skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good one. I like it.

However, although Wiktionary gives the etymology of "grime" as "from Proto-Germanic grīmô (“mask”)", it also says: "Possibly influenced by Danish grim (“soot, grime”), Old Dutch grijmsel, Middle Dutch grime, Middle Low German greme (“dirt”)." The former goes back to "Proto-Indo-European gʰrēy- (“to paint, streak, smear”), from gʰer- (“to rub, stroke”)", which is also the origin of "Christ", but the latter goes back to "Proto-Indo-European gʰrem- (“to resound; thunder”)". According to Wiktionary. But that doesn't really make much sense, does it? I think there must be a mistake in there somewhere.

Amusingly, "Grim" is also one of the names of the Norse god Odin, presumably because he wore a mask. (Is that perhaps mentioned in the film "The mask"?) So Christ and Odin have the same name, sort of.
> Did Apple do something wrong here?

My (meta-)point is that the answer to this question better be the same as it is to the question of “Did ATT do something wrong?” If it’s not, then the person answering is either intellectually dishonest or a hypocrite.

Personally, my answer – which is the same to both – is that if the company followed a legal process, they didn’t do something “wrong.” I don’t like the trend of relying on corporations to take moral positions. If the subpoena is legal, but ethically wrong, then the problem is with the legal process, not the company complying with it. It shouldn’t be Apple or ATT’s job to protest against a valid legal subpoena.

It’s the job of congress to fix the legislation that allows for this surveillance. And btw, it’s worth noting that they aren’t trying very hard to do this. I wonder why?

If a company wants to protest this system, the best thing they can do is not collect the information being subpoenaed in the first place. Take Signal for example. When they receive a subpoena, they don’t need to protest it, because they can just say they never actually had the information under subpoena.

Is Apple doing something wrong by collecting information they can read with or without a subpoena? Well, that’s for you – the market – to decide. Vote with your wallet. Personally IMO Apple is the least-bad option for privacy, so long as your threat model doesn’t involve any nation-state government.
Replace "disrupt" with "replace with an improved version" and you have accurately characterized my view.

The USPS does an absolutely terrible job, by objective measure. Many of their locations are significantly understaffed, with 30-60 minute waits for basic services (for paying customers!). Rude, unhelpful employees are the norm.

Why should package and letter delivery be a public service? Their approach is not working.
I assume EU regulations apply to all EU persons, not just those in the EU? If so, is there a way for anyone in the world to become an EU person without giving up one's citizenship elsewhere just so I can be a party to GDPR and now this?
> If you build a custom database
> engine that fundamentally stores
> everything as key-value, and then
> builds relational abstractions on
> top

Sounds like this could be FoundationDB, among other contenders like TiDB.

https://foundationdb.org
How about just make it so they cant sell a device that is locked down from the owner.

The fact the boot ROM will only run code signed by apple effectively lets apple retain the right of exclusion even after selling the device.

At the very least a device owner should be able to load their own signing keys for the boot rom to use.
https://archive.is/gTqpD
https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Means hiccup
Could sell it outside of the country? It does make me wonder.
I had an e-mail conversation with S. John Ross once, years ago; he seemed like a great guy. I hope this sale is a good thing.
This is not about incentives to spend or invest - it's about having a functioning basic unit of economic measure that is 1) stable 2) has integrity and 3) hopefully under the control over the government.

BTC isn't good for any of that.

USD is good for 1 and 2.

The gov. can move to re-establish it's currency and have 3 as well.
Hi Mitchell, what would it take to build an official firecracker plugin for Vagrant? Would there be any interest?
IANAL or even a law-enthusiast, but surely we already have case law on this if nothing else? You can't sue the car company if you remove the breaks in your car... right?
I have no clue what are they doing. My "data", your "data"...it's not here, nor there, it's everywhere.
These regulations only apply within the EU… Same like GDPR it only applies to services delivered to EU customers within the EU.

A German moving to the US and consuming local services isn’t protected by GDPR.
been using https://www.parallels.com/ with https://kb.parallels.com/en/122843
I wonder if multiple simulations show any level of convergence.
I've seen the value of g (yes, Earth's gravitational field, the average one) labeled as ITAR restricted. There's plenty of truly trivial stuff that gets labeled that way.
I would rather Apple just have to abide by some small changes to the current store:

1) Lower commission. I think even 15% would make almost everyone happy - Even Stripe will charge you 3% + 20p which is 23% on a $1 app!

2) No ban on telling customers they can subscribe a different way.

Just that probably solves 99% of objections.
>Can you explain how you came to that conclusion and what 'that logic' is?

