skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android has an "allow software from unknown sources" option buried in the settings menu. As long as you don't specifically go looking for that option and THEN approve the source of the .apk file and THEN click install on the system dialog, you can't accidentally install non-play-store software.
I learned more about Big Tobacco here than fb.

Sure after fb made this guy a multimillionaire he grows a heart. Don't work for these dweebs in the first place next time...
None of the bees on his website are honey bees interestingly enough. If he can develop a additive to feed the bees before winter that specifically targets varroa, I'd be interested in trying it out. There are plenty of treatment options out there, and some are even natural. His bee feeder is clearly not designed by someone who keeps bees though. Open feeding like that can cause the spread of varroa.
Facebook is definitely addictive. It took me more than a year of trials to be able to break the cycle and get off the platform. The thing is, it gets harder over time to take a pause from it.

But now that it has been one month since I last used it, and I noticed that all I did was to replace my Facebook time with Hacker News, I can't but wonder: Does the addiction problem lie with the user, or in the platform? Or is it, more generally, in the way the internet serves us content?
> what should Facebook do instead?

The same thing social networks did before.

If I subscribed to 1000 people, show me whatever the hell they wrote, all of it, in chronological order.

Don't show me what my friends wrote on other pages, if they think that's important of interesting, they will link or share manually.
I went from dev to VP of R&D in 25 months
Proton Joins the Coalition for App Fairness
> Half of my audience is on your favorite device. I didn't have to pay for them before Apple sunk their claws in.

A big part of the reason why I bought an iPhone is the App Store. That’s because the App Store imposes rules on software developers, such as Facebook, which have consistently proven that they don’t particularly care about privacy, security or other user-centric concerns. If I felt like I could trust these developers, maybe I wouldn’t be on an iPhone. But they haven’t earned my trust.
China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO
Lightning Q&A: DevSecOps in five with Maya Kaczorowski
>Today we look upon electrons and other spin-1/2 particles as having an intrinsic angular momentum with no classical counterpart. This gave rise to the notion of such particles living in ‘‘spin space,’’ an abstract two-dimensional internal space that requires a description beyond that of scalars, vectors and tensors.

Okay I admit it, this annoyed me. Electron spin doesn't require 2 dimensions to describe, its 1 dimensional, and even more, it requires 1 bit. Other spin values require slightly more space on a one dimensional line, but still.

I like it better when maths people are meticulous.
They want to be PayPal/Venmo/Alipay, Apple (in the way of this smartphone and a tight ecosystem) as well? Probably some others too
For reference, a teacher that I know in Maharashtra is paid about $9000 USD yearly, or ~630,000 rupees.
Why is it a joke? Or, why do you think it's more of a joke than mob rule is?
There seems to be a serious amount of astroturfing going on here there's no other way to explain all these "every 10k transaction generates a SAR... all these things might be harmless, maybe some startup needed some cash liquidity..."

First these are 2000 SARs over a period of 8 years, so if SARs get filled very often (I have no idea if they do), then this would be a very select few of them. Maybe someone already did a selection based on the specific activity?!

Second this is $2 Tn in 2000 transactions I leave it as an excersise to calculate how much on average that is, but you can be assured this is not some random person buying. I would wager that most nation states very rarely move that amount of money around.
Maybe, but with DrawERD you can collaborate and share in the project management tool, and you can export database documents
That's dishonest. The situation is identical on Android. Yes. You can "technically" sideload apps, but there is so many hoops to go through that you really can't distribute your application this way.
I've been following these guys since the project started, and it keeps getting better! Well done!
I'm guessing you don't have a CPG background. It's a horribly flawed analogy as retailer can and will demand special SKUs, kick brands off of aisle all the time, demand premiums for shelving units, etc.
This all sounds similar to my experience with CPAP machines.
Yeah; it just means we have a non-representative mob. Good idea in theory; clearly not so much in practice.
Oh I see what you're saying. But I will point out that they successfully do IRV with paper ballots which includes many rounds of moving said ballots around. You wouldn't have nice piles with Approval, but it wouldn't be too hard. You're always going to have to add a little complexity to get benefits. The thing though is that Approval is the least amount of complexity we can add, and it gives surprisingly a lot of benefits. Maybe sorting would be a little more straight forward with Score or STAR voting since you can bin them on the highest score. These do have more benefits too and are actually preferred over Approval.
Yes, and then the page has the exact same overlay and scroll prevention, preventing reading the full policy (and obscuring the top of the page).
> a single good analogy can accomplish more than pages of prose

