skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that the reviews are not in-depth. But sometimes inclusion on the list is enough.

I saw enough books on the list that I recognized and benefited from to convince me that the author has some idea of what they're talking about. That's enough to convince me that some of the other books on the list might be worth checking out.

Once you have a book title in mind, there are lots of resources you can use to find out whether it's worth reading -- Amazon comments, book reviews, the publisher's website, the table of contents, published excerpts, etc etc etc.

The most important part of a book search on the internet today is title discovery: picking one book to look at out of the gazillion books available. The author seems to have taken a pretty good stab at that.
As a really fun thought experiment, imagine that they took the $50,000 and put it into 30-year US Treasury bonds in 1981 and sold them in 1986 to buy Microsoft at the IPO.

It would be worth about $212 million today. And that ignores dividends.
https://discourse.pijul.org/t/build-failure-on-macos-zstd-se...

It looks like you don't have libclang. The required libraries are openssl libsodium llvm(which contains libclang) xxHash zlib zstd libgit2 pkgconfig

edit: with nix on macos, this 'should' be enough

$ nix-shell -p openssl libsodium llvmPackages.libclang xxHash zlib zstd libgit2 pkgconfig rustc rustfmt cargo darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.CoreServices darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.SystemConfiguration
[nix-shell] $ cargo install pijul --version 1.0.0-alpha --features git
This is not how drug approval works. This will be distributed on a planetary scale. Even 0.001% of side effects can be a big issue at these scales. history actually has lots of evidence of "unquestionably safe" drugs, causing lots of pain eventually - read about Thalidomide, Aspirin and Reye syndrom etc. There is also chance of ADE, a very complex unpredictable phenomenon, which was present with the original SARS vaccines.
Chromebooks aren't locked down. You can put them in developer mode and replace the entire OS with one of your choosing, without needing any jailbreaks or exploits.
They don't move into office until middle of January, there's 2 months left.
Maybe you should be, but if they are in bad shape, the 100% figure will apply to many diseases. On a long enough time line, they will of course die, just like you and everyone else.
The easiest way is to avoid supermarkets.

I have a small market nearby where I buy, once a week, directly from small local farmers. You can learn the calendar there quickly.
Also great as a live wallpaper. I have set mine up to be black and white, which goes well with my icon set.
Air pollution linked to greater risk of dying from Covid-19 in the US
I don’t think you’re judging Apple One too fairly. If the $15 tier has too little storage for you, you can quadruple it for $5 more. If you share with your family, the $30 plan certainly has enough storage, and is only a few dollars more expensive per person. Note also $30 is not double the price of the $20 tier.

I think the general reception of Apple One has been pretty good.

> At this point it looks almost certain that they'll either change their fee structure or face regulatory action.

I want this to be true, but honestly I wouldn’t hold my breath.
That would be middle point - that is 50% chances that actual reliability is better than 90% reliable, 50% that it's worse. But we have 95% confidence interval. This is what my question was about.

On infinitely large number of cases, the numbers will be the same. But we only have 94. I think it's about 2 to 3 cases that they actually got from the group that got vaccine, but not sure.
Can you explain how anybody is forced to either buy an iPhone, or develop for it?

I am not aware of Apple using force to make people do either of these things.
I use loose-leaf paper and throw it away as soon as I'm done with whatever feature I was planning.

The ephemeral nature makes me work more quickly, I find.
You did not run in trouble with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program#Visa_Waive...

right? If you are going to work meetings it seems that should be OK.
The containers run locally on the Chromebooks, not in the cloud.
It's astounding how people are susceptible to taking things personally and generally being browbeaten. Kudos to the faker.js dev for coming to this conclusion, but it's wild to me that this wasn't their default position from day 1.
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This is basically the most optimistic outlook to have, but I think there's a real case to be made for this:

With ARM Macs we could also potentially see 5G connected laptops which could be purchased 0 down through a cell carrier + the potential for iPad to be running containerized Mac apps within a couple years, making them a viable computer at less than $500 that offers a vastly superior experience to anything else at that price point.

Imo this could lead to significant market share gains and its not impossible that Apple could end up with > 50% market share across all device categories in the U.S. within a decade, with all of those devices being profitable AND pushing you to use their services.
The right price is the developer's consultant rate * number of hours it takes.

If you are the only person in the world that needs it, you should pay the full rate. If others have the same need, you call can share the price.
I think the "hassle" point is key.

