skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citroen DS as well:

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/passenger-cars/michelin/ds/image...
They do... Another thing is that they proxy analytics/ad traffic through their own servers to circumvent ad blockers. There are even fully fledged pre-built services just for this, see DataUnlocker.
There's also /showrss

I'm not sure if there are more tho, I know /ask doesn't have one.
Yup. Too big to fail sucks just as hard in banking.

Google needs to be broken up as badly as banks do. It's a battle that keeps on coming up and here it is again.
If society degenerates to the point I need to buy another house somewhere more habitable or pay personal security to protect myself from looters, or cease being able to afford necessities within my lifetime, it will almost certainly be due to the effect of climate regulations and policies, rather than climate change itself. So if you think I should look at it from a purely selfish perspective, then I should actually demand inaction.
Even more interesting since he used to be a determined atheist.
Increased CVE Activity in Curl?
Wow, you're right! It's crazy how you can go your whole life never noticing or thinking about something like this that is so clearly irregular, just because it's the way you've always seen it or thought about it.

I thought for a few minutes about the reason that units of currency are different and come before the number, determined there must be an obvious logical one. But, if there is, I can't think of it!
I've stated this so many times for decades now. Profile support is something that I would literally pay towards funding support but there isnt a good way of setting up a bounty which I'll pay £100 into each month until the bounty is large enough to motivate someone to do it.
> Audi can barely handle infotainment that doesn't brick and reboot on a road trip

This is a feature of all recent VAG cars. Nothing quite like your navigation and climate control freezing on a 1000 km road trip but there's no way to reset the computer so you have to wait a hour for it to fully crash and reboot.
Early Lessons in Self-Control Bring Lifelong Benefits
Evolution doesn't have a goal or purpose, and it just doesn't make sense to say that 'Humans evolved to...' for anything. You could on the other hand say something like 'human story telling is a consequence of evolution' (though I don't agree).
Say what you want, but mice have a truly thorough collection of studies to choose from when it comes to their social life.
It's true, but our life expectancy when air conditioning wasn't used was also a lot lower, and life was very difficult outside a small band of areas with good climates (usually cold climates because until the invention of air conditioning, it was much easier for humans to heat spaces than cool and dehumidify them.) And many people in very humid parts of the world had their lives immensely improved thanks to the aircon. Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore, credits [1] the aircon as a core reason for development to even exist in the tropics.

American homes are built cheaply (and needlessly sprawly but that's another story) without any heed to ventilation because the US government has put every policy in place possible to make sure energy prices remain low which has removed any market incentive to decrease energy usage, partially because fossil fuel companies spend lots of money lobbying the government. But strategic use of AC in a properly ventilated home is absolutely life-changing.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
> Not recommended

The "recommended extensions" vetting process is another excellent reason to stick with Firefox.

>Recommended extensions differ from other extensions that are regularly reviewed by Firefox staff in that they are curated extensions that meet the highest standards of security, functionality, and user experience. Firefox staff thoroughly evaluate each extension before it receives Recommended status.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
It's in the title. React. Everything is better with React.
Thanks. I was wondering if there was a name for this after my teenage kids were rather underwhelmed by the first Matrix film the other night—especially the Bullet Time sequences.
Huh, my Swiss telco operator does not even bill anything less than 3 bucks...
>It was optimism that made science take off.

No, the title should be "optimism chose me". Articles like this are the product of scientific progress. People don't have ideas, ideas have people. Science took itself off once it got started. (in tandem with capital).

It's funny that 'rational optimism', Enlightenment obsessed people stress science and secularism so much. They may not notice it but the framework they're in is fundamentally religious and idealistic, assuming they can move the world in directions they want by thinking the right thoughts.

"Appreciation and its close cousin, gratitude, are something we need a lot more of these days. But our gratitude is not for heaven-sent good fortune. It’s for the innumerable positive changes and advancements forged by science,"

The author is even somewhat self aware of the fact that this sounds suspiciously like worship, but somehow not completely.
I didn’t know that, about Greek plays. Thank you.
Toyota are the largest car manufacturer in the world...
because it's about trust.
Yes. The article is indeed talking about a pretty specific subset of companies.

"Adding product management to more traditional software infrastructure organizations, sometimes with a shift towards platform engineering, is all the rage today."
so the dataset is completely bogus or what is your explanation for how this is made-up?
Who else would? I've never bought a raffle ticket. The friends and families of the beneficiaries are probably the only people even entering the raffle in the first place.
Sam has a pretty active Twitter account. Apparently a movie is also supposedly in the works. https://twitter.com/samantar
Free will, not free lunch!

