skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attributes/annotations will be added in PHP 8
Since Android 10, the system will prompt you once the app tries to get the locarion in background and you can opt out with one click.
Pertaining to 'institutional trust'. One ought to be able to trust e.g. government. Alas you can not (I am a public servant).

One should never unequivocally trust for-profit companies.

Also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszcms
Thank you Toby :) Glad you've been with us for so long! Thank you for your support.
I'm a recovering information addict. I've been reading about how everyone's on their screens. This is a big issue, as screens disconnect us from our bodies. I also hear about parents who are scheduling zoom chats with their friends, but not making sure their kids are able to sustain the same level of (superficial) connection with their friends. This is a situation experts are already saying will traumatize many children. We don't have (in the USA) the mental healthcare infrastructure or culture of healing needed to address addiction as it stood before the virus.

This is a major problem and it's traceable to the cultural foundation of our country - The Declaration Independence:

We are a world of interdependent nations, not independent ones.

There. One fundamental misalignment with reality.

You can find reasons for fundamental change if you want to. You don't have to, but it's damned useful to do so.
You're quoting out of context. The full quote was Filipinos who speak English as a second language. It's reasonable to point out that they'll (ESL's) need more help in getting up to speed with communication which may include fluent speakers.

Further context is the origin of the author. The author appears to be Filipino. The author specifically mentioned a scenario of a meeting between someone in London (most likely a fluent English speaker), San Francisco (most likely a fluent English speaker) and Manila (most likely ESL.) Why not point out the other difficulties of this scenario? I live in the Philippines, so I experience this regularly.
Why would Reuters follow Apple's branding?
Nice pdf, thanks
This place is absolutely hostile to Juul. I know individual developers who vape, but the market is tight and Juul looks shaped like Lime to me.

Edit: now realizing those developers are not even in SF.
Can you elaborate on that? I know it's really in fashion to hate on XML here, I just want to understand what people's complaints are.

Having written parsers for JSON, YAML, and XML at various points, I can tell you that XML was not much more complicated than JSON. It's got a good, clean spec and not too many rules.
> Every illegal download reduces the size of the legal purchase marketplace.

There's never been a single study proving that illegal downloads harms legal sales.
I agree, what models and predictions have come true that have been presented in the headlines?

To start with accurate predictions as a base, then present the models and predictions that failed would put things into perspective.
I set up DNS-based ad-blocking for my parents via Eero. The app-based ad-blocking toggle is easier than something with a web admin interface for them to manage.
And we will ignore all these warnings, because why should we care?

Extinction is a goal we have unconsciously targeted and we are going to achieve it.
Contact Tracing Patent Licensing
How did drawing work on the Alto?
> Every illegal download reduces the size of the legal purchase marketplace.

Source? Why wouldn't it be possible for every illegal download to increase the size of the legal purchase marketplace? Or to have it effectively stay the same for that matter?
I guess I'll just have to try it at some point. I love type safety though. How much more do you like it than Java/Spring?
This is great, and it was interesting that Jeff could do the experiment.

I know two book agents and both agree that the #1 killer of new author sales is the fact that nobody else has read one of their books. There was an excellent article from book agents that found the "piracy" rate of new books foreshadowed their sales success.

It is one of the more interesting things about information economics that information can become valuable as a reward for production.
The master salesman of for-profit education (2019)
>> Is there even a major problem right now?

There isn't one major problem right now, there are many.
[PDF] SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) by the numbers
Why not create a mirror to Gitlab for example?
You're probably fine with your annual tune up. If you want to do it yourself the drive train should be your highest priority in my opinion:

- Keep your chain clean. Every few weeks use a degreaser to clean it, wash it out with water and apply lubricant suitable to your weather conditions afterwards. There's a chain cleaning tool from Park Tools which makes the degreasing part particularly easy. I highly recommend it.

- Replace the chain every year. Chains will stretch and wear out the cogs on your cassette thereby deteriorating the whole drive train. There are distance recommendations and ways to mesure if it's time to replace the chain if you want to look them up, but doing it every year shoudl be on the safe side

- Replace your tires once they are worn out. I drive Continental Grand prix which come with a handy indicator on the tire itself, but you should be able to look up the recommended life span for your particular tyre

- Keep your bike clean. Cleaning your chain should be a welcome opportunity to also quickly clean the rest of your bike - doesn't have to take longer than a few minutes.
Paleontologists Find 66M-Year-Old Fossil of Gondwanatheria
Sounds like workers are fine in general, especially on the non-free tier that only increases the budget by $5 a month.

That covers 10 million requests, which could each be 10MB chunks, or 512MB cached files, or possibly larger.

(A raw mp4 needs about 3 requests to start plus one per seek.)

