skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you can disable it, but then you disable it completely and totally. There is no middle ground. Most of the time these things are totally great ideas. Apple is doing really great work on the security front for sure. It's just what they lack is a way to customise them. Most security improvements they make involve giving Apple the keys and them alone. It doesn't have to be that way.

For example I would want to be able to just make an exception for some of the files I want to change.
It is a fair point that if you aren't using a hands-free headset or the speaker then accessing other features on your phone while in a call is problematic. However, if you are on a hands free headset then the author's point kind of falls apart. That said, I wish I could buy a palm phone (small mostly just a phone) because I do all the other stuff (calendaring, looking up dates, Etc.) on my iPad that I use with my phone.
same for cave divers.
https://archive.is/cYrEf
I wondered about this in regards to Crypto and NFT's in the digital wallet space. It seems like Metamask with a ledger wallet is stadard, but I have a theory that if you're not sophisticated and you get into Crypto/NFT's, it may be safer to just use Coinbase Wallet, as it is less popular target than matamask and you're able to leverage Coinbase's ongoing security updates. and if you're not sophisticated, you're just as likely to lose your stuff via user error with a hard wallet set up.

Just don't click on giveaways and never enter your secret code
When prepping for the first date do not overdo it with the Eau Du Englishman! They get the wrong idea. I've been up that beanstalk, let me tell you . . .
Yes, it can. Andre's PhD was using this on a bar detector.
What's your source that spike proteins cause long covid?

This article[1] says the cause of long covid is still not clear.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57833394
I hike solo and carry one. Was about 200, registering online takes five minutes.
No idea, this is a deeply complex question that I'm not qualified to answer. I'm merely wondering out loud as a member of the public if we have our policy around this calibrated quite right.
Right, but the point is that you are talking about this fictional system as though it is causally connected to what Apple is doing, when it really isn’t.

You being able to imagine a fictional evil parallel system isn’t a valid criticism of what Apple is actually doing.
1) Yes, the article mentions Shapiro as being far-right as it mentions him and a few others then refers back to them as far-right.
2) Yes, the article say that Shapiro is right-wing. And the reply to OP claims that Jews can be "fascists" - which is true if you make the point that there is at least one such person in the world.
3) Completely nonsensical since I could think of many reasons for this that weren't in any way fascist or close to fascist. And it's not even the point I'm making but since it's not even making your point. let's go with it.
4) No. The person I'm replying to is defining his own "Fascist", then treating them as if they really were fascists. It is really really dangerous when people like you and him are fascist-larping.
I mean is this an intellectual argument on the left? What an absolut joke and how incredibly sad for the future of political discourse.
> Why get the flu vaccine anymore?

Because it's safe and easy. I have immuno-compromised friends and elderly family members. Vaccines are almost literally the least I can do to help keep them safe. I have kids and taking care of sick kids is awful. Also I really really really hate having the flu personally. Bleh.

> If you believe official reports, it’s basically been eliminated by virtue of simple mask mandates that everyone swears no one is following.

I have not seen official reports that determined the drop in flu was due to masks. I would assume the drop in flu was due to many factors combined: schools and businesses going remote, other physical distancing, more people getting the flu vaccine to avoid getting sick and potentially straining our strained healthcare system, masking, and who knows what else...

...at any rate I expect the flu will return as kids go back to school, workers return to offices, etc. I'll keep getting vaccinated for the flu as long as my doctor recommends it for my reasons stated above.
>A lot of downsides come with rooting and bootloader unlocking after all.

I think you might be confused. You don't need to root or unlock the bootloader on an Android device to side load apps. Just download desired APK and accept the security prompt of installing from unknown sources. It's literally that easy.
Per Google stats, Sweden has had 14,664 COVID deaths to this day on a population of 10.23M people which is 0.1%, the vast majority being close to average age of death (82 y/o) in this country. (It's also worth noting that ~24K people die of vascular disease in this country every year to put things in perspective.)

Although death is always unfortunate, it seems to be a very foolish goal to try and prevent everyone from dying in this situation. Well, we might be able to do just that, but how much of your previous way of life / liberties are we willing to sacrifice forever?
People are finally realizing that's not a good reason to buy a house. If somebody wants to bet on real estate prices going up, shouldn't they just buy shares in a REIT?
I've worked places that ship weekly and fortnightly, and both have been okay. For a few years, however, I was the lead dev at a place where we shipped when stuff was (a) complete, (b) tested, and (c) demoed to/approved by stakeholders.

It didn't matter how many days had elapsed since the last release; if something was ready then release it.

