skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was a manager trying to justify a disproportionate decision, I may very well say that there were other incidents - that will remain confidential - that also supported the same decision. Of course, like DHH says, there may have been other incidents. I am very keen to hear about those ones, too, since initially the response to the names list seemed disproportionate.
I’m not sure your assessment is right. They let iPods run on windows and made a janky version of iTunes for windows so it was operable, but I don’t think they ever treated iTunes for Windows as a priority. So, sure they knew iPod was best in class, and people bought the product for use with either platform.

But where’s the iMessage analogy? It’s not like all of Android would get better because of iMessage, they couldn’t actually sell anything based on an imesssge port, so where’s there incentive? Where’s the example of them absconding on a principle of “best product wins” when they aren’t selling a product associated with the cross platform access?
You can finish an AR-15 80% lower with commonly available hand tools in a few minutes. I don't see how the CNC machine that automates this procedure is somehow "dangerous". It's just a smaller, cheaper, and more specialized variant of a regular CNC machine which anyone could already buy.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccO1Day60sA
NYPD cancels use of robotic dog after backlash
No need to overcomplicate though. None of this applies to the ascii range, and we're just talking about storage in disk in the first place.
They also 'save' money by jamming people into noisy open office formats.

This is the CFO's way of looking at it; it's a data point, but not the big one.

Overwhelmingly the issue will boil down to material productivity, not so much 'cost'.

Whichever mode of working is more productive is definitely the 'best' option, whether or not it saves or costs a few beans.
At a minimum their paying over 2% in credit card fees so that’s another 14+ million in expenses.

However, it’s also clear their fixed fees favor independent developers at the cost of major companies. So, finding their actual profit is more complicated than just a fixed percentage of revenue.
Did you forget the /s here ? Lancet is not a respected journal and has a history of controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet#Andrew_Wakefield_an...
The value people find in the Google perks is definitely mixed and vary from person to person, and hard to know what the net-net result is. I personally hate to deal with lunch and breakfast (but cook dinner all the time). So the food was a great bonus for me.

I get that this isn't true for everyone.
The same organisation is putting pressure on Pfizer as well for lack of quality-control data: https://valor.globo.com/brasil/noticia/2021/04/26/impasse-co... (in Portuguese).

It looks like it shouldn't have been approved in the first place then.
The vaccine described in the paper published in The Lancet was explicitly described as using an replication deficient Ad5 vector, while the vaccine received by Brazil seems to have been replication competent.

Considering Slovakia also said that Russia did not deliver a vaccine matching the characteristics of the one in The Lancet, I think those data are basically irrelevant now.
The main psychological benefit of taking only cold showers over the last five months is practice with starting an action I don’t want to do, because oooh there have been times when I was already cold and despite knowing I’d feel great afterwards, the present moment was scary.
You've exceeded my knowledge of coding suitable to attempt to crack a joke. Maybe you could supply me programmer-speak equivalents of:

1. Fasting

2. Dietary restrictions

3. Sleep hygiene

4. Exercise

5. Actual hygiene

6. Spartanism
on the other hand i feel vastly more productive with not spending 2-3 hours every day commuting. i will miss wfh, even though being around my teammates is nice for other reasons.
The less obvious nicety of company cafeterias is that employees can talk about confidential things without worrying about being overheard... It's very good for encouraging collaboration.
Decades at least, we don't even have close to a complete list of the proteins in our bodies which would be needed to start thinking avout simulating them.
I think ghost guns in general, not a 3d printed plastic one. They are probably talking about the ar15 80% lower receiver trick.
Also ability to get ammunition. Black powder is easy to make but it's dirty and modern smokeless powder is more difficult. Never mind percussion caps. Without ammunition guns aren't much good, no matter how they are made.
You should read the reports, and not news articles about the reports. These news articles are referring to the very first report, which made projections for the UK through October 2020.

Here's the March 26, 2020 report, covering the rest of the world, with far more specific predictions:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m...

In this report, they predict 2.2 million deaths in the US in the unmitigated scenario, and over 1 million in the "social distancing" scenario. Their projection if the US "suppressed" the virus (by uniformly cutting contacts by 75% as soon as the death rate exceeded 1.6 per 100k; by my math, that's about 5,000 deaths) was 474,000 dead.

So, uh...that was wrong.

They projected 40 million deaths, worldwide (current actual total 3.14M) in the unmitigated scenario, with between 1.9M and 10.5M deaths in the "total suppression" scenario (depending on how soon lockdowns occurred).

If you go to the spreadsheet [1], you'll see lots of other fun projections:

* 470,000-670,000 deaths in Japan in the "social distancing" scenarios (current total: 10,031, despite living mostly normally throughout 2020).

* 330k-740k deaths in the "social distancing" scenarios for France (620k-760k "unmitigated"; current total: just over 3M, despite a year of strict interventions).

