skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Developer was hacked and is unaware of it.

- Developer accidentally clicked "revoke my cert" (no idea if that's a real button, but that's not the point).

- A national security agency sent one of those scary letters preventing Apple from speaking but requiring the action.

- Developer had a mental breakdown and has lost grip on reality.

- Developer realized app was infected with malware and ...

Truth is stranger than fiction, so it's actually really hard to think of all the possible strange explanations. Which is why it seems imminently reasonable to take a wait and see approach at least for a reasonable period of time.
While there are some books which are quite good and I do recommend them, there are also a few of them which are quite dubious to say at least.

Finance gets skipped too many times too often in discussions like these. Forget Robert Kiyosaki and Brian Tracy for finance books, they are reserved for the "self-help" section.

What I definitely recommend is "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs" and "Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits" as some of the pillars for startup finances.
Once you have an app deployed, it takes a life of its own. Absolutely, the whole stack matters a lot.
EARN IT is a dangerous law that could be used to break encryption
A similar library in Rust:
https://github.com/jackmott/simdeez
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From the page: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...

> Notarization is not App Review. The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly. If there are no issues, the notary service generates a ticket for you to staple to your software; the notary service also publishes that ticket online where Gatekeeper can find it.

Perhaps the software connected to a website that was flagged as malicious by Apple. That’s one way I could see it getting flagged.
Yet somehow more iOS users have been hit with malware (see Xcodeghost) than Google and Amazon Android users combined, despite there being far more of the latter and despite the latter being able to install whatever they want on their devices.
What a dystopian morning read. This is what happens when leadership fails.
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Don't you think there's too much thinking involved in an article about not thinking?

I just watched Joe Rogan's interview of David Goggins[1], and he lives the essence of what this article is trying to express. I think his perspective is far more succinct and sharper, its sort of an anti-motivation motivation. Its definitely worth a watch if anyone is interested.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSTk1083VY&t=4s
That's not only true for rotation matrices. The columns of any matrix are where the unit vectors in the original coordinate system are mapped to when multiplied by the matrix.
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Are conspiracy theories good for Facebook?
Yeah I guess all the people yelling at this guy that his app doesn’t work are all just made up.
>I'm not convinced it's possible to do automatically.

It isn't always, but sometimes it is.
I don't think it follows that malware is the only possible alternative to walled gardens.

You could still have trust mechanisms while downloading from sites where the author, not the walled garden, has the control.
sure, probably the new mission statement is something like:

To organize the world’s information and make it Alphabetically accessible and useful.

but I still feel they have a lot of interest in organizing all the world's information.
Isn't this very similar to Vine, the old video social network? Which Twitter bought and properly crash a burned?
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, pays more for AI developers than most western companies: https://crm.org/articles/3-million-pay-packages-how-a-chines....
I thought I knew what rotation matrices were until I read this article. Now I am confused. I used to think I needed a 3x3 matrix to rotate a point (with x,y,z coordinates) in 3 D space. But the article refers to Rx,Ry and Rz EACH of which are a 3x3 matrix.Why are there 3 matrices? To move an x coordinate to a new coordinate system, I only need to displace it among the the existing three axes. So each coordinate only needs a 3x1 vector to displace it . That a makes a single 3x3 matrix.
It's more 'stop being a prick and be polite'. Society is a series of rules, stated or otherwise, that the generality gravitate around. It's not rocket science, it's just manners.

One has every right not to wear a mask, just as a business owner has every right to deny someone access to their facilities.

Masks are irritating, but the sheer histrionics that they are causing in some quarters is ludicrous and is clearly more 'anti-science' (if that's really your criticism here) than the masked contingent is.
A lot of those are employed by US based companies and US still can outpay companies in RoW. The only thing limiting is access to H1B visas, so I doubt talent pool is the cause here.
How long until you will no longer be able to install unsigned apps on your mac?
I worked on a similar project: https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2...

It's half abandoned now. one issue of js based notebook is the missing of a file system. data scientists load huge data into notebooks, this is hard to do on the web. There is the new web filesystem api, but that only helps load local files.
Understanding the recent Lodash vuln and how we can rally behind packages
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Because there's a genetic component in opiate addiction.
> The skills of a poet and the soul of.a weasel. I could do this job.

