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Ask HN: How do I contact Google to appeal a Featured badge review decision
Hi HN,

I made a Chrome extension[0] and requested for Featured badge review. The extension allow users to send web articles, Twitter threads and newsletters to a Kindle or the official Kindle mobile app.

Unfortunately, Google declined to review it because they couldn't access to a Kindle device. However the extension also works with the official Kindle mobile app.

How can I contact them to appeal the decision, suggesting them to test on the official Kindle app?

They do not allow submitting the request again for 6 months.

Full disclosure: I screwed up. I submitted a link about it[1] but wasn't aware that it was misleading. English wasn't my first language so I thought it was ok to gain some exposure about the issue.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ktool-send-web-aticles-to/igfcoofpmcdpcocfofdobneaileiogmo

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32341971
Have you thought about updating this to do the same for Airtable?
One problem is that D-Wave spent the last ten years pushing their quantum annealers as "quantum computers".

Everybody got very excited about having functional quantum computers but the D-Wave system can't do any of the stuff we really want or fear from quantum tech. No factoring of large numbers or simulating atomic processes.

So there's a lingering air of vaporware over the whole scene.

This new google computer can (mostly) produce a very specific type of result using entanglement. It's very cool but it's basic research on how to hook up gates and verify they're hooked up. It can't be used to solve any problem except "what should the output of these random quantum gates be".

We're waiting for the IAS but we're still pre-Eniac. Probably about 1925, seven years after the flip-flop was invented.
Combustion engines are pretty crap tech compared with other options. No-one really wants to use them, and even if they did, they'd be as electricity generators in hybrid vehicles, just as any hydrogen usage would be.

The uses of hydrogen in transport would be for fleets, where they already do weird things like use CNG or recycled vegetable oil to run the engines for pollution and carbon reasons, so switching to hydrogen isn't really as big a deal as it would for home users, who are not going to be using hydrogen, because battery EVs are just so much better for that use case.

Cars (and most other tech) are going to age out, there's low hanging fruit that can be replaced now (e.g. urban driving) at a cost saving and that frees up existing ICE vehicles to be moved to other areas, to replace even older ICE vehicles that are getting scrapped because they are too costly and polluting to run.

You are correct that in future, the cheapest and cleanest sources of methane and methanol will be making them from green hydrogen (SpaceX is doing this in Texas), but there's no good reason to burn them (unless you need zero-carbon rocket fuel or kerosene) so they'll mostly be chemical feedstocks.
It's a more expensive AliExpress and has been that way for several years now, ever since the drop-shipping trend started.

Amazon is increasingly delegating its retail business to those sellers now, and making money by selling ads for premium positioning on search results, and of course taking a cut of each sale.

They treat retail like its an embarrassing legacy offering, something that they'd rather not still be doing. It's clear that they have shifted their focus to things like AWS, Prime, Ring.com and the like.
It's really a lot of fun, well done!
Thanks to them being yet another attack vector and funny stuff like on this post, got demoted to optional on C11.

Additionally Google spent several years paying to clean up the Linux kernel from all VLA occurrences.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kills-The-VLA
In America, it can be all over the place. On one hand, the first time I had a corporate job I certainly felt very naked being the one guy with a ratty car in the parking lot.

On the other hand, you might have a CEO proudly drinks cheap beer and wears Kirkland Signature workboots to the office.
Tile predated AirTags for nearly a decade and is still worse on privacy today. If you want to argue that consumer-level trackers shouldn't exist, that's fine, but it's not at all unique to Apple.

Personally I don't think it's a solvable problem, and they shouldn't exist at all.
Are you saying that price has no effect on demand?
I think you summarized it pretty well: people are getting mad at things, which really make no difference. Why is this happening? My theory is that those of us who don't have private jets secretly envy those who does. "Secretly" because I don't typically see people saying "lets ban private jets because I don't get to have one". But then climate change conveniently enters the picture, and now we can go hate on those who are more successful in life AND go virtue signalling at the same time. Win-win.
VLAs in a prototype are sensible, because they decays to a pointer, and is thus functioning purely as documentation.

In the function definition, it seems to basically also decay to a pointer, except that the compiler adds basically an assertion that the value in the brackets is greater than zero to the to the top of the function. That actually seems quite weird to me.

I'd have been fine with the VLA acting like a proper local VLA with respect to things like sizeof, in which case the assertion makes sense. Or I'd have also been fine with it totally decaying to a pointer, making it just documentation. This half-way in between state is quite weird.
Disaster stories for 5-year-olds
This works very well. The low heat conduction of rock also means that without going too deep you get to a temperature that is almost constant year round, so you can cool your house in summer and heat in winter so long as you're not dumping absurd amounts of heat.
A scientific review of the clinical efficacy of oral probiotics
> Advocates of neoliberalism and globalization acknowledged these jobs were being destroyed but they figured those people would get jobs doing something else.

