skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, using a corporate store for app deployment could become less safe than downloading something through your browser at that point.

I give Apple the benefit of the doubt and appreciate their stance, but with a legislative basis they too would have to comply.

I also think that professional criminals wouldn't use their phones in the first place if it is tied to their ID in any way. Sure, you might catch some of the riff-raff, but I think strong encryption is more beneficial for any form of security in the broader picture.
Education may be all about signaling, but I haven't found another job whose primary responsibilities consist of taking mostly interesting classes in a wide range of disciplines for four years. And while corporate campuses may aspire to be like college campuses, most of them aren't nearly as nice, as social, or as enjoyable. Colleges also tend to have superior libraries, art galleries, sport/recreation facilities, and performing arts venues, and they provide a vast array of extracurricular activities and clubs.

Working is financially a lot better than taking out massive student loans, but it usually doesn't give you a lot of time to study random subjects that interest you, or to pursue fun and educational activities that aren't related to the company's core business.
Delenda carthago: we should ban advertisement. This is the root of all modern privacy invasions.
The word 'toxic' is toxic.
And you get to see it with your own eyes and hold it in your hands which allows a much better judge of size/quality.
Hey, with a bit of luck we'll get a nuclear winter which will counter global warming. -.-
A hammer is pretty much an ancient technology. A battery-powered plastic toy hammer, with buttons that play melodies, is a modern take. Yet serious people use the (modern implementations of) ancient-style hammer to drive nails.

That's my general response to "why use 1970s tech?", though I guess I'm being a bit unfair here. Word is, in some ways, a marvelous piece of engineering. The whole Office suite is. Unfortunately, thanks to path dependence and business strategies, it's also locked in a place where it's not interoperable with anything outside the Office ecosystem by default.

I guess I have an answer to the age-old question: in sci-fi shows, how come nobody in-universe notices their computing technology is, in many areas, ridiculously inefficient and ineffective compared to the old XX/early-XXI-century tech? The answer may be, the sci-fi future tech is built on so many layers of lowest-common-denominator, walled garden, non-interoperable tech that people no longer know how interoperability or efficient computing looks like.
Fast forward a few months and there are no more public scooters - the virus has killed its host.
With the web and related technology comfortably 20+ years old I'm very surprised standards haven't developed where huge, annoying hacks have developed.

I checked out via ApplePay on a website by random. What do you mean shipping, email, payment, confirmation are all one streamlined step where no account is needed? This is way better than poorly auto-filling random fields based on name matching.

The other big one is WiFi captive portals with unencrypted connections. Can't there be a more elegant process that passes off to an encrypted connection instead of DNS spoofing? I have to manually type in http://nossl.net when it messes up because most all sites are https.
They also have enormous debts, negative working capital, and their CapEx hasn't come close to depreciation for a few quarters.
Because you must really be confident in your firmware before you start disabling debug interfaces. Most people aren't. They see more value in being able to fix their bugs after the fact than locking out potential hackers.

Imagine just receiving a batch of 1000 scooters with a botched firmware, which you must write off now because you can't reprogram them due to the disabled SWD. This happens more often than you might imagine.
Or even reverse engineer the firmware to remove the restriction. I'm also guessing that there are plenty of Chinese made gps devices that don't have that limitation. Simply because, why bother. Assuming you can find one accurate enough on AliExpress, I'd say there is a good chance it has no special restrictions.
If it "simply" allows you a feature that you want and that did not exist otherwise - and there doesn't seem to be anything remotely simple about it (wireless, low-latency, filtering the input noise, etc) - it seems only normal to pay for it...A one-time fee would be nicer, for sure, as I'm sure AstroPad wouldn't mind - but if you're battling API changes with every OS revision, and trying to provide a product that Apple can cripple any day (like they did with Sidecar), you're primarily forced to go subscription route by Apple to ensure survival...
That sounds pretty weird when you talk about it. Like I'm long Aetna because I hope it will pay for my colonoscopy.
Do you have a source to share on this?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cat+ice+maker
Yet almost every other city in the US has managed to do it. Complete incompetence or just willful negligence?
California demands a special unique California formulation of gasoline

Two special CA-specific formulations: winter and summer.

Winter gas adds oxygenates, supposedly reducing certain emissions by 10%. However, it has 10% less energy per unit volume, so you burn 10% more of it. Net effect: more expensive with no real world benefit.

Best of all, they blame additional local price rises twice a year on the changeover. It's quite a racket.
To make this work at all, you have to carefully tune your learning rat
- @fchollet
NASA or tax payers didn’t spend the money, Fisher did and the pens cost around $3 USD https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/
While shitting all over those "little people" with their annoying obligations like mortgages, children and aging parents and whatnot, who wake up one morning to find out they have a huge tax bill on money they never made while the "visionary founder" gets 1.7 billion dollars for power driving the company into the dirt.

