skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> >99% of the population will delegate the decision of what code is allowed to run to someone, be it the manufacturer, the government, some guy on the Internet or whatever. For that 99% of the population, by the way, it's actually more beneficial to have restrictions on what software can be installed to avoid malware

> I do not agree with this. You are saying people are too stupid to make decisions and that is amoral in my opinion.

How much of the code running on your data do you personally inspect? (Don’t forget device firmware) When your browser ships an update, do you reverse-engineer the binary? Do you review all of the open source code you use looking for back doors?

Would it be accurate to say that you don’t do that because you’re stupid? I don’t think that’s reasonable, any more than it would be to say you should carry around a test kit for any food you are planning to buy at the supermarket.

> Technology moves faster than what any law maker can create.

This is a common claim but it’s too simplistic. Laws do get passed relatively quickly when there’s a clear need - think about how things like section 230 arrived relatively soon after the rise of the web - but in most cases it’s more a clarification of existing laws. For example, cryptocurrency wasn’t mentioned in previous laws by name but the IRS had no trouble taxing it under existing laws.

Privacy shows why the “just let people choose” approach doesn’t work: you the individual have no negotiating clout with Facebook or Google, and there are many cases like revenge porn where the problem is only visible after the decision has been made.

Laws are how societies agree to function. If you don’t like the laws, you need to get involved because there simply isn’t a way to get good results by demanding that the system accommodate people who don’t show up.
Ahhh that could be it.
It's all terribly off-topic, but presumably they are talking about Matthew 19:24, which says (ymmv based on your exact translation):

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
It seems unnecessary to lay into some entertainment that someone just recommended. We are all surely aware of the fact that everything won’t appeal to everyone without someone weighing in every time they see a recommendation they didn’t enjoy.

Dark Matter is a great lightweight hammock sci-fi book.
The same people who blessed Obama.
Why do people think this will result in immediate abuse by corrupt governments as opposed to any other Apple service? Just because anime avatar twitter says so?
>If you want to be treated as a citizen — live here and pay your taxes. If you don't, the door's that way.

Lol, that's considered "conservative right" ideology in the USA.
To add on to what the other commenters have already said - this is especially true for marching bands where you are even further spread out and your distance to various sections changes over the course of the performance. You have to learn to (at least somewhat) disregard what your ears are telling you and focus solely on the drum majors for staying in time. Listening to the drumline to keep yourself on beat can be a very bad idea when they're half a football field away.

This effect is amplified even more for enclosed stadiums where there tends to be a large amount of echo, and can really be quite disorienting the first time you experience it.
You implied that when you responded to your parent comment quoting their remark about following standards, and you said alert is not a W3C standard but it's just described by WHATWG.

If you want to interpret your own comments in another self-consistent way, please elaborate.
The sodium content can be that high, but it's certainly not universal. The brand I use is only around 40%.
I wish! Greece was my secone choice (I used to study Lyra in Crete, and Rembetiko Bouzouki (Rembetiko style) in Thessaloniki and Athens.

We almost bought a flat in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens! Politically/Energetically It’s what Berkeley was like in the early/mid-90s.

The day Trump was elected we were in Barcelona, and decided never to go back to the USA, flipped a coin between Spain and Greece. I always lose coin flips!
Both Bill Gates and Richard Stallman purport to act in a noble way. That doesnt differentiate them.

Stallman's words are threatening to entrenched power and tech profit margins whereas Bill Gates almost acts as a poster boy for them.
I find it hard to believe that someone simultaneously doesn't know the first thing about bit operations, but has come to the conclusion that they need to find the first 42 bits.

Also, JavaScript's handling of numbers is so weird that it's one of those things that comes up just by virtue of its weirdness. For that reason I'd expect a JS programmer at least have come across but operations.

(edit - I take the original post as a joke too, and that the humour is derived from the juxtaposition)
IMO the ship "sinking/floating" analogy is far too simplistic for this discussion. Everyone has a different idea of what the ship "floating" looks like: If you're someone with a lot of wealth, the current state of things might look completely reasonable. If you're very poor, the fact that 0.1% of people control 25% of the world's wealth might look a lot less like society is functioning correctly. Society could easily "sort itself out" into a stable state which happily oppresses a great many people, just based on individual incentives.
Very nice and works perfectly on macOS/Safari 14! It's refreshing to see that there are only two direct dependencies.
From package.json

"dependencies": {
"js-beautify": "^1.13.13",
"uglify-es": "^3.3.10"
}
Thanks for your considered reply. I agree that it's easy and relatively common to denigrate/underestimate/misunderstand users in other 'categories' to oneself.

This is exactly why it's important to design for the common denominator (not intended to be derisory) when building a product that essentially needs to be the same (at its core) for all users, e.g. everyone downloads pretty much the same exact Firefox binary (excluding beta builds).

