skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, I wasn't aware of this! Thank you for the link! I believed Text-to-Speech is the only option used for HCI by people who can't see a screen.
I don't necessarily agree with Apple here, but couldn't your same arguments be made against Epic? They want to "stick it" to Apple and are harming their customers in the mean time?

What this comes down to is an argument over money, and what percentage apple should get of that money. I don't think either company has a moral high ground in their negotiations on what percentage apple deserves.
So like covid restrictions.
Facebook is literally and legally the publisher.
Sure, but sometimes, individual people hold contradictory opinions that should be occasionally examined.
Not really.

An0m wasn’t illegal, provided useful actionable intelligence and didn’t enable anyone to commit crimes.

Running a platform to let anonymous vendors sell credit cards in exchange for untraceable cryptocurrency isn’t really going to be very productive
As things are looking right now, China is going to let them default. I don't know why you focus so much on "saving face" or even think that they can't conceive a bad scenario. They aren't dumb cartoon villains.

They've worried about the property market for years now and they talked multiple times in the past about countermeasures. Bailing out big companies is against socialism, and their new wave of policies lately have shown that they're still very much in support of socialism. They don't want to let big companies get away with bad behavior, because that will signal to other companies that as long as they get big enough, they can take unreasonable risks and someone else will clean up the mess for them. There's a reason why since 2012, they've put a lid on debt-fulled growth: because they're transitioning the economy to healthier growth, not just more growth. This is why China is now at ~6% growth instead of 8%.

I think it's likely that they'll save suppliers, as well as normal citizen who as disadvantaged by the Evergrande default. In return, they'll screw over Evergrande's shareholders and investors. To the government, only the people matter.
Machine Learning: Overfitting Is Your Friend – Not Your Foe
I guess the difference that on one side you have an entity that can censor and does censor things where it's convenient for itself, but then turns a blind eye to other awful content that should be censored.

On the other side you've got a system where nothing can be censored, and while the lack of censorship of awful content is a drawback at least you have the advantage that nothing can be censored (even if it goes against corporate interests) to counter-balance it.

In short, one side only has drawbacks, while the other side at least brings some advantages to counter-balance those drawbacks.
Plus if you are being more intricate and cool and making like a Hugo blog or something that just happens to have a really well integrated commenting system... Have you tried to hand over the keys to that to another person so they could use it? Have you tried teaching your client how to actually update their own website that you made for them?
I agree with this perspective as well. Assume your carrier is capable of doing anything on your phone until a thorough hardware and software audit has been performed on the device in question (this kind of audit has been performed on several popular phones), but even then, continue to be careful/skeptical.

It's also a good idea to at least consider the possibility that the baseband <-> application processor link may be software defined, and that an update from the vendor might theoretically be able to turn a dumb-USB-peripheral link into a has-access-to-kernel-memory PCIe link, thus enabling future control by the carrier.
Great work. Really like semi-randomised pieces of art like these.

I did something similar a couple of years ago for a background App for Android, while exploring Kotlin, but more based on pre-defined "patterns" instead of shapes.

Feel free to take a look ;)

Github: https://github.com/ODDBureau/mosayq

Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oddbureau....
What you're describing applies to any country, not just China, and not to mention your numbers are off anyways (see sibling comment).

I don't know why people keep comparing China to Japan, the only real similarity is that they're both in east Asia. China has an order of magnitude more people, isn't a small island, has a larger military, different form of government, different economic system, etc. etc.

Much of China's debt is in the form of housing and infrastructure - it's debt nonetheless, but is also an asset. Not all debt is strictly a "liability." Not to mention Chinese citizens save far more than American's, so a simple comparison of the total debt load isn't entirely fair to either nation.

China's main issue is not making sure their (debt) investments are fueling more growth and not going into the ether, like other countries' debt. Of course, this challenge is hardly unique to China. Fortunately for them, they have a large domestic population to use to fuel growth. They'll just need to make sure they can properly incentivize more population growth to keep the positive feedback loop humming along.
I don't see where that article in any way engages with what GP says; it appears to use "confession" in a more metaphorical appeal to religiosity as a concept rather than to a specific spiritual ritual.
I disagree. I love seeing OSM being used in public projects. The fact that it's crowd-sourced does not mean that the government does not contribute to the data set. For instance, Poland's Fire Service uses OSM-based solutions and I heard from people working on those solutions that they actually constantly monitor the changes in OSM to catch possible errors that could have an impact on fire fighting operations.
I agree. The practical result of the current situation is that Apple can choose what apps most people can install into the their devices but this needs to be framed correctly because Apple actually targets the developers and not the users when they practically control the app distribution to the devices they sold.