I think that's where the danger lies. In the end we are not explaining much, just passing a vision of the issue in terms of good/bad/meh depending on the analogy we choose.

That's also how we convince people a lot of stuff is just "against freedom", or "big <xxxx> acting selfishly" etc.

As you say it accomplishes something, people take a position very quickly. But is it a good thing ? I'm torn.
Yeah until Facebook moves all their apps to their own App Store so they don’t have to deal with all of Apple’s pesky privacy rules.
Your example is faulty. No one pays you to cut your own lawn.

People pay Apple to listen to Apple Music.

People pay Apple to watch TV+.

Other competitors have to pay 30% for every customer before they can even compete with their own product.
That's not entirely true. There is a whole movement around boycotting palm oil for example, just as there is with beef. It certainly could be more widely supported.

It's worth noting that a lot of the soy from deforested areas also goes towards feeding livestock. The soy that humans eat (or drink) tends to be more more ethical on average.
Does it say anything about the cost or the timeline? Either you don’t have much longer left to live or it’s 20/30+ years away according to you?
Maybe if you're working for a DoD secret lab where groups aren't allowed to talk to members of other groups because of clearance levels and what not. Facebook is not, and people talk amongst themselves around the proverbial water cooler. "Hey, that other group is trying out something and it seems to be having good results. Maybe we should try something similar?"
The biggest difference is that Nicotine that administrated via cigarettes, while social media doesn't administrate anything and the addiction is self-generated.
Fair enough. It might have been the usage combined with the rest of that user's posts, which seemed to have an aggressive tone, that caused me to read it the way I did.

I will also say it is worth the tiny bit of extra effort to make pronoun use clear when dealing with members of the trans people. That community already faces so many challenges, accidentally offending them with our laziness is a mistake we shouldn't make.
> just call it a functional or integration or end-to-end test.

And make sure I have an option to build the code without running it every time.
You don’t think it’s valid to critique the bad actions that the App Store generally protects (non tech savvy) consumers from?
Those types of businesses get additional scrutiny from the financial fraud team for precisely the reason they're useful as front businesses (as well as tax evasion).
> Especially given that only ~42% of eligible voters cast votes in the 2016 US elections[0].

You have that backwards. 42% did not vote; 58% did.

Still way too low, though.
TimescaleDB (single-node) leverages Postgres features for HA (physical replication). It was never in the "enterprise tier", it fully works with the pure Apache 2 version.

We also make available k8s helm charts that make it super easy to setup replicated clusters, including with mechanisms (Patroni) for automated failure detection and failover, and continuous incremental backup. That's also available under the Apache-2 license:

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-kubernetes

(There used to be some slightly confusing language in our product page that perhaps led to some of your confusion, and apologies for that.)

For multi-node (available starting in TimescaleDB 2.0), we are working on more native mechanisms for replication. But as announced earlier, these will all be "community" features (free) under our Timescale License.
Yep, all I mentioned is that I didn't use FB and you leapt on that instantly (mention that you don't use FB, and people will think they know everything about your life).

