skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Play Store: nonsense allegation, then app removed?
I don't care so much about the app, it's just a "I made something in Flutter, put some ads in, and see how this whole publishing an app process works". It's been up for a year, with no changes made.

I'm more a bit in disbelief that surely this can't be how the world's biggest app store operates. I couldn't imagine if this was someone's livelihood, or mission critical to their business.

I'm curious:

- has anyone had a similar experience recently?

- app content tips for how to avoid getting these type of nonsense flags?

- suggestions for how to handle the appeal process to maximise chance of a favourable outcome?

I'll just put the text of the appeal verbatim below, as it pretty much sums up the sequence of events:

"""

I'm pissed off at the incompetence of this "process" at this point.

1. I receive a notification my app is "Uploading users' Contact list information without a prominent disclosure"

2. I responded immediately with "that's impossible, my app touches no Internet endpoints besides Google ads. Please give me details I can actually do something with, and I'll address it."

3. I received a re-statement of exactly the same useless information, giving me no path forward to resolve the issues you're telling me are there

4. My app has been removed in 7 days from the initial notification, still with me having zero idea what the issue is

I've got a removed app, no actionable information, and no clue what would be required to fix the vague alleged issue I believe to be in error.

I don't know what more I can put in an "appeal". I have no specifics of what's alleged, let alone enough to form an appeal.

COMMUNICATE ACTIONABLE INFORMATION IF YOU REQUIRE AN ACTION IN RESPONSE?

Not rocket science.

"""
yeah. But a high number of pixels and a high number of minutes of battery life work against each other here.
Since it's entirely made up it's completely climate neutral[1].

[1] Other than a small amount of hot air.
Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder
Any Ideas/Suggestions are welcome :)
You have an urn of 50 red and 50 green balls. Roll a die and add a red ball for every pip. What is the probability of the next ball you take being red?

I say both can be a question in Statistics I where you calculate probabilities based on combinations.

So I'll say it depends on the level of education for how the question gets interpreted and saying those who never took Bayesian reasoning and consider n unknown are wrong gets elitist.
"Boosting cardiorespiratory fitness by only 3%"
Yeah, dude. For good reason. It’s a job with high physical risk. Everyone I know has had a workman’s comp issue or some injury or the other.

Moto X champion is a high-prestige position and I still don’t want my kids to do it. That’s not stigma. That’s called being aware of the risks.

When you’re off due to injury (like one of my friends who worked on T1 at SFO who hurt his back on the next job) it’s not great. And it takes a toll on you. That’s not stigma. That’s real. There’s no stigma. There’s just awareness of risk.

The dream is that your kids make a steady income at something they can enjoy or at least tolerate while not risking their physical health.
Safteyism is economically infeasible, and a blog post isn't going to change that.
Internet is the new story telling at the camp fire, turning humble actions into historical myths for eternity.
And in Roman times, concrete was laid in lifts like how foundation soil is handled today.

Yeah, it's more effort than just pouring a thick soup into a vibrating mould, but e.g. precast slabs could handle a non-pourable paste. The side effect of rapid hardening would also be rather easy to handle and even allows shorter mould cycle times (and thus afford more expensive moulds).

Another example would be railroad ties that could compression-mould. Those are produced in the millions per year.
Keep in mind that although the Wayback Machine (Archive.org / Internet Archive) will accept archival requests through a simple URL submission[1], Archive.Today does not and AFAIU requires at least some manual interaction to complete an archive request. Archive.Today also rate-limits submissions and will through up CAPTCHA tests if you're exceeding rates (though so long as you're retaining cookies, though seem to stay good for a while).

I've archived 100s to low 1,000s of my own personal contributions on a few online services to both sites.

For Archive Today, it is possible to expedite the archival process by generating the initial submission URL, though you'll have to complete another two steps after that point manually as I recall. If you're archiving a large set of sites, you can compile a list, generate a Web page off of that, and work through it at a pretty good clip.

