skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I easily put a compiler on either platform? My understanding is that you can't, which makes both platforms kind of bad.
"The fastest path to wealth is the construction of these digital platforms, where other people depend on you."

- Eric Schmidt.

Many products leads at Google seem to disagree!
Yeah i struggle with this as well. I don't know who GP is and maybe they are doing a ton, but every time I read a comment like this I think of a similar thing:

"Hello, I, a benevolent westerner am tasked with explaining how poor you are to others but will never think of you after today or do anything to improve your condition. However, I am very serious about my role of explaining how anyone that trys to help or implement incremental solutions is a bad person."
The (consumer) company I used to work for also allowed their customers to "delete" their data. Deletion was implemented as a boolean filed in the database "deleted - true/false'. We called it "soft deletion". And why was it implemented like this? It's because actually deleting data is hard. There is no single database and the data is distributed across many servers. It's also backed up in different places. Running the delete operation can be extremely costly and can also create service interruptions and data integrity issues. I think there was a script that was supposed to actually delete the entries but it was not run very often and was there for legal and compliance issues.

Just remember that when you request to delete some data on the internet, it doesn't actually get deleted (right away anyway). The best way to deal with this is not to give random sites your real information in the first place. However, that can be difficult or impossible when dealing with government, financial institutions or shopping sites.

Edit: And just to address questions below, the actual delete script was not run daily. I don't know how often it was run (I was not an SRE) but I presume it was run at least once a month. I have no idea how other companies do this.
A lot of NIMBYism is less about preventing old homes from being replaced, and more about setting limits that prevent density such as low height limits, high setbacks, and high parking requirements. This results in a lot of projects not penciling out financially, and less housing gets build as a result.
The term you're looking for exists: user agent.

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

What you describe came and went, subsumed under the homogenizing effect of silos like Facebook. Mashups were the big new thing. There have been various attempts to bring it back, but the inertia of silos makes it hard to find anyone interested.
"these days it's somewhat controversial and sometimes considered undesirable"

By whom and for what reason? Every non-trivial OS has some form of "daemon" concept, regardless of what name it's given. What alternative is proposed? All I get from this statement is discussion about the deficiencies of how demonization is performed.

[edit] I get it. Don't deamonize yourself. That's fine, and a good idea: it's frequently done wrong and even when it's done right things change and otherwise correct software is suddenly wrong again.
Cove: Infinite Canvas UI for Thinking with LLMs
Lunar Lake's iGPU: Debut of Intel's Xe2 Architecture
Title on the blog is now (changed?):

"End of the Road for Google Drive in Transmit"

The being unfamiliar with Transmit the "and" gave me a startle
Literally that what I'm pursuing rn, I want to make my first (real) 3d game, I'm very aware of the loophole that most self-made engine game developers falls into but I genuinely found no 3d engine that suits my criteria:

* Be resources efficient (memory and cpu usage)

* Has primary 3D support

* stable

* Supports old devices (ideally embedded systems too)

* And of course be FOSS

I'm focusing on mobile, as you know mobile devices are very sensible to heating so the 1st option is a must, Godot isn't resource efficient, it heats very easily when I play one of the sample games. Regarding the second option, whilst Godot still supports gles2(which is the most widely supported api yet across old devices) it's further being pushed as second-citizent over Vulkan and looking through github no other engine checks my boxes...

If someone could direct me to an engine that checks all the boxes above I would happily try it out.
> But then… a couple of months later, Google completely removed the option for us to scan our own code. Instead, to keep access to Google Drive, we would now have to pay one of Google’s business partners to conduct the review.

What a racket. Smells downright anti-competitive The EU will have fun with this when it catches up.
It's not required. The map isn't the territory.

There's people on ground using it like that w/o activation
yeah. resorting to insults is the sign you should have stayed silent.
> Today's the 8th things change

There have been no updated tweets. Seems like something they'd want to keep updated, given they are still tweeting about new countries being added to their service.

