skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think this is a really ideologically unsatisfying reason to hold off on paying for it. The system shouldn’t be this way - but it is, so you might as well make the best choice within that system.

Pre-check eliminates a big list of screening annoyances: the full body scanners that flag every drop of sweat for additional screening, the removal of shoes and laptops, the separation and bagging of your liquids, the non-citizens and infrequent travelers slowing down your line by getting extra screening and not knowing what to do.

Clear is a bad deal because it is expensive and doesn’t improve the screening process beyond pre-check, it just cuts an already-short line.
"Genetic predisposition to liking cats" is a big stretch though.
Maybe instead of guess, go spend some time with people in transition or otherwise sleeping rough. You’ll probably learn a lot
>If anything, the evidence in the Apple case showed that Apple treated all developers with relative parity.

Basically as long as you strip away your users rights equally, you're fine. Not exactly great news for future tech...
So if neither are indigenous to the land, why do you consider Palestinians to be occupied? According to you Palestinians are also occupiers and colonizers.
So we must be talking about the Jeff Tedrics
Wow. Toxoplasmosis?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3035534/
Here in Australia, you still can go through to the gate to see people off or meet people arriving in most domestic terminals. It's mostly only international ones (or international parts of the terminal) where you need to be flying to pass security.
> Dogs are generally better companions, but lots of people have dog-like cats that wanna be around them 24-7.

I guess it depends on how you define "better". We have cats who snuggle with us in bed at night, but mostly do their own thing during the day, aside from little spurts here and there where they'd like (but don't demand) some attention.

Meanwhile, most of my friends' dogs annoy the hell out of me. No, I don't want you to jump on me and slobber all over my face every time I see you. And most of my dog-parent friends agree that their dog requires a lot more attention and work than our cats do.

To each their own, I suppose.
How do you stop toddlers from picking up pieces of cat poop from sandy areas in public playgrounds and sticking them in their mouths?
Steam is just a marketplace for apps and just like Adobe’s suite and Microsoft Office you can buy a subscription outside of the App Store and your apps work everywhere.
> If that’s wrong, then explain which pilot + aircraft combo you think is equivalent to the “typical” suburban car journey.

Walking. We used to be able to walk places before we redesigned everything for cars. Walking is safer than driving.
It's hard, and for the record I'm also anti-prohibition about many substances (just not meth). I had weed in my pocket when I was assaulted that I campaigned to legalize in WA. I shared streets with plenty of harmless drug users too.

I'm sorry for calling you out, after seeing this comment it's obvious I would have done better to give you some space to think. It's an emotionally charged experience that I'm still learning how to rationalize years later - but haste makes waste and I was hasty.

I just want to make sure people know that victims like me exist, and though we are often treated as if our perspectives are invalid/uncouth/politically incorrect most of us simply want to stop other people from going through similar experiences. Telling people off doesn't spread that message and isn't helping bring smart ideas to the table, which I regret.
And you bought a device knowing its limitations when you had other options…
2 words, cat poop.
This:

https://wiki.c2.com/?NamShubOfEnki
Here are some positive a and b pairs.

a = 2-√3, b = 1

a = 1, b = 1/√3

a = 1, b = √3

At least one √3 always appears somewhere in a or b (if they are non-zero), so they can't both be (non-zero) rationals. In some ways the √3 behaves like the imaginary unit i in complex numbers.
> Both Boeing and the crews share responsibility for the crashes.

And I never said they didn't. I just choose to assign Boeing the lion's share of the blame, as they should never have let that rush-job, cost-cutting death trap of a machine take to the skies in the first place.

Anyway, I see you have your mind made up, so there's not much point in arguing further. If you feel like continuing, why don't you take it up with - let's see - every single global aviation regulator, who also somehow came to the conclusion that there was maybe something a little bit wrong with the type.
you don’t need to wait 20 years, just pay $80!
I had to bust mine out again recently when I took a small loan against my retirement account and the servicer inexplicably only took check as repayment methodology. In the States you sometimes see it more used as a tactic to drive revenue by landlords - legally they are often required to take a payment without charging any sort of fee associated with it. So what they will do is allow that by check - the most annoying route possible - and then turn around and offer an ACH or other electronic alternative for some comparatively exorbitant fee.

