skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you use something like OPA, it has partial evaluation [1], which would allow you to read in data, filter it based on your RBAC policy quickly until you have a pageful, then return to the caller together with some next page token that lets you remember where you left off.

[1] https://blog.openpolicyagent.org/partial-evaluation-162750ea...
That's... not a lot. Amazon spent more than $61B in CapEx last year alone.

The 'watchdog' is saying they've received $4.7B globally, over the last 10 years.
"Nefarious" is a strong word. Courts have repeatedly ruled that scraping data that is otherwise available publicly is legal. You may not personally agree with the ethics, but there are a lot of people who do.
Even if it didn't share data.. it's designed from the beginning to be addictive. While other platforms like Facebook and Instagram grew into being platforms with aims to be addictive, I believe they started in a more neutral place. This type of app should be treated like smoking imo.

Queue the "you can find educational material on tiktok!" posts by the subset of HN who really love the app and the company.
Same, although I also know degauss as it relates to CRTs. "Gaussian blur" -- almost always mispronounced -- is also relatively commonly encountered by anyone doing image or video editing. Though of course, that's a completely different term described by the same person's name.
Learned about that in James Burkes Connections! Amazing series if you haven’t seen it.
I'm sorry, but if the Queen can disavow her own kid for his affiliation with Jeffery Epstein, and Bill's wife can do the same, we can disavow Bill Gates. Just because he has money doesn't mean a damn thing w/r to whether we have to hold him to any regard. He's proven over decades to not be a good person. There's a reason Paul Allen ended his relationship with Bill Gates.
Every bill is screened before it is debated. If it contains anything that may effect the royal family, personally, then they must consent before it is debated.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
Ah, nice! Getting all of Exelon for the cost of one would be quite awesome. We'll dig into it.
I think that's a large part of the point though. The author is claiming that journalists take the job because they believe it is high status. When others disagree the journalists move near each other so that they can circle jerk over their status without the pesky normal people who disregard them.
The Economics of Netflix's 17B
They're mostly about style in some manner. A chignon is a hairstyle, a bandeau is a garment, kohl is a type of facial makeup (with its own fascinating history). Jaquard, chambray, chenille, sateen, and damask are all words that apply to fabrics in some fashion. An espadrille is a particular style of shoe.

Verbena is a plant. A pessary is a medical device. A doula is a supportive person through a medical experience, often childbirth in an American context.
Everything is accounted for, you can't accidentally (or 'accidentally') have money come from or go nowhere, since it must balance - account1 going up by a pound is matched to account2 going down a pound.
Wait? It's the "men" that people were objecting to? I thought it was the "angry group".

That's even stupider than I thought.
But some of the car companies are trying to charge a subscription for it anyway if I recall correctly?
Don't you mean 1.3 x 10 ^ 7?
They're using industry standard techniques for user tracking.

If you find them objectionable, change the industry.
Yeah, I (male) recognized jacquard, but only in the context of the Jacquard loom and superficial awareness that they're programmable textile making machines.
Music clips from movies can make you feel happier. Here is an example:
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/a-short-history-of-jazz-in-...
We're working on support for partial evaluation in our system at Aserto https://aserto.com/
Tesla Influencers Try to Present FSD as Safe While Almost Hitting a Cyclist
Apps commandeered the age-old idea of takeout
Record-Breaking Rogue Wave Recorded Off the Coast of Vancouver Island
You don't have to buy clothes on the internet to know what a peplum or other clothing terms are. Most clothes are not bought online.
A New Law Could Hold Big Tech Accountable for Its Algorithms
Ironic since this is wasting interviewers' time, making your own ethics questionable.
Have you considered the possibility that being all worked up over the default name Github assigns to the first branch in a new repository puts you in "fringe minority" status?
Anyone who visited Jeffery Epstein's island and has also been removed from the board of directors of the company they started for inappropriate relationship isn't an OK dude.

