skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4. We’ll probably have new rapid tests by the summer. They go a long way to reducing spread without much inconvenience. Michael Mina has been banging his head against the wall for months to get people to listen: these can be as effective as lockdowns and much less burdensome.

The “inconvenience” in the USA (besides outright coronavirus deniers and people who flout restrictions in contempt of expert and professional public health officials) is that there is no guaranteed paid sick/isolation leave if one is ordered to go into isolation. Given that 40% of Americans have less than $400 for a “rainy day”, going to work while sick may be necessary. Also, in a lot of cases, no job: no health insurance, which is tragic and consequential during a pandemic.

You also need to have a strong public health system in place well in advance, where citizens already have been following and adhering to prevention programs for a long time, along with trust in the system. The EU countries generally do better with this, in the most general sense, but it depends on the country. For example, there are published reports of what percent of the country’s population washes their hands every time after they use the restroom. Some of the more “eastern” EU countries (which are now westernized) do way better that west/north Europe.

Also, some countries routinely issue self-isolation orders for 14 days, and the police will check, multiple times. In some countries these fines are over $1,200 for the first offense, and for the second offense, it’s $20,000. Both of these fines are unaffordable for the majority of the population.

Anyways, my point is that rapid self tests do work, but it requires a properly functioning government, with a strong public health system, and a cooperative public that trusts their officials and adheres to public health recommendations well before a pandemic occurs.
I honestly don't care about anything Mozilla says at this point. They're opposition to distributed social networking platforms and their recent statement on freedom of speech is absolutely appalling and disgusting. They could be absolutely right about this but the media is the message and the medium of Mozilla no longer even remotely represents the values that brought me to Firefox and the open source world back in the early 2000s.

I'm wondering how services like PeerTube and ffmpeg operate with H264? It appears Linux services can encode and decode H264 fine without explicit payments. Is it because we're under a certain threshold? If a site with H264/H265 content gets too big, will it start to see legal letters for these costs?
You're missing a wide array of applications, from dystopic surveillance to checking the state of a place (damage, garbage).

Sounds potentially profitable to me.

Of course owners should be able to opt out of that or even be paid for opting in.
There is evidence against the police on the scene not securing the members of congress? I've only seen people spreading uninformed, BS conclusions based on out-of-context videos. Conclusions that were largely later debunked.
Right so, when you open the app, you must choose a server to connect to, for the purposes of app verification, you provide a server with heavy moderation.

I could see apple having issue with providing pre-filled server selection, but if you had to manually enter a domain, I would be interested in how they would move the goal posts to deny an app like that.
Did [1] do something specifically that makes him most wanted?
> There's a small gotcha in the new MPEG LA license agreement. Footnote 17, which appears in tiny print at the very end of the summary of license terms, notes that “Annual royalty caps are not subject to the 10% limitation.” Although that sounds like a loophole, it really only affects the largest players in the market.

Cisco’s free to use h264 encoder/decoder binaries of its open source OpenH264 are a result of this license cap so potentially it could affect others if those rates rise to the point they withdraw availability.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264
The difference in viruses is that if you get on the hump, you are outcompeted by other viruses that stayed in the minimum, which makes it a lot more difficult.
So are companies in New Zealand not bound by H264 licensing fees? They banned software patents years ago.
That can sometimes be a feature, not a bug. I've worked on systems that used memory mapped files as a form of persistent shared memory between processes.
My main problem making full use of structured logging is the lack of good visualization tool (ie: something that is not a big cluster of stuff :) ). So this look very nice.

Maybe you can combine https://vector.dev that is actually a good shipper and transformation of logs and focus in the visualization and integration? Anyway I hope yours get very good. Will be nice if the whole setup is just a simple go exe and that is all!
And that's fine. Let the government block those apps. Let's have some due process here. I own my phone, I should be able to put what I want on it.
Thank you. I could figure out most of that, but I resent the "I ask questions and expect you to figure it out" format, no matter who does it and what point they're pushing. And in fact you supplied some details that I did not know and would not have guessed.
It depends on if you mean "what's the probability of a coin landing heads" or if you mean "what's the probability a coin tossed 4 times will land heads 2 times?" The first is 1/2 = 2/4.
Thanks for the correction, however

> The United States does not support Taiwan independence.

That speaks volumes on US' instance.

I lived long enough to see that Taiwan is mere a pawn to attack China. If dropping a nuclear bomb on Taiwan could set back China, US will do it in a heartbeat. This is how the world politics works. Always have been.
I can understand why Apple might act to protect their business or to avoid liability.

The App Store is clearly a curated platform, so Apple could potentially be held liable for harmful apps that it publishes.

Moreover they are within their rights to drop any app that they don't wish to publish, or that they claim violates their terms of service – just as Nintendo can drop a game from the eShop.

It could backfire somewhat if they become viewed as unfairly censoring political opinions.
Or the web could be what the web was intended to be, platform less. We effectively killed the notion of “web” when we doubled down on “there’s an app for everything and stopped adding hardware access to mobile browsers.

Makes me said that there’s an app to order a burger from Shake Shack for example.
But Net Neutrality already went away. We have seen no serious, systemic issues with ISPs.

Section 230 on the other hand...
Without Section 230, who is going to host these small websites and why would they take on the risk of having one of the sites' owners posting something illegal?
So with Coca-cola, the ingredients are fully known, it's just the process that's secret?
I strongly, strongly disagree. The "free and open internet" is a farce and only existed decades ago because nobody had any idea what they were doing yet.

We cannot allow people easy access to radicalization.
Love to know the tech behind this. Please share!
Note that the XML serialisation of HTML is still a thing—if you open a .xhtml file or navigate to something served with the content-type application/xhxml+xml, the XML parser will be used instead of the HTML parser.
> The decisions by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and others to suspend and/or block President Trump’s communications via their platforms is a simple exercise of their rights, under the First Amendment and Section 230, to curate their sites.

EFF supporting corporate personhood and private censorship?

It's time to restart the cycle with new means of communication that the new establishment cannot police.
The only things that take off are those that are beyond easy technically for the end user. Thats why this will never work at least in mass.
greed vs nature
Policing thought has scattered the social media Tower of Babel (2018)
Are you familiar with the capitol bombing, Bill Ayers, weather underground, and Obama launching his political career from Ayer’s house?

Ayers being famous for admitting he doesn’t regret setting the bomb. Instead of being labeled a terrorist, he was made a professor and launched a lot of the social justice movement in education.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/02/a-...

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign...

So... to say counterproductive isn’t taking into account history and possibility. Ayers and Obama didn’t suffer from association to each other or this domestic terrorism.

Now, obviously, Trump Supporters (notice I didn’t say GOP) will find this to all have been counterproductive, agreed there in this specific case. My point about Ayers is that this is all a matter of who writes the history.
This seems extremely relevant given everything going on. Do we have to worry about the same deplatforming and data tracking as we see on other media sites? Asking because I just don’t know - I don’t want to hop over just to have the same problems.
The main historic arguments against singular they and for neutral he are intertwined.
They should not have released it without a much longer open comment period, if they expected anyone else to implement it. VP8 had barely just come out of hiding from a private company and hadn't been reviewed.

I have known the author of WebP (he previously worked on XviD) and I'm pretty sure it was his pet project.
> Anarchists, Agitators or Protestors who vandalize or damage our Federal Courthouse in Portland, or any Federal Buildings in any of our Cities or States, will be prosecuted under our recently re-enacted Statues & Monuments Act. MINIMUM TEN YEARS IN PRISON. Don’t do it! @DHSgov

That tweet is from July 2020, and was aimed at BLM protestors. To say the least, the president has never demonstrated any special concern for philosophical consistency.
Even with respect to dealing with JSON, good luck deserializing a structure with borrowed references. People will tell you not to use borrowed references, but sometimes you’re at the mercy of a library author and even if you’re not it kind of sucks to have to do a big refactor across your codebase to replace borrowed fields with owned fields, right after you got everything working just because you can’t figure out how to deserialize properly and no one else appears to know how either. This is one of many problems that make Rust more difficult and time consuming in practice than Go which doesn’t distinguish between owned and borrowed. Of course this borrow checker gives you a lot more thread safety than Go provides, but I write a lot less parallel code than code that must be deserialized (or any of the other areas where pernicious borrow-checker issues creep in).

Rust improves quickly so I don’t think we should discount it, but I wish Rust folks would address these concerns when talking about how Rust is going to take over $x domain.
It's a problem when it's millions upon millions of diseased, lonely, violent, impoverished, manipulated people who now have no way to communicate and are heavily armed.
For me, the biking and running is trivial to start and obligates you to finish. That is, if half way through a ride you want to stop... Well, you still have to get home.

Weights? You just put them down and you are done.
Why is it hard to take it in good-faith? Regardless of one's political persuasion it should be chilling to anyone, especially the hacker types, to see how easily the tech companies can snuff voices out of existence. Who elected them? Whose interests do they serve? They should not have such power. We need real solutions to the speech problem and I fear that instead this knee jerk, performant stuff is going to backfire horribly.
Are you being sarcastic? I do not think I get what you are trying to say, sarcasm or no sarcasm.
And normal people would, if they realise that their family and countrymen are doomed, say, "ok, let's obliterate all those hundreds of million of other people, too!"?
The Windows "Photos" app doesn't support webp, at least not without an extension, so it doesn't associate the file extension with the app. Chrome can display these photos, so it registers the webp file extension.
There is difference between association and between singling out someone and refusing service that would be at no additional cost to you. Twitter not only banned Trumps account, but also sci-hub account which is far from being a "wretch" and has contributed immensely to science.

If we include social media service providers into "cancellation" wars the result will be too costly for the society, so we need better ways to fight against nationalists. Sacrificing freedom of speech to a group applying unknown rules, without a mechanism to appeal, will be harmful in the long run, even though this time it have produced a result we like.
Now you mention it, it does look like that!

WTF...
> I can conjure up a disaster scenario just standing right now in my kitchen, and I don't even own crypto.

Even if Bitcoin goes to zero, many who hold BTC when it hits zero will still have made a profit out of it.
While I personally disagree with any and all censorship, the real question here is who is allowed to decide the rules?

Even if we were all to agree that a specific ideology or narrative could be dangerous there is an issue with putting a central entity in a position of control.

As we have seen, rules are applied arbitrarily and even when there are defined rules, platforms continue to make any type of decision they want.
> This is about the fact that social media platforms just censored the President of the United States of America for no other reason than their own political views.

Pretty sure it's because they think his usage of his platform contributed to a violent insurrection on the US capitol building that killed 5 people and, had it not been managed, likely included assaults on US representatives.
Endless quests to crush marginalized people does not work in the long run and is exhausting. Although large tech companies are filled with hate and rage now, efforts to silence those who have little voice takes ongoing effort.
“Both sides” being people that want to hang the VP and those that don’t?
I wouldn't recommend using anything in the debian repos if you want a feature newer than 5 years old.
> No one has figured out their recipe to date

> So ... the ingredients are fully known ... ?

No... because nobody has figured out their recipe. They just said that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula
Unsurprisingly it seems that submission has been flagged off the front page, ironic, in the Alanis Morissette sense.
It does kinda look like an onion in the first few frames there. Very odd.
You could buy another phone.
That transfer function argument is within an ace of saying all amplifiers sound alike, and it's shaky. OTOH we have ABX data that cannot disprove the proposition. However, only one transfer function admits of that possibility even according to Carver (well, indirectly via Stereophile) [1]).

Audiophilia is wonderful because it is full of set-piece arguments that promote the drinking of lots of Scotch.

[1]
https://www.stereophile.com/content/carver-silver-seven-t-mo...
> Their opposition to distributed social networking platforms

Is there something I'm missing? Didn't Mozilla recently switch their IRC network to Matrix?
Welcome to the United States of China
> So? There are still alternatives on good old laptops/desktops.

I can't carry a laptop in my pocket.

> What application of computing (not specific compiled binary, but rather generic spreadsheet, ssh, chat, etc.) is not available on Android?

I'm not sure how that is in any way relevant, but regardless you know very well that it is completely disingenuous to suggest that someone just "build a new app" for another platform.

Not every spreadsheet is the same. Not every chat app is the same. Someone isn't just going to go out and build another Fortnight because you can't get Fornight on the iPhone anymore.
You sure this isn’t doxxing?

Edit tweet wasn’t deleted
Sure, but then theres the monopoly/oligopoly issue which is fair play.
How about far-left extremism? 100 million plus deaths[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...
It was number 1 app for 48 hours, post Trump big tech is biggest threat to the world. wall street pales in comparison, china too.
How to Travel Sustainably
Web push notifications work on most android phones. But not on apple. Apple hasn't figured out a way to get their cut on web apps yet so will make sure they are missing key features.
From my perspective that's possibly a partially-good thing. Don't do non-trivial things if you can avoid it. Projects should stay on the path of consistent practices, follow standards of packaging, and try to follow conventions that the build system lays out. Stay with standard libraries, avoid custom tooling when possible, etc. If what you're doing requires a boatload of scripting in CMake, you need a good justification for it, and if that justification is there then writing the scripting for the build system is the least of your concerns.

But yes it really is ugly once you get off the well beaten track of "here's my source now make a library out of it with a C compiler and a few standard options." I have a personal project I fiddle with that glues together verilator, fusesoc, CMake, a RISC-V compiler toolchain, and some custom scripting into xilinix vivado.. and it terrifies me just a little.
Buying stocks implies you choose what to buy, but here you buy everything (following an index) and sometimes exclude things.