> I have 1k from the starlink engineer on ground and he said they've sold about the same amount to others.

Who? Where? How much congestion do they expect with the influx of so many new users (they're already upcharging/slowing down users due to congestion in the US)? With all due respect, this is frustratingly similar to "Trust me bro".

I have no doubt that Starlink - especially their rank and file employees - is trying to help, but we need to keep our expectations realistic on how much they can or will do. Especially with Musk as the helm. Musk lies on X, especially when it comes to who and what has access to Starlink, and doubly when it comes to politicized situations, which I'm sad to say Hurricane Helene is.
> The infix is weird and footgun-y.

If it's a foot gun, then I'm not seeing how the gun is loaded?

> Extension methods on int/double serving as constructors smells funny.

It doesn't feel meaningfully different from the static factory pattern in traditional Java, where 10.percent() would be something like MoneyUtils.createPercent() or Percent.create() with several overloads. Under the hood, that is essentially what is happening. Only downside I can see is that it muddies what truly belongs to the class, but that's true of any extension function and Kotlin is intended to be used with IDEA's introspection anyway.

The Kotlin standard library has lots of extension functions that construct new objects.

It also reminds me of Ruby, which perhaps you're also not a fan of and that's OK.
Great points! We've talked about using iframes when we specifically don't want people to customize things, like single-video embeds.
It also lets you co-host the Ig Nobels, if that’s a more meaningful accomplishment to you.
I don't think so. Comments used to be a big deal, but these days you sign up to handle a lot of spam and moderation issues.
Now can we stop using PVC for supply lines?
If ATC does not take appointments, they do give appointments. Useful search term is “expect further clearance.” If all else (e.g. your radio) fails, you can plan to have that space reserved at the time indicated.

I’d argue, of course, that when you file a plan, you’re requesting an appointment.
I am not sure smaller devs were given the option of self-scanning code. I always wondered what the point of that was, given that there is no way for Google to ensure that the scanned code was the version distributed, and even then, as soon as a minor update was released it would have been out of date.
I like Hesse and I like Steppenwolf even though neither is my favorite -- but there is a fragment in Steppenwolf that I will never forget, that I have used often, and that anchors the love side of my love-hate relationship with the German language:

"...um im Gasthaus [...] das zu trinken, was trinkende Männer nach einer alten Konvention »ein Gläschen Wein« nennen."

English: in order to drink in the pub that which drinking men, according to an old convention, call "a little glass of wine."

But trust me, it really works in German.
This is exactly why I ended up going for Godot with my own hobby game. I have made a lot of progress on a custom game engine in the past without actually having a game to make in mind. It always gets to the point where you have to start making decisions about the tooling, and that becomes your main focus.

No disrespect or put downs of anyone trying to do their own thing, but Godot is a really great engine and is open source. It's kind of miracle that we live in a world where there is a viable open source engine for commercial grade 2d games and the whole thing is MIT licensed.
Hacker News is a social network application, not a blog.
The Mac lineup from 2015 thru 2019 was one of the least compelling set of computers to buy. Fragile keyboards that broke in a year of normal use, high-end laptops with i9s that overheated immediately under any level of use, an annoying and gimmicky touchbar, and so on. If I wanted to absolutely murder a platform, I'd just do what Apple was doing to the Mac in this era, forever.

The iPad division was advertising their product with taglines like "what's a computer" and phrases like "desktop-class" that indicated Apple - or at least, the iPad division at Apple - considered the iPad to be a MacBook replacement, not just a companion. And they still do this, even now when the Mac team is actually putting out good hardware again (ironically, by putting iPad chips in them).
it's alarmism to say zero safe exposure. For example, you should limit your tuna per week, but you don't need to stop eating tuna.

The problem with heavy metals is that they're cumulative, but it's also impossible to avoid them completely, so minimization is the strategy.