* Let's not forget their projection of 60,000-90,000 deaths in Sweden, in the "unmitigated" scenario (current total: 13,968).

Overall, their predictions bear very little resemblance to reality.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
Lancet is not "respected" after their autism fraud scandal. Re-publishing Russian state-sponsored research is not "confirming those numbers" it's just low editorial standards.
That's not a definition of atrocity that I'm familiar with. We could extend this to quibble about the definitions of evil, cruel, what have you, as well, but it's a wide diversion at this point. "Nature does not guarantee you anything" is not "there is no such thing as moral right or wrong."

Let's ask a different question: if there are inalienable rights, what is the complete set? Do you expect everyone to agree on what that set of rights is? If one person doesn't believe that guns are one of those, and another does, how do you break that tie? If there is truly a certain set of rights that's a law of nature, should everyone converge on the same set?
ur account is literally a cia simping one, hows Langley this time of year? make up any new lies about WMD yet?
Good thoughts. That’s along the lines of my hopes. Imagine if no one ever thought about buying a computing device or computing again because it was cheap and everywhere. There wouldn’t be any more consumer preference regarding how computers feel, how fun they are, how long they last while mobile, etc. All the preferences would shift to a different class of products that happened to be connected to computing in some way.

I see glimpses of this with some of the cheap commodity hardware available, but transportation and design costs are still too high.

Ability to break in would, I suppose, depend on that cost of design and adoption. The ability of large companies to efficiently acquire, though—-not sure what would change that situation.
Google Translate: One billion installs, one billion stories
Imagine if/when appliances have general AI. Will their cycle-finishing be cracking a joke or having an orgasm? And, will you have a choice as to which? Will they refuse to comply if you don't talk nicely to them, will they get passive-aggressive/maliciously-compliant, and will they hold a grudge?
> software is relatively easy to change

It really isn't. Not when any change can easily be the source of new defects/bugs, and the bugs get exponentially harder and costlier to fix the later they're introduced in the software creation process.
Mining should be a crime.
I’ll be honest tracking down a PS5 is easier than getting a video card. I’m happy with my PS4 but if someone was looking to play games I would just give up on finding a video card and get one of these.
My company has OKRs directly focused around improving serendipity and cross pollination lost due to Covid WFH.
It seems the fixation on 'thinness' has continued with the new iMac release. They chose to keep a big chin on the iMac in order to make the all-in-one desktop computer extremely thin. I don't see any value in extreme thinness as a potential iMac consumer. I would be more interested in a cleaner design when looking directly at the computer. :)

I will add that I have no real idea about Ive's design leanings. I guess it is possible to conclude that either he wasn't the driving force behind "extreme thinness" or he managed to convert people inside of Apple to this way of thinking and they still remain influential.
If the function was named "hypotenuse" then it would be unambiguously more readable. But since the function is considerably older than the modern zealotry surrounding code readability, it's this weird 5-letter word that most people aren't familiar with. Contrast that to the Pythagorean theorem, which folks are exposed to in elementary/middle school.
It is the tower occlusion that sets off the problematic resonance, which ends up eating the base bearings.
It's definitely not 100% unregulated to produce your own firearm in the United States. It can be very very illegal to do so and it's a really dangerous piece of advice to be giving a bunch of hackers. You must obey state and municipal laws regarding your eligibility to own a firearm at all. The firearm itself must be legal according to your state law. In the entire country, you must apply to the DOJ for a serial number before completion of the firearm and you must have it permanently engraved or imprinted upon the receiver or a piece of embedded steel.
Surely maintaining first-class hardware, software, and marketplace ecosystems has at least a little associated cost?
I'm sort of astonished anyone at the Verge found this surprising. No young person I know _wants_ to play Fortnite on iOS -- they all prefer consoles or PC. If they bothered to ask one, they'd know this.
No, but I think a relatively small minority of software developers hope so. And those keep writing these articles.
In all disciplines? No. Take someone who works in branding and is a part of a 20 member team. How long does it really take to come up with a new copy? 20 minutes? 2 hours? 20 hours? And is it really better to incentivize people to spend only 20 mins, or is there value in giving them 20 hours? Finally, how would you measure which option is better when most copy is not A/B tested. I am just using one random example, there are so many out there where performance evaluation is as much about your day to day observations as it is about measurable output.
Interesting. I work at Google and never saw such an expectation (though it’s just my experience). I suspect most travel at large companies is dominated by individuals making decisions about what allows them to be most effective in accomplishing their goals (as long as it’s aligned with company travel policies).
What benefit would it give Apple to have all of Android users on iMessage? It’s not like they inject ads into your messaging streams/ they left money on the table to benefit another product?