Why is it important? Because when described incorrectly, solutions will also be incorrect. Apple doesn’t control it because Tim Cook gets hard when doesn’t allow some apps into the phones of the customers. They do it because they want to be paid for the intellectual properties and opportunities they provide, they also want to be able to continue selling iPhones at premium prices and in this competitive environment they want to be able to control the working of the devices so to provide premium experience.
> Additionally Anders got fed up with the ongoing culture and finally accepted the invitation of former ex-colleges to join Microsoft.

The wording here makes it almost sound like reluctance, but wasn't there a rather substantial signing bonus to go along with that?
haha i'm a dad too, and my son is by far the ultimate baby :)
I'see you point. But the fact that the software is public on github makes it implicitly "Open Source". Also a bit of "marketing" doesn't hurt for sharing ideas/projects
I honestly believe there is lots of potential for making people realize this is a position one can believe, hold and live. The bullying from those who care more about some future humans I don't care about is getting out of hand. McDonalds paper straws literally tear the flesh from my lips after sucking the moisture out of them and I am fed up.
Apparently FBI agents who escape the FBI also love to do interviews with wired.

"Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM

Wired also has a series with the "former" CIA agents as well.
Safari has updated default button styling on Safari for iOS 15
Definitely cool! I guess I'm just being impatient. I would definitely like to be an early adopter of this type of tech. I'm kinda sad the initial mainstream hype around wearables died down so quickly, but looks like I need to source out details specifically for more info. Thanks for sharing!
Some of the largest investors are foreign. Like Blackrock and UBS.

At the moment it appears anything with the word green or ever in it is bad. Evergiven owned by evergreen, the greensil scandal and now evergrade.

This is going to hurt all over the world.
Gatling will support Kotlin and Java
Why Phase Out AMP?
Fantastic terminal programs and how to quit them
Fighting plastic packaging is not about climate change.

It's about pollution and waste and environmental damage generally.

Not sure why people keep getting this confused.
Unpopular opinion:

If you're a billionaire and commit murder, you will probably pay the top lawyer in the world and get away with it on a technicality.

I'd prefer there just be a tax on murder. $100M plus 10x the value of the estate of the deceased ought to do it.
The unpopularity seems a little shortsighted. I have no clue where my Galaxy S's included phone charger is, because using USB-C means I already have a dozen appropriate cables sitting around. I think at the moment I use the charger from my previous laptop to charge it.

It's just a shift in framing. To use a silly example, you don't expect a phone to ship with a generator: an electricity hookup is a general piece of infrastructure that a user can be expected to have.

In a world full of mandated USB-C-compatible devices, having a single commodity cable slots much more cleanly into "infra you're expected to have already" than "hidden tax on buying a new phone" (Apple's strategy)
I'm sure (admission: not read the details at all yet) it doesn't say only USB-C, so there is nothing to stop a wall-plug charger having both port types, C for modern, A for legacy, as a great many already do.
To quote groundskeeper Willie

"It won't last brothers and sisters are natural enemies.
Like English men and Scots or Welshmen and Scots or Japanese and Scots or Scots and other Scots. Darn Scots they ruined Scotland."

Guess we can add DST to that.
You never needed a proprietary AC adapter to charge an iPhone, just a "proprietary" cable.
>is just perma banning them the right solution? It seems like it would be better to get the police involved and actually help whoever is being abused as well as arrest these people

Yeah but you don't get credit in the media for working on the problem silently. You need to slam the banhammer so the censored speak out & everyone knows you're "doing the right thing".

/s
Reactive Clojure: A web language
Do you want to be personally responsible for other people's websites while you are the age that you are and you still have all of the other personal responsibilities that should be coming first and you cannot use your website gigs as an excuse to get out of?
Indeed. Back when dialup internet was the norm I had the opinion that after the 57k6 faster access at home would take ages and require new infrastructure to the homes since the phone system was build for low bandwidth voice. With 4kHz bandwidth and 45dB Shannons theorem didn't allow for much more.
Understandably I was really amazed at the first ADSL implemenations I saw. Felt a bit like they were cheating. Yeah if you just bypass the exchange and use the raw last mile sure it's possible.
How do you end up with knowledge it is 4AM somewhere? Can't you do similar calculation without timezones?
Thanks, my ignorance of the history there is vast; pretty much summed up by "white people in that area have been fighting each other for millennia, that's just how they are"
As a Symfony dev/architect who builds a lot for startups, I've been meaning to check it out. I'll be honest, I don't quite understand the value proposition so it's always #2 on my todo list.
Winged Microchip Is Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure
A bridge too far, dictating terms they don't understand.

1) Manufacturers don't use USB-C in some cases because it takes up a lot of space. The point being, you can't dictate at this level of design.

2) 'Connectors' are like 'sraws' - they don't take up landfill. They are negligible waste item.

