skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This and another news they will allow more different pricing points, up to 500 from 100.

I wonder if some PR/research team at Apple woke up one day and finally realize the outcry re scan of iPhone in iOS 15 may actually hurt the brand longterm.
You just reminded me of something I heard on a recent Darknet Diaries episode:

> Some of the best hackers within the NSA turned into independent contractors so they could work faster and make more money, but were on the outside? This is one of those things that someone like Microsoft is afraid of, too. If they pay too much for bugs, then some of their internal bug hunters might decide to quit but keep doing the same thing; just make more money on the outside.

He even used Microsoft as an example. I wonder if they paid less because the researcher was a turncoat in their mind.
I originally was doing this just for Florida. Because Florida generally has the most deaths during the dry, cold weeks at the end of January, it made it harder for me to see and show that trend on the horizontal chart as it wrapped across both ends.
Nice, sponsor scrub!
How much of a discount does it take to live in a potentially unsafe building?
When Helsinki had rent control, you always made a contract with some company, who then rented it to employees. Business-to-business rents were not controlled.

Quite convenient actually, as every company had its own renting agent, and money was always guaranteed.

When the rent control ended, renting turned into horrible shit-show. The register of good and bad customers was illegal and you could not easily check their financial status. And maximum security money was limited to 3 months. After few bad experiences I stopped renting out and just sold my apartment(s).
Interesting.

If I would want to solve that problem, first thing I would have tried is bypassing text representation of these shaders. For a few things in the past I have generated, and dynamically patched, D3D11 shaders directly in DXBC byte code, without HLSL anywhere. The byte code format is even documented by Microsoft. Not the complete DXBC files though, but some people on the internets have reverse engineered the missing pieces.
I thought pre-existing condition was outlawed by Obamacare.
The standards committee have too broad of a scope and think they can make everyone happy. They want the same C++ to work on embedded and cloud servers while not making anyone update any of their old code and having full backwards compatiblility. This results in tradeoffs that make everyone unhappy.
I don't know much about the system... is there an escrow service? Insurance?
Definitely call it "SFAS", which also stands (or did) for Statements of Financial Accounting Standards promulgated by the FASB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FASB_pronouncements
> COVID-19, on the other hand, has an overall 1.66% chance of killing someone (38,043,754 cases, 629,644 deaths)

What you calculated is the case fatality rate (CFR), but the infection fatality rate (IFR) is a better representation of risk from SARS-COV-2 infection.

The global average IFR is recently estimated to be ~0.15% [1], which is extremely skewed by age.

All estimates of age stratified IFR show a gradient that decreases by orders of magnitude with age - we're talking IFRs below 0.003% for healthy young adults and children [2][3].

Furthermore, there is substantial evidence that the CFRs & IFRs are significant overestimates [5]. This completely changes the risk-reward tradeoff for many people.

I am not advocating against vaccination (it is a powerful tool that saves lives) - just spreading knowledge and illustrating the fact that everyone has a different risk-reward profile based on their age and health, and should make personal health decisions accordingly.

[1] Reconciling estimates of global spread and infection fatality rates of COVID- 19: An overview of systematic evaluations
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/eci.13...

[2] Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7947934/

[3] COVID-19 antibody seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/50/2/410/6146069

[4] Model-informed COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies by age and serostatus
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/371/6532/916.full...

[5] Evaluating the massive underreporting and undertesting of COVID-19 cases in multiple global epicenters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S253104372...
IIRC, Dan Connolly, when he was at Convex, wrote an SGML viewer that used blue hyperlinks. He did this work in 1990-92. At the same time, he was collaborating with Tim Berners-Lee in his spare time.

So blue was in the air by then.
The Japanese actually have a word for death by over-work:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
In my opinion, an outrageous tax-giveaway to the rich. Very sad that this was expanded to 100% (from 50%) during the Obama administration.

Some people will say it doesn't apply to California, but this misses the point: you still avoid federal income taxation (and AMT). California is simply smart enough (IMO) to not follow the federal government's lead on this. So yeah, you'll still have to pay some tax to California. Big whoop you just saved 28% of federal tax.

The QSBS exemption is an excellent reason to remain a C corporation. Please don't ask how I know.

If you are a founder, you should definitely study/inquire about the benefits of this exemption.
Most businesses didn't need those fast drives either. Marginal disk speed increase did not contributing to the bottom line.

I mean if you're going to disk, you've already lost money.
Show me one example of a city that is reducing transit in favor of bike lines and I might believe that's a legitimate concern. Almost always, cities that are looking to add bike lines are also looking to expand transit.
One look at his actual code examples unfortunately... :(
I always just think of them as “in effect” and “(for) example”, which is their direct expansion. But that distinction makes sense to me because I use the phrase “in effect” in speech as well sometimes.

