skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first place my mind went was “yoga mat chemical,” where a GRAS food-grade additive used in Subway bread was also commonly used as as an industrial plasticizer, and this connection, when seized upon by some media-savvy activists, was enough to get Subway to discontinue its use.

But yeah, hydrazine is not that.
The #1 barrier in front of me for being a good engineer in my career has been my employer :)

They arrange things in such a way that all other options other than "shitty engineering" are thoroughly eliminated.

Many companies are not interested in good engineering. At least if they admitted it I'd be way less bitter about it. The insult to the injury is when they insist on pretending like they are into engineering.
Not true. American living in Vietnam, not necessary to link with Vietnamese ID or phone number.
Ask HN: Can the US take in all Israelis and Ukrainians to end two major wars?
Wouldn't making all these people US citizens and having them live in the US end two major wars?
you're making a lot of assumptions in bad faith. why?

Maybe they just don't want all of their personal information to be stored in yet another database waiting to be leaked.
A few things.

1. GOOGL is the voting share stock ticker, not GOOG. GOOG is nothing more than class c shares.

2. Search as a line item is more than 50%, but search is not searching, searching itself provides not much value, ads are where Google makes its money.

3. A stock being near all time high has no indication that it's a company that is "swirling the tank". Often a stock does not decrease until after a series of bad earnings/negative outlook. But with that said, there is no evidence at the moment that Google is not doing great.
Every country has some degree of homeopathic cures. What makes the US particularly stand out is that people integrate homeopathic bullshit as a replacement for proper medical care and treatment. It's been a long standing problem heightened over the past few years as certain groups grow in cultish fervor.
That's frankly sensible? There are three hundred+ countries on earth, to monitor all of their "fake networks" would take an organization like the CIAs. It's like saying its greed that Apple doesn't solve the family issues of all their workers. its not reasonable.
Thanks! In our testing, Firefox is about 40% slower than Chromium-based browsers or Safari. Would be interesting to know what the performance was like with Chromium on that device! https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
Here’s a quick summary of the main points, I copied from the deleted Wired article [0].

Something important about it is this article, by Megan Gray was in Wired’s Opinion section which usually means the writer has more freedom to express their own opinions, and Wired does not claim this it is accurate reporting. But still it was removed.

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.

RECENTLY, A STARTLING piece of information came to light in the ongoing antitrust case against Google. During one employee’s testimony, a key exhibit momentarily flashed on a projector … [1]

This onscreen Google slide had to do with a “semantic matching” overhaul to its SERP algorithm. When you enter a query, you might expect a search engine to incorporate synonyms into the algorithm as well as text phrase pairings in natural language processing. But this overhaul went further, actually altering queries to generate more commercial results …

The “10 blue links,” or organic results, which Google has always claimed to be sacrosanct, are just another vector for Google greediness …

Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all …

[0] Complete article here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802265

[1] A link to the actual slide, that she saw. This image was supplied later by Google apparently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802302

Edit: my opinion is Google should respond to the accusations. Removal of the article without a detailed explanation looks real bad for Google and also for Wired
The language extensions feature is designed to provide these kinds of facilities is it not?
I've got this setup with a Brother ADS-1700W scanner, which can write directly to a network share over wifi. Paperless-ngx is running on my NAS which hosts the share as well.
Hi! Thanks for your feedback!

- You can put a book title on the homepage https://whattoreadafter.xyz and see recommendations about what to read after.

- Sorry, what is wrong with "Chick Lit"? Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at young women.

- yes, it's made on purpose to give you les broad recommendations. For example, you can look for horror, science fiction and fantasy with Christmas storyline.
You can also make several searches, if you want to discover more books with different storyline elements.
This person is not employed by DuckDuckGo. They formerly worked there, and not for a couple of years. We had nothing to do with this op-ed.
> Crypto does have utility, but there's only room for one: bitcoin.

Except that Bitcoin is very expensive to actually use and isn't private by default.

That Bitcoin is the only one with value is only wishful thinking from the Bitcoin maximalists.
As an American living in Vietnam I use a number of these apps, particularly Shopee, Grab, Zalo. Also used Naver a lot when I lived in Seoul. Except for Grab, which is a legit super app, I'd rather use American tech because it's just better. Tech talent in these markets is lacking and they're all chasing the examples already set by big US tech rather than innovating their own stuff.
I feel like it's just much more likely that a love triangle will end up with unbalanced weights than a love pair. Kind of by definition.