WeWork is an office subletting business. That is _all_ it is.
its funny how "spying" became "telemetry". you see it everywhere..and it seems to we working.
It is. Browsing pictures maybe not, but certainly capturing and transforming.
No, this feature used to be there in iOS 4 I believe, but was removed in subsequent iOS versions.

To be honest, there is a private API for it. It is the one the AirPort Utility app uses for its built-in Wi-Fi Scan feature.

In iOS 13 you can only know the name of the current Wi-Fi network, and you require location permission for it.
Sudo 1.8.28 Security Bypass, might not have been updated on many server
In my home country the 8 o clock news by the public broadcaster is still the most watched TV show everyday and has been for years. That’s hardly what I’d call “dying”. Might be different in the US.
+1, I think this links well with Alan Kay's thoughts on book reading. Some of his insights from a (maybe famous) HN thread:

"Mind palace", forgetting, "relax!": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809676

"Oxbridge method": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11805264

Not taking notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11853258
SheetJS has an open source library xlsx-js[1] that can parse most Excel files. You could use that combined with FileReader (the browser file API) to enable users to drop a spreadsheet file on the page instead of copying and pasting. It'd be a nice addition.

[1] https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx
I dont quite buy the "switch the app" argument as code signing easily fixes that. Intercepting at a higher level such as a keylogger or screenshotter would work, but then you'd apply the same argument: the terrorists would just go one level higher. In fact they could go all the way to open source processors running their own code doing all the same things. Yes, it would delay them a few years to get there, but once there there would be little the US could do to stop it. At the network level, we simply dont sign hardware, so without some major refactoring to the core system, theres little to do there. Still though, at every level of this back and forth, consumers have to give up more and more privacy to allow the government to step in and get the same level of information they had before about terrorists until the terrorists will eventually win (or we completely lose privacy and trillions of dollars in infrastructure). So why play the game?
>"I would like to have the guarantees that Rust provides". If the Rust ecosystem depends heavily on C/C++ libraries, then the system has the properties of the union of all the flaws and the properties of the language do not translate into a quality of the ecosystem.

Of course ideally you get rid of all C/C++, but that may not be feasible. Combining Rust with some C/C++ still adds the benefit of Rust safety to the new code you write. The contained C/C++ is like the unsafe section of Rust code, a place where you have to be more vigilant, but you're slowly constraining the space where these issues can arise. And you can iteratively only replace those parts that cause a lot of issues.
We have similar issues with our State-supported broadcaster here in Romania. Since a corrupt party came to power about 3 years ago (and also put its hands on said broadcaster) its programming has become really partisan (on behalf of said party and the latter’s world-view, of course). From what I’ve read online similar things have been happening in neighboring Hungary and Poland.
I suppose it is a catch 22 because there are plenty of apps/businesses out there that would not be able to exist were it not for the apple ecosystem.

Usually demonstrated by the fact that for their specific functionality, they require a native app, and their identical Android application makes almost no money compared to the iOS app.

Not saying all apps are like that. But there are quite a few that for whatever reason, only make money on iOS.
It is our role to align morality and profits.

Censoring speech should make them lose more money than disobeying China.

Starcraft 1 was the first game I bought. I love their games. I think this will make me boycott there for at least 5 or 10 years even if they correct their course now.
ModSecurity Web application Firewall automated setup script for Nginx
This is a intermediate-level technique that's quite commonly used. Take a look at <type_traits> to find out what you can do with it! Specifically you can use std::enable_if in a return type or template parameter to conditionally enable an overload.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/washington-post-profitable-gro...

News sites aren't going to return SaaS margins that VCs are looking for, but they can be perfectly fine businesses if run well.
How have the shorts succeed beyond your imagination. If you look at their EPS estimates over the last year for this quarter, they've gone from $2 a share to -$0.40, sure they beat the estimate of -$0.40, but with after hours gains the stock has gone from $380 -> $300 with them posting EPS of 30-40% lower.
Oh, I don't mean to say that the Up isn't a good car, I know they are pretty practical and fun to drive for something that small(although according to Which? magazine it's consistently at the bottom of reliability charts, so take that as you will), just that the front of the Up glued onto a golf-size car doesn't look that good.
Or is a phone line an "information service" if the company that provides it delivers a phone book to you periodically?
Can't wait until we learn how to work remotely. Would save a ton of resources.
Is that actually true?

Absolutely. California was the same way 50 years ago. It didn't turn blue for most statewide candidates until 1992.

