skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
true, and 8200 is huge, being there doesn't mean much in terms of ability to remotely take over an iPhone

The more accurate description is - these cyber weapon companies bring in the 22 year olds that were building cyber weapons in 8200

Its an elite group of a couple hundred at most. who are then snatched up for their existing knowledge, even if they can't figure out how to find new exploits
A few yes, I do not think most are sufficiently technical or care enough to put in special effort for this website. What is important is most who use basic consumer tools and do not want to deal with complex filters do not bother, that is most of the problem.
The risk of hospitalization for children is virtually zero. The risk of hospitalization for healthy people under 50 is miniscule.
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Don't misinterpret my statement to mean "we can undo all the damage already done". Also, don't misinterpret it to mean "we can prevent any further damage".

When I say solutions are on the roadmap, I mean somewhere down the road we'll be able to stop doing the bad things and save ourselves.
I used to see them all the time on Reddit in the r/Coronavirus subreddit.

Searching very quickly, I found this from Dec 21, 2021:

https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/c7efM-om...
Looks like your money got sucked into a crypto wormhole.

Teleported, elsewhere, through mathematimal impossibilities no-one with a computer can prove; and if they do, all the value put in disappears into the void.
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The big companies were going to be launching redesigns anyway - as institutions, they're not equipped to "don't fix what isn't broken."
Yes you did. They could've not deposited the funds in which case it would've been retail that covers the cost. Instead they do and the loss is purely on them.
> their country.

If someone has lived in the same country for the entirety of the life that they can recollect, most people would consider that "their country". Your strict viewpoint also presents the opportunity for absurd scenarios when coupled with birthright citizenship, for example a Mexican woman is giving birth to twins...one comes out on the south side of the Rio Grande, and the other comes out 5 minutes later on the north side of the Rio Grande. According to you, 18 years later the first born would have no respect for the law, and the second born would be some kind of pure embodiment of America.
The legislation would require Google/Apple to "step aside" and allow side-loading/alternative app stores, so yes?

Google and Apple would still be welcome to operate their own stores. A 3rd-party cross-platform store would compete with them, hence no monopoly.

Edit: I guess you read my comment to mean "Apple's app store would come to Android" or vice versa? That's a possibility. I'd prefer that to the current state of affairs where no direct competition is possible
Hu? I was trying to define what a is considered a deregulated power grid, because apparently people don't know how its generally defined in the US. I wasn't saying that the entire US is deregulated, its state by state as the example below points out, and even in some deregulated states (like TX) there remain integrated power companies, again as I said.

random google hit, https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-deregulated-power-grid?share...
Run-Ahead
Every time I open the app store on my Android phone, I am amazed at the utter drivel it presents me with. I guess that's the attention economy at work.
I can't wait to have to break my phone's security to install software. Hooray.
HLS handles this well.
I live in the same such country with such rules. They assume rightly that if you request that amperage you will use it and they will plan and bill you to handle it. And yes we then also pay per kWh :)

Why would it be harmful to run at the amperage that I'm buying ? What disincentives do I need?
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>Shouldn't the politicians have made progress on this issue over the course of two years?

What do you mean? Should they should magically cause the number of doctors and hospitals to double inside two years?

>if the billions being spent to fight the pandemic make zero discernable impact on the most critical issue?

What leads you to believe that measures such as pushing vaccination haven't been having tremendous impact on that issue?
South African scientists copy Moderna’s Covid vaccine
That’s wild. The first reason we even have a government is for police and judges.
Because supply alone is not what defines the value of money. This is the concrete example of why Austrian economics is a wholly insufficient model.
That might depend where you live. 2x6 is standard here in my part of Canada, but that's just for added insulation, not for any structural reason. Older homes were built with 2x4 exteriors
> it isn't difficult to see how they are easily turned into one, is it?

Perhaps, but their mere existence isn't being a dark pattern.

> It seems obvious these mechanisms always had this effect

What effect? Getting people to play more? Do having a good story or tight mechanics count as dark patterns too then?

To me, the idea of a 'dark pattern' here is when a mechanic is being used to push people to play the game more past what they actually enjoy. It's when they don't really feel like playing anymore, but some system in the game compels them to, they feel they 'need' to do something in there. On the other hand, if people do enjoy the specific game element itself, if taking it away would make fans of that type of game find it less enjoyable, then it's not really a dark pattern.

