skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> meanwhile google takeout allows me to download all of my photos in my browser in a couple clicks.

Note that apparently Google Takeout doesn't give bit-identical files [1], which may be important for some (like me).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571747
Got it. So ironically, the subreddits are kind of causing the problem themselves by insisting on karma thresholds.
I'd argue their success comes from making people think they're in an open discussion forum, or at least know when they're moderated, when in fact users get moderated left and right without their knowledge.

And rather than addressing that problem, with this IPO they've heaped on another one.
Show HN: An LLM content generating email marketing platform launched today
Curious about the MSTG algorithm. How does it boost accuracy and speed in vector searches?
I agree, I think there has to be something compilable to WebAssembly.

A web search shows something that's written in Rust: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy?tab=readme-ov-file#taffy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31808093
Hi there, yes there is some typical ratio but I'm curious to see whether it's gone out of whack as the company grew and became more bureaucratic. So it's a real question. (I just realized I posted in the wrong place, but thanks for weigh in)
Arizona just added its biggest grid battery yet, with another coming soon
The DEA is a law enforcement agency of the US government. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
DP 2.1 is arriving with ludicrous amounts of bandwidth (up to 80gbit/sec!) but it brings a new set of problems, copper cables rated to carry the full bandwidth are limited to about 1 meter. To go any further than that you will need some kind of active cable which don't exist yet. Moving that much data is hard.
> Apple has relentlessly set standards for data privacy that no other business seemed willing or able to provide

One of the big differences between Google and Apple is that users treat Google (IMO rightly) as a privacy threat, but treat Apple as a privacy ally. Apple's data privacy positions look a lot different if you treat them also as a privacy threat. For example, it becomes really odd that you can't set a non-Apple secure messaging app as your SMS app, or set a non-Apple browser as your default web browser. Apple insists that you share your browsing and messaging data with them.

What's the risk here? The risk is that, as has happened with nearly every darling tech company in history, Apple decides to end the honeymoon period at some point because that's what the market demands. Then you're in a position where you've handed over to Apple gobs of private data that they have unencrypted backups of.
Further proof the US doesn't have Capitalism and free markets. It has Crony Capitalism and a foundation of a financial system that plays favorites.

I'm surprised anyone is surprised.
Allegations of criminality by Boeing in deceased whistleblower complaint
This was one of my first reactions to genAI. Sure it’s impressive now, but that’s because we trained it.

The internet is going to end up like a fuzzy mpg video that keeps getting compressed every time it gets reposted somewhere new.
It's a shame there isn't a standards body Apple is working in right now to address this.

See also: my penultimate sentence.
Native speaker here, this has kept me distracted on a couple long drives.

“X is all but Y”

Interpretation 1: X has moved so close to Y that it may as well be Y
-> X loosely equals Y
(I think this is the colloquial understanding)

Interpretation 2: In the set that represents X, Y has been removed
-> X is not Y

Excuse the poor notation, I hope this is clear! The tldr is this confuses me too sometimes
I miss weed but I miss it less than the nausea and extreme gastric reflux that started after more 20 years of heavy use. It was a part of my identity I was a Pothead an a Nerd, now I am just an old nerd...
I would really like to see an integrated camera app that allows me to hide my photos from the OS so that big brother doesn't automatically ingest them
There is a big gap between lock in by screwing competitors (Apple) and lock in by screwing customers. The latter can be solved by jumping ship and will resolve itself when enough people get pissed off and stop buying, but the former needs regulatory oversight
Interested in the “code change” part, is there a special PR?
There was a whole team behind Microsoft Trident (IE engine) that was dissolved in favour of third-party (for them) Blink engine. That team was surely knowledgeable, but they had gone.

Blink source is de facto current spec. Each function, if not single line, there is a paragraph in spec.

I remember at WHATWG / HTML5 WG times when Ian Hickson (Google) was pushing whole SQLite (and its SQL flavour) to be included in HTML5 ...

