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Ask HN: Google Safebrowsing has no way to appeal?
My Windows software has been around for 12+ years.

Then one day Google came and deemed software as malware or unwanted software and marked binaries and websites as dangerous.

This does not make sense because it's 100% clean on VirusTotal and has consistently good standing and ratings.

There seems no way to appeal the ban. Security review in Google Console does not get read by human, it just schedules automated website rescan - doesn't even say which non-hosted links are 'malicious' as a result. Feedback does not get read in a week too.

Eh, so I talked to Google One support and some Google contacts I managed to find. They say there seems no internal appeal form or contact email for team which can actually fix this? Automated ban may have been issued due to cracked software distributed elsewhere which may connect to original domain?

I'm totally stumbled. What can one even do with a clusterfuck like this?
How did you get into this? How does one get into it?
I guess 128-bits is the max-width found on Arm/Neon.
My question would be if wider registers > 138-bit on Intel/Amd will be used if avail ?
Point to the fact that it passes smasher in addition to that 64-bit and 128-bit variants don’t have collisions and ignore 32-bit altogether. I don’t know why libraries even bother producing 32-bit variants at this point because of how easy a collision is.
Money and power consolidate like a fundamental force of economics. Unsurprising that the 0.1% finds more in common with itself than hoi polloi.

What changed is that SV used to have neither power nor money.
intercooler.js – Philosophy
I like my iPad a lot, and use it every day.

But I'll probably never buy another. The OS is just too limiting.

Perhaps they'll eventually decide to let them run MacOS? (Seems like a no-brainer, at least when a keyboard case is in-use, but apparently not.)
Cory Doctorow on AI Art and Copyright
Motorola 68000 also had second sourcing options, just like 8088 - but 8086 was released a year earlier and built up on well-known successful design of 8080, even if they weren't exactly compatible. It built confidence about Intel's ability to deliver, even when 8088 was released the same year as 68k, as it was just bus-narrowed cheaper version, not an entire architecture.
I'd just like to throw out a recommendation here for the book Longitude by Dava Sobel. It's about the invention of the marine chronometer by a self-taught carpenter. Fascinating read, and a real page turner too.
Complete nonsense.

I love my Apple Watch. I can leave my house, make payments be fully contactable, access useful information about weather, stonks, work pager messages etc. while weaving a heavy clunky device at home and no distractions like social media. It’s also a fitness tracker and saved people I know who have heart conditions lives. I have the ultra abs the battery life is wonderful too.

Like, a device that can literally save your life is shit ?
It is a restricted consumer device. Basic computer functionality can often only be added with pay as you go subscription “apps” making the device a parody of a personal computer.

iPad has gotten better compared to the early days but still remains a device designed around consuming content. It is great at consuming content, books, movies, comics, reading headlines .. etc.

My two cents.
Only if they come in large numbers. Which will probably not be the case initially.
Yeah, I think if they did than then it would have actually been a good ad. But focusing on the destruction/actually having destruction at all took away from the point that "it's compressing all these things into one" and made it interpretable as "we're destroying all these things, cause iPad can do it all"
There is a scene in that recent shogun series where a team performs a raid.

The leader sends the team in in small waves and “times” each groups entrance by counting rhythmic taps on his shoulder.

I thought it was such a great detail to include.

Of course rhythm would be the measure of time without a watch to look at.
It's interesting to think about how AirTags generally go against the wishes of the owner of the device.

The AirTag has anti-stalking protection. An important feature, but not something the owner of the AirTag may want.

iPhones share the location of nearby AirTags with apple. Good for the owner of those AirTags, but the owner of the iPhone may not want this.
oh hey, a phishing website.
Sure, but if they’re cute and fluffy we may just accept them as our overlords without a fight.
The thinkers and tinkerers were joined by business men.
The iPad is kind of just too good in a way. My mum uses a 2014 iPad Air 2. I bought it second hand for very cheap years ago. It still works perfectly fine. It’s been dropped several times on concrete and somehow didn’t smash. There is very little pressure to upgrade it to a newer one.
Is it stagnation in reasoning ability, or is OpenAI pulling their punches?

It’s suspicious that despite being trained on audio tokens in addition to text and image tokens it performs almost exactly the same as GPT-4.

GPT-4o could be a half-baked GPT-5 in that they stopped training early when it had comparable performance to GPT-4. There is still more loss to lose.

Or maybe there’s a performance ceiling that all models are converging to, but I think this is less likely.
1. All advertising is spam.

2. Advertising is a virus or tumor that will consume all available space in an ecosystem until there is no non-ad content left; it ultimately kills its host.
100% of AVX/AVX2 have 256 SIMD registers, and Arm also has non-NEON registers, which are 256/512. of course, this requires runtime detection, but that is ok because even for native code, people need to do that.
> > It's mainly about setting goals that are 10-15 years away to stimulate spending and research.

