skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that a bad thing? If I?m using an alternative to a the App Store, I definitely don?t then want an app to be able to run arbitrary code from a server.

If you like updating manually, don't give the store you use permission to do it manually. Why are you running software you don't trust anyway!

> But we have an alternate universe where users can install outside of the official store yet hardly anyone takes advantage of it.

See the post you replied to.
Yeah, that's the problem.
Not like there’s much of a choice. Windows… well, offends my sensibilities and Linux doesn’t run Adobe suite.
Analysis – Google's messaging products strategy
The conclusion sort of "undoes" the title... and I kinda hate articles like that. I just read a bunch of stuff and we get to.

"Well what you just read doesn't work, maybe something else, bye..."
You never know with history because it's not possible to conduct experiments. However, I'm very sceptical of arguments about the lasting effect of volcanic eruptions on world history during the last 2000 years. Known eruptions last 2-3 years, which is bad but of limited duration. [1]

Pandemics and disease in general have had far greater impact on humans. The Bubonic Plague epidemic of 1348-1350 wiped out at least 1/3 of the population of Europe according to reputable sources. [2] It affected medieval societies for decades by changing the cost and availability of labor. Destructive wars like the 30 Years War had effects of similar magnitude. (This relevant for the Roman Empire, which suffered continuous invasions starting from 406AD onwards in the West.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Isn't that even worse? If there's one thing civil rights leaders should be aligned on, it's that people have a right to say true things which might cause conflict.
Control theory for fun and profit
The funny thing is, the shift of accepting the existence "unacceptable" speech hurts liberal speech more than conservative speech (I looked at the numbers from https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speec...). Considering how people chasing cancellings on twitter tend to hold extreme opinions themselves, they actively contribute to the thinning of the ice they're walking on.
> The Solution for Consumers

> Stop buying iPhones

There's the problem with this argument. Consumers are suffering, but don't realize it. The lack of competition, and the increased cost to developers, are depriving consumers of innovative products like Hey, but they don't know it. You can't expect consumer to know when they buy a phone, that it will cause a future company to fail to launch an innovative new product. It's this very reason why we have anti-trust laws.
This varies quite a bit. I was the CTO of a very large porn site in the mid-2000s and our chargeback rate was tiny - a small fraction of a percent. That fact didn't help us avoid high-risk categorization, though.
Small correction: It's not the full hash that appears in the results, it's the suffix (so the part after the 5 chars you put into the URL).

If you don't want the password to end up in your shell history, this works on in the shell with common tools:

tr -d '\n' | sha1sum

Then type the password you want to look for, hit enter and control-d. You can test with "common" passwords like https://www.reddit.com/r/XFiles/comments/6ge7h4/mulders_home... if you're doing it right.
Yeah, especially as the Linux fork that Android uses converges back to mainline, Android/Linux is just another system sitting next to GNU/Linux distros and the odd outlier like Alpine/Linux (busybox/Linux? musl/Linux?).
> an email service I will be calling Yo in this article

Why?
Ask average Joe what's an RSS feed and you'll know. Supporting effectively dead technology doesn't make financial sense for any company.
Disclaimer: I only read the subject line and the first paragraph.

Years ago, when Internet Explorer had market dominance, I was working on a website and I wanted to use a feature that IE didn’t support yet. I asked a question on a forum about how to do it in IE. One of the replies was "just stop using IE."

Dude. It's not for me. It's for my customers.
Largest known soft-shell reptile egg discovered in Antarctica
Well, that's the point.
The death of RSS is the death of the federated web model where users view and consume the content they want to. Modern alternatives like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram do not serve users in the same way. Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it. It's an eerie return to the pre-Internet days, where the only choices a consumer had were to change the TV channel / radio dial / newspaper. An illusion of choice in which users are disempowered.
I'm not able to see anything here that references the content being collected. Maybe I'm not looking closely enough?
The speech that should absolutely be abridged is using the phrase "Freedom of Speech: A Right" seemingly without referring to the U.S. constitutional right, and also without defining what you mean otherwise. The penalty for violating this law shall be that you have to read every single forum comment about your abstract.
You fail to define what the legitimate issues are.

They have no real hardware or store monopoly, Android still out numbers them in install base.

Legally it’s undecided at all. This is essentially complaining Walmart and Target use different means of revenue generation for placing product.

Maybe Microsoft can get a phone and store off the ground that has a bigger install base. Oh wait. Maybe app sellers should have heeded the warnings when app stores launched about this exact problem!

