skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google needs to be broken up

It's very unlikely that any break-up would result in Chrome floating off on its own.
I was able to get away with only 10% down payment on my home loan precisely because of the holdings in my brokerage account. The rest is on 3.25% / year loan for 30 years. Very similar to the mechanism described in the article. And thus my question.
I liked the conclusion: gratitude for a human in the loop who could make human decisions. Like the old IBM presentation said, “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

(Of course greed, stupidity and laziness will cause us to use computers for all sorts of management decisions and we’ll destroy lives as a result.)
The complete package is far more valuable because of the software that drives it. More valuable than not needing to solder the wires is not needing to figure out how to make the IR blaster do useful work by editing code. Because if it was just the hardware, the moat discouraging a non-open source competitor wouldn't exist and there would be competition already.
The mention of “white, heteronormative, cisgender” at the end seems so shoehorned in that you’d think the author had a gun to their head to include it.

Edit: I say this because pretending it’s the “white, heteronormative, cisgender” crowd in the Bay Area oppressing everyone unlike them in… rural America of all places is hilarious. If anything this entire article is evidence of the opposite given the relative demographics of each.
I must add this second reply:

> The "repressed memory" was an embarrassing controversy

It was not an "embarrassing controversy". Innocent people were thrown in jail based on the imaginary claims of witnesses -- then jurors, then judges -- who wrongly thought psychology -- and repressed memory therapy -- have the status of science. They do not.

After any number of cases, for example involving virgins reporting imaginary rapes, the legal system finally realized they were being played and the innocent were freed.

The problem was that people still granted psychology the status of science, as late as the mid-1990s, including the legal system. Not any more.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory) : "Repressed memory is a controversial, and largely scientifically discredited, psychiatric phenomenon which involves an inability to recall autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature." [ ... ] "Subsequent accusations based on such "recovered memories" led to substantial harm of individuals implicated as perpetrators, sometimes resulting in false convictions and years of incarceration."

So, according to you, these were actually years of "embarrassing" incarceration of innocents. Suit yourself.

> Look. I am a developmental psychologist at a major University ...

Great -- an appeal to authority. Were you never taught this is a logical fallacy? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority) : "The argument from authority is a logical fallacy ..."

> Asperger's syndrome was not abandoned because it was a "fad."

That is exactly what happened. In a nutshell:

* Hans Asperger identified it in 1944.
* Psychologists later identified Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein and Bill Gates (among others) as suffering from it.
* This roster of famous "sufferers" made the diagnosis popular among young people (sometimes also their parents), many of whom sought the diagnosis for themselves.
* Overdiagnosis resulted in what is now described as an epidemic (https://time.com/archive/6641066/the-end-of-an-epidemic/) of Asperger's diagnoses involving people with a modicum of acting ability and a desire to have the same mental illness as Albert Einstein and Bill Gates.
* In response, psychologists folded the diagnosis into a larger category with a much less desirable name, with the very desirable effect of dramatically reducing the rate of diagnosis. This happened due to public perceptions -- not science, not clinical presentation, but public perceptions.

>>"Psychology has real-world consequences because it is not a science."

> Psychology indeed has real-world consequences, as do all sciences.

With one critical distinction -- psychology is not a science. This is true because it lacks a foundation in testable, falsifiable theories. Astrology has theories, the theories fail any reasonable test, so Astrology is a failed science. Psychology has no such theories, so it can't be undermined by falsifiable tests of its claims.
In an emergency you can make use of anything, including a radio without an amateur radio license. But it’s easier to use when you’ve had the practice and aren’t fumbling around learning about offsets and CTCSS tones. Or even better, when you have the repeaters preprogrammed into your radio.

Meshtastic is awesome, I have two T-echos. But it doesn’t compare to being able to whip out a handheld radio, tune into a nearby repeater and dial out with EchoLink to check in with my partner when I’m hiking.
You may need to actually listen to RFK Jr. more.

RFK Jr. telling Joe Rogan WiFi radiation causes cancer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YQ1Y7c_Pk

RFK Jr. on 5G conspiracy theories:
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1214710810921955328

RFK Jr. on chemicals in drinking water causing trans kids:
https://x.com/BenjaminGoggin/status/1670755204403277825

RFK Jr. on Bill Gates conspiracy theories:
https://archive.is/PiwCW

RFK Jr.'s long history of claiming thimerosal in vaccines cause autism:
https://archive.is/uIWaC

It's pretty clear RFJ Jr. doesn't believe things because he understands them well; he believes things simply because they are conspiracy theories, because he's a crackpot who's predisposed to believing any conspiracy theory that stumbles across his path.

edit:

Replying to your post below because we’re at the HN comment limit.

