skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that becomes a danger of breaking away from the ecosystem gets bought out. Indeed that seems the end goal of most startups
Hello,

I was tired of the white default icon, but didn’t want to create a new app icon for every new project. Instead, I built an app to do it for me.

Configure a template in Auto Icon and it will fill in the app icon and accent color whenever it finds a new Xcode project. The color and symbol will be randomized or you can use the project name / initials.

The app is built almost entirely in SwiftUI and uses CoreImage to render the icons.

I’d love some feedback.
So cruel that 1.8m are living off government payments for a year while being able to turn down offers of work.
Right it's supposed to protect you from an unforseen/unpreventable job loss. It's not supposed to encourage/allow you to not work.
> Rights are an arbitrary human construct.

Okay, do you have a point?

Are you saying we should just throw rights out the window?
Blaming it on climate change is better for business. It diffuses responsibility amongst the common people and shields the politicians from the fallout. Note how the Netherland had no fatalities during these weather events. Furthermore you can drum up political will for further taxation for climate change, well played
Exactly, if we replace one standard for another what problem are we solving if the main goal was to reduce centralization.
No you have to be a big company to resist the urge of getting bought out.

Or you have to either have aspirations of becoming a big platform company or a plan to survive and be happy watching big companies push you to fifth place in a category you once dominated.
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I think there will be a great new way of search and content discovery. Google (as a search engine) is well beyond its prime, it's all spam from page 3 onward. It's still the same system as 20 years ago except with more spam. I think we can do much better through a fundamentally different approach and this is an avenue I'd explore if I were an entrepreneur. Even shaving off a few percent of Google/Bing's market share could be quite lucrative.
I am very sorry if my comments came across of callous or dismissive of tragedy, that was not my intent.

But, we also need to talk about known risks, and how they are getting worse, and how it was known that they would get worse. And failure to plan. A floodplain is one of these risks.
resignation or gtfo
Fortunately this is insulin aspart!, which is a good fast-acting insulin.
If nobody uses something, what difference does it make?
I've paid all my life into the tax system and never taken unemployment or other benefits except during the long vacation when at university more than forty years ago.

I am pleased that this money supports others who are less lucky than I was.
> Maybe just like everything in the history of mankind it is a material reality

There are at least a gazillion things in the history of mankind that we have not been able to reduce to a material reality.
I can assure you that nobody actually _wants_ to eat tasteless dutch tomatoes.
I'm tempted to experiment. If I take a blue LED and a green LED in the dark, when I focus on one the other should appear blurred.
Did they really pay for it, though?

It seems like the people that have the highest risk of unemployment payouts pay the least (in taxes or premiums), which is not how insurance works.
That's what the curved light grey dotted line means, it's as the crow flies for when they have no data. They should just make an actual key that explains their esoteric labelling schemes.
But it's probably worth it for a lot of people to earn ~$2500 a month working 0 hours per week vs say $3000 a month putting in 40 hours.

Employers are competing with the government to buy people's time, and the government is willing and has the means to push the price to infinity.
> but we still cannot ever know them because they are incomputable (??)

That doesn't mean you can't know them. We know BB(2). It means there is no single algorithm which is capable of yielding them all. But there could, theoretically, be an algorithm for BB(10), a different algorithm for BB(11), etc.

In fact, those individualized algorithms don't exist either.
Is that what I wrote? No.

The evidence shows that users of cannabis that began as teenagers have negative IQ consequences as adults.

> But these studies do not imply a healthy adult loosing IQ points somehow by smoking weed

It's unclear if starting as an adult has the same effect.
I've heard that Fred Lambert (the author) is not a native English speaker. I think this might be the cause.
Society wants people to contribute productively. Stopping someone from working to protect business secrets is antisocial and bad for society.

Really, companies should have to pay >100% salary as a disincentive to idling valuable labor.
Exactly. We only need a "standard" because everyone builds walled gardens and easy content distribution to multiple platforms is intentionally difficult. Right now you have to watch a "YouTube" video, instead of just a video on YouTube.
Perhaps the FBI should "adversarially test" police forces with fake People of Interest, the way DHS adversarially tests TSA agents with fake bombs. Set up a fake BOLO for an individual of a certain description, then hire a set of undercover actors who all fit that description, and drop them in the area, telling them to wander around acting suspiciously.

If the officers don't realize, upon bringing five separate people in on the same description, that at least four of them have to be the wrong guy, then they fail the test. If they end up eliminating four of the five but then concluding that the last guy actually did it, they also fail the test.
Funny enough, I arrived at the opposite conclusion during my tenure as SWE... Google wasn't taking responsibility for the wide sweep of its arms as the gorilla in the room, and was trying to stay neutral ("We just build services; expecting us to be responsible for them is like expecting fire not to burn") in a situation where they fundamentally can't.

