skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
95% of the 100+ comments on this business are fake, presumably from a comment/review farm that was paid by the business owner (though I don't know that).

The same commenters - some of which Google Maps describes as "Local Guides" - also have commented on dozens or hundreds of businesses that don't exist at all.

The fake business entries are basically using Google Maps place locations for SEO and presumably, referral lead gen. Create dozens of business places with random addresses throughout a metro area, name them after a service that someone might enter ("Heating repair"), and list a Web site or phone number. Wait for less-savvy consumers search or stumble across them and call.

Among the dozens or hundreds of fake Google Maps businesses that this network has touched, here's two:

"Top Grade Rolling Firm": https://www.google.com/maps/place/Top+Grade+Rolling+Firm/@38...

Some of the fake reviews for nonexistent businesses even include photos:

"Santiago Appliance Repair Service": https://www.google.com/maps/place/Santiago+Appliance+Repair+...

That address is actually a random suburban house, not an appliance store.

Some of the fake businesses have gone undetected for years, and in that time, have collected a few real reviews from people who called and didn't receive the service. Here's one from "Heating Cooling Repair Services": https://www.google.com/maps/place/Heating+%26+Cooling+Repair... :

> If i could give them zero stars i would, don't waste your time.. I scheduled an appointment to fix my broken AC unit and was pleasantly surprised at getting an appointment the same week. I took off early from work to ensure I was home before the scheduled time. Nobody ever showed up, nobody called, and I called their number multiple times to see if maybe something came up and they never answered their phone.

Here's a Web site for one of these networks of fake businesses: https://nationalacservices.com/ . In that case, each fake Google Maps business links to a subdomain, like: https://lake-forest-park.nationalacservices.com/ .

Another: https://santiagoappliancerepairservice.us/

The fake Google Maps reviews are as generic as you'd expect. For example:

> I have been a patient at this medical laboratory for several years and have always had a great experience. The staff is friendly and efficient, and the facility is clean and well-maintained. I appreciate the quick turnaround time for test results and the ability to easily access them online. Overall, I have always received top-notch care at this facility.

The comments come from hundreds of Google accounts like these:
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/102638895982367652158/re...
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/111709777137583909632/re...

Google Maps doesn't have a way to report an entire account as a bot; one can only flag a specific comment. There's also no way to provide enough information for Google Maps' trust & safety team to understand what's happening and figure out how they're evading Google's bot detection. So, it continues unabated.
I love how SBF is continuing the grift. He is on Twitter posting spreadsheets claiming that FTX is still solvent even today.
The issue with microservices is that you typically can't run all the microservices at once on your laptop, making end to end tests more difficult. That said, the main benefit of microservices is that they enable independent teams. To that end, teams should be writing unit tests for the individual services. For any other services they interact with there should be common mocks for those services. These mocks are the service contacts for upstream/downstream services and should be tested in integration tests. Services go through the CI pipeline and are deployed independently. There is then an increased focus on monitoring especially on error rate
I'll answer that with another quote:

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
laserdisc will do.
Still trying to learn swift. My impression is that it’s an ugly language designed by committee (largeness and some extraneous features like guard) and part of the reason why the compiler is slow and why xcode has problems with slow syntax checking sometimes.
Google called on cofounders Page and Brin in ChatGPT fightback
Many actual capability systems explicitly construct their capabilities to be unforgeable by not making them be mere secret byte strings, but objects protected by the kernel or other environment. For example, https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs513/2000SP/L08.html

And then people naively copy operating system design methodology into web APIs... Unrevokable leakable know-it-and-you're-in secrets are a bad idea.
From the second sentence of your link:

>"It was an intimate gathering of 50 or so people, including the company’s top executives, who got to while away the evening listening to a performance by the musical artist Sting, said people familiar with the event."

So let's look at the real reach of the networking opportunity. We have 50 people total minus the Microsoft execs themselves, let's say there were 10 Microsoft execs and let's say half of them brought their significant other or assistants etc. So now we have 35 people. Out of that 35 there were likely a bunch of other celebrities in attendance. Davos has a big celebrity draw(the Bonos, DiCaprios, Idris Elbas, Matt Damons etc.) Of course they are going to be invited, the private Sting concert was probably "thee" A list event. Throw in a couple of well-connected journalists as well. So how much new business potential was there really? 12-15 people? Is that really enough to justify the 1 million to 1.7 million fee that Sting charges for private bookings?
It's interesting to see how quickly the sentiment changes after there's a price tag.
In your opinion was the 1912 influenza released from a lab on a Kansas military base? Will we have to wait for the destruction of the United States to learn the truth?
I've been hoarding every bit of music I've composed since the eighties. What advice would you give, before it becomes a serious problem?
I'd also like to ask: how old is the oldest thing you own? And, additionally, what are the two oldest things you own?
At what point does having more than one of something become hoarding?
I think the reason is that Matlab is more oriented to people that are not programmers, such as mathematicians and engineers, since it's more "user friendly" than python. It has everything is needed (an IDE, interactive REPL, tools to make graphs, graphical tools to build systems without writing code, etc) integrated, no need to install external library or tools, no need to use the CLI, just run the installer and done. The language then is more natural for non programmers (for example array starts as 1 and not 0), and it's use is more similar of the one of a graphical calculator than a programming language.