-20db is 1/100th which is a dramatic improvement, at least for that threat source.
Yeah, that was a good idea 30 years ago, now the web will fill to the brim with spam and AI-generated drivel, all in approximately 14 minutes.

Nowadays it's more important than ever to curate content well.
Do you know if in Seattle newer houses are lead free?
ABC's of Who Benefits from Working with AI: Ability, Beliefs, and Calibration
In which city do you live?
Can't you just spin up an imageboard instance and put a button at the bottom of an article?
There is a clear subtext to this and the Play Store changes: everyone interacting with the Google ecosystem is going to be pinned down and deanonymized with rights assigned based on legal identities. This will be done in the name of security. There is no freedom in who you trust here.

The big question here is if all this was preemptive or the response to something.
You're right that apps can be better, but phone apps seem to always miss functionality compared to desktop web versions of the same thing. Even phone web version of Google doesn't have functional parity with desktop web Google. The phone app for Google is even worse.
The original title now reads “…for Google drive in Transmit”. @donatj can you correct the HN title please.
That would probably leave the prizes awarded in a very narrow field, also the prize is supposed to be given to the thing that has "conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".

So in this case they picked something that might be viewed as only having a tangential connection to the field, but the impact has been so immense that they probably went outside their regular comfort zone (and how many prizes can we give for LHC work that really don't touch regular human lives in the foreseeable future anyhow?).
I hate the double standard where a low level employee can be fired and blacklisted for a black swan mistake, but systemic mistakes get the top levels golden parachutes. So no luxury prisons for execs, either.

Data Fiduciary Duty - you have to use the data you have in the best interest of your client (which isn't allowed to be the advertisers that want the data, nope!), and if that means deleting what isn't necessary, so much the better.

Also, forced arbitration isn't allowed and class action lawsuits result in more than a reward of $3.97 paid five years later with a free year of credit monitoring thrown in.
Those are poor, poor examples; but before examining them - I can simply refer you to my previous comment. You are doing exactly the three things I caution against: Attempting to divert the discussion, confusing prospective futures with reality, and reinforcing a supposed dichotomy.

As for the examples:

* For every example of a technological advance that eliminated a class of societal problems, there are five examples of advances which didn't, and untold examples of advances which just never happened (or never happened the way they were expected to). Where is our transmutation of led to gold? Airships? Or Dennard scaling for that matter? No use writing efficient software, our computers will just get faster and it'll be fine.

> Haber-Bosch, for example, completely eliminated famine as a barrier to world populations growth.

And we (= humans) now have to work hard, and suffer through all sorts of problems, to establish barriers to population growth, and to cope with the resource use pressure of the huge population on the Earth.

Not to mention -

* Famines are alive as well.

* Massive energy requirement; and once the population is up - you can't just give this agriculture-industrial choice and let people starve.

* More industrialized economies able to produce a lot more than less-industrialized/poorer economies and areas, exacerbating all sorts of power dynamics, e.g. agricultural "dumping" and mass destitution of peasants who become unable to compete, without a transition having been planned.

* Some detrimental environmental effects.

That's not to say this process shouldn't be used - it's just that it's not a panacea.

> Penicillin and vaccines eliminated entire categories of terminal disease.

They did not. They reduced the fatality rates significantly, for a long period of time - which, apparently, may be drawing to an end over the next few decades:

https://www.wired.com/story/antibiotics-resistance-useless-p...

but even if that doesn't quite happen - antibiotics have absolutely _not_ :

* Reduced the need to Keep medical environments clean, carefully sterilize tools, wear gloves and "scrubs" etc. when treating patients.

* Made it uninteresting or unimportant to avoid mass infections - even those amenable to treatment with Penicillin or vaccines

* Reduce interest or prevalence of other forms of treatment of germs and viruses which are amenable to Penicillin or vaccines.
Also: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cove-5
Those are the instructions for new customers. Existing customers can add up to 20 kits to their account you'll note.