Also, since artists exist, it is possible to choose an artistic career. It's just not possible to guarantee that it would give you any comforts in life besides art.
Had a similar experience with GCP about 5 years ago. They tried to charge $0.00 and then suspended the account. It took 11 hours to get the services back.
Interestingly, I'm very friendly at work, and yet rarely if ever someone comes to my desk to bitch about someone else for 45 minutes. You might be exagerating the cons of estabilishing connections with people. I, for one, prefer to make friends, because this just makes passing the days so much easier and more fun. Without people to talk to, the job (esp. being stuck in an office) would feel a lot like doing a prison sentence. I can't find joy in gamifying the tasks like you do.
For one, it's a wrapper in React, so no need to implement the glue code yourself if you want to integrate PDFs in your web app.

Also, it appears to be feature-rich and yet easy to use for simple use cases.
But we're not talking about whether budgets increased by as much as random HN commenters feel would be ideal, I said funding had increased massively i.e. in absolute terms, which it has.

Any discussion of the NHS budget has to accept this reality - the British state is already deep in deficit for decades and had built up incredible debts just trying to keep the NHS budget rising, which it always has. To say the NHS would works better with more money is simply to admit it's broken and can't be fixed, because the government can't even afford the current levels. Especially not after the attempts to stop COVID blew debt and inflation through the roof.
Conditional Testing in Cypress
You can choose to use an adapter.
I still have a 50" Panasonic Plasma as our bedroom TV. It's 1080p. I still think it has a better picture than a 1080p LCD. I'll be really sad when/if it dies.
The law should come hard on this sort of shenanigans, but hitting on Big Tech has already become a political issue in the US, Europe is, in the end, too afraid to do it (bar some relatively minor extra taxes that Big Tech is all to happy to pay as long as it's not made legally liable in other ways), and here we are, with crazy stories like this one (one of many).
Ferrari's making the SF90 stradale as a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/auto/sf90-stradale
Maybe, why is this source trustworthy, I have no idea. There are probably many examples of improvement in the environment that goes unreported.

I used to trust climate science. That trust is being eroded for me. Just the other day, someone reported that kids are gaining weight due to climate change. The reason? They can’t go out and play when it’s 2 deg C hotter. Come on.

I despise climate catastrophization by the media.
No, only with your doctored definition.

Having cables dangling is not great, but you know what's truly terrible? Having headphones with empty batteries. Having to charge them is a massive inconvenience to me.
Investors are optimistic about equities. They have no alternative
they are big and you are small. It's like walking over ants.
Because I'm only working with software engineers and PMs I didn't read the article that negatively. I believe that when a product becomes big enough or its user base becomes large it can be very hard to empathize with all your different kinds of customers and external users, and therefore it pays to have a dedicated function (PM, PMM, designers, researchers etc) that can help with that process. It also pays to have a dedicated groups who can help be a more central point for creating a coherent product roadmap (which everyone of course feed requirements into (and engineers help scope, rank etc.))
What would someone break Google up into, ad and vertisements? If you look at their quarterly reports you'll see that they are almost entirely based around one product.
Seeing all these horror stories, I can't help but wonder when people are going to switch back to on prem, or at least some hybrid. It's pretty apparent we can't trust cloud providers...
This title is deceptive itself. From the abstract

"This and similar tricks can be highly deceptive, but they can also be undertaken for entertainment, symbolic reasons, their placebo-like utility to sick patients, or some mixture of each"

*can be* not *is*

This title is copied from the paper, but I don't like it.
Black, white, and grey are also colors. The reason for their popularity is likely due to the modern aesthetics of simplicity and elegance. Bright colors give a "busy" appearance, they are gaudy and attention-grabbing. Emotionless, professional, and modest "inorganic" tones give the impression of maturity and sophistication.
Firefox Improvement Ideas in Review
Why Amazon Paid $1.7B for a Roomba
There are many anecdotes of people trying to convince the firefighters that they can open the door normally, and the firefighters not letting them use the keys and breaking the door instead.

It can be frustrating for the homeowners but firefighters are probably trained to think that "every second counts" and damage is of course irrelevant, as the fire will destroy everything if it spreads.

But it's good that they would at least test the handle.
If you are paying for the load/pressure, what's the problem?
It's postulated by the same system of faith which postulates the existence of God which is omnipotent, omniscient, and merciful.
You can use a usb-3.5mm adapter, not that big deal.
...recipients feel the “weight of expectations” and
so publish only papers that they consider “worthy of a Fields medalist”...

