skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But only Apple and Google are big enough to fight the other bad actors

"big" is not the deciding factor. Amazon and Microsoft are also big. They do not decide what's on your phone. Apple's and Google's stores are big by default because Apple and Google have control of the platform. It's not the other way around. It's also not binary. If the store is decoupled, they will have less control, but not no control. Influence is weighted by user-base.

> 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

Their interests are more aligned because they sell you the platform. They have many more ways to do this that aren't dependent on a quality app store. A store that survives on just the store is even more aligned to maximizing loyalty and trust in that store.

> And if I decide that I no longer want Apple to play that role, then I can go buy an Andoproid device, or whatever

Maybe you can, but for most people in the world, a phone is a significant investment and not a choice you can easily switch when you've already spent significant money in the ecosystem.

> It’s like cryptography. Either it’s broken, or it’s not

It's not. Even now, there are practical limits to what Apple can demand of its developers. Less control means less power, not no power. A store filled with bad apps is not a store most people will willingly buy from, unless there is external pressure forcing them. I don't think there's really much of an argument there. What this discussion is really about is the Facebooks of the world that have tremendous influence and also do shady things. Already, we see that Facebook plays by different rules with different stores, with greater tracking on Google platforms. This wouldn't change if Apple's store were still big enough to matter, but if Apple's power were weakened there's a risk that Facebook (for example) might have enough power to not care. So, this is what it's really about: some people trust Apple more than Facebook and want Apple to have total power in that relationship by being bigger than Facebook. This necessarily piggybacks off of the power given by people who do not care about or trust Apple, gained by means that are not the quality of the store. These people will likely stay with Apple regardless of how much Apple abuses its trust, but yet the people that do trust Apple think their trust matters.
I don't know who Eric Raymond is. What I was referring to, and just my opinion mind, is the impression from e.g. reading slashdot 15 years ago and other similar discussions. There are still elements today, when we get into age-related tracking, what apple is up to, censorship and privacy, etc, but I feel like there has been a swing in the mainstream viewpoint towards conformity away from individual rights.
I see people misusing masks all the time. Read the CDC guidance on masks and check out how many people follow it:

> A mask is NOT a substitute for social distancing.

> Masks should completely cover the nose and mouth and fit snugly against the sides of face without gaps. [People with beards should closely trim their beard or wear two masks]

> Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol after touching or removing your mask.

> Not recommended: Masks that do not fit properly, masks made from fabric that is loosely woven, masks with one layer, masks with exhalation valves or vents.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
YouTube ads for VPNs would be my guess.
> To truly open up iOS, by my understanding, Apple would need to remove the requirement for notarisation of binaries.

Or extend the notarization system such that adding another store adds another notarization authority to check.

There's no technical reason Apple can't provide a close to seamless experience for other app stores, there have always been incentives to not do so though.

Even if this bill were to pass, I don't think we'd see smooth use of external app stores, but not because it's technically impossible, but because it takes effort and the incentives for Apple are still to not put any effort into it that isn't strictly required, beyond not leaving the perception of their security in shambles.
Umm shouldnt homes also be same price by that logic especially if they are comparable in quality? Yet in bay area you pay 7 digits for a dump while else where you are getting mansions for a fraction of the price?
Plus, if you can do the work yourself it often becomes more than worth it. A mechanic's time is expensive—yours probably is not. If you have alternative transport to get to work or fetch parts and can work on it in the evenings, stuff can be done very cheaply.

For example, paying a mechanic to repair an air conditioner (replace compressor, condenser, drier, and associated parts, with a flush out and refrigerant recharge) is prohibitively expensive. I was quoted $2000 plus labour to do this work last month by a reputable mechanic. I did it myself for about $600 with parts from rockauto.com and very basic tools (socket set).
No, it's bait and switch.
At least when I played, dota2 wasn’t like this (and it’s a better game, anyways ;-))

Realistically speaking this kind of stuff doesn’t really matter at a lower level anyways- everyone’s bad and makes dumb mistakes. And it doesn’t help to know about data if you don’t know how to capitalize on it.

I can’t recommend getting into MOBAs/ARTSs solo, but if you have 2-3 friends they’re quite a blast.
> I'm literally responding to a comment from somebody who is advocating for eradication.

No, you're not. Go read the comment again.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. We're targeting low-to-middle level of players and some of our features are not a huge boost for expert players, as you described.

We believe we minimize the time and effort to follow meta and help gamers to understand their weaknesses and strengths.

