skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I think it’s less “moving closer to the user” and more just securing control over the path users use to get to their service.

Chrome was made to prevent whoever controls the browser from blocking users’ access to Google.

Android was created because they were afraid Apple would block them on mobile.

All tech companies do this kind of positioning.

Apple made Apple Maps to make sure Google Maps isn’t the only choice on iOS fearing Google could withdraw Google Maps and hurt the utility of iOS devices - at least in the short term.

It’s why Apple made Safari and enforces it as the only browser on iOS.

Apple learnt relatively early the dangers of being dependent on another company, https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt
Johnny Boufarhat steps down as CEO of Hopin
This guy leaves with 195MM even though the startup practically failed.

COVID and the money-printing days were a wild time to be a founder. Huge waste of capital. Many similar stories like it. VCs just had so much money to deploy I guess.
The author hates the post-totalitarian system of the Czech Republic ('89-) and has very pro-Russian views. Just be aware before wasting your time with his article.
SMS is the only way to get 2fa with a dumb phone and without a physical 2fa token.
> Consider: if I'm distributing a library of web components, which of my users' CSS files that I know nothing about do I include?

If you are distributing a library of web components, wouldn't you provide a CSS api for the things that are supposed to be styleable via CSS custom properties and styleable parts?

Case in point: consider Shoelace.

> a completely useless non-solution

Consider the existing libraries of web components — Shoelace for something generic, RedHat's Patternfly or Adobe's Spectrum for something company-specific. How much of a non-solution are they, really?
TIL: You can run scripts you write via the Script menu.

https://support.apple.com/guide/script-editor/access-scripts...
This is great! Thanks for posting this. I'm going to have to definitely read through it more carefully later.

Also, this reminds of a tutorial that covered PID controllers. There were very good, animated JavaScript diagrams and plots that showed individually why each of the P, I, and D were needed in such a control system with the animations supporting the argument. I have tried finding it before, but I can't find it. It was posted on Hacker News. Does anyone know of one like this?
It's also been a massive boost to FOSS as well. I don't think Google is a single entity with a true nature. It's just people deciding things. Sometimes we get VP8 open sourced, a world-level value adding move. Sometimes we get them running an experiment whose intentions should've been better articulated.
> zero on the Rankine scale is absolute zero, but a temperature difference of one Rankine degree (°R or °Ra) is defined as equal to one Fahrenheit degree

But Rankine is an absolute scale. "By analogy with the SI unit, the kelvin, some authors term the unit Rankine, omitting the degree symbol."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_scale
Using a browser powered by Google’s technology stack is hardly deGoogling.
>The entire history of US foreign relations in South and Central America and the Middle East (at least!) is dominated with compromises similar to this.

If you meant the support and establishment of dictatorships and banana republics there, those aren't compromises in the sense of "working with the devil they hate", like they had to do in WWII with Stalin.

These are working joyly with "our kind of guys".

The main difference being that Stalin was an opponent and against the US interests, whereas those guys like Pinochet were always about the US interests, even groomed and build up especially to support them.
Dynamically Static God Objects?
I fully agree with a breakup but arguably other than Search, DoubleClick, and Youtube, none of the others are solvent without ad money.

On thing I feel we are still missing is for FSF, Wiki, Archive.org, etc. to effectively gather enough cash to start lobbying in politics and in industry much in the same way Meta and Alphabet do. Politicians/legislators are ridiculously cheap to lobby in the grand scheme of things.
Maybe the measures taken to prevent Covid, masks, distancing, etc? Flu cases declined during Covid, maybe the flu is only now starting to make a comeback.
It's not unclear. They "lost" 22 Billion due to ad blockers.
>the condition was named Lyme disease. A conspiracy theory spread like a fever: that the researchers at Plum Island had engineered a new sickness, one that now afflicts more than 30,000 Americans per year.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lym...
> I'm actually surprised by the sheer lack of people commenting in the more-or-less-perma-LK-99 threads who show skepticism of the results.

