skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spam exists because sending as others here have mentioned is free. The knee-jerk reaction might be to make it not free and technically that would be rather simple. Beyond adding pre-approved DKIM signed domains to an approve-list, one could modify existing grey-list daemons to require either a one-time code or click a URL to enter authentication to approve the sender and add rate limiting for know abusers, but that isn't the problem. People are accustom to how email currently works and adding any barriers or changing communication flows or adding cost adds friction. Businesses and people will oppose friction.

I would be curious to see if anyone here has added such barriers and what their results were. What methods did you use to make spam expensive for spammers and how did it affect your legit customers and prospects?
Easily bookmark code across StackOverflow, etc. and go back to them later
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Study: Being in space destroys more red blood cells
Far-right French presidential candidate found guilty of racist hate speech
> The halo effect that "Netflix Original" used to have thanks to shows like House of Cards...

It wasn't even 'original' in that it was a UK series years earlier. I understand they made changes, and, IIRC, milked it for a lot more than the UK series. But that wasn't... "original". Good original series though. There's likely more good UK stuff Netflix could mine.
For all the problems Amazon has and causes I will say I've always found their support to be pretty excellent. From what I understand Amazon's foundibg philosophy is focused on just serving the customer at the cost of any other externality and that's where most of the conterversy surrounding them comes from is placing whatever is needed to please the customer above every other concern. But that means when working with them they are pretty great.

Whereas it seems like Google and Facebook view you as a resource simply to have value extracted from and moved on.

As for Apple, well there are no problems you're just holding the phone wrong.
Because it works. Still relevant, from Microsoft Research:

"Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?"

This approach suggests an answer to the question in the title. Far-fetched tales of West African riches
strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an
advantage to the attacker, not a disadvantage. Since
his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian
scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most
gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to
self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his
favor.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
You would think by now we would have better credential methods. I still see username and passwords for system credentials. I see tokens created by three legged auths. I don’t get how that is an improvement. The problem is that most deployed code doesn’t have just one credential but a dozen. Multiply that with several environments and you get security fatigue and apathy.
Restarting and Offline Updates
As someone who was a teenager who couldn’t afford books up through 2009 or so, most of my learning of Obj-C and Cocoa came through scraping the internet for blogposts on whatever subtopic I needed to know about. Occasionally you’d run into a full fledged tutorial, which were gold mines. At one point, I made AIM friends with a couple of people who were more knowledgeable than myself which was a great help, and later on Stack Overflow appeared which let me both ask questions and peruse the answers to others’ questions.

It was kinda rough, and I didn’t get to the point to where I could build useful things until the late 2000s and early 2010s… just in time to dovetail into iOS development (which I’ve now been doing as my job for the better part of a decade).

The cornucopia of free resources that are available to new learners today is a ridiculously stark contrast to how it was back then.
Log graphs and almost parallel lines! Perfect tools for dishonest data representation!
Contra David Deutsch on AI
Very slick. Nice work! And y'all did this so quickly too
Java ?? Java-Script ??? Which is which?

http://web.archive.org/web/20171002221201/http://www.jerkcit...

Originally published in October 2002 (almost 20 years ago from when this comment was made, for you future readers and time travellers).
I have the same experience with the Google Play Store. For all the complaints people have about the Apple App Store, at least their reviewers are human and you can discuss things with them. And they block updates but don't remove the app without warning!

My experience with the Google Play store: I get an email on a friday night after working hours stating that the app of my company was removed after a routine check and that I have to follow an appeal process to get it back. (The reason being that we had 2 apps in the store, one for production use and one for training).
Only after pinging people I knew working at Google was I able to get my support case prioritized and the app unblocked.

A second time we had our app deleted from the store because we used background geolocation and failed to comply in time with the new reporting requirements. Once again, no warning and no grace period except a generic "Google Play policy update" email 6 months earlier...

I guess we're just lucky to have a B2B app that we can install via APK to our customers' phones if needed.
Approving drugs based on wishful thinking isn't how the process is supposed to work, but that is what happened here. It is still pretty unclear whether the amyloid hypothesis is true and whether reducing amyloid would actually treat the cause of Alzheimers.

The trials for this drug failed, they were stopped because it didn't work. And then they picked some data out of that and decided it reduced amyloids, so we just approve it based on that even without a clear signals that patients actually benefit.
Well, did it ever work?
> By leveraging progressive JPEG 7 tech, every minter gets a unique NFT which contains the uploaded image but with different degrees of quality.