It's called "direct" indexing because you don't buy e.g. an S&P ETF. Along with letting you make some decisions, it's more tax optimal.
Everyone concern trolling over these things always brings up hypotheticals in an attempt to debate principals while fully ignoring everything that has actually happened in the real world.
I agree that this is the one thing I'm unsure about. But: a lot of people once said this same argument about cryptocurrency and were amazed at how technically literate drug dealers could actually be, given the right incentives.

Regardless, as of recently they are making everything a one-click process: https://tlon.io
No, it has absolutely nothing to do with Net Neutrality. Which you know by describing things that do somewhat resemble issues of NN, but which have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Electric car incentives in Norway begun with the pop group a-ha
No they were banned for going against the democrat-left establishment. After a summer of rioting and endless attacks on federal property let's dispense with the clutching of pearls that this is something new.
This reads like a paraphrase of David Graeber's "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs" but with chan-speak loan words like 'brainlet' mixed in for flavor. Is the author trying to suggest that software development is a skilled trade but that most jobs in the trade are bullshit jobs best outsourced to Elbonia?
A substitute need not be identical or equivalent. What you’re describing is a commodity.

Neither Apple or Android are a commodity. They are a differentiated good, but they compete in the same market and are substitutes for each other.
They're optional in the same way that braces around single-statement "if" clauses are optional in most curly brace languages—and indentation, for that matter—i.e. they still serve a purpose for many humans who are going to be tasked with upkeep and will choose to include them for personal reasons. Not every decision is rooted in trying to satisfy the machine. But speaking of machines, on that note...

If you ever have to write any tooling for HTML processing, you'll realize that they can be useful for machines, too. If your team doesn't make use of any of these "features" that trigger corner cases in the spec, then you can adopt an XML-like parsing strategy (where these aren't optional) and your parser can be simpler than if you were to implement the entirety of the HTML5 parsing algorithm. You don't need any notion of void elements, and your parser doesn't need hardcoded lists of which elements are among them. You can write a "dumb" parser that can derive the node structure without needing any intimate knowledge of HTML. It's like the difference between parsing S-expressions and parsing an ALGOL-like language.
You turned a relative statement with an explicit caveat into an absolutist statement. You are being purposefully misleading.
That's pretty sad, I remember seeing the Lenna image 20ish years ago when I first looked into computer vision, I was a kid back then and I dreamed of one day publishing a paper with this image in it (that's how ubiquitous it was, to me it was the incarnation of CV). I used it often on my website just a few years ago to demonstrate CV projects.
I don't find it sexist, I'll keep using it.
Hilarious, marijuana is the one thing that reliably disrupts my otherwise quite consistent and healthy daily routine.

It is my motivation's kryptonite, and has basically zero place in my life as a result.
2008-2018 definitely behaved differently from 2018-2020 but there were some issues with passive investing in ETFs. The best strategy was to never sell anything, but if you own an ETF and it changes the index (e.g. a company becomes too large to be small-cap) then it's going to sell it.
google created their own called webm, released it for use without royalties, simultaneously pushing it hard with Chrome and YouTube. Afaiu this was crucial in reaching a royalty settlement with h264 patent holders.
You can't essentialize "all the other coins" as if bitcoin is just one. Coins which do not have first mover, publicity, hash power, market cap, and capital inflow rate on their side like bitcoin does will behave entirely differently, and must justify themselves existentially.

Why bitcoin? because dollars suck.
Why altcoin? is a legitimate question, but bitcoin has flaws. Personally I like to believe that the 'flip' will occur at some point to ethereum due to its technical and monetary superiority, but I think its more likely that due to the network effect, bitcoin will keep its crown as main coin.
If we want to nationalize all the major web services so they are forced to operate as government agencies with all the constitutional protections that go along with that, it's certainly an idea. I wouldn't have imagined in 2021 we'd have conservatives advocating for seizing the means of production of the nation's Tweets.

So far we know these companies made the decision to ban the President:

- Twitter

- Google

- Youtube

- Reddit

- Tiktok (ironic that he'd be banned by Tiktok before he banned it himself)

- Instagram

- Snapchat

- Spotify

- Shopify

- Twitch

- Pinterest

I would love to know if YCombinator has formally banned him from the Hacker News community.
> Of course the difference here was that Tesla owners were not seeking to overthrow democracy in the US.

I'm not sure how that is in any way relevant to the discussion of Android and Apple being substitutes or not. You keep bringing that up in your other comments too.

To be clear, I don't support people who want to rise up against the US, quite the contrary.

But they still bring to light an important point -- why does Apple get to say what apps I can install in my phone?
But unlikely to lead to a worthwhile conversation.