skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you can't. Because while the 10k you manage to stash away compounds, the 10bn they stashed away compounds faster and isn't taxed. That's the issue. You'll never get there, neither will your (great great great grand) kids.

Plus, wtf? Why should I be the grandfather's grandfather? If I work hard, I should be rewarded, if I'm lazy I shouldn't be. What my ancestors did or didn't do should be irrelevant and what I do should be irrelevant to my forebears. That's because this is the 21dt century, we're capitalist and meritocratic and pursue the American Dream. We're not a 10th century feudal system monarchy!?
Refundable, too.

Still, it's so expensive GM will make money on it. They probably won't have any problem making however many people are willing to order. It's a niche item, though.

Ford has an electric F-150 truck coming out.[1] Ford's goal is to make a cost-effective work truck, not a "lifestyle vehicle". If they succeed at that, the impact on the industry will be huge.

[1] https://www.autoblog.com/2020/09/17/electric-ford-f-150-deta...
"10 months ago [herd immunity] was the general approach to the common cold in kindergardens."

Herd immunity, to my knowledge, has never developed for the common cold, because there are several hundred viruses responsible and they're rather changeable. The general approach, as I recall it, was, "we can't do anything about it, but it doesn't kill too many people, and those at risk can get flu and pneumonia vaccinations."

And herd immunity for measles is due to vaccination. If measles were a novel disease, you would be seeing lockdowns that make San Quentin look open and free.
https://mcbroken.com/ is fine right now
If it's a crime you persecute the people involved on the decision. If it's a civil matter, yes, you fire and fine people.
Yeah they do!

China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid...

> In March, Chinese state media began describing the strategy of “herd immunity”—allowing the coronavirus to spread among the young and healthy—as a violation of “human rights,” an Orwellian formulation given that lockdowns are essentially a blanket suspension of rights.

> Initially, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also opted for herd immunity. But on March 13, suspicious accounts began storming his Twitter feed and likening his plan to genocide. This language almost never appears in Johnson’s feed before March 12, and several of the accounts were hardly active before then. Britain locked down on March 23.
The US and 6 other countries are pressuring tech companies to weaken encryption
Astute.

As an engineer, I've found there are two types of 'engineering minds'. Literalists, which cannot get too far past the scope fo the statement. They tend to dissect and add detail; and Expanders, who take it far beyond the original meaning. They tend to "yes, and" a solution (in the improv comedy stance) and expand it in different directions - but are remiss with detail.

And good discussions happen with both insights.
I guess what I was getting at is why make it rhetorical. There is not room for that in this regard. Allowing any wiggle room is how we got to where we are.
> so there's no harm to the stores at all here

Maybe not in terms of them preparing the food ahead of time and not getting paid for it.

But there's substantial potential for harm if this clogs up the ordering system and affects their ability to fulfill other orders.
Just a note, the machines are not broken, they have shut themselves down for sanitary reasons. Ice cream, as a food that is very close to neutral in pH and without much in the way of preservatives, is a common source of listeria bacteria. To prevent serious health issues, the machine must be sanitized regularly. As I understand it, the process is involved, and any given McDonalds may not have a person with the time and skills to complete it. So the machine shuts itself down rather than produce an unsafe product. This is translated to "broken" when you order ice cream.
As mentioned on that page, you can essentially mount whatever shows up in the Files app, but you don't have full filesystem access–iSH is a normal App Store app and is sandboxed as such.
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I installed it but apk doesn't work as a command.
What's the difference between a check in a green box vs a check in a blue box?
Does the US government not exchange hostages with terrorists?
> to clarify how this works: mcdonald's keeps track which locations have a broken machine, I'm merely querying for those - no order gets executed, no ice cream is actually wasted

https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795
(Reposting my comment here from the other thread)

AFAIK, reverse engineering APIs isn’t illegal. [1]

There are some (VC backed) start ups that are open about doing it. Teller API is an example. [2]

[1] “Reverse engineering generally doesn't violate trade secret law because it is a fair and independent means of learning information, not a misappropriation. Once the information is discovered in a fair and honest way, it also can be reported without violating trade secret law.“ https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq
[2] “We reverse engineer these apps to discover their secret API contracts and then implement clients for them.” https://teller.io/
I think it is because it could be an alternative pronunciation of shit-UI. Bit of a stretch if you ask me.
Seems like the Medieval Times want their knights back.

What will happen if domain-specific entities protect their specific regions and there are issues with other entities near-by?

