skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was a SNAFU of competing interests and stupid bureaucracy.

I hear where you're coming from, but after 20 years, there are several parts of the story for which I can no longer believe this was the case, or use this explanation to give the benefit of the doubt. (There are many other parts for which it does make sense.) I'll save myself looking like an internet crank and just suggest you give the podcast I linked to in [2] above an earnest listen. If you do, you may, like me, wonder from how high up the order came to personally stop the FBI man in question, Mark Rossini, from telling his superiors at the Bureau. It's at least George Tenet's former assistant, sent down to run Alec in '99.

I'm not sure what "all this information" refers to - no one knows exactly how much the institutions in question knew beforehand - but it's there in Chapter 6 of the 9/11 Commission Report (albeit buried in a footnote) that 40-50 people at Langley knew enough to stop the resulting plot had they wanted to, that senior CIA employees prevented the FBI from knowing about 2 Al Qaeda terrorists coming to and living in the US, and that specific upper management (whose names are now publicly known) told lower-level personnel that the FBI had been told when it's known that they hadn't. This is corroborated by serious, non-crank public servants who were there in the room when this stuff went down.

The result, for me, is that my default position on issues of war, terror, and other bloodshed has moved from "organizational dysfunction is the norm" to "I may never truly know, but these people are likely acting maliciously (to some degree) and/or lying about it (to some degree)". It's like, these people have jobs, and they do stuff. They're serious people, like many of us on HN, and they're competent a lot of the time. To the extent that we even know their track record, they have a track record: Iran, Chile, Guatemala, Congo, Iran again (Stuxnet), etc., etc.

So it's reversed the Sagan standard for me, in other words: if "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", the idea that the professionals to whom we give vast sums to be excellent at lying, cheating, stealing, killing, and betrayal - spies, in other words - should be given a sort of "Mister Magoo" benefit of the doubt when lots of people die -- that's, for me these days, the more extraordinary claim.
Yes, very much so - for example it used to be almost axiomatic (told in your second or third go lesson) that placing a white stone at the 3-3 point when black had played at 4-4 was very bad, but this video shows that AlphaGo has radically changed this view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2khNnE5Q3GM
Choose Your Reality
The Bible is like the Rosetta Stone: it's the most translated work in the world, ~800,000 words long, delimited by verse, and generally translated with great care by literate members of society.

The academic value of projects like this is immense and it's great to see it on the front page.
Definitely can happen in Arkansas. BUT, it will not be indefinitely, it will be when the insurance money/mom and dad's bank account runs out.
Perhaps Miami Airport is the large-scale study.
> I really don't see how Apple would successfully bill for their 30% cut

Very simple. Apple adds such language to the developer agreement. "We get a 30% cut of revenue for any services used on iOS devices." Apple requires companies to submit some form of user-level payment data. E.g. "iOS device XYZ paid via our website, we owe you 30%" "iOS device XYZ paid via IAP, we don't owe you" etc etc etc etc down the line.

Apple also adds provisions where they can audit your books. Apple adds provisions whereby being off by more than X% results in penalties. Apple adds provisions whereby they can request an independent audit of the companies books (quite reasonable with a "you're honest, we paid, you lied, you pay" provision). If all else fails Apple obviously retains the right to sue to enforce and a court can require a company to provide apple financials as part of discovery.

It's really not HARD per-se. I imagine the only reason apple doesn't do this as that it's just so much complicated than the IAP route.

Probably the thorniest issue here is that it would create some perverse incentives. Netflix might chose to remove their app from the app store in favor of telling you to just go to the website again avoiding the 30% cut.

Furthermore, what would entitle apple to their 30%?

I just bought and installed a card control badge access system at our office. I downloaded/installed the app on my phone. Should apple get 30%? If so, 30% of what? 30% of the total system cost including install? 30% of what I paid for the hardware? 30% of just the controller hardware cost? 30% of the annual support maintenance cost? I don't even KNOW most of those costs because they aren't even enumerated to me. I just paid a big lump sump. Super messy.
Also, they chose to use flash in the first place for little benefit at the time and with little foresight into the future.
If most all of the productivity gains accumulate to the 1%, who cares if we are a little less productive when quality of life is so much higher?
Do one for deltas or gradients. I always have a hard time determining exactly what they apply to.
there's a lot of ui here i like. making window bars that boast good content, that show available actions, is a great way to avoid making each modal or each window find it's own design patterns for where to feature it's core actions.
The blue light of the sky is technically the result of Rayleigh scattering of the sun through the atmosphere, which can be emulated (and often is these days! [0]), but fair; it's often cheaper and easier for an artist to model them separately. I was going for a classic physics demonstration to point out how simple sources can often result in beauty.

