skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the developer of HACK which is a hacker news client app for iOS and android. I recently went through very similar experience with both Apple and Google, though Apple was more annoying. Both Apple and Google have been very annoying in review process albeit Google has been more annoying than Apple.

Here was a recent Apple example:

My app works by parsing the HTML of hacker news site. Recently, the site had a few small changes behind the scenes in the html which broke the XPath for the parser and thus broke my app. So I quickly fixed the issue and submitted updated to both Apple and Google.

Usually Google used to be faster in reviewing apps in the past but something has changed and now Google seems to take longer to review app than Apple. Google took 4 days to review and approve the update this time. Basically the app was entirely broken for those days and I got countless justified emails from users.

Apple was even more annoying. My app is available for both iOS and MacOS. It’s the same code base. MacOS one got approved within couple hours. iOS one is where the problem started. They rejected the iOS update telling me my app didn’t have features to report users, block users, flag objectionable content etc.

This was the second time Apple had rejected for this same issue. I responded that I have already dealt with this in past and they need to login to the app with a user account before seeing buttons to flag objectionable content. Seemed obvious.

Next they rejected the update again and this time it was even more annoying. They told me that my app didn’t have a way for users to delete their user account. I responded that my app is merely a client for hacker news and doesn’t have access to user accounts. They kept rejecting it. Eventually, I ended up adding a button for deleting user account:

https://i.imgur.com/bvaZxBI_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...

The button tells the user to contact HN via email to delete accounts. Apple rejected it again saying this was not enough and having to email to delete account is not appropriate. After several back and forth, I asked them to call me. They did. I explained my situation and they finally understood my point that I don’t run hacker news. I merely provide a client app and explain to the user the steps HN provides for deleting accounts. After all this, they finally approved it.

Apple in the past has also had situations where they will reject an update, I will respond, they will approve and then next update, they will reject again for the same issue. It’s like they don’t seem to read the previous review notes.

With that said, Apple at least lets me talk to a human being and they seem to finally understand the issue. With Google, that seems impossible to do.

Overall, I will rate Apple review 5/10 and Google would be 4/10. Neither should be happy with how they deal with it.
Isn't this common to most Indo-European languages? I think it's valid for Germanic, Slavic and Greek.
I've seen research like this before. Does anyone have any other spicy links on this topic? Idea of recording dreams seems very interesting to me.
I've been using altstore successfully, minor hindrance of resigning side loaded apps every week, but if you can leave your PC on it does that automatically.
The scale at which manufacturers and insurers like Tesla can use real-time location data in actuarial models (and whatever else they like) is quite new, though.

The important distinction is that the same entity tracking your real-time location also has unprecedented control over the car and your ability to use it, and very little transparency. This is basically the same dynamics as app stores.
This sounds similar to Flexport's CTO situation (he came from Amazon) and attempted microservice-ification of everything. Except it sounds like they weren't even able to get wheels up and are still floundering after years of planning and attempted execution.
No, I think the model would have to be trained for every single individual.
I’m not dain, but your choice of language is confusing.

You are attempting to communicate on the internet and you are not being easily understood. It’s your choice if you’d like more people to understand you or not.
Ever tried to brake too hard on a motorcycle?

Yes. If I turn off the ABS and traction control, I'm skilled enough to lift the back wheel. But you know what has never happened? Having the front brake lock all on its own because I dared run the bike to empty.

...and you’re still best off never letting the battery die.

...lest the board cast you to the ground in a dangerous manner. Which, from my reading, is why the CPSC would like OneWheel to issue a recall. I'm hard-pressed to think of any other device that doesn't just coast to a halt when it runs out of fuel. Even an airplane doesn't just immediately plow nose-first into the ground when it runs out of juice.
Maybe a little pedantic, but per the website liblithium doesn't implement Ed25519. It uses a signature scheme based on X25519, which is usually used for key exchange. From the perspective of interoperability, the liblithium scheme is nearly as different from Ed25519 as it is from ECDSA P-256, notwithstanding that you can technically convert Ed25519 keys to X25519 keys.
> Modern push mowers are junk

They really really are in NZ at least. I saw some at Mitre10 the other day and they were pretty much all plastic, wtf?

