skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a Mormon and I don't deny that I think the particulars of their belief system are often weird. But I don't think the nature of Mormons actually matters in this context, and speaking generally I don't think there is anything wrong with people choosing which media they and their families consume. If people want to fast forward over parts of a movie they don't like, I think that's understandable. And if their decision about which parts of a movie to skip is weird to me, so what?
Regarding MV4: the WebExtensions working group has started to mention the term at some of their recent meetings, although details are scarce it seems MV4 will still retain JS code execution [1] [2].

[1]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/_minutes/2022... (CTRL-F for "mv4")

[2]: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/_minutes/2022... (CTRL-F for "mv4")
I participated in another Daniel Gross program, Pioneer, and it was _excellent_. I highly recommend it or this for folks that may be more 'outside the band' when it comes to raising money or getting a startup from 0 to 1. I would note that if you're trying to bootstrap this is probably not the program for you. These guys are incredibly connected in venture capital and this program ought to be a great way to leverage that.
Honestly this is just a really poor take.

There will always be egregiously priced “enterprise” software but that doesn’t mean the value is there, it’s usually because nobody knows better; the “tire-kickers” are people suckered into the platform using the exact same tactics as people who peddle drugs, that’s not defensible.

Centralised notetaking/communication has been a solved problem since the BBS era, it gets reinvented constantly.
Azure Cosmos DB Intra-account container copy jobs for Core (SQL) and Cassandra
Does WalMart accept that they're the seller, legally responsible for the item,
or do they try to pass the buck to the source of the item?
Fuck yes. This is the type of program that can actually hear a proper pitch. I teared up reading it.

As someone who has a lot of tinkering and research underway on a big idea, this motivates me to scrap and scrounge to get the demo party together.

Spending 8k-ish to build a product demo for my friends rich uncle is too uphill for me to risk. But for this, I mean fuck yeah.
Did you read the entry on HN recently, where it is discussed, that Chromium-based browsers allow websites to set your clipboard content, without user action being involved at all? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614037)

Just one example of how it is not safer, that I thought I should mention, on the background of such a blanket statement as "Chrome is safer" : )
A patch to systemd to fix a use-after-free security vulnerability[1] killed DNS, possibly related to something DHPC-ish.

1 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5583-1
As you wish. kB for kibibytes.
water flows downhill?
I earn $10k/mo contracting 20 hours per week. Personally, this extra income helped me maximize my day job benefits (401k and ESPP) and provided liquidity during the home buying process.
A facebook friend posted a picture of a bangle that she'd bought off an e-commerce site in the neighbourhood of $20 that was disappointing. I simply did a google image search on the picture (the e-commerce site's listing) and sure enough, it hit on Ali Express for something in the neighbourhood of $1.80, free shipping.
So, instead of an appropriate local bonding ballot initiative (or whatever) to fund this like every other city does, they just throw up their hands and ask for state handouts?

Maybe they are worried about the political implications of rising property taxes or water bills?

Seems like a HUGE failure by an inept local government.
FTA:

> Graph databases need not apply

The previous blog entry had some of the same apologia about database theory and why git seems to be breaking rules. This seems misplaced to me. Git is a foundational technology of the modern internet, used and relied on by... basically everyone to do exactly the job for which it was engineered. It's exactly the place where you'd expect to see a special-purpose data store in use, tuned to exactly the application space where it resides.

That's not to say it's not interesting to talk about graph databases or B trees (from the last post) and how they might be applied to source control. But please don't stop in the middle of your discussion about git to do it. We know git stands alone, tell us how git works.
The mention of the I Ching reminds me of the Shang dynasty of early China. Divination played a central role in the ruling class's political authority. Among other techniques, questions for the ancestors of the ruler, as well as other beings, would be written on ox shoulder-bones and tortoise shells, heated, and the pattern of cracks created through the text would be analyzed for the answer.

The Shang were quite rational about it. All the results were recorded and analyzed. Ancestors who failed to yield good results would be bribed, punished, or ignored. Good results would encouraged before, and rewarded after, with various sacrifices. The oracle bone texts [1] themselves offer a unique insight, quite unlike anything in the world, kind of like if we had a collection of prayer notes or tarot readings for the President.

