skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not. It's incredibly rare for the police to kill someone who is unarmed and not resisting/fighting with them. The police could certainly improve to be less violent, but this is not something that the average person will ever have to deal with.

Rather than learn how to use Siri, just don't carry a gun around and don't fight with the police if they try to arrest you. This may not be fair and you may not like it, but from a practical standpoint, if your goal is not to be killed by the police, it's fairly simple.
In order to reach the widest audience with the new paid/premium podcasts I suspect Apple will be releasing a Podcasts app for Android... can't imagine Apple will leave that big of an audience unable to give 30% of podcast revenue to Apple.
There are two options at the moment [1]:

- panic=abort (uncatchable)
- panic=unwind.

With the latter, you would need a catch_unwind at the FFI boundary.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#pani...
Audible has been doing similarly recently and it’s quite frustrating.

I understand everyone’s doing it and you as a company feel entitled to a slice of whatever podcast pie.

What I don’t understand is how that can take focus when your audio player has been getting steadily worse - corrupted offline download, buggy buffering, choppy audio after jumping back 30s.

If your bread and butter - what I’m actually paying for - doesn’t work I’ll gladly save a few bucks and go to the public library.
Extended April fools y’all
Seems selfish. Lockdowns reduce deaths.

Edit: I don’t mean to call anyone names, genuinely interested in understanding if you’re concerned about being perceived as selfish and if so how you reconcile the tension?
These contractors should be preparing for another line of work anyway, since Google has been working for years on making their data center equipment completely hands-off with robots swapping out the machines and parts. Recently Joe Kava said in a public interview:

"As far as robotics, our hyperscale data centers are more like warehouses and most of the processes require a robot to navigate to a specific location to perform a task. Some of these technologies are in development right now – things like robot navigation, computer vision, motion planning and device tooling for what the robot will employ to do that operation… These have advanced exponentially over the last few years..."

There are job postings on Google's site right now for technical program managers to "Work with Roboticists, Control Engineers and Hardware Lab staff to lead the concept, planning, and development of Data Center Automation System programs with an end-to-end responsibility". In the near future they will still need the skilled trades for power, water, and air, but it's clear that they'll ultimately get rid of them, too.
Now that you mention it, I do the same for my dev installation of HN.
They also sent me unsolicited junk mail at a new address and I don't know how they got that address. As such I would never use Geico for violating my privacy. I will only use companies that DON'T try to extract my personal info without me giving it to them explicitly.

This only doubly confirms that they suck at privacy.
Congrats for securing the contract! Looking forward to the IP address stuff especially.
I'm an avid user of mobx and yes, this is similar, but no where near as powerful, and much less magical. For example, in no particular order:

* mobx is smart enough to know when only one property of a complex object has changed and that that component depends only on that property. So you can have complex state objects, and if your component only uses property X of said object, it only re-renders if X changes but not Y.

* mobx allows you to compose observables - any observable can reference the value of any other observable and if that second observable changes, the listeners for the first observable will re-render, etc. This means state can depend on other state, and everything updates correctly. For example, if you have a store that fetches profile data for the auth user, and the auth user id changes due to login or logout, the profile data store can trigger a refetch, all this happening outside the react component tree, then finally the correct components re-render.

* mobx works on it own and is agnostic to framework (react/vue/etc) and is integrated via binding libraries for each framework.

* mobx provides quite a few different kinds of observables with different behaviors (shallow maps, lists, etc)

* mobx allows you to declare arbitrary reactions that run automatically when state changes, whereas this library here really just re-renders components when state changes.

* With mobx you don't even have to say which things in your component use observables - you just wrap your component in observer(), and any time it references an observable, mobx tracks it and will re-render the component if the observable changes. Whereas here you need explicitly hooks for each state atom.

There are many more differences, in every case mobx does more. So mobx is a far more complex and powerful system, whereas this is a simpler system that extends useState() hooks with objects that live outside the component. Which is not a value judgement, use the simplest tool that meets your needs.
The Okta effect?
Nice for someone (corporation ) to do research into this area.

Our company of around 50 has been remote for 9 years. We term too many meetings as 'meeting pollution' as it has the very same affect on your work environment as pollution does to the natural environment.

Managers must be continuously vigilant to guard their teams from meeting overrun and over scheduling.

We meet quarterly to review our meeting schedules and combine or eliminate standing meetings. Our goal is to have non management be involved in no more than five hours of meetings a week.

