skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is about interest rate on savings side. Ten years ago in Poland you could get saving account paying 7% interests. 5 years ago you could get one that pays 3%. Right now interest rates are almost at 0, and saving accounts pay ridiculous 0.01% interests. Which has the effect of people taking money from the bank and buying apartments, as an investment.
Likewise, I've never found any correlation between those degrees and security improvements delivered by consultants. Honestly, the best security consultants I know of are essentially con men (and women!) who have devoted their amateur psychological instincts to good. You can apply all the best tech but without organizational change it won't last. On the flip side if you bring organizational change to adopt security in depth as a value then even substandard tech can serve the purpose. In that vain, the best security consultants (meaning someone hired temporarily for their expertise – not a long term employee hired by renewable contract) are those who can imbue leadership with the vision of their organization as one that benefits financially from security as a cultural value. I'm not sure who did this for Apple but they are a good example of a company that has benefited from a reputation earned by truly valuing security instead of trying to merely make sure everything is secure.
There's a fun toy I just got called 'TinySA' (tiny spectrum analyzer). For $60, plus an adapter + some wire (another $20 maybe), you can get a live battery powered little receiver that shows noise across the whole spectrum from less than 1mhz through 350mhz.

A really basic loop of wire is a directional antenna, so you can narrow down exactly what is causing issues too.

I'm doing it to find noise issues for my ham radio setup, but it can be generally fun. Not quite an SDR, but to find noise sources it's pretty amazing for so cheap.
my thoughts exactly! what if you run the original version of WorldWideWeb on a color NeXT?

also was somewhat wondering if maybe the blue came from some sort of NeXT platform default. (grey #2 renders as blue on color machines or somesuch)
This isn't a fork. I seriously wonder how many people here are commenting without having any clue as to what they are talking about. It is simply a package that you install with apk in Alpine.
Those "ideals" absolutely exist on the internet... they just don't have a place in mainstream media. For example, I often use Mastodon and other platforms like it. Now while popular Mastodon instances obviously don't want to federate with "free speech" instances, those instances still exist and stand on their own. I still remember a discussion some time ago, about federating with what I think was called Gab.

At the end of the day, free speech doesn't mean that a platform like twitter has to let you on to their platform, but should you want to create or host your own alternative to Twitter? Well you can, so you're not restricted in your free speech.
That's an interesting comparison - I've never thought of cultural appropriation along the lines of FOSS licenses before (I guess because the rules for borrowing from other cultures are unwritten). I wonder what compliance should look like in this case - is it enough for the borrower to treat the borrowed dish with care and make an earnest attempt to create something that respects the culture of origin (E.g., don't make steak tikka masala)? Should there be a note on the menu "this dish is inspired by the traditional food X, from culture Y"?
Nor pasta. So what did Italians actually eat? I've always wondered.
Nobody wants the chips made by the chipless chip making machines.
With checked exceptions, if today my function can only throw a FileException, then tomorrow I cannot start throwing a URLException without breaking any callers depending on my function having only one possible exception type. The lead architect of C# cited this problem as one of his reasons for not adding checked exception to that language. https://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html#part2

The solution to the problem with to have errors be dynamically typed (a trait in Rust, an interface in Go, etc.) and insist that callers be ready for an unknown error type to bubble up.
the separate ingredients are quite different from them as a sauce. you'd never call a bowl of flour, water, salt, and yeast "pizza dough".
Indeed, I have definitely seen an increase in "convenience" or "time" driven offerings for private healthcare - usually focused around opening hours or "avoiding waiting".

Some seemed to be trying to deliver NHS services (video/remote consultations available by "gig-working" GPs in evenings etc.), but others seemed to be increasingly trying to provide testing or other preventative/diagnostic services (blood tests, 7-day health check-ups booked same-day etc.)

I guess to some extent there likely will (among high earning, time-strapped immigrant workers) be an increased appetite to pay for healthcare directly, but for those who are aware of their immigration NHS access charge, they might well come to adopt the "I already pay for this" view. There's also a scalability question beyond London, where typical incomes mean the only people using any kind of private healthcare will be those with company-paid schemes.

There are some interesting ethical quandaries around what the NHS could do to improve its service (which could potentially hurt private sector rivals) - from some people's perspectives, the NHS could allow people paying privately to get things faster (without compromising on clinical need based priority) if it meant the service was better funded through revenues from those private patients going towards cutting wait times more generally. The British pastime of queueing could negatively impact on perceptions of anything like this though (even though you can already pay a little extra for an expedited next-day passport renewal etc.)

