skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah; with years of experience in the security space, and a chunk of those working at a browser vendor, watching bug classes vanish (even if it's the expense of some usability) is worth it when I imagine the tears of bad guys who have to work harder, and the users who won't have to go through the charade of credit monitoring services offered by some of the worst companies in the world.

They are specifically calling out that it's not ready for prime time, and that it will have an impact on users. In practice, many very effective security controls for browsers (and other software) get tuned down or disabled by default because they break too much of how the web works (SameSite cookies are a good example), or because it creates friction in customer acquisition or growth.
> A problem is that deciding whether or not a customer was converted from an ad viewer is done by the people you pay for ads.

If you rely on their reporting, yes, but you can aleays set up your own basic attribution (with some caveats around ios traffic due to the ATT changes, but in that case the reporting comes from Apple). There are also third-party providers that can do attribution for you, but somewhat costly.
Black holes can’t trash info about what they swallow–and that’s a problem
I think most people do. Spacemacs and Doom Emacs agree.
Hey Michael! I have lived in HCMC for a while and I thought it must very unfriendly for disabled people. (nothing is ever wheelchair accessible etc.)

So even better when I hear this story.

edit: ah I see you are from Hanoi. Well not sure how it is over there, but I cannot imagine it’s very different
It certainly isn't. But it's also already done. That doesn't make it better or worse, it just makes it a sort of benchmark for the infrastructure work required to replace that energy distribution system (based on liquid hydrocarbons) with something else.
not really, e.g. music can be much cheaper to start (find an old guitar/digital keyboard) though get expensive if you want good instruments later on, i guess. sure ash cheaper than my shooting habit tho :)
That's not a forest. That's some trees.
> The provincial government of British Columbia says old-growth forests are particularly important and that companies should put off logging them.

Why, then, selling those licenses in the first place? Sounds like something that could be made illegal if there was an actual will to do so.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/forest-...
This is extremely strange article from American perspective, but it probably hits British sensibilities.

As I understand it, a company got a logging license in BC, cut down a square mile of forest, sold most of the logs to a lumber company to be processed into lumber, and the rest of the logs that the company couldn’t use for lumber, and the logging waste, got ground up and used as biomass for energy. Sounds like… completely normal day in Pacific Northwest?

I think this might be affecting British sensibilities negatively simply because the scale of forests here is completely different. British Columbia alone has size which is more than than triple the size of the entire United Kingdom, and most of it is indeed covered in forest, most probably being old growth too. Cutting down a few square miles of it is really not a big deal, unlike in Europe, where similarly old forests are comparatively extremely rare. Canadian government shares this view, which is why it sold a license to log these trees in the first place.
> What kind of rational system would ever incentivize spending rather than results (aka sales?)

Is that a sarcastic question? I guess the part about humans creating a rational system is a dead give-away.
Your landing page looks very promising. I joined the beta list. Any idea when I can play around with it? I could be one of your first beta users (given the product is stable enough). I'm so surprised no one has built a viable solution here.
One way would be having charger have an app and charger itself be managed by utility company, then just add the charging costs to the electric bill
There’s tons of money for apartment complexes in having chargers. For one EVs are definitely more expensive right now (outside of the older stalwarts like used Leafs). For two, my place charges an absolute arm and leg to charge and they have Solar on-site. $3 for the first two hours, $2 per hour for parking after the first eight, etc.
An even more interesting question is:

Has the rate of reproducibility change at all over the decades?

Are we just simply more aware of the problems today than in the past?

When you had 10 papers published out of which 7 were BS, you could weed those out by reading each.

When you have 1K papers and 700 are BS ... you are not going to be able to do so.
That's not cloning bitcoin. It's the network & blockchain that's important & that's physically impossible to clone at this point without a time machine.
oh yeah, I already forgot. We were promised first lunch to mars by the end of this year. I cannot wait for musk to surely deliver on time yet again \s
What incentive will the site authors have to produce content and design suitable for self-respecting humans?

Time and again people fail to realize that if they install an adblocker, they remove themselves from the target audience and thus from influencing the content and quality of web pages.
Because diverting money from actual productive businesses that employ lots of people into the pockets of people who are going to spend the money on Lamborghinis is net bad for society? Why care about insurance fraud if insurance is still profitable? Someone is paying for fraud and it’s basically the rest of society in the form of higher costs.
Inflation makes everything more expensive, right? Apparently not bananas
"The provincial government of British Columbia says old-growth forests are particularly important and that companies should put off logging them."

That's not really enough. BC should regulate these forests heavily.

Old growth forest is like nothing else on the Earth. There is organic material sometimes several feet thick. Trees with trunks like school buses stacked end-to-end.

Mankind will not survive a world where it is expected that corporations (especially megacorps) simply "do the right thing."

