skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to explain what is implied: More options for ways to get apps won't make app developers more money. This is shown by the difference between profits developers get by developing apps for iOS vs Android. Android has a larger user base, but it's still more profitable to develop for iOS. That's how it affects devs.

Less money to be made means devs are less incentivized to put as much quality into their apps. Some still will, of course, but others won't, and some will simply stop developing for the platform, so average app quality goes down. And less restrictions mean more crappy apps out there. This is how it affects users.

I'm not saying either system is better. I fully sympathize with the hurt of the 30% cut that Apple takes. And I sympathize also with wanting a more open platform. All that I'm pointing out is that by opening up Apple's platform in the way you're proposing, it will indeed affect everyone in some negative ways. There will be positive ways, too, of course. Such is the nature of change.
A local US news site that doesn't care about its few EU visitors obviously doesn't fall under GDPR. I wonder if one that targets them by putting up a non-compliant popup does?
All VC firms by thesis. Radically free and open
Most people seem to be curteous already where I ride. There are always a few people giving us all a bad name, but I'm seeing growing awareness of good behavior, and of better signage, at the same time that crowds are increasing. Good to keep in mind that crowds are growing and MTB popularity is growing, because it means that good behavior may be on the rise faster than it seems unless you pay attention to and notice how many people aren't being pushy.

That said, I have an always-on bell that rings as I ride over bumps. I like it for multiple reasons - for one bikers hear me coming for a long time, and know that I'm not going agro right behind them. For two, hikers and dog-walkers appreciate hearing it from far away, and often thank me for it.
Maximum fine is there for large corporations. If it wasn't specified at atleast that range many of them would ignore or knowingly break the legislation. And in general checking for many crimes the upper end of penalty is pretty big. Like DUI here could mean 2 years in prison. Though that is exceedingly rare.
In a YC ‘power’ play, Gridware girds $5.3M to save humanity from weather
Jaron Lanier is a famous futurist, but he has no social media - making him a difficult follow. You’d have to read his books and articles.
http://www.jaronlanier.com/
Here's something [0]:

> Next, we showed that patients (n = 23) who recovered from SARS (the disease associated with SARS-CoV infection) possess long-lasting memory T cells that are reactive to the N protein of SARS-CoV 17 years after the outbreak of SARS in 2003; these T cells displayed robust cross-reactivity to the N protein of SARS-CoV-2.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668444/
I am primarily a python programmer, but I sometimes use R.

You are either going to use a programming language (or library, etc.) made by a programmer pretending they know about statistics, or a statistician pretending they know about programming. Oftentimes, as a programmer, the right choice is the former, but not uncommonly (because statistics is even less intuitive than programming), you really really need to know that the statistics have been done right. If someone has ported the relevant code from R to python, great. If not, bit the bullet and use R, it's where the statisticians hang out.

You know, I bet statisticians don't think any more kindly of how programmers make stuff. Our use of the '=' sign, for example. We're just used to that kind of thing, so it doesn't look like a problem to us.
I wonder why he left. Especially after saying that Urbit was more important to him than his writing [0]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv...
This well written book from O'Reilly covers the same subject: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/making-software/9780596...

It is from 2010, I don't know if their is really new things on the subject
> Like many things independence from the ECHR has not actually happened yet.

Independence from the ECHR does not follow from leaving the EU. To get out of the European Convention on Human Rights, the UK would have to leave the Council of Europe. The Convention is also in the Brexit agreement. Though of course whether the tories will follow the provisions of the treaties they sign is another matter.
Which processed foods are better than natural?
What I heard is the biggest issue ties in with mentioned (perhaps inadvertently): carbon rims. Asking them to be the braking device (with associated heat-sink requirements) can cause them to catastrophically delaminate. They can’t safely perform that double-duty like aluminium rims can.

(Edit: clarity)
I host my own Firefox Send instance for this purpose.

https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send (a fork of the original code)
Gotta love the Disney carve out in the bill, ok for them to do it.
Is this suitable for transferring files I own off a work computer without getting in trouble? My notes files have gotten too numerous for the amount my work will let me email as one zip file.
The managers do it too. I've seen it all the way up to the VP level. There is just too much bloat in these large companies.
> wasting countless hours

Isn't email validation a solved problem in that there are services or ready software which provide RFC-compliant validation? If some company is wasting countless hours to do something because of Not Invented Here syndrome, isn't that the same as some company deciding to write cryptography algorithms on their own and reaping what they sow?
Yeah, I remember being frustrated about the discoverability when I started using Mac OS.

Shortcuts mostly appear in the menus, but I remember one in particular being elusive: cmd + down. I've found it out by asking a friend.