No, they know exactly what they are doing, they just don't want to be held responsible for

> people... committing suicide in record high numbers. Drugs like fentonyl numb the pain of a dreary existence

because if they are held responsible for both problems and profits, rather than just profits, their entire hustle falls apart.
Good tips, thanks for sharing!
Redis Source Walkthrough: How the ECHO command is implemented
Participating in class signaling is optional, starting with the choice of where to live. I can tell you from experience that if you find the right neighborhood, you can have good access and security and not have to cut your grass regularly. It's a big country.
What's your game? I spent a similar amount of time to port one of my Roblox cat games to Steam to see how it would do. Just released it a week ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1652120/Find_the_Cats/
That's a great distinction, thanks. I suspect that most of our clients would find it an acceptable compromise.
I am definitely looking forward to your bibliography. Leaving a comment so i can track it.
Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE.

As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort.

So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource (databases, APIs, data warehouses), drag and drop your common UI components (tables, charts, forms), spin up backend APIs and schedule cron jobs, all in one place.

Since developers we spoke to hated repeatedly handling permissions, hooking up observability, configuring security and managing CI/CD pipelines, we built Superblocks to integrate with popular dev tools like Datadog, Elastic, GitHub, GitLab, Okta and more. Use our cloud version, or run a self-hosted agent to ensure your data never leaves your VPC [1].

Superblocks is quite differentiated from other “low-code” tools out there:
* 100% built for developers: observability, debuggability, version control, extend with Python & JS
* A platform, not a point solution: An all-in-one builder for internal tools: app UIs, APIs and cron jobs
* Agent architecture: source-available, stateless and lightweight vs a legacy on-prem deployment
* Scalable pricing: Pay for apps by Creator and usage-based pricing for end users (based on day passes) so it’s affordable to have 100s or 1000s of end users. Workflows and Jobs are billed on the number of executions.

A quick 4 min demo on the website: https://cdn.superblocks.com/superblocks-demo-06132022.mp4
Developer docs: https://docs.superblocks.com
To illustrate Superblocks in action, we built this startup funding explorer last night [2]

Would love to hear feedback!

[1] Agent https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent
[2] Superblocks Startup Explorer App https://app.superblocks.com/applications/4aab03cd-3b18-4138-...
Electricity can run heat pumps which are great for heating. Even better if its a water-to-ground loop underneath the building, if there is no existing district heating system.
No argument here. However, note the motorcycle with the obnoxiously loud exhaust is most likely already illegal (subject to a fine), wherever you are. It's just not well enforced/enforceable.
You will be searching for them alright, and find them, on the bottom row on the supermarket aisle.
This seems like way too much work for $160. Just make some fake Saylor livestreams on YouTube instead...a video can make 100k in day and no FBI or dealing with people. Or find an exploit in some bridge protocol and drain it for $190 million.
Regarding Statements from Covid Normalizers
If I can ask, what generates the most income, the Mac apps or the iOS one?
There's a not-so-subtle failure mode where you go from "Some of those against the Establishment are cranks" to "All of those who go against the Establishment are cranks", it feels more clever and satisfying than "I really really like the Establishment and can't tolerate it or its opinons being wrong", but it's indistinguishable in input-output behaviour.

If you are talking about his statistics opinions, I don't understand enough statistics to know if it's right or wrong or not even wrong. But his other claims gives him a substantial respect-boost regardless of whether he's right or wrong. I simply like contrarians more.
You can try trawling through the document log[1], but a big part of the C99 deliberations is either inaccessible or (like the drafts) explicitly kept secret from anyone but the committee.

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/wg14_document_lo...
Not considering all the evidence, but only evidence which supports your view causes this. If you are unwilling/unable to debate the other side of an issue, you haven't looked into it enough.

Personally I think the COVID19 vax is the correct action to take, i have also read at least one of the "anti-vax bibles" to get an idea of their views (I found it mostly misinformation)

You mention you are not a "flat earther", why is that? What made you decide that this "theory" was wrong, yet you support others?

Lets look at an example of serous conversations people have had with me: "Flat earth theory."

OK, do you believe in gravity? Given gravity is uniform, this generally should lead to round objects in space. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

So they argue about Gravity... and if it is "real"..

Go to the sink, get water, pour it slowly, what shape is formed.. explain in scientific terms why it is round, but the earth is not....(surface tension, minimum surface area). Could this force impact planets as well absent "Gravity"?

What other planet in the universe is "flat" besides the earth?...
PayIt announces $90M funding round from Macquarie capital
It easily could have been worth tens of dollars. Random books donated to Salvation Army aren't likely to be ones that people actually want.

