skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious for a study looking at whether obese nutritionists would be more or less effective than fit ones. People tend to trust people more like them, and I can definitely imagine a dynamic where an obese person would resent a skinny doctor telling them how to improve their diet. And, since obese people are in the most need of nutritional advice, perhaps getting more obese representation into the ranks of doctors would do some good.

Or maybe doctors should just wear fat suits.
Note that EC arguments swing both ways depending on the way the coalitions fall out. Right now is clearly a nadir, it's looking like Trump is going to lose the general electorate by 5 points but the tipping point state by only 0.6, which is just outrageous. But as recently as 2012 we had a (much smaller) skew in the opposite direction, and people tend to forget that.

Or, consider a future where some combination of Texas/Georgia/Arizona do what Colorado and Virginia did over the last decade, complete their urbanization and turn hard blue. In that world, we'd be looking at a very large democratic advantage in the EC.

Yeah, it's gotta be fixed. It just doesn't correspond well to the kind of population dynamics we have in the modern US. Nothing in the original constitution expected a country where both Wyoming and California could be a single "state". Call your reps and ask for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
According to the post, yes. To state that such event may lead to total collapse wouldn't be a new idea at all. It's the mainstream hypothesis since the cold war.

To challenge those ideas by articulating the opposite (that it may not lead to total collapse) it's new (to me at least) and good food for thought.

Can't cite anything, but I'm pretty sure that the nimble investment in nuclear energy that society has made as a whole in the past decades were fueled by fear of total collapse as if it's impossible for humans to play with fire without completely obliterating ourselves. And considering the new(ish) challenges we have (climate and others) I find it helpful to think that past demons/fears can be managed in a constructive way.
Linked 197 times, possibly referenced more than that; plus it’s a neatly exaggerated example of a joke that I’d imagine has been made many more times again:

“I have a problem I’m trying to fix with X.”

“Ah, so now you have 2 problems.”
Why else should Apple even be involved in the revocation process?
Just downloaded Pages, Keynote, Numbers and Garage Band from the Mac App Store. All updated for M1 and Big Sur.

So maybe things are improving?
> To be honest, none of the new Billing features are relevant to us.

Bingo. This is like your cell phone company telling you that the tethering feature you have always had access to is now part of their Pro plan, for which you won't be charged extra. Then they turn around and start charging for the Pro plan on the grounds that it has a bunch of features you don't care about — and one feature that was previously available outside the Pro plan.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what's happening here, this seems really lousy. I became a Stripe customer because of the simplicity and transparency. It seems that both of those benefits are disappearing.
The referenced tweet is not the main point, the main source is the Financial Times article talking about cases rather than deaths, so I think the main points raised by the post are still valid.
Maybe they should just adopt the Nix package manager, and put some of Microsoft’s resources into making it work on Windows.
I'm not saying they don't care about appearance at all - we all do to some extent. Just that I don't see alienating people who care about appearance enough that it overrides your other achievements as a negative outcome.
Ask HN: What do you think about GitHub's Gradual Degredation?
In recent years, GitHub has become increasingly hostile towards users who choose to not run JavaScript by default on their browser.

Basic features went from fully functional to broken. From the activity log to displaying commit information in file listings. They
all worked in the past, and at some point became dependent on JavaScript with no recourse.

I had to make do with these lapses in quality, always hoping for a reversal, but GitHub poor design values persist. Come their latest
manifestation: the menu you got when you clicked on the little avatar icon on the top right of the page is now replaced by a useless "Sorry, something went wrong." message.

This blow hits hard and therefore I feel the need to write about this long-standing issue. It also troubles me that few people, presumably none working for GitHub, seem to care about it. Since the issue is likely to exacerbate, I am considering further action.
> Apple's customers are the users.

This doesn't mean, however, that Apple's incentives are aligned with the user's incentives. It's important to see that Apple's devices are also a sales channel for Apple. For example, an iPhone is essentially a vending machine for entertainment. And Apple will exert its power to use that sales channel (using the same techniques as advertising companies, like user tracking), whether the user likes it or not.
There are about 100 uncontacted tribes thought to remain.
Politics is a realm the average person has no power in, yet many adhere to tribal, cargo cult fashions and canards that divide-and-conquer people into atomized groups of one. Is that political or apolitical? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Throw politics out the window and get behind policies individually.
Nuclear Winter was the scenario most widely used to justify a hypothetical total worldwide collapse, but we now know that this particular scenario is unlikely, even in the case of the most violent possible global exchange.
That's a perfect analogy.
Let the downvotes pour. It’s the offline consequences that I have a problem with. In this case there aren’t any.
Yes, a lot of games targeting younger audiences focuses more on "playfulness" and "toylike", which is awesome.
I'm a white person, where can I find this mythical social network and generational wealth I can use?
I’m wondering if there are Red Teams in product design which are trying to come up with the most ridiculous ways how people will try to make fun of your product.
...lived in several European countries, and have friends/ family in others (also two siblings in USA) - always been able to choose my doctor(s).
> The nuclear winter model at its simplest: Nuclear detonations → Fires in cities → Firestorms in cities → Lofted black carbon into the upper atmosphere → black carbon persists in upper atmosphere, reflecting sunlight and causes massive cooling
>
> Each step is required in order for the effect to occur.

Why cities in particular? Are cities more flammable or more likely to produce the wrong kind of smoke than, say, a forest fire? (I'm assuming there exist at least some military targets in heavily forested areas.)

Also, is the nuclear blast itself a key component in the effect? For instance, does the mushroom cloud create an updraft larger than what you'd have with a regular forest fire?
Port Numbers in Kubernetes
> An open-source project doesn't "die" just because it stops getting updates.

it dies in the eyes of a new/potential user (who have been conditioned to expect support for the latest/greatest platform).
In Twitch’s fight with the music industry, streamers are paying the price
heh. That reminds me of JavaScript recently. We have optional chaining now, which quite a few developers absolutely love.

Diving deep into data structures is such a code smell, and yet so many people just want to spray the equivalent of Febreze over it. "Maybe with the right syntax for doing this ugly thing people won't notice how ugly this thing I'm doing actually is!"
Imagine a program, WinSudo.exe. This program runs elevated, by magic. It passes its arguments to CreateProcess(). You call WinSudo.exe Virus.exe. Virus.exe execution is blocked by SmartScreen.

(This scenario is itself a security flaw that existed for some combinations of Windows system utilities, so this is a real concern.)

Now, you could change WinSudo.exe to disable SmartScreen, sure -- but this requires you to be able to modify WinSudo.exe (which should require Administrator), and the mismatched binary would ALSO flag SmartScreen.
one of Nassim Taleb's better ideas is that you should pick the worst-looking doctor you can find -- weird-looking, fat, lower-class accent, whatever -- because if they're successfully practicing medicine, they must be very skilled to make up for the unfair judgments throughout med school interviews, residency, and fellowships.
Again, those come under using your size advantage to become big, which is currently not treated harmfully.
So your claim is that Asian-Americans are diverse, while black and Hispanic people each form unvariegated, homogeneous identities?

I very intentionally point out particular groups in my original comment, because proponents of race-based affirmative action always avoid grappling with why it's fair to discriminate against some relatively successful subgroups of Asian Americans by bringing up red herrings about Hmong and Cambodian refugees (who, it's worth pointing out, are typically excluded from the benefits of affirmative action anyway, which makes it even more of a red herring).
Why doesn't Python's multiprocessing module (which uses fork by default on Unix) count? It literally exists for parallelism.
It is racist to implement systems of racial discrimination. There is no way that you could modify the meaning of the word racism to the point that it no longer includes racial discrimination.

Racism also doesn’t presuppose any particular motive. There are many reasons that somebody could choose to be racist, and if you look at real world racists, you’ll find that they offer a wide variety of justifications for their views. Just as you have done in this comment. You are making the argument that your racism is morally righteous, and that it will create positive outcome (which, coincidentally, certainly isn’t an uncommon position for racists to take).

You’ve also made the mistake of presuming that the problem you describe requires a racist solution. It absolutely doesn’t. If wealth creates more inter-generational wealth, and poverty creates more inter-generational poverty, then you need a solution for social mobility, not to artificially elevate people based on ethnic group membership (which of course also disadvantages others based on their different ethnic group membership). A poor white or Asian kid, who’s family has always been poor, is going to face the same socio-economic disadvantages that you’re describing, and a wealthy black kid isn’t going to be facing them at all. The solution your offering (aside from being racist) doesn’t solve the problem you’re describing. In many cases, it actually makes it worse, because if you look at how such systems operate, you’ll find that a decent portion of the people who benefit from them actually come from relatively well off families.
Your quote of Lapcatsoftware is just wrong. It is not:

> Apple is to blame for revoking this certificate.

It is:

> So blame must be apportioned to both companies.

...because the revocation itself seems to have been an unjustified request.

It seems the value-add of Apple having the sole ability to revoke certificates would be that they could avoid something like this. (That said, I do think this is still mostly HP's fault, but the article raises a point that is more valid than implied.)
Someone has to give you the revocation list, and consumers generally aren’t smart enough to know even what a revocation list is. On Windows, it’s Microsoft. On macOS, it’s Apple.
> Since the issue is likely to exacerbate, I am considering further action.

Like what, enabling Javascript?

Frankly, it sounds like you'd be better served by a service such as sircmpwn's Sourcehut (https://sr.ht/).
To further my career at the company i have been at for a long time i have taken over more diverse responsibilities (Lead, Architect, PO, Consultant, Coach), which in turn reduces the time i use to code more and more.

Now there are some interesting opportunities that pay a lot more, but i have the feeling that there is a mismatch between my CV and my current engineering skill level due to all this other stuff.

Could be imposter syndrome tho.
You should look into what Stage 3 trials look like. Pretty exhaustive!
It's a certificate check.

I knew and didn't care. If you care, you're going to be real upset when you look at your other alternatives.

That said, I don't think many people here actually care. I firmly believe that most of the people on this site just like to shit on Apple, because they prefer that to trust their privacy to an Advertising company.
Legally, we're clearly still in a grey area for this.

Ethically... I find it fairly immoral to intentionally prohibit users who have bought your product from using it in ways you don't like. Courts also tend to look poorly on this, but there's a narrow path to walk between enforcing interoperability and allowing innovation.

I guess I'd say the concepts "sale" and "ownership" are at stake here. If I buy something, I expect to be able to extend/modify/repair/dismantle that device in any way I choose. I OWN it.

In the physical world, it's nearly impossible to put some sort of non-electronic lock on a device that would prevent the user from doing just that. There's no reasonable way to make a cup that could only hold Sprite.

So that status quo up until the last 70 years or so has been "buy means buy" and you own the thing.

Now we have products with incredibly complicated digital locks, though.

It turns out you can prevent users from putting something other than sprite in their cups with a complicated enough digital enforcement mechanism. The question is "should you be allowed to?".

And that's actually a hard question - The answer depends a lot on how many people need to interoperate with you and your products (your marketshare and possible monopoly status), as well as whether you have a genuine benefit you're providing your consumer by limiting that cup to just Sprite.

So legally speaking, Keurig just settled a case about this exact issue (they're out 31 million, btw). This is not nearly as "problem free" as you so clearly want it to be.
FAANG-like organisations like to use statistics to drive decisions. As others have mentioned, things like "engagement", A/B testing, percent of users using a feature, etc...

This often leads to absurd decision making or false incentives. Things like the GUI shifting around making people click the wrong button by accident will increase engagement metrics and look like a positive thing in the reports.

Take Netflix as an example. If you set your UI language to English and live in Australia, Netflix allows you to choose only five languages:

- English for the hearing impaired

- Italian

- Simplified Chinese

- Traditional Chinese

- Vietnamese

Note that that list is for a show that has alternate audio languages like French and Italian, but you can't select all of those languages for subtitles. But here's the thing: Netflix has the subtitles in about 100 languages for every show. They just refuse to let you select them.

My parents are immigrants and like to listen to shows in English but have subtitles in their native language as a fallback. Netflix says "no". My partner is an immigrant and she's not Italian, Chinese, or Vietnamese. Netflix says her language just doesn't matter enough to make the list. I sometimes like subtitles, but I hate the hearing-impared subtitles. I don't matter either.

What's happened is that some overpaid statistician at Netflix figured out the top 5 most common languages for each region, decided that 99% coverage is "good enough", patted himself on the back, and the 1% can get fucked.

That statistician is probably paid 3-5x as much as me, and his job doesn't even need to exist. Just show every subtitle language available! Easy! No need to pay some "smarter than you" person to decide what you can and can't have.

Notes:

Apple TV shows every subtitle language, so there can't be any arguments saying that this is impossible or difficult or whatever.

If you call Netflix support, they will gaslight you and say that this is a copyright issue. It isn't, Netflix hides subtitles even for shows they produce themselves.

It's possible to do some combinations in any region. E.g.: setting the UI language to something other than English will make other subtitle languages show up. Some combinations are impossible though. So if there's some random couple like an Italian guy with a Filipino girlfriend, they can't do Italian language audio and Tagalog subtitles ever. Netflix has decided that their relationship is statistically unlikely and excluded them as outliers.
I feel like the post title should be something closer to the email, like one of the first lines "Is there still somebody around in the cairo community who is willing and able to make a release".
I thought BlueStacks was just to emulate Android on a Mac/PC? Though I suppose you could run Virtualbox on a Mac to get an OS you "own"
Mars: dirt, water (likely as brine), air, air pressure, warmth, gravity, sunshine.

You just get a lot of dirt, and a lot less of the others, but brine can be purified, air can be compressed to get pressure, useful minerals can be mined from the soil and rocks, which unlike Venus, isn't under a scorching acid bath.
You're looking for the Federalist Papers [0]. The first Federalist Papers were written as a response to the first Anti-Federalist Papers, and the two groups carried on the debate for months by continuing to write more counter-essays.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
Yes, that is correct. But, this article was posted on Vice and then shared to hacker news. To its primary audience, this is mind blowing.
> We don't want to even try to charge for things that customers don't feel they're getting good value from.

