skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth inspecting traffic from iOS apps. I normally do this by creating a wifi hotspot in Linux, connecting my iPhone to it, and then inspect the traffic with Wireshark. Then I look at the DNS protocol and what is listed there. There is so much tracking going on behind the scenes in apps it is staggering! Also some (not most) of the traffic is unencrypted and I've even seen stuff that was sitting in my pasteboard being uploaded to some random server. (Even popular apps like TikTok spy on the pasteboard)[0]

https://in.mashable.com/tech/12219/tiktok-and-other-popular-...
Why is Customer Onboarding still handled with spreadsheets in 2020?
Right, I'll put "Designed for used iPod Touch" in the footer then.
I agree - which is why I believe the "habit" should be modified. Educate to beging saving small sums from ages 15-23. More from 24-30. Lot more as career progresses. Savings over 50 years for individuals, then pass a part on to their kids so it can compound another 70 years. Do that a few generations, and the compounding IS big.

As engineers, this is actually a very easy problem to solve multi-generationally. It is a resource constraint algorithm.
I have separate folders for these 'someday' mailing lists. It's like your attic. If you really needed the stuff it would be downstairs, but until you run out of space you can't convince yourself to get rid of any of it.
Wait.. Apple support a 5 year old phone? Why the heck am I still using an Android device? I have a Galaxy S8, while I'm still lucky enough to get the occasional security update, I won't be getting the latest Android release (at least officially), although the CPU in it is probably perfectly more than capable of running Android 11.

I have been considering getting a new phone and I keep eyeing up the iPhone 11 Pro, mostly because of the longevity of available software updates. Secondly, with an Apple I'm not subject to waiting for the carrier to push out the update.
If you want to read Russian literature, you don't have to be Russian ('but it wouldn't hurt!'), you have to want to read Russian literature, i.e. learn the language and have sufficient interest in the material to seek out enough context to understand it.

Unless of course you simply want to be seen as the type of person who reads Russian literature, in which case thelastpsychiatrist.com is probably better for reading...
The latest Android version has a focus mode: https://www.blog.google/products/android/android-focus-mode/
In terms of herd immunity, yes.
> Fleetsmith disabled their entire third-party app catalog this morning and disabled Bash scripting (that was reenabled 15 minutes ago), breaking workflows for a bunch of users (and, according to the MacAdmins slack, tons of end users got random popups asking for an administrator to fix kernel extensions that were previously loaded via Fleetsmith)

So, they're already learning from Apple?
Nice work Apple. My 6S is having problems†, but I don't want to let it go. Headphone jack and lack of biometric scanning.

† Battery is shot and lightning connector bent from their impractical dock I fancied in years past. Very difficult now to get the perfect angle to allow charging.
You should see some of the atrocities I had to debug at aol because of regex abuse.
OpenBSD uses Perl actively.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=159041121804486&w=2
You paid nothing but presumably your parents’ estate paid taxes on the deemed disposition at FMV less its basis.
In beta, but FYI you can grant calendar access:
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/11/use-google-assi...
Whatever specialized skills you excel at -- (1) hone them in at an A-list company. Then, (2) jump ship for a B-list company. It's important in (1) that you surround yourself with people with greater skill than you; these people will provide mentorship. In (2), You'll be the smartest person in the room. With less competition, it'll be easier for you to rise.
The meat industry will be completely gone in 15 years, Impossible Foods CEO says
The Wiby search website is so cool! There is something really comforting and nostalgic about text-only websites. In one of the searches I came across Project Gutenberg Australia. http://gutenberg.net.au/
Thank you for sharing this.
> It is unfixable. This isn't a political issue. It's just a fact.

Other countries have functioning inheritance tax systems.

> Consider income tax... consider the massive involvement of the govt required to enforce this tax.

The IRS makes about $5 for every additional $1 it spends on enforcement. It more than pays for itself.
I can! Spendthrift children.

