skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that in times without a super high labor market, employers are able to maintain a monopsony on labor and therefore suppress wages. This has caused massively increased inequality and wage stagnation. That’s why the minimum wage is good. But using federal spending to maintain a tight labor market can accomplish the same goal.
If obesity is a contributing problem, I wonder if there could be a non-vaccine solution to obesity? Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the quantity and type of calories consumed.

People are free to eat themselves into metabolic destruction just as people are free to partake or not partake in the emergency use authorization vaccine experiments.
I just last night had the idea to put a global git config alias for the `clone` command... Such that it would (1) be preceded by asking me which email I want to use, (2) do the clone, then (3) do `git config user.email bogus@whatever.tld`.

Went to bed early rather than finish that, and this just reminded me of it... (offhand, I wouldn't be surprised if my alias has to be something other than `clone`, but no biggie if so)
I love Apollo on iOS. Without that I’d primarily just browse Reddit on desktop web. The official mobile app and mobile web is actually a disaster.
In principle agreed but I'm not sure why Giphy essentially getting the death sentence is a positive outcome.
I excluded my company’s app from running on M1. It relies on iPhone hardware (specifically the microphone, and all our training data was recorded from iPhones), and we found the experience on M1 to be abysmal.

So perhaps, many developers who exclude their app from running on M1 may be doing it for technical reasons.
Not the type of secondary reference you're talking about, but YouTube temporarily banned Rebel Wisdom's Ivermectin Film that was a carefully balanced presentation of ideas from the leaders of both sides of the debate.

Here's their video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2MlXaRxlFo

"it is back up after appeal. It's great that it's been restored - though with no explanation of why it was taken down, or why they decided it was OK to go back up. Strictly speaking according to the YouTube guidelines they were within their rights to take it down, it says clearly "Categorical claims that Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19" are not allowed, and Tess Lawrie clearly made these."
So true. Would the similar thing happen in current times? As in creating a service so simple no one has thought of, yet, has a widespread use so to speak?
That doesn't mean devs should actively block execution on a given platform just because it "doesn't work properly" - platforms change and back-compatibility fixes can always come along without the devs being aware - and users can also just find ways to make things work, or maybe they're happy with the limited functionality that does work?

Otherwise, that's just a repeat of the "Sorry, our website only works in Internet Explorer" experience which we'd all rather leave behind.

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Look: the M1 Mac is my hardware: I own it. I also possess a license to run your software on my own hardware. Who is in control here, exactly? Why do you think you (royal-you) know better than your own users?
We as a company made the decision not to include some apps right from the start. It has mainly to do with the support, maintenance and the looks of the product. My old CEO told me after I asked him why we don‘t put our games to more platforms. „Publishing them is easy. Then you need to actively support them.“ I know from testing that most of our games looks and works good on M1. But we don‘t add it to our QA cycle. But I understand your point as well.
These deadlocks of thought have a resource that is differended (not available to the discussion we are having for ideological reasons) but I will attempt a provocation: Philosophy. Precisely Graham Harmon's Immaterialsm and the analysis of form and the process of Duomining: This preoccupation with objects and forms cuts against the grain of most recent avant-garde theorizing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Usually objects are either dissolved downward into material components and sub-individual, blob-like masses (“undermining”), or they are dissolved upward into holistic networks of relations, events, and practices (“overmining”), or both of these at once (“duomining”). Form, for its part, has been so marginalized by the repeated waves of materialist theories that it is usually mentioned only in the context of mathematical formalization (for recent examples see Badiou 2006; Meillassoux 2008), precisely the opposite of what object-oriented philosophy means by form: a surplus beyond any access, mathematical or otherwise.(https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315641171... )
Humans can't solve the halting problem either, there is no contradiction. The halting problem is a theoretical problem that needn't apply in real life. If you for example restrict your AI to be able to generate optimal assembly for all programs that don't require more than 100PB of source code to write down, the halting problem no longer applies (in fact you can now implement this AI using a regular expression).
I think a lot of people overestimate how hard it is to stay hidden for small jobs.

Furthermore there is a lack of imagination here:

- work from a hacked account (I've seen gmail accounts that have been "shared" with an attacker for long enough to let the attacker having conversations with their bank, i.e. attacker used the account but stayed hidden until the bank called to verify details.)

- VPNs exist.

- Russia exist.

- nasty images can be embedded into details of innocent high resolution photos.

- very soon they'll have to scan pdfs, pdf attachments and zip files otherwise this is just a joke.

- at this time it becomes even easier to frame someone

- etc

Remember, the goal is probably not to get someone convicted, just to mess up their lives by getting business contacts, family and neighbors to wonder if they were really innocent or if they just got off the hook.

That said, the bigger problem with having a secret database of objects to scan for is that it is secret: anything can go into it, allowing all kinds of fishing expeditions.

