skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Several scenarios described in the article made no mention of someone else paying the bill or providing funding to the person

"These last findings have worrying implications when it comes to thinking about charitable donations or how resources are distributed to the less fortunate, write the authors."

> Poverty isn’t from lacking financial discipline it’s from lacking financial resources and opportunities.

My father (Air Force) once told me that the AF had difficulties with the privates living on the base, in that half of them couldn't pay their bills. He was ordered to investigate and fix it. He said the problems were due to how they spent money - they'd spend their paycheck as soon as they got it on steak and booze, then would have to beg, borrow, etc., towards the end if the pay period.

The guy who taught the accounting class I took used to be a used car salesman. He said poorer people invariably took the worst (most expensive) financing option. He'd explain to them over and over why it was bad, and they'd just accuse him of trying to cheat them.

Frontline (I think it was Frontline) ran an episode a few years ago about a company that offered a 401K plan to all its employees, from the janitor to the CEO. They found that the investment percentage returns for the employees varied by their salary - the higher income people got better results from the company plan. This is despite everyone got the same plan, some were better at investment choices.

A colleague of mine at work years ago complained bitterly that the company had him over a barrel, salary-wise, because he could not afford to change jobs because of his bills. He was wearing expensive clothes, had a new car, a new house, etc. His chains were of his own making.

And lastly, the primary buyers of lottery tickets are poor people. Lottery tickets are probably the worst investment out there. (They'd do much better buying fractional shares from a discount broker.)

It's a tragedy that the public school system teaches nothing about accounting, budgeting, how to run a simple business, etc.
> Materials typically contain lots of small imperfections, but it’s the rare, large defects that cause a material to fail.

Ok so.... we need to know more about the rare large defects! Unfortunately that's the last we hear about them in this paper.
Q: What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?

A: A flat minor.
i find that i spend 3x more time explaining something through writing than through a quick chat
This is a nonsense reply that doesn't address what I actually said.
The word from those with known accurate sources in Apple's supply chain say that the versions of Apple's AR glasses currently being tested will pair wirelessly with an iPhone, which will do the heavy lifting.

I certainly trust Kuo's track record for accuracy more than I trust Gurman's.
>Ok, then follow the rules

It'd help if there were consistent rules that were equally enforced.
Wow you lot quick with this, and the site is pretty – good stuff
W. E. B. Du Bois's Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life (2016)
Sounds like they've dropped support for newer regions, though. Which is a shame. Seems like a decent tool.
Bad Apple!! is such a nicely animated video.
It is absolutely a question of moral and ethics. This point of view regularly gets good people killed. Dead serious.

You cannot wander off into the wilderness with no preparation expecting to cause no undue burden and danger to society for the exact same reason that you cannot jump off a building or shoot yourself in the middle of the street and expect it to be no one else's business.

You are willfully endangering wilderness personnel and spending enormous sums of public money when you get in trouble or die in the wilderness because you were unprepared.

There's no waiver you can sign and send to the forest service that says "Hey, I have no idea what I'm doing but I like it that way and don't bother rescuing me or recovering my body because I'm trying to be one with nature or something"

Yours is a very dangerous attitude to have in the outdoors. It is not the 1700s anymore. It is literally always someone's job to do their absolute best (e.g. the government's best) to rescue you or to recover your body if you get in trouble no matter where you are on Earth, no matter how dangerous.

It's incredibly irresponsible to think that you have no effect on the world around you in an age of GPS and helicopters.
A corporation is not a person, though. It has no moral right to privacy, and no human rights.

Also, I haven’t counted posts or anything like that, but something along the lines of “that loophole is legal so how dare you criticise them exploiting it?” is quite common.
I think what they're saying is that there are plenty of researchers/professors with ego, who think they're God's Gift. At the same time, there are many more researchers who are very humble and realize their contributions are a small part of a larger whole.

In startups, it seems that a strong ego is an advantage - if not a necessity (see: Elon Musk, Adam Neumann, Steve Jobs). There's an attitude (usually explicit, but sometimes implicit) of "we're disrupting the _____ industry and changing the world!".

Overall, I think you can find strong egos in any industry or job. However, my guess is that if you (somehow) ranked researchers and founders by ego, you'd find that the distributions were quite different. My guess is that the majority of founders have strong egos, with a long tail of those less ego-centric and that researchers would be quite the opposite - generally less ego-centric, with a long tail of strong-ego individuals.
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Does that not defeat the purpose of separating the accounts in the first place? If the airlock account info fell into malicious hands, the pristine account funds are now at risk.
My first thought was that it has been rejected because it's invite-only and there's no way to use the app unless you are on a special list.
There are so many comments written in this weirdly contradictory tone - I can't tell if you support or oppose the behaviors of these companies.
Picasa's equivalent is Google Photos... Google folded it into their Photos service long ago, and it's quite nice (if you don't mind it being a Google service).

