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).

In addition, this only works for <18 accounts. If the abusive figure goes as far as making other family members recreate Apple IDs and lie about their age every 5 years to keep getting access to iMessage (and other parental controls like screen time) then there's not much Apple can do.
The Adams Hypothesis
Islam is simply incompatible with democracy. Not a single Arabic democracy exists in the middle east. The values required by citizens of democratic countries to preserve democracy are in contradiction with Islam.

Democracy, unlike the misconception in the west, is incredibly unstable state of government. I don't mean that democratic countries are unstable, I mean that democracies countries are extremely likely to devolve into undemocratic countries. Maintaining democratic country requires a certain level of education and ideology from the citizens, an understanding of values, that is very hard to bootstrap. Countries without these values would never turn into democracies on their own because it takes societal change.

The 1920s have seen many countries devolve from democratic elections into autocracies, including Nazi Germany. Mass media, when weaponized, can easily kill democracies.

Democracies can even devolve by a government simply rigging their own election. Democracy gives politicians the power to change the rules of their own election, and it's just a matter of time until they change election laws to voting by mail or voting machines they simply rig. All it takes is replacing elections with an arbitrary sham process, reinforced by propaganda, and democracy dies.
The mood on Hacker News (and reddit/twitter) has become too pessimistic to be a good predictor of the future.

The long-term trend is that the world is becoming a better place. Pessimistic people are biased against that fundamental trend that other trends will develop on. Groups of pessimistic people will not be good predictors of the future.
Hah, one of the company starts with A? The process is designed to frustrate engineers at best. Documents often require tons of copy paste from previous docs. At least in my org, it will be mulled and pestered over for rewrite at least 5+ times before rejecting the process.
There is a term for this, shifting baseline [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline
There are a lot of mirrors, too, as anyone can host an instance, so if those don't work you can always try others.
Apache Submarine: A unified Machine Learning platform made simple
I don't know my facebook password or save it on any of my devices save for the home pc for this reason.
More cobras in the wild! Result! As as aside, you'll find a cobra isn't an apex predator - a King Cobra ... now that could be considered. Every incentive humans have ever dreamed up has had perverse/unintended outcomes - what's your point?
The EU is working on a Digital Services Act that says (among many things) people should be have the right to object when an account is blocked.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-se...
Online safety resources for Afghanistan’s human rights defenders
I previously submitted my text templating language API for you to consider adding but didn’t hear anything back!
A Local Network That Works Everywhere
Raphael Spannocchi: What are NFTs and how anyone can sell digital assets as NFTs
Uber provides a different service than a taxi.

Airbnb provides a different service than a hotel.

Both of these narrowly scoped, heavily regulated antiquated services were failing to meet the needs of most, and the world is better that there are additional options.

Taxis and hotels are still there and still sucking, if you prefer those.
Some of these topics are also covered rather well here:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-07-06/the-ideology-o...

It is a clear case of the 'tragedy of the commons'. The only way to escape the tragedy of the commons (when there are large numbers of people who don't know each other) is regulation. However regulation has proved very hard to do at an international level.
> ... didn't follow rules and regulations set out on taxis.

And were hailed as "disruptors."
Too many bluechecks publicly roasted.
Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20k Afghan refugees
> Orwell indeed.

Wrong, that was Kafkaesque.
I'd take being confused over being dead
On top of it, it's not just a matter of creating an account because they get blocked within two minutes until you also give them your phone number, despite the registration pretends it's not required (because once you signed up, it's easier to trick people into giving up yet more information than asking for it upfront).
I used to install browser extensions to make twitter and fb usage as un-user friendly as possible, to limit the time wasted reading useless nonsense on social media.

Great that twitter is doing it themselves !

I hope that interesting people, with relevant things to say, will leave those platforms and re-open blogs.
Define "better place" ?
I don’t know about mathematical, but I’ve always thought of it as a vertical vs horizontal motion with the front foot used as as kind of rotation axis for an impossible…

“I know it when I see it” (maybe)
I recommend The Gulag Archipelago for some perspective. This has nothing to do with markets or private for-profit enterprises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
“It exists and is growing” and it being a trend are very different. I think it is an irreversible trend now but it wasn’t before the pandemic. There are just way more people like myself didn’t even think of it seriously for many reasons (I did know it existed) and they all have woken up now.
Yes and they should consider doing that. After all, Trump supporters may drive their Civic to the Capitol. Our democracy dies in darkness!!!
If your hospitals aren’t overwhelmed with the dying, an outbreak is a much more minor consequence.
In the new testament they are bouncing back and forth between man-jesus, God Jesus, and eastern philosophy quotes attributed to man-god Jesus. Select the Jesus you want or just ignore him and focus on Paul's letters.
SARS-CoV-2 Delta poised to acquire resistance to wild-type spike vaccines [pdf]
I have seen articles about an imminent market crash since 2009.

