skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the capabilities web apps have gathered over the years, I don't feel very comfortable with using random web apps either. As an added downside, random blog posts and ad iframes can now try to access the same APIs real web apps can. The more we move to a web app based reality, the more we're going to see exploitation of browsers and their many features.

We'll never get our one security proof app because security proof apps can't do things like rendering and file manipulation at acceptable speeds.

Downloading apps from websites is almost always a red flag in my opinion. If an app can't be in Google's app store for whatever reason, it surely can appear in another.

The only APKs I've downloaded come from Github/Gitlab because open source apps aren't always on F-Droid, and APKmirror because my phone is rooted, and I consider myself to be a power user. I'm really surprised an app like this is popular enough to get downloaded installs at all, though perhaps the Chinese app ecosystem is different enough that I simply can't understand.

I'd hate to have to resort to web apps for absolutely everything on my phone. Messengers and such need optimisations for battery usage and resources and browsers don't offer any of that. The overhead of web applications is also quite significant. Don't get me wrong, I use several web apps for small things like weather sites and a simole game here or there, but there has to be room for both or the mobile experience will get worse for everyone.

therefore I can't download Netflix from Google Play for some absolutely idiotic reason even though the stupid app works perfectly afterwards. They just hate me for wanting to sync my clipboard automatically, I'm guessing.
You don't seem to understand what "virtue signalling" means
>> but also usually have a lifestyle that requires a bit more than the average college grad

I've noticed that an entire generation of essentially 0% interest rates has skewed this substantially. I'm in my 40's and I've scrimped and saved and have very few "premium lifestyle tastes", while many 20-somethings have lived well beyond their means financed for free their entire lives. Their expectation for the baseline standard is much higher than 15-20 years ago
Reserves are one (largely unimportant) brake on lending. Many western central banks have never had a reserve requirement.

The more important limits to lending are regulatory capital controls which measure both the asset to liabilities mix but also the credit and interest rate risk of the asset mix and loan to deposit ratio.

The latter is a commonly tracked metric by bank investors and they typically view a ratio of higher than 0.8 with suspicion (down from 0.9 post 2008).

The US banking industry ratio is about .63 right now which is up from a pandemic low of .57 but still down from the pre-pandemic ratio of .75.

That banks were not lending enough was the reason the fed removed the reserve requirement.
I had presumed that the tiktok ban was simply "we only want companies that are domestic or from allied countries to monitor and manipulate US citizens"

...which kind of makes sense given how easy it is for a social media platform to deliberately influence peoples' thoughts and feelings.
All the posts on ciechanow.ski are mind-blowing. The graphics, the gradual process of explaining from simple fundamental concepts to the complete picture.

How I wish our schools would teach like this.
You can try my API: https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/historical-weather-api
You’re right! If you want to do that in a notebook, it’s pretty straightforward. But if you want to have it running in production, it’s a bit more complicated. Also, providing users with a gui to run these operations without a notebook has resonated with many less ml savvy users. Dilbert's boss probably didn't know much about ml... :)
this video on the inkplate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVBetVqX_84

suggests there's a way to hook it up to a rasp pi, and that there may already be a demo project in the arduino library for typerwriter functionality. i'd recommend downloading their library and see what all it already includes
What? China bans Facebook, Google, and Instagram because of censorship, not because they're "national security threats". And it will absolutely be motivated by money once Bytedance sells the platform.

A Chinese company sold Grinder because of privacy concerns. Tiktok will either IPO or be sold off
> You're more likely to see the cocoa content in your chocolate bar drop
[...]
> many grocery stores also seem to just be ignoring this issue.

I do not believe this is the kind of swap people are complaining about.

We're talking about a box that's labeled applesauce and is actually full of rocks. Grocery stores would kill a supplier who was doing this.

I can't imagine a "real-world" situation happening at the scale of reputation-stealing that happens on Amazon. I suppose it's just an extreme version of "Made In Your Country Tools" building up a good reputation and then quietly outsourcing the work to "Low-Quality Overseas Forge".

Is the problem is that "easy to acquire" reputation for low-cost products (get good rep by using good materials, which don't really cost that much more and eat the cost as a loss leader) is easily transferred to higher-cost products? It's not like you even need to be making bandsaws to get the good rep., then start using it to sell cheap bandsaws? The investment at the start is very low.
I have a growing suspicion that API access for apps like RIF and Apollo will be revoked in the next 3-5 years.
Would you say the same of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and defend the right of the rest if the world to ban them?
To expand on one of those things - bike chains get slightly longer as they wear out. Once it's about 1% longer than it started, it looks about the same as it always did, but it's starting to damage the drivechain and you need to replace it. An ancient Roman blacksmith has no hope of making a chain with anything like that level of precision.
The $25 you might make from saving $1000 is, to me, not worth the cost of having a reoccurring debt to service. Especially in the face of layoffs etc. I suppose someone might say a monthly payment is preferable to less savings in that situation… so I guess the financing could work in your favor depending on your situation.
The latest enemies list:

