skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When i think about the work i do as a fairly blue collar front-end engineer writing react and swift code, it's interesting to consider how this could fit in and help.

The problem areas it seems to excel at are somewhat self-contained, which is in contrast to the code I write, usually all about integrating multiple systems and bodies of knowledge (user device, network, data schema, industry practices, product requirements etc).

I too rarely, to my occasional regret, have a chance to write a more pure function whose function can be explained so concisely as the miraculous codex demos are. Helper functions ("count the words" etc) are sprinkled throughout my code for sure but are mostly provided to me by the platforms I inhabit.

Codex's ability to explain a piece of code in plain english seemed exciting at first, but the type of "other people's code" I am usually puzzling over has so many tentacles into the specific "business rules" and arcana of the service i'm writing to. How would Codex know about all that?

Of course codex has already blown my mind several times so I am quite open to it someday being able to ingest an entire set of interrelated codebases and break them down for me succinctly. That doesn't even seem far-fetched, based on what we've seen to this point.

The thing that is ringing a bell for me the most is the idea of it being able to understand APIs and generate correct code for them. That could be a neat learning tool and save some boilerplate. Kind of like scaffold-generation code, but on steroids ...
The poster above was replying to a comment about mandates to enter restaurants. Those mandates have been entirely state directed. So it does not fall apart at all.
Fines now. Jail later.
I need to bring in my own chair. It makes a significant difference.
That’s how most companies do most everything. If they get big then they’ve figured out a systematic way to win at one or more games in business. Everything else is just enough of a shit show to get by.

As with all aspects of modern business operations “how to do it right” has been crowed about for decades by experts who care. It’s just that nothing matters until it matters, such as waste disposal, workers rights, product safety, etc…

If you show me the incentives I’ll show you the behavior. The only way we will ever get data security to matter more than theater and “check the box” is for the obvious to happen (bad consequences).

We don’t have a Ralph Nader.

This is why I’m against responsible disclosure, accepting below market payouts on bug bounties, and generally treating companies with any modicum of trust. Until it hurts so bad that people are on the steps of the capitol building beying for the blood of CIOs will we see meaningful change.
Already a busy thread about this re: TheVerge.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482895

And a bunch of other submissions...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483564 (NYTimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483745 (WSJ.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483248 (MSN.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483372 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483162 (Bloomberg.com)
> For instance, we have many laws that infringe free speech rights, and the great majority of people are perfectly fine with that.

I think you'll find that most people who are okay with the laws you are referencing likewise disagree that those laws infringe free speech rights, rather, they view them as operating in a space outside of the proper conception of the right to free speech; the complexity isn't as much in the operation of rights as in the parameters of rights.
The heat death of the universe?
Why twist the words straight from the ruling ? If they “concluded Apple is not a monopolist” they would have said so. They deliberately choose a different turn of phrase for these words, let’s respect the nuance they cared to put there.
On the one hand this great for consumer choice, on the other, it will undoubtedly lead to a loss in purchasing confidence of regular users and a flood of scams or scam-like apps. Especially with regard to subscriptions, we’ve seen this play out via SMS-based ringtone subscriptions of days past.

Personally, I will never subscribe to anything on my iOS devices if I cannot view and cancel it via the built-in subscription management. Here’s to hoping that Apple is going to make integration with it mandatory.
This is pretty amazing. The guys are absolutely right - it's still early days for this tech and the sky would seem to be the limit.

Coders are always climbing the learning ladder and should add co-working with a code-writing AI to their toolkit, especially if it truly is 'open' (CoPilot will be a paid service I believe?).

The long term possibilities for eliminating many types of labour seem enormous. It is not so easy yet to understand what forms of labour will be not only resilient in the face of this developing tech, but even 'antifragile' to it. If these are few (could by definition be an oxymoronic assumption), how will the relative returns on labour vs returns on asset ownership diverge? Will a fundamental revision of socio-economic systems be required?
I've worked with databases for a while now and I've never advocated for moving to Oracle (I have advocated for postgres though). The long term organizational costs is a big factor - but an almost equally large factor is the fact that

1. I have never actually used their dialect and have heard absolutely terrible things about it

2. There is no non-enterprise DBMS available that uses something close to their dialect so I figure actually hiring Oracle DBAs would be a nightmare.

These two factors combine to make me absolutely baffled at how completely Oracle has seemed to dominate every market but the private one (i.e. government, especially defense and educational). Have I been missing something about ways to actually get real world experience with Oracle?
To be a bit blunt - I made an unsupported assumption, which I called out explicitly by the use of scare quotes. You have responded with an unsupported dismissal.

I am most assuredly not spreading disinformation.
I find this weird and almost the opposite of what I would want.