I know some hospital trusts have setups with private wards where NHS staff deliver private care (without bypassing priority by clinical need), and revenues from this are reinvested into regular services.
Am I crazy or are the people saying that getting the headline mixed up? Google is the one paying Apple fifteen billion dollars here, not the other way around. Why would Apple want off that gravy train? I’m sure they could make some search engine, but they’d have to be better than Google at monetizing it for it to be worth the effort.
Reads like a really young person who is overconfident in their abilities and lacks any actual experience with any of the things they mention. Every geezer on here knows Mosaic had blue links because they used it.
https://freetibet.org/about/legal-status-tibet

Imagine being called a minority in a place you are the majority and have lived for centuries before occupation.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Tibet/People

"The population of the region is almost entirely Tibetan, with Han (Chinese), Hui (Chinese Muslims), Monba, Lhoba, and other minority nationalities. Thus, the majority of the people of Tibet have the same ethnic origin, have traditionally practiced the same religion, and speak the same language."
Check out the Hermes Lite, it's an SDR with a transmit ability, and some other additional features. I think it's 10w by default, but a lot of people put that right into an amp to get up to 100+ watts.
> hardware excellence in their DNA

Yes, thats why my $4000 macbook pro keyboard inserts double keys strokes on 50% of key presses. The excellence must all be in the magic touchbar that periodically stops working so I cant even use vim because the ESC key is on a broken touch screen.
Understanding Protobuf Compatibility
Sure, but demand drivers are usually pretty isolated. For commodities, like energy, this driver is price. People want cheap energy. And until recently, nothing could compete with dead dinos.
You can't easily "bolt on" security to a massive internal ecosystem of insecure projects that has built up over the years. If I had to guess, I would anticipate the software T-Mobile is running includes a lot of legacy that hasn't been fully maintained. If they don't spend the cash to retain developers who built these projects or to keep them maintained, it means there's nobody around who really knows the codebase. And that means funding the little security edge cases is going to be nearly impossible, particularly for an external contractor with a few months.
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Yeah people are free to choose but to go full circle many of us let ourselves be manipulated by advertising[0] and dark patterns[1] to make unhealthy choices. That's why USA is so obese.

When I look at countries like Japan I don't see a limit in food choices, but I see a lot more healthy people.

[0] https://theconversation.com/how-marketers-condition-us-to-bu...
[1] https://cspinet.org/protecting-our-health/nutrition/unhealth...
I think the main thing we disagree on is: I don't think Alex Jones has any power, or changes anyone's mind. He doesn't have a silver tongue, a deft wit, or evidence on his side. He's just a schmuck who tosses out bullshit to see what sticks.

What you're dancing around, though, is that you can't talk about why this particular piece of bullshit sticks if you're pretending it's apolitical. The Sandy Hook hoax idea, as I understand it, is the theory that there are forces within the US government plotting to restrict gun rights, and they staged a fake school shooting to gain support. Right?

Well, you can pin the second bit on Alex Jones, at least partly, but the other part, the "there are forces within the US government plotting to restrict gun rights" part, that's a meme that the mainstream right has been pushing relentlessly for something like two generations. And it is not a conspiracy theory; it's literally true (albeit often exaggerated).

So my point, the reason I think deplatforming Jones would be ineffectual, is that the damage is already done. A generation has been convinced that the anti-gun brigade is so powerful and pernicious that faking a school shooting is something they might realistically do. That is the problem. I don't know if that problem is solveable, but I don't think deplatforming people like Alex Jones really affects it.
There's no such thing as unadulterated information.

You're making the same mistake as Gramsci. You decide what the correct beliefs are and the fact that other people don't have those beliefs is evidence of their coercion.
Supply chains aren’t opaque. Every politician knows that energy costs effect everything substantially. Doesn’t take Nostradamus to know jacking up energy prices pissed people off. Flights go up, food prices go up. Gasoline shoots up.
I have to double check the routing on both to make sure they are not making me go through 20 traffic lights to have a 10% probability of saving 45 seconds and 90% probability of wasting 2 min.
Not directly in reply to your question, but an anecdote I thought might be relevant:

I was recently reading more about Ignàc Semmelweis, the doctor famous for promoting hand washing. He was finding that hand washing had almost no impact on the outcomes in a particular hospital. He eventually discovered that they needed to wash the sheets better too. Either intervention alone would have almost no impact, but together they were powerful.

Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Full text here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369496/

From the discussion section:

> In this study, we have shown differences in the specificity of polyclonal serum antibodies acquired by infection versus vaccination with mRNA-1273. The neutralizing activity of vaccine sera is more targeted to the RBD than for convalescent sera, with the majority of vaccine sera losing all detectable neutralization at a 1:25 cutoff after depletion of RBD-directed antibodies. (emphasis mine)

From the conclusion:

> Despite these limitations, our results in conjunction with other recent studies (19) suggest that mRNA vaccines and infection elicit somewhat distinct anti-spike antibody responses. Therefore, it is important to differentiate antibody immunity acquired by different means when assessing the impact of viral evolution. Considerable effort is being expended to identify emerging antigenic variants of SARS-CoV-2 and determine which ones might evade immunity (3, 7, 8, 35). Our findings suggest that the results could vary depending on the source of immunity. Furthermore, carefully characterizing and comparing the specificity of antibody immunity elicited by additional vaccine modalities could provide a basis for determining whether some vaccine responses will be more resistant to viral evolution.
So, native Americans?
Is this why some insiders recently dumped a bunch of PLTR?
For anyone else unfamiliar: shucking is buying a USB harddrive purely for the drive inside, discarding the outer case/USB interface https://www.datahoards.com/whats-the-meaning-of-shucking-a-h...
> Since the protocol doesn't specify how the ETag should be generated, we could have passed in our "lock_version" version numbers. But because it seemed strange to only honor the ETag headers for a single resource in our API, we decided against it.

Odd choice. There's a standard, but the developers still chose to re-implement w/ specific semantics. There's nothing on the standard saying you have to support ETags for all the resources.
I don't think proof-of-stake will actually work. Not because of any technical reasons, but because 95% of the people involved in crypto just see it as a free money printing machine. Once their hardware is no longer useful for mining, they will just move to some other proof-of-work crypto.
It isn't even really a downstream project. This is like saying that third party Deb packages are downstream projects of Debian. They are just third-party packages you can install in Debian.
Users are currently being banned for even asking legitimate questions about the vaccine. Nonsense is nonsense, but labeling anyone who even questions vaccine safety as “promoting vaccine hesitancy” is overreacting and arouses suspicion.
feels like 1->N rather than 0-1. Which is just as good if not better in my book! But different.
It could even simply be a matter of harrassment by the Turkish government because existing bribes are suddenly, say, insufficient. Under penalty of prison, of course.

Unless he gets a cushy gov't cybersec job from all this, which is another angle I have just considered.
And I assume that you consider all the available variations as "well tested". Nice to hear that any personal concerns I have are not valid, and that you don't even need to read them to know that. Sad to see so many websites where discussions were once welcomed turned into echo chambers. Or perhaps I'm just one of those uneducated people who shouldn't even be on HN
Yes. Exactly this.
I recall reading the definition of the Italian Cuisine as "Cooking with whatever you have at hand" somewhere. Their stuff is good because they use top quality ingredients, it's not about some weird trick or ancient technique.

They take pride in producing and obtaining the good quality ingredients and I see Italians conservatively sticking to the basics.

On the other hand, in other countries where the produce quality is not exactly on the level of the ones in Italy, they tend to experiment with different techniques or ingredients. I would say that often the succeed in coming up with good combinations.
I think I'm done with WD from now on. The whole WD MyBooklive remote factory result fiasco annoyed me as well - for those impacted they offered a 40% discount on one of their new MyBookLive devices, as long as you send the old drive back (shipping paid by user).
> Neither did any consumer complain to EU about credit card processing fees. Because they dont know. But EU business did. Just the same as App business in other country that are complaining now.

Sure but that's not a great comparison. The experience for users is the same, you're just shuffling around who gets paid. A better comparison would be a business that only accepts cash who then has to accept credit cards so they raise prices for everyone.

Either way, in the case of Apple and the iPhone it changes the user experience and the ability of Apple to collectively bargain against developers for the interest of consumers (where we are aligned). With 3rd-party App Stores you can now take a company like Facebook with abusive privacy rules, or manipulative and scammy apps and they basically get back into the ecosystem. So you're going to lose a lot of good things for not much value.

I think the writing is probably on the wall for Apple, but hopefully the experience isn't destroyed too much. Sucks that we're going to a worse future.

> And EU took action on Visa and MasterCard processing fees.

And did those businesses lower prices or keep the prices the same but pocket the extra margin they were padding on for the fees?

I'm not saying it wasn't a good move, Visa and MasterCard are useful middle people but middle all the same, but it seems to me to just be shuffling around who is getting paid. Where this affects small businesses, great! Where it affects large companies? Meh.

> And is the same argument, It is Apple's App Store, they can do what ever they want with it. Fine. Perfectly valid argument. But it is also EU's Market ( or in this case South Korean Market ), if Apple dont like it, do what the MacRumors comments have been telling Apple to do, Pull out of the EU and South Korean market to retaliate.

