skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't the whole point that the average layperson is never going to sideload in the first place?

If Facebook pulls its app from the Apple store and only releases it on a third-party store, those laypeople will follow. And much of the noise and content in the "sideloading" campaign for iOS comes from Facebook and similar companies with a monetary interest in getting around Apple's rules.
Shipping is often 1-2 months out, though, and you often don't get refunds without a return shipping cost (as in, FBA has free returns). It's useful to think that the cost of shipping is built into the price on Amazon.com and not on AliExpress.
There's really one big variable and it's interest rates. In the 70s stagflation era, we had very high interest rates. Government debt came with a heavy dose of debt service. Currently rates are super low. We can accrue way more debt and still not be burdened with a lot of interest payments. Debt service as a percentage of GDP is about half of what it was in 1991 and trending downwards:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=HHdA
Is it possible that there are no singularities, even in black holes? Could there be another type of degeneracy pressure (after electrons and neutrons) that permits matter to compress enough to form an event horizon, but not a true singularity/ringularity? I know this is a poorly-understood area of physics but I'm curious if this particular possibility has been ruled out, and if it would have any relevance to BBT and cosmic inflation if it were found to be true.
NP, but it wouldn't necessarily be a language problem to assume the government would raise taxes to work against inflation. It would work to some degree (taking money out of the economy, increasing monetary friction), but that approach isn't politically feasible in most countries. Instead, most countries rely on interest rates and public spending (which might involve printing more money).
Day in the Life of a Data Engineer
You seem to have misunderstood. SARS-CoV and MERS are not endemic. Those are HCoV-229E, -NL63, -OC43, and -HKU1.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S006535271...)

In particular OC43 is a beta coronavirus genetically close to SARS-CoV-2. It is suspected to have caused the 1889 pandemic.

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/175...

Now most of us still get infected with OC43 at some point in our lives. There is no vaccine. The resulting natural immunity protects us as we age. The virus has had plenty of opportunity to evolve more dangerous variants but hasn't done so.

I encourage everyone to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they can, but you'd be foolish to think that significantly reduces the risk of a more dangerous mutation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
Ask HN: How destructive to the environment are these “space tourism” trips?
I'm not against valid space trips, but in the past years we've launched a lot of things into space...

Watching today's launch of Captain Kirk, I was thinking hard about the potential waste of resources, potential environmental damage, and money that are evident in these new space tourism programs, as well as in other ones that have been done to date by other companies?

These are well funded projects, because of the consumer products that these companies sell. But it's also disheartening that these companies are very vocal about a stance in environmental protection while they stand to burn tons of rocket fuel and create a space tourism industry that will certainly not help environmental protection efforts.

It's hard for me to believe that all the burnt rocket fuel and heat generation and that sending rockets into the atmosphere will not amplify our path towards peril. It would make a lot more sense if we just gave all the funding and authorization back to NASA and accountable scientists if you ask me. It also bewilders me that government would allow this level of pollution for vanity purposes, including launching a car into space for no reason (a few years ago) when we've already got a growing "space junk" problem brewing too.

How destructive to the environment are these "space tourism" trips?
On a side note - does HN feel more "downvotey" lately?

I feel like I'm seeing more comments that are grayed out but seem perfectly civil and reasonable. Often they're back in the black soon after, but I'm sure the time period when they're greyed out influences the discussion. Of course, I don't have any way to measure this.

I wonder if some of the thresholds need to be tweaked.
My understanding is that the majority of users aren't even able to upgrade currently. If your average user tries to upgrade from the Windows Update menu, they will just see if their computer is technically able to upgrade or not (based on CPU/TPM stuff I think). Even if it is, you won't be allowed or ping to upgrade until they deem your configuration viable. I am not by my home PC, but I think the messaging they give in the Windows Update page even says the upgrade should be available around spring of 2022.

So while Windows 11 is "out" right now, it seems to be for people on the windows insider program, and will be slowly rolled out to the public into next year.
If only. There's a nice flat-earth documentary on Netflix. Some scientifically-minded flat-earthers designed and carried out not one but two experiments to "prove" the earth is flat. Both of them came conclusively on the side that the earth is not flat, but is quasi-spherical with a radius and rotation rate consistent with the scientific consensus. Remember, these experiments were on their own terms. They repeated them several times and they declared them "inconclusive". This is not someone you can convince by any means.
What is this then?

https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/417332

It logs all trades here, no sign that any of it are unique stuff. I don't really see how it is related to NFT's etc, but the guy linking the site said it had to do with NFT so I used that language. I assume the site owner call it NFT's as well, but since they take 10% royalties it can't really be, can it?