Just because you and others don’t feel good about it doesn’t mean it’s legitimate.

App sellers have a legitimate issue with Apple after choosing to go all in knowing how it works.
There's a long history of consumer activism successfully forcing companies to change. We have power. Hell, we've even toppled government regimes this way (looking at you South Africa).
So basically you expect to keep your job by staying out of touch for two whole months ?
I perfectly understand that he feared the precautions in his workplace were not enough, so did they apparently as stated in the article, but when you're still an employee you are supposed to be available for them. At Tesla or anywhere really ?
I believe in absurd. "You think New York is a real place?"
Australia is different from most other rich countries now receiving immigrants (and "expats") because its mainstream culture (not the native culture, which would be aborigine) is itself founded by immigrants from the UK in the relatively recent past... and there has been continuous immigration from many parts of the world since then... I guess that's the reason Australians still see people coming to Australia from rich countries, including the US and European countries, as immigrants... it's not a dirty word over there, as the majority of Australians are only third or fourth generation at most and therefore consider themselves descendants of immigrants. It would be kind of absurd to think of their grand-grand-parents coming to live permanently in Australia as "expats" (though I don't doubt some of them coming today might call themselves that)!

But in rich countries that are old enough to have a population that already forgot they probably also came from elsewhere (populations have always moved around, replacing, killing, and/or mixing with the locals), recent waves of immigration are always from poor countries with a very different culture/language (so that they have trouble assimilating, getting jobs, contributing and so on... and many end up giving up and start to feel marginalized, causing some to appeal to crime) which made the word immigrant have a very negative connotation... hence the need for people from other rich countries to distinguish themselves from those poor people and call themselves something more respectable like "expats".
This seems really odd to include, given Techcrunch's use of pixels

So because TechCrunch does something bad, that makes Oracle doing the same thing not bad?

Yes, it's hypocrisy at the macro level. But it's not an excuse for either party.
Using the device grant with Golang to auth a CLI app
related topic: do you usually prefer seeing specs/design doc in plain english or mathematical notation?
> Many products evolve because of user-feedback.

And regulation. See GDPR and CCPA.
I would argue both you and GP are correct. Danger is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm sure the Pope considered Galileo's speech to be a danger, at the very least to the religious dogma of the day.

Sure, there may be clear cut examples when speech is directly dangerous, such as when inciting some group to harm some other group "for no reason".

The problem, though, arises when the situation isn't as clear and when the danger is actually to some people's privilege. To come back to the pope's example: what if some scientist can prove God doesn't exist and / or that the Pope is an impostor? That's clearly dangerous for the Pope. It could be argued that it might even be dangerous for the society, suppose this could generate some unrest. But maybe this could usher in a new era where something else is possible. Should that speech be banned?
An Intro to Quantum Mechanics; Google’s Claim to Quantum Supremacy
Who is this person and why do they feel they're an authority?
> Legislating in this direction might lead to there being a quiz at the end of every privacy policy. This doesn't seem like it would be great outcome to me.

As much as Google wants your data, there is no way they're going to actually make customers spend hours wading through dense legal speak before allowing them to use their service. No one would do it. They'd just go to duckduckgo.

Alternately, if getting access to your data is really so important to Google that they're willing to put users through so much pain, maybe users really do need to go through that pain, so they know what they're agreeing to.
While its true that they have human operators currently, they don't necessarily need a lot of autonomy to attack someone jamming their signal. Most of the drone signal jammers I've seen take the form of a handheld directional radio "gun", so it would be pretty easy to just have your bombdrone just direction find the jamming signal and bomb the operator, freeing the field for the n other drones.
Ugh. Can we stop with the cancel culture narrative? When people say objectionable things, there may be consequences. This unhinged proposition that you should have an invincibility force field around you when you spit out obnoxious shit is absurd.

If you say something people don't like, they may want nothing to do with you. They may want nothing to do with people associated with you. Those people may be your employer. Your employer may not agree with the stuff you say AND you're harming them. Thus, your relationship is terminated.

Nobody is being victimized here. Everyone's rights are being upheld and maintained. If my employer hated this comment enough to fire me, then onward I go to another employer, or onward to destitution. If I'm not confident that what I say is mainstream enough that I could be fired for it, then I shouldn't say it, or I should accept that I'm not mainstream enough and thus can't attempt to live in mainstream society.

