skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go so far as to suggest that it is not merely behavior confined to scientists. Any potentially valuable item sent unsolicited to a stranger is unlikely to be returned.
I agree with you up to a point, namely that developers should be prevented from making their apps exclusive to any specific app store, but they shouldn't have to spend any resources making their app acceptable to any other app store.

So if Epic Games want to create their own app store, they can, but Apple should be allowed to list their games on its own app store too (and pay Epic whatever the relevant price is for each download of a game, out of the amount that Apple bills the user for it).
> You are actively spreading disinformation. SARS-2 ("covid") will never be extinct.

Sigh. THIS seems to be a deliberate misreading too.

Stopping the pandemic doesn't require eradicating the disease. Malaria remains endemic and largely unvaccinated, but controlled.

And cloth masks are a vitally important tool in making that happen. Claiming otherwise by arguing against a strawman is... yeah, disinformation.

OH MY GOD. After a year and a half, why won't you people just wear your masks?! Why!?
> Freedom of Speech is only an actual guarantee (at least in text) in one country.

Plenty of countries have freedom of speech rights in text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country
There is no ‘getting back to normal’ with climate breakdown – Mark Blyth
No, I understand that. I just think the reason we talk about it is because of later developments. That is why I'm taking Japan as an example because they have made some of the best music equipment around but we don't talk about how good education, research and manufacturing is the source Japanese hip hop and electronic music because that never really happened. Instead most of the world is playing American or European music made with Japanese equipment.

Maybe I'm reading the parent to harshly. I just want to make the point that talent and money isn't everything. Most of Sweden's successes hasn't come from research spending and top talent but from widespread interest and application of technologies. Spotify didn't come out of Fraunhofer. The Swedish video game industry did arguably come out of the demoscene however.
Would be cool if the console did bold, italics, underline, and, my favourite, overline.
Maybe we can have a discussion about it in the comment section of the YouTube video.

Oh wait...
Do you hear yourself calling for muzzles to be put on people?
In the 70s they'd be banning people who claimed the Earth wasn't cooling.
600k deaths after huge mitigations. Without any mitigation’s is it 3 million in the US dead?
I think what you might want to do is try the closed source / SAAS route first either by locking in that 2nd customer or taking some investment. If it doesn't work, then start down the open source route.

It seems to me that all the knowledge / experience of your staff is your real asset here, not necessarily the code. While that, in theory, should mean open-sourcing the code won't matter for your business, in practice it means you will be seeding competitors unnecessarily.

Turning your staff into highly chargeable consultants could be a more sustainable business model than trying to herd the cats of the internet into trying to improve your product offering, when most of those guys won't have the experience of your existing team. By offering the code out as open source you are giving a bunch of people a leg up and cutting short your time as the only game in town, which puts extra pressure on sales and might not work out.
> stemmed from reasons like "they wanted to use some process that I refused to try" or "they made us go through some training that I thought was a waste of time", then I consider that to be a very risky candidate.

I feel like you're gradually making this hypothetical engineer seem more ridiculous. If someone quit over training or their unwillingness to try scrum, that would be bananas of course. There's an extremely large gap between that and mandating the main tool to use to do your job everyday.
Someone has to be in the bottom 10%. Why not me?
An Assange update; time to go to Craig Murray since no mainstream journalist, let alone paper or network, provides genuine context on this issue...

Oh wait, Craig Murray was jailed, on bogus, utterly unverifiable charges. And prevented from testifying about Assange's legal team being spied on in an embassy. - https://dissenter.substack.com/p/craig-murray-8-months-priso...

Let's see what context the Guardian gives...

> Assange appeared at the hearing via video link from Belmarsh prison, wearing a dark face covering and a white shirt, with what appeared to be an untied burgundy tie draped around his neck.

Jesus Fucking H Christ.
> Devs have enough UX dark patterns in their toolkits to funnel the vast majority of their non-technically savvy userbases into the their favored payment systems and away from Apple's. It is way easier to enforce a blanket ban than trying to play whack-a-mole with those.

If my interpretation of the bill is correct, then Apple could just say "You need to list Apple IAP in the same screen as the other payment methods, and you can't make it harder to find than the custom methods you implement." And knowing Apple, that's what they would do.
You're lecturing Valve about top shooters?
In my experience the impact of VC money isn't directly seen by engineers but is rather a subtle top down shift in direction. Growth matters more, revenue matters more, existing users matter a bit less versus future users, features that impede this are removed, etc. Feature direction shifts slowly but surely.

