skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GA4, the latest version of Google Analytics, is attempting to improve its respect for user privacy. However, the main issue, cookie-based tracking, is still months away from being rolled out. And the method Google has developed to replace it is not without criticism.

GA4 is also quite difficult to use. It has not been fully UX-tested, and lacks a lot of simple quality-of-life features that the previous version had (like percentages on table data, easier filtering, easier segmentation, etc).

There are lots of alternatives. I would only consider GA4 currently if you are reliant on its broader ecosystem of connections, like Google Ads, Merchant Centre, etc. If you need these systems and the event tracking GA4 empowers them with then you're probably stuck with Google.

If not, try the alternatives, there's a lot of them now and it'd be great to see some get more support so that can properly compete with Google.
How much -- not whether -- something is natural is determined by the statistical processes that make the thing. "Appeal to nature fallacy" misses that critical point.
There aren't huge rat problems in the US, and having to clean out the sink drain filter multiple times per day is a disgusting waste of time.

I split my time between Germany and the US and the lack of a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink is a constant annoyance. (It's nothing to do with fatty foods; the reasoning provided seems like a red herring.)
Not everyone lives in a city. 'Refactoring' the planet is a pipe dream in the short term. It's not possible in the timeframe being discussed. People in the larger thread suggest that its better to get the dying over with now since it'll happen anyway. When food stops moving, it'll be the cities that fall first. A bicycle won't help.
They mainly use Excel spreadsheets, but Excel supports add-ons in Typescript now (haven't tried building one though). This is data like invoices, bank transactions, accounting postings, cost center data, cost center mappings, income statement, balance sheet.
If I had to guess, it's because they have actual reporters on the ground getting shot at and killed, unlike many other media outlets who count on heresay and statements.

You realize that all media/press is backed by something, right?

Do you prefer click-baity ridden press looking for ad revenue instead? Or media as a business
where they avoid reporting anything controversial that would hurt their business/image/relationships/backers.
Are you mis-loading them? Unusually hard water? Wrong detergent?

Every surface you want washed needs line-of-sight to a sprayer, so it's quite possible to load a dishwasher in a way that doesn't work properly.

Certain things are particularly sticky. People used to make glue out of fish for a reason; the one thing I will pre-wash off plates is fish skin.
I'd argue for the opposite - we need strong standards and some methods to strictly enforce them. Governments could do that but the level of incompetency and politics are huge roadblocks
I don't see how that relates to the question of "does Mathematica allow users to define simplification rules?"
But number of affected people and the scale of impact was also on another order of magnitude.
Moreover, that tool depended on private companies that operated without any oversight. It’s a very different situation for exploits (although I agree that they often end up in the wrong hands)

NSO is probably one of the worst offenders when it comes to screening their clients. This raises ethical issues. It was a factor for me and many of my former colleagues.
However, for every abusive operation that gets exposed, there are many legitimate ones conducted by democratic governments. I think we are far from a mass-surveillance scenario, and those exploits are not as widely available as the media might portray.
What will be the browser engine used? Any website/page where this is more detailed?
I uninstall edge from my laptop when bing search started to open a chatGPT prompt instead of showing me related links.
I've wondered for a while. Lots of people seem to think a Carrington Event will simply fry all small electronics and make everything stop working, but from my understanding all it'll actually do is cause power surges in long transmission lines and disrupt wireless signals. Apparently telegraph lines sparked and shocked people. So what effect will that actually have now? Will a massive power surge go through my house and destroy everything plugged in, and thus indirectly my desktop computer? Will every house on the grid catch fire, destroying all modern cities? Or will substations and transformers be destroyed but shield homes themselves from catastrophic damage? Will wildfires destroy every forest anywhere near modern infrastructure?
You can do TOTP on any general purpose computer.
It's called GDS Transport[0] and it's custom version of New Transport (for digital use) that's based on the original Transport font designed in the 1950s.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface)
Everything You Need to Know about the Raspberry Pi 4
You are totally right, the whole statement is ironically antisemitism here on Hacker News: Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg and Israel.... what is the connection. It's clear the poster is on X/Twitter and you can see what Elons behaviour perpetuates.

Elon Musk doesn't know how the advertising business works, get's rid of moderation and let's banned people back. Which obviously leads to an increase of antisemitism on Twitter and the ADL justly fights against it.

