skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be speaking as if this were a purely legal issue, rather than an ethical one.

Trustworthy businesses don't pull that kind of crap. And as the title of the article indicates, the raison d'être of Apple's App Store lockdown is allegedly to protect consumers. But it doesn't protect consumers.
> If your pattern is to communicate through direct messages or in private channels, then the knowledge and the contributors and the decision making process remain hidden from the team

That's why we have employee Slack channels.

Also worth researching 'remote-only' companies and how they do things.
The thing that finally got me into journaling was becoming obsessed with fountain pens and stationary. So I journal as an excuse to use my fun pens and ink and paper, and as a nice side effect I actually get some useful journaling done!
I know who dang is, I just don't see how the phrase living under a rock is offensive? It is a very trivial thing in my culture. Perhaps it is different in America, and I should be more sensitive, but the same goes both ways. To me, that phrase is only lightly ribbing someone who is out of touch with tech...on a tech forum. As I said, in my culture this is not meant as anything offensive and you could be more generous in your interpretation of my meaning. Particularly as I went out of my way to share so many useful links on the subject.
You are all over this thread trying to prove that iPhones somehow have a unique setup in the industry that no other camera can match, and people keep telling you how wrong you are. DNG is 100% and image format, and can be “raw” or completely processed depending on the layers internally. Educate yourself before making such blanket statements.
I usually don't like history lessons, but it's a rare gem, it really helps to understand Eastern Europe.
It's not so much that we "need" replacement as that a too rapid decline would cause immense upheaval unless we first reach a level of automation very far in excess of where we are.

Consider that the faster a population is declining, the more people will live of the productive work of each working age adult.
That is a fucking incredible law. They allow zero houses to be built for decades and then some meme law activates and suddenly 5000 houses are being built next week.

Everywhere needs this.
You could go with something that's more technically correct, if not immediately more clear. This would at least give people the opportunity to google the terms and learn about them themselves.

"Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"
Zero reason to think these things are related.
And only for developers who have both the time and inclination to vet each update for themselves, updates which (for big systems) may have contributions from hundreds of people and may be in a language that you only know vaguely.

Open source and self hosting is a good start for the paranoid, but definitely not sufficient. As always it comes down to threat models and who/what you are trying to defend against.
At this point i think its more about helping prevent more people falling to the hoax. The better, and more easily explained, the larger the audience that can see through the lies, and understand why.
Interesting op-ed. I support the remark about how the scientific community made science a team sport – for no good scientific reason.

However the claim "[the approach] was flawed in a way that undermined its efficacy and resulted in thousands if not millions of preventable deaths" is not demonstrated in the article. Conversely there were countries (e.g. Italy) where the epidemiological distribution of SARS-CoV-2 and the determinants (e.g. risk factors such as young and old people living together in the same households) were costing lives, that if regarded in the thousands would be grossly underestimated.
Advantages for real-estate developers triumphed over the community-minded across a lot of the USA. I talked to my elderly Uncle, and he said that these zoning and quality of life issues were discussed quite a bit in the 1950s, but the "sprawl" pattern won in most cases. Shopping mall retail is another example of low-quality results in the USA, but with a different menu of inputs.
Whether and what recourse is available is pretty orthogonal to whether the thing is run by computers or humans. In practice it is likely to be a mixture of both these days, as we don’t really have sufficient technology to run a real society, and most countries today take heavy advantage of automation.
They make their desktops but not their laptops. That's probably why their laptops can sometimes have some weird quirks (keyboard layouts, screen resolution options, etc).
Not sure if the devices are laptops or phones, so assume $400/device and $50/hour time, that's about a $700,000 dollars.

"If you had simply spent nearly three quarters of a million dollars of your own money, done 40 weeks of volunteer overtime on top of your normal job, without any purchase approval, without the authority to do that, and no guarantee of seeing that money back, this wouldn't have been a problem, so fuck you"

is a terrible take all around.

> "What I don't hear is "why can't they upgrade, and how can we help them upgrade""

We know why they can't upgrade, because the departments responsible for purchasing the upgrades won't agree to spend the money. This isn't something which can be helped by more technical input.

> "Finger pointing at compliance is a bit mendacious"

"mendacious: not telling the truth; lying." - nope, wrong. Legal and Compliance say it must be done and you must do it, and have the authority to do that. Pointing fingers at them is honest and appropriate, that is where the instruction is coming from (legal) and the reason why the instruction exists (compliance with internal or external regulations).
We should also be asking why are there so many mentally ill people to begin with, and also address that cause.
They’re not insecure they benefit from all the Ubuntu Lts security updates
"I discussed this with our backend team and upon deeper investigation, we were able to confirm that there was some issue sending the notifications to your email."

