skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company collecting information on it's customers isn't murder. By itself it's not even unethical, after all they need to have a lot of data on customers to be able to provide many of their services. What matters is if there are actual unethical uses of that data, such as sharing with third parties that is inimical to the interests of users and to which they do not consent. Still not murder.

Specifically on ads, that's actually about Apple advertising apps in the App Store, which is the store people on iOS go to to buy apps. Again, no murders involved so far as I'm aware, not even sharing data with third parties.
>> "In photography, a "lens" generally refers to the mechanical component that houses the optical lens."

Where did you hear this? I probably see people use "glass" to refer to lenses as often as I see "lens."
Just signed up and love it so far. I'm not using any Apple services or devices, so this is a welcome alternative. Love the design of it. How long did it take you to build this?
Future Boy Conan - renamed “Adnan wa Lina” (Adnan and Lina) - was (and still is) one of the most popular cartoons in the Middle East and North Africa. It and UFO Robo Grendizer (and a bunch of other anime) were picked up by a Kuwaiti dubbing studio and blew up all over the region in the late 70s and 80s. If you ask anyone who grew up in the region from the 70s to 90s, they’ll very likely know these two shows.
I think fully differentiating anti-vax and vax-hesitatant lacks nuance.
There is no way there is a sharp line between the groups. Is it a coincidence that the increase in prevalence of vax hesitance correlates with the increase in prevalence full-on anti-vax, which went from niche to mainstream?
The data are clear. How we resolve and educate the fence sitters is the relevant question. Browbeating or shaming either group isn't productive. (arguably Trolling the mainstream is one goal of anti-vaxers.) Regrettably we are up against Brandolini's Law , where anti-vax misinformation has reached a critical mass with 'respected' personalities in media and politics participating, splashing this misinformation way beyond the niche conspiracy theorists that used to be the core.
How do you know what he used? Have you met him or talked to him?

So only inventing a 3D engine from scratch from your own brain is impressive? Learning from tutorials, books, papers, etc. is not?

I don't know how you learn a new skill but I learn from tutorials, books, papers, lectures, videos. It is impressive to me as long as someone can learn, apply and do something creative.

What is absolutely unimpressive is dissing on others' projects and accomplishments.
In the same sense that deep learning is just linear regression with a steroid problem.
The management plugin [1] might be useful? It allows browsing of queues and clients, and includes statics and graphs for message throughput, etc

1. https://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html
(a) "even with maximum security settings"

(b) Yes, it's possible my mobile operator and my government can do that. Which I am ok with. What is not ok is that Apple and the US government can, in particular since I am not in the US nor was I ever given the option to decline this data collection.
That's changing, though. Advertising is a growing share of Apple's revenue, and they are adding ads to a number of their default iOS apps:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
Then turn off the issue tracker and DON'T call yourself an "OSS maintainer". Or leave the issue tracker open but make it explicit on your readme this is just a personal project that's not being actively developed so people adjust their expectations.

Personal projects or unfinished work on GitHub are perfectly fine and in most cases, better to the world than something stashed on your hard drive, but you're not running any OSS project there. Feels to me some people want to have their cake (claim they "contribute to open source" on their CV/interviews) and eat it too (not have to actually do any work that comes with running an OSS project).
I’m not home today, but I wish I was…
This is the restaurant equivalent of : "We are at an all you can eat buffet, let me take 10 plates even if I only realistically will eat 4, so that if I want any more I don't have to stand up again".
Those are unhealthy attitudes. It would be good if they addressed this, but sadly societies and cultures are rarely rational about how they develop. Much of modern life is determined by culture, but despite culture being entirely man-made, we don't seem to be able to control it.
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Aviation enthusiast attempts to restore WW2-era bomber engine
Without government enforcing a competitive market the inevitable consolidation will just continue to create and entrench monolpolists. Incentives tend towards one (or a few) winner takes all.
> We use IBM MQ at work and I wouldn't exactly call it simple.

2nd'd & 3rd'd ...

You hired a 50 man lumberjack crew to cut down a sapling.

I've been spending a some time to remove IBM MQ out and going to "simpler" queuing solutions. First of all, cost. Guess what, we're not getting anything out of licensing per year to justify the cost.

With improving the end points, we don't need all that complexity. With 5 9's uptime on the network and smarter end points, retrying messages isn't expensive.

As always, YMMV.
They're still doing the fan outreach — just via iRacing.

"Good" things destroying "good" things.
You can install programs like mitmproxy (CLI) or Charles Proxy (GUI) and have a look for yourself. Apple claims they need this information to protect you from malware. Meanwhile, IMHO, using the strategy they have, they are the malware.
Fire in the Genes (2019)
Yes. I don't understand what he is talking about. Not only can a software engineer who finds a job easily get a visa in Europe, but if he is married to an EU partner, or a person living in EU who has a visa, he can easily stay and work in the EU.