I mean: if you have such a wonderful system it would be a shame not to use it to stop copyright infringement in the west, blasphemy (Christian or Atheist literature) in Muslim countries or lack of respect for the dear leader (Winnie Pooh memes) in China.
I own an ancient glass one that was just digital. The display stopped working at one point for no bloody reason.

So, eventually I gutted its controller/display and replaced it with arduino, HD44780-based display, and HX711 mass sensor module (that reads the existing four sensors), with any form of wireless module for communication being easily addable, if needed.

Now, it's 1-gram precise, which is enough to be used as a large kitchen scale if need be (I plan on adding a switch), I've added supports customized calibration, and customized averaging (it takes N measurements, and displays that).

Further, I plan a smart home integration, and will replace the display and functionality with smartphone app with current user selection (presets + guest), logging, etc. (and subtraction of the phone's weight from the total).

It never supported those "fancy" additional measurements as water and/or fat percentage, but I guess those are relatively easily addable as well (aluminium/copper tape as sensors?). With this, formulas used for calculations would be the greater challenge.

Really, this is the only option of 100% future proofing ones hardware - do it yourself... plus, it is saved from a landfill.
It’s a whitelist, but it’s opt-out. You have to specifically check “do not let this app run on Mac” in the App Store Connect portal.
I have the same experience with Arch. If anything has ever been borked a quick search and at worst Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a different TTY and running some commands has fixed whatever it was. I've never needed recovery or a separate boot device. Meanwhile, I've had a few fiascos with Ubuntu dist upgrades.
Law Enforcement can also get access to that metadata -- it's called a mail cover. See U.S. v. Choate.

"A mail cover is a surveillance of an addressee's mail conducted by postal employees at the request of law enforcement officials. While not expressly permitted by federal statute, a mail cover is authorized by postal regulations in the interest of national security and crime prevention, and permits the recording of all information appearing on the outside cover of all classes of mail."
> First, there is nothing stopping a full legislative assault on end to end encryption, various such proposals have had traction recently in both the US and EU.

And nothing stops Apple from fighting against the legislative assault. They have made themselves a champion of user privacy and have deep pockets to fight the fight, yet they just surrender at first attempt.
Maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, but I miss bitmapped fonts.

I use terminus wherever I can. It's exactly 12 pixels high (there are larger sizes, but they're not really useful). It's crisp, and clear, and easy to read, and looks excellent in Emacs.

There's no fancy font hinting or subpixel rendering. The font specifies exactly the pixels that it occupies, and that's it. If Emacs tries to render it at 11 or 13 pixels high, it doesn't -- it renders at exactly 12.

Some years back, firefox removed support for bitmapped fonts. So I had to set it to use terminus-ttf instead. This works fine in many places; the comments here in hacker news are being rendered at 12px so it looks pretty similar to the bitmapped font except with the addition of some subpixel rendering. It makes the edges of the letters soft and fuzzy but I would really prefer nice crisp, clean pixels. It's not too bad, though.

But in this comment box, firefox wants to render the text at 13.33px high, so it tries to upscale it a little bit and it looks muddy and terrible.

I guess things are different on a high-DPI display, but if you want to optimize the legibility of characters while minimizing their size, you really can't beat a bitmapped font where someone actually went and manually placed each and every pixel by hand.
Pakistan and China have been getting progressively closer/interrelated, and more antagonistic to India. I suppose it could be infrastructure. China loves to spy on allies/their own.
It's worse than that. They don't even need to release a different hash list for you, all they need to do is add a few images they know you'll probably have (say from your Facebook or Instagram posts) to the regular DB to meet the match threshold. The people running the database aren't going to be continually going back through old images to double-check they're actually CSAM/theoretically CSAM-related.
It's covered in 18 U.S. Code § 2258A - Reporting requirements of providers
I think they mean it would be better than the astroturfing that goes on currently
I use to have arch break a lot because I only updated every couple of months, fixed it every time by looking at the forums.

I don't seem to have those problems any more though.
How do the slippery slope arguments not make sense? This is a capability that:

1. Did not exist prior (scanning stuff on the endpoint)

2. Has a plausible abuse case (the same system, applied to stuff that isn't CSAM)

I find this very compelling, especially in the shittier regimes (China...) that Apple operates in.
> Apple has now demonstrated that it is technically feasible to overcome this challenge by doing things "pre-encryption" on the user's device.

> From a legal stand point, they are now screwed, because now they _must_ do it.

That's not the right takeaway. They're only required to turn over data to which they have access. If they continue writing software that makes it so they don't have access to the data, then they do not need to turn it over because they can't. The fact that you can write software to store or transmit unencrypted data is irrelevant.
>Ivermectin? Actual studies now prove it effective. YouTube banned people for talking about it and people died because of it. How’s that?

