skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
25 years ago, that was still the hacker ethos. Linux stood no chance against the commercial operating systems of the day, and Microsoft was in the process of accretion to a similar position Apple is in today. Yet, against all odds, David sprouted wings and Goliath kneeled.
Flux actively came out and said if their feature was added to iOS they would be happy.
The - seemingly - easiest way to trigger this is to stream audio via the Music.app, have Apollo (Reddit-client, og Reddit app may be even worse) in foreground and switch back and forth between those...
So... ?

It's easy to litter, and by FAR most people get away with it.

It's easy to infringe copyright, and by FAR most people get away with it.

Yet you feel this is justification to remove copyright laws, but not littering laws.
The Dangers of Buybacks: Mitigating Common Pitfalls
You can effectively choose to either have Amazon (or some other CSP) or your VPN provider as your ISP. Both are technically capable, and can therefore be compelled by court order, to provide network traffic logs. But given how many stories there have been here on HN about zero-log VPN providers caught keeping logs, and how simple it is to install WireGuard I don’t see the benefit in using a VPN provider.
AFAIK there is no scientific definition of race so I don't see what could be recognised by an algorithm
>Americans (and a lot of other nationalities in the West, but mostly Americans) need to gain some perspective on the difference between tyranny and responsibility.

You're right, we do. I for one am happy to take an experimental RNA therapy in hopes a new and better cure can be developed from the results. But it has to be my choice. If the government has the right to shoot me with a novel serum for the sake of public health, what's to stop them from forcing me to expose myself to the virus itself in the next pandemic? Or shooting me with something more permanent if they decide my thought harbours the next dangerous viral pandemic?

You've my sympathies for the state of your country, but I honestly believe if more of your fellow citizens had drawn a bright line around abstract concepts like bodily autonomy, the authoritarians who took it over would have, at the very least, had a much harder time when they were starting out. That's its own kind of responsibility for those of us who don't live in a genuinely authoritarian country yet
The original issues with the app weren't opaque at all: Keyboard utilities can't have network access. Then he noted that it can operate without it, but the entitlement can't even exist for any users, even optionally. That is very clearcut.

At least without the App Store reviewers crawling all over everything you do, putting an enormous level of scrutiny over everything you do. And the functionality has to justify it (not that it should operate without it, but with it has to validate why -- is it using some massive cloud resource to guess your next word, etc?)

That he ever got away with it was during confusion over keyboards on the watch where they weren't officially sanctioned and thus policed.

But otherwise he's engaged in building features for someone else's platform. Eventually those features get first party inclusion. This is the surest thing in this industry, and people comparing it to sherlock, etc -- ridiculous. Apple made a larger Apple watch so they decided it's time for a keyboard. That this guy is trying to claim some sort of moral/intellectual ownership over keyboards and/or swype typing is ridiculous, and it's the sort of overreach that is usually criticized viciously on HN.

And if Apple truly made an offer to "buy" his keyboard, it was certainly just to settle bad blood. The likely outcome would have been that they toss his solution and then do exactly what they did, which is build their own.
any data on that?
Wouldn't it just be easier to tax capital gains like ordinary income? It's ridiculous that Mitt Romney pays a lower overall tax rate (~14.2% on ~$15 million income in 2011, IIRC) than I do on my non-FAANG software salary.
Sending SOS Morse code distress signal – blinking, light or sound
At a guess you were a lot lighter back then. The speed of impact would be the same but the total energy to dissipate a fraction of what it would be today. So better not to try that particular trick again.
You don't need to earn a 400k salary to have your QSBS qualification reduced, you just need to have 400k of income and proceeds from stock sales are income.
No.

Half Life was not a walled garden before opening up to modders, and was not a walled garden after. It was just a game opened to modders.

If we get over ourselves, and allow that there's new category of thing, devices made of mechanical and digital parts both, that the maker may or may not selectively open for mods as a legitimate part of their business model they're within their rights to choose, then we'd be less religiously militant in ways that harm innovation and consumers.
But what purpose do these idols or symbols serve, exactly? I'm speaking as someone who doesn't care who came up with relativity and doesn't care whether there is a founding person of computer science or not let alone who that would be, and would like to know what others see. Is it an inspiration thing? A motivation thing?
I don't doubt that the term is in use, and I understood what you meant. But it's not listed among seven (!) synonyms for computably enumerable on Wikipedia, and more the point, the slides you linked to also don't contain that term.

However, that's not the point I wanted to make. I wouldn't like calling it computably countable even if everyone else did, simply because it gives the wrong intuition about subsets.
Google found guilty of restricting Android forks in South Korea, fined $177M
Prediction markets would influence the processes they're supposed to be impartially observing.