You're guess is incorrect (I love that you have considered all the things I don't know whilst jumping to random conclusions). When I said: I don't really know anyone who uses it, I meant I don't know anyone under the age of 35 who uses the platform with regularity (remember, I said that it was dead, not that no-one used it...they have 3bn MAU, people use it but my point is that people don't use FB in the way that is often assumed by politicians...who btw, mainly see FB as a way to target voters...the political use of FB peaked with Obama).
I agree! We're working on this at AudioFocus (YC S19). You can see an old demo here: https://www.audiofocus.io/demo

There are a lot of challenges with putting this in a hearing aid: low latency inference (10ms), small power budget, consistent performance, fault tolerance, etc. Still a fair amount of R&D to be done, but change is coming.
This is why there is still a lot of atomic hydrogen in interstellar space. Thermodynamics suggests the atoms should bind together and form molecular hydrogen, but since a hydrogen molecule has no dipole moment, two hydrogen atoms alone in space cannot easily radiate away the energy released when they would bind. So they don't bind.
See also Jane Goodall who was awarded her degree only after her groundbreaking discoveries about non-human primate behavior.
Unless you think he's lying, who fucking cares what his motivation for whistleblowing is? Many whistleblowers want to get back at companies that screwed them, or want to get interviewed on cable news, or want a book deal, or whatever. Who fucking cares if they're not ideologically pure altruistic saints? What matters is the truth, not the motivations of those telling the truth.

(Do people with exclusively pure selfless motivations even exist? Even people who donate to charities anonymously are plausibly motivated at least in part by the warm tingly feeling they enjoy when giving charitably.)
> You don't fight a real enemy that subverts the rules of democracy with democratic tools.

I think you meant to write something like:

You don't fight a real enemy that subverts the rules of democracy with subverted democratic tools.
The 11/23 was one of the lower-priced PDP-11s, based on the F-11 chipset. I'm pretty sure it would have cost a fair bit more than an XT, though, especially fitted out with the necessary memory and peripherals.

That being said, Heathkit offered earlier LSI-11 machines (which used bit-slice processors) for several years. As a student at a high school with an 11/34, I would have loved to have an H11 or H11A at home, but the Apple II+ that we did have served the family well.

A factory-assembled and tested Heathkit H11A, sans memory, storage, or terminal, was $1895 in 1970s money.[1] Buying the kit would save you $700, which would have been well worth it since the CPU board was a stock DEC KD11-HA [2], already assembled and tested anyway.

[1] https://heathkit.garlanger.com/hardware/systems/H11/
[2] http://gunkies.org/wiki/LSI-11/2
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Or maybe the reason iOS users spend more is because iOS users generally have more spendable money? As signaled by them having bought an expensive device.
UEFI Secure Boot only applies to UEFI booting. So if you're booting via an MBR (courtesy of a UEFI Compatibility Support Module) then Secure Boot won't help you. You need to turn the CSM off for any decent booting guarantees, and then MBRs are ignored and malware overwriting an MBR is of no consequence -- it won't even stop the machine from booting if it zeroes it out completely [1].

The purpose of Secure Boot is to verify that the binaries (e.g. bootloader) that the firmware is executing from your EFI System Partition (Yes, UEFI systems are aware of both partitions and filesystems, unlike BIOS systems) are digitally signed with a key in its database. Likewise, those binaries are themselves supposed to verify that the things they're loading (e.g. kernels) are signed with a trusted key, which can either be a key built into the Secure Boot database, or a key built into the bootloader (where changing such a key would invalidate the signature on the bootloader itself).

If you're running Linux, you can even eschew a bootloader entirely, by building the kernel itself as an EFI binary and relying on the UEFI Boot Manager to load it directly. This is called EFI stub mode, and is still compatible with Secure Boot if you sign the kernel binary yourself, with a key that you provision into the database. This is how my NAS boots.

Note that nothing here implies any sort of encryption. Whether you use disk encryption or not is independent of whether you use Secure Boot or not -- Secure Boot does not require, or even provide, any disk encryption services. Something like Microsoft's BitLocker can use a TPM to store the decryption key, and Windows will not require that UEFI Secure Boot is enabled to do this. However, changing the system firmware settings after the fact (e.g. turning Secure Boot on or off) will make the TPM (correctly) refuse to divulge the disk encryption key you've sealed into it during BitLocker setup, rendering the machine unbootable again until you either (a) undo your configuration change or (b) enter your BitLocker recovery code and set up BitLocker all over again.

