skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how you say we should remove regulations while at the same time proposing a new test, creating new methods for qualifying for a trade, and a different inspection regime. This is a good sign, though. What we really want is the right balance of regulations for safety that don’t favor large businesses too much but are easy for small business to follow.

Apprenticing under a physician is a particularly poor example, given how much medical science changes in 20 years. Not to mention it makes it easier for quacks to reproduce. Instead, aim lower: cosmetology licensing. I think we can all agree that you don’t need months of training to cut someone’s hair. This is simply a protectionist guild.
Those who HAVE money can AFFORD to work on solving interesting problems. So yes, as a plebeian, money comes first for me.
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If you are actually sincere, take the time to read this: http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscienc...
No everything on the internet needs to be about pixel trackers, A/B testing, micromanipulating users, conversion rates, ARPU, analytics and all that boohoo. Can we just pause for a second and be honest with our users? May be respect them? Try to make insanely great products that people have no other option than to fall in love with them?

In fact, I want to go to sites that don't lie to me and backstab me, treat me like some kinda of a ephemeral datapoint consuming their giant wad of VC cash.

I call these people sales-assholes or salesholes.
How is doing something illegal at all related?

To me, “laws” are something the majority massages into a state where they benefit the most people. This looks like one of those cases. Changing the laws (or in this case probably just enforcing them) is different from
acting outside the law or breaking laws.
Just use Wireguard, tbh.
I noticed some long delays taking photos of people (though not quite as long as yours) and found that disabling the "beauty" filter, which smoothens skin among other effects, reduced that delay.
That post was made in mid 2018, and BLAKE3 wasn't published until late 2019; I don't think it was considered.

SHA256 with hardware acceleration might be competitive with BLAKE2, but not with BLAKE3 (performance graph at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/master/... ). BLAKE3 is also capable of being heavily parallelized without changing its output, as well as quickly updated without rehashing entire objects (if you keep some partial hashes around). Overall, it'd be quite desirable.

Hopefully all the work to abstract the choice of hash algorithm will make it relatively straightforward to prototype the use of other hashes.
> For your question, none of your business.

Was just trying to ascertain why your sensibilities were so limitless.
I used to use iOS daily, now it's a couple times a week, and almost never the App Store, just Safari. But here is what I remember when it was my primary mobile device, plus primary upgrader on several family iPads:

a) Many interactions with the app store app were of the type where the app wants me to do something I had no thought or motivation or desire to do when I set out to do what I was doing. Does that make sense?

I think interactions can be split into two categories: user asks for something they want of the software, and, software asks something it wants of the user. There were many interactions of the second variety.

b) Unlike many other Apple apps which were about as responsive as one can imagine, and maybe a little more, most app store actions were of the "tap button and watch spinner for as long as it takes for an https round trip + data download from the server", which can be anything from a second to timed out.

c) The search and browse rarely provided any value to me. My typical path for finding an app was to search for "ios music calendar app reddit", last year, and read through those threads, and then follow the links directly to iTunes store.
> Does anyone here have an insight into Brink equovalent in US

Brinks is an armored car company. He drove into a lot used to load and unload armored cars making deliveries to banks and filling ATMs, and walked out with a literal duffel bag full of cash.

For security reasons, private citizens are not allowed to do that. Even bank employees can't do that. The whole point of armored cars is they bring the money to you.

Everything about this screams undercover operation.
I just wanna highlight how nice it is to see a government agency write such a clear, friendly, jargonless, blog-post-style piece of advisory.

I hope this is a peek into the future of government communication everywhere.
There are still other processors like Mastercard and Paypal, I believe. And then there is also bitcoin, the last remaining refuge of free speech activists.
Honestly not sure those are great examples. E.g. Impossible Foods is not an innovator in any sense, just a 'startup' with an average vegan product that got $$ for marketing and pretends to be premium. I'm happy that they got mainstream attention and (again) showed that vegan/vegetarian food can be diverse but I don't see them applying any revolutionary tech - everything they do has been standard food industry practices for decades.

I don't know enough about the others, but there are many e.g. cosmetic/skincare startup that take advantage of cheap production facilities to produce basic creams/whatever with standard ingredients and add marketing spin to pretend it's something special.
I want space colonies as much as the next guy, but we really need to try to end homelessness, poverty, and extreme gaps in wealth inequality. Otherwise the rich will just fly off into the sky after they are done with the planet anyway.

