skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be an apologist. To introduce your own feature and stopping there, declaring the problem solved (when this article claims the solution doesn't work as well as the third party ones did) is irresponsible. If this is the road they want to take, the right way is to introduce any and all public hooks needed to create a solution, and then, importantly, make the Apple one use only public APIs.

But it seems they chose to be significantly more lazy and bigger jerks than that. And here you come with the 7 point plan to say they are really commendable instead.
That's why I think fines should be a % of some wealth value of the law breaker.

I have always though for example that here in Mexico, traffic fines should be a % of the "yellow book value" of your car. Say, for passing a light in red, you get 5%. If you have a $1600 VW bug, then 5% of that will deffinitely hurt you. Similarly, if you have a $256,000 Ferrari, 5% will still be meaningful for you.

Otherwise, fines end up being just "the price of making business" or the price of speeding for wealthy people.
Not that I agree with this argument, but Apple does have services that they could earn money off of.
IRCv3 has history replay message types. It's there in the protocol. But it's only useful if both clients and server or proxy support it.
More than you'd imagine. Someone may be strongly against a feature, library, or tool and their presence in a channel focused on that thing may not be ideal.
>I get that people want to see a company crippled but wiping out a quarter of revenue is a death-blow.

Yeah, so? Smaller companies get death-blow fines all the time, why shouldn't big sharks get the same?
How long have you been in cash? Are you at least putting your cash in a GIC or bonds or treasury bills so you get some relief?

Cash decreases in value by the inflation rate daily so it's not a wise investment.

The market looks fine right now.
I never realized they(Pepeico) were using sacred potatoes they didn’t want others to use. This is the first I have heard if it. I will support them also and no longer buy any of their chips. Enjoy all your potatoes.
I don't see how Apple could cater for those needs. The only way would be to allow anyone to create an MDM profile, but making them free and abuntant defeats all the security of the App Store. It would just be sideloading, but a little harder. The use/abuse potential would be huge. I can imagine Netflix using loopholes like this so that users could create their own profiles and use them to install Netflix apps unencumbered by Apple's IAP limitations. That would make users accustomed to installing apps that way, and now we're one step from fake banking apps and Android's story all over.
Damage Control in Distributed Systems
Domestic abuse is a legal construct.
I cant believe no one has mentioned the great secret of writers: Brewer's dictionary of Phrase and Fable. This is the dictionary you read for fun, the one which sends you on rabbit holes of cross referencing, the one that gives you new ideas, stories, characters. You are missing out as a writer without it.
> Slack is trash and hostile to users

It seems better than Skype and Hipchat and whatever Google's latest chat app.
Spectrum is good for lightweight communities but it is nowhere near the capabilities of something like Discord, which something as big as the Mozilla project needs.
Eh, if hashes leaked I would still suggest changing passwords no matter the crypto practices involved. If you change the password, the hash is useless. If you don't, it's sill an attack vector, even if a technically impractical one (for now)
Facebook didn't happen to society. The internet happened to society.
The difference is only a small number of users need to write that custom code, while with tools like IRC everyone needs to fiddle with config files.
I use Discord all the time; it's a mess. Its permissions model is complex and hard to reason about, obvious UX decisions in Slack that make for a good experience aren't present in Discord. Like being able to click on someone's name and go to the dedicated DM view for them.

Discord is the one thing I dislike more than Slack, even if their backend tech is fucking stellar.
And Apple services that they earn money from are all subscription based. It would be better for Apple if people subscribed and used them less...
If people stopped using G in such high percentage, then they would most likely need to adapt back to a more open internet, instead of trying to wall it off around their services.

Reminds me of jabber.ccc.de that stopped providing new accounts because they felt they were ruining a federated system.
> Anyone who wants to can buy email from Google today!

But if you do so, does that mean that Google won't track you? Even if Google claims they won't, can you trust them?
Tesla’s next-gen Roadster will exceed 1k km of battery range, says Elon Musk
If PepsiCo has trademarked "Potatoe X" name then these farmers cannot sell them using that name.
I see your point and it does make sense. But from an IRC perspective, most people/groups only care about a handful of channels. So you might have the #community or #support channel, and someone starts acting up. A channel operator can ban them from that channel directly. Alternatively, a lot of IRC "teams" maintain a bot to manage the channel. The bot can give someone a temporary channel ban (a timeout) based on keywords, or a mod in the channel might type something like "!ban userx because of rule 12" and that bot might ban that user from a list of managed channels.

That user is then still on the server, they can make their own channels or message admins directly. There might be an #ops channel where they can go and plead their case. If they annoy the admins or someone else that reports them to the admins, then they might get a server-wide ban.