Now after the lawsuit this guy thinks: Elon is a genius, it must be the jews who control the media who have prejudices against Elon and his management.
Visualizing the CPython release process
I'm surprised at the amount of negativity in the comments. I use several of the tools and they are great. They do one thing well and don't have the feature bloat that a lot of apps suffer from.
Unix V7 had virtual memory, at least, I can remember the PDP-11 disk unit throwing itself around violently when somebody started nroff.
Ramping up is the only way to do a carbon tax. Also because it would encourage a

- bigger increase in R&D and

- bigger reduction in long term projects that emit carbon

Decisions are made on a decades long timeframe. An immediate high tax would penalize old decisions, a gradual tax does more to shape new decisions
It's sort of a physical impossibility. If your kettle is limited to 1500W, it's always going to be slower than a kettle operating at 3000W.
Will check
Bit boom houm though
A couple of years ago I verified that they really only just looked for *.edu.* in the domain part of the email address. I could easily enroll with something like john@edu.my.domain.com . I reported it but they didn't give a damn.
More powerful does not necessarily means better. Vivaldi indeed allows much more customization, but for my tab-heavy browsing pattern Edge's (and now Brave's) way suits much more. For example some things I don't like in Vivaldi:

- No colors. In Edge/Brave new color is auto-assigned when creating new tab group and can be overridden at any time.

- When tab group is expanded, the group name/header is not shown. When you have many groups with similar tabs they are much less visually distinct from each other.

- Moving new tab to one of previous collapsed groups can be easily done via context menu in Edge. In Vivaldi you'll have to expand the group and drag the tab.

These are all minor inconveniences but together they make a big difference.
Not even we understand ourselves. I wonder if it's even possible for a machine to do it. And if it is possible and we manage to create this machine, there's still the problem of explaining us to ourselves.
Wasm needs to call into JS to do things like manipulate the DOM and use browser APIs, there's an overhead involved.
I’ve used the Borland IDEs, JetBrains, Visual Studio, VS Code, and Eclipse. Of those all are fine except Eclipse.

Though if I had to rate them I would put JetBrains IDEA at the top because the refactoring capabilities are so good.
IQ isn’t a real measure of anything
DLUs solve the wrong problem.

You actually want autolayout, so that different languages only need translations and otherwise don't need almost any extra work.

Linux has, I think, proved, that fixed window sizes are needless.
I like this. I feel like it conveys proportional relative intervals visually as well, so it’s teaching you patterns correlated in audio and visual geometry
I don't buy this cynical take. The current water treatment plants are much more complicated than a simple septic system which lack economies of scale and can still lead to ground water pollution.

Also, we've apparently transitioned from waste water being something that had to be dealt with to an actual asset. It can be cleaned to partial usage (and used for agriculture) or directed to help refill specific aquifers.
Programming languages try very hard to be backward compatible so every feature you add is an eternal commitment.
The whole notion of "memory" in LLM research solves this problem.
>> stomping on concrete

You mention it almost in passing but really this is exactly what makes running so high impact and what negates millions of years of adapted shock absorption.

There are ongoing debates about whether modern running shoes allow "heel strike" running rather than using the ball of one's foot to hit the ground, so - perhaps - modern running shoes are themselves enabling a maladapted and higher impact running technique. This is far from settled though as I understand it.
Classic Meta.
Especially the features we don't consider. Try replacing your "ls" command with the one found in the original Unix, sure it's 90% smaller, or more, but I guarantee that it doesn't do colors.
I had always thought they had some sort of special treatment but wasn't sure of their social status. I found a bit on that:

https://www.quora.com/Where-specifically-did-the-Crusaders-c...

"Most seem to think they were warrior monks, or high ranking nobles or poor peasants. In some cases that’s correct, but on the whole often not the case.

Most who fought in the holy land and there were other places where they had crusades, were usually lower nobles, knightly class or franklin, usually richer farmers. They weren’t poor peasants, but they were no rich kings either. They were often people who could barely afford to travel accross the land and have some equipment. Not for nothing did the Byzantine empire get pillaged sometimes.

Picture them as mostly young men of upper middle class background, basically comparable to your modern day average college or university brat. They were relatively well off, but not exactly rich upper class either. Basically up and coming social climbers."
While they did not respond to your report. They currently definitely make it hard to pull something like this, as they will ask for real docs to prove that you are a student.
I agree that it's quite difficult to use. I have no ties to the Google ecosystem so I can move.
Osmocom SIMtrace 2
Yeah, or inhaling the few thousand years of bone dust etc. in environments with minimal to no air flow.
Oh no it wasn't, I remember a 3 day LAN that I went to where we were on the LAN file sharing software (DC++ or something like that I think).

Bunch of people were sharing cracked games/cracks for games and can't remember which game it was now, but there was quite a popular one. Unfortunately it came with something extra and people were finding their PCs were slowing down to a crawl, blue screening, simply not turning on anymore, etc.
Al Jazeera is really reliable, much more than American media companies. People should first do research on this, before they start spreading those BS ideas.

