skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that it is outlawed though, at least in practical terms, no one is gonna sue you for scrapping government websites. You really only think about the legal aspect when you do it for commercial gains.

It would be interesting to know if that data can be used in a court case against a government agency though.
Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells
Walmart does have competition across town, unlike apple store. I can got to Target, Costco, Safeway, et c. Unless they collude to price fix, they will indeed have to compete by driving down their margin.

Moving "across town" from the apple store involves an IT project and hundreds of dollars in order to save dozens of dollars.
They sell computers.. I think you’re reaching a bit.
Also I believe the F-35 still has a landing gear lever, I would never want my gear lever to be contextually defined. I want that visual cue as I scan my cockpit prior to landing.
I'd be more sympathetic to this if Uber and Lyft hadn't built their businesses on the premise that regulations are for other people.
Hades will help train you to be persistent and care for yourself in the face of adversity. And it’s a bloody computer game! Cheaper than (though not a replacement for) therapy.
Using Social Media(with talk therapy) as cheap hack for dopamine therapy
I was wondering today ..what with all the noise about social media and dopamine addiction ..why not use the dopamine hits from Insta or FB clicks as a therapeutic way for depression or other mild brain chemical imbalance issues.

Some behavioural or depressive states can be resolved with talk therapy. A trained therapist can help people navigate with social media as therapy and gently nudge the patient back into health so it doesn’t slip into negative territory.

Or is this already done/implemented? If attention seeking is a way to get the dopamine hits, why not use it as a guided healing modality?

I am not sure I buy the theory that social media is all bad. Some people have come out of their shell and gain friends and have had a net positive experience. They used to say this with video gaming too back when…but surely all them kids didn’t turn out to be suicidal or anti social thugs?
I'm not sure what you're referring to, re: ignore, but I don't think your analogy is remotely apt. I think you're saying a little fire is like a little virus, and a big fire like a pandemic. But anyone can light a fire, even animals cause wildfires, and thanks to lightning and fuel, fire doesn't need anyone to cause it. No one, I think, can "light" a little virus that could then spread like wildfire across the globe. Maybe a state actor, but not some individual and not accidentally. But this is mixing the two conspiracies, ordinary lab leak vs. engineered virus intentionally released. I just don't think China is up to it. I still return to the fact that lots of nasty things have escaped labs and the worst result was a very minor outbreak. Though genetics and microbiology has made incredible advances, it is all, all of it, on Nature's back. I think in a contest between Nature and any group of the smartest most knowledgable scientists with global resources to create the deadliest virus imaginable, Nature wins every single time, forever. And if COVID-19 was engineered for this, it sucks, it's an absurd and annoying failure. I think the reason why the source for COVID-19 can not be found is that it was fully consumed by one or more of the first 50 infected Wuhan residents that purchased it at the wet market and fully digested it before anyone had a hint of symptoms.
They only love it if they get raises.
Not so much on HN (perhaps because its a forum sponsored by a VC and filled with people that either own their own business or hope to one day), but one of the fastest growing subreddits - r/antiwork - is dedicated to precisely that premise.
Semi conductor newbie here.

Reading this, I am wondering what failures in the transistor (field effect transistor) can be tolerated by the circuit?

I forgot all the analog and digital circuitry classes in college. I don't recall there is any redundancy in the circuit design.

Is redundancy built in the circuit design therefore the chip?
Wikipedia entry about the Golden Record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

A new book about the Golden Record: Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth [1]

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781942130536/al...
sounds like how I approach laundry
Cannabis is still federally illegal, and sending it through the mail is on top of that a federal mail crime. Not too wise, though I'm not at all against using cannabis.
Ask HN: What are companies expectation to a senior software developer?
I had an interview with a company based on US, for a position of senior full stack developer. He gave some questions related to my current role as senior developer. More or less here's the topic:

- explaining my work experience
- how I manage or assign tasks to my subordinate
- what is a leader means to me
- how do I handle my subordinate mistakes / misdemeanor
- how is the situation in my company and how can I do to change it

Then I had another interview with different company, they go with more technical questions here:

- asks to share some code I can show and explain to them
- about how I manage css
- about ci/cd pipeline
- about react hooks

Now I think there are some project management role in the first one and infra / devops role in the second one (I'm more inclined towards this one). So what is the company really expect me to able to?
This is a great example of a poor landing page. What is it? It’s a language? Where are the examples? Where is the source code?
Since the Venn diagram of this is concentric circles, with the Greed circle on the inside, you can also be sure about the Evil part (greed being a subset of types of evil) ...
Nvidia Announces AI-Powered Dynamic Super Resolution Image Scaling Technology
my experience was through the hidden wiki mostly
> Because they have tons of competition and don’t dominate the market. By revenue, android is way higher.