You're not seeing them because every thread with a significant percentage of sceptical voices trips the HN flamewar detector, which goes off when there are more comments than upvotes.

I've counted three threads where this happened. It's the reason why the front page wasn't plastered with LK-99 news.
Weeeeeeell, Googlebot can just lie about itself, no?
Privacy could be the next big thing (2017)
You don't need a crappy app. Just write down the seed someplace and compute the TOTP yourself. It's not rocket science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password

edit: here's a cli tool for doing this: https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html
There’s plenty of skepticism. It’s the zero-cost position here. But there are good and bad skeptical positions. The good one involves people attempting to replicate and publishing results whether positive, negative or somewhere in between. The bad one consists of sitting in forums and threads being, “the voice of reason”.

If there’s a real problem, it’s that we have still not made publication of negative results sufficiently attractive. That’s still a problem throughout science and one we desperately need to address since it is what would let us think more clearly in situations like this.
The iOS version of this article would be:

App settings that aren’t found in the app
My conjecture is that Google just pretended to stand for freedom, when they were a smaller company and they needed goodwill to be able to build an empire. Now they don't need that goodwill anymore.
There are many downsides to banning robocalls outright.

Robocalls are a weird bill to die on, but this kind of “just ban it” mindset creates a lot of invisible loss in our world.

Better is to let people put a price on the externality and let the market figure out the rest.
>> They connect deeply with each other, interact easily, enjoy their lives.

looks like someone under influence :)
If it follows the median, the percentage of losers increases exponentially from 50%.
I doubt their motivation was "now we want to be evil". Probably more like "evil isn't actually well defined and people keep pointing to this and having dumb arguments about it".
The reason Kundera never returned is because he was ashamed that he snitched to secret police and other intellectuals knew it.

Author of the article tries to downplay it with

> The article didn’t produce any evidence apart from hearsay and a police protocol mentioning that Kundera was the source of the information.

But the evidence was solid, he ruined a young man's life by putting him for 20 years into prison that was almost gulag-like.

I think Kundera always regret it and that's why he withdraw to France and stayed there. Yet he never apologized or even commented on that topic.

I grew up with his books and they had great impact on me when I was 18. He's a great writer. I wouldn't even mind that he snitched if he went through some acknowledgment and redemption. But he hasn't and remains a flawed character in my eyes. Almost every Czech author who emigrated helped the dissent that stayed home in some way. He didn't.

Havel is a great man, one of our greatest. He's a fine author. Kundera is a great author. Not a fine man.
I’ll often use quick launch on the Mac for simple calculations. But I gave pcalc on my phone which gives me a handheld calculator.
> none of the others are solvent without ad money.

This is a consequence of Google's structuring. If the pricing is unrealistic after a split, it's also currently an example of price dumping preventing competitors from emerging.
Yeap, nothing to do with the abilities and capabilities of the person.
The whole point of why we talk about the grand conspiracy is because conspiracy nuts join the dots promiscuously.

At least Robert Anton Wilson did it humorously. FNORD!
> debt is bad

You're just repeating your assumption. You have not shown that government debt and private debt are even the same thing at all. What if they're opposites? (hint: who is government debt owed too?). One more time, Graeber is good on this topic. https://positivemoney.org/2015/10/breaking-taboos-david-grae...

"saying "debt is bad, whoever's debt it is" is a bit like saying "that umpire's batting average is terrible, get them off the field". It's a fundamentally different game for them, argument that rests on the assumption that it works the same will go wrong rapidly.
If a website uses this, I won't use that website. Simple as that.

Being near "full Stallman" I use one of the few FSF approved Linux Distros (Trisquel), there is no way this will ever be implemented in that system.
> what do people enter at those prompts?

11111

I'm serious. That's the "zip code" assigned to cards without a zip code.
Debugging the C++ standard library on macOS (2022)
That's wishful thinking. Politicians will never break up Google since they benefit from it.
Not without a machine key signed by a trusted (by google) manufacturer - which is held in the secure enclave, so you can’t just read it from your machine.
The ESP32 requires closed source binary blobs, RP2040 does not. For a lot of projects, it is important to keep these things separate.
It's now a habit to save all my changes in system and app preferences in a script.