My argument is that I'm giving Firefox designers the benefit of the doubt that they're doing that and that the UI changes made aren't "lousy" and "bad UI", but rather, a carefully considered approach to have a net benefit for all users.

So, if you are suggesting that you consider Firefox to have "lousy" and "bad UI", that's fair but perhaps it's not what the average opinion is. I'm not claiming to know the average opinion on the Firefox UI changes but I'd guess that they're mostly indifferent if not positive.
https://www.labnol.org/internet/disposable-email-address/280...
Most good faith questions have easily accessible answers (which are repeated by trustworthy sources 24/7). At this point adults who question whether they should get the vaccine are most likely doing so in bad faith is my perception.
Yeah, we need a lot more data points than one tiny study. Almost all data to date shows vaccinated people do not spread the virus as effectively as unvaccinated people, and that vaccinated people are far more likely to have asymptomatic (not pre-symptomatic) infections, and most data points to those types of infections having a very low rate of transmission. One chunk of leaked data does not negate all previous research.
It shows up when you select the eraser. I made a beeline for it too :)
While you accurately describe Brand Power, it really has nothing to do with the topic at hand —- the biases surrounding nutritional research.
The wealthy pay far less in taxes in proportion to their wealth than everyone else. Long term capital gains is only 10%.

The wealthy are only wealthy because the non-wealthy people who vastly outnumber the wealthy, allow them to keep their capital. I think massive wealth inequality is making a significant number of people rethink this generous position.
They should have stayed in hospitals and not gone back to understaffed nursing home facilities which couldn't possibly isolate COVID patients OR told patient's families the truth about COVID and suggested to them that they isolate patients with them as the PA official did while not telling others to do the same
It allows smart contracts to use real world data. A silly example. Lets say you have a vending machine selling sun screen where the pricing is dynamically changed based on the weather, if weather data is available to the smart contract then this can work perpetually without human intervention. Or at least until the machine needs to be serviced :P The API is unlikely to disappear because the smart contract automatically pays for using the data.
so you have no problem with a scrollbar that jump to the next chaper when you shift it by a couple of pixels then?

Of course why would you have a problem with that, the only navigation one should perform while reading is change chaper, who wants to go to abitrary paragraphs.
"the daily covid press briefings - these were especially powerful among Americans looking for some kind of steady leadership they could latch on to and feel safe"

What is wrong with Americans that they watched that and "feel safe"?
What? I cited a recent study from Britain. Did you read the comment thread and the supplied references or are you just knee-jerking?

I then provided reasons why the two known datasets that might sugggest particularly poor vaccine efficacy versus Delta (both of which I was aware of) should be taken with a grain of salt. In the case of Mass, the dataset is small and hard to extrapolate from, and the Israelis released neither their data not their methodology so we can't evaluate the quality of the study.

Unless you can explain otherwise those are both perfectly valid reasons not to cherrypick those studies to make the case here, particularly given they contradict a mountain of evidence that leads to different conclusions.

Of course, you're more than free to similarly critique the citations I provided if you care to.

Frankly, I'm not sure you know what the No True Scotsman fallacy is...
Stallman tried to bring reason to an emotion's fight...

From [0]:
"I’m writing this because I’m too angry to work."
> surrendering US citizenship is a logical choice

Only because of US laws. I have two citizenships, but one residency. In most Western countries, being a resident is associated with healthcare and pension, so having one residency is logical.
Imagine being an expat in the middle of a pandemic, the U.S. donating millions of vaccine dosages to the country you live in, vaccines that your tax dollars helped pay for, and you can't get vaccinated because the U.S. won't stipulate that some of those millions of doses should go to the approximately 30,000 U.S. expats in the country .
Yes, it is, and I respect them too. I just wish UIs would be considered finished once the major UX and implementation bugs were fixed. The reason I won't touch eithet Gnome or KDE is that there have been so many reimplementations of their UI that I simply don't want to learn them again. And again. And again. Especially as they bring nothing new to the table, just more "flashiness".
Samsung is one of the companies I trust the least with regards to security, privacy, and overall competence in software.
> 90% of investment firms

These must be very small meat and potatoes investment firms then. They might not have a compliance department and might not be able to justify the salary of having someone tackle FATCA requirements. I, as an American abroad primarily used the big banks (HSBC, BNP, Barkleys) because its built in to the service.
Don't forget collections of low and mid-level staffers who really get work done who maintain connections back to the military/political industrial complex who collectively become invaluable to organizations.
I’d be curious to see a comparison with other countries with a federal system. My suspicion is that a fetish for local control makes these kind of beggar-thy-neighbor outcomes likelier, but most comparisons have people going for examples like Japan which don't have anything like a federal system.
I will say, in this case it is not what happened. The previous system launched successfully with an incorrect schema. The platform grew and when it came time to add more features, some of them were either impossible to do because of the incorrect schema, or they would have been so complex to implement that the system would have fallen apart. Needless to say, the schema needed to be corrected, but the wrong schema was already baked in all across the platform.