Nope.
I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from.

What traits, that are found attractive, would you describe as less shallow?
I guarantee you children in (european) urban areas go out more because there are more children and places to play with.

In suburban hell what are you supposed to play with? And with whom? The only other two kids on the street?
They have an email address on their website.
No. This purely allows construction of residential properties.
Heroku could have done better. At a bare minimum offering an option to download the existing data for 1-year or convert it to a paid db would have been better options and not brought this type of despise from the community.

I still use Heroku on a daily basis and wouldn't say this has caused me to re-evaluate my decision to stay with them, but then again i'm not using anything free from them.
> Is this normal, possibly due to aging for some people?

Yes, possibly. When I worked 40 hours / week I had very little energy or interest in creative pursuits as I approached my 30s. This is part of the reason that I work 30 hours / week now.

> Or is it because all my curiosities have been solved...

This may very well be the case. I love music and pursue it with great energy but as I learn new styles, new instruments, try new ways to perform, etc. I find less and less satisfaction and magic. I still find enough in it that I continue to pour a lot of time and energy into it.

> ...or could it be a symptom of chronic depression as I pretty much don't have craving for anything anymore?

This could very well be the case. If you haven't talked to a good therapist I would recommend doing that.
Yes, most of the points are sort of product-growth related. But given this is a SaaS project, I assume the author has commercial intentions, and thus I hope my 2 cent advice is useful (as mentioned before, I went through two such products already [one was commercial]).

> Zero trust can be trustless in theory, and every effort to make it so moves the dial closer to that ideal.

I agree it can be done in theory, but I don't have a reason to believe the product as of today is truly trustless as it claims on the website.

I also believe that making something truly trustless is impractical for the vast majority of use cases. Reproducible/signed builds are indeed a step in the right direction, but not enough on its own. Each signed build would additionally have to be independently audited by a trusted 3rd party. It doesn't help that the build is signed, if the company itself inserted the password logger. And not having to trust the provider is the point of trustless, isn't it?
CEO of TikTok will testify before the US Congress on security issues
Use Paypal for payments only, and keep your balance at zero, by connecting your account to a credit card.

If you keep any funds in Paypal, they will steal them sooner or later. There is no recourse.
I'm 47 and it only just started happening to me.

But I'm in a big company and my last boss stimulated creativity. My new boss is very process-driven. ITIL crap, stuff like that. Hiding behind stupid RACI matrices and tickets.

I think I'm just going to look for another role. Or another company.
One of the ideas - introduction to math equations as 3D graphics game with effects.

I haven't seen such games, except silly, that do that.

Maybe some other foundational math principles implemented as games.

I love https://www.zachtronics.com/ games, but these games are for 12+ I guess, and even more. Not always about math though.

Adults assume that kids are fine with silly educational tools. While in reality they're boring, because every school implements some sort of cheap flash/html5 games that solve nothing. I want the kiddo to solve hundreds examples in 3D, maybe even in VR, and enjoy that. Instead of 2D browser old-skool tech.

I don't understand why VR is underutilized in education. Where are all the games we're supposed to have to educate children? Imagine how easy it's explain x^3 (like 10^3, 25^3, and so on) in VR?

I am using VR for fitness, and it's been a great success. Lost 17 pounds with 5 more to go for my goal. I am paying $20/month for the app. But I'd be willing to pay for similar math educational app.
Sadly, I don't have that citation. It'll take time for data from UBI efforts to accumulate.

Still I believe that more than 75% of human effort is currently spent on zerosum games, keeping the riffraff in their place and jockeying for position among ourselves.

If we could flip that so that 75% was spent on non-zerosum games, we could work half as hard and still have more.
No idea what the answer to this is, but for the sake of one data point: my employer let 25 (out of 150) people go, of which 2 were SWEs, and a few more were from the data science team. Beyond that, it was product designers/managers, cx, recruiters etc.
I'm more passionate than I have ever been. I'm 60.

Big believer in software, and am looking forward to seeing what comes.

The industry is now way too big to understand the whole, so I have been staying in a fairly narrow lane (GUI apps for Apple systems).

But these days, the passion is tempered with a great deal of realism. Also, I have come to understand that people [make|spoil] everything. The people involved with a project or technology are just as important as the technology, itself, and can either do great things, or turn it all into a puddle of sludge.
“Q5”
I don't think anyone imagines that the hard drive manufacturers are making special drives for Backblaze. The question is 'Are they getting the cream of the crop?' out of all the drives that are manufactured.

Every drive must go through a series of tests before it is judged suitable for sale to the consumer. Drives that fall below a certain threshold are judged 'failed' but there can be a variety of drives that fall within the 'passed' range. Some are just barely above the threshold, others are way above.

