skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company can get taken down by a .pdf.scr file on Windows.
Indeed. The porn industry is quite serious about following the letter of the law, so it was strange that pornhub lost support from mastercard and visa when that NYT op ed came out.[1]

This antiporn movement is more about control and censorship than protecting children.
> For all their failures, this is where Amazon and Microsoft excel

Amazon isn't doing all that well recently, though (check $AMZN). And I'd argue that the product design on their biggest product, the e-commerce bit, is terrible. I know so many people, me included, who no longer buy entire categories of goods on Amazon because you simply can't trust the quality/authenticity of the goods anymore.
> On iOS you can have both.

No, you can't. You can have some protections against the most egregious overreaches, but if you're concerned about privacy you shouldn't be on Facebook, ever, on any platform.

Aside from that, there's no way Facebook will remove themselves from the app store. Apple isn't going to make sideloading easy enough for the average Facebook user.
I can't help but think of my youngest son. He's been having language development problems his whole life; barely spoke at 3. He got help, and he quickly become a very adept speaker, using complex sentence structures, though he does have a bit of a speech impediment. I already expected him to have trouble learning to read, and he did. It was hard, he hated it, and we received a lot of help with it.

One thing that struck me from this story is kids only wanting to read books they already know. My son was like that. He loves Dr Seuss books and has read the easier ones a dozen times, so he always proposes to read that instead of the new book we're trying to read.

Still, he reads a lot better now than some of the kids in the story. He's starting to pick up on random texts he runs into, reading subtitles (he's too slow though), so there's definitely progress. He's 8, which I think corresponds to grade 3 in the US system? He's about a year behind in reading, so if American kids a year older than that read worse than he does, that's not good.

Though I do wonder if "sounding out" words might be a less effective strategy in English than it would be in some other languages...
In theory you should be able to run untrusted code and be safe if permissions, sandboxes etc. are organized reasonably.

The idea that you can tell if somebody's else code is malicious just by looking at it is flawed anyway and it's been shown many time over.

Plus they still can automatically scan binaries of sideloaded apps (maybe that is what this is about, they automated enough)
Again, totally genuine question: how do you know this?

From a (my) relatively uninformed perspective, I'd have expected the opposite - that the iOS App store was more of a 'controlled' environment, and the Play store more like the wild west. But maybe this is just me believing Apple's marketing...
Good points.
Developers spend a lot of time maintaining and changing code.
Practically speaking, even a large proportion of "new" code is legacy code.

I wonder, AI (/CodiumAI) may "dramatically reduce the time it takes to capture the existing behavior of the code and start setting up a safety net so you can work with it" -- But can it help me create tests for newly written behavior and functionality?
My favourite part is the PR to delete the entire repo.
You're talking about the company that sold Mario Maker to six year olds, then deleted the games they created without warning or explanation. The only thing parents remember about that ** was the crying. That was the end of Nintendo anything in our house.
Wonderful example Cunningham's law, thank you.

To summarise your point about decoupling capacitors. Use physically smallest capacitor you can, but with the largest capacitance (limited by the knee in capacitor price). High frequency response is dominated by parasitics, but you will get lower impedance for the vast majority of the frequency range until you hit the SRF. A lower capacitance will be better high frequency around the SRF, but worse at every other frequency.

Don’t place ferrites down blindly. Ferrites vary wildly, impedance at 100Mhz more or less a useless specification. You need impedance graphs, and you really need to know when a ferrite lossy and not simply inductive, and when it loses effectiveness and becomes a capacitor.

If you are going to put them down blindly use the exact same part number and manufacturer as on the development board.

If you think you might need a ferrite, put a zero ohm down and measure later. Sprinkling ferrites blindly without a spectrum analyser is at best a placebo, doing it incorrectly is almost always worse than not doing it. Examples of what not to do, splitting a plane to add a ferrite, adding impedance to power pins, adding inductance to IO lines or filter network and creating resonance.

As an addendum:
Power delivery network, power plane stack up, and component placement matter far the than the precise value of decoupling capacitors. Thinking in terms of current loop area is vital. The PCB is a decoupling component, and the power planes may be your only decoupling at frequencies higher than your capacitors SRF.
American exceptionalism leaves some Americans with the mis-guided belief that there is nothing to learn from other countries. I couldn't help but laugh seeing your comment was downvoted at the time I read this.

What Americans should consider is removing charter/private schools so that rich kids have to have the same experience as middle class and lower income. In my experience wealthy families have time and resources to influence school boards to improve, so get those people improving school for everyone, not just an already elite cohort.

Second, change how schools are funded. Funding should not depend on the wealth of the surrounding neighborhoods (ie. stop funding schools through property taxes). The current model sets up poor families to have worse outcomes as they get less resources, so from the get go we take disadvantaged kids and further disadvantage them.