Since 9/11 Americans can't trust anything with an "arabic background", they are constantly bombarded by the media, so they can't ever discover that the middle east is much more than a place with oil or "weapons of mass destruction".

Al Jazeera hires top journalists, they are well-funded. They are just very concerned when talking about Qatar, which in a geopolitical sense, doesn't matter, all other news are typically very unbiased.

Only a few news outlets from Europe are similar in quality.

Americans rarely want to see the truth anyways, so they stick with those republican/democrat-leaning media outlets, eating Mc Donalds, going bankrupt on a hospital emergency and believing in the American dream: you need to be asleep to believe on it.
Do you have a source for your assertions about the Irish property market? Like, as a landlord in Ireland you'll pay 52% tax on your rental income, and while you can claim tax relief on the interest, it doesn't make a lot of financial sense to borrow relatively expensive money for rentals.

It made a lot more sense 10 years ago, but the data would seem to suggest that it's not a massive driver of sales right now.

Like the Irish property market is insane right now, but I suspect that much more of the rental purchases are driven by small investment companies as that makes much, much more sense from a tax and overall expense purposes.
> Israel - like all countries - deserves criticism, no?

Maybe go look up Jonathan Pollard. If Israel is our close friend, why would they need to spy on us?

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

https://www.military.com/history/jonathan-pollard-was-one-of...
GitHub sent you a letter? What does their letterhead look like? What'd they put for a return address? How much postage was on it?

Seriously though, MFA may be annoying, but that's nothing compared to a credential-stuffing hacker taking over your account.

Spend a few bucks on a Yubico Yubikey. You'll be glad you did.
Any examples for incredibility and misleading reporting by them?
It's not dishonest, because the accusation that Twitter has lost its ads revenue due to ADL is bollocks. And when such accusations are so unreasonable, given everything else that happened (e.g., Twitter's workforce plummeting, unblocking far right accounts, or Elon Musk not able to keep his mouth shut), one has to consider antisemitism.
> On June 28, 2001, the Circuit Court overturned Judge Jackson's rulings against Microsoft. This was partly because Jackson had improperly discussed the case with the news media while it was still in progress, violating the Code of Conduct for American judges.[24] The Circuit Court judges accused Jackson of unethical conduct and determined that he should have recused himself from the case.

Lol.
> I wonder how a state sponsored propaganda outlet came to be regarded well among global audiences.

Speaking personally, as an ex-journalist I found their English-language coverage generally to be pretty well-balanced and well reported - so that's probably why. And I came to them with a pretty sceptical eye. I've heard that their arabic language stories are rather different - but I don't have a way of checking that for myself.
Talking about cool things in a little more depth than social posts.

And yes, I agree; it is getting too crowded :(
Ask HN: How to find digital marketing team that deliver great results?
Some websites that are not even 6 months old are getting tons of traffic. For example, https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatpdf.com/#overview. I am just wondering how this business is able to do it. How did they get such great traffic and how did they find the team that can deliver results to this level?
> Nintendo consoles seem to provide the experience you're looking for. Clean and curated games with no ads or subscriptions.

This mostly matches my experience, for example Nintendo Switch occasionally gets some critique for being a bit dated (apparently a new version is in the works), but it feels like a step up from mobile gaming and has all sorts of great games, from Legend of Zelda to Animal Crossing and even well made ports from other platforms.

That said, there are also free games that do have aspects of monetization, but I think it's easy enough not to save card details or anything like that.

Honestly, I kind of wish the first Switch generation would hang around for longer and developers would keep making well optimized games for it.
Allegedly Al Jazeera English is much more reasonable and balanced than Arabic Al Jazeera. Unfortunately that's a claim that basically relies on trust - i.e. an Arabic speaker with cultural knowledge willing to be unbiased in their analysis. I suspect it is true though, Qatar is not a pleasant country and certainly not a democracy.
> Red flag here, this seems like a super misleading and bogus comparison.

I don't think so. It's still a 1 in 3 chance of earning less with a college degree than without. It's useful to show how much overlap there is.

You could also argue that the bottom third of college graduates might also be the bottom earners without a degree, but at some point, you have to work with the real numbers that you do have, instead of hypotheticals.

To improve the article, one could have plotted the income distributions, so that readers can draw their own conclusion about risks.
good to know it was on the sarcastic side :)
Part of the answer is simply that a large fraction of the US government is Jewish. E.g. according to the White House, their staff (everything from stenographers and secretaries, to labor relations representatives and foreign policy experts) is 32% Jewish (2.4% of US population), 44% ethnic minority (about even with US), and 24% non-Jewish White (55% of US)

Sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119693
Hell even online multiplayer games are waning, there's just nothing good anymore that isn't "free to play" and every game is desperately trying to create its own ecosystem to "make it big".