If you removed levels and similar systems of progression from Final Fantasy or The Elder Scrolls, would fans of those series find the games more or less enjoyable? My bet is less.
“Thinks Olive Garden is fancy” is clearly a pejorative class signal
Using Wikipedia as an Impromptu RottenTomatoes API (2021)
They've had a lot of driverless Phoenix service, I think.
Yes that's fair, but the risk profile from the vaccine is also not just relegated to myocarditis, that's just what's been getting attention. It will probably be years before we have an accurate risk assessment of both infection and vaccines. Given the availability of vaccines, it still makes sense to be choosier if you're in a potentially vulnerable population, which is what the paper suggests.
I think “copy” tends to have a negative connotation to it, so in case people decide to check the comments first heres the byline:

Researchers at WHO’s technology transfer hub complete first step in a project aimed at building capacity for vaccine manufacturing in low- and middle-income countries.
both designs are equally good a blocking road.
Ultimately, I agree with you. My overall point though is that opening the Find My network to other vendors isn't the same as opening the protocol. What Apple does in B2B sales is none of my concern.
This reminds me of the way Powder Toy does circuit simulation with cellular automata
The "n-hour workweek" is arbitrary. We work as much as we do because that's what the lending institutions need us to do so they can justify and manage the global trade and manufacture of calories, textiles, fuel, shelter, and implements.

We don't work 50-60 hour weeks at software companies because we'll die of starvation or exposure otherwise, we work that much because the finance trade our work supports allows us to live in a 2-story houses in the first world without knowing anything about construction, defense, farming, etc. The real work [1] gets handled by other people who make less money than us. But we still have to work so the lending institutions can make the debt contracts balance correctly.

[1] Yes, some of us do actually work on real projects, with real consequences to downtime, I understand. But how many brilliant engineers work for F+N or Spotify or whatever that could work on domestic engineering projects instead? Would they still have to work 60 hour weeks? Is such a project even possible without involving lending institutions, and the second those institutions are involved, doesn't that put us right back at the "justify the global finance infrastructure"?
I know many people are saying that nowadays the Ruby community is more disciplined and doesn't favor monkey-patching and I respect that. To me though, it's a huge turn-off that the language even allows for monkey patching.

For context, I worked with Rails for ~6.5 years, starting somewhere in 2009 and stopped at the beginning of 2016 in favor of Elixir + Phoenix.

"Just be disciplined" simply isn't cutting it for me anymore. That's why I started leaning more and more to Rust and OCaml with time, too.
I'm all for cutting down total hours, but personally 4x10 hour days still sound much better than 5x8. There is a lot of time and effort - both physically and mentally - that goes into the transition to and from work that I'd love to avoid. A few more hours a day meanwhile wouldn't bother me much at all.
I randomly picked the first study of a journal id heard of. I’m not going to read all 78. It’s not cherry picking when you do that.
DeepMind AlphaCode: AI learns to solve programming competition tasks [pdf]
I never said it was okay to steal anything. It's just not obviously a good use of taxpayer resources to hunt down something with such a low value. I don't claim to know where that threshold is, but it's probably above $200.

Conversely, let's say I accuse an Uber driver of stealing a $1 bill I left in his car, is that a good use of police time? Where do you draw the line?
And if Apple can't keep the quality of their software from falling to that level, just because of being slightly more open, then that is their failure.
The comments in this thread are giving me a good laugh.
> All true, but this was not what was sold to the general public.

Fauci was prepping everyone for vaccines with a 50% VE against infection back in late 2020 before the results of the phase 3 trials were produced.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/07/fauci-says-covid-19-vaccine-ma...

> “The chances of it being 98 percent effective is not great,” Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said at a Q&A with the Brown University School of Public Health in Rhode Island, according to CNBC.

> Instead, Fauci said, scientists are hoping for a vaccine that is 75 percent effective — but even a 50 or 60 percent success rate would be considered a win.

At the same time though we're still at >90% VE against severe disease and hospitalization through the persistence of T-cell immunity, but that just doesn't protect against initial infection since T-cells take a few days to get going in response to an infection. The vaccines can be largely credited with most of the "milder" Omicron wave keeping the infection-hospitalization-rate much lower.

So who exactly "sold" these ideas about the vaccines to the general public? Because it wasn't the leading public health expert not the pandemic.

How much did the public hear what it wanted to hear from media sources and self-appointed twitter experts?
An astonishingly long article filled with references to private concepts, pretending it is trying to split the difference between two armed camps but leaving me wondering if these are just the private notes of the author not intended for any audience at all.

At some point Scott Alexander turns up and I think "Boy this is a waste of time unless there is a centerfold of Aella in there somewhere".

If I had to come out with a TLDR it would be "Fake news is a problem not because it is fake but because it is news."

