skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security is only as good as the weakest link. Each company that touches the phone or the software increases the attack surface.

Therefore, from a security perspective, the phones with the best security are the iPhones and the Google Pixel phones. They also generally have the quickest security updates.

If you install a custom ROM (e.g. LineageOS), you can make almost any phone reasonably secure, but that involves a lot of time and hassle. If you don't trust Apple/Google, that's probably your best option.

An alternative approach is to have a second device for security sensitive purposes, which can be locked-down, only essential apps installed, offline by default, etc.
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From the wikipedia article:

>The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is an American conservative libertarian economic think tank.

>FEE, founded in 1946, is considered the oldest free-market think tank in the United States. An early aim was to roll back policies of the New Deal. FEE opposed the Marshall Plan, Social Security and minimum wages, among other American social and economic policies.

Points of the video:

- Mainstream media sells entertaining truth that are mostly negative

- People think gun violence is getting worse every single year over a span of 25 years, but it only got worse for 8 of those years! There is a 50% decrease from the 90s.

- Conveniently remove suicide from the gun violence data and ignore the current up trend in homicide

- We shouldn't look at wages, but look at total compensation and it's up by 45% for the median worker since 1979!

- We have more household that are rich according to this data despite what the media says

- You don't need a cellphone, just cancel it if you're poor, also don't get medical treatment that didn't exist in the 70s if you want to have the same cost of living than your grand parents

- Let's compare the average middle class American 100 years ago to one today and you'll see how much better you have it now! Especially if you are a racial minority (he don't mention this last part)

- omg, look at how much hours of work was required 100 years ago to purchase these products (stamp, bread, movie ticket, gas, coffee, eggs, butter, milk)

- only movie ticket are more expensive today, but we get much nicer movie like the Marvel movies! (But remember to cancel your 10$ Netflix subscription if you can't afford it) (a previous point he made)

- back in the days, it took 4 years to raise money to buy a car, but only 2.5 years now!

- He mention that the minimum wage worker has to pay more for housing today, but it's because they are much more technologically advanced!

- house 100 years ago: no electricity, no running water, no indoor toilet, no AC

- Houses like that are now illegal to buy!

- Thus, the minimum wage worker can't buy house like that anymore! (he also can't buy a modern house, but nevermind that)

- So poor people today have a better living standard than the middle class had 100 years ago and in a 100 years the next generation will be even better off with private jets and yachts to travel around!

- There is less child labor in the world, less wars and stuff!

- So in summary, be humble! Appreciate, be thankful for the fact that the world has become a better place. (i.e. stop complaining about society because the iphone exists type of arguments)

Yikes.
In addition to being somewhat misleading as other commenters hawe pointed out, the first author of this non-peer-reviewed study appears to have a degree in the questionably relevant field of sports medicine.
That one order of magnitude off though… There's no technical issue, the grid just isn't designed in such way and you'd need enormous investments to get there.

It's nothing money can't buy, but it's a hell lot of money: extrapolating from existing submarine HVDC project in Europe[1], connecting great Britain to mainland Europe alone would cost a few dozen billions. Want to connect the whole Europe like this, you'd have to pay a few hundred billions.

[1]: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JR...
> Wearing a mask, as we did for 4-5 hours on a flight recently, weirds out my 2 month old since he can't see my face.

I never quite understood why clear face masks haven't caught on more, especially in these kinds of environments. Some of the air may escape, since it certainly won't be like an N95, but if we can increase ventilation, keep distance a little bit, and wear see-through masks to convey emotions and meaning better, that seems like a pretty reasonable tradeoff.
It's a nice idea but it won't gain traction as it's still designed with 2000's era computing in mind. Nobody manages an entire complex system within a specific Linux distribution anymore. There is a vast ecosystem of tooling, systems, protocols, networks, services, that comprise modern distributed systems. All these things exist regardless of the Linux distro.

In fact, I will predict right now the death of Linux as a dominant backend computing platform. It's sort of happened already. Sure, Linux is the kernel that runs the host machines that the cloud runs on. But the services are increasingly serverless/kernel-less, or run on micro-vms running either Linux or another kernel, or run in containers made of a half dozen different base distros. All the Linux I/O is just passed to an outer layer with a universal adapter, so you can mix and match networking, filesystems, logging platforms, policy governance, orchestration, scheduling, etc. I spend nearly all of my time building systems by tuning software and services that have almost nothing to do with Linux.

