skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand. Why do you have to call the joint on an application? Yelp isn't available here, but on the local apps (Algeria), I can make the order by clicking on foods, adding quantities, adding drinks, then confirming the order.

For every joint, there's their menu with different tabs (drinks, desserts, pizzas, burgers, briskets, pastrami, etc) custom for every joint.

The app then tells me when the joint has accepted the order, when the rider picked up my order, and where the rider is. The rider comes to the office, gives me food, I give them money, and good bye.

I can even click to re-order the same thing, or make several orders from different places (when you want food from several places). And if the joint is not featured in the app, you can make a custom order where you describe what you want, and put the address of the joint.

You can even just buy items (chocolate bars, water) on the app. I don't understand why do you have to call on an app. That sucks.
It is mine in name only. It is like a private bedroom where somebody else can come at any moment and inspect any aspect of my life and I can't stop him and sometimes I can't even know he is inspecting me at the moment.
I mean that’s just patently untrue in the US with programs like medicare/medicaid. There is not no one thinking about these things and arguing for making them better, so the rest of this is fruit of the rotten lazy argument tree as far as I’m concerned.
I'd say it's less direct social media, not generally about people but ideas and things.
Colocation Is Dead
If users would hit yelp.com and searched for a restaurant and somehow google intercepted that then they'd be a parasite. The way I see it it is a symbiotic somewhat relationship, at least in theory. Yelp is a parasite on businesses though, they attempt to extort money and give no value in exchange, often times unsuccessfully. Here's an older anecdote I posted about yelp [0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790918
My workflows are all Mac centric. Now I'm also hooked on using iPad as second display via sidecar.i could solve these issues via Linux and I am researching Linux distros by installing on my old mac but nothing quite compares to the Mac ecosystem UX. I solve this particular problem by only ever updating my os long after the problems have been ironed out. Apple are notorius for beta testing on users and frankly I think it's crazy to update your main machine this early in the cycle.
I've used Windows for 10 years prior that. Maybe the difference is not touching Windows for 10 years.

Sure, it is about trust. Browser addons and language packages pushed by authors, this results in leftpad, spyware. Distributions dissolves authors power, provides buffer, they pull new versions, walk it through stages, there are many eyes and build is (often) reproducible, stable distributions pull only critical updates. Overall effect would not be as dramatic.

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.ht...
At the same time, technology offers some solutions to this like ssl certificates.

Perhaps there is a business model for bespoke extended validation ssl certs where, for example, they are tied to a physical address.
There is one on the iPad my daughter was playing with it last week. Think it’s an up front purchase of ~$20
That would only move the problem. That plugin would still need a Git repository, an issue tracker, tests, and an update mechanism. Or are you trying to say you don't care if this specific part of yt-dl gets deleted from the internet by RIAA?
Just take out the SSD and ... Oh.
According to this small Spanish randomized controlled trial, it can be even better: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
" if you told someone they had a 97% chance of winning at a casino, they'd be down there in a flash"
this is a bad analogy, what if you also told them that if they lost they were taken out back and shot? I bet a lot fewer people would show up. In this particular case, winning just means not dying, if I could increase my odds of not dying I would probably do so.

Also there is no proof that getting covid grants lifetime immunity, so lets assume immunity lasts a year, every year you now have a 3% chance of dying from covid using your numbers. 3% is not that low, there is a ~3% chance of rolling double sixes with 2 dice, and that happens all the time.
Vitamin D is the only supplement that the NHS suggests that most people should take as a matter of course. But the logistics of getting it out to everyone would be tough. Easier to recommend it and let people buy it.
Sounds like you need to “kill your darling” as it were. The number of people who you will reach if you scale is exponentially more than those who have already connected with your story.
I always find it odd that people take such a hands-off approach when it comes to things like Vitamin D usage, while at the same time cheerleading for governments to crack down hard on things like gyms, birthday parties, church services, elementary schools. Nothing is too extreme in the name of COVID, except that somehow distributing Vitamin D would be going overboard?
I've worked at some startups that were _very_ successful, despite the founders only having a couple of these skills. Number (1) Grit seems to be mandatory, the rest can be made up for by having the right team. The thing you don't list that seems to be important is _charisma_ - successful founders can _convince people_. Sometimes that's in opposition to (4) Communication, and as an engineer that causes me pain, but it seems like convincing people to believe in something often takes the place of understanding other people's thoughts. And somehow they succeed anyway.
I did use emacs before i switched to vim 15 years ago. My memory is hazy, but i am pretty sure Ctrl-O to save a file and Ctrl-X to exit are not emacs bindings. I was as confused with nano when i used emacs as i am now.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...