The spec area is so huge and indeed obscure that even Microsoft could not handle it.
No, his question makes perfect sense and your response doesn't really make any. End-to-end encryption doesn't imply encryption from one end of the universe to the other. It is what it says on the tin: encryption from one end to another. Your message is insecure beyond the the other end.

That is true both for PGP encrypted messages as well as iMessage messages. There's nothing on iPhones or Macs actually protecting your decrypted messages. Most of the on device security is optional and your messages, photos and files can be copied and shared anywhere in plain text.
I've been hunting for the related source for this (and similar) article today. I cannot find any FDA press releases[1] which point to any documents like this being released. From a YouTube video from the same source as this article, there is a brief image of a document, which is the August 29, 2023 letter from HHS to the FDA [3-redacted].

Has anyone found a more definitive source that the FDA has recently released a "report" with this content? I wonder if this is just slow news day recap of old information.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-newsroom/press-announcem...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VULoaz3E7o&t=20s
[3-redacted] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/signed-ash-to-dea-le...
“300 Million Home Sales Prove It: Wind Turbines Don’t Kill Property Values After All”
Well the Pixel certainly isn't budget. The "a" models are at least mid-range prices, but still not budget. Also, the Pixel line is straight up missing features that Moto phones have; I'm quite fond of their shake-to-activate flashlight feature, which is far nicer than messing with touchscreen controls.
>Evolution doesn't produce 1st part of the flagellum

So this isn't exactly 100% true. Quite often the encoding of these things can sit in our DNA not activated and then pop up out of nowhere.

Scishow did an episode on this recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzWOjP7hm2w
Which is strange. Google knows how to write docs. Or at least I've been very happy with the flutter docs. But now working on angular frontend is awful tooling wise. I don't even get useful inline docs for a lot of libraries.
The Agile Labour Union (2013)
One thing that happened was the anti-tracking movement provided a better interface. They have their own comment sections that are somewhat better than the actual site. Bifurcation ensues.
you can get them to turn with a desk lamp
They have been taking it seriously although they didn’t have any sort of formal bug bounty / security disclosure method at the time. The disclosure timeline is in our article as well!
Another question for your FAQ might be "what is NextCloud?"
Dynamic DNS is a good alternative. A free one I like is https://www.duckdns.org/
A quirky (but nonetheless good) novel is "The Green Brain". It has some of Dune's ecological sensibility, but is otherwise completely different.
> Indica strains with some CBD

what does this mean? any cannabis plant with THC will have CBD. the amount of the minor cannabinoids differ depending on the cultivar. recreational weed has been cultivated to spike the THC so it is way out of balance to the other cannabinoids, and in my current understanding seems to drastically reduce its use for medicinal purposes. the popular phrase is "entourage effect" of all of the cannabinoids working together.
The future smells bad
Accidental Gap
The US does have capitalism. Crony capitalism is capitalism - it's right there in the name.
We're not talking about a fart app. We're talking about multi-billion dollar businesses that have been entrenched in App Store for a decade. Exiting that market isn't an option. If it was an option they would have done it.
> What makes an account with 10,000 karma worth money as opposed to one with 100 karma

Astroturfing. Say you're on the /r/AppleWatch and you see a post asking for some watch band recommendations. People start posting said recommendations and you check to see who's posting what. You will instinctively trust the 3 yo account with 10k karma, very popular on /r/pics vs the 2 month old account with 100 karma. That's one example for why some of these accounts are actually bought and sold https://www.epicnpc.com/forums/reddit-accounts.1277/

Political activism is another scenario for these sockpuppet accounts with heavy karma. I've noticed A LOT of pro-Palestinian and pro-Russian propaganda from accounts with huge amounts of karma quickly gained from a handful of posts on mainstream reddits like /r/pics or /r/funny which are reposted content from 3-4 years ago.
The point of the quote was not that it's in their interest to differentiate. The point was that, according to the complaint and for reasons they lay out, their marketing is dishonest and they frequently put their users at increased risk when it's to their financial to do so.

