skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah....that 12 hour drive I mentioned includes driving across the entire width of Germany and jesus it is stressful. Yes, the unlimited sections are "fun" and it's really cool to be able to drive at 150mph+ for a while when the conditions allow, but it also means you need to be on like 10x the alertness level as normal. Like really really really pay attention a lot at all times. It can be super harsh. But the last few times I'd just set the cruise control to something more sensible and just relax, with the modern systems the car basically drives itself.
Aside from the other considerations, "it was a good investment" stuff is just ridiculous. The general bank isn't in operations to make money - it's in operation to protect the market, the currency and the economy as a whole so whether it makes money is irrelevant to whether these loans were a good idea.

But even more, if the Fed basically designates a bank "too big to fail" (as the Fed did) and loans the bank the money it currently needs, the markets can this. And this allows the bank to "print money" itself by issuing bonds - since now the market knows those bonds are effective guaranteed by the Fed and so equal to money. Thus the bank can easily issue enough bonds to repay or over-pay the Fed. But that's not a "see, problem solved!" situation.

The theoretical problem of this sort of action is naturally these large entities potentially issue loans and borrow without being disciplined by risk. That might be compensated for by other actions - say preventing them from issuing risky loans. But things still wind-up a bit "distorted". I'd recommend Doug Noland's Credit Bubble Bulletin on the subject.
Tell me you don't understand stablecoins without telling me you don't understand stablecoins.
ELI5: will this work on other types of cancers? For example, breast cancer, non small-cell lung cancers, etc.?
> Any security checking is probably automated

Genuine question, do you think that comes free? It costs money to develop these things and having control over the app store allows them to recoup that. I see no problem except maybe it's too expensive for developers. A more reasonable cut should be offered IMO.
A downgrade for a stalker maybe. Honestly I use them and haven't had a single false positive ping.
There is a boot camp if you want to be an Army medic
See @ska's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195348
We didn't have to toss out everything we learned about viruses and start from first principles, but certainly people's irritation with COVID restrictions seems to have provoked people to ignore decades of research to the contrary to make bizarre assertions like you can't catch viruses outside or get reinfected (ironically the early scientific and mainstream speculation about if COVID would be different was mostly taking the optimistic tack that COVID might be less likely to cause reinfection than respiratory viruses endemic in the human population like flu...)

Same goes for the T-cell immunity really: it was pretty much a given that the body's normal immune processes still applied to coronavirus, but what was novel was the unscientific community insisting that they couldn't possibly be reinfected and a course of vaccines couldn't possibly give them any benefit to their immune system after they'd been infected (someone should tell all the old people who get flu shots every year!)
Why do people go to jail and lose all ability to make income, but corporations don't? Corporations should get virtual jail time where they're not allowed to operate for a set period of time and have all their rights stripped away.
Thousands of Texans are without power as arctic cold front hits state
Next-gen USPS mail trucks are only capable of 8.6 MPG, EPA says
Wow, this site has a very low threshold for considering something a 'dark pattern'. If you look at the psychological section, these are all considered dark patterns:

* A leveling up system

* Badges/achievements

* Collecting things

* Getting better tools/equipment as the game progresses

That's like...most games, I think? Most single-player games at least probably have at least one of those.

edit: some of the examples listed here are hilarious

> D4DJ Groovy Mix

> "difficulty 1 through 14 is easy to learn and master, while 15 is the hardest difficulty in the game. makes people think that they have 90% of the skill of the best player but in reality it is not the case"

> Magic: The Gathering Arena

> "There are mysterious matchmaking algorithms. It isn't clear how these work. At face, they appear to match players of similar skill or deck strength."
Your comment doesn't appear to have much to do with the link you have provided; could you add some more context?
There is tons to reverse engineer on the frontend. When you think about it, we have so much source code we can read through, some of it can hide bad engineering that lets you access something you shouldn't be able to. Like setting the price of an item via hidden form parameter, or finding an endpoint that lists every single promo code

Next time you find a website with a GraphQL API, try running the introspection query[1]. If that doesn't work, try fuzzing[2]. I've found multi-billion dollar companies who've

* Left open their GraphQL playground completely

* Enable introspection

Once you start you can dig into the API, and figure if you found anything interesting

[1] https://blog.yeswehack.com/yeswerhackers/how-exploit-graphql...

[2] https://github.com/nikitastupin/clairvoyance
Apple will face more fines for avoiding App Store ruling, Dutch regulator says
Except that you can only do so after you know it is offending.

