skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feature is called "Google Signals." Here are documentation links to how it's use in Google Ads & Google Analytics.

Ads: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662856#zippy=,when-yo...

Analytics: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9445345?hl=en&re...

tl;dr If logged in to Chrome, your Google Account can be used as an "identity signal" in place of a first-party cookie. This allows cross-domain and cross-device tracking.
That settlement expired in 2009.
Not yet, no (though I'd love a different keyboard). But the slightly paraphrased conversation I'm replying to is:

"Framework laptop lets you buy parts"
"They don't sell parts yet though"
"Yes they do, see the marketplace"

When in fact the marketplace is almost entirely populated with placeholders, and they do not yet sell replacements for the vast majority of parts (including the battery, which to me is the "killer feature").
States that cutoff of jobless aid see no surge of job seekers
There’s something that I think often gets overlooked about the replacement of old buildings with new ones, and I think it’s pretty important. The lowest tier of housing in a given city is generally accessible to poor people in ways that new construction, or even properly maintained older buildings never will be. Slumlords operate at this level, and while they suck for many other reasons, they are often willing to rent to anyone who can deliver the rent money approximately on time. No background checks, no credit checks, no income requirements, just cash on the barrelhead the first of the month. That’s a hugely valuable service to the poor; no matter how bad the housing might be it still beats living on the street.

There are a surprising number of homeless people who live off of their disability benefits. If they could find such an arrangement as described above, they wouldn’t be homeless anymore. But landlords have no incentive to take that risk with them, and they won’t pass any of the income screening processes that are baked in to the apartment rental process today. As the worst of our housing stock disappears, the fraction of the overall housing market that remains accessible to people like that becomes ever smaller.

Worse, it’s a ratcheting effect: it only works in one direction. Sure, as the new high end units go up, the previously acceptable ones look less desirable, but it takes a long time for a unit to reach the bottom rung. Plus, even if it’s now the least desirable building in town, if it belongs to a landlord unaccustomed that to renting to the poorest segment of society that can technically afford housing, it’s likely that landlord will not want to change their requirements and policies to begin renting to them. The landlord is likely to preferred to sell the property instead, which greatly increases the chances it will be redeveloped into luxury housing, and so on.
Can you elaborate on this?

Parsing ISO 8601 formatted dates doesn't result in naive Python datetimes:

>>> datetime.fromisoformat("2021-10-24T20:17:41+02:00")
datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 24, 20, 17, 41, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=7200)))
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So, what is the legality of this? I've not followed much about this at all, but NSO group appears to be an Israeli company.

Do they just sell, or operate the hacking software for their clients? If they operate it, is it illegal for an Israeli company to hack an American citizen (I assume it is illegal in America, but how about Israel?)

Is the sale of hacking software regulated in any way?
This feels like a much, much better analysis/exposition than Jeff Bezo's report via Gavin de Becker.
E.O. Wilson, an entomologist studying ants, describes a "chemical grammar" for communications.

Ants use specific chemicals (pheromones), producing odors, for communication. Their signals for food and other sustaining activities are fairly complex and long-lasting, and tend to be specific to a species.

Alert signals are comprised of small molecules, are sharp, are not specific to a given species (there may be multiples of these, but they're shared across species), and they spread and disperse below detection threshold quickly. That is, once emitted, the signal permeates through the immediate area quickly, but it's also not long-lasting, so that later-arrivals won't erroniously interpret a danger signal.

See:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(06)...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3509_eowilson.html

https://achievement.org/achiever/edward-o-wilson-ph-d/#inter...

(I'm finding overviews but not a specific description of the processes / methods.)

Audio alerts among other animals seem to be similar. Alarm or threat cries are clear, unambiguous, and broadcast widely. Friend or mating cries, calls, songs, etc., are typically far more complex, specific, and more localised. These are behaviours which have emerged under selective pressure over millions of years.

We scream at terror, shout at enemies, and whisper to lovers and children.

I'd be very interested to hear of any secret or covert alert calls in nature.

Complex or secret help calls are ... probably not especially useful in most cases. Instead, those who are likely to receive a call should be primed to act and verify quickly.

Put another way, the method suggested in the article is a form of responsibilty-shifting to the victim, though it's all but certainly not intentionally constructed as such.
I don't think Scala ever could have filled that niche, I say this as someone that wanted Scala to be successful.

The truth of it is that Kotlin is incredibly easy to learn, even for non-Java devs. It is definitely focused on a very low barrier to entry. I don't think this was an original goal but it's become a significant focus of the language especially after being selected to be the next platform language for Android.