It hadn’t occurred to me that this is unusual - I suppose it is? I wonder if it’s a aus / US cultural difference? (I’m Australian) or maybe something I picked up years ago as a grad student?
Microsoft putting ads into the OS was a real low blow, and they've made some really bad blunders over the years.

But there is nothing more valuable to me than my time. It takes me less time to be productive on Windows and OS X and remove all the junk, than it does to waste countless hours trying to get a Linux DE configured "just right" based on whatever combo I'm using and feature parity I need.

I'll chose my time over my money, and I'm OK with that. Turns out paying professionals for quality goods is an alright business model, and I'm not losing any sleep by not having source code access.
I am learning Hungarian, and I find this much truer than the usual claim that it's phonetic one-to-one. Some letters change sounds in certain instances, but there are discernable patterns, unlike much of English. I find it fairly easy to spell a word heard, even if it's the first time encountering. Of course, it also helps that Hungarians are usually a root with a known affix or five.
THREE_FIDDY
What about apps?
One summer my commute by bicycle involved a route that regularly had a certain degree of bicycle congestion, enough that at one choke point in particular we were completely saturating the road (not just the bike lane, but the car lane heading in the right direction too).

In that portion my speed was probably halved, congestion definitely does have an effect at high enough volumes. If more roads in the area had bike lanes this wouldn't have happened and my commute would have been faster (and more pleasant, riding in bicycle commuter traffic is somewhat stressful since everyone wants to go at different speeds). On the other hand if the same number of people were in cars in the same amount of space traffic would definitely have been much slower.
> Natural rights.

'Natural rights' are the entitlements we feel that we have, derived from the rules we feel others must follow according to natural law. 'Natural law' is the rules for social conduct which are baked into our genes. Or, as wikipedia puts it

> Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws, though one can forfeit their enjoyment through one's actions, such as by violating someone else's rights). Natural law is the law of natural rights.

Natural law and natural rights are two sides of the same coin.
> What a bizarre paragraph. First it explicitly makes it clear that it's forbidden to send the payment information using contact information obtained via the app. However the last sentence is a generic statement that seems to contradict that. Does Apple mean that you can only use contact information obtained elsewhere? That would then match the previous terms. So it's probably that. However it is worded in such a horrible way that I can't be sure.

That sounds like you can’t use contact info you received as part of a paid signup to contact to switch to an out of band payment method.

In contrast to contacting a free tier user who’s email you’ve received as part of their signup flow. That situation would be allowed.

Indeed it’s bizarre as depending on when the contact data was gathered decides what you can do with it.
Author here. I had not thought of doing that. I will try that. Thanks.
Copying my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28322971#28323054:

> This settlement has that already.

This settlement is not good enough for many developers, since developers are still subject to Apple's anti-steering rule in their iOS apps. Having to establish another communication channel with the customer is an unnecessary hurdle to let the customer know that they could avoid the (up to) 42.8% price hike on their subscription and future app-related purchases if they pay outside the app.
I still can't find deals on large HDD's ever since the Chia thing started, so it's definitely had an effect.
I also live in Korea, but the only places I could imagine being able to survive for $600/mo would be outside major cities and eating kimbap and ramyeon for your takeout meals and living in a goshitel... no offense! Of course, if you're putting down a large deposit, then your rent could even be free.

Personally, I wouldn't bother with jeonsae unless somebody else is paying for it (parents, employer, bank), keep your money in your favorite speculative investment instead.
Flight to Seattle evacuated after passenger’s Samsung Galaxy phone ignites
This does not seem to be true, at least based on a quick googling.
It's been a couple years since my workplace migrated away from slack, but I found weeslack [1], a plugin for weechat, to be sufficient.
I've used pycookiecheat
successfully with Chrome on Ubuntu: https://pypi.org/project/pycookiecheat/

chr_cookies = pycookiecheat.chrome_cookies('https://example.com')
session = requests.Session()
for k, v in cookies.items():
session.cookies.set(k, v, domain='.example.com')
>poorer countries

That's a funny way of spelling "ransomware criminals."
I do apologize, I didn't mean to imply incompetence at small companies. I can understand smaller companies not using private endpoints/private link services for cost reasons. I can't fathom why fortune 500's would not use them to secure their resources.
I guess epic games just won?
I would say Hangul is regular, not phonetic. Sounds might change depending on their position when written, but I wouldn't call it particularly complex, certainly not compared to English orthography.
But even then, the rules are fairly consistent and mostly logical. And even then the transformations are not drastically different from the consonant’s “base” sound.

Some of those transformations are a byproduct of hangul losing a vowel and a handful of consonants, and Korean itself going through a change similar to Middle English > Modern English over the course of Joseon’s 400+ year history.
On SSD market, silent change in same model and performance degrade is continuously happen. Any maker should change model number.
Exactly.