Additionally, meetings are strictly prohibited on Wednesday. This gives everyone a breather and an opportunity for uninterrupted work.
The very, very easy way to fix that is to build enough housing. Places don't suck because a lot of people live there, they suck for lots of reasons that are orthogonal to the population.
Fidelity has $0.65 per contract
Apple unveils redesigned Apple TV remote with physical buttons
Whatever you want to say about Robinhood as a firm, I think we have to admit that their mobile interface blew away their competition.
> Your phone's IP address isn't related to your phone number.

I'm not basing it on my phone number that's for central NC and from 10 years ago, I'm going off of the geoip and the fact that I get tons of ads or sites defaulting to Atlanta for weather or local store searches if I don't allow them more device based location data.
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I think there are actually a lot of palliative measures: stop giving police surplus military equipment, end qualified immunity, pay misconduct settlements from police pensions, ban police unions, decriminalize drugs and prostitution.

But frankly, I don’t think anything short of defunding is likely to work. Like you said, the root of the problem is that police have a monopoly on force, so the only solution is to drastically reduce the cases in which that imbalance exists. The US spends more money on policing than literally every country other than China spends on their military [1], so it’s prima facie ridiculous to me that we can’t significantly cut back our police force.

[1] https://twitter.com/pplscitycouncil/status/13830718474790789...
Secret FBI Cyber Op to Clean Exchange Servers Without Notice
A big difference is AAC. 256kbps AAC sounds pretty good.
Talking with the person checking me into the hotel he mentioned he had heard to food was good at a restaurant across the street but mentioned he couldn't afford to eat there.

There was a lovely older couple who were running the tourism center and provided a bunch of great information. The person in front of me repeatedly interrupted this nice old woman and talked over her, after she got the info she needed she got into a 4 runner with California plates.

The surrounding OHV and hiking trails are phenomenal but the town is going to be very boring once the locals are forced out.
I have listened (so no touch or watching it) for a couple of minutes and while the patterns all sounded fine (no an expert in that genre but have been to a number of raves) in isolation many of the changes didn’t feel intentional and at times outright jarring without any transition leading up to it.

I reckon in a club situation you would play the patterns for longer which would make it less notable. I do think it is quite impressive work, but overall it still sounds to too much just like switching between patterns without any bigger “musical arc” (not sure what the correct terminology I’m looking for is) in mind. But to be fair that is what a whole lot of peoples calling themselves producers sound like as well.
I'm no biologist, but mRNA is ephemeral by design - it's constantly being broken down in the body. The fact that mRNA is converted to proteins by ribosomes is one of the best understood processes in cellular biology, and synthesizing the mRNA for a new protein is not a new idea. Getting actual viral vectors injected into my arm seems much more concerning on the surface (though it's obviously also very safe).
Or there's https://invidio.us/ !
My favorite, and maybe a somewhat more apt example involving Obama, was when South Korea gave him a tae kwan do black belt.

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/obama-le...

I don't really have much against Obama (and not like he couldn't accept it), but that was a real "oh brother" moment for me.
What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?
The sorce of the problem with composability in this post is that you don't have a concept of sub-states and 'partial next' operators.
Every place changes regardless of people trying to preserve them in amber. The 'forced out of your lifelong' home thing is tough but I haven't seen any good solutions to it. California absolutely messed up their state with their property tax changes that turned home ownership into feudalism. Good intentions to help the old people stay in their homes but it means that the new people moving in support the people that lived there earlier.

If housing is actually allowed to be built, someone might be able to stay in the area in a new, nicer, place. However, in essentially 0 places in the US that are hot housing markets do they allow as much housing as is demanded. Houston might actually be the closest. Prices in Houston are way lower than many other in-demand major cities.
Facebook downplays data breach in internal email
Considering the state of Teams they really needed Discord for their amazing technology of actually being semi responsive
The key here is that the operation "involved the FBI removing malware from privately owned and operated victim servers without advance notice ..."
Does anyone know why Altoros is publishing compilation of AirBnB's engineering talks and blog posts? I am curious if there's a connection between Altoros which appears to be a Kubernetes consultancy and AirBnB?
I found effector[1] after I started looking around for a state manager which:

1. Either supported multiple stores or provides a way to subscribe to individual branches (as opposed to the entire store).

2. Had an action/event abstraction similar to redux where multiple branches (or multiple stores) could subscribe to the same action and update independently (and without knowledge of invoker).

I have been using it for some time and have had a good experience.

The core is framework agnostic (with additional integrations for react & vue).

