skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (C) That Apple lowers its fees to a more reasonable level. Or (D) That they allow third party payment processors (but not third party stores)?

To me, both of those fall under A. They're adjustments to Apple's existing moderation policy, they are not changes to how much control Apple has (Well, maybe D is a little, but not much). I would sum up both of those ideas as "the smartphone market remains closed, but Apple gets nicer about it."

I do think there's a segment of users who are basically happy with companies being forced into Apple's policies, they just want Apple's policies to be a bit better than they are today. Or they think it's fine for Apple to exert control, just not in a couple of specific anti-competitive ways.

> properly implement PWA's so users can (sort-of) sideload non App Store Apps

Yeah, the web is interesting. This would be Apple giving up control over their platform, but they would be giving up control to another platform that also has very good sandboxing. I would love to be targeting phones with progressive web apps now. It sort of works today, but there are problems.

I also really don't like how little control over data people have on the web. The only really safe way to store data in a webapp is to store it serverside, which imo is bad for users and for developers. There are efforts going on to make this better, but I don't know if Apple will be interested in implementing them, and it's a tricky problem in general to solve securely, so I don't think any of the browser manufactures are eager to rush it and introduce security holes into browsers.
The problem isn't the opt-out time, it's the lag time to identify that you need to opt out. That could be years, or (effectively) forever.

The creators might no longer be with us, to boot.
> What is the simple way to pitch its advantage to IRV without using technical terms?

You have 3 candidates that you like in preferential order. A > B > C. But you like A only a little more than B and REALLY dislike C. Ordinal systems do not allow you to express this. When you score, you can say A: 5, B:4, C:0. Approval is just the same thing but with a smaller range and is easy to integrate into existing tools (I don't think that's a great argument though because we should rebuild these tools anyways considering massive security flaws we've consistently found).
How is this a long con? It's two years. According to the indictments he was being extradited for, that's _not the longest con John McAfee has been involved in_.
Reducing costs in storage/caching.
I never owned an ipod so I don't remember the UI at all, but from the now playing screen the only thing that looks like it has a gradient is the top bar[1], all of the menu selection indicators looks solid blue as well. Am I missing something?

[1]https://i.imgur.com/y4s4o24.png
Last I checked there's no WebMetal.
I disagree strongly about curriculum. Just to give an example, here is an exerpt about the language curriculum at Eton from a modern (90s) graduate:

"Everyone must learn Latin and French for the first two years. Most boys have studied Latin and French for a couple of years before they arrive at the school. The cleverer boys also do Ancient Greek. There are many more languages offered besides these ones. The additional foreign languages are Russian, Spanish, German. Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Arabic. Those who are not good at languages need do only French and Latin." - Calers (1)

To me this is just one of a myriad of examples that highlight the kind of difference in actual education curriculum between the oligarchs and the rest of us. I would argue much of this is about quality of life instead of "success outcomes", and generally about having a strong liberal arts background being a key component of ANY education worth anything. Which is also why I strongly disagree with those who advocate for sending students straight to vocational schools, and that whole general line of reasoning, for example.

How many of your referenced founders and investors knew Latin and French before the age of 13?

1. https://gcalers.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/what-makes-eton-so-...
So the reasoning makes it sound like there was potentially an exploit that made it easy to find unlisted videos? Were the video IDs deterministic perhaps?
Right, I don't think they tend to imprison people who accidentally mess up their taxes or fail to report some income to save some money. I think it's typically the very egregious offenders who get jail time.
Parent poster meant let's not make him look like a loon and hound him relentlessly because of it.
I need to move some of my early technical videos to Vimeo now. I never connected my pre-Google YouTube account to Google, and so I can't do anything with them. It's been over a year since I logged into Google, anyway.
I don’t think prisons in Spain work like that.
I was actually referring to the slack given to him for apparent murder and putting the police force on a payroll.

“killing your neighbor, bribing the police and never serving a single day for it? What an eccentric person you are”
Also jail times do not add up in Germany like in the US it seems. If you are guilty of violating several laws you still receive only a single punishment („Tateinheit“). If McAfee has not declared his income tax correctly in three consecutive years this would count as a single violation of the law.
No, it wouldn't be a pain for me or most people.

The point I was making is that giving someone a nickname they don't like is completely different from not calling someone a nickname they prefer.

Regarding nicknames, I do sometimes interact with people that have nicknames that I'm not comfortable with or the thought of using that name for them doesn't seem respectful. For example, I took a two week class that was taught by former astronaut Sherwood "Woody" Spring. His peers all called him Woody but it seemed too personal for the teach-student relationship we were in and I defaulted to calling him Mr. Spring. He didn't mind that. I suspect the majority of people that go by nicknames don't really mind when people call them by their given name or a formal version of their name.