Personally I am done with indirect funding models where people burn my time and attention in hopes of getting me to waste enough money on something that surplus cash can be skimmed to pay for the original content. It's ridiculous. Direct payment or GTFO.

And I'm putting my money where my mouth is. My Patreon bill was $150 this month. And that's not counting direct payments to creators.
> one of the most failure-prone and frustrating endeavors was trying to get two IDE drives working together on a single cable as a master/slave pair

Before the advent of pendrives and broadband internet this was how me and most of my friends shared files: we got our hard drives and took them with us to the home of one another. Setting up master/slave was easily done with jumpers on the hard drive and NEVER failed.
I think that's right. Like I said I reserve judgement until they're more prevalent and I've learned more about them. I have read that Ethereum's PoS implementation will use <1% of it's current PoW energy.
Not too familiar with ARM CPU names, but apparently this is a 16 nm chip from 2016. Hrm.

The product itself doesn't appear to be particularly new either; their YouTube video is from March 31, 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdRSCQfhyw), and this blog article is dated February 24, 2021: https://www.solid-run.com/blog/articles/honeycomb-lx2-server... and this "early access sale" (https://www.solid-run.com/news/early-access-limited-offer-ho...) is from June 7, 2019. (You have to go to pages like https://www.solid-run.com/blog/page/3/ to find the dates.)

I don't think ARM chips will take off on "real computers" until you can buy CPUs and motherboards independently. And if that is difficult for technical reasons (e.g., no standardized BIOS/hardware discoverability -- I'm just extrapolating from ARM-based dev boards I have used, maybe this exists on computers like this) then I think it's going to take a long time -- perhaps RISC-V-based "real computers" will appear before that.
Now start doing the math for how much power (I made it easy, I I'm only asking for the rate) that is required to keep someone alive indefinitely.

Don't cheat! Don't use the caloric needs of a fully grown adult. Their bodies stoically accept a lot of the damage done by entropy. You have expend additional energy to reverse it.

Don't cheat, remember to account for a population growth rate == the current birth rate.

If you don't like having to account for the growth rate, please give a moral explanation for why some select few get to live forever and others croak.

How much power do you need? How are you supplying this power? It's cute to say "Sun". But solar panels (let's assume 100% efficient) require surface area that would otherwise be used by plant and animals for their existence.

So live forever by

1. Radically transforming the Earth into a massive ball of polycrystalline silicon
2. Giving eternity to only a (very) select few.
> the actual court document

That's a nice find!

I still find the language in the filing to be odd, specifically "all app categories". What good does allowing the communication changes for all app categories do, when most of them are not permitted to use non-IAP methods for payments in the first place? On the other hand, if they were changing the rules around when non-IAP payments are allowed, it seems like something that would be called out explicitly.

Maybe it could affect 3.1.3(f) and 3.1.4?
> Dense cities have lots of smaller grocery stores rather than a few large ones.

Hm? In my experience, dense cities have lots of smaller grocery stores, and they also have lots of gargantuan grocery stores.
Updates on dev-to clone in Angular – August 27
I just think “egsample” and then i.e. must be the other one.
That’s what I was thinking. I was once responsible for a RCE vulnerability that was reported to hackerone on Christmas afternoon. Even then I took less than 1/48th the time to disable the feature and had a patch ready in half the time it took them to just disable jupyter notebooks.

I’m not claiming to be better at my job than their response team. I’m almost certainly not. The difference is I didn’t have to have meetings with 20 different internal stakeholders before acting.
De facto ownership means your personal property doesn’t get searched for evidence of crime, without reasonable cause
As much as I enjoy my System 76 Linux laptop where everything, including CUDA setup for the GPU “just works,” I find a M1 MacBook Pro just makes more sense for my workflow. For fun, I have a very small Lenovo Chromebook that is a partial replacement for my iPad for web surfing and consuming media, and the Linux container support also just works when I want that, and with a nice UI.
> This settlement has that already.

This settlement is not good enough for many developers, since developers are still subject to Apple's anti-steering rule in their iOS apps. Having to establish another communication channel with the customer is an unnecessary hurdle to let the customer know that they could avoid the (up to) 42.8% price hike on their subscription and future app-related purchases if they pay outside the app.
Yeah, now PC come in damned glass cases. So much for the FCC.
Supreme Court Blocks Biden Administration's Ban On Evictions
The Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF)'s relatively nuanced take on it is here:

http://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=26557671

"On constate une hésitation dans le genre attribué au terme COVID-19" -- "One can sense some hesitation regarding the gender assigned to the term COVID-19"

The feminine form ("la covid") might come (according to the OQLF, at least) from "la maladie à coronavirus 2019" i.e. "maladie" (which is feminine) "transferring" its gender over to "covid".