Because the parent poster was applying arbitrary restriction on it (apps, but only ios) to make a point. I replied with the equivalent example for costco (grocery store products, but only kirkland signature).
rather than ask "how much they'd be willing to pay", it might be more compelling to simply say "It will cost $X for early access, limited to X slots, in exchange, {we do such-and-such}."

If they say "OK, great", you've got immediate revenue to bring back to your management, and a strong case to continue doing more of the same.

Customers routinely over-and-under-estimate future value, compared to what they're then willing to pay.

They're often wrong in both directions, they usually won't pay as much as they think they will, _and_ they'll often pay far more than they think you will.

There are many, many reasons for both kinds of errors, many of which can be de-risked in advance and safely ameliorated.
Yes, you got me. You understood it perfectly. Congratulations.
You just described supply and demand.

If the wages are too low, you’ll have a shortage.

To remediate the shortage, wages must increase.
That's a great question. Slingshow handles this pretty well. We have lots of customers in similar situations like the one you mentioned who use the product regularly. However, we have to do a better job of explaining this. We're working on having different ways to restrict the event upfront & giving you the option to remove the "registration page." However, you can still use it right now without your team having to register.

Currently, at the event start time, the Slingshow event page becomes the actual event, and attendees can enter using Google, Linkedin, or email even if they didn't register. There's no unique link that you only get when you register. It's all just one link, and the registration is essentially just an email capture + reminder email. There are many advantages of doing it this way (and some disadvantages), including being a good catch-all for internal and external use cases.

As far as you're concerned, your flow would be very similar to a Zoom call or Google Hangout. Just create the event, set the start time, email it out, or put it in Slack, and at the time of the event, your members/staff can enter the event. No registration is required.

However, you may still have concerns around members sharing the event, and that's what we're working on fixing next, for example, domain restriction, manually admitting people etc. But it's the same issue you'd face with using Zoom or Google Hangout as a link even with a password is still a shareable link. We recommend for now having the waiting room open and admitting people one by one (it's super quick in Slingshow with Cmd+K) or importing a list of emails as "pre-approved."

I hope this wasn't too confusing. If you'd like to give Slingshow a shot and still have questions, I'd be more than happy to jump on a quick call with you or send a short Loom to make this more concrete. Please feel free to create an account and message us on the Intercom, and we'll walk you through it. We have more work to do in this area to make it more intuitive, but we've think a lot about these different "entrance flows," so thanks for asking this question.
Good thing there's an exception for mom and pop stores like Walmart.
> "You now have a possibility to move millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency across national boundaries in seconds," said Yonatan Striem-Amit, a co-founder of Cybereason, a Boston-based company that offers protection from hackers.

I'm not a fan of cryptocurrencies, nor have I ever purchased cryptos, but even I must admit that cryptos get a few things right, such as cross national liquidity. The lack of regulation to protect consumers from fraudsters, scammers, and other dishonest actors, the untraceability of cryptos like Monero, the slowness of transactions processing (Bitcoin), and the wild volatility (your chicken breast costs $X one day, $1.5X the next, then $0.8X), all conspire to blunt the mass public adoption of cryptos as a practical currency, but these are not necessarily insurmountable problems.

Can we have a digital currency that shares cryptos' liquidity and trans national use that is also stable over the short and medium term, regulated enough to protect the public but not so regulated that you end up with a clunky version of fiat currencies, that can support fast transactions and can be tracked by governments? Something like the PBOC's digital yuan seems like a good first step, even if I'm not a fan of the communist regime in general.
And yes, noted on the live interpreters point. Just to clarify - do you have multiple languages at the same time? Is it primarily ASL? Would love to learn more. Thanks!
Slack is used for long term communication. If I’m walking around town on my phone, I absolutely don’t want slack to get logged out every time I connect to some wifi network.
if you want to see it that way, sure, but i'd say it's stretching. airplanes convert energy into miles travelled. bitcoin converts energy into security of an asset. if nobody needs to travel or nobody needs the security - no energy is spent.
I feel that only big apps are worth side loading, because only they have enough reputation to evaluate (like Fortnite); it's the small apps which have a credibility problem.

I think small apps will even have a credibility problem on the official Apple app store, because, say, let's just consider an app which tries to be a better calendar. You download the app and you don't like it, but your entire calendar data history has basically been exfiltrated, and could be worth far more than whatever the price of software. This is true for almost all apps which would normally be seen simple and innocuous. Contacts. Mail. Messages.