The weight of evidence is heavily against cell phone radiation causing cancer, so that you began your response with “cell phone radiation is known to cause cancer” suggests you have the same weak evidentiary standards as RFK Jr. and explains why you would find someone like him compelling.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...
Agreed. Nuclear is cool but beaten in so many ways by the current renewable revolution. Distributed, low risk, cheap energy generation backed by batteries seems strictly superior to nuclear generation.
Looks like the mastodon instance got the HN hug of death, anybody archived it?
I suspect it's not really "forgot". I suspect it's "awnings require ongoing maintenance".
Or in other words, for embedded and existing code: most use c99, some use c11 and nobody uses c23 until at least 10 years from now.
Article title: Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the de novo production of psilocybin and related tryptamine derivatives
Cool! TIL. That does seem more manageable.
It's presumably not practical to find a multi-GW load to test with aside from the grid. The plant probably had arrangements in place if things didn't work out.
> Don't use operator overloading for unrelated operations

This disn't stop with <iostream>, they keep doing it - the latest example I can think of is std::ranges operations being "piped" with |.
That's correct, people in this thread are comparing single compressed dependency of sqlite+wasm of 400KB to the total size of web pages which run in MB. I did some actual tests while trying to use sqlite and it does adds noticeable delay on first page load on mobile due to big size+decompression+ additional scaffolding of wasm.
Pages that run into MB have small files that are downloaded concurrently so the delay is not noticeable. I wrote about this and my other expriments with in browser db in my last article but it did not get any traction here.
> Because of Google, our address wasn’t even present for the USPS

How does the author know this bit?

I've lived on streets that definitely existed in Google maps, but where the exact address definitely didn't exist in USPS address system for like 6 months until they finally updated it, which caused... a very similar same set of issues described in this article. This has happened to me twice.

In my experience at least, USPS doesn't give a shit what Google says or not. Maybe it's changed since then? I would require some serious convincing though.
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Yes, but I wanted to bypass having the complexity of the Linux kernel completely, too.

Basically single app directly to network (the world) and as little as possible else in between.
I recently moved to India. Addresses are a mess (I won’t even try describing it), and I suspect that Google Maps has valid street addresses for a fairly small fraction of the total population, probably even under half the population in big cities. Yet quite a few things I’ve been dealing with have been using Google Maps data (based on detectable idiosyncrasies), with a couple even not allowing custom entries!

In the USA these sorts of issues may be troublesome to a small fraction of the people so that government and business can largely ignore it without it inconveniencing too many people, but in India it’s sheer madness. So you know what happens instead? You just don’t deal with the dodgy phone app or website, but instead ring the company’s local agent, or go into the company’s shop, or something like that, and they bypass their broken system. Exactly the same as the conclusion of this article.

India’s digitalisation of things is frequently very half-baked. Maybe the end state in another twenty years will be worthwhile, but in the mean time, things are often worse than they were before the attempt was made.
AMD and Intel join forces against ARM
You know? That sounds actually interesting because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-moderated_self-regula...

Hydrogen can be so hawt!1!!
I had a similar experience- moved to an area with a new ZIP code (<2 years old) and while most services were fine, Google Address Verification didn't know it existed. I couldn't use my credit card anywhere that used Google to see if the address was real. Multiple customer service reps said there was nothing they could do; my address was just not valid for their system. I imagine it eventually made it in to Google's vault of 'knowledge,' but by that time I had moved away to a place Google thought acknowledged the existence of.
Polyunsaturated fats like omega-3 and omega-6 are beneficial.
LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Comment sounds like Angkor Wat is in Machu Pichu.
I borrow against my measly investment portfolio through my local banks "Loan against Securities" account. Interest rate is about 10%.

My father was using this feature for past 15 or so years from same bank. We are solidly middle class in India.

The only difference between what we do and what rich folk get is probably lower interest rates and higher percentage of loans against the securities value.
It mentioned "local architects" after all...
The Power and the Glory
>Go in with enough random people to say you lived at a place and that was more legitimate than a letter with your address on top from a propane company that served half the state.

While the propane company's letter should have been sufficient, ultimately these kinds of realities are socially determined, so I don't think it's all that crazy to expect attestations from other people to substitute for other official documentation.

