skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's very anglocentric

You must be confused. Nobody is saying Turkey should change its name in Turkish. This is about the name in English. And English should be Anglocentric.
> pay in cryptocurrency using our biometric data

This is incorrect — Worldcoin orbs[1] use iris scans to create privacy-preserving proofs (these are called zero-knowledge proofs[2]) of uniqueness client side, which are just metadata for creating social graphs. The data is never used beyond the construction of the proof.[3]

If you're going to be critical you should at least understand why the idea is exciting to some. :)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA2ttYtUbF8

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

[3]: https://worldcoin.org/privacy
As a customer of a lawyer It seems like an absolute requirement for me.

Why is everyone trying to erode society down to like, nothingness?

Burger flipper to 400k/year lawyer anyone?
The difference is that one of those things has a benefit. When there's a mysterious box that does some vague thing that you don't care about, it's safe to hate it. It's not helping you in any observable way, so opposing its existence is a safe, easy decision. But the Ring camera is providing him with a benefit, so evaluating whether to oppose it requires putting a cost on "spying on us" and weighing that against the personal benefits, which takes up a lot of mental load and consideration, so we ignore the vague costs against the concrete benefits.

People often care about these sorts of high level, idealistic concerns like "privacy" and "freedom" right until you offer them the smallest "concrete" benefit. Look at 23andme. Hey, can we take your blood, analyze your DNA, and send it to the police? No? What if we also told you what percentage Western European you are, would that convince you to pay us for the service?
> It has a number of URLs. I suppose it's possible at least one of the URLs is no longer legitimate.

> "These restrictions were put in place because this content violates Google Drive's Phishing policy."

> There is no indication of why the file was flagged.

Isn't your answer in the warning (albeit lacking some specificity)? If you have a bunch of URLs in there and admit not knowing about their legitimacy, it seems reasonable that at least one of them matches a database of known phishing URLs. Isn't it also reasonable to expect (and in many cases want) a company hosting publicly-shared files to notify users when content matches some heuristics for unsafe content, especially given the prevalence of phishing attempts?

That said, there may still be a case to argue that the review process, heuristic, lack of transparency, and other implementation details are flawed. But I don't have a problem with them posting a warning message on content that looks suspicious.

Complete removal, on the other hand (as in the case of OP) is another story, especially given Google's laughable process (or lack thereof) for appealing such cases.
Exactly as the others mentioned. Subscribe to Disney + for a year, cancel immediately - now I have it for a year and don’t have to think about it at all.

And when it stops working, if I notice, I can resubscribe. If I don’t notice - well then I didn’t need it anyway.
And with this change, the Rust core team is finally cancer-free and has achieved remission
or after what he did with "OpenAI"
You're thinking of the inflation adjustment the wrong way around. A dollar earned in 1980, if, saved until today, buys less than it would have then.
>I can, and absolutely will, object to someone recording my yard. You might not see a distinction but there absolutely is one.
You certainly can raise an objection but it has no legal weight behind it. Anything that is in public view can be legally filmed. I think there may be some federal prohibitions against filming sensitive government areas though not sure if these have ever been testing in court. Walk around naked in your front yard or in your house in front of an open window you are eligible to be legally (though maybe creepily) filmed.
Helion uses a series of pulses, just like an ICE.
I suspect OP has not really lost access to their own files. Per the blog post about this system [0], "When it’s restricted, you may see a flag next to the filename, you won’t be able to share it, and your file will no longer be publicly accessible, even to people who have the link."

My guess is OP has multiple accounts, created this file on account A, and can no longer access the file while logged in as account B, so it seems to be "removed from Drive." But I could be wrong, in which case I agree with you, this doesn't make sense as an anti-spam measure.

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notifi...
> Teams is worse on Windows

For me, it has one killer feature it doesn't have on other platforms: it can use native notifications, as opposed to showing a random window.

> but so is everything, especially Microsoft apps for some reason

This reminds of the Remote Desktop client. Until maybe a year ago, when they've introduced a similar client for Windows, the best RDP experience to be had was hands down on the Mac. A close second was Remmina on Linux. Windows was a complete shitshow. In particular, it wouldn't support resizing a connection window once it was open (technically it did, but it wouldn't update the resolution of the remote end).
We're talking explicitly about the cost of putting humans in the loop as content moderators / customer-service representatives / ombudsmen / etc. That cost, industry-wide, grows at O(N) with the number of customers; as some constant fraction of people will always call with their problems rather than attempting to engage with automated support systems.
Python's Role in Unlocking Universe Secrets with the James Webb Space Telescope
I do this on a Pixelbook (Linux version of Edge). Works quite well for all of Office 365, for me.
[This is Julia, the IC] In this case, LinkedIn had nothing to do with the scam. The thieves were using my real name and they didn’t create a fake profile for the supposed recruiter, so there’s unfortunately no phony profile to report.
we live in a SOCIETY
>the world has been busily re-inventing (parts of) Common Lisp for 20 years

There is a certain sleight of hand that every lisp advocate pulls when this conversation comes : claiming that every single inspiration or language feature that is remotely related to lisp is "re-invention", with the additional implication that it's an inferior imitation.