Or even just plummeting real yields on investment like we've been seeing over the past decade.

Another commenter posted [0], which indicates that there's something besides inheritance taxes driving successive generations back towards the mean.

0: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...
Would be interesting to see how many of these attacks could be mitigated with CSP[0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
The step up in basis is not really related to inheritance tax. Suppose you inherit the house and don't sell it. Then you're not getting any kind of tax break because you're not getting any money -- maybe there will be another housing crash in ten years and you'll lose the value, and right now you're just living in the house. But if you impose inheritance tax then there is a new tax that wouldn't be due if you were just doing what your parents were doing and not selling the house. You don't want to force people to sell their home in order to pay the tax on it.

Meanwhile the reason for the step up in basis is that the alternative would make the property inalienable, because after several decades the majority of the value of the property is "gain" and then you never want to sell it because you'll lose so much value to tax. It makes it so people can't move even if it would be more efficient because the after-tax sale price isn't enough to buy a similar house somewhere else.

And all the basis reset is really doing in most cases is accounting for inflation. If your parents bought an asset for $100k in 1950, its nominal value would now be over a million dollars even if its real value is still exactly the same, but then the government wants to claim that 90% of the value is taxable income. Indexing the basis to inflation would fix this, but then the basis reset would be irrelevant or inconsequential in the large majority of cases and could still be justified as not costing very much at that point and being a convenience because you don't have to track down the original purchase price of an asset that has been in your family for decades.
"The CEO of EBay has people following me!" it sounds so ridiculous that I would immediately think the person telling me that has paranoid delusions but it was true.
Last time I checked, America is still the best place for a millionaire to become a billionaire. Having arbitrary thresholds where people suddenly get taxed at obscene rates is, of course, foolish.
This is just bad maintenance. Just pick all the stuff people are complaining about and fix it!

1. Improve threads

2. Improve C API support

3. Give local::lib, cpanm by default ... multiple perl versions by default

4. Give direct support for coroutines / async await

5. Mark experimental features as non-experimental (attributes, signatures)

6. Pick an OO system, package system

7. Make switch cool again

8. Get more core modules or remove some. Give more visibility to cool perl modules. like PDL or something.

9. Improve GUI toolkit, Web Deployment and Web Assembly support

10. Improve look and feel of community sites

Heck break some backwards compatibility with Perl4, get rid of format.
Google to auto-delete users' records by default
I think that you make an interesting point - that these transformer models can produce reasonable text only freed from context, and generally the useful thing is to produce reasonable text taking context into account.

But how far are we really from going beyond the five minute conversation you mention? What if you combine a transformer text model with a chess engine to produce a chess tutor? It doesn't seem like we are too far from a computer program that could teach chess from first principles (i.e. learn chess itself, and teach it in a meaningful way).

Maybe in combination with economic models, it could teach economics?

What else? Perhaps in combination with wikipedia it could teach subjects such as physics or biology? But it would just be regurgitating in that case, not "understanding" what is in wikipedia. We need an existing model to tie to the text generating capability. So what if you take an alpha-go-zero approach to model generation - instead of a human creating the model, it is developed through adversarial learning? Theoretically then, anything that can be formulated in a contest or game could be "learned" and modeled, and then combined with text generation to be taught. That seems pretty powerful, and not so far out of reach.

(Also, I love the idea of letting GPT reply to work emails for a day. Someone should set up some experiments to actually do that, and find out what happens. I bet that even though it would be a disaster, we would learn a ton.)
I can't point to any pundits, it's more like carbon tax & dividend bills meet a lot of argument from leftist groups in the press & popular discussion- we should spend the revenue on climate mitigation. No, it should be directly invested in renewables. No, it should be given only to poor people because they suffer more from climate change. Actually, we've been looking for a source of funds for <unrelated progressive program>...
I see you're taking the Toys R Us strategy. Or is it the Sears strategy? Or the we work strategy?