Also, the one big takeaway I had from this blog is that government entities should use a government-run maps application for official duties. At least then you have someone you can hold accountable (i.e. your congressional representative) for any errors that appear. Actually, maybe the author could reach out to their congressperson anyways. If the USPS has a contract with Google to use Maps, they could in theory require a redress mechanism as part of the next contract.
I’ve seen this happen when the people move in and aren’t technically in the city they thought they were. They were right on the border IIRC. Ride-share apps and Google had no clue until I entered the city adjacent to the one they thought they lived in. They somehow still got packages. I guess the zip, street and number combo were enough.
I really want to explore Payload. Initial install is rocky though. Im stuck on something drizzle-kit related
So you're just mad that they said the evil gender words? Because in the literal next sentence they qualify the mention with realistic examples. Hardly the definition of "shoe-horning".
The `thread_local` specifier is used on a few microcontroller platforms already, but would be absolutely illegal in C11 and before to use. However, it vastly simplifies memory management in a threaded context.

Why would I rather step into the world of C++ just to deal with that?
Japan looking to collaborate with India on UPI
Note that in your example there appear to be three distinct meanings:

1. prefix incr/decr precedence: "stack[--sp]"

2. postfix incr/decr precedence: "s[j++]"

3. i have no particular preference for the precedence and am just using a shorthand I inherited from my ancestors whose use cases are no longer relevant to me: "i++" in your for loop

My rank speculation is that C programmers get in a habit of #3 and then forget to consider precedence in an expression where it matters.

In any case, it would be interesting to do a scan of github to see how often prefix and suffix incr/decr had to get switched up in a bugfix patch.
I suspect it merely aligns with the author’s worldview. Didn’t come across as intentionally checking a box.
Could do both though, it’s not an either-or situation.
How often is it updated?

Does it include expired domains?
I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server
I think you're just primed to notice it. Frequency illusion. It's ironic because based on your comment, you couldn't care less, yet her we are.
i am creating host of dashboards which directly talk to different services with very little data on my own server that is used for access control and token management only so actual data never comes to my servers. This kind of app is a good candidate for client side embedded db.
Open source graphics editor in Rust – Graphite progress report (Q3 2024)
This isn’t an uncommon presentation - disease processes that lead to inflammation of the small bowel can be expected to resemble gluten sensitivity.

Gluten consumption, on its own, can cause small bowel inflammation and this effect is well known (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5677194/)
Honestly, in this situation, you want paying customers not VC-funding. YC at least has an objective application process (VC's don't, it just cold-email) and even then the acceptance rate makes it a non-viable dependable strategies.
Especially if you're enterprise SaaS..the question you need to answer is, how do you get a customer to pay?

(Sometimes having a co-founder here helps to answer this question)
It's definitely frustrating when Apple services go down unexpectedly. I also checked the Apple System Status page earlier, and it wasn't reflecting the outages at that time.

I found reports on Downdetector indicating issues with the App Store earlier, which was a relieve to me, lol. Apple's System Status page caught on some time later.
Are you sure all these companies you dealt with are verifying addresses against Google Maps data? It could have been the "official" data missing the street (not sure which entity maintains that, postal services?) - in that case surely there is a way to get it fixed.
> I think this looks incredible. Like how does one create a compatible abi _for all of linux_??? Wow!

FWIW that’s what the Linux compatibility layer in the BSDs does and also what WSL 1 did (https://jmmv.dev/2020/11/wsl-lost-potential.html).

It’s hard to get _everything_ perfectly right but not that difficult to get most of it working.
Show HN: Modern Kubernetes Dashboard
> The INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK experiment has come to a close a number of years ago.

> Much was learned in the process, and many thanks are given to the dozens of people who donated time, space and coding efforts to make the system work as long as it did. A number of useful facts and observations came from the project.

> The Internet Archive continues to explore methods and code to decentralize the collection, to have a mirror running in various ways - these include IPFS, FileCoin, and others. The INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK project also added general mirroring and tracking code to a number of projects that are still in use.

IA called this their Postmortem, but it sounds... intentionally opaque. Also, I'm not sure if this website is affiliated with archive.org, since they say at the bottom of their homepage:

> Archive Team is in no way affiliated with the fine folks at ARCHIVE.ORG Archive Team can always be reached by e-mail at archiveteam@archiveteam.org or by IRC at the channel #archiveteam (on hackint).
How's this different from chrome browser's PWA install? https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9658361?sjid=105106...

I believe the PWAs will correctly show up in the OS native app launchers.
Perhaps this says more about you than the author. At the very least not imaginative enough to picture someone being genuine. Or perhaps this just isn’t the right sort of thing to discuss on hn?
Anyone know of a good source like Our World in Data for tracking life expectancy across countries?

Our world in data hasn't updated life expectancy past 2021.

