skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On January 23, when the virus was starting to become important to Americans, The New York Times[1] asked the question, “do masks block Coronavirus?” No conclusive answer was offered, and it was just stressed that washing hands and general hygiene would be sufficient to block the virus. A similar perspective was also offered on January 24 by The Seattle Times[2] in saying, “public health officials say there’s no need to wear face masks in the United States.” Americans were told that masks do not help, and the number of cases in the U.S. was too few to justify the use of masks. In January, Americans understood that there was no need to use masks.

This continued in February when the numbers in the U.S. were just starting to go up, and COVID-19 was no longer just a problem in Asia and Europe. Using the words of Dr. Fauci, The US News and World Report[3] stated on February 17: “skip the masks unless you are contagious.”

Twitter's policy was not in place when the pandemic started, but after masks were mandated it came into effect. You would be blocked on twitter for repeating what was dogma only months before, that masks were not effective.

In the short history of the pandemic, Americans were never clearly told what Science[4] reported on March 28: That the benefit of the mask “comes not from shielding the mouths of the healthy but from covering the mouths of people already infected.” The unambiguous scientific message of communal responsibility never comes front and center in the media agenda.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/health/coronavirus-surgic...

[2]https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/coronavirus-spurs-...

[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-di...

[4] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/would-everyone-weari...
These companies make a lot of enemies, you're likely on a list at this point just in case those enemies should ever need some temporary leverage. If your friend has integrity to his company and self you will likely not survive such an encounter. Good luck.
If the key is located only in the HSM, and there are no known flaws in the HSM, yep, that's a hard nut to crack, I'm not going to claim I could do it. But given enough resources, with time and planning and insiders? Take a look at https://cryptosense.com/blog/how-ledger-hacked-an-hsm - and that's a remote attack.
> Those paying the tax have generally no control over how Apple spends the corresponding revenue.

Sure you do. The consumer has a voice. If AirPods Pro 2 sucked, you vote by not purchasing them, and if enough other people do the same they'll can Airpods Pro 2 and create a third version in hopes it's good enough to "win back" your vote/money. This is the basis of free market capitalism and allows Apple to make a "product" (the Apple ecosystem) that people don't have to buy into, but they do because of the R&D Apple has invested into their product for over a decade.
Two important points this doesn’t address:

1. Money. How cheaply can this be run per query, and how much value add does this have over the current product?

2. Modalities. GPT is only just ok at factual responses. It hallucinates a lot but let’s assume it didn’t. It’s damn near useless for location based and recency based queries. The day after an election, you’re gonna want to update it on who the president is. It’s not feasible to retrain. And don’t even think about answering “best restaurants near me” based on model parameters alone.

What may be possible however is synthesizing the top N results into one coherent answer.
He made no mention of the stock. And attacking and criticizing a company in public is not forbidden. In fact individuals have done it directly to Tesla in the past and made large sums of money on it with no repercussions.
https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/heavyh...

Moving while pumping dumb bells is one the greatest exercises ever designed.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/dont-j...

Here is one more article on this.

Don't just lift, lift and move.
If Paul Clement had kept his mouth shut in oral arguments we might not be here. You of all people here certainly know that.
It's hard not to see that Apple is playing with fire here, but they've gotten away with so much and they have so much to lose.

The "right" way to fix this is:

1. Apple allows users to download/install software that is not on the app store. If a user owns the device they should be able to do what they want with it, even if it's "risky" or whatever. But this means those users that feel the most comfortable continuing to only use apple-approved apps in the app store can continue to do so.

2. Software downloaded from the app store, using apple servers and services, must give Apple the cut (30%) they ask for. If the app doesn't use apple's infrastructure or payment system, apple shouldn't have any right to a cut of the payment.

Apple has billions of dollars of revenue at stake here, so of course they're going to fight it as long as they can.
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Fellow bootcamp grad here.

This is what drives me nuts. My bootcamp has a legitimately high placement rate (90% hired as SWE or dev within 90 days), that is audited externally, but somehow it is in the same category as something that takes 1/4 the time with a legitimately terrible curriculum.

There needs to be some better differentiator for vocational training.
Oh let me tell you the story of Worcester, MA. Now Worcester (pronounced woostah) is much smaller than NYC but still nothing tiny. It has city trash pickup but instead of taxing its citizens for this service it came up with the ingenious plan to charge people for usage. If you want to throw out some trash what you do is you go to a nearby convenience or liquor store and buy these tiny flimsy yellow bags for a fairly steep price (when I lived there it was nearly $2/bag), and then you just put your garbage in the bags and put it on the curb and it’ll get picked up. This way those who generate more garbage pay more and people would be encouraged to generate less garbage. Genius, right?

