skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have specific reasons to believe that Apple has been subject to legal pressure. But if you didn’t believe six anonymous sources in a story by a reputable reporter, you’re not going to believe my secondhand reports either. Skepticism is fine: stubborn unfounded skepticism in the absence of a direct confirmatory statement from Apple isn’t possible to argue with.

Apple being legally pressured is not the full story. It is absolutely true that they have been pressured by the FBI and others, and simultaneously that they also have real concerns about user experience with lost backups. If you read the Reuters story, it doesn’t draw a straight line from the FBI to the backup situation, it just points out that legal pressure is a factor in Apple’s reasoning. Apple spent a lot of money building an E2EE key vault based on HSMs several years ago, and it’s also fairly obvious that they had bigger plans than securing passwords and browser history. Yet they have not made full E2EE backup available even as an option for advanced users, despite the fact that even Android now supports E2EE backups. And prior to enabling E2EE backups (one assumes that’s coming this year) they paused to build exactly the on-device scanning system that law enforcement has been exhorting cryptographers to build since William Barr’s letter in 2018. It does not take a great deal of imagination to see the pattern, but obviously only Tim Cook can prove it to your satisfaction.

ETA: Just to take this a step beyond “someone is arguing on HN”: this argument matters because I think we all intuitively understand how dangerous this system would be in a world where Apple’s engineering is responsive to government pressure. Your skepticism makes perfect sense if you want to believe this system is secure. I wish I could live in a world where I was able to share that skepticism, it would be a more relaxing place.
There’s a solution to all of these problems, tried and tested, and older than the concept of package registry namespacing called “registering a trademark and sending a cease and desist letter”. Works great.
Inflation is a rate of change, not an absolute change. When people say inflation is transitory, they mean that the rate of change is transitory (prices will stop going up). But the inflation that has occurred will not go away. You will not pay less when the inflation subsides. You will merely stop paying more.

This is what happens when you print $5T and refuse to let the economy go through any sort of healthy contraction.
> Desktop code cannot be verified

My gentoo install would like to have a word with you
Prices for used GPUs are also inflated, though I think they have started to come down a bit. Once Ethereum moves to proof-of-stake (early 2022?) the market will probably get flooded with used GPUs.
I still like some parts of Reddit. I can only do so, though, because I exclusively force old.reddit styling instead of the new repulsive design, and I only visit 4ish subreddits with generally smaller subscriber numbers and more niche interests. All of the main/general subreddits are just endlessly repeating the same thing over and over again. Once the subreddit gets too big or seems to be annoying, jump ship or try and find a smaller new version.

Also, I like subreddits outside of the bubble/echo chamber of the main subs. Even if I don't really align with some of the opinions or positions of some of the other subs, it at least feels more like interacting with actual human beings with differing interests.

I also just don't use reddit that much. It's good for trying to solve a question, and maybe having a laugh for 15 mins, but after that it usually overstays its welcome and you can go somewhere else.
The reduce part is not that it is wrong to consume, there are many ways in which cars are useful, but if your purpose is to be "green" it is still the first step, for many people it is not an option and that is ok.
Anabolic steroids have side-effects that increase with dosage, as they don't only affect muscle. Might for example fail the heart or the liver. It's not worth it, unless it's really effective (and its not in this case). I imagine even if it did work, doctors will prescribe only a small dosage and monitor closely the side effects.
I assume that mRNA will vaccinate for a lot of diseases, which means that a lot of new viruses will emerge through this evolutionary pressure. It's possible that we are also starting the same race as with antibiotics. Which is still better than people dying from these tiny evil viruses
Oh wow. There's a big contrast between Linus screaming "don't break userspace," and that sort of crusade against the spec.
I wonder what the long term consequences of that will be. In most parts of the world dictatorships don't fair that well economically.
Also, the cookie popups are not an immediate consequence of GDPR, but rather of its interplay with another directive from 2002 [0]. The EU has of course taken notice of the irritation of the public and is trying to improve on the state of affairs with the proposed ePrivacy Regulation [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation
i'm assuming you hate it just b/c it's ugly and therefore sucks.

i just left a job that loved spreadsheets of all kinds, and i hated them, but it was mostly because they duplicated information held elsewhere, and were used as the system of record for production configuration - with umpteen rows and sheets, and required prolonged and tedious and ongoing manual updates from me, and of course nobody kept them up to date - and i felt like such a back-asswards company deserved a much worse employee than me (if that's possible).

so i get the hate.

but can't say i like jira or any of the others.

i think some business analyst-types - your scrum master - just come from the spreadsheet world so that's where they're comfortable. probably they've never used a bug tracking tool. maybe find a youtube demo and point them to it.

some PMs will copy all the issues out of jira every day or every other day or every week, manually update everything, update things as the meeting progresses, etc. that's just how they roll.

if it's not actually painful for you, i'd say just roll with it.

if it actually requires significant pain, then just talk to them about it. see what the other PMs are using. ask your PM why they are using The Sheets and not specific-use software.

maybe there's a middle ground -- you could use some other monstrosity like notion or smartsheet or airtable.