Unfortunately, Americans love their personal freedoms and as a result none of these options will be implemented.
you have zero privacy on Facebook.
The Delta Heavy is $12,340 per kg to LEO. Saturn V was ~$8,800 in current costs. Falcon Heavy is $1,411 per kg when reused.

For a $10 million launch, Starship would cost $67 per kg. Musk has said costs could come down to 1-2 million, although I would disregard that given the cost of the fuel is ~$1 million.

Musk is absolutely utterly dismissive of marginal costs like support and maintenance, but $20-30 million per amortized launch ($134-$200 per kg) does not seem that crazy. The structure and materials of the rocket are absurdly cheaper than the Falcon Heavy, and the cost of getting all that on a pad is pretty much constant. The Heavy has 27 Merlin engines, Starship has 33 Raptor engines. If it really is that much cheaper and that much cheaper to refly, a 10x reduction is definitely possible.
When it works, it’s beautiful. Teaching someone else is such a great way of consolidating your own understanding.

It so often goes off the rails, though.
>How a company with so much money, so many wonderful engineers can't produce a source of income other than the search engine?

Because they lack product management at the executive level downwards. With no goals set for current and future products, the engineers downstairs are allowed to play....a little too much which means the company as a whole flounders.
PH's parent company is called MindGeek or something. It's nice that their employee's resume doesn't say "porn".
I completely agree with you, it is completely absurd what Nintendo is doing.

Unfortunately, Nintendo does not care what you think, does not care how this hurts their image, and does not care what damage this causes to the emulated longevity of their games lasting longer than the hardware they sell currently.

It is in their financial interests to force everyone to always pay for and buy Nintendo hardware to perpetually keep having to upgrade and purchase new copies of their software from their online stores to keep playing old games.

This is how they do business and by having articles, news, and social media posts constantly crying about how Nintendo did them wrong, it helps ensure that the average person keeps toeing the Nintendo line instead of exploring emulation. If a non-tech savvy person hears "Nintendo sued a guy for using emulation on his game meetup" they'll think, "eh, I think I'll just buy a Switch and not bother with emulation" when they want to play Yoshi's Island because nostalgia hit them in the feels.

This whole thing is a song and dance to keep people buying real Nintendo hardware (or choosing to use already owned Nintendo hardware) to play games they could just emulate with a few quick downloads. It's why you see "Top 5 retro games you can buy on Nintendo eShop before it's gone" articles on Polygon and elsewhere every year. It's a whole schtick to get you to keep handing Nintendo money for a game you've likely already bought and paid for at least once in your life.

Once again, I don't agree with Nintendo's stance, but boy oh boy is it ever profitable for them.
even for macro trends, the E likes to cherry pick its graphs. The US PPP trend has been sad for a while now, (thats not even per capita)

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-GDP-at-purchasing-pow...

There was another E agitprop piece recently, implying that the internet contributed to 20% TFP growth since 1990s, but the reality is that most of that growth happened before 2005, with a decline since then. I had to check the data because Krugman had just blogged about "the internet did nothing for productivity" (for the nth time?)

https://archive.ph/RgOq3

in both pieces, the E lifts America pretty much by comparison to its closest peers, who happen to be social democracies running out of natural resources and boomers.
You can only be as sure as you allow yourself to be. Nothing can be proven when it comes to metaphysics.
Have you actually used Chrome OS? It's not like this at all. I would imagine the same approach would be taken on a fully featured OS.

Ironically Windows is the OS that is full of shit ads these days, not Google's OS.
> The victims harmed by Pornhub deserve assurances that the current owners will be better than the past abusers.

Why is that not a reasonable position?

Pornhub moved to it's current position of requiring verification etc after years of allowing non-consensual intimate media to thrive on its platform and only after multiple legal cases brought against them by victims.

Of course a change in ownership raises questions about the future for victims and for their allies.

For a site that's still dubious of Microsoft after their business dealings 30 years ago it's amazing to see so many people jump to "it's their private business, not for us to speculate on" just because the company in question is a porno provider.
Decrying the imminent death of Google is ridiculous, but what you’re doing is also ridiculous. Google has fragile legs. They are not diversified enough, and a blow to their cash cow could severely hurt them. Losing advertising dollars in search could even hurt the YouTube revenue stream, since it’s the same advertisers for both products.

Google could be in deep trouble in five years.
> However the solution to overreaching unaccountable private cooperations cannot be to hand all the power to another private unaccountable company.

Another way of thinking about this is what we're taking this so-called overreaching, unaccountable private corporate power from one company and giving many companies that same power.

> The elected EU legislative took some points from both approaches AFTER the free market failed to implement a meaningful competition for central app stores.