In other words, they're saying Apple's privacy and security stance is a bit like the trope of politicians saying "think of the children!" whenever they are selling a law that restricts liberty.
I have taken to calling them luxury bones. For some reason that seems to bother people around me.
Approx. How Many Managers, Directors, and VPS work at Google?
I came across this Harvard Review Article on Google's embrace of professional management a decade ago, which claims that in 2013 there were 5,000 managers, 1,000 directors, and 100 vice presidents (out of 37,000 employees). Does anybody have a rough sense of how many people sit in these role today in the company? I saw estimates for about 30,000 managers (pre-layoffs last year), but would love confirmation and estimates for directors and VPs. Any educated guesses / ballpark estimates would be most welcome
Yeah, it's ironic that they're finally developing new stuff... and it's all absolute user-hostile garbage. My prediction is the IPO bombs hard and they're eventually sold off for scrap as training data for LLMs.
If not most, then very many of the victims when it comes to scams for large amounts of money. There's good reason for this, if the victim wants to keep their dealings secret then there's less risk that somebody finds out and tells them they're being scammed.
Maybe this is a basic question, but why?

Lottie is becoming fairly established as a file format and the workflow is well established and fairly simple.

What does Rive do significantly better warranting pushing for it?
Get a waterpik or the Sonicare equivalent. Use it with very warm but not hot water and a half cap full of Peridex or mouthwash.

My dentist told me I build plaque faster than most, and asked me to floss more (I hadn't been flossing any.) Like you, I found straight flossing to be pretty challenging, but the hydrofloss routing I described takes less than a minute to floss, and is pleasant to boot,and my dentist finds it more effective for me than straight flossing ever was.
This for me too.

The reason I pay for tons of extra Google photos storage is it tags and uploads and pics of my kiddos to an album shared with all the grandparents. It's their favourite app in the world and I'm never allowed to cancel.

Could I replicate that here?
Now that busted pipe to the hot water heater has been pumping water into the unit for an extra hour, and you’re on the hook for changing the lock in violation of your lease. But cool story about the cylinder.
Oils 0.21.0 – Flags, Integers, Starship Bug, and Speed
The reason you can't get heart rate data from Oura is that they don't want people looking at it except in aggregate, because then they would notice the accuracy problems and data gaps.
I've also lost a friend to a heroin overdose, and as best we can tell it was unintentional and the result of a significant difference in purity/dose from what he was expecting. It's the sort of thing legalization and regulation would go a long way to fixing. Naloxone being readily available and using with others capable of dosing you with it to stop an OD would also be a huge deal.

But yes, I imagine any rehabilitation programs would be voluntary, though I think it would be reasonable to force them in situations where people are doing other illegal things while on the drug - DWI, the sort of public abuse you see in some cities (though lots of this is tied to a larger homelessness issue), etc. Bundle it up with programs for the homeless and you probably take care of a lot of the worst situations for people.

I don't think we'll ever get to perfect, but I hope everyone believes we can get to a better spot than we're at today.
What do musicians actually want?

For me the exploration and creation of melodies and rhythms is the fun part and this takes it away from me a bit. I am not opposed to using AI in my music - I've been using Eleven Labs to create vocal samples that I've incorporated into some tracks.

I would rather have it generate a drum kit and patterns rather than samples of complete loops.
I once had a PCI dialup modem back in the early day of the internet. No router involved, so the IP I got was exposed to the internet. To share a web server was simple, basically start it then http://<my-ip-address>.

I also ended up with several worms infecting the Windows version I was running, part of why I switched to Linux and haven't looked back since.
Calif. residents sue Hermes because Birkin bags are too hard to buy
Interesting, when you did so did you know that you were assuming liability for the damage caused by the landlord being unable to access the property in an emergency?
Indeed, it would have been nice to know what percentage of the "half of whom did not have cancer" had this bacteria in their stool samples.

