skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few example of the top of my head:

- DriveDroid to boot a PC, I haven't used a USB stick to boot off in... years?

- /etc/hosts

- Viper4Android for system wide EQ

- Messing with user hostile apps such a firefox when they disable your addons although they still work, proven by the fact that I was able to make them work again as root

Edit: more things

- Wireguard kernel module

- Adding a CA to the trust store to MITM yourself

you can add as many of these as you want, i'm not giving up root. The crippled API model that's in fashion these days kills innovation.
For taking a position against another growth stock hype luminary, there exists an inverse Cathie Wood index you can trade: an ETF with the ticker SARK (“short ARK”). It has done quite well since its inception last year.
iOS messaging has end to end encryption by default, when that is enabled the messages are shown within a "blue bubble".

When this is not possible, it falls back to sending normal SMS, which can be read in plain text by third parties in the middle and has no encryption, when that occurs messages are shown within a "green bubble".

Therefore, messaging android users shows a "green bubble". People know its both an android user and unencrypted.

This also results in a worse messaging experience for the iOS users, as all of their other rich media is disabled and handicapped as long as that conversation involves an android user.
> If you haven’t solved the Schrodinger equation before

Heh heh, define "solved"... If I remember my QM class correctly, we "solved" the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom; the book achieved this by observing "... which gives us <equation>, and, hey! look at this! it turns out that FamousLastName polynomials--which you've never heard of--turn out to solve this equation, here's their definition, and... problem solved!" (If I remember correctly they were Legendre Polynomials, but maybe that was some other equation. And to be fair to the book, it was a pretty good book.) After having "solved" the equation for one isolated, most-basic atom, they went on to say, "basically we have no idea if there is an analytic solution for anything more complex".

If manipulating bra and ket vectors symbolically around an equals sign counts, we did a lot of that, although it did not develop in me the least intuition about QM. But then, I never really understood what those bra and kets were doing, and my grades steadily dropped (fortunately for my GPA there were only three courses). So it's possible I might have developed some intuition had I understood what was going on.
I'm open to hear why it's different. Humans have believed in flat earth throughout history, but it doesn't make it more sane. Seems to me that having people believe in things on faith opens them up to all sorts of ideas not based on science.
Libraries don't necessarily pay rights holders or authors. They buy books like anybody else, which means they sometimes buy books on the second hand market. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I also priced out not using a flat rate box w/ FedEx. They quoted:

- 1 small 40lb box - $260

- 3 small 40lb boxes grouped as one shipment - $750

- 8 small 15lb boxes, one shipment - $840
Inversing a pump and dump operation, provided it is well timed, can easily beat the market. Assuming that Cramer is a paid actor, this could probably be the case here
Science works on empirical evidence. Consensus perhaps is important in testing that evidence is repeatable and true. But the basis is evidence.
They can submit their papers to journals for review. No one is stopping them. Twitter is not the place for that.
or otherwise simulated

I read a sci-fi book where simulations had advanced to the point where no one bothered to wage war anymore because the simulations we're so good that everyone knew who the winner would be. Of course that presupposes rationality.
I hardly spend any time using it, but when I do, I find discord's UI to be complex and confusing.
So does almost every bookstore and library across the country. This is a bit of a tempest in a teacup, taking school board shenanigans in various local areas and making it sound like broad swaths of Americans “can’t access books”.
> The impression I get is that every iPhone user has heard all the arguments before and understand the accuracy of those arguments and its the android users that lack the self awareness in that area and other areas of their life,

This might be the most ironic comment I've read in a long time. 90%+ of users on both platforms are purely religious about their choice, and if there's one thing I can say that most of them have in common, it's (over)confidence that they understand "the other side" while utterly failing to. There are 3 topics that I used to discuss regularly but now avoid with most people because too much processing happens in the Amygdala: religion, politics, and phone religion (aka iphone v. android).

I think it's also worth adding that a lot of "preference" just comes down to choice based on values. If you highly value cohesive user experience, security (especially from own mistakes), and brand recognition/status, more curated app store, then iPhone is a good choice. If you highly value device ownership (for example my device, my choice to sideload or root, ability to run apps that can reach deeper into the device, unlock bootloader and install custom ROMs), price (not really true anymore though), etc then android is for you.
4’33” isn’t about about non musical culture although some have mistakenly construed it as such. Cage made it absolutely clear what it was about in his comments about the piece.
I’m looking for a plugin where I can define my own custom mappings (via regex-like patterns). Anyone know such a plugin?
When Apple launches a new phone, they manage to keep “old” apps compatible with the new hardware/OS. After that, developers are no longer allowed to upload such apps, even though they would work perfectly fine. It would not be a big harm for apple or end users if developers were allowed to lag behind for a year or two.
> I know XMPP supports all of this and more. But find a cross platform client/server that implements all of it?

