skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure totally!

With sideloading allowed, an application/appstore that is actually a trojan horse could request permissions once to "download X" where X is innocuous. Later the trojan auto-downloads other applications to your phone to mine bitcoin, run a bot net, etc. Basically selling your hardware, bandwidth and battery life to the highest bidder.

With sideloading, alternate APIs could be scraped together into a "new std lib". These APIs would just be some C/asm lib that is a part of any application and accesses hardware without any permission management. At that point every possible bad thing can happen. "Sandbox it!" sure... but that is what Apple is currently doing... its just also auditing source code to ensure no one is maliciously trying to break out of the sandbox. With enough time, people will break the sandbox or people will complain the sandbox is too limiting and not "true sideloading".

All this said, is Apple's auditing system a 100% guarantee? No. But at least I know once the bug/issue is found Apple will close the hole. Meanwhile, its in a company like FB or GOOG's best interest to force ever more tracking onto users, and they know people will continue to use their services regardless of the complaints (like what happens today).

You might argue, "this is where government should step in". I agree! The problem is that the government isn't doing a good enough job protecting users from digital abuse (arguably might make it worse with weaker encryption). So in the meanwhile, I'm happy that at least Apple currently is trying to protect users.
It's at least in quotes...
maybe my memory is fuzzy, but I don't have a single fond memory of IE6. I remember it being a revelation how much better firefox was when I first switched back in the day.
I’ve been using Tahoe LAFS for years for redundant storage. How is this better? I’ve seen some articles about IPFS and it seems similar.
Do they mean cow collars that are smart, or collars for smart cows?
Paid ads (including political ones) on TV are not allowed to make false statements. Networks have had that policy for a long time.

It's Facebook that is undermining that norm -- even though they have the same standard for ads from non-politicians.

There's a GOP pac head that is running for something just to dodge Facebook's policy about lying.
But there's no grammar at all, at least in the video I watched once :-(
> It's a widely understood example that is perfectly fine to use

It is a misquote (leaving out "falsely", a modifier which is key to the meaning of the original quote) of a statement the original of which is inaccurate as a description of the prior state of the law when the case it was in was decided, or the state of the law once the case was decided (being dicta, it itself had no binding effect), or the current state of the law, from a decision now widely recognized as anathema to the central protection of the First Amendment.

It is, almost literally, the worst example that you could use.
Those are loblaws sales. The argument was instead talking about those little coupons you can clip out of cardboard in the boxes.

So like you physically cut up the cheerios box and can get 50 cents off cheerios at participating retailers.
China and India are building some coal plants that they are going to highly regret, because it is even more onset than nuclear.

When building something new that lasts decades, and the current examples that have already paid off their capital costs are shutting down because fuel and maintenance alone is more expensive than newer tech, that is pretty much the definition of obsolete.

In India, the reason for coal and nuclear is that it's easier for local officials to take bribes. Not sure what the story is in China, as they are far more strict with the corruption penalties there. I suspect that it's mostly that there are old long term plans that haven't been updated for today's reality, a reality where renewables and storage got cheaper than even the most optimistic predictions.
Then you could call it a permissive source available license, or other such verbiage. There's no need to continue to call it "open source in spirit."
Well, there's the old IBM adage, adapted: nobody has ever gotten fired for choosing oracle. And within some industries that might be true.

Anecdotally, I've met someone who said his interview with a startup went completely downhill when he suggested using oracle. Can't say I blame a startup for shutting down that idea immediately.
Shadow [0] launched a cloud gaming offer in 2017. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the lead developer of the VLC project just joined as CTO. The problem isn't to create consumer technologies but to be commercially competitive against major players like Google or Amazon with deep pockets.

[0] https://shadow.tech
I'm not sure this is a fair characterization. Almost all predator animals overhunt if given the chance. The equilibrium is typically due to the predator's inability to catch the remaining prey rather than some intelligent realization by the predator that they ought to stop hunting so much to preserve the ecosystem.
I tried it out. I'm a very casual gamer. Some types of games cannot tolerate the extra latency. GRID, a racing sim, was basically unplayable. The input latency was too noticeable.

PUBG, on the other hand, was perfectly playable (although I have never played it natively so can't compare). If I were a skilled player, I might have noticed the latency, hard to say.

I'm on Linux, so I was interested to try games I can't run easily. Unfortunately, chrome on Linux doesn't have VP9, so 4k resolution was not possible. It also didn't fit my wide-screen aspect ratio, so I had black bars on the side.