Google is already non-neutral... they ban all sorts of content on search and comply with law in multiple countries. It's never a question of "Should Google be neutral," but instead "How neutral."
Right? My parents raised a family in a house they owned, with two cars, good public schools, and sent us both to college which it turned out was practically free by current standards, on the pay of a coastguardsman. People used to be able to afford life. Desperation is not normal.
A few months ago, it was forbidden to think about. Now it’s considered a real possibility by the mainstream. Next year, it will probably be considered irrefutable.
> Well, they did agitate all over Africa and LatAM in conjunction with KGB operatives

This implies implicit US dominion over Africa and latam. KGB was supported by the Soviets, which did not face the same level of embargoes as Cuba did.
My first reaction to this headline was, "Wait, how can he be awarded a patent so long after death?"
The FCC does not care if you use encryption, they just want you to pay for the spectrum. As you observed, radios that can do this are commonly available, you just can't use them on ham bands. IMHO, that's not unreasonable: if you can program a radio, you can figure out how to reserve the spectrum with the FCC too.

Encryption not allowed on ham bands because it makes enforcing non-commercial use impossible. It's as simple as that, no conspiracy theory about "suppressing revolution" is necessary to explain it.
I started vaping in my almost 30s to cope with depression and insomnia induced by living with tiny crying adorable babies and no family support whatsoever.

It worked great as a way to relax, enjoy some anime / movies / youtube and then fall asleep after everyone in the house quieted the f down.
Your tastebuds on weed are an amazing experience as well.
I also managed to vape with friends a few times, which was fun.

I got a vaporiser because I care about my health and didn't want to smoke paper.
Very little smell, no effect on walls, easy to operate.

The only annoyance was having to use the black market to buy it which implies firing up tails, transferring bitcoins / monero, hoping the guy won't flat out scam you or that your package would be stopped.
Basically the buying process wasn't stress free, so after a couple of years I just decided I wouldn't buy it anymore. The high stress points was also on the way down so I was a bit more relaxed.

I still vape if I'm somewhere where it's legal and I would definitely vape every once and then if it were legal in my country.

After a couple of years of almost daily use I stopped cold turkey and nothing happened. I was worried I would have problems with falling asleep but that didn't happen.

After 2 more years I started being stressed again (for work reasons) and I had trouble with sleep again. I self cured it with a beer every once and then (which is as much a depressant as weed). I'm not happy about the extra calories and I'm not happy about how mild and less relaxing it is - but it's easier to buy than weed.
Well it is google's service and they can do whatever they like on it. If you have a problem, just make your own online office suite.
Given this, I'm surprised that APIs wasn't a category for what's being developed and likely got lumped into Websites.
I served on a submarine 20 years ago. Fire Control Technician... so fairly high clearance given what I had to operate, and against potentially whom.

There are a wealth of things I don't know anymore... and no one else will ever hear them from me unless I am absolutely certain that it's been declassified and is in public access.

While a system that can be abused to protect people from consequences will never be perfect, in general those of us who have to work with classified information understand that adversaries getting hold of it means more danger for our own people.

I do not assume this, and if I had met anyone who expressed that kind of expectation, I would have mentioned it up the chain - they have self identified as a weak link.
Language is a human construct, yes, that cannot be ignored.

But even if there are human constructs that cannot be ignored, my example with police still stands because since the police are the power, they can "construct" rights or deconstruct them still, which means they can ignore rights if they are just a human construct, a construct that they themselves supposedly helped build.

In fact, your argument is really in favor of the ideology that the strongest deserve to rule the weak. That is not the case.
Does this count as a massive scale UBI experiment? Does it confirm the concern that people would stop working
A Mixed Reality Sports Stadium?
This tree shape message reply structure might me such a cool distributed platform for playing chess! Like an evolution! Only better strategies survive upvotes and further replies.

If there just was a visualization of the chess boards in the individual threads.
Given the US track record with coups in Latin America[1] in the 18th and 19th century, I would place the burden of proof on anyone claiming that a Latin American coup was not US-backed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Black Rock Petroleum Company Announces Bitcoin Mining Agreement
The second one is worse than that. You’re a line cook and due to businesses not wanting to pay benefits. You can only find part time gigs. Forced to sign a non compete now limits your options for a second job.

