skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must not be paying much attention, then? ;P / :(

https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2021/05/07/how-sign...

> Signal’s idea was to get users to abandon WhatsApp and switch to Signal, an instant messaging service run by a non-profit foundation, which has proven its commitment to protecting the privacy of its users and that is seeing significant take up, especially after the latest changes to WhatsApp’s privacy policies.

This whole ordeal was doubly-dishonest, as not only were they running ads against one product line (Instagram) with the specific goal of getting people to switch away from a different one (WhatsApp), but the entire thing was just FUD designed to attack Facebook for going out of their way to build something that actually did honor end-to-end encrypted goals: companies wanted to be able to do Facebook Messenger -like company-to-user chat stuff, and so Facebook wanted to provide a way--specifically for companies--to use a portal to access a "hosted" WhatsApp client.

But like, that would mean that Facebook would, for just these specific chats with business accounts, potentially (if the company was using this service) be able to read those messages, so they had to adjust their privacy policy. In some cases, this didn't even involve removing text, but was just a matter of moving some text... but Signal didn't care much about accuracy: they were stoking the flames every way they could and in the process frankly harmed their own mission because a ton of people ended up going in the exact opposite direction, moving to apps like Telegram.

Here is a comment I had left at the time of this specific particularly-big incident going down, which has then a link to another comment I'd left with more detail on this (as my memory is fading on this stuff) including quotes from both Facebook representatives and their documentation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26801760

Signal is a non-profit whose mission should be to get people to move to encrypted technologies whether or not that decision involves Signal and they should be trying to work with Facebook on the narrative surrounding WhatsApp, not throwing them under the bus any chance they have to get some publicity for Signal. Here's the real question: have you ever seen them publicly go after Snapchat, or Telegram? As far as I can tell--not just from memory, but from doing some searches on the topic--the answer seems to be "no": they go after WhatsApp, because that product is the closest to being a direct competitor to Signal.

(That said, I also want to be clear: the actual part where Facebook didn't allow them to run the ads and the feud there is also not good... but not only are the morals there a bit more murky, it makes both sides look shitty to be sitting around in some epic fight over their market, and all the meanwhile the benefactors were the apps other than Signal and WhatsApp, and Signal should be sticking to their mission and teaming up there to help clarify to prevent those kinds of losses.)
> You don't want complicated, unicorn bricks or you won't be able to fit anything meaningful together. Experienced masons almost certainly prefer their materials to be as dumb and consistent as possible.

And now we know what's gone wrong with Lego for the last two-three (close to four?) decades.

Funny – and sad! – how popular this shit has been on sites like this, though. Dare one hope that that popularity might begin to wane? Idunno
Hasn't North Africa only been a desert for a few thousand years? It's not exactly some perfectly balanced ecosystem that has existed for a million years or something. Really, it turning to a desert was an ecosystem collapse... Second, Africa is HUGE. The amount of land they would be using for this must be minuscule compared to the area of this ecosystem. Third, not all ecosystems are equal.. The biodiversity of some areas is so much higher than others, it's not comparable. An acre of rain forest must be worth more than an acre of desert.
I dunno, people buying a house (and the mortgage that goes with it — their biggest loan of their life) is (to me) a good thing, rather that everyone a renter.
In September 2008, I was in Amsterdam for a conference. I remember waking up and seeing a TV in the hotel lobby with the cable news headline about the receivership of Washington Mutual. It was a little bit of a strange feeling to realize that when I had left California I had personal and business accounts with WaMu — and when I returned to the US, my accounts were all with Chase. For what it's worth, it was a seamless transition. I don't remember any hiccups with accessing cash, using debit cards, and so on.
Huh. Well, I'm surprised. $100k in a bank account is earning next to nothing, and is probably (opportunity) costing at least $5k/year. I would have assumed that people that can afford not to care about that would be in the highest tiers of wealth.
Floating windmills sounds like a fun concept. I never heard of it but in theory, with cables securing it to the bottom and weights to keep it upright, I could see it work.
They’re a public company with known exposure to startups. If he lies, that’s securities fraud and he could go to prison.

Is that worth it?
I feel like the most common name is "low-poly".
Yes. It's quite amazing really. Also, people really hate using more than one language. Web developers will twist themselves into incredible knots to avoid having to write HTML and CSS and Javascript in the same project.
That beta feeling
For the link and claims, see the the very comment you initially answered to.
WOW you're going to use the UK as an example for renewable energy right now??? Have you been paying attention at all?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/uk-prepares...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uk-wind-solar-builde...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/uk-effor...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/21/energy-cris...

https://e360.yale.edu/features/africa-europe-solar-wind-powe...

I'm actually surprised you had the gall to even make this comment.

