skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its harder to erase paper trails, so I think the future of crime is using open source or in-house comms tools.
Never roll your own security if you actually want security, either. What are we supposed to do :).
That sounds like it would be a big win for law enforcement. If you can force your opponent to avoid some modern ways to communicate, you can put a big dent in their efficiency.

It's possible that paranoia might lead to criminals avoiding even technology that they could be using safely, further slowing them down.

An old fashioned system also seems like it would require more people, opening up more opportunities for human intelligence operations targeting the network.
Not unlike the FSB: https://www.rt.com/news/typewriters-russia-order-surveillanc...
NeXT had another point of view on that matter though, the original DriverKit was Objective-C.

Objective-C++ main point of existence, just like POSIX, was only to bring other software into the platform.

It is quite telling that only old timers have access to Objective-C++ docs.
> Should these folks get screwed over so you can get your negotiated high pay?

They’re not getting screwed over. They’re getting paid what they agreed to when they took the job, just like everyone else is.
The news report seems to neglect to mention this requires the command execute something already available on the system and it doesn’t appear to allow passing arguments.

Would be useful in chaining exploits possibly?
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Some people consistently outperform most others in their clique. Fair compensation is a problem without a great solution there, but denial is not the answer.
I don't know a single pothead who does it because of the thrill of breaking the law. They do it because they enjoy being high.

Which is anecdotal, but still more grounded in reality than wild conjecture based on nothing.
So... this would be like saying "We have a murderer, we have ample evidence for it on tape and multiple witnesses. But there is also this one person that lied about being witness so then it must mean that the suspect is innocent."
Is there evidence that Obama wanted those religious exemptions and bullshit cost sharing plans? I would be willing to bet that was a concession to other politicians in Congress in order to get ACA passed.
I have a lot of experience in both languages, and TBH it's just not true. I'm less productive in swift in many ways, mostly because of it's slow build and indexing times. It's infuriating.

You are still coding against the same UIKit and other apple libraries in both. SwiftUI has a chance to make it better, but it's incomplete and has bugs/gotchas that make it not as productive as UIKit when you run into that, which is pretty easy. But in an imaginary world where we got ObjectiveSwift instead, SwiftUI could have existed there and given the same productivity benefits.

Binary sizes ballooned because of the language. Binaries were significantly smaller in equivalent Obj-C programs than the swift ones, even when the standard swift library was finally baked into the OS.
How does one even know they are criminal messages if they haven't already been intercepted?
Only up to a point, they still accept or recheck claims arbitrarily to get closer to their targets. Worse they have incentives to decrease efficiency by increasing paperwork etc.

Private medical insurance in the US is a horridly inefficient system. Separating the claims process from insurance companies hands might help, but their incentives are never going to line up with consumers.
Requiring hospitals to make these lists may help the situation improve.

> No one working in a hospital knows how much do we acquire things for, or how much we get paid for doing things in advance. And only like 8 people can tell you that information 3 months after the fact.

This is the problem. There has to be prolonged pressure put on multiple parts of the system until it will start to optimize in different directions.

A nontrivial part of why no one knows these things in the hospital is because nobody has to know these things, the entire system (not just the hospital but the surrounding insurance system, the billing systems, the vendors, etc) is used to not needing to care about these things.

So these lists, as imperfect as they are, increase that pressure a little bit. Ideally, seeing the price fluctuation and seeing the reactions of doctors to these lists will prompt more in-depth questioning[0] from regulators, judges, and consumers. The fact that the lists are a joke is why they're not a joke. People need to be publicly reminded, again and again, over and over, that the way health procedures in the US are priced are generally broken, often arbitrary, sometimes opportunistically exploited, and almost always unnecessarily complicated.

The more obvious that becomes, the more attention that other parts of the system will get.

[0]: https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/baffled-judges-price-tra...
It doesn’t. But it hopes to insert itself into enough interactions to turn the screws on website owners.
Even if Framework goes out of business, most crucial parts that are likely to fail are standard (hard drive, memory, battery), so you'd still be able to replace them yourself. And even for the ones that aren't (like the modular ports), the schematics are available [1], so anyone would be able to make new ones.

[1]: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
The spirit is here is that you should fully open all those factors and fully open how they influence the cost paid by the patient. Make an excel sheet, a web app, an API, whatever. But let people know and simulate the cost - include all required factors.

If the prices you charge differ from the prices provided by your open data platform, or if some factors are omitted from the open platform, you should get a lawsuit on your hand - and lose it.

If your excuse is that building the open data platform is too complex and expensive because too many variable are involved, explain how you were able to build a reliable system internally - and open that one.