Now, about the time zone's thing, I personally find that anything more than 2 hours difference is very problematic. I have worked in the past with 4 and 12 hours of difference and it is just not practical. At least for me.
I don't think that it works this way. If bounce rate matters for you, because your website is part of sales conversion funnel, then you do not benchmark against random "average" website like HN, because you do not build your site the same way, your audience is likely different from many different angles and you cannot really measure the response time under representative conditions (because you likely do not know them). The only sensible benchmark you can have is the performance of your own website. It makes sense to collect some low hanging fruits, but further optimizations generally make sense when you have enough traffic to reach statistic significance in A/B tests. And those tests will not always result in more optimized version, because content matters too and better content may outperform faster version in terms of conversion, so it will often be two steps forward and one step back.
The latest subaru forester is absolutely insane when it comes to how much control you have over acceleration. I can creep forward at agonizingly slow speeds without riding the brake, stomp it for mostly instant torque, and everything in between. It's way smoother than any manual, automatic 6-spd, or DSG I've ever driven.

Oh and you can downshift to engine brake and the Sport model has flappy paddles to boot.
To be clear, I don't mean "You came here angry and said mean things once, you're permabanned." More like "You're being unprofessional and disrespectful. You're more than welcome to return after you've calmed down but abusing volunteers and generally being a jerk is not necessary and won't be tolerated."
This isn’t a new phenomenon.

Microsoft cancelled their Twitter bot 6 years ago for similar reasons [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
Working in domain names industry.

Don't forget you never own a domain name, be careful which registry is behind the extension you use. My recommendations would be:

- don't use a ccTLD (2 characters TLDs) unless it's your country's TLD, or a country you can trust. ccTLDs don't follow the ICANN rules but the rules of the country. As a rule of thumb, keep in mind that the poorest the country is, the less their infrastructure is reliable. If you rent an exotic .so, don't be surprised if it doesn't resolve one day. There's also a risk that you lose eligibility to your domain overnight. Usually ccTLD registries tend to loosen the requirements (.fr used to be only available to French people for example, not the case anymore), but the opposite is possible. UK residents also lost eligibility to .eu after the Brexit. I'd also avoid geoTLDs (.asia, .berlin, .paris, .cat, ...) because of the eligibility rules.

- (new)gTLDs are not all reliable either. Stick to the core gTLDs if possible: .com, .net (Verisign, even with their price increase they're probably the most reliable entity), .info (Afilias), .org (PIR, the shady selling deal they had with Ethos Capital has been rejected). There are reliable newgTLDs if you trust the entity behind it: .app/.dev (Google...) for example. I also like [Radix] and [Donuts] as entities.

- don't forget to enable autorenew and to keep an up to date payment mean on your registrar. If you want to retrieve a domain name you lost it will either be costly if you're in the redemption period, or extremely costly if its "drop caught" (from "drop catching", not sure if "drop caught" is a thing) and resold on an aftermarket platform.

[Radix]: https://ntldstats.com/registry/group/Radix-FZC
[Donuts]: https://ntldstats.com/registry/group/Donuts-Inc
The key is if. If "members of that group transfer legit patents to the patent troll", every other member receives a license for that patent.
For most things just using the user's configured font is almost as good, if not better. For cases where you really want to make something stand out custom fonts can be nice but you can also try using "font stacks" that the user has already installed.

In general I recommend using the default font for "body text" because you know it is something that the user finds easy to read. For headings, buttons and smaller strings of text you can be more creative but even then you can consider things like trying system fonts first and deferring the custom font load until after the content.
I'm not the op, but in my little app that uses rabbitmq, you have to never assume timely delivery and processing of messages.

I use redis to keep a store of last updated timestamp property (that is, the last time the data was updated), and I essentially throw out a message if the timestamp is older.

For any writing changes I make I have a validation loop in the code path as a secondary validation.

I think once you get used to been defense about incoming messages you can handle most delays
> And my question still stands: who has numbers or data that show that those 14kb pages perform better in regard to the commercial metrics than heavier pages ? And I mean in the field data, not a synthetic test.

A trivial search will find you tons of heavily reviewed research that shows web page performance directly impacts e-commerce conversion/sales and this is widely known in the industry. This article laid out a solid technical explanation for why staying under 14kb can have substantial improvements in performance. You refusing to see the connection there, or are you disputing it?
Whose "fake news" are we talking here?

I mean, Trump called anything he didn't like "fake news", whether the information in question was true or not.

