skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1/3 of Go’s website on my iOS screen, is “Recent news” plus a random “featured video”. For a landing page of a programming language, This is cartoonishly bad.
> outlaw targeted advertising

You're thinking too small. Targeted advertising deserves to die in a grease fire, but a proper solution is to universally make an individual's personal data their property and require companies to cough up compensation every time it is used in commercial form. Any attempt to sidestep the compensation must account as fraud.

Holding on to user data needs to be a painful liability. The cost of such micro-accounting alone should incentivise companies to keep hold of as little information as possible, so as not to incur excess processing costs. The aggregated cost of payment processing on top of that will provide a secondary cost vector and further discourage using such data. Combine with GDPR and CCPA like power to demand companies to divulge their full accounting details of your data, and all of a sudden the pain becomes real. Not to mention very expensive.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/04/13/what-to-expect-fo...

I normally use FF Nightly which explains the difference.
Yep. Great segment from Jobs that seems to hold true today: https://youtu.be/39iKLwlUqBo
> This is nothing like Comcast. There are very rarely two cable providers in a given area.

That's why the analogy fits -- if you have an iPhone you're in Apple's service area. You can't get your apps from Google Play unless you move to their platform.

But having both a cable provider and a telco in the same area is actually very common. And even if there is a strong competitor (singular), e.g. FiOS, it's still hugely problematic. You choose Comcast and you only get Comcast video service, you choose FiOS and only get FiOS video service, no option for Netflix or YouTube because there are still only two of them and neither of them want you to use that over theirs.

The forces of competition don't actually work if they both know they can get away with it as long as the other one does and the market is concentrated enough with sufficient barriers to entry that they don't have to worry about newcomers. Which is true of both ISPs and phone platforms.

> Moving house is not equivalent to buying a different consumer gadget.

Buying a new phone (~$1000) compared to buying an app (~$1). Then re-buy all your existing apps, because new platform. Learn the other OS, training cost. Any apps that don't exist there, like iMessage? Problematic. Move all your data from iCloud to Google.

It's very much like moving house.

> Union members get to elect union leadership. Phone customers get to elect phone manufacturers. Equivalency restored.

Equivalency would be the customers electing Apple's board, which they don't. Equivalency would be an actual co-op store which you do get to elect the leadership of. The thing you're claiming is that it would be just as good to have an unaccountable union because you could always go work for another company (which had its own unaccountable union).

And we could do even better -- because it's not like unions are a panacea -- and have a co-op store which isn't tied to specific hardware or a platform, which you can choose to opt out of without simultaneously opting out of anything else. Which is what you would be able to have in a competitive market.
Wasn’t this closed in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
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Allow me to place this in the form of reality: We would have to drill/ replace/ rip up thousands of sidewalks to add chargers to every parking spot (or even most).

But the issue isn't about tech.

I'm saying the infrastructure problem is that it's a chicken and Egg problem. You need street charging to have affordable EVs happen, you need affordable EVs to have the political pressure to drive city governments to spend millions on chargers. Europe does not have the conservative issue in the way that America does, most political parties dont think that 'global warming' is a hoax too. Even to have a company show up and do it you need those cars to exist..but then America isn't Europe, it's vastly different. There are good reasons why City Cars are successful in Europe and nobody buys them in the US: We have large, long highways, people do not live 'in' metro cities, generally and for those who do, owning a car is a net negative. Much of America is tight suburban housing, so you need large batteries, higher watt charging, and more stations all over. America won't do it for a long time because our country is so vastly different.
I think most people actually do fear death itself more than the process of dying. The process of dying in modern societies is often utterly horrific to a degree many people are unaware of, and people subject their loved ones to this process out of a misplaced notion of kindness. The only logical reason to do this is because death itself is feared even more.

Related:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
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That doesn't seem quite accurate to me. I think fear of death generally revolves around a fear of loss, not a fear of pain or illness. Death represents the loss of your every possession, every opportunity, your contact with loved ones, unresolved guilt, unattained dreams, etc.. It is an absolute state of loss, and given how extremely loss-aversive humans generally are, a fear of death seem to naturally follow.
This is a pretty shitty move by Apple! Having said that, I can still disable Apple's tracking. I cannot easily do this with Google or Facebook. So while separating the first and third party preferences a shitty move, the changes to tracking protections in iOS 14 still do protect users.
A lot of comments are talking about the inevitability of death due to physical laws as a certainty.

1. I think there's a big difference between 100 years and quadrillions of years.

2. I think that in quadrillions of years our interpretation of life and the value we derive from it, and our knowledge of the physical universe, may shift enough that "death" is not actually inevitable.