If we don't solve this credibility and privacy problem, I can't see how small players should compete in a way which is harmonious with user privacy concerns. This makes me only want Apple to have more domination. Domination to force every single app vendor to use Apple Pay. Domination to force every single app vendor to support Apple's anonymous account registration process. Domination to abide by Apple's new demands to inform the user of tracking.
This is neat, do you have any future ideas of making this into a product?
Farming equipment and practices.
It might be because Go is a more defined C variant () but with a very full standard library.

: with real capturing closures and garbage collection, as in Scheme
> Sorry for being pedantic, but it’s the same as “you don’t die from being shot, but from the resulting blood loss”.

I think I wasn't clear then.

With the Spanish Flu, the virus took hold in the host and multiplied. As part of the immune response, the body released cytokines, which normally help with the situation. But for reasons I don't understand, the Spanish Flu often prompted a "cytokine storm", which is an uncontrolled and excessive release of these molecules, even after the virus was cleared. Ultimately, it was these cytokines, not the virus, that overwhelmed the body and killed the patient. So what we saw with the Spanish Flu was that younger people with stronger immune systems, died more than older people with weaker ones.

But the relevance here is that the mRNA vaccines inject a ton of mRNA to induce the body to produce Spike protein, a piece of Covid, in order to teach the adaptive immune system to recognize it and produce antibodies. And so my question is, could it have been the case that these Spike proteins would induce a cytokine storm? (We see now that they don't, but I'm not sure that was clear a priori.)

In other words, I think it's important to draw the distinction between the "gun shot" and the "blood loss". With Spanish Flu, a lot of the mortality came from the blood loss. However, with Covid, it appears the "gun shot" does more damage (i.e. patients who die form Covid, continue to have high viral loads; it's not a case that the immune system is what kills them).

But none of this was clear in advance.

> Also, we did absolutely have clinical trials

Yes, I said that.
This is giving me serious headache.
Not having the ability to side load apps and having only one store is why I buy an iPhone in the first place.
Part of the problem there is we allowed investment banks to switch from being unlimited liability partnerships (ie like a traditional law firm) to being a limited liability corporation.

By the way, I’m not defending backs here. The banks acted recklessly, even illegally, in the subprime era. Governments have taught them there is no downside to risky investments, which was part of the problem with several such incidents in the 1990s.

But we do need to be clear that often these are loans that are repaid and that a collapse of the financial system like we had in the 1930s doesn’t help anyone.
The part of this that is news to me (I have long known about using the street address of the post office with #BOXNUMBER, and used this to get driver's licenses in the past) is that they will now accept UPS/FedEx shipments to a PO box when addressed in this manner.

For a long time, the USPS would simply refuse to accept deliveries from competitors, which always struck me as the utmost in anticompetitive, non-interoperable-by-design bullshit. I'm glad to hear they have stopped.
iOS Notification Changes and Updates from Apple’s WWDC ‘21
Interesting, thanks. I've long since become a software dev with tender, callous-free hands so I have no idea what the current state is.
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There has literally never been a more clear and obvious way to waste energy for no reason, something which is happening at scale, during a time of energy crisis.

This has Easter Island written all over it.

'Hey, let's use all our resources to build Giant Heads! The person with the most heads gets to be the King!'.
The only two options are not either that the FDA screens and approves drugs or it being down to individuals (or even these individuals' doctors). We could have private screening and trials companies that the drug producers themselves would pay. We already see this in other industries where there are both public and private inspections done. I've heard in those cases the private inspectors are actually stricter as well, as they actually have more incentive to be correct.
Do they respect people notwithstanding their position or their technical ability?

There are many candidates who will talk down to people who are not technical. One way to detect that is to either have non technical people during the interview ask questions, or not clearly identify that you are technical if you're in a managerial position. Just a human. Does the candidate respect you. Will they explain things to you?

This is not frivolous. An engineer, especially in a startup, will have to talk with non-technical people (board, advisors, clients, etc). If they have that "attitude", you want to know that before you hire them and make your decision accordingly.

How do they deal with vulnerability, or being wrong, or someone else being wrong? You can be deliberately wrong about something you really know, and then be wrong about something they really know.

Will they go along? Will they correct you and elevate you without having a smug attitude? You want to know that.

Again, this is not some "mind kung fu" frivolous thing. Especially in a start-up, people spend a lot of time testing hypotheses, and often being wrong. You don't want an asshole there. You also don't want someone hiding evidence. If they bullshit you on something you really know because they thought you knew nothing of it, they will do it when you really don't know about the thing that was messed up. You'll have people during an incident doing everything to cover their ass, instead of actually giving all the information needed to fix the issue and stabilize systems.

Even when we hired an accountant, I had a list of questions to elicit these behaviors. In one instance, it became evident that we'll have a problem even asking a question to that accountant.