The goal of a VC company is to either grow big or die. That's it. Risky bets at the expense of existing users are expected if current growth does not meet expectations. Worst case everyone quits the app and you go bankrupt. VCs expect that 9 time out of 10 so no big deal as long as the 10th makes it big.
It also reflects the casual homophobia of the relevant communities. (It’s one thing to laugh at the silly acronym, but another to use it as a way of deprecating the companies in question.)
Do you think wearing the same mask every single day and being able to take it off when the waiter brings the breadsticks is an effective mask policy?

Would you go into surgery with a physician who wears the same mask on a daily basis?
I am not sure. Google has restrictions on third party stores at this time: huge warnings, settings that require changing, and the store cannot do auto-updates. This will likely not be allowed under this bill.

I don’t think we can use Android as a case study.
I am fine with the subscription but I need local vaults. That said, macos has been making 1Password less and less differentiated, so guess I wont be renewing my subscription.
> YouTube doesn't have any responsibility (especially legal) to the public discourse.

Of course it does, should the government decide it does.

Just like how the Civil Rights acts mandated that certain private businesses have responsibilities to serve certain classes of citizens equally.

Just like the federal housing law requires landlords, corporate or not, to rent out to all people.

The government is allowed to mandate whatever it wants to benefit the public (the source of its power) so long as such a mandate is not prevented by a higher law.

The courts have found that these laws are constitutional:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Atlanta_Motel,_Inc._v...

> countered that the restrictions requiring adequate accommodation for African Americans were unquestionably related to interstate travel and that Congress, under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, certainly had the power to address such a matter in law.

Apparently, all the US government would need to do is argue that YouTube, as a multi-state corporation, is subject to interstate commerce regulations, which is very precedented.
Is there a course I can try out? Everything on the site seems to be on pre-sale.
Anyone who, when told by an officer of the law that they are being charged with a felony, responds with: "I'm going to kill you, f**ing pig!"...is not a person who is making good choices. IANAPsychiatrist, but that sounds mental.
We are fighting against quicksand, but virtually anything that slows transmission makes it easier to stay afloat. And letting it run its course is going to kill a lot of people, and the measures that were put in place almost certainly saved a lot of lives. I personally think that anything that might reasonably be used to slow transmission should be used, if for no other reason that to make sure that hospitals can keep up, and that vaccination rates can reach a point where new variants are a minor annoyance rather than a massive health crisis.
I'm with you. It's seemless, it works (on everyplatform) and it's easy to use.

At the end of the day if you want a password vault that is sync'd across devices, you're trusting someone...somewhere. Be that 1password, dropbox, or even that Linode you manually rsync your data to. You've got to decide what is the biggest risk for your own personal use cases.

For me, I'd rather store my sensitive data with a company that has demonstrated a repeated push to keep my data as secure as possible, even from itself. It's their core business, all they focus on.
But it should have been explicit in the reasoning for wearing masks in the first place. It seems to me that the pro-mask people have such contempt for the masses that they must disguise a reasonable social request into a selfish mandate, which is just weird. And yes, there are those who are unreasonably selfish, but I don’t think it’s working on them anyway. My personal take on this is that the mask issue is a poor choice for a hill to die on. It has to be the most reasonable and innocuous of all the unprecedented powers in exercise.
Eww. Never had an issue like that.
I'm impressed at how much IDE-as-a-Service has advanced in the past few years, a lot of other students at my university do all their programming assignments exclusively via repl.it. I wonder if they'll become the norm and basically everyone will just be writing code in browsers, save for a few lone greybeards still running their ancient bespoke Emacs setups locally[0].

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1782/
Thanks for sharing comments. We don't have a plan to replace human gaming coaches. We rather consider ourselves as complementary service to human coaches. We provide some tactics and suggestions based on data whereas human coaches are capable of making complex recommendations.

Providing "Early game gold loss" tag for a single match is not a huge win, as you described. However, if the gamer has the same tag for the majority the games, it shows an indication for weakness. That's our fundamental idea behind how it helps.

We believe we don't create unfair advantage because we provide suggestions based on the already information on the screen.
Anecdotally, I frequently observe masks causing people to touch their faces more. Masks cause itches, need to be adjusted, must be removed for drinking/eating, etc. I would be very interested in large-scale empirical studies measuring how effective masks are in practice. Sure in theory they can help. But I suspect in practice with the general public in everyday life, they do little to nothing to reduce virus sharing.
Just wanted to say very cool and very wesome idea. I am someone who has invested tons of time into valorant in hopes of getting immortal. I finally got to plat 2 from silver. I’ll definitely check this out over the weekend and give feedback this could actually help me
Anti-mask sentiment on HN is shocking and disappointing. They save lives. Should seatbelts be a personal choice too? Do they infringe on your "liberty"? If you want data, look at the recent case numbers of all of the southern states fighting the masks tooth and nail.

EDIT: Flagged? ...really? Highly disappointing.
> Oh ffs are you even aware that MS didn't originally build GitHub?