Anyway, at least it isn't a good example of NFT's being functional. It is just a site where you can trade images associated with your profile. NFT's doesn't add any value to being able to trade pictures between profile process, it is just there to make people think this is a new valuable thing. But nobody who cares about images cares about NFT's, they care about the image being associated with their account or that money goes to the author. The whole NFT thing is just nonsense.
I like the interactive novel as a medium to show how a really big amount of money translates to actions, decisions, power, etc.

I don't like that the actual content seems to present a very narrow and extremely simplified view. It reminds me of a political meme or a political cartoon.
I was thinking more that the "traditional" faction in MSFT, over 6 years, might have accumulated enough grievances and failures of the rolling model, that they made their case again and the leadership eventually went "fine, fine, we'll go back... for now".
the growth in GDP in the Soviet Union was impressive, but I get the strong impression that the social and economic life within was oppressive, to say nothing of the bouts of political madness like Lysenkoism that have a much greater potential to kill people when they're scoped to the entire country's productive capacity rather than one business or one constrained democracy.
> won't easily accept a dictatorship.

What would they do in case they were in a ditatorship?

I'm of the opinion that democracy in governance is something akin to a farce. Without money, it falls apart.
They fired all their SDETs ~2014, and the decline in quality since then has been very noticeable.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-sy...

There's lots of criticism about how that role was structured, but putting devs in charge of their own code's quality is a recipe for poor quality software. It works on my machine doesn't work with a product like Windows.
Did you in-place upgrade or clean install Windows 11?
Solely on AWS for now.
The weird things about personal attacks are that sometimes it can be very difficult to figure out what might be perceived as a personal attack by someone else. Which is why a certain amount of conservatism in your communication is so important when you are participating in large public forum of semi-random people. Pretending like your words won't be taken exactly as you meant them means you won't learn how best to communicate in that context. You won't pick up on the cues showing you perhaps accidentally crossed a line with some portion of audience.

If you then blame the audience for how they reacted to the communication and don't adapt but instead dig in even more then a flamewar happens and your opportunity to communicate disappears.
If you are in the UK, Starling offers a relatively simple API.
This in-band control signalling was mind bending the first time I learned about it. "How come other programs print text in colour, but mine is only plain? Wow - I can print special sequences and that controls color?! This means the console must be interpreting what I'm sending, not doing a simple lookup and display!".
I've read the article and find the title quite apt, as a sweatshop is:

> a factory or workshop...where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.

They refer to their process as a 'factory model', and if those aren't poor conditions then why is their attrition rate so high?
Yeah, I don't get that either. It feels like a Roreshach test and I never know the answer.

I'd prefer if there were fewer discussions on this site about issues where the stakes involve oppression, persecution, and death, and more discussions about text editors, frameworks, and infosec.

But the last one in that list makes a big Ouroboros out of my argument...
A fun program for the sake of fun, so nice to see!
That transparent keyboard marked as coming soon is very very cool looking.
It's not inflammatory to express beliefs that differ from the standard issue. Just be civil about it.
I found Vista to be a huge improvement over the Windows XP Playskool look. I couldn't stand seeing those awful colors and huge bubbly look for all those years... Thankfully you could change the theme to classic, but nobody else did. So it was still everywhere.
Political comments are very much allowed. The issue is how people present political comments. Most people present them in the same way they would on a subreddit for their particular political ideation, which is more akin to an echo-chamber and not conducive to the conversation that HN is trying to accomplish.

High quality, well intended comments are fine, but people have trouble making high quality well intended political comments, and even more trouble realizing that their comments are not high quality or well intended to others.
State of Open Source: The UK in 2021
> And Bitcoin core devs can _never_ do the same?

Wake me up when it happens. The Bitcoin project's developers still get the benefit of the doubt because unlike Ethereum, they haven't betrayed the trust its users placed in them. Also, network upgrades happen through a miner voting process, which checks the power of the project's developers. Ethereum provides no such check.

> But hey, looks like the market thus far agrees with my position on this.

Bitcoin is worth considerably more than Ethereum, and that will likely be the case for the foreseeable future in part because in each Ethereum hard fork, the monetary policy changes. Why would anyone park capital in Ethereum for the long term if they can't even be sure what their dilution will be next year?
I was mostly reacting to the “we did everything by chat” part.

There are countries were this is a mundane thing, and you can go through the whole process digitally, including all the contracts signing. Sadly in Japan this is far from being the norm, and the stamping culture is one of the cause among many others.

