skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't get worked up over this. Advertising is at best amoral, and inherently a shady activity. I've always assumed that advertising is a cut throat industry full of sharks. This doesn't really come as a surprise that google, the king of advertising, would partake in cutthroat activities in a cutthroat industry full of sharks to dominate and extract maximum value. So they acted like sociopaths among a society of sociopaths, so what.
We can understand Shakespeare with a bit of work ( mainly sound things out ) but Shakespeare himself would have had difficulty understanding his great grandfather.
I can see this as a result from too many employees going from college to Google with nothing in between.

They lack real-world experience and ability to grasp non-technical concepts.

As a founder, and having worked in multiple startups is hard for me to communicate with their relative worldview. Despite how brilliant they are.
> Other than search and ads, I doubt other part would do particular well. Breaking up Google would result in a lot of people losing their job.

This is exactly why companies should be broken up. They can currently afford doing a lot of anti-competitive stuff just because another department is profitable while the anti-competitive methods/departments won't. That people would lose their job shouldn't be a consideration as they can surely find jobs elsewhere that won't exploit the public like Google have been proven to do here.
yeah. that stupidity is important..

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/121/11/1771/3003...
That means Google is strangling innovation and market efficiency by offering unsustainable products that prevent profitable businesses from entering those markets.

Some people might lose their jobs at Google, but a healthier market will allow competition to hire for actually sustainable businesses. The benefits of increased innovation and competition for consumers makes breaking companies like this up worthwhile on their own.
That is literally just text on a field from the same company making these claims. Where is there evidence of this treatment working or even a hint that it’s worth researching more?

Evidence from the suspicious company itself claiming that it’s not suspicious is too tautological an argument to accept
LibreWolf

PaleMoon

Waterfox

Waterfox Classic

SeaMonkey

Download them. Install them. Test your sites with them. Recommend them to others.
This sounds like a great fit for the Nerves project. It focuses on Elixir, which runs the same as Erlang.

It builds firmware for Pis and other IoT on top of a thin Buildroot Linux layer, starts the Erlang VM and then that's practically your OS for building your device. Plenty of escape hatches for special needs.

I've done a bunch of streams recently with clustering Pi devices using Nerves, especially fun on local network with mDNS. They are on my blog: https://underjord.io/blog.html

Feel free to reach out if you have questions about Nerves. I'm an enthusiast of it, contributing mostly by using it for fun in public. Also write the newsletter so I'm fairly up to date :)

A lot of devs find Elixir more approachable/familiar than Erlang so it might help in your case there as well.
> Such a move would surely limit innovation [...] but increase competition

Wouldn't increasing competition also increase innovation as more companies can actually enter the market with new ideas? Sure, the innovation at Google itself might go down, but that should hardly be an argument against solving their anti-competitive behavior.
It is just my personal opinion, but I think that it is what is going on with gitlab now.
The Dead Sea scrolls can be compared to the “oral” tradition (mostly actually written) to see how far it shifted.
It's been a while, but I remember running into lots of weird playback and subtitle issues with Plex, like the media getting stuck when I would pause it etc. It felt very bloated. Jellyfin on the other hand has worked like a charm out of the box so far.
Web is not winning. It is forced down your throath. Google "apps" are terrible. My former employer tried to use them but stayed with MS Office. Office PWAs are horrible. If 365 is a PWA why does an xlsx openned in sharepoint a different look (no ribbon, other fonts) than an xlsx opened in Excel 365 ? And MS Teams looks like an incompleted CS assignment for a first year college student.
It's about shareholder value added. A public company or a VC-backed private company can focus on making creative nice widgets and services for only a limited time before growth inevitably stalls. After that (unless the management can and wants to screw over their owners) they will need to look elsewhere for more profits.
> - WhatsApp backups not encrypted on Drive

Hasn't this been clear since long time ago? For as long as I can remember, the message on the backup screen for Whatsapp on iOS has said that backups are not encrypted.
Idk, it seems to be that Facebook has become too good at targeting people and started to be used so effectively for political purposes, that parties obviously decided that it's too much risk to let them have that kind of influence without them being able to control it.
Or picked up pretty easily. P. G. Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle use some anachronistic language but it’s still 99% understandable without a dictionary.
Athira chief executive resigns as company confirms she altered research
I assume it is the NFI the article is about :

https://www.forensicinstitute.nl/

I think it is called like this for like 50 years.
Do you think checkboxes magically spring from the aether just to support sales demos?
I’m assuming Tesla don’t give you the source code to their cars. Does anyone? I’d love to have a car that can be taken apart and put back together — the engine and the UI. Not because I have the skill or shop needed to do maintenance, but because at least I stand a chance of paying someone else to.