---

Actually, now that I read the Académie Française's take on it, I don't find it too unreasonable:

https://www.academie-francaise.fr/le-covid-19-ou-la-covid-19

They state (as does the OQLF) that the gender is transferred over from the "core" word of the expression. So, "la" (feminine) SNCF because SNCF stands for "Société nationale des chemins de fer français" and "Société" (the core word) is feminine.

"la" covid, again, because of "maladie" (which is feminine)

The Académie says: "Il n’en reste pas moins que l’emploi du féminin serait préférable" -- "That being said, the use of feminine would be preferable". Not _that_ prescriptive.

Should the Académie have a prescriptive (vs descriptive) role in every day French (in France / or Canada) is of course a whole debate topic. :-)

---

Shameless plug since we're on the topic: I run an Urban Dictionary-like site for French Canadians expressions -- https://www.laparlure.com/ -- it's purely descriptive and user-generated i.e. French (mostly in Canada) "as it's spoken"
It is standard but it is not used often. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I saw one used that want some ancient, intranet application built on Cold Fusion.

Many users don’t even know you can use a key shortcut to copy/paste.
I mean of course that I have never had a tick which managed to suck anything, except once in 1955.

Also I remember being drunk and watching Ixodes Ricinus move along my arm and trying to stick its nose thru skin. Everytime it backed up real fast, like it found something nasty inside. Very much the same thing as American Deer Tick Ixodes scapularis.
That's anthropomorphism, not grammatical gender.
Why Does Tsmc soar again?
"Nvidia, fuck you!"
There is already legislation in process that would do a hell of a lot more than this change including giving vendors the ability to sell entirely via their own store.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/11/bipartisan-bill-targets-appl...

If lawmakers are already going to give you 200% of what you originally asked for why on earth would you settle for half?
This is a step in the right direction, but it's not reform, nor is the kind of transparency that would have remedied issues like the Hey email scandal. In any case, it's an interesting departure from the "courageous" Apple that unabashedly removed the headphone jack and dismissed concern over on-device scanning as 'screeching'.
Aliexpress, with the usual gamble as to what you actually receive :)

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...
I agree on the code signing. I wrote an app in LispWorks Common Lisp, and other people use the same for apps for the Apple Store, I ended up just rewriting it in Swift and SwiftUI because that made dealing with the Apple Store so much easier.
> 212kB

Here's a 11 kB bootable x86-64 version of the game written in C# https://github.com/kant2002/SeeSharpSnake/tree/kant/uefi#run....

There's an accompanying article with a video at the bottom https://codevision.medium.com/running-c-snake-inside-uefi-df....
If this one becomes official, can Epic back to App Store? I guess no, since it will be a precedent for other escalations.
Sure, for two different definitions of "doing things". But the existence of different definitions is precisely the point.

Unless you are claiming that cutting someone's paper is equal to cutting their skin?
Another factor in the monks' decision-tree was: If a holy relic isn't worth stealing, then what is it really worth anyway?

This question is examined in some detail in "Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages" by Patrick Geary.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691008622/fu...
fuck the IRS
Problems faced while creating comments section with a tree like data structure
I've a hard time slamming poor people demanding a ransom for a rich mans holiday home left largely unoccupied throughout the year in a country with fifteen percent unemployment
No more than 1GB, and inference would be dependent on the speed but no more than 10 seconds. Completely reasonable as a standalone program.
Pipewire 0.3.34
true, crypto(graphy - wow, been so long since i've typed it that I've just realized crypto has now been bogarded for something else).
theory vs applied but I think its still true the mindset of a hacker is still very different. ie similar to the whole IT vs dev
Someone mentioned how the area under the curve could be misleading, and this link addresses how to correct for that:

"The radius of each sector would be proportional to the square root of the death count for the month, so the area of a sector represents the number of deaths in a month."
I've think I've heard bina:na:, bina:nɚ, and binænə, in addition to bənænə.
It sucks, is expensive, and was designed by someone who was fired.
...until you can buy CPUs and motherboards independently

Ampere Altra is socketed; too bad the motherboard alone is ~$5,000.

standardized BIOS/hardware discoverability

This is solved with SBSA/ServerReady/SystemReady.
the words Microsoft and security don't go together
What the fuck. Laws should be empowering people to use force against these criminals instead of protecting them.
The problem I remember was reconfiguring computers. There were the jumpers and changes to BIOS.

And drivers in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys for CDROM's.

If I wasn't systematic and taking notes, I could spend time thrashing round in circles through reboots and partial hardware disassembly.

Oh gosh, once I was upgrading a mid-tower clone with a second drive (170mb). It had a Cyrix 803087 chip that didn't seat tight in the motherboard and it would work fine on its side from gravity so I would button it up and the chip would loosen when the case was standing up and the system didn't boot and my notes didn't help and it was a production machine.

Figured it out around two in the morning.