skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if there is one "value" that stands out from Google's culture (as it is reflected onto its customers) it is tremendous lack of empathy.

- Google maps appears to be designed by non-drivers. Much of hte time it is impossible to find out the name of cross streets near one's location by zooming in. Pins get added accidentally and are hard to categorize and find, there is no notion of neighborhoods, and the voice directions say the same redundant thing over and over (and it is often misleading). No intelligent person could design the product that way if they actually used it.

- Google's parental control features in android lack granularity, and the bias is toward kids watching garbage content as there is no way to share curated lists or for creators to become curators of high quality youtube content, etc. For anyone with young kids this is a must have feature and Google has ignored this kind of thing for years. Also if your kid's phone dies there is no way to remove it from the FamilyLink app! Someone really tested it thoroughly!

- Google Home / Nest. Exceptionally buggy devices. Basic functionality like shared speakers (all Nest over Nest wifi) are buggy and slow. "Hey Google" takes an extra few seconds to respond compared to Alexa and none of it is compatible with Google Advanced Security (Google's own feature!). Nobody building this tech is using it at home or else they would be furious about these big oversights.

- Gemini in Gmail is a total dud. It can't tell me what upcoming events are listed in my email inbox. It biases toward searching the inbox, and GMail inbox search has been highly broken for years. I participated in a user study at Google a while back and the PM admitted it was broken and would not be fixed.

Google is now a cash cow advertising business and thanks to Eric Schmidt (a brilliant but morally lacking individual) it has become a major defense contractor.

Thanks to OpenAI and others, Google search is already dead. The market hasn't caught up with this yet. I sincerely regret making gmail my main email, as the company seems to have completely lost its way. In spite of a lot of brilliance the lack of empathy with users and the need to deliver products that solve problems continues to persist.
They said they thought there was a script, but it wasn't run very often.
> I'm a little sad for anyone who didn't get to experience the Internet of the twentieth century. It was a unique point in time.

I did, and...well, let's be careful how we look back at it.

Punch the monkey? Ad supported 'free' internet that literally put an adbar at the top of your browser at all times? Dreadfully slow loads of someone's animated construction sign GIF? Waiting for dial up to connect after 20 tries? Tracking super pixels? Java web applets? Flash? Watching your favorite ISP implode or get bought up? To say nothing of the pre-Google search results (I miss the categories though).

I have plenty of good memories from those days, but it still had plenty of problems. And it wasn't exactly a bastion of research material either unless you really went digging or paid for access.
Safari's limitations are baffling sometimes, like it's the only browser that doesn't support SVG favicons aside from a non-standard monochrome-only variant. Their engine supports SVG, just not in that context, and you'd think they would be all over resolution independent icons given their fixation on extremely high DPI displays.
Grate post! Hey, check my websight about "WordPress blogs" at https://www.sevarg.net/ I think youll like it! ;)

Are you sure comments are still desirable? Isn't step 1 of the internet anymore "Never read the comments"?

That said, I did actually work out a solution for "static site with dynamic comments" on my blog that could easily be done for a lot of people if they're willing to use a hosted service. Discourse (the modern forum software that a lot of places moved to after PHPBB) has a way to integrate with pages for comments, and so I've been using that for at least three years now with no real trouble. I host my own Discourse install (I'm weird, I still have a server racked up in a datacenter), but there's no reason you couldn't pay someone else to do that and provide comments.

Interestingly, the amount of spam I've gotten with my Discourse comments is a tiny fraction the amount I got even with Blogger back when I was hosting there. It's just not a big problem anymore for me, and it was a constant annoyance with PHPBB forums and Blogger.

The rest of the site is just Jekyll, based around a template I bought (because I can't make a decent looking website). I've then hacked on it a lot over the years to make it do things I want (responsive images, mostly - I'm still sensitive to people on low bandwidth connections), but it's not bad at all in terms of maintenance. Just launch a render job and some scripts upload the new files.
If you want to target alpha oscillations, fNIRS is not sufficient, it measures oxygenation changes in the blood, which is a delayed metabolic response to brain activity, changing on the scale of seconds. EEG oscillations instead reflect real-time neuronal electrical activity, changing on the scale of tens of milliseconds. On the plus side, you can also sew EEG into headbands, there are a lot of wearable devices under development.
Not from all backups, or so I've heard.
> but that was not run very often

GDPR has strict rules about how long data can persist after the deletion request is made.
My understanding from the article is that expiry ("use by") dates will still be needed, and sell-by dates are being removed because mean something different from expiry, but consumers (myself included until now) generally misunderstand this.
Late to the party, but for anyone looking for inspiration:

Fiction: Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig) by Thomas Mann[0]

Nonfiction: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard[1]

Illustrated: The Insect God by Edward Gorey

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek
I think it's a fairly inconsistent business, for one. I wonder also if state protectionism is at pay. Washington State for example until recently was only considering in state ship builders to replace the ferry fleet
How are you handling commonality between pages with plain html pages? As long as you don’t use iframes, you have to manually sync everything that’s shared or almost the same on alle pages (header, footer, navigation). That’s pretty annoying.
...doing far more harm than good...

