skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking for a phone without ads/spyware, there is less choice because the EU sees Android as a similar product-category as iOS, thereby not identifying iOS as a monopoly (and Android as well, in its own category).
Octojam 9: The CHIP-8 game jam
Easynews, if you are wondering what this NNTP thing is. Amazingly fast downloads of just about anything you can imagine.

Protip: Go to the preferences and change the settings to reduce your chances of getting all porn in your search results.
FB did once have their developer certificate once by Apple : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
> It's time for tipping to just go away.

Everything about what you said seems reasonable, but there's a problem when it comes to normal everyday life in America if you're not a rich person going out to $$$$ establishments.

In America, there's no deep cultural sentiment about providing a good experience like in Japan for instance. Whether a Japanese waiter gets a tip or not, you have a very good chance of getting at least decent and attentive service.

But typical service in America can be dreadful, and that's even with a financial incentive. If many Americans weren't paid extra to even pretend to care, basic service standards would be nonexistent.

I'm not some highfalutin fancy guy going out to elite establishments and demanding white glove service and pre-chewed caviar on a folded pillow from a valet. I'm just a normal guy going out for a burger or something once in a while and appreciating a waiter coming to my table a few times with a water pitcher and asking me if need anything.

Call me selfish or whatever, but service is already beyond awful in the US and I don't see how it improves with removing tipping.
"Coup" over the introduction of a new regime. If your beliefs rely on Trump being powerful enough in the last days of his term to be a threat to a FAANG company in good stead with the incoming regime, your beliefs are fragile.
>this protest hasn't received world wide attention in the news

? Its on every news page I have looked up.
Simple tasks like fiddling with an API json response with rust, haskell or ocaml are always going to take longer than with python.

Now, doing it well will take as much time in any language.

But a huge amount of time is spent not doing things well:

- you try out ideas

- you explore data shape, results and systems behavior

- you demos things to get a sense of the solutions or sell something to management or clients

Eventually, you will have a very well defined problem with an optimal solution. But this is the last mile, unless you work for nasa.

E.G: currenly one of my client is a big financial structure, and they are creating a calculation engine. They have 3 experts on site, but they don't have the full understanding of the problem they want to solve, and disagree on the part they do understand. The result ? We have to rewrite a lot of code, and write even more code in an exploratory manner. This will likely go on for the next few years. You can wish for a better situations, or you can use a tool that make you productive in that situation.
Templates are a major feature of the language, leaving it out seems a little weird.
The wind was obviously blowing in a different direction on Dec 11 when all 50 states had certified their elections. Why wasn’t he banned then?
> On the other hand - some fraction of big tech banned the previous US president, while he was still in office, with no such fears.

Sure, they banned him after he lost the election and could no longer retaliate meaningfully against them, while his opponents were coming into power. I'm not sure why you would neglect that. Maybe they would banned him anyway, or maybe not. We can't evaluate that counterfactual, but what actually happened is consistent with the narrative.
Yes, but a modern CAD program can make the design faster (to design) and cheaper. Turbofans with high bypass ratios are more efficient than the engines the Concorde used.

Of course it would be less efficient than a subsonic jet, but they never claimed the opposite - the idea was for it to be faster, but not (much) more expensive than today's business class on subsonic jets.
Can you point to the ones you think are particularly bad?

I'm looking through the actual emails (starting on page 147), and so far I see:

* A public health agency (CDC) receiving media reports ("CrowdTangle content insights") from Facebook. Maybe there's some question about propriety, but that isn't itself evidence of censorship -- the direction there is entirely private-to-public.

* Someone at the CDC responding to Facebook, thanking them for sending those media reports (p. 164).

* Lots of coordination about who to send the reports to (about 30 pages of just that).

* Finally, a lot of not-particularly-objectionable public information about vaccines: that they don't contain microchips, etc.

Critically, I can't find any references to the "Great Barrington Declaration" or evidence that the CDC went beyond communicating public health policy to a handful of companies. It's entirely possible that I missed it in this 700 page PDF, so please let me know if you find it.
They are not subject to chain analysis, but they are still subject to analysis.
>Or better yet, give them hope, then take it away

Based on the quote below, it doesn't seem like they are actually being fired:

>A Google spokesman said almost 95% of employees who expressed interest in staying with the company found new roles within the notice period.
I recently got into a Bob's Burgers kick, that show is delightful.
Wails 2 Released
Yeah but doing important drug deals on zoom is a major no-no.