I think Python is superior, but perceived as difficult for non programmers.
Their Children Are Their Retirement Plans
Personally, I’ve never liked widgets. Not on Windows Vista, not on KDE, not on iPhone. They create clutter. If I want to interact with an app, I’ll just open the app. So maybe I’m not alone in that and there isn’t really a demand for widgets among normal iPhone users.
Shields.io: Twitter badges are broken now
The myth isn't "there are no 10X programmers" but that "there are programmers who are consistently 10X, task after task, all career long".
Looking at its 3D requirements I doubt it would be playable in WebGL 2.0.
In general, I’m skeptical of any sort of “look what you made me do” reasoning. Central banks can incentivize more or less risky market behavior, but they don’t strip investors’ autonomy. It takes a conscious effort to dump your money into patently fraudulent ventures.
Half of these don't work on safari even in a isolated demo. Compatability is probably a big reason
You could write this article at the start of any sector rotation.
I almost never have my phone connected to cellular data. I use a cheap pre-paid plan and have kept the same 2 gigs for over 2 years. The first time I used cellular data was to check in to a clinic (January 2021). Just checking in at their website used somewhere between 3 and 6 megabytes of data. Something I could have theoretically done, faster, with a single SMS to an email address or phone number.
>I still don’t actually use our DVDs and Blu-rays all that often. But every time I see them lining the shelves, I feel a bit of comfort. Because when I do need them, they’ll be there.

The importance of that type of redundancy depends on the viewing habits of a particular person. In the case of my friend, the "don’t actually use our DVDs all that often" really was "never re-watched the DVDs she owned". She had a DVD collection with all the X-Files seasons, James Bond movies, etc.

But she inadvertently learned her true viewing habits when Amazon Prime included video streaming for free. She realized she always preferred watching something new on Amazon rather than play an old X-Files DVD.

But what if Netflix and Amazon Prime Video lets their streaming licenses expire for "X-Files" and it's no longer available? Wouldn't that make the X-Files DVDs a great backup?!? It would, if she actually re-watched the X-Files -- but she never did. Owning DVDs was a waste of money for her particular viewing preferences (new stuff instead of reruns) and she was happy to get rid of the clutter.
ChatGPT is an impressive tech demo that hasn't resulted in any revenue, and it's not clear that it's better than what Google has internally.

We can try it, though, so it's great for publicity.
Sundar's job is to implement Ruth Porat's decisions.
In Ukraine today an entire Russian Air Force might be shot down by a nerf gun (aided of course by Putin’ led decades of systemic corruption allowing the planes to become unusable for their intended purpose).
> For example, walls of anti-air racing drone style quadcopters which can seek out an Iranian drone and just ram it. I am a little surprised that we have not seen these yet.

Quadcopters can’t carry much, are slow and can easily be stopped by a marksman with a rifle or a fixed SCG. They are a lot more useful for recon than as offensive weapons. Plus drones are a lot more nimble and can fly at height where a quadcopter becomes useless.
> While not traditional TDD or likely not a new concept, I’ve done something I’ve dubbed TLD (Test Led Development). Rather than writing a whole smattering of tests and then coding until they all pass, TLD focuses on ping-ponging between test and code.

TDD commonly gets mischaracterized as a two-step process of writing a suite of tests upfront, then writing some implementation to make them all pass. It's actually much closer to what is described as TLD in the post. You write a failing test, do the bare minimum to make it pass, refactor if appropriate and start the cycle again. It's a development process that will (in theory) produce a high quality implementation and suite of tests at the end.
How to stop doubting yourself as a founder
To avoid the German Tank Problem and leaking your business vitals to competition, I'd recommend making invoices be scoped to the client, e.g. <client_id>-<number>. And then client_id is either random or for small business e.g. unique slug derived from client name, for example you could get PERAK-0001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem#Historical...
Self-sacrifice and very high risk of one's own life (a not insignificant number are given posthumously)

So a lot of medal of honor recipients are infantry pulling wounded squad mates out of danger in extreme circumstances.

The entire air force has only 17, the army has over two thousand.
And now it feels like 2/3rds of media doesnt have a dvd or blu-ray release! So awful.

This has been such an ever enmissserating situation. Started as a high & mighty &bgood convenience, but we're ending up worse than where we started; fragmented & ephemeral.
> I can't wait for these kinds of e-ink displays to get more affordable.

