skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

What part of that says its "against the rules", as claimed?

> For clarification: by mental state, I mean simply another person's state of mind (beliefs, intentions, etc) not mental health (sanity or intelligence).

Sounds right.

> In this case, saying that people would refuse to accept any downplaying of the WEF statement presumes knowledge about the beliefs of others. As Scott Adam's would say, it's "mind reading". Frankly, you don't know whether I or anyone else would refuse any downplaying. You only know that we refuse the ones provided.

What would Scott Adams say about you recasting any questioning as downplaying, then invoking a general statement from him in service of furthering recasting questioning as "mind reading", then self-assuredly letting me know that you're being frank, not glib, when you tell me I don't know what you'll accept.

All of this, btw, not responding to the question you claim you're answering, quoted as if you were answering, and now you've burdened with further broad claims about _my_ state of mind and what you believe I _think_ I'm arguing

Give me some rope here, let me redirect: you're claiming that the set of following words, bounded by " marks:

"It feels like this analysis is missing something, ex. have you had any property rights taken away in the ensuing 5 years? If discourse hinges on a 2 minute YouTube video and refusing to accept any downplaying of it, what hope does discourse have? There's approximately infinite two minute YouTube videos"

contains:

- questioning a person's mental state (as in beliefs, intetions)

- questioning a person's character

- a statement that people would refuse to accept any downplaying of the WEF statement

- mind reading

Unfortunately, giving you charity here also reads as mind-reading under the extremely broad definition you've given it, so forgive me if what I perceive as normal conversational banter is yet another violation of the rules I missed: I believe you got in over your skis and tried to rope in a discussion of your readings of Scott Adams and what you think he said as an answer to "what's the best way to talk about this so I don't get downvoted?", and you've unintentionally tripled down on explaining that the downvotes are a result of the edit that came after the downvotes.

EDIT: Lordy I didn't realize you were the original person I replied to. You haven't engaged with a single comment I've made in this thread, just meta-explained why you don't need to engage with anything ever. Scott would have your head on a platter for invoking him in defense of this post-modern argumentation style
I don’t see it in the abstract, but what was the infection rate for the unvaccinated? That’s your comparison.

They also mentioned 0 infections in fully vaccinated which is odd as other countries are seeing a number of infections in their vaccinated front line workers.

https://twitter.com/sporeMOH/status/1402637555263098884?s=20
Why? I would think most tech related learning happens with out other people involved. Learning languages, self study, Stack over flow and simmiliar, reading books. Idk if junior employees need to coddled as much as people think. Maybe just the bottom doesn't cut it. Developing your knowledge on your own is a skill you need any way.
Build a straw man to "represent" a group, then refute its argument to deter the target group from ever joining the discussion.
So was the permit Trump issued illegal? Or was it just "crass" and not what people are used to?

(I'm not supporting it, I'm curious as to how much of the process is really specified in law an how much of it relies on norms.)
Ooh looks great!
Both can be true for a period of time: criminals can _believe_ something which is incorrect but that can go a long time before it’s challenged directly enough to break that belief (as we just saw with that secure messaging app).

Someone who bought drugs on the small scale might think it’s true because that was their experience and the local police weren’t spending the time to go after people and the national agencies were going after sales volumes 3+ orders of magnitude larger, or simply that they weren’t spending time on the blockchain because they went after some other part of the system.

That experience would be actively misleading if they got new policy directives — as we just saw with ransomware going from a nuisance for insurance companies to the President of the United States telling federal investigators to do something about it.
Just from my experience, building something purely out of spite is not a good long term strategy. All those companies ended up using a lot of open source because as it turns out, it is a good solution a lot of the time.
Apple Podcasts says it’ll launch in-app subscriptions globally on June 15th
How is that a leak? Only the publishing companies are making money. Authors, reviewers and often editors all work for free.
An even cleverer trick if you have lots of things you could inspect, but finite resources and you should like to encourage people to have practices that routinely pass inspection anyway:

The Paris MOU randomly inspects vessels entering European ports with the rate of inspections based on their flag. So if you're a UK registered ship, you might expected to go several years without inspection, while if you're Albanian registered, Albania is blacklisted, you're getting inspected twice a year or more, and if you fail several inspections you're getting banned from all European ports.

How did Albania get blacklisted? The Paris MOU tracks the results of inspections. Each time a ship flying some flag is inspected, the result of the inspection changes the calculation of how much apparent risk there is of ships with that flag failing inspection. Risk too high? Greylist. Risk higher still? Blacklist.

Why flags? Because before Port State Control existed, the Flag States (Country where the ship is registered) were responsible for periodically inspecting ships. And they still are, it's international law, the Europeans just got sick of all these ships with a "flag of convenience" from some distant island that are clearly non-compliant and have never been inspected in their nice well-regulated ports. So they invented the Paris MOU and Port State Control.