That is what Snikket is trying to be. https://github.com/snikket-im
The yield on the 1 year t-bill has gone from 0% to 2%

That’s where I’ll be keeping cash I’d otherwise keep at the bank, for now.
The security upgrades situation on Google is intolerable.

I finally have a phone (3axl) that didn't die in a couple years from accidents / abuse / going to the gym in my pocket, and Google is eol-ing it because they've cut off security upgrades.

My next phone will be an iphone.
If all workplaces will start enforcing rules like this (and they likely will), there would be no alternative to escape to.
I use a custom ROM on my Pixel phone to strip out all the user-hostile tracking. It works quite well honestly, no major usability sacrifices
So you would rather support racist and sexist books than books about the LGBT written by people of color? I am not sure of your position.
No, science works on skepticism.
more likely because of our major cultural influence from the concept of scarlet letters
AAC may not be audibly transparent after its transcoded for Bluetooth. If you are using Apple headphones then this of course shouldn't happen, but for Sony's LDAC, better to start with FLAC.
Let me point out that science has been wrong many times before
We're not talking about tax evasion. If you don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets, then banks have all sorts of fees that they ding you for just like the phone company when you travel, and they won't waive them as they have no incentive to keep your business. Folks with lots of money who track every penny are often unaware of the landscape for these fees, because banks actually do have an incentive to keep your business and they do waive them without even asking.

If you think there's something illicit about seeking to pay the least in fees and with the broadest reach, or if you think that paying fees to every company who comes along that gets to play middle-man is exactly the same as paying your fair share in taxes then I'm not sure what I can do to dissuade you of this notion.
The simplest explanation:

- You invest in the bank
- The bank loans your money to someone else at high interest rate
- The bank gets paid, keeps most of the profit and uses a small part of it for your investment.
Russia decides to permit grey imports of certain embargoed brands (Tesla, Jeep)
I just upgraded some of my home network to 10 Gbps; it was way cheaper than I thought:

- 3 NICs with SPF+ at ~ $45 a piece

- 1 switch with 4 SFP+ and 1 RJ45@1Gbps: $140

- 1 switch with 2 SFP+ and 8 x RJ45@1Gbps: $100

- ~ $100 for all the DACs and AOCs

So I have the backbone and 3 computers @ 10 Gbps and a number of other devices left at 1 Gbps, all for $500. This is just because I have many devices connected and some longer optic cables instead of DACs, otherwise it would be just half of that. But yes, going to 25 Gbps is a different game, probably 5x the price or more.
> All that matters is the fact that if you can't see the code

Proprietary licensing does not preclude source availability. Example: “source available” licenses.

FOSS licensing does not guarantee source availability. Example: MIT/Apache/GPL software as a service.
It’s all about what it costs to upgrade - if a rural ISP has to upgrade copper infrastructure for whatever reason they’ll fiber it.

In the city it’s often just as easy to let what is working continue “working” - a major rollout takes a lot of money.
I've been using an iPhone without any apple services for the last year and a half and it's been a pretty pleasant experience. Gmail, Google Maps, Spotify all work fine and there's nothing prodding you to switch back to apple services. It's much improved compared to ~5 years ago when I last tried iOS.

You need an apple ID for the app store, but that seems pretty reasonable.
There are SWE degrees, already.

There are also IT degrees.
Kind of a weird corner case for copyright law; a piece whose copyright expires part way through the performance. Presumably it expires (in the U.S.) 70 years after John Cage's death (1992 + 70 = 2062), but if it had instead been produced by a corporation and the score wasn't published ahead of the performance, each portion of the performance would presumably expire 95 years after that portion first played. However, there's apparently also a rule that corporate copyrights also expire 120 years after creation regardless of when they were published.
I type in the URL shown in the VLC app on my computer and drag and drop files to it, when I am connected to same network of course.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

> A media library, with WiFi Uploads & Downloads, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive & Box.com integration and optional passcode lock.

>Web Interface for easy uploads and downloads to/from device.
I said the open, cheap and ubiquitous nature gets it into the hands of people who care about doing things. The implication is not that you can do more rather that you can do the same without spending as much on an iPhone (especially since in most of the world people buy devices outright).