So is "fake news" false information or information Trump doesn't like?
Why do you think it unlikely an automatic can match or exceed a manual in fuel economy? Computers can better fit the torque needs to the most efficient RPM than most humans will, it's not a hard problem to solve.

Traditionally (and this is from the very olden days) manuals had an extra gear over automatics, which is why they'd have better fuel economy. Also less drivetrain loss. Nowadays the reverse is true, automatics consistently have more gears to play with, and automatic clutch packs are fantastically fast & good.

Now an efficient automatic is more complicated to design & manufactur, but that's where economies of scale and advancements in engineering tools and manufacturing come into play
The main scam call internal detector that my 84 year old mother uses is if someone calls her with an accent she simply refuses to talk to them.
My broken record response, Knuth's Art of Computer Programming.

Maybe it won't be for you. That's true for every book.

Maybe it isn't for you right now, but you might grow into it...and isn't that the point?

The reason I think it is the place to start is because Knuth is a good standard for against which to evaluate other programming books.

Good luck.
> the vast majority is surprisingly dull and average

A rose is still beautiful even though it's common. I think the problem is that people are often scared to open up about the more vulnerable parts of their lives. "Dull" people can have very interesting or poignant pasts, but can be unable or unwilling to share it.
Safari history and tabs are end-to-end encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

And Apple provides iCloud+ members with a VPN which does not tie browsing history to users by separating ingress and egress traffic and using encrypted forwarding (similar to onion routing): https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...
Nobody has claimed nor is there any evidence that Apple plans to use iCloud, HealthKit, FitnessKit etc data for App Store ads.

All that has been said is that Apple wants to build a platform to manage the ads across its apps.

It's a completely different situation from Facebook and Google.
Okay, now prove that your program written in Lisp will not miss cycles regardless of the data sent to it for at least the length of the mission. The issue is in being able to prove a program is deterministic. Wildcards like schedulers and garbage collectors sharing resources with code that needs to be real time are notoriously difficult to properly set bounds on behavior.

If you aren't doing that then it's not hard real time.
got a link that works? i don’t see anything on their site about this.
About 10 years ago it was possible to observe non-RFC behaviour from (IIRC) google.com doing exactly this. I don't know if they still do it
Thanks for your lengthy reply!

This is all fine and good, but you're forgetting about a central aspect of reality:

In the end, a user realistically has to decide for one piece of software.

You can't expect a single user to store their money across 5 different vendor's software. Probably not even 2.

So each user must decide.

Now how are they supposed to do so?

Throw a dice? Have randomness decide what secures potentially thousands of $ worth of your money?

That seems like an impressively reckless thing to ask of your users.

And beyond that it's just unrealistic. You can't expect that people will be fine with storing their money in an effectively random fashion.

If money is involved, people will want clear guidance on what is the most secure way, not "what are 5 different ways of which we don't tell you which one is the best".

If they decided to go for a sane approach and provide a known-good client, they could still develop N others and use them as unit tests to test the primary client against.

Or just get people to use them without forcing them to do so. E.g. they could just ask users nicely.
That "Zip" thing would be massively improved if it did not act as a car charger but as a portable car battery. Instead of - like the background video shows - taking the thing out of the car, hooking it up to the car charge socket and waiting 60 minutes it should just plug into the car power circuit through a connector in that same trunk, just leave it there and drive the car using power from the thing. This feels like the EV-approach to a spare petrol can in the trunk which itself was the ICE-approach to the bag of oats in the buggy.
Rather than the OP coming off as arrogant. This thread is instead making you look pretty arrogant. Having a goal is not arrogance. Tearing someone down for having that goal certainly does come off as arrogant though.
Can you talk more about the prompt augmentation the midjourney is doing behind the scenes? It's certainly true that you can put in a two-word phrase like "Time travelers" and get an amazing result back, which reveals just how much your prompt is getting dropped into a prompt soup that also gives it that midjourney look by default.
Apple propels environmental business solutions forward with second Impact Accel
> Why do you place "insightful and kind" diametrically opposed with "false" in that sentence?

I do not! You seem to be making too many assumptions in your responses both about the OP and the supporters of OP. No wonder you can't see how arrogant you are coming off in your replies. Sigh!

> I think we're done here.

I agree.
Any company that embraces option four should consider that the door swings both ways. Convince the developer providing the free service that it's not worth their time and you have bought yourself a free ticket to becoming the new maintainer or becoming content with your product being based on a rotting dependency.

