skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple already has a search engine, called Parsec, that's used when you search in spotlight.
API for Authenticating Zelle and Interac Emails
With zelle and interac becoming the defacto means of payment between banks in North America, is there a public API to resolve zelle/interac emails to the bank accounts and names of the bank account holder. Any APIs, or anyone with a product like this in the market?
We're not quite as generous in the UK as this makes us sound. Anyone interested in more details might find this informative:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-entitlements-migrant-health-...

The short version is that primary care services like consulting with a GP, visiting a walk-in centre, or emergency treatment in a hospital accident and emergency department are generally free to all, as are various other specific types of care.

Most secondary care services such as other hospital treatment are only free to people ordinarily resident in the UK, which roughly means anyone who is an EEA citizen or who has the immigration status of indefinite leave to remain, again with lots of other special cases.

Some services, such as dental work and buying prescribed medication, are generally chargeable by default for everyone, though even then the NHS may set standard prices and there are various provisions to help those of limited means or in certain vulnerable groups.

But yes, if you have a nasty accident and need to go to hospital as a result, no-one is going to be asking for your credit card number here before sending the ambulance, and if you only need treatment in A&E and don't need to be admitted as an in-patient, you probably would get most or all of your treatment for free even though the equivalent in certain other places would cost a fortune if you didn't have insurance to cover it. There are a lot of reasons we are proud of our NHS here, and this is one of them.

Just in case anyone reads this later, let me add a final note that if you're coming here, please check the details for exactly where you're planning to visit. A lot of health policy is devolved, meaning policies can be different in England from in Wales, for example.
The page was updated in July with much more detail.
I used to say that but lately apple maps seems to be wrong a lot - back to how it was when it first started, probably a temporary regression (I hope).

Yesterday for example it told me to do a U turn in a (sort of) one way street in the middle of the city, and not the first time its been dumb in the last few weeks.
Any specific reason why?

In my personal experience Google Maps has better navigation data, better place information and overall much better maps. The user contributed content makes the platform such a pleasure to use even if you are in remote parts of the world.
And modern C++ features makes some memory errors more likely, e.g. dangling references from lambda captures and string_view/span.

I'm not optimistic about the safety of modern C++. Most people who really care about safety long ago left the C++ building.
If you are sure that's their home IP (and that's the same person triggering the spam), and they are in your country, you should consider getting a lawyer involved.

We had a similar issue and got one involved to get the process started (I think he used CFAA abuse). The attacker stopped as soon as we mentioned lawyers (he happened to also be in the US). We would have pressed it further but the lawyer was racking up billable hours and we were not in a position to afford it.
Paging dang...
https://www.google.com/search?q=trash+bin+foot+pedal&source=...
Is that the best you can do? One can almost argue if you have been disbarred, you are no longer a lawyer. Though I guess that didn't stop the Air Force from hiring the guy to be a lawyer, then praising and promoting him multiple times.

Here's a more recent and IMO better one: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/28/former-apple-lawy...

> Former Apple lawyer Gene Levoff, who oversaw the company's Insider Trading Policy as corporate secretary and senior director of corporate law, was on Thursday indicted for insider trading and faces a maximum penalty of 120 years in prison.
> Ironically, Levoff was in charge of enforcing the blackout period as part of Apple's wider trading policy and would sometimes conduct illicit trades after notifying others of the restrictions.
Can't speak about the other projects listed but FreeCAD has a great landing page on their wiki.

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Developer_hub (I especially liked the forum post from the contributor who detailed the geometric constraint solver - very neat)
I don't see this crawling my company's site much, but it's there (67 crawls over the past month) https://i.judge.sh/well-off/Dash/chrome_yquafZlF2U.png
Other posters have given good advice on technical aspects. I'd like to add my experience from moderating a large subreddit.

Focus on making it not fun to troll. Never acknowledge the disruption. Make all your countermeasures as silent as possible. Never address the script kiddy directly. Don't accidentally make a "leader board" or similar by counting number of bans/deleted posts etc.

Eventually it just becomes a waste of time to scream into nothingness and they will go elsewhere.
It's a super interesting set of requirements - and I've been mentally trying to wrestle with an extra ones on top of that - selectively syncing data.

Let's say I've got three users of my bookkeeping app. Person A and Person B are in different companies, totally separate data. Person C is a bookkeeper and wants to work with both their sets of data.

It's a trivial example where you can just say "well you just keep Person A's and Person B's data separate and switch what the bookkeeper gets to see when they want to reconcile separate accounts".

I don't have any good solutions for it yet, but I'm enjoying exploring them.
> Particularly given that there appears to be no technical reason why none of the other add-ons are allowed any more, it being merely a policy decision. I already verified that my add-ons can still run on Firefox for Android but aren’t allowed to, same shouldq be true for the majority of other add-ons.

I wonder how the author did that. If it was a custom build of FF, we could rely on a fork as long as FF is open source and it supports extensions. If it is a configuration, I'll be happy to apply it to my FF.

Meanwhile I used ApkExtractor to save the APK of FF 68 on my phone (no root required) just in case I inadvertently upgrade FF on it. I already upgraded FF on my tablet and my old phone to test the UI. My take is that the new collections are good but the navigation UI is really bad. Opening new tabs, tapping the URL bar to go to a new site, forward button, they are all worse than in FF 68 and before. Hopefully they'll make them work as before.

I understand that staying on version 68 is also bad because of no security fixes. Furthermore it's possible that extension authors kill the Android version of their software. The plan is to wait for a while and see what happens.
Kickstarter and IndieGoGo try to make it clear that you’re buying into an idea that has a possibility of becoming a product, but that obviously doesn’t stop the hype train.
> better place information

Probably 75% of my Google Maps usage is to check business hours or grab a phone number; they've really got that down. Apple is catching up, though!
How one lab is turning algae into flip-flops–and taking on Big Plastic
Will that's essentially what happened with the OC43 coronavirus so there's a good chance it will happen again.
> Asking because I'm attracted to the idea of a phone I truly control, but not sure what that means for carrier compatibility.

I haven't looked in a while but IMO if you want this, the only feasible way is likely to go with carrying an internet hotspot and off-shoring 2/3/4G functionality. Ideally, a phone without the second processor is the only way to actually achieve this -- then you have "only" the chip hardware and wifi chips to deal with/secure.
Google is a monopoly for what service? I don't use Google (directly) for search. I use Google for some email accounts and other providers for other email accounts. I use Firefox instead of Chrome. I use Android, mainly because it's far more open than ios, and it's possible to use a de-Googled Android (although the useful-ness is reduced). None of the above is related to news, however, which is what this particular discussion is centred around. I don't go anywhere near Google for news. I know Australia's media websites, and I use them directly, and attempt to focus on the more independent ones because they're less likely to be unduly influenced.

If you think Google is a monopoly, then how is Facebook not? Either in direct relation to this discussion of News or in relation to the greater internet?
While the difference in source material can be a wide gap as you described the bigger difference that people commonly point at is ethics.

As a lawyer there are rules that define standards of behaviors and violation thereof can quickly terminate not just employment but the career forever. Software doesn’t have that and the entire idea is utterly foreign. As a case in point all lawyers have a general understanding of the word ethic and how it applies to their profession. I have found, as a long time software developer, that most software developers have no idea what that word means and are quick to make faulty assumptions regarding its application. In the software developers’ defense there is not a lot of reason to accurately understand a thing that has never existed in the first place.
> the lawyer just is more up to date with what was made up in court recently.

...and not even that. I've been told several times by very senior lawyers to ask a senior technical person for advice on thorny software licensing issues. In one case that senior technical person pointed me to a recent decision that basically answered exactly the right question.

IME/IMO, lawyers are vastly over-estimated, vastly over-respected, and have far too much political power relative to other stations in this country. We need to reform our legal system from the bottom up so that it serves us instead of the guild.
Not sure why it's not mentioned but, in addition to technical mitigation, if you know the attacker's general info, then maybe you can also try other avenues such as law enforcement or legal claims.

More work as well but when you whois some of the attacking machines you can find out what the abuse@ email is for them and contact them. That can put the provider on notice if you later also go with some legal action.
747s Still Use Floppy Disks
I have done this on my laptop running debian nextstable, so it is happening and will be the default soon.
Doesn't help a common fix for node is `rm -rf node_modules`.

Yikes, your fix for your software is just delete it and start over? What is so leaky about the build process.
Firebase (whether it be Firestore or realtime database) has almost none of the desired properties in the article. The only one it does have, as far as I can tell, is "syncable".
Yeah, I really liked when Pixel integrated the phone number bit into dialer itself. I can start typing a business name and it just pulls in from Google maps.

The iPhone I have now is a work phone, so don't use maps a lot, should see if it has improved.
The context for this is that Apple is rumored to be starting their own search engine

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/27/apple-may-launch-...
I hate Google maps when it shuts itself off with a 'journey complete' status while I'm still looking for the corner or the building that I was supposed to arrive at.
What would be your desired outcome from this?
See what I quoted and was replying to.
Many workarounds undoubtedly exist. The question is, why are any of those things necessary?

It took literally 2 minutes to upload the update for immediate release on Steam (previously set up / approved). [...Oh, except it didn’t, because nowadays Apple makes me wait 15 minutes for their unnecessary Notarization upload to complete. 17 minutes is still faster than App Review though.]

I want to spend my limited free time on things I enjoy, such as actually making software. And at a certain point, it does not matter if there are 5 different workarounds for Apple-imposed problems; what matters is that Apple-imposed problems drain an unreasonable amount of free time and energy for insufficient benefit.
Just spitballing, but you could have composition eat the name of an input to the outer function: Given f(x,y) and g(z), write

let q = (f .y g)(z=a)
then q(y=b) = f(x=g(z=a), y=b)

let q = (f .x g)(z=a)
then q(z=a) = f(y=g(z=a), x=b)

Aesthetically it would be kinda like the notation for fiber product.
I would say is asset inflation than overvalued. Just remember some the Trillions of dollar stimulus needs to go somewhere.
'This isn't the 1990s': Apple under pressure from app developers
My house has not been in Apple Map's index for approaching three years now. It's caused _all kinds_ of problems. Apple seems to drop the ball on the details that are needed to really get a product to be quality.

EDIT: I looked back in my emails and Twitter DMs and it's been 25 months at this point. So "approaching three years" is not accurate.
Python comes with built-in venv support since 3.3: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
Ah the classic problem. Someday we'll get our shit together in Haskell land and just blow away these awful protype/production dicotomies.
>These are interesting scenarios, but let's not forget that the rules are only binding under the threat of being caught and punished

This reasoning can be used for anything ranging from speeding to stealing to even murder.

Obviously the article was examining the intersection between "the law as written" and the ethics surrounding this issue.
I’m in this very situation.

OpenTable vs. Iverson, 4/20/2020, Santa Clara.

It’s been a saga of massaging the optics, very interesting to see the 3 requests evolve. #1 I was never served, #2 they bluffed and didn’t show up, #3 was utter slander and filed in a new county (SC, first 2 in SF proper over the course of a year). Head screw, it hurts to try to recall it all. It’s also extremely offensive to read. It’s put a serious mark on me, both credibility and also the private investigator(s) following me everywhere, hence being homeless and isolated. The original issue was an improper firing (where UI was granted, and it was improper compared to their own training).

Biz@harlanji.com. I have the latter 2/3 of the filings, and my response that I couldn’t file and a BAR complaint written (I wasn’t seved #1 but #2 references it).
cwm is a diamond in the rough for sure. Doesn't look like much but it's so easy to configure and use.
On my iPhone I think Apple Maps has a vastly better navigation UI. Part of that is its first-party ability to turn the phone screen on when issuing instructions for upcoming maneuvers, which I much prefer to having the screen on constantly for a multi-hour trip (not to mention working well with Siri). Part of it is the overall aesthetic of the map features. I really like how it highlights traffic lights along your route to let you easily count how many lights are remaining until you need to turn.

That said, even here in the Bay Area I tend to do a sanity check of the route on Google Maps first if I’m taking an unfamiliar route. Just a few months ago a section of I-80 was closed just south of SF and Apple Maps had no clue! I believe it was a fairly last-minute schedule change for some planned construction due to vastly reduced traffic during the lockdowns.
I think Apple Maps has finally reached "competent maps app" status, but still has miles to go to catch up to Google Maps.
The question posed was if a suburb could offer the quality and depth of food choices as compared to an urban area. In 10-15 minutes of travel in the suburban area where I live I can easily choose between over one hundred different restaurant choices. Practically any kind of food I can think of, I can probably take a pick between at least a couple of choices, probably several. Is that the same in your 10 minutes of walking?
It annoys me slightly how - at least of the questions that make it to air - some are almost totally unanswerable unless you went to a private school and studied classics. I can sometimes go the best part of a series without getting a Physics or Mathematics one wrong, but some questions just do not represent knowledge actually held by all but few of the student populace (considering the name of the show).
Super helpful, thanks for providing that resource, I'll go update my knowledge.

Edit: Almost every time I comment on HN, I wonder if I sound like a bad GPT-3 implementation.
Several other mammal species are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. Has anyone tried doing a virus challenge study with animals?
I just installed FF on my Android phone last week. Haven't started using it yet but I'm desperate for any mobile browser that supports the equivalent of Chrome's Quick Javascript Switcher extension - something that gives me one button "disable javascript for this domain".

I like using well designed webapps and I generally prefer to leave Javascript enabled. Unfortunately most content sites have become so incredibly user-hostile that the only way to read them is without Javascript. I do not care about enhanced privacy yadda yadda whatever... I just need to be able to turn off the crazy that much of the modern web has become.

I guess I'm too late? Sounds like FF is not my answer.
Version numbering and labeling of the packages--the same way Unix solves the same problem with shared libraries. A program that wants a specific version of a library looks for it by specific version.
Should prosecutors be able to add incriminating statements to a confession transcript? (I'm talking about damning statements that the defendant didn't make.)

The CA Attorney General at the time said yes. A CA Appeals Court said no.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1695398.html
> As a lawyer there are rules that define standards of behaviors and violation thereof can quickly terminate not just employment but the career forever. Software doesn’t have that and the entire idea is utterly foreign.

This is mostly a function of the industry's age, and is not true of other fields of engineering. I'll be astounded if software isn't folded into Professional Engineering by mid-century.
Order the salad! You clearly have never gone there.
The main time I find myself using Apple Maps is when visiting China. Google Maps is blocked so the place data isn't as great, and the local apps are in Chinese, which I'm illiterate in.

I similarly find Apple Pay great for traveling, and easier to use than a credit card.
> still works perfectly fine nowadays.

Rome is all but working perfectly fine, with commuter traffic locked almost daily by the tiniest fender bender happening on the highway around it

Venice is likewise a mess, situation was so bas they built an highway to go around the existing highway that corrected it to the nearby areas, and the lack of easy mobility in the city center is fuelling a severe living cost inflation
Damn, that's dedication. Kudos to the drivers!
It Has Come to This: Ignore the CDC
Sounds very much like noms: https://github.com/attic-labs/noms

Not sure what the status of that is since Attic Labs was acquired by Salesforce.
Breaking tor anonymity isn't awfully hard - you just need lots of nodes and some luck.

Governments really want to break the encryption and see the actual contents of connections, which is why they typically prefer exploits to tor endpoints.
What is the difference between running this app and adding 1.1.1.1 to your network settings?
That's radian, numeric value is different. Hertz measured in turns, not radians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_(angle)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz
Apple Maps is way better than Google for the wandering pedestrian. Google hides so many restaurants and bars that don’t pay them for prominent display. Apple Maps shows every place near my location. Obviously hasn’t mattered recently, but I always go to Apple naps for nearby browsing.
>Good news: Intel seems to be adding Zen kernels

how is that good news when your investigation shows in reality its "Intel seems to be adding cripple-Zen kernels" when compared to spoofing Intel? 382 GF/s vs 430 GF/s
While a lot of the tech so cheap, the cameras that Reuben uses cost 60K+ plus ;) He was the primary photographer phase one used to launch their new mirrorless/tech camera body.

Not that it probably makes a substantial difference in achievable end product probably.
Even better. Take a current field and hide it and put a replacement for it. (Ie hide FirstName and add a FName field) More likely for it to be triggered.
Can you add it?
That's great - I did not know that.
The Overton Window.

Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama were not radically divergent from each other politically and socially. Where social policy diverged, it was obviously electoral, not personal. Every single one of these candidates would have/did support stuff like “strong” borders or DOMA until they didnt in practice or somber reflection.

We have a populist rebellion against the status quo and educated youts aren’t Ayn Rand, Goldwater or Milton Friedman fans anymore.
Have you tried it lately? It gets better with each iteration, and the street photos are way better where they exist. The satellite and aerial photos are also better in most places that I travel too.

Also, the Google Maps app has gotten much more cluttered and complex than in past versions. They are still the gold standard map, but they regress over time.
Email me: matthewatcloudflaredotcom.
You definitely get to supress infrastructure when you have enough people willing to protest.

I don't get it, are you trying to imply that protests should have no disruptive effect? That is a good recipe for complete political dysfunction. Civil disobedience is based upon disruption. It is our right as citizens.

Besides, if an ambulance or doctor needed to go through a protest, the vast majority of the time just asking gets them through.
I'm still using FF68 on Android. At the moment, I've got three extensions installed, on a new profile: uBlock Origin, Stylerific, and Display Anchors.

Granted, the latter two are for niche use cases. But, the point is they exist, and I want to use them. Losing that ability is going to be frustrating, which is one of several reasons why I do not intend to "upgrade" to the new FF Android version until they've actually fixed that and the other major issues from this release.
If I recall correctly, there was an article on HN not so long ago about Carmack discovering BSD. Edit: found it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224584
And that a lawyer's job isn't even to ensure that the law is enforced. A defense attorney's job is to get the defendant the least punishment possible, regardless of what the defendant actually did and the legality of such action. The prosecution's job is to seek the the most punishment possible. In a criminal case, a fair outcome hinges on the two lawyers being roughly equally skilled and resourced, but if this isn't the case then the case will be a blowout; but it's still the winning lawyer's job to crush their opponent without mercy, which in any other context (e.g., sports) would be considered scummy. Unfortunately, that's just the job.
> Preventable medical error is almost certainly in the top 5 causes of deaths in the united states.

This is untrue, a very common myth based on a questionable study out of Johns Hopkins, which included known complications of medical procedures in the classification of "medical error."

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-t...
These are in a lot of places where you must get permission/ permits for any kind of commercial drone photography, and at night too, so this will probably not big as a big a nuisance as just normal people tooling around with drones wherever they live.