A popular bumper sticker in the 1980s was, "Welcome to California. Now, go home."
Have they really hired staff yet? I'm very skeptical anytime Elon places a date on something to be ready.
I think there is a difference between obeying Chinese censorship in China (which tech companies do routinely even if Google resisted valiantly at first) and helping China spread its censorship oversea (which is what the Blizz and NBA things are about).
> Most things you can shop around for also aren't serious enough to qualify, so you're not entitled to such unpaid sick leave.

But now you're not making an argument for socialized medicine, you're just making an argument for requiring unpaid sick leave for a scheduled medical procedure.

> But also, it's kinda a moot point because laws like that only apply to people that know them or can afford an attourney.

Are there many laws that don't work this way? Would the same people be any better off if the government would pay for their medical procedure but they didn't get it because they didn't know that?

> This assumes that people have both perfect knowledge of their procedure and the prices of all hospitals

Which is the point of requiring price transparency. Your doctor should provide you with a list of all the places that can do the procedure along with their locations and prices and any other information useful to choose between them.

> and that people value money over convenience.

But that is the mechanism by which it operates -- there is a point where the money is worth more than the convenience, and once people actually know the amount of money required, that limits how much providers can overcharge because past that the inconvenience is less than paying the money.

There is nothing wrong with choosing convenience. It's the thing that allows trade offs between price and convenience to exist. Maybe the clinic near the big city will always have the best price because it has the most patients to amortize fixed costs over, so the rural clinic can only stay in business by charging more per patient. If the higher price is worth not having to travel to the city -- and people know that -- then people will choose to patronize it, which is how we know its value exceeds its costs. If everybody chooses to travel to the city for the lower price then we know the rural clinic costs more than it's worth, which is the same mechanism that causes it to fold.

> I know for a fact that I can fly to another country with free healthcare and get a procedure for cheaper than I can get it in the US, but hardly anyone does that regardless. It's just too inconvenient.

Because flying to another country is very inconvenient, and not at all inexpensive on its own. So the limit it places on overcharging is not very strict. Especially when you don't actually know how much you'll be charged, so you don't even realize that it would have been worth it to do that until after it's already done.

The inconvenience is much less to go to another town than another country, so that would provide a much lower limit on how much anyone can overcharge before people would do that. If they were actually provided with the price differences -- so why aren't we doing that?
I thought the content of this was really interesting, although the results were actually way off. I love pizza, for one thing. Although, to be honest, their picture of pizza did not look very tasty.

I also wonder how these results would be affected by being alone vs being in groups. Kind of like laughing (people tend to laugh more when with other people or in social situations rather than alone), emotional reactions can be very different depending on environment / social situation, even when you feel exactly the same about something.
Not that I have massively successful projects but one thing I would love is to just hand over keys to someone I can trust to vet the person the keys are handed to. I'd be fine with "verired no malware, no spam, no adware." as a handoff.
>cross-site requests (third-party cookies)

I thought "third-party cookies" generally referred to cookies that were set in a third-party context. Whereas you're talking about cookies being read in a third-party context.
Seems exactly like SO as we know it.
Regardless of the truth of this story and the facts surrounding climate change Canadian media is not a credible source of information.

The CBC gets $2 BILLION/yr from the Trudeau Liberal government. All other private news orgs have a hand in a $600 Million/yr pot. For example, the Toronto Star alone receives $5.2 Million/yr from the Canadian federal government.

We can all agree this is a bad system apt to produce favourable results for the Liberals. For example, they won re-election on Monday.
NPR is quite popular, and a reliable news source. It’s probably comparable to ABC or Canada’s CBC from what I understand.

Certain people do claim it has a liberal bias, although like the BBC it is only slightly left of center, if anything.

It does depend greatly on WHICH npr station and which shows you listen to though. The national shows are very high quality, but some local stations do broadcast all sorts of craziness aside from the national syndicated shows.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/amazon-r...
The problem is that correlation does not necessarily imply causation. So if a ML process finds a counter-intuitive correlation we should seek to understand why rather than assume the results are actually meaningful. Sadly I think this is the step that is being gratuitously skipped to the extent that “working” models are hardly interrogated.
Why? Effectively assembling vehicles at margin seems to be the major key to the auto industry EV or ICE. The existing competitors still have greater skill at that.
If anyone would like to try their own hand at discovering Bill Joy's 1970s-era password, here's how to get started with the hashcat tool. First check if everything is working by trying a known result, e.g., Dennis Ritchie's password which we know was "dmac":

apt-get install hashcat
echo "dmac" > guesses
hashcat --force -m 1500 -a 0 gfVwhuAMF0Trw guesses

If see you a message that says, "gfVwhuAMF0Trw:dmac" and "Status: Cracked", it's working. Now put in Bill Joy's hash ".2xvLVqGHJm8M" in place of "gfVwhuAMF0Trw" and a list of guesses, one per line, in the guesses file, and run hashcat again.

