skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had good success with a couple buyers who mail stuff over marketplace.

I used the same criteria: Number of items listed, number of items sold, how long they have been on the platform. For good measure, I cyber stalk them a little bit to make sure they exist.

Even with an Ebay-like ratings system, one of the thing which happens is legit accounts get hacked and go rogue. (I am guessing they got hacked; someone who was legit could also just randomly decide to go rogue) You're always going to be at risk of that.
Why Eating Disorder Content Keeps Spreading
The last line:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
It's nice to have a title that doesn't say that for once!
Visualping - Monitor Visual Changes on Websites
The author had a theory: "I’m still not sure how the scammer was able to open and close cases on my behalf. My theory is that they were able to spoof my phone number and call PayPal support and do it over the phone. (They asked early on for my phone number “for the tracking information,” which in retrospect doesn’t make a lot of sense.)"
He was probably doing it from memory then since the dialog box is made in HTML (it's not a screenshot).
Uilang – a minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers
I dunno, the tone may be what it is but I kinda see the message re: analysts and their forecasts. Beat the managers, buy the index, yaknow.
Look up knees over toes guy - it's not regenerated hyaline cartilage, but if you're not familiar you _may_ find it interesting.
Can you actually disable all the tracking? I suspect not, as it is core to Google’s business.
Thanks for the info, that's probably the way to go for now
It’s not “declining” but rather being actively replaced and rejected by the population. When your nation suffers brutal aggression perpetrated by the neighbor - it makes it no longer fashionable to speak the language of the aggressor. The fact that Russia also denies that Ukraine and Ukrainians are even a real nation and culture distinct from Russia fuels the sentiment too.
>Apps also sold iPhones

This seems apocryphal. Apple famously resisted apps and was dragged kicking in and screaming into supporting native applications.
Some privacy certainly is a crime. It's not unethical to commit that crime. Nothing whatsoever restricts laws from only criminalizing unethical behavior.
This is strawman. No-one who use their TV to watch a reality show requires 2.5 million megawatt hours per year.
Related ongoing thread:

Interview with Andreas Kling of Serenity OS (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39286638 - Feb 2024 (134 comments)

Related to OP:

Ladybird browser update (July 2023) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939402 - July 2023 (1 comment)

Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620450 - July 2023 (65 comments)

Shopify Sponsored Ladybird Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36502583 - June 2023 (1 comment)

I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377805 - June 2023 (166 comments)

Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33511831 - Nov 2022 (84 comments)

Github.com on Ladybird, new browser with JavaScript/CSS/SVG engines from scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273785 - Oct 2022 (1 comment)

Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126 - Sept 2022 (473 comments)

Ladybird: A truly new Web Browser comes to Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014061 - July 2022 (8 comments)

Ladybird Web Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31987506 - July 2022 (2 comments)

Ladybird Web Browser – SerenityOS LibWeb Engine on Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31976579 - July 2022 (2 comments)
It become popular in the era of Java, Perl and object orientated C++
it doesn't. it just depends on how you slice the pie to see what you want to see.
What exactly is obsolete about css? There are still valid use cases for float and inline block. border-box also fixes most of the teeth-gnashing from the 00s. I think it's a nice idea but I don't see what would get cut. Tables are still best for actual tables of data, too.
There's also the impact from telling everyone that future cars will all use NACS. Buying a non-Tesla for the next two years means dealing with adapters more and more often.
> And without "we", there can of course be no "we apologize".

What about passive voice for the software error, then apologize with we in the name of whoever developed that software?
This just in: free money helps poor people. More at 11.
At a previous job I was checking out MicroPython due to its support on LEON4 RAD-hardened CPUs like GR740. It was appealing as a possible design path from proof-of-concept implementations with desktop python/numpy (etc) to space-certified platforms, ideally reducing the quantity of code to reimplement in C. https://essr.esa.int/project/micropython-for-leon-pre-qualif...
Step 1: Calculate the effect on local utility rates.

Step 2: Create a new tax which brings in 150% revenue of the calculated effect which applies progressively on power users one standard deviation above the mean

Step 3: Apply a negative tax on everyone using less > 1 standard deviation above the mean. Either preserve the excess revenue, or put it into infrastructure.

Step 4: recalculate every year and adjust rates accordingly.
The title should be "How PayPal refunded me for a scam" no?
I wonder if they will retrofit the current CCS connector to the NACS when that time comes.
I did dial-up tech support for MSN 20 years ago and was trained to say "We" instead of "I." It was probably meant to make users feel like there are many people ready to help them, or avoid personal responsibility.

I still use "we" whenever I'm emailing clients, except now it's to sound like there is more than just me in this dept.
Apple cooks the tech required for their vision behind closed doors. Then release it when it's ready by their standards.