The production is there. The money is there. If we simply won't do this, we aren't worth preserving as a society.
I'm not even sure selective quotation is really a problem. Selective replying happens regardless of whether they are quoting or not, but is just more explicit when they are documenting which parts they reply to.
I've played with OpenWRT a lot. This might have changed, but for a long time, routers stored the firmware on a flash chip and settings on an nvram chip. They might be the same chip, but you can think of settings and the OS being logically separated. The reset button reset nvram. If the vendor did an OTA firmware update (which no one used to to) and sent a bad update, the reset switch won't help. Some routers have recovery procedures that flash using the bootloader (also on the flash chip, but it's obviously best not to mess with it), downloading the firmware from a PC. If that fails, that's the end of the officially supported options that a 80th percentile user can do.
This helped me make my first hexagonal grid based game way back! Awesome site
Epstein+Mossad Argument
"After the 1987 Pollard affair Israel and the US came to an understanding Israel would not operate in the US. At risk was/is more than $3b in aid to Israel, access to US intel and a seat under the US security umbrella."

And you don't think that is no longer a concern, with Kushner running things?!
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The battery plant capacity is growing in hand with decentralised battery storage, an interconnector to New South Wales which is building hydro storage capacity, and demand management. Apparently generation and transmission costs are falling nationwide too, but not to the extent that my bills are going down.
If you can't afford the shopify fees you don't actually have a business.
We live in a world where politicians use Twitter as a main tool. Times are changing.
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The chances of an EMP attack
Q: I’ve heard a lot from you about how dangerous an EMP attack could be. But how likely is it that anyone will actually try to attack us with an EMP?
A: Unlike the EMP Commission, most national security experts view EMP attacks as a second rate threat. While perhaps some small terrorist groups or rogue nations might launch a localized EMP attack that might take out a substation or two, it’s unlikely that any country capable of launching a major EMP attack would actually do so.
Q: Why not?
A: Because to launch a major EMP attack, a country would need a large nuclear weapon. And if a country was planning on using a large nuclear weapon, it would make more sense — in the morbid logic of war — to conventionally drop it on a city than to launch an EMP attack which would at most cause some brief power disruptions in a few states. As physicist Yousaf Butt put it, “A weapon of mass destruction is preferable to a weapon of mass disruption”.

This is very wrong and just tells me we should be even more cautious due to it being a blind side. The defense industry has for over a decade had highly deployable, targetable, non-nuclear EMP. (ex1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh1rgy25XhU) If there is one thing I know, it's that the tools we develop for war in other places tend to end up being used back at home. So I would also disagree with the casual dismissal of the likelihood of use domestically. Further, part of the entire reasoning in natsec circles for the increasingly egregious violations of the constitution is because of the increase in ability for non nation-state actors to be able to perform in new types of asymmetric attacks, and I would say non-nuclear EMP would be just one in that list.

The good news: I think most of these problems are solvable, and will assist us in being more ready to explore the extreme parts of our world and beyond. Making tempest and EMP shielding default in electronics manufacturing for example. It would also assist in reduction of the totalitarian surveillance regime... so I say lets all start talking about how to do shielding properly. There is a lot of misinformation out there about it. I do wonder though, how much of that misinformation is on purpose. Like encryption, at what point does the government decide to suppress a technology because it might hinder their power? Things to ponder.
Duo is free and also syncs to iCloud
Look in the settings for a "face enhancement" feature and see if it can be turned off. I bet that's what it's trying to do with the faces it detects.

https://www.insider.com/samsung-phones-default-beauty-mode-c...
I haven't dug deep on this, but I bet the following URL will offer some helpful ideas:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ios%20solitaire%20reddit

Here is the best looking one from the first thread Google returned for me:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solitaire-decked-out-ad-free/i...
...or just use taxes because it's a super low amount anyway and the payment structure is already in place
What content category are these accounts posting in?
Microsoft attract developers who attract users.

Apple attract users who attract developers.
I believe none of the Fidelity funds have even a 0.1% weight for SpaceX. (I haven't checked recently and I can't read the blog because of HTTP 451, but I don't think this has changed.)

I criticized buying Google in my other comment, but at 0.29% it's actually better than the Fidelity funds in this regard.
Yes, but the point of all my suggestions is to make things automatic.

Besides the feedback to the organizer part, there could be all kinds of stats about the meeting, compare to the stats of e.g. a sports game. If you have a pool of sales reps, and you want to help them improve, you can compare the stats: on average you ask 2 questions per call, while the average rep asks 10, etc..