And it worked, I mentioned the UK flag is whitelisted, but the Bahamas are a famous Flag of Convenience, and they're whitelisted too, because they took the job seriously. A Bahamas registration is a little cheaper†, but your ship will be properly inspected on their behalf, and so sure enough when it gets randomly inspected again in say, Antwerp, it'll likely pass. Meanwhile St Vincent, another Flag of Convenience, is on the Greylist and a few tiny islands that dipped their toes in the "Flag of Convenience" business are blacklisted. The promise of inspectors poking around inside your ships every five minutes is a bad deal even if Tuvalu shipping registration is half price.

† The other thing we don't like about Flags of Convenience is they make it easier to hide who owns things, which can serve to also avoid taxation. The Paris MOU doesn't fix that, that superyacht registered in the Bahamas might be safe but the owner likely didn't pay tax...
Like you can’t mention on package of your product in Walmart that your product is cheaper on your website. No business allows this.
Monero and others exist. You can’t easily trade them because the government doesn’t like the anonymity, but they exist.

If Bitcoin gets poisoned, you’ll just see it sold for monero, laundered, then passed back into Bitcoin.
Also Australian night time involved. Contrary to rumours, I'm not a vampire and do need to sleep sometimes.
It's true in spirit, if not the letter. Oil pipelines are useless for other things until they're cleaned and repurposed which isn't a cheap process.
They're also a vocal minority of Canadians.
Arc is most definitely "open source", not "proprietary, source available". It's provided under the Artistic License (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_License). That license is GPL compatible, upholds the "spirit" of FOSS, and is OSI certified.

A bazaar development model is one that takes place in the open with contributions by strangers actively welcomed. A cathedral model involves development behind closed doors with periodic releases. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar)
As a scientist let me make this clear:

There is no such thing as scientific misinformation.

All science is theory and open to being challenged.

If the theory is strong then it holds. If not then it is proven wrong to some degree.

Stop censoring what you think is wrong.

If your idea is the truth then it doesn't need help.
As someone who lives near a lot of FB employees I’m happy for them as well as for all the others who won’t have to suffer the impact of those employees commuting.

This is an all around good thing.
Just get rid of all your meeting rooms, and have everyone do the meeting from the desk, so it sucks for everyone.

I mean, that's kind of horrific, but it's the sort of thing people are thinking of.

The other mechanism is, even if people are in offices, construct teams so everyone is in a different one, and so everything is remote even if you are in an office.
Google is less restrictive than apple leaving less reason to opt out.
> there was this enormous revolutionary fervor around free software

I miss those times, and places like HN are far from it. Join mastodon if you want to breathe a similar atmosphere again.

> Were we hopelessly naive?

No, Linux won hands down. Also, a lot of people warned about the coopting of FOSS from software freedom into unpaid labor. We saw it coming and couldn't stop it.
I think we disagree on this point and I don't really see it being resolved.

I'm of the opinion that they are not able to try because apple has blocked their ability to do so.
That would only work for a tiny tiny intersection of :
1) technical enough people to install and maintain that
2) with an email address still working (if there is one on the paper!)
3) still alive

that's probably a really small set of scientists.
I think that would be a great - but we also employ by the hour not by the task which I also think is great. Sometimes I get tickets marked with three story points and think "Ha, let me just push up a quick patch" and other times I discover a dark dark hole at the bottom of assumptions that eats away at days.

It's really hard to generally evaluate employees on productivity - especially in CS - and so our compromise is that we all lie a bit and say "We're paying you for 40 hours a week" and we reply "Yes - my compensation is tied purely to the fact that I am here for forty hours".

I think it's a much longer road to better employee respect.
Why should they? Unless it's some kind of contract I don't think you can be sued for not doing your job - you can be fired (and likely would be), but incompetence doesn't generally lead to legal problems.
> They already disallowed remote code loading in extensions with a Chrome Web Store policy update nearly two years ago. They didn't have to invent a new API full of breaking changes to do it.

Blog post author here. This comment is incorrect on two main fronts.

First, the Chrome Web Store's Developer Program Policy did not prevent the use of remote code, it only forbade the obfuscation of remotely loaded code. An alternative, stricter reading of the policy was that extensions could not use remotely hosted code to obfuscate it's operations. Regardless of which of these interpretations you favor, using remotely hosted code in Manifest V2 extensions is not forbidden by our policies.