This isn't true of Scala at all. Beyond things like SBT, comparatively poor IDE support (less of an issue these days) it is also just a very complex language, with many complicated semantics in it's standard library and even more complex/fancy 3rd party libraries piled on top of that.

Scala became an incredibly powerful language, not a simple or easy to use one however.

Kotlin is a very user friendly language that is easy to learn but still has enough power to keep most expressiveness focussed devs happy.

Beyond the learning curve Kotlin integrates with Java a lot better, calling in both directions.

These 2 factors alone probably account for why it was chosen over Scala for Android and in general why it has value over both Java and Scala.

I think with Gradle moving from Groovy -> Kotlin, Android obviously and big companies adopting Kotlin w/Spring on the backend the ship has indeed sailed for Scala, it doesn't really have a place outside of places that specifically want a more FP lang.
Yes but it's different here. SOS should be as known as Coca Cola.

I'm not trying to be harsh or anything, it's just that I can't imagine someone not knowing such a basic thing like that - similar to not knowing what the number for the emergency services in your country is.
Ask HN: What would you change about the AWS, Azure or GCP Web UI?
Massive Shibu Inu YouTube LiveStream Scam Network, $320k Stolen
Unfortunately the document is not freely available. Can you elaborate how it works?
I disagree with everything you’ve said about the genre; but as applied to the specific song listed in the article I agree with you wholeheartedly.
> young people lack the context and so many are already hooked on MS now. It's not obvious to me that they will ever care enough to switch no matter how hostile MS behaves.

Not all of us. I had just barely started being willing to trust Microsoft again, and they've repeatedly shown themselves to be hostile since the initial "Github is cool! And WSL! And VSCode!", enough is enough.

I've read the Halloween documents, I know where this goes.
I'm biased but I'm building my own here: https://getartemis.app

It combines a todo list and calendar. Currently though I'm working on a mobile version which you can see on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/satvikpendem/status/1446697663479562242?...
Honestly, I don't see anyone using any of the new features. Oddly enough I do get asked about them in interviews.
This is configurable, the default is to use the default network stack.

Settings > search for Use secure DNS for DNS-over-TLS.
I suspect that worshiping "The Rule of Law" as an unadulterated good is responsible for a lot of the corporate overreach we observe in the past few decades. When we construct a social fiction that state is just one among many actors, and must be bound by rigid rules and justify its actions, that Bermuda is basically an equal partner to the US, it just naturally leads other entities to malignant behavior

Of course the corporations will reverse engineer the legal code to get away with as much as they can. Of course they will evade taxes. Of course there will be a slow creep, where previously borderline illegal behavior is now the best practice adopted by everyone, and therefore unenforceable

If there's a sovereign on top of the hierarchy that doesn't have to answer to anyone, the corporations are way more docile, as seen in China or FDR-era USA, and proactively align their goals with the goals of the society
It's not a walkable community. No grocery store. No restaraunts. No doctors offices or dentists.

If you look at the map and don't have the public relations material in front of you, the urban form is ordinary exurban sprawl.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecovillage+At+Ithaca+Inc/@...

Sure there's a bus stop at the end of it's long driveway. Route 20 has six buses per weekday. Three buses a day on the weekends. https://tcatbus.com/bus-schedules

If you're going anywhere in the long cold Ithaca winter, a car is the most practical option because it's still sprawl. Maybe better sprawl. But still sprawl even though there's a garden instead of a golf course.
The ultimate open standards - pen and paper.

I find writing it down helps me remember the tasks or things needed, and a fountain pen is just a joy to use plus you get to take mini breaks from the digital world.
The dude asks for flags from each embassy via automated script
Maybe throw in a 4-day work week too?
It feels more dystopian than futuristic. There are countries where children don't have to commute in large groups to avoid crime.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin (BTC) stash is now worth over $60B
>The real question to the author is why? Why write a piece like this? Why defend organized crime?

Anything that forwards the narrative, facts and reality be damned. The thought that minorities might be the ones out there commiting crimes, even when the evidence is damming proving that it's actually them, is so heretical that people like the author will self-delude themselves into believing anything other than the truth.
How many people browsing HN work in the advertising industry or indirectly receive their paycheck from it?

Important to keep in mind that the old hippie days from the 80s and 90s are long gone.
> Another way of putting that is when the cost of carbon capture and/or non-greenhouse gas emitting energy sources is profitable, that's when you'll see change.

