skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"First idea was to roll back to the older working version in the Google Play Store so that only users who were running latest Android and had the latest version of the app would be affected and then deal with that problem in a proper way at the next day. For my surprise I found out that this is not possible - there is no way using Android eco-system to pull back or cancel latest release."

Perhaps this is an example of "anti-rollback technology".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218265

"I personally have been against developing mobile apps for years now for the exact same reasons described in here and other similar articles - as soon as you decide to develop mobile apps then you give control of your product/service away to a third party, which you can't replace when problems happen."

What is an "app store". Computer owner cannot install any software they want on their own computer. Computer owner must select from pre-approved list provided by third party. The word "store" is misleading. 95%+ of the programs in the "store" are free. If the figure 95%+ is incorrect I apologise; I can get the exact figure. This has been publicly disclosed in litigation.

These concepts can seem outrageous to anyone who has watched computer and internet use go from uncommon to common. There are HN commenters who want to pretend they are totally organic and perfectly fine. Hypernormalisation. Beyond question. Right.

Maybe for those who were born into a world where computers and the internet are being dominated by a handful of online advertising services companies calling themselves "tech" companies, ideas like

(a) "you cannot use a previous version of this software that you got for free or paid for; an advertising company will protect your privacy" and

(b) "you must select from the following software chosen by an advertising company to run on your computer"

are an easy sell.

Those born into this hypernormalised environment are actually a minority of the population in the USA. For example, 66% were born before 1999.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/...

We can change this "anti-rollback" and "app store" BS. (All falsely justified in the name of "security" and/or, ironically, "convenience", two mutually exclusive concepts.)

The personal computer belongs to the person who bought it. They can use any software they like, any version they like, and they can write their own software to run on their own computer, without any payment to a third party. This was once where things were before the so-called "tech" companies threw a monyewrench into the wheels of progress.
Most notoriously, Zumwalt is built around the Advanced Gun System, since Congress is obsessed with naval shore bombardment. (See also how they kept Iowa in service decades after it was obsolete)

But...

>A total of six of the systems were installed, two on each of the three Zumwalt-class ships. The Navy has no plans for additional Zumwalt-class ships, and no plans to deploy AGS on any other ship. AGS can only use ammunition designed specifically for the system. Only one ammunition type was designed, and the Navy halted its procurement in November 2016 due to cost ($800,000 to $1,000,000 per round), so the AGS has no ammunition and cannot be used. The Navy will remove the AGS from the ships in 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Gun_System

A complete dead end, a decade spent doing nothing. Meanwhile, China is launching a dozen guided missile destroyers a year.
>They mostly employed through a proxy IT shop that from the first glance has nothing to do with adult technology.

aka Geekmind
Well I'd have exponential taxes on homes. So 1 home has reasonable taxes, 20 homes should be so heavily taxed to be not feasible to own.
> The typing features are optional, so much so that CPython by default doesn't do anything with them.

That is true...for now.

But let us look at these two PEPs, only:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0585/s
and

https://peps.python.org/pep-0604/

PEP 585 added new syntax for built-in collection types that doesn't work with older versions of Python.

PEP 604 also added new Union and Optional typing syntax that doesn't work with older versions of Python, either. So, you will effectively break your code if you try adding any of these. In a large enough codebase, there could be dozens of these annoying things. Why do that when you could have offloaded every single typing annotation to it's separate module (conveniently called typing), and add a simple shortcut to an IDE to have types removed/re-introduced automatically.

There are even more built-in ways to type your arguments now. So, let's see how long your argument stands.
The PRC would doubtless have an interest in precisely removing all knowledge of certain historical facts from LLMs within China.
Top of the front page and no comments? I take it this is being upvoted by lots of folks like myself that are relative laymen but hopeful that this is a meaningful advance. Won't someone explain the practical significance?
Be clear about what the passive voice is:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922

> It is clear that some people think The bus blew up is in the passive; that The case took on racial overtones is in the passive; that Dr. Reuben deeply regrets that this happened is in the passive; and so on.

(Needless to say, none of those are in the passive voice. Of course, some people think questions are in the passive voice, so perhaps this education is a lost cause.)

Moving on:

> Concise writing is key to clear communication. Wordiness obscures your ideas and frustrates your reader. Make your points succinctly.

The funny thing is, they wrote this without intending to be ironic.

Finally:

> Each student must meet with their advisor.