I would want a system where I cannot repudiate messages that I sent, but I must repudiate (i.e. cannot claim authorship of) messages that I did not send.

As far as I understand, isn't that how asymmetric encryption typically works? What's the advantage of symmetric encryption in this case?
They literally did, at the bottom of page 1 of the ruling

> Given the trial record, the Court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws. [snip explanation] The Court does not find that it is impossible; only that Epic Games failed in its burden to demonstrate Apple is an illegal
monopolist.
Wasn't more domestic jobs for Britons by excluding foreign workers one of the promises of Brexit? Looks like it delivered.
No I mean in what sense could it possibly be “sexist”? It’s not demeaning to women, at least not more so than to men. It might be a bit raunchy, but in a gender neutral way.
> But also, a lot of us write to exorcise our informational/emotional demons (to use a metaphor). It's taking care of oneself. And a lot of the time that looks like piles of words.

I find in my old age that I have little patience for people who publicly write for themselves and not for others. If you want to masturbate, cool, I love it, do it in private. If you want to enrich others, the less you waste their time the more people you'll be able to reach.
Which is why NFT have a value, because you can't copy them like you can copy a PNG file.
I don't think we need a new word for this. What you've described is a cartel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel]. To the extent that they restrain trade, prohibit competition, or artificially increase costs on consumers, cartels are already illegal in the US.
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blu...

Should Apple appeal? I don't think so; they now have much bigger thing to worry about. If they decide to appeal, it'll generate even more publicity and congress and public are going to be more engaged. Apple desperately wants to get it over with as silent as possible.
Primarily because my way is more forward looking and gets better results in the future, which is more important than punishing the past.

As I said before, I'm not here to smoke out old (or even current) racists individually. I don't think it's a valuable practice to "witch hunt" (even when the "witches" in this case are absolutely real and do exist.)

Because what that ends up doing is: every e.g. white person who's never said the n-word, or who has black people in their family, or has one black friend etc etc etc now subconsciously but completely lets themselves off the hook in any way. They get to think of themselves as superior because we've now defined racism as essentially a binary.

The above situation is mentally easier for many people (perhaps you as well) to deal with, rather than considering how deep this all goes.

Look, one wild thing you realize as a black person is that nearly everybody everywhere is to some extent surrounded by racism is that most everybody has some of it subconsciously internalized, and you don't fix it until you think about it directly, in yourself and others. I'm not a huge fan of "oh everybody's a little racist" because whoever says it is usually doing something dumb like excusing behavior -- but it's FAR closer to the truth than "if we smoke out the hidden but self-consciously racist people all will be fixed."

(so I suppose I'm saying -- yes, pay attention to what you are suggesting we pay attention to -- but also understand that it is almost CERTAINLY nowhere near sufficient to fix the problem.)
> I hope this puts a permanent stop to all the thread on HN arguing one way or another whether Apple is a monopoly.

Unlikely. While there may now be a legal decision in place it will still be argued whether or not it was the correct one.
Long story short, when I was a kid I attended a school that was operated by Scientologists. L Ron Hubbard had some strong feelings on how to learn, and so the curriculum at my school followed suit.

I do think that a lot of what I did as a kid - clearing misunderstood words, using clay models or drawings or physical blocks to understand concepts - has been instrumental to my ability to learn new stuff.

I do not endorse or support Scientology by any means, but a lot of this is true: http://www.studytechnology.org/sh1_1.html
I too have an RPi logging fridge/freezer temperature, but wirelessly.

I use this wireless fridge/freezer thermometer [1]. The units that go in the fridge and freezer communicate with the display unit via 433 MHz RF.

I have an RTL-SDR [2] on the RPi.

I run rtl_433 [3] on the RPi. rtl_433 understands the protocols of a large number of wireless sensors, including the ones used by those AcuRite sensors.

I've got it configured to output whatever sensor data it decodes in JSON format to a file, and a script that periodically parses new entries from that file and records in an sqlite DB the readings from the sensors I'm interested in.

Rtl_433 is a fun program. It recognizes and decodes the transmissions of a lot of things. It is getting several neighbor's wireless thermometers and humidity sensors, a soil moisture sensor, several different car tire pressure sensors, a smoke detector, some kind of keypad (wireless lock?), a car remote, some kind of energy monitor, a rain gauge, and a wind speed/direction sensor.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QJVU78/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009U7WZCA/

[3] https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
As a point of pedantry, the White House did not get stormed, the Capitol building did.
Possibly the only maybe valid answer.
I feel Postgres and SQL Server are easier to grok error states. Oracle seems to want to be an application platform more than a datastore
I think that for-profit organizations actually mesh quite perfectly with the "security economics" perspective. Ie, they care about security to the extent that they see it affecting their own utility function. In ideal circumstances, negative externalities like the impact on the breached users flow back into the company's incentives via bad PR. The problem is that there's a shortcut: it's inherently easy to hide security breaches, given that the security domain already involves a baseline level of opacity (as opposed to, say, product or pricing decisions).
As it often is, the approach here should be to reconnect this feedback loop, by regulating and vigorously enforcing penalties for failing to disclose breaches. Suddenly, the "value" of security from the perspective of the organization drops precipitously. To make matters worse, hiding security breaches causes collateral damage by making mitigation by its victims harder (if no one tells me my SSN was leaked, I won't (eg) freeze my credit report).

