skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of human trafficking isn’t really a left/right question (at least under the traditional definition — I suppose the QAnon-style folks may have been playing their usual games of redefining a real issue into some story they’ve invented out of whole cloth).

In Europe trafficking happens in tomato fields in Italy, online prostitution in Scandinavia, and everywhere in between. Victims can be in the country legally or illegally. I remember a case in Finland where an Indian restaurant hired a foreign worker legally, but then they took away his passport and coerced him to work 18-hour shifts using lies and threats of being sent back. That’s trafficking too.

The left and right have somewhat different ideas for solutions of course, with the usual recipes being further labor laws on one side and further limits on immigration on the other side. But probably such small tweaks won’t do anything to address the root issue, and in that sense it transcends left and right.
And I really want 2 standards on 1 device ;-)
That's not really saying anything at all. Every alternative to the corporate capitalism system that has been ever tried ended with millions of dead people.
Right I was confused when the article mentions the other parameters other than the moon and sun ones track other astronomical variables, surely they are modeling geological and hydrological variables also (or potentially primarily)
To add a data point here...I've read studies on the effectiveness of handwashing for sterilization. Apparently it's simply the abrasion under water that removes pathogens from the skin. Studies found no difference in effectiveness of just water versus water+soap.
That's the entire point. Your bank doesn't want you to run their software on your potentially vulnerable hardware.
There's actually an interesting philosophical issue here that has applications to type theory and computer science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensionality
Payroll is a deduction as well.

You only pay taxes on profit. If you paid taxes on gross revenues it'd make running any business basically impossible.
That's a hell of a claim. Any citation for that? I could see Tiktok doing something that extreme, but it would be incredibly bad press for youtube. Simpler explanation might be that lower priced ads run against dubious content and that those tend towards the more spammy and extreme.
Abandoned Russian base holds secrets of retreat in Ukraine
> No additional costs for healthcare or health insurance

The state of the NHS for the last 2.5 years means that you effectively need to pay private (whether out of pocket or through insurance) if you want any chance at decent, timely healthcare.
It must not have impressed the markets when Google pulled the plug on Stadia either.
https://archive.ph/9jU1N
Cool.

Can you explain how a new or soon to be released device having hardware support for something adds hardware support to the last 9 years of devices apple has sold that still work with iMessage and Apple's Photos app? Or should Apple just break those because you have a personal bias against a standardized file format?

I guess Google and Android have demonstrated that supporting hardware after you've sold it isn't something that people actually care about so maybe you're right and apple should take the same approach - after all I'm sure breaking older hardware will result in sales, which is good for business.
how far will apple take their in-app purchases? It's really getting ridiculous. Will they also request their share if I transfer some money from my bank account via app? Buy a new sofa? A share from airbnb if I rent a spare room? I bet airbnb lets me manage set up the whole experience in their app.

We slowly turn into a world where everything can be managed via an app and apple getting their share on everything is quite ridiculous.

EDIT: I completely forgot that the apple tax is 30%. Unbelievably high.
I moved to Gitlab after someone reported a part of my code as transphobic (containing a deep link to the Troon Android App) and a repo of mine was deleted. They have become too silly with the PC stuff.
I mean yeah.
I thought they got better with time. Apparently not.

My motto with “computer help” is “ok, let me install Linux on that, we’ll see what I can do”

Usually that works. ( people get scared and I’m off the hook)

But the older part of my family is running exclusively on Linux since a decade. Not much support needed.
What even makes a good company? Everytime I think I found one, after some time I realize it's really not. Are the small ones the key?
> Something went wrong, check back soon.

Is that what Putin is trying to distract us from?
I think you could redesign this to be 100% glass with no optic fibers or silica gel. Heat transport can be accomplished heating the water until it becomes steam and then condensing it again at the bottom. Even if there isn't enough heat to produce steam you can still induce flow by exploiting the fact that hot water rises to the top of colder water. Water collection could be accomplished using a fog fence made from glass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_collection
“ It’s the first time Apple has directly taxed advertising in iOS apps.”

This might not be the first time they are taxing boosts, just being fair about it across apps. I am pretty sure Tinder uses in app purchases for buying it’s boost feature. And isn’t Tinder just an ad platform for the user themself?