If we use an analogy from sports, we're more like a performance analyst but not a trainer.
I’ve been told that in some states, wildlife and marine ranger have more authority than other law enforcement. Not sure if that’s apples & apples or apples & ooranges though
Netflix wasn't historically an "internet company" either.
but why should the government want to lower the educational standard for everyone ? It doesn’t make any sense. The rich and poor benefit when everyone is better educated.
That's why I always fail to write blog posts. "This looks super interesting" -> do research/think about it-> "I understand it, so it must be trivial and nobody else will care"

Edit: phone auto correct
https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController

(Disclaimer: My project)
I don’t think they jumped the gun. I think they knew they had nothing, but that big outraged headlines and promises of future goods would drive a lot of clicks and make them a lot of money.
> Do you think Rand Paul's thoughts are...evidence of a handicap?

They could be. Or do you just mean physical handicaps?
Wow, that's cool. Looks like we are coming out of the last ice age. We've been waiting 10,000 years for this. Finally.
What in the world does this have to do with Bolshevism?
The brilliant people I know are constantly looking for more challenging work and smarter people to work with. Usually they don’t find it and feel, well… like they haven’t lived up to their potential. The idea that you’re a genius because you work at Zapier and have impostor syndrome is… just weird.
> 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?

More so than not wearing a mask at all, yes. Are you arguing for more effective mask distribution and more stringent mask enforcement? I think I'd agree that is warranted at the moment. But you're not, you're just whatabouting.
depends entirely on how someone is 'questioning' something. Merely contradicting existing public health guidelines with misinformation or speculation provides no actual meaningful further input.

as per the article, youtube's policy is: "and we make exceptions for videos that have additional context such as countervailing views from local health authorities". So presumably if your contradicting opinion is actually substantiated you're not getting the banhammer, which seems fair to me.

But letting people rant against public health guidelines which exist to prevent harm (even if to some degree uncertain) without actually justifying their case is irresponsible.
I've noticed this trend with Jeep Wranglers too -- especially pre-Fiat Jeeps.
A model with misleading values can easily reach misleading conclusions. If there were any places where the chance of infection reaches even 50% after an hour, there would be huge, obvious outbreaks associated with people going to those places. The actual observed spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been much slower than this; a basic reproduction number of 7 together with a duration of two weeks means that the average infected person behaving like an average American in 2020 will infect 0.5 persons per day (I'm being generous). This counts situations like e.g. someone becomes infected and goes home to their family and literally lives there. Even in those situations it moves slowly.

Or, to put it more on the nose: the half-life for an American getting CoViD under ordinary conditions seems to be longer than a year. Using your linear model, a 50% mask would make it more than two years! So half-life exhaustion doesn't seem an appropriate counterpoint.
Yes, exactly.

Right-wing extremists have defined that real free speech is when all parties are forced to provide a platform for all right-wing speech.

To them, freedom is when racist white men can do anything they want without any consequences. When other people also have rights and choices, that to them is tyranny.
Algorithmic stable coins have a terrible history of failing. I wouldn't discredit tether, a simple redeemable token, then promote DAI. Also Ethereum contracts have a bad history. Their first launch they got hacked for $150 million USD and then reversed the pseudo decentralised network to try and get that money back
> Defaults are set on your phone I think

Yes, the messages are only on your phone; Signal doesn't have them.
Well, they're also banning Trump...

(Different "they", though - Twitter. But Twitter was Trump's main medium. Anyway, point is, once you raise the topic, yeah, it looks like treeman79 actually does have a bit of evidence on his side...)
> Apple can say "you must respect the users privacy ..."

No, they can't. Apple no longer has the moral high ground to lecture others on respecting users privacy.
You can join us on https://stacker.news if you're into Bitcoin. I'm the maker.

It appears even this question was heavily downvoted based on its rank and timing relative to older, fewer upvoted Ask posts.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
We make a distinction between characteristics/traits and actions, generally. It's generally wrong to discriminate based on traits and fine to discriminate on actions.

So; if YouTube said "we don't allow Christian white men" or whatever, absolutely, that's terrible and shouldn't be allowed. If they say "we don't allow people to say things that are actively harmful" that's quite different.

If you go into a restaurant and insult the servers, or start bothering other patrons, they'll ask you to leave. That's perfectly fine.
> I see it as a race to the bottom for news organizations, and society

Why are you citing "news organizations" and "society" when the offender is a political leader? I don't argue with your point but it seems like your blame is misplaced.
I disagree. When the subscription service came out, they very clearly offered both options side by side and the boxes were the exact same size, had the exact same button to proceed, and the same coloring. You were given a choice.