In any event the heyday for checks has been past in the States for a long, long time. I got a book of checks when I opened my first checking account nearly two decades ago, and I’m still on that book of checks. Once the internet came around and everyone accepted debit is what really killed it I think. For a long time there was just stuff that straight up didn’t accept debit. Plus familiarity from an older generation when that was even more true
What is clear is that Google really has no 'God model' that they were holding back all along.

Gemini Ultra is barely beating ChatGPT in their manufactured benchmarks, and this is all that they got.

What this means is that those who are saying, including people at Google, that they have better models but are not releasing them in the name of AI safety, imply that, at least in the realm of LLMs, Google DeepMind had nothing all along.
Google app store is only anti competitive if you define the market as 'android apps'. Perhaps you stretch this to just 'android app stores'.

So if we define a similar market of 'ios apps', where there's literally 1 single choice of app store, how exactly is that not anticompetitive?
Google loses antitrust trial to Fortnite maker Epic Games
The per capita number only matter if you believe that legalization would increase the number of heroin addicts. There is no reason to believe that, and any legalization effort should be done to prevent that as much as possible.

I know drug consumption usually go up when legalized, but a regulated heroin market would ideally be under very strict regulation, much stricter then alcohol or weed. It would most likely involve getting a prescription and buying it at a pharmacy. There would probably be strict no advertising and no branding. As well as a strict non-profit requirements for makers and distributes.
How can we be sure this comment isn't motivated skepticism in the service of Big Toxo?
Aurga dongle can remote control any device, even a headless PC with no OS
> how do you offer a unified photo picker experience, how do you ensure you always ask for the right permission to access the camera, the clipboard or network APIs

XDG Portals do that
"touches a nerve"

I saw what you did there.
Welp, there you have it...

The beatings will continue until wages improve.
IIRC, manufacturers are required to install Play Services on either all of their devices or none of them. That's a pretty important anti-competitive bit.
It's because this lets them perform lipservice to respecting women's rights and not being a theocracy.
So by enabling dozens of hardware companies to literally exist and make a ton of money, they are a monopoly? So they're being punished for being open and sharing their OS with others?
Sure. But describing this as “collapse” is misleading. Wake me up when there are less than 1M people left.
Why do you defend apples 30% tax on ios apps, and being the sole approver of what apps you can install on your device?
It depends where you live. Rats are less common outside the city. There are plenty of field mice and of course still some rats but they generally all stay outside as long as you've kept up with house maintenance.

We've had a few rats get into equipment outside our house over the years and probably a few (or squirrels) in the attic but to this date we've yet to see any evidence of one inside the house itself or anywhere the cats could get to them.
I remember in the mid 2000’s I was a bagger at a grocery store and the cashiers hated them too. They were by far the slowest way to pay for everyone involved. The cashier had to write down the drivers license and do several other precautionary measures due to the fraud associated with them. Eventually a lot of grocery stores just stopped taking them entirely.
As other comments have said, Google's was a jury trial, Apple's not. And, even if neither were jury trials, as another another comment said, the justice system is not a hivemind: the way your case goes can and does depend on the judge/jury passing judgement.

That being said, Apple isn't stupid: they probably know as of now, even if they managed to believe it didn't before, that this monopoly on distribution has a shelf life. So I'm interested to see how they expand iOS app distribution to counter the claims of monopolistic behavior in the future, not unlike the way Microsoft supported other browsers financially for years to stop the FTC suing them into the dirt over Internet Explorer.

I'm generally an Apple fan, and to be totally honest, if there was another app distribution system on iOS, I doubt I would touch it. I appreciate the baseline level of quality and curation in the App Store and have no desire to leave it. I see the low-effort dreck of the Play store by comparison as undesirable. That being said, I don't grudge anyone for pointing out Apple's position in that space is uncompetitive. It is. I have no interest in alternatives but that doesn't mean alternatives shouldn't exist.
If I understand correctly, Datomic has filters[1] for that; to remove some data from the db before returning it for use.

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/time/filters.html#filtering-for...
Today, that's a metal detector that intentionally randomly goes off even if you don't have any metal. Not quite "standard" in my book.
You solve homelessness directly by giving people housing.

Free housing paid for by people like me, and ideally others, who are more than happy to take what I make and give it to people who need it more than I do.

