skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is very obviously ridiculous.

It has almost no mention of what WHO has actually done wrong. The couple of things it does mention are:

1) That the WHO had published a report in Dec 2019 suggesting some measures that could be taken in a pandemic, which did not contain a lockdown, yet a couple of months later in response to COVID spreading unchecked suggested a lockdown.

2) The WHO is recommending “costly” vaccines over potential treatments.

That’s it. The article has nothing else of substance.

#1 is an obviously ridiculous complaint because the WHO and scientists affiliated with it publish a lot of reports all the time. Publishing a report doesn’t mean that the WHO is required to absolutely stick to the results of every report they publish. In fact, this would be impossible, because the WHO almost certainly publishes reports that occasionally have incompatible or contradictory outcomes. And finally, even if they were somehow honor bound to follow the results of reports published by them, it’s a good thing that they are able to pivot to suggest other solutions in the face of an actual problem that shows characteristics that were not identified in the academic research.

#2 is pathetic. Of course the WHO recommends vaccines that have been shown to have over 90% effectiveness over “potential treatments” that have not been shown to have any effectiveness whatsoever.

Finally, there’s some weird point where a WHO scientist recommends India doesn’t use ivermectin but the US government approved some other medicine for something. I’m not sure what a single scientist making a recommendation to their government and a different country making a different decision about a completely different drug has anything to do with the WHO.
More recent versions of Ubuntu have a "diceware" utility that you can run, but there are also web sites:

* https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff
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The US government failed the pandemic test. Now we need to care of each other
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> you normally don't read things spanning the whole screen

I absolutely hate when code crosses beyond column 80. I don’t want to read overly long lines of code.
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> Have fun watching your fiat lose value to inflation

Where did crypto fans get this weird idea that the only two options for storing wealth are fiat cash or cryptocurrency?

It’s bizarre that these crypto investors think anyone with significant wealth is keeping it in a bank account earning 0.05% APY and losing to inflation. I suspect many of them aren’t coming from backgrounds with much, or maybe any, education about basic personal finance.

I don’t understand how these crypto people can talk about their crypto prices all day in terms of fiat dollar value, yet not realize that we do the same thing for stocks, bonds, real estate, and other assets too.

This idea that crypto is the only way to escape inflation is one of the weirdest and most easily disprovable myths, but every crypto thread is full of crypto holders who want to believe it’s true. It’s also silly to watch the proliferation of ever-increasing numbers of crypto currencies and crypto assets being generated out of thin air being willfully ignored in the money printing conversations. Do people really not understand that crypto currencies are being printed and injected into the crypto ecosystem all the time?
Most of the growth in Chinese carbon emissions (>90%) is due to growth Chinese consumption, not exports.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china
You nailed it. Apple is so flexible with their morals when money is on the line you know this will be abused by some authoritarian government. They will ask apple to scan for some content, apple will say no, the government will ban apple from selling their products, and suddenly apple will change their mind. Next thing you know a huge swath of journalists or dissidents is being disappeared to reeducation camps. Apple is working overtime to wrestle the “most evil company in the world” title from google and amazon.
Trees are really not the issue, once you stop fucking with them they grow back quickly.

It’s the ores which are going to be problematic. As well as the coal obviously but there charcoal is an option, just not as easy.
For my particular monitor, that’s most of what I would use on i3 due to size limitations. The issue for me is that splitting the screen in OSX is so clunky compared to i3.
We're going to have to work through some tough decisions as a society with this kind of technology developing... The likelihood in the coming years of child exploitation images being generated using similar techniques as posted here, I'd say is almost a sure bet.

It dovetails with the current news of Apple's client-side content scanning using perceptual hashes. I'm strongly against that, but with regards to opening Pandora's box with the situation above...It'd be interesting to hear peoples thoughts on what might be able to be done about these sorts of tech induced dilemmas. (Ban the tech? License it? Accept more and deeper blanket surveillance? Allow it all!?)
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This article is propaganda
Unfortunately, I haven’t found a modern replacement and I was searching everywhere about a year ago. Somebody else in this thread just mentioned the new Huawei MateView 3:2 but it’s 28” and it doesn’t seem to be currently available in the U.S.
The long term goal for many in the crypto community is to get to a point where you don't need to cash out. More merchants accepting crypto, landlords accepting crypto, etc. We aren't there yet, but that remains the goal.
Fair point and you are probably right. However, this is getting them a ton of bad press from pretty major players in the privacy world (Edward Snowden for example). This has high chances of a lot of people abandoning Apple products (I'll no longer purchase new apple products and already switching over to de-googled Android).