By then the app could've siphoned all of your data.
No Gmail.
Who is “you” here? A end user or app developer?
Mark Rober's videos are always entertaining, but I wonder the legality of audio/video recording in supposedly an unaware person's house. I assume he has this figured out, but it also makes me wonder whether the "thieves" are actually plants.
The funny part is when you go to the 4th photo down and look into the passenger-side window. Got to wonder whether the author did that on purpose, or didn't notice.
I blame consumers for the duopoly we have. I get that practically, it's a farce to call this choice we have real and significant but these marketplaces exist because of the demand. Making this duopoly more convenient for app-makers only kicks the can and further re-enforces the duopoly. In an ideal world, people would fund projects like the PinePhone or PostMarketOS, but our "solution" to the walled-garden is apparently to make it less painful but just as preeminent. Consumers should be smarter.

There are a lot of passionate people trying to make these alternative hardware and software marketplaces work, but passion is no replacement for genuine demand so supply is scant. Given the unfortunate historical trajectory, quality will always be wanting. So, I guess I'm against a practical solution that entrenches the status quo when there's an ideological solution that would make these poor options obsolete. I'm probably just holding my breath though.
> that collect all their information

You just described MDM. It has been supported by iOS for a long time, allowed to do exactly what you describe, and this bill won't change that aspect of it.

The permanent solution to this are federal data privacy and ownership laws.
auto-upvote for anything plotter-related... they're so much fun.

be sure to check out #plottertwitter on the twitter tubes (oops, totally missed that this was called out in the very first sentence), and i've also been collecting useful plotter-related links here:

https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters

(one last edit / promo: if you get the nostalgia fuzzies for plotters, be sure to check out the "Manuals and Ephemera" section of the above repo, where i've linked up a bunch of plotter-related manuals and brochures and advertisements from the internet archive)
Code isn't law, is the point. No matter how many times people try to claim that, the legal system does not, to my understanding, actually work that way.

It would depend entirely on what a judge and a jury think about how the law ends up getting applied, were this tried in US courts.
This is probably because of
1. You have Bluetooth on all the time
2. If BT is off, the tag isn’t moving at all (including drawer moving open shut)
> Cab-overs have no other advantages

That's not true. Lower overall length is an advantage for maneuvering in city streets and parking lots, which is why you see medium duty COE vehicles (mostly trucks but semi-tractors as well) in some parts of the US making local deliveries. It also provides a visibility advantage that reduces the accident rate.
Do you have any that attempt to be unbiased, or hell, objective, that accuse Israel of being apartheid? I don't even care if they're biased if they're objective. The NGO monitor is point by point, sourced, objective rebuttals. If that's not good enough for you, that's a personal problem with objectivity that you can sort out yourself.

Amnesty International is neither unbiased nor objective. They've long been staunchly anti Israel with no objective basis. It shouldn't be a surprise that it's pro Israel sources providing objectively sourced rebuttals to the report. AI can be anti Israel all they want if their accusations stand up to even the most basic scrutiny or historical fact, but they don't. They're laughably and blatantly manipulative, deceitful, lies by omission, or just plain lies. There's nothing wrong with bias if you utilize verifiable facts in your arguments. Do you dismiss the arguments and points of black BLM supporters because you don't take black unabashedly pro black people seriously?
So you're suggesting that either Google or Apple will just step aside?

And the point of this monopoly busting legislation was to create a bigger monopoly?
It's not about "vagueness" - intentionally messing up somebody else's computer or network (without owner's permission) is a crime, and it's not vague in any computer crime statute worth its name. Granted, if somebody had it coming and deserves this and much more, it's North Korea, but that doesn't change the nature of the deed. I don't think US authorities will be eager to prosecute, but that doesn't change the nature of it.
By the way, most Atari 8-bits had BASIC built-in, but the earliest machines, the 400, 800 and 1200XL, did not.
Waterpipes have been known to cross watershed boundaries. Or am I missing your point?
Is the cell capacity planning required since there are no laser interlinks or it's going to be forever like that?
> If you mint a $10T coin and throw it under your mattress, then you haven't decreased the value of anything even though the supply has increased dramatically.

How has the supply increased in this scenario? What if, instead of minting the coin, you just tell people that you've done so?

The supply of money has only increased if you're able to spend the putative addition to the money supply.
Also, very relevant to discussions of whether we live in a simulated universe!
Where I live, the goalposts are exactly the same as they were two years ago: don’t let the health care system get overwhelmed. I have no idea what your politicians have been telling you.
For the arbitrary changes, I mean that I will sometimes add a clause along the lines of: "Includes a maximum of _ additional hours for work not already defined as part of the Deliverables." Where the number of hours is a very small percentage of the overall project estimate.

I find it's an easy way to give the customer more budget certainty upfront and offer some level of flexibility. So as the customer asks for something out-of-scope that's small, I can just draw down the hours pool instead of debating between issuing change orders and eating the cost. And then you have some form of contractual protection saying "oh hey, your 10 tweaks took up the entire pre-agreed contingency, it's time for a change order" which is a much easier conversation to have.
Hey, sorry for not providing more context, the blue line is the Fed's balance sheet and the red line is inflation.

Yes, the Fed's balance sheet skyrocketed, but inflation (the value of money vs. goods & services) remained lower than before that line spiked.
This is such a facetious argument.

You know that developers will end up using alternate App Stores.

Which means I will be forced to use them if I want to continue to use the app.
If anyone actually thinks we’re going to be in an objectively better spot in 2 years because of this bill, I encourage you to take a real good look around at the actual world we actually live in.

Things I guarantee you will see because of this:
1. You will have six different app stores on your phone. The Apple one, the Facebook one, the Google one, the Epic one, and at least two more, probably one from Disney and one from Spotify.
2. Those apps will absolutely not follow anything even close to App Store guidelines, and will wholesale be grabbing everything they can and exploiting every available opportunity to at best take your data and at worst add any kind of adware, malware, or anything else they can.
3. You thought payment dark patterns were bad Now?
4. Every goddamn app you want from every goddamn anything will be side-loaded. Some of these will be legit versions of the app you wanted.

You live in a world in which large predators want to devour you and small predators want to gnaw on you. You live in a world in which goddamn websites are running crypto-miners in your browser. You live in a world in which every company out there is aggressively hacking your dopamine circuits to try to get you to use their app more, and every company out there is grabbing every bit of data they can on you so they can sell it to whatever shady asshole’s willing to give them money for it. You live in a world where nation states are actively targeting you and everyone else around you from across the goddamn world. For fuck sake, you live in a world in which every entertainment studio out there is yanking their content from every other channel and demanding a subscription for them alone.

The App Store is an extractive tax on developers. It restricts user freedom. These things are true. But the goddamn naivety it takes to seriously think that the ability to side-load is going to make our actual lived day-to-day lives better instead of just hypercharging this dark forest hellscape we’ve invented for ourselves takes my breath away. Where the Hell have you people been Living for the last decade?
Maybe not to you, but every time the FED prints money, my dollars are worth less. From my POV they’re currently debasing the currency.
Just curious, would you pay 40% more for the convenience of being able to cancel in one place?
Thank you, if you want to help me out let me know :). I'll look into it, it's more along the lines of patreon/similar being a way to gauge interest and not a way to live off developing it right now.
I know perfectly well how BlastDoor works, and I think maybe you are not the audience that this is intended for. This is not a "Why don't they just". It is an exact solution which resolves the issue in a way which is radically alternative to the current structure. They are trying to abstract the parsing, what must be done is prevent it entirely and relegate the flow of messages to the user-side. Assume that the attacker will inherently compromise the messaging structure and make it to where they don't have access to it instead.
Could be AppleScript
Impressive looking indeed...

https://hcqmeta.com/

(I really wonder at the effort spent on this...)
as a heads-up, most electrical mains in the USA are 240v; they are wired two circuits in series for most residential applications. But you'll find a 240v plug in most homes; it's the industrial heavy-duty looking plug.
> a) Nothing is stopping you from charging people from outside the app e.g. your own web site. It's how Netflix works.

Most here are already familiar with Apple's 15-30% fee (requiring developers to raise prices by 17.6-42.9% to break even) for most app categories, which siphons money from developers who are smaller than Apple to entrench Apple's duopoly position.

Furthermore, even for free apps, Apple requires developers to pay the $99/year fee just to keep apps in the App Store. Without paying, the apps are removed. This already has a negative impact on the availability of free and open source apps on iOS, with an outsized effect on FOSS developers in areas with lower cost of living. For example, compare the huge selection of apps for Nextcloud features available to Android users via F-Droid (https://search.f-droid.org/?q=Nextcloud) to just Nextcloud (basic storage functions) and Nextcloud Talk on iOS.

> d) Nothing is stopping you from running a web server, creating funky projects etc. You are just not allowed to disseminate to others through the App Store.

That's a point in favor of the bill. Apple preventing entire categories of useful apps from entering iOS via the only accessible installation method for most users of average tech proficiency is evidence of consumer harm.

Nobody is making you install or purchase anything from outside the App Store if you don't want to, even after sideloading becomes an option in iOS. Sideloading is allowed in Android, and most users still install and purchase apps from the Play Store in regions where the Play Store is pre-installed.
> Freespace could work, but the contols of that game is really wonky

To each his own, but I would kill for a modern expansion remake of Privateer with FreeSpace controls and physics.

And you don't really need a joystick for it, but finding a comfortable configuration scheme... takes time.

Easiest would be to have the ship movement on the /keypad/ cursor keys for a coarse directioning and mouse for a fine targeting.