Odd turn of phrase. Thinking LLMs work like brains may be holding back an advance to full AGI but is that a harm or good? I'm not against all powerful models but "build and deploy this stuff as fast as possible with minimal consequence consideration" definitely seems like a harm to me. Perhaps the Sam Altmans of the world should keep believing LLMs are "brains".
> Are we sure that microplastics from the new pipes aren't just as bad?

In general, yes, for all the comparisons of good vs bad that I can think of. Long term effects of microplastics vs neurotoxic metals is "we aren't quite sure long term, but not measurable brain damage" vs "guaranteed measurable brain damage short to long term".

If plastic bits are big enough, it's obviously a different equation (acute vs gradual), but that's not the implication I understood.
Thank you! One of the devs working on the Peacock player now helped build a lot of Media Chrome, so who knows what may come of that.

To give them some credit, I thought the multi-screen view they built across their players was pretty novel.
One the greatest "real" things I've ever read in sci-fi is the /physical/ turing machine in a museum at the start of Fall; or, Dodge in Hell that actually speaks ICMP, and (with a long enough timeout) is pingable from the external 'net.
They just mean service managers like SystemD and OpenRC prefer to handle daemonizing themselves, and thus would prefer that your program stay in the foreground and let them put it in the background.

From OpenRC’s docs[0]:

Daemons must not fork. Any daemon that you would like to have monitored by supervise-daemon must not fork. Instead, it must stay in the foreground. If the daemon forks, the supervisor will be unable to monitor it.

If the daemon can be configured to not fork, this should be done in the daemon's configuration file, or by adding a command line option that instructs it not to fork to the command_args_foreground variable shown below.

The “undesired” or “controversial” part is whether programs should do it themselves or not.

[0]: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/supervise-daemo...
How would automation mess up the flow of drugs. Wouldn't it make it easier, if no human was there to take a peek?

Or are there ghost containers on ships, which are filled with drugs and not part of the manifest, that an automated system would flag but people with greased hands know to let it through?
> On top of that, fatty meals, larger meals, and iirc fast carb heavy meals would all cause either nausea or diarrhea

It's worth pointing out that it's a minority of people who get any side-effects. I felt weird the first few days, but after that I only got myself into trouble if I'd forgotten to eat all day and then was faced with a hyper-satiating food with no natural portions -- an on-table buffet, someone placing endless bowls of chips and dips in front of me at a party, etc.
It works on a smaller scale too. Higher minimum wage, more (reasonable) employment benefits, and less control of the firm over the employers also tend to lead fast growing economies.

But people will discuss endlessly about what direction the causation goes.
All monopolies do this. Once they're past the point where the government can effectively regulate them they essentially take over and regulate the market for their own interests. Google is very good at this. They're probably better at this than actually writing code these days.

Which is why anyone and everyone should flat out avoid them as a company.
> They're not asking about converting the case of any Unicode string with locale sensitivity, they're asking about converting the case of ASCII characters.

I'm confused now. The article specifically mentions issues with UTF-16 and UTF-32 unicode characters outside the basic multilingual plane (BMP).
Philipp Lenard had a patent on cathode ray tubes, Marconi on wireless telegraphy, Dalén had plenty of patents on the automatic lighthouse regulator he got the prize for, and many others.

You can continue looking yourself: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-...

Or maybe you can ask ChatGPT for a better summary?
1. Slack has network effects: we connect with customers on Slack (or M$ Teams for enterprise…)

2. I don’t want to innovate on “back office”. Slack works, is sufficiently affordable, and costs no social credit with employees.

3. I know I won’t run into problems in the future. This kinda ties into (2), I don’t want to innovate on back office, but to make it concrete: Deel, Rippling and the other M$ AD clones all integrate with Slack to set up permissions and SSO with zero effort.

4. Slack has lots of sensitive info about us and pur customers, which makes it SOC-2 relevant. I want to use “industry standard” tech for anything compliance related. Though I don’t recall that this would have ever been a problem on security questionnaires, and not many years ago Slack was the “young kid on the block” themselves & managed, so idk if this is actually a valid point.

—

If you give me a feature parity clone of slack for half the price, I’d certainly switch, but anything less than feature parity and I probably wouldn’t. I don’t need to or want to take risks on internal tooling.
> There is still not a censuses as to the definition of a static website.