Starting with 1Password 7's beta, they "hid" the standalone option on the site and then removed it completely and only allowed for purchasing standalone versions through the app itself but that was announced prior to them doing it.
We allow people to make personal choices all the time that negatively impact others. I am acknowledging the gray area and have been the entire time. I'm saying that on the particular issue of seatbelts (and mask wearing) - I prefer to let people make their own choices being fully aware that it could cause some amount indirect harm to others. Maybe I hate the color yellow - people can still have yellow cars. I hate breathing in second-hand smoke, but I don't think people should be disallowed from smoking everywhere. I pay into entitlement programs that help support medical costs for people that voluntarily engaged in unsafe activities that caused their health problems. I still think those people should be allowed to make those choices.
This is a great example of how good publicity and marketing is essential for the success of any product (good or bad). Indeed, I hope to see some good business studies on how covid vaccines were marketed internationally, and their success and failures in capturing the market. It will be interesting to learn their real marketing strategies - I don't remember seeing much advertisements of the different vaccines in my country.

Perhaps because of government control of the distribution of vaccines worldwide, the vaccine manufacturers instead relied on the government to promote their vaccines. And some vaccine manufacturers perhaps also used their influence with the media to subtly promote their vaccines and its technology. There was a bit of international politics too and the state propaganda, both for and against some vaccines, was another interesting aspect here on both product development, marketing and distribution and acceptance of these vaccines that would make another good study.
Especially an elected official.

I am vaccinated and still wear a mask but censoring an elected official over this is just disgusting.

I don't know how anyone who cares about our democracy can be for this.
The question is how to get the fraction of people vaccinated high enough, so that costly mask+behavior mandates are obviated.

Mask wearing and behavior changes last year were massively effective against flu, by accident.

Flu is usually much less deadly than COVID. That factor matters in how we treat it.

(edit: added data)
The 2017-2018 flu season was an historically bad one in the US, resulting in an estimated 30,453 hospitalizations the whole season.

The 7 day moving average for new COVID hospital admissions is 89,977 today, and peaked at about 260K in a single week in January.
camper van ;) nt
Something i do way to much is `watch telnet <static-ip> 22` because it will print a Terminal bell and then i know a embedded device with a short ssh/dhcp window is up.

This is for dropbear ssh have not tested it on openssh, yet.
Both MS and AMZN have increased comparable amounts in value.
> Phones are compromised by default

The issue is a matter of degree. Everything and everyone are compromised to some degree; perfection is not the standard.
> and homelessness of developed nations

That's false by a large margin. The US rate of homelessness has been massively reduced over the past 20-30 years and is comparable to Austria.

The US homelessness rate is far below Sweden, France, Britain, Australia, Canada. It's also below the Netherlands.

The housing first program by the US worked exceptionally well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...
> So in other words, a bad player will not improve as he doesn't need to train what the AI is trying to get him to, and a better player already has a better instinctual understanding than the AI

This is what I realized when I tried to create a similar product. In my opinion there is no real audience for casual analytics products in gaming that are focused on improvement.

If they're serious, they'll do their own analysis. If they're not serious, analytics won't help.
Requirements:

1. Permissive environment

2. Concentration of talent

3. River of money

SV certainly had/has them, Sweden did/would need them too.
From the comments:

Actually, I'm surprised they haven't tried making their own computers to scale until now.

It's the age-old management dilemma:

Do I Buy-Built? That's a faster, easier, cheaper option. But it leaves me at the mercy of the manufacturer.

Or do I build my own? That'll be the slower, more difficult, more expensive option. But it also makes me completely independent of outside manufacturers.

Most managers and companies tend to buy-built because it's more cost-effective. It's only when they don't trust the outside manufacturers that they go to the expense of 'rolling their own'.

Both China and Russia have 'bought-built' so far, but the US semiconductor sanctions on China will mean that China will 'build their own', and then Russia will very likely prefer to buy Chinese rather than Western semiconductors. That'll be quite a market-hit on US semiconductor makers.
I would be furious if, being a legitimate user (which I am) I was blocked and then told to "contact my ISP" about it.
It sounds way better in conversation.
Need to look up Typhoid Mary if you want to understand our liberal democratic values when it comes to disease.
Yeah, I'm using an older desktop as my server.

I'd like to set it up for out-of-house stuff, I just haven't gotten around to messing with port forwarding, static IP, etc, not to mention guarding against all the potential security issues
In this thread alone you said “hired a few” older devs, and yet discount one person’s experience as “anecdata” while you claim to have “real world experience.” The difference between the two is not “a few” - 1.