So it's not like the main developer handed something off that was unfinished. They handed something off that was finished but wrong. And because of that we had to replace the engine while in flight, so to speak.
Agreed, but we don’t know the collision characteristics of this algorithm so knowing this difference is moot in this context.
I dont understand how people think the "free market" works without politics. Free as in if you make money someone kidnaps your children till you had over the cash? Thats forcible and immoral. Or do we have a police force to stop that? If we have a police force, who pays for that, who regulates the police? We would need some politics to decide all that.

Honestly it seems politics is just the bits of the current system that you don't like.

We all don't like some bits. If we want to change them we need to, work together to compromise on which bits we keep and which we get rid of.

Like turtles, its politics all the way down.
Well, if you were poor, made something for yourself, and then had kids, then your kids had a non-poor home, care, clothes, things, toys, education, and so on, between 0 and 18 (or 22), no?

So, your kids didn't have it the same as you who grew up poor at all, even if you don't leave them an inheritance...
Without humans the number of cats in the wild would be vastly lower. Put another way, cat populations are at a level that would not be supported naturally without human intervention. As such, when we let our cats out an inordinate number of birds are "kept in check" as you put it.

This natural feedback cycle has been around for millions of years, just not the human element.

So to repeat: Please keep your cats inside!
Many of the comments here are preposterous. I am a socialist by conviction, my whole life, and strongly believe the wealthy should pay their fair share.

But being a Canadian and knowing many Americans who have come here to work -- making prosperous but not insane professional class incomes -- and still having to file with the IRS, often having to pay into the IRS (without receiving services back in the US) and having their Canadian retirement funds messed with by the IRS, I find this whole thing baffling. No other western nation does this, and it's unjust. why would this forum -- full of people in the tech industry making a good living -- try to justify this?

Put this another way: should you cross the border into Canada and take up residency here (for a job, or because your spouse lives here, or because you like it here) you will now be effectively double-taxed for the rest of your time here.

This from a country that supposedly started its war of independence over the issue of taxation without representation?

Like I said, preposterous. Glad my mother and myself never applied for the dual citizenship we could in theory be entitled to. What a curse that would be.

Yes, make the seriously wealthy pay their share. But most of the people suffering from this situation (and often trying to renounce their citizenships in many cases not able to) are your peers in your industry.
Eric Schmidt is definitely ultra-wealthy.
FWIW, every liberal I know wants Cuomo out of office. I don't know any Cuomo supporters outside of the NY Democratic political machine.
Maybe that’s part of it, but a lot of it is also how organizations of people work.

When one person agrees and the other disagrees it comes down to interpretation of the rules and then imposing those rules. It can become very despotic quite fast. And it’s not because the people are like that. The “system” makes them into that. In the case above, if the agreer sees the disagreers side this encourages other disagreers to flout whatever it was and things can devolve into anarchy. So you necessarily have to enforce some rules.
I think there may have been one or two other--possibly state level--cases. It's pretty ambiguous but loose consensus seems to be that you probably have property rights up to 400-500 feet. On rural land, a drone at 50 feet would seem to be fair game for skeet practice.
Edit: My question wasn’t clear, but it’s not important.
After you realize that Jimmy Savile could do it in front of an entire nation live on TV for several decades this ugly Schmock's feat doesn't seem so incredible anymore. Same goes for Epstein. Humans are a bunch of opportunistic little fuckers who will look away whenever it gets uncomfortable or is useful.
> People are either cops, or uncaught criminals. ..and they wonder why they have so much trouble making non-cop friends (DISCLAIMER: I know a number of cops).

Ehh let's not make a habit of asserting anecdote as fact, please. Saying you know cops is like saying you know black people and that somehow it affords you some privilege others do not possess.

This is a weak and ad-hom argument.
> Unless there are more than 20 million millionaires, you're talking about the top 0.6 percent of the wealth distribution

6 percent
You are making a mistake in conflating the people who condemned Stallman with the people who gave Gates a pass, and then you're using that to conjure up some ideological inconsistency ("ah, so it was never about the sexual harassment!").

But you'll find that the biggest critics of Stallman were also the biggest critics of Gates. We already knew that Gates was a villain! What are we going to do, cancel Bill Gates some more? Remove him from FOSS communities?