Purchasing a popular product is definitely qualifies for the "embrace" part of the strategy.

But that's not unique to MS - AWS and Google follow similar playbooks, as does almost any large company that provide a platform-like product. The goal is to make the platform as sticky as possible for as many customers as possible.
>"Russian paid bot/troll account" label"

I assume people who call you that are real bot/trolls most likely paid in Kraft dinners.
I think it may be a false statement. History is written by the victors - we may not know what debates were successfully shut down by the winning party.
> I don't listen to the thoughts of anyone who can't make a blog that renders legibly on mobile.

Oh, I'm fairly sure he could... If he wanted to.
So 'real free speech' is about requiring private companies to carry the message of a politically powerful agent of the government?
But only Apple and Google are big enough to fight the other bad actors. Sure, their interests may not always be aligned with mine, but we are much more likely to be aligned than mine with the bad actors.

So, I pay my money, and I get Apple to be my Big Brother who protects me from the bad actors. And if I decide that I no longer want Apple to play that role, then I can go buy an Andoproid device, or whatever.

But Apple can’t effectively play Big Brother in that role and protect me from all the other bad actors, if they are forced to allow alternative app stores and sideloading.

It’s like cryptography. Either it’s broken, or it’s not. Or Pregnancy. You are either pregnant or not. You can’t be a little bit pregnant, or have crypto that is only a little bit broken.
It seems Google has a better time determination method than the initial TrueTime used in Spanner now. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-li_yuliang.pdf
Hi! I've done work in Sydney from 2011-2013, India 2013-2014, and now Singapore from early 2020 up to today.

Overall, I would say that there's larger gaps between companies than there are internally to countries. Especially in India, I was consulting and definitely spent time on an Infosys campus in Bangalore where they had unscrewed half of the overhead lights to save money, but I also worked with some places that felt more or less like any other high-tech company anywhere else in the world.

Similarly, when I was looking for work here in Singapore, there were definitely folks that were looking to hire folks with 15 years of experience and pay them $80k/year, but there were also several companies that offered high-paying jobs with interesting work. There were definitely FEWER companies, but the flip side is that the hit rate was much higher -- I ended up getting at least a first interview with 70% of the companies I sent my resume to here, as opposed to the 20-25% I generally find in the US. In general, companies are very keen to hire "American" tech talent, especially if you have a "name-brand" on your resume.

In terms of compensation, if you are relocating, you really do have to look at the holistic quality-of-life. I ostensibly took a "paycut" in US$ terms from my Google NYC job for my role here in Singapore, but I also went from a tiny 2 bedroom apartment and a 45 minute subway ride to a 3 bedroom walking distance to work with a full-time nanny who works 6 days a week, cleans, and cooks in addition to watching our two kids.

Living "overseas" has been a great joy in my life -- I may end up back in America for some time but I also see myself living elsewhere for as much or more time. I can't recommend it enough -- the world is a pretty incredible place!
Then the way to fix this isn't a benevolent for-profit organisation deciding what is good and right but a data protection law that with teeth.

Apple right now can change their stance on any of their rules on a dime (e.g. leadership change).
VS Code is very good as far as Electron apps go. It would undoubtedly be much better as a fully native app—unfortunately it probably wouldn’t exist outside of Windows.

I feel the same way about JetBrains products—I sure wish they weren’t clunky Java behemoths, but I’m really glad they run on the OS I use.
Mask opinions are not a protected class
Why not limit available content based on the payment information instead of IP address?

I'm sure there are international travelers that would be inconvenienced but Netflix could create a separate plan for them.
>Should seatbelts be a personal choice too? Do they infringe on your "liberty"?

Yes and Yes. Now you get it.
It's pretty conclusive. It's been conclusive for years and years, before COVID-19. There's no question at all that masks reduce infectiousness through the extremely obvious method of preventing some virus particles from going from one person to another, and also no question at all that probability of infection depends on number of virus particles around, and that viruses in general produce worse symptoms when the initial viral load is higher (and masks reduce the initial viral load via the extraordinarily obvious physical mechanism).

You will find literally zero papers credibly claiming otherwise.

You will find many papers claiming that masks do not reduce the risk to zero. That's obvious and also irrelevant in light of the above.

You will find papers claiming that random cloth masks do not negligibly reduce the risk when you're immersed in a high-virus-density environment for hours on end. Not as obvious, but also irrelevant in light of the above.

If you think you know of a paper that contradicts the above, send it our way please.
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To truly open up iOS, by my understanding, Apple would need to remove the requirement for notarisation of binaries. This would mean they'd also need to sort out their entitlements system, given an app can use entitlements to say it isn't sandboxed. That was the root cause of a recent exploit, where differing parsing logic allowed an app to get signed while declared as unsandboxed. (https://siguza.github.io/psychicpaper/)

One approach could be to namespace installed apps based on the store ecosystem which installed them. Assuming platform level permissions for access to user data are enforced by the platform and can't be worked around via the manifest file, this would ensure apps can't move around outside of their "store" sandbox and access the data of other apps.