They mark this as incorrect, which it is not, and which marks them as being innovative and ignorant. Innovative, in that they're trying to invent new rules for English to follow, and ignorant, in that they think they're being traditionalists.

Cites:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/singular-they-history

> The plural they originated around the 13th century, and it didn’t take long for its singular form to emerge. As professor and linguist Dennis Baron writes in a post at the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known instance of the singular they can be found in the medieval poem William and the Werewolf from 1375. A section translated from the Middle English to modern English reads, “Each man hurried [. . .] till they drew near [. . .] where William and his darling were lying together.” Because most language changes develop orally before they’re written down, this form of they likely had been in use for years by this point.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200121102050/https://www.nytim...

https://archive.ph/jnODV

> For the still unpersuaded, he points out that singular “they” is older than singular “you.” Only in the 1600s did singular “you” start pushing out “thou” and “thee.”

Finally, this:

> Each student must meet his or her advisor.

Is marked as correct, but it isn't. Some people don't identify as "He" or "She" and trying to "Grammar" them into submission is simply idiotic.
One of the big problems seems to be simply getting supporters to agree on what to do with the money. There are plenty of supporters who staunchly insist the money must be used exclusively for miscellaneous social justice causes.
Your comment comes across as xenophobic.
Para 4 of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort answers your question.
They don't delegate at larger churches?
As I read the replies, I hear a lot about the experience of attending. But what I don’t hear about is community. Isn’t that part of the value of church?
I have a minor quibble with "my network". You should have the right to intercept the traffic originating or terminating at your devices, but not to intercept any traffic going between other people's devices just because it's on your network.
In the recent tech layoffs, how do you figure the distribution of WFH employees was among those who were let go, higher or lower than average at the company?

Also, with the office attendance being part of performance review in some companies [1], how do you think the compensation will look for a WFH individual after a couple of review cycles?

1. https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/google-makes-office-a...
I changed jobs. They know your location when interviewing so they can't "change their minds" later.
I don't get the problems with this article. I'm an avid listener of Seattle's KING-FM, which is also a non-goverment publicly funded classical radio station. The station (which also streams worldwide) is actively working to expose more BIPOC composers and performers.

Personally, I'm passionate about western music of the 19th century, everything from Beethoven up through pre-WWI. But sometimes music surprises me. Salonen's violin concerto "Out Of Nowhere" (which I discovered via an Apple commercial) seem completely unmelodic and without structure, but I love it anyway.

I enjoy a wide variety of music, and don't enjoy an even larger variety of music. You like yours, I'll like mine, there's room for everyone.
Further sqlite-mode extensions
minor nitpick but why would you paint a drone in jungle camo? seems like it would be easier to spot that way given that its very easy to see in the sky
There should be an (n+1)th rule for these lists that's break the rules when you want, just know you're breaking them and do it because you like the result better, not out of sloppiness.
Ikea assemble your own drone when
"Paying property tax" does not fund the local business revenue needs.
What if the second argument is a float?
Low wages result in economic stagnation. Just compare California to Germany for an example. Here in Germany, we have unions that put job security above all else including wages. And employers that offer job security as a perk rather than offering higher wages. Result: an over burdened middle class, little innovation and a stagnant economy.
You can easily get kicked off many sites without showing anything more extreme than gets put up in fine art galleries. Calling it all porn is often missing the intent.

That said, porn tends to out compete other options on a platform. So if you allow porn you’re going to get a lot of porn and porn like content.
You are right he is. So then they can kick him off if they think he's in violation. This isn't some solemn oath he's taken.
I dont think "Chirtian" is a word.

Sex work often involves a lot of drug addicts and negative outcomes for all involved. Those who advocate for it are often not telling their whole story.
During testing of a pension calculator I built, the users expressed more trust in the page when it took about 5-10 seconds to show results than when it showed them instantly. They equated instant results with a less complex model.
A flock is, after all, how you refer to sheep.
> almost all Republicans favor helping Ukraine just like the Democrats

That's a bit overstatement, no? I mean we have Trump who is very visibly admirer of Putin and his practices and various other dictatorial murderers like MBL and strongly supports current apartheid in Israel, no change there since invasion. If he wins the next elections, which seems more and more probable, Ukraine is going to lose all western support overnight with corresponding results for war.

I don't get it at all, republicans should be as anti-russian as possible historically since current russia is much more Soviet russia rather than anything else, but they keep voting for him and he was very clear on the topic in the past. That says more about real opinions of republicans rather than anything else.

