skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, a tax filing life hack: fill $1 to all fields of the form and wait IRS to tell how much you actually need to pay?
Yes, OSes are a service. Do you expect the consumer to patch security bugs in the OS as they are discovered? Doesn't a steady, predictable, stream of regular "OS Updates" entrench the fact that OSes are indeed services?

Honestly, tech was depressing in those days when NHS was running on Windows XP. Oh wait; yes, you're right. "These" days are still around today :(

https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/healthcare/nhs-co...
So what you're saying is that Apple wants to set up an example to maintain the status quo?
Versions 4.1 and 4.2 got me through the first couple of years of college also. I briefly updated to 5.0 but quickly reverted to version 4.2. I have never been as productive in a word processor as I was using WordPerfect and a Model F XT keyboard.
And it's also environmentally friendly, to keep old parts going instead of straight to the dump.
I wonder if OP doesn’t believe in paid family leave like maternity or paternity leave. Or is irritated that new moms get to pump multiple times a day which is longer than any smoke break.
> Let‘s see how valuable everybody thinks the App Store is when they actually have to pay an access fee directly to Apple

They do, it’s called buying an iphone
#0000FF has really seen a resurgence as of late, it is brilliant to see this medium executed by a master.

However, where does one go from here? Does it become old hat? I hear some Avant-garde types are beginning to explore post-blue ideas. #333333 has a romantic bleakness to it that I would love to see explored.
What, do you have a 30MB drive or something? Did you ban all applications over 1MB?
This is a weird piece. Writing generally pays poorly for most people and JK Rowling's first check was like $2000. Children's authors didn't get rich when she was writing the initial drafts of Harry Potter. It was her series that changed that fact and made it easier for other children's authors.

Anyway, a lot of people do a thing to do the thing. Money isn't everything.

It's weird this piece seems to be agog at the idea that motives other than money even exist.
Is there any evidence that childcare is detrimental to a kid’s future?

Your argument could easily be used to argue against anything in our service based society. From schooling to dentists.
As a kid I loved Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System so much I tracked all the stats of the monsters, characters, mapped every maze, etc. I basically wrote an in-depth GameFAQ on pen and paper. I did it because I loved the game. I also tried various things (like trying to kill the Succubus who is supposed to kill you the first time — you could). I’ve also played the game through countless times (the most recent time being last year when Ages came out). I didn’t not enjoy the game. I enjoyed it far more than most people and in deeper ways.

I think there is an idea that if you look too hard at any art form (paint, film, comics, music...) you kill the magic. I’m not sure who believes that idea. The more I learn about any art form and the greater my skill at analyzing it, the more enjoyment I get from it.
The market for these types of games is just as big as it was in the 80s. The existence of a bigger fish in the mobile market doesn't mean you have to make soulless crap.
> you can't be mildly inconvenienced to save someone else's life.

A major disruption for a year isn't a "mild inconvenience." The longer this goes on, expect more and more people to feel like GP.
Usually, but not always.

Moreover, other countries have laws analogous to provisions of the Espionage Act, and it's hardly impossible that some alleged act could be viewed as detrimental to the security of both the US and another country.

Note that I'm speaking generally here, and not in reference to the facts of this particular case.
I'll admit that I'm not at all familiar with legal obligations to medical conditions for employers.

However, anyone dealing with a "crisis", and also more explicitly a "mental health crisis", should not be punished in their job, esp during everyone-remote-pandemic-time (though overall, but I have had pretty cushy jobs since joining industry).

Maybe you have a specific example where the "adult, not child" thing mattered in a crisis, but that would make me very disappointed with my company, with HR, and compel me to start doing my best to look elsewhere for more empathic colleagues.
In the past I would swing by some retro Mac discussion and say "hey! you're trying to network that classic mac? just buy this bridge for $25 on ebay!" But they're not so cheap anymore so I guess make your own if you want.
Well, actually telling people what needs to be changed is a huge step forward for Google. Normally, I'd expect them to just turn it off and say you violated terms and ignore any attempts to contact.
There was apparently an exception for mobile optician substitutes, however!
Do you think they could make Blazing Saddles today?
I don't particularly want to post about my employer today.
Thats already a separate charge...
Don’t call me a troll. It’s unhelpful, and turns this from a well meaning discussion into something much more personal and rude. You can disagree without stooping to insults.

Employers should pay for the amount that humans are capable of putting out on average in the long run, which is probably not the same as a neat number like 40hrs a week. Pretending that we can ignore human limits and ask for more is not only a recipe for burnout, but probably not even in the businesses interest due to mistakes and retention concerns.