The answer, as it often is, is for regulatory pressure and robust enforcement to connect the externality's consequences back to the agent. The easiest step is by requiring disclosure of breaches. As such, the news in this article seems like it should be unequivocally celebrated.
Driving is just as vital to survival as having a job in most of the US.
This has been working for me. Before, I struggled to finish blog posts between working on other things. Now, for the last 100 days, I've been writing a short blog post every day.
My only venture into WinMo was an ATT/HTC 8525, which was really a nice piece of HARDWARE, but the software use utterly useless.

The best Palm device I ever had was a Treo 650, which I actually ended up using on and off for a long time b/c it worked SO WELL, and the screen wasn't terrible.

(As long as we're talking about interesting hardware: the Danger "HipTop" device was pretty great from a form factor POV, but was hamstrung by lack of real desktop connectivity as I recall.)
> Dude, what? HK hasn't been part of China for years. What possible justification could you have for re-integrating it.

Dude, how ignorant can you be?

HK was returned to China because of the original treaty between Qing and Britain.

Integration? WTF? It's part of the country, how can it not be integrated. I am startled by these showing of ignorance and self grandizlsing...
Sorry - my bad! Will fix that immediately. Thanks for showing it.
You have taken a theoretical question - the definition of sovereign government and the monopoly on violence - and applied it to reality. It's Alice In Wonderland stuff. That's not how real people function, including (almost certainly) you.
The parent never used the word "smarter". By definition, the average developer is developing applications, but the non-average developer is doing something else, possibly hacking. Hacking is not the average activity (the way that word is used today).

With regards to skill sets, I have repeatedly found that people who engage in hacking range from skill sets of "knowing how to use a hacking kit" to "uber developer with security knowledge". There is a wide range of skills and knowledge.

However, it is practically an entry requirement for someone in the security space to view software differently than most programmers. That is defined as non-average.
Something unforgettable here:

Nuclear test in China, with supporting attacks by infantry and cavalry, all in grand heroic style.

3 1/2 minutes: https://youtu.be/CzRX06Xqu80

or the quick version: https://youtu.be/CzRX06Xqu80?t=81
I remember after finishing our CS studies we were taken by the Army to take a day long test. We were warned better fail the test unless we are willing to be enrolled. However this might be an isolated case.

In turn, I guess a security professional is more scarce than an average developer. The question is if all security professionals are hired to strenghten systems, or some of them to break it.
I agree - most drivers only need to get around town for commuting and errands most of the time (and batteries bigger than 20kWh take a long time to charge without a dedicated charger at home).

The original Plug-In Prius is quite different from the Prime[1] though, the original was spun off the Gen 3 Prius, the Prime is even a little farther from the Gen 4.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_Plug-in_Hybrid#XW...
This is missing my favorite oracle quirk: Empty strings are equivalent to null. Trying to insert an empty string into a NOT NULL column will fail, which took me a while to understand the first time I saw it happen.
Sir James Dyson Interview
I am unclear about this actually. I think the actual injunction will be a separate document released soon. But here's the judge's description in the ruling:

> a nationwide injunction shall issue enjoining Apple from prohibiting developers to include in their Apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to IAP

Obviously this would seem to imply that developers are allowed to accept payment from alternative systems to unlock digital content in apps. But it doesn't explicitly say that. All it explicitly says is that developers can link to alternative payment systems. I hope the actual injunction is more explicit.
Taking direct payments is absolutely insane if you're a small developer. I mean, have fun accounting for zillions of tax laws in every country in the world.

30% is a lot, but considering all the other services you get, it's not particularly unreasonable.

For big companies, sure, you have accountants and lawyers and your own infrastructure, so you don't need any of that stuff.
> Are you willing to spend 27% more for everything to use Apple payment gateway? Do you love it that much?

Honestly, yeah. I'm way more likely to click "subscribe at $5/mo using your normal payment flow" than go through a whole new account creation flow and wonder how cancellation will work somehow down the line or how trustworthy this vendor is with my data.
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
For native Mac apps, there is Platypus that does something similar: https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus
No doubt this will be used in military and surveillance long before society sees any benefit.
The argument that vaccines don't prevent delta tranmission are based on headlines, not science.