That would give you 13 additional keys for the most often used functions:

target next
target in the reticle
target next missile
target subsystem in the reticle
afterburner (KP_INS)
countermeasures (KP_DEL)
match speed (KP_STAR)
full speed (KP_SLASH)

have a power management nearby (INS through PgDown block) and shield management on the regular cursors.

/Not that hard after all.../

Also FreeSpace is a space /fighter/ sim, it is somewhat another subgenre of spacesims with it's own peculiarities.

Speaking about Roberts - take a look at Rebel Galaxy Outlaw [0], even by the video you will see what it is clearly a modern Privateer in everything except setting/license.

[0] https://youtu.be/wKoJKe_yKQI?t=1786
I left the Apple podcasts app once they changed the way they ordered episodes that I've not yet heard and lost my place on a number of podcasts. I was suggested the Overcast app and it took me three days to completely convert to it and delete the Apple app from my phone. I've even paid the annual subscription to turn off ads, which aren't noticeable anyway, just to support the developer for understanding how (I feel) people actually want to listen to podcasts.

https://overcast.fm/
As someone who drove trucks and was licensed in California - California has other rules that limit, including axle to tandem limits, and not allowing triples or turnpike doubles (both of which are allowed elsewhere, but not federally required). The unlimited length of tractor has practical considerations too, there are reasons why 95% of the long haul fleet is conventional condo sleepers (notwithstanding the folks who drive a RV style sleeper, with a little living area in it) - and 95% of the local fleet are conventional day cabs, mostly driver preference.

So while yes, I used California's state limit as an easy from of comparison, because it is one of more restrictive western states - you're correct in that the STAA allows a longer tractor. In the end, the rules are lightly enforced - but the state limits guide the total length of combination. It's why (for example) you almost never see doubles being pulled by anything other than a day cab.
> It's highly unlikely that I be unemployed for the rest of my life

Unemployed? No. Earn what you did before? Anecdotal, but my parents know a lot of people in their 50s that when laid off, never went anywhere close to their prior salaries.

This was especially true for people who couldn't get their current job with their credentials. Plenty of senior people in places like factories and warehouses don't have degrees for example. Would they find work again if laid off?
Dark mode won because nowadays it´s associated with "new".

When I started coding in the 90s dark mode was associated with old. "Cobol dinos" used dark modes, we "cool kids" used light modes. Nowadays if you ask most young programmers they will say that light mode is old. They use dark mode.

And I guess this idea of hip, has turned mainstream lately. The latest uses "dark"
(can't edit, but not sure if the DV was over disbelief or for some other reason—if the latter, cool, no problem, I take no issue with whatever your reason was; if the former, it's on YouTube and it's exactly what I've said it is, though on review technically he may merely have been suggesting that the "2nd amendment people" [as he put it] might shoot Supreme Court justices... so, you know, not exactly better. It's not clear which of those—or, maybe both—were what he had in mind when he said it.)
Holey moley, that is insane. It's pretty wild that a good test engineer can either eat dirt at a big company or help himself to millions of internet dollars by robbing poorly-secured startups

Your argument about security is as old as FOSS itself, and it usually comes down to whether security through obscurity is valuable or not. I wouldn't say I'm qualified to weigh in on it either way myself
I think this argument is less relevant today. Back in the early days of game consoles where they were very obviously designed for one thing only (ex: GBC, NES, etc), then sure.

But consoles today are only limited to gaming and entertainment because the manufacturer artificially limits which software can run on it (and who can develop for it).

I don’t know if they should be opened up like the iPhone (which 1000% should), but it wouldn’t be the end of the world if they were. Some business models would have to be changed, but that happens all the time. Consumers will certainly benefit from more choices.

At the very least, even if they aren’t treated the same as phones/tablets, I think the ridiculous DMCA restriction about jailbreaking consoles needs to die. Jailbreaking a phone/tablet is legal, but doing it for a game console is illegal because it could maybe lead to piracy.

That’s obviously dumb (because jailbreaking a phone could also lead to piracy), but it also acts as a convenient legal barrier that protects console manufacturers from competition. In the early days of home consoles, some publishers would jailbreak consoles to be able to sell games without going through the manufacturer. EA did this as part of a strategy to negotiate more favorable terms with Sega, for example. The threat of competition forced Sega to the bargaining table, and in the end consumers benefited from the games EA was able to publish.
Some of the problems with our response is actually based on the opposite issue, our first response impulses were to treat it like a novel flu strain. So we re-ran the H1N1 playbook. The flu was believed to be mostly spread by droplets/surface contact and not airborne, so they assumed covid was too.

The issues you are describing is more the problem that health officials shift the burden of proof depending which assumptions or policies they want to make. Any facts that counter their policies have to be proven by significant evidence. And they often wouldn't look too hard. A fact that supports their conclusion can be assumed until proven otherwise.