skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly correct. Most major phone OS has had this situation. iOS, Android, and BB10. It's a billing/terms of service issue.

That being said, the most straightforward non-root way around it is to install LineageOS on a supported device. There's an option in hotspot settings to share VPN connection. There may be other (non-Google) manufacturers that carry a similar feature.

If you want to talk real nasty shit: Lets say you do the above and unlock device bootloader to install LineageOS. However, you decide not to root because you'd like to maintain security on the device. Additionally, you're on the latest monthly patch level while your vendor's latest build is 8+ months back...

Guess what? Now you can't use Netflix or your banking app!

Why? Because Google play services uses your device's 'hardware-backed attestation' to know bootloader is unlocked and app developers can block install of their apps based on this certification status. See: https://www.lineageos.org/Google-Play-Certification/
In general, attacks (e.g. most ransomware campaigns) are not automated malware spreading on its own, they involve people. If it's accessible on a network (which is the big 'if'), then it's obvious on any scan that it's a Win95 machine, and then you can try to look up a vulnerability for any exposed service. For example, if file sharing is running, then all the SMB vulnerabilities (e.g. EternalBlue and friends) apply also to Win95 systems, and I'm not sure if Windows 95 had a patch made, backported and issued for them.
As I understand it, we already subsidise child-rearing through taxation. Single, childless people are taxed at a higher rate. This is fine.

However, this is happening at a smaller, more arbitrary scale. It's not "I support our future through a legally defined contribution", but "my colleague is working 25% less and still gets paid the same, but I need to take PTO to get a haircut".

I think it depends on how you frame it.

1. We should all get equal treatment. Parents enjoys benefits that other employees don't. Their personal life can affect their performance, but that doesn't apply to other employees.

2. We're all in this situation together. To each according to their needs, from each according to their capacity.

I think both are true.
> Parents are making sacrifices which benefit society as a whole.

100%. We need people to have kids (and for it to be financially possible to do so) because kids are literally the future generations of human society, and if no one is having kids then we'll see a very rapid collapse.

This is, incidentally, why it pisses me off when people complain that their pets don't get the same kind of accommodations that children do e.g. on airplanes or in restaurants, or that tax breaks exist for children. Your pets are optional. Children are mandatory. Not everyone has to have children, but enough people do. Having children isn't just planting trees for future society to enjoy the shade of, it's literally creating that future society (to reference an old proverb).
I don't think so.

10 years ago, Epic made the Citadel demo for themselves to show that smartphones could run Unreal Engine 3.

Unity was eating their lunch in mobile. They simply saw how dominant mobile gaming was becoming and did what they had to do to survive.

Absolutely no one was waiting for UE to legitimize Apple's devices. Game developers will use the tools that are present on the platform. All that matters is shipping the game.

The only people who were impressed with Epic's demos were the tech "press".
The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change
> Management doesnt care and expects people who do not “exploit” their privilages to do work for 2-3-4 people.

Out of curiosity, why is "just don't" not an option. You do what work you are capable of, maybe push a little harder because we're all pushing a little harder, and that's that. Things don't get done because there's less manpower doing it (people taking time off for kids; people taking time off for sickness; people working less efficiently because they're now working on the kitchen table etc).

Everyone takes a hit because of covid; that includes parents, non-parents, AND companies.
Yup, and the requesting "customer" always convinces your CEO with the same argument: "Just add this feature, sell it to us, then it's part of your product forever and you can sell it to many other customers! We're paying for your NRE!" and CEO falls for it!
It starts to approach eugenics pretty quickly, which we as a society have pretty much rejected.

But we do regulate the raising of children, to a certain extent. For example, we regulate school curriculum to install a certain set of values and knowledge in children. As a society, we also attempt to regulate certain kinds of parenting, by making certain forms of child abuse and neglect illegal.
Sounds cool, but at that point I guess you can stop calling it a file, and call it "object" instead.
This is media framing that seems to be designed to divide parents and non-parents. Who really knows if many of the non-parents are actually mad at the parents rather than at their employers?

This seems like a fabricated narrative pushed by wealthy tech companies, or maybe just by the media to get clicks and be controversial.
Expand on this please? What percentage of the country do you think is easily surviving on a single household salary?
I’ve experienced the same with Snapchat and their geofencing ads. I geofence a perimeter around a venue where we run an event and run a branded filter. We have a team of 5 in the venue during the hours the ads run. None of them was able to see the filter come up. Snapchat on the other end shows hundreds of impressions and tens of uses. Surely a fraud.
The point is that COVID removed any support networks that may have been there.

