Polish Penal Code, article 162. Up to 3 years of jail time for failure to bring aid - there's a bunch of quantifiers that reduce the liability, but that's the gist of it.
It's probably for the best you used a throwaway account to say something so profoundly ignorant. The consequences of which the OP spoke are social consequences, they're not legal consequences. In the United States you can say whatever you want without fear of legal reprisal, however the social consequences can be dire. That is to say, I retain the freedom to think you're an asshole and not associate with you in response to something you said. That's my right.
I was taught that Leif Erikson led an expedition to Newfoundland over 20 years ago in public school.

"Transatlantic exploration took place centuries before the crossing of Columbus. Physical evidence for early European presence in the Americas can be found in Newfoundland, Canada1,2. However, it has thus far not been possible to determine when this activity took place3,4,5. Here we provide evidence that the Vikings were present in Newfoundland in AD 1021. We overcome the imprecision of previous age estimates by making use of the cosmic-ray-induced upsurge in atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations in AD 993 (ref. 6). "

Seems that before hand the evidence was circumstantial and while everyone was confident it was the case, they can now prove it with better dating techniques.
Unfortunately, it's true, most toolchains are stuck in the past, and don't deal with non-ascii characters or even spaces very well. In fact, I just learned that spaces in .deskop files values could cause trouble after a long debugging.

But it's a shame.

In Europe, we do have a lot of non-ascii characters everywhere. Ubuntu puts a "Vidéo" and a "Téléchargements" directory in my $HOME because I'm french. If I were to use my name as my username I would have even more troubles.

I'm careful with not using special chars in names for work, but it feels like I'm a girl trying to not dress sexy in the wrong part of town: necessary, but I shouldn't have to do this, and it's definitely the others to blame.

All in all, I thank the Gods of encoding for Python 3 unicode handling. Having a scripting language that does the right thing out of the box is wonderful on this side of the pond.
> Why does Apple not open up their hardware to other operating systems

It's extra effort they don't want to go to. They spent a lot of engineering and support time working with MS on boot camp, handling (what are to them) special cases and back compatibility. They really needed it at the time, but no longer need it so make no effort in making it happen. And Apple never did linux support, it's simply that linux runs on most hardware that runs windows.

Among other things, here's a major reason why it's hard: Apple supports their hardware and software for quite a long time, but is happy to break back compatibility along the way. MS considers back compatibility critical, despite the cost. I respect both positions. But getting windows running on intel Mac hardware wasn't automatic, and required developing support for bits of code designed (by MS) for all sorts of special cases. They simply needed it, so did the work, with the cooperation of MS.
Leif Erikson? Popularized by Spongebob, no less.
Interlingua – How TikTok is helping an obscure language find its new voice
In addition to the other replies, there could be server-provided HTML that the user has the option to change, and initiating a change, activating the vulnerability, could be one click. (this happened to Google's own search bar!)

Then there are cases of different browsers parsing things differently and/or bad sanitization/serializing giving different results on repeated invocation or just being broken on the server-side. A simple client-side option is gonna be a lot simpler.
Huh, there's a row of identical icons of 3 blue circles (search for cashadvancewow[dot]com) and all the domains using them are loan-related. Interesting way to do forensics on clone sites (although trying a few of them, they're not showing any icons right now, and the URL /favicon.ico 404's)

And I checked a few of the sites, I just got lorem-ipsum style landing pages. I wonder what's the point, or are the scammers using the domains mostly for emails?
Yes, but it has a very significant licensing restriction that prevents it from being used to develop commercial software. VS Code has no such restriction.
California ports among world’s least efficient, ranking shows
They probably went home and/or died out, like in Greenland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_North_...
Overall taxes paid to governments are not going down. Hence it's __just__ a matter of government re-allocating taxes from something that is growing to something that is shrinking.

I really don't see why, for example, school funding should only come from oil proprerty taxes and not from other tax streams as well.
I’m not a data scientist, the tools I have seen them use at work include pandas and when the data is big, pyspark/snowflake. Interesting to see datasette in action.
I can imagine an indigenous woman having a fling with a viking and just rasing the kid in her village. No one the wiser.

It would be impossible to know if this happened. Even if you found someone with both indigenous and Viking genetics, you don't know if it's because his great grandfather came from Norway in the 1920s.

The history of early American immigration is absolutely fascinating, there was a story of a Chinese man who just told everyone he was an indigenous American in order to avoid discrimination. I've actually met people from Eastern Europe who ended up working at Telemundo, no one can tell that they're not ethnically Hispanic. In fact, who to say what Hispanic is. There are plenty of Asians in Latin America, if some decide to migrate to America are they not still Hispanic ?
> AB-1591 was made an “urgency statute” under Article IV, §8(d) of the Constitution of California after “an organized band of men armed with loaded firearms [...] entered the Capitol”

So, an armed insurrection? By blacks. Which we are told would be shot on sight [1,2,3,4,..], and the only reason the insurrectionists at the US Capitol weren't is because they were white. But the Sacramento Bee wrote of the incident:

After the state police questioned the men, they returned the weapons to them because the intruders had broken no law. - https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/history/article148667224.h...