Depending upon complexity that may mean no releases for a week, but it also sometimes meant multiple releases (of separate streams of work in the same applications) on a single day. It's the only time I've ever felt the release schedule was as truly agile as the development one, and easily the simplest and most satisfying way I've ever worked.
All phone numbers in the email does not work. 866-221-3550. Virtual assistant is not available. My account is locked.

I submitted a support request. I received an automated email requesting bank info and address. This is really odd, seeing the email said "I need to call."
You are making a few mistakes:

* technology accretes even if the quality of the average worker is declining across time. Thus tomorrow will still be better than today, at least from the point of view of things like technical advancement, regardless of what is happening within each person.

* population increases, so the smartest can still be smarter even if the average is declining

* Even if population is not increasing, improvements in communication and replication technology can mean that an increasingly smaller share of the brightest people anywhere in the world can design products that are replicated or simply assembled by masses of others, whereas in the past this required local designers. Think of how many people are truly needed to keep advances in jet engines happening. You have basically three companies that supply all the engines to the entire world.

* And one can even make up for the other -- e.g. in previous times all shoes were handcrafted, now they are mass produced. Thus a lower skilled person in a later period can still outproduce a higher skilled person in a previous period.

Now I'm not saying I necessarily buy the decline thesis. It's an intriguing thesis, basically that you can be pretty dumb and still thrive well enough to keep reproducing whereas in hunter gatherer societies you would have starved to death and so the population would on average be smarter due to the challenges they had to overcome. Maybe this is true, maybe it's not, but the objection that knowledge accretes does nothing to prove or disprove this hypothesis.
> its security features listen only to Apple and not to the user

That's the definition of backdoors.
But surely there's some kind of refining your inputs where all the paths converge to one result, much like the refinement of interval partitions in Riemann's integral converges to one value (for a certain class of functions). The bits of information may be infinite but there's some structure in them. I'm not sure that just because the optimal result (the one that uses all information) is something you don't like, the result is bad. Best thing you can say is that you're actually not predicting an existing credit score, but rather synthesizing some other indicator that is not an existing credit score.
> Please Google "confounding factors."

sigh That's exactly what I was saying in my last sentence.

You should take a minute to actually understand the post you're replying to. Especially if, as you almost figured out yourself, you have a general tendency to strawman and be snide about it.
Your recollection was correct but is now a few years out of date. As is typical Apple they intro'd it (in 2017 IIRC) as a 1st party dogfood item, started read only. Then in 2019 with iOS 13 allowing far more power including full range of two way authentication capability. Yubico blogged about it [0] after the announcement, and Apple's HIG on use of NFC [1] is also available. Also, Safari itself needed to have support added, but that too is now available.

So old workarounds like using the lightning port are no longer necessary, though AFAIK are still supported. It's nice to have it there as well since to really be most effective every platform a user has needs to support hardware 2FA. If something still needs SMS or OTP or whatever that becomes the weakest link.

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0: https://www.yubico.com/blog/yubico-ios-authentication-expand...

1: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Malware attacks in Africa surge, reach 85M in just 6 months
I don't agree. If you starve yourself very fast, the body starts to shut down, and of course your passive burnrate decreases significantly. It is like keeping only the most critical systems powered when you lose your main power generator. (See Apollo 13 movie for visual representation).

Still, this happens when you starve. If you do it gradually, the body adjusts. The main thing is to keep in mind that person can survive just fine on 1700 kcals, and that you are not dying when hungry, it's only a discomfort.
> it's hard to know if you're a 2x teacher or a 0.5x teacher.

Their students know. Even if it's a noisy metric, over the course of a few years a teacher will have 100+ students.
That's if you beleive the scientists are there for the product instead of being there for the investors. I don't know about stitch fix but there's a lot of unrealistic "Oh we're going to automate away all our staffing costs"
Thanks for adding this. Compulsory mass vaccination is one of the greatest medical miracles in human history, possibly the actual single greatest.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#/media/File:Poumon_a...
> given the obvious conflict of interest, and he did not

This is being litigated and there has been no finding of fact. Even if true, who cares? Tesla owes much of it's success to Musk's leadership.

> reusable rockets are not entirely new

Absurd position. Before SpaceX, reusable rockets were mostly concept and theory only. SpaceX made them practically viable and useful.

A quick search of HN will show countless comments and skeptics of the M3 all through it's progress, just as people are skeptical of FSD development now.
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> Irish and Italians didn't used to be considered "white".

Got a cite that fair-skin Irish and Italians were ever considered "not white" (not "not English", but "not white")?

> Broadly speaking, in western society, "White people" are the ones that have privilege to be not discriminated against in the court system, with housing, with job applications, with police brutality, etc.

So now "white" is anyone who gets affirmative action?