Huh, I'm starting to notice that people already do incredibly stupid things with their companies for short term gain already.

Now, I'm naturally willing to be proven wrong, but it looks like (from a cursory googling) that most firms only last about 10 years. https://time.com/3768559/company-mortality-rate-survival-stu...

You may think you're building an empire, but you're probably not.
Last Perl shop I worked at was newer than the company you described but well on its way toward being like this.

Since Perl code is often very compact, it probably needs a higher comment to code ratio than most other languages, but you don't see that either.
>As a method of redistribution from the very rich to the very poor, to create a more level playing field for everyone.

That's a nice theory, but the absolute top don't pay inheritance taxes as their wealth is tied up in huge complex financial instruments that they can transfer avoiding taxation. The goal is to make sure that doctor making $300k/year never breaks out of the middle/upper-middle class cage. The super-wealthy have many schemes to prevent the lowers from ascending to their level, this is just one of them.
Twitter is a publicly listed corporation as well (since 2013) so that argument makes no sense:

https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/11/07/twitter-just-becam...

Either way, that's a strange moral line to take on all of this, whether a company is public or not.
I believe I've never actually eaten soy, and I rarely eat corn. I'm also pretty sure the amount of wheat humans eat is less than what we feed to poultry and livestock.

The author seems to conflate the purpose of the "modern row-crop farmer" (which is mainly to repay their huge debts and to feed cows and chickens), and the solution touted by vertical-urban-aqua-dome-whatever-ponics: to provide year-round, local, fresh and varied types of plants to feed humans.
It's true, Apple products age very well. I don't like iOS much, I hate its restrictions, but this is the number one reason for why I like Apple's products.

I'm a previous Android user, my iPhone 8 is almost 3 years old and I'm thinking of keeping it for another year or 2. I also have 2 Macbook Pro laptops at home from 2012 and 2015 respectively and I actually prefer them over the 2019 model from work. And a first generation iPad Pro (2015) that's better than what I see on the market for Android.

Was just thinking of getting a Samsung tablet, but this is making me reconsider. All of my Apple products still work and are kept up to date.
That's exactly it. Before that I tried AceJump, but it demanded attention while this method becomes like a second nature.

I probably need a scriptable keyboard to make it work across all programs. Some keyboards support Lua, but I think it's only for LED patterns which is pretty retarded.
The video was posted today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9_xAixGlmk
> as it's often said when it comes to other people attempting to cross your personal boundaries, "'No' is a complete answer".

I love that, so important!

Have people seen the Tea consent video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8
I deployed Fleetsmith a couple years ago after evaluating the field. Fewer features than the competition but well designed and clearly improving over time.

Zach Blum (CEO/co-founder) would regularly follow up on issues and tickets himself, always friendly and helpful.

I know transitions like this can be rough but I'm glad to see them achieve this success.
Perl 6 is basically a totally different language than any other Perl, and it took a very long time to go from announcement (2000) to release (2015). It was renamed to Raku last year.
To follow up with the approach:

As engineers, this is actually a very easy problem to solve multi-generationally individually for us. It is a resource constraint algorithm.

I believe the "habit" should be modified. Educate to begin saving small sums from ages 15-23. More from 24-30. Lot more as career progresses. Savings over 50 years for individuals, then pass a part on to their kids so it can compound another 70 years. Do that a few generations, and the compounding IS big.

My take away is any family, from anywhere, can become wealthy in their future lineage. Which is an amazing thought. If you are reading this, your family can! THAT is amazing - mainly bc this game has been around for thousands of years, and only a subsection act on it.
Microsoft did, petition to them to change their policy.
Or... use a system that does not treat you like the product.
It definitely took my some time before I "got" Bach, but once I did I've never been the same.