Seriously, we know for a fact that all internet communications have been completely compromised for a long time. If they have ever been safe. It makes plenty of sense if money is no object and certain things have to be discussed. That said, it's a massive waste. I wonder what happened to Musk's idea to have rockets fill that niche
My product is a community site - https://openbenches.org/

We aren't really a product in the traditional sense. More a rag-tag gathering of likeminded folk. Most discussion happens on Twitter or GitHub.
But then in the case of Windows we complain that Windows releases in 2022 still have stuff that looks like Windows releases from 2002. Maintaining that backwards compatibility can become a massive pain too.
There are few reasons why Silicon Valley is successful:

1) weather (no tornados, no super humid days, no snow)

2) proximity of great places (Lake Tahoe, Monterey, Napa valley, …)

3) good universities (Berkeley, standford, UCSF, …)

4) immigrants (especially south asian) are more welcome

5) big companies like Salesforce, Google, Facebook, etc.

6) support network: it is ok to be poor entrepreneur and hassle even you are bad at that.

I do not know …
Senate Ratifies Pact to Curb a Broad Category of Potent Greenhouse Gases
Definitely THE website to bookmark if you're interested in C++ at all.

Notice that due to SEO fuckery, your first search result might be cplusplus.com, which is not the same and not as good. cppreference.com is where it's at.
Okay, let's go back to before science. Your circa 1000AD village blacksmith has special knowledge and authority about handling metals that you don't, and he probably can't explain it to you in an afternoon. That doesn't make him like a member of a priesthood, he's someone with specialized knowledge that could train you, but it would take a while and you'd probably have to pay him for his time. He'd similarly dismiss uninformed speculation about how he could do his job better, because he's trained in it and you aren't.

There are lots of domains like this that are much older than science and older than the Catholic Church. If anything, systems like the Church are like guild systems, rather than guilds being like priesthoods.

Science certainly is a bit like guild systems of old- lots of specialized jargon and training, mentorship, internal hierarchies, etc. But that didn't come from the Church, that's just the stuff that seems to spring up around specializations.
A movie was made about the whole laptop scandal.

Just before election. It Was quite shocking when I tried messaging links to news articles on Facebook and they were being blocked.
Then to find out that FBI asked Facebook to do this.

Movie.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/09/20/13-true-f...

Facebook admitting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532.amp
Is it different if it's a government demand vs a government recommendation?
Yeah. People are obviously getting back to face-to-face meetings. But I'd at least like to think that jetting from NYC to London just to sign some documents or to shake hands on a deal over lunch is something we'll see less of.

If you're doing a longer road tour anyway, saving a few hours on the transatlantic legs doesn't really buy you a whole lot.
But aren't lightning transactions limited to 0.5 BTC?
I predicted this comment as soon as I saw the post. I knew there'd be someone saying 'but those scientists really were doodoo heads!' as if that were the point of the article.
Let users post reviews of the video reviews? ;)

I kid -- but a simple thumbs up/down metric could help separate signal from noise (as is done with current text reviews on Steam).
While you're right that Microsoft has a much better track record for backwards compatibility, this isn't just limited to mobile operating systems. See: Apple breaking x86, deprecating OpenGL, switching platforms, disabling drivers, etc.

Most things that actually break on Android break for good reason, in my opinion. I consider giving apps the ability to draw overlays without any kind of permission in a supposedly sandboxed environment a design flaw, for example. I'm more annoyed by their restrictions on dynamic loading but even that still seems to work fine if you avoid the Play Store and set your API targets to a version that triggers the backwards compatibility system.

The recent change to the way uploading to Google Play works (where you have Google sign your apps instead doing it yourself) is the worst change in years, but that's technically a Google change, not an Android change.

Almost all API changes necessary to run old apps are minute. The permission overhaul for Android 6 (interactive permissions for many permissions that were previously granted install-time) requires a few more lines of code to show an error if the user denies a critical permission but it doesn't require a full rewrite.

The consequence is that app devs with some minimal time on their hands can update their apps to work on modern devices quite easily. Only apps that are thrown over the wall and abandoned or created by defunct companies are now broken.

Luckily, decompiling most Android apps is quite trivial. If the app is indeed completely defunct with the company disappearing, one might relatively safely maintain a decompiled fork of the abandonware to make it work on modern platforms.

It's a pain, but not a dissimilar amount of pain to searching working on NoCD cracks for games that require DRM broken on Windows 10. Enthusiasts do it, quite regularly as it turns out!

This is also why I'm in favour of laws about source control for abandonware; if a company doesn't exist anymore and people still use their software, the source code should be opened so customers aren't screwed over. Source escrow isn't unheard of in B2B applications and I don't see why it can't be done for consumer apps.
While my memory is fuzzy, I'm making a stronger argument than "he must have done something". Searching now for reasons of the actual ban, I find this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538. In summary, Dan thought Michael called Marissa Meyer a cunt using an archaic spelling and decided this was a final straw. Micheal came back to argue that the difference in spelling was significant, and accused Dan of having a tantrum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034887.