I think there is supposed to be a method to the madness, though it's maybe less and less clear nowadays, especially with applications that don't implement them correctly (such as MS Office, electron apps, etc) and people being very used to Windows' conventions.

For example, the modifier keys' names are usually an indication of what you can achieve with them.

CMD (the "flower-like" key, directly next to the space bar) is usually the one used to produce... commands. As in Copy, Save, etc.

Then you have your ALTernative / Option, which usually modifies some other key's usual behaviour. You can obtain dead keys with it. ALT+e / e = é. etc. It also works in menus to obtain alternative actions. You can click a menu, press alt, and see the entries change.

And CTRL deals with control characters. ctrl-c in the terminal, line editing (ctrl-a in any text field goes to the beginning of the line, etc). It's not clear to me why right click is obtained with control and not alt, though...
The disturbing consequences of seeing your doppelganger: During a classic (cont)
Just to add an anecdatum, as a python programming who has started using R in production, I find dplyr to be less clear than base R. Not that either one is clear.
Yeah, I would rather trust some random dude from xda than the phone vendor to keep their promise of keeping it up to date. In fact you can easily get a 4 year old device and put Android 11 on it, you just have to avoid the vendors who intentionally make it hard.
I get your point, but it ends up pretty arbitrary who picks up what part of spec to implement / which part of spec they deem "common sense".

e.g. It drives me BONKERS how many systems absolutely reject my single-letter email (~"N@domain.com"), which I created specifically to make it easy and safe to type on mobile devices etc. Others will reject the "+" sign, or underscore, or dot/period, or (brilliantly) two periods or underscors, etc etc etc :=/
This is good to know. But while I will admit my mistake, the problem points to a bigger issue, which is, as a layperson and not an expert on European law, I simply do not have the expertise necessary to understand the law and its implications. This is of course true of any website under any jurisdiction, but most laws don’t come with such absurdly vicious teeth, and therefore the risk profile is a lot different. So perhaps my example was misinformed. But that’s kind of the problem: you need to have a lawyer to really be sure of these things. I don’t have a lawyer.
What? I don't hate Apple.
It remains somewhat, ah, interesting that the biggest GDPR fine is for not being able to withstand a targeted attack by a motivated attacker. The British Airways compromise seems to have involved someone getting access to their systems (which basically just requires one employee screwing up, once) and hiding malicious code in their website so custom-tailored to them that an uninvolved outside expert in the malware family involved had trouble ientifying where it was after he knew it was there due to the news coverage. That's the kind of "gross negligence" that leads to a record fine and I don't think IT security as it currently stands is even remotely capable of preventing it.
Working on the most important items: automate measuring the most important metrics for your team. Releases, paging events, outages, bugs, support issues. You can look at your data and get a feel for trends and whether you need to focus on quality, or delivering more features.

Look into KPIs (key performance indicators). They should be proxies for customer success - Key means only have a few. The engineers should know what they are and be given the autonomy to influence the roadmap and innovate on how best to improve them.
The college I went to had air cooled tape drives. For some reason one unit would get too hot and stop working.

Solution: Go behind it and flap the large access door a couple of times, and then it would start up and finish a compile. As you were waiting for the printouts it would keep cooling down and do the next job if it was not too long.
They are making it impossible to be an unauthorised repairer.
I used Android for a few years. Then I used iOS for a few years (iPhone and iPad). I switched back to Android two years ago.

I liked a lot of things about iOS. Apps for Android tablets are still largely terrible and there is some bizarre behavior around SPens and multi-touch that I don't understand. But I could never go back.

The biggest benefit is I have all my files automatically synced between my phone, tablet and laptop. I never have to manually push something to the right app, then figure out how to get that on my Windows laptop. It's just there. Whether it's emulator save files or ebooks or documents or photos or anything else.
> Federighi said the ability to install software on Macs that isn’t vetted by Apple meant more malware was hitting its desktops than its phones.

This is really low. How could that even help, the issue was in apples own software.
> Being "difficult to understand" is a perspective of an individual observer, not some fundamental property of the thing itself.

I disagree. There are inherent qualities associated with systems that happen to be easier to understand. If you or I were designing such a system, and wanted to ensure this system imbued similar qualities — I believe it would be possible to do so.

> Japanese is "difficult to understand" if you only know English, but not if you grew up speaking Japanese.

Needing a priori knowledge to be able to understand something, is different.
Owning proven stuff is probably a more reliable investment than hoping one of your darts in the wall develops the cultural cachet of any of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer_f...

How many Netflix productions come even close for all the tens of billions they've poured into it? Reliable names mean customer retention.
The Cthulhu Captcha tests whether the user becomes insane upon viewing it.
Ok fine, let me choose a different example. Has someone who became a millionaire daytrading crypto contributed more to society than almost* every nurse?