There is a good 99pi episode on this, in extreme cases people need to physically go to the office just to stamp their papers.

(otherwise making a stamp is a matter of 30 min at any shopping mall, it isn’t a barrier in any way)
Nonconsenting prisoners are the source of many organ transplantations in China
> HN has another issue, though: anyone expressing an opinion that goes against the HN "group-think" (for lack of a better word) gets downvoted to oblivion as a result, even if no participants go on a flame-bait mission

This really isn't true, and the people who argue that it is will often argue that the group think takes diametrically opposed positions to those attributed to it by other people making the same argument.

HN has large factions on multiple sides of most issues, which mostly offset each other in pure-disagreement based moderation (though moment to moment it can vary). Mostly, if someone is getting consistently downvoted, its more about approach than opinion, though people strongly-enough biased toward the opinion that they can't see the approach issues through their affection for the position will tend to attribute it to hostility to the opinion. (You can often see this occur on opposing sides in the same thread.)
It happens at "adult" jobs too. I found a number of webcams in the organization with no password. I flipped the image on one, and sent an email to IT saying, "Hey something's wrong with the web cam - it's upside down. Oh and probably you should put a password on it ;)"

It didn't go over so well. It embarrassed them and lead to some major reprimands for me, almost to the point of losing my job for unauthorized access to systems.
The instant some hugely popular app (Fortnite?) needs to be installed this way, the app maker will make videos or tutorials on how to jump through the hoops. This will normalize the practice so that people also do it for a “fart app” that is really something more nefarious. Next thing you know, we’re right back to how Windows was, with a bunch of browser toolbars and now the need to sideload an antivirus app, which itself will drown the phone in glitches.

No thanks.
It’s the sharpest of all double-edged swords. Of course I would immediately sideload a Gameboy emulator but I’d want it to be signed by Apple. Maybe even Mozilla would make a proper build of Firefox for iOS.

Surely Apple is confident in its app sandbox security model and can properly enforce those boundaries, right?

I find Apple’s most convincing argument to be that schools and businesses might force you to sideload their craptacular app that didn’t pass review.
The only difference that matters is the IO pins mapped to address $01. Given this is an FPGA based project it likely would be pretty trivial to make it work in a C64 as well.
Can't tell if written ironically or not. :)
Microsoft Embraces Right to Repair
This is a good article. It deserves a lot more attention than it got.
Ada, Alice...

Interesting question, but it might just be a yellow volkswagon effect. Quickly looking at Wikipedia's list of languages, theres Babbage, Bertrand, Cecil, Darwin, Dylan, Escher, Euclid, Euler, Godel, Hume, Orwell, Tom, Zeno, and probably a few others I missed.

EDIT: Haskell and Pascal, how embarassing to miss those
KDE's 25th Anniversary
> your chance of death from covid is likely (much) less than 0.2%

EDIT: I had to address this, too, but even if I assume that figure we get 15.6M dead people once the world is infected. I agree that I have a low personal risk, it's not making grandma die of not breathing--something we know painfully well because of how grandpa died grasping for every breath--that I'd like to avoid. Yeah, there's a DNR order, but I don't wish that misery on anyone.

> and therein lies the crux of my critique. you've outsourced your health decisions to politicians/bureaucrats more interested in their own skin than yours, and yet, make confident claims about the correctness of those decisions.

See, this is an unwarranted assumption on your part. I wear them as mandated because, well, it costs me nothing in general to wear a mask when unneeded. I already mentioned that I don't have to deal with, say, 12 hour factory shifts.

> if you're wearing masks as mandated, but not around friends and family

I do wear masks when it makes more scientific sense and I haven't been visiting friends & family in the first place. The few times we did, we did wear masks.

So your criticism is just really off base here. You don't know me, you don't know what I do, and you seem to be reaching to find any criticism despite not being in any position to know anything about me.

Why?
That makes sense at least. But at the same time: doesn't really mean anything if it does not result in increased quality or performance for us users. It probably only saves Microsoft money and time and that doesn't really mean anything for anyone but Microsoft.

I would welcome it if the freed resources were actually used to make Windows better for the user, but I doubt that will be the case.
The Fakest “Whistleblower” Ever
A Journey to a Metal-Rich World
YOLOv5 v6.0 is here – new Nano model at 1666 FPS
I have been studying the law and will consult with tax professionals soon. Starting next year I will not need to do business in California anymore; my next full time employer is not CA based and none of my current clients are either.