________________________________

Notes:

1. The URL format being

https://web.archive.org/save/<URL-to-save>

You can submit that via a script using any HTTP request generator, e.g., curl, wget, w3m, lynx, etc.
I will look into it. Thank you very much. My current plan was to SSH and develop inside the VM/VPS. VS code's remote desktop extension makes this quite easy.
Raspberry Pi HAT+ Specification (Draft) [pdf]
Good luck with that. Devs made the iPhone a hit and Apple demonized them over it.
Can’t imagine too many are eager to make the same mistake twice.
Yes, I wonder when/if GitHub decides to drop prices at some point.

But in the meantime I’ve recently released RunsOn [1] with the same promise (10x cheaper, faster) but the whole thing runs in your AWS account.

[1] https://runs-on.com
The world can be as large as it wants to be. But there’s a reason this forum came to be in the Bay Area and not in god knows where else.
> Kirill Skrygan, who has been with JetBrains since 2010 and for the past couple of years has been leading the IntelliJ Department will be stepping up as CEO effective February 1st 2024.

He was leading IntelliJ which is a bigger project than Rider since it develops also the platform on which all the other IDEs are based.
Javalin: A simple web framework for Java and Kotlin
Unexpected that it’s possible to ski while wearing a Vision Pro (demonstrated close to the end of the WSJ video review). That’s the first time I’ve seen that Vision Pro works outside. Skiing is pretty complicated, so that implies a pretty solid display.
Some healthy subset of companies just want to hire the best people they can get that will accept their offer, and sponsoring an h1b is a small part of the overall costs.
File a chargeback with your credit card and stop using Twitter
The same way you onboard folks that are not remote, sans the awkward shuffle around the place shaking hands with strangers and being told where the toilets and fire exits are.

I’d love to hear what kind of pitfalls concern you.
The US State department provided specific authorization empowering telecom companies (incl. Starlink) to operate in Iran and disregard local restrictions. If you can smuggle a dish into the country, you can use it. But the signal wouldn’t be too hard to detect, so it’s risky.
At the top of the page there is a VAT selector. If you pick US there you see prices without VAT no matter where you are.
Tuvalu is also working on a land reclamation project that is designed to keep at least some land above the projected storm surges beyond the year 2100.
> (and if enough people opt not to live there, developers will include more parking to satisfy demand)

Factories that produce widgets can pretty quickly adjust the specs to changing demand. Houses don't work on that schedule.

If enough people want to buy a house but they need parking but those units don't exist, there is no way for developers to just change what's there to satisfy demand. That'll be a multi-decade effort.
You can reach 10x cheaper with just AWS, especially on the larger runner sizes. That is even including disk costs.

I put a calculator for RunsOn at https://runs-on.com/calculator/
:) apple doesnt even let you gdb -p unless you disable the system integrity protection
US' GDP is ~$25T, world's GDP is ~$100T [0], so $400B in revenues are respectively 1.6% of US' GDP and 0.4% of the world's. Nothing near the 5% you're referring to.

[0]: https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/
Make an iPhone appear as if it was in the EU
Here's what will happen if they do that:
A large number of universities will go under without tuition fees from international students.

Professors will leave these universities to pursue industry careers, soneven if the job market recovers the universities won't.

Without competent specialized people from the universities, US will lose the tech edge very very quickly. Cutting edge tech requires a large number of people willing to slog through several years of training.
One way to find is to google "IntelliJ community".
Font Smoothing Adjuster: re-enable font smoothing removed in macOS Big Sur
The table includes post-USSR chips too:

> Newer devices from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are listed here if they are labelled according to the Soviet integrated circuit designation.
Yeah, I think the market they're ultimately going for here is to stop having to roll out cell towers to areas where there's low population density, like rural areas, the mountain west, stuff like that. In cities, it'll always be more efficient for any given set of EM spectrum technologies to use small installed antennas within a few 100m of you than it'll be to push the same link over 500km.
Yep they weren't exactly uncommon but generally were installed at various institutions and professional schools: there was no legal way to obtain one privately. They were also (due to peculiarities of militarized planned economy) ridiculously overbuilt and costly to make. It's rather hard to find a complete DVK on the market now as most of them were reprocessed for their very substantial content of precious metals.