The UK company should not be on the hook here - they probably had no idea what the source of the wood was before this article, and, if the article is to be believed the timber was going to be cut anyway for the more valuable lumber species.
is this any different from if another payment provider runs analytics on its own site?
Because then I have no advantage
Actual robotics experts seem to think that the design, particularly the actuators, is fundamentally flawed and cut some corners that won't be particularly easy to un-cut on the way to an actual product: https://twitter.com/_brohrer_/status/1576368293719736320
If your needs fit its range, off lease Leafs were pretty low cost when I was last looking; you could get an older gas car for much less and not everyone can afford a $10,000 car. Electric $/mile operating cost is very often less than gas $/mile, especially if you have significant access to free charging.

Of course, if you move, you might need to get a different car.
> You have a legal responsibility to share the information you know with the SEC

Are you a lawyer? Don't think you're right here...

Don't take legal advice from random HN threads.
> In a way though, it's liberating. One-upping the entire world is so out of reach that you can focus on your own experience. Just go there and have your fun.

I haven't gotten my head around that one. If I'm nothing but some random nobody and nothing I do really matters, why should I care about my own experience enough to focus on it? What's the fun in randomly killing time? If that's all it's about, I might as well just zone out and watch netflix, or whatever the easiest way to kill time happens to be.
Aren't trees found in a forest?
Same goes for Red Hat? And I guess "equally well" may be true, but ymmv, so there is that edge.

And then there are people like me that prefer to spend their money on parties like this.
As a long time GameFAQs user I feel like the service will be destroyed by ads
You’re right, but also wrong. Not all collection is equal. Placing your payment data in a database that is strictly for legal purposes is different than placing in a connected database built to track users around the web.

Privacy laws allow you to keep the data only for as long as legally necessary and required. Google Analytics may keep this data indefinitely.
> People just aren't interesting enough to keep an entire platform alive

This is a really interesting point, and probably mostly true.

I'd add onto it, that even for people who are doing lots of interesting things, that Instagram soon becomes awkward to use for fear of "showing off" and that it's fundamentally set up as more of a broadcast-to-audience system rather than any sort of interact-with-friends system, which makes it worse.

The parasocial influencer thing works, because it's supposed to be a hollow one-direction "watch me have fun doing X", but real friendships aren't a series of watching each other have fun, they're about actually doing things together and/or having deeper conversations about the experiences, and Instagram fundamentally pushes interactions into "Publisher-Subscriber" model rather than the "Peer-to-Peer" relationship of natural human friendship.
Such a shame, I had an ideal use case for a product I'm working on, but there's no way I'm shackling it to cloud vendors. Just not a good fit for this product.

I really hope materialize eventually inspires something like it in the open source world.
Peter from Snaplet here. A month ago I saw the CrunchyData post and wanted to play around with the code that made it happen, it wasn't OSS so I asked for help:

> If anyone out there wants to work on an open source version of this full-time please reach out to me. [0]

Paul reached out and we started working on it almost immediately. Check out the repo here: https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm

We have a blog post about some of the interesting technical challenges that we faced whilst building this: https://www.snaplet.dev/post/postgresql-in-the-browser

Like most things, this is built on-top of the amazing open-source projects that made this possible, but special mention goes to v86.js and buildroot. We just glued it together.

My hope is that we as a community can own this project and make PostgresQL, and the software that runs on it, accessible to a larger audience.

---

[0] Request for collaboration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500526
The way that making self driving cars was a "solved problem" according to Musk in (checks notes) 2015?

https://fortune.com/2015/03/18/tesla-elon-musk-and-nvidia-ce...
It has risen to over 12B recently[1] and they are covering it all with 'net error omissions' aka money of unknown origins[2].
1: https://twitter.com/ali_hakan_kara/status/157575953305331302..., orange is import and blue is export.
2: https://twitter.com/ali_hakan_kara/status/156922749746769920...
Literally YESTERDAY used ssh to pop my favorite emulated games onto my Steam Deck from my main computer. Didn't have to touch the Deck.
> Most code written in C is horribly unsafe.

I think that is untrue. I worked at the Network Systems arm of Bell Labs for sixteen years, and we could demonstrate five-nines of uptime on complex systems written entirely in C.

C is a rough tool, I will grant you that, and Rust is a welcome addition to the toolkit, but saying that most code written in C is horribly unsafe, does not make it true.
Airbnb: Banished for an Unleashed Dog
On the limits of automated tasks dealing with contexts/situations.
Hey now, it should be readily apparent that most of us didn't sell out that cheaply :P
Is it a federal license or a provincial one? It would be ironic if they were granted one from the province
A mast-producing forest with a thick and high enough canopy to create its own microclimate takes 80-100 years to grow in some places, and yes thousands of years in others.
Supreme Court will hear challenge to legal immunity for tech sites
Mai re-gret is reusing my first username for multiple accounts when I first joined the internet. I've tried to transfer accounts to separate work, personal, and anonymous emails, but nothing is ever really deleted.
Google has a long history of innovations that while sometime great, fail to achieve hockey stick growth and thus fail to move the revenue needle for a company that take in a 1/4 trillion dollars a year.