Right now it feels like I’m dealing with a bunch of pirates. I either pay $800 to hack an HDMI cable into my Audi’s virtual cockpit just so I can use a map that’s not 6 years out of date, or $500 to the dealership to install the latest map update pack. Argh!
It's silly but the only reason I can't get worked up over this is because it was presented in a Twitter thread. I just can't take anything presented in batches of x characters seriously.
Win 10 is nor stable nor performant. It does not crashes but is full of errors.
Logic programming is extremely powerful in offering the option to essentially run your program in reverse, asking “given this output, which inputs would cause that?”

Even if you don’t use it as your principal application language it is a great addition to the development toolbox.

Running in reverse is great for testing, where you can generate test cases that hit interesting variant flows.

For example, I have used it to generate input pension payout requests that would hit the interesting special cases for the bespoke bookkeeping rules for each tenant or subsidiary like “for X, the third dimension is always 930, but for Y they have 930 or 931, but then the fourth dimension is 4,6 or 10 depending on the historical subsidiary of the account origin…”

Another great use of logic programming in the daily toolbox is with respect to compliance documentation where you want to document and verify how data points flow across systems or the variables going into aggregates calculated on the way.

This allows you to answer questions like, “our provider for X data delivered bad data for last month, which customer transactions may have been impacted?”, or “this value looks wrong, where did it come from?”

It also allows you to generate exact documentation for this, or even checking the model vs the actual APIs, schemas or data flow or change notifications.
Hence the effective disinheriting of second or third sons of noble houses (the old saying was something like heir, army, priest).
Same here. I have an older Unicomp that I would like to replace, but I haven't done it for exactly this reason.
Depends how you define thinking. I used it in that calculations are "thinking" work.
Not only unhinged, but whiney too. A true Renaissance man!
> How could anyone possibly argue against that?

Arguing against that is easy.

The elite have so many better ways to profit from their positions that outlawing stock ownership is laughably naïve. Trading stocks against knowledge you obtained from your government position is an easy way to get busted, so you may assume the people caught up in this represent merely the profoundly stupid; the smart elites don't get nabbed in such simple minded schemes. Yes, there are very stupid federal judges; their appointments are a product a political haymaking that has their actual competence way down the list of priorities.

So the best reason I can think of to oppose your plan is simply that it's a futile waste of time. If you're serious about meaningful efforts to hinder corruption think in terms of transparency. Give the electorate the means to know who is bought and paid for by whom. Without that you're wasting your time.
Yes, every (type of) language has it's corner, no language is best for absolutely everything.

Since Prolog is a logic-based and declarative programming language, if you're dealing with goal reduction or backwards chaining, then Prolog is a excellent fit and will probably be easier to both write and maintain compared to other languages. Theorem proving, automated scheduling and querying data stores are also excellent use cases for Prolog and Prolog-like languages.
If you haven't altered, destroyed, or concealed the physical phone in any way, then why would turning it off be considered tampering with evidence? Also, I believe there would be a burden to prove that some material stored on the phone would constitute "evidence." Pretty hard for the cops to do that if they can't get into the phone.
What about JAX is so amazing? It takes the worst of functional programming and tensor programming and gives you yet another half baked lib with 12 edge cases at every API call
Do you expect people to sign up for a product that doesn't even exist yet and likely never will?

Perhaps these threads will contain some useful info for you:

(The Mom Test)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28667439

(From side project to 1k/month)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24307434

(Validate your idea/MVP)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644616
And yet it happens, because it's easy.

Is it not the wisest decision ever? Sure.

However, since it's already being done, we might as well create laws around protecting this use case.

For example, from what i know, people in the USA use their SSNs both as identifiers and sometimes as something like a pseudo-password, which seems like a really bad approach, but at the same time should be regarded as the objective and sub-optimal reality, with which we need to cope until a better solution is implemented (if ever).

Saying that the method is bad and shouldn't be considered when it's already in widespread usage is something that we just can't do.
Popular Keyphrase Extraction Methods in Machine Learning
Parsers can still handle the original HTML spec but that may change - especially as security flaws are found. Something like TeX may last somewhat longer.
I don't care, I'll be dead.
bribes/lobbying should be illegal... please get a referendum going on this subject
> That is literally just text on a field from the same company making these claims

Huh? Are you suggesting that the company is illegally selling this spray in the US or other countries where it would be unlawful to do so? If so, please present your evidence.

> Where is there evidence of this treatment working or even a hint that it’s worth researching more?

You can reasonably raise questions about the efficacy of the treatment. Screaming "Where's the FDA?!?" when the company explicitly states that it is only selling the treatment in a country where it has authorization to do so is silly.
RollerCoaster Tycoon (original) is still one of my all-time favorite games
> I don’t know why hacker news seems to have this belief that native apps are better, while clearly proven wrong by facts.