I'm sure that as soon as we inform the people making the claims of shot on sight that they are empirically wrong, they will immediately stop, having seen their error. After all, they do so hate misinformation, especially divisive misinfromation, and would not want to spread it themselves.

[1] If rioters were Black, 'hundreds' would have been killed - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-i...

[2] The response to Black people storming the Capitol likely would have ended in mass bloodshed. - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/how-would-the-p...

[3] US Capitol: Blacks would have been shot dead - https://dailypost.ng/2021/01/07/us-capitol-blacks-would-have...

[4] Hollywood Condemns Capitol Chaos: 'If They Were Black They Would Be Shot Already' - https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/hollywood-condemns-capitol...> AB-1591 was made an “urgency statute” under Article IV, §8(d) of the Constitution of California after “an organized band of men armed with loaded firearms [...] entered the Capitol”

So, an armed insurrection? By blacks. Which we are told would be shot on sight [1,2,3,4,..], and the only reason the insurrectionists at the US Capitol weren't is because they were white. But the Sacramento Bee wrote of the incident:

After the state police questioned the men, they returned the weapons to them because the intruders had broken no law. - https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/history/article148667224.h...

I'm sure that as soon as we inform the people making the claims of shot on sight that they are empirically wrong, they will immediately stop, having seen their error. After all, they do so hate misinformation, especially divisive misinfromation, and would not want to spread it themselves.

[1] If rioters were Black, 'hundreds' would have been killed - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-i...

[2] The response to Black people storming the Capitol likely would have ended in mass bloodshed. - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/how-would-the-p...

[3] US Capitol: Blacks would have been shot dead - https://dailypost.ng/2021/01/07/us-capitol-blacks-would-have...

[4] Hollywood Condemns Capitol Chaos: 'If They Were Black They Would Be Shot Already' - https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/hollywood-condemns-capitol...
Warren Buffett has a famous saying: "I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will".

There are many companies where it's likely that a negligent CEO (even a criminal one) wouldn't lead to the bankruptcy or even close. Many companies might be better off with a negligent CEO rather than one actually trying to do much. Right now Google could be run by a person on the beach sipping margaritas. Many other big public companies with very strong competitive positions probably could too.
The difference between the Apple “precomposed” and standard icons had to do with the gloss effect on icons on pre iOS 7 home screens.

When adding a website/webapp to these earlier home screens, the OS would apply a gloss effect over the icon in order to match the aesthetic of the standard apps.
The precomposed icon was a way for the developer to stop the OS from applying this effect, such as if their logo already had a different gloss effect already applied (i.e “precomposed”) or other design where adding the glossy shine wouldn’t look right.
The standard icon allowed the OS to apply the gloss effect - which was a timesaver as Apple did tweak the gloss contour over the years: hence using a standard icon ensured that the website/webapp always matched the user’s OS version.
The superhero analogy is akin to saying "football is a game where you run a ball to the end of a field". It completely trivializes the realities of developing highly experimental technologies. Moderna doesn't get to fly in like an invincible superhero and defeat the villain with no real concern for whether or not they're going to be able to do it again.
Sadly they'll just listen to politicians/pundits and blame the immigrants.
What other reasonable choice is there?
What Books Should Everyone Read?
I've used both M1 Macbook Air for work and 2019 16" with 32GB of RAM and the M1 Macbook Air feels as fast if not faster then the 16"..
Suggestion: When you click links inside posts, consider opening them in a new tab so the context isn't lost.
Simple, and great for personal use. Going to have to give this a try.
My M1 MBA is measurably faster than the i9 MBP it replaced in several purely software tasks. At the very least it performs on par with the i9.

There's plenty of ARM-specific optimization in macOS that gives boosts to M1s over Intel but the chips are just faster for many tasks than Intel.
Thanks for the recommendation, I had skipped it. It's worse than I thought. Wow, I need to reprogram my brain actually. Maybe it's time for me to actually read the standard and rethink these things.
This is funny because people lose their damn minds about WHO... NSO sells their products to.
Seems like it might depend on the FPU rounding mode?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero#Arithmetic
I've heard we've made great advancements in human composting. Specifically composting combined with tree planting sounds like a great use of public spaces to rebuild some of our forest commons as opposed to traditional cemeteries.
that's sorta like saying 'I can't see how computers will be bigger than pen and paper. In public I won't be using a mainframe computer, but I will pull my journal out of my pocket to take a note'.