No server side scripting. OK to have client side scripting (e.g. JS). Basically, how things ran back in the 90's for most people who couldn't afford ASP or a paid web host.
> Sometimes companies have even been destroyed, notably by Amazon, for having the wrong political viewpoints.

Ok, I'll ask: what company did Amazon destroy for having the wrong political viewpoint?

AWS hosts some pretty vile stuff without blinking. The last time a company made a big "woe is me, my ideas are being suppressed" claim against Amazon, it was Parler, and they weren't kicked off for their viewpoints. They were kicked off for operating a crime-ridden site with zero effective moderation.
Then have the write political viewpoints instead. It seems popular.
Didn’t seem sufficient to me at all, but I’m happy to be proven wrong.
Here you go:

<form action="mailto:someone@example.com" enctype="text/plain">
Apple is the epitome of Not Invented Here syndrome.
Sure does. The article even says, on the first screenful of text:

> You may have seen iA Writer’s announcement that they are stopping development of their Android version for similar reasons. Our experience was different, but our circumstances are similar. While Google Drive may not be the most popular connection option in Transmit, we know many users rely on it, and we often use it here at Panic to send and receive files from the game developers we work with.
Power on telephone poles have a couple problems, mainly involving trees/cars/miscreants breaking them and causing power outages (and sometimes fires). Some people also feel they're unsightly.

However, underground cables can be also be broken (e.g: by water leaks or backhoes), and in these cases, it can be more expensive and time-consuming to find and fix the break. I believe initial installation is also more costly.
Who knows what "not very often" means. It could mean once a day or once a year. The point is that this could be made to be compliant with little extra effort, so pointing out "um actually it's not compliant" is not saying much.
NY, NJ join multistate lawsuits against TikTok over youth mental health concerns
Perhaps the main page should show an image of the video and a small (unlegible) transcript. Something similar to YouTube.
'without ideological bias' is a ideology bias my dear.
200 WPM – Final Reflection on Semimak
Because I was curious: the deadliest wildfire in California's history killed 0.00021% of the state's 2018 population.
It's really a bottomless pit of interesting technical projects. Careful, if your game engine has users other than yourself, it is also a bottomless pit of feature requests and bug reports.

Source: me
I wrote this response to another front page HN article on a similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664753

I know everyone loves to dunk on Google, and I definitely agree their communication and customer service to app developers is shite, but this change to permissions scope is a good thing. If you have full, unfettered access to large number of people's Google Drive data, you're a huge target for malevolent actors. If you can't afford the new audit requirements (which I've done and are quite easy - if anything I'm sympathetic to the argument that they're more "box ticking" than valuable security audits), then I'd really question your ability to appropriately safeguard so much critically private data. For reference, these audits are about 1/20th as complicated as a full SOC 2 audit, for example.

FWIW I'm not previously familiar with this Transmit app, but based on their use cases (e.g. backup) it sounds like the limited "drive.file" scope wouldn't work for them. Still, if you want complete, unfettered access to my entire Drive account, I don't think it's a bad thing that Google is enforcing some minimal security standards.
You want there to be fewer people? Why?

I don’t think I can continue this conversation in good faith. I hope someday you can see the intrinsic evil of the world view in which more people = bad.
Yeah, the initial enrollment is pretty problematic without trusted attestation. Reading the wikipedia entry on this, it seems at least the older devices can be fooled into accepting non-live-tissue scans (dunno the SOTA on this) which would enable fake enrollments but also impersonation. Impersonation could be mitigated with MFA at least. Dealing with compromised scanners would probably require a PKI and revocation mechanism, but don't take my word on this.

Seems kinda like a tough problem when you really mean to follow through, especially when making the least amount of concessions. It'd probably be easiest to integrate with existing government systems like eID, but that's region-specific and who knows how trustworthy that is long-term. I guess, there's also these sorta weird identification services that banks use (hold ID card and face into the video feed and variants), but same problem.

As for conceiving such a system in the first place, good luck ;)
> With Google Drive now being at the center of so many companies for storing business data, I am certain it is a juicy target, and third party access with full access to read and write to that big hard drive full of proprietary data is one that I would understand want to lock down... but not like this?

Could be a Google Workspace policy where you can just set that employees can't access the corporate Drive account through third party apps, while it continues to work for personal accounts.
I tried to download my raw data recently and it took days. Seems like a lot of customers are trying to download it and cancel after the turmoil. I think 23andme has always been held hostage by its scientists who have stopped it from offering a lot of entertaining information about health related studies that are not considered methodologically sound enough to constitute health advice. Why not just add a "speculative or insufficiently replicated / peer-reviewed" section and let us have fun with our data!
> There are a few California towns that would have benefitted from buried power transmission lines in recent years.