You can compile it yourself or some such hacky thing, but the whole point of Stadia for me was not to futz around with that stuff.

Note that this was from Vancouver, with hard-wired ethernet on ~300Mb/s cable. If you are closer to the server (California?), your results may differ.
Then you must be fundamentally and essentially "not capable" of masonry since that's a much simpler explanation than your lack of motivation and opportunity.
Sure, the PM didn't know what they are talking about, but an ill-informed rando on HN who clearly has no expertise in either medicine, epidemiology, or statistics is the one we should pay attention to... Case numbers are rising. Death rate still far in excess of Norway, Finland, or Denmark. Well, at least we get a no-name comic tweeting pictures of life in Sweden to prove our point. This whole conversation is such a waste of time.
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Well, we’re talking about Facebook, so I’m not worried about gulags. At least from Facebook itself. From the people who get their information on Facebook, though, maybe I should be.

I’m positing that in the long run it will be easier and less detrimental to society to establish some kind of editorial guidelines around misinformation and hold platforms accountable to them than it will be to educate enough people quickly enough to vet misinformation for themselves, especially as misinformation becomes increasingly hard to spot. I say this knowing fully that defining what misinformation is will be extremely hard, and you’re putting a lot of power in the hands of whatever person or group does that. Every decision is a trade off where you choose what benefits you think are best and what problems you think you can solve best and trying to balance them. I think we can better solve the problem of effectively limiting power abuse than we can of limiting the broad abuse of inherent human biases.

Edit: I should also note, I agree with a handful of the assumptions I listed above, specifically that democracies are built on the idea that people can broadly reach the right answer together. I still believe that. But I also believe in clearing out the brush and debris in the way so the crowd can actually use that superpower well.
I had a hearing aid app on the iOS app store for a few years, and all I got was whinging about my app not fully supporting Airpods/bluetooth headphones. I had in the app description and on the website recommending using wired headphones so there was no delay, but people don't understand how things work even when they are told point blank. The reason why people don't notice the delay with bluetooth devices during media playback is that media is delayed to sync with the bluetooth audio. When Apple deprecated wired headphones, I called it a day.
maybe you don't tend to hear about them?
As a small app developer, I’m sure happy to have these three giant companies advocating for “my interests”.

Sheez.
I'd like to build it. But having an animal intelligence researcher consulting would be very helpful...
I think decriminalization and treatment programs are the answer. I don't think allowing direct sales of things like fentanyl, meth, and coke are the answer though. Perhaps treatment programs can provide safe product to addicts, but picking it up causally at a local dispensary seems a bit much. They're just not on the same level as weed.
This is a very philosophical view of why addiction is bad. I doubt you can convince politicians to act based on this reasoning.
I like cilantro a lot but think licorice is gross
I starting to suspect I have a variety of such genetic endowments- gout because I can't break down uric acid, high blood pressure that gets instantly elevated when I eat black licorice (which I loved as a kid), variety of allergies, Type II Diabetes (along with most of my sibs, regardless of their diets.)

Hopefully Dad's Parkinsons isn't genetic...
Traditionally, ex-presidents just shut up and go away, at least with respect to politics. Obama has done so less than previous presidents.

I find it almost impossible to believe that Trump will just shut up and go away. He's going to be stirring things up, attacking the next president (Biden or the 2024 winner), yelling about how much better he would have done it and how the new president should have done things. That's bad. What's worse is the effect he's going to have on the next round of Republican primaries, pushing them to run a Trump-like candidate in 2024.

The Republican Party can't heal until they learn to ignore Trump, even after he's out of office.
It would truncate the human tech tree. It's anybody's guess what a Dolphin-based tech tree would look like, given their environmental constraints.
Major caveat: they were never doing stand ups to begin with. From the screenshot, the feedback from the team was “standup are becoming very long, a lot of chatting and designing features” (paraphrased)

It sounds like they had a 45-60 minute daily meeting that was not a standup. Rather than cancel the meeting, shorten the meeting with a 15 minute hard stop.

I run a 10 person remote SaaS company. We have daily morning stand ups. The standup takes no more than 10-15 minutes, but it sometimes goes 20-25 minutes since we often chat for a few minutes before jumping in to standup. (I can’t imagine us doing feature design during that meeting, as they were in the article)

The chatting / socializing is something I encourage before standup starts. As a remote team, it’s necessary to have some group interactions to maintain the group’s working relationship.
Consider the Turing Test, not as a goal for AI, but rather the working definition of intelligence. Put another way, game knows game.
> I agree. What "consistently applied principle" did you interpret my comment to be against?