This is both brilliant and insane at the same time. Next up, I have an MPEG stream to sell you ... where the I-frames are charged at a higher rate than the B-frames!
Google is awful. I worked at a company in a now-legal business with a YouTube channel from the not-as-legal days… it has incredibly unprofessional and embarrassing branded footage and there was nothing we were able to do to pull the channel down. (No one currently working there has the login)
It uses C# Compiler SDK (Roslyn) that allows to generate "something" even if the input is a mess

and then I use some heuristics to identify for example classes better, e.g by having popular classes names/substrings list and checking whether it is there - like Console, Controller, Service, DTO, Handler etc.

Of course it cannot be perfect because it has no access to the whole code, it uses just some fragment that may not even compile / be completed

but I think that you can achieve something reasonable and at worst you'll be able to tweak it manually.

The goal was bo be able to easily put C# code with VS/VSC colours on a web page and without having to use generic js colouring libs, so we can get something closer to real IDE

You can easily modify generated a few lines of CSS and have your own colours
I know someone who worked for Jodorowsky and from the ‘less than jubilant’ stories I've heard about the guy, they'll have their work cut out, or they'll have to wait for him to pass.
Ask HN: H1-B / L-1 Visum as a European
I'm a SRE in Europe with 7+ years of experience and my girlfriend got invited to work on a research project in the USA. So currently I'm investigating job options to move (probably temporary, but who knows) to the US. I've been to the US multiple times and stayed there a couple of month in my late teens early 20ies since I have some relatives living there, but I never worked in the US.

I don't have a problem finding jobs in my field in Europe, but after writing about 20 applications I didn't get a single interview and only got "we don't do VISA sponsoring" as a response. I specifically always checked if it said "no visa" in the description. I would be very grateful for any tips to get a visa.
The end merchant pays 1-3%, then there are a whole bunch of middle-people that take a cut.

The merchant acquirer (eg Stripe), the merchant bank, the issuer bank, the tokenization service (if using Apple/Google/Samsung Pay), there's a long list of people taking part of that fee.

Visa as the network operator takes some of that cut as well, depending on the type of transaction, the type of card (debit vs credit vs "premium" credit).

It's much more complicated than Visa getting all of the merchant fee.
Why do you think they say that? Because they really want to help you? You believe that crap if you want, I'll do my own research. SOMEONE has to write it, otherwise where does it come from?
I've been running the same todo list system for almost twenty years now. It's basically David Allen's Getting Things Done, with the usual tweaks and adjustments that accumulate over time as you actually use it. Since I stopped using a Palm Pilot, my next stop was OmniFocus and that's where I still am.

The biggest problems that I've seen people have with todo lists is 1) not getting in the habit of trusting them, and 2) not re-evaluating their commitments instead of treating everything on them as etched in stone as soon as it's recorded. I regularly look at my lists and go, "That? Yeah, that's not happening." I also have extensive "Now now" files (used to be Someday/Maybe), and at this point they've evolved into a half dozen different files for categories of not nows.
> The reason Catima isn’t on alternative app stores isn’t because there is something wrong with them, it’s because there is something wrong with Google Play.

I don't understand. Why are erroneous policy violations in google play preventing them from launching it on Huawei or Samsung?
Graphviz made it really easy for me to plot dependencies in Go data structures! After I put together a lexer, Graphviz took care of all the difficult work of making sense of the data: https://github.com/davidschlachter/embedded-struct-visualize...
He has some amazing successes, but also has a terrible track record in terms of what he says vs what he actually delivers, he is more often way off the mark than he is accurate.

https://www.elonmusk.today/
There's also OpenStax which was featured on Red Hat.

https://openstax.org/
I don't know about Visa specifically but debit cards are about twice as popular than credit in the US [0]. As a non-American, though I don't have a source off the top of my head, I think that outside the US credit cards are even rarer.

[0]: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/debit-card-stat...
I think AWS is the best, but only because you can have a paid support plan, and real humans will reply to your support requests.
Well it's not available in Vietnam, which sucks because I need to catch up on the mandalorian.
The frustrating part is that there was a summer of code project to build a better editor in Pharo (I think the name was Safara). But as I remember, the author dropped it and it became incompatible with the next version of Pharo.
HBO Max has more and better content than any of the other ones you listed.

* I watched the new Dune on it, a bunch of other new movies are there

* most (all?) the Cartoon network stuff like Rick and Morty is there

* all the HBO content is there, Jon Oliver, GoT, etc.

* it passed the Matrix test. (1. I want to watch the original Matrix. 2. I searched for the Matrix and clicked the result. 3. It streamed the Matrix to me.)