A lot of this comes behavior from public irc servers. Channel operators can manage their channel however they desire, and if the users don't like it, they can start their own channel. But for an organization ran IRC server, a server wide ban is more possible. But in the case of say, Mozilla, there are all sorts of different groups running their own channel. So a group working on a mozilla labs project might just start a channel for that project, but not actually have server-ban privileges. So they can moderate their channel and perhaps request a server ban on someone, but that server ban might take hours to approve, or the bad actor might just go away.
Anyone know of a GPS device that sends data to a server via a simple HTTP post request? I have trouble working with sockets.
Why do you need a collision? If you control the build, you control the sha-256 hash. But you can't sign it with a key that you don't have.
>Agreed. I don't think what Facebook is doing is ethical, but I agree 100% with you that the control is ultimately in our hands.. it first requires acknowledgement and then physical action.

Well, part of action to change yourself is to change your environment, so that you don't have bad habits within easy reach.

A huge fine to take down Facebook helps with that, and sends a strong signal to other social media takers...

It's not like "change yourself" only has to be some "from within you", will third parties are allowed to push lures straight down your face all the time...

Smoking wasn't stopped by just people smoking less, but also by big fines for tobacco, extra taxes, and so on.
Ask HN: Do grayed-out comments have the Streisand Effect on you?
Whenever I see an HN comment that is grayed out completely, almost the same color as the background, I always read it, because I know it’s going to be something juicy or controversial.

Does anybody else here have the same proclivity?
True. The only other challenge is that in production software you rarely want to call panic()
Right.
People at large are not really aware of the severity and expanse of own vulnerabilities -- addiction, coginitive bias etc. Or are even unwilling to seriously think through that angle.

This seems to call for a balance of perspectives and responsibilities. Partly similar is probably the case of traffic safety: driver's vigilance and responsibility has to be matched with sound regulation of all transportation profiteers.
"I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself.
Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase.

status wontfix"

Porting to Python 3 has been done many times even for very large codebases.

I think if a application is written in a way that to fork Python 2 and support that indefinitely instead of upgrading to Python 3, is the lesser evil of the two, then I would come up with serious questions about the quality of the codebase and its maintainers.
It is not exclusively defined by the legal domain. Actually I'm not sure how many places have such a crime.
When the town turns into a company town for the makers of technical backpacks, I feel some admiration for the people that try to assimilate, but also... it's kind of a shame.

There's no easy reaction to all the engineers and technical staff that don't love making tech products, maybe don't even like it. I want to explain to them why I love it in the hopes they'll start to feel the way I do and be happy. But people are too complex for that. And you can't just be like "get some other job" because there are very few other jobs that won't leave them struggling to make rent, at least not without moving far away.
Facebook users care less about privacy than regulators
Parental profiles limited in total number of managed devices? Failing that, it doesn't have to be MDM. They did implement the screentime as a built in piece of functionality. Also, does Android charge for MDM profiles?
You are right. And as Rene Girard famously pointed out, human societies need scapegoats from time to time.

I wouldn't mind beheading and burning this particular scapegoat on the altar of privacy, though, if it helps us ponder a little more about our own self-contradictory nature. If scapegoating is inevitable, I would much rather live in a society that uses legal fictions such as corporations as its scapegoats than one that beheads and burns actual human beings.
Thanks for presenting the facts in a SLANTED manner so that I can straighten them for you.

1) The apps used MDM profiles, intended for anyone that requires "Multi Device Management".

2) Children and employees should have no expectation of privacy on devices owned and permitted use by an adult whom could be jailed or fined for my behavior, hence the tight monitoring.

3) If it was so "clearly" against policy, Apple should have noticed it in the past 10 years of submitals.

4) They could have developed the feature when the realized it was needed, that's at least one way they could have accomplished their goal at the time.

5) Apple finally decided to do number 4, because it's been apparent forever.

6) Now that Apple has gained market dominance and developed their own version, they decided to give a very short amount of notice in order to cripple these now competing companies. They could have given something like 6 months notice or something - since the "privacy risks" have been in existence for 10 years, and mostly used to control snot nosed kids from sexting dick picks that could get them arrested.

7) Apple, in general, doesn't allow competition with it's own software products. In any case, they will attempt to diminish competition value - value that helped build their phone and app store in a dominent position to begin with.

8) MDM solutions still exist, else corporations will go tell Apple to fuck themselves and they will buy Androids for their employees. Apple isn't the only control freak in the room. Also, you can sideload and trust apps on an iPhone as well, it's not just an Android thing.