[0] The classic is Naty Hoffman's 2002 work on atmospheric scattering http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/GDC_02_Hoff... , but it has been developed over the years, e.g. Sebastian Hillaire's work on both Frostbite https://media.contentapi.ea.com/content/dam/eacom/frostbite/... and Unreal Engine https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2020-shading-cours...
There’s no need to try reasoning things out from first principles. People have been buying online for decades now, and all the experience shows most consumers are indifferent and clueless.

If you don’t believe me, ask a non-tech-sector family member what they think Apple Pay is.
>I want to edit markdown text in a web browser and click a button to see how its rendered and then go back to the editor without changing contexts at all.

imml[1] comes close to this, it's all css tricks to display content so I imagine SEO would suffer until search engine's learn css #navigation but for everyone else it just works. If it had a push to github pages button it would be the perfect minimalist site/blog. For now the publishing step involves downloading the single resulting html file and uploading it manually with surge.sh or to the website host you bought your domain from.

[1] https://leoncvlt.github.io/imml/#
Is that something you would expect a typical user to do? Especially users that aren't developers?

> Firefox is not really any more difficult to build than any other large open source project.

That has not been my experience. Granted, chromium also has a very difficult and slow build, and browsers are big complicated things. But my point is it isn't easy.
Yeah honestly if I wasn’t writing on Medium and was only a reader, I’m not sure I would pay for it either. I totally get the gripes from a casual reader stand point.

There are some unique approaches to this idea of casual viewing. I know Coil (https://coil.com/) is doing this with the whole idea of Web 3.0.

The idea, if I understand correctly, is you pay $5 a month for a membership, and any time you consume content from someone who has set up a coil wallet, part of your subscription goes to them. Like Medium subscriptions, but for the entire web.

The problem right now is no isn’t really an incentive to use it. It’s all volunteer based. So the payouts from it are pennies.

Websites would need to have Coil-only content that only members would get to see to incentivize adoption, similar to Patreon. But since it’s decentralized, it’s up to each site to implement it.
Is feminism not part of individuality?
> helping your neighbors

How can you help the people who dont want vaccines? Are you going to force them to have it?
90% of victims of rape and sexual assault know their attacker. The prototypical rapist is not a disheveled homeless man attacking you in the middle of the night. Rather, he is your boss, your friend, your relative, your date. If you find yourself warning people of rape and assault when talking about the homeless, think hard about why that is. Because going by the numbers, it’s the housed who you should be afraid of when it comes to rape and sexual assault, not the homeless.
You probably should spend more time in a church.

(Another one, but of a riddle)
This doesn’t seem particularly relevant here. I see folks touting that people can “vote” for companies through their wallets and that people who don’t like law of the land in an area can just leave. This is in-line with both of those views.
The contrapositive of "every website is a dating website if you try hard enough"
How is the corporation not following the law?

I imagine some (many?) SF employees in TX moved there for the job and did not expect this. SF feels at least partly responsible to these people and is offering to help.
I'm interested in anything that has the potential to improve education, especially if it can do it at scale.

I'm not involved with the Oppia foundation, but I know Sean from my time at Google.

I started creating an exploration about accounting at https://www.oppia.org/explore/pepGU0qbyoUm but it's not complete and I haven't improved it since I created it.
It seems that smokers largely pay their way [1] since it is relatively easy to price the delta into the product and insurance premiums. Perhaps the unvaccinated could be treated a bit like smokers.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2918654/
This statement is legal in the USA.
I want both. Basically I want something federated but not connected to the "fediverse" as in Mastedon. Perhaps I need to look into Mastedon.
This speaks of "multiple translations." What I would really like are APIs to critical editions of the Greek New Testament, Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, Peshitta, Vulgate, etc. I'm not holding my breath; those are all under copyright, as I understand it, and they aren't cheap when added onto the major bible software packages.

I know of at least one public domain edition of the Byzantine majority text of the Greek NT:

https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/bible/greek-byzantine-200...

(not sure if that's the official page)

Edit: I suppose I could create my own API for that one!
It's scary to think that the entire political speech industry controlled by a few gate keepers, and if you piss them off, the chances of you ever sharing your opinion ever again are basically zero.

It's like if you get banned from every town square in the world, your only chance to get the word out is to purchase posters and put them on lampposts.

Without YouTube and Facebook's permission, it's impossible to make money sharing your opinion on how the world should be. So if that's your livelihood, you're better off letting them exploit you than risk pissing them off for any reason (and pray you don't get erroneously banned by an AI).

