skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A large portion of users want the protection that the walled garden affords.

To state the obvious: if this were true, Apple wouldn't have to force the issue. Apple's app store would be a premium that they would charge users extra for. Getting your apps from 3rd-party stores would be the equivalent of the green bubble.
Twitter is just one, now fully exposed, symptom of a larger problem, which will be easier to deal with now that more people are watching.
I just recently signed up with them because they are the only payment for most Knobcloud sales (http://knobcloud.com) but now that I have it I use it almost exclusively.
This is the first I've heard of them. What was Freedom Phone doing to earn them a ban?
The vehicles have to come back, but the people have to eat and breathe on the way. And right now, I’m more than a little worried he’s heading the same way as the French royal family, even if "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" predates Marie Antoinette.
> From what I read, iCloud backups are finally getting e2e encryption.

Yes, but only as secure as the passphrase you use to unlock your phone. Except actually less secure than that; your phone will rate limit attempts to guess your passphrase, but encrypted iCloud backups turned over to a government won't and can't rate limit attempts.

For the average user with a relatively short passphrase, iCloud backups will be trivial to crack. Still, it's an improvement.
Go to the store and get milk, unless we already have some.

Go to the store and get milk, if not we already have some.
> Smoking rates declined dramatically when advertising and distribution was constrained.

The tobacco companies agreed to have TV cigarette ads banned because there is no real reason for cigarette preference other than what you started smoking (this is why you see ads that were targeted at youth), and they couldn't not advertise when competing with so many others. They figured that if they were all forced to the same level they would save a lot of money while gaining the benefit of a PR win as well as removal of the mandated 1:1 anti-smoking ads.[1]

You can see the same kind of techniques in play with recycling and fire-retardants in corporations getting together to work to legislate things that people think are pro-public-interest but are really pro-corporate with effects on the public ranging from benign to actively harmful.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/01/congress-bans-airi...
You can get a CGM from Levels Health (https://www.levelshealth.com/) but it will cost you and I don't think it will be covered by insurance.
I don't want to pay for Apple to "verify" my app.

Add a user, I do.

Developers, and the tech sphere in general, have proven themselves untrustworthy.

This is the bed of greed the tech industry built. Now lay in it.
Chicken breeds used by commercial operations are highly optimised for either meat or egg production. Hobby or specialist farmers might do as you describe, often with more general-purpose breeds, but it usually isn't worth raising a layer breed bird for meat.
To put it simply: pray to the whatever spiritual deity you believe in (or other such thing) on app review and hope that Apple doesn't try anything when reviewing your app. The best method is always to make sure that adult content can never end up before a reviewers eyes, so unless you have an unusually thorough reviewer who goes out of their way to look for it, they won't complain. Apples role as a moral guardian on NSFW content is one of the bigger driving factors as to why NSFW gets treated as second class, even though NSFW content has been estimated to be a very large amount of all internet traffic.

Tumblr is just one example. Discord had to restrict all NSFW channels in their app for iOS users because their randomly assigned App Store reviewer managed to get their account into an NSFW channel and found the expected.

Reddit just never had to deal with this issue because they didn't even have an iPhone app for years (their current app is a highly modified version of an older app, Alien Blue, but AB was pulled from the App Store when Reddit bought it) or they deal with it quietly so you don't hear about it. Not all companies who get shafted on the NSFW rule speak up about it, but those that have... all have repeatedly commented on the fact that the process is basically completely opaque and you need to basically pray that Apple doesn't decide to pull your current version either.

Tumblr picked the easy way out (ban all NSFW in general) because they were about to be sold to Verizon and Yahoo didn't want to bother trying to find a way to appease to apple at the last minute.
It works well in cases where you have an operation that consists of a certain sequence of statements, where one of the statements has to be omitted in a particular atypical situation. Instead of having interrupt the sequence with an if, you just tag the particular statement with the omitting condition at the end. That’s also when unless tends to be intuitive, because it suggests an atypical condition.
I commend dang for listening to what multiple people were advising and backing out of a misleading edit.