And it's the truth. You can do the same with a $400 Android as a top of the line Samsung/Apple device save some games...
Data is already an algorithm
I don't see biblical literalism intersecting with the flat earth. It may be some of the same people, but I don't see anywhere that a literal reading of the Bible would drive you to believing that the earth is flat.
This is exactly why I wanted to leave Apple's ecosysyem for my games and go pure HTML5. Attention and updates (XCode, OS) needed just to keep an app up, not worth the time for me.
WallStreetBets had something that was like a fish in a fishtank somehow directing stock purchases, versus WSB, and WSB lost.
Well the argument is masks work better until there’s a mask shortage for any reason, or any large drop in percentage of people wearing a mask. Then you might see an impactfully large pandemic that could have been avoided if we had more frequent sub clinical or non epidemic infections over the preceeding decades.

For example if there were a war and China cut off EU/USA supply for N95’s. In the 1-6 months it might take USA to build domestic capacity there could be a large outbreak of something which cripples our national readiness at a critical time.
The last time I had an iPhone (for work) it required an adapter to be able to connect to a MacBook Pro.
Apple’s support cycles must play a part? You can get a 6S or SE from 2016 that will run mostly fine still at an okay price.

That’s without even mentioning the nightmare of trying to weigh up dozens of Android phones over multiple years, finding out which ones still work reliably several years down the line, etc.
If you read the original essay, this question actually speaks to one of the difficulties in characterizing fascism, which is what Eco wrestles with in trying to distill it. Modernity and its love of industry and commodities were fairly core aspects of early Italian fascism, with Filippo Marinetti authoring both the Futurist Manifesto and later co-authoring the Fascist Manifesto. Contrast this with Germany, where we see more reactionary, traditionalist movements (if not straight up neo-pagan/mystic a la Julius Evola).

The root of the problem that Eco identifies is that we see something called "fascism" in both Italy and Germany, but aesthetically, ideologically, and politically these two nations look fairly different. So what exactly fascism is becomes difficult to pin down and taxonomize. If I'm not mistaken, I think fascism isn't not strictly modernist, and mostly rejects modernity in favor of traditionalist structures. The aesthetic modernity associated with German and Italian industrialism derives either through their love of technology as a means to realizing an imperialist and nationalist ideology, as well as a sort of hyper-masculinity associated with weaponry and militarism that feed into fascism's constant hero-making.
A more interesting thing I see on those stats is Android looks likely to beat iOS in tablets in the next couple of years. I don't know anyone at all with an Android tablet. I thought Apple had the tablet market pretty much conquered.
yeah maybe.

In this case its just tech enthusiasts that fall for evangelizing the technical prowess while ignoring that the social aspect of a technically good-enough system is more important to people. tech enthusiasts do this in other areas of their life too. just a heavy correlation, which people experience nationwide.
I‘m wondering what the outcome of this will be by the end of the year.
We‘ve essentially gone back to maskless life here in Switzerland, and it seems to work out if you ignore the individual drama of covid related deaths.
How closely does Apple monitor for changes? Could you simply update the copyright text each year and push an "update" to remain on the store. I can't imagine they have people looking at each app for new levels or features.
Stop tending other peoples' gardens. Especially trillion dollar companies' ones. No sympathy here, we all know the drill by now.
Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
More often than not peer review acts as gatekeeping rather than actual analysis of the data and methods. The people who do peer review are often those with institutional political power rather than proper "peers".
So, these libraries should then also avoid stocking things like the bible, in your opinion. Do I have that right?
> Not having some reasonable limits on actual misinformation makes us all less free

This is a step towards "freedom is slavery."
It seems very unlikely at this point Putin will be overthrown. Sanctions will need to do to Russia’s economy what Russia is doing to Ukraine’s cities, reducing them to rubble. You have to salt their economic earth to prevent this from occurring again after Putin dies, is couped, etc (allow for an authoritarian who will likely fill the power vacuum, without any military power).
The data you linked isn't about unrestricted unlimited capitalism. Everywhere "capitalism" lifted people out of poverty you'll find it only happened after limitations, checks and balances, and regulations were placed on capitalism.
Is it also possible to make and use your own plugins?

Also I'm a bit confused that browser plugins are apps. Are they actually running as individual apps, or part of the browser?

Can they get taken down?
Great article!

One thing I wasn't able to tell from the description, did having multiple sending/receiving locations around the world require very tight time synchronization? (like being able to match up signals sent from one location to another received across the globe?) How was the time accuracy in those days?
The earth has had higher CO2 levels… and had much more biodiversity when it did. If anything for a sustainable world for life we should probably be targeting the 800ppm of the Carboniferous and not the 200ppm of the little ice age.

Can you tell me why from a sustainability perspective why 200ppm is the ideal? Or if 200ppm is not the ideal what is the sustainable ideal, and why civilization collapses if we don’t reach that target?