These are absolutely tied to accounts, to addresses, to billing information.
> Hinton’s work has nothing to do with physics.

Nor did Jack Kilby's invention of the IC, but they still gave it to him.

You could probably argue the same for the invention of the transistor...
Judges wouldn't try to determine whether "ingesting lead is bad for you".

They would determine whether the EPA is acting within the powers granted to it by Congress, which is what only judges are qualified to do.
I've seen Uber come up with the most outrageous routes to take me around NYC, so I don't think this is true at all w/r/t to being something that Uber "solved."
"On a walk today I was thinking about something specific that I think is under-discussed. Yes people bikeshed etc. but when you create your own engine you are _fiercely_ aware of _everything_ it can and can't do. As part of this, it's very easy to feel fully in command of your own toolset, and as such able to exhibit mastery over that toolset."

Yeah the really compelling thing to me is the knowledge building. For example what I do with my own project is that I take a look at some demo or example, let's say in Gamemaker or GDevelop and I ask myself a few questions:

a) how is the sausage made?
b) can I make the sausage and what are my ingredients?
c) if I can't make the sausage yet, what do I need in order to make the sausage?

For me this has been really the best way to build rather "deep" knowledge in this domain, as in knowing how something works under the hood (or how I think it works or at least how my version of it works) vs. knowing how to use it in Gamemaker / GDevelop.

Ps. your github could use some screenshots I think
> Debugging is twice as hard...

Not an axiom I would agree with, and I find it strange the rest of the article builds on this assumption.
> Meanwhile we have gotten rid of expiry dates here in the UK. And I have bought fruits and vegetables that all look fine on the outside but inside are rotten.

It's great! Now the supermarkets can blame us for waste.

Fortunately, every supermarket does still have labels that show a coded date - so that their staff can remove products that are too old.

If you search for the particular store online, you should be able to find their system.

I shop in Sainsbury's usually. Their system is pretty simple. A letter shows the month (A = January, B = February etc.) and two digits show the day of the month.
Iiiinteresting. Some how I'd missed that so far. Thanks for the tip.
You can set the CSS properties that you don't want to inherit, you shouldn't need an iframe.
By simply inputting your comment in to 4o, with no other context about the paper, I was able to get a pretty good analysis of the dual-head concept's implications.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67058973-ba94-8008-bed7-c7f9d08dc5...
Never hitch your wagon to somebody else's horse.

Entire companies have been destroyed because they rely on Amazon, Google, or some other service, and then have the rug pulled. Sometimes companies have even been destroyed, notably by Amazon, for having the wrong political viewpoints.

My rule of thumb is: Only use open source components, and only run my stuff on Linux. So that way I maintain full control over my stack, and stay mostly immune from the political rug pulls, and other kinds of rug pulls.
Like I said.

You have a dish currently without a plan in the area, you switch it on. It will give you Internet
These threads often end up, with everyone trying to prove they are literary scholars.

Demonstrably untrue - for some definition of often. This thread shows people with genuine interests in books that are sometimes labelled literary.
I totally agree that this is very heavy compared to the original player, but that's probably not the point... maybe it's just for fun... ;-)
It happens in Rotterdam, EU's biggest container port, so I'm pretty sure that it happens in the States, too.
> That would mean they would need to have a proper parser for a half dozen shader models.

It avoids this entirely. If you're on a system whose GPU driver only speaks DXBC and you hand it SPIR-V, that would be an error. This is what SDL GPU does. The SDL team conveniently made a small library that can cross-compile SPIR-V to the other major bytecode formats that you can integrate into your build pipeline.
Out of curiosity, how do you deal with changing exchange rates in that case?
Yes, when older homes get replaced by newer, high-density housing, the lead pipes go bye-bye. That was the entire point. NIMBYs are often fine replacing existing homes with newer homes of the exact same size.
NASA: New Insights into How Mars Became Uninhabitable
No it wasn't. I prefer to hail a cab any time I have the opportunity. Because of Uber, that's less and less frequent.
Thanks!