Someone local to me as well buys second hand mowers and fixes em up, puts a better motor on etc. Works well - been a very long time since I've touched an old push mower though!

My old man runs a landscaping/gardening/mowing business so I grew up helping mow lawns etc and you're quite right they've just gotten so bad. We'd buy those commercial ones, and over the years they just got bigger, heavier and shittier - breaking all the time. Dad went back to using just basic older mowers and they work just as well.

You're correct that those old push mowers are better for the grass if you don't have the catcher on - which is the reason for some mowers having that "mulch" function (spitting cut up grass back out without a catcher).
And I believe for the CFO it was her first job after college.

And for another linked CEO they'd been a trader for three years, and then were made CEO at Alameda?
(My own related frustration comes from Apple -- the double-whammy of being an Apple App Store developer and an early Swift UI guinea pig. It's a good thing I was WFH, with all the curse words I was shouting, sometimes like a mantra, as I plowed through their sociopathic nonsense.)

You know how tech founder and worker professed self-images often include the phrase "we're changing the world"?

I doubt anyone ever sat down and congratulated themselves on changing the world to be more Kafkaesque.
> I am waiting for this kind of tech to become viable for smaller 'hobby' type farms. you know, under 100 acres.

Yup. I've got four acres of grass that I'd love to farm... without having the farm be a full time job.
It gives you another split second to recover. If you aren’t expecting it or just don’t have the body control for it, you’ll probably still go down.
Just this past week, our app got the boot too. The reason was that the app was in violation of "user privacy". May be it was strings.xml that angered the Algorithm, may be it was the user reviews, may be it was something on our website... Then, magically, the app came back up. It turned out that as we were migrating our domain name to a new DNS Nameserver, the cached DNS entries probably pointed to an IP address that didn't exist, and the privacy policy web page was therefore 404 for a brief while.

Downloads from our website for the app went up by 2x, but that number dwarfs in comparison to installs from the Play Store. What can I say, Android developers are slaves to The Algorithm. At least until some other Algorithm at Google decides to properly staff up its support centers for developers.

As a contingency, what we do is:

- Sign our own APKs.

- Bake in a custom update mechanism as an escape hatch (this is against ToS, but whatever...).
FDA approves lab-grown meat for the first time
Yes when there is a legit defect. People getting injured on onewheels are pushing the board to the max, ignoring the warnings and face planting when the board tops out.
> As the moment somebody puts in the work to engineer a package so hella cheap that anyone can afford it, and start to actually do so, ideal market theorists pour in undoing the entire thing, lest money be left on the table.

The problem is that if you sell things insanely cheaply, the demand increases a lot, i.e. not everybody who would like to get one, is able to - this is called scarcity.

There exist two approaches to this problem (mixed solutions between these two approaches are also possible):

1. increase the production rate such that there is sufficient supply for the given demand - this is the solution that you, I think, wish.

2. increase the price of the product and be happy that producing cheaply and selling more expensively makes you a lot of money

