skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This approach sounds a lot like that used by XPrivacy, and its successor, XPrivacy Lua, both for rooted Android with the Xposed framework.

They allowed you to spoof responses to a huge range of API calls that revealed sensitive data, by hooking function calls in the underlying OS, and returning arbitrary or random values, which could be a subset of the full valid set of values.

That approach works pretty well if you test it robustly and ensure your dummy responses are valid according to the API spec.

Something I always feared was that apps would try to detect this and refuse to run if you didn't have any contacts or photos, or had folders on your SD card that they could not access, but I'm not aware of this ever really having materialised, beyond banking apps and some online games using Google's device attestation, which didn't really play nice with the Xposed framework.
People travel from all around the world to obtain US healthcare. Say what you will about affordability (I would contend that the main problem is that we don't have a free market for healthcare, we have an unholy crony capitalist hybrid system), but the quality of the healthcare itself is unparalleled anywhere in the world.

If you're at serious risk of death you want to be in a US hospital. I hate the trend of conflating "access to affordable healthcare" with the actual healthcare itself.
> If all the apps that don't want to comply can just leave, you may find yourself relying on Apple services even more than you do now.

Or more likely what's gonna happen is the 95% of users who care more about having WhatsApp than privacy, will install the Facebook app store and get the apps from there.
Weird how you went there, I think of the faces and then inevitably of the 3 Ninjas scene where multiple elements bound together are stronger than when alone
Just look at the trend line? You might also want to look at the excess statistically significant deaths numbers.

https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac8...
It's still happening... is that data?
TLDR open everything up/antivax/antimask subreddit

There is also a hefty dose of "if seatbelts work why do i have to wear one by law, why isn't other people wearing one enough" type of logic.
The mask thing is actually frustrating to me in the opposite direction.

The theory/intent behind cloth masks is that they might capture respiratory droplets, which might decrease mixing in a congregate setting.

The cost is low, the risk is low, and the benefit (if it works) would be high. It's a no brainer: wear a mask if you are in a congregate setting until we have better data.

But that isn't what MANY lay-people understand the masks to do. In the height of the fear period of the pandemic, I would see very high risk people (age >80) saying things like that they "feel much safer going out with their mask on".

The misinformation about masks (that they protect the wearer) actually caused people to engage in riskier behavior than they would have otherwise.

edit: and as a side point: what do you think this does to people who are already fans of rand paul? It's going to just push them further towards the fringes as a "trusted" place to get information. "Well you know $the_cathedral banned Rand Paul for speaking the truth! We can't trust $the_cathedral anymore! Where should we get data? How about $the_bazaar! (chan sites, gettr, gab, OAN, RSBN, etc.)"
Boy these social networks have painted themselves into a terrible corner. Now they have to be the arbiter of things like the effectiveness of masks, a task for which they are not equipped and which the public does not trust them to do. Long term they are fucked.
Lol, go ahead and block me. I'm currently paying for 8 streaming services. Maybe I'll miss Netflix more than they'll miss my subscription fee, but not by much.
That's exactly what a leftist would say.
So which are you arguing against, public healthcare or the mandates that hospitals admit emergency patients regardless of ability to pay?
I find it terrifying that there's a large portion of the population that encourages and wants them to do this.
I missed the "former" part, I focused too much on the fall 2020 hiring.
Yes, I agree, and that's the world I want as well. One where we don't have this notion of centralized authorities who serve as sources of truth.
Compare states - Florida with almost no mitigation, vs New York, New Jersey, or California with extreme mitigation.

Go ahead and check the pre-vaccine data - there is no indication that the extreme mitigations did anything.
your use of the word fascinating is fascinating. sounds like you self censored.
Where exactly would anyone get the time to read citations? That doesn't sound scalable for even a tiny website, but maybe I'm misunderstanding.
From what I've heard, EBT fraud in California is incredibly simple[1], so I wouldn't be surprised if a serial arsonist wasn't also defrauding the government for kicks.

[1] See also: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-25/californ...
also the fact you can legislate away (via zoning) access to more housing in a way that is hard for the market to correct compared to exchange traded assets
I do most of my gaming on the same Mac Book Pro I work on and I buy pretty much everything on Steam anyway since I can eventually install them on the gaming PC I keep telling myself I’ll build.

Not saying it’s a waste of money or time to use the MacOS store but given the choice I’ll always choose Steam since my library is much more flexible and portable.
No, it was literally a strategy explicitly used and still used by political operatives to say what they want to say without constraint, and have people defend their bullshit language.