EDIT;

Would appreciate feedback in thread rather than downvotes here. Genuinely thinking this isn’t a big deal and an enforcement of existing rules. Am I wrong? I am not sure what is stronger here, the love for apple or the love for hating on them.
As if whoever wrote this would survive on a farm
If they can come close to the beauty that is esbuild documentation, changelogs and focus on details it'd be interesting, but do we really need another tool that only touts performance and ignores the rest?
I stopped developing for iOS (React Native developer here) after I realized that you can't install apps on the iOS emulator unless you apply some hacks first. Some missed opportunities but I'd rather support open platforms.
We're working on more payment methods, hopefully before the end of the year.
thank you for the advice! will consult with a lawyer in our jurisdiction
> I don't see why Apple would do this other than to specifically harm Meta.

The policy applies to every social media platform with an app on iOS. Sure it costs the big players more, but if Meta were Apple I have no doubt they'd do the same, if not worse.

Also the article specifically states "the new policy shouldn’t have a material impact on the company’s revenue" as this only applies applies to the social media app itself, and not the ads manager app where advertises spend the big bucks.
I guess that on the consumer side their support might be poor, but for enterprise laptops we've had a good experience so far.
I have used RF for many years now at different companies. We use it for automated integration tests, it does not matter in which language your application is written. I do admit that it requires some programming skills, especially for the keywords. Choose the keywords wisely and ensure that the QA people know how to use them. We also use it as part of regression testing and even for acceptance tests with the customer.
Isn't the Starship simply being welded together from stainless steel sheet metal?
I have my suspicions that fighting this would be the best way to fight terrorism. It may not be true for all the syndicates, but colluding with terrorists does come with some great criminal perks; especially if you're looking at human trafficking.
I've read testimonials from women who had severe acne and cured the problem by stopping frequent washing of the face with soap. It that case, the restriction of soap usage clearly improved skin health.
Having worked for a startup that tried to fix this, a big problem is institutional inertia/too much deference to Chesterton’s fence.

In general application form questions have accumulated over the years. When you dig into why there are 95 questions, you’ll find that no one actually knows who added most of them. Or if they do know, that person is no longer with the company.

But “I’m sure each question is there for a good reason.” And no one wants to risk removing any of them.
I had to wikipedia this - I would swear it wasn't, and that was apparently my incorrect interpretation 20+ years ago and has stuck with me since O_o

I'd edit my original comment to note it being false, but apparently I'm outside the HN edit window :-/
After bad experiences with Booking.com, I just use them as a search engine: call ahead to the property I want to stay in and propose a deal that we book directly with a discount (so split in half between us the Booking.com middleman commission) - it usually works!
I suggest you do the same, as using Booking.com offers no protection for problems - don't give them your money!

Booking.com operates like a monopoly and doesn't need to care whatsoever if the money they collect from you will correspond to a night of accomodation.

Last bad experience: I successfully booked - and paid! - a room in an evening emergency (broken-down car) to find out that the hostel door was locked and no one would open.
Called Booking.com customer support about them collecting money for a service they were not in a position to provide: a total back-and-forward mess and they couldn't care less. I did not get my money back.
I'd drive pretty much anyone to the hospital if they asked. I also ask rude questions ¯\_(0.0)_/¯.
Stop it, you guys are literally killing me.
In my opinion discriminating against people given their past test scores is unfair. People can improve and having scored bad (which might well be a consequence of hard life circumstances at a specific moment of their life) in the past should not be allowed to ruin their future. So I believe nobody should be allowed to see one's previous test scores and judge them this way. Whenever it is legitimately necessary to assess a person's proficiency a new test should be taken.
Why would that be considered transphobic?
Don't buy any laptop except of an old Thinkpad because anything else is either proprietary crap or overpriced or even both.
Title needs correction: that’s a Greek letter mu, μ, not a u.

Addendum: though it is clearly a u in the URL. Someone may be confused...
Get Ready to Relearn How to Use the Internet (Tyler Cowan)
Ask HN: Monetizing APIs
What is the best way to charge for access to my own APIs? Im assuming that it would include Pay as you go, Subscription, and tiered pricing.

I've looked at the API gateways but none of them come with monetization of the shelf. It looks like it has to be created from scratch.
ICYMI: The title is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_... ("time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so")
Data Catalog High level feature comparison
A data catalog is a centralized store where all metadata data about your data is made searchable. Think about a Google search for your internal metadata.
Data is growing exponentially, with 90% of the world’s data being generated alone in the last two years. It’s hard to keep up; a data catalog solves the problem internally. This is vital, as with data lake and other data stores, and you want the ability to search for your data.
It's good to know that other people can see the writing on the wall too. I've told people that this is being made possible. While it is not a guarantee that the availability of the technology will lead to the use of the technology in such a manner, the fact that it will be possible means it's just a matter of time before someone insists on doing this under the pretext of security.