Thank you, I appreciate how difficult your job is. (And how difficult people like myself sometimes seem to make it.)
I remember a big stink about corruption in the Olympic Games when it went to Utah, and giving my mormon friend some crap about it. He pointed out that it's always been DEEPLY corrupt, and the only problem was that the Utah officials didn't go along with it, and that's what caused all the press. I don't know how much of that is actually true, but it seems analogous.
This is a great comment. The language I use most is Python, and I am definitely biased toward its conventions. It's interesting to hear from the other side of the fence.

I want to suggest a slight reframing: instead of saying: "It is not all about cost-benefit," you could say "here is an addition to the 'benefits' column that hasn't been considered yet."

It's a totally reasonable argument; much better than "elegance." This was my main problem: that the critique of `unless` was much more plausible than the defence.
Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse
It will be quite difficult to make fusion cheaper than present day fission. Fusion reactors are new so significant research work will need to be done. There are difficult engineering challenges related to breeding fuel, which involves moving hot, radioactive, and water reactive molten lithium around. Fusion reactors need to be built to high tolerances and will need to be refurbished occasionally due to radiation/heat and in the case of NIF style fusion, explosion damage.

And one still has to deal with many of the same radiation challenges fission plants must deal with. A large quantity or radioactive tritium must be kept on site and neutrons from the fusion reaction will make the reactor radioactive. In fact, fusion produces more neutrons than fission per unit energy. Even so called 'aneutronic' fusion would have side reactions which would produce quite a lot of neutrons.

Fusion is a lot more complicated than using special rocks to boil water.

The main advantage of fusion is a political one. It politically nigh impossible to build a fission reactor in a suburban industrial park, but Commonwealth Fusion Systems is doing exactly that with a fusion reactor[0]. And there is also the slim possibility this type of reactor could explode. Said reactor uses superconducting magnets which store a lot of energy and if something goes wrong, it would be possible for them to release that energy fast.

But, the NRC hasn't made laws for regulating fusion power yet, so they are able to do this.

[0]https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-system...
A 1080 Ti driving multiple displays idles at ~13 W and consumes about 18-20 W for video playback. So, yeah.
Truly tragic that the genius minds behind Dynamic Island are having their time wasted with all this work on 'user empowerment' and 'regulatory compliance'.
The craziest one is The Muse, which is NYC based, and is literally a jobs board, but does not list salary for its own jobs. Doesn't inspire confidence!
Come on Telegram uncensored!
There's been some very interesting advances made with ICF (insulated concrete forms). If you live in a natural disaster prone area and are building from scratch, I'd check them out.
The article lists Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Thailand is doing very well. Malaysia has done ok. Indonesia has ups and downs, but is better than you might think. And don't forget that China has been very successful building societal wealth amid corruption so deep it is almost official. The model has other successes.

But the one thing South Korea had over all of them: the USA. The ROK was a US garrison state, and a military dictatorship well into the 80s. They were a major staging ground and supplier for the Vietnam war, and billions of dollars flowed through companies like Hyundai, growing them into industrial giants. The USA was even directly paying ROK soldiers who participated in Vietnam. The USA was eager to maintain a toe-hold on the Asian continent, and provided active support. When the "Arsenal of Democracy" needs a local supplier, you can create a lot of infrastructure.

The support from the USA/NATO also included friendly trade deals despite the political cost domestically -- remember Toyota and Hyundai gutting the fat and lazy big-3 in the 80s? The cold-warriors wanted to showcase the capitalist power of wealth creation for the region to emulate, in contrast to the creeping communism of the post-war, anti-colonial era. The USA was much more invested in the success of ROK than the average independent Asian country.