There's also the whole bit with Paul Allen where they tried to take all of his shares when he had cancer.
I think this is the right idea. The pendulum between having as many dependencies as possible and having no dependencies at all has flung way too far in the 'as many dependencies as possible' side. It is a major PITA when yet another random component breaks. Let us say that A can be done in B in, let us say, three man weeks. I would say it is worth it. The advantage is that A will never break because it is not there. Note that A also may break 3 years from now when everybody who knows anything about A has left the company.... B is now used in more places so people are more likely to have been forced to learn it so when the emulation of A break there is a better chance that people will know what to do. I see mostly advantages.
That's true - but they were widespread pretty much everywhere else in the world including Norway. Up here in Canada we tend to say "Do you take interac?" instead of credit - but if credit is just the way people talk about chip-n-pin in Norway the understanding might be that walking into a store with a non-chip-n-pin card and asking for credit is dishonest.

I'm not Norwegian but it'd be pretty similar up here in Canada at this point - if your POS terminal gets damaged and your mag stripe reader breaks there isn't really a big reason to immediately shutter your store and replace it.
I doubt that particular word (katana) would be quite so permanently stuck in my head if not for watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a lot as a kid. That was a show that was for-sure aimed at boys.

The other places I could imagine having encountered it enough for it to have stuck are action video games and Japanese or Japanese-influenced action cinema & anime. I have some very confident guesses at how male and female interest rates in those would break down.
The best incentive for me to drastically reduce red meat was the marry someone who didn't eat it. I don't want to cook two proteins for dinner so mainly have already switched away from it.
You don't. I admit I mistook your "drivel for substantive discourse." You fooled
me. Have fun with whatever it is you're doing.
yea these convos really make me think 'all hope is lost'
when you get some decent idea fleshed out re: adtech algorithm auditing and your first thought is:
yea lets root out anti american sentiment in the algo. facepalm
strong fox news vibes around here these days
Can you go into more detail about this? I may be misunderstanding, but I read 'never persisted' as meaning my users must provide credentials for every API call.
If technobabble, I'd be disappointed to not see "interposer" or "hash table" listed.
Yeah, check out [1] for a sample project that uses github actions to login, build, and push images.

[1] https://github.com/opcr-io/policy-action-sample
I find it unfortunate that there is such a gap in the learning experience between toy like visual programming and being thrust into general purpose languages. Python and Javascript have mountains of historical baggage and sharp corners that no neophyte should have to keep in mind. Papert showed in the 60s that children could learn Logo and learn to program in a textual language. Inspired by him, Kay and Goldberg put Smalltalk in the hands of middle schoolers and witnessed them create a variety of surprisingly complex applications [1].

By the 90s, there was a fruitful current of research around end user programming and the psychology of programming that offered principled insight into what would make a good programming language for learning [2]. Python and Javascript were designed before most of this work, and I strongly doubt much effort was directed this way regardless. Indeed, PL design seems to be driven by whimsy and intuitive notions, which we all know makes for a terrible user interface.

Add in the fractured and complicated environments in which programming takes place and I would argue that broader participation in programming is hampered by this unintentional form of gatekeeping. Somehow I began programming in C++ - I’m sure many, if not most, members of this community learned in as harsh an environment. This is a great flex but it also contributes to programmers being a sort of priestly class that can speak the magic of the machine. The future of computation that I am drawn to involves everyone, or at least as many as possible, being given the power to solve their own problems with computers, not just wait for and depend on someone else.

1. https://www.dgsiegel.net/files/refs/Kay,%20Goldberg%20-%20Pe...
2. https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/VL98-scaffold...
I take it she's also not watching the ones where the space robots jump into the air at azimuth 90, disengage their ailerons to get out of the atmosphere, then travel several parsecs in an femtosecond with their boson drive?
Can you hit those spots if you're not white?
What's nice is that even for Q_plasma this only gets 0.33. So it's a net loss no matter how you measure it.
Are you on iphone or android?