Aren't we supposed to hold our own to a higher standard than our enemies? You're allowed to be flawed, but there's absolutely no space for abusers in a liberatory movement.
My cat loves being outside, practically lives outside. He kills birds occasionally, but predominately hunts rabbits and squirrels. He also eats them on my porch. I have an indoor cat as well (she had he claws removed before we adopted her), and their muscular structures are entirely different, the outdoor cat feels strong, lean, and with the natural look of a cat. Cats aren't meant to be indoor animals - no animal, humans included, are indoor animals.
Dropbox - Condi Rice (Bush Sec. State)
You are assuming 100% of these people are moving to countries with lower taxes. That's simply not true.

In fact, countries that have high standard of living usually have equal or higher taxes than the states.

Contrary to what you may assume, especially people who have sought an alternative lifestyle abroad value value having a high standard of living, and not going to move to some shithole just because it has lower taxes.
At my previous job, I got hired to build VR apps for the HTC Vive on Windows, which was exactly what I wanted to do. But I only ever got assignments to build AR apps for the iPad[0]. So while nobody was physically putting a gun to my head, there was the ever present threat of not being able to provide for my family.

[0] And it didn't even make sense. I was making industrial equipment repair guide software. The first version of it I made for the Hololens, where it made sense, because, you know, you need your hands free to be able to actually enact the repairs. But you try telling that to a literally corrupt manager.
That's what happens when people have the opportunity and tools to support their own languages and not just rely on hand outs from big tech :)
Sheryl Sandberg was also hired for political access. "Maintaining a connection to powerful politicians" is also her job description.How much she is paid for that!
> I've heard that large transactions (>10k) or near-sized ones are flagged.

Thi sis transmission of funds and there are laws regulating the monitoring of those.

I used bank vaults were you put things into the vaults without the bank often times knowing what is in there. If they knew, they would need to report to authorities.

So Apple doing this scan would be the bank opening all vaults, scanning the contents and reporting things to the IRS (I think this is the tax thing in the US if I am not mistaken - in Germany it would be the Finanzamt).
isnt it? if you're obese youre very likely to pass it onto your children
Intel leak reveals Thunderbolt 5 could offer 80Gbps USB-C ports
I agree most “desire” to have him out. But they’re not making noisy rackets in the street demanding immediate removal (either when these things initially came out like 10 months ago or now).
That honestly seems quite reasonable. Citizenship comes with all sorts of obligations like getting drafted and serving on juries, taxes are simply the most obvious.

On the up side you can apparently still qualify for Social Security benefits.
Yes, by moving to impeach a serial sex offender.
10Gbps was already an option on the Intel Mac Minis. My guess is that Apple envisioned a use case for it to be a file server or similar.
Could Graal? That would be pretty impressive.
Reading it did tire me out, because I couldn't put it down and ended up skipping half a night of sleep. So uh, task failed successfully I guess?
Most people would, if they could, avoid taxes legally to the maximum of their ability.

You US folks have created this monstrosity yourselves, too. You let lobbyists (who work for the companies that the richest own) influence politicians, you allow companies to have personhood and other such nonsense.

Even the politicians you get to vote on are placed there by said lobbyists and thus the companies that pay for them.

Institutionalised, legal, and widely stimulated and motivated corruption is what causes all of this to happen. The rich make the rules, you not liking it can't be fixed because the rich decide what "fixes" are available for you to vote on.
If you're able to target upcoming iOS15 I'd say go for it, I think a lot of people will jump on in this years iteration. I've been working with it since it's announcement and am now on a team building multiple products around it. If you need to build a complex macOS app I'd say stay far away for now but for iOS it's shaping up really well. Expect to use UIKit for some of your UI.
Why am I not surprised at this at all.
How about keeping the cat indoors in the daytime and letting it out at night? Cats are naturally nocturnal so the cat should be happy with that.

As far as I've been able to tell where I am, everything out at night that a cat would be able to reasonably encounter is either too big for the cat to kill or something that I would like the cat to kill (rats and mice).

Well, I'm not sure about the weird floating blob thing that my cameras caught one night. It was a white featureless blob just floating in front of the camera jiggling around. I would have dismissed it as some optical effect, maybe some light somewhere shining right at the camera...except it was casting a shadow. It seemed small enough for a cat to take, but I have no idea what defenses it had. Here's the footage of the blob [1].

Also not sure what this thing is or how it would do versus a cat [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/DUGe2BbORXOIQyQgmD65wA....

[2] https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/x0vVRDOYSJK9oaGArGUVfA....
> Do you remember the hospital ship? The field hospitals? Javits center?

Let's not mingle in choices that were reasonable given the best knowledge and advice from medical experts at the time along with crimes.

I hate this binary thinking of "bad person did x, therefore x is bad too!"
Well, it's not just latency in many cases. If there's someone typing at the desk to your left, that noise has latency but it has different loudness in your left and right ears. The sound reaching your right ear has to make it's way around your head, so it sounds different not merely more delayed. Your brain has learned what all of that means.