Generally I think nicknames are just a bad analogy for gender, so we shouldn't use the comparison at all.
John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison
oh wait nah I see it now, the playing bar has a very light one. Looks nice!
A related frustration for me is when I have random videos in my "watch later" list replaced with a gray square and a note saying the video is no longer unavailable or has been made private. Since I don't even get any details of what the video was (title/channel/description), I can't go find it elsewhere. It's like having a song deleted from a playlist silently. It makes me wonder if I should even rely on Google's features for this sort of thing, or maintain a list elsewhere.
> According to my child's world view, I need to ask them every day what their pronouns are today. And any accidental slip-ups on any adult's part are a demonstration of transphobia, which justifies a raised voice and lecture.

I agree that their request is unreasonable, and I'm sorry for the stress it's causing you. I can't really justify their behavior on a rational basis (teens, right?). And obviously I don't know your child, and I don't know you, but as a trans person who went through a similar phase, maybe consider what they might be thinking if you want to understand why they might be behaving like this?

For one thing, they almost certainly know your opinions about the persistence of trans identity and online echo chambers of gender identity. If (real if) you're hostile to the idea that they could really be trans, it's possible they feel hostile to the idea that you could really be making a good faith best effort to support them, which is what this sounds like to me: defensiveness. I had a very similar dynamic with my parents for several years. We came out of it understanding each other a lot better, but it was certainly rough in the thick of it. I really hope you can find a way to resolve the tension.
If you're going to hypothesize, doesn't it obligate you to substantiate the claim?

Are predatory men pretending to be transwomen a problem on any statistically noticeable level?
Doesn't to me. Patreon tier-restricted videos, not to mention family shared videos, fall into this category, and not all creators are savy enough to know they need to do this.
It's because there is no reason to have animosity toward a woman becoming a man. The main objections to MtF are about safety (a MtF will always be stronger and bigger than a woman on average) and fairness (should male born people get female scholarships, compete in women's sports?). A FtM is not hurting anything or taking any opportunities away from anyone really.
Is it existential in the way that Windows is, or AWS is for Amazon, or iPhone is for Apple, or search ad revenue is for Google? That’s what I’m talking about.
As Hunter Thompson would say, when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
> It would barely equal the rate of the general population.

You are generalizing from the specific, here. The data that you appear to be referencing is only looking at murder rates.

You’ve then set up a straw-man argument. The straw is in the data that you’ve not incorporated into your mental model: the rates of crimes other than murder.
I don't see good enough evidence to show the zoological origin yet. I don't see good enough evidence of a lab leak origin yet either. I do see good enough evidence for a Chinese coverup. I can say for 100% certainly the Chinese are not being upfront with their data. What scenario would hiding data benefit? Cui bono?
Can someone explain in non charged terms why its 'bad' to investigate and or ask the right questions regarding whether or not the virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab? Im genuinely curious here. Thinking hypothetically here, if it were leaked wouldnt we all want to do a post mortem and figure out how to prevent it from happening again?
Please share the URL! I always appreciate your hardware comments and would love to see what you've shared in video format.
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I once read an anti corporate critique of this phenomenon. The argument went something like this:

Once female beauty was commoditized, and you could literally purchase an upgrade to parts you were born with. Entire cosmetic and plastic surgery industry benefited from marketing and promoting this model of beauty. The unforeseen consequence was that men started fetishizing these upgrades themselves.

As some men hyper focus on female body parts anyway.
It was a way to exploit psychological tendencies for profit.

I guess the counter remedy would be to promote female beauty as the whole, and not some collection of body parts.
In Finland, a suburban pizza entrepreneur was called a doctor, because he had a PhD in nuclear physics from Iran.
I don't think HN (or any other site) should ever do this for any person. It's fine if an organization wants to mourn one of its own (like Apple honoring Jobs). Beyond that, it's hollow virtue signalling at best, and often political or otherwise controversial. In the case of McAfee, his positive impact on anything is minimal and questionable, and in all likelihood he was an unrepentant murderer. What's to honor?
Seen from over the pond in Germany:

It seems like the US were (compared to the rest of the world) at their best from 1860ish to 1970ish. When they had great education for he masses, public health, technological and economic progress, a certain naive idealism, and the most comfortable middle class in the world. Things were, if not already good, pointing in the right direction. After that, selfish and cynical elites took over and society stagnated and fragmented.
Reminds me of the movie American Hustle. The government has a choice of going after criminals who badly hurt a lot of people or going after the easily-demonized bit players. Guess which is good for their careers.
You can use vector tiles with openlayers but they draw it on the canvas and not via web GL i.e. it is slower.
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Great tool! Having used wireshark for ages, its refreshing to visualize binaries like this
The thing that makes this fishy is that I also received an email for my Google Workspace organization about link sharing changing for Google Drive for a security update, and the date it initially takes effect is the same day at this YouTube thing, July 23.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685032?hl=en