Second, I strongly disagree with the implication that policy changes could have addressed the abuse issues we're seeing. Even if we did have policies disallowing the use of remotely hosted code, that does not somehow compel developers to comply or simplify the enforcement process. I have a ton of respect for my colleagues in review, but policy enforcement is complex and virtually impossible to get right 100% of the time. So, some amount of malware will get through review, some number of users will be exploited, and some amount of harm will result. How much harm should we accept as "the cost of doing business", especially when we have a way to address a major exploit vector?

Speaking as a developer, I'm not exactly thrilled to lose capabilities that I've been using responsibly because other people are exploiting them. On the other hand, as a member of the team maintaining this platform I don't see a practical alternative to address the problems that arbitrary code execution presents for the average user.
That was just one example but you win I guess. What I had in my mind was for a Spanish speaker it's probably easier to learn a hypothetical Romance language that doesn't have grammatical gender than say French.
It's not clear from the Twitter thread what Apple is asking for. They're definitely NOT asking for a share of creator proceeds but they may be asking for Fanhouse to have a way to subscribe in the app.

I downloaded Fanhouse and tried to view some profiles. It says "Follow to see more" but there's no way to follow anyone in the iOS app. I can see this running afoul of some App Store guidelines since you're advertising a feature with no way to use it.

This could be Apple being unreasonable, but it could also just be a misunderstanding of how the App Store review process works. I don't know how long they've been going back and forth with Apple on this.
Because the entire definition of "open" and "closed" platforms is an arbitrary one dictated by the platform creator. There is no reason that iOS (and every game console for that matter) can't run arbitrary programs provided by the person who bought and paid for the device other than obstinance in service of rent seeking.

Why should "closed" platforms (i.e. ones where the user doesn't get to decide) even be allowed to exist?
I used to take it for granted that my concept of Free Software was the main or default concept, but now I've come to realize that I'm an iconoclastic weirdo.

Anyway, just to get it out there, this is what [I think] should happen:

A small group of really really good programmers write software that works (is bug-free). The rest of us use it, we are technicians who configure and deploy the code written by the elite. This (plus technological innovation in general) results in an "economic supernova" where science and technology are applied to solve our basic problems in an efficient way. (Bucky Fuller calculated that this would be possible by sometime in the 1970's.) This results in the collapse of the profit motive precipitating a post-historical secular utopia (e.g. Star Trek).

All of the technology is there, right on schedule, but we as a species continue in our old technically-obsolete patterns, unmindful.
I wonder though if non-Apple stores will lead to fragmentation. Apps on the App Store will flee and there will be a whole host of app stores. Sort of like Hulu/Netflix/Disney/HBO/etc. with television.

Suddenly the apps you had come to expect on the App Store are not there now.
[The state plan to do away with virtually all masking and social distancing requirements for vaccinated people] conflicts with the board’s vote last week to allow workers to go maskless only if every employee in a room is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Nope it was mostly direct download for the endusers with some ipfs in some places.
I've been back in my company's office in person (medium-sized tech company) for the last week with a small subset of employees before we all go back, and I've become pretty convinced that these hybrid models will not go well. Even while wearing masks and social distancing, I feel far more connected to the others that work in the office, and whether it's fair or not, personal connection and trust play a huge role in collaborating effectively and deciding who gets what work, who gets promoted, etc. If everyone can choose whatever combination of remote and in-person they want, it seems impossible to me that there won't be extremely strong in-group/out-group effects that will cause big organizational problems for companies. But I'm saying this as a young person excited to work in person, so maybe others (parents, those with long commutes) feel it's still worth it.
It wasn’t “spite,” first of all. But “a good long term strategy” for what, exactly?
I thought that was just for image search?
Anti-China trade bill is big boost for big tech
I was going to say yes...but on a population basis, CA has just under 2x the population of FL...and only a little bit under 2x the COVID-related fatality rate of FL (assuming fatality rates are accurate). IOW: very similar per capita death rates accounting for significant digits.

OTOH, the article makes it seem like an either/or. Many places in CA also reopened its restaurants last summer for indoor dining before closing them again, and restaurants have been open for dining for months in CA.

The big difference between the two states is the aftermath of COVID: CA's economy has recovered faster than any other states' economy, while FL is facing an impending crisis due to the complete loss of the cruise-related tourism industry (which represents more than 7% of its GDP, including both wages and spending by tourists).
Who is going to exchange their Monero for your Bitcoin when the Bitcoin you give them can be seized? At what discount?
180cm in Korea.
The engineering work was far simpler then. A single person can reasonably understand the whole of how an Apple II computer is designed and works, end to end. A small team of such people interacted in highly productive ways to iterate that innovation, yielding many interesting tales.

The iPhone is many orders of magnitude more complex. It took thousands of engineers to design and build it, each working on a tiny piece. Entire subsystems (e.g. the modem chip) are wholly outsourced to other companies. There are no people who understand fully how more than a small piece of it works. The yield is a series of sprint planning meetings.

