skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also the other thing with imessage scanning. It seems ripe for abuse, for example a husband forcing it on every family member including the spouse (and forcing a fake DOB).

Using Apple devices used to be all about how they serve the user to bring joy. Knowing they now spend even a single cpu instruction on trying to frame the user turns the device from something I loved to something I fear.

All the talk about human review and multiple failsafes does not smooth things over. App store review is a prime example of how their review process can be seriously flawed - scam apps and subscriptions sometimes even being FEATURED in editorials on the app store.

It does not matter that you will be found innocent in the end. Just being put under investigation for csam can make anyone's a life living hell. Getting your AppleID blocked, even if temporary, can cause severe problems.

When a company advertises that "what happens on your phone stays on your phone", and then proceeds to build snitchware into the phone that reports on received imessages to the "family head of household" and reports and UPLOADS photo roll items that were never intended to be shared, to human review, well... that company does not appear to be honest anymore.
With nothing able to eat them, cane toads are eating each other
I cancelled my preorder and they refunded my deposit very quickly. The killer for me was the power consumption of Dishy McFlatface and the associated router. My location is limited to solar and batteries off-grid. According to early testers the dish consumed nearly 100 watts continuously and potentially quite a bit more when it decided to go into defrost mode. Without major upgrades that would consume my entire power reserve in very short order.
This is why right to repair laws are important. If you buy the hardware, you should implicitly have the right to modify the software in-so-far as it is physically possible given the hardware package purchased.

It's entirely within the rights of a company to lock down their hardware if that's how they sell it to you, but it should be equally within the rights of the hardware owner to bypass those "protections". If Honda decides to lock ignition behind an arbitrary clearance check (pulling a John Deere), they shouldn't be able to retaliate if that lock gets bypassed -- as long as that distinction exists, we will always be proper owners of the things that we buy.
> they sell a computing service

if anything its becoming more like "consumption" service than "computing"
Credit scores are so fundamentally broken anyway.

In financial analysis of a company, the number one item you tend to look at is "free cash flow" - the "cash available for the company to repay creditors or pay dividends and interest to investors." [1]

Why then do we not take income into account in credit worthiness? Why do I not periodically upload my W2 or tax return to the credit bureaus in order to show that yes, I'm credit-worthy because my income makes it possible to service my debt?

The entire idea of a credit score based on having had credit and paying past loans off is asinine. To start throwing nonsensical parameters like browsing history into the equation is second derivative asinine.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freecashflow.asp
The Goal Is to Pay No Income Taxes, Legally
Could be dyshidrosis.
Career planning can dovetail with "just get on with the work."

Heres' what I do. I look at the team's roadmap. What's coming up? It's unlikely the technology involved will be completely static over the months and years. To achieve the roadmap, someone will have to go off and learn about X or spike something in NewTech Y.

If that time to learn / spike things is part of the job (which it should be) then it seems like the career and roadmap planning dovetail, AND it all happens in 40 hours where people can have lives, spend time with their families, etc.
Also yachts, cruise ships, container ships, anything on the oceans.
American allies once again learn that it's a mistake to put their faith in them (see: kurds)
Being much more open, I would imagine spoofing could be much easier.
I think something guy cut off.
Aren't all these videos available online still as part of the startup school material?
But aren't you advocating that the west should act as the world police and force sovereign states to act a certain way? If the people of a country vote for something, isn't that democracy? I understand that voting isn't a magical solution that will always produce a "good" outcome, but what right does a state have to tell another that they voted the wrong way?
But if that's the chosen path, then you'd have to be ok with the imposition of majoritarian laws on the minorities of the country - at least until the majority wakes up and tunes into the west's liberal values, or until the minority ceases to exist - whichever occurs first.
Amazon for bikes or bike parts? I don't understand this, it must be a US thing.

Here in Europe, Amazon would be the last place I would go to buy anything bike related. We have _specialized_ large online retailers, like CRC in NI and Bike24 in Germany who are excellent, also tend to ship the same day and actually do care about their customers...
https://opsolder.nl/en/museum-our-lord-in-the-attic/ here is one you can visit as it's now a museum. Not literally underground however.
Could be interesting but no English version :(
> But aren't you advocating that the west should act as the world police and force sovereign states to act a certain way? If the people of a country vote for something, isn't that democracy? I understand that voting isn't a magical solution that will always produce a "good" outcome, but what right does a state have to tell another that they voted the wrong way?

I didn't say any of that.
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> So you can either support the right of the people to overthrow an authoritarian regime and establish a democratic process that will lead to a fundamentalist islamic state, or you can support a regime that is authoritarian but will allow the practice of some western liberal values.