As for Indonesia, geography is much of it. It is the 5th most populous country in the world, over thousands (and thousands!) of islands, speaking hundreds of languages. Just transportation and coordination costs can explain much of their troubles industrializing. Also note that they were never occupied by the Americans during WWII. Instead, they were forced to fight a bloody independence fight against the Netherlands which didn't make any friends in NATO. They then dabbled with the Soviets which certainly didn't help them long term economically, and it meant that they were frozen out of the post-war alliances. The USA was happy to leave a brutal dictator in place as long as Suharto kept the communists out. Social and industrial development of the bulk of Indonesia served no cold-war aims.

- The Vietnam War and the ‘Miracle of East Asia’ - https://instruct.uwo.ca/economics/317b-570/keunhoparkclayton...
Are you allowed to buy into a walled garden where developers can’t force you to sideload apps to use their apps? That’s what I want to do, but it seems the EU is making that illegal. It seems that users who value freedom can buy Android, and users who value security can buy Apple, but the second option is going away.
Your other statements about AU/NZ culture have been extremely questionable, but this one is just complete nonsense.

The idea that there is a genetic urge to impress England is bizarre, typically about 50% of people support becoming a republic. Some recent data in [0]

Australia's original status as a penal colony seems to be held onto as trivia externally but is entirely irrelevant in modern discussion (as it should be as it stopped 150 years ago). Thinking that this is something Australians think about suggests that you have a very outside perspective.

I don't know what a culture of needing to be a better place to live than America means. I don't think being a good place to live is a culture, I think it's an objective of a society.

[0] https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/support-for-republic...
Appears to be a ClearPHONE 220:

https://www.clearcellular.org/clearphone/clearphone-220-seri...
Whats the added value of NixOS over go strait to Digital Ocean and make your deployments there?
Digital Ocean have a very neat and intuitive UI and their CLI is also very straight forward...
I love Firefox, especially on Android so that I can use UBO. I am amazed that it doesn't have a larger install base!

That out of the way, does anyone have info on where Mozilla spends it's money? Is it still mostly on non-firefox vanity projects, and execs?
Gym… and China
How Elon may not have succeeded in his war on bots
Agreed, there should be rules for all of them. This is not startups trying stuff out anymore, these apps have huge influence on the course of civilization.
Replace "male chicks" with any other baby (even human) and you may have a different reaction to masserating them while they're alive.

I guess, where I get confused is why grinding up baby male chicks is terrible, but letting chicks grow into adult-hood so we can kill them and eat their flesh is significantly...less bad I guess?

Why not just aim for the banning of killing any animal for any reason? Is it a specific "scale" problem? Killing 5 chickens or chicks is fine. But 100 is horrible? Is it 1000? 100,000? 1 million?
If you own your phone in the first place, why did you have to break it out of jail?
As a developer: neat

As a user and family tech support: this fucking sucks
More techbros use Reddit than Tumblr so Reddit got better treatment from the tech corp than Tumblr.
> It was the first time DOS made my mom cry.

Nice piece of redirection there :P
If people want to eat chickpeas or soy, they are free to do so. Similarly, if people want to eat cheap chicken, people who don't eat chicken shouldn't have any say into it.
> Your argument is that my model is flawed because it might not be correct?

Not quite - I am noting that you speak as if you are not working from a model.

"For the clarification of doubt, where I say 'no evidence', I am referring purely to the absence of evidence, not evidence of absence."

As I noted, you do not actually know if there is no evidence absolutely, you are describing the absence of evidence in your possession/knowledge.

> That's a bit post-hoc. If I observe 10 coin tosses, and all ten come up heads, and based on that I devise a model that coin tosses always come up heads, then my model will be incorrect, the correct model is still 1/2.

Sure, but in this case we are not discussing a well known domain (coins), we are discussing a not known at all domain (aliens).

And even here in your simple thought experiment, there are facts that you do not have knowledge of (a rigged coin, that you do not realize is rigged (according to your description) because "based on that I devise a model that coin tosses always come up heads").