Arguments against "cancel culture" fundamentally mean that people should be forced to have a relationship with me they may not want even if I'm an objectionable, reprehensible twat, and that's too bad for them, because my position is somehow more important than their right to freely associate. I reject this utterly.
Seems to me there is a lot of heat and very little light flying around on the entire App Store issue. A lot of those "whining" the loudest——although let's call it legitimate debate instead of whining——don't seem to be fully grasping all the benefits of a walled ecosystem along with the drawbacks.

I don't think debating this issue gets us very far unless we're intellectually honest with each other about all the benefits as well as the drawbacks.
I read up on that and, while it's obviously a naked power-grab and bad law IMO, it also seems to me to have the same loop-hole.

I don't understand how a service provider can be anything but a carrier if the traffic is E2E encrypted.
Not an article or course but this Math as code cheat sheet is pretty good: https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
I'm not sure heterodox academy is worth the paper it is printed on.

The article itself attempts to make some kind of vague argument about cognitive ability and social positions. Any time a blogger trots out cognitive ability as one of their primary evidentiary threads, you can be fairly certain that the rest of what you read will largely consist of confirmation bias from the privileged class.
The problem I have is that so many people have come to think of “free speech” as meaning that all speech and all ideas are equally good/valid/desirable in any context, and that any criticism of speech or any attempt to establish conventions around what types of speech are desirable in any context is a violation of free speech. Some people even seem to be under the impression that you somehow become more free by deliberately saying things that are widely considered to be false/harmful/abhorrent.
I know very little about this kind of stuff, but is there anything that would prevent a controlling party from striking the poison pill provisions from the bylaws?

Usually poison pills are to trip up parties without controlling interest, so I'm curious what kind of legal framework would making something like that unchangeable.
You’re not a stakeholder for buying a computer.

You seem to have a very confused view of the consumer role legally and historically.

Giving them money for a product does not give you a real voice.

Argue for that first. Otherwise you may as well argue you’re a stakeholder to a tree.
A lot of people seemed to miss the part that the hub would connect wirelessly.

You could still do that. Just plugging in something in the same room is not that much more difficult. I personally would’ve preferred higher graphics. I love my quest but there needs to be a premium offering that is wireless and it seems like that’s what they were going to do. Ive’s response about not taking people out of the world is stupid. That’s the point of VR.
Looking forward to tomorrow, thanks to the Nim team for organizing this!
Especially when there is no legitimate anti-trust issue to begin with.
Visualizing the Ongoing Drug War
I suppose someone could build a bare basic UI in something like JsFiddle that is transparently auditable and has crystal clear comments for non-technical people to see what the code does
Social consequences inflicted by other people is a form of censorship.
How is the bit about porn relevant to our discussion?
Same here. They're the mental equivalent of speed bumps on a highway.
Is there an alternate source for this? It's how I got my news up until it shut down.

You could always pay for the news you consume.
Maybe they're following certain state laws regarding online gun accessory sales? By certain states I mean NY, CA, and naturally WA.
I see this argument pretty regularly, but I don't understand it. Of course you can run ads in RSS feeds; you can put whatever you want in an RSS feed.
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Pardon, but it is actually the author who is whining here. DHH has raised some very valid points, especially when many businesses rely on Apple Store. There is nothing wrong to talk about it, especially when Apple itself provides a "web option" instead of IAP to avoid X% of cuts.
PVS-Studio for Idea and Android Studio
Not sure if this is a great project if you are recovering and don't have some type of CNC mill to test it on -- but the state of open source "CAM" software is clunky.

"CAM" is computer aided machineing and it is software that takes a 3D model and a lot of machine parameters in, including size of the cutting bit and etc, and produces "g code" which is movement instructions for a computer controlled mill of some type.

It is the equivalent of the "slicer" in 3D printing.