You are presenting both Android and iOS, and default app stores for each platform as a duopoly, which is a mistake, because on Android you can already install third-party app stores. The mobile OS landscape is a duopoly, but there are many app stores across both platforms so is is not really a duopoly, it's just that the Google Play Store and App Store on iOS are superior products (particularly the iOS App Store).

On the OS side I think instead of premature legislation and stagnation we should let things just play out. It's a mistake to assume that because the state of the world is X today that it'll always be X. You can't have instantaneous change. It also might just be the economic reality that having just a couple of operating systems is the best for consumers and the market.
>They also don't give enough polish to their products.

Well yea, Google copied old-Microsoft's incentive structure of working on new features for promotions.
The Kremlin and Putin himself have repeatedly denied Ukraine's right to exist:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine...

https://time.com/6150046/ukraine-statehood-russia-history-pu...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opinion/ukraine-war-natio...
Thanks to the sandbox, sideloaded apps will have no more access than regular apps. Of course every app will ask for every permission but that's a different problem.
> What a wonderful world. It's totally within our capabilities and no one need suffer.

I get really scared when I hear anyone promise utopia. Literally every large-scale society that did turned into a hellscape after a while, and the idea itself never worked.

There was always someone who didn't buy into the idea, and they were blamed for why it didn't work. "If only those people were gone, then this would work and we'd be happy."

So millions die or are sent to the gulag or whatever it's called, and the idea is still not working.

China no longer promises its citizens a utopia. All they promise is a country that is powerful on the world stage. They're getting there, but it's still happening via exploitation. And the back alleys of Beijing still ring with abject poverty.
Yeah it's pretty bad. But look at it from their end:

Option A) Be a little more strict about honoring takedown requests, possibly get hit with $X,000,000 in damages by incorrectly hosting infringing content, or

Option B) Honor takedown requests unquestioningly, and incorrectly take down a tiny fraction of the site's content, which might have served like $20 in ads.

It's not a hard choice. Unfortunately.
> book: "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons"

> Anecdote: it worked for my kid.

It worked for my kid, too. And it's worked for my friends' kids. And for at least one stranger who read a previous HN comment I wrote.

If you have a child who is 3, 4 or 5, today (or whenever Amazon delivers) is the best time to start.
The trouble is that there's a strong tendency in UK journalism these days to treat anything the UK is doing as obviously wrong and any alternative as obviously better and ignore evidence that contradicts this, and the Guardian is one of the worst offenders. (This doesn't just apply to education; for example, the British press like to blame our energy woes on the government focusing on offshore wind and push onshore wind and solar as magical solutions, even though the offshore wind push was a roaring success that other countries want to copy and onshore wind and solar were already struggling even before the shift in focus.)
Spot on! I think we have a similar problem with TV / video ads. Many of them are funny or intriguing the first time you see them (so they perform well in "one-shot" tests and focus groups), but after five views they start getting exceedingly annoying. A counter example is a State Farm's ad with a guy sitting quietly on a couch and watching TV for a few seconds; I find it very effective.
> Arguably

And what is that argument? Why are they not afforded privacy that you are afforded? Or does your argument apply to you too, in which case I'm even more interested in seeing this anti privacy argument.
I think the thing with macOS is, is that if sideloading ever became impossible on mac OS, they would instantly lose most, if not all of the major applications, making the platform irrelevant.
So could Ford stop me from using footage of a Mustang? Vehicle design and logos are copyrighted. What about a movie wear characters are wearing designer clothing? Those are covered by copyright as well.

Copyright does have limits.
No one is talking about the impact of kids seeing parents read on phones instead kids seeing parents read on books. When kids see a parent reading a book there's no doubt as to what they're doing. They are reading.

OTOH, even if a parent is reading the most wholesome text on the most wholesome app, the fact that they are doing it on a phone admits some possibility of confusion in the eyes of the child observing. There is a nonzero chance that it could be interpreted by the child as the parent watching a video. Or playing a game.

Children have a very powerful desire to imitate, and it should not be ignored in the debate on literacy.
It caused more malware to spread for sure.
There is precious little open firmware out there already, but even the stuff that is open has various problems; builds require proprietary tools, the hardware requires vendor signatures etc.

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open
>Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.