What have the Romans ever done for us? There has been local law enforcement for ages until empires started. Civilization happens because somebody unites a region under one law enforcement. It's not pretty for everybody, but by which force should domain specific forces not fight each other if central authority is disbanded?
It is part of an enterprise offering.
The version of iSH on the App Store has had package management functionality removed. The ability to run Linux programs, as well as import files, has not been changed.
Placing bogus orders using a reverse-engineered API, however, is likely illegal. Especially at the speed and scale at which he is purportedly doing it.
Wow. Somebody needs to review the "Communicate with care" section of his employee handbook.
Similarly, many people are using their own lack of COVID-related death as a metric in determining their behavior.
When will this guy realize that the only acceptable pastime for hackers, post-2020, is having long discussions that involve the word "policy" many times?
This question comes up frequently on reddit, and the oft repeated reasoning is: 1. the machines need to be cleaned every n hours 2. there's no failover 3. you're likely to visit the mcdonalds at the same time (eg. getting home from work) so if you're unlucky with timing, the machine would appear to be always broken from your perspective.
Azure Sphere Internals
I was thinking about the public, would the public appreciate his release or non-release, and whose opinion should weight more and why.
Reverse engineering an API is generally not a huge deal, but actively abusing it might get you in hot water.
I don't disagree. I was slyly trying to suggest we already have a wealth tax, called 'federal income tax'.
I can't attest to this metadata but it's just worthy to note Facebook starting telling shareholders this year that they have "limited visibility into WhatsApp user activity due to encryption".
Can't update the link anymore, but a better link might've actually been https://twitter.com/BangBangClick/status/1319305553454288896 since that was the root of the conversation
We have arrived at why "a pretty basic backup" is no longer feasible for...any business. A hard sell for a four person business with no dedicated IT team.
Even if the generator is less efficient than a truck with an ICE engine I think it would be a net win. You would only be using the generator on long off road trips where you're isolated and don't have an alternative way to charge the vehicle. If having the generator means the EV is a viable choice then you would still get the environmental benefits of someone using an EV instead of ICE for 95% of their driving.
Medium did it and it wasn't received well. I hope Substack learns from their Mistake.
Interesting article! But, from that very article:
"Despite the virus’s sluggish mutation rate, researchers have catalogued more than 12,000 mutations in SARS-CoV-2 genomes."

Now, that doesn't tell us that these mutations matter, but that's because we don't know which ones matter. But even a rate of two single-letter mutations per month could theoretically result in 2^10 different variants in less than a year. It almost certainly won't, because many of the mutations will be the same (some parts of the genome almost certainly are more likely to mutate than others). But a rate of 2 single-letter mutations per month, is not much of a limit.

The nature article you reference (for which thanks, btw) says its mutation rate is about half of influenza's. Which is, yes, less, but that's still really fast compared to almost anything that isn't influenza. Even a slow-mutating virus is still mutating fast.
Yep, and two folks in a garage can build FB in a week, its just a DB right?
Yes and that's the problem, you have people who eat too little and do too much that end up with stress related illnesses and people who eat too much and do too little who end up with obesity related diseases.

Ideally you want to maximize your metabolic throughput while keeping it as clean as possible and have an active life to use the calories.
Microsoft did something very similar for C++ back in 2012

calling it Accelerated Massive Parallelism (AMP)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_AMP

It generated a lot of buzz in the Windows world around that time, but as far as I can tell never went anywhere.
In my view, the costs of equipment, service, and goods really drive franchisee profit down. Don't know why you'd want to be a franchisee, you need a whole stable of stores to make it work and profitable.
That dark pattern is so old it has whiskers.

Subscriptions of this sort are done that way on purpose, because lots of people forget to cancel. And if you have to call a human to do the cancellation, well, that's the beauty of doing an ad campaign. Most of the people who need to cancel will try to do it at the last minute and find out that the phone lines are tied up with other people who signed up on the same couple of days they did.
>China calls its “heroic” handling of Covid-19 proof of its wisdom

Stalling, lying, criticizing countries that moved to cut of travel, buying up all the PPE around the world, threatening countries that didn't agree with them...

That folks is real heroism....They should get a reward instead of having to pat themselves on the back....
Key difference over tyranny is that totalitarianism is necessarily an expansionist movement with global aspirations, whose enemy is any truth or belief that could enable people to find a basis for agreement against it. It's total dominion of the human spirit through terror, where traditional 'isms are just nationally focused. When you break people with the randomness of the terror, they will oppress themselves.