It's a bit like Debian*, but closed source.

*: It's ready when it's ready.
> someone didn't get screwed

Someone did get escrowed tho.
Related ongoing thread:

The Ladybird browser project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39271449 - Feb 2024 (228 comments)

OP discussed at the time:

Serenity OS: Interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30214371 - Feb 2022 (52 comments)

Corecursive: Serenity OS with Andreas Kling [audio] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30176123 - Feb 2022 (3 comments)

There's a big list of related links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858768 but it's a couple years old now.
Bingo. It's about as obvious as the people who are surprised when their car gets broken into and then they tell you that their backpack was visible.
I think this is the worst part of the event.

PayPal is the most annoying service I use because it asks for 2FA for every damn action. So how could they take that action? Surely if they logged in they left breadcrumbs?

The post is mildly infuriating because it doesn’t even try to answer very important that question.
A significant part of this is probably the switch to the tesla connector as the standard for the US (and not wanting folks who already have a ford EV to complain about needing to buy one once that starts to roll out)
> Where is NATO in this picture?

Nowhere. The relevant alliances are AUKUS [1] and the Quad [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUKUS

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrilateral_Security_Dialo...
> "Just" is doing a lot of work in that sentence

Not really. You can pull your phone out and do it in less than a minute

> it isn't always obvious which weirdly-spelled domain is causing the issue

It typically /is/ pretty obvious. You can drill down to the device making the request, and it becomes obvious once you see the blocked query

To each their own though. I personally don't want to pay a company to do something for me that I can do myself.
I don't have time to watch him regularly, but I really enjoy that he can both walk the walk as well as pontificate on a variety of programming topics.

There are a lot of coding streamers/influencers who don't have the breadth and depth he does, nor the high level experience at a top tech company. They either did a year at Meta and became full time streamers, or are purely competitive programmers, but ThePrimeagen hits the sweet spot for me.

I think he's a great example for lots of engineers everywhere, especially those who are just getting into the idustry. He didn't have an easy path either of just getting a FAANG internship and job right out of college, he had to work his way up to where he is now.
This is agitprop
Awesome. There should be standards for EV chargers, so anyone can charge their EV of choice at the charger of their choice. It those standards were developed by Tesla, or anyone else, I don't care - I just care that the needs of the overall market are addressed.
You'd think after AMD shipped Xbox One, XboxX, PS4, and PS5 with decent iGPUs and a decent memory bandwidth they might bless one of their APUs with > 128 bit wide memory. Seems an obvious bottleneck that would improve GPU performance.

It's coming with the Halo Strix with it's 256 bit wide memory, but should it really have taken over a decade?
Thanks so much - I was unaware of this clang flag. I just confirmed, it does exactly what I was hoping for!

I suggested that this be an optional flag, not the default behavior. I could see using it for unit-test/static-analysis builds where performance is not the main concern. (I have not looked at the generated assembly or done a performance comparison, but it might be that the -fsanitize=integer flag would slow the generated code down.)
I don't know if I would hire like this, but I do think a lot about the current hiring landscape is pretty broken, so maybe I should! I expect an employer needs a certain amount of cachet before being able to do this or anything else similarly left-field.

Side note - I started down two paths of significant new learning early last year: Security & Elixir / BEAM. I love Security Cryptography Whatever and had no idea you crossed over into the Elixir world (fly.io). Cool!
> pay $9.99 for the ability to actually consume and enjoy printed books that don't have pdf/eBook editions

You mean pay $9.99 for the ability to listen to half or less of a book, because there is a ridiculous 250 page per month limit.

Yes, this is such a great solution for these people indeed.
How the heck such a FB account is not banned yet? The author said it was created in 2017.
The reason for this is that Apple has managed to argue that its app store is not a monopoly. This is false (If developer accesss to apple and androids app stores were competing even the tiniest bit, then you should mainly see developers releasing apps on one platform and not the other).

in essence, this means that in order for developers to achieve negotiating power parity, they would need to form a cartel, (an illegal anticompetitive practice they would not be able to defend). As a result, Apple's negotiating power advantage is a matter of law.
well, if "we" know, it's not private anymore. thou it should not matter
Tyty I tried looking for the link and couldn’t find any information. Felt like I was going crazy
You are correct about the Lorenz attractor being dissipative. I just assumed the chaos of the Lorenz attractor and, say a frictionless double pendulum, were the same phenomenon. However it seems they are, in fact, quite different.

Even still

> So it applies to volumes of states, too.

I'm pretty sure this is false. As I mention in another comment, http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9838/1/recurrence.pdf

says

"In [the case of the space of probability distributions over phase space], the reason that classical dynamics fails to abide by the linear recurrence theorem is that the distribution space is infinite-dimensional, even if phase space has finite volume: distributions can have structure on arbitrarily short scales.