No, wrong. So wrong. As I’m sure you can already see, it’s far easier to just leave your trash on the street than to take a trip to the city-ordained liquor stores to buy the approved bags. And with the bags being tiny and flimsy you don’t have much of an option for anything larger to get tossed. Got a big pillow? A dirty paint bucket? A 2x4? Just leave that anywhere. It was honestly one of the dirtiest places I’ve ever lived.
I was doing help desk, but I was pretty plugged into tech news. I was on hacker news and saw the initial post here by Austin himself. It seemed like a good idea and much better then what I was doing in the time. I was frugal and had expenses saved up to go a year at it. At the time I knew YC was involved and I think it did lend an air of legitimacy to a super new concept.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ and scroll to 3.1.3(a)

It's not their choice, Amazon isn't allowed to by Apple's rules. A very careful reading of the rules for reader apps reveals you're not allowed to sell content on your reader app at all.
Oh, thanks, this one is good. Must be rather fast on major platforms. But with this optimization UTF-8 still remains harder computationally than UTF-16.
I'd absolutely disagree. If you read ADITS before AFUTD, you'll miss out on one of the major themes of ADITS - that you, the reader knows what's going on, and that the characters don't. That you know how it ends (well, ish), that you know the secrets they don't. That tension - maintained over such a large book - is what makes it so good!
We don't usually carry Windows everywhere we go, though and look at it at 3am.
> Utterly unthinkable, isn't it?

No. Ignaz Semmelweis faced it in the 1800s for daring to suggest (what we know know as germs) made people sick and hand washing could drastically reduce medical complications. He was able to prove it too.

By the end was locked up in an asylum for his ‘crimes’.

Want more recent?

How many stories have you heard of instruments or gauze or whatever left in surgical patients? Of operating on the wrong part or person?

People are fallible. But checklists help a ton. We know that for sure. Why is aviation obsessed with following them? Because they work to increase safety.

Surgeons have resisted them. I don’t know the current state of it, but they were making that exact “good surgeons don’t need it” argument. I remember it being a plot point on an episode of a medical drama (ER? Or maybe Grey’s Anatomy).

There are probably tons of other examples in other fields.
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To be honest I did understand what was wrong from the error message on first read, despite not knowing ruby (but probably aided by experience in other languages with similar patterns). I think what the distant grandparent was noticing is valid though: the error message is accurately but tangential to the reason for the error. Sure, you can figure it out. Probably you can figure it out without needing to be a great master of the language. But to criticize somebody for wondering whether an error message could be more informative/relevant, when that is clearly possible, I find galling.
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Duck Duck < Two ducks in front of a duck
Duck < Duck behind a duck 1, duck in the middle.
Duck < Duck behind a duck 2

Though that starts playing questionable games with "behind a duck", ie. we mix interpretations for "in front" vs "behind".
Yea, I didn’t list Amazon. I said in the stores near me. Last I checked, Amazon’s thing was to have everything.
Deflecting is a type of reporting. It's one where you focus on anything and everything except the core of the problem in order to try to deflect attention from it. This issue isn't a matter of management practices or ethics, it's a matter of the head of a company engaging in widespread criminal behavior. To frame it as the former is like arguing that Madoff was just a case of "poor accounting practices."

If you'd like to see normal reporting feel free to compare with: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/12/1-billion-to-2-billion-of-ft...
It doesn't need to be illegal to be malware.
Experiences like this one affirm me to send brief emails for documentation.

“Is it true that we are winning clients by presenting usage statistics? Did you know that we recently started collecting that data in an organized fashion? This might save you time when you’re looking for updated figures.”

…or the original problem:

“Thanks for the updated road map. Accordingly, I just made sure that all tickets related to big feature x are marked as obsolete.”
Thank you, encryptluks2. Found them.
Why is anyone surprised by any of this ?

I don't mean to sound like a pleb, but the biggest lesson of the past two centuries is how much people bluff, use the name of 'science, progress, blah blah' to push for their own profits, regardless of actual consequences (bodily or environmentally or ecologically).

I generally stick to old-school goods that are totally natural, cheap and are still massively produced in India. With the 'generic' stuff, half the shit is made from tortured-killed cows (urgh vomits) (admittedly, this is mostly outside India), and all of them are filled with god knows what, and made from god knows what.