And you don’t need to be rich to do it. It’s a decision on how much money etc you actually need to be fulfilled.

If that takes a zombie proof bunker and multiple houses and first class flights and…and… then that’s on your head that you prefer to comfort yourself than take care of others.
Great point. I guess the 21st century will close out with at least an AI powered cat-dog, possibly a synthetic biological mutant cat-dog, possibly even a cyborg pet cat-dog with a brain internet interface for friend-foe identification, poisonous food identification, "I lost my pet", etc. Probably on a cloud license (you never really own your pet... all pets are the property of CloudCorp...)
I mostly again with the author, except on the NFT point. QR codes are meant for screens, not printed material. They can be set to refresh every 15 seconds. So anywhere there's a QR code there should be a screen
Alcohol is only more dangerous because so many more people use alcohol over hard drugs. When you look at the per capita rate, hard drugs kill more people.

Another poster did the math here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38608506
The bible doesn't say anything at all about abortion. It wouldn't matter if it did though, because they have no problem ignoring plenty of things that actually are in it when it would conflict with political success.
The precook weight used to be 4oz (1/4 lbs) but is now 4.25oz, which, I mean, all told, isn't all that different.
That would still be hard to control for. I believe I recall reading that a T. gondii infection is something you get for life. Even if you adopt kittens from your local shelter at 8 weeks old, and then keep them indoors for the rest of their lives, they may have come in contact with rodents at some point before they made it to the shelter.

Hell, regardless of that, many homes in many places suffer rodent infestations at some point in time. Even if you get the exterminator in, it might be too late. This summer we bought a new house, and a few nights in, our (fully indoor) cat showed up to our bedroom, a (still breathing) mouse hanging from his mouth. So much for keeping him away from rodents.
Cats are not socially dependent animals. They are sole survivors. It makes perfect sense to me that cats would, like rodents, be common carriers of such diseases.
What is the point of Amazon Alexa answers
I recently noticed Alexa has been replying to questions with “According to an Amazon Alexa contributor…” The site looks like some sort of ai training data collection point . There are no incentives for anyone to answer the questions or even do it accurately. So is this the new thing , trick humans into helping bad ai get “better “ ?
That’s like saying Porsche has a monopoly on all red mid-engine German sports coupes. Apps run on pocket computing devices with phone and data connectivity. Two operating systems compete in that space.
If only you could buy a “powerful computer” to attach to your TV where you could download software from anywhere…
A biodegradable window in a building wouldn't be much use, you'd have to replace it constantly each time it rotted away. Except maybe in a very dry climate.

I suppose you could paint it, if we also had transparent paint. Well, there are lacquers.
I have enjoyed those (I have a complete Hammer's Slammers collection).... also definitely check out the Lt. Leary RCN series, starting with the novel "With the Lightnings"... my favorite series of his work.
This is a tangent within a tangent, but it's basically a political strategy. Abortion bans are deeply unpopular, even in many Republican-majority states. By framing it "after six weeks", they're attempting to project the image that they're the reasonable ones. After all, women would have had six whole weeks to make up their mind! And it will allow an escape hatch for women in rape or incest situations.

As a practical matter, they know that many women won't realize they're pregnant until it's too late to feasibly schedule the procedure. They're minimizing the number of abortions while moving what the American public sees as reasonable from 24 weeks to 6. Once everyone's used to six, they can reduce it even more.
I think the family members of frequent gamblers might argue against the idea that it’s got no negative externalities to others.
Pretty much. Google Play services runs as like a root process that can (among other things) bypass all the security checks that the OS usually has. That includes those annoying update confirmation dialogs which make it impossible to install updates automatically without user interaction.
Not gonna lie, all of these examples are pretty weak because all of them are in circumstances that 99% of developers are never going to be in.

Beeper Mini replicates native iOS functionality - it's obvious why it can only exist as an Android-only app.

Fortnite is the product of a massive studio, whose decision of not publishing it on iOS was deliberate as part of their anti-monopoly lawsuits. They can easily afford to do it because Epic Games has other revenue sources, alongside with running Fortnite on pretty much every other platform imaginable.