APL, Algol60, ML, Smalltalk, Simula, Prolog, Perl, Ada, Erlang and Eiffel are all extremly influential languages that all modern languages (including Lisp, ironically) are imitating and re-inventing all the time. But it's always the lispers who are obsessed with who took ideas from them, you never see smalltalkers raving about how the rest of the world took JITs, MVC and most OOP from them, or MLers about how the rest of the world learned proper static typing and module systems from them. Only lisp is that special snowflake that the PL community, countless researchers and language implementers, have been stuck helplessly imitating since 1960 and failing.

"The thing about re-inventing the wheel is : you can actually do it better the second time"

- Paraphrased, allegedly from one of JSON creators in response to somebody telling them they are re-inventing XML.

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Among the endless "exclusive" features claimed for lisp are :

- Homoiconity: Which Mathematica does better, with its extremly expressive and diverse syntax that nonetheless all boils down to Lists in the end. Unlike Lisp which tries to force its inferior syntax on me as a "feature", Mathematica understands that concrete syntax is not abstract syntax, the former can be (indeed, needs to be in a high level language) rich and expressive, the latter can be spartan and pure. Also Elixir.

- Macros: Which countless languages does with a myriad of forms and functions. Some are : Elixir, Rust, Julia, Scala, and those are just the ones that call them "macros", AST manipulation and compile-time code reification are very general concepts that are called a lot of things in different languages. ("Templates" in Haskell, "Annotations and Annotation Processors" in Java and Groovy.)

- Dynamicity: Come on, Ruby can redefine the base language from underneath you.

- Image-Based Development: Fair enough, but I will politely point to Smalltalk and Erlang, and beg lispers to read some PL history before claiming that their programming languages is the O N L Y one to do so and so.

- The Condition System: Also fair, and this is the only one that is truly without analog in any other programming languages I know, but it's also only in Common Lisp, not scheme or Clojure or Arc or Racket or any other lisp dialect, and it doesn't meaningfully (as far as I know) depend on "Lisp" the language, what prevents anyone from implementing it in any language they like ? What's so "Lispy" about it exactly?

Lispers need to wake up to the fact that Lisp is not special in 2020. They needed to wake up to that fact since 2000, but better late than never I guess.

>the cognitive burden of figuring out whether to write x.f(z) or f(x,z) every single time they want to invoke f

huh ?
No.
Should have done this years before when kid was an actual kid, not a young adult.
Off topic, thank you for the wonderful website you run! It's a trove of information, and has saved me many, many times over the years!
What does it even mean to be an expert? What are we allowed or not allowed to be an expert in? Who's the judge that sets what fields you can be an expert in? Is there a range of expertise? Do I have to be in the top 10% of people in a field? The top 2%?

The whole idea of being an expert is an arbitrary social designation backed up by hogwash. We think we know what it means but it's really just hand-waving.
I wonder what happens for powers of e. This should be different than pi, since e has continued fraction coefficients that make a nice pattern [2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, ...]. e^2 does as well (https://oeis.org/A001204). (I know this fact but have never understood any of the proofs.)

But e^3 (https://oeis.org/A058282) does not have a "nice pattern", and neither does e^4 (https://oeis.org/A058283)
You have to validate that the response is well-formed even if you parse it. There's no harm in trying to parse it if the Content-Type indicates it's JSON (or XML, or whatever else you're expecting). You can then use that result--or lack thereof, in case you couldn't parse it--to determine why you got a particular status code.

If a resource isn't found for any reason, 404, 410, or 451 is the correct response. If you want to clarify why it's not found, that should be included in the response body. Don't return 200 while simultaneously reporting an error--that's just bad form. 2XX means everything is good, 4XX means problem on my end, 5XX means problem on the API's end. It's an easy way to tell at a glance who's likely at fault. Yes, status codes are always going to be ambiguous, but that's why there are response bodies alongside them. If the Content-Type header is something you recognize, you can at least attempt to automate that disambiguation process.
All easy, Helion will just do it better than everyone else. They can even produce Helium-3 themselves!

Which kind of raises the question why they are not aiming to sell said Helium-3...

I call BS on basically all of it. Except their cookie banner, that has an "opt-out" button right next to accept.
> It's just the last step from the fulfillment center to your house that are different.