I would guess that your device has been fingerprinted through other app usage you have used, and that fingerprint has an association with the country of your birth.

It's possible that such a service is provided by a state actor, or part of a marketing/advertising service.
WSJ has also pivoted quite successfully and maintains pretty much the same operating model as NYT.

I realize these are basically the two highest profile legacy news products, so broadly your point stands.
They're responsible for common core, which basically makes teachers teach to the test to keep their jobs.
Why or you can just accept the fact that your phone is your personal bug device your willingly carry around. The only safe space is your brain/thoughts and even that space is something they want to monitor with computer-brain interfaces.
Wow… honestly, they’d be better off not gifting anything. Like this it just feels cheap…
> There is a touchscreen. IMO, you want that for Apple CarPlay / Android Auto. Mostly for nav.

More importantly, federal law requires that new cars must have back-up cameras. Car manufacturers are doing the obvious analysis of, if we need to have a screen in there anyway, may as well make it a touchscreen. And if we're going to make it a touchscreen, may as well save some money by eliminating a bunch of physical controls.

I don't like it—I plan to drive my 2002 Tacoma into the ground specifically to avoid getting a car with a huge touchscreen UI—but I kind of understand it.
How does it make any sense for science? If noone builds version 1, there will be no version 2.

You can't skip inventing ironworks because eventually titanium will be invented.
I definitely interpreted it as 33 thousand million. Whoops :D
There are such a wide variety of effects when it comes to psychoactive substances, that's one of the most fascinating things to me about drugs.

There's far more to the toolbox than "get up and go fast"
Nefarious? Then they should arrest Google first, it is the king of web scrapers.
Well, in every Disney movie there's a musical waiting to come out, and if the movie is successful enough, it will (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(musical), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_King_(musical), ...)
Same (male) but only because it came up in the context of reading Wikipedia deep dives that led to court cases blocking their import[1] and the Hippocratic oath, which, oddly enough, prohibits administering them (along with abortion):

"Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Earliest_surv...

Edit: But even then, I didn't know e.g. what they looked like, or anything about them specifically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Package_o...
I have never heard 5MTHF called levomefolic acid before. What is interesting abiut 5MTHF is that the enzyme MTHFR which creates it from folate needs riboflavin (FAD) as well.

https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P42898

So riboflavin will solve both of these issues.
I've never used these myself (too old), but my understanding is that to get around the attendance measure you and your friends just take turns going to class and you all give that week's attendee your clickers.

An app would actually be a lot better for this, since it's not like you're going to give your phone to your friend for several hours. On the other hand, I agree that tracking attendance in college is a bit pointless.
For the first 2 months of me owning my car (it's a 2021 mx5), I had to force close spotify immediately before plugging the phone into the car (It was like a 30 second window) or the car would refuse to output any audio. Without any change to the cable or the car, and with the same handset, the problem suddenly disappeared. The only thing I think of that could have fixed it is an over the air update for my phone.

Either way, it's branded "Android Auto". I'm going to blame Google for anything that doesn't work optimally. If they cared, they could certify their product.
Sure, last time I used them I documented some file format I needed to reverse engineer.

Here an excerpt. Of course, it's not _necessary_ to do it like that. It's just flavor.

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┃ Chunk 1 Header │ Chunk 1 Body ┃ Chunk 2 Header │ Chunk 2 Body ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻┅┅

Chunk Header:
┌───────────┬─────────────────┐
│ Magic Nr. │ Chunk Body Size │
│ 4 Byte │ 4 Byte │
└───────────┴─────────────────┘
It really depends. There are plenty of legitimate uses for scraping (for example, I've been involved with academic research that involved scraping Twitter search results), and it's only really feasible to collect the amount of data you need using scraping plus paid proxies. That being said, there are also a number of nefarious paid proxy services which offer residential IPs (read: are usually botnets).
Sometimes you just have to play the game of capitalism.
Haven’t we already had fusion experiments with net positive energy?
> lets root out anti american sentiment in the algo. facepalm strong fox news vibes around here these days

I said measure. We need to understand if we're being manipulated, and if so, figure out what an appropriate response should be. Maybe it's as simple as releasing a report and letting the media talk about it. Knowing gives us the ability to develop a response.