Apple's 'philosophy' is to protect it's own "intellectual" property when it can, and bully and steal from others when it can get away from it.
The submission time of this post must have been changed, I posted it yesterday.
Which is not a fact of nature, but a decision that Apple made.
Get your session key that's embedded in the HTML body after you log in. Be careful with this key since it has no expiry and can impersonate you as if you were connected via the default client, including undocumented API access. Find some application that can connect to the Slack RTM API and provide a chat TUI, using the session key you extracted.

I know there are a few out there, but can't personally recommend one.
The MS case was due to a monopoly that they had. Apple is not and will probably never be in that position for phones (or computers for that matter).

We can discuss how we would like things to be more open (personally I love jailbreaking my phone but being on A12 and A11 before that means I haven’t been able to JB for some time now) but comparing Apple to MS in this case is apples and oranges.

I’ll take the Apple locked down ecosystem over the Wild West of malware that is Android any day of the week.
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Yes I think it’s a particular seed which they have created for their potatoes. Sort of like the monsanto issues in the US.
> Parents have the legal right to do basically whatever they want with regards to their children’s privacy.

Maybe that's true in the US, but it's not true in Europe and definitely not true in England.
Can you link us to your blog? I'd like to read that angry post if and/or when you post it.
Interesting concept. Would be cool to have something like it for moon rovers.
They aren't necessarily GMO: Simply a hybrid or a variety that they (or someone else) developed and PespiCo owns the patent on. Many seeds have similar patents and many cannot be grown from the seeds they produce.
MongoDB.Entities – a simplified data access library for .Net Core
>> accurately eyeball distances than who has the best strategic mind

Are you implyng upper eschelons of command didn’t have to do that themselves historically?
Empire cast is begging for Jussie Smollet to be put back in its 6th season
> I made money for years using Microsoft products

My too, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft products are appropriate or desirable for me for personal use.
I think if you make it clear the channel is logged it's the best you can do, since they can choose to partake in the conversation or not. No forcing function. The downside comes when you've a Netsplit and you lose one side of the conversation.

It does surprise me that some people are supporters of open source, but aren't supporters of open and transparent communication. Seems like a miss.
I think you are missing the point. But I agree, a pair of big city lawyers was not the best example the author could have used to make his argument.
Apple could not be more unaddictive with they silly community rules and they company policies.

Android user experience and application content policies are light year away from Apple.
Is it DRM when a moderator deletes a post on a phpBB forum? Or does it only count when it's on Slack?
I've been saying this is inevitable for a long time. If you don't have Google ads they won't show you. YouTube ranks no ad vids lower.

Google is converting the world into a content production factory FOR Google and they pay literally pennies for the work.

If even pennies. Consider how much content Google search now includes from Web pages where you don't even need to click into the page. Weather. Answers to questions. Some links I click keep google.Com in the url and Google processes the page and shows me what Google wants.

I don't even know anymore how much of what I see is what the creator wanted me too see our what Google wants me to see our not see.

Imagine they remove competitors ads with that. Who knows what they do in the name of making the Web better.

You can't go public, answer to no one accountable, who only thinks of MONEY and do no evil.

If Google wants to do no MORE evil. Take yourself private and live up to your credo.
Registered new variety of potato.
PepsiCo invoke section 64 of this act https://indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/1909/1/200153.p... while farmers counter with section 39.
HN time to give shadow ban ??
Would you like to back up that statement with some facts?

I know Uber has been smacked before for using private API’s before. Maybe not as hard as a no-name developer would have been but the uncomfortable truth is not all app developers are equal and honestly I understand the reasons for that.
This sounds weird. From the title I assumed it was something like putting transparent logo stickers on apples and later remove then after the apple skin color had been affected.

This however seems to be Pepsi assuming they "own" a variety of potatoes, something that is against all biological sense.

I'll say ok to people owning a potato brand, around here we have Ringerikspotet which is a) a variety and b) has to be grown at Ringerike to be sold under that name.

Same goes for Champagne.

But nobody sues anybody if they farm Champagne type grapes as long as they don't say Champagne. Same goes for the potato mentioned above, you are free to put it in the ground next spring.

I'd maybe stretch as far as saying if you come up with a new potato you shouldn't be forced to sell live ones and if you maintain tight control and only sold them as chips you could keep that potato to yourself.

But if someone finds a potato and grows it, no way I agree anybody should have any right to sue.

Because if this was true monastries, farmers and gardeners would be the wealthiest "companies" in the world.

(I know Monsanto is into this as well and I dislike them as well.)
Take the 5 billion, give it to a decentralised opensource FB clone project. Same about 100 million for a global advertising campaign.
Being pro-trade and pro-competition very often means not actually being for a free market. Policies that dictate what apple can do with its iphones’ app access might be “pro competition”, but the regulation used is against free markets.

