skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in the UK.

As an anecdote - not passing on my credit card details is one reason why I use paypal and then pay Paypal by credit card to get the good disputes process and I trust paypal more than a unknown random place on the web. I now do prefer to use Apple Pay in this case as I trust Apple more than paypal.

I do make larger purchases with my credit card to make any dispute easier.

For plumbers and others who don't take credit cards I use the direct bank payment.
Ads that I won't see unless I actually have interest in them? That's not very web 5.0...
I've never took the time to learn regex. But chatgpt is pretty good at it, used it quite a lot, really impressive.
GStreamer 1.22
Exactly my thoughts but said a lot more eloquently.
"Then Apple could explore its records, query the original owner if it wants, but then at the end of the day if there are no red flags and the original owner does not protest within 30 days, the device should be auto-unlocked."

As long as the machine is guaranteed to be wiped as part of the process, this is not a bad idea at all.
> there should be a path for machines acquired legitimately to be unlocked

I think it's perfectly fair for "legitamately acquired" to mean the original owner consented by unlocking the device. The peace of mind and security if you own a T2 device is the way it should be, and if you want to sell it, you just factory reset it, which is a quick process.
But ... these job postings are difficult to discern from other posts. At least Google puts "Ad" in front of ads ...
It tends to invent whole fake packages.
Activist investors pressure management to improve. Most activists are funds and are accountable to their investors. The investors and ultimate beneficiaries are institions such as the Public School Employees’ Retirement System.
Apple builds on privacy commitment by unveiling new efforts on Data Privacy Day
>“Then Apple could explore its records, query the original owner if it wants, but then at the end of the day if there are no red flags and the original owner does not protest within 30 days, the device should be auto-unlocked."

so, they only have to detain you for 30 days before the lock expires. nice.
Reddit without using https://apolloapp.io is impossible for me. I wonder when they start cutting off third party apps like Twitter.
You sure this wasn't a spear-phishing attack instead of a legit request?
You might be right - I did not check the numbers.

My idea was primarily based on my experience is something like this:

I know (meaning I know what they use) around 15-20 devs on MacOS.

Almost all of them have FF installed. Some may open it occasionally but just as an alternative to open in private mode or check some weird behavior to see if it is cross-browser or cache related.

- personal usage: except maybe 2, all the others are using Safari (most of them) and Chrome few

- professional usage: except for the same 2, here I think Chrome is more used and Safari less

Thus in these developers' case, I don't think they will recommend FF to their friends or relatives even if FF is installed on their machine as it is not their daily driver.

I am in the same category regarding usage: I forced myself multiple times to use FF. Still try to do that couple of times per year.

But fallback to Safari because the battery lasts so much longer and because it is integrated with the MacOS keychain.

One might think that with M1, people might afford to lose a bit of battery but it is the reverse. Seeing how long it lasts one barely thinks of cutting those hours short :) Could mean starting to carry again the power adapter or always looking for a table near a power socket.

Here is a browser that I installed not long ago and start to like it more and more: https://browser.kagi.com
The term you want to search for is "phytoestrogens".

From wikipedia: "It has been hypothesized that plants use a phytoestrogen as part of their natural defence against the overpopulation of herbivore animals by controlling female fertility.[3][4]"

Though wikipedia also says: "These compounds in plants are an important part of their defense system, mainly against fungi.[19]"

So it could be that plants are principally targeting fungi for the most part, and just serendipitously targeting animals as well.
And if the goal is to drive down wages, they could have experimented with different practices, such as across the board wage cuts, but instead they're all pursuing layoffs.
Mobile friendly CSS is long overdue :)
Not in Germany. Many large issuers still only provide debit cards that can only be used in stores and for cash withdrawals (Maestro or VPAY), and some even only domestically at that (Girocard).

PayPal fills exactly that gap for many merchants (by supporting SEPA Direct Debit, which is ubiquitous but has effectively no fraud controls or online amount pre-authorization).
Honestly, I don't see why this deal shouldn't go ahead.

Sony has exclusives, too. MSFT already said their top Activision-published titles would also be available on PlayStation, such as Call of Duty. Sony also buys studios and forces exclusivity agreements on them, too.

Could this acquisition also put Sony in a tough spot? Sure, but that's the nature of the game they are playing (no pun intended), and don't forget, there are still a ton of incredibly popular third-party titles that are available on PlayStation, such as FIFA, Madden, Fortnite, etc... and won't be exclusive to any console in the foreseeable future.

There's nothing preventing them from making game-changing acquisitions, either. Sony could acquire EA, Nintendo, or a whole bunch of other top game companies and nobody would bat an eye.
Similar here, but markdown -> pandoc -> PDF/Word.