Right. It's that last step I'm criticizing. But even the former deserves some amount of attention, given the scale and proliferation of disposable consumption that Amazon has encouraged.
As someone who thinks Twitter is a net negative for society, and only marginally better than Facebook, I must say if this case isn't a slam-dunk in Twitter's favor, something is really, incredibly rotten in the state of Denmark.
I hate the locale nonsense. The decimal point is `.` and not `,`. The rest of this stupid country is wrong
Clearly, we have different premises.
How is Lightning not a blockchain system?

It depends on a blockchain?
If you are wearing a mask, you are protected (or so you seem to believe). Why isn't that good enough?
No one should be shamed for wearing a mask if they feel it's best for them. Others shouldn't be shamed if they don't feel the need to. That's the core issue.
Funny timing on this, here's Google confirming it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/google-exec-suggests-insta...
Apple made a hard U-turn from form-over-function to the current state which was much needed

The design iterations over generations are now fairly static and that's a good thing - because Apple high end bulk customers are mostly developers, not the eccentric designer or the lone musician. It matters to keep thousands of your $2000-wielding developers happy than a handful of $50,000 carrying artists who are finicky about post-modernistic aesthetics. The kinds Jonny Ive felt a natural kinship with. His design ethos were good to make a splash from the moribund vanilla boxes in early 2000s. But keep making those splashes (without Steve Jobs to rein in with criticism & engineering team getting second-classed), you got serious product troubles.

Thinkpads come to mind when I think about MacBooks lineage. Well maintained product line which has kept their hardware UX fairly unchanged - the net result being they are an extremely dependable product in corporate environment.

Edit: I remember talking to a designer who once worked at Apple. I am told Jonny Ive even seriously floated the idea of a smooth slab iPhone/iPad devoid of any power buttons, charging slot or rockers - only featuring touch sensitive edges & speaker grille. Glad engineering team didn't take up on it. Would have been a recovery & update disaster.
Frankly, it IS outrageous that a few dozen or hundred people own more wealth than 50% of the population. It would be one thing if that wealth was well and duly earned, and well and duly enjoyable. But when an individual commands hundreds of thousands of lifetimes of wealth[1], an unimaginable sum that they cannot even physically enjoy in their time on Earth, and at the same time both pursues more money and tells us that they should be taxed less, I call fucking bullshit!

[1] At $300 billion supposed net "worth", Elon Musk could retire ($3 million a pop) literally 100,000 times over. Or, he could retire, not making another cent, and live one hundred thousand times better than the average person. If his wealth only grew at par with inflation, he could literally spend $100k a year for three million years.

The fact that this much money is earmarked for this person, or any person really, is only possible because the enormous pyramid schemes they are able to set up which are paid into by speculative investors.

In my frank and honest opinion, there are NO words you can say, NO ideas you could have, NO labor that you could undertake, and NO buttons that you can push that morally justify the tax on humanity's subsequent activities that funnel that much wealth to you. Hands down. And with that money you have zero goddamn problems that justify you offering policy input that personally benefits you. We should shun such money addicts, not lionize them.
Would lightning network approach comply with KYC laws?
What, we're just going to skip over the fact that the police can beat the shit out of you and throw you in jail for a few hours, largely consequence-free, before any of those parties even get involved?
If the uber-riche (like SA) are doing anything less than betting their comfortable livelihoods on climate tech, they're not doing enough. The rest of us don't have the resources to do anything other than vote and hope change literally comes from the top.
Yes, the founders published this research before they incorporated.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/51/5/05...
very quick setup and deploying already, fascinating. will keep an eye on it to see what new things will be added over time.
Why do you feel the need to apologize for a well documented display of shady behavior?

It just puzzles me when people jump into defend what is clearly unsavory and amoral behavior.

Just because its legally grey area doesn't mean its moral.
If you alert on 404s to URLs that nobody should expect to exist, you create a vector by which malicious actors can wake up your oncall staff at 3AM. That's probably not something you want to do to your oncall staff.
This is not a solution. It's a tip on determining whether this is your problem.

For many people who are required to use Teams, and have this issue, it might be a necessary solution until MS gets its act together.

For many who have alternatives, they may choose to abandon Teams itself.
Ask HN: Something you wish you knew before you started coding?
If you could go back in time to when you first started coding and give yourself any advice that would help you develop better or faster, what would it be?
> I have to admit, I originally thought that Google Drive was the
obvious choice over every alternative that existed, but I can see
now that I would prefer an offline or privacy-driven alternative.

I'm not being miserable or spiteful when I say I'm really glad this
happens. Mono-cultures are dangerous and undesirable, and whether the
cause is "network effects" or more active monopoly tactics it's good
that there's some drivers towards alternatives.

Ultimately, when we have interoperability (by legislation if
necessary), people will have the genuine choice to share documents via
Google, where their work may be censored or arbitrarily deleted, or
through another service. It will not matter whether others in the
group use AcmeDocs or GoogleDocs, we will all be able to share and
edit via interoperable protocols. But when Google screw up like this,
they will lose customers who have no barrier to migrate to another
Docs client.