* that crazy Ridley Scott series with those shrieking harpies that fly around asploding the hell out of atheists

* HBO has a track record of producing high-quality content on subscription model. If they win the streaming wars they are the least likely to do annoying ad-support bullshit dark patterns (like those ads shoved in the middle of a fucking scene on some ad-supported services now)

Edit: reworded so I only use the adjective "fucking" once when referring to ad-based streaming services
Whenever I order something online, I always uncheck the box that says "I want to receive your newsletter" or never check it the first place. Inevitably, in the next few days, I start to receive their product offerings
China’s birthrate falls to 61-year low despite moves to stave demographic crisis
Prime video seemed like the worst example. How many people but people video separate as opposed to just having it’s because it’s included in Amazon Prime?
Visa as an American corporation is subject to American law. So it's not just a matter of who is making the profit.
Well, you would not be able to see "mud":

https://www.livescience.com/17948-red-green-blue-yellow-stun...
I think most blogging drifted towards affiliate marketing and as a result, Google drastically devalued that content (for that and other reasons).

As a result, I find it so hard to find genuine experiences through web search now. It's all just USAToday, CNN, NYTimes, Webmd, etc. media sites (which are themselves mostly just affiliate marketing/advertising plays, so maybe that wasn't Google's motivation).

I miss the days of searching the web and finding content written by real humans.

The only search I find that satisfies this consistently is Reddit (especially searching google with site:reddit.com)
They have "Grace and Frankie", which is their longest running show at 7 seasons.

Netflix IMO tries to make shows that are very zeitgeist-y, instead of evergreen, like Friends and The Office. I think that will come back to bite them in the future because I don't see anybody wanting to license one-offs like Tiger King or Squid Game for syndication down the line.

Meanwhile, decades-old shows like Law and Order, Frasier and Two and a Half Men are still making bank because they have tons of episodes and are generalist enough to be popular across pretty much any cable network globally.
Superabsorption unlocks key to next generation quantum batteries
Yep, confused me too! Doesn’t help that I skip over most social media call outs and ads. Way to confuse your reader. As a reader, I’m here to read your work, not expend mental energy on figuring out where your content is.
My guess is that Visa caved and that it was the plan.

My rationale for this guess is that everyone in the UK who has a Visa credit card also has, at the very least, a Visa or Mastercard debit card. So this was going to make people change payment method but I doubt was going to make them stop buying from Amazon.

I am exactly in that case and, like many, a Prime subscriber. I would have just changed card on Amazon and my use of my Visa credit card would have dropped 80%.

Let's face it no-one was going to drop Amazon because of this and they knew it. In the UK Amazon sells $26 billion of stuff annually.
I know but it comes at a price of some users who don't use a password manager setting silly weak passwords.

In one of my mobile apps that manages KeyChain user/passwords correctly, I still see a lot of password reset requests. I can't even think of a reason why people would ignore autofill so often. The result is, although I haven't checked, but wouldn't be surprized if there were still a lot of "password123"'s in the DB.

So neither are passwords a good option, it seems.
It's part of the repo.

https://github.com/enter-haken/schema/blob/master/schema.sh

It's a mixture of sed, awk and sql.
Don't worry about it then. Some people are faster at starting than others. Just do your best and don't worry about it until this happens again.
Last time I was over there in 2019, one of the friends who came with me wanted to actually try Pachinko; I had never sat down at a machine in my aggregate ~1.5 years of living/visiting Japan, though I had walked through Pachinko places a few times. The one we sat down in was in Osaka I think. When you're done the machine you're at prints a ticket, the exchange desk in the same room (or building) gave us actually a small piece of gold- had the weight embossed on it- and there was an exchange business in the shop/building next door. We opted to keep the gold slivers because it was an interesting souvenir. Usually the prize desks in the pachinko area will have other small items you can exchange for as well. The external buyback business is suppossed to be independent to get around the gambling law of course.
Not in general the premium channels. What percentage of Netflix users would drop them if they started running adds? 25%? 50%?
GPLv3 addresses definitions (such as what constitutes source-code), software license compatibility, software patents as well as tivotization. The clauses around software patents are what I was referring to. By design, they are hostile towards software patents. Hence for instance Apple not updating BASH for so long (macOS still ships with BASH 3.2.57, the last version that was GPLv2) and the switch to (the MIT licensed) Z shell. Not commenting on the legitimacy of software patents, Apple's take on using GPLv3 licensed software - merely stating cause and effect.
For one thing DynamoDB is Amazon scale whereas Mongo is merely web-scale.
Getting boned because of the inability of the English language to distinguish between free and free, that's a new ring of machine learning hell.
Discussing only on the merits of their content, and stipulating that this is neither here nor there with respect to Netflix's long-term prospects vs. HBO:

Breaking Bad isn't an HBO show. So I assume we're just asking, "has Netflix produced any world-class content". The answer to that is yes.