A billion dollar a year product would be lost in rounding error likely making it a candidate to send to the Google Graveyard.

I think if Google's ad business (81% of its revenue) was separated from the rest of the company, you would see much more attention paid to these types of products.
> I'm just saying it's nowhere near as easy as my parent seems to expect.

Apple could eliminate most ad fraud that pretends to be its platforms, by generating tokens from its secure enclave for advertisers, and providing a REST API to validate the token is from a live device.

And of course, as you are in this industry, you know that Apple devices are the highest quality, valuable, converting clicks in the ecosystem.

Then again, PAT would diminish inventory, prices would rise, and people would get better, but nonetheless similar, ROI that they get today.

It is intellectually dishonest to make predictions about ROI. Nobody really knows. Bot farms, fraud, those are all red herrings. Most advertising has shitty creatives.
I think it's genes that determine the shaving pain threshold.

I can shave with a dull blade, completely dry, against the grain, in any direction, and it doesn't bother me a bit. Occasionally I'll cut myself and not notice.

(I don't use a dull blade since it's not efficient, but I'll use one if nothing else is available.)

If it is gene based, I'm not sure if it's something that moderates pain tolerance, hair / keratin composition, or some combination. I can grow a really thick beard, fwiw.
The Metaverse is just an example of everything that's wrong with it. Why would anyone want to spend time in something that looks horrendously outdated?
I been saying it, ain't I been aging it?
Do you have a source? I’m curious how they fix that, maybe they disable the DRM requirement?
What worries me about this is the impact it has on teenagers.

My hunch is that this is behind a great deal of the mental health problems we're starting to see them have.

Growing gusto depends, in part, on naïveté since it's so easy to be deflated when you're just starting to explore something.
This almost crosses over into "Old Man Yells At Cloud" territory, except the author is self-aware of how easy it is to become a simple complainer without peeling back the surface to understand how we got here. Credit to Ed Zitron for taking the extra step.

There was an excellent interview with LeVar Burton once (I can't remember where, it might have been on NPR's Fresh Air) where he talked about the significance of the TV miniseries Roots, in which he starred. One key thing he mentioned is that Roots was one of the last shows that one could credibly assume "everyone with a television saw at least some of it." Because it came out right on the cusp of the explosion of cable television into the mainstream market and HDTV after it. For a specific generation of Americans, Roots is a common touchstone exploration of the grim history of slavery in the US. Recreating something like Roots today (something with both the wide reach and willingness to shine light on ugliness of the story) would be almost impossible. When there were a half-dozen stations to tune in, a message on them was seen by "everybody" (because even if it made you feel uncomfortable, what were you going to do if you had rabbit years? Tune in the wiggly-lines nightly news? Turn the TV off?) But with dozens and then hundreds of stations, that is no longer true.

For all the complaint about consolidation of social networking, the Internet has had a massively-disintermediating effect on media (entertainment media in particular, but also news and technical; most people may get their basic facts from Wikipedia, but all other online sources of basic facts are exactly the same distance away from the consumer). It has become drastically harder, far more expensive, to get a message to everyone now. The "filter bubble" is the other side of the coin to the broadcaster's modern dilemma: if something actually is important, how do we get it in front of people?
That still perfectly solves the bot problem.

It doesn't the problem of optimizing your ads, but it's ok to only completely solve one problem and let the others on the same situation from the beginning.
Thanks for the correction. Regardless, the mobile-focused web landscape today is a very different one than 2009.

Also those numbers seem to be highly inflated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Funny enough, because of the rapidly changing age demographics of the country (we are now solidly on track for the Japan economy scenario in the course of the next 10 years as boomer peak retirement is in 5 years), assembly line workers and the like are very much in high demand, especially competent, productive ones and their wages are definitely going up at well-operating businesses that aim to survive.
https://www.jendrikillner.com/tags/weekly - Graphics Programming weekly

https://halisavakis.com/category/technically-art - Technically Art weekly

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ac8ab0580c321574fe... - Blender Guru Newsletter

https://twitter.com/search?q=Creative%20Code%20News%20(from%... - Creative Code News

rarely:

https://tympanus.net/codrops/collective - Codrops - web design news, resources

https://speckyboy.com/?s=Weekly+News - Speckyboy - designers news

https://kerkour.com/tags/newsletter - Kerkour - favorite links

https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/search/?q=%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0... - habr ru - various technical weekly news

bookmarked:

https://www.datascienceweekly.org/newsletters - Data Science Weekly

https://this-week-in-rust.org - This Week in Rust

https://www.fightaging.org/archives - Fight Aging
Do you only train the new dense network or the whole thing?
Here's the trust you can put in Meta to deal fairly with military
personnel [1]. If that's how they deal with those who've served,
imagine the contempt they have for the service.

