skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, funny, but not quite fair---if by customers we mean students, most academics quite like the students and teaching them---and many (myself included) think that the grading part actually harms the students.
This is absolutely getting unwieldy to the point of being fucking ridiculous and unusable.

I've been in tech for 25+ years. I'm very familiar with security, and I have the internal endurance to sit patiently and work through IT-related issues.

However, at this point, there are just too many broken ways and I'm at the point of giving up. I use LastPass and if that somehow gets hacked or phished, I lose absolutely everything. I'm waiting for the next virus or phishing attempt to steal my LastPass password.

I use multi-factor authentication on some accounts, but if they use SMS like many sites do, I can get my phone number stolen from me and then I lose access.

I use Gmail and Google Authenticator, but if I somehow do something to piss off Google, I can lose my gmail account and access to Google Authenticator and then I'm really fucked. I've lost some gmail accounts because they will ask me for security questions when I log in with the correct password, and I don't remember them so my account gets locked, so they're gone forever.

What we need is a single way to do login, MFA and security across every single site. We can't have every company incorporating their own methods. We need standardized customer support, where Tier 1 customer support can't give you access to things like credit card numbers, last 4 digits of SSN, or change passwords. Changing passwords needs to be a higher level, better trained customer support.

There needs to be an ISO standard that is well thought out and implemented by all the vendors, or at least all the big vendors. If there's a standard way of doing security but also a standard way of doing customer support and what data is exposed to various levels of customer support, then social hackers can't take partial info from sites A and B, and use that to social engineer site C.

This has to be simplified because it's absolutely unwieldy even for a veteran like me. There are too many ways I can get hacked and we are all just sitting ducks. The only thing protecting us is that we aren't high-value targets.
I doubt that was a real factor, but maybe the webpage itself is. It is really well done: clear, compelling, and responsive, even. The Spotify website was more artistic, less visually readable, and didn't have as punchy points or counterexamples, at least to my memory.
the app is free. it's not a hey account, it's an app that lets you access your hey account from an iphone. the account itself has no dependence on the app.
I mean, they give you MBOX export and forwarding forever even if you stop paying them. What else would you want them to do? The feature stack would be impossible to implement on IMAP, and all of the features would have to be exposed in every client anyway. They are trying to change the paradigm for people who hate how email works today, and I don't think that'd work if they said "Okay, first, add this new address to Mail on your iPhone. Cool. Now if you go on our website you'll get a great email experience."

(With that being said, there's no reason they couldn't publish an API so someone else could write a client...)
Two people enter the room, one with muddy shoes and the other covered head to toe with mud. The one with mud all over them yells "I'm not dirty! You're dirty!" and then proceeds to defecate on the rug, smear it on the walls, and then grabs a beer from your fridge and crash on the couch. By the time you get around to confronting them, they look at you incredulously and say, "See, look what a disaster this place is! That other guy has got mud on his shoes!"

Technically you're right, they're both part of the problem.
Well, I find the stock market entertaining, too, even though I make very, very few trades. There really isn't much of anything happening in the lottery business (it rarely makes the news), so I can't see much entertainment in it. With stocks you can watch your net worth gyrate around minute by minute :-)
This is similar to solder seal wire connectors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGKsXSiFww4
Linear types are stronger than FnOnce, in that a linear type must be used _exactly_ once. Rust doesn't enforce that if you pass in a function of type FnOnce that it is called.
That one doesn't remove search history or likes.

Check your activity log on mbasic.facebook.com. "mtmail searched for..." likes, etc.
I guess so...
I think emotional intelligence coupled with integrity are the real super power wombo-combo, no matter the role.

It helps if you have the technical skills to go with it but to be honest, having those skills should be a matter of training, not expecting people to be learning on their own time.

This should be fixed on the company level - every employee should receive regular training, not be expected to magically keep up their workload and learn new technologies in their spare time.

Another issue that makes projects go side-ways is people relying on a paycheque for their livelihood. If you want people with integrity to practice it in the workplace, don't place them in impossible situations where they have to choose between their integrity and their family's financial well being.

This should be fixed on the government level.

This is all to say that this endless stream of blog posts about what an already over-worked, under-paid worker ought to improve upon, are not helpful - highly educated people used to be Aristocrats who fine dined and wrote poetry. Today we are expecting people to pay for their own training, spend the best years of their lives studying to pass tests, be hazed trying to get a job, for the privilege of getting worked to the bone for the benefit of a corporate entity. I thought only dystopian novels could think of a system so counter-productive and insane, until I read Brave New World and thought hm, this might be an upgrade over the life I'm currently living.