This ISN'T a political side argument. It's a reality argument and it's time for you to wake up. I'm choosing the side that keeps my family I alive during the winter. When/If renewables do that I'll embrace them, right now they aren't cutting it.

The hilarity here is you've chosen some cult type rational to convince yourself "renewables" are your Jesus and you'll never stop praying to your renewable "God" even when it strikes you down over and over again. Stop drinking the koolaid bud.
I thought IQ was more inherent? Why would missing a year of school make you dumber or smarter?

My school when I was growing up tracked you based on an IQ test at age 4. How does that type of test vary as you age?
This is valid, but have to use some sort of heuristic or things will continue to get worse as we struggle to assign probabilities to the manifold possibilities.
Outlaws at War in the Middle Ages
FWIW I made a CLI utility that does this, it saves a bit typing / copy-pasting. More languages can be added easily: https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli#built-in-prompts
Not at all, this is in response to the notion that it’s easier/lower barrier of entry than FAANG. The ones I’ve interviewed at were basically FAANG interviews conducted by ex FAANG engineers and managers.
Tech-Last
My guess would be so that eagle-eyed ocd tesla owners don’t freak out over seeming to have fewer cameras in their car than their buddy’s previous model year version.

I’m certain there’s be posts complaining about being short a camera without any understanding of hw4 being better despite having a smaller quantity of cameras.
It's been awhile, but last time I was doing serious work in Julia things were a little janky. For example, the REPL would segfault sometimes if I Ctrl-C'ed during heavy computations. And Flux at first seems like it will work on any code, which seems amazing, but then you find out at runtime that one of the operations you used isn't supported and get a runtime error. PyTorch might not work on regular Python code, but at least I know the APIs provided by PyTorch will work, even though they are a subset of what can be done in regular Python.

Still, most things worked in Julia, and there have been many improvements since then so I suspect the few remaining rough spots are being smoothed out. In the future I will be happy if I get to work with Julia more.
Or, and this seems far more likely, it would be owned by a very small group of people or corporations or the government.

Someone will always have money.

The system we have now may not be perfect but it a far far more egalitarian than the past when there were no loans
I was going to test this out on an existing repo, but it wasn't clear from the outset that this is next.js only. I have a Create React App repo (with MUI) I'd try this on.
That's partially a bureaucratic and political issue but also designs are also much more complex than the were during the glory years.
Yeah that's true, it matter more for net-interest-margin / interest income generation in a rising-rate environment. Good point
Many cars have fake exhaust tips. I see them all the time. Search for "fake exhaust". It looks like most of them come from the factory.
The majority of people in engineering roles in the tech industry aren't white, engineering in tech is now a heavily East Asian/South Asian dominated segment of the industry, especially in the tech companies that are producing these things. Young, definitely, straight probably, men mostly, but not so much white.

All of those things likely don't matter, what matters is $250k/yr puts you in the top 5% of earners in the United States of America and the top 0.01% of earners globally. That's a major motivation to do whatever is necessary to earn. Upton Sinclair said it correctly nearly a hundred years ago: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Race, Gender, Age, Sexuality not relevant.
Welding is very physical, this simply won't work. In stick welding (the only kind I can do), if you don't pay attention to the feel of the rod, you'll get stuck. This is playing a welding video game. That could be useful for certain extremely limited circumstances, but this is not it.
Oh hell no. Hover used to be good, but have turned into a shit show over the last 12+ months.

Definitely avoid them, and if your domains are important then migrate them elsewhere.

Several reports of problems, including from me:

* https://twitter.com/densone/status/1625378937047027719

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34786465

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788210 <-- mine
> It's not exactly some perfectly balanced ecosystem that has existed for a million years or something.

There are no ecosystems like that. It's not even a possibility.
> Is this because increase social media/internet use?

This was the first thought that came to mind, and I also wonder if this goes further to increased media consumption and phone use/dependence across the board.

Smartphone adoption and use was already on a hockey stick trajectory, but adding lockdown to the mix added to many people’s screen time massively. And for kids growing up in that setting, learning that knowledge comes from these magical slabs of glass seems like a good way to stunt certain kinds of curiosity quite early.