> And that's not a barrier to you?

In what way is that a barrier? Barrier and goal aren't synonymous, it's just marketing speak that confuses them.

Running a marathon is not a barrier, it's a goal, even if many people can't reach it. A combat zone at the halfway point of the marathon is a barrier because it requires a completely different approach to solve.
If you are not specific enough, it should at least ask for parameters.

"Computer, buy some stock"
*** buys 100 lots of tesla without a prompt
Pretty cool app, I like it! I have some random thoughts that I'll try to write down about it:

- In order to start using its core feature, that I would say is the "advice" to do special things for your partner, you have to sign up, then verify your email, then create your profile, and when you finally get to the "home" view you still have some banners eating screen real state from your main feature. That is too much friction! I think it would be best to just let people try it straight away and then lead them to sign up in order to unblock further usage/features. I think that the conversion funnel of the app can be improved.
- Nice design, I like it, very modern towards what are we seeing this 2024 as "trendy".
- You are using firebase on the backend, nice choice for a v1.0!
What's left after cheap money is gone? Defense money. Oil money. Money is money.
What would be the best way to generate custom maps for use with an algorithm like Dijstra's or A*? I have seen some methods using various game level editors to output to a grid, but is there an easy way to draw custom maps, such as indoors locations, and create your node map with additional JSON data visually?
The site is located approximately a 250 metre walk from both Microsoft's CYS data centre campus and the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center[1] and not too much further from electricity substations that at least partially supply Francis E. Warren Air Force Base. There are many houses adjoining Francis E. Warren Air Force Base (which is some significant distance away) that would seemingly provide a better location for any sort of eavesdropping/electronic warfare attack (or whatever concern may arise) against Francis E. Warren Air Force Base. Dozens of ICBM missile silos and related facilities are mapped out in detail mostly to the NE of Francis E. Warren Air Force Base but again don't seem to be at any particular risk of the site identified, particularly as they're underground facilities.[3][4]

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is open M-F 0900-1700 for walk in visitors to the visitor centre, as well as pre-arranged school tours of data centre halls.[2] It would appear unlikely then this facility is deemed to be at risk if they're comfortable with random visitors touring the facility.

Microsoft's CYS data centre campus would appear to be the facility most impacted, and assumedly it's fairly critical for the US government to get the president involved. Or as a secondary guess, this site is possibly a concern to nearby power and/or fibre infrastructure that for some odd reason is critical to operation of Francis E. Warren Air Force Base or nearby ICBM sites. As a tertiary guess, this MineOne facility is potentially seen as a cover for Chinese nationals to visit and be present in a US city that is particularly sensitive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAR-Wyoming_Supercomputing_Ce...

[2] "The visitor center is open to walk-ins Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is no admission charge. Docent-led tours of the computing rooms and facility are available for those in 9th grade and older and can be booked in advance by scheduling a tour." https://www.cisl.ucar.edu/ncar-wyoming-supercomputing-center

[3] https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1LsH

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Missile_Wing_LGM-30_Minut...
While generally I am pro-free market, when a free market is being intentionally manipulated by an actor with a state-level budget like China, it's one of the very very rate times I support tariffs in this case. China's play is of course to subsidize all exports below cost, with the intent to dry up international markets, to create a dependency on them (their typical approach of low intensity conflict).

Unfortunately, I remember when this was "racist" about 4-6 years ago. As we enter another election cycle, can we please put silly politics aside and maintain focus on the larger picture, in the off chance someone unpopular is elected?
Congratulations Dhruv, and Team Middleware on the launch!

Middlewared was interesting all the time to me. I've used several platforms like Version One, JIRA for something like this but DORA is clean and clear.
Kinda like a drug dealer cutting the product to increase profits.

Except for special customers who will pay for the genuine item.
It sounds silly, but I understand where he's coming from. I used to live in Philadelphia. You couldn't leave your bag down on the subway without someone running off with it right before the doors closed.
What an excellent reasonable article. The fervour around the future of dart and flutter at times seems like people are wishing it abandoned by Google. Certainly dart is pretty much universally disliked on HN for some reason.
Curiously want to know why didn't they create the Windows desktop app first? which is the dominant desktop segment. In fear of competing with Microsoft's copilot?
The one thing I first thought is that I felt uncomfortable the way they cut and interrupt the she-AI.
I wonder if our children will end up being douchebags?