[1] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2022/09/28/meta-ordered-t...
Sure, but also, I'd love to get regular people buying these things, which is why I think "gaming console" is important. Let's see if we can get back to good computing and gaming, where you give up a little convenience for a ton of power and possibility.
In such a scenario, I wouldn't put much thought into going to the bathroom.

I think of it as setting my future self up for success. Go to bed early, go for groceries, have some food prepared, make plans to do something.
How Ransomware Is Causing Chaos in American Schools
Supreme Court to scrutinize U.S. protections for social media
Going from goofy nerd to jacked-up middle-aged billionaire is a well-trodden path in tech.
One of the things that makes ecological protection so hellishly difficult is that the "environmentally minded" side
of the argument pitches all of its propaganda assuming that the recipients of the propaganda are already in line with many other values.

As an example, the two major save-the-environment angles in the US are the 'hippie' ("We need to save the forests and the Earth because all of the species need to live in harmony") and the 'scientist' ("We need to save the environment because we are all going to die from ecosystem collapse and catastrophic flooding"). Both of these personas are astonishingly easy to caricature and it's effortless for right-wing political leaders to find the silliest and most ridiculous examples to paint as representative of the movement.

If you want to get 'conservatives' to agree to do something about conservation, you need to appeal to the 'religious' ("Did God give us these gifts so we could destroy them in our own name?") and the 'nationalist' ("For centuries these proud forests have stood as a symbol and vital backbone of our nation's economy and spirit, and only powerful and clever stewardship will allow us to both profit from our natural resources as well as hand them down in full strength to our grandchildren so they can continue to steer the nation to prosperity").
That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing this feedback. This could be the thinking of many companies as well.

Regarding the product solving a real pain, I agree. Aesthetics are overlooked if the need is there.

On the other hand, wouldn't you want to optimize this part of your funnel? Maybe even see if there's a problem between signups and conversions? You'd want your users to get value from your product as soon as possible, and a good onboarding truly helps (see courier.com, for example).

I'm pretty surprised that your aversion to another dependency outweighs the possible benefits of having a good onboarding flow.
I mean yeah but Google doesn't count those clicks for ad revenue at all

or maybe just on OVH or smaller provider,but AWS ips are definitely flagged for advertising
Michael, best of luck to you. You aren't the only one thinking along these lines. I saw this list of good advice from YC on the macro setup back in may, posted on news.yc:

https://twitter.com/refsrc/status/1527238287471292417?lang=e...
Because the following lines [0] hide an enormous amount of complexity:

> conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio cudatoolkit=11.6 -c pytorch -c conda-forge
> conda install -c conda-forge sentence-transformers
> pip install scann
> pip install --no-binary lxml html5-parser

This stuff will break on a lot of computers. It will be terrible to fix, and your environment will get clobbered. Not to mention all the frustration with slow inference on CPU and the headaches that running NN's on GPU brings.

That's why I don't use pretrained models if I can help it. Also, remember the first rule of machine learning: start without machine learning [1].

[0] Notebook linked in the article https://github.com/mye/simple-vector-search/blob/main/revers...
[1] https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-...
This is a really exciting milestone for WASM! Has anyone tried compiling postgres for wasm32-wasi and implementing a wasi-compatible interface for the file system and other OS bits postgres needs? I think that would be a big improvement.
Well I guess since people live in cities then every group of people is a city!
I'd like to see this model applied to individual states or territories to confirm its accuracy. For example the GDP of Colorado is more than 5 times that of Delaware, but nighttime images of Colorado are much much darker than Delaware. What impact would that have on these results?
Most fentanyl in non-opiates (such as cocaine) is the result of accidental contamination, not intentional cutting. It happens late in the supply chain: a dealer sells two different drugs, uses the same scale for both, and doesn't completely sanitize them in between, so you get a few remaining "crumbs" or residue of fentanyl accidentally mixed in.

This is an issue with fentanyl because it's so potent that a small amount which would be a non-issue for opiate users can easily kill a person with no tolerance for the drug.

It's also dangerous because, when mixed with stimulants like cocaine, the overdose doesn't necessarily happen immediately - the stimulants will briefly mask the effects of the opiates, raising the heart rate, but then they'll wear off and the opiates will suppress breathing to the point of death. Because the effects aren't always immediate, the drug user (or those around them) don't connect the person's behavior to the drug use, so they don't always recognize it as an opiate overdose requiring immediate emergency attention and Narcan.

Source: used to work for a nonprofit that conducted harm reduction education training