I would want to laugh but Rome is burning and I want to cry.
I was just lazy to dig up more, it happens with every highstreet bank in every country. And it happens more often with online platforms such as PayPal, Stripe, Square and alike, especially if they discover your unfortunate (according to the ever-growing US sanctions list) geographic location at any point in your life.
Refund the police!
The point is that people need to stop presuming that these vaccines are without risks of their own. This is proven false and the true risk is still uncertain. Officials are only recently acknowledging for example that vaccines can influence monthly cycles - that was just a cooky conspiracy a few months ago.

Data collection regarding adverse events was laughably inadequate based on testimony over Pfizer's clinical trial protocol, and their data is still not available for review by anyone other than the FDA, which is known to suffer from regulatory capture. Rosy claims about the vaccines have been repeatedly walked back...the safety of these vaccines is likely overstated.
You don't need the full value to finance a $3M project; the author mentioned a mortgage.
Nobody except attackers looks at the code so you can release whatever, claim it's open source whether it is or not, and people will run it. As long as number go up. Also, this hack was on a smart contract not the node software so there's really no convincing needed; Wormhole probably could have updated the contract on chain then released the source seconds later and it wouldn't have been vulnerable. Their mistake was releasing source of the patch over 10 days before applying the patch on chain.
RIP +Fravia

Finding his site in 1995 or so taught me an enormous number of things that I don't think I would have learned any other way.
Yep, almost all potential 4-day week proposals are predicated on 80% of time for 100% of productivity.
The information you get from businesses USED to be available on their own sites, without requiring you to submit to Facebook's invasive tracking.
In this Ask HN? I'd like to find that post.
Nice! Is Igalia planning to work on webXR support for Gecko?
One thing that pops up into mind - I wonder if there's a difference between drivers of automatic vs manual gear shifts in propensity for rolling stops.
Not everyone is so lucky to just cut media pollution. Imagine a subsistence farmer that wants a tractor so the children don't need to help in the field and can go to school. That would increase the carbon footprint of the family.
I have no idea what ending the pandemic means. It is a stupid wooly phrase with multiple meanings, often conflicting. That is why I'm unhappy about the policies used to achieve it - whatever it is.

> Which ones?

Well, looking at a relevant wiki article [0] I'd say the policies I know best (Australia) are bumping up against the articles dealing with freedom of movement, big chunks of articles 18-21 (underlining peaceful association a few time), I'd argue 22-27 - I forget where 'right to earn a living' is but I'm pretty confident it is in thge UDHR somewhere and that is probably in 22-27.

At some point (and 2 years is past that point) these philosophical issues like human rights start to matter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...
Doesn't every Google account, work or private, not already come with access to these?
Apple's Airtag's are a solution looking for a problem. You can't use them to "track lost items" while alerting thieves to their presence. Conversely you can't allow thieves to scan for their presence when they steal something. Their intended use case is pretty useless "find your stuff you've lost" I think, as it covers a small market segment compared to "LoJack, but cheap and fancy like Apple".

The solution requires a lot more governance, and puts Apple in charge of a "court system" with a lot of support cases.

* Every Airtag must have a registered owner. People are limited to the number of tags they're allowed to purchase and use.

* If an Airtag is lost by its owner, they can request it be located. If the Airtag is a significant distance from the owner, Apple must intervene.

* Apple must ask the user if they suspect the article is stolen. If Yes, the user can provide a police report and will be provided the location.

* If they suspect they misplaced the item, but not stolen, things get complicated.

* If the location is mobile since the owner departed the tag, and is tailing other Android/Apple iPhones, Apple will probably need to tell the owner too bad so sad, get a police report first.

* If its location is static since it departed contact with the owner's phone, Apple makes a judgement call as to if they believe it's a stalking situation. If the tag is tailing another Android/iPhone user, Apple should allow that person to have a setting on their phone to passively allow this case, allowing users to consent to being tracked.

There are other obvious edge cases, but I think this at least a start to how this useful technology could avoid stalking but provide for a wider variety of use cases.

And of course this breaks the e2e promise that Apple made, which _prevents_ them from getting NSLs when the government wants to track somebody... so, I don't see a good way out of this.
Not sure I agree with that. Check uBlock Origin and how simple its interface is to block already-rendered stuff. It's basically point-and-click, at this point.
Those old pen plotters are beautiful to watch. I used to use them many, many years ago, and it was great fun.

You'd get annoyed sometimes because you'd watch it draw half of something, zip waaaay over to the other end of the 30x42 in sheet, draw half of something else, and then zip back and finish. I mean, that's neat and all, but really inefficient.

They also made a lot of architecture firms change their logos. If you had a logo with a big, solid black shape somewhere, the plotter trying to fill it in would often just tear through the paper.