The things I have wanted to install have generally not involved hassle on a Mac, and never more hassle than they would have on Linux.

Configuring things has varied; some are less hassle than Linux, some are more, some are impossible, but unlike Linux once I do a configuration there is generally no hassle _keeping_ the configuration over several OS updates.

And there is a lot less hassle in some ways, at least compared to the last time I was trying to use desktop Linux, around things like WiFi, drivers, finding a laptop that will actually work, etc. Yes, the latter is somewhat cheating because I am forced into Apple's hardware, but the hassle-savings from not having to dig through everything on the market to find the laptops that are well-supported by Linux is something I absolutely do not miss.

So I think what it comes down to is that different people find different things hassle-full.
Counterpoint, I’m a die-hard 10-year Android user and I bought an SE when the new one came put because it was reasonably priced. Still considering going back to Android since I miss various things like the back button, but the promising hardware at a reasonable price got me. I’m now using my phone for mobile payments, something I was never comfortable with on Android.
> So let’s get one thing straight: open source developers are not volunteering to fix your problem.

That's not universally correct. As an open source (and non-open source too) developer I appreciate every idea of how to improve my app, by fixing a bug or by adding a feature (or even by rewriting my app entirely in a particular language - this is unlikely but may happen to be a good idea occasionally). Surely nobody should rely on the idea I will actually do what they want and when they want but nobody should ever hesitate to tell what they want.
As someone in tech I’m well aware of the downsides, and inclined to agree with the consensus here that this is a really bad idea.

However, I’m interested in at least understanding the other side. Are there any studies or estimates of the effect this might have? How many crimes would have actually been prevented by this, in the past few years? How many lives saved or child trafficking victims spared?

Of course, criminal behavior might easily change once a law like this is passed, but this would at least help give an upper bound on the benefit and my guess is it would still be very low. The world mostly continues to get safer and safer, there are still some outlier horrific crimes that happen but these might not be affected by banning encryption (such as mass shootings, which are usually a single person not coordinating with anybody).

I would just like to understand what concrete problem this solves from the lawmakers perspective.
Fascinating--do you have any links to further reading/watching about this?
Mihaly Csikszentmihályi and others began researching flow after Csikszentmihályi became fascinated by artists who would essentially get lost in their work. Artists, especially painters, got so immersed in their work that they would disregard their need for food, water and even sleep. The theory of flow came about when Csikszentmihályi tried to understand the phenomenon experienced by these artists. Flow research became prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s, with Csikszentmihályi and his colleagues in Italy still at the forefront. Researchers interested in optimal experiences and emphasizing positive experiences, especially in places such as schools and the business world, also began studying the theory of flow at this time.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
> The article does not explain what the value of pen and paper has over a digital note pad. It just declares it has one.

From the article, at the very beginning: "Nothing will provide focus like pen and paper."
I saw this iCloud pushing in-person at an Apple store a few months ago:

Someone had brought in their iPhone and it needed to be wiped for repair. The rep was pushing iCloud under threat of losing their data. It seemed like such a scam. I can only imagine what it feels like to be tech-illiterate and told you must buy a subscription or we'll wipe your family photos.

A 'premium' phone like an iPhone should really have a free backup for at least the data size of the phone. At the very least you should be able to get iCloud free for when your phone is in for repair.
> so you're happy with random police officers[0] browsing your nudes, then?

Your kids’ photos.

Many people don’t have nudes on their phones. Most people do have photos of their kids and know their kids have sensitive photos of themselves. “Think of the children” can be flipped if you can get the public suspicious of spooks.
Possibly related: https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2019/09/03/a-new-policy-fo...

Maybe only official builds are allowed to use MLS. Let's wait on someone more knowledgeable to chime in.
Through no fault of your own, powerful and/or discontent people in your country can significantly alter your purchasing power.
In a double-blind, phase 3 trial only one group has on-going data access: the independent group conducting the study. No one else, including patients, doctors, and the business, has any knowledge of the results until they are "unsealed". That continues to be true throughout the entire trial even if preliminary results are unsealed at different points.
https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/hotplug_field_kit...
I am referring to the case where FAANG would make money out of your work in closed sources:"With this FAANG will need to negotiate to use your code in closed sources(...)"

Still I get your point, and they indeed don't need to negotiate to use GPL but, with GPL most of the times the actual developer receives the merit of the work (whatever it means) and more important, the community can use any improvements/features/functionalities that FAANG may develop on top of original work.
Dying for movies: Suicide highlights labour issues in Canada's VFX sector
I think (some)people forget that that particular piece of software saves them money and/or time and think they are entitled to it (somehow). They forget that nobody owes them anything and should be grateful for the fact it's FOSS in the first place.
Udemy has been a bust for me. In fact, I went on a mini-rant on Twitter this morning about it (https://twitter.com/walkingriver/status/1325772355449344001).

I've had decent success with Gumroad selling directly (https://walkingriver.gumroad.com).

I also sell book versions of the same content on Gumroad and Amazon (https://amazon.com/author/mcallaghan).

I think you should shoot for an hour or two of valuable content onto Gumroad, set a fair price for it, maybe even give away all or part of your first course. Build an audience to give you some fans to sell the second course to. See how it goes.

Good luck!
Thanks for the input anyway João! I didn't know about educative.io, how hard was it to publish a text-based course there?
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Nearly all human activity occurs in a "economic context". Doing something outside of an economic context is like that old comedy sketch about a leaking oil tanker being towed "outside the environment". Most human interactions are at some level transactional and driven by individual incentives.

This is true even for personal side projects and charity work. In all Western societies and economies that I know of, it is both legal and acceptable to offer people compensation in exchange for them doing stuff for you, whatever that stuff is and whatever that compensation is.

I'm sure there are human societies in which this is totally untrue, but I would be surprised if the rules of those societies were applicable to open source software development outside of very specific situations.
They have more expensive high end options but they've also expanded lower priced devices as well. Even ignoring the SE the new iPhone 12 Mini is a flagship device at a $699 price point thats very difficult for Android manufacturers to compete with -- despite the fact that Apple has much higher margins on its devices than they do.
The restored model M I've tried had unpleasantly stiff keys; my model F does not.
In my youth, I wrote an impassioned letter to Nintendo to not name their console the Wii. It went on to be a best seller.

Now "git," "pijul," and "anu." I guess it doesn't matter as long as it works /shrug
Quick and unofficial poll... How many here are in the same or similar position?
I think the data is what indicates this is the beginning of the end. All of the leading Western vaccine candidates showed very strong Phase 2 results. Now, we have the first vaccine showing very strong initial Phase 3 results. This is basically the best case scenario.
I'm not complaining about them charging too much for not enough, I'm complaining about their products being bad. That's quite a distinction. Apple Music isn't as good as Spotify, Apple TV+ isn't as good as (Amazon Prime Video|Disney+|Netflix), Apple's bundle isn't as good as Amazon Prime. Siri isn't as good as Alexa or Google Assistant. Apple Arcade can't compete with.. well... the Appstore.

Apple is having success at pushing people who already have iPhones to buy services in the same way that Microsoft as realy good at getting people to use Internet Explorer. But Apple's success at pushing people into services revenue isn't a long term indication of strength.
Arctic animals are migrating earlier in the year due to climate change
no one gives a shit about flu shots, no one will give two shits about yet another flu shot.
I miss the days of telling my relatives just go buy a Mac because I was tired of providing PC support for them.
The article is available on both https and http, could mods change to https:// ? I wonder if HN could automate that on all submissions, if the same url but https is a 200 then use that instead?
Respectfully, this is not the origin of open source.

The origin of open source is the ideal that "users should be able to see - and modify - the code that is running on their machines."

The "it costs me nothing" has also also proven to be false, because there's a pretty sizable overhead to open sourcing and maintaining an open source project, especially once it becomes popular. If there was no overhead, you wouldn't see articles like the "Pay Me or Fork This" post from earlier this morning.
These sysadmins moved a webserver across their city while keeping it powered and connected to the Internet...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5MA685ApE
There are people at the large tech companies who will not only push for a project to make a change they want (including doing all the coding work) but will sometimes get into the space of bullying to try and force someone to do the change for them. I've seen this numerous times.
A week after the election of a US politician who took millions from China, and a day after calling it, the virus from a few blocks besides a Level 4 communist military bio lab has now ended. Now we can look forward to yellow vest protests, ISIS beheading school teachers, and millions of smiling taxpayer funded immigrants under performing their hefty taxpayer funded paychecks while leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake.

Is this why you burnt down hundreds of cities, and covered for murderers? Thief. Crook. Liar. Coward. Traitor.
For the really lazy like me, Whole Foods has a wheel in their produce department which shows what's in season. Maybe something similar exists in your local grocery store ?
I decided recently anything I open source in the future will have a license that grants no use, really the opposite of a license. That way it’s clear I don’t care about people’s issues and requests and so forth. You weren’t supposed to be using it anyway, and probably won’t if it’s not available via a package manager etc
Besides the fact that this would limit access to those projects for those unable to pay, there are the issues of multiple contributors and transient dependencies.

Say a project is started by one person, made open source, and becomes popular. They start accepting contributions from the public, including substantial features and bug fixes. They later move on and someone else becomes the lead maintainer. Who would receive the money in your scheme? The original author? The current maintainer? Divvied up among anyone who has ever touched the code? If the Digital Ocean tshirt giveaway is anything to go by, popular paid projects would be overwhelmed by "contributors" hoping to snag a slice for changing around a few words. It gets really complicated pretty quickly.

Say a project depends on one or more of these paid projects - does it now require payment of at least as much as the sum of its dependencies, and their dependencies, etc? That could add up quickly unless there's some scaling factor and you hope those projects make it up in volume. Surely there will be typosquatting projects which are (at best) wrappers for real ones and siphon off some of the fees.

And so on. All this is just to say that it's complicated and the details matter.
What is your opinion on reading on the Kindle? Is it as effective as reading a physical book? I own tons of physical books but am completely out of shelf space for new books.
I'm not saying that state-run election systems can't be interfered with, there's just no way for a single actor to compromise all systems simultaneously from a single point, legislatively or otherwise. Of course those systems can and should be hardened, but arguing that it should be done in a standard way completely ignores the reality of the political system that we're in. That's like going to your boss and suggesting to completely rewrite your company codebase in X language because it's more secure. Theoretically, it's not a bad idea, but the reality is that it doesn't work that way.
I'm be willing to bet that the majority of feature requests that happen come from people trying to make money at the time, either as employees or entrepreneurs. Just a guess though; is love to see hard numbers.
Also compromises. Exceptional status enables pulling through with uncompromising solutions that would be wildly impossible without that status.

Unfortunately, some problems are solved much better with heavy compromises ("listening to every stakeholder"), other problems can only be solved well by an uncompromising solution. The meta-problem is telling one from the other ahead of time. I don't know if that's even possible.
I would say most specifically in the US.

It's a cultural thing. Asian cultures vary dramatically between each other (don't mistake Koreans, Chinese, or Japanese for each other -it won't end well), but they have one thing in common: They have a real sense of every person is part of a collective. Maybe it's because most Asian societies are quite crowded.

The US, on the other hand, has a real sense of everyone is an individual, to the point of actually considering people that follow rules and norms to be "sheeple" (see "antimaskers").

Europeans seem to be in the middle.
40 pounds of potassium nitrate?
I don't care what Elon Musk thinks anymore
> According to my state's department of health, practical experience indicates we can't convince even half of people to pick up the phone and respond to a contact tracing interview.

More than anything I suspect this is a result of allowing so much unfiltered spam calls. If you only get one unexpected, unknown call a month you will almost always answer it. If you get three a day you will almost never answer it.

We are allowing private businesses and scammers to steal the “commons” of our societal attention. We are doing a very poor job of keeping useful communications channels open: almost every communication medium people rely on for important information gets cluttered with must-ignore spam, making it decreasingly likely an important message is actually received.
don't know about other countries but in Switzerland somehow people do not get the codes for Covid app with positive test results. even if they had the app installed and running the crucial step of entering the official code is failing
Petitions:

English: http://chng.it/8SXDQdKF
German: http://chng.it/Gnr682gzr5
Are Airlines Ready to Transport Vaccines?
Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will stumble on SSL
Hence the genociding.
#unpopularopinion: If someone wants an Android experience they should buy an Android phone where iSH functionality is basically built it. iSH is cool, but they were skirting the rules and everyone knows it. This isn’t shocking, and there were bound to be hiccups on the fringes of the rules like this.

If you want a phone for just getting the normal stuff done in a curated world, then pick iOS as that’s what they are trying to do. If you want a phone/device that is wide open to play with, extend, and hack on in a basically open manner, then pick Android as that’s what they are trying to do.

What seems like a waste of time is to pick one side and then complain about it not being enough like the other side. Pick your flavor, the world offers both. And then quit whining if the other side is more successful by some metric... Make your chosen side better or switch.
>Naming suspects in these cases seems so weird from a non-US perspective, there's not even been a court case.

As I understand it, the original reason for this is to prevent the police from simply making people disappear. It's a public check on what the police and government do to people.