But I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't scale to enormous amounts of data.
I read GP's post (and hence my reply) as being about sentiment here on HN. Obviously I agree that the general public's opinion of Apple isn't heavily influenced by meetup speeches and Gruber's blog :P
All things you should know about Insurance Companies
SaltStack Bug
People don't show up because they don't think it will work.
Seems dubious. Everything we know about the phylogenesis of SARS2 points to the origin being China. All RNA sequences that were published have been shown [1] to be mutations of earlier samples from Wuhan. If we would have had community transmission in France in late December, we would see that being a distinct branch in the genealogy. We don't see that, all RNA we've seen being sequenced in Europe is descended from China.

[1] https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
Stories I share with my nephews, so they take risks and follow their curiosity
It's shocking how in a century (say from 1850 to 1950) we went from basically knowing nothing to basically knowing everything.
My understanding is that the config is available via localhost only. It most instances it does not need to be disabled. I think the hope is that it will be left enabled in production, not disabled.
> You mean the experts that said no human to human transmission?

Perfect example, no expert said there was no human to human nor is there any chance of it. The only language close to that was "there isn't any proof of it now" which might have been informed by CCP misinformation.

Even though they were misinformed, any true expert should have known not to make any definitive statement either way. If you have such a quote, it was not made by an expert.
Steven Sinofsky lived Microsoft history. Now he’s writing it
It's a bit curious that most (only 5 so far) answers mention things like daily limits to each of your own bank accounts, when the question specifically stated you are allowed to utilize your existing personal connections (friends and coworkers).

Why would you not tell as many friends and family as possible about transferring the max daily limit to all of their accounts? Several ways to spin / think about this:

- "Can you send me back some of that money later?"

- Most friends/coworkers who are decent people will probably send you back half of it. For those that don't:

- They are probably really in need, in which case you did a good deed helping them out, or;

- They are bad people. Cheap price to pay (actually, free to you) to see their real side.

Depending on how many people respond to your mass sms/IMs quickly enough, you can probably send the daily limit to anywhere from 100 to 500 people. This is probably more impactful than giving yourself X amount of money.

And then if you have time left, there's donations to charity which you can typically use credit cards / bank transfers for (instantly usually?). Donate maximum limit to every charity you can think of. Maybe you'll even contribute to the development of a COVID vaccine?
I think Siguza’s blog post describes the background for this issue in a remarkably accessible way: https://siguza.github.io/psychicpaper/. You may also find libplist (a third-party plist parser)’s woes interesting: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist/issues/83
I think compounding the problem right now is that people can't simply switch or take a sabbatical in this current climate. Those that are contemplating getting away from their current work are thinking twice about it, even if the workplace is already toxic.
You just described standard govt competency levels in any field.
Your last sentence hit me hard.
I always found this fascinating. The enormous shift in physics that occurred in the early 20th century must have been so exciting to experience first hand.
I think the notion of trusting any company over a certain size is crazy - I wish people would stop anthropomorphizing companies that way. Basically, I can trust specific people if I feel that I know their character, and by proxy I might trust a company that these people have significant control over. Once a company reaches a certain size, any power that individual employees wield will have been diluted to microscopic levels, and even founders' altruistic motivations tend to fade or get drowned out by the basic profit motives of an increasingly large group of shareholders. At that point, it's not a matter of trusting, it's at best a matter of recognizing if the strategic goals of the company aligns with my interests in specific ways. For example Apple has made a strategic choice to double down on privacy, because invading privacy is not core to their business the way it is to Google and Facebook, so this allows them to gain an edge over their rivals. Great, that's something. That doesn't mean I "trust" Apple the way I would a person - it's more akin to how I'd recognize when a wild animal doesn't view humans as prey, so I'm willing to get relatively close to them without protective equipment. I don't trust them in general, I don't expect them to care about me at all, but I trust them to follow their instinct, which is to not attack me unprovoked.
Additional context:

From press release[1]:

"Blyncsy would like to get its technology into the hands of other companies and government agencies, so that we can fight this virus together. We have launched the website to streamline the process to make licensing easier."

And from local news article[2]:

"We would encourage anyone who’s doing contact tracing to license our technology as we believe we have a patent on the technology that covers the entire U.S." ... "the firm seeks the licensing not so much for financial reasons — it is offering to waive royalty fees in some circumstances — but more out of concern that contact tracing in other companies’ hands might lead to widespread surveillance and violate individual privacy."

1. https://www.newswire.com/news/blyncsy-announces-launch-of-co...

2. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/05/04/utah-company-claims/
Google/Apple developed this particular contact tracing technology such that they don't have any of the data nor any of the control, so it is not the same as the US government having it.
Wow, Vox actually did that. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fe...