Books by the Foot will sell you books for about $0.20 per book https://booksbythefoot.com/product/shelf-filler-bulk/
CoqQ: Foundational Verification of Quantum Programs
[PDF]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.11350.pdf
Fantastic, almost exactly what I'm looking for, thank you.
These days I shop Amazon because they have a robust return policy. If that ever stops I'm gone.
I can't tell if you're serious or not.

If that's true, they're proposing to convert mass to energy?
I'm not very familiar with all the workings of HTTP/2.0 - why would it break bots? Assuming no CloudFlare type protection, does it somehow stop someone from using curl to get (non-JS generated) content? Does it thwart someone accessing the site from something like playwright/selenium?
If the search function was good, Amazon wouldn't be able to make any money by selling search ads. The only buyers for those ads are vendors who want their interchangeable trinkets to show up at the top of the results screen.
I imagine that once they have their hooks into somebody they can convince them to send more and more--someone who can be scammed and convinced once I'm sure is easier to be scammed again.
Pricing seems fine, that’s a drop in the bucket for developer education—my learning stipend at my first tech job (this was pre-IPO) was over $1000/year. Investing in quality education is a price willingly and even eagerly paid by those who want to grow. Bet a large swathe of immigrant parents would approve, too.
From what I understand, geothermal works both ways, yes
My understanding of the term vaporization means turning a solid into a vapor... so that implies there's nothing substantial left after vaporization that can't be otherwise removed simply through ventilation.
The only thing different about Apple is their speech.
Physical discipline. For me it was (American) football, but it could be karate, track, pretty much anything. Learning how to get in shape. Learning how to stay in shape. Keeping in shape even after hitting 40.

Huge payoff in terms of what I'm willing and able to do physically - not just exercise, but just living life.
This kind of insanity is exactly why I don't use stuff like C anymore.

It's a landmark and incredible language, but it's chock full of potholes and foot-shotguns (footguns that blow off your entire leg). Even huge companies can't get it right, which makes sense. It started as a language basically without guardrails, and because of the extreme deference to the holy backward compatibility, it's more or less always going to be that.
> There are lots of people we call "doctor." The ones with Ph.D's

No, the ones with doctorates. A JD's technically a doctorate, a graduate degree, but it would be silly to expect people call you "doctor" because you have one.
Or at least rate limit session cookies. If a person does not have a session cookie, rate limit by IP. If they are authenticated as a unique person have different rate limits and different levels of authentication. HAProxy can do different rate limits by ACL conditions.

Or instead of strictly rate limiting, ask them a question that can't be "looked up" in a table and that requires human thought, philosophy, emotion, ethics. Maybe GPT could eventually adapt to this and in that case fall back to IP rate limiting and grow the set of questions.
> entry level <whatever> job -> senior <whatever> job (within a year or two)

Do words even mean anything anymore?
1. Regular expressions. By far the most useful thing to 10x (or 100x) my productivity in just about everything data related.

2. Standard Windows/MS Office keyboard navigation. Couldn't tell you how many hours I've seen others waste by inefficiently trying to select and/or modify Excel cells or portions of text, especially if they need to scroll.

3. On the same note, "advanced" Word and Excel capabilities - formatting, templating, named regions, etc.

4. Cooking my own food, and rolling my own cigarettes. Thousands and thousands of dollars saved every year, and both healthier than premade (yeah, yeah, smoking is bad no matter what, I know).

5. Speed reading and touch typing. Nuff said.

6. Public speaking, and the associated ability to present information that I'm not familiar with on the fly without fumbling about.

7. General technology - being able to plug in a projector or program a VCR or troubleshoot a printer, etc.
I think the nicest interface to git is magit: https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/magit-walk-through/

It's excellent for keyboard-driven workflows.
I use it (Zola) for my personal humble blog https://undeadalien.xyz
Disclosure: It's in Romanian, no cookies, no JS, no trackers

Beaker Browser https://beakerbrowser.com/ seems dead, loved the concept but it's no longer updated

Now that you've asked, nope, didn't found anything with a clear future on the "Web3" side of the internet. Vast majority make use of crypto/blockchain and IMHO blockchain is anything but not decentralization.
Better question is will they be entirely terminated and not replaced. Which for short term is realistic possiblity.
That's selection bias because you are only looking at books that you actually wanted. An average book is worth much less than a book that someone actually wants.
The ability to rapidly pick up patterns and then reuse them in some productive way strongly correlates with intelligence, as is defined as being measured by modern IQ tests at least (though this is only one form of intelligence).
I agree. Taking advice from fiction writers I love has improved my technical writing more than anything else.
> keep your README succinct

so why isn't yours....

node community has horrible documentation in general, at least in my experience of some shitty npm packages i was cursed to deal with. giving non executable code samples to start.
None of that is inherently bad. He talks a lot of working hard to maintain multiple brands/companies while everything shown is pure vanity, which is why I thought it was satire.