Sounds like a healthy environment for democracy /s
I don't see how any laws are being violated here. if Salesforce was somehow encouraging their employees to ignore Texas laws, then thats another thing. But that's not the case here.
If we didn't already know it was not reliable, this alone would suffice to demontrate it. Citing TIOBE is like saying you're OK because anyway your mother loves you.
The sentiment you state is common FUD on HN but that's not how the world works. In fact, the software industry probably has fewer gatekeepers than most industries, by way of being relatively immature. That's if you count actual gatekeepers like regulatory bodies. As for competiton and business decisions, those are not gatekeepers*, that is competition and business decisions.

* I'm making a distinction here between "gatekeeping", which anyone may participate in (e.g. people who rally against or challenge women gamers), and "gatekeepers", entities with the power and authority to decisively determine what is and isn't allowed (like the bouncer at a club). Not everyone who is "gatekeeping" is a "gatekeeper".
There's a relatively large but finite number of possible inputs. This could theoretically be converted into a bunch of static files that fit on Netlify or GH Pages.
pretty notable turn here, that a.major major online knfo-gathering system is searching for ways to overturn a tyranny of old/established/maybe once good enough to accept items from long ago. few places online have long term moderation problems- most content goes inactive very quickly- but here we have a more interesting, alive, well travelled repository.
As far as I know, Swiss law does not allow for "secret data collecting orders", unlike US after "Patriot Act".

This is the benefit if being located in Switzerland, where banking is one of the main pillars of the economy and which historically has been much more supportive of personal privacy than most other countries.

They eventually caved under US pressure on some things, so it's not such a "haven" as it used to be, but I believe it is still the country that respects individuals' rights the most.

Not perfect by any means, just better than most others.
I recognize those statements, but I still think they are unclear.

Being entitled to a commission, or payment for intellectual property could mean many things.

In order to be 100% on this interpretation, I would have liked to see the judge directly state what is the whole point of all of this, if there is no possible price benefits to this.

If there is zero economic gains to be made, through directing people out of app, then why make this ruling.

But yes, I recognize how the statements you are talking about, could be interpreted that way. I just don't see how the judge directly addressed this problem I'd have with the ruling.

IE why overturn anti steering rules if the things you steer too give apple the same exact commission?
If people, post-pandemic, would (voluntarily) mask up and distance when they're not feeling well, I think it would reduce flu and common-cold transmission quite a lot throughout the year. This sort of thing is already common in some places and I'd be thrilled if it became a thing in the US.

(But agree that knee-jerk mandatory restrictions would be a terrible outcome.)
They were all substantially different languages. Pascal itself did decline, and its user community splintered off to various niche languages AND to portable C. C ended up with the biggest user population, and here we are.
Passive: Stonks, RE, ponzi coins going up in value

Hustle: Selling Trezor Ones on eBay in Australia. They were hot cakes a few months ago but it’s slowed down now so stopped it.
I often ask myself the same question. Also sentient AI would hate the ruling elite so they would not build that AI. Just the kind that follows aid workers around Afghanistan and drones them.
For the Hebrew Bible, I recommend Sefaria:

https://www.sefaria.org/texts
maybe because this is hacker news and GPT-3 is cool.
Is this the reason that your app don't work on IOS: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/05/23/react-v-16-4.html#pointe...

The safari do not support the pointer events.
Usually this would be... Non-constructive, but since they're trying to perfectly rip off MacOS, surely it counts as useful feedback.
Like most humans then.
Rubbish.
Office based work is conducive to loose knowledge sharing and too much personal "touch". A lot of time was being wasted in office silos.
People need to make the shift to formalizing processes and knowledge sharing. Only then a new era of productivity will be unleashed. Remote is the future.
I kind of hope Microsoft finally goes all-in on Windows 11 and just locks that down like iOS/Android. Maybe then people will finally realize how absurd all those arguments defending Apple are.
Hold on … aren’t people scrambling to sell their trashed SSDs now at any price.
Given that the vast majority of COVID hospitalizations and deaths are among the unvaccinated, yes, I would say that people who refuse the vaccine are devoid of critical thinking skills.
And there are some polyfill for it:
'If your application depends on pointer events, we recommend using a third-party pointer events polyfill.'
Based on this same logic I could see someone saying, in 2005, “despite loosening lending requirements back in the late 1990’s, we had these same concerns of instability in mortgages that would result in a housing collapse. Clearly that didn’t happen.”
This move: helping employees move to a different state is actually totally OK.

The problem is the dark money and superpacks (citizens united supreme court ruling etc). This is a bipartisan problem that both Obama and Trump claimed they would fight. Obama couldn't get any traction for this, I'm unaware of anything Trump tried to do other than attacking the liberal side of this.

Biden also went out against this but it's very low on his priority list with everything going on...