> Unless of course, the universe is deterministic...

Another matter that is not known, but broadly believed to be known.

> Obviously a model does not cause reality to be any particular way.

Generally agree, but even here it's not that simple. Models can cause reality to appear a certain way (consistent with the model), and perceptions of reality are a very important component of reality (very often more important than "actual" reality, in that belief > truth when it comes to human action, which is what determines the end state of physical reality).

> A model merely tries to describe and predict. Models get refined as new evidence or data is added to them.

Disagree. Some models are built to deceive - see: propaganda/journalism/etc.

> Until we come across intelligent life in the universe, our model is incredibly basic, and yet we have nothing better.

Better models are possible: for example, it is possible to make epistemic status(es) a first class concept. Early 21st century humans tend to very much not like epistemology and logic, but it is there for our usage if we should ever change our ways.
SBF charged for diverting FTX customer funds to donate to political campaigns
Egg laying chickens (layers) are very different from meat chickens (broilers). Layers have been bred to be lean and put their calorie surplus into producing eggs. Broilers have been bred to pack on weight as quickly and efficiently as possible. No one eats layer chickens they are usually turned into compost or pet food.

Source: My wife manages +100K birds on one of the largest egg farms in the US
Why can't it attract venture capital if the possible outcome is worth more than what money can buy, regardless of any argument about competition?

Are VCs only interested in wealth that is in excess of other people's wealth?
At least he managed to get red of CP.
"Onion seeds" was a metaphor for future onions.
Is this MIT internal only, or can anyone subscribe to this mailing list?
> Add a user, I do.

For a user, Apple's app store will remain available. Your love for Coca-cola isn't ruined by the existence of Pepsi.
This means we might have power as cheap and plentiful as solar and lithium batteries are today in a couple of decades, when solar and Batteries will be even cheaper.
brew install losslesscut

is free :-)
This is really interesting! Do you need a full NixOS configuration to deploy? Or is it possible to deploy projects that just use Nixpkgs?

If it requires some migration, would love to see a guide on how to wrap a Nixpkgs project in a barebones NixOS config
Funded by Novo Nordisk, an insulin manufacturer.
eBay is going to stop supporting or offering PayPal next year.
Thanks for that, I had no idea. Do you know if zero is truthy in erlang? It makes sense for elixir (based on ruby) but I'm wondering if erlang is that way too.
If you are using Kubernetes, I highly recommend using https://github.com/stern/stern
I'm a huge julia fan, but man is this ever an insubstantial and unconvincing listicle.
Admittedly, until (as the negation of while for loops) tends to be more straightforward to grasp than unless.
I.e. roughly a 2.5x factor increase in drag.

The real wind force will increase more than 2.5x, since wind speed also increases with height.
Macbooks are free now?
I'm afraid salary data are not 100% accurate. That's why I mentioned the results are provided from the source.

A few months ago, I tried to make an algorithm to extract salaries from job descriptions but didn't reach a high accuracy. Unlike clean text like news, where there are some proof reading, grammar check, ... etc, job postings don't get checked or validated most of the time.

It is not just about numbers, some job postings will mention the company turn over, how much they have raised, or salary in hourly or weekly units. All these factors making it really hard to get 100% accuracy when extracting salaries from raw job postings.
I use tree tabs already. But not on my work machine where it doesn't make sense (can only access a few sites). I want tabs to look like tabs even when looking at that machine or during a zoom call and PM is sharing a screen.

Can't think of a reason why tabs shouldn't look like tabs everywhere by default.
The semiconductor lasers cannot produce pulses short enough for such applications.

They can be used only as the pumping sources for the solid-state lasers or fiber lasers that can produce the short pulses.

So the efficiencies of two lasers must be multiplied. I doubt that there is any chance to obtain an electrical to light conversion efficiency above 10%.