This sentence is probably not only anecdotal but could well be the premise that explains the phenomenon discussed in this article.
And a bunch of Alfa Romeos (Suds and Sprints from the 80s/90s at least)
RIIR? I mean, RIIG? It would be fun to do so :)

But it seems that being able to embed it into Go applications is a nice positive.
> Typically when a full time position is offered, the workload of a full person is needed (lets not discuss if 8h of work a day results in better or more output than less hours, thats another topic)

But that is the point.

If someone believes they can do a full-time workload in 4 days, how else should they approach this in a way that works?

Put another way: How many employers, do you estimate, would not even do an interview with someone if they knew they wanted to do 4 days? How would you, as a recruiter, figure out a candidate is capable of that? How would you pitch them candidate to an employer looking for full-time?
I started at 24 hours a week and they negotiated me up to 32. :)
Sony Playstation being sued for £5B
i mean feel free to attack the example while letting the idea escape, anyone with 5 minutes could come up with a hundred professions where circumstance is the only prerequisite.
There are several cars that use this already. The issue is not so much ignored; but been dealt with. Multiple EV manufacturers have now successfully used this technology in vehicles. It seems the benefits outweigh the theoretical downsides.

Of course the question remains what happens in a high performance car at extreme speeds. But presumably, Ferrari and Mercedes know what they are doing and have considered this as well.

As for suspension; I'm sure there are ways to deal with that as well. I don't see how this should be any more bumpy than other vehicles for off-road.

A bigger concern would be what you'd do in case of a flat tire as that basically means losing an engine. And when you are in the middle of nowhere, getting some road assistance would not be that easy.
This. In my previous company I was receiving almost every month some email from automated systems AND humans at AWS because either our finance dept screwed it up or AWS screwed it up but we had like hundred of thousands of $ in missing payments for months, and nothing happened (we always eventually paid AFAIK). Nowadays I think they are removing humans from the loop as much as possible though.
Encouraging trends:

- Energy is getting fixed. Simply because wind and solar are cheap, and electric vehicles work well. There will be lots of kicking and screaming during the transition, but 20 years out, it won't be a problem.

- We seem to be past peak crazyness in major national leaders. Donald Trump is out. Boris Johnson is out. Benjamin Netanyahu is out. Putin remains a problem.

- Vaccine technology has made huge strides in recent years. Omicron vaccine ships in October. Broad-spectrum vaccines for most of the flu/coronavirus family are in test. We have a monkeypox vaccine already. Cranking out a designed vaccine for a new threat is now routine. Even an AIDS vaccine, which is really hard, now looks possible.

- The supply chain disruptions of the last few years have led to major investments in new manufacturing capacity all over the world. From wafer fabs to fertilizer factories, plants are going up. Having multiple sources is now important again. It takes a while for this to have an effect, after which prices go down.

- The population bomb fizzled out. World population is leveling off. All the major developed countries are now below replacement rate.
Corneas made from pig collagen return sight to 20 people
This is the only right answer with large cloud providers. Get a human to be involved with your account and do invoice payment as soon as they allow it.
Ah. It says the encoding is ccitt, which I hope is indeed the same as Group4.

How is the lossless JBIG2 in terms of reading speed? I've seen some very well-compressed PDF files around that unfortunately load so slow that they are almost unreadable on mobile; I think this was JBIG2. In that case, I'm wondering if this can be avoided by proper use or is a necessary downside of the encoding.
I am a macOS user and have never seen a popup or ads for News+, fitness+ or Apple Music.

In addition to that, what personal data are you talking about in your last paragraph?
Ahhh another OpenVMS user!! Hello buddy!!
no accountability

Can't they sue google? Surely this is a case here.
I don't think anyone really can love their job because of how much it pays. The best high pay can buy companies is people sticking to their jobs despite hating them (golden handcuffs), and getting the best candidates interested during recruitment.
I don't think dismissing such incidents as random incidents is a good idea.

Although crimes and thefts are rare, all developed societies invest millions into law enforcement and justice systems to measure and mitigate them.

Although device and equipment failures are rare, both private and government systems exist to address them fairly.

It seems like it's only in the tech industry that statistical insignificance of failures is assumed and then wielded as justification to avoid even minimal levels of accountability.
Ah, the good old "the plebs sometimes make mistakes so we take away their choices. For their own good!" Fun to see it somewhere else than computers.
> Why should a business relationship with Google (or any other cloud service) be any different?