[1] Speaking only of the bootloader portion, which is the first 440-ish bytes. The disk identifier and partition table is in the rest of the first 512 bytes, but on a UEFI system booting in UEFI mode, there is (usually) only a single "partition" in the table here anyway: a protective MBR containing a single whole-disk GPT. The actual GPT with the real list of partitions follows after. Implementations differ on whether they actually require a protective MS-DOS partition table, so a GPT-only disk (no protective MBR) could be bootable on some systems anyway.
So "then you don't have to use them" right? To turn the Apple argument against your point? You can use a nicely curated app that's safe for you.
This is so ridiculous. Do you sign into your bank or trade stocks on your XBox? Where would you access important documents outside of your desktop/laptop?
Then why shouldn't we starting to terraform it? It's a catch-22 this way
Not quite; AOT-compiled, your app won't need the JIT infrastructure, less memory needed for class metadata, etc. In addition, Quarkus pulls many things to build time, which classic frameworks do at runtime, e.g. processing XML metadata descriptors. This means again less classes need to be loaded (or even present) at runtime, as e.g. the XML parser classes won't be part of the native image at all. Also see the numbers on quarkus.io, e.g. 28 MB vs. 145 MB RSS for a REST + CRUD app as native binary vs. HotSpot.

Disclaimer: working at Red Hat, contributing to Quarkus a bit.
There are a lot of lovely ideas here, but I'm shocked Ranked Choice Voting isn't among them. Sticking with First-Past-The-Post will keep us stuck in the two party system—it simply has to go if we're ever going to have more than two parties (or better yet: true independent candidates!).
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Don't you need to enable handshake resolution if you use the NextDNS resolver?
It has also accelerated the pace at which good information can spread. What happened to the idea of free-speech and countering bad-ideas with better ones?

Perhaps the real acceleration is in the ballooning expansion of who we consider a "hate-group" -- which seems to have no fixed definition and is thrown around rather cavalierly.
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Sure, if you use less GC, then the penalties of GC are minimized. But that just reinforces the point that GC has a real cost.

When you use less GC, you increase performance, but you also get fewer of the safety and convenience benefits of GC. There is no Holy Grail of GC just around the corner that will make this tradeoff obsolete, despite what GC advocates have been telling me for 20 years.
Forcing you to use 3rd party store for few apps is somehow worst than forcing everyone to use the Apple store for all apps?

This discussion is moot. Apple only has to lower it's cut to cost + a reasonable markup instead of abusing it's position to charge 30%. Then everybody can be happy.
Oh how I wish Sequel Pro/Ace worked on Postgres.
> Big Tobacco got taken to the woodshed

And then nothing really happened in that woodshed other than some lousy warnings on a toxic product for the consumer and its surroundings.
>However, my prediction is that there will be no large-scale protest in US about this. All those who are currently LARPing "resistance" against police brutality will just ignore his case. Mark my words.

Please explain how Assange is being treated more unfairly than Breonna Taylor or George Floyd?

Edit: Fixed Typo (treaty/treated)
I was surprised to see a git repo consisting of one zip file. And that zip file itself contains a zip file.
>But I fail to see how making your product as addictive as you can, without breaking laws, is terrible

This is an interesting take. Usually I suspect people would say something more like "Making your product as addictive as possible is terrible, but definitely not illegal. And, it's difficult to design laws against something that is addictive and destructive."

I think it's pretty clear that "making your product as addictive as you can" is absolutely terrible. Again, I'm not sure that regulation can solve this problem in a constructive way, (and would love to be proven wrong here) but I fail to see how this isn't bad.