3. I'm no physicist but it seems a bit extreme to believe that we can predict quadrillions of years into the future based on an extremely limited view of the existing world and past. Is heat death inevitable? I don't know.
Seatbelts were available in the mid 50s, it took until 1966 for Congress to mandate them.
The shareholders seem to agree with Benioff, the stock is up 25% (!!).
Without getting into specifics, this is absolutely the case.

There was one instance where, when the new ops center opened, getting the tour of it was the thing everyone wanted. The brass thankfully obliged. Over a period of weeks, small groups got to go over and the new center, with it's large blue display edge lighting, and electronically frosting glass. I'll never forget this bemused airman, pressing a button while a circle of us stood around in a half circle, giving a very Simpsons-esq "Oooooooooohh!" as the glass went transparent to opaque, and transparent again.

Was it necessary? Absolutely not. Was it cool? Hell yeah it was. =D
What you're saying sounds like a strong argument in favor of my original post.

It is insane to go to war against a nuclear armed opponent. Sure, you could kill half your able bodied population of military age and maybe win (what if something goes wrong in your battle plan? Now you're nuked and the opponent is still combat ready), but now any of your neighbors can easily take advantage of your now devastated country.
I don't get what you mean when you say "technically no", since you pretty much made the case for the point.

The govt is accusing them of fraud (a kind of theft) in how they acquired the movies initially. This is indeed a white collar crime.
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I mostly agree, although as an owner of a late 30s refrigerator I personally restored, I'd say there hasn't been much improvements on the mechanical side of things --- the increased efficiency largely comes from better insulation (I reinsulated mine qhen I restored it.)

The only refrigerants I'd consider "toxic" are things like SO2 and ammonia, both of which haven't been used in domestic machines for a long time (mine uses the original R114); and in fact the biggest selling point of CFCs and HFCs is that they're both nontoxic and nonflammable, while offering comparable efficiency. We might still be using CFCs today, if people hadn't been so cavalier with releasing them into the atmosphere.
> Or maybe their customers just like the product, as in the GUI and feature and don’t care that another compression algorithm can shave off a few extra megabytes.

First of all, I very much doubt that the people who use winrar even notice the UI. They could switch to 7zip and feel right at home. People are used to UI changing drastically all the time, both from Windows itself, and from websites. Some of them complain about it, but even they adjust.

Second, I said nothing about "another compression algorithm". All the big compression software on Windows support each other's algorithms, but 7zip is free and winrar makes you pay for it. Also the people who use winrar don't care about compression algorithms in the first place, only that they get a file they can email and the other people can double-click to extract.

Third, the reality of the situation is that most people who use winrar are also the kind that use the trial version indefinitely. The more clued ones switch to pirated copies from piratebay et al. I'd rather people use 7zip than pirated copies, both for their safety and for RARLAB's benefit.

The reason these companies charge for things that are free is because they rely on users not knowing better, and the small fraction of users who do pay for it is sufficient to bankroll them. A 7zip user and a winrar user could be friends for life and the topic of "So what compression software do you use?" might never come up.

>If I recall correctly WinRAR can make self extracting archives pretty easily.

So can 7zip.

>I love the fact that small software companies like RARLAB can still exist.

You say this as if the alternatives are all big software companies. Last I checked, 7zip is still a one-person software.
Mine did too, but grandpa was gay.
I’m Appalachian. We have ridiculously low violent crime rates for the levels of poverty we have. I believe that this is a function of population density rather than any intrinsic trait of us hilljacks.

I went to PDX often before the lockdown and I was struck by the lack of housing. I met with mostly contractors and construction people and they either lived in campers or an hour north in Washington. These people were middle class and couldn’t afford that city. I can only imagine how awful it would be to have low income in a place like that.

There is no shortage of land though. It is not Manhattan.
In India, it's around $150 + some other charges and requirements annually for popular options afaik.

Although, there are cheaper and more friendly option to individuals such as OPC (one person company) limited to single ownership. The turnover limit is decent and much less paper work. It costs around $99 + some other charges annually.
This is an area of very active work by the Rubin/LSST team.

Some documents that might be of interest, pretty hot off the press:

- "Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST" https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12417

- "Mitigation of Satellite Tracks in LSST Data Processing" - https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2020-07/MitigationWG_Pre...

There are some good techniques available, and the very smartest experts on image processing are working on this task, so I think we'll manage.
The thing about Chesterton's Fence in this case is that the fence might exist for more than one reason. A law that prevents poor people from being scammed can also enable rich people to cherry-pick all the most lucrative investments.
Haha, very entertainingly done!
That's a great idea!