Is there any indication that will happen? I’ve been impressed by the occasional E-ink hack too but displays larger than e-reader sizes seem to not drop in price.

This project caught my eye 2 or 3 years ago but it looks like the display used hasn’t come down in price at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831323
The Origins of Burroughs Extended Algol [pdf]
Aaron Bastani: The case for free, universal basic services
That’s just the issue. There is a security issue on the Mac side that doesn’t make it possible to securely identify itself and it can be spoofed.

https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/cve-2022-32929/
It's very cool that on Android the text selecting tabs will even rotate around too with the text
Why is Britain falling behind Europe on excess deaths?
https://archive.ph/ODq3q
I'll plug mine too, it's got multiplayer/deathmatch etc, and I recently fixed multitouch and a lot of WebGL performance issues.

I can concur with other comments in this thread that there is something strange going on with iOS and WebGL. Just checking now though, and it does seem to run a little better after the iOS 16 update.

https://spectre3d.com/web-alpha/
> many people already use other IDEs to write the code and just use XCode to compile stuff

I've never met anyone who actually does this. JetBrains is even discontinuing AppCode, which as far as I know was the only real alternative IDE (and it had a lot of holes in its functionality).

Xcode lacks decent refactoring tools but otherwise it's a perfectly fine IDE, and has some really powerful debugging abilities. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Apple is giving it the attention it deserves, but in my experience most people hate it just because it isn't IntelliJ or VSCode.
Oh, yeah, I don’t live in SF. Theft isn’t common enough to be a big deal in my city in India, but Apple’s anti theft is pretty good either way.
FYI you can probably get unlimited data now for same price as your old cheap plan, at least in the US.
The Memory64 proposal is coming along, with experimental support in Firefox, Chrome, Wasmtime, Node.js, and Deno. ([0] has the status of the current proposals with a supported matrix)
Hopefully it'll get fully supported soon!

[0] https://webassembly.org/roadmap/
yes i did. in my head, MFT equates to the form factor vs sensor size. i need to stop doing that
Unless there is a security vulnerability that allows for the host to be spoofed.

https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/cve-2022-32929/
The highest is the Medal of Honor for "Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor
Ironically (?) so much smoother in Chrome than the native Win32 version running on the same beefy Win 10 PC.
All the disadvantages of an ICE vehicle (emissions, maintenance, fuel cost, etc.) without most of the advantages of EVs (no emissions, lower fuel cost, less moving parts and complexity, etc.). There's a reason lots of EV only manufacturers from China and elsewhere are growing market share very rapidly at the cost of manufacturers still building hybrids and ice vehicles: they are better cars, cheaper to manufacture and you can sell them with nice juicy margins.
Thanks. I don't want to be _that_ guy, so I appreciate the different perspective.

I can see the appeal of a standard library of common tasks to make certain workflows more convenient. And this tool is certainly an improvement over existing proprietary tools that are not as easily extensible.

My main criticism is that given that it's "made for developers", an audience that technical can already do all of these things. And if the intention is to make things more convenient for them, publishing a NodeJS library would accomplish the same thing, without reinventing the way they already launch scripts.

I suppose the difference of opinion boils down to the subjective perception of "convenience". The workflow I use to solve these problems is convenient for _me_, but might not be for someone else. So it's difficult to relate to alternative workflows, but at the same time I shouldn't be dismissive of the fact that it works for others.
Ah smart Trick by Tesla then, elections every 7 years iirc so Tesla managed to avert a strong works council for the first years
That's what my thought was as well. The people or groups that I think can benefit from reading this simply won't even if I presented it to them. They are no where near this type of content in their normal lives anyway, and I'm not interested in being an activist at all times.
Yet Russia keeps running sorties and plane based missile launches with impunity.

Please consider balancing out your news with sources other than reddit and twitter.
I think public discussion has moved beyond making people aware of illegal copying / streaming, and how to do it. So the people who don't engage in that probably have their reasons.

If you're trying to move some readers to start doing that, you'll probably need to engage with their reasons.
Looks like someone never heard of Harmy's Despecialized.
I always think, the next time with tests.

Then I have to integrate a monster of a library that needs a whole battery of polyfills, and does it's own thing rendering modals somewhere, and I'm not in the mood anymore.

Mocking that whole thing? Hmnothanks.
Because of course they will. I mean, it might cost them $10 annually to keep it up?

There’s also something awfully meta about Google discontinuing a support-page for their discontinued product…
>Blacklist the companies with GDPR ignorant cookie "consent."

Could you explain further?
A VC firm charging 20% carry has a massive incentive not to put their civic interests before profit.

Plus, if they don't chase returns, their competitors will, then they'll struggle to raise subsequent funds.