Could something have happened across their entire Zanzibar/ ACL infrastructure?
Thanks to your link, I discovered this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_theory_of_olfaction

Had no idea it's just a theory. I've lived many years "knowing" that we detect smells due to their shapes.
Honestly I think we just need some big name to advocate for STAR (or any cardinal system). IRV really took off after CGP Grey's video and gained WAY more support after Hasan Minhaj's episode. The only places I see people talking about cardinal systems are Hacker News and the Yang subreddit (though lots of armchair experts advocating for condorcet methods because they don't see criteria other than VSE as being important). I would not expect cardinal methods to enter the public discourse until some famous person talks about it.
Not all do.

For example a defense Attorney defending a DUI charge will likely be a flat fee. They will also charge according to what it is worth to you.

e.g. If you were Palo Alto's most successful real estate agent, and were at risk of losing your drivers license, you will be charged accordingly when you show up at the doorstep of a prominent defense Attorney.
Exactly my point. Many hold the philosophy that discriminating between the two in any context is an attack.

Most heterosexual men identify as being attracted to women, and don't hold trans women in that category.
Now I regret not saving at least a list of links of some of the videos :(

How people who died are supposed to tick the box :/
Well technically Musk said "Tesla will not be selling any Bitcoin" when the policy change was announced. I haven't seen anything where he claims he didn't sell _before_ the change was announced.

I have no idea if he dumped his Bitcoin before announcing the change at Tesla, but misleading a bunch of people while leaving himself a technicality escape hatch would be extremely on brand for him.
He made it to 75 and had an absolutely insane, wild ride. What a scoundrel and magnificent bastard. RIP.
I wonder how Netlify is doing in comparison
But he was a loon and a thief/tax cheat
They’re nice businesses, but losing them would not substantially change or harm the company the way losing Windows or Azure would. The way losing AWS would harm Amazon, losing Search Ads would harm Google, losing iPhone would harm Apple. If Microsoft lost XBox or LinkedIN they’d walk it off. That’s the point I’m making.
It worked out hilariously badly for them last time (share a coke with [x]) so I'm glad they brought it back!

I also thought the vending machines that printed custom labeling onto the actual aluminum cans (if I recall correctly) were an interesting bit of technology.
“Such a long con” kind of assumes that McAfee thought if he got caught, it would take this long.
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The very wealthy can usually avoid paying anywhere near these amounts, though. Corporate owners can pay themselves a nominal salary and let the corporation grow. Capital gains are only due when stock is sold. So they avoid selling and borrow using their stock as collateral.
I tried PiHole on a spare PC and ran everyone's DNS through it. Laptops, school Chromebooks, mobile devices.

It all works great until it doesn't. Some devices, like Eero routers, completely shit the bed if set to manual DNS and it's unavailable. You'll spend an entire day trying to revive these devices.

PiHole isn't 24/7/365 reliable in my experience either.

I got tired of dealing with it all and turned the box off. Maybe next time.
Almost like submitting to centralized gatekeeping is a crime against public culture, intellectual history and social integrity... wait... what are we all building again?
What if the uploader of videos died? How are they supposed to do that...
This seems to be a planned change related to a new link generator they released in 2017 [1]. You can opt out here [2] if an old video is effected. It seems like the unlisted feature is otherwise unchanged. I suppose you can also flip an effected video back to unlisted and get a new link after this goes into effect.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/114633828/changes-...

[2] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970
For #1 hasn't this been possible for a long time via including the issue linking text: OrgName/project#12345 in either an issue body or comment text - or else including it in a commit message?

Due to #1 our org created a no-code repository for hosting all of our issues and it's worked out pretty well - PRs reference the ticket using the issue linking text above and it all works pretty seamlessly - the only slight hiccup is that we only write issues in the no-code repository since splitting issues across repo would cause milestoning issues for releases.
Did they send an email to affected accounts? There seems to be a logical reason for this (newer unlisted videos have a more secure url generator), so I’d say this is neutral at worst.
Does there need to be?

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native
In Australia and most other developed countries now, this ideology is heavily promoted to children, encouraging them to believe they are trans. They are connected with websites that promote the ideology, and then connected with a trans specialist who helps prescribe puberty blockers without parental knowledge.