I mean the totality of civilization not just that Buckingham palace or a few other places might be underwater? Like why can’t we build ports a little inland from Amsterdam? Why can Paraguayans survive 40C but civilization collapses if Europe goes above 27C.
> iOS gained 6% between July 2018 and January 2022. From 19.4% then, Apple has grown its OS market share to 25.49%

I wonder why is it so hard for people to differentiate 6% from 6 percentage points
There doesn't seem to be. Hell BB10 was basically what you describe and IIRC had a layer to let let devs submit Android apps into the Blackberry World from day one. It wasn't enough and devs couldn't even be bothered to do that. Later they partnered with Amazon and added the Amazon App Store and let users add their own Android apps. Still wasn't enough. It was a great phone OS and hands down was the best at email/messaging. Maybe a true FOSS community effort could carve out more of niche with this though.

Even Microsoft couldn't make it work with barrels of cash. Granted they did make some huge mis-steps.
>done quite well since its inception last year.

that probably doesnt say much though. what happens if its run since ark's inception?
The best story of this kind is Sam Sloan (of Sloan vs SEC fame) having had this idea and trying to get his money out of an Afghan bank account right around the coup and Soviet invasion.
I don’t think Apple would actually want to grow their global market share beyond 30% or so. It would start eating into the brand’s premium image, and more importantly, would invite more uncomfortable antitrust attention.

They’re really at a sweet spot here IMO in the mobile market: not too big, not too small (like the Mac used to be in 1995-2005). It’s better for the company if revenue growth comes from services, high-margin computers (like the Mac Studio) and new devices rather than selling more phones.
Exactly, what their govt called "market rate".

Similarly, I remember at one point there was almost 0 cases of COVID positives officially. But a huge spike in respiratory problems or other causes deaths for some reason.
> It seems utterly anxiety inducing otherwise, where you'd have to quadruple check, then quadruple check again, and then sleep on it and then quadruple check 4 more times before you do any kind of sizable transaction.

That's mostly due to transactions being non-interactive. If the receiver has to prove their ability to spend the received funds before being allowed to receive them, then most of this anxiety disappears. Certain blockchain designs require transactions to be interactive in this way.
SAR and multispectral imagery. It’s not difficult to work with when you’re only dealing a small and well defined regions, but the bandwidth and storage requirement definitely increase once you start doing daily global composites.

We’ve actually moved everything into a data center with a 1gb connection. The trade of being that we have several orders of magnitude more storage and computing capacity.
Yeah I used to have a bunch of (mostly Android Wear) apps on the Google store but they started getting deleted one by one, they kept having new policies that you needed to follow to have your app stay up. I have a dayjob and don't have time for that shit. Pay me and I'll do it.
Are other people allowed to disagree with that view?
This is great, I have to check out more slowed down songs. The only other one I've heard is the Jurassic Park theme (-1,000%)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX40crWTTYs
https://www.wordnik.com/words/genocide

1. noun The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

2. noun The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.

3. noun The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.

sui-cide, regi-cide, homi-cide, geno-cide... What do you think "geno" and "cide" means?

> The definition of genocide does not require a net reduction in population.

That's as absurd as saying sui-cide doesn't necessarily mean the end of your life. Genocide means extermination. Like what happened to the native americans in the US. What happened to jews in europe. What is not happening to uyghurs in china.

What's funny is the chinese government didn't even massacre uyghurs. That's how laughably absurd the uyghur genocide claims are. Ugyhur genocide is literally a made up propaganda. It's so absurd, you can go on youtube and actually see uyghurs vlogging. Crazy for a genocide huh? There are actually uyghurs in the chinese government. Crazy for a genocide.
Friends are under-clustered. Why?
Bruce Schneier I think captured the sentiment (without linking it directly to fascism) when commenting on what he calls security theater, especially in the wake of 9/11.

To paraphrase my recollection: "This is horrible but we don't know what to do! But we have to do something, and $X is something, therefore we have to do $X!"
It’s not hard to do a recompile with a slightly newer SDK, check things still work, update the version and copyright and re-upload. That’s how I keep all my apps in the store.
Often you find a cheap update you ought to make, like add dark mode support which wasn’t a thing when the app was written. Sometimes you take the app across a tech boundary, like adding ARM code to a Mac app. I can see Apple’s motivation to keep fresh goods on their shelves that work with current OS versions and hardware.
Where are you going to go to dinner? Olive Garden? I think any reasonable version of this lifestyle involves being mostly self-sufficient at home. Especially in an Amazon Prime, UberEats, Peloton world. The stroads and strip malls that are the commercial centers and gathering places of exurbia are really unpleasant. People only go there because they have to. Increasingly they don't have to anymore.
Like a “tensor processing unit” or TPU?

A RISC-V open source TPU would be a big innovation in AI and scientific computing.