the implicit premise is that the category (AR/VR/XR) remains the same but the technology improves until its better for pretty much all usecases we currently use 2d screens.
I still would say that Columbus was the first to "discover" America, in the sense that Leif Erikson showed up, left, and didn't really make a big deal out of it. which to be fair, makes sense if you look on google earth and zoom in and follow from Iceland up to northern Canada. It just all feels more or less the same, so eventually they turned around and left.
Mine isn’t blind but based on the emotional connection I’ve seen happen in VR between family members.
Franklin was first to propose a way of proving that lightning was an electrical phenomenon. It was actually Thomas-François Dalibard who was first to run the experiment (a month before the famous kite experiment by Franklin), but Dalibard based his version of the experiment on a proposal by Franklin, so Franklin is properly credited.
Most of the planes flying were made in 60's and 70's. Most of them can be bought below $100K. Most owners of 100LL burning planes are middle class. Wealthy people fly jets or at least turboprops and burn Jet-A.
>Many of us went over to PHP which is vibrant, keeps getting faster and better and is as practical as Perl was and hasn’t stalled.

Funny as, quite similar to Perl, it took about a decade for a new major version (v. 7) and in the meantime there was a failed experiment (v. 6). And, quite similar to Perl, people were saying PHP is a dying language only alive thanks to some old major projects (WordPress, ...) that are written in it. Moreover, exactly like this very blog post, there were articles written saying that PHP is not dead.
Because of the magnitude and rarity of the problem, the proven effectiveness of their solution, and the ease of releasing it. I am not arguing that every second of every person's life should be devoted to maximum lifesaving utility. I do donate a lot of my income, but I save a lot for myself because I'm a normal self-interested person. I'm not asking anyone at Moderna to make some enormous sacrifice, I'm asking them to maybe risk some potential future business opportunities. Relative to the problem I don't even consider it a sacrifice at all.

In my mind it's like an off-duty firefighter standing next to someone unconscious in a burning building and being able to easily drag them to safety, but deciding not to because it might give them back problems in a few years. It's an emergency, they know how to fix it and can do so easily, and the sacrifice is minimal compared to the danger.
You're definitely right in that the universe of unsuccessful people far outnumbers those who are successful. I guess we'll be seeing a stream about lost opportunities and lost deals for some time. It's like those Country music ballads where the singer loses it all, but they still have their faith. Sing on.
Once somebody figures how to emulate all the five senses in VR, it's going to happen. Drink whatever you want, eat whatever you want, feel whatever you want, for as long as you want, from your La-Z-Boy? The whole world will rush to virtual reality.

I agree that a VR helmet is not going to significantly change anything, but one day we will absolutely plug ourselves into the matrix and never leave.
It's one icon per domain. Try hovering (on desktop) and you'll see that many domains have the same favicon.
They can research the products, the market/industry, the competitors. This is where the real information is.
Wait, isn't the first step in their exploit an installation of BURP suite, which installs custom SSL certificate?

This does not seem to be much of vulnerability -- I am sure that if you can bypass SSL verification on the host, there are plenty of auto-updaters you can convince to execute your code.
Here, it's working correctly. The point of paying for these permits is not to extract maximum money from the citizens who own the land; it is to make sure the land is being used.
It would be great if we could also run VSCode in terminal. It should theoretically totally be possible, but for some reason, there is still no good text-only browser supporting JavaScript.

Edit: Just tried brow.sh - only displays a white page. Might be a solution though
Off in one of the more esoteric corners of favicons, you have games played within the favicon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpjM5myls7I

Sadly it doesn't quite work for me any more, but the youtube video does a decent job showing what it looked like when it worked.
> Most virtual land is leased to individuals, and the leaseholder can eject or ban annoying visitors.

> Second Life is about the size of Greater London.

Both these statements are directly contradicted by https://secondlife.com/land/ which says land is bought from LindenLabs and that SL is not fixed in size but they continuously add more "land" with new users, so anyone can buy land themselves. Premium users get 1000 square meters free.
> No, I'm not conflating them.

Earlier you said "¼ and 1/4 are the same symbol" but now you're saying that symbols are physical things that unambiguously map onto a single equivalence class called a "concept." If they're the same, you're conflating signifier and signified. If they're not the same, then I'll leave you to your workshopping of your own philosophies of math and semiotics. (It would be more interesting if you'd relate what you're saying to established philosophies. I've mentioned a few, and it's a bit frustrating that they were overlooked.)

Formalism is a legitimate philosophy of math, but I think it's rather absurd to declare that it serves as a definition of math.

I like how Simon Stevin translated mathematics (Latin) into Dutch, wiskunde "the knowledge/art of what is certain." Symbolic calculation is certainly a way to be certain of something.
Genetic research suggests American Indian descendants in modern day Iceland.

https://phys.org/news/2010-11-vikings-brought-amerindian-ice...
Yes this is probably the biggest risk to current crypto market values. However I wonder if the other stablecoins will be able to quickly replace it with minimal market dislocations if/when Tether implodes.
Nothing new here, but it's always nice to see someone thinking about these things. Not just from the perspective of saving money but also from having a relatively healthy diet for less.
The Intel Pentium 4 is supported by Windows 11