(i) the People’s Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region;

(ii) the Republic of Cuba;

(iii) the Islamic Republic of Iran;

(iv) the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;

(v) the Russian Federation; and

(vi) the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros.
I don't know why these countries do everything to _not_ attract human capital - limitation of 180 days means no-go for me. Maybe I would love to explore a new country for a couple of years, and settle down there with my salary component of ~200k instead of SFBA. But I need my kids to stay at least 1 year in their schools, and 2 years if they like it. And the way to become a resident.

It's so easy for them just to attract high-skilled labor everyone is fighting for. But nope, they pretty much say: "We know you're skilled because we have requirement of 90k/year, but we don't want skilled workers to be able to stay here, because go somewhere else". Well, ok, Iceland..
The key invention that made them possible was ball bearings. This is why the modern bicycle and the modern car were invented within a year or two of each other.
I do not understand how anyone can listen to cenk uygur for more than 30 seconds and believe he is worth listening to. He sounds like an emotional teenager who just got into leftist politics and wants to stick it to his conservative parents.

I do enjoy compilations of him freaking out though.
Hi! (not a member of Metal) - I am curious about your big pain points. Happy to chat on twitter/email (doesn't appear to be any contact information in your profile).

Thanks!
You could have invented Parser Combinators (2014)
Show HN: A fully open-source (Apache 2.0)implementation of llama
We believe that AI should be fully open source and part of the collective knowledge.

The original LLaMA code is GPL licensed which means any project using it must also be released under GPL.

This "taints" any other code and prevents meaningful academic and commercial use.

Lit-LLaMA solves that for good.
You can be weaponized against your own interests through psychological manipulations. China may not have physical access to do harm to you but they do have digital access and that can do serious damage if you aren't careful.
It makes much sense, considering that European emigrants to America were the force that conquered Europe during WWII. Maybe the American government doesn't want that to happen to them.
Seems like a lawful way to say "North Americans Only".
What draw backs are there? I can't think of any beyond the initial WTF factor of seeing functions living free of braces {} prison.

Multiple classes per file with would still be an option of course.
Image hosting is a brutal, mostly thankless job that loses tons of money. I remember when Photobucket was the thing, then Imageshack, then tinypic, then imgur. Each one was meant to be simple photo hosting done right, but all eventually become the thing they were trying to replace - bloated websites with intrusive ads.

e: I just realized this is about i.reddit.com and not i.redd.it, but my point still stands.
So TikTok not only DID admit to have foreign access to US data, but also lied and denied previously about it then according to the leak in the Buzzfeed New article.

This only proves that TikTok should deservedly get a billion dollar fine from the regulators as I said before, rather than trying to evade responsibility and join the likes of Facebook who did get fined for privacy violations, if they want to continue to operate in the US.

If Facebook can't get away with the fines, neither should TikTok.
I'd say Slack, but it seems very popular with cool crowd.
Pushing back on China, economically, has been broadly popular for a long damn time. It's just unpopular-among-actual-voters neoliberal trade policy, which has been the consensus policy of both major parties for decades, that's kept us from doing it—Trump, very notably, was the first major party Presidential candidate to run since probably some time in the '80s, on a platform with such a strong anti-neoliberal stance.

The media were freaking out about the trade restriction on China, but my circle of D-voting friends and I (and I'm about as libby-lib as a lib can lib) who mostly hated Trump were like "fucking good, more of this please".

I think he mostly caught at least as much shit as he deserved over his shenanigans (far less, in some cases—my "oh no, this is gonna be really bad for the health of our democracy" moment was when he made his "2nd amendment people" remark and suffered no meaningful consequences, back in the '16 campaign) but there were a handful of cases like that, where the negative media response was sharply at odds with our (as, again, solid D voters who AFAIK all voted against him twice) reactions to things he did.
People felt that way in the 1970s. When my sister was born premature and died my mom was depressed, and later told me she ‘no longer believed in God’, and that the world was so bad there was no way she could have another child.

There as an environmental crisis back then too, inflation and numerous social crises.
At what point is a situation so convoluted that it can be considered an edge case? Because this story seems like it would qualify! Not only did someone's bank account number change without intervention but it seems Apple also got something wrong about the purchase on two different occasions (saying OP bought an iphone, not a macbook and applying the trade-in to their card without confirmation)...I take your point. But, wow.