Option 5, "find cash to pay for maintenance," is a much better option than option four for a corporation to consider.
I'm reminded of this using LuaJIT: https://github.com/snabbco/snabb
That's a rather idealized view. In practice, management has more than enough ways to make it the developer's problem. Of course, that may mean it's time to leave.
> break the TCP standard

Oh ok, but then is it really breaking the standard as OP claims?
The "just because the maintainer is an arsehole" thing is the question here. How many times is it really just because the maintainer doesn't like the person who submitted it, or they just laugh to themselves and want to see how angry people get? I'd venture a guess to say almost never.

The issue becomes when folks assume it's just the maintainer being a jerk rather than any number of completely valid reasons, which could be anything from "PRs from employees and core contributors are prioritized and we can barely handle those as it is" to whole way to "I don't think this feature fits in with my larger vision for the project."

It is almost never "just because the maintainer is an arsehole."
Do you have any news about your fight against websites dedicated to the targeted harassment of minorities?
Great article. It’s both a long write up and also an effective short summary of the state of fusion systems and how far we have left to go.
PV is one of the easiest renewable to install here so it's now heavily being installed now, but it's one of the most unstable energy source so can't be relied so much for a primary option. I'd like to see floating wind development but it seems that its development is now in progress. There's also typhoon and tsunami. I agree that buildings improvement is also important that is not much advanced.
NZ Farm keeps coming up on Reddit but no one has actually explained what its a reference to.

??
Thanks for reaching out I’ll email you later today.
China's emergence as an EV powerhouse has been a long time coming
Unification theory of classic psychology (2009)
Their iCloud security page says “Safari History, Tab Groups, and iCloud Tabs” is end-to-end encrypted. So they store history to sync across devices but the keys are only on your devices.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
> There’s a lot of this in Miyazaki’s movies: the drama and delight of work

Unsurprising given Miyazaki's famously fierce work ethic:

> "...he is an intense workaholic, and resents anything that takes him away from his work. His producer and friend Toshio Suzuki told me that in the early days of their studio, Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki would work from 9 a.m. to 4:30 a.m., and that in recent years he has mellowed somewhat and goes home at midnight.”

Source: https://animeuknews.net/2005/01/hayao-miyazaki-intense-worka...
For all those who are practically demanding this be turned over to them, here's a quote from a recent article (about Telegram):

Filing a charge is pointless, says Ezra. Since two years, she's being harassed on Telegram. It started when she was sixteen: photoshopped nudes with her snapchat account were circulated. They had taken selfies from her social media, and those of her family, and combined them with porn fragments. She doesn't know the perpetrator, but that person takes a lot of trouble to ruin her. "Nowadays, the boys have so many ways to make it look real." [1]

If you read that, and think all these tools should be released, you're part of the problem.

[1] de Groene Amsterdammer,146/33, p. 21.
I wish they went into some of the more exotic 2d codes. I found a weird sort of 2d code that consisted of concentric circles with data bits encoded as circular dots along each "track". It was like a weird mix between a Vinyl record and a computer punch card. I've also seen triangular and hex grids used in some encodings. My favorite is the ones that triple the information density by simply printing a different QR code in the red, green, and blue channel (all on top of each other obviously).

I'm never quite sure why some businesses choose to implement these non-standard solutions. Is it a form of vendor lock in? Do they just want something with less of a digital-brutalism aesthetic? Is it an attempt at security through obscurity? All of the above?

The article is only half right about laser scanners and the ability to read 2d codes. In principle it wouldn't be too hard to engineer a laser pattern / data matrix pattern that works. The trivial solution is to just make the laser run in scan lines like an old analog TV, but then the person doing the scan needs to be annoyingly precise in how they point the scanner at the data. If digital cameras and image processing weren't dirt cheap, there would still be visible spectrum 2d data encodings.
I would argue that you're better off knowing 3 very different languages than 3 languages that are similar. That way you're more likely to be able tackle a problem with an approach that's suitable.

Or to put it another way, if I've only got 3 hammers of different sizes then everything will still look like a nail :)
>Similarly, being deceptive is very unattractive; and more importantly, deeply bad for you.

On the contrary. The ability to be deceptive, to wear more than one mask, is an evolutionary advantage in my opinion and highly attractive even if people will never admit it because it's socially unacceptable.
Sure some idiots in the Northeast can't end words with R and southerners do some weird stuff but for the most part English accents within North America are pretty much a non issue. It's diction that causes most communication problems and even then these are generally not a big deal in business settings. When you start talking about English speakers from other continents where English pronunciation is being influenced by some other primary language that's where the accent problems arise.
The plot doesn't make a lot of sense. If you read the book it's based on (by Diana Wynne Jones) you will at least get how all the pieces fit together, but Miyazaki took it in his own direction. But I'd say all of the individual pieces are pretty amazing, even if the through line is weak.