I started used it with Svelte and its API matches the expectations of Svelte stores so you can use it without needing any additional integration, which was cool. Later I used it with lit-element through a 5 line custom integration and that worked pretty well too.

[1] https://github.com/effector/effector
It's been mostly from personal experience, though I shouldn't generalize to the community as a whole.

Anecdotally my experience with nix community has been unpleasant. They're very resistant to suggestions and offer little in terms of guidance or documentation.
It can be useful if you need to work with legacy system that only support old cipher and protocol.
But then I guess there is always openssl and co who still do the job.
There is no Shortage of Resources, only a Shortage of Knowledge
It's becoming more and more of a struggle to find basic things that aren't "smart". I can't stand it. Most things in our world do not benefit by being able to run software and connect to the internet. Or, if we're being generous, the benefits are tiny in comparison to the complexity and risk introduced, not to mention the ability to fix things down the road.

The internet of things in 99% of cases is a classic example of "Too clever by half". Build simple things that last, don't turn everything into digital junk by making it run crappy software that harvests data.
I think that if tcp[1] is in the stdlib, tls probably should be too. Maybe even ssh. I get there was a time when "listen to the network" meant plain text networking - but today, for a large subset of applications and libraries, not supporting tls is a bug.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/net/struct.TcpListener.html
One major argument is that the mRNA-part is the initial delivery vehicle that does not stay around, so if it being mRNA-vaccine would cause issues we'd very likely know by now. That said, given that the mRNA-vaccines are used for everybody there is little reason why you shouldn't be able to get J&J if you are more comfortable with that.
The U means that you still get your monthly basic income even if you work. With unemployment working earns you 10-20% more. With UBI working earns you 105-115% more.
Curious if React developers feel like this sort of fragmentation of what tools to use around React is fine, or if it's a pain point for you.
> The EverCrypt primitives are formally proven, whereas ring has no such formal proofs.

We do use some of the Fiat Crypto stuff for elliptic curve computations. I am not opposed to switching some stuff to use EverCrypt or other things that might be better, as long as the performance is the same or better, and as long as there's a clear path towards that code being in Rust.

> ring has several primitives that are assembly only and have no portable fallback.

Either in the latest release (0.16.20) or the upcoming release, there is a portable non-assembly implementation of everything in ring.
Remote code execution vulnerabilities uncovered in smart air fryer
There's no need to screw these people over - simply more exactly specify the policy to address the actual issue.
I'd really love it if I could access the Apple TV while it's not being used. It's very powerful. It could run a home VPN, or accelerated image/video encoding (of which it can do VERY FAST). The reality is that it's a very powerful box that largely just sits there.
Agreed.

Except (half kidding but only half kidding here) augmented for things like cat videos; previous generations watched tv for entertainment, and for many people that has been partially or entirely replaced by the internet.
Apple unveils the next generation of Apple TV 4K
I moved away but not because of the GME/liquidity issues but rather their handling of 1099 tax information the last two years has been terrible (delayed, altering website to cover up their delays, and corrected both years). It is just unprofessional.

Plus they only offer "First In, First Out" stock sales which can have absolutely MASSIVE tax implications. Most real brokers offer FIFO, LIFO, and most importantly specific lots.

PS - I do keep a few bucks in RH so I can continue to use their real time graphs/watchlists/options information/etc, since my normal broker's website/app has terrible UI/UX by comparison (and it isn't close). RH is known for bringing free transactions, but maybe they should be known for being the first broker with non-terrible UI.
I admit that using real person-related data in a test database for ordinary software development (not considering fixing a production system here) might be legitimate according GDPR based on contract and consent. But the hurds are so high that I cannot think of any realistic use case that involves more than a couple of people at the maximum. Contract and consent are subject to specific requirements here. The constent must typically be voluntarily, i.e. without any pressure or coercion, it must not be coupled to another condition and it must be given for each specific purpose indivdually. And I doubt that it is permitted to completely exlude the principle of "privacy by design" in a contract. And even if this were the case, you need this consent from each customer whose data is in the database, while you must not make your service to the customer dependant on his consent.