The saving grace is that attestations can be forwarded but I'm sure even this will eventually get solved. (And the sheer fact they can be forwarded doesn't diminish the dangers of this use of the technology.)
> Why stir the pot and give regulators even more ammunition?

Probably if they make more profit then X then the bosses on top get a GIANT bonus. If profits don't grow but are still profitable the bonus will be smaller, and we all know this guys want a bigger yacht or sport car each year. If in 5-10 years Apple will not be good for bonuses they management retire or move to the next place.
Food for thought: That's how cars are put on the market nowadays. Not saying you're wrong, though.
Another study from March:

>protection waned to around 10% after only 4–6 months

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00775-3

It would only be a measure of postponing some of the rising transmission rates if people don't get boosted every few months. Also it would have to be compared against the effects of natural immunity.
What a great theory, I really like this. It makes sense in the context of a lot of things, but one that stands out to me is blacking out while drinking. Drinking too much essentially causes you to enter a walking zombie state where you are behaving and acting essentially normally, but you don’t remember a bit of it later.

I always figured that was a result of memory not forming… so we just forgot all that stuff. But the idea that we are actually ‘unconcious’ during that time is an interesting alternative hypothesis.
This number diminishes every passing year, with only debian being a bastion of sanity on the "user friendly" side of the distro spectrum.
More Scientists Need to Run for Office
Also the opening paragraph, paraphrasing "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
To preempt the "but slippery slope!" counters, where we're currently at is "you may not use your bank's mobile app on a phone that isn't running genuine, unmodded, unrooted version of the hardware and OS it came with". This is the reality of modern Android devices. And it's not worse only because, like with any API, adoption of new-and-improved Safenet / Play $forgot-the-name APIs takes time.

The slippery slope is not a fallacy if the slope is, in fact, slippery.
Is this news? I’d assume DHS is monitoring twitter more or less 24/7 for keyword hits.
> The supposed feature that once written the keywords can be reused is mostly a joke.

I've seen well maintained and designed cucumber / rspec / robotframework "code" and i've seen some really horrible shit. Keyword re-use is really a joke if you are not familiar with any good practices to actual software development. Granted, in "low code" scenarios, the worst selling point is "you don't need to know how to write code" - which imho is bullshit and from my pov, statements like i quoted echoes that.

Disclaimer; i partake and contribute to RF ecosystem. And i do prefer to write my tests or process automation with it even thought i can write code in multiple languages..
This article is incredibly barebones, there's almost zero actual content here, just some handwaving about studies and surveys that aren't even linked to.
As with any other kind of automation, if AI takes over programming jobs, that will introduce a new kind of job in itself (I don't know which kind of job... maybe one in which programmers have to review/double check the code the AI has produced? They won't be programmers anymore, but they'll get a different name I guess). So, the programmers who don't adapt and become, let's say, "AI-code checkers", they will be jobless. The programmers who can adapt, will still have a job.

I don't see any difference here. Same has happened before:

- programmers who were punching cards

- programmers who were writting assembly

- programmers who were writting C code

- programmers who are wiring SAAS APIs together

- programmers who are reviewing AI code

- etc.
> I'm all about actually changing things.

Me too.

Where I am from there is a lot of bullying. All the way.. from small kids and up to the political representatives.

What I am doing (and I do not recommend this btw) is to exit every norm, so I do everything superficial poorly. I never edit anything I write, I just post the first draft, I don't cut my hair, I don't wear shoes, my clothes I've just found, I can't remember when I last bought clothes, I don't own a phone, I don't use any social media. Basically I set myself up for being bullied.

However! I also work on the most important problem; the idea being that the absurdity may wake people up to the idea that maybe it's better to help me (by editing things or contributing things) than it is to bully me when what they are doing is nonsense and what I am doing is necessary... The point is that if you cannot use violence then you've got to use humor and poke fun at the holes in the opponents argument.
It’s already slimy that social networks, Meta’s most prominently, cut users off from the people who choose to follow them unless they pay for these sorts of things, so this is just slime on top of slime. All our most valuable companies, rolling around in nasty slop.
A mixture of hairs and fat going through a heat exchanger doesn't sound like low maintenance. Luke warm water remaining in the exchanger after a shower feels like a great way to cultivate bacteria, though on frequent use that's probably no issue.

Tapping the waste water as heat source for a heat pump seems like a better idea.
It’s interesting how TikTok and Twitter don’t have the same complaint, apparently. They already use in-app purchases for this functionality.

So it really is just Meta complaining.