This was also back in the days when Ethernet was some weird thing only found in Dennis Ritchie's office. So if you had a lot of CAD stations who all needed to use the plotter, you'd have a whole shelf of serial switchboxes and a baroque and byzantine process to select who gets to plot. And woe unto the poor serf who messed with the switch boxes and cut a plot short. At upwards of 20 minutes a sheet sometimes, you might find yourself hurled into the void.
I'll suggest two things: the idea, however misguided, of saving battery power on cellphones, and Quake II. Before dark mode became Dark Mode, gray type on black was a popular enough design aesthetic to inform the more functional implementations later on. Batteries have been insufficient for the entire smart phone era.
It's difficult to systematically predict Karikos. Probably impossible with very low success rates.

A possible way forward is to simply give out grants randomly to all those that pass some minimum score. After enough filtering, all grants are essentially indistinguishable in quality.
My implication being that it's impossible to prevent this, rather than attempting to pitch an alternative.
What developers will do that? Android has alternate stores, and there isn't any vendor lock-in. The Amazon and Samsung Android alternatives to the Play Store aren't huge competitors. Epic hasn't tried to build their alternative Android app store yet with Fortnite as an exclusive. This is all scare-mongering about what could happen but probably won't happen. Name a single major Android app that's located on an alternative app store.
Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
You seem to believe that computer software and hardware has no error detection and correction built into it. This is definitely not true.

The reproducibility of computer-derived knowledge is what makes it something we can trust. Especially if it's being reproduced on disparate hardware and disparate software.

Mathematics is possibly the only thing in the entire world that can _not_ be described as a religion.
I'd like to see tech companies have the office occupied 6 (7?) days a week, 12 hours a day M-F, with a revolving door of people coming and going.

We are trying to run 24/7 operations and expect everyone to be in the office during the same 'core business hours' which means that wage theft is just one human error away from being a reality.

If I have to be there for anyone to make meaningful progress on deciphering an issue in my code, then we're writing the wrong code.
No, the value the store provides is the SDK. Just as Unity requires you to license IP, I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that the is going away, only now developers get to bypass sandbox restrictions and access user data.

From the users point of view side loading allows only a reduction in security. All those tracking restrictions? App Store submission policy. All those raw data access protections? App Store rejecting sandbox features that are unsafe.

There is a reason malware is a huge problem on android but not on iOS.
It depends, if he just found some AirPods on the ground and decided to keep them, I actually think it's very likely.
> The real life equivalent is more like a strip search before entering the store, and a pat down every time you enter a new store department along with a paragraph from you about your intents in this area of the store, and your signature on the bottom.

how is it like this at all? You claim the data is collected without user knowledge, so how could it be compared to such invasive procedures? The camera metaphor is far more apt, other than the resource usage (which is negligible in most cases, let's be real)
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I think you've gotten confused. Jump did have to fork over $320m worth of tokens to fill the hole from the hack. There's no weird accounting trick here
Why don't you like achievements? I'm curious. I never cared about them in the past and for most games they are just a little nonsense side bubble that pop up sometimes. But for a few games I've sunk a ton of hours into, mostly rouge likes, they are fun to try to complete.
I tried this and disappointingly Linux rejects it before programming languages break.

gcc:

a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/test.h:1:10: fatal error: a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/test.h: Too many levels of symbolic links

python:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tmp.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a'
What would it take for you to accept that people should get vaccinated by law? Or do you think it should just not be mandated ever?
The problem is that without the beep, these devices are no different than your standard GPS tracker that you could use to track someone without their consent. So it beeps so indemnify Apple from that use case.

And for good reason. These devices are already getting popular with abusive spouses. It's worth planning for the worst case scenarios for these things, because they are real.
This is a great article.

Rabbitholed a tiny bit on this part:

> Big companies got the law changed to enable ocean carriers to offer secret discounts in exchange for volume guarantees.

To an article linked in the first article: https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2018/12/congr...

> The last amendment to the Shipping Act occurred in 1998 as the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998, following a five-year study of the effect of the Shipping Act on maritime trade and commerce. The 1998 amendment allowed carriers and shippers to enter confidential rate agreements providing discounted rates in exchange for cargo volume commitments. In 2005, the FMC issued a regulatory ruling extending authority to non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs) to enter such confidential rate agreements with shippers.

> After the 1998 amendment, the maritime industry experienced significant and widespread consolidation. In addition to carrier mergers and acquisitions concentrating the bulk of containership capacity in U.S. trades to fewer than a dozen large carriers, the formation of vessel carrier alliances caused further substantial consolidation. Currently, there are three major carrier alliances representing 80 percent of all container trade. Within the alliances, there has been further consolidation, e.g., the creation of Ocean Network Express (ONE) by the merger of Japanese carriers.

Damn.