Not with that wild period ruining your grammar! Grammar is important to corporate doublespeak
The requests the app makes would not be coming from "Apple". The rest of the scenario is plausible, but it wouldn't be bots it would be humans connecting the dots and sending a manual claim to Apple.
Remember: Cloudflare has been loosing millions of dollars each year they existed.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...

"As we continue to invest in our business, we have incurred net losses of $17.3 million, $10.7 million, and $87.2 million for 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2019, our revenue increased from $87.1 million to $129.2 million, an increase of 48%, and we incurred net losses of $32.5 million and $36.8 million, respectively. "

The fact that they are injecting themselves into more and more basic internet infrastructure is genuinely scary.
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> "She asked her landlord for a break on her $6,000 a month rent, but he refused. Ms. Dillon said she decided in early April to close down."

Commercial evictions have been stopped in New York since March. It seems like a lot of people underestimate their bargaining power in a pandemic. Who else is the landlord going to rent to anyway?
I think Vine was follower based still. I haven't used Tiktok but based on the article it seems like Vine+YouTube feed.
Fair point.

The US has already "seized" Facebook because it operates under US oversight.

I'm not sure I express myself clearly enough. The US (apparently, de facto) is OK with companies violating all sorts of personal privacy, as long as the US gov has the final say in how the data is used. If a foreign power is doing the same to US citizens, or even non-US citizens, the US is not as OK with it, because it would cede that advantage to some other country.
It is happening, on quite a large scale too, e.g. [1]

1: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/plasma-donati...
Not all knowledge is equal in value, and time spent learning one thing has an opportunity cost - it's time you can't spend, say, learning something more useful.

Understanding what went wrong, how it could've been caught, how to prevent it from happening in the future, options and tradeoffs for how to resolve things now that the damage has been done, etc. - this can be extremely useful and empowering. Even if you have no ability to impact the specific problem being discussed, you can draw parallels from those problems to the problems you do face in your own domains where you can have an impact. There may be no perfect solutions, but there may be better solutions, a better understanding of the problem, and an example of moving forward as one is best able to. This isn't exactly a message of "doom" though.

On the flip side, one can see yet another retelling of beating yet another dead horse - be they unpredictable black swan events with no real useful takeaways for planning, no useful nonobvious changes to policy to propose, or yet another deadlocked political quagmire of shouting heads that even the experts can't untangle - or something where the lessons are obvious and spelled out hundreds of hours of content ago and being applied - isn't terribly useful, encouraging, or empowering. Quite the opposite - if anything, they're depressing and disempowering.

To put it another way - flooding our information channels with low quality low content unactionable unrelatable useless unresearched unvetted "the sky is falling" shallow summaries of our inevitable doom displaces useful content about the problems of our world and more in-depth discussions about what we're experimenting with to try and fix them, what seems to be working, what was tried and failed, etc. Framed in this light, much of the news cycle has negative value: while it may let you "know" "more" about the world, you would've spent your time much more wisely by trying to learn from what other people are trying to do to fix things, or by attempting to fix things yourself.
Speaking entirely anecdotally, I suspect having a bunch of people working on an ML algorithm actually does more harm than good. It's more important that everyone in the product stack is on the same page about the point.

The Facebook Newsfeed UI, for example, has to balance so many different signals. Compare that with TikTok's UI, which is very efficient at collecting a clear reinforcement signal and only has to deal with one homogenous kind of data. It's like the entire TikTok team, not just the data scientists, focused in on doing ML really well.

I'm really impressed and kind of scared whenever I use TikTok. It really does feel like a whole different level of ML-powered addictiveness, designed from the ground up rather than having the ML part added on.
I'm 40-ish and have been self-employed for about 5 years now. I have no plans to go back to full-time employment. You should consider that route.

There are very few benefits to being a full-time employee that you can't obtain yourself. Plus, having a wide portfolio of freelance clients helps insulate you against business downturns and future age discrimination.

Granted, it's a lot of work to curate a good client list and network yourself. But it's actually the same amount of work as jockeying for promotions and good projects at a corporate job.

And there is some risk involved in working for yourself. But at a corporate job there is similar risk; you are always one bad quarter away from being laid off.