Privacy is obviously just a marketing play by Apple but this time, they can't hide it and it might actually hurt their bottom line.
Not in a sense of "signed letter", but more like a "huge feedback". Six years ago MSFT planned to reduce free storage for existing OneDrive users to 5GB (after bumping it to 15GB + 15GB of Camera Roll bonus) [1]. Like other users, I was unhappy as I have been using OneDrive with the promise of bigger storage than Google.

Sure enough, over 72k votes at OneDrive's UserVoice [2] cause MSFT to back down. They still reduce the storage to 5GB, but existing users (myself included) can opt out of it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890966/microsoft-onedri...

[2] https://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/sugges...
Because Gruber is such an Apple fanboy, it's near impossible for him to accept that Apple just gave him the finger.
Agreed. There are many subtle and complex trade offs that come between PoW, PoS, and alternative consensus mechanisms. But one thing I can say with confidence is that Rob Portman is in no way qualified to understand, let alone make those decisions.
And the 1st Gen SE provided that, it had the same internals as the then-current flagship phones.

Note that Apple's small form factor phones have very often been released out of sync with the main launches in the Autumn. Just because there won't be a new one this autumn doesn't mean the current version will be dropped, and doesn't mean a new small form factor phone won't come along next year, possibly early next year.
PHP (vanilla)

I know this comment will get a lot of hate but I can’t think of any web technologies that are faster to deploy and as performant as PHP. Now should you use it for a medium-large site, probably not without an additional framework but you’ll have plenty of time to retool for that when time comes.
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Karl Marx quote on the right to keep and bear arms only applies to the proletariat. If you are a programmer and own the means of production (your laptop), you are not proletariat. All socialist and communist countries have strict gun control.
Ok...fair enough. I did look for a token being sent from my computer whilst not being signed in but obviously missed it.
> My first thought for the Scheuklappen-Effekt was blinders. Blinders are used to prevent horses from seeing sideways.

Yup, that's what Scheu-klappen means. "Shy-flaps", to use the English cognates: Flaps you put before (beside) the horse's eyes, to stop it shying away whenever it gets spooked by something it sees off to the side.

> Turns out, blinders are also called blinkers.

Funny how the adjectival form (gerund?) is apparently only used on the latter variant: I've only ever seen "that's a blinkered view", never "blindered".
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May I ask what phone? I am not here to criticize.
> Police funding has shot up in America. It's everything else thats been cut.

What else in America has been cut? I'd be interested in that very long list (since you're saying that everything else is seeing cuts; the understood meaning being that a very large number of major items are seeing their budgets slashed). The spending data I see year in year out, or across decades, is showing the opposite.

Healthcare spending has skyrocketed over the last 20-30 years, including healthcare spending by the government (eg Medicaid, Medicare). They're not slashing Medicaid or Medicare, those programs have far outrun inflation and are drowning the US budget.

Social Security hasn't been slashed. Even the leading Republicans no longer dare talk seriously about cutting Social Security (30-40 years ago they commonly did). Trump could hardly run away faster from that conversation, it's the third rail of US politics, absolutely nobody dares.

Education spending has not been slashed. US teachers are among the best paid in the world and Americans spend more per capita on education at all levels than just about any other nation (while getting mediocre results for their epic investment, as with healthcare spending).

Defense spending of course continues to rise.

The US welfare state has continued to perpetually expand. US social welfare spending is larger as a share of GDP than it is in Canada; and it's closing in on Britain (the US will catch Britain on social welfare spending as a % of GDP this decade). The US social safety net has gotten larger, not smaller, over the decades. Programs like housing first didn't even exist 30 years ago; food security programs like SNAP continue to get bigger over the decades, they're not vanishing.

US Government spending has continued to soar year by year. Typically 5-8% annual spending increases are normal (just look at the radical spending increases during the Bush and Obama years, or any of the recent budgets). Total government spending (Federal + State + Local) has continued to climb, it has not been slashed or reduced. Total US government spending is taking more out of the US economy than it ever has outside of WW2 - you have to go back to WW2 level spending to find something comparable.