We may be underpricing the collapse of our civilization due to climate change. It'll be extremely inconvenient and really bad for businesses all over.
Moment Pixel 6 cases work with MagSafe – charge your phone, use the wallet
Yeah well, in this example and many similar big cities in europe, you have subway and buses that will take you to any street corner. Sure, in a small town in australia or the US, not the case, but I highly doubt bike lanes will be any viable alternative there anyway.

My point is that it's not a good idea to expand bike lanes in big city centers where you already have public transport, especially not in places that doesn't have a bike friendly climate. It's simply not a good use of the space, can't really make any good case for it except some people think it's fun, which is extremely weak. And I don't understand why it makes cities such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen so much better, people just get randomly happy from the joys of riding a bike, or what? I'd rather have many more practical solutions with tangible results such as actually reducing the time and energy we spend on commuting, not increasing it.
> you may give the signal out during work/while video chatting with a friend/relative while the abuser is unobservant but within hearing distance.

It just seems like an extremely dangerous thing to do. If someone sees you doing some weird gesture with your hands, their first impulse may just be to blurt out "what are you doing with your hands?", which would in this case draw the abuser's attention.

It seems way more straightforward to type out in that scenario explicitly that you are in danger.
> If an organization arose that provided benefits to members in a way similar to actual citizenships, it would likely be competitive and desirable.

Countries don't just spring up and start offering passports. A country isn't a country unless other countries recognize it as such. That's why calling Taiwan a country or a part of China is such a big deal. If doing so would undermine their own sovereignty and monopoly on power, why would they do this?

If something like this happens, it won't be island counties trying to attract digital nomads. It will be big tech companies who want to create little city-states of tech workers without having to worry about laws and immigration restrictions.
I've discovered something similar, I also noticed ADHD type behaviors which led me to build my own thing as well: https://getartemis.app. I'd love to test out yours as well though, maybe we can give mutual feedback?
Right. That's why I am more interested in arrow than parquet. Going from a pure compressed storage format to incorporate computation would be more difficult than going from memory-mapped / computation format to long-term storage. Arrow already made some good choices regarding data exchange over wire, these are translatable to data exchange over time.

Of course, I am only dealing with a few hundreds GiB data, not sure at larger scale whether arrow fails.
It's worth noting that this game uses Godot engine, which is open source and built with Linux in mind, and most platform compatibility complexity was shifted to engine. Experience is quite different for big game developers that have their own engines and can't offload complexity to another layer of abstraction, supporting a lot of hardware/software combinations on Linux for them is quite hard. I presume that's why there are games that didn't get PC Linux releases while technically having Linux port(Cyberpunk 2077 would be prime example).
This is something I might be looking for. Will check it out
It's simple, you just have $GO deliver the left half of the searchbar while $OG handles the right.
This is a fantastic idea! I forked [1] projectM a while back to work on a few modifications such as screen and audio recording (by saving raw framebuffers) and being able to select the active preset remotely from a web interface so I became somewhat familiar with the way projectm handles A/V input/output.

I just took a look at ffmpeg’s video filter interface and it looks like linking the two could be doable!

This feels like a much more elegant solution for recording frame-perfect captures so thank you!

I’ll definitely be looking more into it.

[1] https://github.com/hashFactory/projectm
I think the best, most reliable way to get a software engineering job is to get a software engineering degree.

If you want a shortcut, I would look for ways to complete your degree faster. Do more courses at a time, and make sure to finish them in the shortest time possible. It should be possible to complete a bachelors degree in 3 years.

I don't think there is anything you can do in a few weekends that will make your Github profile appealing. I also don't think you need an impressive Github profile to get a job as a developer. Most devs I know have boring Github repos.
Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON: Exploring PL/pgSQL
Slo-mo footage of running engine with acrylic cylinder
With a targeted hack the OS doesn't really matter. Either way, there already is mainstream ransomware for Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0J5fEuWSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_L6wG8-Gnw
Why is their school so far that they have to bike? Ideally you should just walk.
> Every selective admissions process has the potential (probably history) for bigotry. University/school admission, mortgage approval, job hiring. Does that mean selective hiring needs to end?

There's a very big difference between being rejected from a university, and being expelled from your home because your neighbors dislike you.

I don't see how you make the comparison — the problem we're pointing out is being evicted, not selective admission as you're reframing it to be.
Plastic industry pollution to overtake coal in US by 2030, report says
Watch HN turn this into a negative because the hard-core ProtonMail haters going to hate
I have an iTunes library that I’ve been working on since at least 2004 that contains music from all sorts of sources, including tracks from Apple Music and recent additions from bandcamp. Haven’t had any issues. The UI indicating what has/hasn’t synced with the cloud could be better, but otherwise it’s fine.