Working for yourself IS a career. Consider fortifying your position and staying the course.
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Nobody here thinks that the law is a good idea or will do anything to protect any content industries. The fact is that despite being enormously stupid, it is still the law.
IMO, it's likely that Bytedance is just as exceptional in its effective use of AI in China as it is in the US. IOW, ask why Bytedance is special, not why "Chinese startups" are special.

edit: and Newsdog, from the end of the article. My opinion is looking shaky.
This is an awful and irresponsible article. This is not a war, nurses are not soldiers and shouldn't have been put at such risk. The fact that they were was the result of a complete abdication of duty of our nations leadership.
In regards to schools, based on recent outbreaks at schools that have reopened and summer camps it seems pretty clear that with the US's current level of transmission, trying to open schools is incredibly irresponsible. If we really wanted to have schools open as a priority we should have gotten our transmission down in the summer. We failed, and this is the result.
If we resume the finding this in term of skin color: "some middle-aged people (mostly 'white') have higher pain sensitivity than other middle-aged people (mostly 'white')

From the article:

> About 0.4% of participants in the UK Biobank, a genome database of half a million British people, who reported on their pain symptoms had one copy of the mutated gene. No one had two, like Neanderthals. Participants with the mutated version of the gene were about 7% more likely to report pain in their lives than were people without it.

About UK Biobank:

> The study is following about 500,000 volunteers in the UK, enrolled at ages from 40 to 69. Initial enrollment took place over four years from 2006, and the volunteers will be followed for at least 30 years thereafter.

I wonder if the same happens to younger people.
> For its part, Google has explicitly denied its motivation is to control more data.

According to the article they made the same promise about Nest, but have begun "asking" users to merge their logs.
Presumably Google and/or Fitbit operating within the European Union depends on compliance with European law. So choosing to disregard the EU's decision on the matter could blow apart a large part of an international business.

My guess is Google/Fitbit could only proceed without the EU's approval if Fitbit stopped operating in Europe and deleted all Europeans' data.
I was told I have dyslexia at a really young age. If so, it's really minor. I'll occasionally have to pause to remember which way a b goes versus a d. Sometimes I'll mix up in reading something like a license plate number.

This is all super anecdotal, but I've lost countless hours debugging stuff, only to find that ive called fidnAllDocs instead of findAllDocs. Even when looking for a typo in that specific variable, I'll miss it multiple times.

A while back I switched to open dyslexic in my terminal and editor. This issue has gone from every couple weeks to practically never.

Some people hate it, but it's definitely worth a shot
I assume you either don't understand what range-gated imaging is or how the headlights work.
I'm not sure why you think this but it is very incorrect. I can't speak for your Toyota, but most car headlight assembly's absolutely allow for replacing the bulbs inside them.

Your dealership may not tell you this because they're incentivized to sell you that 2k housing, but do some research and you will almost certainly find that you can replace the bulb for $50 or less.
What about for communicating visual information? I can visualize imagery and "animations", but I'm abysmal at graphics and could never adequately translate it to another medium like paper or image/video editing software. But maybe if I can transmit it to someone so it's as clear in their mind as it is in mine, that could greatly increase information density and express things that otherwise can't be compressed into language; perhaps not even some future "neural intermediate language", either. A picture is worth a thousand words and all that.

Being able to transfer it from my brain to a digital medium would also probably be almost as good. It'd also be amazing if you could do the same with music; compose and "hear" some music in your "mind's ear", then have it be rendered as MIDI or full audio. I'm sure we're very far away from things like that, but if they do happen, I think we'll look back and wonder how we possibly lived any other way.
How will showing people short video clips to create a drug like drip of enjoyable chemical reactions in the brain progress the species?

> (and yes, one feed that contained the thirst trap photos of attractive Indian girls in rather suggestive outfits standing under things like waterfalls; some parts of culture are universal).

Doesn’t sound like any version of progress that I would get excited about.
Elon musk recently said China rocks and the US has become more entitled and full of complacement.

I kind a have to agree, even my company starting to shift a lot of development work to team in china. Their output and hard work has been amazing.
Similar in the "posting short videos" thing, but some of the social features are pretty different from anything that's come before, like the ability to easily make a new lipsync video with the audio from a previous video, and then make all videos sharing an audio trivially searchable.