Democracy is "dangerous" in that people who wish to secretly concentrate power can become elected; Once elected they figure out ways to remain "elected" forever.

Any democracy that fails to listen to the will of the people is a failed democracy; so inherently anything that's "installed" is immediately failed.

There's also a huge populism argument here too, things that sound good are often very _not_ good; and it's difficult to make that kind of call for yourself let alone making it for other people.

But we should not be in the habit of installing governments, that shit is colonialism v.2.
I understand the appeal, but that's paying flagship prices for a phone with 7 year old hardware specs. You're paying for freedom, but trapped in 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage (expandable, but you still need to store core software on that internal space).
Because the main usecase of the device is running software written by third parties and if that tool was left unlocked occasionally that third party software would hack into your home router.
I wish I could give credit to whoever originally wrote this, but I forget. Anyway, the quote is: We fall in love the most with those we know the least.

EDIT: I remember the writer was referencing James Blunt's "You're Beautiful." But I still don't remember their name.
I would guess they have bonuses which scale with sales and not a direct commission.
Though the fact that EU is a group of 27 different countries creates barrier to easy scaling. You need to have website in 20 something languages, customer service in those languages, and be knowledgable of cultural differences.

This is the reason many companies first scale nationally and then go to the USA (at least that's the story I heard a lot).

Edit: Also I forgot national law. Even though a lot of law is centralized on EU level, still every country has a national law different from neighbours
Ironic that we're talking about using law to protect consumers from a company by not allowing them to use a walled garden to protect consumers.
That's the point, people say we should intervene for, eh ethics or something and democracy, but we go there for selfish reasons _and make things worse_.

We should focus on fixing and improving our own democracy, make sure people here are visibly doing better than in places that don't have democracy and freedom and offer help to everyone who wants to achieve it.

Help as in "this is how you write a constitution", "this is how you write civil law", "this is how you run an efficient health care system" , not bombs.
I'm working on an [very basic] audio streaming project.

Still looking at the examples and docs and cases, but this might be just what I need to fill some gaps—at least in future iterations. Particularly a simple encoder/transcoder interface.

Are there any live examples viewable/listenable?
Do people still use Pinterest? I used to hear/see females in my family talking about it but not anymore. It seems like all Pinterest does today is destroy google image search.
What does cloud computing mean to you? It seems like you are thinking of traditional “virtual machines in the cloud”.

When I think of AWS for new development I mostly think of serverless technologies like Lambda, DynamoDB and even serverless RDS. It’s going to be difficult for any company to do it for themselves cheaper.

To me, AWS is about the exact resources needed for a task blinking in and out of existence for the exact number of milliseconds they’re needed. I don’t know how anyone will compete with a cheaper on-prem solution.

Azure seems similar.
GIMP is clearly a backronym. They deliberately chose a crude name that might amuse 12 year olds and then contrived an acronym for it.
I know "assume incompetence before evil intent" but all of this is so conveniently set up to be an instrument for oppressing and shutting down dissent.
Anyone who has put a fake email into their forced-registration popup to be able to view any of their content I'd imagine.
Who enforces those rights in that scenario?
I feel LineageOS + F-Droid is often underrated when it comes to these discussions about alternate ecosystems. If we're ready to let go of name brands, then F-Droid has some very high quality apps[1] built with passion over profit.

But I agree that the initial friction to setup LineageOS on the device is far too high for a non-technical customer, Something which could be only resolved if a devices ships with LineageOS(I think even F(x)tec, Fairphone requires the user to flash LineageOS) but then again memories of that fateful tie-up with device manufacturer which ended CyanogenMod would be fresh within LineageOS team.

Now that's the catch-22, Alternate exists but not for everyone.

[1] https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools
If only it was so easy to separate the artist from the art. In the case of a posthumous artist it is a little easier, however a capitalist society intertwines behavior and product to the point where if you support the product you are supporting the behavior that produced it.
Yes, it uses RSS autodiscovery.
name one trading block unified to the extent EU is unified. We have pan EU government, pan EU law, freedom of migration and many more.
0 as soon as the law catches up and fixes the loopholes that are the basis for what seems like the majority of startups these days.
Very interesting! So that would have been the early 1990s? (I remember visiting Apple/IL in 1993). That precedes my tenure at Apple by several years, so I cannot really comment from an employee perspective, but to outsiders, it was a time when Apple as a company was NOT effectively run in terms of strategy.

Apple in the Apple Park era was also orders of magnitude larger than in the IL era. But yes, the design was rather top down, and not all design decisions were great.