These are things that legislators think of 'because it's in front of them' i.e. they literally see these things every day, instead of thinking more deliberately about both waste and products.

1) Requirement to use a 'standard connector' would be appropriate, but they all do now. Or rather, lightning is not standard, the EU could encourage the open sourcing of it.

2) Some efforts to recycle all electronics would be interesting as well. Cords could be sold with a $1 'recycle markup' that goes to the recycler or something like that - this, along with other bits of operational impetus, might make an appreciable dent.
> much of the hesitancy around salary transparency comes from companies that lack both formal pay structures for their roles and confidence in their salary bands, often due to market fluctuations.

True. The reality of the talent market—- you’ll often find wide range of skills/expertise/experience in individual job candidates.

Formalizing salary bands creates more bureaucracy, less room for negotiation, and treats professionals like hourly wage minions.
"Definitive account" comes from the original title which is simply way too long.
If there are multiple possible gods, and you get punished more for believing in the wrong one than for not believing in one, you might be better off without it.
Where is „green“ in „Evergrande“? :-)
This has nothing to do with my church in particular but has to do with the idea of a church. Honestly society benefits if people were members of churches other than my own as well. Even a church not my own would foster community and hopefully want people to become better. And provide a community where people can have true connection

And yes, social media is vile. I'm sorry you don't see that. There is nothing dismissive about calling a piece of software vile. Do you see how confused you've become under it's influence? I literally called a software service vile, after decades of published studies and news reports indicating it's I'll effects, and I've been accused of fostering division among people.

This is the great problem with social media. It confuses fake for real, virtual for physical, and computer programs for human beings.
Almost all gas stations across the nordics are self service and only sell gas.

Visiting America, I was completely flummoxed by attendants and tipping and other antiquated things.

This was coined “bullshit jobs” recently.

I think Norway probably points at where the rest of the world is slowly going to go.
If you're Catholic, it's significant as one's last chance to turn away from sin, discard this life, and join Christ in an eternal life that isn't this one.

If you're not, then think of it like an actuary: at every moment in your life, you have to live with the sum of your past and future choices, adjusted as need be. At the last moment, you have no more uncertain future choices, so it's clear what the optimal path was, so naturally you have regret.
Word, Adobe, Chrome, Safari and the Canon printer are either something that you own or lease access to and is under the control of the user, thus it is the users responsibility.

The ISPs are common carriers and do not get a say.

Facebook is not under the control of the user, and not a common carrier, so they should be held responsible, at least to some degree.
Moderna chief executive sees Covid-19 pandemic over in a year – newspaper
Well, you can probably annoy at least some attackers by using tamper-proof seals on your PC case and act accordingly if they are broken, because that would likely prevent them from conducting the first physical attack. But that won't help in the long run.

Outstanding locks on a reinforced door and a combination of visible and hidden cameras in the hallway are probably more effective.
I agree there is a tension — similar to how regulation to protect privacy also tends to reinforce monopolies.

However, in this case, sometimes it seems like Facebook wants to both be highly centralized and very powerful ("Just LOOK at how effective we are at convincing people to do things! Buy ads on Facebook!") and to also cede responsibility for some pretty abhorrent things that happen on its platform.

If you centralize, you own the platform - the good & the bad.

It feels unjust to reap massive profits and then hand-off all the social ills you cause.

I think this is more of a philosophic POV rather than a legally enforceable one (at least in the US today), but probably gets at some of the frustration people have with Facebook.
Why feed the trolls? It's plainly obvious to everyone here that "charge X with Y" doesn't by default include special adapters or connectors.
We won't know how the new law in South Korea will play out in practice yet and we won't for a few months (it's too recent). It will probably be at least a year before we know how it *really* will affect the commissions a company like Apple makes from the App Store.
Frankly, the savings are so small as to be basically indistinguishable from statistical noise.

It was basically the only good measure this government ever took. Taking it back would be as stupid as I'd expect from them, though (just like the talks about changing the plugs back to the old standard)
Please, what this mean in simpler terms?
I've been a backend developer for many years, and for the last 6 years I've been doing frontend.