I started paying attention to market crash predictions in 2009.
I agree with your framing except that in 2 and 3, the matter is already settled. The status quo is Apple gets to build what it wants. It’s on you and others to do an immense amount of work to prove that Apple should be forced into building features you want and not what they deem best. I’m generally happy with what they’ve made, and I think the power to compel them to make changes is more likely to be wielded by dumb and possibly malevolent people than altruistic, privacy-focused computer experts.

I’m not sure why the burden to do user surveys is on me. Presumably the first order user survey is, “Will our customers abandon us?” which Apple must have done and everything past that is on you to conduct to justify your ask of them.
Full title: The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
It bothered from the other angle when POTUS started pushing Twitter as an important channel to keep up on what was going on because it's hardly ideal for that. My local government has similarly been making Nextdoor a de facto requirement if you want to know what's happening or want to give feedback (especially in an era of frequent town office closures).

I tend to favor minimal government but I think the USPS was an important outcome of the Constitution to fill the need for a universal and "official" communication channel. But their budget has been butchered, I get misdelivered mail all the time and the DMV tells me I'm not the only one in my town who never seems to get their mail, but there's no shortage of wasteful junk mail. If only I was confident we could nail the execution, I would love to see the Internet embraced as basic, universal infrastructure and an official government communication channel that's more reliable and less abused.

But I dream.
I almost hesitate to share these because I too found that Reddit's dark patterns were a large part of what helped me break that habit.

I recently discovered teddit.net which is a frontend for reddit with all dark patterns removed.

There is also an alternative front end for twitter called nitter.net that you can use the same way to avoid the app / login.
> COVID was doubling roughly every 5 days

Can you provide any citation or reference on this claim? 5 days sounds about right to me, but I'm not yet aware of any literature supporting that number so I would be grateful to learn more.
Remember when the definition of “big data” was when your datasets don’t fit in RAM?
Special operations are only a small part of what the intelligence community does. Most of it is really mundane and is done by very official attaches at the embassies.

It's compiling reports on what is happening, meeting with the other countries officials about bilateral relations, meeting your own citizen to know what they are doing. A lot of it is above board. I will hasard that most of the information which end up being classified is actually acquiried legally but becomes interesting through cross-referencing or exclusivity.
> Localbitcoins and its spinoffs used to be a popular option, but it seems they're a shell of their former selves

It's because KYC requirements and money changing regulation were applied to people selling btc in any real quantity. Someone I knew caught a case a few years ago for doing essentially the localbitcoin (and not telling the undercover to leave when the cop implied he got the money from selling drugs... allegedly).
In Japan they have a system where they pick up your luggage at the airport or your hotel and deliver it to your next destination so you don't need to lug it around.

In America we have rollerbag hell at the airport and people are terrified of checking their luggage.
You seem to give enough fucks to come and rant on a thread dedicated to an Apple device. Maybe just use whatever you want instead?
Sometimes they use user agents for this, but those are easily faked, so it's only done by websites that don't have comprehensive auth walls.

A more comprehensive method is based on ip ranges, say whitelisting traffic from Google and Bing. This gives you > 95% of search traffic as Google alone has >90%, and many various smaller search engines like Yahoo or DDG are Bing resellers.

On the other hand, a pure ip based check can be circumvented too. Sometimes you can view how search engines see a website through google translate. But places like LinkedIn have countermeasures for all of these circumventions.
This is interesting. I lived in Bahrain for about half my life and left around 2004. At that time, I'd say the USA had a much greater leverage on Bahrain than Saudi did. Although, they were still quite cozy.

Has that dynamic changed in more recent years?
Sure there are: [s͎˩˧˥˧˨˦˥˧˥˧˨˦] and so on. But really I see no reason why musical notation wouldn’t be sufficient.

(I should note that’s not [s]; it’s [s͎] with an arrow below it. It’s hard to tell the difference with the font on my screen.)
The modern internet: four websites each filled with nothing but screenshots from the other three.
Losing a parent or child to the virus would've done greater psychological harm. Besides, hindsight is...
> Certainly, the vast majority of people in rich countries can afford to care more about fashion (including bubble color) than functionality,

I've been an iOS and Android developer—as in, paid to do it. Was an Android phone user before doing any mobile dev. Finally got my hands on IIRC a 3rd-generation Surface at work a few years back, as a test device.