Anyway, it occurred to me that all this may have actually, well, worked. The whole process -- the record keeping, extensive reflection on the issue, discussions, subconscious influences on the interpretation, a pragmatic "well does it work?" attitude -- create a system for analysis of issues that, by means entirely other than what they thought, actually worked better than chance, in terms picking the right option.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone
I can't find it in the guidelines right now, but it's disallowed by both Apple and Google. I've personally seen Apple reject apps because of that before (not an app that I created though, since I follow the guidelines)
Good idea, I'll look into it.
It’s a call option on a more lucrative and fulfilling career path.
It's been done. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBO2WRpBrQ
Why, though? If you're making that much money, it's unlikely you need more. Fill your time with things that will make you happy, not things that will make you wealthier. You're filling the wrong tank.
Unless Google really wants you to see that specific category of ads.
You're right, but changing climate affects weather, especially in the Tropics. It isn't controversial to state climate change is to blame, because the Monsoons of the Indian Subcontinent and Indochina are evident causalities of the ongoing crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon_of_South_Asia#Impact_o...
Perhaps it's human nature though for at least part of your cultural identity to be defined by the degree to which you differentiate yourself from other cultures. I'd think that must at least explain a lot of anti-Western sentiment in the world even in places that would seem obviously able to benefit from adopting at least some of the institutions and basic principles that have proven themselves successful in the Western world. The fact that so few places have successfully done so (Japan and S. Korea being two obvious examples) is telling.
$2 cpm (https://www.ethicalads.io/publishers/faq/#how-much-will-i-ma...) is not higher than adsense, especially for a high value audience like US developers. We were seeing ~$5-$8 cpms on adsense for a much less affluent demographic on our site.

Totally support this and am rooting for alternative ad networks - especially ones like this. However I think it's fair to acknowledge that without tracking it's inevitable that you'll have less value to provide to advertisers. We can't have our cake and eat it too.
You've lost me. You'll have to tell me what you mean instead of beating around the bush.

I believe the only comment I've made about my take on humor is that anybody who laughs at TBBT must be under the influence of laughing gas. But you think this is because I have puritanical beliefs? Are you accusing me of that, or have I misread your comment? This earnestly is not clear to me.
The findings seem to suggest the opposite causal relationship.

Places with higher wealth and more inudstrialization would have the capital and food production to support more people working on cash crop agriculture. The study finds that in places with high slavery investment wages were higher and worker welfare was increasing, while landowner profits were down due to reduced labor availability, suggesting quite strongly that the slavery was compensating for a pre-existing labor shortage.

Further, while bad weather could by chance increase slave mortality on crossing, it seems reasonable to assume that wealthier and more technologically advanced areas would be employing better ships and utilizing more effective methods of ensuring their cargo reached their destinations, so crossing mortality can not be taken as an independent variable. As for the geographic connection, it hardly seems surprising that major port cities also became manufacturing centers.
I'm working on building a search engine specifically to help with prompt engineering https://pagebrain.ai/promptsearch/
Is this useful enough to be a startup?
But what does losing 1-2 weeks of life really mean. It's a phrasing with intentionally reduced emotional impact. Let's say I was willing to sacrifice 3 months of my life to have avoided COVID lockdowns.

Reverse engineering that number, we get to 6 million covid deaths in the US, (1 million actual * 6 difference between 2 weeks to 3 months) and 87 million years of life lost. Converting all of that to 12 personal weeks of life lost, 1. Isn't what is actually at stake, it's a die roll and if you lose you die and 2. doesn't accurately account for the devastation. People are devastated when their loved ones lose their lives from COVID, it's not a few weeks of life lost 50 or so years from now.

132 million Americans were alive during World War 2. 300,000 of them died in the war, which is about the same ratio as COVID. But it's ok, because really it was just 2 weeks of life lost per person?

I’m not saying it’s too emotional to be data driven, I’m just saying the datapoints chosen are not equivalent.
Pick 5 people at random you get one who doesn't know what a mouse is, 2 or 3 who can turn on the computer and maybe one who can get to the cli. Out of 400 people you will find more natural artists compared to someone who could install this even if they had the equipment
Is anyone actually using co-pilot? They claim “millions of users” but I seriously doubt millions of programmers opted into paying $10 per month for it. A lot of these stats seem highly suspect.
Don't take this the wrong way, but in my opinion, the story would get a form rejection letter from a SF magazine, but with a handwritten note saying, interesting pictures!
you have essentially admitted that you cannot tell the difference between someone lying about journeyman skills, and those who are not. Your solution is to resort to "do an entry level thing while I am watching" as a test for advanced skills.
I’m very curious about method to block YouTube ads with dns. I didn’t find a way when I tried.
A percentage point moved from 1. -> 3.
You will see these kinds of titles in Silicon Valley's IT departments (these are different from Engineering) and in B2B sales related arms. Architect vs. dev is not normally how their core software engineering functions are organized. Everyone is a "software engineer" and everyone has a "design and architecture" competency to meet. It's more emphasized at senior levels, but it's always there.
WebMD and hypotheticals like this blog reminds me of a quote from Hamlet:

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

I do not think you can make a good nor bad version of WebMD. But what it does today is makes you think about things that you're better off not thinking about.