And in a world where the relationship is procreative, the multi-decade long shared task demands stability.
If you're a founder or just someone who wants to be inspired, read his book 'Total Recall'. It's a fantastic story of his life and I came away really motivated reading it.
> a Seqable object that will invoke the body only the first time seq
is called, and will cache the result and return it on all subsequent
seq calls.

To guarantee "only the first time", I suppose you need to have some kind of synchronization at some level.
At the end of the day, it’s a database still wholly dependent on the correctness of the data being inputted. The blockchain Rube Goldberg machine cannot solve for that physical to digital interface. A MS Access database with a checksum would be every bit as valid a solution to the problem you’ve outlined at a fraction of the complexity.
Without it, life as we know it is not possible.
Show HN: Tiny jQuery alternative with inline Locality of Behavior
Just curious, would you need something completely new to show up, or would a well-funded, openly-governed fork of Firefox work?
I don't get to meet the people who spend time on HN. But I'm curious: who doesn't see the value in _critically_ reading long-term thinking over a wide range of future scenarios?

Too busy coding? Reading about something for _your_ career? In service of _your_ family? Trying to get ahead? Yeah, I get it. But tell me: isn't thinking long-term worth something akin to a few hours a month?

You don't need to be doom-and-gloom about it. Sure, get stuff done. Be in the moment. All good.

Wouldn't it be nice to have some confidence that we're setting up future generations to have the possibility to at least have what we do, if not better?

P.S. FWIW, the morality of valuing future generations is _not_ properly addressed by most moral philosophies.
It doesn't have any builds for any open OS.
Arnold kept inspiring people from all walks of life that through hard work you can, in the case of body building quite literally, shape your own reality.

I’d call that being useful.
Crypto had the ability to improve on both gold and cash though.
Why would Israelis need to flee their homeland? They can easily achieve victory.
True BASIC by Kemeny and Kurtz
> generally have them cocreate features with me

Sounds like a product design interview not PM.

Without any product discovery all you can learn is if a PM has domain knowledge and taste, neither of which a PM would provide alone in a real product team.
I am pretty confident you and I could do it with no manual and just vibes. The satisfaction when you got it all running and star control II finally ran is perm burned into my base brain programming.
History

We know what Mozilla will do with it - not ideal but it's the devil we know

We have no idea what Brave will do with it

My personal heuristics around VC backed companies (Having been a CEO with venture backing, an LP in a venture fund, a director in a publicly traded company etc...) is the following:

There do not exist PE backed companies that will take actions that conflict with an even theoretical reduction in potential ROI.

Leaders lose long term control of their companies to VC the moment they sign the term sheet

So I have zero faith that anyone who aligns themselves to profit making, will not harm either the customers or the employees that are involved in favor for the people providing the capital.
Y Combinator beefs up with a string of new lieutenants
I don’t understand how Google makes more money if I click on the organic links.
It only seems to solve it in theory. However in a world of centralized mining where devs have high influence on how forks are treated, the double spend problem is still a problem. This is because what distinguishes forks can be their “validity”, not their proof-of-work, and fork validity is decided by humans and subject to politics and fraud.
They would be able to live in peace in an amazing country.
Their marketing page loaded absurdly fast
The cat is out of the bag on this one. Can't be 100% stopped or shutdown.

Many have tried stopping it for 15 years and unfortunately they are still wasting their time trying to do so.
This discussion is partly about how Google alters search results to increase revenue. It would stand to reason that they might also improve their stock price and search revenue by doing this, while also degrading search quality.

As for why their market share has not degraded as a result, it is likely that the folks currently prosecuting Google for antitrust violations have the best argument for why this might be so.
> many tools that tried to solve that problem back in the day (Flash, Spline, etc.) don't suffice these days. If you can emulate the look and feel of a hand drawn animation without requiring 1 year+ from your artists to produce content, there's an entry point.

Studios still use Flash (now called Adobe Animate) to create great looking art very quickly. I think Massive Monster used Flash for Cult of the Lamb. Klei still uses this process:

https://youtu.be/8_KBjd0iaCU?si=J1jL6fXVkvkXjWy_

But it definitely requires skill and drawing many frames: just not as many as flipbook animation.
I installed KiCad 7 on Ubuntu using Snap.

But my KiCad files are on a harddrive that is not my "/" drive, and Snap doesn't allow KiCad to read those files. I tried with a bind mount, but then the symlinks in my project files don't work ...