It depends on the number of rows/columns and the types of the values, but the application displays a dialog asking you if you want to stop the import before completion when it feels like resources are being exhausted.

The software was specifically developed to be able to handle as much data as possible while remaining responsive so the workstation resources will likely be the bottleneck here.

On my 32GB development machine, I can easily load tens of millions rows with tens of columns.
That’s one of the more bizarre things in the US to me. Lead pipes have been outlawed in Bavaria in the 1800s. It’s not something anyone ever thinks about, so imagine my surprise when I moved to a major US city and was told that I should test my water.
Almost all new construction homes will be built with utilities buried: all electrical, water pipes, drains, and high speed fiber go directly to a foundation. That loss argument is valid, but in practice it isn't slowing anything down.
Even the "audit" they require for increasing something simple as your YouTube API quota is already annoying and a massive waste of time, and this is not even close to the one they are requiring from Panic.

The quota increase process is roughly:

1) Fill out the same form every year from scratch

2) Send it into the black hole that's Google "support"

3) A few weeks later receive a reply from someone asking a irrelevant question to our use case

4) Two weeks later another person replies asking for screenshots of the "implementation", so you send a screenshot of "func storeTrailerMetadata()"

5) Another two weeks later, another automated person replies that you got approved.
In 1986 and 2014, science (electron optics, nanoscopy/nanolasers) came first. Then the microscopy. Even 2017 won for 3D microscopy. What Nobel-worthy physics does thing do?
> I haven't used Kamal yet but how does it deal with your action cable process and background worker becoming healthy with v2 of your app while the web app is still serving v1 of your code or vice versa?

Isn't this the same problem you'd have deploying your updated code to any number of servers larger than one? There's no way to shift over all the traffic at the exact same time, so all database changes have to be forwards compatible e.g. you can add columns before using them, all code changes have to be cross compatible (e.g. if there are unknown job names or arguments, they get automatically retried)
Found a reference to ENIASA - Instituto de Informática de Engenharia SARL (computer science engeneering). Rereading your post, I'm not entirely sure if it was just an academic publishing from maybe the same group or if a new branch for computers derived from the mecanograph educational offers. Curious use of ordenador istead of computador as it is nowadays, makes me wonder if it was an early adoption of the term computer.

It was submitted for registration and approved in 1970, according to Diário da República (similar to Federal Register in the US): https://files.dre.pt/gratuitos/3s/1970/09/1970d210s000.pdf , page 4, line 82 of that table. Or here: https://i.imgur.com/GyKPamu.png
So Starlink's activation instructions expressly written for the Hurricane Helene relief effort are lies?

Please forgive me if I request a citation. Especially since the information you've provided so far has all been contradicted by official Starlink sources.
The Origins of PostScript [pdf]
Impact is hard to quantify. There have been several occasions where someone who very well deserved a Nobel prize didn't get one. There are all kinds of reasons. Given he is mentioned in the reasoning he was probably considered. We can't know the reason he did not get the prize.

I recently watched this quite video on the subject: https://youtu.be/zS7sJJB7BUI?feature=shared and found it quite enjoyable.
They also built both the hardware as well as the OS. Google has never been able to do that for a new product line.
I'm clearly very ignorant of the situation. What is the non-Muslim religion and culture that the government is trying to promote?

I think of Tajikistan as a Muslim nation, and the article itself says that the population is 98% Muslim.
The Experts have something to say about Poul's theory (I would gleefully take his side of the argument though):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Before then, those of us with homes that aren't 100% rodent-proof forever have to factor in just how much mice and rats luuuuuv chewing on PEX hot water pipes. https://www.bobvila.com/articles/rodents-chew-pex-pipe/

PEX is easy to work with and cheap up front. The cost and risk are shifted onto the future owners.
I said it more politely elsewhere, but:

Citation needed.