You can chose between feminine names, masculine names or both. At first, I thought “both” meant names that are gender-neutral but actually it means that you search for both feminine and masculine names. Which is nice, but a gender neutral option would be an even nicer addition!
Wow - this is timely. Just reading the summary I’m really looking forward to listening to the conversation. I’ve blundered into the realization that metadata is probably one of the more important/valuable aspects of data management and am looking forward to hearing about their experiences trying to tame it.
The fact that it is FOSS makes it _easier_ for someone to compile it with a backdoor or trojan. I would say the need for a certificate is _higher_ there. You don’t need to trust the developers, you need to be able to trust the people who have built the executable.
I have to ask though, have you accounted for the seemingly deliberate lack of testing, and politically-motivated alterations to CDC guidance (the latter has knock-on effects of changing what insurance companies will reimburse for)?

How big a factor is this in the numbers? If the numbers are unreliable, what does this do to your assumptions?
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A lot of people go this route. And this is a bloody neat tool to help you do so!

We chose not to though with our son though, since the list of names that works in both is small and largely unappealing. The list of names for girls is quite a bit larger with some good options. Instead we decided that since the family name is English the given name should be Japanese.

I think it worked out quite well.
Why would you ever want to distribute income? I mean, why not just reinvest it?
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"it will never be enough by itself to establish that a system doesn't contain malicious code."

The track record of popular free software projects like for example Linux in preventing malicious code is very good as far as I know.
When you define the police you get less police presence or police with less training budget.

There just isn't any good news to either the a abolitionists or the motte and Bailey argument of "we don't mean completely" argument to the future of policing or society. Violent rioters are demanding we defund our defenses against violent rioters.
I am from the UK, so I am biased. I've also never used Stripe Atlas myself so I am ignorant of how easy or hard it is to wind things up there.

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Stripe Atlas appears to tie you in to a bunch of services(?) and I'm guessing it would be hard to re-incorporate in another state for friendlier tax treatment or whatever, whereas a UK Ltd company doesn't tie you into anything and the regulatory fees are minimal.

Most of the expenses are in business banking and accountancy services once you start making money. It only costs £12 ($16) to register a company in the UK, and then £13 ($17) each year for the annual filing.

Business banking will cost £5-10 ($7-13) each month. Accountants will cost a lot more, and you may not need them if you're a small company prepared to do all your own bookkeeping, etc.

Our tax laws are uniform across the jurisdiction and we have a lot of double-taxation treaties set up with other countries, as well as a culture that accepts foreign ownership of companies.

The hardest part would be acquiring a business bank account because of the Know Your Customer anti-money-laundering regulations and checks, but that can be dealt with by most banks and you don't need to visit the UK or live here for that.

A UK Ltd would give you a lot of flexibility, and is easy to wind up if things don't pan out. I don't have any experience of Stripe Atlas so can't comment on the ease of winding the company up there, but it seems difficult based on other comments in this topic.
That's an idea that has probably been around as long as humans have been making art (i.e. as long as humans).
If you redefine "you" and "exist" I'm not so sure. What if "I" am just my conscious being, and what if I "exist" across many systems that have a ~0% chance of failing catastrophically.

Anyway, this is going all scifi and silly. My point is really that death sucks, trying to say "oh but you can't fear death because it's not a thing" doesn't seem helpful, and we can probably do massively better than a ~125 year max lifespan.
Ingress going GA and the support cycle bumping up from 9 months to 12 are my fav two things in this one.

Of course it'll probably be another few months (if not six) before we see this in gke/eks.
It is absolutely relevant to your stated idea of "it's my phone".

Because it really is not "your phone", because of Apple's actions.

Either you think it is your phone or you don't.
If by "explicitly" you subsume "knowingly" then I agree.
Density and affordability are independent of each other. Affordability is about supply and demand now. Density is about supply only and says nothing about demand.
Which part? Dotcom claimed personal knowledge that Seth Rich gave the hacked emails to Wikileaks? Here he’s saying it [1]. That Assange did the same? Here he is alluding to it[2]. Mueller and the recent Senate Intelligence Committee Report said Seth Rich has nothing to do with it[3]. Or do you think the Seth Rich conspiracy didn’t come from the Russian state? Here’s a story pointing out that it came from the Russian SVR[4]. So now we are left with the question, why would Dotcom claim personal knowledge of a Russian State created conspiracy theory that provided cover for the Assange and the GRU? He sounds like a person of interest to me.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQgID8pZVw

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7FkLBRpKg

[3] https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-report-julian-assange-...