* there are probably a handful of millionaire nurses out there

Edit: to be clear, I'm not arguing that the market doesn't reward people for providing economic value to the world. I just disagree that that's the type of value that's relevant when discussing whether someone is virtuous. If two people make the same amount of money selling vacuum cleaners, but one kicks an orphan every time they make a sale, I don't think many would say they're equally virtuous.
prudishness is a hell of a drug
That makes me want to use an email address of the form +myname@mydomain.com, just to see how websites would handle stripping out everything starting from the +.
Apple doesn't allow the third party store to do that but they can do whatever they want, it's their system (and arguably their phone as well.)
Clearly, nobody is afraid by it: I am getting buried insanely any time I criticize GDPR in any way. It is a thing you are not allowed to critique on HN.

So I wouldn’t say americans are particularly more bothered by it. But why shouldn’t we be? I have no representation in EU law.
See also: non-profit hijinks, e.g. individually managed funds and supporting organizations. With enough upfront capital and some administrative legwork, tax-free wealth management turns into “philanthropy”.
I think it has to do with efficiency; you need fewer and fewer people to generate value.

But those who are needed, i.e., tech workers, meet their needs and more.
What about having a law that makes it clear that an popup does not create informed consent, and then have companies decide to ignore that part of the law because it would be super inconvenient if they had to actually get informed consent.

Maybe EU should write a new law by copying the GDPR text that defines consent and make it bold, all in caps, and underlined.
It's more about how broken email is, gmail does what it does because they have to deal with the broken ecosystem of spammers and spoofers.
> This logic is why so many Web sites today won't let you use a plus sign in email addresses, which ruins a really nice Gmail feature.

Contrary to popular belief, it is not a gmail feature.

I first heard of the + as destination filtering in the very early 90s at CMU where it was broadly used. Every single email address I've had since then has support the same (and notably, apart from a test account, I've never used gmail much, so that's not including gmail).
Free? There are plenty of video hosting websites that will _pay me_ for putting a popular content on them. Pirate streaming sites are full of links to those, thats how they make money.
This[1] site seems to track actual fines. I found maybe a dozen fines of individuals. Here is the largest fine of a 'private person' I could find: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-69. If the database is at all accurate and the description of the violation is correct I would say they were well into Criminal territory and not civil fines.
[1] https://www.enforcementtracker.com
Luckily, Python >> R > Matlab, and the fight between R and Python is core to data science. Last I did any real investigation, R still had the edge in highly-theoretical and new techniques, for whatever reason it was much more used by academics, but Python was eating R's lunch for non-academic data science.
Of course he's controversial, he thinks differently and he wrote his thoughts down. How dare he.

Honestly in this age of this Marxism takeover, his thoughts aren't that crazy.
OpenStack, K8s. Nuff said.
I guess that's the difference between people who prefer R vs. people who use more traditional languages. '+' means addition in the scientific world, if I'm trying to figure out how to add numbers the first thing I try is '+'. To me, those vectors are just that - vectors of numbers, not instances of a class (even though that is kind of true under the hood). I have a problem I want to solve, and R does a good job of giving me what I want.
Their cookie acceptance popup is a UX trap
R was the supposedly the "FOSS" replacement for SAS, and Matlab to a degree. I had to support it and bioconductor.

Now, most people just use Python.
GP already responded, but in another comment thread this link was posted: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440089v4
Yeah, they have government regulations for that in Europe, but not in the US.

"There are no federal laws requiring airlines to provide passengers with money or other compensation when their flights are delayed"

https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...

The only regulations for delays in the US that helps passengers is some specifics about not stranding you in the aircraft/tarmac for more than 3 hours (domestic flights) or 4 hours (international flights).
The issue isn't with one platform being more open or closed than the other; if you kids want, they can watch pretty much anything they want. They have YouTube and a browser, how are you going to stop them? I sympathize with your distaste for crude advertising, but every platform has it's fair share of people abusing it. Just a few months ago, developers were coming out en masse to denounce Apple's weak regulation in the app store, filtering obscenities but completely missing predatory pricing structures, ponzi schemes, stolen code and frequent double standards/unequal ruling.

The bottom line is that the internet is scary, and your kids are growing up faster than any generation before. The more you try to interfere with stuff like this, the more animosity they'll perceive in your relationship.
It's CMD+Down arrow.