But they do imply later that the number should be low by stating "The bacteria is usually only found in the mouth, far from the colon."
> NATO does nothing to resolve an active occupation between member states (Cyprus).

What are you talking about? Turkey's 'occupation' is not of a member state.
I saw a recent paper saying that Standard Chinese and English are approximately as fast to read by their respective native readers. One Chinese character holds much more information than one Latin letter, but an English reader can process many letters simultaneously whereas the Chinese reader takes longer to ingest each character.

In other words, if you were to write the same text in Chinese and English, the Chinese version would take much less room, but native readers of each would take about as long to read them.

In CompSci terms, Chinese gets more done per instruction, but English has a much higher IPC.

I think we'd find the same between APL and Python. You could express ideas much more compactly in APL, but someone skilled in APL would take about as long to interpret a bit of code as a Pythonista would take to understand the Python equivalent.
One rental apartment where I'd changed the lock core, one day the nice handyman admired the fancy Mul-T-Lock style key while I was letting him in, and later remarked about it to landlord.

So I had to put the old cylinder back in, because of condo rules about the property management company needing keys.

(Though I later learned that the property management company might not have been able to find my unit's key if they ever wanted to. One day, the fire department was at the building, trying to get into a different unit, which had an alarm sounding, but they found that the key box was empty. I was there, so I called the management company, but they refused to send a runner with the key. Even after I handed my phone to the firefighter in charge, and he identified himself and asked them again. :)
Maybe wait a day or two to see if the report appears on their website before assuming that the article is wrong?
I can't speak for everything else, but LINE was not well known for privacy.

Everything people complain about WRT Meta was being done with impunity; their privacy policy basically said that they could read your messages and tailor ads based on them.

I really don't understand why people are crowing about using platforms like LINE and WhatsApp and sneering at Americans; they are not better.
> I keep a little headphone case full of USB flash drives (mostly Sandisk Cruzer Fits) with different distros / installers / etc. including a couple installed Linux environments.

Ventoy[1] allows me to have one big-ish USB flash drive with multiple ISOs for various distros.

1. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
The flip side of this as a consumer is that I'm happy that mandating safari on iOS means I can be relatively sure any given site is going to work in Safari. I'm glad I don't live in the days where I needed 3 separate browsers on my computer (Safari, Firefox and IE) to ensure that I can use websites when I need to. In "ye olde days", even if you were using Safari for most of your browsing because it gave the best battery life on MacOS, you'd run into some sites that wouldn't work with it. You'd try Firefox maybe next, hoping that it was just some site that didn't have any developers who knew what a mac was. But even then, you'd run into sites where, no the problem was the developers just assumed everyone used IE and used a bunch of IE specific stuff.

I can't remember the last time I saw a "this site only works in XYZ" message. Some of that is a lot of modern sites are all built on big frameworks, but some of that is also because only supporting Safari, or only supporting Chrome or only supporting IE is going to lose you huge swaths of customers.

What if I don't want to switch browsers for the "best experience" when using your app? What if I want you to make your app the best experience on my browser of choice?

As always these things are tradeoffs and balances.
Stock Corvette E-Ray Beats Chevy's Torque Figures on Dyno
How many iterations of “Russia will collapse” have we heard since Biden‘s infamous “We will turn the Ruble into rubble!” speech? It used to be amusing but now it's just getting pathetic. They were supposed to run out of missiles in March 2022 and here they are outproducing all of NATO put together.
Correct. I understand it is "less good", but as someone with Restless Leg Syndrome THC is the only "medication" I have found that stops the electric feelings in my legs almost immediately. Luckily RLS does not flare up every day any more, and my ADHD medication I take right before bed helps a ton. I recall the worst ever period I had of RLS was 36 hours of no sleep when I finally just blew a fuse over the issue.
WhatsApp is literally built on the same protocol Signal uses. Signal engineers helped integrate it into WhatsApp.
I own lots of Steam games including BG3 and can play exactly none of them on the Mac because several years into Apple Silicon, even for universal and Apple Silicon native games, Steam won't release Steam that doesn't require rosetta (which I won't install).