When there's a lot of money riding on something happening, it tends to happen. Sports and traditional financial markets have been dealing with this problem since forever.
> Maybe in the US.

Not just the US. In fact I'm not in the US.

>> So theft should be legal.

> From what you just told me, it looks like it already is.

That's not what "legal" means.
Not OP, but I agree with them.

The word computer means multiple things. In one sense it the abstraction of universal computation. Imagine a world where actual physical computers didn't progress to universal computation, but were stuck being purpose built to the present day. The field of computer science would be utterly different because they couldn't actually compute anything with their science. They could just discuss computability in an abstract sense. It'd be like physics without the particle colliders or telescopes or lasers.

I think of the founders of computer science more like the founding fathers of America, rather than a single guy named Turing, but some are more memorable than others.
The implication is that those are caused/exacerbated by deliberate actions, rather than issues that came out of nowhere. Of the ones listed:

- forest fires: newsom cut state wildfire prevention budgets

- rolling blackouts: pg&e neglected to properly maintain electricity lines

- rampant looting: prop 47, san francisco DA that refuses to prosecute minor crimes (like looting)
You're talking about Macs. This thread is about watches.

I'm struggling to see any argument about watches that doesn't apply at least as much to game consoles.
Only if the law is on their side.
Not a great day for this HostBill to be announcing their new Epik integration.. https://twitter.com/hostbillappcom/status/143811349497348915...
I couldn't agree more. All those CDC reports and scientific papers are so riddled with ads paid for by Pharma, it's sometimes pretty annoying to scroll through all that stuff to be able to see the actual data!
it looks to me that there's enough money in it to also plant exploits.

Additionally, the lack of "the simply secure stack", has been a persistent grok for me.

Perhaps the interest 'for the invested' in having the hacks around is simply too great. I.E. their threat model is not 'against the automat', so the automat can be irreliable.

It's clearly 100% opposed - to have insecure software and to produce a reliable public, public interaction or public order.

We're actually deep and long into the failure mode. Please observe Bitcoin/bitcoin adoption progress (it's simple really; obvious/crude improved ledger technology, and records in said ledger, pretty mild).

The 'civil order' lacks everything, and is best understood against the backdrop of 'the needs of industry'.

I'm still holding out for ledger technology & improved civility, but so far the corruption of economic interests has not been disconnected systemically. It's an open question if we have the civility to implement something which is not an economic system.
Fortunately we can control our intentional emissions really well and could test for unintentional ones, most intentional communications will be in the higher bands anyways because it's higher bandwidth, the antennas are more manageable, and it's the standard currently anyways.
[dupe] earlier source article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526191
That dismissive argument could be used for virtually any app on the App Store. Developers are limited in nature by the APIs Apple expose, so there is very little chance of anything breathtakingly original appearing on the platform.
I love "smart" programming languages and gladly write in Rust when it makes sense. However Go wins the bulk of my language picks these days, marginally thanks to the efficient tooling and complete standard library but essentially because of how easy it is to read / review / integrate / patch external code without the need to rediscover authors' specific styles and ways of doing things.
For contrast, try out Plex sometime.
Not really, it is quite similar to sourthern countries.

Typical Portuguese names have around 5 names, two first names and three surnames from both parents.

In fact your description fits quite well how they are used in Portugal, plus a few other nuances.
> A separate version for the Apple Watch would remain, but then Apple pulled that one as well, telling Eleftheriou that keyboards aren’t allowed on the Apple Watch.

This is wrong, as far as I can tell. The watch app is still in the App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flicktype-watch-keyboard/id135...

I just installed it and verified that it works, although the Watch keyboard itself is hidden behind a $10 in-app purchase.
Schemas are very handy for grouping related tables under a single namespace.
this is really nice! i think i will learn jscript - i have no clue what i am getting into but thanks for inspiring

ps im a mechanical engineer
The startup time has interesting implications for serverless. That was the big draw of golang for me. Cold boot time for a golang function is like half a second max.
Thank you for the clarification.

Does this reduce the safety of an OpenSSH ECDSA key defined at 521 bits? That large constant is not reassuring, despite DJB's direct commentary.
What this means is that you agree to protect the client and come in their shoes in some cases

The most typical scenarios are about IP ownership and patents

This is distinct from errors and ommissions
I hadn't heard that before. Can you give an example? Or do you mean in the "fixed game" way?
It is a small part of the basic general license that longer wave lengths can hug the Earth IIRC.
The search for extraterrestrial life may end inside us
>let the developers who are concerned focus on a different platform if they become that worried that developing for Apple devices is high risk

So basically don't develop for half of the market and then if google uses similar anticompetitive tools (as they have) just don't develop at all.
How is it impossible to anonymize location tracking? Seems like if randomize starting and ending location by a couple hundred feet, throw away data with <50 users , and don’t use specific dates It would be pretty anonymous.
I think the wire mesh expansion and contraction is not such a huge issue for a number of reasons.