;-D

just kidding. excel/sheets is not a monstrosity - it's legit useful for some things.
China cuts trade ties with EU country Lithuania over Taiwan
that sounds great but its scary technology in wrong hands
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Copyright extension is theft by lobbies pressuring the legislative body against the spirit (and original letter) of the law.

In this sense, thousands of movies and albums (stuff recorded before 1970) would be public domain now based on the 1901 copyright terms...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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> But we don't produce software "for debian".

Most don't, but you can provide a debian repository for your software, e.g. if you care about debian users having newer versions available.
I've yet to come across a location sub that isn't like that.
I’m the original creator of 2048. I’m always so humbled when I see that it’s still something people talk about, especially (as is the case with this article) in such an advanced way as to completely go over my head!
Firefox presents Yandex search by default for me. I guess Yandex outbid Google in my country.
Try finding a PC starter bundle that includes a gpu from GameStop or some other retailer and you can find one for MSRP. The trade off is you’re buying other PC parts you may not need, for example a PSU.
They changed the main website into a redirect to ensure the servers stayed up. In the end the website was only "gone" for a couple of hours.
+1 on renting films with some level of purpose. A lot of people I know refuse to pay for movie rentals.

I've seen this too many times: endless scrolling to try to find that one decent movie that comes free with the subscription.

But movie studios aren't stupid. They don't just give away their best movies for free. So those who simply aren't willing to pay are left watching Hitman or The Quake (fine Hulu content).

The price of movie rentals might seem high, but life is far too short to waste it watching things you don't even like that much.

Also: iTunes in particular happens to have very decent staff recommendations (i.e., actual human curation). I wouldn't be surprised if movie rental services like iTunes understand that their customers are looking for quality and not quantity, otherwise those customers would be on the streaming services.
There are subreddits with the same mods for 15 years now. People get old and so do their ideas but subreddit audiences are consistently young. This is problematic for national subreddits (which gain their audience automatically) and other "noun-word" subreddits that are people's first guesses when researching a subject. This is a major reason for bad subreddit culture.

Reddit didn't foresee that its business would last for > 5 years . They need to set expiration dates for mod positions. In democracies we do that every 4-5 years.
Apple's ARM chips are 100% TSMC manufactured. While Intel makes its own CPUs in house, some of Intel's forthcoming GPUs (Arc?) are from TSMC, too.

https://www.techgadgetguides.com/news/apple-partner-tsmc-wan...

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-alchemist-gpu-tsmc-6nm-process...
Unfortunately it won’t, as Chronic Lyme is most likely lingering damage triggered by the initial infection rather than an actual ongoing infection.

There are some people who believe that chronic Lyme is caused by persistent hidden infections, but you have to cherry-pick a lot of evidence and ignore a lot of contradictory evidence to arrive at that conclusion. Regardless, it seems unlikely that the vaccine would help if the infection had some mechanism to hide from the immune system anyway, as they claim.
I have not said I know what the sentiments of Chinese people are or what's good for them.

You're very obviously using that as a straw man argument to avoid discussing democracy and democratic mandate.
Perhaps. However Apple has since released two security updates to iOS but has not patched the iMessage flaw that allows Pegasus software to spy on thousands (perhaps millions) of iphones.

What are they waiting for? Hmm perhaps getting something else in place first.
Then again, a corporation is likely able to contract with another corporation in a way that's not disturbed by scalpers?
So it doesn't mention that anything is actually E2E encrypted right now, does it?
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By kicking out everyone they don't agree with over time they curate an echo chamber of the few that they do speak for.
In the short term, sure, I'll buy that. In the long term, monopoly or near monopoly of any sort will turn toxic.
Got to make it sound groundbreaking to make people care. "It even has new and improved instant-pause audio control" /s
some =/= all,

which is the point I was addressing in my original comment.
So expect the next version of Spiderman to be based on a mRNA spider.
Personally I would prefer something streamlined, but only if it allows individuals the same or better choices. And I would not want a situation that lead to irreconcilable differences with the GDPR, the hassle of non data portability would be too great.
It's proprietary and extremely hostile towards user privacy. There is no reason to use it.
It's not a random twitter thread. That's one of Chrome's main standards-writing people. And he explicitly talks about the removal of these entirely.