Market forces + low interest rates are a recipe for recklessness.
America, the Bland
Yes. Third party widgets wind up being big shortcuts that also happen to show outdated information.
GIYF, there are specific requirements for each medal. The highest one, the Medal of Honor actually gives the holder certain privileges and is as close to sacred as these awards get.
If other lives or an entire mission had been at risk, or if he had died in the process of rescuing others, you might see a Medal of Honor here.
I always upvote the original one :)
The sequel to Fahrenheit 451: Oersted 5000.
Matlab's Simulink is the best graphical tool for laying out causal systems modeling that I've ever come across. OpenModelica has a similar tool but it is nowhere near the same experience.

There isn't anything else on the market I know of that comes close.
The only people who truly want PWAs are web developers and product managers that do not prioritize their users.

Why learn anything new or spend anything extra when you can just ship substandard web crapware to users who have no choice (looking at you, Slack).
I know next to nothing about this kind of stuff, but…

If you’ve got an existing data center that’s going to be rendered obsolete, what do you do with it? I’m betting that we see some creativity.

> "This is a key problem: removing greater volumes of lower-temperature heat is thermodynamically challenging," the analysts wrote.

Ok, so you have the land, you have the building, you have customers. With the improved performance of the newer chips, can you pack them in less densely to get the same processing power, but maybe now the density is so low you can rip out some of your cooling infrastructure and lower your costs?

Presumably you’ve already amortized out a ton of the building costs. It could be pretty profitable!
Yeah to get a better idea of what that means there might be an example on Army writer. You have to write these a certain way and the granting authority will have their own quirks.
That's not really my impression at all. I see it as a fairly opinionated language that has taken a lot of inspiration from Ruby and Haskell. Things like strings are strongly opinionated and have gone through multiple revisions to get them to where they are.

One of the opinions is that it values expressiveness, and having multiple ways to do things that means you can choose a nice way to express each line, rather than always being forced to write it the same way.

This is a trade-off. To use `guard` as an example, sometimes it may be clearer to use a guard, and sometimes it may not. Swift has chosen to provide both options, at the cost of users needing to learn both.

I think it developed a negative reputation for the fact that the first few iterations did have a lot of breaking changes and added a lot of features. This made sense to me, the first version was somewhat of an MVP and it needed plenty of work still, but the language is relatively mature now and has stabilised significantly in recent years.

The compiler isn't generally that slow overall, but there are performance edge cases where complex type-checking can take far longer than other things. If you're having problems with speed, I'd recommend profiling your build, it's possible there are a handful of functions that are taking most of the build time.
> The 0 indexing in python does really and truly suck sometimes though.

Now that's something you usually don't hear. At my university I heard a bit of "urban legend" about how back in the day (think early 1990's) a couple of professors got a peer-reviewed article published because they found out that Matlabs 1-indexed implementation of some algorithm resulted in numerical errors, which they measured and corrected. Don't really remember the details, and most of those involved have already retired.
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
2006 Limited Edition DVD [0], it has the original theatrical versions on bonus discs (Yes, Han shot first).

0, https://savestarwars.com/images/goutboxes.jpg
There is nothing worse than believing something that isn't true. Imagine trouble-shooting a front-end issue, and not knowing about this. You think you know where all the CSS is coming from, and that it couldn't possibly produce the effect you're seeing. But actually you do not know where all the CSS is coming from. Adding subresources via http header is pure evil.
To me, your statements seem weird.

For example, slaughtering them before the disease exhibits symptoms, means we are 100% preventing that pain. Thus, C is null, and void.

I don't get A. Properly treated cattle, such as in most of the world, are grass fed, or grass fed harvested hay, and free roaming. Thus, A makes zero sense, as A doesn't even take into account medical care (vaccination, antibiotics, vets, birth assistance), nor does it take into account immense protection from predation. Cows properly raised, live pampered, easy, happy, lives.

In terms of slaughter, old factory methods let cows horribly hang by their legs for hours, while they slowly bled out. Smaller concerns were more humane, but at least most of the world insists of quick, painless death for cattle. Where I live, it's destruction of the brain, such as a bullet, immediately stopping all thought, and frankly, far better than a death where (for example) wolves rip you apart while still alive, experiencing hours of agony.

(I have listened, where I live, at 2am to a pack of coyotes eating a large kill, its mewing, and cries of pain going on for more than an hour, it is NOT nice.)

I really think that if people care, really care, they need to stop basing opinions on false realities, and understand that often humans are far far far less brutal, than other animals.

Do you think a wolf takes care to kill a creature it is ripping apart? No. I just eats.

Cats "play" with mice, sometimes for hours before fully killing them. Mother cats also maim mice, so their children can learn.

Do you know why mice can breed from 2, to > 60, in a mere few months? To hundreds and hundreds in a year?

Because most of them are eaten alive, ripped apart while still living, by predation.

Nature is far, far more brutal than proper human animal husbandry.