No, nobody saw a pandemic coming, that wasn’t even my point. My point is that not expecting people to slow down during this is genuinely stupid, and any company (that can work remotely) that can’t handle that change in velocity isn’t well led. It doesn’t take a once in a century pandemic for a team’s availability to change; all it takes is a key developer leaving, someone having a child, or even a car wreck to suddenly pull employees out of the regular rotation. All plans should have error bars on them to compensate for these uncertainties as best as possible; the answer is not to expect the remaining teammates to pick up the slack to avoid missing a deadline that very well might be arbitrary, especially if it’ll cause resentment or burnout among your other employees.
Yep.

From the court documents, Apple said there are 27M AppStore registered devs. Even if only half of those pay $100 per year that's still about $1.3B per year.
So this sounds like a network accessible attack and RCE on the AMT system itself.

Apparently only for devices that are set up for such management, but that would still mean many corporate machines as I inderstand AMT.

This seems less than optimal.
You guessed right: someone vouched for this, and it created such a good thread that I think we'll protect this one. Cases like this are one reason why HN's systems are so porous—e.g. submissions to HN posts get autokilled but someone vouched for it so it came back.

Also, allowing weird exceptions keeps things unpredictable, which makes things more interesting.
"was already there 15 years ago."

MSOffice ca. 1992 for Win3.111 was the high watermark. Been downhill ever since because basic features have been breaking (Excel 2016 sometimes forgets how to render axis fonts vertically... its 36+ years old!)
> - why does a judge in a lawsuit get to make the decision here? I.e. why is this kind of law not debated as part of public discourse and a decision made through a democratic path?

What judge?

The FTC investigation mentioned in the article may end with the FTC filing a lawsuit, but that would be about whether Intuit deceived taxpayers (by directing them towards a paid version even if they were eligible to file for free), not whether the Free File program should exist or whether the IRS should develop its own software.

The Free File program as it currently exists is the result of executive action, a “memorandum of understanding” between the IRS and tax software companies. [1] Last year there was a bill in Congress that would have codified it into law, but that part of the bill was dropped due to concerns it would permanently bar the IRS from developing its own software. ProPublica’s reporting about Intuit’s obfuscation played a part in that outcome. So there was a “public discourse” of sorts, although it’s a pretty obscure issue.

Also:

> given this benefits a tiny fraction of people in the US

Keep in mind that a large fraction of Congress follows the ideology that, broadly speaking, the government can’t do anything right and it’s best to outsource as much as possible to private companies. Intuit’s lobbying was obviously a major factor, but they were playing for a receptive audience. Congress is also not particularly tech-savvy, by and large.

[1] https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2019/jun/congress-...
Huh, i replaced europe with usa in the url and it gave me different figures than when you click the united states link. Still 50% isn't enough to warrant using iMessage. Especially the way we use chat apps these days.
> I am just waiting untill car companies as "platform owners" start preventing you from driving to areas they don't like, or exceeding speed limit.

Maybe just don’t buy that car then?
This was a school/school district.

The common concern was lack of direction and changing direction with new change initiative one/two/three/four times per year.

We created an initiative for teacher created and led professional development. We used students for live class recreations where teachers could analyze in real time. It was coordinated, structured, and sequenced in a way no teacher's in our district had experienced.

At the same time we took all of the feedback we got from every teacher we interviewed (and we interviewed all of them) and created a vision statement for both teachers and students. We took it back to the teachers and showed how each person's feedback was reflected in the vision. We got the district to adopt the vision. Then we held leadership's feet to the fire and didn't let them do anything that didn't align with the vision. We put the onus on them to explain how any decisions did align.

We used the vision to design professional development, adopt curriculum, craft special education services, and more.

This started as a K-6 initiative, which was wildly ambitious at the time. In the following years the middle school got on board, and then the high school followed suit, led not by administrators but by the teachers themselves. Something we never in our wildest dreams thought would happen.

Five years on the direction is the same and positive change continues.
I can't wait for someone to figure out automatic integration (similar to automatic differentiation). Current ways of integrating are such clusterfuck.
We've decided 20 years is long enough for drug patents, and in my opinion, it should be good enough for almost all intellectual property, really.

Create something new? Great! You're officially granted a monopoly on that thing for 2 decades - plenty of time to monetize it, and use the money to create some other new things. If you can't figure out a way to monetize it in that timeframe, then we'll allow others to compete with you and take a crack at it.
And? All that means is they can refuse to service the device which to me makes sense.
I used to write php apps and wordpress plugins. Php always felt messy and weird to me. But i think strength of php lies in its vast available free scripts and ability quickly stitch up server side rendering, but probably now, node would be better for that now.

it feels like certain style which was popular a decade ago, now seems not so exciting or new. Probably that vibe is what lost with php.

But then if you like to find try out other language like Kotlin, Haskell, Elixir or even Ruby.