Apple has 60% of the mobile market in the US[1], and the App Store is responsible for more than 100% more revenue than the Play Store, too[2].

Regulatory bodies aren't concerned with layman definitions of monopoly[3]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/ios-more-popular-in-japan-and-us-...

[2] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/

[3] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
These super-resolution models certainly make the zoom and enchance television trope less ridiculous. By using generic out-of-band information certain missing details can be recreated.
In MySQL, use postgres instead.
You can redefine all definitions from lib.d.ts and similar. In my projects, parse function returns unknown, so I need to parse/validate/decode it in runtime to satisfy types.
Even with the 30% up front - if it is such a great deal, why don't they allow alternatives?

It's clear as day they know the minute they allowed alternatives, a giant fraction of the App Store would depart because they can get a better deal either elsewhere.
Didn't you have a flood that put a mudslide right through the saddledome in the last 5 years?
There are lots of conflicting opinions on this. Personally I think its fine that apple provides payment processing but not fine that it forces developers to use their payment processor. A more fair system would allow the developer to present the devs own choice as well as the apple payments and allow the developer to explain there is a 30% charge on using apples payment processor.
John Lewis & Partners, an employee-owned cooperative and the largest and most successful high end chain of department stores in the UK, springs to mind as a larger scale success story for alternative models.
I can’t speak for every corner store, of course.

The two SF owners I know very well and have helped with their books aim for 300%. They routinely hit this.

Edit: for context the one in Noe did 2m last year.
The POI dataset is the one reason why I haven’t used Apple Maps. At least in the past, I’d get in my car and look up a store for directions and… the store wasn’t listed!
Check out HackTheBox.eu

Gamified hacking challenges that will teach you real life scenarios. There's a lot of web based challenges, but others include databases, root escalation, etc.
How in the world is an App Store infrastructure? It’s a proprietary platform. We have the Web as the free open platform, anyone can use any device to visit any web site. The App Store is a premium alternative.
The goal of that law is actually almost the opposite of surveillance capitalism. I believe it’s due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), which may prohibit the collection and sale of data of minors.
Even older aircraft like the F-16 and F-15 have many modal UIs. They also have a lot of UI features that were added on over the decades which make the system much tighter to sit in than the original pilots would have experienced. The big difference between them and an F-35 (or even F-22) is that the newer ones have the opportunity to clean up or unify a lot of those UI systems so it feels less ad hoc (at present, give it 30 years).
My local corner shop doesn't stop me shopping at a store down the road for my own safety.
> process I just described is the exact same thing actual artists of said fictional drawn characters use to achieve the results in question.

If we understand the ancestor comments as asking for more diverse representation, then no, because ganguro and many other anime archetypes and their clothing and accessories are ultimately Japonicentric, in the same way that you might consider angels and demons contrasted against each other post-antiquity Eurocentric.

My opinion on the matter is that it's not necessarily a worthy goal, but there is a more distinct difference to representing people of different races even in anime faces than just skin tone.
Google asks that for COPPA.
Thanks for this! Lots of my peers are going on and on about how we're all doomed. I belisve in climate change, and that it's bad and we must act. But I don't think we're gonna be living in Waterworld, which is what my friends are describing.
Apple should be forced to allow other payment processors store a platform wide login like you can with a Google account. So none of the payments run through Apples infrastructure, but there is no extra friction over their provider.
Why don’t these companies just drop Apple then? They can just make web sites and then users can order Uber’s and food from any browser on any device and pay nothing to anybody.
I seriously don't understand why people purchase apple devices.

SWEs too, just use linux.
Regardless of outcome, it must feel pretty good to know you and your company ended up being a keystone in corporate tech history. Very few people get to say they were at the meeting when these subscription models became the future. Historians 30 years down the road would love you if you wrote a book about your perspective on it.
Honestly having The Guardian posted is the same as The Daily Mail, just the leftist version.
I forgot to mention that I also remember when Apple called about a year later to tell us about their plan to charge us 30%! Amazing we prevailed.
It is a double edge sword. The account manager will be so accustomed to not doing work that it might be painful when the time comes to do more work. It is only a matter of time.
In order to verify my identity to access gov.uk services, the app complained that my Android 10 phone was too old (a curt "update to a newer version" was the only error message visible). It's already mental that you have to own a smartphone with google spyware to access government services (what about people who don't own such devices or don't know how to operate them?), but now even the second most recent version of android is not good enough.