One thing that's killer for me in MacOS vs Windows, regarding consistency, is text fields. They always behave the same (except, of course, for weird apps, say ms office). CMD+Backspace will delete a whole word even in password fields or system settings, etc. This is always hit or miss in Windows. I know it doesn't work for passwords. In Windows explorer it works... sometimes. It works in the address bar, but not in the preferences or when renaming a file.
Oh, so it was you... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/17/tech/waymo-arizona-confus...
Does that mean I can finally use PHP+sqlite in a REPL ?
Not all of us Eastern Europeans agree on everything. Having talked to hundreds older than myself on the topic however, I found overall they disagreed with you.
Yeah, the comment about bells struck out to me as well. I didn't have one on my MTB in the beginning, but it just felt so stupid to yell 'sorry' at people. I don't see what's the reason, saving a few grams of weight? While riding recreationally? Makes no sense.
First I got one of those minimalist designs that blend in with the handlebar, but it didn't work too well. So I just got a huge one, in black color like the handlebar, which is very loud. Sometimes people get scared for a moment but it's much better than them jumping as you ride by them silently. And I don't think it looks bad at all.
Inkscape 1.1
What do you guys think of "dry run by default" where you have to turn dry run OFF via an argument? I've done this on some of my utilities just because screwing up the arguments would result in much grief (lost data).
Handguards with wrap-around metal guards are a must on my dirt bike and commuter motorcycle. There is a small chance in an over-the-bars crash I could get a wrist caught in the guard, but this is unlikely and the more common incident I have is either a drop on a loose or cambered surface or hitting something like a bush or low branch and knocking it out of the way in a narrow gap.
While I know this is a fun captcha, it does bring up a problem I'm having more and more with the web and mobile. There's no way my mom would ever be able to handle this captcha. Heck I didn't even get the 4 kills on the first one and I regularly play FPSes (I used a trackpad for this).
Watch this episode of The Good Wife (season 05, episode 13): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3540606/ ...
While true, helmets do prevent other types of injuries such as skull fractures. They're still worth wearing.
Although this is an interesting topic to me, I struggle to read the site behind all the cookie warnings and newsletter begging.
The only time I've ever seen a Cray in person was in a barn, behind a friend's house.

At my first startup, there was an older engineer named Spence, who had a hobby trading used scientific equipment. His motto was, "He who dies with the most stuff wins". In the barn behind his house was a huge assortment of used equipment, including a Cray, a 9 million volt VandeGraaff, multiple CNC lathes, and a veritable sea of printers & monitors. His Cray was in bad shape and didn't run. The boards looked really interesting. He had hopes of getting it working again, but sadly, he got hit with a double whammy of cancer and divorce, and had to sell his barn and everything in it.

Working with Spence was a trip. I remember once when we were working on a vacuum problem and someone said, "Man, I wish we had a vacuum gauge that would measure down to 10^-9 torr". Spence reached into his pocket and pulled out a vacuum gauge, and said, "You mean like this?". We were never sure if he somehow anticipated what we would need, or if he was just the kind of guy who walked around with vacuum gauges in his pockets.
Yeah I totally agree. The only one I’ve played recently that recreated the magic of childhood for me was Breath of the Wild.
I would suspect because Python is R's main competitor in data science.
And the recovery is basically to turn your bars in the direction that helps the branch slide off the end, which would be steering toward the brush except that a quick torque at speed will counter-steer, taking you away from the brush.
It's a little over-the-top for my taste in this article. Would much rather something a little crisper.
His affiliation with the project was an albatross around its neck. For it to succeed, he understood that he couldn't have a place in it.
I do not think that Apple is maintaining a full GA level release cycle testing and release planning for a version of IOS that can allow 3rd party apps. The key here is the RELEASE TO GA.

Of course they have internal builds that are signed and allow you to do whatever they want internally, but having a shipping GA with the normal protects and support for all the work and validations that would go into supporting 3rd party installations.

Your resume says you where an Intern at Apple, so I am sure you are correct in the fact that they have an unlocked internal build, however my points are valid about the difference between that and a GA PRODUCTION release.

Note, Apple has some pretty strict NDAs so...
I like how Vimeo analytics are broken (not counting embeds) and they are very casual about it. I think I remember Louis Rossmann getting hit with the same $8K some time ago and discovering there is nothing in between.
So when are we going to break up Amazon?
Guantanamo was not public for a long time and any legal proceedings were famously impeded. We didn’t even find out about the torture for a long time. The film The Mauritian portraits this quite well.

Abu Ghraib wasn’t made public through courts at all.

How many other such places exist and still kept secret for now? The past would suggest there are at least several.
What does insanely powerful mean?

I like how fast it loads and the scroll animations are cool. Content is okay.
Stop Scrolling and Do the Work
Oh, another aspect to this: OpenSSH may not have a bug, but maybe you need to interface using a PAM module to a radius or LDAP server. Suddenly the trust weakens.
How about if no one would get treated like this?