Having extensive experience with the competition, I now choose Apple phones and tablets for a few reasons, functionality very much among them.
That the laws/regulations were (effectively? intentionally?) rigged to ensure high prices, doesn't at all invalidate the claim that Uber ignored laws/regulations. They are also accused of ignoring more general laws/regulations around worker pay/benefits/health that are not related to regulations specific to taxi services.
Ok, this is about Bonjour, which is pretty cool. David Abramson and I released a multiplayer Horse Racing game, called PocketJockey on iOS 2.1. During game play each device would play its local copy of the William Tell Overture. We used packet latency to synchronize tracks. You would then bounce up and down as though you were a jockey. If you bounced in time to the music your horse would go faster. There was an announcer that would announce the status of your horse, which was also in synch. Up to 4 players could be playing in the same room with the exact same music and announcer emanating from their pocket. All on the original iPhone. To use an overused term, the experience was "magical" That's what you can do with Bonjour.

So, what's the attack vector? A back door, perhaps? Bonjour requires a user approval dialog. A misleading title of the dialog may allow someone to connect. Maybe extract private data.

Imagine a peer-to-peer chat app. Say, in Hong Kong -- during a protest. Or in Kabul -- during an evacuation.
Very interesting, but it seems that was more about sensitive information (I'm guess stuff like technology, maps, security procedures) rather than who reads which political ideology.
The day the iPhone was announced they stated that the app model would be http based apps that could be installed from anywhere.
Yeah, I'd pay $1M for the same house in suburban SF that I paid $250K for in suburban Cincinnati. Even if I worked for a FAANG company my salary wouldn't go up four times. Were I to decide to move to a very blue area my standard of living could drop noticeably.
“Thanks for testing our feature without getting paid for it, suckers! Uh, I mean hackers.”
For news related to programming trends, the Venn diagram between here and r/programming is pretty much a circle.
Popping, i.e. hitting end of the board on the ground, to get height is the difference.

A pop shuvit will be higher while a non-popped shuvit may barely leave the ground. Popping can actually make it easier to keep the axis of rotation closer to the center of the board.
I've had a few living at 49degrees north and it happens in spring with temperatures around 20. You feel comfortable, light cloud cover makes the sun unnoticeable and you're playing tennis for four hours around noon. Right around dinner time you notice that you've got a pretty solid burn that just crept up on you.
Interesting! Spanish isn’t a tonal language, so how do you ‘translate’ the words into whistles? (And do you think you could do it without subtitles?)

(I should note I haven’t actually managed to watch the video yet, because my audio seems to be broken. Perhaps it would be obvious if only I could hear the whistles…)
The same is mostly true in the US.

The US taxi system in most cities was an abusive cartel holding on to a market solely through a government protection racket, and that's the nice description of it. Uber and Lyft destroyed the cartels, delivering a far superior service.
Pandemics have worked as an accelerator or even as a catalyst for technological change since at least the Black Death and this one certainly is no exception.

However, remote work didn't become a trend because of the pandemic, it became the default scenario for many jobs that don't actually require on-site presence but that due to cultural inertia nevertheless often still happened in a colocated office pre-2020.

Remote work has been a trend since long before 2020. With the pandemic the proposition in many cases now simply was "Either work remotely or see your company go out of business.", which had many companies reevaluate their ways rather quickly.
I used to be really into a youtube channel that would go on an on about the coming economic collapse of civilization (back in 2014) and how everyone needed to buy gold to protect themselves. I never bought gold, but I found the channel interesting and some of the 'economists' they brought in were pretty convincing. Then nothing happened. They started shifting the narrative to why the economic collapse was pushed to 2015. That's when I stopped watching. I wonder if they're still around.
> Remote Work [...] I thought [in contradistinction to the graph] that Hacker News would have been more ahead of the trend on this one.

> For each topic I counted how many times it had been mentioned in a post title

I suspect that's the problem. A lot of trendy discussion happens in comments; I think that's going to be particularly true for a topic like remote work.

People are going to extol its virtues when it's tangentially related to a submission, but especially pre-pandemic there's only so many stories you could submit about it? 'Company goes full-remote'? 'How we handle remote working at Company'?

It'd be interesting to search comments too I think. hn.algolia.com supports it.
I have an LG G8 from T-Mobile. It hasn't been updated since February. Rumor is they're rolling out android 11 in Q4 which is more than a year after 11 was released.

Contrast that with my wife's S10 that's got 11 around February.

At this point I have very little faith LG will follow through with updates for even the original two years let alone android 12.
Something something Chinese social credit evil, something something fighting for "freedom" and "democracy".
Web development has become insane indeed. At work, I tell myself, technologies change and we need to adopt or we will be left behind.