First of all, you will probably want to make observations when not illuminated by the Sun, so that the receiver is shielded by the mass of the Moon from the Sun interference.

Second, on the Moon there is no weather. You basically have only two conditions, it either is illuminated by the full sun or it is not (with some time while it is partly illuminated, but most of the time is just basically two temperatures). During night the temperature will be rather predictable for the entire length of the night.

So I think the simplest solution would be to just use the telescope for about 50% of the time when its geometry is stable and is shielded from the Sun.

It is not such a huge issue, the basic fact of this kind of telescope is that you can't steer it so you still rely on orbital mechanics of the body on which you place to move the part of the sky which it listens to.

In this case even restricting to 50% of the time does not change much as it still requires 1 whole year to make observation of entire part of the sky it can observe.
*marginal tax rates on every dollar earned above 250k
What’s the Right Dose for Boosters?
Could it be that rivals are behind these negative articles and trying to drum up negative PR by spinning them and not telling the whole truth?
Oh to have the resiliance and cartilage of a teenage boy! Pretty sure if I did that those stunts at my age I'd win a Darwin award.
Solar winds can also kick up moon dust. It would be a long slow process though and I think the reflector would still work under a thin layer of dust. By the time it’s a problem we’ll hopefully be there in person to either dust it off or build a bigger better one.
Those aren't facts, they are a fired employees opinion.
Half Life is not a device, modders are not application programmers targeting that device.
>count as IP theft?

No, there is no such thing as IP theft. There is theft, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and patent infringement.

Also there is Monopoly\anti-competitive behavior law, which this seems an obvious violation of.
Only if you never read your logs.
Tesla Probe Leads NHTSA to Request Documents from 12 Carmakers
Are they currently writing up a blogpost about this? Their blog has nothing: https://www.epik.com/blog/

And this is a megadump of a hack.

But you can buy a .MONSTER TLD For $1.49: https://www.epik.com/promos/monster
Not to detract from another great "What If?" article, but I think the biggest gotcha is right at the beginning:

> Let's say your jet blows apart at 35,000 feet. You exit the aircraft, and you begin to descend independently.

As far as I know, most airplanes don't do that nowadays. They tend to descend more or less in one piece (or several big pieces) to ground level and "blow apart" there. If they do blow apart at high altitude, it's probably due to an explosion which is apt to drastically reduce the chances of passengers being conscious (or alive) during the free-fall phase.
Leonardo da Vinci is another famous example of a last name with two words in it. It's very common in romance languages. Plus, lots of people in the American south just flat out have two first names or two middle names.
I just went quickly through the article.

The article treats this principle basically as ambiguous.

So this principle could be not perfectly defined for some, or disputable, according to the article.

However, you miss the point.

Saying that this principle is just not strictly defined (according to the article) does not make it a reason to put it to the trash directly. You have to compare to the status quo.

For me what the article supports (implicitly) behind this reasoning would be that the status quo (coaction and violence by governors) is better: hey, just proceed with coaction because NAP is not perfect? I think there is a lot of consensus on things that are wrong that we would all accept. Consider it a subset of NAP. The bigger the subset, the better for everyone.

In fact, there is a very clear principle, at least in my opinion that can define things way less ambiguously: it exists the negative or natural law and positive law.

For me, basically, negative rights should be inviolable and positive rights are not rights as themselves in my opinion: none of us will ever have infinite capacity or power for an arbitrary action, and in doing so you will violate the negative rights of others: I want to date this girl (but she does not), I want to go to Harvard (but I need to spoil others and disregard their academic CVs and skip the line), I want to have 10000 usd per month (but my employer built the business and won't pay that)... no, those are not rights. Those are things we earn by ourselves or figure out how to do.
Markets are not based on fixed principles but are basically a game of psychology mixed with a few principles. So expectations play a big role in market outcomes.
> but in EU there’s no thought about how to create innovation itself.

You mean "innovation" like the predatory monopolies that tend to form in "business friendly" jurisdictions?

Just a random example because I had the page open:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/big-isps-fight-t...

So much innovation...

Edit: the EU does have a problem with barriers to entry when starting a new business without gobs of funding, but the US solution is not a good answer to that.
Flux was sherlocked, to be sure, but sherlocked has been around as a term since 2002 or so, while f.lux was a much more recent victim, from 2015 or so.
Yes that's exactly what I'd expect to see.

He said "I came in with the tide.", but she wasn't listening.

(which is correct according to my expensive British education) is very preferable to

He said "I came in with the tide.," but she wasn't listening.

which has a full stop and comma next to each other and looks hideous.