Total US government spending has increased by roughly 225% over the past two decades (more than triple the rate of inflation over that time). The soaring spending shows no sign of letting up.

The major US Government agencies - such as NASA, NSA, FBI, DHS, VA, DoJ, etc - have not had their budgets slashed over the last few decades, they keep climbing year after year.

The only big one I can think of is infrastructure spending, which has not kept up with inflation because both sides have refused to raise gasoline taxes.

What kind of results do we have to show for the massive increase in government spending? Are our streets now lined with gold? Things are better than they have ever been, is that right? Is our quality of life equivalent to Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden? Because we now have their per capita government spending levels. The government systems of the US are spending the equivalent of 45% of the economy each year.
I kind of stopped after:

>fundamental privacy protections for all users of Apple products.

Users of Apple (should and largely do) accept they are not in control. Apple has always been clear this is a feature not a bug.

This is the logical next step to justify that their lock-in/monopoly has unique features beside making them more money.
Great article. I mostly do PHP, PHP has support for FFI and I have some private projects where I call C libraries directly over FFI. I have been thinking of using zig to implement my own C libraries when needed. Zig looks like a more sane approach than using C, another alternative would be D.
Weird that the heads of apple seem to have redefined 'in true apple fashion' from just integrating well across the hardware and software layer to being about every part of the organization working well together (engineers and lawyers)
On another hand, I don't remember the last time I was interested in a CPU's frequency. In isolation it gives no insights about the performance of a CPU, not even single-threaded performance. Even with the exact specs I wouldn't know how to interpret them, and I doubt many people would.

Nowadays I just check the benchmarks of a CPU to have a rough idea of it's performance.
> from the context of the article it seems like he's getting his PhD in Chinese studies

Huh? This is what the article says:

>> His research was in the field of environmental pollution.
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Have you tried the Monitor Splitting functionality from DisplayFusion (1)? I do not know of any other software capable of this. If anyone does know an alternative for this functionality let us know.

(1) https://www.displayfusion.com/Features/MonitorSplitting/
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Ah, good point, although I think gp is referring to the internal rolling ball that tracks motion. 3rd pic here https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/logitech/digimouse.shtml
Did you even read the page you linked to?

> Other metals sometimes classified or treated as "heavy" metals, such as beryllium [...], aluminium [...], calcium [...] and barium [...]
I suspect it might be more effective to go to an Apple store and attempt to return your iphone and iPad (though probably they are outside of return windows.)

I’m seriously considering doing that. Make it painful for the local staff by demanding a refund. Don’t take no for an answer for quite some time. Explain that they just broke the product with a remote update that you had no choice in, so thats why you’re only returning it now. When they ask how it broke explain that they started scanning all your content, thereby claiming it as their own. If they want to own the phone, then they need to buy it back. Etc.
As a PhD advisor myself, this is telling. I always respond to all of my students' emails. This suggests a poor relationship between them already exists before the tweeting.
Not sure what sort of "coming true" you guys are expecting. We're looking at a pretty unusual level of drought, fires, and flooding disasters all over the world, new temperature records almost every year, and faster temperature increases and ice loss than the IPCC had projected.

Back in 2007 the book Six Degrees was published, with one chapter per degree of warming, summing up the science of what results we would see. We're at one degree and everything in that chapter is happening now.
My first computer was a Commodore 64 and I’ve had this exact setup for around 9 years now.
You need to go through some proper infosec courses/certifications. Your approach to writing is unprofessional and unethical and you did NOT clarify what measures you took or under which pretense the affected company/companies agreed to you writing this disclosure statement.

As an aside, your writing style comes off as arrogant and childish. Proper disclosures don't read like Hackers fanfic.
> Just imagine what we could have done technology wise if all the brain power spent on quant finance and crypto now in the last 20 years was spent on something else

I think over the last 20 years, more brain power was spent on ad.tech.