Linux distros will still be around in one form or another. But long gone are the days where most people define their system or security based on a particular distro. Hell, most of the software used in the cloud today isn't even packaged by distros. Linux has become just a kernel again, the distros just a fancy installer for GNU tools.

They're using a lot of advanced tech and advertising having to "maintain fewer virtual computers", whatever that means. But it also seems their tech is more complex and less compatible with existing components. There's no clear idea of how a developer's supposed to take their code on their laptop, test it, and ship it to production as one immutable image. If it's not as simple as containers, it's not going to replace them.

Also, it's interesting that they seem to allude to immutability, but don't mention the principle by name at all. It seems like whomever is developing this doesn't run large distributed systems.
> Although some view the Fed's QE as a form of "money printing," it's not. It's an asset swap in which the Federal reserve buys a Treasury from a bank, issuing a reserve asset as a credit to the bank. Reserve assets thereby become "trapped" inside the banking system. They are not cash and can only be used under very restricted conditions (not unlike a laundry token) at least according to some sources.

According to the lede of [1], "[Federal Reserve Deposits] are interchangeable with Federal Reserve Notes", i.e. cash. But you are claiming the opposite. Do you have a source?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Deposits
Yes it’s interesting that they are using previous corona profiles. You would think a yr is long enough but I’m patient and will hedge my bet by losing my job.
Latest update from the developer: https://spectrum-os.org/lists/archives/spectrum-devel/202108...
I would love to think that those not getting vaccinated are thoughtful enough to be thinking about intertemporal substitution. But honestly, I just don't see it.

I think some of it is believing misinformation, and the rest is just plain stubbornness (excluding those with medical reasons not to, of course).
SM-17 is a modern version of the spaced repetition algorithm used in SuperMemo
So the app developer would download Apple data, load it up on AppAnnie and get a nice bar chart? And an assurance they would not sell the data (without anonymising it). This is who signed up when and who made a purchase etc.

Thank you
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This is basically conjecture hiding behind a set of what ifs - I am not sure what point you are trying to get across here
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So you do your morning pages in Obsidian? I'm curious how your pages and content may change depending on whether you're doing it on paper & pen as opposed to a word processor & keyboard.
In your experience with FP languages, how often do you reach for macros over functions, if you could ballpark it? Or if it makes more sense, in which scenarios are you more likely to reach for macros?

The example I always hear about is creating DSLs. I haven’t done that yet with FP (Clojure), and I have not yet created a macro outside of learning exercises. So I have only a vague notion of when they are most useful. I’m not arguing to avoid them, but I have internalized the Clojure preference for “data over functions over macros.”

This question is open to anyone. I’m mostly interested in the opinions of folks who have learned to use macros as “just another tool,” and who have a good set of heuristics for knowing when it’s the right tool.
Apple’s continued promotion of TikTok is bizarre to me considering all their problems with Facebook. Craig Federighi promoted it last WWDC too.

Here Apple says look at what this new iPad camera can do on TikTok and then they move on to look at how much we care about your privacy in the same event.
Vaccinations reduce your chance of getting infected and reduce the average duration of the infection. The combination of these two factors thus reduce the R value of covid in vaccinated populations when compared to unvaccinated populations with identical network topologies and behaviors.
Depends on the project you want to do.

Many projects dealing with IoT or sensors can be made using ESP32s or the various Audrinos.

If you want a mini computer, there are some built on the Atom or similar. The price can be similar when looking at ones with an eMMC, case, etc vs a Pi with similar attributes.

There are a couple other options out there, but I dont even remember the names.
Yes and that's exactly what the author is saying is wrong with our current productivity culture.
Not to get too deep into it, but there must be some difference between casualties of war, even if those casualties come from horrific mistakes and literal war crimes right? There must be some gradation in our reproach. War doesn't really provide good options. You end up a bit too careful and hundreds of people die, a bit too little and you kill tens of people. I'm not going to say an investigation shouldn't happen, but to say anything less then perfection equals war crime really devalues that term
I think one of the reasons governments are reluctant to act is because most of the models used to calculate the social cost of carbons are based on Integrated Assessment Models [0] which are very limited. The effects of climate change are not fully understood and we need our brightest minds to be working on that instead of how to sell us more ads. Just my 2c.

0.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_assessment_modell...
Without looking extensively, it seems that it's usually between 1000 and 1500 per 100k per annum, so between 20 to 30 per week as a direct comparison. This seems steady over recent history. This compared to a rate for the vaccinated that went from 20 to 100 over spring and summer. The only thing that springs to mind is that maybe the treatment of with-covid/from-covid deaths became less significant through the year and previously understated alternative causes start showing up in non-covid deaths. Still strange that it has risen so high in absolute terms though.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Unfortunately not in much of the country. Many states prioritized healthcare workers, healthcare administrators, and the spouses of healthcare workers regardless of age either simultaneously or before the compromised and elderly. Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron Desantis was ridiculed by the media for prioritizing elderly and compromised in his state.
This is a normal, expected phenomenon in an economy characterized by continuous technological advancement. Low-value jobs eventually disappear as technology makes them obsolete, and as this process unfolds the people who are employed in those jobs will experience a declining standard of living.
I was thinking more like LoL, which as I recall implements a dynamic crit system — as crits occur, your % chance of a crit drops (possibly below your stated %), and as crits fail, your % chance of a crit increases (possibly above).

Your effective value stays the same (by whatever algorithm deciding drop/raise rates), but the possibility of sequences reduces — because 1-1000 chance to kill near-instantly is fairly ridiculous, in a game where a single kill can decide a match.

Although the exact method must be more involved because what I’m describing could be trivially abused (you could actually execute on the gamblers fallacy — a miss-streak will likely be followed by a hit-streak)
Hell of a story, but is it verified to be true?
What are you talking about? Apple certainly sells chips -- you just have to buy an entire computer to get it.
The OP asked about kids specifically. Counterpoint:

> Data from the first 12 months of the pandemic in England shows 25 under-18s died from Covid.

> Around 15 had life-limiting or underlying conditions, including 13 living with complex neuro-disabilities

> Six had no underlying conditions recorded in the last five years - though researchers caution some illnesses may have been missed

Were the children with complex neuro-disabilities pushed over the edge by covid? Quite possibly. Is that a reason for parents of healthy children to worry? Unlikely.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717
You do realize there is a million negative results for every one positive result? This is equally easy to game, maybe easier.
No, but we had to put off a lot of medical procedures my grandparents needed done because the hospital beds were so full that they were airlifting people to other states. We also had to move them out of the assisted living facility they were in and provide 24/7 care because the facility started allowing visitors without any screenings.
Fuck him. He had it coming.
How can getting the vaccine be the appropriate course of action when 4,000 people have died from it, according to the CDC themselves?

I am talking specifically about people who already have been infected with the virus and have survived.
didn't they report like 90% of people killed in drone strikes are civilians... now the person who leaked this information is in prison for showing us that. They also commit war crimes like targeting first responders after initial strike, something terrorists like doing, US calls it a "double tap".

hopefully one day US will be held responsible for the death and destruction it has caused world wide, maybe we could have a version of the Nuremberg trials for the US.

instead US leaves the international criminal court and pardons war criminals, so the world has no way to get justice.
Could you please stop posting this sort of inflammatory dross to HN? It's getting downvoted for the obvious reason that it breaks the site guidelines and is not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this a ton lately. Moreover, we've asked you repeatedly in the past to stop. If you continue this way we're going to have to ban you, so really, would you please review the guidelines and use HN as intended?
They almost never competed in the dictionary sense of the word, historically. They have plenty of shady tactics to gain more market share. Assuming that the "free market" works -- or that it even exists -- is way too charitable and optimistic of you.
There are sooooo many VST plugins out there. If you don't see the value in the cost of Omnisphere don't buy it. Look for other options. It's an extremely competitive market.

Ableton Live Suite has a tremendous amount of tools out of the box and contains everything you need to make music with. Look for second hand copies on forums. You'll likely be able to pick a copy up for $400 or so. You could buy that and never buy any software again.

> And instead of paying upfront, synths / effects can make money by taking a cut of your revenue

Hahahaha, have you asked how much the average electronic music producer makes vs the average software dev? ;)
What's the most onerous restriction you saw in SF while you were here, I'm curious - maybe I'm biased from living here, but like I said for me it's been limited to masking and flashing my vaccine card at bars. Unless you consider indoor masking a big deal, in which case sure, it's nowhere near over in SF.
I know a few folks with full time dev jobs who also do consulting on the side. The consulting part is just that, clients consulting about solutions but leaving the implementation to others.