Lots of AI, automatic categorization, face recognition of who's in photos, location tagging, album generation, "This Day Last Year" (my favorite feature), slideshows, etc.
> it's society's full, universal, democratic decision what to do with it.

That might be fine, if that were the way it worked. In practice, though, it seems more that it's a minority forming a howling mob that brings the heat.

> "if you say something so upsetting that you can get a large group of people to use their own words and freedom to associate to harm you in return, then that's on you"

I prefer the legal system to mob "justice".
I honestly thought BTRFS had added this as a feature until I read the linked page.
I know it's not part of the principle, but is there anything in the rules that says you can't charge an additional fee to those signing up using in app payments? If this is the hill Apple chooses to die on, every Apple customer just has to pay an additional 30ish% for a service, but of course you can always sign up online for the special sale price.
Absolutely agree with your thinking, Dang. Also, my apologies to Burkaman, you were right. Reuters' feed has not pushed out any news story in 24 hours now. Apologies for jumping to the conclusion that its feed was populating as normal.
That's the point of the pronouncements.

If the harasser thinks you haven't put two and two together yet, they have two options.

1. Quit
2. Be more obvious

1 is what you want, 2 is better evidence in court, win-win.
> Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently private, and all the followers to a private profile get queued up, you can queue them up in the thousands or hundreds of thousands.

I'm confused, why is it easier to get people to line up to follow a private account based on...nothing?
I remember reading that Scientology did this with their books. Bookstores were complaining because the "new" books arriving would have previous price tags on them.
So nice for the people of Basecamp to be fighting the good fight for everyone and the small developers. It’s not like they were perfectly fine with the system as long as it didn’t affect them, being one of the “famous” companies out there, while independent developers and small start-ups had to deal with this for years and years.

I was excited about hey before, and even though I don’t agree and don’t like the way the App Store works, I find Hey and the superstars behind it so hypocritical and annoying now. It’s funny how we hate here AMP and other technologies that are killing the open web, but we’re fine with a closed email system that locks you in Basecamp’s walled garden.
There's a slider to choose the area of the circle of each satellite, so maybe mine are just way too big.
There are a lot of rules lawyers in threads about Hey trying to figure out "tricks" that Basecamp or others could use to avoid the rule. That is not how this works. Apple is not a court, which (usually) plays by well stated rules, and cannot remake those rules at its discretion.

No, if you find a "trick" to get around Apple's rules[0], what happens is that you get blocked when they catch you. They might update the rules to explicitly ban what you did, but they'll gladly ban you first and change the rules later.

That's if you're little. If you're big (Google, Facebook, Uber), you might get a call from Tim Cook warning you that you need to stop what you're doing or you'll have trouble soon. Or perhaps they'll ban your cafeteria app, while leaving your consumer apps in the marketplace. Maybe you'll even get to negotiate, if you have enough leverage. But what won't happen is that Tim Cook will say "Looks like the rules don't cover this situation. Awwww, shucks!"

[0] There are some rules they don't care about (like marketing using push notifications), and enforcement of rules can be mixed. This is for the rules they care about.
well they kinda do, they're saying that they can't do the purchase outside the app and must do it instead in the app, and give them 30%
Generally the listed budget for a movie is the production budget, which does not include marketing the film. Generally for a big "blockbuster" style movie, you can generally assume the marketing budget is almost equal to the production budget.
I got the impression the researchers already had a conclusion in mind, and structured their experiments around it. That's why they forced the "necessary" phrasing as the only way to express purchasing priorities, and then were shocked, shocked, to find the study participants rated what they would have saved money on as less necessary.
I think there needs to be some distinction between apps that are the main product (or close to it) and apps that support another product (like there is npo point to having the app by itself, you should already have gotten the product/account before downloading the app). I don't know too much about Apple's rules to know if they use that criteria, but it makes sense to me.

An app to manage your Tesla makes no sense unless you own a Tesla. You probably (definitely?) created an account when you ordered your car, so you don't need to sign-up in app. I suppose people that could buy a used Tesla without a Tesla account, but I'm pretty sure you need to link the used car to a new account before you can manage it through the app with the new account, so it still doesn't make sense to offer in-app signup. I see no issue with the Tesla app being approved.

Some of the other apps do seem to be legitimate complaints. Netflix being an obvious one- it's totally plausible for someone to expect to download Netflix on their iPad and then pay through Apple. Netflix could easily offer that but doesn't (probably because of the 30% cut). Apple would gladly reject a smaller app, but they approve Netflix because too many users would complain if they couldn't get Netflix on their iPad.