In other words: the lesson that you miss in your post is that it does not suffice to engineer a package so cheap that anyone can afford it, but you also have to ensure that you have sufficient production capacity that you can fill the demand which comes from this cheap price.
It would increase the weight of the boat though, by quite a bit so you'd end up needing a bigger battery. The battery also does not have 100% efficiency so add in another 10% for losses. You'd also need downtime to charge that battery up - about 15-20 hours if you use level 2 charging. Yes, 200 kwh seems oddly low.
Widely true, though as an undergrad in the US I (fairly unusually) wrote and orally defended a 120pp anthropology thesis; as a Masters student in England I wrote a 40pp thesis that was worth only 20% of my overall marks, but sat in an exam hall and handwrote essays for three days (for 70%) while being proctored by a fellow in a robe wearing a sword... In general my British peers were better-spoken and better-read than most American students, but not actually better academically I don't think. I don't think most education produces consistently good results, but it makes a space for some people who are motivated.
Isn't that based on "drone no-fly" maps from respective governments rather than what the manufacturer decides?
... your censorial asterisks italicized part of your post ...
You’re getting the analogy backwards - you can’t drive an unapproved car on a public road.
Dieter Rams 606 – Greenest, Most Economical Shelving System?
Having dealt with the IRS a few times, I can relate. You'll get a different answer (from a different person) to the same question each time you ask.

My advice is to never deal with the IRS yourself. Hire a tax attorney who has some experience in dealing with them.

Also, are you referring to "The Trial" (also by Kafka)?
> I cannot fathom how a browser/WebView from 7 months ago with 244 known security issues including multiple zero-days and a PDF reader from 6 years ago with 55 known security issues is in anyone's threat model.

I use Firefox, not their chromium-based browser. I can't mention an app that I use that is using a WebView though... I remember there was one, but I could set it up to use my browser. I use their PDF reader, I'll have to check that.

> Do realize that combined with their Advanced Privacy app which routes users over Tor, it can very well result in HTTP only connections being MiTM'ed.

I don't route over Tor.
It'll be interesting to see if this was another fracking induced event.

https://www.vox.com/22891806/texas-earthquakes-oil-gas-drill...
This is not “minor hinderance” for 99.9% Apple users. It’s absolutely unusable unless you are an “enthusiast”.
Very normal in Spain, too
I've worked extensively with employees from these Indian labor companies throughout my career as a software-engineer. Many of my positions have implicitly been just to ensure that these developers can't do too much damage. For a long time I despaired about the poor quality of software these contractors would create, and wished there was some kind of justice for the companies that employ these bodyshops. Then I realised, this is how that justice happens. There's been a string of these high profile security incidents over the last few years caused by contractors from these labor companies.
We've been building a new kind of collaborative text editor (https://www.orchard.ink) keeping all of this in mind! We're trying to reimagine writing workflows, focusing on creative commands for editing that are easily accessible through a Cmd-K. The generated suggestions are displayed as Google Docs-style comments that you can cycle through until you find one you like.

Wasn't planning on making this public so soon (it's only been 2 weeks), but thought people here would be interested in checking it out. Got a lot of changes coming, so stay tuned! Happy to discuss at kevin[at]village.dev
>I actually posted before I read the article (typical!)

I'm not sure whether you're saying "I did something bad, repeatedly, but it's ok because I'm admitting it" (while arguing someone else who did something bad shouldn't be let off the hook for admitting they did something bad), or whether instead you're taking pride in routinely acting in a way that subtracts value from the community (while arguing someone else who acted in ways detrimental to the community should receive harsher judgements than you feel he's received).

Either reading suggests an opportunity for productive self reflection.

Posting criticisms of articles you haven't read isn't the scale of damage that SBF caused, but the belief that "I'm not intending to cause harm so the harm I'm causing isn't real" appears to be at the root of both sets of outcomes. The impact of SBF's actions was higher simply because one day he found himself holding a larger lever than most of us have the occasion to hold. It's good to be in practice, should that day come.
Amazon's compensation wasn't anything special. The first two years were awesome because I got a $100K+ sign-on bonus prorated and tacked onto my paycheck every month. Once my first two years ended, my regular salary was pretty lackluster and I was easily able to find a job making a lot more elsewhere.
While adding extra things that can fail to an already dangerous method of transport isn't the greatest idea I don't really see how that's too different from a skateboard losing a wheel or hitting the smallest pothole with an inline skate.