> reducing handshakes is recommended generally to prevent the spread of colds and flu, but not specifically for coronavirus.

> Ulevitch also announced that he won’t be taking in-person meetings with anyone who’s recently traveled to China. It’s unclear if Ulevitch was kidding.

> so far, the flu has impacted far more people. [...] Yet unlike the flu, the coronavirus is new and not well understood, which makes it especially scary to the public, including Silicon Valley’s elite.

...Wow.
> I wouldn't be surprised if a mild version of the virus had spread throught he world earlier than the current pandemic

or another seasonal infection that is normally benign is going around.

Sars-Cov-2 debilitates linings of the lungs and other organs and the immune system and blood cell oxygen transport efficiency all at once

But if nothing takes advantage of that then nothing happens, and you heal before something does happen.

With HIV we studied it in reverse: we saw people were dying of benign illnesses and then discovered they had been infected with this other virus for a decade. This first exposure to HIV presents itself as a flu/fever until it is sufficiently surpressed by the immune system and takes a decade of iterative mutations to bypass the immune system.

With COVID19 a similar result happens within a week, but we aren't really looking at which bacteria or viruses could have been benign that may also be present.

Not that complicated, just no bandwidth to figure it out yet.

But if you follow this rabbit hole, it could easily suggest that in late fall 2019 there were just few people that had Sars-Cov-2 and they either statistically were not getting exposed to the opportunistic infections, or a seasonal benign opportunistic infection was not running in conjunction that season.

This notion has been vehemently rejected by people over the past month, but it looks like people might be a little more open to it. Maybe the right people will begin to entertain the hypothesis.
I expect google buys data from data brokers and this is counted as sufficiently anonymous to not be included in the location history google shows. But this misses the point because looking at your location history shows you the quality of a tiny fraction of Google’s location data and don’t tell you much about the rest of the data
I have the same weird feeling, like, if a culture or society grows too old. It acts more and more like a real old human. Like a real 90 year old...
> The notice provides the Grokster verdict as evidence for their good-faith belief that distributing the source code isn’t allowed by copyright law.

Subsection c.1.A has very little to do with takedown notices. (c.1.C is the portion of c.1 that does.)

The only part of the law that defines what a notice is supposed to include is 512.c.3.A. None of the six required elements listed by that subsection includes providing your legal theory. A DMCA takedown notice is only meant to be used to assert "hey, that's mine!": c.3.A.ii is where you identify what you own, and c.3.A.iii is where you point to it on someone else's server.

If you don't own it, you cannot file a DMCA takedown over it, because you won't be able to fulfill c.3.A.ii.
Also, at least if you're writing it to me, don't write several rambling pages where you also disparage other people in the project and then ask me at the very end of the email to not share it with the group.

Put that don't share request at the top in caps, bold.

Sorry, still sore years later.
I remember playing this on UltraHLE (one of the first playable N64 emulators) way back in the day. Given the potential for malicious software piggybacking on zips of this thing, I'll probably stick to my ROM of this game and a modern N64 emulator. Still really cool though. I wish we could see some kind of blog post on it, but it's difficult I'm sure with stolen source code.
>Equating these with the US government having full access to everyone's data is misleading. If you think otherwise, please provide more detail.

By everyone you mean "US citizens" because from my understanding non-US citizens are fair game and it it legal to spy on them.
May i ask about your thoughts regarding switchd now that Mellanox has been pushing Switchdev quite hard and Broadcom SAI (and i guess SAI could be "plugged" into the kernel just as switchd with some "glue" (netlink) so we don't have to modify userspace?).

It seems like the actual "programming ASIC" importance at least for Mellanox Spectrums is less of a USP by every new kernel release, i still see value in the support, packaging and sponsoring development though.
Don't forget that no matter how hot the planet gets, the angle of Earth's rotation is not going to change. Canada might get warmer, but it will still receive completely different patterns of sunlight to the United States - and, of course, crops need specific light conditions to grow efficiently, not just specific temperatures.

So just because Canada is getting warmer that doesn't mean we can necessarily move all our food production further north and keep going as normal.

We're screwed.
Look ragona not everything is about new York and now matter how much you (personally) shave your head and wear black clothes all day, it still won't be about NYC.

However, fuel your brain with these bits: if lots of transmissions happened in Vegas then they likely counted against another states numbers when those folks went home.

I guess what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas.
To prove a point that these people use Microsoft framework for their back back end development.
This reminds me: because other studies were wrong. Every other is also wrong.
Interesting reading. As a lifelong alpine climber with intimate knowledge of glaciers, I always get weirdly sad at the thought of receding ice sheets (no matter the reason or epoch.)
My startup experience isn't quite the same as this, but it shares some aspects, and I've had some similar feelings in my lowest moments in the aftermath.