If you cannot do that as well, you know it's time to rethink your pricing model, in order to simplify it.

The end goal of the regulation is to push as many health institution as possible to reach the conclusion that they really need to rethink their pricing model.
> a massive slab of steel-reinforced concrete.

There will not (initially) be a steel-reinforced concrete structure on the moon. The best that can be done in the short term would be e.g. a covering blanket, or a application of (solar?) heat to fuse the surface.
What an incredibly lazy argument. Sweeney is a developer through and through, not some soulless suit like Cook. Relatively speaking, Epic Games is a "small app developer". You're talking about a billion dollar company with a single game they want to sell vs. a trillion dollar company that owns the entire ecosystem.
Before abandoning it for Paradise Lost, John Milton was also going to theme his epic poem on Arthurian legend.
The fact that you're re-enacting https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ aside, the comment was about the clause about making the world a better place, not the clause about fostering connections. (And even for that clause, if the extent of fostering is that they have a web browser based on Konqueror and a network stack based on BSD that lets you connect to Hacker News, it's not clear how much credit should be ascribed to Apple for it.)
Payouts and premiums aren't where the money is in insurance. It's in the return on investments the insurer makes with the money they hold in trust. From an insurer's point of view, the best market isn't one with no payouts, but one where there is a highly predictable amount of payouts, because the better they can predict how much they need to payout, the more aggressive they can be with their investments.

Yeah, there's a decent amount of regulation around payouts to protect the consumer, but it pales in comparison to the regulations around making sure that the insurer has enough liquid assets on hand, that the total valuation of their assets (ie investments) remains large enough, and that they're charging a minimum amount of premium for the risk that they're taking on.
As a user I don't buy Apple due to how it preys upon developers.
We had put the first submission (the current one - 28596178) in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). It was sitting there waiting to get lobbed randomly onto the front page when the later submission (28603398) coincidentally became a big thread. After that, the original submission still got lobbed onto the front page.

We should fix the code to handle sort of case, but it's pretty rare.
The csv from my local hospital is 247MB. Still going on 3 mins trying to open it.
sure... but lets remove the whole trust/ ad thing... Brave is a faster version of chrome, and Brave search gives me the code sample I'm searching for first thing in the sidebar...both are major improvements in my life. It's a better product.
An alternative suggestion:

https://www.scribd.com/document/91535583/Pakistan-a-Personal...

After the 1971, the establishment went into the deepest crisis, and went on a route of soul searching.

Yahya booted, Bhutto hanged, Zia crashed — basically, 20 years have gone to waste.

Taliban has not yet been called that way. Siachen misadventure made military even more unpopular. First genuine heavyweight civilian politicians came into power.

The military establishment truly fought for its survival, and a new raison d'etre. And here, conveniently, the FATA experiment lets to know of itself again.

Just like Pakistan itself, FATA started as a kind of semi-useful colonial appendage, and an experiment. Imprisoned by geography and damned by history, as the cliche says.

Just like a runaway lab experiment, Taliban really took off outside of its FATA petri dish — behind the Durand line.

For some time it looked that the future of the country was still hanging in balance. Military was big, but its influence on retreat, yet the new era civilian politicians were not yet fully in power, despite doing big strides.

It's been less than a decade since Zia died, but two newly minted civilian fractions of power were already at each others' neck. Then, 14th amendment happened, and it was that chink in the armour which the old establishment has seized on.

Musharaf period. Musharaf's putsch was truly the Swan's Song of the old regime, and the last desperate attempt at return to power after the Kargil fiasco. 9.11 been truly a blessing to both Musharaf, and then Zardari, and prolonged this interregnum by at least a decade.

This interregnum has nevertheless ended, and the military has since never been able to intervene into politics directly. Since then, there been few abducted journalists here, and there, few bribed MPs, but so far nothing really signifying a direct challenge to the civilian government. Most of officers who seen Zia's era are close to retirement now, or already died.
I've done published research in cryptocurrencies in its earlier days when I was in academia and I was very open-minded about it, but ultimately I came to the same conclusion: it's difficult to think of much that it does better than more straight-forward solutions and easy to think of downsides.

As I've gotten older and had to interact with various bureaucracies and paperwork, I've only become more convinced that lauded cryptocurrency features, such as (purported) immutability and decentralization, are a bug, not a feature. In my relatively short time on this mortal coil I've probably had to contravene some codified system four or five times by getting the right person in the loop so some rule, regulation, or contractual obligation can be lifted. No matter how hard we try, we can't anticipate everything. People will die, keys (and other vital paperwork) will be lost or destroyed, contracts will have mistakes, fraud will be perpetuated, money will be mistakenly transferred to the wrong parties, etc. All of these have happened to me and all were resolved by a sometimes annoying but ultimately effective system set up to handle such cases with some backstop authority empowered to fix things.