"In 1981, former Republican Party strategist Lee Atwater, when giving an anonymous interview discussing former president Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, speculated that terms like "states' rights" were used for dog-whistling:[27][28][29]

You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968, you can't say "nigger" – that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now, you're talking about cutting taxes. And all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me – because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."[30]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
>The effects of water condensing on walls of your cellar is going to be your cellar walls heating up immediately.

While true about the conservation of energy, the drastic differences in both mass and heat capacity of air/earth mean the cellar walls will probably have no perceptible change in temperature.
The website other than Google on my iPad pro by miles is library genesis.

It's a damn good pdf reader but it would be nice to plot some graphs on it from time to time.
Interestingly, the old Apple TVs still have the star system so you can still tell if a show is any good or not.
Pretty sure I could retire if I was a lobbyist and this is the only issue I worked on

Apple's about to turn some money faucets on
I understand, but it's no Hulu at least. 5-10 seconds and you can click to skip and go back to the movie, like you can with other Youtube videos.
People underestimate how hard it is to do streaming that well.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

Doesn't seem to be working.
> So I learned early on that people unreasonably expect support for no additional cost. Or they believe the amount they paid is for support in the future, not work done in the past.

If I buy a piece of software, it's not unreasonable to expect it to work for some period of time after the purchase. This is especially true on the Windows side, where Microsoft has gone to great lengths to keep old APIs around and support most (but not all) old software within reason. I have engineering software programs that are a decade old that still run fine on my Windows 10 machine.

macOS has been less shy about deprecating old APIs and forcing software updates. I probably spend $500-1000 every year just upgrading a certain few software packages that charge for a new version every time a new macOS comes out, and I hate it. I don't mind paying for new versions of software, but it's becoming saddening to watch all of my macOS software rapidly decay away with each macOS upgrade unless I buy the newest version.
Thanks for your feedback. We just deployed an update, please give another try. Hopefully SenpAI will work this time. We would love to hear your wishlist of stats & features for LoL!
The quote mentioned that store-bought masks don't prevent infection. He didn't say that they work poorly. The recommendations suggest that having any mask is better than having no mask.
There are 50 states in the US, all of which had different responses and mitigations in place last year. There is no compelling evidence that they made much difference, let alone a 5x one.
>considering that there has only ever been one RCT done on SARS-2, and it showed no significant difference for its primary endpoint (self-infection). It didn't measure community spread, presumably because actually measuring that is extremely difficult, which is exactly why no study exists to confirm your statement.

This argument only makes sense if you think it also makes sense to disregard all non-RCT evidence for transmissibility, such as the number and momentum of droplets expelled. As the joke goes, there are no randomized controlled trials of the effectiveness of parachutes in falls from airplanes.
I think AMZN stock value increases pushes Amazon comp well past Microsoft
That is obviously a case of you not using the mask correctly.

If you choose to use the mask incorrectly, it can hardly be the fault of the person advocating the use of a mask.

However, if instead the information provided was you should never wash your mask, you should be constantly touching your mask, you should share your masks with friends and by doing this you will be kept safe.

In that scenario you should be banned for spreading misinformation.
It reduces your chances of infecting others.
Not owning a car in a car in the US / Canada, your taxes are probably disproportionately going toward maintaining car-oriented infrastructure as opposed to public transit (depending to some extent on where exactly you live, I guess). So you're kinda screwing yourself in a sense.
You could go to jail for a long time. Watch it, buddy
Thanks for sharing your comments. We don't provide any tactics or actionable suggestions during the game for League.

As you mentioned, some of our features are already accessible via some other applications but we aim to provide more comprehensive suggestions.
If they offered a customer service option to resolve such issues, probably 90% of requests would be from people who legitimately were VPN users. So they'd have to waste a lot of time to help the 10% of false positives affected. And ironically, the better they make their detection system at avoiding false positives, the more time they'd be wasting on that customer service. So maybe they invest more resources into making the detection system better instead of customer service.

Also, this problem is probably ISP specific. If an ISP routes their global traffic over a globally shared pool of a couple public ipv4's via CGNAT for example, the ISP is virtually aiding the VPN providers which have obtained users from those ISPs. Netflix probably wants the ISP to stop doing that and instead chop up their public ipv4 pool into smaller pools so that they can ban individual sub-pools instead. The market position Netflix is in allows them to keep the users of small ISPs hostage in this situation. They only have to buckle in to large ISPs, if at all.