Another route that would involve less work but more responsibility is taking a leadership position at a small org. You're not obliged to work 40 hours a week but you are responsible for making sure things get done, which you can do from afar. If tech leaders can hold different leadership roles in several companies, you can do as well!

This is also a mental exercise, but something worth trying out.
The problem is that we tried to allow people to be "personally responsible" and we ended up with a worse wave of the pandemic than the original one. People were not responsible, and they were definitely not "personally responsible" seeing how they've tied up our medical system, burnt out medical workers and kept people with normal medical emergencies or conditions from getting the care they require. Liberty is freedom+responsibility. All I hear about is freedom without responsibility though.
They lied about masks. It's plain and simple.

The science on masks is not exactly new or bleeding edge.

You have to be unbelievably naive to accept that "the position changed".
My Sympathies.

You are still young and hence my advice would be to train your mindset to look at the world "Realistically as it is" rather than "Idealistically as you want it to be". Learn to play the "Game" but don't lose your intrinsic character.

Some resources you may find helpful;

* Books on Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer (see my comment history for book names).

* Robert Greene's popular books (eg. The 48 Laws of Power).

* The classic "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Baltasar Gracian. Get the Penguin translation by Jeremy Robbins titled "The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence".

* The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod - Provides a game theoretic approach.
Nobody knows until you test. Biology is messy, it's not like computers.

Give this a read, Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes To Die. (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-...)
SpaceX launches 51 Starlink satellites in first West Coast launch
.mkv is a container format, not a video codec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska
> .. if your social media trail renders you unemployable...

>

> Edit: People seem to be misinterpreting my meaning entirely ...

I had a nice chuckle of that edit; In some instances your social media profile/trail may be "fine" in your eyes, but this edit demonstrates that a lot is left up to the interpretation of readers, further demonstrating the plausible risk one faces.
"The findings in this report are subject to at least nine limitations. First, these data are not nationally representative. Second, facility participation varies within and across states; however, data were only analyzed from facilities that reported consistently over the study period, thus minimizing the impact of reporting fluctuations on resultant trends. Third, differences in availability, coding practices, and reporting of chief complaints and discharge diagnoses from facilities might influence results returned by the syndrome definition. Fourth, distinguishing initial visits from follow-up visits for the same event was not possible, so the number of ED visits for suspected suicide attempts might be lower than presented. Fifth, NSSP race and ethnicity data were not available at the national level for this analysis at the time it was conducted, so analyses of differences among racial/ethnic groups was not possible. Sixth, these data likely underrepresent the true prevalence of suspected suicide attempts because persons with less severe injuries might be less likely to seek emergency care during the pandemic when many persons avoided medical settings to reduce the risk for contracting COVID-19. Seventh, the suspected suicide attempt syndrome definition excludes some, but not all, visits for nonsuicidal self-harm. Eighth, the sharp decline in all ED visits during the pandemic likely affected the number and proportion of visits for suspected suicide attempts (6). Finally, this analysis was not designed to determine whether a causal link existed between these trends and the COVID-19 pandemic."
What does that mean? The person who pulled the trigger to release the Hellfire from the drone?
Disingenuous non sequitur?
I'd argue that much of the innovation at similar companies has diminished too. The products are mature and will continue to get new models and features. But I think the days of unveiling big changes has hit a pause (as was the case between the early years and the iPod launch).
No, my question was actually about whether persuadable people still exist. People for whom politeness and reason will work. Because I think those people have gotten the vaccine. Do you think that subpopulation exists, what motivates them and what will make them change their mind?

Because you seem to think shaming is about me feeling better at a huge cost: "you get an additional 15% uptake. Let's say you do shame, you only get 5%." I just don't think those numbers are at all accurate. I don't even think that the causation "shaming -> less vaccination" is true.
I might have the timeline wrong but I was under the impression that HS. Pelosi was the one whom initially pressured Milley (or other DoD official?) to remove's Trump's access to the nuclear football as it was being casually carried around in the chamber, during the final hours of the electoral college vote.