Health is subjective to start with. It is more qualitative than it is quantitative at the individual level. The exact problem of WebMD is that it uses the latter to help inform the former.

I have got way more answers from old books than I can find online. Especially those on back pain, chronic illness, and even regular headaches. Much of this information is not new and even goes back to the idea that "thinking makes it so".

The real question in my head is whether WebMD does more harm than it does good or vice versa. It's pointless to think about because it is what it is.
Mastering Google (For Developers)
> Can someone ELI5 why warmer air should lead to more rain, not just to more water vapor in the air?

Prior disclaimer: IANAC and IANAM

It can lead to either, depending on the local climate and circumstances. For an oversimplified explanation, compare the flooding in Pakistan and the drought in Europe:

- In Europe, abnormally high temperatures have increased the evaporation of top level water, because a greater proportion of water can evaporate into the atmosphere. As a result, even when it does rain, the water is more likely to evaporate again rather than soak into the soil and feed into the local drainage basin and eventually its river.

- In Pakistan, abnormally high temperatures have increased the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere. As a result, when the factors that normally trigger monsoon rains come into play, the amount of water that is released is disproportionately larger than the normal average.
I have no idea what they have been up to lately but when originally rolled out Brave's business model seemed very much like a protection racket. I haven't touched it since and never will.
> you seem to dismiss the notion of the "collective action problem" as a phenomenon at all

No, I'm just objecting to the claim that governments can solve such problems.

> the only way to avoid Google in this situation has incredibly high cost, out of proportion to its benefit

That's because the current situation was created by a collective action failure, one which governments have not done anything to help and have in fact made worse, by doing the same thing individuals have been doing: shortsightedly taking advantage of "free" services from Google without considering the actual (non-monetary) costs.

Governments are not going to fix this situation. The only way to fix it is to invert the collective action that caused it in the first place. I agree that, because of the depth of the hole we have dug ourselves into, climbing out of it is a huge effort. That doesn't change the fact that the problem won't be solved any other way.
That's cool! Please do apply.
Anti-colonialism is still relevant in that the pre-existing indigenous institutions and communities of colonized countries were interrupted and many times shattered. Educated strata dropping into illiterates in a generation or two, ethnicity being set against each other in the new social order, the exploitation of the Subcontinent, all of these contributed to the enslavement of the people and the colonized mind.

The modern day problems are inherited from the colonial history of the region, and moving forward requires reckoning with this.
* introduce them to other employees
* Checking in with them regularly
* a team lunch, maybe
In Italy it is mostly far left anarchists that use Telegram to organise, but there are far right Italians that use it, surely.
Be kind.
Also, to me this was a reminder of the importance of context and assumptions in good communication. Never having heard of this org, I clicked the link for this post, saw the top-level blurb describing the project and assumed that a 'language' which generates diagrams from declarations would be something I could _run_. I clicked on the 'Getting Started' section and was annoyed that there was no 'Installation' section. I started from a context that inclined me to think of this as a stand-alone project which ought to have certain characteristics.

I think the author of this page started with the assumption that of _course_ given their business and product, a 'language' for diagrams is only giving users access to something that maps on to whatever internal representation their tool already uses, and allows technically inclined users to work with text and fewer clicks. To them, the assumption seems to have been that readers will already be users of their product, and the assumption that the 'language' is built into their tool _and nowhere else_ is so far in the background that it's only somewhat obliquely addressed as the last question in a FAQ.
Onboarding: Confluence pages. They can get outdated but part of the new starter's task is to correct it where necessary. I can't say it is good or bad, it works well enough.

What are you using, do you have any good ideas around this?
You're right, it's already on Show HN right now.
I found it surprisingly easy to run it on a 2015 MacBook Pro.
I play with the python AST all the time, I love it, but its way more complex than typical flow programming
Yet not reduced enough that the maker of the extension thinks users will notice any difference in the ability to block ads.
The 4.2G is pretty hard to believe. I would have told you it's not possible if it weren't right there showing it is.
I did know they had 3rd parties but thought they were somewhat better vetted than Amazon.

And regardless, I'm on walmart.com so it reflects on them when some third party seller sends me shit.