Then presumably you'll follow alooPotato's suggestion and allow folks to not pay extra for stuff we never wanted and never signed up for?

Presumably you can see how many of your customers (myself included) have never even looked at some of these new features you've added to Billing. I'm literally finding out about these features in this thread. If people were not aware of these features, you can figure they are not interested in paying extra for them.

This feels like New Coke.
> The amount of weird issues is about constant.

But linux is free both as in free beer and in free speech, windows required you to pay the Microsoft tax to use, and lastly macOS required you to pay a premium on hardware.
My policy is to upgrade my secondary/personal/low importance computer on day one and my primary computer a few weeks later.
Out come all the people who think this sort of thing is planned by Apple.
About 40 lines sounds reasonable to me.

I've been using vim and before that other vi clones or actual vi as one of my main editors for 40 years, and my .vimrc is 60 lines.

20 of those are to automatically decrypt on read and encrypt on write .gpg or .asc files, which I copied from somewhere 20-25 years ago and haven't actually used in 15+ years, leaving only 40 lines I actually care about.
Going by the above graphs, looking at the day of 4/15/2020, we had 604 people tested positive and 115 who died, with a ratio of 5 positive per death.

If we look at peak for positive tested, we got 11/5/202 with 4744 people tested positive and 12 people who died, with a ratio of 395 positive per death.

If we are going to get a factor of 4 positive per death we would need to see a spike of 1186 deaths within the next month or so for a single day. While anything is possible in this pandemic, I am not that certain of it.

> The number of people in intense care has reached April levels.

Per the graph, we are not there. April had as it peak 49 new person in a single day. November has its current peak at 20. It could get above 49, but again, time will show if that is the case. It is more alarming than the death graph, but less so than the positive graph.

For the number of tests, it has been increased from around 160k to 250k per week in the span of 5 weeks. (https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb...). In comparison, April had around 20k tests per week.

Interpretation of data is naturally up for debate but personally I am bit of a middle line person. I don't think we will see over 1k deaths per day any time soon, but we are going to see an quick increase in the near time. A lot will depend if the government decided again to lock up the elderly, something which worked but was quite controversial last time.
How so? The version ends up being part of the type, so a type from two different versions of a given package are not compatible, which solves most if not all of the issues.

If a package is just using a particular library internally, I don’t see why the package manager should prevent using it with another library that depends on a different version.
I'd imagine that revocations don't happen often. And when they do, Apple has a perfectly capable infrastructure to push those small incremental changes on demand. It's almost as if they intentionally ignored such superior solution and chose calling home for other reasons...
Unfortunately with the rise of the Fat Activist movement, many nutritionists now pander to clients by advocating eating practices that are unhealthy and dangerous.
Oakland-made coffee brewer Ground Control has industry buzzing
> In the other, Apple isn't even the biggest company.

Actually Apple would be the biggest company, in the market of people who have smartphones in the US. They just recently have a bit over 50% of that market.

Also, Apple does not need to be a literal, singular company for its actions to be illegal. Instead, it only needs to have significant market power. It doesn't even need to have a majority of the market.

> the argument in favor of Apple

Actually, no. Apple is making a much more silly argument that the market should be defined as "Things that can run video games", which can include things such as the XBox.

If the market is instead defined as the % of people who own an apple smartphone, in the US, then Apple is ~50% of that market.
This isn't anything surprising. A handful of companies out there have been working hard for the past few years to kill the personal computer and turn it back into a dumb terminal that connects to a mainframe owned by them, and they've managed to do it. Nomenclature also matters - they've stopped calling them "computers", now they're just "devices".

Enjoy your $1500 dumb terminal. If you're still buying Apple products, then you're simply unforgivable.
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FYI, both Windows and Chrome (to an extent) can do this too. Windows will phone home to smartscreen scan downloaded executables, and Chrome checks every download against virustotal (owned by Google since 2013) for viruses to warn that software is malicious, and I've been burned by this a few times when a download wouldn't complete for multiple minutes due to this scan.
I use the putlocker test to determine if/when a search engine ceases to provide useful results. If a search for putlocker only yields .com domains and the like, it no is longer prioritizing the most useful results.

Google long ago stopped returning useful results for my academic research. For example, it never returns Wikipedia articles unless I explicitly use Wikipedia as a keyword, which I now have to do for most of my searchers.
In this case, any app would take five to ten minutes to open. While that technically means "it still opens", it effectively renders the computer unusable.

(And that's after I realized that they will eventually open. Originally I rebooted the machine before any app had had a chance to open.)
Only in relation to the wider world which is getting progressively more crazy.
936 is my personal favorite.
so you can't even reboot without phoning home.

Or can you still reboot without wifi?