I eventually borrowed a friend's phone. It proceeded to stonewall me and insist I was not a real person, again with no visible error message or explanation apart from a strange oscillating blue 3D head... Kafkaesque doesn't begin to describe it.

It's indeed one of the weirdest modern tech phenomena: you are blocked/flagged/shadowbanned/what have you by an inscrutable AI and given no reason or explanation, just a blank "you have been banned".
fyi, "dark matter" is not a real thing. Modified gravity (MOND) accurately models galactic rotation for hundreds of galaxies with sqrt(GM/R^2 * c*H / 2pi), without the stupid and ludicrous idea of invisible, noninteracting blobs of dark matter around every galaxy.

The reason "dark matter" has persisted in the public consciousness is that TV cosmologists keep pumping it, and academics currently in charge built their careers on it and don't want to lose their funding.
A 15% to 30% cut of all revenue punishes small businesses and makes many businesses infeasible, especially low margin businesses, as that 30% cut cuts into margins. Loss of competition hurts entire markets, including consumers.
Climate change may very well be an extinction level event. Plastic in the ocean is not.
That's interesting. I have heard a lot about posters from academics over the years. Is there some huge virtual corkboard for academics somewhere or where do these posters go and what are they for? (If you get a second for HN comments :-))
They absolutely dominate the market. If you wanted to create a successful service today and don't support iOS you have no chance. If that's not domination, what is?
If you leave off the "pikchr" tag or use something else like "PikchrSource", then the renderer doesn't trigger.

If you want to see it both ways, Fossil renders the diagrams with an Alt or Ctrl-click handler attached (depending on platform) that toggles between the SVG and the fixed-width source code view.

And if you don't like the modifier key, you can tag a diagram "pikchr toggle" to make it toggle with a simple left-click.
Yeah % cuts for products sold in stores is nothing new or unreasonable. But once the user has the app on their device, the "store" is now the app and there should be no cut of fees for things sold inside the apps own store.
I've now had two phones that with mild and bad water damage, have had their cellular connections stop working, while WiFi and BT work just fine. Anecdotally, I'd like to say this might have something to do with the RFFE's analog components and that water proofing seems like a very worthwhile thing to aim for in handheld electronics.

I suppose what I'm saying here isn't new, the environmental factors that a device is most likely to encounter is something people do account for. I bought a 50degC ambient PS because I didn't want to worry about heat, and a waterproof phone, and a better cooler for OC. I imagine such buying will continue to outweigh any concerns for 5nm chips not lasting long enough for some time still. Which is not to say that semi companies don't have challenges in front of them.
good example, that would certainly force them to have more competitive rates. Probably a premium, but still under competition. With how they control the app store though, how could it ever be a fair competition, there's always the risk of being unfairly treated?
Neither does Apple? You can side load whatever you want on an iOS device?
NIH unearths more grant violations by Wuhan lab collaborator EcoHealth Alliance
There’s not much to understand— some crank thinks he found the dark secret of climate scientists. His blog is the typical nutter mishmash of mindless conspiracy theories from “putting mRNA In the food supply” (https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/putting-mrna-in-the-f...) to antivaxxer garbage (https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/study-shows-covid-vac...) to big pharma conspiracies (https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/herding-the-sheeple-f...) to all manner of climate conspiracy theories.

He and everything he touches can be safely ignored.
If you don't have anything interesting to say, I recommend playing devil's advocate and becoming an internet troll. Once you decouple interesting things to say from your actual opinions and feelings (which as mentioned, are often boring and just regurgitations of the top most popular comments), it becomes quite liberating to write about a lot of things. You can now take any position, any angle you want, on a specific topic, and have no obligation to stick to your own personal thoughts. Your personal feelings often hold you back from actually saying something interesting and novel, since most of our feelings are often just carbon copies of whatever the most popular sentiment in a community is.

It will also vastly improve your writing style. You can choose a blunt inflammatory approach to writing, or take a more subtle passive aggressive style that skirts Poe's Law. Either way, when you do this for a long time you will really get to learn what pushes people's buttons and gets views. It's intoxicating to see long threads of discussion spawned from something you say, and it becomes a game to figure out how you can spawn huge discussions using as few words as possible.

When you write from an opposing view of your actual opinions you also end up learning a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of your opinion based on the replies people write. In fact, a good way to often learn about a topic is to say something blatantly wrong and watch as people come to correct you with hard hitting facts and arguments. You can later use these same arguments in your own genuine debates with other people!