>OpenSSH has been added to Windows as of autumn 2018, and is included in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.
Amazon employees arrested for stealing $592,000 worth of iPhones
True, there are things that might ruin someone's life even though there's nothing bad about them, but the list of actual crimes and bad things that people do is WAY longer, and being able to prove it is definitely useful...
> Shouldn't we privilege protecting people from lies vs protecting people from the truth?

Indeed! I couldn't have put it better myself.
Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science
I see obese people as mocking everything good about the modern world. You're not going to starve over the winter! Nature extracts a steep toll from those with a weak mind and body.
Good on you for breaking out of a cycle that wasn't working. I think you're really speaking to something that's becoming increasingly true - distribution is at least as important as, if not more important than, products themselves. We've moved past "if you build it they will come" to something more akin to "if enough people are already coming to you, you can build something, and they'll try it."
I typically search for things "-yelp". They're an annoying and mostly useless.

I haven't bothered to look in a long time, but the reviews I've seen are obviously bad. I can find menus on the restaurant's real page. The locality views are worse than, say, Apple maps. There's just no reason to use them.

Add in that they harm the livelihood of restaurants owned by people I like, and yeah, they're another crap site that continues to be annoying by trying to get in between me and someone who wants to feed me.
Apple has started their own reviews and database of businesses, so I expect Yelp to be replaced in a few years in Apple Maps.
I thought this part was more damning:

In very rare circumstances, such as a power failure during a macOS upgrade, a Mac that has the Apple T2 Security Chip may become unresponsive

The chip that has the keys for your system in its hands does not have redundant firmware images, like every cheap ass Android?
> Large geographic size…Similar to #1, this makes it hard for aggrieved, disenfranchised groups to collectively rise up, as everyone is literally all spread out.

This is not at all obvious: sometimes different groups are disproportionately present in one particular area.

> China has no imperial ambitions. The annexation of Tibet was 70 years ago. The last incident of expansion could technically be in in 1997 when Hong Kong was transferred to China from Britain

Pedantically, don’t forget Macau. Taiwan remains. And Sino-Indian conflict is still on the rise. Generally, the expansion of China’s overseas presence prima facie looks imperial. It may not be, but some reason should be given as to why!

> America’s large bureaucracy and its constitutional republic composed to hundreds of Congressmen and Senators creates a lot of redundancy and limits the damage any one individual can do

One might have thought that, but on the other hand the US president has rather a lot of power (see e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/preside... of course, the bureaucracy may not follow the president, but I think that needs to be shown.

> so many obvious methodological problems and dubious assumptions, such as that history must cycle or that empires must fall

This is the most promising, I suspect, line of response—alas, it isn’t really explored much.
Fixing an issue around being unable to pay with a credit card is likely anything but a 30 min issue, unless there is some triviality happening, like a config issue. But even then you need to add tests for this. A day or two is the absolute minimum and that would be if this is just a config issue. If it's not, then think of weeks.
AFAICT the bolus supplements are meant to take months to absorb. This is probably easier and definitely cheaper than giving daily supplement pills. I'm not sure if there are serious downsides to bolus supplementation, but it's probably not worse than most nursing-home cost-cutting tactics.
> that's crude whataboutism.

You’ve missed my point, which is that you could remove the word “Apple” from your original comment and it would have made no difference. One kind of fanatic does not excuse another, nor have I claimed it does.

There’s no need to list Apple’s faults. I’m aware of them and support a large part of Apple criticism in the Tim Cook era (and not just technical[1]), including most of yours.

Where we disagree is in the insinuation the author is a fanatic simply for defending Apple. They’ve written a technical post and gave their conclusions, which may indeed sound apologetic but are far from rabid fanaticism.

> Fuck Apple.

In sum, it’s fine to decry the company but I disagree that people who like it and accept its tradeoffs should be immediately labeled as extremists.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24738345
If you order through e.g. instacart somebody usually still has to make an in-person trip to the store and take things off shelves. It's the same vector, but you are paying someone else to be exposed to it.

It's not necessarily true but it is statistically true. Gig workers are more likely to be non-white and have lower educational attainment than traditional workers, and non-white gig workers are more likely to rely on gigs for primary income than white workers.
Firstly, it's not Apple's way. They favour vertical integration and premium-pricing.

Secondly, why have part of the pie when you can have the whole pie? i.e. instead of just acquiring Intel's customers, also acquire their customers, all the way to the end-consumer, gobbling up the margins at each step of the way.
This is every bit as much about email you receive as email you send, and you are not in control of email you receive.

If your doctor slips up and emails you about your AZT prescription, it doesn't matter how careful you were about not disclosing your HIV status over email you sent.
I surprised myself last week!

When one of my older Macs became unresponsive due to that Apple network failure problem issue, I spent countless hours running various system cleaner utilities, uninstalling apps, and blindly running obscure terminal commands from Stack Overflow, even though my own initial console log analysis (and instincts) had more-or-less confirmed that it was an issue with trustd network connection timeouts to Apple's own servers.

Fool on me. This coupled with having to get my 2019 Macbook Air keyboard replaced twice (due to sticky keys) has me thinking out loud about moving away from Apple.

Good coverage of the trustd issue:
https://tidbits.com/2020/11/13/apple-network-failure-destroy...
> Every single credible 1201 takedown claim will be reviewed by technical experts, including when appropriate independent specialists retained by GitHub, to ensure that the project actually circumvents a technical protection measure as described in the claim.

huh. Can you still take advantage of DMCA "safe harbor" if you are independently applying legal judgement to whether they would have a good chance of winning in court before deciding to comply with them?
Yeah, sorry. That's just a bit of unwarranted speculation because I've just seen something like this: https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-could-go-to-ch...
Yes, and hospitalization numbers are one case statistic. That's a "why should we lockdown" and not "what metrics do we use to decide how hard to lock down"
If everyone had a proper understanding of email and was not dumb enough to send out secrets via email, or to at least encrypt the content of those emails...then nobody would believe such a leak to be plausible.

Sadly that's not the case.
Friendly reminder: vitamin D3 can affect sleep if taken later in a day. I tend to skip if I forget to take it before noon. Also, D3 without additional K2 may lead to calcium excess.
This would break a cool indieweb "hack" with DKIM - webfistbump, which lets folks participate in webfinger even if their email provider doesn't support webfinger, like gmail:

https://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/06/bootstrapping-webfinger-...

(I suppose you could just re-opt into webfistbump every time your email provider is about to publish their DKIM key)
This relies on the problematic approach to deniability of making forgeries possible.

To make this work you need to claim a forgery when you know that no such forgery occurred. So you explicitly or implicitly have to accuse someone of a serious crime/offence they did not commit. Most people have a greater sense of honour than that. Those that don't would still have to fear getting caught.

If someone actually does forge a message using the old private keys provided by Google then you would have to fight the assumption that you were using the system as it was designed. Everyone would just assume you said it and are now using the possibility of forgery to lie about having said it.

You can always claim a forgery anyway should you decide to do that. Perhaps someone got access to Google's relatively poorly guarded DKIM private key. How would you know? You are probably not making a specific claim anyway.
China's Peer-to-Peer Lending Bubble and Its One Survivor, Lufax
I think he's referring to this?

https://www.trumpaccountability.net/
Yes, especially in the ReScript toolchain ( rescript-lang.org/ ), there are many benefits:

- Super-fast compiler

- Readable and succinct JS output with nearly 1-to-1 mapping from OCaml source

- Simple module system with no need to explicitly import modules--the compiler takes care of it for you

- High-quality React and other bindings

- The standard advantages of the type system like expressive power of data types and pattern matching with exhaustivity checking

- Tons of super useful built-in lints like 'unused variable', 'unused function parameter', 'discarding a value', etc.
I think the RIAA is going to be shocked and flabbergasted that 1) the community, and I mean the respectable corporate parts of the software development community really rallied together to fight this and 2) that their argument for how this is infringement fizzles to nothing when you look at the wording of the DMCA as pointed out by the EFF's legal note.

The real question is will we see a push from RIAA lobbyists to amend the wording, or see this go to court.
Apple macOS 11 Big Sur review: a long time coming
> Linux users don't have to worry nearly as much about malware, trojans, viruses, exploits. It's more secure.

Wait, Linux doesn't prevent doing stupid things, quite the opposite.
Okay, but what about a topic that is legal and acceptable in today's society but not in the society 20, 30 or 40 years down the line? What if being gay becomes socially unacceptable again? Or supporting the second amendment? Or [literally anything]?

The problem is that what is socially and legally acceptable changes over time. Just 30 years ago, the standard for social acceptable commentary was wildly different in the areas of gender identity, sexuality, and race for instance.
What is a beacon, and why is it important to modern businesses?
Ah yes, the good old, “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to hide” argument. The authoritarians favourite argument for a police state.

I guess you’re the type of person that would happily hand over all your personal files to the police on a regular basis as you have nothing to hide.
Are you suggesting anything here? ;-) But I get it. In the US the obsession with "war" is disturbing. It would be interesting to analyze political speech in the US and how many times the word "enemy" is being used compared to "friend".
They don't consider those improvements sufficient. See section titled "Insufficient “improvement” on third-party access.": https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaints-against-apples-trac...

They argue that with the planned changes, Apple still creates a IDFA, and while it will allow users to restrict other apps from using it, Apple itself still can. Additionally they want users to be able to have no IDFA at all.
> Like I said, you're parsing my comments with an agenda. Please stop.