I can assure you those developers mocking frontend devs can't even do backend if taken outside their big ass framework (django, rails, symfony,etc etc), because they believe everyhing is as easy as those frameworks put it to them. Somebody that had to work outside of that where you have to take many decisions and make tons of trade offs and find how to organize code and manage dependencies, etc will understand better how difficult frontend is. True we sometimes overcomplicate things more than needed (redux, rxjs, etc...) but even when we do not, this is still freakin difficult to get right.
Changing the regulatory regime to drive companies bankrupt would present a lot of legal problems in the developed world, even if you did it unintentionally.
That's the other issue, it feels like the EU committees are composed of grouchy HN readers that want to "fix the world". It feels very much, "if I were king I would do this".
Only partially true, let's not be misleading. It works for short vacations, that's about it. The EU has a so called "fair use policy", that basically give mobile operators the possibility to charge you more when you're more than xx days out of the country of registration (it's more complicated than this, but it's the idea anyway). In my case, traveling often abroad, means I'm constantly hitting this limit which force me to buy local sim card from time to time. It's nowhere near like in the US if some were thinking at this for comparison.
DOH! I even know this joke, hahaha, good one, sharp, nice timing, good situational awareness. I'm smiling :D
Oh yeah, because the conservative one is not all about "we have to do something".

Progressist use plastic bags and conservative migration.
You don't need separate initramfs file these days, you can bake it into the kernel executable which you can then sign
Ha! I came to a similar conclusion, but using the game Spelunky.

One thing that I find interesting is how i can see the differences in my performance through the day, as i hit a lull in the afternoon, and come back in the early evening.
>> I assume you don't know about the nail-polish with glitter based protection?

>Nope, can you explain?

You take clear, semi-liquid glue that hardens. The glue has various colored Mylar flexes (aka glitter) floating in it. Slather it onto a device (we did it for exposed ports on devices). The glue is semi-liquid so it will flow reasonably. Once the glue hardens, the orientation, distribution, coloring and such of the flex are set. Take picture(s) of the hardened glue. (just search for glitter glue)

Reproducing the complexity of the glue plus glitter is very hard.
Possible attacks is attempting to remove it, and inserting it back in. The right glitter glue is quite brittle so hard to remove it. Heating it will make it hazy before pliable, and cooling it makes them even more brittle. Breaks show up as while surface inclusion in the glue.
Government officials should not be allowed to spend government funds at or write regulations for companies they own.

Pelosi and indeed all of Congress has non-public information about laws, government contracts, etc. Right now they can and do trade with this "insider" information. Legally this is not considered insider trading. Congress wrote the legal definition of insider trading in such a way that excluded their insider knowledge. There is no value in arguing the semantics of this so I won't address it further.

The traditional solution for this glaring conflict of interest that is used for Presidents is a blind trust. Most Presidents put their wealth in a blind trust to avoid even the potential of a conflict of interest between their actions as President and their personal wealth. Trump did not do this and it was a shit storm. He even tried to get the government to rent out his resort for some UN thing. Presidents and Congress should all be required to put their wealth into a blind trust to avoid conflict of interest.
When big companies, institutes and political parties use the word 'proactive' it generally means find a way to limit the damage and then find a way to hide the problem.
Not if the cable is built into the power adapter. But if the power adapter just has a USB-C port, then you can charge it using the cable that comes in the iphone box.
The article doesn't mention climate change.
this is really cool.
it semi reminds me of nuzzle

how does this work?
Is it so I can mass subscribe?

Again.. its very cool.. love the ux
Sometimes, if in good faith, what aboutism makes people think. It can expose hypocrisy or show that one's thoughts are formed due to popular conformism, or due to hidden virtue signaling, rathar than a honest independent analysis.
These people often reside in places where the police is comlocit with the trafficking.
It transmits torque from one axis to another axis, so....yeah it's a transmission.
The emphasis should be on the customer, not necessarily the end user.

Aren’t developers also their customers?
The EU is about the internal market, but having an internal market means it's about standards. There should be no technical difference between products from Denmark or Spain.

These rules are developed by the commision, but approved by national governments, which are then 'translated' into national laws.

In some areas the rules are very specific and detailed (eg chemicals) but in others the national governments are still in control (like protected titles such as baristers).

In the end is the motivation money. If you think your usb-c chargers are better than other countries, you would like to force apple to move to USB-C chargers. So it's a big economical incentive, and having countries on board like Germany, Scandinavia or the netherlands, makes the EU more suspicious of large companies, it's in their culture ;).

US has a more liberal policy where they make mistakes very costly, if you can succesfully bring a claim to the responsible party. The european mindset just tries to forbid things (Things aren't allowed if they aren't proven safe, instead of only things proven unsafe being forbidden)
Gas cars won the day because they didn’t pay the price for poisoning city inhabitants and polluting the planet, you can call that a “market” if you want.

The taxes are an attempt to correct a failed market.
Banning is fine but doxxing can destroy an innocent person’s reputation, which can lead to physical harm in their personal lives. We have law enforcement and court systems for that. I don’t believe tech companies should pass these kind of punishments.
If the FDA approves a therapeutics for covid19, then the emergency approval for experimental vaccines is gone. Not only do they lose vaccine mandates with that, but they also lose liability shield. There is a financial incentive to suppress covid19 therapeutics from pharma (and their stockholders).