The real benefit, IMO, is being able to branch the source file. The master branch contains all the texts (multiple personal statements for example) and the child branches only contain deletions. Makes changes trivial.
Totally agree.

But I noticed I only accept this format from HN. I've seen some services tried to do the same or follow the same style and I wasn't as engaged with them.

I suppose for HN because that's how it started, and I am confident about the quality of links/articles/comments. That's how I picture the value.
There will likely be selective pressure from human interaction with the data to curate good content above bad.

After all, we had the issue of millions of auto-generated bad pages in the web 1.0 SEO days. Search engines addressed it by figuring out how to rely more heavily on human behavior signals as an indication of value of data.
Theft is still profitable. They are maybe getting less money by selling for parts to a fence than if selling a laptop that can be resold straight away, maybe by themselves. Still some money.
Why not just https://old.reddit.com?
At component level, yeah no impossible but for general resale it wouldn't be too hard. I'm pretty sure the Face ID and Touch ID modules already do this.

You would need to add some general identifiers to parts with a GUID and at production/official repair time, register those parts to an iPhone S/N. If Activation locked, those parts would need to not be able to be registered to another iphone until the original device is unlocked, thus clearing those parts.
Sven, co-founder of Gitpod, here. I've published the message that Johannes, our CEO, shared earlier today with all our colleagues. It provides more details around this decision. https://www.gitpod.io/blog/building-for-the-long-run
Well said. From my LinkedIn feed anecdata the Google layoffs seemed especially capricious. People that had been there 5+ to 10+ years. Seems likely tied to high comp though I saw recent hires as well. AFAIK no managers were consulted either.

In one way that's good vs. some of the CEOs that publicly said "these folks are the fat and we're trimming it" which is especially cruel.
had this exact conversation with a friend the other day : if all the people that are actually BSing for a job are replaced by ChatGPT, the economy is doomed.
> Nothing is said about stolen property.

Yes. And what is argued is that they should talk about stolen property. Because if they got the laptops legitimately they should ask the original owners to unlock them. If they can't or won't then something is suspicious. The laptops being stolen is the leading suspicion.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34284363
Replika:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34d43/my-ai-is-sexually-har...
Apple products' resale market has been remarkably better than similar consumer electronics since well before the lock.

You missed a way Apple benefits: buyers may find devices that are unattractive to thieves more valuable, so, be willing to spend more on them.
It is done with a lot for respect for the reader, and in a non intrusive way.

There's no profiling or targeting of users. Everyone sees the same ads.
Actually it's a little more nuanced than that. If you buy an activation locked MacBook from a registered business in the UK and have an authentic receipt for it, Apple will unlock it. I know someone who has been through that process.

If the device is marked in lost in iCloud though, it isn't happening.

Ergo if you're going to risk it, stick it on a credit card.
This feels similar to backdooring encrypted systems. The upsides are similar: some trusted entity has the ability to act in a supposed best interest - national security in the case of encryption, reducing e-waste in the latter. Unfortunately, the downsides are also similar: it's necessary to put an outsized amount of trust in an entity (government, Apple, or whomever) that not everyone wants to place that trust in.
Remember Odyssey 2001? The Orion III Space Clipper to the rotating space station had a PanAm logo on it.
I found that my primary email address has been "leaked" during my first job hunt, and ever since I have received countless spam. This is a great idea and I plan on using it from now on.

I used makefiles for different kinds of jobs to put emphasis on different aspects of the things i have done, and it works quite well!
It might not be good at generating original posts, but it’s really good at generating HN comments.

Try it!
Generate typical HN comments to this PG post [ … ].
- Include both positive and negative comments.
- add replies that focus on annoying details that draw attention to the commenter
- include fan boy defence of original post
- point out obvious exceptions
For the five readers who have LaTeX CVs, here's a useful trick. It's easy to add a fleuron to noteworthy publications or elements in a list:

\section{Publications}
\blfootnote{\adforn{63} indicates Editors' Suggestion}
\begin{enumerate}[align=right]
\item [\adforn{63}\,\stepcounter{enumi}\labelenumi] \fullcite{greatpaper}
\item \fullcite{prettygoodpaper}
It is a glucose test that is repeated 3 times an hour apart and the blood glucose levels are measured each time after consuming a high glucose drink. With insulin resistance the glucose spikes twice and without it the glucose spikes once and falls. The test model is called HOMA-IR Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance
I brought this exact issue up recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34252938
I certainly can't see us humans as anything other than that. But if that's true, us human machines seem to have a large number of "low level programs" running in the background that serve to blur the boundary between us and the machines we build and help us to elevate ourselves to a special typing in the universe that very well may not exist.