Depends on the size of the account surely? Maybe there's some support person to talk to, but there's plenty of services I subscribe to fo $10-100/month and I dont have an account manager for any of them.
This is no longer true about Ferrari.

"Ferrari’s first all-electric car will arrive in 2025."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-ferraris-plan-to-enter-t...
Why stop at Google? Why don't we simply get rid of the idea of the mega corporation?[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317641
I’ve seen instances where the issue is not database performance, but web server performance. Serializing a graphql response in graphql-ruby, for example, can easily take 100+ms and grows linearly with number of records in a request.

In the general case this isn’t a good excuse, there’s no reason it should take that long. But you don’t always get to pick your technology.
I did a 4 day week experiment couple years back. I used the leave time to book every Friday through upcoming four months. I loved the experiment a lot. It's not only an extra day you get (50% increase in free time) but also an extra night (100% increase!). Saturdays sometimes felt like "Sundays" and it was good to remind myself there's a whole extra day to live life.

When I asked to make 4-day week a thing, at least for me, the request was rejected. The reasoning had to do with "synergy" in a team and lack of much overlap in a remote team. Example I was given: if everyone started taking 4-day weeks it might be that Bob has Mondays off, Kate is off on Wednesday, and I would be out on Friday. Fair enough.

We are trialing a longer (2-3 moths at a time)time offs. Hopefully the experiment sticks. Having loads of free time is the best!
Care to share more info please? Was it because card didn't go through? I've got some important stuff there.
"while there were large economic gains for recipients (targeted as the poorest), gains for non-recipients were so substantial that the gap between the poorest and least-poor within villages widened slightly." Now that is a novel result!

Publicising that might be a way of overcoming the resistance of the large number of people who are mainly interested in their own relative status, and so dislike giving assistance to the poorest members of society. If you can show people that yes this intervention will help the poorest but it will help you more then those concerned mostly with their own relative status might be more likely to back it.
I have been using FF+uBlockO for years now as my primary browser and I have zero complaints; everything is fast and smooth; reader mode is essential and works on most text-heavy sites (substack breaks it sometimes).
I’m sure it works pretty well on desktop browsers, but on mobile the web interface is pretty hard to use. The PDF link though works great.
TBF that can happen with any of the big cloud providers.
This makes sense for content that grows at the end.
I'm active in my community advocating for greater transit and modeshare and our transit advocacy network is much better at trumpeting good news than the MSM and many Twitter doomers for a simple reason: nobody will give us more funding until we tell them how $X was spent on initiative Y which led to great outcome Z. It's our job to tell everyone how this little bike lane in this neighborhood decreased car trips and increased safety. The MSM faces no existential risk when it trumpets bad news all day, but we have to convince our neighbors that the money they're spending or the traffic blockage they're facing as new infrastructure is built is worthwhile.
The company I work for has forbidden the use of Google and their services (if possible) such as GCP etc. due to how they treat their customers. In particular, there never seems to be any human being that you can talk to and find out what you need to do to fix the issue. We do not want the same to occur to our production systems if there is an overflow from a Play Store ban to GCP etc. The business risk is too high when you rely on Google's services.

Some examples:

Suspended GCP even when everything in order - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547912

Ban app even when competitors are similar - https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vdpj/google-play-store-ban...

Play Association ban - https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ts6jfg/google_h...

Ban due to wrong wording - https://twitter.com/hermaritz/status/1371383715381805061

Terraria banned - https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661840402845696

New project banned - https://medium.com/@amton15127/why-you-should-not-use-fireba...

Google bans company - https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin...

Google bans mail - https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm

Ban app for communicating changes during covid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221447

Adwords ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224791

Serverpunch bad support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609

Delete app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20826618

Google bans game with pandemic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229073

Google bans dev with no recourse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15197357
There is already a word for what you are describing, and that's proof. Evidence is a far broader term. It can be weak, strong, misleading or just indicative.

If I have a problem with the title it's the word "shows", this evidence indicates a behaviour water may have, it doesn't show that it has it.
I think it’s so you can fit the cents symbol at the end e.g. $6.75c - but this isn’t really used anymore so the dollar sign at the front is a bit of a historical anomaly at this point.
but they always find a solution to it. i've spun up redshift instances to play around that racked up thousands by accident, and they forgave them in a snap.
> It seems like it's only in the tech industry that statistical insignificance of failures is assumed and then wielded as justification to avoid even minimal levels of accountability.

Stealing this, it's far more broadly applicable than just to this sort of billing issue.
Ants pay the bill!