Other than that it felt like magic, like that Google demo of the phone doing some task like setting up an appointment over phone talking to a real person.
Sueing?
Is creativity nothing more than just a little randomness?
Not working in healthcare (because they're an insidious industry preferring to hire those with "healthcare" experience instead of those who can help them </rant>) - why aren't these systems protected with the same vigor as any other nationally critical resource? Why aren't they under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) like the energy sector is? Maybe HHS (Health and Human Services - the federal department managing US healthcare) should consult with the DHS to adopt their standards for Cyber Security and start treating IT systems responsible for delivering healthcare as critical resources. These clowns have screwed up enough times already - and yes, I'm a bit sore because they refuse to hire anyone from outside their industry, including those of us coming from an environment where we manage and provision systems that are critical to national security.
> What does "supernatural" mean to you, I wonder?

There's a pretty well established definition:

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

> It sounds like you are using it to mean "a supernatural phenomena is one which cannot be explained by the current scientific models".

Yes, that's close enough.

> In this case, by definition the scientific method cannot support supernatural explanations.

Wrong, because in the first case you included the word "current" and in the second you didn't.

The reason that the supernatural is what it is today is because no observations require it as an explanation. But that could change at any time.

> I would argue that the vast majority of working scientists are naturalists - they accept something as being scientific only if it can be observed, measured, tested etc... .

The scientific method is to come up with the best explanation that accounts for all observations [1]. Things that are not observed need not be accounted for.

[1] https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/03/a-clean-sheet-introducti...
I just fired up my AppleTV4k, navigated to my Apple TV app, so that I could view my AppleTV+ service.

I'm not really sure what you're on about, but all of the names you boldly claimed are not named what you say they are named. Right there on the app is the apple logo in front of the letters TV, aka AppleTV. Launching that app in the left hand menu, it clearly states Apple TV+ as an option. The logo on the device is the same as the logo on the app. So if you're stipulating it is read as Apple TV for the device, why would it also not be read the same way for the app using the exact same logo?
"Is this society, is this way we're living, the only one that's available to us?"
I worked on a telecom codebase that dated back to 1985. Similar experiences. Was wild to think of contributing to something that was almost as old as me.
LineageOS microG on Moto G52: My banking app works fine, it does detect something, but only refuses to setup fingerprint unlocking
Still does. Yes, two of the biggest are social media / ads, but out of all the engineers I know in the Bay Area only a small fraction work at ad / social media companies.
Say what you want about C but it's been practically the same for the past 25 years, and it remains useful today for embedded development. People will be using C for many more decades.
Say there are formula whose terms correspond to individual causal properties of a system, whereby action on one of these terms necessarily brings about a determinate response in another, eg., f=kQq/r^2... if I increase one of the charges, necessarily, the force increases. There is a sense in which a highly specific explanation of "electrostatic force" includes "charge", so that deabstracting this formula would yield a logically necessary structure.

Then there are formula on the other end, "teen mazagine regressions", where the terms are superstitious aggregates (eg., star signs, number of times you've kissed, etc.).

And formula/models/etc. inbetween, where terms like 'temperature' correspond to a property that no part has, but there is a "nearly determinsitic" relationship between them, such that necessarily for any given set of measures (x, y,t) you have a temperature.. but that you cannot, in practice, actually set {(x, y, t)} so you have a "stochastic-causal relationship".

My claim is that almost all pscyho-social science is of the teen magazine variety: running linear regressions on surveys and then falsely attributing reality the apparent property given by the correlation coefficient. This is just outright pseudoscience and why much of this stuff is unreporducible nonesense.

There is nothing even like "temperature" to our mental faculties, which if explained with a scientific theory, would comprise a vast number of specific causal properties. To say we "forget something" is to describe a combination of 100s of processes each of which have different ecological expressions.

Likewise, "IQ" is exactly the same sort of psuedoscience: a linear regression through survey responses of an entire population and then a fraudulent pseudoscientific project of taking this correlation coefficient and turning it into a singular mental faculty. 110% BS
He concerns himself a lot with the ideas of scraping, which I think is fine, but this point specifically is salient and one that I really think people miss:

> The first thing to consider is the possible collateral damage of such a law.

The appeal to copyright law as some giant hammer of legislation to bring down on ai companies feels misguided at best and cataclysmic at worst. The implications of the type of law that would need to hone in on the technical aspect of how models work would need to, by necessity, be almost so vague as to suggest that, once any pixels of anything are accessed at all, the owner of the accessed work can claim copyright infringement on anything you do subsequently after that. He brings up a similarly glib idea, but I don't think it's implausible that, if given the opportunity, large companies will very much abuse any permutation of these laws:

> Unless you think search engines and the Internet Archive shouldn't exist, then you should support scraping at scale.
Still not available in Canada. Why? What possible regulation could be preventing use here but not in Europe?
I, for one, see this as improvement, affixed cap is convenient most of the time. If it's not, its easy to tear it away.

IMO real problem with caps is that this was not invented by VC backed startup, which makes it ideological challenge to some people.
I think the problem is, we did drown in a flood of bullshit, but we've just somehow missed it.