Anyways, this is a silly waste of time really. People paid for content. People should be allowed to watch it. If they want to watch american shows instead, why not let them.
Maybe I’m just too old-school, thinking that when paying for software it’s yours.

Way too often, automatic upgrades silently break my existing software, take away functionality or introduce new bugs.

Anyway thanks for showing me KeePassXC, looks like something I’ll be very interested in
> Its also one of the reason for me to not wear mask when interacting with other people, its a good thing to do for other people.

How is increasing the odds of my infecting my immunocompromised mother doing me a favour?
Because that is one thing i know that people mention a lot in moving to cities. Maybe part of it is american perspective. Is there something WRONG with talking about multiculturalism?

eg. gay people leaving their small towns that don't have other gays, immigrants moving to a city full of people of their nationality (eg. "china towns, little italy").

No amount of "is renting forever not bad?" will rectify this advantage of a city for many people.
> That's “non-zero”; not the same thing as abundant. How do you even know R>1? I'd say “found in wild animals” is the standard for “abundant animal reservoirs”; that's “some animals can catch it from humans” which we already know.

I literally linked you a study that alleged that the virus jumped back from minks to humans. There's far more studies on the animal reservoirs, I just don't feel like doing an exhaustive literature review for the purposes of this subthread. I would strongly encourage you to start researching it since you apparently don't seem to be aware of the fact that zoos around the country are vaccinating their animals against COVID, etc. (Which BTW I disagree with but unless you want to argue that they're just vaccinating them for no reason surely that implies that they're getting infected)

There's literally mountains of evidence for you to go look at

> Smallpox had cases in practically undocumented people. The last few smallpox infections were stamped out by pre-emptive vaccinations of everyone found in the vicinity; that doesn't require the subjects to be human in principle, even if they were in this case.

Okay, good luck vaccinating not just the entire global human population but also virtually every mammal out there. Good luck chasing down the smaller rodents. Better not miss a single spot!

> I maintain we could do it.

Again, we can't. We can't even get close with our current capabilities. I agree there's a hypothetical universe where with teleportation and an infection-blocking vaccine - neither of which we have - as well as some sort of all-seeing eye, we could do it.
- I see comment about iPod, no wireless, less space than a nomad. lame
it's been looked at several times, and a vast majority of the convincing evidence seems to fall in favor of the camp that overall mitigations do nearly nothing compared to control samples of places with no/fewer restrictions

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/18/coronalinks-5-18-20-wh...
Can you share the link? I haven't seen it.
Historically medical professionals used cloth masks which where repeatedly shown to reduce transmission risk of many airborne infections though minimal usefulness vs influenza.

Modern masks may be significantly more effective, but nothing suggests cloth masks are useless when it comes to COVID, just less effective.
I tend to agree. A few years ago someone totaled my car, and I decided to try living without it. At the time I calculated the cost of ownership, and for a 5 or 10 year old car, it really isn't all that expensive. Part of the problem is that external costs (road, parking, etc) are amortized over everyone whether or not they own a car.
I pity your reliance on anecdote as evidence, but hey that's the human condition.
yes, it's FAAMG not FAANG. Used to work at G and I always correct people this way.
It's gaslighting, like that Facebook metaverse.
I can’t tell if this is a serious comment. Surely you know heart disease isn’t contagious.
> I could see a lot of value in having an assistant that analyse your game after the fact and give you hints like: you focus too much on fighting, you have too much resource float, you have a big army but it's doing nothing, your army composition was subpar, you should have anticipated the switch to X

You're making this sound easy, but in reality it's very complicated.

How to you measure how much someone is fighting? What if they're playing a very aggressive style? What if the opponent is turtling?

What is "too much" resource float? What time period should it be measured over? What if the player correctly prioritized more important tasks over spending resources?

What is a "big army" and what does "doing nothing" mean? What if they're playing a passive style? What if they're actively roaming the map but not fighting?

Etc.

I have tried to create an analysis tool that does similar things for StarCraft 2, and it's extremely difficult because of how variable and contextual everything is.

It's easy for humans to look at these things and interpret the situation. It's way harder to create rules that accurately reflect human interpretation.
When the whole hydroxychloroquine scandal was going on, I tried to cross reference and double check. Unfortunately, this meant I had to use DuckDuckGo rather than a Google product, since they were burying anything that spoke of it positively, including some of the original research papers.