Powered or not, going fast on something you just precariously stand on will send people to the hospital constantly regardless.
A serious question is the size of the fusion generator. They typically have volumetric power density far lower than a fission reactor or an internal combustion engine. I don't think they will fit in a small truck.
Regardless of the reason, it's maddening when someone is holding onto a quantity of your money that is not quite large enough to want to fight for it in court, but plenty large enough to be meaningful to you, and essentially keeps it by successfully avoiding meaningful communication.
I was referring to the alabastar flask.

But yeah it applied to 30 pieces of silver as well.
Salesforce Tower in SF cost $1-2 billion. $8 billion for this seems optimistic at best.
I’m a big fan of autolist.com for purchasing second hand vehicles
The only mistake these foundations made was committing to spend money they hadn’t yet received. And relying on a single source of funding. Something about eggs and baskets.

Should they have known FTX was about to fail? Maybe, but so should a lot of other people who should have definitely known better. So, it’s hard to fault them for that.
As if Firefox is not funded by Google.
This is not as advanced as some of you might think.

You have to understand how diffusion models work to "reconstruct" images.
You also have to understand that the model has to be trained to match pictures/brain scan for each individual.

But this kind of approach can certainly be useful, especially with people with motor impairment after a stroke or accidental brain damage.

Not sci-fi level yet.
A guy at my gym was on one of these, it stopped suddenly and threw him. He broke his pelvis and is still rehabbing a month later, probably a couple months left to go. Guess he's "lucky" he didn't die.
He already has a sizable production team including several researchers (which he recently publicly mentioned). I think the fact that Tom Scott is simultaneously a presenter and writer for his channel made it difficult to outsource the writing process. He is extremely good at delivering his own script at natural voice, but that's not guaranteed if anything changes.
> If you could somehow manage to deliver the same results without thinking, you'd still get paid--because you're not actually getting paid "to think".

Reductio Ad absurdum:

If you are a miner, you are not being paid to dig, you are being paid to find coal. If you could deliver coal without digging, you would still get paid.

But wait, you are not being paid for coal, you are being paid for keeping house warm. Id you could keep their house warm without them burning coal, you'd still get paid.

But wait, they don't actually want to keep the house warm, they want to not feel cold. If they could achieve that without heating the house, you would still get paid.

So no matter what you job is, I couls always say 'you are not getting paid to code/trade/do X, instead people want results of X' and you could repeat that process for X,Y and Z ad infinum. So the argument has no value
Ask HN: Does anyone else struggle with arrays?
I find it difficult to implement low-level array-based algorithms and data structures (sort, queues, stacks, etc.) from scratch, even though I'm proficient at software development in general. Is this a common thing?
Not sure if that defies the purpose, or enhance it.
Microsoft is probably at par or slightly above Amazon as of a few years ago and maybe more recently slightly below, due to Amazon raising bar & comp.

This is only for MS as a whole though, many of the subsidiaries (LinkedIn, Github) have a harder interview circuit.
OK then, stay weak.

I mean, if it's an actual injury it should be quite obvious.

Really it was a silly question.

If you like, I can write you a referral to a twitter physician if my hacker news comment advice isn't good enough, and you want a second opinion.
“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
> It's so close to basically no issues

I don't think you understand what I mean. Plex has worked perfectly for two years straight. These 2 issues have taken up less than ~2 minutes of my life. That is equivalent to perfect from my point of view. Stop being unreasonably pedantic about my own words.
The speeds are nothing to sneeze at, but also keep in mind that the peak speed in a hundred meter dash is higher than the average speed, and when you're jumping off a device you're rapidly losing speed which means less effort too.
Dude they wanted to make me come to Canada for interview and Im French working in Hong Kong.

They look completely insane, recruit anyone with a keyboard and might even pay well.
But this is already about Google and Google already allows third party app stores. (I mean even Epic, which is a pretty well-known, high-profit company couldn't get very many people to download their store for Android.) The solution is to support legislation requiring companies to give specific details of what the problem is rather than allowing them to play these games of "bring me a rock."[0]

[0] https://jonathanbecher.com/2020/08/30/the-bring-me-a-rock-ph...
Google rarely ever wins in these privacy lawuits. They always settle.
What if they grow and raise their own food aboard the ship?

I do agree with the larger issues of maintaining hull integrity. It seems like a riskier investment than beachfront property in Florida.
Their articles were interesting , but the random ordering, and scrolling to another article by accident is annoying.
conda create -n yourenv python=3. 12 ;)
I feel a very satisfactory kind of schadenfreude at the idea of you filing this HIPAA complaint.
You didn't understand and now you do. I guess those who upvoted the original comment also did? It's taken a back and fourth of 5 comments to establish that clearly. BTW I'm not sure using a mental illness as a superfluous pejorative is a useful approach but ymmv.
That's the problem with the legal system. It's extraordinarily common to plead guilty when innocent because fighting the charge is more damaging than accepting a deal.

I even had this happen to me with a traffic ticket. It was way too expensive to fight it even though I could easily proven my innocence.

This lady probably would lose at trial and then have to appeal. The judge could instruct the jury that they have to adjudicate whether she dropped off the child or not regardless of whether that should be reasonable. You often can't argue constitutionality and some other factors until appeal. That would bankrupt the family.
I was a paid Evernote user who didn’t use the service much but paid anyway, partially because I liked the company, until they raised prices in 2016 by like 40% for the premium plan.

I’m one of those whale customers that SaaS companies love because I’m fairly price insensitive and I often don’t have tons of usage or support needs. For a solid 5 or 6 years, I’d been giving Evernote $50 a year, even though I mostly used other services. But raising the price 40% (and neutering the free plan that was the only reason they had as many users as they did) was enough that even I took the time to cancel.

It’s a sad end to what was at one time such a good (if significantly overvalued) product, but the writing has been on the wall for 6 years.

OneNote is more than good enough for most people who want an Evernote sort of note system and for people who are more particular and want to pay, the new wave of single brain apps is just far, far better.

When Evernote tried expanding into food and all these other areas, that was a sign things were getting out of control.

I used to be mad about what happened to Skitch, but CleanShot has finally filled that void from me from back before Evernote neutered and abandoned it.
You are a snowflake. When your propaganda says "PC or die", weak people are born.

Stop consuming MSM completely. Volunteer for "lowly" work such as cleaning toilets. Study meditation at a religious center. You'll grow up.
Gods I hate the term monads. I've read the wiki at least 20 times in the past year and it sounds like such bloated rubbish.

I love your answer..
And I love how you can use it in every language.
As discussed in the thread above, there are scenarios in which lack of encryption etc is simply not relevant. And when that is the case, why would you prefer a more complicated protocol with more moving things that can go wrong?
My first over-the-handlebars resulted in a fractured Greater Tuberosity. Pretty sure I reached my arm out to catch myself. Terrible decision.
So there’s this philosopher Daniel Dennett. In broad strokes, he’s generally liked by philosophically minded scientists and disliked by the philosophy community. His position is that we will slowly chip away at the magic of consciousness as we get better and better tools to scientifically explore the brain. The consciousness is not some magical force that enters us but just a giant bag of tricks that our brain plays. Furthermore, that the “hard problem of consciousness”, i.e. “what it is like” to be something is not immune to the scientific process.

I’ve always been defferential to his viewpoint, but this is the first time his arguments have felt justified.

It’s surprising but in hindsight makes sense to me that when you look at a specific representation of an object that your brain internally kind of “draws a picture” of an abstract representation of that kind of object. You can probably think of the location of 100 trees, but it’s pretty ridiculous to think that your brain actually has pictures of 100 trees in 100 different drawers. You look at a tree and your brain draws a kindergarten picture of a tree. Here lay the platonic forms?

Cool stuff.