I feel I think too much about mundane things and sometimes about wondrously confusing things often to my detriment. And at least a few times a week I would swear I run into a person with the opposite problem. Their behavior, choices, preferences. Their thought processes (at least what they share with me) come off as closer to machine than human.

Something in my gut tells me we are more similar to some of the things we build than we might care to admit.
So I was reading about chip manufacturing today.

That led me to the chemical compound, Titanium [Di]silicide (https://www.halbleiter.org/en/metallization/aluminum-technol... "To avoid an increased contact resistance at the interface of titan in silicon a thin layer of titan silicide is used." -- but that's sort of irrelevant to this discussion...)

That led me to the Wikipedia page on Titanium Disilicide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_disilicide) -- where it says that Titanium Disilicide is soluble in HF (Hydroflouric Acid) --

But NOT soluble in water -- insoluble, basically!

Well, there's no surprise there -- Hydroflouric Acid is a powerful acid -- and dissolves a whole lot of elements and other chemical compounds!

Water (H2O) on the other hand -- is pretty inert on the other hand!

I mean, it only really dissolves sugar and salt -- and not much else!

Or does it?

But then I got to thinking about it some more...

If we think about it -- Water, pure pH 7 H2O -- reacts pretty violently with some chemicals, such as Sodium and Potassium.

In fact, apparently there's more than a few chemical compounds that pure pH 7 water, H2O, will react with: https://www.uab.edu/ehs/images/docs/chem/water_reactive_chem...

That leads me to thinking about what an Acid, in Chemistry -- really is...

You see, we have this concept in modern Chemistry -- that if something is an Acid -- that it will react with many (but not all!) other chemicals, and conversely, that if something is pH neutral (7) -- like pure water/H2O is -- that it won't react with most other chemicals and chemical compounds...

But is that really true?

Also -- what about temperature and pressure?

A lot of chemical duos that are absolute inert at one temperature and pressure combination -- can and will react at a higher temperature and/or pressure.

So now we have to get back to the concepts of "pH", "acid", "base", "corrosive" and "inert".

It seems to me that these concepts may dim our thinking on the matter...

In my opinion, it would be far better to create tables showing chemical reactions at temperatures and pressures -- than to rely on the pH, the "acidity" or the "baseness", the "corrosivity" or "inertness" -- of chemicals, for our
reasoning processes about them...

Remember -- every "inert" chemical will react with every other "inert" chemical -- if you can get them both to fusion temperatures -- if you can turn them both into plasma! <g>

Which leads to another interesting question:

What's the highest temperature and pressure that two elements or chemical compounds in the same container can stand -- without causing a reaction?

Also -- could a semiconductor be made out of (pure) water ice? (Maybe just a single transistor first -- as proof of concept?)
The problem is when the user who sells it is a business or company who can’t be bothered to unlock the devices.
I assume you mean God of War and not Gears of War because you can only play the latter on Xbox and PC.
I switched to Bitwarden in early 2018. Just checked and my PBKDF2 iterations were 300k, so everything was fine. I increased them to 600k just for the heck of it.
This is quite complicated. For example, it assumes that Apple has to have contacts of every device owner, which is not just unrealistic, but could also be impossible to ensure in some countries due to privacy laws.
And there's a favicon so it's not text-only. /s
That's true- everyone with a checking account pays a "fee", even if that's in the form of "allowing the bank to loan your money out to make more money"... except for maybe USAA. Their checking accounts are free, no account minimums, and they even pay a little bit in interest. Not just anyone can get a USAA checking account though so I guess that doesn't really count.
Dollar General launches health clinics
The end of ash trays coincides with decreasing cash use in my mind. Growing up, my dad's car had a cavernous ash tray (I'm guessing that he removed an insert) for all his loose change and loyalty punch cards.) I don't have any good place to deal with loose change.
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I don't think so? It sounds like the state of the app is being persisted via the chat history:

> We represented the state of the app as a json with some prepopulated entries which helped define the schema. Then we pass the prompt, the current state, and some user-inputted instruction/API call in and extract a response to the client + the new state.
I think it is stupid that a rephrased sentence is "plagiarism". There are only so many ways to express a given idea.