It's hard to cross reference when one of the lines of the cross has been deleted.
Thanks for quantifying this, it helps clarify his position (or lack thereof.) Unfortunately that's what happens when you fall into a bubble. Even when your worldview clashes with reality, rather than come to terms and revise your understanding/predictions, you retreat to your bubble and become redoubled. This is the true threat of the echo chamber.
It depends on why you want to get a MBA. If it's for credibility - go to a top 10 school. If it's to learn - you might be better off learning on the job than taking weekend courses.
Yes, for a subset of new ventures.

These are more the no code for X, rather than a platform for building an application, if I understand the question you are asking.

Of course Kelsey Hightower has the only true no code app out there and anything else will eventually require code if it becomes economically viable
> From what I've heard, EBT fraud in California is incredibly simple[1], so I wouldn't be surprised if a serial arsonist wasn't also defrauding the government for kicks.

> [1] See also: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-25/californ...

Your link is regarding unemployment benefits fraud, EBT is something entirely different.
I'm curious what features this hypothetical modern language would have that would be particular suited for financial institutions. This thought has piqued my interest
Dramatically false. In fact over the past few months many places have reduced their Covid death counts by ~25%, as they took off the ‘died from X but had COVID’ people. Alameda county, Santa Clara county and others…
I do believe supply has mostly caught up. I was able to buy a proper high-quality P100 respirator (99.9X filtration, as opposed to 95% on an N95 - and with oil resistance) from 3M a few months ago for not-far-above pre-covid prices.

It’s a pretty fabulous device - even working with extremely fumey substances, with the mask on I can’t smell anything. I’ve taken to using it when cleaning the compost bin or spreading fertilizer as well. You do need to get the right size for your face, beards are a no-go, and glasses are awkward - but overall I’m very impressed.
> National Board of Ophthalmologists,

which Rand Paul personally invented, and he wrote the cerificarion exam that he took.
They're not announcing a new feature with this blog post, are they?
Yeah. Mid eighties I was warned that a purple cloud would erupt around me and even follow me if I tried to move away to escape blame.
I'm not exaggerating:

https://www.pcgamer.com/south-korea-makes-cheating-in-online...

https://kotaku.com/forget-banning-online-gamers-are-in-legal...

https://gizmodo.com/chinese-police-bust-alleged-76-million-v...
It’s more like Facebook Apple Google Microsoft Amazon Netflix
It’s like the bike helmet paradox.
Misinformation, because it encourages a practice that is counter to the recommendations. Because it allows for a conclusion to be drawn that is counter to the recommendations.
The CDC made that statement because masks work. It was worded dumbly, but they're just saying that when the mask supply is constrained, healthcare workers should be prioritized over the general public. If masks didn't work, there'd be no point in triaging who gets them.
I'm happy to get into the philosophy of this, but you should know that mechanistic studies in the absence of RCTs are as good as useless. I can show you how to kill cancer cells in a petri dish. I can't show you how to cure cancer. They're very different beasts.

BTW I noticed you mentioned "number and momentum of droplets", which seems to suggest you're still stuck in the old respiratory droplet transmission model and aren't aware of the overwhelming evidence that SARS-2 is transmitted primarily via aerosols, which even mechanistically masks can't do anything against?
There's a danger far worse than climate change. It's called the UN.
An MD is a generalist's degree. It doesn't confer anything but that he graduated from med school and knows a bit about human physiology. Infectious diseases are AT LEAST as far out of his wheelhouse as Windows domain servers are to computer science graduates, aka, anything that he even pretends to know about the subject is something he read online.
They could try simply not lying anymore.
Well, this is what I was referring to by an arms race if these kinds of tools are allowed. It’s a considerable disadvantage to not use them, so everyone is basically forced into using them.

In my opinion for non-professional play (casual and ranked), these kinds of tools should be outright banned. The game goes from “how can I improve myself and play better” to “let’s expend the minimum effort possible solely to win”. You’re not playing to your strengths but just to the opponent’s weaknesses from the get-go. That’s just incredibly boring. Just because one can have a shortcut to a win doesn’t make for better or more interesting gameplay.

Regarding professional play, the teams have the resources to do this given the limited player pool and they’re also at the pro level anyways.
Ok, so the eviction moratorium? Maybe we just have very different historical perspectives, and that's why I don't get it. "Abandon centuries of liberal democratic tradition and hard fought freedoms" seems like wild hyperbole, given how the country usually operates, and has basically forever. We're still way on the "more free" side of things, as far as the spectrum in which the US has historically operated, by a long shot, and I don't see a strong trend the other way.