I actually appreciate Michael's writings, and think they are sometimes appropriate to be discussed here. I seem to recall encouraging Dan to override a flag on one of his pieces years ago. On the other hand, I think maintaining a norm of civil discourse is important to keep the site usable. Coming back under a new account after a ban to insult the moderator after a possibly questionable decision seems like a big red flag to me. I do appreciate that he did it under his own name, though.

I personally don't recall seeing any moderation decisions that are "hard or impossible to justify". I have seen a few that I would make differently, but I presume this is because I am aiming for different tradeoffs than Dan does, and not because he's irrationally acting out of personal spite. I generally like the results of his actions, and think the site would be much worse if he wasn't as proactive.

Anyway, if the goal is to get Michael back on the site, I think email from Michael to Dan expressing a willingness to follow the rules as they currently exist would be a more effective approach than a shame campaign. My guess is that he'd be welcome if he'd follow the rules, but based on prior evidence this seems unlikely to go well as he doesn't appear to feel bound to follow rules he disagrees with.
I dream about going to graduate school one day, but im 30 now. I would do all years in my underwear if they accepted me on that condition.
IANAL, but I don't think they have to prove it's hard or easy to find and read it.

The crux of the case is whether the government was seeking to censor it, and if they did to any extent succeed in it. As I posted elsewhere, I think this is the heart of the lawsuit:

> public admissions by then-White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki that the Biden administration was ordering social media companies to censor certain posts, as well as statements from Psaki, President Biden, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas threatening them with regulatory or other legal action if they declined to do so

That right there is clearly a First Amendment Violation if the result was one less person seeing and reading it.
'Opt out' is not as easy as you make it sound, this is based on a particular military commissioner discretion and they are heavily incentivized not to allow it. There is an option to sue, if you have proper connections, enough money etc. etc.
This sounds very similar indeed. The central thesis of the paper seems to be that the grain of locking is the concern, which is what Disruptor directly touches on as well. In a Disruptor implementation, you are typically processing batches of things, and locks can be acquired along lines of batches.
What does home made stuff have to do with a consumer product sold to the general public?

Folks obviously can't legally sell homemade alcohol, drugs, medical equipment, etc.
Sorry but it is not easy at all. Getter and setters do not help and can give a false sense of security.

And caches do not need to be explicitly synchronized. On all common platforms the hardware will do it for you without user intervention. Fences have a different purpose.
First of all, that's a very nice landing page and I can see this being useful.

I love that I can post a comment anonymously and don't need to sign up. Makes for a very low friction experience.

Some feedback for the landing page - it wasn't clear to me at first that the Taku box that pops up there is a live example. Maybe you can make that more clear with some copy change. For example:

"This is a Taku Box. All users receive this message. You can even chat with them in the comments below. Scroll down!"

Another small design feedback - it wasn't clear to me at all that "Yodelling R2-D2" (currently the top comment) was a user. I thought maybe it was a caption for the image, or an example product name, or something else. I found it confusing. Maybe a small auto-generated avatar or even just an icon of a profile next to the names would help, something to signal to me that it is a username. Or maybe even get rid of the names altogether, since they are all anonymous.

Good luck!
I purchased movies to watch with my kids on Google Play after which I found out they did not come with Dutch subtitles, which was unexpected for me. Asked for a refund and received it immediately, unexpectedly!!
Remember when Google refused to put Youtube on Windows Phone and when Microsoft made their own client, Google forced them to take it off their own store? Truly advocating for more choice.

(Press at the time: https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/16/windows_phone_youtube... )
Carnegie-Mellon, UIUC, Michigan/Ann Arbor, University of Wisconsin/Madison, Northwestern, Ohio State...
If you're rich, it's just called 'eccentric'.
I imagine the majority of their user base prefers WYSIWYG over Markdown. They're not trying to target mostly developers.
They are indeed hard to train but groups like EleutherAI have already basically crowdsourced training LLM's successfully so it's absolutely doable by non Corporate/Academic/Government entities to train high end models like this.
The sales pitch should be that it's faster (if indeed it's faster), or easier to configure,
or smaller to deploy... not that it's written in go.
Elasticsearch is free as in beer and you can use the properly OSS Opensearch as an alternative. So, I don't really get the cost argument.,

As for hardware cost needed to run Elasticsearch/Opensearch, it scales down as well as it scales up these days. I have a couple of ~70$/month clusters with millions of documents in each. Not a problem that I need to fix. I can scale them up to cost a lot more and handle billions of documents easily. That's in Elastic Cloud, which would be the expensive option. If you go bare metal, you can get way more bang for your buck obviously. A couple of Xeon machines with some decent amount of CPU/Memory/SSD go a long way.