The free market argument would be to let Apple do what it wants with its products. A “competition commissioner” is antithetical to that.
I also read mik123211's shill comment from Apple, I suspect this is one here too.

Apple's feedback blows, and you clearly have never submitted an app to the store in order to know that.

Apples allowed these apps for 10+ years - enough to build business off of that feed multiple families - and then changed the rules with 30 days notice.

Conveniently, just coincidentally, this 10 year period came to an end as they developed a competing feature.

Try to develop a few apps and then you can talk about what "app developers" know about itunes terms and conditions. if you think Apple doesn't apply their rules as it suites them, you are gravely mistaken.
Not only do I support the continued "stealing," I hope there's a farmer's campaign against Pepsi in India that leads to the company being banned as a whole. They have no idea of the depths of anger emerging out of the ongoing agrarian crisis.
Trademarked potatoes, but not trademarked...
Introducing all the public hooks to make this possible puts us back in the situation where some apps can monitor and collect data on usage of other apps.
> That’s a perverted view of the “public interest” as being diametrically opposed to corporate interests.

It's hard to see that as perverted when it is so often true.
You’re out of date:

https://www.apnews.com/faeff4b8855c4b0daf538599ae3f9db2
Why Tesla is a better short at lower prices
Here's my attempt after just finishing the book, after 4 hours sleep.

Sleep is much more important than anybody ever imagined and sufficient sleep is the cure to a large percentage of western societies problems. There are few financial incentives in promoting sleep so we do not hear about this over drugs, caffeine etc.

REM sleep is the source of creativity and thought resolution where different parts of the brain communicate that do not usually. Rem sleep occurs in the last two hours of an 8 hour sleep.

Non rem sleep is where the brain clears itself of the byproducts of brain activity. Without this the brain becomes damaged and is probably the cause of dementia.

Sleeping pills, LCDs, artificial light, caffeine, alarm clocks, early school starts and alcohol are all very bad.

Sleep in a dark room at 18 degrees celsius for 8 hours, allowing 1 hour to fall asleep.
> Indian farmers accused of growing the spuds, which are exclusively used by the company for its Lays potato chips.

So maybe some special sort of potatoes you may only grow for PepsiCo?

But yeah, the whole concept of trademarks or ownership over what basically fed mankind since forever feels quite misguided.

Also aren't there any other kind of potatoes you can freely grow? Would solve this whole issue...
The strongest case that Mueller’s team could find to establish a charge of obstruction was Trump’s conversation with Comey where Comey said that Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.”

You can argue if that is obstruction or not, but I don’t see how it impedes the investigation to hope someone is not charged with a process crime.
I'm specifically not suggesting that systems necessarily need a file metaphor. I'm concerned about what happens when every app has its own idiosyncratic UX pattern for saving/committing your work. I know people who have lost work in web apps (e.g. issue tracking systems) because it's not obvious when their changes are actually committed as opposed to sitting in memory in their browser, and people who have been bitten by weird interactions between auto-save and undo in IDEs.
I think we need to be explicit, Slack isn't always conducive to the needs of open communities. Some of its features are extremely friendly to users, like having the possibility of full message history retention and mobile apps. But the former does require you be paid, and the latter is also possible with other solutions.
Jail Zuckerberg. The buck stops with him. He should be personally liable.
https://thelounge.chat/ is quite easy to install and provides persistence. Also, IRC channel history through Matrix bridge is persistent.
I also will add that a good dictionary of quotations is also a good writing/thinking aid.
Not all of them. For example, you can still pay for apps and music.
I'm most interested in the Librem 5 from the point of view of Privacy: I don't consent to Google or Apple tracking me just because they made the phone/OS on the phone I bought. I just hope essential apps like Wire, Signal, KeePassXC, FastMail, ProtonMail and MySudo are quickly available for the Librem
Maybe if the thing that is generating the cond at the call location is inline-able, but not if it's doing an expensive operation.

https://play.golang.org/p/Ts6QqRrWwuQ

I couldn't get that to not trigger the lock.

[later] I could get it to remove it if you pass in a func instead.
And immensely better than Microsoft teams
I've myself set to Offline permanently on Slack to try and deflect some of that. It seems to have worked for the most part.
Now that my mother's decline is well under way and we're providing eldercare, I very much wish I'd figured out how to lock down and remotely manage her devices ahead of time. Phones, tablet, laptop, satellite / cable boxes, etc.

Not just for tech supp.

The extent scammers are preying on our elderly is shocking. It's basically nonstop. At some point, my mom (like other elders we've been caring for before her) won't be able to protect herself.
You might need to look at your food shelf and get rid of most of it. It is not unusual for food producers to have specialized ingredients grown. Coors had its own version of six row barley. Never mind some of the exclusive poultry contracts.