I dont know how accurate this take is... I am currently explaining to our customers why we are shitcanning native iOS and UWP apps in favor of HTML5.

What device interaction is demanding everyone continue using native apps? We have no trouble with camera, barcode scanning, signature capture, etc in the browser.

You can literally mortgage a house on a webapp these days without touching a single piece of paper.

Other advantage of webapp is that it's a LOT harder for the vendor to fuck you over with OS updates. For our B2B product this is a massive deal.
No, Google would easily survive if they focused on maintaing existing services and making the headcount stable instead of increasing.

Most businesses in the world survive with their piece of the pie and remaining having the same profits or slightly lower/higher than previous years. You don't disappear over night, and no market is really a "winner takes it all", it's just what management wants you to believe so you fight the good fight for your company.
Please mention a low power chip that AMD makes that's competitive with an apple chip at similar power levels.

Apple hasn't released it's high power chips yet at 5nm. They've only released chips in the very low power laptop range (honestly lower than most any laptop uses today) and the power laptop range (not even high power laptop range). Comparisons will be interesting once we see the Mac Pro heat range M* chip.
I think Chrome being the largest browser provider could make big profits from partnering with other search providers to make one the default search engine.
> Why are they still able to continuously pushed out great products and keep innovating? What’s your hypothesis?

Big assumption that Apple is indeed innovating right now. Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation. Everything between has just been iterations basically, so I disagree with your assumption that Apple is in-fact highly innovative.
Apple updates App Store (in-app purchases) review guidelines
Biggest change is the removal of 3.1.3 for marketing other purchase methods.

> Added 2.3.13. “In-app events are timely events that happen within your app. To feature your event on the App Store, it must fall within an event type provided in App Store Connect. All event metadata must be accurate and pertain to the event itself, rather than the app more generally. Events must happen at the times and dates you select in App Store Connect, including across multiple storefronts. You may monetize your event so long as you follow the rules set forth in Section 3 on Business. And your event deep link must direct users to the proper destination within your app. Read In‑App Events for detailed guidance on acceptable event metadata and event deep links.”

> Deleted from 3.1.3. “Developers cannot use information obtained within the app to target individual users outside of the app to use purchasing methods other than in-app purchase (such as sending an individual user an email about other purchasing methods after that individual signs up for an account within the app).”

> Added 5.1.1 (x). “Apps may request basic contact information (such as name and email address) so long as the request is optional for the user, features and services are not conditional on providing the information, and it complies with all other provisions of these guidelines, including limitations on collecting information from kids.”
There are some things requiring capital investment at a scale that wouldn’t be feasible for a company outside the 100bn market cap club. Data centers, intercontinental data links, high end VLSI development, high end smartphone hardware and things like Waymo all come to mind. It’s more than cash alone, it’s low cost nature of their mistakes (because everything is paid for by Search anyway) that enables that.
In a world where R&D is now often dwarfed by ad spend it is really a threat to progress.
I have one of those cables and it is perfect.
Don't give them ideas https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...
I don't really buy that argument, because google is still the only IT company which supports long term R&D, like dart, flutter or fuchsia. Of course they can afford such boutique projects, but the good thing is they do.

My idea is still the wrong PM incentive structure, which is harming the work culture and projects.
Answering my own question,

What about the timescales and starbursts and small tech startups that we like to see crop up on HN?

My list above is tainted by my own interest in data; what is there in other spaces?

Impressions and anecdotes?
> I find most frontend libs code too convoluted to be able to understand what is happening just by taking a glipse at the code.

This is definitely a valid concern, especially when the authors of some frameworks attempt to be "clever", which unnecessarily increases the cognitive load that one has to deal with.

That said, it's also probably a matter of the abstractions that are used, for example, in Java for back end you can use any of the following: Spring, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Quarkus, Helidon, Vert.x, JSP/JSF with something like PrimeFaces, Apache Struts, Play and others. Whenever you run into a framework that uses MVC or its own way of templating, you're stuck learning all of its specifics and idiosyncrasies, even if the end result that you want to achieve is the same.

Thus, i'd posit that if you're not the person making the choice of which framework or library to use (the ones that you're familiar with), on some level you've already lost.

If you're used to Angular, for example, but instead get thrown into a project with React, Redux and Tailwind CSS because someone wanted it on their resume, you'll both be less productive and will look less productive compared to everyone else.
I actually flagged your post. But now seeing it was the comment that you were trying to bring attention to it makes more sense.
The only two of those I’m pretty sure could survive on their own is search and YouTube.