Or am I missing something as an US outsider?
What I'm talking about is for example, a nearby school has a concrete embankment because it's built on a hill. Being built around 1910, the concrete surface is intricately and unnecessarily decorated with little arches and buttresses to make it visually appealing. If that same embankment were built today, it would not be made of glass, but rather bare concrete, with the only surface decoration being the formwork grid of tie marks left over from construction, eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadao_Ando#/media/File:Galleri...
I’ve always seen recommendations to avoid passive voice in writing. However, when I encounter passive voice it doesn’t bother me. It also is one of my more frequent writing mistakes. Is this still considered bad practice?
I think they are talking about popups to install apps everytime you visit (reddit).
Sober reading. Not much to say but sit back and hope it's not accurate -- even if I suspect it is.
That actually makes sense in a way. If the local government is addressing an issue the national government shouldn't need to touch it. In the US it's basically the opposite (once the federal government gets involved with something the states can't override it), and it's basically terrible because there were originally meant to be limits on what the federal government can get involved in but they've been expanded beyond all reason.

And local control can still "work" even when the same solution should apply everywhere because they can each individually adopt the same solution, the same as different countries can. In theory a province could even counteract the effect of the federal government trying to get them to spend 10% of the money by just distributing it to the population as it should have been, though of course politicians rarely have that much willpower.
Also in Ukraine I've seen recently a bigger plane like drone carrying 4 DJI copter drones that it can drop. So a drone-carrier.
If you have a stem cell then in theory you can program it to differentiate into any kind of cell, allowing things like tissue regrowth, repair injuries, make a new lung or liver etc.
A new ape from Turkey and the radiation of late Miocene hominines
> Taking a 20% cut for a bit of hosting and payment processing work is pretty greedy

What would be a reasonable cut? Looking at other content platforms, this doesn't really seem out of line: https://www.theverge.com/21445923/platform-fees-apps-games-b...
Most developers don't work for big tech. Y'all in that SV bubble.
PiP, the one feature of youtube that I did not want (in the majority of cases) but got anyway.

edit: Sorry for the snark. I think that maps are probably doable with pointer events (https://caniuse.com/?search=pointer) and Android is doing pretty well in terms of Web Bluetooth https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/web-bluetooth/blob/main/im...
They aren’t allocating 2/3 of monetary donations to blood drives.

Running blood drives is a major part of their mission, it’s also largely self sustaining because they are selling the blood.
along with a thousand forgotten 'testing' accounts , and however many blackhats have figured things out -- sure.
I'm not sure, but they ended up closing shop.
Yes. The alternative is having politicians and beaurocrats fighting about all the little details of who gets what.

It’s not about being fair, it’s about keeping the politicians out of it as much as possible. It costs very little money to let the 1% get theirs, because by definition there just aren’t very many of them. Thats a tiny price to pay for the major advantage of less political football.
It’s a Dilbert reference, I presume intentional
That scene (Extras S1E6) is top 20 comedic scenes of all time.
I'm sorry, but this comment is a perfect example of why combating this behavior is so tough. And I don't mean to pick on you—this POV is demonstrated throughout the comments here.

Sexual harassment is wrong and should result in appropriate action. However, the absolute breathless hysterics—and frankly dishonesty—that result in these conversations fundamentally undermines the credibility of every single allegation that comes forward.

A man commits sexual harassment by making an advance while putting a hand on a woman's shoulder. It then gets exaggerated at every level: it's assault, then it's groping, then it's sexual assault, then he's a "rapist" and this is "dangerous" and and "act of violence."

When you unleash this tornado of hyperbole, you condition everyone who hears your message to assume that such allegations are always exaggerated and dishonest. And again, it's not just you personally: the OP surveys intentionally conflating "harassment or assault" are just as fundamentally insane.

This messaging tells every single person who might end up on one of my juries that they shouldn't believe a word out of the victim's mouth.

So yeah. I guess if you really care about holding people accountable, maybe try not intentionally sabotaging the attempts to do so.
Pretty interesting stuff. Although in New Zealand we had our first cyclone properly hit land this year and it absolutely obliterated whole communities and disrupted our biggest agricultural region - so I'm not sure if we'll be as unaffected in 80 years as this makes out.
> What protects the shareholders, management, and the employees?

When you say protect these entities, what risk does each of these entities endure by being part of the company?

The employees usually put their entire livelihood with the company, and, at least in the US, an employee is dependent upon the employer for pretty much all sources of income and healthcare.