All of us will eventually get into some hell where we need a human to override the computer and just make the sensible thing happen. How often is it that we're on a support line just trying to get an exception to some stupid corner case into which we've gotten ourselves. It's always a relief when you can finally plead your case to the higher authority, whatever that may be, and get some damn relief. Why aren't more people concerned about a world where this isn't possible? It's an honest question. It totally baffles me.
It's a bit buried but there's significant information about Greenwald's own interaction with The Intercept re: the Biden laptop story. Given Greenwald's history with that outlet, this seems worthwhile enough.
You're making the reasonable-sounding (but incorrect) assumption that the cost to the hospital of a drugs is the same for every patient. It's telling how people on the outside have no idea how complex the system is, as if there's one simple way to cost an item (hell, there's not even one simple way to cost an item with GAAP accounting for a widget). These lists are kind of worthless in the current iteration, but they'll hopefully get better with more targeted intervention.
Just finished reading a book where the Sackler family manipulated the FDA into allowing Oxycontin to be released. My regards for the FDA is pretty low right now. If the consumers of pharama can't trust the FDA, then this might end up hurting the big pharma, because the people will think twice before taking some meds.... i know do.
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I think the eternal september has become so deep that social media lose its value. Pure mobs don't work, and regulated mobs don't scale. People can get addicted to counting their 'likes' for so long, after that they realize it's a rigged, impossible game. Upvotes are not the way forward, and that puts an end to social media based on pure popularity.
No they don't, the only difference is that developers can now tell their users that they can pay on a different website.

The Netflix app never had an Apple payment method. The first screen is the login screen with no way to sign up at all and no explanation how or where to do it.
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This is the GDPR cookie popup annoyance equivalent of requiring hospitals to disclose their chargemasters, but not spelling out that the published data should be reasonably human-readabale. Malicious compliance.
Or they could be using a legacy system that exports data in that format from times before CSV was invented/standardized.

For example, SCO Unix's Informix SQL's `UNLOAD TO <file> SELECT ...` queries output in a format that's very much like what avs733 describes, only that the values aren't separated by pipes, they're terminated by them, so every record ends with a pipe character.

If that's the case, there's unfortunately no built-in option to get it to include column identifiers in the report. :(
for admitted policies, usually yes. But it's not just that the rate for the next year goes down. Premium payments have to be refunded too.
This is also how the British empire was so successful.
If there were automated and electricity was cheap its easy to imagine them being cost competitive vs a bus trip of the same distance just because they're so much faster. Making them price competitive is just a matter of how much the state is willing to subsidise them.
> I'm paid for the value I provided the company's bottom line

Nope. You're paid for your ability to negotiate. Big difference. It's very obvious in some companies where it's easy to find higher paid people who are mediocre compared to their colleagues. They get paid more not because they bring in more value, but because they negotiated better.

And, seriously: Except for a few cases (2 person business or something) no one has an accurate amount of how much you add to the bottom line. It's a safe bet you don't. So the notion that either party knows your value is just flawed.
Besides criminals, even legitimate businesses might start to prefer offline methods. With the decline of privacy comes corporate espionage and that's no good for business.
I'm, like many people here, the IT support for my extended family.

I generally do my best to not only steer them away from invasive devices but also explain why.

Unfortunately this is more and more turning into a situation where I have hardware sent to me, reflashed with a known good rom and then mailed back out.
> Is it the like/upvote mechanism?

Yes it is, HN pays people to keep things at bay. But that doesn't scale
https://ruffle.rs/ now allows running all old flash things in browser again.
> 7.2kB of data, which you can easily output many times per second

I found that this adds up quick if you attempt variable brightness via PWM. At 1Khz this is 7.2MB/s of data.
The Odyssey is about Odysseus/Ulysses returning from the Trojan War, so I think it's fair to count it as part of the general Trojan War mythos :)
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Ask HN: Do you believe the SF Housing Market will recover post-pandemic?
Many people left the City to live in places with more space given the remote first world that COVID created.

But at some point, COVID will end, or at the very least, the restrictions around it will, and SF Companies will be planning their next moves.

SF was the epicenter of Tech, and the pandemic encouraged high skill tech workers to move to other cities, which helps bolster their own tech scene.

But! Maybe tech companies call back their formerly remote workers. Maybe they spent too much on their campuses, maybe the future isnt full remote but rather hybrid in office some days and remote others.