> Black people DO get disproportionately higher prison sentences for the same crimes. Black people DO experience disproportionately more police brutality for the same behaviour. etc.

Blacks commit half of all murders but they are only a third of those killed by the police.
Quite right, one might as well speak of replacing vampires with werewolves: it still won't be safe to walk at night! Of course the point is to be rid of them all.
> No, it's not. I'm suggesting that there is an obvious conflict of interest here, because there is.

Actually, it literally is. From https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

"when someone makes an ad hominem, they are attacking the person they are arguing against, instead of what they are saying."

That's quite literally what you were doing in your first comment: attacking the person instead of engaging with their claims.

> The number of "close calls" (assuming here you're taking the article's definition of such an event as being "when two craft pass within one kilometre of each other") is just a number, and I am not "interpreting" or otherwise questioning it. I'm simply questioning why it matters.

And that is a valid conversation to have.

But just saying "bad source, biased" isn't meaningful. It adds literally nothing of value to the conversation.

So let's talk about that!

I'd say that collisions between objects in orbit does matter and an increased rate of close calls is a reasonable indication that there's likely an increased probability of a collision.

Now, SpaceX has an unusually large number of objects in LEO, so just by virtue of those numbers, they're likely to have a higher number of close calls than other operators.

The question for me, is: could SpaceX be doing something differently to reduce these incident rates?

It'd be nice to get some visibility into how SpaceX is managing their fleet, and the means by which they're coordinating with other operators. Maybe it's the case that SpaceX is doing everything they can and this is just the practical reality of operating a large fleet of satellites in LEO.

But at this point I just don't know, so it'd be good to learn more.
*palate
Their really dumb phones run Series 30+ [1], not KaiOS. A $20 phone can still have good call quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_30%2B
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Doesn't make it OK
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I was wrong there is a trading system this is just about moving items between accounts. Some places implement balanced trade requirements to get around RWT.
Thank you for the TLDR, as soon as I opened the site on mobile and was greeted with uncloseable video ads and a tiny area of screen real estate to actually read the article, I closed it down.
The Science of Masking Kids at School Remains Uncertain
And here we go again…

What you're talking about is actually the cliché of a "conspiracy theory".

A lot of things that are called like that aren't anything one could call "a theory" at all. The point is: Any random BS claim isn't a conspiracy theory.

A conspiracy theory is nothing more than speculating that some parties are working or worked together in secret (conspired) to achieve something. That's all. Such a theory can usually be falsified. (At least in theory).

But there is this framing that "conspiracy theory" means some arbitrary BS. That's actually why labeling something as "conspiracy theory" immediately shouts down critical thought in a lot of folks. Just call something "conspiracy theory" and the cliché kicks in and people will dismiss that something as BS.

By the way: The English version of the Wikipedia disagrees. But only the English version. I've also looked at Boarisch, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Русский. Only the English version adds that a conspiracy theory "is an explanation for an event or situation […] when other explanations are more probable. The term has a negative connotation, implying that the appeal to a conspiracy is based on prejudice or insufficient evidence." Should we proceed to construct a conspiracy theory form that observation? Someone got obviously their framing into Wikipedia!
No it was an on point reply based on your previous response, we can explain if you want to, what don't you understand?
I never said "spreading from the unvaccinated" I said "spreading among the unvaccinated" which is borne out by the fact that the unvaccinated (and partially vaccinated) here are only 35% of the population (25% of the eligible population) but are 75% of the daily new case count (and perhaps higher because there's a % with unknown vaccination status)
Australia has a great one.
I wonder if something like this could help with residency through investment visas, etc. I mean, I know nomads are nomadic by definition so maybe some wouldn’t care much about long-term residency but I’d imagine a lot of American digital nomads would be happy if they could get a foot in the door for EU residency for example.
Hannah Arendt said it in that very book:

"[Eichmann] was genuinely incapable of uttering a single sentence that was not a cliché," and he used these clichés as a mental defense mechanism to avoid thinking about what he was doing for the Nazi Party."

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
I'm not surprised flu rates are crashing with the current social distancing, mask wearing, and higher skittishness around people with respiratory symptoms. Even if most people do them poorly, and others don't do them out of protest.