It is kind of like binning for CPUs. The very best ones can have their base clocks increased and sold at a premium. The same kind of differentiation could be done for hard drives.
That's not a breakin. Any PayPal user can send an invoice to an email address. It's just the online version of sending a fake invoice to a company's accounts receivable department in hopes they pay it. https://www.paypal.com/us/business/accept-payments/invoice or https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/send-receive-money/...

Currently in my inbox:

> JEFFREY BRIAN GLICK sent you a money request

> Amount requested: $500.00 USD

> Note from JEFFREY BRIAN GLICK: We found suspicious activity on your account. If you did not make this transaction, call us at 18887272074 to cancel and claim a refund.

Obvious scam, but folks fall for it.
Right, but the info was available for anyone who wanted to look into it. And people tried to help others by suggesting against pre-paying for FSD…
s/peace/oppression/
I got "lucky" because I randomly checked the status page on my Heroku dashboard. It laid out which services were going to cost me after the switch date. I upgraded to the Eco tier and noticed that the DBs were still marked with a warning. So yeah, I would've been burned as well, had I not done that.
Has the CEO taken "responsibility" for their mistakes while increasing their bonus for improving operational efficiencies?
>Do you want to get out of the trial and avoid getting charged? Well, that's a problem, an obstacle course for consumers.

I'm sorry what? Settings -> Apple ID & Purchases -> Subscriptions -> Choose subscription -> Cancel Subscription

Or if going into the phone settings to manage your app store subscriptions doesn't make sense to you, there's also App Store -> Account -> Subscriptions -> Choose subscription -> Cancel subscription

It even tells you both when the subscription renews and how long you can keep using the features for even if you unsubscribe. Once you unsubscribe that's it. Since the purchases go through Apple, unsubscribing means the developer can't pull a Comcast and "forget".

I even just now grabbed and app and started a "free 1 month trial" for their service. It shows up in the same subscription list and tells me when it will renew and how much it will charge me. If I tell it to cancel the free trial, it even lets me know that I can continue to access the trial services until the end of the trial period next month.

How is any of that "an obstacle course"? Yes, I agree that it would be nice if trials defaulted to not auto-renewing or you were given a choice when starting a subscription. But managing what you're subscribed to is about as simple as it gets.

Maybe the author is talking about an app that you subscribe to outside of the app store (e.g. Netflix or Spotify style). Certainly I can appreciate that you can lose track of your subscription there, but I fail to see how apple has any responsibility for "not protecting" you if you don't actually go through their processes for being protected.
Or we realize that essays aren't that important and technical skills will become more highly valued. Either way, ChatGPT can't do your exams for you so the truth will come out anyway.
Facebook Asks London Court to Block Lawsuit
They did in fact get more NHS funding. Why does every single thread about the UK or NHS contain this lie? NHS funding has only ever gone up.

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-...
> It's just not accurate or OK to imply that all property owners seeking to keep their neighborhoods from rapidly changing to higher densities are doing so out of prejudice

Very few people here are implying this. It’s true that some people are doing it out of prejudice, and that some of American culture has been conditioned to like the suburbs, out of historic prejudices.

> there is still a long period of lots of construction they'll have to endure that might be the only years their kids are at an age where they'd normally be wandering the previously quiet neighborhood.

Those people will still have the yards they had yesterday though? They’ll still have everything they had the day before zoning changed. Nothing is lost for homeowners. The whole neighborhood isn’t going to be under scaffolding overnight and quiet neighborhoods are far more dangerous for kids to play outside than a more developed area.

And just as development isn’t instantaneous, neither is childhood growth - the people that move into new houses that are built will likely be pre-child families looking to move somewhere (still quite) quiet to raise a kid.

> trade-off between the valid interests of the existing property owners and the valid interests of the larger metro area population that needs a place to live.

Completely false dichotomy. This isn’t about metro vs suburbs. It’s those homeowners vs all of society, or more precisely current town residents vs future town residents.

The suburbs need more housing, and the cities. All of American society has too few houses for the population, and people have to live somewhere. Some want to live in a big city, but some want to live outside a big city. This population should not be looked at as “city overflow” and more than the current residents should be considered city dwellers. Plenty of people would rather live in a 5% more dense Hillsboro than a 5% more dense San Francisco. And both towns may need to be 5% more dense to support housing needs.
I don't see how this would in any way prevent you from being affected by a equivalent poisoned pypi dependency; after all your secrets/credentials are inside the sandbox anyways or your code can't work.
No no no silly.