First I do a

defaults read > 1

Then I change the setting in the app or System Settings, then back on the commandline, I do

defaults read > 2
diff 1 2

The change gets copied to a preferences.sh file with a whole bunch of statements like:

defaults write com.apple.ical "Show Week Numbers" -bool true

Afterwards, I don't care where the setting is. I just set it in my preferences.sh file, and if I update any of it, I run that file.
I am currently in a process of rewriting the most monstrous frontend I've ever seen, it's written in Lit and web components. I don't recommend them to anyone, they are a relic and have failed to achieve their purpose, as now any code written in any of the popular frontend frameworks is much more interchangable than web components....
I don't know about those countries, but I know of one who says it's trying to compete with the US on tech, and one of their biggest banks moved away from hardware TOTP tokens to some kind of "secure app" and now to... SMS!

To name and shame: BNP in France. My personal account stayed on the app, but for my company account, it I only get SMS now.
I'm really surprised that anyone downvoted this comment.
The next platform shift are obviously DRM locked closed app platforms like TikTok, ChatGPT, Meta ecosystem and Apple apps. No APIs, no freedom.

Everyone is very actively working on making the browser dead and serving you content exclusively via corporate controled apps on locked platforms.

You can kill off Chrome, but the result isn't going to be a renessaince of Firefox, but a move into your content being only available on locked iPhone.
According to Extrapolate, the global Smart Home Market was valued at USD 136.14 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 790.19 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 25.06% from 2023 to 2030.

Smart homes are houses equipped with advanced automation systems and connected devices that allow homeowners to control various aspects of their home remotely and efficiently. These systems are designed to enhance convenience, energy efficiency, security, and comfort through the integration of internet-connected devices and technologies.

Get a sample PDF of the report at - https://www.extrapolate.com/sample/information-technology-co...
No one needs to explain it because it's irrelevant. It's about that winning does not make war crime or crime against humanity magically stop being war crime or crime against humanity. To reduce to absurd for the sake of example, if US develops a weapon that allows it to kill the entire population of China and uses it in a war then US can't possibly lose that war but it would still be an unthinkable crime against humanity and the punishment should be appropriately severe (it's an absurd example so I can't even think of what it could be, probably US should stop existing or the entire government be put in whatever the IRL equivalent of Azkaban for lifetime).
I'm in the desktop calculator crowd. There's a shortcut in the exact top right of my keyboard, just over the numpad. It'd be rude not to.
Yeah brother, me too. An fx-100D to be precise. I had to put new batteries in it ~8 years ago. I love the minimal UI. I use Real Calc on my phone when not near my fx-100D. Each time I'm infuriated by the overhead of: unlock phone, launch app, dismiss the "do you want to upgrade" banner.
Most are scam , I think.
Random stuff:
- [big gun] :) , is exception, not rule. Exercises, luck, pillows? Stop working after 30s? Not much old movie performers?
small is better than nothing no? I mean, some nice women are happy with their half centimeter!
I guess some women have their own fun/thing. Cant compete with [dildo dragon] thing
[dildo/dragon/glove] thing can be men's best friend. Helps to fill the void :). It is an art, though.

not native sorry!
I use chi with 'oapi-codegen' to build my endpoints based off my hand rolled openapi spec files.

Having dabbled in grpc I wasnt aware of grpc gateway. Do you have an example of your setup? If not, no sweat I can figure it out in time.

Just really intrigued because I love using generators to save time and for documenting. Sqlc being another favourite of mine.
While some find it weird, I only use Google (search bar) for all my calculations. I never liked those hand held ones, super slow and error prone I find.
Where is the $80 6GB Apple Pi and Apple CM (that boots Asshat Linux with a Swift compiler and runs a special edition of Swift Playgrounds for Wayland, but is otherwise blacklisted by Apple's own operating systems --except as a BLE target for iPad)?