The jewel in their crown, their "Game of Thrones", is clearly Stranger Things. It's undeniably successful, each new season a cultural event. I'd put Stranger Things up against any HBO show for relevance and impact. (Perhaps not for artistic excellence; but, The Wire is the best show that's ever been on television, and it's far from the most watched).

Add to that Black Mirror, Bojack Horseman, Sex Ed, the annual Flanagan miniseries (Hill House, Bly Manor, Midnight Mass), Master of None, and Big Mouth.

They're doing about as well as any premium cable channel ever has. Doesn't, of course, mean you like their content! But I have about as much faith in Netflix coming up with a new prestige show than I do in HBO, most of whose recent stuff has left me pretty cold.
When I did some Zig a month or so ago, I had great help looking at the tests, e.g.[1].

That being said, the state of the documentation is also the reason why I gave up on it for now. But I'm sure it will improve over time.

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/79628d48a4429818bddef2e8...
True his agent didn't tick a box - border agents didn't give him enough time to explain and this is why the first visa rejection was overturned as far as I understand it. So that wasn't really an issue.

People keep saying "no specific exemptions for being a famous tennis player" but he was treated worse for being a famous tennis player - right from the start where the border agents canceled the visa without him having the time to explain to where the minister then canceled it himself in an expedited over-the-weekend procedure just so that he cannot appeal and play in the mean time. I mean - I have no special love for him, but it does seem that he got treated worse than an average guy.
This is the real world equivalent to high balling. It’s just that you have to assume every price is washed. This is the actual offer price, not a real price. If you put in a lowball offer I bet they’d eventually sell it to you. Exceptions are famous sets like BAYC
Makes it easier to spam them out when it's job-hunting time. On the HR side, they already filter on asinine keywords in the ATS. Why not join their game?
Engineered Solutions Are a Lot More Plausible Than Behavioral Change in 2022
This one didn't:)
My point (a view shared by the article and many others) is that the FDA decided Aduhelm is safe but did a terrible job of deciding that it is effective. Safety is also not absolute. All medicines have adverse effects, safety is then relative to the benefits of the medicine.
Yep, sometimes Netflix manages to produce a good season one of a new series, but they lack the ability create followup seasons. My favorite example is Luke Cage. Season one is fantastic, but season two is so bad that it makes you think that season one was written by someone else entirely.

The main issue for Netflix has been losing their back catalog, as the content owners started offering their own streaming services. Netflix could produce a few good shows each year, but not as main as they're trying to. It's just that few people would pay for that, without the vast back catalog.

There's still much to watch, but finding the good stuff is becoming increasingly hard. A better recommendation engine might fix some of the issues, but in the long run I think Netflix is becoming a niche player.
RxDB does this. Recently PouchDB integration is more abstracted to swap it out but it's still the best client side database. RxDB syncs with GraphQL and Pouch/CouchDBs

There's WatermelonDB which uses IndexedDB on web and SQLite on native, it's nice for syncing to custom backends.

There's GUN and Orbit for distributed graph databases.

Ontopic: TinyBase looks really really nice, fills the gap in-between hefty client side databases and state system solutions like Redux + Persist. I'd like to see Redux middleware integration for time travel debugging, event lots, and snapshotting if possible. The analytics and rollback APIs are a nice touch. Size is enticing.
Depends on what you mean by the manipulation. Many stock, future, precious metal prices are affected by actors who want to temporarily move it for profit. Some are illegal, some perfectly legal.

In what way do you expect Bitcoin to be different? This is a technical question, once you define it one could debate if this particular behavior is present in BTC.
Every US Navy base is a toxic waste catastrophe, even the ones that have long been closed.

Systemic problems in waste management on military base land stem from defense budgets that go to fun, sexy projects and toxic waste cleanup budgets that are for civilian sites only.

Expect all 20th century Navy bases to pollute indefinitely. Hawai'i particularly sad because everyone knows what a loss it is. The death of places like the San Francisco Bay ecosystems are less visible.
I agree, it's not clear. Maybe it's because the developer has sunk so much time into dealing with Google Play that she hasn't been able to release it on other platforms, or she's discouraged from trying to do so and getting hit with another round of insanity.
Not disagreeing with you but quite a few younger people driving those cars are living at their parents and have little to no other significant expenses. Yes, 800€/mo is a lot for many but for some it's in the "affordable if I don't do much else" category.

I've also heard about people pooling their money and driving them on alternating weekends. Luxury car ownership has gotten a lot cheaper than before when you needed to pay upfront or with hefty interest.
Meanwhile, lots of other apps with 'Free' in the title, description, etc.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=free&c=apps

Including some Google owned ones like YouTubeTV.
> But in the last ten years, something seems to have arrested this direction of travel and reinstated local bubbles of thought, insulated from outside challenge.

Personalized and targeted ads.