Filter bubbles are relatively new, and it's not yet clear the extent to which they can be used to shape a democratic society.
Not reading the article in the link you're replying to is a heuristic that almost always works ;)
Hey, maintainer here (sorta). We've both been super absent the last few years unfortunately but this was ultimately on our list for V3.

Now I just need to find some spare time...
I think eventually we'll get to a point in the US where it's illegal for corporations to buy residential housing.
Please don't give me a popup saying my browser is bad when I'm using the only major free as in freedom Browser, Firefox.
at least good at solving technical problems, and just need practice writing code in front of other people or in a live setting.

I think you mean this as a minor criticism, but this seems to be exactly the point of the service. To figure out a way to find people that are actually competent at the work itself, but not in the somewhat uncorrelated skill of public speaking & live coding w/ an audience.

Also a good way of identifying people that haven't gone to top tier elite schools but are just as good or better as those graduates: Recruiters at a FAANG might disregard a graduate from Generic State University w/ 2-3 years of experience under normal conditions, but if you get one that is willing to place a $1024 bet on themselves and then passes the tech interview with flying colors, it's a much easier sell.

Now, with all that said, after 6 years I'd still really like to know what their long-term outcomes are. What's their typical tenure at that job, where do they land for $job +1, +2, etc.?
Isn't this an issue that US First Amendment law has dealt with since the founding of the country?

My understanding (vastly simplifying) is that the current standard is: does not infringe on rights of protected classes, does not incite imminent violence, & subject to national security concerns.

All of which are fuzzy lines, subject to court interpretation on a case by case basis, as they should be. (Even national security, which courts have traditionally granted wider latitude to)

All three are plausible rationales under which to bring a hypothetical "antidemocratic" case (to use a catch-all term that encompasses what people seem to be implying).

At core, and first principles, what "we" probably want as a nation is a sliding scale that moves from primacy of shareholder / owner to primacy of public, according to user count & market percentage.

Aka if you're a 10,000 user app, and you think (non-inciteful) racist content will make you the most money, that's your (terribly immoral) business.

But if you're a 100,000,000+ user multi-app company, then public and democratic interest takes primacy over your shareholders. Don't like that? Spin off some products.
A bunch but not all, Picking out a few I recognized (though I had to double check freesia).

A doula is basically a birthing coach often used for at home pregnancies, a pessary is a vaginal medical device, kohl is eye makeup, verbena is an herb, freesia is a flower, chigon is a type of hair bun.
I had the same experience. Googling them, I see the following categories:

- (Women's) clothing and cosmetics (peplum, bandeau, kohl, espadrille, whipstitch)

- Hair style (chignon)

- Fabrics and weaving (ruche, bouclé, chenille, voile, sateen, jacquard, damask, chambray)

- Women's health (pessary, doula)

- Flowers (Freesia, Verbena)

Interestingly, half of these words aren't even in Firefox's dictionary it seems. Even with "English (United States, large)" some words are underlined with red squiggles.

Most excessively male-recognised words seem to come from technical fields or science, or Japanese culture, weirdly enough. The only explanation I can give for most men seemingly knowing "shemale" is porn.