Just because I have an opinion that is different than yours, does not make my attempt at refuting your assertions, or at least showing their weaknesses, any more agenda based than you doing the same to mine.

Stop putting yourself in the position of moral superior and arbiter of truth. Make your arguments and refute mine to the best of your ability. I will do the same, thanks.

You seem to not want your reasons for dismissing any concern about sex workers considered or applied anywhere else. But that is a good test of their truth, if they can be used to judge other situations too, which is all I was doing.
I even sidestepped the obvious of loading widevine.so, running it, symbolic execution, etc. It's mostly a thought experiment to show how everything is stupid in the end.

I'm afraid in a few months/years, we'll see the hardware security level to become mandatory for Netflix, etc. And then YouTube.
I think most places add it to milk. I supplement during the darkest six weeks of the year (which is starting very soon). It does seem like there could be a bigger seasonal push. Maybe not from the government but from somewhere.
Except if you are the actual victim of these e-mails and the politicans who control 95% of the media are able to trick people either making them belive it was fake or it had "national interests" and they did it because of "country".

At least these e-mails are believed to be true in other countries. So does Authenticity of thes e-mails can easily help you when you seek asylum in country from a country where they declared you as a terrorist - internationally.
I wouldn't trust anything a dentist has to offer, they only had their first empirical dentistry journal in the last decade.
It is not so much as faith being irrational, I guess..but the actions of some people who subscribe to that faith that makes me want to belong to the club.

I don’t say this lightly as I realize it sounds like a very superficial excuse. But it’s not. There is a constant parallel process of mirroring when we subscribe to any group philosophy.

If faith is a powerful shaper of the spirit /personality/values, every member is a review. Almost all religions get a mean 2.5 stars out of 5.

So every time faith has to be internal and personal to be effective. If faith is internal and personal, then why do we have organized religion? Why do we talk about it? Why do we write about it and want to spread it? Why do we build monuments and churches and temples and art and wage wars? It is only those that have done all of the above that has survived over the years.

Twenty years ago, I used to go about saying that with AI, the world won’t need religion anymore. Well...now the Pope is talking about Robots and AI from the Vatican. 300 years from now, how will we reconcile an afterlife or day of judgement or karma when life extension could practically make us immortal. I suspect religious faith will still be around but in what form?
yes, my point is that we should make sure that _no one_ is stupid enough to secrets in plain text.

with criminal repercussions

Or better: don't use email and don't give an email address out to people who hold your secrets.
I believe it's related to its potential to save tens or hundreds of thousands of lives.
No.
The HN headline implies causation. The study result does not. (The study authors try to imply causation as well, but that's not what the study says.)
Couldn't agree more: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/
Key disclosure by cryptographic shaming[2020]
Perhaps I missed it - does the article say that the test groups were NOT wearing masks and social distancing? Or that they were?

If they were wearing masks and social distancing, what % of that 95% came from that vs the vaccine?

[adding the below]

From this CNBC article in August, it seems participants are free to continue wearing masks https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/coronavirus-vaccine-trial-he...

"But he is still taking precautions as best he can. "I'm not going to walk around without a mask on," he said. "I don't think I'm superman."
Mandatory arbitration was designed to get around class-action suits, arbitration does not create binding precedent. Constitutional originalism was invented to enshrine mandatory arbitration - if the framers of the Constitution didn't have it in mind it wasn't important or can be punted to a pernennial gridlocked legislature.
So is the right interpretation to think of "_" not as part of the variable name at all but rather as a unary operator (that acts on its left) which denotes a variable as unbound?
Awesome write up! Thank you for sharing!
> forced vaccination

There won’t be enough vaccines to go around, so no one will be forced to take anything for at least a year. By then we might be at 60-70% of the population vaccinated, at which point the R0 of the virus would be much lower.

Don’t worry about it for now, the rest of us will take the risk so you don’t have to.
Well, by 2030 the non-repudiation will be considered lost if that’s the case. Maybe even 2027. But today, in 2020, a verified DKIM is strong indication about the identity of the writer, or that the keys weren’t safely stored.
I also had this happen on my late 2013 MBP 15, it stayed on black screen for hours. I had an external monitor attached, so I was curious if that was affecting the update. I unplugged the monitor and then reset the laptop. It took at couple attempts, but the update resumed and I'm running Big Sur with no issues.
You said "there is never a legitimate need to do X".

I gave an example of a legitimate need to do X.

Your rebuttal is that... I'm confused? Yeah, you're gonna have to be more specific than that if you want to convince anybody.
A company as rich as Apple should be able to QA their full supported product range without compromise.
You already have to sign in to view some videos, don’t you? Does YT-dL not have a way to handle those right now?