The last decent one I played was among us, and that was only during the pandemic. Simple gameplay, no dlc, accounts, microtransactions (at that point at least).

Now when I have people over we just break out a ps1/xbox/360...
> (Thankfully full-blown simulation is often an option nowadays too)

Yes, and I think its fair to assume that some backend to execute the x86-64 Linux ABI will out-live most readers.

Projects like https://justine.lol/ape.html, https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.... or https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle do make it approachable to "bundle" a lot of software down to libc.
Ask HN: How do I find a coding mentor outside of work?
For background, I have been in the iOS space for nearly 10 years, am self-taught, and have solo-built two App Store "App of the Day" apps.

However, despite these the App Store validations, I often find myself unable to convincingly answer system design questions, or coding questions designed for someone at my level in interviews.

I would really like to get better at my craft, and collab. with respected engineering leaders. However, it seems that these experiences are nearly exclusive to work settings.

Without being able to get my foot in, I can't gain the mentoring experience and can only do learn from non-interactive resources like YT videos or books and make incremental improvements. I have found this both limiting and frustrating.

Modern software engineering is very much a classic apprenticeship set up, and I would love to find mentors. How do I do this?
The topic of dishwashers comes up regularly on HN and it's always the same, comments are mostly filled by people complaining about dishwashers not working well, environmental regulation, etc.

I assume most people who don't actually have a problem just don't comment.

Anyway, for another datapoint I have a rather recent dishwasher (in the EU) and it works about as well as the older dishwasher I had before, or the one my parents had 20 years ago. It does take 4 hours to run a load, which is fine, I've always run my dishwashers at night so I'm not even sure how long it took the others.

So I don't think they're getting worse. But as a sibling comment said, I wish the buttons were more responsive, not sure why it takes about two seconds for the thing to wake up after pressing the power button.
The traditional Unix IO model broke with the Berkeley sockets API introduced in 1982. The obvious "Unix" way to handle a TCP connection concurrently was to fork() a separate process servicing the connection synchronously, but that doesn't scale well with many connections. Then they introduced non-blocking sockets and select(), then poll(), and now Linux has its own epoll. All these "async programming models" are ultimately based on that system API.
What you're describing as pre-programming is a little misleading if the "pre-programming" doesn't need to change for each specific request: a real product would provide that "pre-programming" for the user.

Prompting for task performance is fine as long as you're not expecting the end user to have to replicate your prompting. Your goal is to change model activations for a given input, the end user is similarly affected regardless of if you used a prompt or fine-tuned.

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This task doesn't require fine-tuning though, zero-shot performance is enough:

I generated a mock schema from Home Assistant's API (https://data.home-assistant.io/docs/states/) and explicitly gave the model the option to ask for clarification, but it has no problem translating non-obvious commands into actions without asking for details:

https://chat.openai.com/share/fc5b972f-4641-47a1-9842-2e0d69...

Note those objects mirror Home Automation, you could hook that up today without any song and dance. Combine that with RAG and you'd have something that's a lot more useful than Siri and capable of improving performance over time.
Nothing wrong with that.

Mindustry (a tower defense factorio supcom-ish game) follows a similar model. Its paid on Steam, its free and GPLv3 on GitHub (and Android), and there don't seem to be many complaints about it.

IMO more closed source devs need to follow this model, or the "open source but proprietary" model that's working for Barotrauma.
> Beside that the mere cost of a metro respect of "glorified electric golf cart" for a less dense are is ENORMOUS and no, it does not pay up.

I think you missed or added some words there, so it's not very clear what you were trying to say. The cost/benefit of metros stacks up, that's why cities build them - not necessarily in terms of value that can be captured by charging fares, but certainly in terms of overall benefit.

> Not only why keep moving in a city?

Because the agglomeration effect still works; the more people within a 30 minute commute range, the more useful stuff they can do in less time. Again people wouldn't pay what it costs to live in a megacity if it wasn't worth it.

> Most activities there are doable from remote, just cutting such commuting to move only for pleasure and the reaming needs is FAR cheaper.

If there's less need for commuting then surely by your own argument that makes the case for living in a big city stronger, since there'll be less need for underground metros.

> In most of the world life expectancy in cities is LESS than outside by few years

Is that after controlling for wealth?

> gut microbes are far less in people living in dense area

Is that good or bad?

> not to count pollution effects.

Pollution is important though. The more you can walk or cycle, and more generally the lower the per capita energy use, the less pollution and the better for human health.
Everyone is writing software too, but that doesn't stop us from making money :)
> In a short time you are left with durable cook and glassware that the dishwasher can clean by itself.

While I quite like this Darwinistic approach, I've not actually had this problem other than with printed or gilded patterns. Although I need a better solution for my grandmother's EPNS spoons.