Line cook is an extreme example but it happens to other professions like personal trainers. There has been cases where non competes were forced on restaurant workers.
“Stackoverflow” for product and project managers
There is an awesome youtube video about these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsBbt3TxKGg

Apparently Tesla order the largest one ever, to cast parts for the Cyber Truck
> The last model, the 802.11ac numbered A1470, is now more than three years old, and the risks of its hard disk failing are climbing every day

I'm increasingly disillusioned with this world of hardware costing hundreds of dollars being considered geriatric at 3 years old. Requiring constant replacements mean that you don't really own anything, you're renting your whole life. And since new hardware only supports new software, it keeps you stuck on the software treadmill too.

The article isn't wrong, it's a real problem of cheap mechanical drives. But it's not okay.
Black Rock Petroleum Company (OTC:BKRP), a Nevada corporation (“Black Rock”), announced today it has entered into a binding agreement with Optimum Mining Host Limited Liability Co to host and operate up to one million Bit miners to be relocated from locations in China and exported to Canada
I take it you disagree with any E2E encrypted messaging services, on principle?
You can build your own SMB based one using Samba.

You can also build your own AFP based one using atalk but I believe that’s the deprecated choice these days.

I use Time Machine to locally connected APFS+ but would be interested to hear of LAN based configurations optimised for performance as non locally connected were always far slower even on g/bit switched
This is insulin aspart, a good fast-acting insulin. Our household uses this, sold as Fiasp.

Insulins are interesting.
>However, if a couple of these civilizations start to openly seek contact to others, what can the hidden ones do?

Stay hidden or destroy anyone close enough to put you at risk along with themselves. This is a spoiler, but IIRC from the books the ultimate safety net was to make your solar system not only invisible... but impenetrable in either direction but essentially trapping yourself in a black hole... thus removing yourself from the equation and hopefully satiating anyone watching.

The time scales and distances involved meant that you weren't really perceived as a threat until you approached the ability to reach light speed, which made you stick out enough to be noticed in far corners of the universe. We broadcast radio, but it's not loud or far-reaching enough to be noticed by the far-out civilization destroying overlords. It was loud enough for a different nearby civilization to come destroy us in an attempt to save themselves from being destroyed along with us.

Of course, when applied in reality who the hell knows.
Fascinating story about how the null corrector that was supposed to ensure that the mirror was correct was flawed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_corrector
Do you expect this 15W APU to be faster than full TDP Desktop AMD Ryzen 5700G? The "Fastest Integrated Graphics Ever" 13 days ago https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7-5700g-review? 5700G reaches GTX760 parity in some games like Witcher3, while in others like Overwatch its medium for APU while dedicated gpu runs same framerate at Ultra.
Pay is too low, bosses too demanding, too many barriers to work (such as screening, interviews, drug tests, pre-employment tests, background checks, etc.). Companies may say they need more workers but they are pretty choosy when it comes to hiring.
>And most blockbusters movies never turn a profit

net price =/= profit. The report also covers what exactly goes into the difference between gross and net price. If you can point out what the accounting tricks are, that'll be great.
I meant a fragile good faith agreement.

I haven't seen any particularly compelling evidence it wasn't in good faith.

It was an "attempt to score some regulatory points and it was never about actually doing good for users". But that was always obvious because it was companies doing it.

It still would have done good if it was implemented.
Does "once in a century" have any scientific meaning? Because if you look at the link, far more people died in the past from flooding. 10,000 per flood vs. 100 today.

Whether that is because the floods were larger or because we had less robust engineering is unknown.
This is misinformation 101, state a detailed premise, tie it in with some cause and effect that sounds plausible, make no attempt to back up the synthesis.
How can an employer compete to buy time when the government is willing to push the price to infinity?

In other words, even if he offered more than unemployment benefits, it's worth it to take the lesser amount and work 0 hours per week than take the higher income but have to put in 40 hours.
He should not have used the word all, but this feels like a really pedantic point to me. The main thing is that there is no consensus that it didn't get created that way.
I visited a few cities earlier this year, Flagstaff AZ, St. George UT, and a few others and I was shocked how many "help wanted" signs were out on almost every single business. I talked to a few employees about the help wanted signs at a restaurant or two and they said nobody is applying to these jobs. I would say its a few things, some people are concerned due to covid and getting infected. Alot of people are overworked and due to unemployment being high are taking a much needed break from work. I think those are both valid reasons, Childcare is also a big one as many a spouse quit their job to take care of children due to shuttered schools and daycare, I personally know a few.
> in a situation where they fundamentally can't.