So the energy generated by the fusion reaction should be much greater than 10 times the light energy, to be able to produce excess energy, even with lasers 10 times more efficient than now.
And a question for anyone involved: how does the .org relate to the .inc? Is the plan for Flickr to continue as a commercial enterprise?
Sounds like you are going to be using it for years to come.
Looks interesting! I’ve been looking for a simple bar/line chart component that doesn’t add megatons of size to my build. How much would this add – ballpark estimate?
For barns and barndominiums there’s a the third technique which is a pole barn with set poles and trusses. For the poles today some people use tripled up 2x6s or doubled with 3/4” plywood in between. It’s easier than mortise and tenon, but setting the trusses is where things can get tricky if it’s tall.
Don’t you have onetime virtual CCs in the US?
Agree - in my opinion, the threat from three letter agencies (if one considers the entirety of the things they get up to) far exceeds the threat from China.

I believe TikTok is a MASSIVE threat to those running the show in the US, as it may be the most potent propaganda tool out there, and the US government has many juicy attack vectors that TikTok as a platform is perfect for attacking.

I tend to keep my feed pretty clean of stuff like that, but it does creep in every now and then, who knows how much anti-US propaganda is on the platform that I never encounter but others do (like the agencies who go looking for it, since "Public Relations" dominance is their job).
Are there such laws? So the idea isn't reciprocal after all, it's to entirely target one country's companies.

https://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/32153/this-day-in-histo...

Dragonfly was stopped after pressure from Americans, both civil and political pressure.
Because you think the phone is silly or disagree with their politics that's a reason for Paypal to ban them?
Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?
Per the link, the signature corresponding to the address and message is valid. The address belongs to Hal Finney, and the message implies Satoshi (who sent him the initial btc) is Paul Le Roux. Any insights?
I feel as though the article is leaving some critical details out in order to push a specific viewpoint/agenda.

Testimonials from "victims" are only the side of said victims, with no details from Paypal or anyone else as to why this has happened. It's left to the reader to imagine a large conspiracy, when there may very well be good reasons that many of these people were banned.

I'm reminded of the term "Dopelar effect": if you throw a lot of bad information and ideas at someone quickly enough, they start to sound more reasonable. But if you slow them down, they don't.
Good stuff, thanks for the response!
I was a huge sci fi and science nerd 10 years ago and still am, and honestly i would love to go back and care less about how the world works, but to me the very real fascination with "actual scientists" and "actual science" has been overshadowed by the siphoning, the false promises and the cooking of statistics that happens while everyones tax dollars get channeled into a fog somewhere between "external enemies" and technooptimist drivel.

The fact is that we could use our money on something real, something tangible like saving earth instead of war machines and false promises while the gini coeffecient goes crazy and public education fails.

And i mean this is not just a perspective i've got from researching economics, but from having lots of family in academic science - i've seen how much is about grant money, towing the line and about furthering some state or corporate cause sadly.
These laws don't expropriate Apple's intellectual property. Apple will always be able to license it for something.
How about if you could write except if instead of unless?
Venus became that way because of its' oceans and no counterbalancing moon.
Why and how?

In my opinion Python modules are rarely "one function" dependencies. And while the ecosystem is certainly enormous, so is the standard library, so for many common tasks, I don't even need to `pip install` a new dependency.

Yes, "virtual environments" used to be kind of messy, and the fact that there are usually 2 competing ways to install modules (via the OS pkg manager and pip) doesn't help either. But since `pyenv` and `venv` exist now, venvs are much less of a hassle than they used to be.
If you run something like Little Snitch, blocking the CDNs of the banner-providers does wonders. Takes a little trial and error, very worth it.
A software change allowed FTX to use client money
Merging works great. Drag multiple files to the main window. A dialog pops up to allow you to select the order of the files. Then merge and a new merged file is created.
Still so much resistance to the high fat diet.
It works and it seems to be way healthier than any high carb diet