[4] https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/740608323/the-origins-of-the-...
IFTTT used to be able to post to a Facebook user's wall by API. They disabled this API a couple years ago.
IPv6 for credit cards. This should be fun!
To be fair though, don't you remember how the DNT header worked really well for everybody involved, and how all these advertisers today universally respect it, and how they totally didn't abandon the entire concept as soon as it started seeing mainstream use and platforms started turning it on by default?

What could go wrong if we give them another spot at the table?

I mean, PRAM has already released so many good plans, like... a mission statement. But that counts! I mean, come on, it has 'Responsible' right in its name!
The next big thing is ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development.

This is implemented using frameworks like Cucumber[1], in which test scenarios are:

1. Described at the feature level

2. Described together with, and signed off by, the business stakeholders

3. Described in a structured format, which can be implemented in code ('given ... when ... then' format)

The advantages this gives are huge. It is essentially the business requirements described as test scenarios, which can be executed in an automated fashion, (co)authored and owned by the business.

[1] https://cucumber.io/
For what it's worth, I got paid on par with FAANG.
> Nominated 84 times.

Interesting, the article says that "Poincaré was nominated a record 51 times for the Nobel Prize but never won."
They built the MTA when they still had the flexibility to do it. Portland is too developed now, too many entrenched interests, it'll never get done.

Listen, I am on the same page as you - I would love for it to happen. I would vote for it. I would pay taxes for it. But the reality is that it isn't going to happen, and if you densify the city without the transit, you will have these problems.
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A lot of people also don't realize that Pollock's wife was essentially the curator of his work. He would complete a painting and have her approve it. There have been tons of pieces that we haven't been able to see simply because they didn't pass this test.
Yes, of course my assertions are subjective and based upon personal experience. However, here is a very objective thing: you're a US doc and your patient is in pain. Very simple, you prescribe oxycodone and it solves the immediate problem. Then, your patient dies of overdose. But most of the time, you won't even be aware of the cause of death and simply archive the file. And, most important of all: _the patient did not overdose on your prescription, but on self-medication/street drugs_.

So in fact the difference is how MDs solve the immediate pain problem. In the US, they would try to suppress the pain (and legal threats with it). In Europe, they would try to make it bearable while keeping the patient functional, because they are not afraid of their patient.

Everyone benefits from a less tense relationship.
> And we are seeing massive outbreaks of COVID-19 on college campuses now that some are reopening

Honestly, great. Let the young catch it to act as firebreaks for the more vulnerable.

If you are going to college in person right now, you have already judged the risks and deemed them acceptable.

The thing I think is ridiculous is the number of universities shutting down completely at the first whiff of an outbreak.

What did they think would happen? Have the backbone to let it burn through.
I've not heard that specific reasoning before but I can believe it -- I've seen MTAs continue to (attempt to) send mail to the "old" MX for several days or even weeks (in a few cases) after the RR (with my "standard" 2d TTL) was updated.
> To me it’s more terrifying to think that I might loose my mind to dementia or alzheimer’s

To me, that's equally terrifying, in that both are nearly equivalent (you are your mind) and the only difference is that dementia or Alzheimer's might potentially be reversible/repairable.
Satellites are not new, so many techniques have been used and tested. https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2020-07/MitigationWG_Pre... is a relatively nontechnical survey of some of the techniques that Rubin plans to employ.

Suppressing pixel readings is not plausible with the current CCD designs, as far as I'm aware. These devices are so sensitive that any wiring needs to be done _extremely_ carefully to minimize crosstalk and keep temperatures extremely low (think under -100C).

Masking in data processing is the more likely technique.
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I'm still puzzled by the Canadian government's decision not to help Bombardier when that happened. I mean the tariffs were eventually waived.

The A220 has something like 600+ firm orders from what I recall. It's going to be hugely profitable and Airbus is basically making all the profits. Was it politically motivated? Why wouldn't Canada want an aerospace sector?
Do not worry, the device identifier by Apple is rarely used anyways, usually ad networks identify the user either by fingerprinting or the app developer willingly giving away personal information like e-mail or login information.
There is "one .NET" going forward, but it's not bringing all things with it: there are billions of lines of WebForms code in production that will eventually have to be replaced or live in a VM in "support mode."

On the whole this is a good thing for the .NET ecosystem. They are striking a very reasonable balance between moving forward wile bringing along what they can and Google's tendency to just pull the plug on stuff with little warning no matter how popular it is.
I tried a trial of Amazon Drive (“unlimited” storage! Awesome) and realized everything that (ab)used it was unofficial and the web UI was so hokey it was obviously not a trustworthy solution for non media assets.
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