I’m sorry but they can stay neutral by just not reading/blocking people’s Docs
Not just police, but general societal protection - the fact that you can exploit people for your own profit and not get beaten up when they come back for vengeance is one of the benefits of being in a society. I personally didn't find the depiction of Caeser's Legion in fallout to be the most desirable and free society to live in, but to each their own - maybe you image you'll end up as Caeser (but you won't).
It's worse than that actually.

An eyewitness will tell the DA that they don't remember shit about what happened years ago, and the DA will reassure them that they police have ways of making them remember.

Source: A close friend of mine is getting pulled in to testify in a criminal case about some junkie that they may have called the police on three years ago. He has called the police so many times, and has dealt with so many sketchy, drug-influenced people, he can't even remember what the person in question did.
The premium is paid by employers for each W2 employee. It's a cost of hiring W2 workers that you could argue ultimately falls on those workers as well, as a 1099 worker could negotiate a higher income in exchange for the employer not having to pay for those sorts of benefits.
> But since Android 7.0 apps also have to specify whether they allow user-added root CAs and most don't!

I was unaware of this as I do little interaction with Android. TIL.

And yes, I do appreciate being able to MITM all kinds of apps, especially ones that talk to a device I own to be able to add functionality/integrations not supported by the manufacturer.

I also see the benefit of preventing MITM, in our case, it is because we intentionally offload logic onto the client to simplify GDPR/CCPA compliance(can't store what you don't collect) among other design decisions which mean a malicious client could circumvent rulesets we have in place.
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I think there is a bit of a disconnect recently with how people think companies "should" be governed and how they actual are these days.

The tech boom has put, at various points, incredible power in the founders hands to dictate the terms of how corporate governance works. In the case of Facebook, Zuckerberg has controlling interest in the company. He can overrule shareholders and the board via his special class of shares.

An even more egregious example is Snap (NYSE: SNAP) - shareholders who purchase common shares of Snap don't even having voting rights at all. Between Evan + Bobby - they have 90% control of the shares. Even if you buy 100% of the available shares, you cannot even vote on company governance - let alone have any sort of control over the business.
Maybe we could keep the protections for labor and drop the many additional protections for landowners.
Please don't do that. The older R/N/L insulins are clearly not as good as the newer insulins, that much is true. But they are sufficient to live a relatively healthy life as a diabetic. You need to be more careful and strict with your diet and activity, but there's nothing inherent in them that causes blindness or death.
It's the wrong "diet and lifestyle" recommendation - the standard suggestions of eating less and exercising more don't work.

What does work specifically is a low carb diet and intermittent fasting lifestyle, together with close medical supervision. https://www.virtahealth.com/ has had great success with the approach.
> They implored me to trust that they had "never sued anyone" and "have no intentions to", and I think they honestly believe that.

It doesn't matter what they believe, because a company does not have the same consistency of goals and actions as a person, and even a person can't be entirely trusted on things (even family sometimes turns on each other if the circumstances are sure enough). A company? Their entire board and management might change over time, or they might be bought out and have another entity with different goals.

Put another way, when considering and NDA during hiring, you should consider whether you would work for Oracle under the same NDA. Because what would happen if Oracle bought (or bought a controlling interest) in that company tomorrow? Do you still think you could go on past behavior with regard to legal action?

This is the exact same with privacy, and that's where I usually bring this up. It doesn't matter that I think Google is unlikely to do anything bad with the private info they have about me right now. I'm more worried about the Google (or whoever ends up with the data) five, ten or fifteen years from now.
My experience is that in the dark, I can't focus on a blue LED at all. It will just look a bit blurry.
Yet somehow the US spends the most per person health care...

($10,623.85 per capita vs Switzerland $9,870.66 vs Norway 8,239.10)

And manages to NOT cover 30 million people...

(10+% vs Switzerland, Universal, vs Norway, Universal)

No matter how you look at it, we spend more on private insurance than anywhere else in the world and manage to cover less people with it.

On top of that, medical debts are the single largest cause of bankruptcies in the US.

(Third overall worldwide ranking for US vs 100th for Switzerland vs 118th for Norway)

And despite (oh mer ghurd socialism!) paying the most, we rank among the worst for first world countries.

(37th for United States vs 20th for Switzerland vs 11th for Norway)

TLDR: We pay more for less and get worse care overall.

If I could trade in my private insurance premiums for taxes and get better care as a result without the risk of bankruptcy, why wouldn't I? Bonus, I wouldn't lose my health insurance if I had to switch jobs. We are one of the only countries in the world that tie health care to employment, which is detrimental to everyone.

The US system is FUCKED.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/best-heal...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/medical-b...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...

https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/265041/trends-in-the-u...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD