skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet Apple is able to send updates worldwide without interference from the carriers and without their “testing”
> And while Oracle may retain a great deal of influence over the OpenJDK project, Oracle is not the OpenJDK project anymore

While there is surely (very welcome) other voices as well, I am not sure I can agree with this statement given that 95+% of OpenJDK development is done by people working for Oracle.
Black Kites will carry burning twigs and fly them elsewhere to spread fire and force prey into the open.
In my understanding, rejection is mostly due to things like cell surface proteins. It looks like cystic fibrosis is in fact a mutation in a surface protein, but at least it's only one. I'm guessing that's manageable...
> Some people have Javascript disabled

I know that.

JavaScript is firmly established as how the web works. I don't think we need to bend over backwards for people who intentionally cripple their browsers.
There is much more energy spent on protecting peoples organs (the ones they were born with) than on replacing organs.

That's the narrative the world would like to believe for various reasons, but it doesn't fit my firsthand experience at all.
More comprehensive info summarizing many studies on soil erosion worldwide is here: https://ourworldindata.org/soil-lifespans

The above is a vague sensationalized press release written by a PR flack at the university.
And how do you think that fingerprint is attached exactly? By scanning your files on your device.

Anyway what is the point of this conversation? Are we going to argue over what scanning means?

I’m sorry but I find this intellectually dampening. Okay, not scanning but analyzing and sending the results of the analysis to Apple where Apple can scan. So?
What exactly self sufficiency means if not less trade and less capital efficiency?

Whoever abandons the globalisation will find itself poorer. That was my whole point. And yeah, TSMC is a global/foreign company so that praised investment is part of the globalisation.
The moment U.S becomes protectionist against Taiwan you can say good bye to TSMC. TSMC in the U.S does not represent the death of globalisation. I would say on the contrary. U.S provided good incentives for TMSC and other GLOBAL players to manufacture in the U.S. When the incentives move somewhere else so the capital/factories(i.e see the exodus from China).

No matter how you spin it globalisation is here to stay regardless of what one big player does(i.e U.S or China).
As much as it pains me to say it, FOSS devs are a finite resource and it seems that being divided is just as if having been conquered. Neither Rocky nor Alma are progressing at the rate that a CentOS fork with a hostile RH upstream would progress if they were working together and not duplicating efforts.

What is the philosophical schism between the two? Why can't they split the workload on a single distro and reunite the communities?
Songs That “Hit a Nerve“
It seems to me that someone could just as reasonably (that is to say, not at all reasonably) argue:

> I don't like hunting for information when I'm shopping online, and would rather get a personal recommendation from a staff member. If you need to fill your website with loads of text, you probably need to do something about your live support staff.

Our individual personal preferences prove next to nothing about what a business "should" do.

Maybe it's true that these popups drive more people away than they convert on average (although I doubt it), but to claim that with any credibility you need to give some evidence.
Yeah, I think that if someone lost their medical license for, say, endorsing a particular candidate up for election, that would be an EZ 9-0 supreme court victory for them.

As they said on slashdot 100 years ago, child porn is the root password to the constitution. Configure sshd to only accept keys!
The study tries to estimate how fast soil used to erode using a trace mineral. Assuming this measures the right thing, why would it be the fastest soil can form in modern times, especially with active human intervention to rehabilitate the land?
perhaps (and i don't know) the added nutrition from eating cooked food had greater benefit at time T for individuals with slightly better brains via natural variation a la genetics/mutation...and if so they'd slightly be more active and slightly be more reproductive, correlating advent of cooked food with improving brains, but not as causally as suggested?
I am not sure you understand how often for-profit insurance just says "no".

"despite a six-year span of growing literature and updated policies, nearly 1 in 5 patients diagnosed with FAI would still potentially be denied coverage. This highlights a continued divide between surgeons and insurance companies."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259176/

US insurance will also make you wait, mandating less costly treatments first, or have you go through a lengthy & convoluted appeals process to finally get covered.

I didn't say Canada's health system doesn't have delays or rationing of care, only that the US health system is not superior, suffering from exactly the same concerns you bring up about Canada's health system, yet costing the US like 200% more, while chaining people to their employer.
We tried the snoo with our second kid and ended up giving it back to the friend we borrowed it from after trying to like it for two weeks. It did keep the kid asleep marginally longer but that seemed to negatively affect feeding more than provide any real quality of life improvement for us. Regular bassinet plus a standalone noise machine was almost as good for sleep, better for feeding and saved us a ton of dough.
The end poem is fine. It doesn’t have particularly interesting rhythm, sound or structure in a ‘poetic’ way until the last bit. It has some weird stops, starts and repetition, but it’s coherent overall and has a functional enough core metaphor. Plus, the payoff is being told you matter, that you’re not alone. You know, the ‘we are all made of stars’ bit. It can be a powerful thought if you let it.
What’s the decision economy?
> in the absence of a law that compels us to write software, which is unconstitutional btw

In their 2016 dispute with the FBI, the gist of Apple's 1A and 5A arguments were:

Writing software is a form of speech within the meaning of the First Amendment. Forcing Apple to create software would therefore be compelled speech and so the order to do so must be narrowly tailored to obtain a compelling state interest (see: "strict scrutiny").

The FBI has a legitimate interest in investigating and prosecuting terrorists, but their request does not pass strict scrutiny:

1. The government was only vaguely speculating that there might be something useful on the iPhone, but what was requested would have far reaching adverse consequences beyond just that single device.

2. Apple publicly values privacy and data security. Forcing Apple to create software (i.e. compel speech) that runs contrary to their values is a form of viewpoint discrimination.

3. Apple is a private party in the matter, far removed from the crime itself and the request is a lot of work. So conscripting Apple to assist the government in the matter would constitute an undue burden and therefore be a violation of Apple's substantive due process rights.
I love the idea of the public domain so much - the idea that these bits of culture may have been created by a single person, but that they ultimately belong to everyone as members of the culture. I've always wanted to host a New Years Public Domain Day party to celebrate everything already in and entering the public domain, but I'm not sure my friends are quite as excited by the idea as I am...
I spent 20 minutes in live chat with T-Mobile on my mobile device. Eventually a device reboot was required. I then spent 10 minutes establishing context, then 20 minutes in live chat with T-Mobile. Another restart was required. Repeat. Ad nauseum, or at least until I determined it was no longer worth my time to pursue the promotion I was supposedly eligible for.
I wouldn't argue there's a difference except that "EA" taken as a whole probably has way less overhead than Susan G. Komen (for example). If (if!) a breast cancer charity running ads drastically increases the amount of money they get in donations, that's probably a good thing up until the point that the marginal benefit to breast cancer researchers of the charity running more ads outweighs the marginal benefit to breast cancer researchers of just getting the money. If $1 in ads consistently brought in $2 of donations, it'd seem like the right thing to do to run a ton of ads, even if we agree running ads about breast cancer or AI or malaria nets or tickets to the opera for inner city youth is not intrinsically valuable.

I think I can speak for EAs when I say overhead is not the greatest metric by which to judge a charity[1]. I understand why it's an intuitive one, and overhead is probably correlated with measures of effectiveness, but if your targets are concrete enough you can just... actually measure effectiveness.

[1]: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a...
Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?
I’m looking for a secure and stable service, I do not mind if there are any fees involved but the service most support custom domains, and preferably allow me to migrate my gmail inbox. Any suggestions?
It sounds like it was done completely haphazardly.

1. As soon as effective altruism becomes about glamour and extravagance, you attract the type of people who don’t care about the cause (clearly already true)

2. Obviously buying a castle is not the best investment the EA could be making and using that as the excuse is just weird.

Of course none of this should be surprising as the Effective Altruism is essentially a PR stunt for people who do financial crimes.
I've tried to make this same argument before, but you did it way more eloquently than I've been able to do. So, hat tip.

Globalization doesn't necessarily make people lazy, but it does reduce some competitive technology pressures that get concerning after a while. Ironically, now that there's a pseudo cold war with China and a war in Ukraine there's lots of tech news about new defense tech. Given the Chinese space station (which I applaud them for, seriously space is hard and what they did is genuinely cool and innovative), hopefully we get another space race.
My First Google Sheets Add-On: How I Did It and Why You Should Try It Too
I wonder how many if those accidents have alcohol involved, and if that matters to a transplant. Do they even check? I don't remember the number, but some ludicrous fraction of motorcycle crashes are caused in part by a rider who was drinking.
Given that modifying just a single bit in an image results in a wildly different hash digest, I think the risk is a little overblown. There are probably easier ways for authoritarian governments to figure out who's sending illegal content, like just taking somebody's device and looking at their messages.
They still exist - going to the public library with my children looks like 'Hi! We're looking for books about x and y and z. What do you suggest?'. The librarian stops, thinks for a minute, and comes back a minute later with a pile of books, and starts explaining why they're great. Google doesn't do this, and I haven't found a good recommendation site for children's books (not in English!).
I agree. TikTok going down wouldn't be the end of the world. But there is so much other reliance on Chinese manufacturing in the West: electronics, furniture, machinery, etc. https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo...

The transition to a bipolar world with a U.S. sphere and a Chinese sphere would be a huge shock to both sides. I don't know if it would be a fairer world or not; regardless, we all seem intent on doing this.

This article is another in a long line of very scary news about the U.S.-China tensions. I hope diplomacy and peace will prevail eventually.
> Were is a form of "to be" which generally sees subject forms on both sides, such as "It is I".

I assure you, "it's me" is in far more general use than "it is I". The latter, and the purported rule that copular be takes two subjects, is at best exceptionally formal, and many English-speakers don't readily produce it in any context. Quick litmus test: check how acceptable the equivalent constructions are to you for "us" vs "we" or "them" vs "they": "The only ones who got it right were they."

And then conjunctive compound NPs are clear as mud; you routinely run into otherwise impeccable speech where the governing rule seems to be that local euphony trumps long-range syntactic agreement. There's no good prescription here; there's a pretty wide range of pronoun conjunction constructions where you're going to want to either rephrase or just suck it up and let it sound intuitively wrong to somebody.
Chats are cancer and useless. Search (not ads, not suggestions!) and category-aware filtering is what I want. For customer support ticketing system, email, phone.
I think the point of Python is that it covers so many of your use cases:

Beginner friendly -> Python

Then use for ml, dataviz, huge community, quick scripts, backend

Your migration doesn’t do that and I’d argue that JS isn’t as good as Python for a lot of those use cases anyway.
Growth in plant-based food intakes cause decline in meat consumption
I am absolutely not a lawyer, but I would guess his implicit agreement together with accepting the money gives Microsoft at least some right to use the poem?
codebase64.org of course. 8-(
This, I will grant.

The United States, despite inventing the thing and using it first, has done more to get rid of nukes than anyone.
no, linkedin hasn't
How to read a book by Mortimer Adler. It sounds meta, but it did change the way I approached reading and knowledge in general.
You already have the FBI partnering with computer repair shops to do dragnet searches of customer's hard drives for CSAM when they bring their computers in for repairs.
I can see your point, but wouldn't classify myself as an Apple "hateboy": I've been using iPhones since the 3GS (we have 4 iPhones in the family, 2 iPads and a MacBook).

I've just been extremely disappointed by their hypocrisy around privacy (which is a subject I'm very passionate about). They've betrayed my trust when they announced the on-device scanning functionality a few years ago; yes, I know they eventually dropped it after massive pushback from everyone that understands its privacy implications but before doing that they treated us "screeching minority" like dirt, I've never seen such condescending behavior from a legitimate company, especially one that I previously respected.

Their massive push in the ad space, combined with other scummy behavior (phone-home on macOS, backdoor access that sidesteps firewalls from 1st party apps, etc.) just paints a bleak future where all the big players (Google, Microsoft and now Apple) treat us like sheep; it's just so frustrating and sad...
> At the very least by authorities with a perma warrant looking for "CP" or "terrorist" material.

I mean, unlike perceptive hashing, cryptographic hashes do not lie.
I'd like to believe the contrary. It is in the nature of an artist to create needless complication. That is art, that is culture, that is human life. Without it, we just consume starches and protein until we are full, grunt directions at one another, and fuck passionlessly to soothe the itch in our loins. And then we die.

Then again, maybe that's all that's happening anyways.
I realize I'm being critical. For me any message contained therein would have landed much more powerfully if it was communicated more gracefully. I, personally, believe that such stylized writing serves more to cover up shortcomings in an author's ability to communicate than it does any service to the reader. But that's my opinion. Maybe don't write the poem on drugs... idk.
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One important takeaway from this year’s a16z Marketplace 100 ranking, it’s that it could really soon become a Marketplace 1000.
That’s probably one of the reasons that TLS over Tor has remained such a tough nut, with people who otherwise seem to have tinfoil hats claiming that it’s not needed because Tor provides enough protection. My opinion is that you want that end to end protection for the same reason you want it on the clearnet - to make so nobody along the way is sniffing your traffic. (that includes both exit nodes and any middle nodes that might be taking advantage of an unknown flaw or bias)

Having a bunch of Tor site certs in your MacOS keychain has its own issues, so what is really needed is a way for Tor browsers to accept those certs directly without using the OS trust stores. The current practice of authenticating the remote site by PGP signature would remain more or less the same - you just wouldn’t have exit nodes sniffing traffic.

I’m also convinced that the whole reason Google has pushed TLS so hard isn’t some noble quest to protect people’s privacy and freedom of speech - it’s more to keep people from blocking their advertisements, which isn’t nearly so sexy an argument, but it has brought good benefits for a lot of people.
Anybody have a pointer to the "iHole" story mentioned in the article? It seems to have been purged not just from the author's website, but archive.* as well.

https://www.juliangough.com/the-ihole-in-original-apple-fl/
As a C# advocate I have to say, that the C# design team is doing an excellent job.

The amount of syntax I see literally 1:1 taken over by dozen other languages is really impressive and evidence for that.
Last Boeing 747 rolls off line after half a century of production
This research helps you form a more informed opinion, but it doesn't make you any more qualified at predicting the companies future success potential. The people running these companies are barely in such a position, nonetheless the average person who thinks they're privy to prescient insight.
The coming collapse of the German industrial system as it is starved of cheap natural gas that formed the basis of its chemical and energy inputs means that the current big Semiconductor Fab installs in the US are likely to be the last round of machines sent by AMSL before they're forced to relocate to the US.