In the supreme court it's pretty clear whose side is at fault. The justices that voted for the case of citizens united are all from the right side of the map. So the only way to reverse this seems to be a complete overhaul of the supreme court which seems unlikely.
We had a tricky UI state component recently -- a sharing panel complete with notifications, RBAC, entitlements, loading indicators, and error handlers -- which was a religious moment for us on Storybook. A way to specify the expected states of interest and being able to click through them helps a lot!
still waiting to be impressed by anything as awesome as the a123 lithium iron "nano" phosphate ever again. rugged as heck 8.5Wh cell that can charge at 30W, discharge at 150W, absurdly good cycle count. for a 26mm diameter 600mm long cylinder. epic.

there's a lot of amazing performances we make cells do. but the reliability & extremely long life of this high power cell continue to be, in my view, one of the pinnacles of battery technology, many years latter.
You think editing this [1] is acceptable configuration??

[1] view-source:chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml
And Techrights/BoycottNovell and Groklaw are the epitome of unbiased coverage and analysis? How about we read everything with a grain of salt rather than just ad hominem? Why not just cite what is wrong with the analysis in the article, if anything? I see numerous citations, maybe submit analysis that differs from a different lawyer?
For identical reasons, I learned to stick with portable, more or less standardized languages, and never get sucked into proprietary walled gardens. People trying to keep up on new "frameworks" released every two years are wasting their short lifetimes chasing phantoms.
> the idea that the professionals to whom we give vast sums to be excellent at lying, cheating, stealing, killing, and betrayal - spies, in other words - should be given a sort of "Mister Magoo" benefit of the doubt when lots of people die -- that's, for me these days, the more extraordinary claim.

That's where we differ. They're Mr. Magoo with money in my opinion. How many brilliant exploits have they ever had?
Even their wins are, like, "we sponsored some death squads who killed the opposition and eventually the anti-communist guy won due to having overwhelming resources".

The CIA is called 'the company' in DC and it's apparently a super-corporate environment. I've worked in corporate. It's stupid. A big part of the stupid is the local ideology, which is a multiplier effect on the general 'none of us is as dumb as all of us' effect, and I could probably go a long ways with you critiquing the CIA's default and unspoken ideology. But I still think 'organizational stupid' is such an absolute..
> In German, all nouns are capitalised. Reading a prose in German LOokS lIkE this TO mE.

This is hard to read both because capitalization is a clue that another sentence is starting in English and because uneven multiple capitalization makes it harder to recognize a word. Your brain almost stutters as it pauses to turn the unfamiliar LOokS into looks. Presumably Germans expect the additional capitalization and don't experience this extra processing whereas if you are used to English you are used to deriving different data from more sparsely applied capitalization. While LOokS causes poorer performance for everyone. I think your comparison of highlighting to German capitalization rules is more apt than comparing it to capitalizing random letters.

In keeping with the argument made earlier in the text this ought to improve your understanding of prose because it makes you slow down and really parse it. In reality your brain has a finite amount of processing power and memory and consciously focusing on turning unfamiliar structures into intelligible data and if the data you are taking in is complicated you are taking away resources by being forced to more consciously process it.

You might actually apply this thinking to your experience with syntax highlighting if you aren't used to it you attend to it more so than the data expressed by the code. Your preference and familiarity leads to a different experience than individuals who are used to using it. This doesn't make your preference wrong or right but I question your conclusion that it leads to more attentive reading. I suggest instead that if you discover oft overlooked bugs it is rather because are a more attentive reader rather than being down to reading without syntax highlighting being more effective.
Stop using apple then? Why do you need government to tell apple how to run their company? All these seems really absurd and incompetent coming from Epic.
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No, they’re for inept idiots who are obsessed with mathematically solved abstractions of reality. My god, to someone who sees chaos maps in reality the patterns these pathetic programming abstractions offer is a limitation of /our current society/ — we are slaves to wealth and process over progress and intuition. Nothing more need be said, I am always throwing Pearls before swine.
How does the business side of this work in a communist country? Did the state order these companies to build these games?
To ensure the fighters crippled the passenger plane, at least one of the scrambled National Guard pilots ruled out ejecting.

The other hoped to eject before impact.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44459345
Aside from the risk they're introducing to the delivery ward, the newborns, and the recovering mothers, it also represents a lack of intelligence - which can impact other aspects of care.

I have dealt with a large number of poor quality nurses (there's a nurse shortage to the bar is low for admission), and I have a strong feeling that the bad nurses are also the anti-vax nurses.
> There's been DDoS in the news lately, I'm surprised nobody has yet leveraged those bot nets to bankrupt orgs they don't like who use cloud autoscaling services.

AWS Shield Advanced actually offers DDoS cost protection to mitigate this specific risk: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/features/