I’ve worked with amazing devs and hardware engineers from every age, including 50 and up. I’m guessing your experience with older devs “having a complex” was part of their response once they realized that you are just an asshole. As competent and experienced professionals who have dealt with many assholes before you, they adjusted their dedication to your project to reflect how little they cared about it once you became part of their job. They did enough not to feel guilty, but not so much that they risked working with you for longer than it took to find a better job.
Amazon seems pretty comparable to MS, not sure where you are looking.
It's not dishonest. When they launched the service at 1password.com, you could choose which one you wanted when you downloaded and purchased. When they say "you chose this", they're referring to the time when that was on their site and people overwhelmingly chose the subscription. They posted this on the forums after the first year and made a pretty big deal about it and now everyone is acting like they did this in secret. It's in the release notes, it was on the site, and it was in the forums. I think they may have even emailed it to people at one point (I've been a user since v3). To say they're being dishonest is not true.
Curious how alphabet went all in with censoring republicans. I guess the idea is that R is never going to be in power again, this is either really idiotic or they know something we don’t.

As it is first order of business for a republican President/senate should be ending Alpahabet and Facebook by any means necessary
That's the point of this thread. YOU only need a new version every 3-4 years so you don't think there's any work any other time.

But you take all those platforms and all those extensions and the result is maintenance by itself is constant work. I'm not talking about change for the sake of change. I'm talking about the work just to keep the features that you have.

I have personal projects I'm working on where it feels like all I have time for is just keeping up with security updates, Ubuntu versions, DB version upgrades. Work projects are even worse with SOC2 requirements and the endless stream of CVEs.

There's no way a password manager can do nothing for 3-4 years ignoring security vulnerabilities in their dependencies that need to be patched.
Why aren't all apps severely isolated from each other today? Because Apple could pretend that their half-assed draconian oversight is 'good enough' protection for everyone? If this forces them finally to implement real, technical isolation and protection measures for apps and APIs then GREAT. 15 years late is better than never.
Thanks for the support, appreciated! We are trying to develop a lightweight CV algorithm so that will affect the performance of the game client. So far we didn't get problem regarding the FPS drop.
This statement from the Economist is basically a lie. It's like saying people trade Forex leveraged so your cash in hand is leveraged. Tether is leveraged by 3rd parties. Tether is redeemable 1to1
Uh-oh.
And has zero native syncing functionality being presented by 1Password across every platform on the planet.
It kind of has to be due to pressure from the people they're licensing titles from, or at least fear they might claim they are violating a contract.

From Netflix's point of view, it's better if everything is available in every region, as it makes their service more valuable.
> Global cooling was never the accepted science, that's an urban legend,

It was accepted enough that it was taught to me in grade school, was on the cover of Time magazine, and in the news regularly.
Simply not the same thing at all.
Not having a low-cost extremely accurate Stratum 1 in a PCIe form-factor.
I'm going to archive this subthread for the next time someone asks me what "bikeshedding" is.
I purchased a 1Password license years ago. I knew when I bought it that major version upgrades were not included and my feeling was that I would rather have a subscription so I could just seamlessly upgrade when new versions arrived.

Ever since they released the subscription option my upgrades have been very smooth and the features and improvements keep coming and I don't have to actively go and upgrade/purchase a license for a new version.

I don't know how to feel about switching to electron. I have many applications that are electron based and the quality is generally high but some do cause significant memory pressure on my macbook air.
I’ve been curious about this. Is there a list of companies that pay way and above outside of FAANMG?

I work for a large media company as at Sr director level equivalent engineer. The pay is certainly not north of 500k
Median household income in Omaha is over $60k
Surely if any metaverse is to truly compete with reality, we’ll need to build it on a federated fabric. Sometimes I wonder if people would invent the internet of today by modeling a company after Cloudflare. The success and resiliency of the Internet comes not from the strength of a single company, but from its focus on federation and interoperability.

No single company could build the Internet and be successful, and the same is true for the metaverse. The focus should be on developers, shared spaces and protocols. How can I connect my server running a game on Unity engine to your server running a Godot engine? Can I walk between them, transport my avatar between worlds? Can I run copies of myself in multiple realms? Can I play Factorio inside the game room of my Minecraft megabase?

I’d like to see more crazy ideas and wild hacks focusing along these lines. In fact I’m surprised there aren’t more “metaverse for crypto” initiatives. I guess we’re probably still 10-15 years away from the first successful application of these concepts.
Everyone is already doing it. Not to engineers yet, but look at Amazon warehouses.

These things are always deployed against the least powerful first.
> With estimated leverage of 383-to-1, Tether would be unable to honour all its tokens after losses of just 0.26%—a safety cushion that regulators would never allow at a bank.

This statement from the Economist is basically a lie. It's like saying people trade Forex leveraged so your cash in hand is leveraged. Tether is leveraged by 3rd parties. Tether is redeemable 1to1