I just feel uneasy leaving most of my professional network behind. Sometimes even the most trivial social interactions end up turning into very lucrative opportunities.
"Windows 10 is 10 years old"

It's a rolling release, so with 21H1 it's only half a year old.

And I don't care what they do. It will be the last Windows for me.
Open Source Security Foundation raises $10M
We say all the same things about adrenaline, caffeine, sugar, tryptamines and phenetholamines: no-one seems to mind. Why can't we say the same about dopamine?
But it isn't the same, with NFT's the trust comes from the NFT issuer and not the blockchain. With bitcoin you just have to trust the chain, but with NFT's you have to both trust the chain and the issuer.
This is what happens when you pay milliennials 6 figure salaries to be college "administrators" and they have 0 actual work to do.
Remember when LinkedIn made an app that MITMed email connections just so they could add a signature to your messages? [1] Or when Facebook was distributing internal dev certificates to the general public so they could collect data on teenagers using private IOS APIs? [2]

Sure, most here would know not to do it, but it’s abundantly clear that the general public cannot manage technology.

And this is what these companies were doing publicly. Imagine if they had unrestricted access through other app stores? Data is the modern day gold rush, and it seems like every company has gold fever. They just can’t help themselves in being as intrusive as humanly possible. It’s nice to have some kind of control over it.

I would be open to alternate app stores if and only if they were unable to circumvent MDM restrictions. At least that way you could protect company assets.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600597
[2] https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/1/30/18203551/app...
Must admit I only knew him for the spiral:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
Those storage expansion cards are so awesome.
Do you happen to know where there's a copy of the source? The stuff on the tcl wiki all seems to be dead and that sounds fascinating to take apart to learn how it works.
Shouldn't this be allowed?
This is true for a lot of older and simpler games for the C64 as well, but at the same time for most of them you'd see absolutely no benefits, since it's common for everything to hang off the interrupt.

A few games that glitches when there's too much stuff going on at the same time might run smoother.

Demos are likely to mostly not work because any remotely fancy effect tends to depend on much more precise timing, though.
How to build a client-side database of people with React
In this article, I show you the walk through of the process of building a database of people by making use of an API service.

Kindly read it and let me know what you think.
Get out of here with that rational nonsense! The market will fix all the problems by doing the same thing that caused them.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. Completely disagree. The free market continually makes bad decisions. And the term "free market" never meant an un-fettered market free of government influence and control.
I don't even want to entertain these questions. They are not questions that should be entertained in 2021 when we have full knowledge of the Holocaust and have full knowledge of the kind of darkness that lurks in the hearts of humans. They could scale up facilities to do whatever they want to millions of people.
Checksums and snapshots are so valuable I don't care about the performance impact. Modern file systems use more medatada so I expect them to be slower in metadata intensive operations, and the COW approach isn't good for every workload.
I think this is just because HN is getting bigger, and people downvote comments that don't necessarily warrant downvotes, and one or two downvotes will probably attract more people to read a comment and disagree with the downvote.
> where does it say it's often life threatening?

IUDs greatly reduce overall risk of pregnancy. The risk is not zero, though. When IUDs do fail, and they will, they increase the risk of ectopic pregnancies. The vast majority of those are located in the uterine tubes. Those are life threatening. There is no space for the fetus in the tube, it will rupture and cause severe bleeding which can and will kill the mother if left untreated. It's an important cause of acute abdomen.
It somewhat decently identifies the object drawn, but fails badly to actually find the identified object.
That’s nearly the point. It’s not that it implies intent, but that it implies agency.
Ask HN: Any affiliate marketers on HN to promote SaaS for students niche?
Ask how much direct influence the equity firm has on the operations of the business.

I've found that the "right" answer should be a middle ground. If they micro-manage, it won't be an enjoyable place to work. But if they sit in an ivory tower and just hand down directives of "Increase revenue by X% this year", that leads to poor decisions chasing an arbitrary revenue goal instead of sustainable business operations.

In a healthy relationship, the business leaders should have open discussions with the equity firm, and collaboratively decide on quarterly/yearly goals that both sides feel are fair.
> Apple is happy as can be to let enterprise (and schools/gov/etc) force users to install apps.

The enterprises are "forcing" the installation of apps on the hardware they themselves own. Corp A cannot force the installation of apps on Corp B's devices, or even on the personal devices of Corp A's employees.

I have an iPhone for work and my personal iPhone, and my work has no access to the latter.

I don't think there's any technical reason why you couldn't set up a MDM system for your own personal phones and have the same capabilities as an 'enterprise'.