Im frankly surprised AC works this way, all of my interactions with AC support and Apple makesit seem like one wants nothing to do with the other.
It's sad but also seems to have eliminated my habit of redditing on the go. So I guess it's a win win.
electric bikes have quietly revolutionized nyc delivery, with food deliveries now going halfway across manhattan and between boroughs, no big deal.
Normally removing a "The Best" prefix might improve a headline, but here it's removed the entire meaning...
> We have been able to run untrusted code for nearly two decades now without a large scale breach

None that we know of. Keep in mind that not so long ago the browser did not have access to filesystem except to save files.
Now the browsers have access to filesystem, camera, microfone, they can act as servers, they have access to USB devices.

I mean WTF. What kind of security is that ?
If that was true, wouldn’t countries that are hostile towards the US like North Korea, Iran, Russia, Cuba, etc. be enacting visa regimes to undermine the US?

Having dealt with various nations’ bureaucracies, I’m more inclined to believe most simply haven’t been convinced it is worth their administrative overhead trouble to capture the financial benefits of welcoming digital nomads for longer stays. They’re quite well aware digital nomads exist and many desire longer stays. It is still considered a pretty niche population compared to regular tourism and likely not worth catering to yet. With RTO spreading, it likely will remain so until WFM becomes more mainstream in the future.
I would love to know their metrics for the different user experiences. I generally do not mind what they've done with the main page, and android app. The reactions on hackernews clearly do not share that sentiment, but I have to wonder how much of their user-base we really are.
> From the perspective of a business owner trying to run a business, there can be a link between allowing baristas to call out sick without consequences and potential price increases for customers. If baristas are allowed to call out sick without consequences, it may result in increased staffing costs due to the need to hire additional workers to cover shifts. This may also result in decreased productivity, as a shortage of staff can lead to longer wait times and lower customer satisfaction.

> To maintain their profit margins and offset these costs, a business owner may need to consider increasing prices for their products, which could potentially impact their customer base. However, it's important to balance the financial considerations with the well-being of employees and the long-term health of the business. Prioritizing the health and safety of employees, providing flexible sick leave policies, and ensuring adequate staffing levels can also contribute to better customer satisfaction and long-term profitability.
Ask HN: Learning how to build high-performance servers in C++/Java?
Hi,

I've developed an interest in performance, and I'd like to try to build a high-performance server from scratch in C++ or Java. I'm looking for good resources about how to do this. I'd considered looking at codebases for existing servers, but I think I'd end up missing a lot of the important details. Does anyone have any suggestions about good resources for this?

Thank you.
I mean I'm not really upset or anything -- I will live with it of course.

I only mentioned it as.. Well. Don't you find a crappy experience from a company that obsessives so much over user experience a little surprising?

You'd have thought if anyone could nail an iDevice software release it would be Apple..
On a personal level, yes, I'd be much less concerned with China having my data than my own government.

On a national scale? Well, I certainly do not want an adversary with an interest in overtaking the U.S. have both data and means to manipulate the opinions of its citizens.
> But nope, they pretty much say: "We know you're skilled because we have requirement of 90k/year, but we don't want skilled workers to be able to stay here, because go somewhere else". Well, ok, Iceland..

Correct. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, especially as they are being very overt about it. They don't want foreigners settling into their country. They want foreigners coming in for a short time, pumping money into it, then buggering off.
> 42% of US existing home purchases were from foreign investors

Maybe I misunderstood you, but that article says out of house purchases by foreigners, 42% were by foreign buyers living abroad, and the other 58% were by foreign buyers living in the US.

US citizens buying property _vastly_ outweigh foreign buyers, in both numbers and dollar amounts.
My credit card is 0% interest if I pay it off, and I get all sorts of benefits from it. Why would a responsible consumer use this over a credit card?
Sorry, could you go into more detail here? This happened to my mom several years ago, and we always wondered why.
You have to look at non MSM and non US media sources. What is declared "formally" by the US is not what goes on under the hood. US is generally famous for underhanded stuff like this in the middle-east.

https://www.thecitizen.in/opinion/us-continues-to-occupy-syr...

https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/03/05/2863033/us-con...

https://thecradle.co/article-view/22945/us-resumes-theft-of-...

Smuggling out and plundering valuable resources from a region that has undergone a disaster is what I call "evil" by any definition.

Also, you may wish to find and talk to some savvy educated Syrians. They will laugh if you suggest the US is doing nothing of the sort. Of-course, usually, there will be no American citizen doing this - it will be all done by third parties. They made a mistake here by explicitly involving the US Army and thus this got extensively publicised (in the non Western media).
Not only are you correct, their database has wrong info about me that I've had to memorize the wrong answers to in order to prove who I am.

It's not great.
OP is irrational here. You can find videos about 'Uyghur genocide' with that exact search term and countless of Tiananmen square videos.

Memes about Tiananmen square were popular on that platform. As well as videos critical of the CCP.