Now I'm thinking of compiling everything myself, but it seems a daunting task.
Hacker News: 1000 bird hackers unsucessfully attempt to circumvent Chicago Convention center glass-wall.
yes, it's made on purpose to give you les broad recommendations. For example, you can look for horror, science fiction and fantasy with Christmas storyline. You can also make several searches, if you want to discover more books with different storyline elements. Or you can skip this section to consider everything.
I'm very surprised water products like this weren't required to undergo rigorous testing for toxic chemicals.
Imagine these companies closing down any offices they have in Canada due to C-11 and C-18? Damn that would be funny....

Google/META "sorry we have to close our Canadian Operations and lay off all 33 employees".

On a tangent, I love that this backfired, the whole Canadian Media thing is so corrupt. All 3 Amigo's, Rogers, Bell and Telus (all telco's), during NAFTA 2.0 bought Trudeau and he awarded them "Canadian Media Designation" so they would never have to worry about USA competition ever. Now Canadians can enjoy the highest telco fees in the entire world....
Cryptocurrencies are scams in much the same way MLM schemes are scams. Everyone knows what they’re buying into. But their expectations of outcomes are greatly skewed by the vested interests of existing participants.
Other ways will be added soon
Did you try it?

I did. It takes basic characters and creates a generic outline story arc using Campbell's hero myth, then creates basic text for each step of the story. Nothing fancy. To turn it into something meaningful, you would need to edit, which comes a lot easier to people (myself, for sure) than starting from a blank page.

What I want this app to do is let me give more input into the basic story, so the outline is for the story I want to tell, not so generic. I would try this, and welcome the assist.
> Maybe it’s overvalued though…

I think the problems started when people started treating crypto currencies as investments instead of, well, currencies. I think the BTC jump from low 100s into 6 digits territory is probably what precipitated the craze, making a lot of people go berserk and spawned a whole cottage industry.
Thanks. I need more coffee.
You are talking about settlement times of Bitcoin transactions.
Yes, those take 10 minutes at best, or roughly around an hour if you want to be very confident that the funds have settled. Settlement times on dollars is generally 3 days at best.

The lightning network on top of Bitcoin gives you credit card speed transaction times, with settlement still happening on the Bitcoin layer in minutes not days.
It’s a default action of mine.

In my mind, if I don’t know what to work on at any given time, I default to working on self-improvement.

If I’m feeling overwhelmed or confused, I default to self-improvement. This could mean anything from going on a long walk or run, to reading a book, to sitting and reflecting in boredom. It could take 30 minutes or I could devote weeks or months, in some cases, to it.
Creating explainer videos takes hours and if I make one mistake I can do it all over again! Therefore I created a way to solve this.
> No one is hiding the fact that by buying crypto, you are exchanging your legal working currency for nothing more than an entry in a database with no real guarantees of any kind --- legal or otherwise

You just described the modern banking system. Yes, the government will give you guarantees for your stored funds to some extent, but when shit hits the fan, you are on your own (example 2008 financial crisis).

> All crypto really does is provide a quasi-viable excuse to entice people to lie to themselves about economic reality and what we call "money".

The same can be applied to the modern stock market. How many top players bring actual value, are sustainable, and can live more than 6 months without pumping stocks (and company valuation) through social media nonsense and other accounting tricks?
Sesame seed-sized radar senses movements a fraction of the width of a hair
Why not take in all the Palestinians?
Thanks for the feedback! Some improvements are on the way! :)
There aren’t enough John Carmack submissions. He has great insight and has lived quite a full life in the industry.
Thank you for that package! I was using that at first but then switched to the emacs 29 code.
I am willing to believe that, in this particular instance, there is no evil intent behind the rewrite of search terms.

Having said that, the fact that Google goes back and forth on whether they respect the use of quotes to search for literal results doesn't make them any favors.

If I wanted to do what the article claims Google did, I would do precisely what Google is doing. So no surprises there.
It exists everywhere in some form. Germany is famous for have homeopathic MDs. Much of Asia is filled with some style of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the US it exists in mostly the wealthier circles where people can afford to believe in snake oil.

I believe there are definitely certain components/compounds that exist in nature that have been used successfully but I think that dwarfs the vast amount of fake supplements and drugs that exist.
>A Highly Accurate and Sensitive mmWave Displacement-Sensing Doppler Radar With a Quadrature-Less Edge-Driven Phase Demodulator

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10107746
https://www.guardianglass.com/us/en/our-glass/guardian-bird1...
A few years ago, my wife was taking photos of spectral lines of a mercury lamp with our normal camera and she noticed an additional line in the photo. It was an UV line that was visible by the camera but not by the eye.