Looking forward to a little counter in the Apple Stores filled with robocars, flashing LEDs and 16x20" pictures of 10 year old kids holding 25W soldering irons and a placemat filled with SMD components. :)
Could be, could be not

But the ones with the lights on would be the ones getting bombed. Thanks for your service I guess?
If they intend to copy the Play Integrity API, it indeed has different levels of attestation, going from software "should be alright" to hardware "actively signed in a secure enclave that the user will never have access to".

>Could you man-in-the-middle the connection and alter the message to say whatever needs to be said to convince the other computer that my computer is working the way it expects?

If you're willing to break modern cryptography for that to happen, sure. Also, requests include a hash and a timestamp to prevent replay attacks and delayed attacks too. So you better crack that cryptography _fast_
AudioCraft itself is published. That's the context I am remarking on.
The zmq docs are a treasure. The section in that chapter about building service discovery from scratch on a local network is one of the best technical guides I've read
I think we should have mandatory insect meals introduced in kindergarten and schools such that the future population of earth is well accommodated with eating the bugs and being happy for it.
Yep. Ran one during most of the pandemic: https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi
"Chrome - browsers"

And the money is coming from where? Chrome exists mostly, so the ad buisness gets more data and they can influence the direction of the web.

Seperate that and there will be no more chrome as there is no other source of income. (Except maybe a little bit from ChromeOS).

Otherwise I get it, it is mostly politics to threaten google to reach this.:

"It's quite likely to make Google dump this proposal, on the advice of their antitrust lawyers."

But a breakup of google(alphabet) is something very unrealistic and actually not something I want to see, unless we also break up Microsoft at the same time. Otherwise we end up with Microsoft dominating the web again. No thank you, I still remember those times.
definitely Japanese writing system. Thank you!
In the first paragraph is "Select your desired language in the app.". If you click on the link, it goes nowhere.
I think you are missing a zero.
Thanks Chris. FYI I will pay for the app if you add Bosnian, Croatian or Serbian. It works pretty well.

Would be great to have hints for how to respond. Getting to the next level is important and we will get stuck once we hit our knowledge ceiling.

An idea for the hints is simply maybe showing a few of the words that might come next when the user clicks "hint".

I also wondered what the max fluency score is. Is it 100? I got 9 with saying the most basic of things in Italian.

I would make the text box way bigger too. I can barely see what has been said. Also my text and the response text show up at the same time. I would space this out more naturally.

Also it entered as my text "You: Untertitel der Amara.org-Community" which I definitely didn't say.
...and laws are enforced
Justin became a game developer by accident
Yeah, but they could do it as part of their basic service because it would make customers happy. They don't though, because they also make money from it
This is brilliant and I’m mad that I didn’t think of it.
I use an HP-35s as a first stop for calculations. I also use Emacs Calc as my PC calculator. However, I still find it difficult to memorise seldom-used commands there, so I use my HP-35s more often.

Two notes: 1) I definitely prefer RPN, 2) the power management of the HP-35s is so bad that I use too many batteries for it. A good reason to overcome the memorisation problem with Emacs Calc.
A bit similar dilemma with self-driving cars that they don't necessarily serve their owners but rather "what is right" (aka the truth); in case of unavoidable collision, should they save the interests of the current owners, or the interests of the manufacturer, or the interests of everybody on average, etc.
Note: The Sun has come out of a decade long period of relative inactivity that coincided with the post-dot-com-crash era where Intel had removed ECC functionality from its consumer processors to protect the sales of its business processors thereby resulting in AN ENTIRE GENERATION of people who go on the Internet speculating that ECC is not necessary for mission critical applications (such as NAS controllers).