In this model, North Korea is still just a national tyranny, and even China's CCP is a national police state with colonial aspirations, but it hasn't metastasized into a transnational movement. Hitlerism and Stalinism were the result of movements that created totalitarian empires. Arendt's view was it was a new form of government that was an artifact of the 20th century.
Same here. Was having some back/neck/shoulder issues and it really seems to have helped.
There is this THEORY (!) WhatApp is actually cross-financed by governments, so it can stay online as the biggest communication surveillance "device" in human history. We are talking about a 100% uptime free service that literally has become the center of human remote communication in major parts of the world.

Encryption is a shady topic, and there is a realistic chance there is a backdoor in the methods WhatApp uses to encrypt content, history has shown this is realistic.

Governments have done way worse things.
Really happy to see Apple has finally allowed this on the App Store!
Fair enough, I can see why; the list of entities they propose to give the authority to authorise unlawfulness is rather worrying.
> Purist test

The short answer is. Yes, but if your PL treats it that way you will wind up in trouble [0].

The long answer is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2RO34b_oPM (but seriously take the time to watch this, it's fantastic).

[0] Separately C- and often C-derived languages/frameworks like numpy also treat them as 1xN matrices, but that's a nearly tabs-vs-spaces level religious war, with actual consequences. I think a lot of people got confused when translating andrew ng's early octave-based ML coursera course (Nx1) to python (1xN), and also in the back and forth between math ML papers which use Nx1 and python.
In many things related to mindfulness, breathing, yoga, and meditation, we in western culture have a bad habit recognizing the value of a very small part of a larger practice and then writing off the rest as spiritual mumbo-jumbo. For example, everyone knows that "taking a breath," helps your child to calm down. But we don't often go further into breathing practices, partly because they start to bump up against spirituality, because we as Very Good Scientists are naturally skeptical and usually biased against that.

Mindfulness is another example that we're just a little farther along with. It's now becoming widely known that being mindful for 5-15 minutes a day will lower your stress levels or help you control emotions or rise in the corporate ladder or help with other sorts of problematic behavior. But what happens when you go further? 2500 years ago, people knew that meditating for 1-2 hours a day leads to dramatic, permanent, and wildly transformative changes to your perceptions of reality and your relationship with the sensate world. But words like "awakening" are spiritual mumbo-jumbo so we apply our natural scientific skepticism, largely ignore the deep parts, and do our society a disservice.

So on one hand, you're right that we don't just completely dismiss these things. But on the other hand, we do often dismiss the important parts.
It is not just ARM instances. Parallel Query, Multi-Master, and Performance Insights, are all locked to specific classes of x86 instances.

It's like Amazon has narrowly tested specific features on specific hardware sizes.
You are preaching to the wrong person here my friend. It doesn't exactly promote free software...
I hadn't heard of a plumber wrench before. It looks conceptually similar to vice grips, and squeezing the handles together produces the gripping force. Is that correct?

I am a little more familiar with pipe wrenches, though, and even though it isn't obvious from looking at the tool, it does grip harder the harder you pull on the handle. If you've never used one, I think it is worth the price of the wrench just to experience how it works.
Keep a dossier, have a trial.

When? Your approach is to limit political autonomy to zero and offer an institutional solution that will probably not be available. What if the compilation or possession of such a dossier is treated as evidence of conspiracy to commit sedition?
Not a Lawywer:

What law is he breaking (relative to both the US and Germany)?

In US criminal law, there is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which has very specific narrow provisions, including the test of "has to intentionally cause damages to a computer system part of interstate or foreign commerce."

Which does not apply here.

McD's would have to pursue, instead, a civil case, based around a EULA or ToS, tantamount to breach of contract, and to recover damages.

I would assume that Ronald McDonald Esq would just issue a form Cease and Desist, and call it a day.
> You've made the implicit assumption that it is acceptable and desirable for the government to sacrifice some companies to save some others.

That's how governments operate. Every time a government "sneezes" is harms some companies and benefits others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZxgI59_Ak

Employee showing how the machine shuts down
> using a usermode x86 emulator

So, iSH does this amazing stuff by x86 emulation.
Aren't iOS devices arm based devices ? Why should they emulate x86 ? Isn't it easier to emulate arm64 linux instead ?

(I mean that arm64 binaries can run on arm64 devices. For example, consider wine which runs windows programs on linux/macos. Only x64 windows apps can run on x64 wine and only arm64 windows apps can run on arm64 devices. To run x64 windows apps on arm64 devices,you need qemu/other virtualization software)
How hard is it to devise an ice cream machine with a simpler sanitation process?
Right now the eTruck market is rife with rumors and potential products so it's really hard to know where this market is going.