Edit: one other thing I haven't seen whether Basecamp could just charge $141.43 per year if someone pays through Apple, so Basecamp would get $99 per year after Apple takes their 30% cut. They are allowed to offer outside subscriptions for multiplatform products, as long as those subscriptions are also available in-app. That seems like it would follow Apple's rules. People that don't care about money could sign up in-app, but most people will sign up outside the app.
One of the problems is that as a consumer, I like the features Apple implements with this.

I can just use Apple Pay instead of handing over my credit card. Don't want a subscription? No complicated process. No need to call a number. No need to email anyone. I just click to cancel and I am done.

As lousy as this is, the consumer experience is dramatically improved.
The Outlaw Ocean Music Project
We have a lot of blue sky physics PhDs doing just that right now, and they're not getting too far since the theory is massively under-determined given our lack of data.

Re: "unlikely to be useful," consider that every other major collider exploring new energy levels so far has found a new fundamental particle.
"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link"

And if you model a rope or fiber as multiple chains side-by-side (and on a molecular level they kinda-sorta are) then the longer the chain the more likely you end up with multiple parallel/concurrent defects.

It's an interesting finding in that few would ever intuit it but once told about it they'll say it's "obvious". At least that's what I thought!
I have never heard the word "sharecrop" used in a supportive way.
It’s great to be in the software products business
This, 1000 times. The best PR stunt they could ever dream.
Microsoft has recently modernized WinDbg[1]. Sadly, it's available only via the Microsoft Store[2].

[1] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...

[2] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windbg-preview/9pgjgd53tn8...
I'd say the term 'sharecrop' clearly carries a strongly negative connotation...
Nobody is dying.

It's precisely because everyone's so deeply cynical and feeling so powerless, that these rent seeking practices continue to flourish.

The way out is not to try and carve out a little niche for yourself and hope they don't come for you next. You can if you're a selfish coward but know that people don't respect selfish cowards and unless you want to live alone or with a few other cowards who agree to cling to each other for miserly comfort, it is a losing strategy.

The way out is also not to cause anarchy because 'everything is fucked anyway'.

This PR tsunami is actually one of the best weapons against monopolies, because they signal to policy makers that they can make a career out of working for a cause that the public deeply cares about. The big corps know this and try to avoid PR problems but it seems like Apple has gotten real bold as of late and I look forward to seeing what comes of this.
It’s a fair point. Banks with this feature usually allow you to set dollar limits. Hard to provide generic advice due to how different fintech offerings are. My apologies.
"We are having some problems with our servers today. We had to hire a cheap SRE."
New Report Shows Why We Must Tackle Excessive Wealth to Save the Planet
Shift Aims for Back-Door Public Listing
Here's a concise statement about "Why LokiNet?": https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/blob/master/doc...

Some excerpts:

> TL;DR edition: an onion router with a tun interface for transporting ip packets anonymously between you and the internet and internally inside itself to other users.

> "What if I2P was made in the current year (2018)? What would be different?"

> In short we want to permit both anonymous exit and entry network level traffic between LLARP [aka LokiNet] enabled networks and the internet.

> In short, I want to take the "best parts" from Tor and I2P and make a new protocol suite.
Basecamp/Hey seems to have hit upon a combination of use case, pricing, and closedness that Apple doesn’t like. Email, $99/year, no POP/IMAP? Not allowed. But there’s no policy on paper about it.
>Google charges trademark holders AdWords ransom to protect searches for their own brands.

Doesn't Apple have its own version of this in the App Store?
> What is up with people just ignoring the content of the message that they are replying to and either repeating what they said before or reply to something that was never said? This seems to be more and more common in HN these days.
Banks it makes sense. SD doesn't have usury laws, and multi-state banks can charge interest based on their home state's laws.

As to what the other states get you, I'm not sure.
No, they allow you to have out-of-app sign ups as long as you also have in-app sign-ups, and you can't reference the out-of-app signups (e.g. link to them) from within the app.
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Disabling third-party cookies hasn't really been that useful in a long time though.

"When third-party cookies are allowed, 101 domains can reconstruct over 50% of a user's history and 161 could recover over 40%. Even when these cookies are blocked, 44 domains could recover over 40% of a user's history."[1]

[1] Study back in 2014: https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/the_w...