There's more in Intent to Remove: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hTOXi...

--- start quote, emphasis mine ---

We’re on a long, slow path to deprecate and remove window.alert/confirm/prompt and beforeunload handlers due to their role in user-hostile event loop pausing, as well as phishing and other abuse mechanisms. We’ve been successfully chipping away at them in various cases, e.g. background tabs, subframes with no user interaction, and now cross-origin subframes. Each step is hard-fought progress toward the eventual goal

--- end quote ---
This translates to: "We are not going to require consent for data collection."
Hi Mike! Looks really interesting, and your screenshot looked awesome. It's something relevant for me at the moment.

I read through the GitHub page and some of the code, but couldn't find the information I was after. Could I ask some questions?

- How do I get data into this? e.g. How did the system know that person760@example.com had a payment failed for their invoice?

- Did you mean to link to trypaper.io on your github page? It doesn't look like it should, and I don't really want to "Get offers from 100+ lenders in one click" :)

- How long have you been working on this for?
"Other details remain light, with the government promising to launch a consultation on what future data laws will look like."

They're going to torch all our data regulations, and the only thing people will care about is the cookie pop-ups going away.
Discord is easy to use which is why its so popular. Install, pick a name and go. I don't even remember creating an account, just typing in a nick name. Even on Void Linux Musl you can install it via flatpack, scan the qr code and you're logged in with all your servers and channels already there. You couldn't setup an IRC client that fast.

My great gripe? No 3rd party clients. It's also massively bloated for my need of sending a few bytes of text. For this reason I use it for just one server and to communicate with two friends and my brother.

Otherwise I use IRC where I'm on three networks and 26 channels. IRC is much less convenient for sure in terms of nick registering (some SOB took my name!) "back scroll" and persistence across clients/systems but it does 99% of what I want from a chat client: chatting via text.
I love how crypto has become easy-to-blame, when in fact datacenter after datacenter is being stuffed to the brim with chips for ML workloads. It's important to recognize when consumers are being squeezed by multiple market forces.
I like to think of reddit as a "glorious" mess - one which will violently offend the sensibilities of people who like order and sensible product design.

If it helps, its worth considering reddit as a template for what can be improved.

I have no idea why the redesign was introduced, especially since there are now apps as well.

However, there is an increasing amount of study on how reddit operates, and how users move through the site. Its the maze which we can learn from - and its moderation is at least hopefully overturned by humans as opposed to the gnomic monoliths of FB and other imperial social networks.
Same with the europe subreddit, it's the same old national mods. They just don't want to give up power
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It seems like lately there's been a big push for people to respond to the disappointing outcomes for the vaccines in places like Israel and Iceland with "Simpson's paradox!" or "base rate fallacy!" as a way of ignoring what the actual data is saying. The other day NPR had a segment about Iceland where they said "67% of cases being in vaccinated people might sound like a disappointing number, but you have to remember that 71% of the country is vaccinated" which still seems pretty underwhelming?
You can also do exactly this with Blu-rays and get really stunning above-streaming quality, though of course the selection and pricing isn't as desirable as DVDs.

What I'm saying is invest in a USB or internal Blu-ray drive, the extra cost is worth it.
This isn’t a price hike on their best node this is a price hike in their more mainstream nodes which have real competition.
> most mainstream software from renowned companies should be [...] classified as malware.

Most FLOSS has not fallen in this category.
I mean, I don't think it should be up to individuals to be "green"; there's lots of individual choices but "price in the damage your actions cause" should not be one of them. And once environmental damage is correctly priced in, then reducing consumption is no longer green anyways, because the consumption is now carbon neutral.
I tried to get of my reddit addiction several times now ... going "cold turkey" or easing it of over time. I did that with 9gag a decade ago and never went back since, but with reddit it's hard because there is actually good content on there. Especially in the niche communities with small subscriber numbers.

(very evident in the /r/battletech subreddit that just got overrun by a recent games workshop exodus. Subscriber counts increased, but /r/battletech turned into a meme channel ...)
Depends on the individual’s finances. Preventative care such as annual wellness exams are mandated to be covered (i.e. free for insured) and you get a blood test with that. So presumably, you are catching most lifestyle or inherited or long term ailments there.

By law, annual out of of pocket expenses are capped:

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...

However, based on the median income in the US, many Americans would have to think twice about scheduling a doctor’s appointment and being on the hook for an unexpected hundreds or thousands of dollars.