I haven't seen the studies you're talking about, but the FDA claims Ivermectin hasn't yet been proven effective, and the WHO says it should only be used in clinical trials. But assuming for the same of argument you're correct, your claim is that the only available source of knowledge about Ivermectin anywhere would have been videos which were deleted from Youtube, making it impossible for anyone to avail themselves of this miracle cure due to Youtube's "censorship", and that there are people who avoided taking any of the other existing and effective COVID vaccines and who died of COVID as a result, and that Youtube is therefore to blame.

That's pure speculation based on an already far-fetched premise.
But the fall of colonialism did not lead to freedom and liberty. In fact the average person living within colonial territories experienced a marked decline in freedom and liberty at the end of colonial rule. There are exceptions such as Singapore. But typically corrupt politicians with little regard for the welfare of their people came into power. In many cases these politicians were overthrown in turn by even worse military rulers. Examples include Algeria, Congo, Egypt, Madagascar, Indonesia, and many others.
Totally tangential, but i didn't realize that there were well-advertised "anonymous helplines for at-risk thoughts". I'm kind of curious about it as a pathology (what does "help" look like?), but I'm uneasy about even getting that in my search history
> Then you need to actively support them

That's bollocks.

Games are culture and should be preserved.

If you can't support it, then you open-source it, or at-least make it officially abandonware, with intro disclaimer banners "THIS IS OBSOLETE AND UNSUPPORTED! - but have fun!".

(Yes, I'm still bitter that EA pulled all of their iOS games I paid money for from the App Store which prevents me from redownloading them. I got a full refund from Apple, but Apple ultimately gets that money from companies like your former employer).
Make creation of subreddits paid maybe along with phone verification?

Imo, moderation logs should all be public. Lobsters does it well:

https://lobste.rs/moderations
Yeah I recognized him from his Chinese landscape prod gen. I fried my axidraw’s pen lift servo trying to print one of them out. So much stippling.

Need to learn JavaScript so I can understand what he’s doing.
> found the experience on M1 to be abysmal

"It doesn't meet our standards, therefore we arrogantly decide it doesn't meet anyone else's standards either - especially not the standards of our users who paid money (or who signed-away their PII rights) to use the app."
Reply to a video with a comment mentioning u/savevideo and you'll get a response in a few minutes with a link. I think Reddit Enhancement Suite might also have an option for adding a download link.

As for an official paid feature: as soon as they start collecting money for video related features, the video creators will start circling for their cut of the revenue.
I got my A+ through a vocational program in high school. When my friends were getting jobs at McDonalds, I worked help desk at the community college and crawled under desks fixing PCs.

The only thing the A+ cert did was get my foot in the door as a kid with no experience. That alone made the cert worthwhile for me. Later in my career, I took it off my resume because I didn't want to do desktop support work anymore and recruiters were stereotyping me based on that cert.
Nobody gets employment because of it, but if you dont know what it has to teach you, do it.
That's correct. If the government asked them to do it, then it would require a warrant to conduct the search.
Please explain why you would compare me to a blogger on the far right. I am not politically affiliated just a curious person who is reading about history. If you have a different view, why is it different ? What am I missing ? I am open to the possibility that I am wrong
> How can we offer a more gentle learning curve for budding developers while still requiring "real" projects to use best practices for security and development?

Use literally any GUI. Alternatively, press '.'
Say valve pushes out a bad update that messes up the package manager list or puts it in a bad state, there is no recovery method. I guess one thing they could do is have some button combo you hold while booting which copies a fresh OS copy from a protected partition.

I'm sure you could imagine countless ways that a update could possibly break things.
>SQLite as a library is amazing, SQLite as a spec for a standard web API is not.

>The issue is not just that there wasn't a competing implementation at the time, it is that you could not feasibly create a competing implementation. The set of features supported by SQLite is _massive_. And even you stick with SQLite, which version? And which extensions? Which features do you remove because they're not safe or not applicable for web?

This seems like a case of perfect being the enemy of good.
Scientists urged Wisconsin to limit its wolf kill. It didn’t go well
Isn't SilverBlue just Redhat's NixOS clone?
Just a note that if you have a jailbroken iPhone, you may be able to extract unencrypted .ipa files to use with this.
This. So much this. I won't rant here again, but I have ranted about it here in the recent past.

Having a dead man's switch in an app is particularly annoying, especially when the new version intentionally cripples the previous functionality.
Yes, 100% agree, make congress go through with passing such a law. Make it a public discussion. Make them consider if they would like their own devices to be built insecurely. They're among the biggest targets of people who would like to subvert US policy.
They do somewhat do that.

2.93GB is for the delta update from 11.5.1.