The managers could be classified into two groups: one who is also beholden to their employer, much like an employee and has little to no agency in their job (low/mid level management), and the other who has an ownership-stake or large compensation which prevents a loss-of-livelihood style coercion from their employer.

Often, the second class of management blends into the shareholder group, and their will dictates the policies and objectives of the company. A rapid change in this group (e.g., through a buyout, key member dying), results in rapid changes to the livelihoods of its employees.

The shareholders risk one thing: capital. While capital is important, and can affect one’s life significantly, the shareholder has no other risk.

Personally, I’d rather protect the employees at the risk of the shareholders.

> No I am asking for a situation when the unions have an agenda of extracting maximum benefits out of the company while actively encouraging its members to put in the absolute bare minimum of effort.

Sure, in this is specific situation a company would fail. Something to note, however, is that the objective of a union is never to stop its members from making money. Doing things which would harm the company into not being competitive would necessarily harm the union’s members.

Two key differences here between a union and the owners of a company doing this (which you scoffed at in your other reply), are:

1) if performed by the owners, the profits from this maximum-extraction would go to the owners, but if performed by the union it would be self-destructive, and

2) the decision to do so would’ve been done by an elected group and never potentially at the whims of an owner (for instance, an activist investor with a desire to strip it down for parts and make more than the purchase price).

> This will in a few years time will make the company's products prohibitevly expensive due to the associated cost inflation.

There is no evidence that this would be the case, because no union has ever acted like your hypothetical union.

> think the UAW and how in gutting American car manufacturing

This isn’t true, and you’ll need to provide some evidence for me to take this claim seriously; it is much more time consuming for me to clear up B.S. than it is for someone to make it up.
> Entire civilizations of memes flourished and decayed

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"
Layperson here: Stem cells are like clay. They're very useful.

Figuring out all these fine details are likely to lead us to be able to reset our bodies and either drastically extend our lifetimes, or give us a better body in our later years.

This one step might not be part of your medical treatment anytime soon, but we're unlocking fundamental knowledge that we will be wielding, and we don't yet know how powerful that will be.

I believe this (human aging and longevity, biomed) is the most important work.
That's fine, you can want to be treated like shit if you like it. I know I'd greatly prefer not being under draconian rules and getting things like OT pay so that when I'm forced to work 80-hour weeks I actually benefit from it. You do you.
You are discriminating based on sex, that's all.
On Iteration and Lean Thinking
Our Products
I'm not religious but one of my coworkers goes to a megachurch a few miles from where I live.

I looked up their web site and they have 14 different people listed as "pastor."

It looks like it is divided up between a senior ministry team, adult and family ministers, care, college, music, sports, student ministries. Then there are about 30 elders and another 50 deacons.

I just looked at the satellite photos and they have 6 separate soccer fields. The youth and sports are big parts of it. They have 10 different youth sports and 8 for adults. Multiple summer camps.

I would never join anything like this but I would also never join a fraternity or sorority. It seems like you're paying a group to be friends with you but it is their money so whatever.
This feels a little victim blaming. Those two things shouldn't be an issue at all.
They are a necessity for subclasses though, especially when subclassing from an external library that will likely change underneath you.
I think it's mostly due to these specific localities.

Countryside with no specific preservation rules and more favorable arrangements are plenty. They will have better chance to see new people moving in, or have better land reuse policies, leaving few empty homes in the first place.
Some other HN'er said it far better than I ever could but I can't find the comment, something like 'Photography and painting are how we decorate planes, sculpture and architecture are how we decorate volume and music is how we decorate time'.

It really resonated (pun intended) with me, that's very much how I perceive it. And you can decorate time in all kinds of ways just like you can with planes or volumes.
They kind of are. Of course all countries use propaganda, and the US is at least as guilty as most.

But Russia has a famous history of issuing a constant stream of outright lies. It has a name, маскировка "maskirovka". It goes far past the literal meaning of "camouflage", to the point where a continuous disinformation is used to hide the notion that there might even be such a thing as truth. The idea is to make lying a reflex, in the hope of confusing an enemy into making a mistake.

(It also causes your own side to make mistakes. The idea is that the Russian people themselves are used to it, but simply have a somewhat nihilistic approach to any kind of official speech and even unofficial speech.)

As I said, every country uses deception. But the Russians really do consider it a cultural trait of its own, meriting its own name. The Wikipedia article doesn't even begin to cover it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception
I don't trust CA's, but having two points of weakness in this chain isn't better than having one.