Yes the proof of the recurrence theorem uses volumes; but the result still only applies to individual points within the volume (or maybe sets of measure 0 at best).
Why? So he can finish driving the company into the ground?
are negative taxes a real thing currently?
I think the word empire is too loaded to be useful. And mechanisms of conquest and exploitation are different. But the core mechanism is the same.

And I think in two hundred years when history is written by someone who is dispassionate about it, the US empire will be seen a continuation of the UK and Dutch empires that was before it.
Very neat. I’ll have to give it a shot.
How would we know the side effects without a lot of time? The gut biome is notoriously hard to monitor.

The benefits are obvious though.

Lead we've known was toxic since antiquity - assigning a slave to a lead smelter in roman times was a well known and quick death sentence.

Asbestos took decades for cancer to show up.

Metallic mercury is pretty harmless in most situations - but can form biological compounds which are extremely deadly, especially when in contact with water sources.
It's perfectly fine to use "we" in a message on a web site. It's not fine on local software.
I got scammed from a FB advert selling clothing, turned out the company is a scam and sends nothing, FB have allowed them to still advertise for months still.
Anyone know how to make a missile?
Not blocked, I'm able to access it fine.
I am not in favor of crypto. I don't think it is a better alternative than our "centralized" economy. I don't own any crypto, I don't encourage it to flourish, I don't encourage people to buy it.

>Crypto is so inherently wasteful it's completely unethical.

skateboarding is inherently wasteful, should we ban that too?

if people choose to do something voluntarily, and devote resources to it, I don't see a basis for you declaring it unethical. If climate change is your fear and we all decide to save ourselves by living in caves, some cavemen might still choose to engage in the cave-crypto-currency equivalent (carving big giant rolling stone coins?): it's not unethical, it's just not what you would choose.
There have been routine escrow mechanisms on bitcoin for 10 years?

Its a very lucrative side business to operate those?

They involve humans, they also involve multisignature accounts and smart contracts just like the white paper inspired or imagined 15 years ago. Its been one of the biggest boons for crypto native commerce, even when automated by the marketplace when the local government doesnt like a website they no longer have been able to seize the funds found in the server because buyer and seller just invalidate the escrow account from the multisig and reconcile money deposited/in transit.

These services are far cheaper than escrow agents I’ve seen on marketplaces that dont involve paypal, far faster than those and paypal, and about comparable in cost to paypal goods and service but mostly cheaper at around 1% instead of 2.89-3.49%. But thats mainly from lack of competition.

Given that paypal offers crypto merchant services, this decade, its far more likely that paypal will get in the crypto escrow game too

and maybe next decade HN collective conscious will catch up to a point that these kinds of comments wont appear in HN threads at all, in favor of people showing us their escrow contract just like they do for their random libraries and products in the rest of the tech space
Another way to look at it is:

The software does have a purpose. Launching the software requires two specific acts of intention. First to open the software, and second to affirm our intention and click the start button.

Then the intention is realized by sticking with the exercise for the duration of the timer.

Since the very purpose of the software is to change the way an individual is currently relating to their own mindset, these can all be quite useful tools towards that end.

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Obviously, not Everone's cup of tea. Perhaps specifically not yours.
but then you said "there's no need for this software" and not "I don't need this software". A personal preference doesn't imply a universal truth.
It's not the hardware, it's the combination of good hardware and software. That's paraphrasing Steve Jobs. He also stated that one of the primary advantages Apple had was software with better usability, generally higher quality software.

> Modern hardware is responsible for AI

No, again, it's the hardware and software. Tensorflow is what formally sparked the AI boom that we're still rolling on, and of course it needed the underlying hardware.

The hardware does nothing without the software. Python and Linux are good software, to name two.
You're suggesting that in 2024, I can't just throw up an mp4 or webm and "be done", in the same sense that an mp3 covers "be done" for audio?
I think this is good, given the insane cost of living here. Hopefully this does not contribute to rising costs too much.
> They aren't a load of fuddy-duddies who insist on using mailing lists and IRC. Nobody wants to collaborate with a load of grumpy greybeards

Sometimes the grumpy greybeard fuddy-duddies act as they do due to experience. One can have mailing lists which are very distributed and easy to put on a searchable web page somewhere. One could also tie everything to Github or Gitlab or Atlassian, and then have it pulled, or have rates jacked up, or whatnot. One can go on IRC, and easily migrate from Freenode to Liberanet if need be. One can also go into the walled garden of Slack or Microsoft Teams or some other proprietary format, so that some company can hike rates or pull the rug out at their convenience.
Maybe grow nanotube like transceivers that the brain prefers to grow on to then you can train it to make classifiers. Then make the doomers really piss their pants
One Trillion Row Challenge
Also culture plays a big part. If asshole behaviour is unacceptable all the way to the top it tends not to happen. Being the only asshole sticks out and if there is a safe way people can complain that helps. Worked at a wide range of cultures on the asshole scale. Being at a zero asshole company is why I will probably life it here even if it hurts TC.