[IIRC a Cannon camera, not very expensive or fancy. It was very good taking photos of dark rooms during birthdays.]

Edit: Fixed typo IV -> UV
$2 a liter is not out of line for 'normal' fancy water - that's around the cost of fiji or evian.

Your point stands... that's a ridiculous $$$ for water, but we've been conditioned for a long time that that price point is 'reasonable'.
Hence the dollar is not pinned to the price of gold.
> Fox News will always be free, that's the point.

As will CNN, MSNBC, etc. Your (un?)intentional omission of left-leaning sites, ironically, reads like propaganda.
I don't know about you, but I usually don't have time to do rigorous testing on every food item I buy from the grocery store. Life is busy these days. /s

---

It'd be nice to live in a society where common, basic food and drink products designed to be consumed by humans and sold in your local grocery store have some sort of safety guarantee.

E.g. Someone checked for toxic chemicals
We have success with post-it notes. Very cheap, and provides respite from birds breaking their necks outside our windows.
I doubt they would be charged criminally in any western nation. Not sure what you are thinking.
Also DLT, which was sold to Quantum and beget LTO, which is what stores our civilization's data if we need to do serious disaster recovery (as in when all stand-by replicas die at the same time and we need to restore it from off-site tapes).
Nintendo would have had a hell of a time censoring firearms from videogames. Nudity, slavery, narcotics, and alcohol are easy; violence and firearms form the basis of many/most popular video games.

Probotector is Contra @50Hz with all humans replaced by robots, but still lots of firearms and violence.
should I abandon rails and jump onto blazor?
My favorite is when you fight and fight and fight, looking for something and then you finally manage to narrow the results down to what you wanted, and it says (right above the correct result):

"It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search"

Good job, Goog!

I remember when it was new, and one of the killer features was the dead-simple "innovation" of having AND searches instead of OR. To this day, I think that any search engine that queried based upon the exact provided search terms would eat their lunch. Probably not, but I would like it.
After watching the video, I agree with that summarization of Rich's arguments. Building AI so humanity can go gently into that good night seemed very much the theme of that talk.

What is your take on it?
Similarly, but then I realized I had never heard anyone warn me, "Stay off of Canal street. By 1pm the stench of the hundreds of bird carcasses really starts to hit you. Dead bird retrieval does not happen till 7pm."
> I'm an average software engineer in Western Europe. When I was junior (around 2010-2015) I usually got a job after submitting ~3 job applications

Your situation is actually very rare unless you are accepting bottom of the barrel offers or very well connected landing quick offers. I am also from West Europe and for me with a decade of experience it still takes 30-45+ applications because most companies(except boring ones) do not publish a salary range and doesn’t share anything until the last stage, when I realize that what they are offering is garbage. On most applications, they also ask for expectations and some just outright ghost you after or simply hope that post interview they might be able to find some “shallow experience on this specific tech we use” so I might be willing to “take a bit of cut to work with their wonderful team..”.

Also typically every interview process is loooong, on average a complete process takes 4 weeks to 2 months.

Also, some one are out right stupid and start asking me about if am open/passionate about focusing on the work instead of “counting hours and going home”(ELI5: they want unpaid off record overtime).

So shifting through many garbages to find the one(or two) golden ones is a good effort.
Rather than the 5% number (which may be the best they can do with current start of art), what feels more damning to me is that they found a method that can reduce misinformation (by way more than 5%), and then decided to rollback it.

> And this method works. In Myanmar, “reshare depth demotion” reduced “viral inflammatory prevalence” by 25% and cut “photo misinformation” almost in half.

> In a reasonable world, I think Meta would have decided to broaden use of this method and work on refining it to make it even more effective. What they did, though, was decide to roll it back within Myanmar as soon as the upcoming elections were over.
Works for me https://chat.openai.com/share/ccc08770-e72c-4a52-8058-b3e12c...
That's only a valid approach if the responder is not also an influencer.
This is wild, but I would strongly disagree on the aesthetic of it. In my opinion, he picked pretty much the worst possible car for this. Managed to make a jet-powered vehicle look... lame, somehow.

Imagine an El Camino or even an AMC Eagle with this contraption in the bed, how much cooler that would look? But really, how could you not use a Delorean as the base for this project??