However, I do personally think the full stop inside the quotes is redundant and would remove it, unless it made a real difference to the sentence meaning.
I have done both about 15 times each, LSD is nothing like an amphetamine. I would say they are definitely much more similar in effect to each other than they are different.
I don't think it's important to quibble over who's overrated or underrated among these giants of math and CS who already get tons of recognition (I'm glad Schmidhuber brings many other historical names into the narrative).

However, yes, I do think that 'mechanization' or physical implementation is a crucial piece of Turing's contribution that is wrongly ignored in this article. And I think without mechanization, there is no CS as we understand it.
> enjoy the minute or so of spectacular views before you go splat

This is what I've always said. The only time I'll skydive is if I already find myself falling out of a plane. Then I'll cross it off my bucket list as I go splat.
Pretty sure OSHA already regulates warehouses.
If I had 500M to manage, I may just buy a lot of real estate in a specific place to drive up the prices in that area. I want prices to increase and with money I can create circumstances that would favor my preferred outcome.
The ethics I'm disputing are those of not grandfathering in those folks that have made financial decisions based on existing tax law. I would have made very different calls (quite likely more beneficial to my situation) had I not been relying on QSBS. I have no problems paying taxes in general, as one would with RSUs, for example.
Thanks for the insight! I would have probably just chosen direct_radiation not knowing better.

Most users of this "brightness by sun position" feature work in rooms with lots of natural light so they complain about their screens being too bright in cloudy days. I think some improvements will be noticed.

I'll contact you through the email on the Contact Us [0] page when I have something working properly, thanks for this!
If you live in an apartment in a high cost of living area and your concern is buying property at the same area you’re rich. I understand that this isn’t what your assumptions of being rich looks like, but your quality of life is significantly higher and opportunities for you are significantly greater than most of the country. It’s important to recognize reality and understand ones feelings may be presumptive.
I'm not an expert in Petri nets, but they are definitely used for modeling in various fields. Krohn-Rhodes theory also claims some successes if you read that article.

As for the stuff I'm actively working on: even if it is successful, and uniquely suited to solve some particular problem, I'd imagine it would take at least a few years to be actively applied in the right places -- and it might end up being me helping to apply it!

If you look back at for example graph theory, it was explored on the pure mathematics and computer science side for many decades before it spawned e.g. network science and got applied in sociology, economics, etc.

So, yeah, don't hold your breath! If you'd prefer not to read any blog posts heralding XYZ as the next big thing before XYZ has already led to a concrete breakthrough, I think that's a totally fair. I myself am quite happy to work quietly on things until there is a satisfying and complete application, but Stephen isn't like that. Both stances have pros and cons.
The App Store doesn't have a high barrier of entry. The barrier is low and completely based on whatever Apple's product strategy is at the moment. Sometimes also based on arbitrary feelings from Apple execs like Phil Schiller.
The Wikipedia articles for "Set phrase" [0] and "Compound (linguistics)" [1] actually don't offer much of a distinction, so it's hard to say which of those is correct. Regardless, a compound with spaces ("open," as you said) is multiple words, not one word.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)
Seems like small pickles compared to Android brands damaging themselves by not supporting their own devices with software updates after 18 months.

That is what drove me away. I assume this is still true, and my iOS devices will receive software updates for longer than Android devices.
I have tried many many tools over the years. Each time limitations, platform support or proprietary data formats frustrated me. In recent years I started to experiment just using Markdown files, but then cross references and having to organise document and folder structure ahead of time proved to be yet another failing.

Started to look at a few modern takes on the problem including Roam Research. A few months ago I found https://logseq.com/ Still in beta but progressing quickly. So far I think I have finally found my happy place.
Is Spiped similar in-concept to a VPN?
There are, broadly speaking, two reasons to study math in detail.

The first is because it's interesting by itself. And it is! The patterns and the patterns they build can be their own reward.

The second is because fundamental mathematical theorems are incredibly useful for practical engineering. Because list homomorphisms have the mathematical properties they do, we know that if we operate upon data using list homomorphisms, we can (mechanically) MapReduce that data. That knowledge makes practically unsolvable problems solvable.
Firefox Mobile's Home Button Replaces Refresh
I can't find a thread about this already, so here's one. Basically, on the latest version of Firefox Mobile (for iOS), the refresh button, which was directly to the right of the forward and back buttons on the bottom bar (near my thumb), has been awkwardly integrated into the already cluttered URL bar. It's replacement, the home button, is something I almost never use, whereas I refresh quite often.

Am I crazy for thinking this was a bad UI change? Is there a way to fix this myself?
I've never seen a double period used to mean anything. An ellipsis is a specific mark made by three periods. Or is this a Britishism?