Honestly, there's a lot of surprising benefits for a writer trolling around on the internet, but the downside is that it seeps toxicity into communities, since the people you troll tend to believe you are a true believer of what you say, and when they take you seriously it tends to brew pointless animosity. I often say trolling is for people who just love to write (about anything!) and genuine internet discussions are for those who love to be right.
In fairness, they're a monopoly in a market they invented--the iOS "ecosystem."

This includes:

* the app store

* subscription management

* payments

* any sort of digital media (music, movies, tv shows)

* browser engines...there literally is no way to release a different browser on iOS, even iOS "Firefox" and "Chrome" have to use Apple's WebKit binary

From myself in a lower thread
Interesting list and the Bee movie one is silliness incarnate, though do appreciate the The Morse and Roadrunner ones more in the spirit of fun.
Hey man, you're the one burning more fossil fuels. I burn about 28 gallons of gasoline per year, which combined with my 18 kWh battery's production, amortized over its expected lifetime, and my car's engine's production amortized over the same period, means I release 1.09 metric tons of CO2 per year (we'll be conservative and assume we emit the same amount of CO2 due to electric driving, even though my car is going fewer miles with less weight, so that cancels out). Producing a 40 kWh battery, the smallest size in common use, again amortized over its lifetime, releases 1.52 metric tons of CO2 per year. Producing a 100 kWh battery, such as in the Tesla Model X, would emit about 3.80 metric tons of CO2 per year.

Greener, cheaper, more convenient - plug in hybrids are the way to go.
Who pays the anthropologists?

Yeah I guess they're all just paid shills, and have no idea of what they're talking about.
This is how my lab works. We do a lot of prototyping, exploring, making sure everything seems to be working, etc. and then pack it all into reasonably well documented standard code.

Learned this the hard way after working for a group for awhile with a single shared notebook I had nicknamed "The wall of madness".
> This is why I deleted my LinkedIn profile and would suggest others to the same. It has become nothing more than a spammy network that collects way too much personal information.

Could you please elaborate on your concerns? I mean, LinkedIn is a professional network whose whole point is to allow people like you and me to expose personal details we chose to disclose to recruiters and companies with the goal, direct or indirect, of advancing our career.

Knowing this, how exactly can anyone complain that a service whose sole point is to allow you share your profile info with recruiters is sharing your profile info with recruiters?
Comments like yours are why I love HN so much.
This site is not actionable for me. No purchase, read, download or anything.
Funny thing is, I've done Bitcoin transactions since then, and the transaction fees and confirmation times (which are the fees charged by and service provided by the miners) were pretty normal. So the Bitcoin network seems to have totally avoided the "unusable for any legitimate use" fate you predict, even though half the hashrate went offline over the course of a few weeks.
> Terrible idea. Why would anyone want to deal with interfacing a bunch of randomly structured databases whose tables can change at any time without warning. Nightmare.

It isn't quite so bad. You can have wiki-esque volunteer-driven cooperative authoring, linking to known good versions, etc. to keep it from becoming a complete free-for-all.
No technology popular enough to attract an audience ever goes away. However, would you care to speculate on how many troff documents were written in 2021 versus Markdown docs?
Related question: does the cost of storing data on the blockchain on a byte basis decrease over time?

Meaning would such attacks (attaching CSAM content to a blockchain) become more feasible at lower cost in the future?
Folks here seem fixated on companies being able to make money when using Apple. Why is that such a policy priority? Most of these companies are scammers.

I really wish politicians and everyone would focus on USER experience here.

Apple benefits because there is a ton of crap and user harm in the marketplace that goes COMPLETELY unaddressed. We are just getting around to rules on subscription cancellation practices on the web more generally. Apple has this solved.

Additionally, with a lot of these big players, only apple has negotiating leverage, no individual user could EVER force them to accept things like hide my email or clear trial periods or non-scam cancellation policies. So USERS benefit from the power apple has in some cases.

Is it worth the apple tax? For some it is worth it even though apple has relatively small smartphone marketshare.
Part of the problem is that the in-app purchase cut isn't just for payments infra, it also includes the rest of the infrastructure and value prop for the app store(s), which is otherwise only $100/year, which is nothing for huge companies. The problem is they also force users to use the official app store. tbf this is all less true on Android. I feel like a competitive market would have decoupled these costs.
Products sold in wallmart can then provide extra external services which walmart gets no cut of. If I buy an air purifier in Walmart, they get a cut on that initial sale. But the purifier company can tell me they sell filters on their website, Walmart gets no cut of that. On mobile, Apple does get a cut on that sale which they did not facilitate.