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Yeah, the first gen focus is pretty easy to induce lift-off oversteer in. The rear end weighs nothing and the suspension sits strangely high.
What things did you run into? The only things I ran into were fields that were locked to the HR admin that I think I should have been able to edit. I could still submit the change but it had to be reviewed by HR.
Briar Desktop 0.4.0-beta released
Risk of ruin doesn't apply in poker decision-making except in the "metagame" (ie which stakes you play and how much you actually put on the table etc).

In hands themselves poker is played for "table stakes" (ie in a given hand you can only lose the chips that are in front of you at the beginning of that hand). Because of the table stakes rule, avoiding risk of ruin in poker is literally as simple as keeping some money as cash and not putting it on the table.

The thing that happens in movies where someone makes a bet their opponent can't call so they throw the deeds to their house/title to their gold mine/keys to their car into the pot literally can't happen in poker. You can only bet what you have on the table at the beginning of the hand and if you call all-in (all those chips) you get to see the hand to conclusion regardless of what the opponent bet.
The key issue is the "Living Standard" part, not the technical details of the specification.

Practically, it means that an implementor needs to record the date at which they implemented a given piece of functionality.

It means that:
1. different implementors (e.g. the various HTML parsers in Java, C#, etc.) can be on different revisions, so can have subtly different behaviour while being conformant to those versions of the spec;
2. an implementor that implements a given algorithm/behaviour in the spec can have the details of that change -- therefore, they need to follow all commits to the spec in order to figure out what has changed;
3. references to the spec (numbered headings -- e.g. "5. parsing", and URIs) can change when content gets moved, merged, renamed, making other specs that reference those easily outdated.

Having numbered specifications makes it easier to tell what is in that version and what has changed between the versions.

Imagine writing a Java, C#, etc. application to a Living Standard. It would quickly become unmanageable as libraries would be using different features from different revisions.
> I wouldn't be happy if my area (which has big properties, lots of space between each house) was de-zoned into an anarchy...

It would work, you just wouldn't be happy with it happening In Your BackYard.
Interest rates are not super high. They seem that way if you only look at the past few year, but they are close to normal if you look on a larger time scale.
He has not. He has expressed his personal appreciation for the meaningful contributions they have made to PayPal. Progress?
See my sibling reply to tw1984 where I discuss AAA games and high frequency trading. If Rust is unambiguously better, you would think there would be an incentive to adopt it in these industries where development costs are high and a lot of money is at stake. In reality, there are always tradeoffs, and Rust has some tradeoffs that make it risky or impossible to adopt in areas where raw speed and productivity are really important.
Children do play on city streets, however one of the big differences is sight lines. Suburban streets tend to be dangerous due to visibility issues and often lack well connected sidewalks etc.

A core reason for this is developers want to maximize the number of houses they can fit on a given plot of land which will often have odd shapes etc. So kids simply walking to a friends house are often in real danger.
I purchased a high end workstation and was incredibly disappointed by the case construction and extraordinarily weird design choices made in service of aesthetics or...something.
> Take me away from this AI hell

People used to say that about electricity too, and cars, and planes, and computers. This is just the next step in the chain.
> I dunno why this is being downvoted

People don't like to be casually accused of racism when there are other perfectly reasonable explanations.
That's nice. Many of us don't want that, but have it forced upon us considering something like 90% of all residential zoning in the USA is R1 zoning.

There will be demand for neighborhoods you want and they will exist but it won't necessarily be in the middle of major population centers like it is now.
> many others have pointed out how tunnel-vision you are being

I'm not advocating for low density suburbs or for things to remain unchanged.

My point was that the implication that some kind of nefarious prejudice was the main reason for homeowners wanting to keep the status quo, isn't fair or accurate.
Ummm more like 120 years ago, during the reign of Queen Victoria, just like your link says.

> In the United States, 'Victorian' architecture generally describes styles that were most popular between 1860 and 1900
Show HN: Wearable 3D Flashcards
I read Disrupted and thought it sounded a mess, though that was not very recently.
Good text rendering is pretty essential imo, not only for usability but also because it can make software look dated and... cheap, I guess. Sure, looks don't really matter, but for text they really do.
I expect to see this paper in many lawsuits soon as evidence of copyright infringement.
Was this a bad decision or a good decision?

If you didn't pay rent, how would that have influenced your future to where you're at today?

400% Gain is a lot. How often do you think that 400% gains come arround, and how would you feel if the evaluation today was -50%?

I think the major lession here was: Have a backup reserve in which you can tap into to prevent from needing to liquidate higher risk assets.
I somehow often interpret "Put me in, Coach." as "Put me in coach." for moment before the feeling of "O, god no!" and memories of hours discomfort are replaced^W^H overlain with understanding it's meant as an appeal for being allowed to do the thing.
> macro-economic environment

Sick of seeing these words

I’m curious to know what roles they are cutting