I don’t know anything about what he does but in reality people don’t have time to work out twice a day, take long relaxing drives, meet their friends, eat healthy and do 5x the work of an average CEO.
I'm finding that if I'm willing to wait a month, I can get the same crap From AliExpress for half the price. But if you know what to search for, you can find quality goods, VESSEL screwdrivers from Japan for instance.
> Edit: There is ALSO a 73.2 kW battery.. geesh

All hydrogen fuel cell vehicles use small batteries to buffer charge to actually drive the electric motors because the fuel cell power output isn't high enough.

73kWH isn't huge for a large truck, equivalent to current small passenger EVs.

For a vehicle whose fundamental purpose is to haul heavy freight, the excess weight imposed by batteries is uneconomical, which is a why fuel cells make sense - especially when the H2 is renewably generated.
As someone who also doesn't know Jupyter, what sort of fun and useful things would I do with this? It looks like I can add content and some code blocks that I can execute. I guess taking notes and tinkering?

I'm messing with Elixir just for fun, so this caught my eye.
What kind of business reasons are there for travel that can't be replaced by videoconferencing?
That's nice. But there's an even easier, cleaner and even mobile source of "free" energy - plus, it's fully open-sourced (no patents, fees, limitations, etc.): https://www.KryonEngine.org
Ask HN: What are your main pains working with NLP in non-English languages?
Amazon doesn't come close to occupying "the bottom" so far as shopping experiences are concerned. To see that it's still doing relatively well, just try this: shop for five items on Amazon, and then shop for the same five items on Walmart. The Amazon experience remains much better—in many cases, it's superior. Listings are more relevant and better sorted on Amazon. At least, this is my consistent experience. I want Walmart to be a good competitor…but at the moment, I find that it's still not close.

Simple search strategies on Amazon help, too: to avoid counterfeit products, search for products that are sold by (and not just shipped by) Amazon itself. Don't attend to one- or five-star reviews; instead, read the two- and three-star reviews (if any at all) and consider the percentage of all verified reviews that give 1-3 stars. Of course, none of this is foolproof; you may still end up with a low-quality product. But I find that these strategies help a lot. I get >100 shipments from Amazon per year, and I have almost no problem with low-quality or counterfeit goods.
Banking apps (for example) are absolutely a necessity. This is kind of a silly distinction to draw.

My take is that either all advertising is bad or none is. That's why I use Linux, which has fewer ads (zero) than any other OS.
Again, what are you defining as "barely functional"? What would they not do, what would be lacking?

Bear in mind that no-one cares about things like iPhone integration, reversing cameras, lane assist, or any of the other pointless crap that overcomplicates modern vehicles.
So does depending on anything with plastics or steel
The solution for electric trucking has been obvious for 50 years - overhead cables on all major highways.

It is the cheapest and most efficient solution, the trucks only need enough range for local delivery and transport, and since they charge from cables, they dont occupy petrol stations.

https://movemnt.net/uk-trial-to-electrify-30km-of-motorway-w...
If people in my IN group, who I trust, kept telling me that student loans would be forgiven, then I'd go get a bunch of student loans too! True or not, some people think its going to happen.
> Most humans just don't care and aren't capable of parsing the truth value of the questions raised, they're just interested in their status within those structures rather than the nature of them.

Good job, you've successfully identified the core belief of almost every conspiracy theorist. A big part of the reason conspiracy theories are so appealing is that it gives the theorist has the happy thought that they and they alone see the truth while everyone else is not 'capable of parsing the truth'.
Scams are bigger than ever on the Internet. The majority of these individuals operating these scams are based out of India and utilizing VOIP technology. I don’t understand why there isn’t more action taken against these malicious actors. There should be a collective effort by the international community to crack down on this and if caught scamming the punishment should be severe enough to discourage others from following the same path.
I think this was marketed as “geoplutonic” power about a decade ago.
or RIIR is suddenly preferable.
Synthesizing h2 from methane is also done by electrolysis, it's just cheaper to electrolyze methane than water. This is fundamental - it takes less energy to release hydrogen from methane than from water, to such a degree that even though water is free it's still not economical. If you are concerned about people using fossil instead of synthetic methane to cut costs, you should be concerned about people using methane instead of water to cut costs. Either you can get people to comply with regulations or you can't.
To be fair, in many parliamentary systems it is very unusual for any one party to have an absolute majority. In most such systems, the winning party of an election often only wins a plurality of votes, and has to woo other parties to govern - either through a coalition or just a minority government.
On the other hand if they are completed you could just keep a tarball.
Thanks for taking the time to type this out, definitely motivates me to give it a look!