My conclusion for this data: men tend to know fewer words relating to clothes and aesthetics, women tend to know fewer words relating to science and Japanese culture. As the recognition for "female" words is much lower than that of the "male" words, I'd say that this is because of a lack of men with knowledge about clothes.
If you view every minute an interviewer is doing actual work as harmful to the world, then wasting said interviewers time would be even more of an ethical good would it not?
Of course the roots of English include Greek and Latin and German, but words like femtosecond or piezoelectricity or teraflop or milliamp are technical terms, not old but standard words imported from another language. Maybe "femtosecond" was used by Danish scientists in the 1800's or something, but it's definitely not a word that was common in another language and then imported into English.
Just FYI TikTok does also have a tracking pixel, obviously it’s not as widespread as Google/Facebooks but it’s growing in use.

See: https://www.tiktokforbusinesseurope.com/resources/install-ti...
Excited to see this develop further. It would be amazing to have a searchable destination for extendable policies like we now do with docker images.
Sometimes the scraping situation gets kinda ironic. I worked at a large eRetailer/marketplace and obviously we scraped our major competitors just as they scraped us (there are four major marketplaces here). So each company had a team to implement anti-scraping measures and defeat competitor's defences. Instead of providing an API everyone decided to spend time and money on this useless weapons race.
https://archive.fo/31ZZH
The Economist is so small (staff of 75 writers, not sure how large the whole organization is but it’s still very small) that I don’t think it counts the same way something like the Times counts. That isn’t to take anything away from The Economist, but a magazine isn’t the same scope, to me. Especially since the magazine has changed hands a few times. And if I’m going to be brutally honest, The New Yorker is actually the magazine that has adapted to digital the best and if it were its own business and not one of the things propping up Condé Nast, I’d list it alongside the Times.

(Thinking about it more, The Atlantic is close to successfully pivoting but I don’t know if I can say it has done it quite yet. And again, it had to sell itself)

FT is a fantastic newspaper but I think it’s much more akin to WSJ, where its paywall and subscriber base insulated it from the challenges than a lot of other papers. But that’s a good call-out as a paper that has done its part to pivot like the Times has. (It has also been sold, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but is worth noting).

The Times, to me, is unique in that it’s investment in its tech has been as significant as it has. And not just for the apps like Cooking and Games, but the commitment to the full stack within its storytelling, its video, its audio. It is really remarkable from a product perspective, as much as from a journalism perspective. The core product it offers is still news, but it has managed to really change the medium and packaging of its offerings in a very demonstrable way.
yes, on desktop, Chrome, incognito mode, not logged in, opening various accounts, President Biden, Whitehouse etc.......scrolls endlessly, even can read the replies on tweets. There is a persistent bottom/top Sign in/up prompt but it's not in the way
My late grandfather (would've been 90's) didn't know quite as many questions on Jeopardy! as Ken Jennings, but within a std deviation.

When I was 20, if throwing out the sports deck, no one wanted to play Trivial Pursuit with me. Lol.
It shows ongoing impact rather than a one-time cost from an incompatible change.
Amusingly I only knew "freesia" because its the title of a manga.
Yeah agreed, in the moment it feels so much more meaningful and enjoyable but in retrospect.... where did the time go?

I suspect it's because we don't have enough time for introspection as the kids grow so there's nothing to anchor/solidify those memories.
I’d rather have a million now than 31 million in 1904.

The quality of life difference isn’t measurable in money.
You could build Fritter with Xcode and sideload it through AltStore: https://github.com/jonjomckay/fritter/issues/55
That's a co-insidence, 2185 is also the year of Linux on the desktop.
Does teraflop really count as a "word" if it has an acronym as part of it?
Ahh the mad quest to increase value by making everything as proprietary, winner-takes-all, plutocratic as possible. Yes let's make a new class of assets so rare that only the first comers, first adopters get to participate.

There's some probably valid uses. But what a corrupt, fallen, AND YET COMPLETEPY EXPECTABLE proposal from the new technofinancier class. Taking the infinte, free open bits of the world & forming the most exclusive possible systems out of them. What a sad industry, trying to turn sand into gold, for such imaginary, fake value. The contribution to net worth of the planet here feels vanishingly small.