I've half wondered if it's because the article is optimistic but life expectancy has stalled since 2020. Coild also be the underlying data hit a snag. Would love to see an update

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
> These tools can easily be manipulated further to label anyone outside of the white, heteronormative, cisgender conglomerate as a non-person in the eyes of the larger system. All they need is a huge company like Google to “not recognize” a few key factors like whole neighborhoods in redlined areas or a gender marker (as compared to a birth certificate or something).

What a weird rant at the end. Last I checked, there is no gender.google.com, and straight up erasing people from maps for their race/gender/ethics/whatever is not something I have heard of happening.
These are very informative numbers one reads nowhere in the news.
From destatis[0], we go from 608 in 2019 to 514TWh in 2023. So not the same absolute values, but same trend. Thank you.

[0]: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...
Whatever you do, don’t touch the capacitors, especially if it’s an old TV, even if it’s unplugged. Could kill you. Old TV caps pack a serious punch (even when unplugged)
Add the street & address to OpenStreetMap if it hasn't been done already.

A few banks allow you to change your address online, a digital statement will then show the updated address. A printout works around proof-of-address requirements.

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> On a larger scale, it made me concerned for the use of AI in these kinds of situations. What if I wasn’t able to intercept a human postmaster who could then look at my documents and say that I was able to have a PO Box to receive mail from outside of town?

GDPR Article 22:

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
The root problem is the mandates all countries now have to root out money laundering. "Know your customer" laws have happened in lots of places.

"Proof of address" is a thorny problem. Mail is the obvious approach but quickly falls down in many cases. In many parts of the world official mail has all but ceased (web, email is cheaper.) In lots of areas PO boxes are used. Or, you know, Accounts may be in my wife's name so we don't get letters to me or my kids.

The Google part is fun, but basically irrelevant. There are new streets, new buildings, being built all the time. That might be your first hurdle, but it's not the last.

And that's before we talk about folks who don't have an address at all. Live in your car (or RV) - good luck with that.

You'll be shocked, shocked, to discover that this has had precisely no effect on money laundering... but hey, war on crime right?
Modern in software terms almost always just means recently written. Last couple years. It's a pretty useless adjective to describe software.

E.g. sqlite probably wouldn't be called modern, but everyone loves it so who cares.
I don't love google. But this is borderline rage bait.

The license thing had nothing to do with Google. The DMV doesn't use Google maps to mint licenses.

The po box thing also has nothing to do with Google. That's just a policy largely related to the bank secrecy act.

> For an entire week, I was a non-person to this country’s bureaucracy

It took a week to update their address. An out of date address doesn't make you a "non person." A handful of self-service online portals rejected their address change, and they couldn't use their po box for bank or license.

Here's the story,

"We moved to an extremely rural town. It's so off the grid, we had to go to the post office in person to get the address changed. Because we don't get mail at the house, me and my partner had to acknowledge that each of us lived there at the dmv. All in all, it took a week to sort out."
Overall, the study found that children born since 2010 have a relatively small chance of living to 100 (5.1% chance for women and 1.8% chance for men). The most likely cohort to see a full century are women in Hong Kong, with a 12.8% chance.

How do you quantify the chance of a teenager living to 100?
Why have taxes at all if the government can just print money?
When a developer says “this is a temporary solution” they mean “this is a temporary solution forever”.
Thanks!

No support for custom scripts yet. But the whole concept is that we're basically building a WYSIWYG editor on top of a node-based compositor on top of a visual programming language (so that's three products in one, lots of work ahead for us!). The result is that the whole thing is a programmatic data pipeline and you'll be able to write custom scripts in both node and code form, then compose them into reusable pieces and pipelines. But since we're building three products in one, we have only been able to focus on the parts that matter most to get things working. Your request hasn't yet been one of those, but worry not, that's very much a core feature.
This is the postmodern, "hyperreal" condition alluded to by Baudrillard and others of his ilk, where the documents and symbols of identity and personhood are elevated above the physical matters of fact themselves. It suffices to simply produce language of identity or language of personhood to establish a fact, and absence thereof implies nonexistence.

Ultimately, according to this postmodern ethos, reality is mediated by power and consensual narrative; therefore, despite your individual lived experience, the fact that Google does not recognize your existence at this address makes your nonexistence and nonresidence actually the case, because Google has the social gravitas to assert its own view of the world as actually factual.

If one finds this state of affairs as intolerable as the author of TFA, in which one can definitely inhabit an address despite there being no record of it in the Akashic cyberrecords, then one had best discover how to demonstrate the absurdity and undesirability of said postmodern philosophy.