A factory in my hometown used to have CNC mills with these systems as controllers and they were regularly pilfered by the socialist workers. The backplane had insane amounts of gold plating (grams!) on edge connectors and boards themselves used platinum/palladium capacitors for bypass! These were stripped on the SBC specimen in my blog post above too.
Object Database
right, but that's approximately because one is less valuable modulo the adjustment period and some noise.
Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update
It'd break if you wanted to do the dumbest thing and just not stream the windows users aren't looking at; but lowering the stream resolution on the fly could work but now involves more complexity (on both sides to communicate when to adjust the resolution) and because it's not handled entirely on-device breaks the illusion of it being invisible.

I can also imagine it having some weird privacy implications; like Mac apps somehow monitoring this and tracking whether you're actually looking at them, etc.
No, this is totally allowed. If you can get more than one legit offer, you can apply more than once.

What isn't allowed is the same company applying for you through multiple subsidiaries or contracting agencies.
> Where do guests park when they come to visit?

This is indeed one of the biggest problems with such parking permit scheme.

What happens is the resident needs to move their car to the street (possibly driving around for a long while to find a spot) so the guest can park on their driveway. It's a pain for everyone involved. And you better never have a party where more than a couple people visit at once.
Create your brand identity, do marketing with ease
Because including some pieces of irrelevant information as red herrings in probability problems is totally unheard of?
AVP knows exactly which monitor you are looking at. The mac doesn't need to render all monitors at full resolution, just the one being looked at.
Have worked on "closer", think on the order of half of that.
Is it really? How fast does it settle? Does it require an extra app and extra account? Is it guaranteed to be supported by any bank? Does it charge fees? Is it widely used and trusted by people?

Seriously, I don't think people in this thread appreciate just how practical and efficient pix is. Adoption is essentially universal across the population, and we are talking about a poor country.
The lure of 'so-so technology,' and how to avoid it (2019)
Beat/imprison/murder/'re-educate' anyone who is found to be in possession of the dish?

That said the only people who will be able to afford the dish and service will likely be people who are in bed with the government or vise-versa...
It really is one of those sub-optimal designs that you dont really think about, until you do think about it, and then it makes no sense!

At one point Apple did make one keyboard with the CTRL key in the correct place!

The CAPSLOCK key is, for me, the most useless key.

Who uses it and why! LOL

I should really remap CAPSLOCK be CTRL on my Mac, but I dont use CTRL that often and prefer just to roll with the stock defaults most of the time.

EDIT: I quickly Binged the Mac keyboard I was thinking of, and got this result:

* https://controlaltbackspace.org/ctrl/

> There’s a better place to put it, right on a large, easy-to-press key that you rarely use: Caps Lock. A few keyboards throughout the years have gotten this right, like Apple’s Standard Keyboard for the Macintosh II and SE:
So, 45 minutes per day?
Team reduces structural vibrations with simple, groundbreaking device (2017)
As in improving cardiorespiratory fitness. According to the article, a Swedish study suggests that, for men, an improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness of 3% annually may reduce risk of prostate cancer by as much as 35%. From how I understand the statements made in the article, they (the researchers) seem to emphasize regularity and intensity; that is, regularity is key, and higher intensity as substitute for duration. They also seem to primarily focus on lower-body activity (i.e. use your legs) while making it clear that activities that involve movement of both legs and arms are preferable.
One of the goal of my own hosted runner project [1] is to display the carbon cost and money cost after each run. Too many people are oblivious of the costs and I think as an industry it would be great to at least get the data points.