For the moment anyhow, the Cybertruck is by far the most affordable of the eTruck options announced. The base model and the base 4WD are $20,000+ less than the rest of the truck EVs out there. Since Ford is seemingly pretty far behind in the EV game, if they announce an F150 well under that mark, I'd be surprised.

But if they do, it'll likely be hugely popular.

The Cybertruck's looks don't do it any favors in this market. Also, those giant sides on the bed really put a hit on the utility.
None that I know of but my understanding was that people take issue with the police using military equipment and tactics. Most western police forces are trained to deescalate which doesn’t seem to be the case in most(all?) US states.
I wish the article had actually elaborated on the question posed in the title, rather than assuming the implications are obvious. I think it’s a vital question, but I have a hard time figuring out why I’m so uncomfortable with Apple’s decision here.

I think the thing that this article could and should have made clear now that I think about it is that you are being forced to choose between a computer secured against Apple or one where you are secured against others. You are not allowed to secure it against others and Apple.
Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol (Gnap)
> For some reasons some politicians really want to keep the CAD as low as possible?

I think the value of CAD depends on BoC decisions, not politicians. They can increase its value, for example by increasing interest rates, but that would cause an increase in unemployment. I don't think there is a mechanism to increase value of CAD without also messing up some other part of the economy, e.g. employment or inflation.
In the realm of hard sci-fi the detectability of an exhaust plume depends on a variety of factors including the ionization, temperature, shape, velocity, and angle of the plume wrt adversary, and the local medium.

There are a number of methods one could theoretically use to minimize these factors. As an example, imagine the detectability of a small angle coherent neutron beam or the IR exhaust of a black hole starship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship
uname reports what we tell it to report ;) https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/master/kernel/uname.c. iSH is sandboxed as any other app on the store would be, but some have had success running GUI apps and connecting to them via VNC.
Review of the Australian Payments System
I agree that having multiple different types of "object values" share one JSON key with no explicit "type" tag is asking for trouble with extensibility and conflicts.

That said, I think the constructive suggestion would be: "add a type tag to all objects in a union" (something suggested elsewhere in this thread).

Their "handles" can still claim "just a string" to save bandwidth in the common case, arrays can still represent "many things" and objects require "type" to be dis-ambiguous.

Most of the comments below don't mention the (real and important, but easily solvable) issue you've brought up however. They primarily fall into one of two buckets:

- It's hard to work with data shaped like this in my language (ex: java/go)

- It's hard to deserialize data shaped like this into my language that has no tagged unions (ex: java/go)

My biggest counterpoint to all of these complaints is: The fact that your language of choice cannot represent the concept of "one of these things" doesn't change the fact that this accurately describes reality sometimes.

A protocol with mutually exclusive keys (or really anything) by convention is strictly more bug-prone than a protocol with an object that is correct by construction.
Police is here to serve the public, so naturally public may want to impose rules on police which it doesn't want to impose on itself. It all depends on who wants what (and for what).
Since it’s all down to luck, why don’t you try tomorrow this little experiment: donate away your wealth and completely stop all your current hard working. Instead just lay around and watch TV all day.

A year later, come back and let us know how far your luck got you.
Would be cool to make a "not a hotdog" style phone app where you hold your camera up to someone's face and it tells you if they are a recognized cop or not.
Rediscovering Lotus Agenda (MS-DOS, 1989)
I've argued against Wim Hof elsewhere here, doing his hyperventilation breathe up in the water is almost begging to black out.
Why can't they just emulate arm64 linux instead ? It must be easier as both are of same arch.
The path from the George Floyd protests to the current position of the Minneapolis City Council is not linear in the way you're suggesting: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/minneapolis-d...
I recently saw a video that actually showed the machine (allegedly) was sterilizing itself. The video showed all the ice cream in the hopper melted and soupy, presumably heated to kill bacteria in it. The video creator claimed it took some hours to complete, thus the common claim that the machine is "broken"
AWS engineers most often fork the open source repositories and keep sll their patches only to them, they rarely submit those upstream.
> AFAIK, reverse engineering APIs isn’t illegal. [1]

No, but unauthorized access to a remote server can be. Just because something is unsecured doesn't give one the right to access it. Anyway I would not take that gamble personally and risking indicted federally for computer fraud.

https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/hacking-laws-a...

I'm not a lawyer and neither are you.
Vectors are Nx1 matrices only once you choose an ordered basis!
Right there! That's what I was suggesting. Overzealous prosecution that was so aggressive to someone that was scraping.