skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very petty approach. Apple (or any company) could easily sue this guy for that threat.
> or a facility/premises designed by the governor

Interpreting this in the worst light -- this could be a jail or prison if the governor has designated such to be where people charged with violating this law are to be confined. But it does go on to mention home confinement - not sure what the standard is.

What I'm not seeing is mention of compensation to people wrongly forcibly quarantined under this law. Or any reference to how they will be treated while quarantined (Will you be fed a Maricopa county jail peanut-butter sandwich, a military ration, or take-out from local restaurants?)

From a language perspective - I really dislike the word "Removal" used in the bill. Perhaps it's standard for NY laws, but it's too Orwellian in my opinion. And quarantine isn't mentioned until the last page. Really, it's just sloppily written, perhaps intentionally so - so that the legislator can prove to his constituents that he's doing something while on their dime.
I understand. Relationship management is a tough nut to crack. I know few companies who tick all the boxes. Discord is usually great with its splash screen what they are doing at the moment.
Thanks all for working on alternative Ruby Implementation, both Artichoke and TruffleRuby. (Edit: And also JRuby )
I’m trying to learn more about “artichoke” from their website but the hamburger menu won’t work on my iPhone safari. Pls fix!
I hate to agree with you, because I think I know what the 'right' thing is from my perspective. Sometimes to make a change, you have to fight and, likely, lose. You don't always effect change by winning. That said, I am not sure I would be willing to make that kind of decision.. and thankfully that is not my decision to make here.

I too recommend live to run another day approach ( ala Rincewind ).

..then again, this may be the right time to do stand up to Apple. Current upheaval in tech, clear battle lines being drawn over everything from section 230 to app store could stack up things in your favor..

Still, it is only a chance.
> As of 2021, there is no realistic threat of the far left being censored

This is entirely inaccurate, as most discussions about labeling AntiFa a 'terrorist organization' will show, and the huge investment many large companies make for preventing unionization. It is true that some people on the far left believe this, but they are entirely wrong.
Easy, adopt new name.

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How could this analogy work? There's no consequences to having a app with the word 'fuck' in it. Meanwhile throwing big parties obviously does to neighbors. I don't feel a lot of meatspace analogies work to things that are purely digital and can be filtered or ignored, while a houseparty with 100+ people and its noise and drunk drivers obviously cant be.
So apps with the words pep or speed in the name are also inappropriate?
Indeed, I own a 60's clunker, and enjoy having it for the experience and audacity of riding it, but you take the basic clunker concept and replace every piece with its modern counterpart, and now you've got a much better bike. For instance I wouldn't build up a new bike with steel rims, or expect any kind of performance out of a coaster brake.
These things happen when you depend on a middleman to distribute your product.
I remember my SO working for a German bank. It was exactly as you describe. She was in a back-office job. She always said she was an overpaid perl script 95% of the time and interesting work for the rest.

Exploitation is common in many companies. For me this stems from information asymmetry. Employer knows the job market, knows the salary spread, knows all internal salaries. As an employee you do not have these insights and need to trust the employer to be fair.

As we probably all know information asymmetry makes efficient and rational markets to break down.

Not sure what a potential solution would look like.
I have no issue speaking up when other people’s children are being disruptive during a Zoom meeting.

If they can walk, they can learn social protocol.
Really? I am still using it. It works fine with a Retina display, which is the only Apple display I've ever had.

2014 MBP 15 here.
HR doesn't work for you

That's what I've learned too. HR is an extension of the legal department. To be fair, their true job is to treat humans as resources.

These days, they're sometimes rebranded as the "People Team"!
This is really bad news. I have seen multiple sellers with this unnecessary condescending attitude as you mention. Even when their city is under social-distancing restrictions, they are insisting on pick-up in person and coming into their house to "sign off" that the goods are working.

Someone needs to take these lemonade-stand sellers down a notch or four. Were ebay to extend the feedback mechanism to pre-bidding / pre-purchase queries, the participants would be forced to clean up their act. It seems that ebay is not incentivized (enough) to do this, and so the situation persists.
So Apple is like jail ? :-))
You can work on that anxiety, just like you ace programming tests with enough time & effort. Therapy, especially group therapy might be really helpful.
I don't think it implies wrongdoing, just sounds like a silly joke.

Scotch vs scotch whiskey is more of a word play joke as well than a direct analogy. But I see your point and your totally right that one sounds less bad to me. I'm only stating that as a matter of taste I do not like this particular apps name.

And since it's apple's store they have the right to not like it either. I just don't think this is a profound "free speech argument" like some do in these comments.

Personally I think it's really odd that someone would need an app to keep their computer from sleeping. This says far more about macs than the arbitrary naming policy.
Can I recover my losses if the countermeasures destroy my business?
The photo in the quizz is cropped. You see less of the wall.
rename it

to ApplePhet
Doesn't seem that surprising. Receptors and transmitters are highly conserved across the evolutionary hierarchy. Going the other way, there's plenty of molecules from plants and fungi that affect the human nervous system.
I get what the comparison is about, I do. But really- how many different ways are there to house hundreds of people in an institutional setting?
> This is why hydro shouldn't be considered green energy.

Minuscule emissions when it's built that are amortized over a 50 year lifespan qualifies as very green in my books. The idea that it's not green anymore is absolutely ridiculous.

I sometime wonder if environmentalism greatest threat isn't... environmentalists themselves!
>Computers should work for us. We shouldn't work for computers.
Dump .txt for .text.

If my computer expects me to type an extra letter every time I name a file it isn't working for me. The short extensions make for more efficient typing.
In the U.S., caffeine is not a highly regulated substance. You can buy it without limits in concentrated pill form, or in coffee and cola. By contrast, amphetamine is regulated as a Schedule 2 controlled substance [0], i.e approved for medical use but considered to have "high potential for abuse". Opioids like fentanyl are also in Schedule 2.

[0] https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/
Do you have more information on how to build workflow systems, and why is it good to do so with Petri nets rather than abstract the processes with classes or whatever else?

Any information is welcome
Fair enough. If our prisons end up looking open, warm and inviting, then that would be a very positive outcome indeed.

That's not my takeaway, after looking at these photos though.
Makes sense. I think DOS took a lot of inspiration from CP/M.
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Giving somebody a ~1 day takehome assignment, sure. But you aren't going to be able to actually do any real work in this amount of time.
I also recall this article from his book "Hackers & Painters".
And this is news? Duuu
Public school is a prison where both parents can abandon their children to be raised by strangers while the parents chase what they really love: money. We make ourselves feel better by teaching them a few worthwhile things during their minimum 13 years in lockdown, coupled with a massive public jobs program, but most of it is a waste of precious family time where parents should be teaching and loving their own children.
And do you really want Apple to be the arbitrator of such silly things?
Yeah, I have also had this issue with some websites.

The dark mode plugin I use on my browser allows you to define custom rules for each site I visit. It'd be cool there were a similar feature for font sizing.

That way, I'd be able to just have those sites that look bad defaulted to regular font
I think this is close to the truth but misses an important factor: journal editors are, as a result of increasing submissions, asking for more refereeing. As a result, an increasingly high proportion of academics don't referee at all and those that do tend to referee more papers in less depth.

With less time spent per referee report, easily appreciated evidence of polish matters more where papers that pay attention to careful issues of methodology, tackle deep problems, etc., require time on the part of the referee that they are unwilling to spend.
Who are they lecturing on what?
For the world to be organized any other way you'd need to essentially revise the entire economic system and social contract. If there are billions of people and very unequal resource partitions this will be the inevitable result
You have downgraded my attack from "rewrite all Amazon links" to "rewrite all Amazon links that were not owned by another affiliate."

And I can rewrite all Amazon links that were not owned by another affiliate if I don't mind just sending them to the Amazon home page. Which will probably be the behavior if an affiliate messes up the link (which they will do fairly reliably).

The result is not a significant improvement over the current state, except that it becomes somewhat harder to be an affiliate.
So do I. I stick up for this fucking place.
Yeah the little SIM card face cringed me out
Same here especially after watching the CGP Grey video on anger.
I did read the article and it is intentionally misleading. They count the loss of heat radiated away from the cooking vessel against the efficiency of an induction cooker, but don't mention (or perhaps don't know) that because of the nature of induction heating you can actually use insulated pots with them. You can wrap a pot in your sweater if you want, because there's no open flame.
> The housing market continues to show a preference towards communities with HOAs.

Is it the housing market as homeowners who favours HOAs, or is it the builders who favour them? Are HOAs opted in by homeowners in existing communities because of their benefits, or do builders create them force them upon new communities because it benefits them somehow?

I am asking because while I do not have any knowledge of HOAs, I have been following the saga of rental water heaters/furnaces/ACs in Ontario for a while. Long story short, construction companies sign a long-term contract with an appliance company instead of buying and installing necessary appliances like furnaces for new houses. They get a nice kickback for this. If you want to buy a new house, odds are you will be bound by a long-term contact. If you want to terminate it early, you end up paying 30k for an appliance that is worth 10k new and installed. If you keep your contact, you will pay the same over many years.

It is a deal that is very much to the benefits of the builder and very much against the interest of the homeowners. But they have been exploding in popularity. There are relatively more and more homes with rented water heaters and fewer and fewer homes with owned water heaters every year. It would still be wrong to conclude that "water heater rental is beneficial. See, the market has spoken."
The distinctions are only arbitrary in the fantasy world where an iPhone is remotely similar to a burger.

Food products, especially restaurant foods, are regulated differently than non-food consumer goods. And have been for over a century. There are licensing requirements, safety requirements, and other rules that apply to restaurants that don't apply to other businesses.

And those "arbitrary" laws make all the difference in why unapproved middlemen should not be allowed for restaurant foods.
Do you have some examples? Any monopoly I know of was government granted, usually through regulations. I actually know of much more examples of disruption...

Now the market can arrive to a state of monopoly due to some powerful player, but as long as the startup mechanism is functioning, competition will arrive and disrupt.
Not necessarily but leading by example is the best way to educate kids, so a parent who is a leader in some capacity will have also leader children, either by socialising them or by pure genetics.
Unless you think the pandemic has created a significant shift in consumer behavior with respect to takeout--like it probably has with grocery delivery--it's hard to see how delivery companies unable to make money over the past year will do so in the future. And I'm not sure why people would change. The overall take one hears is nice to have (even essential in some views) during pandemic, but expensive and unreliable.

The fact is that mainstream, even upper middle class, consumers won't en masse pay enough for some sorts of services to work when extended beyond the niches when it already does work.
It is almost a certainty that the Apple's ToS mandates arbitration instead of a real court and definitely allows them to remove an app at any time for any reason. There is no reason for Apple to not CTA in their ToS since developers have no where else to go.
Schools, especially elite ones, often see their purpose as creating/fostering leaders out of the pool of potential that they’ve curated.
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Well, it is in the "Worklife" section of their web site, so yes, it's probably talking about career success.

But leadership is a good ability to have even if you don't care about career success or money at all. Any kind of endeavor needs leaders, not just money-making endeavors. Suppose there's a problem that could be solved if volunteers banded together to do it. Who's going to initiate that, organize them, and make it happen? A leader.
> A significant portion of the population isn't capable of making that judgment.

That may be, but that's the beauty of natural selection. If they can't do what they need to do to protect themselves, then their lineage will fail. Though it may inconvenience you, if you're smart enough to, you have the ability to move away from large groups of people (and take advantage of alternatives like grocery delivery, etc).

> There's a significant risk of becoming a victim of aggravated assault when you confront individuals or groups who insist on flaunting guidelines.

That's already happening and exacerbated by the media.
Oh, I thought it might be a dig at the high price of the headphones. But your explanation makes more sense.
This situation would not be solved by a change of payment mechanism, currency choice, monetary policy, or anything like that. It's not what makes Apple a large powerful corporation. The entire world could switch to bitcoin, but if millions of people still buy iPhones, Apple will still have power over what is done on those phones.
Except in this case there are no “neighbors” to speak of. Every app is kind of like an island in an archipelago and don’t have a means of communicating to each other.

It’s more like the government of the archipelago decided that they don’t like the name of the island as people interested in such an island are promoting narcotics.
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I know that usually when Americans are seduced by a dharmic religion, it's Buddhism. I however find the teachings and doctrines of Jainism far more in touch with how I feel about ethics, and I think it is relevant to this notion of plants potentially feeling pain.

My understanding of Jainism is that one of it's ultimate goals is the eradication of suffering on earth. However, they take this radically. You cannot be violent for any reason at all (and yes, this has kept the number of Jains throughout history to be quite small). This prohibition against violence is so extreme that they have a word for "Kitchen Violence" which is the violence that they accidentally exert onto the remaining plant matter when they are wishing their plates after eating. At least they acknowledge the impossibility of truly eliminating all violence on earth (you must clean things), so it's a little bit of necessary violence but it also leads to aestheticism and a general desire to not waste resources.

I think Jainism is the only religion in the world that has a belief system which is similar of that to Negative Utilitarianism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism) which I strongly believe is that most intuitive and authentically ethically compassionate doctrine in our current society. Many of the folks who believe in negative util do so with further specifications that pain and pleasure (the hedonistic form) are one very good way of measuring this.

Maybe it sounds absurd to give Anesthesia to a plant before cutting away at it or something, but the possibility that plants feel pain and have something ackin to an experience of reality was quite concerning for people ancient and modern - and those who think strongly enough about it may believe in plants as holding some sort of ethical value (no matter how small).

I hope that sometime in the far future, we may eliminate pain and displeasure from the universe. Jainists, Negative Utilitarians, Anti-natalists, and others who recognize the possible horrors inherit to reality (and it's negative nature e.g. it tries to negate you if you take no actions via entropy), would be some of the most ethical actors in a society where we find out that "Plants feel things too" or "It's possible to imagine, or simulate the experience of being a plant that is harmed"...
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This take seems a bit short sighted IMO. How do you know that if the work culture was better, the product wouldn't be any different?

It does seem unnecessary to strive for a perfect work-life balance for these giant companies to ship good enough products and make boatloads, though.
You can still get caffeine directly from the developer's website: https://intelliscapesolutions.com/apps/caffeine
The Sikh General Hari Singh Nalwa also uprooted & defeated Afghan Leaders like Dost Mohammad & others, & ruled Afghanistan Throne & build forts around there, even died in his last battle, but did not let the news of his death come out making sure his side wins, in around 1830s. [0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Singh_Nalwa
Impatience for indecisiveness, courage to move forward with uncertainty, a focus on goals, vision of the goal, an ability to identify and overcome obstacles, the ability to cultivate and grow effective lieutenants. These are also some attributes of leadership that seem to me more a product of personality, and while you can learn to hone them, changing one’s personality isn’t that common or easy, IME.
Less likely, NSO's expertise is in development of exploits for browsers and apps (ex: WhatsApp), not ss7 exploits
100% faster means speed is increased by 100%, i.e. double the speed or half the time.

MRI took 89ms/iter to scan for a regex pattern over 6.8MB of text, while Artichoke took 48ms/iter [0]

0: https://youtu.be/QMni48MBqFw?t=1378
You mean fearless bullet sponges that leak red liquid after health bar exhaustion and fall without screaming in pain, or for their lost friends, or without begging you to spare them with horrified eyes? It's less realistic than in hollywood movies. [Don't] watch real footage to compare. Realistic-enough violence games usually can't even make it to the market, except few nsfl/ryona self-publishing niches. Would you ever like to promote one to AAA-grade, honestly?
Honestly if he's worried about that he's not making good enough margins.

Just look at the profits per engineer at Facebook.
No, that's called caffeinate.
Well, I have read said whitepaper, but thanks for reciting it once again.

I have also read an extremely early mailing lists that appeared long before bitcoin started to get derided by critics like you, and guess what, it was those comparisson I'm referring to. And since you started reciting old texts, i'll go for it too.

Gold and Bitcoin are very similar in all their properties regarding use it as a wealth storage and transfer, with two stark differences: unlike Bitcoin, gold can be used to create physical objects. Like, a ring. Unlike gold, Bitcoin can be near-instantly transferred to another person. Everything else is irrelevant. Gold is valued not because it has some inherent value in it, the price depends only on belief that it has value. Same with bitcoin.
Where is the forced labor in schools, barracks, hospitals and factories? I understand there are some instances where this might be the case, but generally people go to those places because they want to, or because it offers them a favorable outcome that they're willing to temporarily trade some autonomy for.

You can deconstruct the whole of society and make an argument that all labor exchanged for capital is oppression, that all regular chronologies favored by the dominant culture is oppression, that all authority figures are oppressive etc... But it's difficult to imagine a thriving, post-industrial society not featuring some of those things.

Even looking back in history, people have self-organized into hierarchical, regimented systems. I think a lot of this is just a natural reaction to our environment, which is also dictated by regular chronologies (days, lunar cycle, seasons), necessary labor (biological need for food and shelter) and implicit authority figures (parents).
> Most small restaurants fail within a year of opening. It’s a very tough business.

Why is that? Seems straightforward - exchange food for money. Why's that so difficult to make work?
Thank you for reminding me to call my fantastic parents and tell them that I love them.
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This is NOT how innovation works. https://www.amazon.com/How-Innovation-Works-Flourishes-Freed...
There is another related syllogism that I don't have a name for:

1. We tried X as a solution for Y.

2. X didn't work, because we didn't implement it properly or we didn't understand how to implement it properly or some unrelated situation caused it to not work properly.

3. Therefore X and anything that even kind of resembles X is no longer an acceptable solution for Y.
Lawyer? Isn't the most effective thing just to quit and look for another job. Maybe you can milk some money out of the company with a lawyer, but you are going to pay mentally by investing your brain to that issue. It is better to focus elsewhere.
Whatever limits we have as individuals are generally invisible to us. It’s fairly easy for us to see those limits in other humans. By extension I have no doubt other humans can see limits in my range of thoughts, and I expect there to be thoughts that no human is able to think.
Next on the chopping block.
interesting connection between complex numbers and discrete random variables.
> If you transfer from, say, Google Mountain View out to Pittsburgh or Waterloo your compensation will be adjusted accordingly, including your RSUs. None of this is new or novel so it's weird to see people complain.

In the case of international locations (Waterloo) there's often a skill gap as well. Not everyone there would qualify to relocate to Mountain View.