Even the most well-oiled and well-rehearsed routines were blown clear out of the water.

Where before you could rely on family, friends, neighbors, baby sitters, after-school clubs, public transport and so on, you now had ZERO options available. Basically anything - or anyone - outside of your home was no longer an option.

You could be at Bezos or Zuckerberg or Musk levels of wealth, resources, and connections but you'd not be able to get any help at all with your kids during lockdown (...unless you ignore lockdown of course...)
arguably the whole reason for iOS’ success is that it is a service, and not just a passive piece of software. I’m not so sure developers would want the alternative of malware-plagued PCs.

Previous consumer OSes had major usability and security drawbacks for the average consumer. Through no fault of their own, their computers would gradually get slower and corrupted by 3rd parties.

This is similar to the shift to cloud computing. It’s more valuable to have a service take care of me than to have the freedom of licensed software .

I’m not saying this stance is without problems - but it does seem to be what the market is saying.

It’s also worth noting that software always has been considered a service in some sectors - enterprise software dating back to the 1970s for example required 21-25% of your purchase price in annual service & support fees with penalties if you terminate.
Is the web getting slower?
If I didn't do it myself, it wouldn't be done. Not everyone has the option of hiring everything done.
Just keep in mind, those people working two full time jobs might be barely making ends meeting in Silicon Valley. Maybe one is a tech writer earning 5-figures and the other is a nurse with a schedule they don't control and that doesn't give them real benefits (this is all too common). They can't afford to quit and now they have to juggle kids, too. Everything worked fine when the kids were in school and they could pay for after school care, but now both of those options have been removed. On top of everything else they also have to figure out how to organize their 3 bedroom place into two classrooms and an office. Oh and for the cherry on top, now you can't even be outside safely without a high quality mask on.

And yes, I'm thinking of a specific couple -- this is not a made up situation.
In this case it doesn't really, in general it does.

You aren't obligated to sue everyone breaking the law just because you sued one person that did, which seems to be the sum of the "but Xbox and playstation" argument. In that sense, literally not at all.

Intellectual consistency does matter in the sense that courts will... heavily frown upon... you arguing X in one case and not X in another. But that hasn't happened here.
> This feels like more of an effort to create a story than accurate reporting of what life is like inside tech firms right now.

This is very true. The genesis of the story is that at one of the FAANGs (I work for one of them) someone posted a question that kind of made it sound as "parents vs single employees" issue, the media (the NYTimes got the ball rolling) have jumped on this and are fanning the flames at a time when many people are tense and worked up over so many other things.
Okay, what models?
It all depends on your goals and what you value. Sounds like you value professional advancement and fulfillment over everything, which is fine. Just know that there are companies that exist that stress "work-life balance" and mean it if you're looking to not sacrifice your personal life anymore.
I think grandparent meant "refused to go on lockdown on time". I have contacts in khazan ( not sure if orthographied correctly), the harsh lockdowns were due to a miscomprehension of the word "exponential growth" and overused hospitals.
It's only prohibited to invite you to visit the website whilst you're still on the Apple platform. If you bought a physical item via an in-app purchase that item could include advertising for the external site -the exact same as Amazon.
That seems silly to just ignore people who don't have kids because "most do". What do you say to the 50 year old with no children? Sucks to be them?
Given your first post:

> ...buying the iPhone comes with access to apps through the the App Store, not any software that you like. That's clear to almost everyone I would think....

> It's a design and pricing choice. And you buy in or you don't.

This follow up:

> ...whether that's fact or supported by our current laws is not at all certain

Appears to at least be an explicit moving of the goal posts, if not claiming advantage from both sides of the argument. Is it clear that the relationship is a legally enforced 'take it or leave it', or isn't it?
The thing that makes it a gift is that there is a law that explicitly makes it so.

Without such explicit law it wouldn't be a gift because it isn't the intention of the sender. These goods are sent as an offer. If you accept the offer then indeed a contract is formed, but if you refuse the offer then nothing happens, i.e. the goods remain the property of the sender.

That's why they enacted that law, in order to stop the practice altogether in one fell swoop as long as the public is aware of it (which clearly is still not really the case).

The Directive is from 2011. That's the one that was transposed in UK law through the Regulation I mention in a previous comment.
Thanks for sharing the cat sketch bit. It reminded me of some great times.

I am a recent empty nester. I don't like it much.
A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents
Fortnite is all DLC. All their money is in people buying cosmetics. I was involved in the Fortnite space for a while and on my website, just showing people the cosmetics available was a massive profit maker for me.