All these morons hunting with a bone to pick are going to be the reason why language is going to be so obtuse for so many.
Whoops, you're right, I meant to link to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6bPNZRRbQ
Xorbits Internals – Part1: Why Xorbits is the best choice of data analysis
>We're far away from AGI, if we even can reach it with our current approaches, but the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years

This is an incredibly bold prediction that isn't supported by the opinions of the majority of people in the field and certainly doesn't have any real backing other than your gut.
Sure, let's just ignore the benefits of AI and pretend like it doesn't exist. That sounds like a great plan.
>We can't legally compile ethnics statistics in France

This is bullshit, because even if France made it illegal (it's obviously not) other groups would definitely still do it. France is still 86% white people, mostly french. Nobody is being replaced anywhere, because immigration is tiny everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France
How can I pay rent with this pretend-money?
It is kind of ironic that so many professionals come to HN for a breath of fresh air, after which they continue building the UX they were escaping from in the first place.
> I am terribly afraid of death

That's understandable. I'm concerned for my loved ones and the impact it may have on them when I go, but I have no fear of death for myself. I have no memory of the millions of years that passed before I was born and expect to have no memory, feelings or consciousness after I have died. I just won't be here any more and that's perfectly okay.
> Web Browsers are insanely complex and fast moving

Which ironically, if say a major platform that everyone had to support slowed down their pace of development to be more conservative so you couldn't jump on features released two weeks ago that would be better for the browser landscape as a whole.
Firefox doesn't block statcounter or other analytics trackers by default. You'd have to go into "Settings > Enhanced Tracking Protection" and change it from "Standard" ("Balanced for protection and performance. Pages will load normally.") to "Strict" ("Stronger protection, but may cause some sites or contact a break.") While I expect Firefox users are much more likely than users of other browsers to do this, I'd also expect a large majority leave settings at the default.

You can test behavior on this tracker here: https://www.jefftk.com/test/statcounter
While we're wishing for things that won't happen, Google should also be forced to divest Chrome.
No. If you use 1password or similar your credit card details are in one place only.

You do not allow merchants to save your credit card details.
How does Gemini compare to Gopher?

Slightly related, HN is available via gopher://hngopher.com
My only (primary, continuous, and ignored) complaint is that OP's text post's contrast matches the contrast of less-useful comments, making every Self-HN post seem subconsciously and automatically downvoted.

It was "tradition,"? No, it's archaic and ironic for a site with so many A11y/accessibility advocates.
On Android you can still install Brave or other browsers.
It goes to scrap if the previous owner didn’t erase it properly. If you do a proper erase, it can be used by a new person with no prob.

It’s a safety measure against laptop thieves - if you steal a macbook you cannot resell it.
Agreed.

I am a compost consumer and I have no desire to plasticize my pastures and fields the same way we’ve filled the oceans with plastic.

You can see this for yourself: just go to Home Depot and buy a bag of dirt … it’s not even micro plastics … whole objects like ballpoint pens and so on.
I discovered three family iPads are locked to an unknown iCloud account. These were purchased by us new, including one from Verizon.

My oldest child, who is the only one who could have somehow taken them over, never had an iCloud account, so we are stumped. Stumped with three bricks.
>We clearly won't reach AGI with the current LLM approaches, for example.

Have any evidence to back this up? Scaling laws seem to show we aren't near a plateau and it's not clear what kind of capability GPT-4,5 or 6 may have.
I think that rule disappeared long ago in the US because apparently people spend more with CC.
But:

1. Not within articles or threads. Contrast, say, the Washington Post which is currently inserting ... four ... ad placements per story ... and that's just within the text of a story itself. That excludes other interstitial nags ("see also" which are often very thinly-related if at all items), sign-ups, pop-ups, etc.

(I'd recalled this being higher, four is still a few too many, but less than I'd thought.)

And it's not just the ads themselves, but the motivations created around them for clickbait, sensationalism, etc., etc.

Contextually-appropriate service-oriented (e.g., jobs) notices ... seem a highly reasonable option. Note too that HN also runs a free "who's hiring" and "who wants to be hired" thread monthly.
huh, nice to hear the Manchester tech scene is quite active.
I think it struggled because there was also a userbase that seemed personally offended by the offering, and needed to say so publicly and loudly, which sapped momentum for the product. Personally I think Google could have overcome that by bundling it with other offerings and making it ubiquitous. Definitely a lost opportunity.
> How much of it will be being certain that you are reading something generated by human before you're willing to commit to having an emotional response, even if the output is identical, right?
... Interesting. Like, do you really want to cry watching a movie that was 100% produced by robots?Maybe not

I certainly wouldn't mind. AI-generated content is a statistical summarization of knowledge produced by infinite humans randomly typing on typewriters, after all...
Yup! Besides being hard to search, others have commented that the name might be bad for accessibility:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257503
People's slide decks are already bad and have too much text. Not sure how this is going fix that.
Is it better than NPM?