[1]: https://runs-on.com
And metallurgy support to actually build something more than a toy.
You tell me, you just posted on one of them.
How did you get those numbers? They seem quite low, considering that they do 4K mirroring and all.
I understand. K8s is complicated, but managing data on k8s is already a fact.
This doesn't seem right. At least from the small business point of view. The banks here in CZ charge around 1 % + $10/month for the device and card acceptance.
How is it to read text on the Quest 3? How would you compare it to a high-density display (such as what is on your phone)?
What it was like to be the subject of a longitudinal study (2023)
If they life in an athmosphere similiar to ours wouldn't that civilisation be burried?
Europe Regulates Its Way to Last Place
https://httpstatusdogs.com

Also a great site to look up those http codes — if not everytime I would get lost admiring those cute dogs!
I think Apple sees a device that doesn't have any cables in the near future; they just weren't able to pull it off this time.
Foveated rendering doesn’t stop streaming if the user isn’t looking at the window. Just streams in lower quality.

If you would just trivially stream all windows to the vision of course it will at some point be at the limit of current technology. But I would assume a company like apple has the means to push the state of transmission media (rather than just using a now 4 year old standard) and be able to think of something smarter than „just stream all windows in maximum quality even if the user doesn’t look at them“
So it's the act of getting fitter, i.e. there must be a constant improvement of 3% a year, it's not good enough to get "fit" and then maintain it? Doesn't that take a huge amount of effort after the first few years?
>There’s a 100+ year wait on EB2 and EB3 Green Cards for people born in India.

No-one knows what the actual wait period is until the priority date for applications established - this is all based off estimates and extrapolations. A priority date is not a backlog in applications - it's the date which, if you applied before then, that you can file for adjustment-of-status which is more or less a pro-forma process.

The link you've provided shows a priority date of 2012 for people born in India looking for EB-2 visas. Priority dates for that combination have had implied wait times of between about 8 and 12 years since 2014.

EB-1 visas have priority dates in 2020.
Printf doesn't really require you to reason about the code anymore than stepping through the code does.
Usually you already know where it crashes. You can randomly put a printf somewhere but the value may have changed somewhere else. If you are paying attention stepping through the code let's you see when the value changes. As opposed to adding a print, running, adding another print, running, etc.
I would also argue stepping through code let's you understand the code better than a simple print. As you can see things happening in realtime.
Both methods have their usefulness, both are just tools you should have in your toolbox.
Buss was the CFO of SolarCity, which Tesla acquired, and Ehrenpreis was friends with Musk at Stanford. As an employee, Buss is by definition not an independent director, see NASDAQ SMR 5605(2)(B).
You would think so, but it sure feels like all of the ad slots in my feed are almost always inundated with promoted posts from random rage-baiters on the right. I even muted "Trump" and a bunch of other politics-talk and still see it daily through ads.

Add to the fact that X is also trialing ads that don't get labeled as ads [1] (and just get promoted to your stream as if they're a normal post, but still have the "Why am I seeing this ad?" etc context menu), and it seems like there's more and more avenues every day for content to creep into your feed whether you interact with it or not.

[1] https://adguard.com/en/blog/twitter-x-ads-unlabelled-musk.ht...
I dont trust technology unconditionally. I find it quite a stretch to conclude that everything non-human is automatically safe.
If you're OK with rendering everything at high resolution (and then choosing what quality to send over) then you shouldn't have any privacy issues, assuming that this part is done by the OS.
Sometimes I want browsing. Sometimes I want no browsing. Sometimes I want to talk to a marketer. Sometimes to my personal advisor. Sometimes to a python coder. Sometimes to an ML SME. I can quickly change context with a simple @ and select the right context from a dropdown. It's a super fast way to switch the common contexts I use with a LOT less typing.
There are enough devs that love Apple and have a burning loyalty toward them, that this is not something I would worry about. Even if it started to become a problem, Apple has enough cash to make a lot of apps, and could subsidize this for an eternity if necessary to make it work. Apps will not be a problem.
Muuuuuuch too many deaths, and none you can do anything about.
You just watch the civilizations rise and die at random, then you restart.
They recently mentioned functions as well in an article about the Threads infrastructure. https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-bu...
I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed that their minimumm work unit for replacement is the rack and not the server or hard drive level.
Yeah, I posted to clarify for the person you replied to and other non-rf people. You obviously know what's going on but you used a lot of language I figured should be defined for anyone who comes across this.
Have you been paying attention to everything Apple has been doing in, say, the last week?
Inovation regarding FaaS comes from BigTechs. I wish we had more OpenSource FaaS solutions, albeit OpenFaas amazing achievements still lacks more robust ecosystem.
Having zero knowledge, I'm curious:

Would a Solar Flare wrap around the earth?

Or are Solar Flares so massive they would envelop the earth, like dunking a globe in cosmic lava?

Or do they go on long enough that the earth would rotate and all sides of the globe would be exposed?

Or do Satellites whizz around the earth fast enough that they would travel through the path of the Solar Flare?

Probably hilariously odd questions, but I have no idea! :-)
> given the low transmit powers, local wireless jammers should be relatively easy to implement.

Not true. Both the transmitter and receiver (in both directions) utilize phased arrays. This means the receiver is very good at rejecting noise angularly separated from the expected location of the transmitter. Geometry dictates that jamming could be somewhat effective against upload (i.e. if the jammer is located roughly within the size of a spot beam from the transmitting dish), but is almost completely ineffective in the download direction.

This is all fairly theoretical since much of the details aren't publicly available; but as evidence I point to the fact that Russia has poured a huge amount of money into EW and, despite having considerable motivation to deny Starlink access, has consistently failed to prevent its widespread use by Ukrainian troops on frontlines mere kilometers from its own forces.
What about 401
it’s where the growth is coming from. Chinas growth (or even just sustenance) isn’t coming from a healthy job market and consumer spending. It’s mostly fueled by SOEs and prefectures going into debt to keep on investing, many local administration have found out they can trick debt limits by forming state-owned special purpose vehicles that aren’t bound to their debt limits. That’s not good at all. there’s a reason we are seeing tons of novel Chinese car brands being pushed here in Europe, they massively overproduced and cannot sell them in their own market anymore. It’s really not looking great atm.

edit: one also should keep in mind that the Chinese real estate market is entirely different in its importance to its populations wealth. "Buying" real estate is pretty much the only sanctioned market to invest your earnings. They still pretend to be communist after all.
Spoke helps teams to build and launch faster with focused communication and powerful workflows that connect Slack, Jira, Notion and the rest of your stack.
Thanks! I understand better.
It doesn't overlook the potential. It decides the potential, however amazing, isn't worth it.

There is amazing potential in this tech. But also incredible potential for abuse by the powerful. And the powerful have a way of getting away with such abuse.
Reminds me of the time I recovered the complete content of an SME's website from the Google cache. They had the site hosted by the company that was also their ISP, and had been paying that company for years for site backups, that turned out not to exist.
I see. According to the Web Archive, this website stopped working all the way in November 2023, and http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ now contains all the same content as the old one and is the new "official" website.
The point is that paying more isn't gaming the system

(and to be super explicit, yes if the US were to choose to allocate 25k annual h1b by ranked wage & thus all 25k were to go to various flavours of computer programmer or financial modeller, that seems totally fine)
When will the mindless repetition of this idiocy end? Musk did not "turn off Starlink in Ukraine after talking to Putin". He refused Ukraine's request to turn Starlink on in Crimea for an attack because doing so a) would violate SpaceX's consistent policy of refusing Starlink use directly on the front lines [1] and, more importantly, b) would violate US law.

[1] The policy has existed since the beginning of Starlink service in Ukraine. SpaceX seemingly turned a blind eye to Ukrainian use of some Starlink terminals strapped to combat drones and such, but the above incident basically forced the company's hand in cracking down on such use.