But it is not as joyful as it used to be. For personal projects, I have been using Laravel, I run it on my local machine using Laravel Valet. I got a tiny CRM, chores manager, and various other little one off tools. Laravel is today's MS Access. In early 2000s, I built various applications for small businesses using MS Access.

But my skills in PHP/Laravel leads to web development jobs. Which means everything that you have mentioned.

So I am slowly exploring new options. Earlier I was playing with Python and Data Science. Jupyter Notebooks are fairly portable, and let you visualize data in fun ways. And I figured Laravel/Nodejs > Django > Data Engineer > Data Science should be easy. But it wasn't as enjoyable. I like building tools.

Now I am exploring desktop application development. I looked at Electronjs but that reminded me too much of work.

I have started playing with Swift/MacOS/Desktop app development. Apple's development ecosystem using Swift seems great. So far no real issue though I am not doing anything advanced. What I like about it is that I can actually build apps that I can share with my friends without having them install a bunch of dependencies on their machines. The debuggers are awesome. Also I am exploring artistic apps like AR with sound effects + visualizations. You are closer to hardware and can do some pretty cool things.

I am not sure how the job market for Swift macOS development is but my goal is to find some sane challenging but not overwhelming (CBNO) programming opportunities.
The hubris of HN posters has no bounds. I’m sure that tweet gave you all you need to know to contradict the insiders responsible for making multi-billion dollar decisions… It’s probably the case that they’re all dumb, and the Internet rando has the absolutely guaranteed answer.
Can you even summarize them?

I personally read https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...
Especially with a high value house, I can pretty much guarantee you that you'll have people who are mostly OK with the house looking a bit lived in and various maintenance and other work deferred a bit and others who expect every little paint blemish to be fixed this minute.

I specifically decided not to jointly own my dad's house with my brother when it needed to be rebuilt after a fire. (He moved to a retirement community.) And it was definitely the right choice as there were definitely things we would have wanted to do differently.
The Cotton Tote Climate Crisis
If it's proven that Ivermectin causes more harm than good, shouldn't the authorities do test purchases, follow the money, and then charge whoever sells this with negligent bodily harm ot similar?

More controversial, maybe it should be just illegal to run misinformation campaigns that harm people in a crisis like this. I know people will say, what about free speech, but we already regulate health claims. And in a war it is/was illegal to spread misinformation that helps the enemy, so why not in a crisis like this?
From the discussion:

> A third round of booster immunization with the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is currently under consideration. Our data suggest that repeated immunization with the wild-type spike may not be effective in controlling the newly emerging Delta variants. We demonstrated that immunization by Delta spike induces antibodies that neutralize not only the Delta variant but also wild-type and the Delta 4+ variant without enhancing the infectivity. Although mRNA vaccination may yield different results from our animal model, development of mRNA vaccine expressing the Delta spike might be effective for controlling the emerging Delta variant. However, epitopes of the enhancing antibodies, not neutralizing antibodies, are well conserved in most SARS-CoV-2 variants, including the Delta variant. Therefore, additional immunization of the spike protein derived from SARS-CoV-2 variants may boost enhancing antibodies more than the neutralizing antibodies in individuals who were previously infected with wild-type SARS-CoV-2 or immunized with vaccines composed of wild-type spike protein. (emphasis mine)
> it will update itself automatically

is it possible to disable the auto-update? i'd rather see signal stop working than auto-update behind my back.
We already have Chia which uses a “proof of storage” (of sorts). It’s only a matter of time until a “proof of RAM” appears.
It exists, it's called Zoomcare
Agreed. This analysis would be more useful if it was done against comments.
They could have put things into the incorporation documents. It's not a secret, what you're signing up-to. They don't need to retain any controlling ownership.
Not the same as emulating vowels and consonants, but my dad used to whistle by with two fingers on his lips and making the loudest whistle. Either to get the dog's attention or my attention as a child.

It was a rural area and he used it to communicate (come back home, usually) and as a child I could tell by the sound if it was a normal 'come home' or one where I was in trouble 'come home right now!'

I now have a child of my own and kind of wish I could whistle like that, though the utility would be much less living in a city with endless forms of electronic communication.
> So every 52 months of stricter lockdown in counterfactual Sweden would have saved one month of healthy life. You will have to decide whether you think this is worth it, but it seems pretty harsh to me.

This really puts things in perspective. Think about the four years you were in college: would you be willing to give up all of the fun parts, instead staying home the whole time and just doing all of the classes online, to push back the expected date of your death by one month?
Sounds like you're describing a credit score :-)
Multicast can certainly be used to fingerprint a network. I have done that for making apps automatically switch settings.

It is not clear to me why it would it would be different from the “Local Network” permission.