Here are some recommendations:

1. Listen to works for solo instruments; this allows you to focus in on what's going on

2. Watch videos for solo instruments; this allows you to really take in what the musician is doing to perform this work

3. When listening to a piece, say to yourself "I am going to focus on X" and try to hear that part is doing throughout the piece in relation to the other parts. E.g. "I'm going to listen to the bass voices in a solo work" or "I'm going to listen to the oboes".

4. I often find myself being very physical when I listen to Bach...e.g. clapping or slamming my hands on various cues.

5. LISTEN TO THE SAME PIECE OF MUSIC A LOT...either same performance or different ones. You are given new revelations as you get to know a piece more, certain harmonies, certain voices, etc that you never noticed before.

Do you always have to listen with such focus? No, as it seems your brain then becomes able to enjoy pieces more casually as it is trained to hear these things.

Here is a fun piece to "train" yourself to enjoy Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3lH_Tevw5o
About Those Behind the Curtains
Perl's syntax is really confusing.

Especially for example how variables have symbols for different types ($ for scalars, % for hashes, @ for arrays). And if you want to for example pass an array to a function you have to send it manually referenced with like method(\@myArray) which then inside the method is contained in a $scalar.

Compared to Python for example where you'd literally just pass the array to the method like method(array).
Can you elaborate on the racism angle?
> what benefits do switch statements give us over if...elif?

Clarity of intent, much as comprehensions provide over imperative loops (even though switch is still imperative in most langauges). Though whether it's enough benefit to be warranted is another question; I think basic switch is not clearly compelling, though adding even basic smarter matching (like Ruby has long had, for instance) makes it moreso.
About two years ago, I started with a much fancier AgTech with Hydroponics. Went all the way to the YCombinator interview in Mountain View (the last one for Indians), and rejected with something in the lines of "not advanced enough".

Spent time researching, talking, and more researching about the core problems of Agriculture in India. It is one sector where everyone loves to toss and play around, the most politically involved and abused, with huge numbers but contributing less than 20% of the total Indian GDP. Everyone seem to have a vested interest -- both good and bad.

At times, I'm shit-scared that I'm trying to help solve something so massive and gigantic that if I can make an iota of difference, it would be huge.

Of course, my hammer is Technology and I'm trying to find just the precise nail-heads to hit, one at a time.
That's what I mean. Your distrust should extend to things that have the same qualities as "government." At the more monopolistic end of the spectrum, and in many real life examples, they're a type of government... in the sense that they govern. This can also be true of very powerful religious institutions.

Power, coercive or otherwise, is more complex than that.

If all media is state media, that's something to seriously distrust. If all media is FB, the church of england church... same problems. Whether or not media is "coercive" is uninteresting semantics.

Whether it's big tech or ccp "soft power" is a technicality. Abusable power is abusable power, and being nannied is a symptom.

Sure, you can still kinda hide from Facebook. Takes a little effort, but whatever. You can also get around the great firewall, if you really want to. A lot of chinese people do, some of the time. Most of the time though, most people read the state approved internet. Most of the time, most people are within the influence of the FB machine... and it's still gaining power.
How police unions became so powerful — and how they can be tamed
Deflation of the dollar. Inflation of the asset. It is crazy that we pay taxes on nominal values and not real values.
> You're shadowbanned

saagarjha and dang - please could you give an answer to my previous question?
e.g. basically all social science that investigates differences in ability/outcomes between genders or races is explicitly rejected by the left on the grounds that it's sexist/racist.
Only upside to this is the amount of noise being generated and new funding being allocated to increase research and find a cure or treatment. Hopefully new testing can be developed, doctors can be educated so they can treat patients instead of doubting them or saying its all in their heads, governments can acknowledge people who are affected and actually support them instead of letting them wither away, out of sight, out of mind.
That doesn't add up because today's most popular languages - JS, Java, Python, PHP and Ruby - were also released in the 90s.
No - we share DNA with cabbage, because we had a common ancestor a really really really long time ago. We don't have cabbage DNA.
Agreed. I grew up in rural Australia, when I moved to the city it was funny to see people talk about farmers in a willy nilly fashion. Farms are extremely hard to build, and the knowledge to run them has to be built into tradition. I'd wager if a governments policies bankrupted a large amount of them, you could almost starve the nation with no remedy. It would take lifetimes before anyone learnt how to till the land again.
Apple has offered an MDM service for years.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement
Needs dark mode
When I was in Russia, Yandex's image translation was miles better than Google's. Maps, too.
HN/reddit moderation is extremely basic compared to the stuff Slashdot had 20 years ago.