To whatever degree phone and social media use is a factor, it does seem highly likely that lockdowns accelerated/magnified this effect.
Lehman brothers had over 640 B$ in assets. Not even remotely comparable.
Just speaking for myself, I don't care about their browser or "AI" features. Paying more for search to subsidize those projects is a turn off for me.
Those designs do 'eventually' use water to run turbines, but the primary thing that gets heated and has that heat harvested (to boil water) is sodium.
If you're teaching people, you give them crappy little stick welders. $200 each, maybe.
It's basically a big streamdeck...
Not obvious, sorry.
You mean the great people who moved to FR poached you away ;)
Baldur's Gate went outside of the box a bit. Its cobblestone streets were photos of coffee beans.
A car grille is a much more prominent and expected visual feature of a car, though. This small, tucked away yet realistic-looking camera doesn't seem to fit the same reasoning for me. That said, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if some designer "couldn't stop noticing it missing" or something along those lines.
> there are more options now than there were 30 years ago

I suppose how true this is depends on what sorts of options you're looking for. The number of acceptable cars on the market now, according to my criteria, is lower than it has ever been.
California is adopting NEM 3.0 for new installs: "Customers using solar panels can receive an average rate of 30 cents per kilowatt-hour under NEM 2.0, but under NEM 3.0, this rate would be reduced to only 8 cents per kilowatt-hour." Note that current systems (and those installed before the deadline) are covered under a legacy law and don't have to worry just yet.

https://housemethod.com/solar/nem-3-0-why-april-2023-will-ch...

Personally I think this is an incentive to build solar + storage, so that during peak generation (early afternoon) you store your power rather than selling it back, and at peak usage (evenings) you use that. From the grid's perspective, this is much better than what has been happening. But from the public's $$ perspective, not quite as enticing.
A house would only cost around 5 years' worth of the median salary. Now it's like 15 years and that doesn't even account for the fact that taxes are way higher today and so it's much harder to save... With modern tech, things should be a lot better but for most people, it's worse, much worse.

Salaries have not being keeping up with productivity gains as the economy has become anti-competitive by design. Every time money changes hands, it gets taxed maybe 30% on average... By the time $100 has changed hands 10 times, there is only $3 left out of it for the people (the rest went to the government). It centralizes everything around the government; money cannot flow too far from it. The modern economy is a giant social scheme with 0 merit. For many, it's hell on earth.
> why do the pop-up dialogs have meaningful choices?

Very few of them do. Typically it’s “accept” and “x”.

> why does there exist GDPR-compliant websites without the pop-up dialogs?

Because GDPR doesn’t make those other sites have them. It’s perfectly possible for GDPR to force some websites to have popups and not force others to. It’s still GDPR forcing the ones that it forces to do the thing it’s forcing them to do.

> But the GDPR addressed those flaws.

As you can clearly see from being on the internet for more than about 5 minutes, it in fact does not.

This is not a comment on GDPR one way or the other; my point is that we shouldn’t engage in political word games to try and avoid the inevitable consequences of actions.
I bet this is at least part of the reason if not all.
It's disabled by default, and it's made clear that enabling it is a security risk
desiring machines, body without organs and AI basically are destined to become philosophical friends
> generation costs of the alternatives in the UK

I'm all for renewable or nuclear energy, whatever's cheaper/strategic. As long as it's not burning fossil fuels.
"We" is an awful lot of us with many different opinions. I accept for instance that my views on criminal justice are not a majority in the United States, especially with the "tough on crime" bullshit from the last election cycle, which they are still pumping. So, I try to make awareness for what I consider to be the good parts of my views, and that's the best I can do. I also try my best to be respectful of those who don't share the views and aren't receptive to changing, even though I feel pretty strongly on this topic.
Why not try to do both?
The article says they did it because the camera needs to be on one side or the other depending on the drive side of the country. This must have been easier than building two different enclosures.
Sad to see Gandi worsening. It was a fantastic registrar that I recommended to everyone. Now I’m in the process to move everything to cloudflare and porkbun

Just recently I moved a .pn domain (required gandi corporate subscription) to Gandi and they’ll charge me almost double of the at-cost for renewal as the base fee, excluding the corporate subscription. Inquired about this and asked for a refund because I wasn’t satisfied with the service, but that sadly wasn’t granted to me either

What happened to Gandi - No bullsh*t?
> Yes, it would solve one type of problem. But nobody wants your solution because it’s an unreasonable trade off for everyone to solve an extremely rare edge case.

Can you explain why this is bad? People lived with hard-ish money systems for extremely long periods of time.

> The concepts of assets and liabilities are well understood in the business world. Banks aren’t “lying” and fractional reserve banking does not mean that banks are creating fake dollars. Liabilities have always been part of the equation.

I mean, it's really about how you define words.

Most people believe that they have money in the bank. When in reality, they have unsecured debt to the bank. Although to be fair, for most people that debt is backstopped by FDIC/NCUA.