As for complexity, they make it pretty easy to get started. What you do beyond that is kind of a luxury problem. You get all of these features out of the box but that doesn't mean you have to use them. But it's nice to have the option when you do need them as opposed to running into a brick wall because you are missing key features in these so-called drop in replacements. Depends on your needs. If you don't know the first thing about your search needs, keep it simple and go with mainstream solutions. Sign up with some managed opensearch/elasticsearch provider, get your cluster ready in a few minutes and start throwing some data at it. It's that simple. You can get it running in docker as well if you need something to develop against.

It seems a bit of a rite of passage to be implementing your own search engine these days without being hindered too much by not being completely up to speed with the field of information retrieval and all the wonderful algorithms and sollutions. Guilty of that myself actually; I built a tf/idf implementation at some point. It's not that hard. From there to something that gets close to Elasticsearch/Opensearch/Solr/etc. takes a lot of work and skills, however. There are a few nice solutions out there but also lots that aren't so hot.

I've not used Zincsearch so I'll reserve my judgement. However, their main pitch seems to be that they are cheaper than a thing that is free and partially compatible with it (for ingesting data only) but a bit lightweight (not so scalable, way less features). So maybe pay the difference of 0$ and get something without the limitations that come with being "lightweight"? Just saying. Not a great pitch if you have to name your main competitor in it. Kind of emphasizes that you are trying to catch up rather than disrupt. Does it have any actual things it does better? That should normally be the center piece of a pitch.
> Removing text seems like an incredibly minor change request.

Can you expand on this? I'm not exactly sure what you mean. To clarify, I had 2 issues:

* App review thought part of my app should not be being a login screen, the data on this screen was fetched via our API was was authenticated (not a super easy change to expose that and we don't expose it to unauthed clients on purpose.

* Our app asked the user if they wanted to allow location access to see nearby stores on our map page (only asked when they went to the map page). We didn't pop the system dialog unless they agreed first to our own permission prompt (since you can only pop the system dialog once). This is against the rules now, which is fine, my frustration stems from continuing to see this practice everywhere.
I don't think there's any such rule. Ton's of apps open things in their own browser instead of leaving the app.
It depends on what the consequences are (or are assumed to be) of not acceding to the "recommendation."
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I think the assertion is that both things happened. Accusations of American discussions being wholly Russian fabrications AND backchannel threats against media companies if they didn't fall in line.
If your claimed laser actually could zap a small beetle in under a second, then it's not legal to sell as part of a consumer product in Canada or the US without expensive interlocks and so on.

There are nonetheless lots of shady ways to buy these types of lasers without the necessary safety controls, but there also lots of shady ways to buy even more dangerous things such as landmines, dynamite, etc.
I've seen several remnants of Android 2.1 or below in my Android phone in settings and dialogues that don't need much maintenance. They're reskinned easier, but they are there!
> Just use good metal tapes

Nobody manufactures type 2 tapes anymore. You basically have to find dead stock.
Building Safer Dialogue Agents
I think you can argue that iOS/Android are a duopoly but I'm having a hard time seeing how iOS is a monopoly.

Mobile OS:
iOS
Android
(third options from Korea/China?)

Hardware:
iPhone
Pixel
Galaxy
etc.
174k according to the article. Title should have been: "Meta is cutting staff", but I guess that doesn't get as many clicks.
Purdue is great, but it's in Indiana and the social policies will continue to disincentivize both workers and investors.
a quick list of reasons not to locate in Indian:
* abortion ban
* no renter protection
* strict non-compete's allowed
* school funding keeps getting worse
I assume this is already being done, but I've had the following idea kicking around for a while:

Create a simulation, down to the quantum states, of a lattice of molecules at a certain simulated temperature (say, room temperature), and induce a simulated current through the lattice, and see if it superconducts. Proceed by iterating through billions of permutations of compounds in the simulated lattice, until the simulation finds a room-temperature superconductor.

Assuming this is feasible, does anyone know of organizations that are doing this?
Right but that was just their enterprise cert and didn't affect their big apps, only internal apps and their gross VPN apps (which they were distributing via enterprise cert to get around app review).
Perhaps it is because the sanctions are financial and WhatsApp does not charge users?
Unless a lot of areas become a lot more hospitable to immigrants, it is very unlikely that they will become the next Silicon Valley —- or next anything really.

When you look at places like Ohio, for instance, that have been stagnating for decades, a huge reason for it is that the population of Ohio was once representative of the country and has increasingly become older and whiter than the general U.S. population. This is because very few people are moving to Ohio — immigrants and others from other parts of the country. Ohio has one of the highest rates of residents born in the state, which is a recipe for stagnation.

Say what you will about Silicon Valley, but it has long been a place where dreamers and immigrants could mix. Heartland cities and states that embrace immigration and net inflows of residents could very well become the next something. But that has to come first.
My life has improved immeasurably since I gave up iOS dev and went back to the web. My baseline frustration level is so much lower.