If you're India, check out Patanjali's ash and lime dishwasher soap that cost like Rs. 20 per bar. Shout out to FitTuber on Youtube who reviews a lot organic products from India.
Ok, we've changed the title to be that of the article.

(Submitted title was "Android platform signing key compromised".)
This book was THE ONE that made me realize, far FAR later in life than my peers, (my early 30s) that reading fiction -- that horrible chore you were forced to do in high school -- can be fun. You never forget your first time.

A close and long time friend* kept pushing it on me, saying gibberish like "intelligent space lobsters!!" while I rolled my eyes at him.

Finally, I gave in and agreed to read a few chapters. I ended up not putting the book down for hours.

After that, it was undeniable I had managed to acquire yet another addiction. ;-)

Quickly it progressed, intentionally alternating between "books my friends think I will like"** and "things from the canon for a well balanced diet". A Fire upon the Deep, Foundation series, Halting State***, Rendezvous with Rama, Snow Crash, Permutation City, Dune, Diaspora, Schild's Ladder...
... and then a friend handed me Player of Games, then Excession. Wow.

Luminous.

Dark Integers.

I worry that I've only been enjoying written fiction for fun for a few years, but, because I am surrounded by aficionados, am already spoiled by having experienced "the best of the best" :)

*Thanks, Gene :D That was a gift that keeps on giving almost 10 years later.

**being a nerd, many of my friends are scifi book experts, you know the sort, shelves and shelves of books.

***Thanks, kcr <3 for knowing how much I love $TROPE, I hate spoilers, and not telling me more than "just read it".
Speaking from my personal experience (specifically in California, so no “winter” maintenance), I have paid maybe $2000 in 10 years.

No doubt I got lucky, but this is for California, so less than avg maintenance), the first 4 years are free, so I’m still believing they could be saving some $$$. maybe they negotiated better maintenance terms, not sure how fleet owners usually do it. Let’s revisit in 8 years and compare notes.
> If a user owns the device

This is the hard question.

What in the world could possibly be enough to where enabling sideloading is ONLY possible by the owner of the device, and not just someone who looked over your shoulder for an hour and saw you type in your passcode+Apple ID, and has now swiped your phone to install spyware that utilizes a 0-day to hide itself from you?
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When working with Flutter I did dream "It would be pretty amazing to have a Lisp on top of this" - awesome work you're doing here!

Lots of interesting stuff happening in the Clojure space lately.

https://github.com/squint-cljs

It's a strange thought, but I wonder if Clojure (or rather, the clojure community) would somehow "migrate" from the jvm at this rate.
> Many social networks start out awesome and useful, but then go downhill when it's time to start making money and extracting value.

This is why protocols are better than walled gardens. The walled gardens have appeal in the honeymoon stage when they're growing, flush with cash, and funding feature development specifically to attract users, way beyond what open source or just benevolently-built software can manage. The money grab and decline that tends to come after is very destructive, not only destroying the business underlying the system, but the things people built on top of it. Network effects mean you have to do significant harm to your users before they're willing to rip the band-aid off, but the monetization always seems to get more desperate until that point is reached. I hope Discord ends up the exception, but excepting that, I hope IRC outlives Discord. It has a good chance at doing so.
Stand-alone. I got two cylindrical carbon filters and one fan. I slide the three components together and then stand them up vertically like a floor standing speaker.

Currently living in an apartment. It scrubs the air really quite fast. Helps a lot with kitchen smoke, pet smells, cleaning chemical vapors, and new furniture/plastic VOCs.

I also live in the middle of a bunch of chemical plants so it’s invaluable for the 3-5 leak events we experience every week.

One of our cats has learned how to turn our HPA300 fan to “turbo mode” by bopping the correct button with his paw. This year he’s been an excellent early warning system for nearby chemical plant leaks and I’ve learned to blindly trust his judgment so I just turn the scrubber fan to 100% whenever the cat turns up our largest HEPA air filter.

I recognize this sounds insane.
Your assertions are so wildly counter to what I've observed that I'm shocked someone could actually believe them.
Interesting! Would love a video including your workflow w/ emulator.
> nothing else is truly sentient on this planet besides us.

Your optimism is one thing, but this human supremacist stuff is just wrong. Do you think humans are a separate form of life,evolutionarily distinct from the animal kingdom or something?
Well its an easy enough problem if you put it in the right perspective:

NYC is filthy.