That will raise software quality. It would be a real marketplace.
That's welcome to Hill Valley you're likely thinking of. https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/106917/1368185/Hill%...
Premium is that you get to do other things while waiting for delivery
Achieving fusion is not that hard, lots of projects have working fusion. You can even do it yourself with a homebrew project costing about $1000. What's hard is getting more power out than you put in, which GP mentioned Helion has not done yet.
>I don’t want to get a heavier workload just because I act responsible and you do not.

lol - it's a highly contagious airborne virus. It can be carried and spread by animals - you going to get mad at all the animals for not wearing masks too?

Pro tip for a happier life - worry about what you can control and not about what others are doing or thinking that might offend you. Not only will you be happier, but so will everyone else around you :)
Also Twitter wants to argue this on Sept 19th over just four days. If so, then the decision would easily take less than 6 more months.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-13/twitter-s...
How you use it in real life has to be taken in consideration. From memory system like calls go through JS and there's no realloc. I didn't want to say it in my first comment because I notice the more someone writes the more likely others will argue. I rather someone else post the SQL benchmark but apparently everyone drank the kool aid and had no idea wasm isn't that fast. I certainly would rather use JS than write c++/rust. I wouldn't be surprised if that list of companies using wasm only use it for one or two large projects then stuck to js because of how much work wasm is
There was a post on here about a guy who got his degree in less than a year. He used an online school that allows for self paced courses.

Also, you might not really need a degree depending on your body of work. I imagine most startups these days will happily ignore that requirement if the candidate has demonstrable experience in the field.

On the flip side, a company like this probably has low pay, long hours, and it will be a decade or more before you see your work come to fruition (if at all). So if you are financially secure enough already, the work might not be for you. Probably best to pick up some hobby projects that scratch the itch.
IIRC the first number proven to be transcendental was Liouville's number

0.110001000000000000000001...

where the digits after the decimal place are 1 in the n!th place and 0 otherwise. This is explicitly constructed to be very close to the sequence of rational numbers

0.1, 0.11, 0.110001, ...

(I expect there's nothing special about base 10 here; surely the proof works in binary as well.)
Occam's Razor suggests that what has been published as truth for a long, long time (since the actual events, in fact) is truth, rather than being made up by gullible people.
That creates opprotunities for other Level 1 chains. Solana for example charges $0.00025 per transaction (however this is still denominated in the SOL currency so it will fluctuate). Hedera network is $0.0001 per transaction and is fixed in USD.
Cryptography is the easy part of cryptography. You can learn it as a high school student interested in programming and mathematics. I did that in the late 90s, first from Applied Cryptography and then from more advanced books. I implemented a few algorithms back then, and I also wrote a password manager I used until I learned about the existence of better third-party tools.

The real issue is that cryptography is an adversarial field. The human / systems / software aspects are the hard parts. The crypto you wrote yourself doesn't fail because you got the crypto wrong but because your adversary cheats. (I eventually lost interest in cryptography due to the adversarial nature.)
Sri Lanka PM: This is how I will make my country rich by 2025 (2018)
Maybe it's not "elaborate", relative term, but it's multi step, several fake accounts, a fake mail server, multi step interview, and it's tailored to a specific company and targeted to a relevant audience.
In the case of the recent wildly sharp increase in consumer prices is caused by lower supply of goods... not by increase of money supply.

If the demand stays the same, the supply goes down... then the price will go up.

It's pretty common sense if you think about supply and demand, but I am perplexed at the amount of people that don't practice any critical thought, let alone skepticism.
The name of a thing is not its behavior.
Warning: This is a very American opinion so know that I realize that many people don't feel this way.

If my kid is 18 and living at home, I have some say in the life. If they want 0 say, they can find their own way. Obviously, I don't give a rat's ass that my 18 year old games becasue as long as they have a healthy lifestyle, I'm glad they're enjoying themselves but if they're starting to become a hermit and losing friends, not working, not taking care of their health, etc, then they're going to have some pressure from me.

You don't get to live off the teet and also not listen at all.
How about just spend some time with the person...
If the 18 year old is not self-supporting (ie lives at home, does not pay own expenses) the parent has every right to make restrictions on how the child spends their time.
> Discord is probably the only company that can make voice+chat+streaming software right.

I still don't understand why they did not not release it as a business software, exactly the same but with reskinned without that gaming cringe.

I actually was using it as business communicator at ~2018... but at gaming company.
Whaaat? What kind of oldish is that? You need a good friend kicking your rear.
You need to find something meaningful. The nihilistic trap will do no good to you.
[This is Julia, the OC] It’s not exactly clear what the end scam will be. Scammers ask for bank info, a photo of your ID, and credit info. Sounds like some sort of identity theft or bank withdrawal situation.