It remains to be seen if we can build up enough specialty gas industry before existing stocks run out, and force decisions as to which chips will/won't get made. (I.E. if we run out of Neon)

Global trade is winding down, it was the bribe the US gave to the rest of the world to keep them on our side against the Soviet Union. We're backing out of our role as the world's guarantee of security on the high seas. Piracy is about to make a big comeback against anyone not flying a US or Ally's flag.

Manufacturing in the US will have to double its installed base to keep up with demand.

Capital is fleeing the rest of the world, and we in the US enjoy having our currency as the Global Reserve, so for us, it'll still be a rough ride, but better that most.
Google Faces a Serious Threat from ChatGPT
You passed!

Common less correct answers:

- Because it only works on integers and you need comparison for general sorting. (Wrong, you can embed basically anything you want to sort into a fixed width int)

- Wide eyes and staring silently

I like this as a filter question because:

- skips directly to, do you know CS fundimentals

- requires them to tell me I'm wrong (if they can't do that thier competency is irrelevant)

- requires that they actually think about the implications of what they were taught and reconciles them against reality.

If you don't have those qualities, you probably won't be useful as an employee or coworker.
https://archive.ph/8s78A
That's what _they_ want you to think!

(finally I can say that and it may in fact actually be true for once! hahaha)
In your example you are replacing the labmates dangerous solution with a much safer one. How would you replace their "dangerous" phrasing with "safer" phrasing while still retaining the slight?
Note this detail at the bottom of the page as things not covered under end to end encryption on photos:

> The raw byte checksum of the photo or video

This means they could still technically scan photos, but they'd have to rely on simplistic checksum matching.
The problem isn't live chat, it's nagging.

A lot of the chat bubbles that I see flash in the corner, and make the title of the page flash as well; with lots of annoying bleeps and bloops.

I also find that sales is very trend driven. Currently they're trendy, but I hope that sales websites learn that you can't just stick things in people's faces all the time.
Russia has been putting the squeeze on the US with regard to isotopes for many years, particularly medical isotopes. That was one of the motivating factors behind building HFIR at oak ridge.
Microsoft probably doesn’t own the ending to Minecraft, since my non-lawyer understanding is that assignment must be done a particular way unless it is done in very specific terms as a ‘work for hire.’

However, his acceptance of the money, things written in his emails, the poem itself or other behaviors, could possibly form a case that he implicitly assigned a transferable non-exclusive license to Mojang for it to be used in MC.
(not a lawyer caveat applies)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_license

(It looks like Irish law requires a written agreement for any non-exclusive license, but Swedish law looks a bit vague and it’s possible to assign ownership via implicit license.)
https://archive.ph/Wac0r
128 bits was probably picked to give 64 for "MAC address-based locals" and then the reasonable thing is to have 64 more bits on the other side, if you only had 32 you're just IPv4 with more steps.
Lots of those costs will still be there. Catering, food, AV, Decorations, etc etc don’t just become free because you bought a palace. Also now you have to take care of a centuries old building, hire gardeners.

All that is besides the point which is that these people are clearly not motivated by the principles they espouse.
C# tries to be a system language (for writing servers, runtimes, and even operating systems) AND an application language (for writing your favourite apps). So you have now a huge feature set which is focused on efficient memory handling and then you have another feature set on writing nicely applications (think pattern matching etc).
Why don't they just add an interpreter and only compile when needed, like V8 does?
Plus him placing it in the public domain and explicitly giving them permission to use it.
I feel for the guy, making a living off of art is difficult.

However, with an extensive email chain explaining the story was written as the ending of Minecraft, even going into detail about how it was to be displayed in game, an agreed upon offer (if a bit vague), and then an exchange of funds - with no immediate attempt to return said funds. I'm no lawyer, but that sounds a lot like a legally binding agreement.

> So he divided it between the twenty-five staff at Mojang, as a late Christmas bonus. That’s $120,000 each. Five or six times what I got for writing the actual ending

Did the twenty-five staff put in 5x or 6x the work? It seems likely. I understand that to some the end story may be deemed to be essential to the experience and talent was required to write this story - but that attitude just undermines the hard work of everyone else involved. Who knows how much effort those staff members poured into perfecting things that were essential to the experience that made Minecraft?

> Bear in mind, here we were a couple of weeks before the official launch, and Minecraft was already a phenomenon: in its unfinished state, it had already sold five or six million copies, in beta, at $15 a copy. So it was, at that point, already a hundred-million-dollar game, but with no ending

It certainly doesn't seem like the ending provided disproportionate value to Mojang compared to the work of their staff.