So far, cryptocurrencies only caused moderate harm, like wasted electricity and GPU shortages. But I think ad.tech caused way more long-term harm. Death of traditional media, cancel culture, extreme level of political polarization, anti-vax movement, clickbait nature of most content on the internets these days — all these things are directly caused by big tech corporations maximizing their ad revenues while ignoring all the externalities.
Zig looks overall interesting to me, but I don't like that it reproduces one of the pains of C++ templates, i.e. their dynamic typing. What I mean is, C++ templates aren't checked before being executed, and instead you get compilation errors (at c++ templates runtime) which mangle the use and definition of templates, e.g.

template<typename T>
concept HasId =
requires (T a) {
T::kId; // "the expression T::kId is a valid expression that will compile"
};

// A and B are expected to be structs, where each has an associated integer constant kId and a field "int value".
template <HasId A, HasId B>
int min_id(const A a, const B b) {
if (A::kId < B::kIs) {
return a.value;
} else {
return b.value;
}
}

struct A0 {
static constexpr int kId = 1;
int value;
};

struct A1 {
static constexpr int kId = 2;
int value;
};

// etc.

struct A180 {
static constexpr int kId = 2;
int value;
};

int main() {
(void)min_id(A0(), A1());
(void)min_id(A1(), A2());
// etc. ending with:
(void)min_id(A179(), A180());
}

And now you get 180 errors about your typo (if not for max error number limits in the compiler), when really there is only one error in the definition of min_id. I used concepts to show that in the long tradition of C++, they're an additional feature that doesn't really help (quantity over quality of features).

Haskell solves that with typeclasses, Rust solves that with traits. What's really important about these solutions is that when you write a function generic over a trait or a typeclass, you are limited to using what is defined in the trait/typeclass. The trait/typeclass function both as documentation and as something that gets you better compilation errors.

"typename" in C++ is basically "any", but for values of template execution. Typeclasses/traits on the other hand are a sort of types for those values (which we normally call "types"). And similarly, in Zig there is an "any" type for types, just like in C++ --- it's called "type", and AFAIK there is no way to constrain your types with types of types.
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> Honestly I would have been fine with Apple scanning my all photos after they are uploaded to iCloud

Apple has already been doing exactly this for years. Now they are going to check the photos right before uploading to iCloud which is actually more privacy friendly than they do now. It also lets Apple turn on e2e for iCloud photos if they want.

I understand the 'what if' and slippery slope arguments, but wow, there is so much misunderstanding in this thread. Apple makes the OS and doesn't need a fancy system to scan all the files on the device if that's what they want to do.

I highly suggest reading this: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ and the associated PDFs. Apple PR hosed this up by putting 3 distinct features on one page that people seem to be conflating.
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You would use higher-order functions particularly when you cannot determine the scope of your input ahead of time. For instance when you provide something that searches an unstructured database of documents (e.g., mongo).

In such a scenario, you could apply defunctionalization. But you'd need to re-apply this technique whenever a new filter comes up or one becomes obsolete. Then you would have to make sure that both your client and server have the same version of the API.

If you design a functional system instead, say by allowing filters in a domain-specific language, ala jq, you write your filter function once and never need to touch the API, because it is "complete".

Which alternative do you prefer?
It is only a fallacy when it’s not backed up by solid reasoning. There are obviously slippery slopes. And sometimes they aren’t there, even though people claim they are. It’s a shame that some have been conditioned to immediately make the connection between the two.
The eco system is really one giant life form. In a way we are all part of the same organism.
Ha. Ban a weapon? That's worked so well. And a weapon that anybody with a few bucks and a picture of a target can make in their garage?

We have to become used to a world where technology violates every principle we used to consider table stakes for civilization. The challenge is to build some kind of stable society out of the mess we've made.
The thing is, people who are young enough to not live in the time without mobile phones will have no recourse.
Exactly. I have two 30"/2560x1600 monitors. One is dead center and is the "working screen" and the other is off to the right and is my "reference screen". Naturally that's not pure, but I'm not really turning my head all that often.

Having said that, what I do find problematic is that both are too high when it comes to looking at things at the towards the top of the screen... I really would love them recessed a bit below the level of the main desk surface. Some of this is my own damn fault since, being an old guy, I use progressive lens and I'm not smart enough (or maybe I'm too cheap) to get a pair of dedicated working glasses so I end up tilting my head even more to get stuff in the area of best focus.
That’s not what they wrote, double check your comprehension.
Is there any precedent for liability for buying and using a partner product sold by someone else? Seems they are using the wrong people (makes sense, since it's a shakedown scam).