I think there are other language communities are much more vibrant than php. For example python, ruby, java. Also these language have expanded their beyond just web development that also kind of fueled that adoption.
Did the post ever actually answer the question:

> this is an awesome example. is there an easy way (as in non-brute force) to finding the beta parameters that'll match a probability?
Their statement says "It is a defense-in-depth feature", so maybe not?
Yes.

> The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program

> Past research documents the persistence of positive impacts of early life interventions on noncognitive skills. We test the symmetry of this finding by studying the persistence of a sizeable negative shock to noncognitive outcomes arising with the introduction of universal child care in Quebec. We find that the negative effects on noncognitive outcomes persisted to school ages, and also that cohorts with increased child care access had worse health, lower life satisfaction, and higher crime rates later in life. Our results reinforce previous evidence of the central role of the early childhood environment for long-run success.

https://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/kmilligan/research/BGM-childcare...

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170603

Edit: Here’s a decent explainer for anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole paper. https://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/how-to-unde...
Sure. This was a school/school district. We thought big, and started small. Our initial initiative was for K-6 only. In the following years, this spread to both the middle school, and then the high school. Driven by demand from the teachers themselves.

The modern era of education reform goes back to the Soviets launching Sputnik, so 60 years. It has been omnipresent reform efforts in K-12 education since then. Lots of change, little improvement.

We created not only a durable change, but a positive one that is still pointed in the same direction five years after we got this off the ground.

There's more detail about what we did in a reply below you.
Does the fed get the interest income from those mortgages? Because if it’s not getting 100% of that interest it’s simply bailing out speculative loans by banks.

What are the rules for the fed taking on mortgages etc? I would want a max price of 80% of the value of the mortgage alongside the all proceeds portion so that banks can’t just make bad loans and then onsell them to tax payers
I’m saying Apple is inadvertently admitting that they won’t have an ecosystem if they remove the apps that create it. Allowing digital goods to be sold at market prices puts Apple’s digital goods in a bad competitive position, but wouldn’t kill iOS or iPhone sales. However, Apple removing the apps will.
Same here. The first time I added a spinner animation while secondary data was being fetch was an eye opener.

Although, I have a growing dislike for Redux.
Yes, UEFI Secure Boot defends against OS/bootloader malware while this defends against flashing malware into the UEFI firmware itself.
Ehhhhhhhhhhh. I'm done-ish. I'm done unless I find a reason not to be done, and since I've got 176 episodes of the show to convert, I figure I'll be poking awhile longer. And I want to build a benchmark. And somebody else may have some amazing idea that shows a still-better method of handling the footage. And I'm still exploring the idea of making some very modest color adjustments because DS9 is a very dark show.

I'm done. But I'm also done. Because I have zero doubt that I'll be working on some method to fix some* problem with some specific episode before too long. I want an automated solution, but I always figured I'd have to do some per-episode optimizing at some point.
I bought an iPhone despite the App Store, so I don't think that logic really holds.
Or, those scenarios just don't make the news as frequent as script kiddie stuff. We only learned about what NSA has been up to because Snowden happened.
http://hihtindia.org/mastery-over-death-by-swami-rama/
Is there, though? What are the main differences do you see between the alt-right 'platform' (as it were) and today's Republican party's platform?
That is interesting, but can someone explain why this is a bad thing?
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GPT3 really is remarkable.

If you told me in 2015 that I can give just a few examples of movie recommendations, on a model trained for general text, and get perfectly coherent recommendations, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Sorta.

In a family with 2 working parents, I've always been shocked that "all day" pre-k and schooling means "until 2p". After care is quite expensive and in our experience has a hard stop at 6p.

It's hard enough with office-drone professionals, but when I think back to my service industry days and how those schedules were created - at the whim of a petty manager with no week-to-week consistency and only a couple days notice ont he next week - I just don't understand how those parents get to feel that school is childcare. I means they can only work 8-2, assuming little commute.
Sometimes it's not because of the marketing team and all their tracking pixels. Here the dev team, in the name of innovation, slowed their own process to keep up with Jetsons [1]. Also, if you know any angular developers...

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/hiring-angular-experts-not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability

It's called an unconscionable contract. Epic's argument is that you cannot enforce unfair things even if you signed on it. Of course, the court is going to decide if it's really unfair, neither Epic nor Apple.
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Eh, sort of, as a moderation rule, the people who say "Death to those who have voluntarily chosen to do certain acts" get their post removed with a stern warning, the people who say "Death to those who were born in certain circumstances" get kicked off the platform.

You can absolutely believe that both comments don't belong on the platform and respond differently.

(We're also forgetting "Death to those who have been duly convicted of murder by a fair court of law," "Death to those who are actively threatening me with a loaded weapon," "Death to those who take up arms against my countrymen," and "Death to those who provide informed and free consent to it," all of which are positions that IMO should remain on your platform, if you value keeping a broad range of ideas. I might disagree with some of those but they're widely acknowledged to be civilized positions to take.)
I think COVID is going to be make or break for mRNA, at least for infectious disease. It's either going to usher in an exciting new era of treatments, or we're going to see a lot of funding dry up and shops close. I for one obviously hope for the former, but given the prior actions/statements of some in Inovio, Moderna, et al, it gives me pause.
This reminds me of a cool video i saw the other day of San Francisco's Market Street in 1906: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_1AdYRGW8&ab_channel=Denis...

It's so interesting to see how people, street cars, horse & carts, and cars all seemed to share the road in what seemed like a controlled chaos manner
Not sure what your point is.

It sounds like you're saying that companies should better not mess with Apple and that financial success puts you above criticism.
Some know the /command interface to Minecraft.
If I disable the file system API, can an "is file system API available" check be used as a bit to fingerprint my browser?
> there are exactly two

If we are talking about platforms and not codebases there are waaay more than two.

iOS (App store)

Android (Google Play)

FireOS (Amazon App Store)

LineageOS (Fdroid)

One UI (Galaxy Store)

To name a few. These all have distinct and thriving marketplaces for apps with decent market share (some can overlap). The code base they use is irrelevant for this context.
We added that to the description because otherwise folks searching for "k9" or "k9mail" or "k-9 email" couldn't find the app or got pushed to sketchy malware pretending to be K-9. If Play's search worked, we wouldn't have had to stick keywords in the description. (But also, it wasn't against policy when we did it 5+ years ago. And I absolutely don't mind them asking us to change it. But the zero-strikes removal thing pisses me off.)
I just refinanced my 30-year fixed mortgage for 2.5%. The rate is utterly ridiculous now. If we get even a modicum of inflation over the next few years, I will be paying negative real interest rates.
That would be 11,000 people with quadriplegia or worse amongst a population of 330M.

And keep in mind that the people participating in this trial are already pre-screened, taking the healthiest of the potential candidates. Known side effects would typically occur at higher frequency amongst the population than found in a clinical trial.

EDIT: To add to this. The cost of rolling out medicine with SAEs at this rate would cost the company / government in the order of about $4,730,000,000 (430k x 11k) [1], which is about the equivalent to the amount paid out for all other vaccine caused injuries over the last 30 years. This is likely low-balling it though, as I bet the families sueing would get more than $430k with the numbers of eyes on this.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/vaccine-s...
Our banks in Australia try two-factor apps. Every bank has their own unique one, so phone only and the expected app pollution. And then they push you to using a different app on the same phone for your banking (say by having unique features such as push notifications of credit card purposes), which completely defeats the purpose of the TFA app since you can drain the accounts with nothing but the phone and (if you are lucky) a PIN number.
Nope, just when I have no desire to engage with someone who believes there's a conspiracy to defame and destroy Hinduism. In my experience 'Hindu pride' is like 'white pride' in that there are little to no instances where it is not directly linked to supremacism.
"We can't allow Epic to behave like this, otherwise we'll be forced to remove apps from the AppStore and we really don't want to kill iOS with our own draconian policies"

:)
Crockford doesn't have U in its alphabet so it doesn't have U/V problem either. It just doesn't have aliasing for U because it's used for check digits.
The real problem here is that companies are forced to accept apples terms. Because apple controls every level of the stack, to opt out of the App store ToS you have to opt out of the store, the OS, and the hardware.

If there was a way to install apps outside of the store this would not be an issue. Most users and developers would still use the app store since it provides value but devs who feel that they can supply their own marketing and payment processing can do it themselves.
That's not a realistic risk. Epic planned ahead to pick a fight, prepared dishonest advertising, again in advance, and has generally acted in bad faith.

I for one am happy to see Apple fire back with both barrels. Epic deserves it. A message has to be sent.
Epic failed to even get people to sideload their Android store. People, including Epic themselves, have way too high of an opinion of their sway.
There's room for many kinds of art in this world. Minimalism has earned its own space.
Socialism is bad. I love the hypocrisy.
I fully expect the court to ask the question though.

"Is there any difference between Apple and Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo?" is a logical sequitur to "what's your market?" and "who holds the power?".

Epic might say yes, they might say no. Either way, I'm interested to hear the reasoning.
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This is the opposite lesson to take away from Snowden's revelations. You want more user control, not less.
It does not "set" any new precedent at all, nor is said precedent "dangerous" in any way.
I keep thinking of all the huge amount of asset purchases by the Fed, especially legally dubious purchases like corporate bonds, that "this won't end well".

That said, I don't really know what "not ending well" would look like. Would it just be total runaway inflation? Can anyone more knowledgeable comment on what possible endgames are for these asset purchases?