As to legitimate interest, Recital 47 of GDPR states: "The legitimate interests of a controller, including those of a controller to which the personal data may be disclosed, or of a third party, may provide a legal basis for processing, provided that the interests or the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are not overriding, taking into consideration the reasonable expectations of data subjects based on their relationship with the controller. Such legitimate interest could exist for example where there is a relevant and appropriate relationship between the data subject and the controller in situations such as where the data subject is a client or in the service of the controller. At any rate the existence of a legitimate interest would need careful assessment including whether a data subject can reasonably expect at the time and in the context of the collection of the personal data that processing for that purpose may take place. The interests and fundamental rights of the data subject could in particular override the interest of the data controller where personal data are processed in circumstances where data subjects do not reasonably expect further processing."[1]

Typically one does not have a contract about software development with a customer whose personal data is stored in a database, but about a specific service, such as for example selling something to him via a Web-shop. So if Uncle Joe is buying something from the Web-shop, can he reasonably expect that his personal data is used in developing the Web-shop software? Most likely not. Ergo, there is no legitimate interest to use his data for that pupose.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-47/

[Edit for clarity.]
But that's just Google controlling your content rather than Spotify. Not really open either way.
Interesting! I was completely unaware of these. Thanks for the info.

I'm glad to see we're steadily climbing in terms of sensor resolution. We're not anywhere close to 4K 120Hz sampling, but the field is progressing.

There's nothing stopping us from doing offline processing for our workflow, I suppose.
The "open ecosystem" of periodically releasing audio files cannot be killed by a company. I never listen to any podcast on spotify and I listen to a few.
Singapore doesn't have much "corruption", but we have:

- the highest-paid politicians in the world [1];

- political offices with poorly-defined job scopes [2]; and

- a track record of installing PAP (the dominant party) members in government-linked positions if they somehow fail to win an election [3].

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/21/20-highest-p...

[2] https://mothership.sg/2021/02/pritam-singh-cdc-mayors/

[3] https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/ntuc-reaffirms-support...
it's not like bacteria haven't developed resistance to phages. what do you think CRISPR is?
I find it astounding that Apple ceded control of Wi-Fi routers to companies much less trustworthy than Apple, but they insist on making overpriced TV boxes and smart speakers that nobody is buying.
I run a small podcast. Over the past year I've watched as my traffic has slowly shifted from Apple being completely dominant (> 90% of traffic), to it being a 70/30 split between Spotify and Apple.

My honest take on the situation is that Apple has let its podcast ecosystem languish, and Spotify is moving in to build the product users actually want.

Here's just a handful of things Apple has failed to address to podcast publishers:

- Apple Podcast search is terrible. At best, it looks at some of the notes / title metadata and does a global popularity ranking, with no regard for the actual spoken content of the podcast. This drives down discoverability and ultimately winds up creating a ton of "tentpole" hits but no long-tail.

- Review / listener / ranking fraud is rampant. You can look on fiverr and find all sorts of "jobs" for driving up downloads, etc, and Apple doesn't do a great job of policing this behavior. Same for managing brigading / clusters of bad reviews that all mysteriously appear at the same time from new users.

- Very little community support for growth. No social features. People wind up going elsewhere (twitter / yotube / etc) for discoverability and audience building.

- No monetization strategy for publishers.

- No recommendation outside of "top hits" in categories or featured podcasts.

- No transparency into what it takes to get to "top hits" or featured podcasts.

- Second-rate sync'ing between web, laptop, and mobile players for listeners

- No way to get any Android users into the ecosystem (yes yes, I know, but there are 4 billion Android users. Either be a content platform or don't, but don't pretend like 2/3rds of the world doesn't exist).

Overall if you think about how long Apple has "owned" podcasts (> 11 years) vs something like YouTube, you can see where they dropped the ball. YouTube isn't perfect but it has everything I listed above, and because of that it's ultimately the big draw for creators. This is so much so, that Descript has a whole toolchain about just getting podcasts into audiograms to get onto youtube to ... get people to go to Apple and find their podcast.

Overall I don't love what Spotify is doing, especially since it's so nakedly a transparent land grab. However I can't blame them for building something people want when the dominant player has done nothing for a decade.

And candidly, Apple is primarily a hardware company, secondarily a software company, and is a tertiary mainstream content provider. For indie podcasters, we are at best ... quaternary? I should not be surprised Apple doesn't care about my little podcast when it can make money other ways.

Lastly, just to be transparent about what I see in my own metrics, all other podcast providers (Google, Castbox, etc) are a super long tail and far from Spotify or Apple. They're just nowhere close.
Microsoft Outlook now lets you end all meetings early to give your brain a rest
It doesn't help that middle aged men consume 260 mg of caffeine and 71 grams of sugar a day, on average, and fewer than 1 in 4 of them exercise.

We're inundating our bodies with drugs and asking "Why is this happening?"
We do entirely too much of it. A decently sized and survivable nuclear counter-strike force to be unleashed on anyone who attacks our nation is sufficient.