If are among those who could get a semi-private office in Apple Park (1-3 people), it is much nicer than a non-window office in Infinite Loop. The common spaces are also vastly superior. I'm not a fan of the various shared office pods, but I keep seeing claims that there are people who like working that way (Who knows the mysterious ways of millennials?).
That's a good point. The bigger churches have a lot of cameras watching every angle of the room and it connects to their video conferencing systems.
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I was complaining about Windows, but apparently my offhand comment that I also didn't like Linux set you off and the rest of this thread resulted.
> Why do we have to rehash a decade-old conversation on every single iPhone/iOS Apple story?

Because people are mad - still, and baffled - still, that Apple is successful and prosperous despite not catering to the niche needs of your average HN commenter.
At the same time, they did announce this. How would we know if they put a backdoor in and had said nothing at all?

I know there are a lot of eyes on iOS, but if they wanted find a place in the gigabytes of binary blobs to do this quietly, I think they could.
Institutional review boards (IRBs) take a very tight view of doing research in prisoners specifically for this reason. The environment is inherently coercive and when someone wields this much power of you there is very little that you would see as optional.
Won't be hard to pivot the NYC vaccine pass into the NYC health pass.
PLA isn't considered food grade but a marginally more expensive and difficult to work with, PETG, is food grade.
If you left you were out of the program and that was that. People did in fact walk off sometimes (except the ones ordered to be there by the court). Since I was hours from anyone or anywhere I knew with no money I was effectively stuck there.
I can second this.

I have used rust since the 1.0 release and while there had been some churn in the earlier releases even that was fast to fix.

By now it's nearly always new improved clippy analytics/warnings, but clippy is not rustc but a (the) external linker, so this isn't really rust compiler churn IMHO.

Even when there was a bit of churn in the early stable releases it was often remarkable easy/fast to fix.

If there where not trivial to fix things it was nearly always dependencies, not because they are bad but because if you have enough dependencies sooner or later one of them is no longer maintained or deprecates some functionality you need or do a new major release you should upgrade to. But even there it's much less painful then the experiences I had with e.g. npm and the JS ecosystem.

The only really painful thing I did run into was ring/rustls during the time ring yanked all previous dependencies no mater if they where broken or worked fine and still frequently updated some of their core parts. That was no fun, but fully the fault of ring, and it's no longer doing this by now.
It is highly negotiable when you get to large volumes. We got a term where CloudFront fetches from EC2 were free for objects <101K (or something like that) and free for EC2 from S3. We were able to take great advantage of that with the way we built our app.

It was a long while ago so I may be off on the exact details.
"If some form of determinism is true, then "punishment" doesn't make sense."

That doesn't really follow. If you know you are going to receive punishment for some action, or that you have been punished for some action in the past, you can completely deterministically "decide" not to do something you would otherwise have done. I mean, we build AIs that nobody would claim have "free will" and are entirely deterministic based on their algorithms and input based on the same principle.

Some sort of ineffable moral element of somehow making your free-willed self a "better" free-willed self may be removed, but the sheer brutal pragmatics of "other entities want your behavior to be thus, and by applying punishment can increase compliance" works just fine in a deterministic regime. And to my eye, our ruling elites are in practice very, very concerned about the latter and do not give the slightest rip about the former, whatever their beliefs about "free will" may be.
My faith requires me to be physically present at the service.
It depends on your interpretation of Calvinism. The specific concept the parent post is talking about, I think, is Double Predestination.

> Double predestination is the idea that not only does God choose some to be saved, he also creates some people who will be damned.[0]

Even setting aside whether that's a mainstream Calvinist belief or not, the idea of "Good people" and "Bad people" is deeply ingrained in American Culture. "The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"- that very phrase presupposes the existence of two groups of people, one Good and one Bad, setting aside the whole 'right to bear arms' thing.

And just as deeply ingrained in American culture is a lack of sympathy for "Bad people". You can make prisons a living hell, keep people in there for life after "3 strikes", remove their ability to find jobs if they ever get out- because they're Bad people and helping Bad people is wrong. It's morally superior to punish Bad people more, since they are Bad. Politicians get elected on that, calling it 'tough on crime'.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_in_Calvinism#Do...
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It's worth considering whether the 'far-right', which probably just means stuff-that-everyone-thought-20-years-ago, would go the same route if they had the upper hand in the West currently.