We desperately need forum software with better forms of moderation.
Actually heard about it long time ago, and I definetely search for soft skills books. Will read for sure, thx.
I spent a few months at a consulting company working with a precision agriculture startup, and my mind was totally blown when I first learned how much technology goes into agriculture these days. I feel like a lot of tech people have a mental image of outdoor farming still being somewhat primitive (I certainly did!) which could cause the misconceptions mentioned in the article.
Graphcache
Alcohol, gambling and the like are heavily regulated.
Nitpick: Ubuntu isn't the default in WSL, you have to pick a distro when setting it up, and there's others to pick from (Debian, SUSE, Kali, etc). However Ubuntu feels like the defacto default, but that just because so many people pick it
I run Ubuntu on 2017 PC (8700K, 32GB RAM, admittedly, HDD), and it is nowhere near snappy. Boot takes over 2mins until apps actually start to show up, starting new Terminal instance takes over 3sec (if not over 5). Regular programs like VS Code or Firefox are about the same as on Windows.
wow....Namecheap, a company that makes a ton of money by selling services to crooks and fraudsters, sure likes to spin a tall tale

no... facebook is not requesting that.... facebook sued namecheap last month in an attempt to unmask domains used by both fraudsters and nso group, yet namecheap is protecting those details cause it knows once it folds, all its (not-so-legal) customers will move shop, so it's now inveted this bs about facebook trying to break gdpr
> Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers

Ahh, I see you're also trying your hand at sarcasm!
My thinking about the emigration is that if wealthy old people leave so that they can leave wealth to their heirs they are dooming their heirs to a hard decision: leave to access that wealth or stay with access to the wealth capped at 10 million. The only harm that I see in this is that a few inheritors leave the country.

Creatively reducing the values of estate wealth to the taxable cap would increase access to like conditions for people who normally have access to that much wealth and not much more which greatly lowers wealth distribution in the top 1% which is still a good thing.
France and many other countries already increased taxes before with devastating consequences. Don't think you can outsmart rich people and take their property without their permission.
I guess the jacks need a clean-up after sometime. My lightning jack was not holding the charging cable anymore and I was super desperate to lose access to the phone during Holidays.

I went to an Apple Store and they just cleaned-up for me (walk-in). I bet the same applies to the headphone jack ;)
If anyone’s planning to hack them, IIRC, DM30 is custom RTOS on ARM926EJ-S, DM200 is Linux on AllWinner(rooting available), anything else is obscure Toshiba CPU with very little RAM running unknown RTOS.
FWIW Searx is actually a pretty decent alternative, plus it's open source.
Specialization sure, but science is universal.

Unless agriculture is built on trade secrets or art, you can contribute.

This is one of my criticisms of Medical. It's not a science or the barrier to entry would be significantly lower, and as a result cost would be lower.

Degrees are good, but not necessary if you can do math and get experience.
We run Matomo (formerly Piwik), and I recommend it. It's actually better than Google Analytics in some ways, and you get your own data. This makes deeper analytics easier and also helps protect user privacy since the data is held only by the operators of the site being visited.
Antibodies don't determine your immunity to future infection. Memory B cells determine whether or not your body knows how to respond.

This has come up every time an article on antibodies has been posted. If antibodies stay in your system for more than a few months there is something wrong with you.