No one is forced to become obese, however it's definitely bad to have a nation full of obese people.
This seems hyperbolic. Filecoin hasn’t even launched yet and you’re calling it poorly executed. Sia has its own set of problems and trade offs they made, which you’re really glossing over here.
They should mandate that Apple must allow alternative stores. That will completely solve this problem and many other nasty problems Apple is causing.
Oh wow. This is epic. Such a resource for developers with monkey hands (when it comes to design that is).
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> I don’t expect the discount coupon comes out of the store’s cut.

That's how it used to work at the grocery store I worked at. The flyers were prepared a couple weeks in advance, the sales matched up with every other store that ordered food from loblaws, it was ordered down from loblaws to the stores that carry the products they ship and sell what things would be on sale on any given week throughout all the stores.

This is why superstores, extra foods, the independent grocers and super valus all have the same stuff on sale the same weeks.

The only things the store decided to put on sale was clearance stuff getting close to the expiry date.
I could almost see it being like Grisham's The Firm. As a new employee, you're all bright eyed and busy tailed. Thinking about what you're going to buy, where you're going to live with all of the bags of cash you're earning. As you continue to work there, the bloom starts to fall off of the rose. Next thing you know, your consciousness starts to get an itch. You're either too dependent on that salary to voluntarily leave, or you've just decided "it's not that bad" and stick you head back in the sand and cashing that paycheck.
But it's not like every tiny optimization will turn the runtime into unreadable soup. But that's been the defense every time someone proposes adding some extremely basic optimizations [0]; these things aren't difficult and any VM engineer will understand them. And even if not, it's not that that hard to learn about basic method caches. Write a few blog posts, or a giant block comment. Stuff's not arcane magic, it's the foundation of any PL implementation these days.

There are also a lot of programming language who don't bother touching Python because the team doesn't seem to care about runtime performance as their responsibility. There's a lot of excellent talent out there, and they're mostly being denied and shot down.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/754163/
Is it really so clear cut? Suppose a KKK member had fled from the US to the UK and was trying to bring about the secession of the Confederacy from the Union to form a white supremacist state, and that part of his strategy was to selectively leak US state secrets. Should the UK refuse to extradite him because the extradition request is politically motivated?
If you have users waiting for cold starts (e.g. AWS Lambda without "provisioned concurrency"), the JVM start-up still is problematic, despite all the great improvements that recently have been made (OpenJDK 15 again got some nice improvements, e.g. related to AppCDS).

I'm discussing this in this post about a Serverless blog search I've built with Quarkus and Lambda: morling.dev/blog/how-i-built-a-serverless-search-for-my-blog/.

Disclaimer: working at Red Hat, contributing to Quarkus a bit.
It is a talk show podcast. It's not a news program and I often see this conflated to the point that people say things as you've just said "not to take it as authoritative news."

Nobody with a brain is doing that, and further more, there is no authoritative news. We are at a point where everyone wants to be an internet celebrity for likes and social clout and where the government agencies and employees themselves have been spreading their own forms of misinformation. I'll never forget for the rest of my life how the Surgeon General both __tweeted__ and went on national news coverage to tell people to stop buying masks, we don't need them. That's your scammy, bullshit "authoritative news."
'Consider the possibility that...' and 'i'm gonna guess' is not thinking that i 'know everything about your life' or jumping to conclusions. Chill out and reread your comment in a while.
Dude, I agree with you, too!
https://archive.is/4hWZj
I don't see why they would advocate Apple to change their app store. Is it possible for one corporate to meddle into the product of another? They are also unlikely to achieve anything on the legal side of things.

Instead they 'd better spend for things like :

- promote awareness of monopolistic tactics to apple device owners

- create a well advertised web payments gateway where users can buy subscriptions to any app, and invite developers to join

- syndicalize the hordes of developers to blackout their apps or sth

here, i made a mockup: https://i.imgur.com/P6j3jnd.png
There are a few services you can sign up for without any of those... but Apple has a support page telling you how to unsubscribe from those from the devices you signed up from: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211011

Said support page also says you can contact Apple Support about it, which I imagine would also work for the "canceling an arbitrary in-app subscription" issue.
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