More ideally, Apple would move away from signing a plist that gives an app special access, towards the user prompts like those for contacts access etc. And where possible, use portals to give granular access to selected resources like photos (or selected contacts).
Oh I wish avoiding code cleanup was the worst of it. I've seen people totally ignore the most easily fixable bugs. Everyone knew what they were and how to fix them, but no one wants to be that person who spent time working on the bug that was only affecting 5% of users if it meant that any of the bugs that were affecting 95% of users were even a day later. Ignoring the ROI, the fact you even need to have that conversation adds cost.

Where it becomes more insidious is in planning for broader efforts, where even the ROI is nebulous. People seem hesitant to invest in experimenting to estimate ROI, which limits the topics and questions teams even bother to ask and gives a very skewed, short-sighted view to management.
What's exactly wrong with mass civil disobedience? If anything, it shows that you have problems with your political system; and that the current ruler has lost the narrative.
SDcards are said to die often/easily in Raspberry Pis. I heard someone say they die when there's a write access going while the Raspi is taken from power. Is that true? That would mean running a Raspi from SDcard is fine as long as there is no write access happening, which can be done by enabling readonly (root) filesystem.

Can anyone comment on that?
I had to double take this comment. At first glance I thought it said Sneed.
> there’s nothing Apple can do to stop them

You can runtime check the binary calling the API, you can sandbox the binary so it can't access the API at all.

I'm sure apple has tons of plans to limit this.
In a diving medical video a few months ago, a diving doctor when through the different mask and what they did and what they protected against. It did not get removed or censored by Youtube, through maybe it went under detection.

Surgical masks do not prevent infection to the person who wears it. They prevent spread by catching droplets so they don't spread to others. They do not filter the air you breathe, but it reduce the risks that a person brings to others.

A n95 mask with a valve has the opposite properties. They are poor at catching droplets because the valve let droplets out, but they filter the air you breathe.

A n95 without a valve has properties of both, but tend to be quite expensive and reserve for medical personal only.

In isolation it could be both true and false with the phrase "Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection.". A surgical mask does not filter or block very small particles in the air that may be transmitted by coughs and sneezes. They do however protect others against respiratory emissions by the wearer, which result in an reduce infection rate by those near an infected wearer. Respiratory emissions by the wearer is reduced in a range of 0 to 90% depending on the quality and fit.
I use the blocklist feature directly in NextDNS on my account, which is basically what I'd do with PiHole anyway.
Finally my iPad may actually be useful for more than just a really expensive web browsing machine.
No what is scarier is that a Senator who's also a doctor would be putting out such dangerous misinformation about the pandemic. I used to respect Senator Paul before the Trump era but he's gone over the deep end. YouTube did the right thing here
The article links to YouTube's copyright strikes policy, but the relevant one is this: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en Content moderation is the default, expected behavior of any host. Unmoderated places turn into shitholes like 4chan that no one wants to visit, or used to coordinate violence like when Facebook wasn't moderating content in the Burmese language.

If someone posts something to my computer that I don't want there for any reason, including conscience, I will delete it. That's not controversial at all really.
I don't even know what you're talking about.

A person with an associate's degree in biology from a community college has more knowledge of the biological sciences than you, the grandparent poster, and most people on the internet.

Yet you all are claiming equal authority on the subject as a person who spent eight years in medical school, whatever specialty he chose.

> Oh, he was also the first member of Senator to test positive for COVID.

Good! Now he's immune!
The important part is that he claims that holistic grazing helps to make land (and thus the whole regional ecosystem) amazingly productive, but this simply fails to replicate. It's bad science, but it unsurprisingly refuses to die, because people like steak, a lot of people had enough of them damn' treehuggers, some people just see the nice pictures cow dung on the African grasslands, and intuitively feel that it "makes sense". (I felt too years ago.) And it does, but the attached grandiose claims don't.

I was in a bit of a hurry, but now with one more search I found one of my older comments about the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797102
VR is actually a “subverse” of reality but where people’s reality is subverted in a VR form.

Most of people’s experience would happen in this subverse, work, relationships, etc. Gamification would direct behavior throughout. You would code for FB or moderate for FB via this subverse.

Even physiological necessities would happen in two dimensions: in the subverse and in reality.

You summon the plumber gor the broken toilet in the subverse, they come to fix it within the subverse which is also expressed necessarily in reality.

It’s a potentially very scary proposition for whoever dictates the subverse in effect controls reality.