To me, forcing them to make an Android version of iMessage would be pretty anti-American. Domestically they have 20-30% market share, and there’s 0 revenue to gain from an Android version except the tenuous concept that maybe they could use it to upsell someone to iOS? Idk, I agree with you here. Doesn’t seem clear to me why they should be obligated or compelled to ship iMessage for Android.

Sure, Apple Music, because there’s a fee attached to it, but do you think Android people would pay a few bucks a month for Android? Could they upsell it to another product like cloud storage? Would they a) want the scrutiny that comes with and iCloud upsell b) security risk from enabling iCloud on an unmanaged platform
The Lancet didn't perform those tests, they only published the numbers provided by researchers overseeing the trials. The first author of the source paper is Denis Logunov [0] who works at the Gamaleya Research Institute [1].

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[1] https://g.co/kgs/u6wvJ8
What's OKR?
That's soooo cool. I love the audio "This is what it means to be a spaceman! Ok, back to work." Cowboys. Highly educated and extensively trained cowboys, but still cowboys and little kids.
> arcane, out of date methods

This. is. HN!!! (Kicks messenger into the well)

Smoke signals, telegraph wires, spark gap transmitters then?

We could always put alarm bonfires at the summits of the tallest hills and mountains.
I think they're suggesting that a Russian security service (FSB?) might have asked Kaspersky to sit on it until the time was right. I don't think they were referring to the CIA, since yeah, that wouldn't make much sense.
>The point of the original skeuomorphic UI was to make the phone look small

Huh?
I think any google leader who read the original post would not believe it, especially given the purely speculative nature
Apparently you can survive about 40 seconds in a vacuum. One option would be for one pilot to enter (as quickly as possible!) then put the CMP into a spacesuit, then re-admit the other astronaut. No clue if they could enter and re-pressurize the capsule within 30 seconds- sounds like a long-shot.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627561-700-maxed-ou...
Having iOS as a first class citizen and accepting the fact that Android users exist and your paying customers don't have to bother with the fragmented messenger landscape. All while creating the de-facto standard for smartphone messaging (that is now Whatsapp).
Do companies the size of Apple really pay 2%? I'd be surprised if they don't have special, cheaper rates that they contractually agreed upon.
Yup, that's why the Japan is content being Japan, and they don't care about diversity or PC talk so much like the West. Nail that sticks out get hammered.

Internet SJWs on HN respond to reality by downvoting. Yes!
I mean, they're not exactly giving iPhones out for free
There are a couple fairly recent designs for 3D printed guns that are useful weapons, certainly better than the pipe-wood-and-nail arrangement. For example, the Washbear PM522 and the Liberator 12K shotgun.

But as another poster pointed out, ammunition is a completely different matter and is really the gating factor in all of this.
Or is it the other way around!
Mostly on it since an organization I belong to and all the sub chapters are only on facebook these days (outside of meeting in public, when possible).
I have a dual sim iPhone 11. Everytime I switch off the main sim and use the other on abroad, imessage breaks and I have to use WhatsApp. Never manages to link two phone numbers, less so to use it without the correct sim...
Objectives and Key Results. The things you choose to optimize for during any given planning period.
> You throw your watch on your night stand every night and forget about it.

How do you wake up then? One of the biggest advantages of my pebble classic is that i can wear it to bed and have vibrate mode wake me up silently.

For exercise, i already have my phone on me, so it tracks everything for me and the pebble shows stats on the watchface.

I think we've lost something by not treating the "smart watches" as thin terminals.
> No commute alone is a MASSIVE gain.

This is a huge one for me and anyone more productive in the morning, I'm no longer wasting an hour of my most productive time just getting to work. Then you've got the extra 2 hours a day to relax and get various things done that also make me more productive.
I'm a parent, who does WFH, and definitely disagree about the preferability of office work. Sure my kids will occasionally pop their heads in the door to say hello. I guess that's an occasional distraction, which has some small productivity cost.

You know what hurts productivity more? The soul-crushing experience of missing out on watching your kids grow up because you're spending all day in an office or commuting. If you work from 9-6, and commute an hour each way, that basically means you hardly see your kids at all five days out of the week. That level of depression and alienation is going to do far more to hurt output. By comparison, the productivity impact of taking five minutes to give my daughter a kiss before she takes a nap is a de minims by comparison.