It's now almost six years since I walked away from my startup, and I left feeling some combination of exhaustion, shame, resentment, anger and sadness.

As time passed, and the fog has gradually lifted on the state I sometimes think of as "startup drunkenness", I've often cringed as I've thought back and wondered "ugh, what was I thinking?"

My main focus since then has been self-healing, personal development work.

Out of necessity, when conventional approaches like talk therapy didn't offer much relief or insight, I've ended up seeking and adopting some unconventional approaches to personal growth.

It's turned out to have been the most worthwhile thing I've done in my life.

I've been able to go deep in uncovering and resolving the issues in myself, that date back to well before my startup life, but that very much affected how things played out in my startup and in other aspects of my life.

Just as the writer of this piece has come to question the entire technology industry, my own journey has enabled me to see that whilst many of my problems originated within myself and my past experiences, many were just as much a case of being in a dysfunctional environment, and indeed a dysfunctional world.

But it's taken a lot of work to know how to tell the difference, and what to do about it.

My life now is pretty good, and has been on a steady improvement path for at least 5 years. All the key indicators in my life – relationship/family/friendships, health and career – are going well and getting better, though it's an ongoing effort to keep things improving, and of course external factors like the current crisis throw up complications none of us can avoid.

When I've written here about this topic in the past, people often reply asking for details about on the kinds of healing and development techniques I've used.

What I've said then and I'll say again here is that people are welcome to contact me and I'll be happy to share info with them directly.

But I also wonder if it's time to get more serious with a discussion about how we can build healthier companies.

As I've become healthier and more confident, I once again have the hunger to build companies, and am full of ideas on how to build them in such a way that they are great places to work and positive in their external impact.

But I'm just one person, with one perspective.

I'd love to hear from others who want to be part of an ongoing discussion about how we can build the kinds of companies and organisations we all wish existed.

Anyone is welcome to contact me about any of the above; email address is in my profile.
Why do people/google suddenly start caring about privacy now?

You can only see the tiny fraction of data that relates to you, and only the data that has been identified to you. This says very little about the quality of the rest of the data google have. Doing the double slit experiment once with a single election will not tell you much about quantum mechanics.
Honestly i never was read even single Coelho book.
San Francisco banned e-cigs as of 2020. I could certainly see Juul wanting to leave in that case.
doing illegal stuff for money and bribes existed since antiquity it's just human nature
How do you arrest someone without using violence?
Damn, and I thought it was immoral to breed in MODERN times.
Yeah I am a condescending dick - to people with no skills, no capital, no ability to execute.

They don't typically bring anything to the table! I happened to internalize the idea of a co-founder with somewhat of a network to resurrect an idea that needed to be funded, and I can say that yes it did get me/us taken more seriously.

I'm finding solidarity in this thread amongst the engineers that also are annoyed with over embellishing business sales guys that don't have a clue.
Everything about Selenium automation framework
Juul also went all-in with addiction potential, by loading their liquid with high amounts of nicotine. And are probably not alone in that practice either.

Freakonomics did an episode[0] about e-cigarettes last year. A cartridge in US contains 3 times the nicotine of a cartridge in UK.

0: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/vaping-nicotine/ (search "have up to" for the relevant segment)
Abstracting Failure-Inducing Inputs [pdf]
> The law also protects the provider from complaints by the original uploader about taking down content pursuant to a DMCA notice; that’s the counter-notices you’ll sometimes hear people mentioning.

There's a separate bit that protects providers who take things down that are obviously infringing, even if nobody filed a takedown notice. But that safe harbor provision doesn't apply in cases where the provider botched their handling of the takedown notice procedure.
in a broad sense internet is for sharing information. Hence facilitating copyright abuse..
Let's not compare apple to a public institution. What apple does is in the interest of the shareholders and nothing else.
Found out about Caddy 1 when I was trying to enable https using Let's Encrypt cert years ago, it was easy to setup and it just work.

Well done on Caddy 2 and thank you!
There are some details in the case that are as you say, about Peak having "unclean hands" in effect, but they're fairly beside the point for the case's broader significance.

What it really stands/stood for is the notion that a "copy" sufficient for the operation of copyright law occurs when a program is loaded from disk to RAM, and therefore it's possible to infringe copyright merely by using software that you aren't personally licensed for.

MAI basically used this theory to make third-party maintenance of their systems illegal, so Congress responded by amending the Copyright Act, but in an extremely narrow way: there's a carve out specifically for maintenance and repair.
For sure. Look at how my comment is going to be bashed. Sadly we will not wait 50 years to judge I guess.

People will not change their habits to fix global issues because global issues are not in human-time scale. So we do not see them coming.
This are the benefits that organisations like Google provide