The takeaway isn't that official reports are baseless propaganda. It's that we were really bad about handling the flu before 2020. How many times did one of your coworkers show up with a persistent cough, running nose, or sneezing fits? How often did you see people with symptoms in grocery stores or buffets? I'm not surprised even a modicum of care greatly outperforms our previous habits.
Facebook and Google also did that with XMPP.
> Asking because I've had "long covid" since long before there was a COVID

Well that isn’t “Long Covid” then. Symptoms can come from a variety of causes, and just because you suffered some of the same symptoms unrelated to a Covid infection doesn’t mean that others won’t experience similar symptoms after Covid.
Same, I am wondering if the accounts aren't actually locked and servers are just getting overloaded from everyone trying to log in because of the email sent out?
Not a bad example, but some would argue that it wouldn't really make any difference if such things were not private—that it's more a matter of habit than any actual advantage. In nature you would want to know that you're alone during that time because it renders you relatively defenseless, physically, but that's not quite as much of an issue in modern society. As such, I prefer to point to situations where privacy remains a practical matter of self-defense: you don't share detailed financial data or your most intimate emotions with the world because there are people who can use that information to manipulate you or otherwise take advantage, e.g. through social engineering. You're not doing anything wrong—I'm not talking about potential blackmail material here—but knowing how much you earn and where you shop and what you buy and how you feel and what topics are likely to provoke an emotional response from you can give someone a great deal of leverage over you, often without you even realizing that you're being manipulated. Advertising is one obvious example of this, but not the only one. Being too open about your private life makes you vulnerable.
Yes, it is TOTP:

https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp
There was concern at one point that the laser component of Starlink woulldn't burn up during atmospheric reentry. I don't think many (if any) satellites currently in orbit have that laser module (which will be used for satellite-to-satellite communication, and IIRC better latency by removing a necessary ground round-trip when the satellite leaves radio "line of sight" with your antenna; I don't have the correct terminology). I don't know either if that's been fixed
It's honestly the latter.
Masitinib is a broad coronavirus inhibitor that blocks replication of SARS-CoV-2
Yeah, I use debuggers, primarily the integrated Visual Stufio debuggers. Also gdb and WinDbg, but I need to learn those better. And ofc the integrated debuggers in browsers.

I’ll also use print debugging if I feel the situation isn’t worth bringing in a debugger, primarily one I don’t know well yet (see above).
Print statements for small one-off programs.

IDE with integrated debugger for larger programs (mostly C# and some Java experience here).

gdb (or similar) for programs without an IDE and larger than a small one-off program.

Some languages also lend themselves (or their implementations do) to better debugging experiences. Common Lisp debugging, for instance, is almost a joy. For grins, I implemented the VM for the Synacor Challenge [0] in tandem with SBCL's debugger. After parsing the opcode, the program entered an ecase. If there was no entry for the opcode, it brought up the debugger, I extended the program, recompiled whatever needed to be recompiled, and resumed it. Wash, rinse, repeat. Once every opcode was implemented it then went on to run the image and I could finish the challenge.

[0] https://challenge.synacor.com/
Sulfur hexafluoride, sorry it was late. Mistyped.
Why do 2, 3, 4 when people are already protected?

I don't understand the fear the catch covid once your vaccinated, why not make the same measures for the flu for example?
I'm the author of what you might call the "new" MySQL ADO.NET library: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector

I agree with your impression that developers of the other library don't seem to be "plugged in to" the .NET ecosystem. As an independent developer (not affiliated with Oracle or Microsoft), I've been able to influence GitHub PRs that shape the ADO.NET API for .NET 6.0, just by showing up and contributing; I haven't seen anyone from the Oracle MySQL team participating. Meanwhile, they violate basic principles of the .NET Framework Design Guidelines that have been around for over a decade (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guid...), which makes their library feel alien to a .NET programmer (regardless of the quality issues it might have).
I would go even so far to say a thought-terminating cliché is always made up from some logical fallacies.

Hard to think of an example that isn't.
All excellent points, thank you!
IME, this phenomenon is not limited to healthcare.
A lot of us just don't agree with the perspective that businesses and governments are on separate planes of existence and shouldn't be compared. I'm not sure how to close the inferential gap here.
Exactly. Most scientific hypotheses start after “hmm… that’s weird.”
Bespoke open databases would be cheaper and easier to analyse
I’ve opened facebook.com with browser dev.tools open. The 3 largest java script files are using 1 megabyte to download. Facebook is able to do that because even globally, vast majority of people have internet way faster than 64 kbit/sec. 1 megabyte takes more than 2 minutes to download at 64 kbit/sec.

It’s similar story with CPUs. Modern CPUs are insanely fast these days, smart phones included. What once required purposedly-designed ASICs (e.g. Sony Minidisk had one for ATRAC3) is now borderline free in terms of compute power. A cheap Android phone sold 10 years ago gonna have at least 500MHz CPU, and at least 256MB RAM.

96 Kbps AAC audio works on 10-15MHz CPUs, and 64 Kbps HE-AAC works on 50-60 MHz CPUs, both from 2005: https://www.helixcommunity.org/projects/datatype/2005/aacfix...