NY can start by using garbage bins instead of the sidewalk. Even my suburban town collects garbage in an animal safe container.
> Honestly, I got no problems with the rats. They're kinda cute actually

Yeah, I know it can be an unpopular opinion, but I've always found them adorable, and after having gerbils in high school it's hard for me not to just think of bigger versions of them (obviously they do have other appearance differences, like the tail having less hair and the snout being more pronounced, but the way they move and act is surprisingly reminiscent of my past pets). Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to try to pet them like I would a domesticated pet rat, but they mostly just hang out in the background and don't seem to have any more desire to approach people than people have to approach them. I suspect that there are public health reasons for wanting to curtail the population, but people seem so disproportionately disgusted by them compared to other public health hazards that it's hard for me not to wonder if the political desire to get rid of them is influenced by that.
Wheat domesticated is all.
Porn’s sometimes less than legal if children are able/likely to view it, no? Your spam argument is spot-on though. Someone might argue that posting cooldowns paired with URL filters and a well-tuned voting system fairly and effectively combat spam though.

Might have a better argument with gore instead of porn.
The thing is I just don't care how you feel. You haven't explained how the kid can consent to this photo shoot or why it isn't sexual abuse.

I want to know if you think it's ok if the kid wears BDSM gear. Yes? No?
you ultimately can't, and there are certainly degrees of "organicness" even among organic content - a lot of content is essentially infomericals or arguments shilling a particular perspective they have a financial interest in shilling. And of course there's the case like the wikipedia editor who completely made up like 75% of the scottish wikipedia articles that have been the training inputs for language translation models etc, that is very organic content but it also is actually poison to train on!

The good news is the internet is relatively good at routing around the shit, for now. And I guess de-facto that is something you could apply to your content inputs: what's the pagerank for this content? actual pagerank, not the advertising/engagement bullshit that the search model has turned into. If the AI generated stuff is correct enough that it has a high pagerank, maybe it's correct enough to be used as an input.

but the thing is honestly there's already been an uptick in ML or AI-generated content that is already surfacing in searches and other places and it's not always correct... and honestly the relevance of google's search results has been noticeably decaying for 10+ years now. Things I know are out there and are relevant are not being surfaced anymore. Is AI generation contributing to that problem? Maybe. Probably not helping, at least.
I personally know people from my one bootcamp that have worked at Google and Apple. That’s without having looked to see if there are others I don’t know.

People tend to play down their bootcamp experiences because of stigma associated with it. It’s possible that there are bootcamp grads that don’t mention it because a lot of people think lesser of them.
Every one of those "few errors" involved other people's money, hijacking advertisements, etc. I don't even know what Brendan Eich's political beliefs are, except inasmuch as he decided to build a cryptocurrency scheme into his product, but I won't touch Brave with a ten-foot pole.

Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes it's just people deciding the thing you like isn't good enough for them.
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban that sort of account, regardless of ideology, because this is the opposite of the curious conversation HN exists for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
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Well this could work:
https://www.reddit.com/r/jackrussellterrier/comments/l2qbf4/...
As if forcing weight loss could have happened fast enough to be useful.
Paywalled, but the text below was visible.

> Meloni, who was elected in September, is finalising her first budget, which is due to include a rule allowing shopkeepers and businesses to refuse cards and demand cash for payments up to €60.

I am really curious to know her justification for this move.
Oh common! Medieval European cities all find space to put dumpsters everywhere.

NY has simply learned to accept filth.
You might not have seen it, but Phillip Shoemaker seems to talk specifically about your case: https://youtu.be/tJeEuxn9mug?t=1708

(I recommend watching the entire talk)
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What makes you think silicone is any safer than all the other chemicals in this thread?
Honestly, not much. I'm one of the success stories. I think I was just early enough to have small classes and knew enough basic html and programming concepts from doing IT work to have the bootcamp
work for me. I was also incredibly lucky the company that hired me had a program where they took on essentially fresh college grads and boot camp grads, and funneled them into Junior positions with a project before you were assigned a team. It took me a lot of interviews before I actually got a job.
my major concern is that I have:

* custom "items", so instead of "Password", I also have my own
* attachments, which I know 100% are not exported. There is a CLI app to help with that, but still horrible
* I have large notes with weird characters, which makes me concerned if they will be exported properly
* Last time I checked, the CSV seemed very broken (not respecting the standard), I'd be surprised if it imports properly

That's the reason why I haven't moved.

I'd move to bitwarden, but the lack of tags is too much for me. I use tags everywhere, I don't want to deal with directories anymore, so 1Password it is.