If you are a parent who believes that children should be taught to love their own bodies as they grow rather than have surgeons pretend to fix them by removing essential organs, then this represents a massive assault on your offspring.

> The numbers I can find for US citizens is: 0.6%

And there's a huge number of "trans" who later realise they were sold a lie and have to undergo further surgery to try and restore their original sex. Selling this to ideology to children is going to dramatically increase that 0.6%. How many of the new cases are going to actually be trans, vs children that thought they were trans and started puberty blockers at school, but actually were just never taught to love their body?
Are the majority of child double mastectomies done for gender affirmation reasons?

I knew several women in college who had the procedure done before college to avoid familial cancer risk or back problems.
What degree of purity is required to count as a European? Europeans can and do mix with non-europeans.
Regarding your last point, what do you think the practical implications of this are for those who seek social change? While there are plenty of obvious examples of what you're talking about, I worry that it's dangerously psychologically attractive to dismiss any and all criticism as bad-faith bigotry, at the expense of potentially convincing those actual moderates. That's especially true if the topic is personally sensitive and/or it's the nth repetition of a particular talking point. In a moral sense an explanation might not be owed, but that often seems like ceding a pragmatic opportunity to push for change.

It feels like there's a narrative metagame where there's a risk that taking concern trolling too seriously is a vector for being baited into savaging increasingly innocuous questions from actual moderates. And since people seem, generally speaking, to not like being told to sit down and shut up even in the service of causes they could otherwise be brought to support, I worry that could broadly harm public sentiment towards movements that go too hard into these kinds of tactics.
I guess Google, Facebook and Apple are stupid then too.
> Your original comment implied Tesla chose to use inferior tech compare to the market which is not true in the slightest.

Only if you don’t consider Waymo, Cruise, Mobileye and others as Tesla competitors.
Personally I think the MVC framework causes more overhead for startups. It's like trying to shoehorn your use case into complexity for nothing. Classic example of a best practice that needs to be revisited
South Korea seizes crypto assets in clampdown on ‘tax dodgers’
I think it's honestly pretty far to do this but never end up moving the issues - we have some repo-of-relevance labels we use to indicate ticket applicability but otherwise our issues just continuously pile up in the same repo.
1) Arrow's theorem isn't really about voting though. 2) Arrow's doesn't apply to cardinal systems. 3) Arrow said that for voting cardinal systems were probably superior.

From wiki

> Arrow originally rejected cardinal utility as a meaningful tool for expressing social welfare, and so focused his theorem on preference rankings, but later stated that a cardinal score system with three or four classes "is probably the best".

Again note that he's talking about social welfare and not voting.
The US Census categories are incorrect.
> IMHO much better article would touch on the mechanics next SimsCity game could implement and how it would be beneficial to player experience.

So write it then. Surely that would be a more productive use of your time.
That's one of my favorite quotes. I can really relate to it.
Yep sad that we cannot think of anything better to do ….
> has to start off with addressing pronoun preferences

To which I can only respond: "so?".

There are a decent number of folks in my circles who are gender-nonconforming. I'll bet, sans decades-plus of social pressure, there are more in your kids' classes. What's the problem with asking? And why does asking make you characterize the effect upon higher education as "big"?

How is it "bigger" than a prof or a TA asking if I want to be called Edward, Ed, or Ted?
Electron all the way
The presumption here seems to be that just because we don't know the cause of a condition, the condition is less "valid"?
The dude was found liable for two people's deaths, and evaded taxes, like... I dunno. He doesn't seem like that great of a guy. He seems like a self-centered reckless narcissist leaving destruction in his wake.
I don't think so.

With respect to storage, there's a provision to delete old videos in the EULA at any time Google chooses. Eventually Google will pull the trigger.

Caching, I'm not so sure, but I'd be surprised if hiding old unlisted videos freed up enough of it to matter. New videos probably dominate cache storage.
> You got the continent wrong.

I'm not the person you replied to, but, do you mean they got the continent wrong because Belize is in Central America, and thus technically North America? Seems like an unnecessary nitpick.

If you thought he mistook Spain to be in South America, then, maybe the guidelines here would be of help. From my own experience, it is better to not assume people know less than you.

Then again, maybe you are referring to something else, in which case it would be nice to know what.
True, but a counterpoint: One may not like the topic but it may be best to be aware of what the conversation is should one find oneself someday blindsided by some political decision with negative consequences informed by these discussions.

Supporting evidence: I've gotta keep tabs on which places I shouldn't travel to in my own country where I was born and raised because people keep trying to make it illegal to use the bathroom safely [1] after getting scared by conversations such as the ones I've seen in this thread.

[1] - https://www.ncsl.org/research/education/-bathroom-bill-legis...