But, of course, that unsecured debt is often referred to as money, so I can't really blame them too much.
Terraform doesn't run a control loop. If you've never been in a situation where you've needed a control loop to reconcile the deployment state, then you've probably never needed an operator. In most cases, the native controllers (and resources) from Kubernetes are enough, but sometimes, an application requires additional hand-holding. I find this to be especially true for legacy applications.
My point is that this one in particular is pretty new, and was previously completely different (wet and green). I doubt there has even been enough time for much balance to have been achieved. Also some quick googling claims that the amazon rain forest has existed for millions of years (between 10-55 MILLION years), seems pretty well established to me...
Would changing the user agent to a Windows release of Chrome make any difference?
Most of the time, comments that don't add anything of substance to the conversation get downvoted or flagged at HN.
The lawsuit [0][1] was filed in 2020.

[0] https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/5:2020cv...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-l...
This is so misguided. Just raising interest rates by a few points has resulted in many thousands of people losing their livelihoods in under a year, because companies could no longer justify taking out loans. What you're suggesting is eliminating loans altogether. This is a fun dorm room thought experiment, but it's not even hyperbolic to say that if it were actually pursued, it would result in a huge number of deaths by starvation.
One major downside of TypeScript is that types are not available at runtime and that computations on types can't be done by writing regular TypeScript (both possible with code generators of course).
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3678190/google-execs-k...

And such
I think the vast majority of flagging is by regular HNers (with some karma threshold), not admins.

I try not to make too many jokes on HN. They have to be very clearly funny and/or very spot-on to survive HN's this-isn't-reddit ethos, which seems to be pretty strictly enforced.
That seems... great? If I can buy a Groupon and play for a couple hours on a sim for $100 and figure out if I have the aptitude for it, and if I enjoy doing it, before dropping a couple grand on a class I won't finish and will refuse to pay for, then that seems like a win for all parties.
Sounds like a wonderful reason for a chargeback.
Cool idea. I've used Github Copilot to do a lot of translations but this looks much easier.

It's a pity Vercel has a cli login wall to even run the app. I tried the Github option and it didn't work. My first impression of Vercel is not good. Unfortunately the demo app threw some errors in the console on file I tested with.
The consumables are basically free. The cost is all in kitting out and compliance of running the hot work facility. Lots of nickels and dimes to add up.
Topiary, universal formatter engine within the Tree-sitter ecosystem
Yes, but humans using the proof assistants need to be able to read and understand the proofs while they are constructing them.
On the money. Nuclear is too expensive and fragile, especially in this political environment. Also much more susceptible to sabotage in the event of a war, which is becoming a more relevant reality.
Your anecdote doesn't directly contradict his statement. It would be like if the president decided that he will spare no expenses to personally install GWH of solar and that was his project. Your example is if the government just paid a bunch of subcontractors to do it.

I believe his statement is true. If some strong willed president came in, declaredd that it was a national security issue to have energy independence and utilized miltary resources to start construction on federal lands of massive solar farms, I would applaud such effort.

Technically the president is commander and chief and although limited in his ability to expend funds, there are appropriations through which he could funnel resources, like the Air Force red horse construction units. Granted, we'd have to stop building so maany bases in the middle east for that to happen; but that's aa feature not a bug.
These would be good questions to ask an undergraduate microeconomics professor. They have answers. It's not that nobody has ever thought about this before.
I wonder why he switched to Lua instead of using Haxe.
>> after fiddling a bit with the prompt

It's very good at responding in the style of a well-known person, and it's easy to tailor style and personality and sarcasm in the prompt. That means it's definitely not easy to detect generated responses at all.
There are ecosystems that are millions of years old. The oldest rainforests have existed for nearly 100 million years.
That was a highlighted top comment speculating on why it's there.
Sweden do have uranium in the ground and could be mining it, but they created a law forbidding it.
They didn't say it was made "by mistake". They said that it was a mistake to add affiliate links, and they are disabling them.

In any case, it doesn't look like it was a privacy issue, they just wanted the affiliate revenue from Binance.

Disclaimer: I am not a Brave user, or in any way affiliated with them.
Correct. They should really update their website at the same time as announcing the upcoming change to existing customers by email.
> Seems like they wanted to hold the data for themselves

Hold what data? The affiliate ID?
decision paralysis is a real thing
Minecraft is the tip of the iceberg here. Little bit too popular to have secrets.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_Invaders
I have an API on here through RapidAPI. I think it's dinging me for RapidAPI's failures to meet your criteria. I don't think I can control how RapidAPI presents me for most of this.
I am sorry, I said this when they first went pay. Vlad does not seem like a nice guy. My emails that I have exchanged with him have been very short and to the point of "he is better and knows better". I do not pay for their service due to this as well as I do not see the value. I didn't see the value with their old model, and see the value even less now. I give them another year or 2 and they will be a relic of the past. This price hike and the broken promises are a clear indication they are struggling. Welcome to the deep end of the pool, how long can you tread water?
Who has something to hide?

People facing unjust persecution from the largely unaccountable Police.