Zuck, I thought the Metaverse is the future? We won’t even need phones soon, why does this matter? Phones are in the legacy pancake reality, soon to be deprecated. We’ll all be on your Oculus – sorry, Meta App Store.

Bad jokes aside, I don’t trust either Meta or Apple to give us a straight story on this issue.

My gut feeling is that these “boosts” are pure profit with zero COGS and Facebook should do perfectly fine giving Apple their share of the spoils. The App Store should be regulated but we’ll never get that with our political system.
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I mean I can see the advantages on a corporate network, or on just any network that you control. I may want to ensure that on my home network none of the devices have been deeply compromised so I may want to take advantage of the technology. But I feel like making this technology a normal part a user facing operating system risks normalising it to the point that companies will start abusing it to e.g. lock access to online resources to windows/mac only (potentially even leading to ISPs using it to require you to use approved operating systems to connect to the internet under the pretext of improved security).
> Bitcoin only makes 3 transactions per second and consumes around 12 GW continuously.

Yes.

1) Wait for Powell and Lagarde to reopen the tap as a futile attempt at sliding past recession, should only take a couple of months

2) Stand by as confidence in USD/EUR further erodes

3) Wait 10 years

4) Reevaluate whether "Bitcoin must be utterly useless, because 3 tps"
The best travel agent is an AI algorithm
Yes, go ahead! Also, a Youtube tutorial would be awesome!
Build a Table Editor with Trix and Turbo Frames in Rails
> we will end the cycle by putting everyone who wanted concentration camps into their own camps

Please tell me this is some clever satire! Solving the issue of "concentration camps" by putting people in camps seems like the very definition of repeating the cycle.... Amusingly, out of context, I cannot tell which ideology this comment is in support of (or opposed to). Modern polemics has caused public debate to become so disconnected from reality that it is little better than both sides merely shouting obscenities at each other. I suppose ad hominum is the next logical step.
> We'll update the post with more detail.

Just a small suggestion: there's nothing in the post (unless I missed something) that mentions or even implies that this is not the "final report". You could have a small paragraph at the end saying "we might update this post further once we have more details", or even better, have a bullet point list of the things your team is still looking at. That way, readers of the blog post would know it might be worth it to come back later and read the post again.
At least so far my bank hasn't prevented me from using my web browser on linux to access the banking website. But I am certain they will once Windows 11 gets enough traction in a few years.
But the pen you use today is quite different from a pen you would have used 100 years ago. Most people would not want to use 100 year old pen design as their 'daily driver'
August 2017 - Android picked kotlin over java

September 2018 - Flutter release preview 2 released (can't find the date on RP1)

December 2018 - 1.0 release of flutter

Flutter is not going to be the primary framework over JVM-based for Android any time soon, these things takes lots of time. But android didn't pick Kotlin over flutter, it was just not ready to be the preferred language at that point in time. I would even say Kotlin could have been promoted even sooner then it was
> how far will they take it

Apple's been consistent: digital goods and services.

The debate with Facebook reported in WSJ back in August (https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-apple-vs-facebook-pr...) Apple was saying "boosts" are a service to raise the profile of your dating profile or media posts, while FB was saying they were ads to avoid paying for them. All other apps (TikTok and the dating apps) consider it a service, only FB/Insta were playing this game.

This clarification shouldn't have been necessary, FB was playing a game, and Apple closed the loophole.

> unbelievably high

It's not unbelievably high, go have a look at what any platform charges. Also, remember the rate drops in year two, and for those making less than a threshold, etc. etc., so it's not 30%, it's considerably less overall.

They'll take it as far as necessary to to make the same off providing app store services any platform makes for distribution, such as Steam makes off providing Steam.

The problem with IAP is that at 0% for the app itself, Apple cannot offset the costs of the platform they are providing for distribution. So if they take their cut off app sales, then apps give themselves away for free, and charge the price as an IAP, Apple's stuck. They have no choice but to take it off IAP.
> Poor people can't afford touring colleges, so their "why this college" essays can't be as specific.

The "why this college" essay can trivially be addressed by looking through the university website.

Most applicants don't even do this.

A simple formula for this essay is:

- $APPLICANT has a demonstrated interest in $TOPIC(S).

- $ELITESCHOOL has $RESOURCES about $TOPIC(S) that $APPLICANT would like to explore.

This can obviously be iterated, expanded, and refined, but that's the basic formula for knocking it out of the park on that sort of essay.

Touring colleges has little to no impact on this essay.

Ghost-written essays also come across as shallow unless the parents also pay off teachers to write recommendation letters that corroborate the BS. It happens, but it's not common.