It is all a form of rationing healthcare, so having people think twice about going to the doctor at the expense of some people’s health is part of the system.
> ...they get triaged to the bottom of the queue.

I can't find any evidence of this happening using Google. Do you have any?
I would say it more like site that has some sort of glare of anonymity.
That sort of anonymity ables person to be a bit of antisocial (e.g. not everyone would be happy to connect their real life identity to reddit account) but still it is social network.
I was driving to work (a foreign experience) and Joe Walsh was singing about a Maserati. And it made me thing “man, if you grew up in middle America, hearing about a Maserati, you might not even know what it was, let alone that it existed”. Now you can hit Google and see millions of pictures, join the fan club, watch hours of videos and reviews, and become an arm chair Maserati expert. Which is cool, but if sort of takes away the mystique behind things. You wouldn’t even know how it was spelled unless you had the album itself and the artist included lyrics.

Similarly with guitar, it would have been almost impossible to figure out what type of pedal someone was using to get “that sound” without interacting with other humans in person. And I think that served as a filter for people who cared and also led to interesting introductions and local experts (music shops and store owners, etc).

I think that’s what we lose. And while I think converging to average makes sense, I think peoples tastes have shifted to quality in more areas, because they can quickly google and see what the best looks like. And most people will use debt to get there.
> Maybe the host would also reflect that diversity in order to show that it’s not just white males who can be the gatekeepers to these values.

What a bunch of nonsense. He acts as though choosing a white man is somehow an affront to diversity, rather than just a choice with a sample size of one.

Abdul-Jabbar couches his words carefully, but it's clear he equates a white man with anti-intellectual, anti-progress.

Everyone else gets celebrated. White men are condemned because of their original sin. Because of how they were born.

Yea, this is racism. It's shocking that someone can purport to support progress while finger wagging an organization for choosing the wrong race of human.
Practically the UK must maintain an adequacy agreement with the European Commission so any changes would necessarily be constrained by that. Given that much of what became the GDPR was developed by British civil servants and in line with what the UK wanted to achieve at the time I suspect there is more than a little showboating going on here from HMG.
Even the Steam Deck is just a Arch Linux device, so you can install any games store like Epic or Origin or GOG on there if you want.

Unlike the Google Play Store which gets special access to APIs that other app stores cannot use.
Or due to the emotional context and baggage you bring to the website.
> The rough spot is in the middle when you have some assets, but not enough for a secure life, but do not have insurance, then you will have to forfeit your assets in order for the government aid to kick in, and then you are poor.

Which is where a lot of elderly people who need long term care end up.
Damn near every sub is like this with the exception of some joke/meme/video subs that are too small and who's mods DGAF about anything.
It has taken Apple almost 40 years to reach 15%.
okay, that’s actually a useful source, thanks.
I've been using Brave:

https://search.brave.com/

For my usage it gives good results, and it has the added bonus of providing links to google et al when you scroll down the results (it assumes that if the first page of results isn't good enough then the user will go elsewhere, so why not provide links to the other search engines?).
IIRC it was going to conflict with JavaScript imports. So now they are going all in on Javascript. See, e.g. CSS Modules: https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
The new strains seem to be no more lethal, but more contagious, possibly so contagious they may be able to spread in a population that is fully vaccinated and which is practicing social distancing. People who are vaccinated are unlikely to get sick so vaccination is overwhelmingly the most relevant public health intervention at this point in places where it's already endemic.
At least the article doesn’t raise the “ev’s charged by coal plants” trope. All the ones mentioned seem to check out as spin IMO. Especially the examples I’m familiar with.
Why are you emotionally invested in trying to bump up COVID’s kill count? If you can explain the motive, maybe we can find an alternate way for you to work towards that goal with fewer casualties.
Isn't what you ultimately care about in terms of policy the effectiveness on a population level? Of course you hit diminishing returns, when you start vaccinating people that were not at risk in the first place. I'm not arguing against getting the vaccine btw., I'm vaccinated myself. It is just disappointing that it alone won't solve the problem.
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> For example, it wouldn't surprise me if, the next time Marvel decides to make a new adaptation of Spider-Man, the spider will have been treated with mRNA instead of radiation (the original story) or gene therapy ('90s cartoon, '00s movies, maybe others).

mRNA vaccine tech being discussed here is not gene therapy. It cannot (appreciably) alter host DNA the way radiation or gene therapy can. It simply causes the host cells to manufacture desired proteins for a limited amount of time.
It’s just coil whine, not really worth worrying about. Happens on many graphics cards even when brand new.
Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
It's not the same because this is not an ABI, but an API needing a recompilation. It's actually explained in the article why it is not an ABI.
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