Apple was also a much smaller company then, steeped in the (unthinkable today) openness of 70s/80s compute culture. Apple itself grew out of the Homebrew Computer Club, a hobbyist meetup where people swapped designs and technical information freely.

"Doing interesting engineering things with computer designs" was perceived as a very small niche of purely technical interest to a few geeks and nerds. The culture around the engineering wasn't at all locked down with NDAs and battallions of lawyers - why bother, the economic value of the technical information was seen as marginal and not worth bothering over. How times change!
Tencent's 2-Wheeler Bot
This strawman about middle managers in the WFH conversation is exhausting and annoying. Do you really think middle managers are some evil scum-sucking lizards that actually enjoy things like hour long commutes and wearing uncomfortable clothes? They're people just like you are, and they enjoy sitting at home in their pajamas just as much as you do.

Maybe, just maybe the issue is that middle managers have actual, legitimate reasons that WFH isn't a universally good thing. Contrary to what you may think, not every worker in tech is a high-performing star that produces flawless code if you just leave them alone in their home office. A lot of employees are lazy and will take advantage of the reduced oversight to slack off, a lot of employees are people who need constant hands-on mentoring or direction, and a lot of employees are just simply more productive when there's someone to impress nearby.

So while I respect that you might be the perfect worker bee who does whatever work is assigned with no oversight or hand-holding required, most employees are not that, and in-person oversight/mentoring (and if in-person oversight can't happen, get ready for increase monitoring on your work laptop usage) legitimately is necessary.
damage resistance isn't profitable.
Is it as smooth and low-latency as sidecar?
Or this:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mask-pl...

Edit: For an informative, but lower quality source:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/i-dont-know-of-a-big...
And these are mostly run by people that have not even heard of scihub, openaccess etc
>> So this study doesn't have enough statistical power to say how vaccines compare to previous infection. Could be better, could be up to 3 times worse within a high confidence interval.

Could be. But it would be great if they'd just say having had a confirmed case is equivalent to getting the vaccine because several studies have now shown that to be roughly the case. It's also conventional medical wisdom although it varies by virus.
It has nothing to do with hand holding. Almost every blocker is tribal knowledge that there is no way to acquire other than asking.
Mainlining “Google Fibers” and open-sourcing User-Managed Concurrency Groups
I'm not comparing anything, I'm saying closed platforms shouldn't exist. the practical difference is however that the mobile phone is used as a general purpose computer and is at this point for many people the only device they actually use. That said I am not in principle opposed to apply the same standard to gaming consoles, but it is less of a pressing issue compared to the fact that there are hundreds of millions of people with smartphones who basically have no access to any remotely free and open computing environment.
We're in a new golden age of traditional roguelikes right now. Here are a few of my other favorites:

Brogue: Community Edition - A modern spiritual sequel to the original Rogue. Very tightly wound; every item and monster has their own niche. Excellent UI, and a striking ASCII-style with light and shadows.

Golden Krone Hotel - The best roguelike for folks to to the genre, imho. A good interface and lots of intelligent streamlining of the genre. Transform between human and vampire repeatedly as you manage blood and seek (or avoid) sunlight.

Cogmind - A robotic crawl through a living mechanical dungeon. Big focuses on trying not to attract too much attention and equipping parts you've blown off enemies.

Caves of Qud - Weaponized sci-fi weirdness. Open world. Reputation and culture systems for every species. Potions that can grant intelligence to anything. There is an achievement for wearing your own severed face.
Looks like you need to set the user agent for this to work (I went with "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (K HTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36" and it worked)
Was that for all roles or only 5+ years of experience?
People talk online too; it’s different for people who grew up using text messages and social media where they’re accustomed to building and maintaining online relationships.

I’m old, so don’t look at me, but when you look at the cohort of folk who are dealing with wfh successfully and productively, it’s, in my direct observation, younger folk.

None is perhaps true for more people than you think.

The ones who are struggling are the people who don’t “do chat” (ie the “oh no! I despise slack” group and the “let’s have a call to discuss that” group) and managers.

...and to be fair, it’s a lot harder to be a manager remotely; I can’t deny that.

...but people can build meaningful relationships online; it’s just different, and that’s hard for older people, in general.
> But I'm saying this as a young person excited to work in person, so maybe others (parents, those with long commutes) feel it's still worth it.

Parent of three, going on four. Get me out of here!
The list of M1-only features from the article for the lazy:

- Live Text in photos, whereby users can interact with text within images as if they were any other text

- Improved city maps for San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London.

- The high-detail globe view for Apple Maps.

- The Portrait mode video effect.

- Natural text-to-speech in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish

- Unlimited/continuous keyboard dictation