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of nefarious use cases, but there are definitely positive ones as well.
Fear and Dilution
Except the policy doesn't create the trend. The Tesla app won't work if you don't own a Tesla. The Wells Fargo app won't work if you don't have a Wells Fargo account. These apps have external requirements by their very nature, the App Store policy does not change that.
The original name was because the logic seemed to do with time. If some proposition p is true, and then some event q comes along and we can derive "if p and q then r" then now we know that r is true, but we can no longer be sure that p is still true. Maybe the derivation of r was an event or it transformed the nature of p in some way and we can't go back. People don't really think of linear logic as being temporal (one thing happening after another) anymore, the "resource interpretation" is more common, although still not 100% accurate. In this view, p is a resource that is consumed by q when r is derived. The logic/axioms are the same in both cases, it's just what people's subjective intuition says the logic describes. If linear logic finds its way into mainstream programming, it will probably be just in the simplified sense of "use-once function" like you called it, which is a little bit like calling lambda calculus using functions without names.
This is typical Canadian propaganda. Its meant to distract from scrutiny of the RCMP given the current climate.

Canada is well managed from the top.
That reminds me of my phone. It is kinda special. Instead of an eleven digit number, I have eleven one digit phone numbers. When I write them down, I usually just writen them all in one row. So the written version of my eleven phone numbers look just like a normal eleven digit phone number.
This line of thinking is as selfish as it is revisionist. Computers were not intended to be a playground for the high priesthood of initiates with Very Important Computations, they were intended to be tools to accomplish tasks. I think it's insane to throw out the incredible democratizing effect app stores have for the overwhelming majority of society in the name of you having perfect control.

App Stores have done a huge good for society in bringing capability to the general public. If a few startups have to suffer for it, oh well, that's their job. It's not an accident the degree to which smartphone sales outstrip feature phone and traditional computer sales.

This leaves out the discoverability argument, good luck getting people on the internet to find and install your random app. Then there's the security argument. Would you feel safer downloading a random script from the internet and piping it to bash, or a random ipa from the app store?
Glasgow Haskell Compiler https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Haskell_Compiler
A New Old Pattern Language
John Schulman's article provides better practical insights than the one Sam has authored himself. So, people looking for more concrete views and pieces of advice I'd suggest taking a look at the John Schulman article: http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html
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The only things like this to look out for with sane implementations on modern hardware are at 24 and 49 days after 2^31 and 2^32 milliseconds have passed. At least until 2038.
Which was mostly my point, nothing is just as simple as "Sell things for more than they cost to make." Markets are weird, more so when you have non-tangible components like software and IP involved.

I'm not advocating for any model over any other, just acknowledgment that there exists a complex co-dependent relationship between the console owners and the developers.
We run a pretty strict "mute when not speaking" policy and it's working very well. I think giving users automated feedback about the quality of their sound is a much simpler problem to solve. Not as sexy as AI powered noise cancellation, but I think it would be much more effective in the short term.
I recently started a CISSP course and discovered this. I was so excited to finally be getting into security and the next thing I know I'm 3 hours into recordings about pointless jargon and control taxonomies. I know there is a place for the latter at least, but it isn't something I want to do everyday.
Oh please, no auto casting. It's given way more problems that those that have solved (looking at you Excel).

If you want to use json, validate, and accept both 10 and "10" you can use json schema and do:

```
{ "type": ["string", "number"]}
```

Depending on the library and language you could extend the rules to accept a string that can be parsed and throw if not.
Just pointing out he said for ideological reasons.
I am surrounded by people who love to do voice and video meetings, and I find them taxing and not very efficient. I've been hearing a lot about communication in this remote work covid world, but I've seen that turn into more of these comms that I don't want.

I need to find a way to tactfully say I prefer text...
I am 100% s believer in science but the challenge is the signal to noise ratio - there's so much outputs that even niche experts struggle to follow their own field; for the population it's really hard to follow what is or isn't right. And often the advice/results are contradictory due to different focus. Nutrition research suggests to eat frequent small meals (is this still the right advice?), but also that fasting can be helpful. And if I stick to the small meals schedule my dentist will tell me that snacking is not good for the teeth as it keeps the mouth constantly acidic.

Similarly at policy level: there is much research, but often its application is very much dependent on the frame (eg city vs region vs national scale; strong-trust Nordic country context vs low-trust Balkans or US; etc).

In the end you need the policy decision to be well reasoned and evidence-based, but this is often difficult to manage and even more difficult to communicate (especially in a polarized society like the US where everyone is either friend or enemy in the political space).
> Types marked with `#[must_use]` in Rust are pretty close to linear types. But must_use is a lint rather than being integrated with the type system.