The full version, which doesn’t try to include only the parts that are needed, is 11.6GB.

My understanding, however, is that it’s done on a per-file basis, and any update to a system library invalidates the dyld shared cache… which is a 2gB file all by itself.
>at worst Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a different TTY and running some commands has fixed whatever it was.

For the average user of a hand held gaming console you may as well tell them to pop the back off and replace the chips on the PCB.

At most you could tell them to hold a button combo to factory reset but ideally you would want some way to roll back the whole OS state to the previous working version. Silverblue allows this to happen in a fairly elegant way by making the OS an image file and mounting it as read only so a roll back is simply mounting an older image.
I have gladly forgotten the details by now but last time I developed on Windows GCM was the thing that gave me the most headaches. Our Git was on Azure DevOps (whatever that's called now) not github. Due to reasons we could not use SSH instead.
The arguments in this thread all boil down to , basically : "YouTube is private, and thus can do what they want."

I agree, but this doesn't bring mention to the real point :

Messaging and telecommunications groups that are privately held are de-facto responsible for national presidential public messaging in the United States, and this gives them legal leverage to commit whatever kind of censorship they care to.

This doesn't call for action towards the censoring body, it calls for public action towards the creation of a publicly funded messaging option for government officials and other official channels that should be held to constitutional standards rather than corporate private standards.
The difference is that Apple has built the infrastructure for _global_, continuous image scanning. No need to hack individual phones or know who your targets are, all you have to do is get some images added to list. If you think the Chinese (or most likely American) government wouldn't love to be able to find out everyone who had copies of certain images, say from protests or inside camps, you're far too optimistic.

This is Apple creating a mechanism for worldwide surveillance and declaring they'd never compromise because they're good people who we can trust. Note that they're not making any actual promises that might land them in court if the system is abuses, they're just repeating that they're good people who'd never cooperate with authoritarian regimes.
That's more or less the pitch of the oil industry. And they seem to be very successful in getting billions in subsidy to do it. That's on top of the subsidies they are getting to exploit fossil fuels. The problem is that this is just green washing their "lets put more co2" in the atmosphere strategy for an other few decades. Because that's exactly what this is. It legitimizes that strategy and they are lobbying hard for this.

Nevertheless, transitioning grey hydrogen to blue hydrogen is probably a good thing. There's a lot of demand for hydrogen already in various industrial applications that are currently mostly using grey hydrogen. And transitioning more of our industry to hydrogen is key to de-carbonizing it. So, whether we like it or not, the hydrogen market is going to grow a lot in the next decades and it is probably going to be mostly blue+grey hydrogen for the foreseeable future produced by oil and gas companies and only little bits of green hydrogen.

The problem with green hydrogen is that it is magnitudes more expensive than blue hydrogen, which in turn is more expensive than the grey variety. Green hydrogen requires renewable energy and green hydrogen is just not a particularly efficient application of that energy as you need rather a lot of it.

A kilo of hydrogen is the equivalent of about 33 kwh. The market price of hydrogen varies wildly depending on how it is produced, transported and stored. The green variety is about 7$ per kilo. Or about 21 cents per kwh. Grey hydrogen (the dirty stuff) is about a dollar in the best cases. That's still about 3 cents per kwh. Grid prices for renewables vary widely but in the areas most likely to get involved with green hydrogen (i.e. middle east) they are between 1 and 2 cents per kwh for some recent renewable setups. So that's a factor of 3-21x depending on how you look at it. Blue hydrogen is somewhere in the bottom of that range.
We get that comparison quite often because of the asynchronous format. One big difference is that most mentorship experiences are repeat and evolve over time.
> 10 minutes isn't that far off what people routinely spend today to fill a tank of gas.

I don't want to "uhm, acktually", but it's less than 5 minutes: https://www.quora.com/How-much-time-does-the-average-person-... - and that's including time spent faffing around with the awful pay-at-pump machines' UX.
Critics say a childhood asthma study unethically withheld care
It isn't immediately obvious, but r/btc is full of trolls and shills for a bitcoin hard fork and other scam coins. I just checked it out and 2 of the 3 top posts were conspiracy videos about John McAfee.
So what? This is the most absurd line of inquiry. Did you know that seat belts don’t work if you don’t put them on? The question is not can something be circumvented. The question is if the system is safe. There is no evidence presented here to suggest driver assist systems are a net hazard.
> but also heavyweight programs like Teams

You mean Skype running on top of chrome?
The way marketing teams talk about asinine changes like this as if they are making deep, meaningful improvements to everyone's lives is just nauseating. It's a fucking font and no one was asking for it.

There are a million ways twitter UX could improve and this is almost the stupidest one I can think of.
Obviously unethical on multiple levels, but at this point, why anyone would expect any other behavior from Huawei is unfathomable. Kind of fool me once...