I mean yea I'm not disputing that. The EU can pass whatever laws it wants, as can Korea. I just think it's anti-consumer. I don't think Apple will leave the markets though, they'll likely implement it and it'll just be a worse experience for EU citizens and South Koreans who have iPhones. I'm against it, personally.
Your experience largely mirrors my own. At a previous employer, I had to make some changes to a process that was importing data from a vendor. Typical straight-forward ETL, right? Not even a lot of data, like 20-30 records daily.

The process? Load the data from CSV to JSON, ship the JSON off to Azure. Pull the data back from Azure, check to see if it's been processed, apply the change on premise. If failed, reschedule for later. Multiple processes, multiple scheduled jobs, on-call alerts, etc, etc. The whole thing could have been replaced with maybe 50 lines of Python. Instead, it was probably around 10k lines of C# and dependency on a 3rd party ETL tool. It was a fucking mess. Worse, yet, I wasn't allowed to fix it.
C. UNIX and variants thereof have been maintained for over fifty years now by all sorts of people.
Let's not get into a debate here. I'm just criticizing him, which I'm allowed to do. I'm not enforcing anything on anyone, I guess me criticizing him is my self expression. :)
That seems to be the end result of companies seeking untapped income from harvesting and selling customer data, besides offering everything as a subscription service without any kind of end-user ownership or guaranteed ongoing functionality. Why just make money off the sale of the product when you can continuously gather telemetry, personal information, track their location, their usage patterns, their contacts, their photo albums, metadata and browsing activity?

Most people don't think twice to hit that "Accept" button prompting for permissions, allowing the envelope to be pushed further and further. The increasing ease of processing huge data sets allows all of this information to be aggregated, sold and used for whatever purpose whoever is willing to pay for it sees fit.
Sometimes I've tried to leave comments and notes if I detect a good place for a seam (to use Michael Feather's term), usually around an encapsulating function where I say something like:

// TODO: This is the simple version that assumes [our current assumption]
//If you need to handle multiple cases here, I suggest [X strategy].
void doThing()
{
//existing code
}
Well, keep in mind that "improvement" here implies non-transformative change (we usually call this "optimization" on informatics). If you are not sure you have the correct system running, stabilizing it is the last thing you want.
This is the perpetual pull between "right" being the will of the people, "right" being the laws we set for ourselves that are placed outside the people's direct control by appeal to some higher ideal (such as a Constitutional government that provides authority to reject laws because they do not align to that Constitution), and "right" being a pure, objective correctness, justice, etc. (that may or may not actually exist).

Every society eventually wrestles with these things.
On Windows, you can update these as often as you want to and the compositor will handle it fine - you can do a lot of cool animations/demos with it.

Is this a macOS specific issue, or is the JS API these guys are providing not able to catch up quickly enough?
Very true. But they have hedged that very well with long-term contracts, so they are effectively first in line for most of their needs. I would guess that this is still biting them on some components (they have so many in so many products), but they appear to be riding through this pretty well.
> an alternate pricing option/model where a server can be paid for by a company or organization instead of individuals (which would remove stream quality and upload file size limits)

What's stopping an organization from buying multiple server boosts from a single account to unlock these features? If you need the level 3 perks, you can have a single account, owned by the organization, purchase the 30 server boosts to get there.

Or am I misunderstanding the problem?
Native Americans represent 1.7% of the US population:
https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=3&lvlid=6...
No, really why not write a native application? If I'm understanding it correctly, Electron is depending on third-party libraries like Portal Windows to get functionality like "create new windows, treat them as objects, and poke around in them" which comes for free in single-process GUI libraries like Qt.
Safari would be evidence against this.
I'm old enough to remember when CFC and non-CFC hairsprays were both available, and recall the public discussion over whether you should buy one or the other.

Regardless, even though the edict eventually came from on high to stop using CFCs, it was the individual use of them that was ultimately responsible for harm. Punishing oil companies won't make a lick of difference if it doesn't result in changes to our collective, individual behaviour. Like how we stopped using CFC-laiden hairsprays, we're going to have to stop commuting by car, ICE or EV, and stop buying products from overseas, and stop flying.

There is no technological panacea that will allow us to continue to live our lives as we do now.
Well, 1) that sure looks like a tomato sauce on top of that bread, and 2) all you do to turn crushed tomato + salt + oregano into pizza sauce is stir slightly.

[EDIT] I'm not trying to be a dick about this, I was just really surprised to read that description, coupled with the photo above it. "no tomato sauce" goes on to describe its toppings as exactly what one might mix to get a pizza sauce
Ugly Delicious covers this subject pretty well.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80170368