Anyhow :)
And unfortunately, we need to know that information between we are willing to judge the validity of the comment.
We all use rsync but rsync itself has massive risks and is equally prone to stupid buffering consequences. (I worked on a write up of an exploit to hose an rsync server in rpki and the lack of channel protect in rsync is a problem. Rsync over SSH is less risky but not risk free to either side. What is sent and what is asked for do not have to align well) rsync over SSH needs tuning to be buffer efficient.

Tar may well be better if you know you need all the files and don't need the block checks per file to detect change and minimise data sent.

Rsync can hose the file buffer cache and slow a server down. If you want speed mbuffer is good but lacks channel security too (ZFS send over mbuffer is awesomely fast)
Tracking pixels don't need a cookie if they're using dynamically generated URLs.
I wonder how Microsoft would do in the mobile market right now if they came in with the same developer first attitude we're seeing everywhere else.

Microsoft hardware with Android, a decent update lifecycle, MS365, alternate store, MS billing APIs, etc. would make a compelling offering IMO. The only thing I think MS would screw up would be sideloading. They seem to be all in on the current code signing / trust system and it's absolute trash.

There are so many industries that have been turned into complete garbage by rent seekers that I feel like anything that doesn't absolutely screw developers and customers would be super successful. The problem is that we only have about 5 tech companies on the planet that are big enough to compete.
Anything without a paywall?
As an Amazon customer I'm fine with them dedicating the legal minimum effort to this. Prices going up or the service getting worse over having to dedicate more resources to banned items would be a loss for me.
https://hey.com/faqs/#if-i-don-t-like-hey-can-i-export-my-em...
That's not negligent, that's malicious.
Yeah, they just can't have anything in the app mentioning that they're doing so. That doesn't sound very user-friendly either.
Applied Machine Learning.
Areas such Real Time communications like Zoom, Meet, etc were very mature technologies, now with ML you can add features like Face recognition, echo cancellation, backgrounds, etc
There are two kinds of 'wantrapreneurs': one who wants to build a business that provides services or goods to the public at large and another who wants to build a business that provides services or goods to other wantrepreneurs to increase their social standing. The internet seems filled with the latter, but in reality, there are probably more of the first, methinks.
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There are many opportunities to volunteer helping low-income people with budgeting and finances. I would encourage you to sign up as a volunteer for one of those programs. I’ve done work with the IRS VITA program to counsel low-income families on tax planning and budgeting how to “best” spend their EITC. You might need a legal and/or tax background to volunteer solo with VITA but there are lots of opportunities to sit in on client intake and budget planning/coaching. You’ll see first hand that poor people aren’t stupid when it comes to how they spend their money and they aren’t making irrational financial choices.

It’s comforting for those of us who are financially secure to think that we’d be able to use our superior knowledge and business acumen to get out of poverty but I can assure you that comforting thought isn’t based in reality.

And in the exceedingly unlikely event that you are as skilled financially as you believe yourself to be then you should be sharing your knowledge far and wide with those in need.
javascript is a dumpster fire.

unfortunately it's the only actually viable language in the browser.
Care to quote the part where the US government forced the browser choice screen like the EU did?
You can download alternative app stores. For example, here is the Yandex app store: https://store.yandex.com/
There's also JavaScript frameworks that have started adding more server side rendering. It's really interesting to see this switch back. But I think the performance benefit will be great.
I agree with everyone else here that Apple’s weird rules and the inconsistent way they’re enforced are both bad. But I don’t think the solution is as obvious as “drop the 30% cut”.

How should Apple go about making money from the App Store? Paid apps are dwindling off. They do charge a flat fee per developer, but it can’t be too large or they’ll lose all the indie developers, and there just aren’t enough developers overall to make that a viable business on its own. They could charge a flat fee to the developer per app download -- something really small, a few cents per download -- but then what about free apps?

What they want is to take a share of the profits from developers who are making money on their platform, while also supporting free apps free of charge. The 30% fee is their attempt to do that. The problem is that it’s easy to game the system and just run your payments outside their store. Hence all the silly rules to try to prevent that.

Maybe 30% is just too much. Would people complain as much if it were 10%, or 5%?

Or maybe they should just give up on App Store revenue and focus on hardware sales. But it would be a little weird for them not to have a direct incentive to improve the store experience for users.
While I agree that Apple should probably relax their rules, this list of "exceptions" is not particularly compelling.

The majority of them are companion apps for physical products/memberships for which the rules around in-app purchases do not apply: Tesla, Soho House, Wells Fargo, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, WeWork.

Github has a free tier and doesn't require a paying membership to use.

Netflix is a digital content app for which there is a specific exemption under rule 3.1.3(a).

Bloomberg and Salesforce might also fall under the 3.1.3(a) exemption for "access to professional databases", I'm not sure.