It is true that I am not a frequent shopper there.
But were they? We can’t confidently say anything of the sort. Were there not extreme weather events in the past? Certain people want to attribute everything to climate change because it suits their politics. Then there is the question of what causes climate change and the further question of if those causes are human. And the further question, the one of unintended consequences — does “solving” climate change create problems we aren’t foreseeing?

Did the Covid lockdowns of California have any effect on climate? And if not, then doesn’t that cast question on the premise of zero carbon fixes climate change? The near shutdown of the global air transport system during the peak of the pandemic — did that have any effect at all on climate?

Why must we accept the premise that lowering human-caused carbon emissions does anything to change climate “back” when there is little actual evidence from the real world that confirms that premise?

And why do those most vocal on climate oppose nuclear energy? The answer is simple: it isn’t about climate but about redistribution of the means of production.
The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker
Specially if you factor in the marginal tax you'll pay on the side gig, it's almost never worth it imo. I know that was a turn off for me at least, so starting a business if you have the energy will have way more upside
Please support our runtime proposal https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51900 We're trying to add Cosmopolitan to Go's list of supported runtimes!
Are sold by "Amazon", "Walmart", "NewEgg" not curated? Amazon also has multiple curated store fronts, or collections, to my knowledge.

In 2022 if you aren't buying "Sold by <insert trusted retailer>" on one of these market places then I think you should know what you are getting into.
You could join a startup. It won't solve the always-on problem but it will certainly solve the bits with legacy code and not creating new things. You can also look for a place that is in-person which could give you some highs of working with a designer, working with senior engineers, and in general feeling part of a problem solving team.

Some of these might be good - https://www.workatastartup.com/. I also think Turing is placing engineers well. Not sure about TripleByte.
That looks cool. If there was a tool to generate bindings to go libs I'd use it in my current side project.
Alternative view: this is a pre-pre-seed and fills a much needed gap in the VC ecosystem. Well-connected founders raise very early money from "friends and family". Most people don't have wealthy friends and family, so getting the first money in to kickstart the venture is difficult.
This is so simple its easy to overlook the fact that its also ingenious
FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Geolocation Data from Clinics and Places of Worship
Plenty of these also available on eBay, reported them once, didn’t get to hear anything back from them (eBay).

Examples:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/374176058730
https://www.ebay.de/itm/234648959915
Well, in software engineering, like in many modern professions, you don’t get trained once and then work for life. Learning is continuous, and this is not optional anymore.
I am not working for FAANG. I am not in SV. I am based in the US. Working for an early stage start-up. Earning quite a bit North of $200K. My compensation is based on the value I provide, not where I live. Any recruiter or hiring manager who tries to tell me different is promptly ignored.
It's to make money-laundering harder. Prevents you from opening an account, transferring money to it, then immediately out of it and closing the account.

60 days hold is legal because that's for how long ACH transactions are reversible. Such long holds only happen if you have zero prior relationship with bank. I work in FinTech now and such things finally started to make sense to me.
Cost-Based Password Hashing
Yes, i wish i had same luck as theirs. Sometimes, i think they're genius!
I use it, am paying for it, and wouldn't want to code without it.
Show HN: 6 Game prototypes showing how GPT3 AI can be used in VR games
Would guessing how many instructions the code uses
be better assessed looking at the assembler files
(Might need to decompile to get it, not too familiar
with the Go toolchain) Or a good debugger?
Original title

FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Data that Tracks People at Reproductive Health Clinics, Places of Worship, and Other Sensitive Locations

Same story from other sources

1. Daily US feed

FTC sue Kochava for selling data that could track people at abortion clinics

https://dailyusfeed.com/news/ftc-sue-kochava-for-selling-dat...

2. Vice

FTC Sues ‘Massive’ Data Broker for Selling Location Info on Abortion Clinics

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z343kw/ftc-sues-data-broker-...

3. The Verge

FTC sues data broker for letting people track health clinic visitors

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/29/23326960/ftc-kochava-laws...

4. CNBC

FTC sues data broker for allegedly selling location data from hundreds of millions of phones

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/ftc-sues-data-broker-kochava...

Previous submissions (including those from other sources)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648332

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32640517

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32644936

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643803

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32640354

6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648234

7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648679
I don’t think that Apple “caved” per se, but the authorities seem to have found a path to what they want, and somehow Apple hasn’t been able, willing, or motivated to close those holes.

Apple also tweaked things like iMessage to make that data available in the cloud (ie available via subpoena or warrant) in most common scenarios.
Oh lol didn't know that, thanks.

Also jim_kreggis I cant reply to you bc dead but uhh what? Weird asf ngl.