The people I work with are all great and interesting people. But frankly, I'd infinitely prefer to spend my lunch hour and coffee breaks and happy hours with my wife and kids. This may just be my preference, but I don't see how anyone with kids could actually prefer being alienated in an office instead of at home with their loved ones.
I'd never heard of this term. Per Wikipedia [1]:

> In economics, a false economy is an action that saves money at the beginning but which, over a longer period of time, results in more money being spent or wasted than being saved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_economy
> Flight recorder data from the single cosmonaut outfitted with biomedical sensors showed cardiac arrest occurred within 40 seconds of pressure loss. […] The autopsies took place at Burdenko Military Hospital and found that the cause of death proper for the cosmonauts was hemorrhaging of the blood vessels in the brain, with lesser amounts of bleeding under their skin, in the inner ear, and in the nasal cavity, all of which occurred as exposure to a vacuum environment caused the oxygen and nitrogen in their bloodstreams to bubble and rupture vessels. Their blood was also found to contain heavy concentrations of lactic acid, a sign of extreme physiologic stress. Although they could have remained conscious for almost 40 seconds after decompression began, less than 20 seconds would have passed before the effects of oxygen starvation made it impossible for them to function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11
Not only that, in the real world the people in debt and the people they're in debt to are usually of different economic classes, making a cycle even less likely
Well one reason is that there's a huge amount of learning resources for web dev because so many people do it. The tools are also really mature and easy to use due to a lot of investment from the community.

Firmware dev you end up working on obscure proprietary systems where you don't have the luxury of just Googling every problem because there isn't a ton of devs working on the same thing as you.
I still have this problem where my mom's iMac will occasionally send a SMS (sent via macOS Messages and delivered via her iphone) to the email address in my contact, rather than my phone number. Somehow it thinks that xxxx@yyy.com is a phone number, but +1xxxxxxxxxx isn't. Tmobile then takes the SMS and forwards it to xxxx@yyy.com, as happened to you. So frustrating at how hard this is for Apple to get right. I don't even have iMessage, but I guess that's the point -- interoperability, where it exists with Apple products, will be usable enough to get started but just buggy enough to be infuriating.
> Lancet is not a respected journal

Of all the nonsense I've read over the years on HN this pretty much takes the cake.

> has a history of controversies

No, over the many decades (190+ years) it has been in publication there have been a (low) number of problematic papers that passed its review, and for each and every one of those there is a very well documented history and in most cases a retraction.

Like every other classifier journals have 'false negatives' and 'false positives', papers that should have passed their review but did not and papers that should not have passed but did. It's inevitable.
You're 100% correct-- I believe it's more legally dangerous to those purchasing it than physically dangerous. It just lowers the barrier of entry and creates a frictionless path where someone buys a bunch of products, combines them in the way they were intended and they commit a felony and get a reliable firearm. When combined with the rhetoric that doing so is patriotic or in support of your rights it becomes worrying.
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Well, clearly we need a metricFactory to provide the distance function, in case we later want our game to run in a non euclidean context.
Great layout. looks very clean and I like the tag line. Shows exactly what the site is about
The Eastern Island “ecocide” narrative seems to be questionable. In time, it might go the way of the Kon Tiki hypothesis.

https://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-easter-island-a-...
It would be interesting if Googlers were presented with this set of options: 1) work from the office with the included perks or 2) work remote and keep the resulting savings to the company as a bonus.
Of course market inefficiencies exist, but their impact is much smaller than what critics of capitalism like to imply. Amazon and fishing operate in a market with plenty of competition. My point is that the value that a fish futures owner holds is real.
Sleep apnea causes a lot of exhaustion and stress. Really hard on body.
Getting a cpap was a massive improvement for to my life.

10 years later I was still declining hard. Got diagnosed with Sjogrens, a cousin to lupus.
Nobody _wants_ to play games on mobile devices, not even kids
That wasn’t always true at least for POTS, I think it was called “dry DSL”? The phone company owned the line but your internet was through another company.
What Even Is Instagram Without the Likes?
Software is relatively easy to change compared to other engineering disciplines. It isn't universally easy to change, but it is relatively easy to change compared to rewiring a plane to convert from CAN bus to Ethernet or other things. Or changing out the engines on an aircraft. Or changing a bridge's support structure without taking it down.
Well, for one, "primarily as a result of COVID-19" isn't the same as "result of employees working from home". I would guess it intersects some, though I don't know how much.
its called a prune
SD cards are the answer for badusb attacks.
Ask HN: What web application server back end would you use for a new project?
China orders companies to step up monitoring of foreigners in anti-spying push
Radiation Treatments Disrupted After Cyberattack on Software Vendor
A reminder that "U.S. officials pushed Brazil to reject Russia’s coronavirus vaccine" [0] for political reasons.

> Under a section titled “Combating malign influences in the Americas,” the HHS report states that countries including Russia “are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of US safety and security.” The global affairs office coordinated with other U.S. government agencies “to dissuade countries in the region from accepting aid from these ill-intentioned states,” it says.

The concerted effort to smear the Russian vaccine is clearly the Western version of the anti-vaccine misinformation Russia has been accused of spreading. Textbook projection.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/16/hhs-brazil-s...
Intuitively speaking, using a viral vector has inherent risks that aren’t present with mRNA or protein subunit vaccines. To the extent that the latter technologies prove effective for vaccines against various viruses, I would think viral vectors should not be a preferred technology going forward for vaccine development.