Android and Chrome pretty much doesn’t have a business case. GCP might be big enough at this point, but is still just burning ad money. GSuite/GMail is again a maybe, but can it afford the infratructure? They would at least have to cribble the free tier.
Thunderbird can do this with some configuration for replying to emails - set the pattern of the "Reply from this identity when delivery headers match" value of Account Settings. It's not as good as the addon Virtual Identity used to be, but it works for me 85% of the time (see https://github.com/absorb-it/Virtual-Identity/issues/22#issu...).

For new messages you still need an extension like Identity Chooser or to manually edit the from header before sending.
The point is that we won't need to nearly as much because they don't have that overwhelming power.
That broadly equates to...

1. Ads

2. Corporate

3. Cloud infrastructure

4. Ads

5. Retail app sales and hardware.

Maybe things get messy when those different models are mixed.
Google Scholar reports about 8.390 uses of the phrase "sterilizing immunity"; the frequency suggests it is a common phrase:

> Sterilizing immunity is a unique immune status, which prevents effective virus infection into the host. It is different from the immunity that allows infection but with subsequent successful eradication of the virus [1]

When people talk about "sterilizing vaccines", they mean "vaccines that induce sterilizing immunity", which means "vaccines which prevent effective virus infection into the host".

[1] Influenza: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32973
This is the national forensic laboratory of Netherlands (NFI) though, so it is definitely in their remit.

(I don't know if I would blame the headline or the decrease in people actually bothering reading the article-in-question.)
There's also a Datalog implementation at https://github.com/rust-lang/datafrog .

The Polonius reimplementation of the Rust borrowchecker uses Datafrog: https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius/
"The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks" — CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...

If you aren't one of that "wealthiest 10%" it would not be difficult to divest your stock holdings in exchange for an index fund.
Do you work for Google, Apple or Amazon?
1. There is no way for a fairly normal person working a fairly normal job (probably service industry) to verify any of the blind trust stuff and past politicians have helped make a mockery of the whole thing. To be fair, though, there are other ways. You can reform things so that there are minimum holding times for stocks alongside rules that make selling stocks take more time. If you need to hold onto the stocks for 6 weeks after you say you want to sell, you are going to have a harder time selling. You can also restrict times officials can sell.

2. Again, how is a normal person - say, a retail employee - ever going to find out about this? Even with public disclosure, all folks need to do to hide their doings is to make the language in the disclosure full of technical jargon instead of everyday language.

3. That's a bonus, not a feature. Maybe it'll encourage normal folks to take office more often - but of course, we'd have to do other changes to make that happen.
I imagine being offered complex code completion can lead to just accept it at times, without understanding it fully and therefore lots of potential for hidden bugs. Did you notice anything like this?
But you first have to observe them using the card… so 5 cards implies mugging 5 people, which is quite different from stealing wallets from random targets, easiest first.
ReasonML is not a modern syntax for OCaml, it's just JavaScript-like syntax. Nothing modern about it. Notably, latest OCaml versions have more modern syntax - some additional sugar, shorter monadic binding syntaxes, upcoming special syntax for effects, and many other small things that compound in overall better experience.
Personally I'm not convinced that an attack against an electronic ledger can scale in all cases.

If the model of an electronic vote relies on individual keys having cast votes (following something like a vote enrollment), the attacker will have to spoof all those keys for the result to look authentic and at the same time be malicious.

Depending on how those "keys" have been generated in the enrollment, this could be difficult to scale. The most basic premise would be that the "tallier" and the voter create this key together, and once committed to the ledger can't be tampered with by any of them. A vote must be signed with this key. The voter can override their vote at any time while the election runs. (This is something that I'm paraphrasing from the article actually)

This does not scale as it requires a malicious actor to hijack enrollment and voting for a large number of voters. If enrollment is being done based on a physical device (eg, electronic ID card) it's even less so.
A startup, perhaps?
create-react-app made their own security problems by bringing in the entire world, npm audit just makes that clear.

npm itself having vulnerabilities is a more serious problem and it's not clear that they're taking it seriously.
Ban trades while they have the position, not ownership. If they had it long before they got the position they shouldn't have to sell it just for the sake of serving the country.
I think it's a classical case of Christensen's innovators dilemma. Public clouds were/are an existential threat to their core business of selling expensive vsphere licenses for on-prem enterprise computing.
DMCA is just a letter format for removal of content per U.S. law. Any country that observes copyright (they are apart of the WTO) is expected to comply with other member nations' copyrights. All developed countries have also adopted the Berne Convention.
A meeting with .NET teams to talk about Unity's future with .NET
> Android and Chrome pretty much doesn’t have a business case.

The 30% fee on everything Play Store seems a good enough business case to me.