Even in this thread people talk about "Oh I use ChatGPT rather than Google search because Google is just stuffed with shit". And on HN there are plenty of discussions about huge portion of reddit threads being regurgitated older comments.
I guess because they mostly use Macs. They always use Macbooks in videos.
AWS has always been a place of change. Adam has been a good leader, and I’m excited to see how AWS traverses the future. I never would have thought that the AI landscape would have such a dramatic effect on the cloud. Clay Christensen insight in innovation curves still rules to this day.
Because I have never interacted with any of that type of content or creators on the platform, and then when I suddenly get 10 different creators recommended to me simultaneously from 10 different topics. That’s weird.

I also explicitly said it would be “weird” for them share information, so you concluding that that I think collusion is the result is unwarranted. Perhaps you should work on your reading skills instead of injecting your assumptions.
It is worse than that: the most efficient way to make money in SV is to make the tools for enabling totalitarianism while covering them in a twee veneer of folksiness so people don’t notice.
Dex is basically an elaborate app. Telling people to buy a different device to get an app means there is a failure going on in what is offered. The dots don't connect.
Creativity is not at all like adding randomness. Creativity is looking at the world from a different angle and finding the meaningful connections that viewpoint reveals.
OK, this one is definitely more fair: https://chess.maxmcd.com/rnbqkbnr/qqqqqqqq/qqqqqqqq/qqqqqqqq...
> What changed is that SV used to have neither power nor money.

Surely SV had to have power (including knowledgeable people) and money to develop semiconductor manufacturing facilities (famously expensive). Not to mention the support of US federal government spending.
Ellison's exemplar SAP-to-Oracle region rules out ditching Oracle
In case you're not a WaPo subscriber, like all the people who've already commented on the article, here's a link so you can read it:

https://archive.is/fF4NG
Do they want a better ad than what the GP was describing? There isn't one they can buy.

(But yeah, I guess they will want it, and break any reasonable utility from their stores on the process. That's what everybody does today, I'm not holding my breath for management to grow some competence out of nowhere in the future.)
I appreciated this article. These analogies always fall apart at some point (and the article points this out) because these are complex processes, but I appreciate these attempts to turn biology into a human problem, because at the very least, it'll have the effect of getting more people up the learning curve.
Now make a cover for the microphone :)
I think this was inevitable !
A lot of people are saying they do it just to sell more iPads, but I'm skeptical. I bet they have research telling them only a small percentage of customers want multi-user sharing.
Add in the time tested classic of simultaneously gaslighting the customers by claiming to be doing it for their own good.
Thank you @aravindputrevu! Our team spent the last few months in chiseling out the core of our product to open-source! Glad you liked it :)

Engineering productivity is a complex topic and a crucial decision is to pick a framework which is non-monitoring, non-gameable. DORA metrics fits well right in.
Sure, and if I say the "TV app", people will know what I mean. /s

There are TVs that have the Apple TV app on the TV.

Apple TV video service is definitely called Apple TV.

Apple's goal is to confuse people into staying in their garden. The "TV" app is only available on iOS devices.
I remember running into a programmer at a MacHack conference (so you know it was a long time ago).

He was an Australian contractor, working for the UAE.

He was working on a database system, for tracking citizens. He flat-out told me it was a tool for their monarchy, to wield power.

In the US, people keep talking about the Second Amendment, as some kind of guarantor of liberty, but their eyes glaze over, when I tell them that the computer database is the biggest threat to human rights in history, and now, AI will make it much worse.
Which kills it as a serious product for "Pro" users who want a tool to support their vocation.
Including a proctologist?
Breaking the sound barrier isn't arbitrary. Indeed even measuring it using the Mach number shows that. Mach 1 isn't fixed, it is variable based on a number of attributes.

At Mach numbers above 1 the compressibility of the air is entirely different. The medium in which the airplane operates behaves differently, in other words. The sound barrier was a barrier because the planes they were using stopped behaving predictably at Mach > 1. They had to learn to design planes differently if they wanted to fly at those speeds.

Mach 1 is an external constraint mandated by the laws of physics. There is a good reason that sound can't travel faster.

That is why it is a barrier to be broken. It is a paradigm shift imposed entirely by the properties of our physical world.
> There is no magic threshold where science simulations suddenly work better as you scale up.

For certain problems there are absolutely magic thresholds. ML was famously abandoned for 2 decades because the computers were too slow, and the ML revolution has only been possible because of having a ~teraflop on a per-machine level. Weather and climate models are another where there have been concrete compute targets, a whole earth model requires about 10 teraflops (hence the earth simulator super computer). ~1 meter resolution is an exascale level target.
Was there actually a barrier at exascale? I mean, was this like the sound barrier in flight where there is some discontinuity that requires some qualitatively different approaches? Or is the headline just a fancy way of saying, "look how big/fast it is!"