And unfortunately right now science is playing catch-up.

There simply isn't any evidence on breakthrough transmission with delta testing humans yet because it is recent. The headlines and public health messages are assuming worst case in order to scare vaccinated people into masking up again, while there's actually indications that vaccinated breakthrough infections almost certainly transmit less.

What we know is that while early in the infection viral loads in delta are much higher, but Alpha, delta, and non-VOI/VOC infections feature similar viral trajectories[1], in vaccinated breakthrough infections RNA load declines faster[2] and the ability to culture virus in breakthrough infections is lower[3], we know that vaccines reduced transmission with alpha[4] and apart from scary headlines we still expect that vaccines reduce transmission with delta. While there's documented cases of delta breakthrough infections transmitting to one or two other people, there's not been any studies of how common that is, or how common it is for breakthrough infections to become superspreaders to >10 people, or if that is even possible. Since viral loads are correlated with transmissibility and symptomology/virulence the very high protection against severe disease with vaccination may also protect against severe transmission.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.16.21251535v...

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...

[3] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.20.21262158v...

[4] https://www.timesofisrael.com/80-of-vaccinated-covid-carrier...
Is this going to affect subscriptions? If so, I’m cancelling all of my current subscriptions through apple, they’re the ONLY company that makes cancelling easy and that will go away if this includes subscriptions.
The judge issued a injunction based on another law that didn't require Apple be a monopoly, found that the record did not prove that Apple was a monopoly (and thus against Epic on that theory), but took the time to clarify that Apple might be a monopoly, it just wasn't proved.
This stuff is presented in middleschool and highschool health classes and pretty much everywhere on the internet if you look for life improvement advice. Weight is perhaps the single most strongly linked indicator of life expectancy.

What is your level of education? I need to know so I can give you sources I am sure you can use.
You may try instant-search zim plugin [1].

[1]: https://github.com/e3rd/zim-plugin-instantsearch
My current thoughts on the matter are that if nobody talks to them, then they won't know what laws to change. Really, the best I've seen lately is ProPublica talking about Roth IRAs, 20 years after one person used them a certain way successfully. It seems clear to me that I'll be able to make what I want dollar wise, and not be in the country when they do something violent or even move to seize assets.

I'll probably play both sides, like how Thomas Jefferson allowed his mansion to be used by French Revolution rebels, and dipped back out to the US to bang his slaves. Squad goals, I mean not the slavery part, just recognizing who exactly our founding fathers and examples and role models are.
Common Compensation Mistakes
For me the lack of urgency in “prepping” for existential disasters is that I have far more pressing concerns, like avoiding bankruptcy and homelessness.

If I were sitting on a mountain of cash and hard assets, I would be more willing to invest in prepping. But until then, I’ve got little to protect anyway, and I’m not about to drop $800 on filling a bag with some supplies to last me a week in the apocalypse.

Surviving post-collapse would be an adventure for everyone, but an unpleasant one for most. I’ve found the best way to resolve any existential concern is to continue working on long term goals of wealth acquisition and self improvement. Come the apocalypse, I’d rather be the guy with the army than the ex-programmer begging for food in exchange for repairing a home owner’s smart fridge.
Silver bullets
To be clear, I'm on the side of Epic here, but in rulings like this where it has been judged that someone did some wrong (just focusing on Epic breaking their contract) and the punishment is getting them to pay exactly as much as had they done the "right" thing, the expected value is always going to favour doing the "wrong" thing, as sometimes you won't get caught. Any fines or decisions like this should include the likelihood of getting caught and make the expected value negative. A fine for not having a train ticket is not just the price of a ticket.
The main gripe the author has is him overlooking how DBMS_OUTPUT works. He's better off either logging to a table, or using UTL_FILE.
The judge found that Apple is not a monopoly _in the market for payment processors for mobile games_, not that Apple is categorically not a monopoly.

> “The relevant market here is digital mobile gaming transactions, not gaming generally and not Apple’s own internal operating systems related to the App Store,” Gonzalez-Rogers wrote.

> Under that market definition, “the court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws,” she continued.

My main point of surprise is that anti-trust was even relevant in a lawsuit between two private parties. I thought this would only be relevant if the state were trying an anti-trust case.
According to google, that is not correct. They levy a 30% fee on all Play Store transactions for apps and IAP. I've seen articles that say they are cutting the fee to 15% for businesses with under $1m revenue, but that's not what the support page says.

https://support.google.com/paymentscenter/answer/7159343?hl=...

Buying physical goods and services may not count, in the same way that they don't count on the Apple App Store.