Counterpoint: maybe none of the people they have drama with are their core customers. Nintendo seems to have a similar "Disney Adult" problem as Disney where you have a population of vocal adults who think they are the core customer, but in reality the company moved on to selling to those people's children or grandchildren years ago.
For those who are confused about the acronym, as I was:

BFR was the code-name for Starship, short for Big Falcon Rocket

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_development#...
In my experience, it was always shady bodyshops that had these kind of tests. Perhaps they are looking for submissive personalities.
13000x 10MB memory, to be precise
Job skills include showing up on time and following directions without mouthing off. Those skills must be learned, they aren't instinctual. Middle class people take those skills for granted but some members of the persistent underclass who grew up on public assistance literally never learned those basics and are now essentially unemployable.
Your profession and... a few hundred others ?
Also, people immediately licensed the patents and it further research in the field that was owned by entities like the NSA prior
I expect Google is stripping the ⌊ ⌋ brackets out as punctuation in the search, so that you're effectively only searching for "x2", hence the "x squared" results.
That’s exactly my point though - if you are aiming for robust operation at a wide temperature range, lithium batteries are actually a worse choice than lead acid batteries. Lead acid batteries require little to no temperature control, just some charging rate and voltage control depending on temperature.
It's in the article's headline. HN would rather keep the original title if possible.
No, this is as a consequence of the EU Digital Markets Act.
Which sounds like a lot until you realize 1) we drive over three trillion miles a year in the US, and 2) the majority of those accidents are concentrated to a fraction of all drivers. The median human driver is quite good, and the state of the art AI isn't even in the same galaxy yet.
Look how well Huawei smartphones are selling in the west (not well at all). And that's not because of lack of trying, I've been on a team where everybody agreed that supporting their phones had zero upside outside of the cash Huawei offered for a port of our apps. And we did it, only because they paid so much. And those were laughably unattractive apps (think yellow pages), I can't even start to imagine what they must have spent in other directions.
Soon you will be owned by Clippy, and the way it's going, you will become a paper clip. No joke.
Chrome OS devices have local storage. Premium ones (which are not even that expensive, in the $500+ price tier) have a 256GB SSD for local storage. This at least has not been my issue with Chrome OS.
Unavailable for me too. I found this, not sure if it's the same one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udi0rk3jZYM
We taught our daughter to read at age 3 using the "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" book mentioned elsewhere in this thread. I remember when we first brought her to kindergarten and mentioned that she was already a competent reader--her teacher seemed oddly insistent about downplaying her abilities, and kept correcting us to say that she was "decoding" the text, rather than reading it.

OK, if you say so--she's sitting in her room for hours a day silently "decoding" her books.

Anyhow, our anecdotal evidence of 1 suggests that this method works and was the foundation of a (so-far) lifetime love of reading!
Same here, I did one year of each immediately before first grade. Never heard of two years of kindergarten before.
Different qualities: Quartz crystals are better than Rb when looking at short periods. Long-term stability is normally provided by GPS. Rubidium beats crystals when it comes to stability over hours - it is added as a fallback for when GPS fails. If you don't have a requirement that your system can work lets say 24 or 48 hours without GPS sync, you can skip the Rb.
About 1 minute. Exhale very slowly this triggers the parasympathetic system), inhale faster. Repeat the process a few times.
>and accountants still tend to prefer Excel over sheets (in my experience).

And it isn't because they didn't try Sheets. Lol. Nobody I know likes Google Sheets.

They basically copied the UX of Office 2003 and did nothing to improve upon it since it's initial release over a decade ago.

It's awful.

Shit, it still doesn't have the concept of tables like Excel does and you need to manually paint rows, manually find the hidden filter creation option for cells and manually refresh the table because the fitlers are kludged such that they don't automatically re-filter when you edit a row.

Even Mail Merging is awful.
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/samples/automation...

Like, you don't need a programming degree to mail merge in Office but you do for Google Sheets because it's a script instead of built-in feature.
> If I'm a pharmaceutical company

you already had to disclose the chemical formula for your drug. This paper only applies to software.
Depends on the kind of container. It is not necessarily true that 1 container == 1 process. I run Docker containers with 1000s of processes.
Bing embeds ads, so no problem there.
Sounds like something ChatGPT could do quite quickly though.
I don't personally know a single person outside of developers that have side loaded apps on Android. Maybe I am an anomaly, but it just seems very rare.
I created my Gaia Online account in 2003.

Sadly, I can't regain access to it, as it was deactivated. Last time I tried, I needed to create a new account in order to create a support request, and things got weird. That was a decade ago, I think.
> What intrigues me here is if the same might have gone wrong with teaching people secondary languages.

The phonics debate is a lot less relevant for secondary languages.

The goal of phonics is to teach a person how to write a language that they already speak. The goal of second language instruction is generally to teach someone how to write and speak a language that they don't know in any way.

Very different education goals.
How do you manage the hallucination problems, or do you not seem to be having them?

I’m blown away by the competence of the language model but its willingness to make up facts makes me leary.
I posted on the #fedihire tag and got an amazing response, and then a job. My twitter engagement was basically a single "like" and then nothing.