Maybe it's all more just a matter of opportunity than it is belief system.
> The very belief that a core group of the first settlers brought to America

The way America was settled historically was way more complicated. Simplification that boils it down to the "core group of the first settlers" with far reaching consequences up to now is bound to be wrong.
@dang Can we fix the caps in the title? The "Leo" renders as "LEO" on the original side, and the current capitalisation makes the title confusing to read (since "Leo" by itself normally means something lion-related)
It is OK to say you are happy doing what you are doing, but there is still progression. Can you do it better? Can you do it more efficiently? Set targets for doing the job vs. being excellent at the job, with raises and bonuses set accordingly.
People who are performing well and happy where they are, are great assets to a company. It's also a great asset for a manager. You just need to find the right manager.
The HM type system is designed to be as fast and efficient as possible. And the OCaml typechecker is quite optimized (sometimes to the detriment of readability). Outside of GADTs heavy code, it feels unlikely to me that the exhaustiveness check matters much to the compilation time.

To add some data to the discussion, I have been recently measuring the compilation profile of some OCaml libraries, and the average time spent in the typechecker is around 40% (https://www.polychoron.fr/ocaml/2021/08/19/measuring_compila...).

Thus the complexity of the OCaml type system can only have a limited effect on OCaml compilation time.

And this measure does include interface files, where the compilation pipeline is reduced to just parsing, typechecking, and dumping the computed file to the disk.
"Showing 10 out of 73 available results. Login to lookup specific unicorns and use advanced search filters."

(It says so at the bottom ... sometimes ...)
When Russian hackers hack, we all agree that Russia is responsible because they know about it and let it happen.
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This is correct. Grandparent is conflating Calvinism and the more modern "Prosperity Gospel" phenonmenon.
Won't that be a downgrade though, even from your old S8+?
It likely will be confused in precisely this way. If I were the maintainer for the linked project, I would rename.
Note: India actually has a law over this which is (to emphasise how serious the law is) even coded into AOSP (not on the camera app itself), where it won't allow you to silence the shutter if either you're roaming inside India (regardless of the origin of your SIM card) or you have an Indian SIM card (regardless of where you are roaming).

I can't remind a similar law on any East Asian country though.
The credits get mined based on proof of existence and then can be traded. 'Given' was the wrong choice of word.
No idea.

It's not clear what was sold by the saleperson since Pinterest could have just self-served themselves infrastructure off any combination of platforms. Presumably the idea is they're getting a discount in exchange for having this incentive favoring exclusivity. Their commission might also be amortized over the length of the contract (2029) since that's the length of time the value is generated.
On the contrary, big companies survive because of their stable workers. There is typically a core of people moving around and up in the company, while most people just work their jobs.

Smaller companies and consulting firms are the ones who follow the "up or out" mentality.
RIP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen

Loewen also wrote about "sunset towns", another vile strategy for enforcing racial segregation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

I grew up in a very white, very affluent area. I was gobsmacked when I learned about sunset laws, that most of the prime real estate had been seized during the internment of Japanese, etc, etc. Topics definitely not taught in school, nor discussed in the press.

FWIW, my introduction to a lot of these topics and themes was David Neiwert's Orcinus blog in the aughts. https://dneiwert.blogspot.com
$3B is the minimum spend and not a fixed fee.

They are still billed based on usage but must hit at least $3B total by 2029.
When exactly has Israel specifically won?
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As someone with addiction experience, a question came to mind while reading this. Horror and evil of this particular example aside.

In your opinion, does staying busy help? I suppose (a) in the initial detox, (b) while relearning behaviors, and (c) after one's left a program and returned to "normal" life?

On the one hand, idle hands, etc. On the other, it feels like learning to be sober while working 14 hour shifts in chicken processing probably isn't the best pattern to set up for returning to life (and a 40/wk job).

Would be interested in any thoughts on the pros or cons. Also, congrats. I've family and friends adding up their own time, and know it's not easy.
Here is my (much lower tech) 3DP solution to feeding my cat. He is insane and will eat as much as he can. If he was free fed he would die. If he eats from a bowl his food is gone in 30 seconds and he gets agitated.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4335532
Has it really come to a point where people complain about “unchecked privilege” in the workplace? Sexism, racism, etc are of course all real issues in the workplace, but can anyone really take themselves seriously complaining about “unchecked privilege”? Do they want cishet white males to self flagellate every day? When did these things go from tumblr level insanity to real life?
That's ok with me. I think it's very important to distinguish between the two endeavors and ideally have different names for them so we don't get led into these kinds of otherwise unnecessary discussions. The domains you mention seem (to me) generally worthwhile. But it's very hard to articulate exactly why they seem that way given we can't reproduce them which makes their results hard to justify believing in.
I don't think so. I like that it strongly encourages you to actually add human readable context to errors too.

I think people's issue is that there's no "I don't care about errors, just show me a stack trace" option like you get with exceptions, or more or less with Rust's `?` if you don't use `.context()`.