Is it possible to bury high voltage transmission lines?
Discord is becoming a bloated slop fest. It has literally been implicated at times for bad gaming performance [1]. Remember when it used to just be a chat app? And don't get me started on its "quests" system, which may burst your ideal internet bubble. [2]

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/discord-throttles-nvidia-g...

[2] https://www.thestreet.com/technology/discord-is-making-a-maj...
'till the 80's, french was the computer dominating language. Terms like "Octeto" (portuguese for byte) were derived from french glossary (tehy had laws to prevent the english tech term colonization and still today they have a french word for every english counterpart). So, "Ordenadores" was pretty common. And before electronics took over, we had "Electrológica", refering mixed hardware like Burroughs or Gestetner.
Honestly it doesn't even matter. There is no proof the DNA is yours because they do no validation of users identity.
I find it odd the author spends lots of time talking about vintage typewriters but then fails to consider vintage computers which can give some real life examples of computers that are still usable almost 50 years on from their original release. E.g. the Commodore 64, lots of working examples still around and now 42 years since first release.

Certainly a C64 is highly restrictive compared to a modern machine and were one to specifically build a computer to last 50 years it's not where you'd start but surely a machine that has actually lasted almost 50 years and remains usable has things to teach you about long lasting computer design.

In particular interesting to see how open source fits in. The modern C64 ecosystem has plenty of tools and utilities that do use open source software and hardware (e.g. the Kung Fu Flash cartridge: https://github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash) but plenty of the core software, that actually runs on the machine, is proprietary software the source is long gone for. It's still around because of archivists and pirates and can continue to be used because the original copyright holders don't care to enforce their copyrights. So is open source actually a core item as the author asserts or just a nice to have? Having the software be archived and easily available later was the key. Along with simplicity, you just run the monolithic binary, there's no dependencies and the software is sufficiently simple that hacking around with the raw binary is perfectly feasible.
> there was a script that was supposed to actually delete the entries ... was there for legal and compliance issues.

Sounds like the laws worked in this case. They required data to be actually deleted, and it was due to those laws, and only due to those laws.
Do you prefer going to the store to buy something and have the shelves empty?

Do you genuinely think they keep a bunch of inventory on the shelf just for fun so they can lose money?

I agree that I'm making a dichotomy, but I don't think it is a false dichotomy.
> but when you create your own engine you are _fiercely_ aware of _everything_ it can and can't do

The problem is that if you start gamedev by making engines, then you aren't aware of what you need to do.

To give an example, if you make font rendering and looks blurry/pixelated, what now? Oh, and a simple 2D game takes 8 seconds to load, wonder why?

Meanwhile, if you have ever made a Unity game, chances are you already know the keywords "SDF" and "Texture compression", because you tore down an already big engine for optimizing your game and accidentally learned about what features a game needs.
I'm generally in favor of Defender, but it can definitely cause performance issues, especially in relationship to other windows processes like windows update.

If you keep your system regularly updated, it's less of a problem, but I often help people who basically never update or leave their computer on long enough for Defender to do complete scans. After a certain point it basically becomes impossible to update because defender fights update and chrome and discord and etc etc etc, for access to the files and you end up with the cpu and harddrive maxed out for a couple of days before everything completes.
The french are actually trying to drag the rest of EU into war because they lost their colonies to russia.
Be aware that the vast majority of people who rely on VoiceOver use Safari as their browser; on mobile devices, they have no choice. There are some ways in which Chrome for Mac does a better job of managing its accessibility tree than Safari but there are a bunch of other issues.

Accessible Name and Description Computation is complicated, some elements can get their name from their contents and some can't; frankly, I can't keep it all straight in my head.

https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.2/

Additionally, there's what the specs say and what browsers and screen readers actually do.

VoiceOver doesn't support the `aria-description` attribute yet. The `title` attribute is often computed as an element's description, when it's not computed as its name (it's not a good choice for naming elements, except <iframe>).

https://a11ysupport.io/tech/aria/aria-description_attribute

`role="application"` isn't a good role for static content and should only be used when letting a screen reader used its keyboard shortcuts would interfere with the user operating interactive controls (which should rarely be the case).

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.2/#application
> DNA can't contain human culture

Furthermore: My conjecture is that DNA doesn't contain any "training data". There's no data path for information to get from an organism's learnings about its surroundings in generation N, into the DNA for generation N+1. DNA is just plans for how to wire up the I/O devices. Everything we think we see that seems like "instinct" will turn out to be explained by a combination of the wiring to I/O devices, and early training.
The only one bringing partisan politics to this thread is you.
Is it a legal build though? It feels like it shouldn't be with how much flexes & rubs. Very cool either way.