I don’t feel like Apple Music is particularly pushy either, at least compared to Spotify. Music.app also doesn’t have its UI changing constantly for no reason, also unlike Spotify.
Thanks! 90s web nostalgia is what I was going for :P
While pretty hand-wavy I think they're the least hand-wavy of all the world building.
https://botland.com.pl will sell you up to 10.
ive reflashed old routers with openWRT into a server cluster, they are a lot more portable, quiet and power efficient, of course this doesnt scale up well as the hardware has its limits. keep in mind you dont have to host the entire website on one server, so you can balance the load that way if you need to.
That isn’t a convex polyhedron, A retroreflective surface would actually be the interface between tessellated cubes.
Exactly right. As long as BTC needs to ramp off into fiat for most spending purposes, it can be banned.

Importantly, it can also be banned if centralized exchanges are powerful enough and do what the government says.
I know we're supposed to remain deadly serious and stoic here on HN, but this is too funny to pass up.

>Everyone talks about the weather-- but no one does anything about it!
Seriously. Adding a docker layer to a device as lightweight as a Raspberry Pi just seems like insanity.
Cube.js fills a need I've heard many times in ClickHouse work--how to build a clean data delivery API that mediates application access to analytic databases. There's a basic impedenance mismatch between highly concurrent apps that may have 10s of thousands of users and backend data warehouses that run massivley parallel queries in order to get predictably fast response.

Just as a shameless plug, Pavel Tiunov is going to be talking about design decisions on Cube Store at OSA Con on November 2. [0] We feel this type of technology is fundamental to scaling analytic apps, which is why we picked Pavel's session for inclusion.

[0] https://altinity.com/osa-con-2021/

Disclaimer: I work at Altinity on ClickHouse.
Thanks for catching this! I'll make an update adding the alt text as default when copy & pasting
Russian mercenaries leave trail of destruction in the Central African Republic
We've had a long exchange, but I still can't work out what your algorithm is in detail ... there are no contact details in your profile, so I'll just have to leave it with you to get in touch with me. See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978463
I don't know, I found the articles interesting.

It's a niche market calling saying "I will give you money if you just make design decisions that made your computers great to work with in the past." How big is this market? What can really be expected from trying to sell to that market when computers are complex things to build?

If anything, there are companies out on the market trying to serve this niche market. System76 has been around for awhile now, for example (I bought a System76 laptop in 2013 and I hated it, but that's a different story.) I think a few of us would at least hope that these companies look at old ThinkPads and take a few notes. I think maybe that time is coming soon (I would hope :) )
Is it a win for everyone though?

If we have X cases where people brought knives onto planes, and no notable incidents of knife-enabled violence in the past few years, what's the motivation for reducing X by half?

I'm sure that some would-be-criminals are dissuaded by the TSA, but that seems to already be working today. It seems like a very reasonable outcome would be no decrease in airline violence/crime, but an increase in taking people's property.

All said, if there is still a scourge of knife-wielding criminals on airlines, I'd be happy to be wrong here. Otherwise, though, this seems like it have a very marginally negative impact on the average passenger by taking away their belongings that they accidentally packed.
"Presumed innocent" refers to the government not being supposed to punish an unconvicted defendant beyond what's practically necessary for safety (though reading up on pre-trial detention is... illuminating). It does not mean if we look at Jason Voorhees covered in blood that we all have to say "well, he's not yet gone to trial, so it's really only an allegation of murder."
Agreed. I think the problem with CNN more than others such as MSNBC or Fox News is that CNN mixes opinion and news pretty aggressively. Daily or weekend news with the latter two is relatively objective, prime time is almost entirely option, but viewers know this. With CNN, it is all conflated.
Move to lateral flow tests for travel begins today in England
This is exactly mysetup !
https://advancedweb.hu/new-language-features-since-java-8-to...

> Available since: JDK 11 (Without lambda support in JDK 10)

TOC is missed up, there is no java-10 at all.
South Korea’s street lights up as road safety for those on their phones
You should probably tell the Dutch that they don't cycle in the rain. Over 1/3rd of days are rainy in the Netherlands on average and yet they somehow manage to put on their ponchos.
Sounds like a psychiatrist to me. I guess this is why Bobby Axelrod pays Wendy $9m bonus.