Also, Steam charged those games' developers 30%. Which seems to really upset people when Apple charges that.
I don't really care if it has medicinal purpose or not, but it shouldn't be a crime to grow or possess it. Neither alcohol nor tobacco is held to this standard. Nor hyper-palatable foods.
I'm sure they weighed the costs and decided it was more profitable to make zero effort to stop fraud. Never mind the moral hazard.
I was traveling a lot for work at one point, and I decided to test this out. I would ask for a new key at every hotel I stayed at, and make a point to not tell them my name unless they asked. They almost never did.
The layout algorithm for CSS 2.1 is not well defined. How did you interpret the algorithm? I may be missing it from a quick glance, but it’s not obvious from your code.
Biggest missing feature for all these self hosted photo hosting is the lack of a real search. Being able to search for things like "beach at night" is a time saver instead of browsing through hundreds or thousands of photos. There are trained neural networks out there like https://github.com/openai/CLIP which are quite good.
Was he in the process of wrapping everything up?
The main purpose of services like Tunnelmole and ngrok is to basically provide this functionality and save you from having to run your own server. Its easy for people like us, I've used SSH for more than 20 years. Alot of devs however don't have good Linux/infra/ssh exposure. Others might have that exposure, but don't have the spare time or energy to run their own server.
> let's trade international protocols for Zuckerware. What could go wrong?

To be clear, you want to use "international protocols" that aren't even E2EE by default over WhatsApp, which is built on the Signal protocol with the help of Signal engineers?
Ok here's one big one:

Today the development process inside Apple treats the full software stack, from underlying OS to the homescreen UI (SpringBoard) to the user-facing apps (built-in or not), as a virtual monolithic system. All these gets built and integrated every day, leading up to each iOS (and MacOS) release. This allows new features to be released which are integrated together across many apps. This is what the people come to know as "The Apple Experience." When your phone does its big iOS update overnight, you get all the new features together.

Critically, these iOS updates can introduce any number of breaking changes to their internal APIs, databases, protocols, configuration files, etc. The daily integration and daily testing is responsible for making sure the final product still Just Works.

If the government gets its way here, Apple would be forced to develop all the built-in apps using public APIs, and would need to make sure those APIs don't ever break -- or else risk another "uncompetitive behavior" lawsuit.

Could that be made to work? Sure. But then the overall Apple Experience would very likely be worsened, as Apple would not be able to make certain breaking changes any more, and would overall move slower due to having to carry all the external apps along with any internal plans. The experience of Apple customers becomes worse because some people want it to mimic Android's model.
LOL. Don't get offended.

You know that's not my question, and you also know I represented the author accurately (See "forget o&g")
It was a bit of a gut punch for me.

His is a story of a self-selected marter. This is an unpopular opinion: he broke the law and refused to plead, then jumped on RT and dissed the prosecution for years. There was no chance they were going to back down.

Why does this hurt me?

Well, Lawrence Lessig and Richard Stallman and the rest of them radicalised me at a young age too. I was their boy. Watching that documentary was like looking into a time-warping mirror!

Maybe every hairy nerd my age feels the same way, I don't know.
They also don't support the recognize app. https://www.reddit.com/r/NextCloud/comments/19acyje/managed_...
The rest of the world does WhatsApp, Australia/NZ/Southeast Asia/almost all of South America, it's massive.
In the recent past few years since the stigma of the cannabis plant has calmed down, many more molecules have been identified and isolated.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/beyond-cbd-here-come-the...

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/cannabis-marijuana-and-cann...
why would that be a bad idea? to my uninformed brain that actually sounds interesting