We've been told that the password is a chess-related word, all lowercase letters except that one letter is a matching control character, such as in "b^Ishop" where the "i" is actually a control-I.
I've learned that as well.

It felt weird that people excuse my social mistakes when they think I am dominating and don't care for others, but don't excuse it when I say "I am sorry" and explain that I didn't know (they assume wrong intentions + being caught red-handed + not admitting it).

Comparing with autistic standards, a lot of neurotypical interactions is less about being honest, and more: building one's position in the social hierarchy. (I find that disappointing, but well - it is how the world works.)
Guess you did not read the linked articles?

From the second (the first is purely about the technical measurements):

> „... Examination over a longer period (1980-2017) shows that the total amount of snow in all winter periods has decreased on average.

The ice cover on the Arctic Ocean has grown thinner and the amount and expanse of perennial ice has decreased. [...] Extreme weather phenomena including winters in which snowfall is quite heavy, and periods of little snow, will increase in the future.

The Arctic area is warming at twice the speed as the rest of the world, and the impact of climate change can already be seen in the Arctic regions. And the changes are affecting the rest of the Earth.
A minifier is actually more likely to introduce constants for repeated values.
Pretty sure you can, but you’ll have to use tape and not screws to hold it in place so it won’t be a permanent installation :)

But yeah, go experimental and then you never have to worry about these things. Lots of great value kit planes out there.
have you ever tried using an outliner such as Dynalist? im not familiar with mediawiki but i used Evernote for a long while. once I found out about dynslist i moved everything over in the space of a few days, even though it didn't have support for in-line images which I used a lot. the speed at which you can jot down notes made me not care about other missing features.

the other benefit of an outliner is that you don't have to worry about things getting unorganised. everything is a bullet point but you can also nest points under each other and then collapse the list or zoom in to focus on a certain point.

with a single page like in Evernote there is only so much you can write before things gets messy. if you want to reorder something it means you can to cut and paste whereas with dynalist you just drag and drop the bulletpoint

heres the full feature list
https://dynalist.io/features/full
or check out the showcase section in the forum to see what other people are using it for
I think the problem here is that software should not be "as a service". Once a platform starts down the "evergreen" route they stop caring about breaking backward compatibility and then everyone else has to churn along with them. It creates a huge amount of busywork for everyone.
I don't know. I simply made the opposite assumption from you.

EDIT: it looks like it only has a single, weird, type of gate. But I guess the connections between gates are configurable? Still different to a lamp!
Cyber chief: The IoT could provide a model for improved internet security
had native Texans been the only ones to vote, Beto would have won

I don't believe that for a second.

First of all it's a poll, not an analysis of actual turnout, and neither methodology nor numbers of pollees are given.

Secondly, no way do 99% of native Texans even respond to a media pollster.
That's true of stderr output. You should be able to parse stdout though - otherwise how are you meant to use piping etc
Just today I read a story about Trump's claim of a wall in Colorado [1] and the third paragraph has this insanity (which as of right now still hasn't been corrected!!):

"Of the states mentioned in the speech, only New Mexico and Texas share a border with Mexico. Colorado is landlocked and hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Mexican border, as is Kansas."

Who in the world do they have writing there?? And there's no copy editors or proof readers?? Crazy.

1. https://www.newsweek.com/president-trump-claims-were-buildin...
I’m not a Western Imperialist. I don’t particularly like the way China is run but I’m not under the illusion anyone cares. If you as an American feel like imposing your culture in China by all means go for it but please wait until after I leave.

The opinions of foreigners about a countries internal affairs are relevant insofar as they are backed up by heavy weaponry, except as literary exercises.
It's clear what was meant was "cost is no object, so it's not an issue" - law firms probably pay more per-employee for things like travel expenses or coffee each year than for MS Office licenses.

I have seen that MS Office suite has become a hammer used to drive many non-nails in various businesses, and would like to see people using more open standards. But I totally understand that for many use cases it's good enough and that people consider the cost to be not particularly significant
That's if important accounts allow you to do that. For example AWS only allow one MFA key
Maybe that's a start? Techies would find it easier to promote the use of proper VCS for legal documents if their products used them for their ToS, and exposed them to users, e.g. in form of diffs. There's even a precedent - Wikipedia uses such interface for all their pages, including their ToS - see https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terms_of_....

Beyond technical hurdles that could be solved with a set of FLOSS components and plugins to popular CMSes, I don't see any reason not to do this if one runs a honest company.