App Store Connect is their own app. Apple's apps have always been able to use private APIs and do other things the rest of us can't.

The only other app in this list that is actually similar to Hey in terms of product type and monetization is Fastmail. (And it looks like Fastmail was recently asked to add IAP to their app as well.)

The rules around in-app purchases have been well known for a long time (by iOS devs at least, clearly not by the general public or even tech people).

Releasing an app that does not follow the rules and then publicly complaining when it is inevitably rejected is starting to seem more like a guerrilla marketing tactic more than anything else. (And a clever one too, I don't think yet-another-email-app would have gotten nearly the same amount of press coverage that this has.)
The redirect offer is also nice to see. Kudos to them for that.
The right answer is something climate related. I’m not knowledgeable enough to say exactly what, though.
Homomorphic encryption.

https://github.com/CEA-LIST/Cingulata
I did this exact thing for the first time the other day after a friend's recommendation. It worked FLAWLESSLY. I was as amazed by it working so well as I was the first time I used the inside-out tracking of the Quest.
Right. Enlightenment can come from imagining the app and the service as separate companies, i.e. the app being some third-party client for the service. The app, in such a case, clearly does not cost money. It's free. It just doesn't do much if you don't have the service; just like pet toys don't do much if you don't have a pet.
Absolutely. The only benefit of illegality is imprisonment. It does not reduce consumption. The only way to reduce consumption is by treating it as a health and community problem. Not a crime.
Anyone in the US who is paying attention knows about the surveillance and censorship in the UK. Twitter is a US company.
Yes because most retailers like Best Buy let manufacturers advertise that you can get products cheaper at Amazon....
Sharing would just be routed through cdn.firstparty.com
All the time in AC circuits. Especially for anything RF-related. It's vastly, vastly easier to work in the (complex) frequency domain. Antenna and filter design are pretty much all done in the s-domain.
Photonics seems like a really cool field and I started looking into recently after being intrigued by VLC (visible light communications) technology. In fact I actually bought some books on VLC systems and hope to design a toy one some time soon. There are some online courses on optical engineering, unfortunately I havent had a physics or math class outside of high school so now way I could make sense of that.
People survive self-inflicted shotgun blasts. I understand because they flinch as they fire and the shot is not "head on". A notibil eexample is from the 1990 Judas Priest lawsuit.

"[] placed a 12-gauge shotgun under his own chin and proceeded to fire the weapon, dying instantly. [] followed, but survived the self-inflicted gunshot wound with a severely disfigured face"
I don't think there's a consensus to be reached. Part of why this story gets attention so frequently is because there's approximately two camps with points that aren't even contradictory logically, but are contradictory in spirit.

A. McCandless was negligent, his neglect was bordering mal-intent. He should be made an example of, not for his search of freedom, but for behaving stupidly as to put the lives of search and rescue workers in danger, or at the very least putting them to work and depleting funds from the state that could have gone elsewhere. He had an ill-effect on his family and friends, and should have put them foremost before venturing out with little preparation.

B. McCandless engaged in an act of personal liberation. Even if he ultimately died, he at least had the courage to embrace his own version of freedom.

I don't think the people in camp (A) are wrong, but ultimately it's not how I want to live my life - where I have to value the peripheral concerns of society above my most intrinsic desires.
Yes indeed, embarking on extreme ventures are a fundamental part of humanity and an inevitability of the risk tolerance bell curve of personality matrices. I'm certainly in no way advocating for people to not participate in outdoor activities that could be considered risky.

Rather, the most important key difference here is in the individual's preparation for these activities.

Yes people wingsuit, but try going to any skydiving drop zone without having quite literally hundreds of jumps with dozens as formal training in a wing suit. They will first laugh at your stupidity then get extremely serious and curse you out of the building for being a dangerous fool.

People who free solo mountains are not amateurs. They have thousands of hours of training and have climbed the exact same route safely so many times they know each hold my heart.

McCandless was a reckless fool. Not only had he never been to where he went with someone who knew their way around before he went alone, but he had no training doing similar things in any other proper context and that staggering lack of knowledge cost him his life.

If someone has never skydived, and they saunter up to a 2000ft cliff wearing a wingsuit and jump off thinking they are taking the same risk as the extensively trained professionals they've watched on youtube then that makes them a reckless fool as well.
Extortion is lucrative. If you're ever trying to get super rich, you're going to have to "crack a few eggs." As in: be an extortionist. That's what "cracking eggs" means.
No vanity URLs, no thank you! :D
You think Netflix would cave to apple on this? I don't think so. Netflix would just make it extremely public that Apple have blocked user access to the app on iOS. Apple is the one that will cave, not Netflix. I mean, come on, iPhones are popular but not even majority of the market.
> How is Hey "a closed email system"? It sends and receives emails using SMTP. Closed source email clients is far from a new invention and

It intentionally doesn't support IMAP, so exporting email is tricky/impossible. Whether or not you care is another thing entirely.
That way I can downvote you or upvote you, regardless of if you contribute to the discussion.
You've repeated this argument several times and you're starting to sound like an Apple shill.