An other issue with must_use is that it just requires use not “consumption” of the value, so if, say, you print it the lint is satisfied. Meaning it’s an issue for resources you’d want to be linear e.g. resources which really should be explicitly terminated because the termination can fail.
A Haskell compiler whose implementation of Haskell has essentially become the language itself. They add lots of experimental features for their users to play around with, such as linear types it would seem. Language extensions like this might make it into the official language, but probably not. I'd say don't use it in production, but if you're using Haskell, you're probably an academic, hobbyist, or mad scientist.
> Every app I could find had some dark pattern or an overflow of ads or both.

This is one of the reasons I strongly prefer using open source software whenever possible. The program was written because somebody wanted it to exist, not because someone was trying to trick you or hold your work hostage for a few bucks.
From a research perspective, is it novel? Would it really be the appropriate resisted work to reference to other researchers in the field?
Having one device to rule them all is the dream.
The actual reason is the app does not follow the rules for in-app purchases. This hasn't really been in question. Anyone who has been an iOS dev for more than a year or two will be familiar with the App Store review guidelines.

Are the rules overly restrictive? Yes. Due they place an unfair burden on third party developers? Probably. But let's not pretend they are a mystery.
I wasn't suggesting this would "ruin the ecosystem". Rather, I was suggesting we might end up with two ecosystems.
A/B testing is in fact often used to make insanely great product, how would you otherwise know what your users actually want
Sylius should be seen more as a framework. And while it is full featured, it also is maintenance.
Would it be better to have it in other countries where the government has tight control over the press and social media though?
Reading through these replies makes feel like the only person who doesn't sell something and made me curious about what people here are selling.

Slightly off topic I know, but anyone care to share what product or service they use these services for?
I've seen some demos of VR based virtual worlds and it's really really cool. Downside is not being able to see facial expressions, and no one I ever have meetings with has a VR headset.
The security industry is a high paid specialization in an already highly paid industry, and it attracts an enormous number of complete charlatans. It’s incredibly easy to be a security charlatan, most of the people you work with won’t understand what it is you’re supposed to be doing, so they won’t know any better when you tell them to do literally anything at all. You can create an endless stream of busywork for yourself, by making an endless stream of nonsensical risk assessments, and anytime you don’t know what to do you can just say no. Anytime you’re questioned you can just say it’s best practice, and chances are some authority at some point in time said it was.

Other risk-related fields typically have at least some of the same issues. Risk avoidance is always a no-effort strategy, and the industry is full of people who rely on it entirely, because they don’t have the skills to implement actual mitigation strategies.
This is going to be such a pain for clients to support. Especially because there's not really a good specification for git - the official implementation is the specification. For my client I think I will just have to wait until this is officially enabled before implementating it. Guess it has to be done though.

I don't understand the bit about distinguishing hashes by length only. If you're going to change it why not add an identifier prefix? Then the logic can be "if length == 128 { its sha-1 } else { read first byte to determine hash algorithm }".
The CEO of Basecamp posted a response to all of this on they Hey website that I found to be an interesting take that I hadn't seen talked about elsewhere.

An all too brief summary is that customers coming in through the App Store are not your customers - they're Apple's, and you lose the ability to support them. That falls on Apple, and Apple will inevitably fall short of expectations.

Most recently, I spent several years at a subscription-based company. The size of their customer support dwarfed technology, operations (the company ships physical goods), and even sales. And without the 1,000+ hours/week of work by customer support, the company would have seen so much churn to have long ago been out of business. Yes, it would be great to have a situation where everything works perfectly, no customer ever has a problem (even when those problems are well outside of your control), and are 110% happy... but that's just not a reality for many companies.

https://hey.com/apple/iap/
There is no replication crisis. The correct approach is always to just see each study as one data point and in Popper's suggestion each time a study points in one direction this lends the relevant theory more weight. You might be able to repeat experiments but outside the hard sciences there simply is no one truth to rule them all, and even if you manage to replicate this is neither proof nor disproof that the theory/interpretation is fully right or that the results ate generalisable.
I'll try it from a different angle. Included in the things he took with him were 5kg of rice and a gun with 400 rounds - that's some level of planning. Now, he didn't have a plan so he didn't take a map. Why would he take a map? He had a vague idea of what he wanted to do, and part of it was seeing if he could survive off the land. He couldn't; so be it. He could've been more prepared and increased his chances of survival, but the point that resonates with some people was that he tried. He got off his arse. He wasn't beholden to the expectations of his parents or his money or the usual life. I have a friend who loves the idea of going on adventures and makes endless technical lists and buys gear, then barely goes anywhere. He has lots of maps...

When Alex Honnold free-soloed El Capitan, the exact point was that he didn't have a rope. He had a desperate urge to challenge himself with bigger and more difficult tasks.