Anyone who claims otherwise clearly hasn't used Tiktok. And they'll shift goalposts to fit their narrative
Same. I use my Apple Card instead of cash or my debit card in almost all cases (except Costco where I have to use Visa and I have their card for that). I've averaged a little over $27K/year since 2019 and have had zero issues. GS has been great when I've had to dispute charges and they took care of everything. I love how seamless it is and it just works. Also, I am a self-admitted Apple-whore and am totally invested in their ecosystem FWIW.
China is almost as bad and Norway and Sweden are worse. Basically, if you have lots of money, you have access to lots of credit.
Which if any fraction of the “illegal” weapon didn’t start out as “legal”? Thus the distinction is pointless.
A thought:

The invention of the bicycle came at a similar time like engine driven vehicles. Before those became popular, the direct competitor for bicycles (one person transportation) were horses.

There might have literally not been a need to invent a bicycle as horses fulfilled the same purpose and had the advantage that they fared better on the back then nearly non-existent infrastructure.

Also: a single person transportation vehicle was not something a lot of people needed in their lives. You needed something to move stuff, but the demand to move single people daily came into existence with the dawn of big cities.
Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation
Apple Pay also reduces fraud, but it costs the user the same in the end. Maybe they're making money this way.
Pledge for a Healthy Internet
Sorry to hear this and good luck in the search.

Out of curiosity, at age 50, wondering why you wouldn't have a substantial savings by this age, enough to avoid losing housing? Or are you simply living with your mom to reduce the impact on that savings? Sorry if i'm making it sound like everyone at 50 should have a ton of money, I know thats not the case. Just curious.
This is the problem though, social media and advertising companies try to break this barrier so they can data mine you better.

This is why Facebook has a real name policy for example.

With the move to federated systems in commercial hands (log in with Facebook, Google etc) this only becomes harder to escape.
I've been a redditor for over 17 years. This sucks, even though you could see it coming.
UK sets up fake booter sites to muddy DDoS market
Always some misunderstandings about how consulting firms work whenever McKinsey comes up, so will shed some light as a former MBB consultant

Companies typically have a few "administrative functions" -- HR, Finance, Legal, Marketing -- in addition to Sales and R&D (Product / Eng). What some companies have (but not all) is a "Strategy" organization. The strategy organization, if a company has it, is usually <20 people, with a chief strategy officer reporting to the CEO. At a startup, founders are tasked with understanding the ins and outs of the business and designing a strategy based on that information. At a larger company, the CEO doesn't have the bandwidth to answer questions at an appropriate nuance (e.g., what is the first Latin American country that a food delivery app should launch in given consumer interest, competitive environment, local regulation, etc.). These questions would fall to a strategy team.

The reality is that there is not enough work year-round to employ strategy people all the time, so large companies would rather pay McKinsey $1m every couple of years to help do all the underlying research to answer questions rather than employ a strategy team at a higher cost per year.

Some other things we did for clients:
1. Provide some organizational benchmarks e.g., competitors give their sales people $5M targets per year, and you're only giving your sales people $3M targets.
2. Manage one-time projects e.g., F500 company acquiring another. Lots of (boring) administrative work of determining who reports to who once you merge these two companies
3. Provide some insight into new market segments a company can enter. For a company that sells widget X, what's the next widget they might be able to produce efficiently and sell to existing customers where there is a meaningful market and the company can leverage it's existing capabilities (related to the strategy piece above)

Lots of reasons a company might hire consultants, but generally no one in the organization wants to / has those responsibilities in their job description, so makes sense to do a one-time engagement.

I also found that even lower-level employees confide in consultants and consultants provide a fast-track to surface those issues to the CEO. Eg we were working for a consumer electronics company where the HW and SW orgs could not agree on anything and accused eachother of blocking their roadmaps.. Surfaced that to the CEO, and he made fixing that his top priority
I understand and appreciate that you want the terms used to be correct. I feel that the tone you used probably rubbed people the wrong way. Had you for example corrected me and given me the correct terms and definitions, I'm quite sure people would have appreciated the gesture. Actually, even up to now I'm not 100% sure what I should have used :). Additives, preservatives, ...?

BTW, interestingly in a previous life I studied chemistry... Only always in French
I'm taking notes on this one but I'm guessing it's just not pushing a new page as you navigate.
Discord, specifically my own "server" I made for the purpose, is my go-to image hoster now.

History thus dictates Discord will become a bloated, malvertisement mess in a few years' time. We'll see, I guess.
Artificially constrained supply combined with marginal buyers that earn >$300k/year and 0% interest rates would lead to extremely high prices.
>$80k/year is rich?

Yes, 80 thousand Euros per year wages is rich by most EU standards.

>18% of Americans make over $100k/year.

Wow, America, the richest country in the world, has many rich people. The more you learn.