We had that with some engineering candidates who had attitudes like "Do I also have to explain this to you?", or when you claim you don't really know a lot about a topic, they see this as an opportunity to bullshit.

Besides the ethical considerations of them doing that (or you doing that), it demonstrates low general intelligence to do that in a hiring interview.
I really wish their "2nd App Store" could just be the web. If they had some easy way to search for PWAs (on par with the App Store), and had better support for PWAs (on par with Android), PWAs could finally take off as the "write once, run anywhere" solution for apps instead of things like Flutter/React Native.
I think Kirkland is just Costco making a bulk deal with one of the manufacturers and slapping Kirkland brand on it.
This seems to be the reason https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine/discussions/1423
There are a lot of downsides to "Sign in with Google", but I am generally willing to accept them because I think I could recover my account if I lost my password. I'm not certain I could do so, because we've all read plenty of horror stories about Google's customer support. But I don't think I could recover an Ethereum private key. I'm sure there are esoteric ways of doing this. But ultimately what I want is the comfort that if worst comes to worst, there is a human somewhere on the planet who can reset my password for me. They might be hidden in a nigh-impenetrable labyrinth of automated emails, but they exist, and I could get them to help me if I make enough of a fuss on Twitter.
This seems to be really well done.
The word reminds me of scones for some reason ...
> The system has twice produced a result that was clearly against the popular preference, and most recently the losing candidate took numerous measures to attempt to make it a third.

the popular vote is not the popular preference. it's just the total number of people who voted for each candidate under a set of rules where that number doesn't matter. the popular vote would likely look quite different if the popular vote decided the election. people who live in overwhelmingly red or blue states often don't bother voting in presidential elections outside of the primaries.
UI all around is a severe downgrade. Also on YouTube when you right click on a video to open in a new tab it says right click and open in new GOOGLE tab. Why does it do that? This bothers me alot.
Yes, artificial monopoly is the major issue here.

With respect to the "$99" annual fee, the issue is that it isn't a good deal at all when a developer wants to offer the software for free - most open source developers don't even collect any donation, and it is doubtful if many of them can even raise $99 every year.

This is where regulation is definitely needed - big tech should not be able to force us to pay and use only their signing infrastructure, and government law should require any CA to stringently implement KYC (know your customer) norms, like banks do, before issuing certificates to any Tom, Dick or Harry.

I would preferably like to see the end of such "App Store" nonsense, but would gladly compromise and accept it if there is no monopoly (with the caveat that side loading / direct installation of apps should not be restricted - nobody should be forced to use an "App Store" if they don't want to).

(App Store is so successful on ios only because side loading / direct installation is restricted on it).
People in the US sending USDs to El Salvador would be much more efficient than any other scheme.
There was even one release of Windows 10 Home where you couldn't create a local account, unless you tricked it by not connecting to a network. Not sure if this is still the case with current builds or if they came to their senses.

And good luck if you did create one and you also happen to use Office 365, because now you have two Microsoft accounts, possibly with the same email address, that use the same login page, and that's not confusing at all.
Money wasted leads to money not available for life support.
So, the alternative should be "don't trust anything in slack because someone can just get your cookie and log in as you"?

Maybe there is a middle ground?
What's missing from any analysis that only considers CPI is that price inflation doesn't take into account decreasing costs of production. Technological progress and innovation should be driving down prices of quality-adjusted products. So the fact that wages adjusted to inflation are staying constant indicates that there is downward pressure on wages of a similar rate to the rate at which general market costs are decreasing. In a world with no inflation, what we would see here is decreasing costs, decreasing wages, and increasing GDP.

What's also missing from this analysis is that CPI doesn't adequately incorporate important things like that the quality-adjusted price of housing has massively increased at much faster than the general rate of inflation.
I've read about this pattern often attributed to the military. For example, The Independent describes it[1] as,

1. Relax the muscles in your face, including tongue, jaw and the muscles around the eyes
2. Drop your shoulders as far down as they’ll go, followed by your upper and lower arm, one side at a time
3. Breathe out, relaxing your chest followed by your legs, starting from the thighs and working down
4. You should then spend 10 seconds trying to clear your mind before thinking about one of the three following images:

- You’re lying in a canoe on a calm lake with nothing but a clear blue sky above you
- You’re lying in a black velvet hammock in a pitch-black room
- You say “don’t think, don’t think, don’t think” to yourself over and over for about 10 seconds.

Is there anyone who can confirm this as been part of training, or have tried it? What were your results?

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fall-asleep-fast-sl...
Yeah, OBDII is great and has nothing to do with the UI, privacy etc. issues people are trying to avoid.