What is your thesis about the SF Housing Market?

Will it recover?

Or are the high prices we're so used to a thing of the past?

Or! permanent stagnation?
Quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG0uAQqeqW4

Here is on a OnePlus 6T running postmarketOS, for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qaD5YIPkc
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
It's definitely a dilemma. I guess the sweet spot would be security systems that are well understood in house but built on existing, well understood and studied standards and theory.

A starting point might be to use battle-tested open source systems but subject them to detailed in-house analysis and audit.
Not that I think this project will go anywhere its antecedents haven't already, but...

> Given that web browsers appeared in 1989, and DNS appeared between 1983 and 1987, we can safely say that DNS came before browsers.

I mean the telnet thing is really wrong but this really just seems like picking on nothing to me. I don't think the intent there was literally to say "dns came along and changed how we used browsers" but to contextualize the use of names vs. ips in terms people in a modern computing context will understand more easily.

(That people had other means of managing host names before dns is a better criticism, but still kind of misses the point of what they're saying)
The Norse (and especially Icelandic) sagas also demonstrate this pretty starkly, and are from a related tradition to the Arthurian legends. In those, people with magical powers very clearly tend to be portrayed as creepy weirdos--and also, for whatever reason, tend to be from the Hebrides.
We're all sick of changing cables every couple years, and dealing with a hodge-podge of newer and older devices that require carrying multiple cables and sometimes multiple chargers and adapters, but I don't like the idea of legislating any standards. Apple abuses this constantly and intentionally to sell more stuff, but along the way they (and others) also improve the situation from time to time. USB-C is a clear improvement over its predecessors; it's smaller than USB-A/B; it doesn't have to be inserted in a specific orientation; it's bigger than various micro-USB connectors (in this case that's good; they're so small that they're hard for some people to manage, and it's even hard to see which orientation they're in). USB-C is clearly the best choice right now, and has wide adoption. But something genuinely better is going to come along within a few years, even without Apple artificially breaking standards.
> I don't fully trust it to make the same exact decisions in that area that I might want

This is a very reasonable desire, but Brave also seems clear that their service does something different. Where other tools focus on blocking ads, Brave is more about their hybrid blocking of 'bad' ads (whatever that means) and replacing those ads with theirs.

Are you saying that you feel like Brave is deceptive in describing how their service works or that the entire idea of a tool that blocks some subset of ads that the user cannot configure and replaces them is fundamentally unethical?
When two pills coming from the same company are being made at the same time on the same machines, then they both cost the same. It's pretty obvious that the patient status changes nothing about that. However, the hospital's acquisition cost is variable because you're further down the supply chain and you're seeing the exact same kinds of arbitrary behind-the-scenes price swings that this article is talking about.

It sounds like within the industry, hospitals are facing the same problems as consumers, and they need more price transparency from their suppliers as well. Hopefully increased requirements towards hospitals to explain their pricing will lead to hospitals demanding slightly more transparency and slightly more consistency from the other companies they work with.
Interesting. Might have to see if this can run tasker for automation
How will the charging infrastructure stand up to frost heaves? In Michigan they have to spend every summer repairing all the road damage from the winter.
Oh, indeed, unless you're DJB, never roll your own. I mean you should understand what you're doing and why you're doing it, not leave it up to someone else to make decisions for you. Not that you should re-invent the wheel. :-)
The main point of Swift was to create a memory-safe language Apple could use across its OSes. Trying to change Obj-C's syntax doesn't help with that goal.
I don't believe a row hammer attack can be precise enough to target a single bit.
I agree, measuring productivity is very difficult. And as you said, it can be a moving target as well.

But I don't think you are claiming there are not significant differences in productivity? Given that, it's not unreasonable for the more productive people to ask for more compensation, even if it is difficult to identify who they are.

It's definitely a hard problem. There is probably a lot of room for improvement in general for how we approach this.
Did you not bother to look at the facts of the case?

I don't play games on iOS, I don't even develop on iOS, either.

I do use both iOS and Android as a consumer, and I'm totally team Tim Sweeney on this one, even though I also own AAPL — my freedoms as a consumer are more important to me than whoever is bankrolling this case and what their reasons may be. Besides, their reasons aren't that bad, either, and closely align with mine — more choice for the consumer.
> Every single message sent on the app since its launch in 2018 – 19.37m of them – had been collected, and many of them read by the Australian federal police (AFP) who, together with the FBI, had conceived, built, marketed and sold the devices.

I wonder how many crypto currency tumblers are actually run by law enforcement?