And since some people (of the younger variety) can't get a PC to game on, but do have a mobile device, cutting themselves off to that profit defeats some of the financial incentive to be on that platform.
> The purpose is not to win the minds of Chinese citizens. There’s little that can be done to counter a lifetime of propaganda, even more so when its citizens obtain most of their information from heavily censored platforms controlled by the CCP.

Actually, that's probably the only good justification for banning WeChat. If someone's views were formed by propaganda, when you disconnect them from their reinforcement, they'll probably at least mellow with time. The point to point communications features of WeChat can mostly be replaced, but less so with the social media aspects.

IIRC, the CCP spends considerable effort trying to maintain influence over the Chinese diaspora (for instance, by getting control of foreign Chinese-language newspapers), though this effort pales in comparison to their domestic efforts.
Although with crunchyroll, what I want is exactly content that they don't own. People subscribe to crunchyroll to see seasonal anime produced in Japan.

But I agree with you on that, and this is a bummer for Amazon here in Canada. They have: old movies/shows, Indian movies, old Indian movies.

I still like Prime because of a few originals, and because I personally like old shows and movies. But I can't really recommend to a lot of people
Use CRON-o-meter. Meet all RDAs with just a variety of whole quality foods, get more magnesium than phosphorus (and 1/3rd-1/2 as much as calcium), ensure alkaline PRAL score, and ensure sufficient quality sleep.

Higher amounts of D3 aren't necessary, but there are therapeutic effects. The idea is to somewhat mimic hGH/IGF-1, DHEA, and melatonin of youth while lowering stress hormones.

As a male, ZMA is a good way to improve sleep and move closer toward meeting the magnesium requirements.

Maintain a lower/normal amount of D3, clear all nutrient/sleep deficiencies, and then start increasing 25(OH)D if necessary. D3 sometimes isn't even needed until older, unless trying for the therapeutic effects I mentioned.

Such a combo works even better with resistance training to stimulate bone.

I stated minimums for MK-4 and MK-7. I like the effects of higher amounts of MK-4. 5-10 mg.

I'm currently taking: 60,000 IU D3, 15 mg MK-4, 1.35g magnesium, and 2 Naturelo One Daily capsules (provides 240 mcg MK-7).
All this innovation and meanwhile, when I pull out a USB drive that was not properly unmounted, I risk corrupting it to the point it becomes unusable.
It will have to be replaced sooner or later. Why not start early and take time, rather react poorly at higher cost to an emergency?
They are saying anyone who supports those things should be willing to tolerate having to do a bit of extra work to make up for those in less ideal situations. Basically, if you talk the talk about the country providing more social goodness, you should walk the walk in your own workplace when it comes to social goodness.
I'm not sure that makes sense for regular torrents (e.g. linux distros, large audio software packages, WoW updates, Adobe downloader, etc. etc.) even if it would be a nice-to-have for folks who use torrents for less than legal purposes. And as such, probably not something they can put in without it basically being a signal that they're "helping piracy" (something bittorrent has had to fight an uphill battle for already... I doubt they want to redo that fight)
You have to see things in context. The "whitewashing" happened at the dawn of independence. We'd just come off a massive human rights disaster in the form of the partition. Religious tensions were simmering. The country was broke. "Truthful" (though that's a loaded term in itself) would have ruptured the foundations of the country.

We do indeed need to have this conversation as a nation. But I don't think we're ready yet. We're still too poor and desperate. Poor and desperate people rarely make mature, rational decisions, especially about topics as emotionally charged as religion.
To reinforce this idea: Work expenses are only tax-exempt if you are an employer.
Also this one
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2019/10/puzzling-...
It doesn't really matter what Epic is doing. Loot boxes, game engines, and game mechanics aren't the issue here. The issue is that I, a user of an iPhone, should be able to install whatever software I want. You know what? I played Fortnite and I hated it. I won't be installing Fortnite or buying any skins for it. But, Epic has the right to offer their product to me without interference. Apple already has $1000 of my money (actually wayyyy more than that), and now I don't want them involved in my life anymore. I think I'm entitled to that.