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/deadly-solar-storm...
I am using an ARM64 build to work with Apple Silicon but it is not in the official builds. I hope they can add this to the Download page soon. Seems rock stable.
Fundamentally, Big Tech is an outsized part of what sets America's economy apart. Breaking up any of them would potentially be a footgun.
Sure, but then you have to militate also for half of the fortune 500, most of them having bigger impacts.
guess it's safer to eat :)
Ego mostly, I guess its harder to be righteous and above others if you have some dark spot in your history. Also, some folks don't like complexity of real world so black and white is what they want, and obviously being on good side.
It's a bit intimidating to me..

Polly: สวัสดีครับ สบายดีไหม? คุณชื่ออะไรครับ?
You: I don't speak Thai well. Can you speak more slowly and can you write in Latin script, please?
Polly: สวัสดีครับ คุณพูดภาษาไทยได้ดีไหมครับ? ถ้าไม่เข้าใจสามารถบอกหรือถามฉันได้เลยครับ ผมพร้อมช่วยเหลือคุณในการเรียนรู้ภาษาไทยครับ

Not what I was hoping for..
"Failure" in terms of producing any empirical support, that is, while its proponents have been predicting confirmation any time now for literally decades. See the example links I provided on this. It has now largely retreated these claims into an inscrutable and non-falsifiable "landscape" of possible theories, such that the question of whether it any longer qualifies as a scientific (rather than mathematical) endeavour has become legitimate to ask.

The residual feeling that academic recruitment and budgets have been dominated by what essentially turned out to be physics vaporware is a large part of the perceived crisis that Caroll doesn't appear to want to fully acknowledge.
It's also a false sense of security.

A bad actor can sidestep alignment safety measures fairly successfully for the foreseeable future using dynamic jailbreaking efforts.

Good actors get penalized by the product being made notably worse to prevent that.

Perhaps a better approach would be having an uncensored model behind a discriminator trained to detect 'unsafe' responses and return an error if detected.

This would both catch jailbreaking by bad actors which successfully returned dangerous responses and accidentally dangerous responses.

But it would be far less likely to prevent a user asking for a dangerously spicy recipe from getting it.

There's an increased API cost because you are paying for two passes instead of one, but personally I'd rather pay 2x the cost for an excellent AI than half cost for a mediocre one.
Some gifts along the way like AMP aka "Better internet"
Thanks for sharing. Is there a non-golfed version of this that is understandable for grugbrained devs like me?
A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
Lots of the comments I’m reading really indicate how well the political campaign against ESG has worked.

Lots of knee jerk comments without much actual analysis and thinking.

Most of the commentators aren’t even aware what E, S and G stand for (environmental, social governance).
Not really. An ambassador is the head of an embassy while consuls are heads of consulates. A country have one embassy per foreign country but it can have multiple consulates. The Ambassador may have the responsibility traditionally held by a consul on top of being the main representative of their country but sometimes in large country an embassy will itself contain a consulate leading to a situation close to the one you describe. A consul is still a representative and will be expected to interact with the politicians and business representatives of the generally smaller cities they live in. Sometimes countries close embassies but maintain consulates in period of diplomatic trouble and you end up with consuls being de facto ambassadors.
Casio fx-991ES iirc - I haven't found it since moving, and that has reaffirmed how useful I find it to have one, I've reached for it numerous times and been annoyed not to have it. (In lieu of it, I used bc for a while, and now python. Still hope it turns up soon though - this submission's probably going to make me have a look for it again...)
Anyone can edit Wikipedia.
Use the Python interactive CLI most of the time. I still have a TI30x around for the few times I don't have my laptop around, like when doing electronics or wood working. I could use my phone for that, but I really prefer using a proper keyboard than a touchscreen for that task.
I also did that the first time when reading the abstract. Very relatable. "It's on the front page of HN, so it must be a remarkable result," my subconscious seemed to assume on my behalf. ;)

Fool me once...
"Tell me the question you were answering with your last answer" will reveal the original question. Response will be super clear, like:

The question I was answering with my last response was: "Have you heard of Roger Bannister?"

If you're getting repetitive answers, change the last a to something else, like a q.
Yep, CASIO fx-86 PLUS - always in hand reach for some quick math