But for milling or subtractive manufacturing there are many more details, and there needs to be a way to visualize and simulate the toolpath, and edit it by hand.
No, they haven't earned the right to exploit their monopoly this way. It's a monopoly because the only way to get an app onto an iPhone (at least, without rooting the device) is via the app store. The writer thinks that it is perfectly appropriate for Apple to steal from the poor and not from the rich, exploiting their power to score every dollar they can get. But antitrust law exists for a reason, and though the current US administration isn't very interested in enforcing it, the EU and Japan are less likely to let Apple continue to get away with their practices.
I think this is only a short-term effect. In response to things becoming more locked down, more and more "info liberation" projects will take root, and in the end the information will just gradually all leak out and end up outside the prison wall, in compatible, accessible formats. Then, eventually, even the sources of the information will switch to publishing it in the libresphere, because at that point the best audiences will be there too.
This is going to be great!
PVS-Studio for Rider
Not saying he wasn't very bad, and it's true I wasn't around for the worst of it. But it's almost impossible to believe that it's not outweighed by the good he has done in the last couple decades, the sheer scale of which is hard to wrap my head around.
Adam Smith would disagree I think.
Apple have a quasi monopoly and are imposing an 'absurd tax' on any other business operating in their fiefdom.
Are you just arguing because you can't stand the idea of a world where everything isn't black and white? If the system as it has settled were so much of a problem for the developers, they would not have time and time again put their weight behind the companies pricing their consoles low.

Prices are all ephemeral anyway. How many of those "normal products" are only able to be sold for more than they are made for because we value the labor of the person making it less than we would the same labor from the person buying it?
heterodox academy: the publisher for people who were bullied in private school
Their fears seem mostly unfounded, too. For most consumers, the convenience of an app store is massive.
so the solution to Apple's (or google's) behaviour is to stop using their stores?
basically stop having a business altogether?
What's the end goal here, to have people hired "because they are black?" I guarantee that will happen if there is money to be made by doing it.
> From a meta standpoint, it's interesting to me that the most vociferous deniers of free speech throughout history have made some version of the case "But they're wrong!" (You can add stupid, evil, whatnot. The point is that whatever they're saying, it should not be said because it is not correct)

All of them did, huh? Interesting.

> Whereas folks supporting free speech have made the argument: maybe I'm wrong. I don't know everything, and I've been wrong before.

Did they though? Or are you constructing a strawman argument portraying the "anti free-speech" side as dumb and the "pro free-speech" side as reasonable?
"At this moment of heightened public awareness, forcing big public pension funds to commit to putting more of their dollars in funds controlled by minorities could have a major impact. These public institutions, unlike their corporate kin, represent a wide and diverse swath of the country, making investment decisions for public servants like teachers, firefighters and municipal workers."

While I think this is a phenomenal idea, it should be noted that systems like this that currently exist are frequently, almost typically, gamed. I went to work for a Federal Government certified 8a minority woman owned business with at the time about 20 employees in my mid-20s. I remember thinking how cool that was.

The "CEO" was a highly competent woman of Filipino descent who, after having kids, had chosen to become a stay-at home mom. She was CEO in name only, and her husband (a big giant white dude who was also highly competent) was the actual CEO, but with a different title.

The company's main source of revenue was acting as a prime contractor on contracts only available to 8a companies, then subbing the work out to large contractors. Another regulation on the company was a cap on it's profits, as well as a cap on salaries of individual employees. Their way around that was that the acting CEO and his wife both earned max level salaries. Another C level co-founder also payed his wife the maximum salary, and near as we can tell, her sole item of work for the company was sending out holiday gift baskets.

Again, good idea, but we need to think very hard about how to ACTUALLY help, rather than just making a small number of people who know how to game the system wealthy.
Is rss provided if you have an account? Otherwise it doesn't answer the question.
This will not be the result. The scale of content posted on social media makes it impossible to remove content that could result in lawsuits or charges down the road. The only way for social media companies to avoid liability would be to eliminate moderation. Either that or remove comments and user uploaded content outside of a much smaller pool of vetted people - and at that point it's not longer really social media is it?

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Understand that removing section 230 means that companies are treated as though they are the ones
making the statements.that users post. One user recruits terrorists, or participates in sex trafficking and the whole site is responsible for recruiting terrorists and engaging in sex trafficking in the eyes of the law. With stakes this high delegating moderation to users doesn't cut it.

If companies like Facebook or Google don't have the resources to comply then there's zero chance that a smaller company with less resources can do so. There's a reason why removal of section 230 is being pushed by cable and traditional news. It's a death sentence for some of their biggest competitors.
On the other hand, for us "tech people" it is actually easier to stop using Google and Apple and serve as example for others. Pushing for anti-monopoly legislation needs not be the only thing that we do to solve that problem.

Moreover, for people who are not citizens of the USA (the large majority of the people!), there's no other clear course of action.
Apple isn't a monopoly as per law, there are plenty of other device manufacturers to choose from, and in some markets iDevices aren't even available.