The idea that the App Store (with 2M+ apps) is a meaningful source of customer acquisition is utter horseshit. In fact it's now the opposite since Apple will sometimes place ads for competitor apps ahead of your own in search results.
Life being worse, year on year average, rather than better for most people in most of the richer countries.

It's been mostly going sideways since 2008, now it's trending down.

This changes everything. It's like a bear market for culture.
The free-soloing example is a good one, I think. Can anyone come up with a way to prohibit self-destructive people like Chris McCandless from thoughtlessly putting himself and others at risk, while also leaving room for an Alex Honnold to do his thing without state interference?

My personal take is that no one is forced to be on a search/rescue team. Those guys and gals are invariably adrenaline junkies, just like the people they rescue, and they're equally passionate about adventure in the outdoors. The only real difference is that they have the professional qualifications needed to do their paid or volunteer work as safely as possible. And they need something to do, just like the rest of us.
Yes but I think what tomlagier is saying is that the "right" thing to charge for is the payment processing (he also mentions app screening), as opposed to charging for the privilege of being allowed to run on Apple devices. Otherwise you get into all these issues that are potentially "wrong," at least from the perspective of people who agree with the general concept of antitrust law.

It's not just whether something is extremely valuable. App store as a "retail space" wouldn't be so valuable if you could easily buy iOS apps in other app stores. From the perspective of an iOS device owner, Apple has a monopoly on the retailing of apps.
I can’t relate to this. Some vendors sell me hardware, and I can bring my own software. Apple sells me more expensive hardware with the software only from their “partners”, which is “curated” and subject to a steep 30% distribution cut. Apple never tricked me into an iPhone believing I could run any random software. I know what I signed up for. Why should I feel entitled to anything else?
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Which lib/approach would you recommend if i need run a remote batch process using local files?

For example, on the local system:

remote-execute gcc localfile.c -o localfile.o

And on the remote system, there is a gcc and a remote agent which receives and retransmits the files
Seems like a lot of these examples are intentionally ignoring the rules that allow them as exceptions just to build up a bigger strawman:

* Netflix: Reader app (reader is a special Apple exception for movies/tv, books, news... mass-market media)

* Github: Offers a free tier

* App store connect: I mean come on, it's an Apple dev tool

* Tesla: exception for physical goods

Basecamp/Hey knew this was going to happen. It's a wonderful marketing campaign for them.

Apple has zero incentive to change this. The buzz around it is niche and they'd lose countless dollars if they opened the door for exceptions. Basecamp knows this.

Also, where has Basecamp been for the decade prior? Funny how they're propping this as some rightgeous issue when it suddenly impacts their bottom line.
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It's not perfect, but I got HL Alyx running via the cloud with no local hardware.
Check this out https://scitechdaily.com/solar-power-satellite-hardware-that...

A few years ago I read about a Japanese firm that wanted to cover massive areas on the moon with solar panels and use a similar beaming technique to send the electricity back to Earth. Hopefully they are still moving forward with that.
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There’s a chrome plugin named “Unpinterested” that does this for you. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
AirBnb and airlines are companion apps for physical services and the rules for in-app purchases don't apply.
I understand there's a replication crisis in many fields, and people need to be taught not to blindly trust any old graph that's shoved at them... but when it comes to pursuit of better understanding about these issues and others, what else is there that we can all agree upon besides science and evidence-based reasoning?

Yeah, most of us could probably stand to be more empathetic, but part of how we know this is because of evidence. Your statement is too simple.
https://docs.datproject.org/
Can you elaborate on your reasoning? You are stating that everyone should suddenly start exercising caution w.r.t. scientific evidence, which is quite a broad over-arching, determination.
This violates the App Store Review Guidelines 3.1.3(b) [1]:

> You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#mul...
Out of interest, what apps are you thinking of? Games with in-app purchases and thinly disguised gambling?
Conceptual entrepreneurs almost sounds like a good thing. Bullshit is a lie with an ideological bent.
I don’t agree with that explanation of the gaming console exception. Modern consoles are actually quite similar to smartphones in the breadth of their functionality. To be consistent I think you’d need to include consoles, most smart TVs and media streamers, and even tech-heavy cars.
I always thought that VC funds always had a bit of a cargo cult atmosphere around them.