The principle that would be applied when considering game consoles. In other words, it's not "foolish" or "lazy", rather it is what consistently applying a principle looks like in practice. The perceived difference between user behavior or criticality on big glass app-based smartphones vs consoles is ephemeral.
In my state, weed dealers can offer a better experience than a retail shop because of too much regulation. The black market still thrives and quality/trust is not an issue. There is a balance somewhere, legalization with over regulation isn't quite the right answer.
Oh for crying out loud.

When I say “trust the police” I mean trust them to decide who to prosecute, not trust them to decide who to convict.

Obviously you need to have the rest of the rule of law going on for any hope of a good outcome.

Rule of law includes not skipping bail to avoid an extradition that was lawfully agreed to by a judge of the nation you’re currently in, and penalties if you try it.

It also means that people don’t get to decide how they are interviewed when they are suspected of a serious crime.

It was a UK judge which decided to do this, remember. Rule of law.

> his _one_ accuser

There were two accusers.

> That is nonsense. Nobody has said that. Ever. He has consistently said he was available to be questioned a second time via video link up or in person in the uk.

Then why do the Swedish allegations get mentioned and dismissed on every single discussion of the case America is making against him for completely different charges?
Eh, I'd argue beavers come close, especially when compared with paleolithic humans.
AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter
If anybody would like more intense blockchain story-telling check out this longish write-up about Justin Sun's takeover of Steem.it from a few weeks back.
https://decrypt.co/38050/steem-steemit-tron-justin-sun-crypt...
Republicans were like this with Obama (birtherism).

"Bush derangement syndrome" they called it with W.

Republicans were like this with Clinton.

I don't remember it before that. But it's been growing worse and worse with each president since Clinton.
Apps will simply require users to enable this "unlock device" setting.

And people just do whatever the app says since they assume Apple has vetted it.
I played PUBG on stadia with users on consoles. It shows a little gamepad next to their name, whereas mine had the stadia logo. I never actually encountered another stadia player.
Typically, one transports the water within another product. Alfalfa, for example:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...
Yes, I've looked at those, but I don't see what your point is. The carbon comes from coal, not renewables. When you see a mix of 50% coal and 50% renewables, and you blame Germany for high emissions by not even mentioning the coal, I kind of wonder what's going on in the poster's head. I have seen this repeated again and again in this thread, and I literally can not comprehend the logic that chains these types of statements together, because the only connections seem to be huge and incorrect logical leaps, so I therefore have not engaged with what seems to have no logical way forward for discussion.

I will say this: Europe has been decreasing its carbon emissions by replacing fossil fuels with renewables. Renewables reduce carbon emissions everywhere that they replace fossil fuels. This is just physics.
> Mostly because I don't like the trend towards optimal laziness personally

It's easy to characterize home automation this way, and certainly "optimal laziness" is part of the appeal for some people, but it's genuinely useful in so many other ways. For instance, hallway lights that automatically turn on and off in response to motion _and_ at a dimmer setting at night, so you don't trip over a dog toy or blind yourself in the middle of the night. That's very hard to replicate in other ways (nightlights waste energy and are still bright enough to keep me awake).

Still a first-world frill to be sure, and maybe not worth it for everyone. But not without value, apart from "laziness".
One should already be wary of giving to beggars on the street. Some already make a considerable amount of money and don't pay taxes on it (especially if they are busking in well-trafficked areas). Sometimes, if the beggar is part of a large clan that moves to an area to beg seasonally, all that money you are giving is immediately sent on to the "king" and the beggar does not get to keep any of it, so you aren't really helping. This is the reason why municipalities stress time and time again that you shouldn't give money to beggars, even without UBI.
I agree actually. This is indeed a great argument for Apple's approach.

FYI, I'm not necessarily in the "open up IOS" camp. In my comment above I'm only claiming to be in the "equating smartphones with consoles is lazy" camp :-)
Birds might lack the physique to use human tools, but they have plenty of dexterity when it comes to building nests. They just seem to have relatively little interest in using that dexterity to build things which are not nests
I know, I get that, but long-term this seems like non-solution that won't actually do anything. It just ties it to their service offering instead of Amazon's. If they decide to sell out to Amazon eventually they'll probably be able to bid the price higher. That's good for them, and if their customers are fine with it, then that's good for them too, but let's not pretend it's something more. I know in current times I certainly wouldn't trust a database with performance/uptime guarantees, where the authors are hiding the implementation from public scrutiny.