Add to that web beacons, ads, like buttons, browser fingerprinting via HTTP header, javascript, canvas, plug-ins, add-ons or hardware, keystroke biometrics and gestures on smartphones.
Of course, there are also several techniques for e-mail tracking as well as tracking of documents (word, .pdfs etc).
I've been using Zoom via work for over 4 years now. It has been a stable and very good video conferencing solution for all that time. It is the first time I've honestly dealt with video conferencing software that "just works", which is a huge deal. I've never sat in meetings with people dithering about trying to get it to do what they needed.
Yes, his corpse was found in the bus, probably a few weeks after he died.
Web apps are pretty risk free in this sense. Nobody controls the web.
Do you have views on the state and direction of Solid?

I check up on it every few months, and it seems like nothing has really happened since the announcement years ago.

The spec is mostly a stub , with no activity on Github.

There still seems to be only the node-solid-server implementation, which also sees almost no work.

Inrupt seems to have tried linking with/appropriating the project for the company brand for a while, which also felt weird.
That would be a valid point if McCandless had made a pact with rangers that if he were come into serious trouble, they should rescue him immediately.

Of course, he made no pact. He went out alone, died alone and his body was found incidentally by a group of hunters.
AdWords ransom. Not a positive thing.

That said, the comment is a simple terse statement of "facts".
He never intended to die out there. His journal makes that abundantly clear. He starved because he ate poison berries.

He absolutely would have dialed a number to come rescue him if the technology was available, which it wasn't because it was 1992 in central Alaska.

He also did require expensive rescue anyway. You think they just left his body in that bus after it was discovered? Absolutely not, plus there are no roads there anymore, so they had to fly his body out in a very expensive helicopter ride.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_09_...

https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
I just vomited a little in my mouth
I'm always curious about delving deeper into the history of control theory. Specifically, the work pertaining to Cybernetics in the late 40s/50s. Has anyone gone down that rabbit hole and found anything interesting?
The main problem with this approach is you decimate your phone's battery life anytime you use it as a remote processing unit for VR/AR, at least in the case of Samsung Gear VR that's what John Carmack learned. Users end up having to calculate whether they'd rather use the VR device or have more spare battery to get them through the day / until next charge.
It is about 1/4 of net profit. They make 15 billion in revenue a year on the app store.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/apple-app-store-had-estimate...
A key point from https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1072/9... is that wired technologies are inherently natural monopolies and you only get competition when government intervenes, while wireless is inherently NOT a natural monopoly so you get competition UNLESS government intervenes.

The behavior that you observed is perfectly rational when connectivity is delivered over a wire. The goal is to make it clear to the competitor that they can't make money anywhere that they try to compete.

But in this case SpaceX will be delivering connectivity to everywhere, all at once. The targeted efforts that incumbents can use to shut down local upstarts don't work when the location to exert extra effort in is "everywhere".
But it's legitimately bad in a lot of places. My dad's house is on the coast near Acadia National Park and within about 10 minutes of what passes for a city in those parts. He's the last house on a road off the main road that gets broadband at all and it's ADSL that gets about 1Mbit down. You can't really do video. Houses further along the road need to do satellite or try their luck with pretty much equally mediocre cellular.

And people have investigated because basically not having internet is something of a pain but it is what it is.
Very well written, with some excellent tongue-in-cheek humour.

I love this quote: “One informant told Jackall that his job involved ‘characterizing the reality of a situation with any description that is necessary to make that situation more palatable to some group that matters . . . Everyone knows that it’s bullshit, but it’s accepted. This is the game’ (Jackall, 1986, p. 145). A crucial aspect was not using too much or too little bullshit, and also being able to judge the appropriate moment to bullshit. Competent bullshitters also needed to become competent audience members for performances of bullshit. They had to learn that bullshit should not be taken too seriously and it should be engaged with in just the right way. If you took bullshit too seriously, you ran the risk of being seen as a chump. Likewise, if you challenged bullshit too frequently, you risked being seen as an asshole.”
Direct link to the referenced paper in the article [PDF]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386007
Have you tried using Google Meet instead of Hangouts? I'm just curious if it's noticeably different.
When this came out 6-7 years ago, there was some discussion about helping OSM volunteers and being an alternative to Google. Now that FB has acquired this, I am not sure how I feel about it :-/
Apple crafts their sales pitch around being a secure device that has a lot of restrictions (which means you can't install what you want, but it also protects non-tech savvy people from messing up their device or being hacked)

It is a pretty well established model. I don't like it sometimes either, but you know what you are getting when you buy an iPhone. It isn't like they changed policy after you bought the device.
This would likely be rejected by the Apple review team.
Apple doesn't allow a link in the app to direct users to a website to collect payment. You can't even merely say that there's a website where you can pay outside the app. Notice how many apps in the article simply don't provide any explanation about how users are supposed to sign up?
I do too. But, a better middle-ground needs to be found which services both consumers and developers. It could literally be as simple as something closer to a 90/10 split.