> (also not to mention Epic blatantly ripped off the success of PUBG when they switched Fortnite to be a Battle Royale game)

I think Epic did it better. That's why we don't give intellectual property rights to vague ideas like "100 players parachute into an island and shoot each other" or "after a certain amount of time a circle kills people outside of it". PUBG had their take -- super boring stakeouts to get hyper-realistic weapons. Fortnite had their take -- cartoony jumping around while you build forts. Players can choose which they want to play. (And, of course, there are like 8 billion other battle royales.)
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Doesn’t PNG technically support animation, too? It’s just that no one implements it?
I've wanted somewhat different file system semantics, but close to the POSIX model:

- Unit files. The unit of consistency is the entire file. Files are opened for writing, written, and closed. Then then become openable by other programs. Overwriting a file replaces the file as a unit; other readers see the old file until the writer closes and the reader reopens. This is the default and the case for most files. On a crash, the file reverts to the previous good file, if any. Can be memory-mapped as read only. File replacement can be done now through non-portable renaming gyrations. It should just work.

- Log files. Append-only mode, enforced. Can't seek back and overwrite. On a crash, the file recovers to some recent good write, with a correct end of file position. It does not tail off into junk.

- Temp files. Not persistent over restarts. Not backed up. Can be memory-mapped as read/write. On a crash, disappears.

- Managed files. These are for databases. Async I/O available. May have additional locking functions. Separate completion returns for "accepted data" (caller can reuse write buffer) and "committed data" (safely stored), so the database knows when the data has been safely stored. Can be memory-mapped as read/write. Intended for use by programs which are very aware of the file system semantics. On a crash, "committed data" should be intact but data not yet committed may be lost.
The trick isn’t in the meaning of the word “innate”, but in your definition of child and human. Children are not fully human at birth, their brains are entirely undeveloped; so it’s perfectly valid to say humans have innate goodness, and children do not, because they are not yet entirely human.
Ask HN: Anyone else have trouble focusing?
My problem is I don't use my laptop "with purpose":

- I hop on the computer hoping to get x done, and then get sidetracked with y and z.

- I hop on the computer hoping to get x done, and then spend way too long working on x and don't give myself time for other important things

So I was thinking, a solution might be a MacOS app where:

1. On login, enter your purpose for using the computer and for how long

2. Notify you when that time is up

3. Track how well you are using your time

Any thoughts about my idea?
Are there existing solutions?

Closest thing I found was something to track all MacOS behavior (https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/), and evaluate retroactively.
I agree that once you own it, you have the right to do with it what you like. I have personally jail broken an iPod Touch and an iPhone to load Cydia on them back in the day and I believe I had the right to do so.

On the other hand you and I don’t have the right to dictate to Apple what software they write and what features it has. That includes features for installing and managing software packages, software upgrades, security features, etc.
We can all choose to do anything... but, there are consequences that come with those choices.

You chose to spread propaganda rather than concede that I'm technically right. This entire argument is pointless. TSMC pays Chinese Tax through their subsidiary in Shanghai. How can you claim they aren't Chinese? Do you even know what the C stands for in all your acronyms?
My examples are not your examples, and your statements at best holds true for yours only.

The point is that merely thinking saying free speech should be free is not enough. As you well illustrate, the debate on what exactly free speech is means we need to define what falls outside of it very clearly.
Then why are new hospitalizations and new cases nearly non-existent in Sweden? There's only 13 people in serious or critical condition in the entire country, according to: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ No mask orders or shutdowns of schools or shelter in place ever occurred in Sweden. They achieved comparable results to other European countries like France, Spain, UK as well as the US with no lockdowns whatsoever.

Here is a randomized clinical trial on Vitamin D, released a few days ago:

Effect of Calcifediol Treatment and best Available Therapy versus best Available Therapy on Intensive Care Unit Admission and Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Pilot Randomized Clinical study

"Our pilot study demonstrated that administration of a high dose of Calcifediol or 25-hydroxyvitamin D, a main metabolite of vitamin D endocrine system, significantly reduced the need for ICU treatment of patients requiring hospitalization due to proven COVID-19. Calcifediol seems to be able to reduce severity of the disease, but larger trials with groups properly matched will be required to show a definitive answer."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

EDIT:

Also, take a look at the Excess Deaths chart: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm We are already back to average levels or somewhere near a bad flu season as is. We only had a substantially higher excess death count for 6-8 weeks there, and only by a few thousand. The data is certainly not matching up with the extraordinary disruption of people's lives. It's time to move on.
Glad to hear you're taking responsibility for your life choices in this time of hardship. But... that's what you signed up for when you made the decision to have a child.

I guess the question is: Do you believe that you should receive benefits above and beyond those of childless adults because of your life choices? That the act of becoming a parent is so sacred it should grant you benefits in otherwise unrelated areas of your life?
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