Am not myself a TikTok user, but my partner is, so I've seen a bunch of it second hand.
I have a couple of smart lights/smart outlets that do this.

I mostly needed it because for whatever weird ass reason my living room doesn't have lights despite being built in 1994. The lamp I use is fine, but the wall switch for the outlet it's plugged into is by the front entry door, I come in the side entrance where the garage is. So I've rigged it up so that I can turn the lamp on from the garage entry, thus allowing me to just turn on the one light I need anyway if it's dark.

So when I'm away I have it set to turn the lamp on near the time the sun sets, then turn off around my usual bed time. HomeKit is nice and lets me easily turn these automations on or off. Usually during the winter it gets dark anyway so I have another automation that turns the lamp on when I pull into the driveway.

I think that particular outlet is from iDevices and cost something like $40. Worth it imo.
Rx rotates about the x-axis (in the yz plane), Ry about the y-axis (in the xz plane), and Rz about the z-axis (in the xy plane).

We need all three because none of them can be made from the other two, but any other rotation can be made from a combination of these three.
Someone said there are security benefits to the user. Obviously nothing is 100%, but there is a benefit. There’s also discovery benefits to both sides and trust benefits. I am find apps more easily on app stores, and am much more quick to buy an app through the store then some random website.

Maybe those benefits don’t outweigh the downsides, but to say there is no user or developer benefit is objectively false in both cases IMO.
Apparently someone must learn that SYCL can do both, it is only a matter of what host devices are available, and yes it is runtime specific.
It seems that by default it's synced through iCloud: https://support.apple.com/HT204351 They say it's 'end-to-end encryption', but I don't see how that's possible?
painkillers have their own issues too.
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I did too, but I haven't actually replaced it yet. I'd go back to Fitbit if the deal got officially killed.
Looks like it is not only her child that is developmentally disabled but she is as well.
uWSGI with Gevent patched works far better than async/await.
You make all good points except for the dashboard. I don't believe that posting a message on your own property can be construed as sending a communication (and for something like this situation, we're talking about sending when we say communicating). It would be like having to go to a lender's headquarters for financial statements and tax documents.
Money would fix many problems if the political will were there. Unfortunately, those who make the biggest fuss about education are the ones doing the most to make it worse. ([0]Referring to the teacher's unions trying to conveniently kill off charter schools while they simultaneously remove standardized testing)

The net result of policy like the above is 'grades have gone up (because of no uniform measuring) and our union is receiving record dues!'

We have to push our elected officials towards practical and meaningful improvements and stop letting outside interests influence elections and policy so heavily.

[0] https://www.demandsafeschools.org/demands/
Big US companies who have troves of user data usually have pretty strict policies about not just sticking it all through arbitrary ML pipelines for user privacy reasons.

Small US companies don't have access to enough data.

Companies in China have both lots of user data (1B+ internet users), and no privacy concerns about running ML experiments on that data (and observing user behaviour till they find success).

Hence, China will win the next wave of ML-powered social apps.
The ADA refers to "public accommodations", which in some cases can include websites. It does not include every single piece of commercial software.
>This is not a war,

Feeling like this is not a war is a big reason we have all had to endure so much risk. We have been unwilling to make the tough decisions, unwilling to move ahead with imperfect information, unwilling to sacrifice trivial liberty to do what is clearly safer for our fellow humans.
Hasn't Microsoft been a pretty attractive brand for years on end while being proprietary?

You make a brand attractive by offering a good product, good support/service, and then marketing those points.

I try to use as much OSS as I can. But free/opensource isn't the most attractive feature to everyone. And I'd say the success of so many proprietary companies is proof of that.
This is how it is in my country now. Previously it was recommended to quarantine yourself when travelling from certain countries (US included), but was not mandatory. They changed that two weeks ago after an asymptomatic traveller from the US spend the weekend partying at various bars the whole weekend, then came down with symptoms the following week.
Does "doing your job" involve the requirement to be willfully complicit in a situation that will guarantee that some of the children you teach and the coworkers you work with will die when they otherwise would not have done?

That might be unavoidably true in medicine; there is no sane justification for why that might be true in education.
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Their products are readily available in Europe.