If you're going to tell me your company is actually worth a trillion quid and can really compete with AWS then I would see your point, but otherwise I can't see a way that this is going to make the market better for anyone besides the other small fraction of companies that have come up with similar ideas of banning Amazon. (Full disclosure: I'm in the same boat and I personally refuse to purchase any products or services from Amazon, but I acknowledge I'm in the severe minority)
Bad joke, apparently.
Is it really meaningful to talk about market cap when there are no underlying assets? The value could be entirely (or almost entirely) speculation.
I am not knowlegeable in semantic web but isn't a hashtag a form of semantic categorizing of data? If so the hashtag movement is very recent. I always wondered who the hastags serve: humans or machines? I think it was machines firstly but then it got appropriated by social dynamics of people and business.
LOL why does their hero have an android phone
I can see where you're coming from, but just like opiates, you start using them if you want, and you are aware of the risks, which most people should be when it comes to social networks. I don't know if they are but if not, they should be forced to clearly state the risks of getting addicted.

As for your McDonalds argument, cocaine is illegal. I stated that as long as it was within the law, I saw no problem.

Food might not be the best comparison to use.
There's nothing partisan in choosing to eat meat, unless you choose to make a partisan issue. As it stands, livestock are a significant contributor towards global CO₂ emissions, and going in with the mindset that "this isn't useful unless innovation and policy changes come about" is the same as saying that it's not worth worrying about a car purchase because you have loans already that are difficult to pay off.
The Towel Debacle for Microsoft wasn't about towels. I doubt this is about food.

We fight proxy wars all the time because we can't seem to bring ourselves to say what's really bothering us. All these other minor problems accumulate to make the unspeakable thing intolerable.
From what I've seen over the last few years, this pretty much gets right to the heart of how this kind of push to shape discourse and control what's possible to say is justified: the people pushing for it really, truly believe that whatever moral beliefs are currently the norm amongst the (narrow, geographically, socially, religiously and racially unrepresentative) community of people campaigning for this are the one objectively correct moral framework and that anyone who deviates from it is a morally bankrupt monster who is treating others as subhuman.

What makes this particularly interesting is that those beliefs actually vary a lot more than the people pushing for this realize. There's actually this argument that they shouldn't have to spell out what the correct beliefs actually are to justify this since they're obvious to everyone, and any demand to be specific is just an attempt by wrongthinkers to pretend they don't know why they're supporting evil. This means any differences only get discovered when that specific situation comes up, and can just get pinned on the other side being evil monsters masquerading as decent people when an unreconciled divide does appear. Also, they change over time rapidly enough that the mandatory non-bigoted views from even a few years ago are beyond the pale in critical ways now.
I developed a hearing aid app for iOS in the past. You might not be happy with the delay that wireless earphones introduce.
Not if you have a job that requires stringent safety requirements.
Unfortunately "agile" is one of those lovely sounding ideas that were never going to survive contact with the real world of company politics and management. Perhaps in some places, in some small agencies and startups with strong tech-focused leadership it might yield some successes for a short time, until they start growing and hiring from the bigger companies. Then you end up with the same-old-same-old with more meetings and Jira.
> Humans were effective in their intelligence

Well, another thing humans have going for them is hands
Omnipotence. Or something approaching it.
I guarantee that facebook employees have an employment contract they signed. This would cover assignment of intellectual property, moonlighting, and other topics. In the US, an employer can absolutely cut your salary by 5k/yr if it isn't in your contract.

But this is all beside the point, I'm not saying that 5k isn't insignificant to people, even FANG employees. I totally understand that. Im saying that facebook can take this away at the drop of a hat with no notice. It is weird to outsiders that the employees don't seem to understand this.
You do if you don't want lag or weird graphical artifacts. You need fiber if you want a local install experience.
I think that was an analogy where Apple was the government
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Apart from anything else, the website itself is a great intro to the language, terrific UX; fun, witty and focused.

Great job!
It's completely crazy, I don't get why my previous comment was so much down voted.

To me it does not make any sense at all... Did anyone understood it like if I was giving a pro or con opinion?

I tried just to clarify in a short text what it was about for people not being aware of what 'section 230' is. Also now there are a lot of longer comments, so that could be more explicit.

Would anyone have a logic explanation to share with me?