Asshole means different things to different people but if someone is power flexing, condescending, aggressive, uses process as a weapon, bullying etc. this is what I mean rather than say straight shooting and direct talk.
I'm unaware of how automatable fabs are. If the workers are high-cost then the machines need to do more or the government needs to subsidize production.
Heh, yeah, I was a heavy Prototype user back when it wasn’t clear which one of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, dojo, or mootools would ‘win’.
I would invest time in contributing meaningfully to (existing, well known) Open Source projects for the sake of building something cool or fixing something interesting.

I've worked with people who had very little professional experience but had done enough OSS that I knew they were both competent and great at working with other people, as well as not needing to have their hand held.

I'm sure my opinion isn't universally held, but if I see good sized contributions from someone with very little professional experience, I consider them head and shoulders above other juniors and would consider them mid level.
I've been at Fly.io since 2020. I wouldn't describe us as an Elixir company so much as a company that appreciates Elixir. Some of our backend is in Elixir but the majority of it is Rust and Go.
I think you are spot on - looking back at all this its really interesting -like what on earth was Apple thinking when the Motorola ROKR came out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_ROKR
Cracks in Riot Vanguard's Shield: Anti-Cheat and the Secret Battle with Hackers
How does knowledge work: using logic to model real-world communication
Delivering Copilot for Everyone
> the only long term solution is that all non-generated images (ie real photos) are signed as such.

How could that possibly work? In order to mean anything, it would have to be signed by some independent entity who can verify the photo is real. How would that entity be able to tell if it is? And what would be the ramifications of requiring everyone who takes pictures to get them signed?

Even if it were an effective solution, isn't it just pushing costs being created by AI onto uninvolved others?
"All in" is a very strange way to describe a multinational corporation producing in the single digit thousands of an item. They tried something, it hasn't panned out yet, they're sticking to what they know works in the mean time.
It still happens - most every app has gone to "free with in-app purchases", sadly.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stardew-valley/id1406710800 $5

Combined revenue over all platforms: $300m +
"I see what you did there," said Bob.
How does this handle sort ordering / collations?
Which is amusingly sad today, as so many "applications" on desktop and elsewhere are Electron which is ... a dynamic website.
They provide a possible reason, that being mobile number spoofing and calling the call center
Did a Find on the word "exercise" in the article and comments. Result: Not Found.
Interesting and smart choice to use Apache DataFusion as their query engine.
Probationary periods are pretty much standard in the Netherlands. First month you can leave or get fired for any reason, without delay.
Apple makes a ton of sense. They sell hardware (and services for that hardware). It would make sense that they want to commoditize foundation models while at the same time creating yet another reason to buy their most powerful hardware.

Meta is the real wildcard here. They're betting on "commoditize your compliment" and hoping by making GenAI training nearly free (by doing it for you) that none of their competitors can use GenAI models to gain an advantage over them.
I also tend to use Win key search for launching programs. I would be interested to see if an OS could focus that use case as a primary means of UI. If it did become central to usage, I’d love to see a commonality emerge across terminal centric and GUI OS styles.
Thanks for sharing, I really like Postgres. However, I generally use Postgres for OLTP work. I would like to point out two things:

1. Based on Clickbench results, pg_analytics is still far from top-tier performance. If you're looking for a high-performance OLAP database, you should consider the top-ranked products.

2. The queries tested by Clickbench are really simple, far from real data analysis scenarios. You must be aware of the TPC-DS and TPC-H benchmarks, because ClickHouse simply cannot run these test suites, so their Clickbench does not include these datasets.

Lastly, I want to say, if your enterprise is of a certain size, separating OLTP and OLAP into two databases is the right choice, because you will have two different teams responsible for two different tasks. By the way, I use StarRocks for OLAP work.
There's no child involved.
Honestly, Russia invading Ukraine, the global economic response to Russia, and China seeing all of that... probably saved Taiwan.

China doesn't have the natural resource base within its borders (they're digging up their iron ore reserves faster than any country, and they have to import oil) that Russia does.

Consequently, economic sanctions slow their economy down a lot faster than Russia's.

War may be an internal unifier... but unemployment, poverty, and scarcity is a rapid internal disintegrator.
And iPhones and iPods were selling Macbooks. Pretty good loss leader really.