Google doesn't really cash in on their more niche apps, publishing them on iOS is unlikely to change anything for them. However, not choosing to publish them gives Android - their own product - a tiny boost in appeal due to exclusive functionality.
Oh shit msft in its lifetime has never engaged in anti-competetitve practices. Same sentiment with the other reply. Tired of reading this.
You have to appreciate the detail of calling an AI targets generator- basically an automated mass killing machine- "the gospel" (literally "the good news"). Especially coming from a culture that with the gospel must have a beef or two.
I thought they were supposed to be 12 inches long but for whatever they didn't end up that way. That's slightly different than a piece of wood that's supposed to be smaller than 2x4

Edit: apparently there was a class action lawsuit but it found that by and large the bread is 12 inches: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2016/02/29/why-the-...
> You really think you are going to ask a child what are they doing every second and what they talked about and they are going to tell the truth?

Of course not, but usually adults can force a passcode out (or take the device altogether) or force the child to sign in for them to see at regular intervals, in which case they can observe everything. I would agree that this is excessive for a parent to do, but clearly the parent you are talking about is already taking excessive measures.

> What’s stopping someone also from surreptitiously installing the same snooping software on another adult’s phone?

Presumably, an attacker will not have access to the device and not be freely given the password or access with the ability to install an app. If they do, then there's nothing stopping the attacker from just going through the phone. Installing a app without the person's knowledge would either require you to have inside access or have a zero day.

> It’s not less clear. There is no reason to allow this type of software to be installed on a phone without a clear indication that it is on there.

A lot of the permissions individually make sense and this software could just be composed by a significant number of them. I'm not sure exactly how the software you are referring to works and its scope, so I'll take a narrow example.

In the case of messages, users may legitimately want a different messaging app. If the adult just side loads an arbitrary SMS app, how is that supposed to be distinguishable to the OS whether the app additionally happens to sync these messages to a third party?

In the case of screen capture, that's a perfectly normal use case to stream your screen. Android does warn you when this is occuring.

Or for that matter, many Android devices permit side loading an entire OS. This could be used by the adult to basically bypass any restrictions on apps altogether. This has a completely legitimate use case. Should we block that as well?
This could easily be because dogs lower stress levels. That's assuming they had cats and no dogs at all.
They aren’t even popular in America. In the last two decades I have written less than 100 of them, I still have the original book that I got when I opened my very first bank account. They remain, as I mentioned in a sibling comment, primarily as a way for landlords to extract more money out of people.
In the limited (but probably dominant, here at HN) context of middle-class-ish urban dwellers, I daresay there would be a sizeable proportion of clean, well-sealed modern homes in which rat ingress is at, or almost, zero.

Doubtless there is also a significant proportion of homes where rat ingress is more common.

But I couldn't begin to speculate about where those numbers might actually fall.
Because it’s a strange disease. Almost magical in some claims made of it.
Right, but I’m trying to generalize the claim to beyond these tiles. The claim is that for every vertex-vertex tiling of n-gons with n not all equal to 4 and vertices in some kernel (A + B*sqrt(C)), for integer ABC, all verticies in the tiling will also be in that same kernel.

Which is to say there’s nothing interesting about these Einstein tilings maintaining their NMsqet(3) kernel.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I support all human rights, such as privacy, freedom of expression, and stockpiling of weapons. Many of them are enumerated in the Bill of Rights, but they are not contingent upon it since it does not confer them.

The purpose of my post was to educate the reader that for over a century the US has been infringing the Peoples' right to keep and bear arms along with their other rights, and that the people who make up the government could not care one lick about the BoR since many voters will happily support infringement of rights they care less about (such as gun rights, privacy, and so on) insofar as it is supported by claims of safety or national security or protecting children or what have you and most especially if it is claimed to only hurt those the voter does not identify with (gun owners, privacy advocates, people who vote for a party different than yours). Each time this happens, it weakens the BoR as a whole.

All human rights are equally important, and any attack on one of them is an attack on them all. When we let the state divide and conquer our rights (and us!), we lose.
It's kind of wild to see someone confidently posting legal analysis while obviously lacking an understanding of - uh - precedent.
I don't mean to judge, just an honest question: considering we're talking about indoor cats, how do you have plenty of rats inside your house? Is it something you can fix completely with professional services? It's what people usually do so I'm curious if it's a special case.
Cities primarily need affordable and low income housing. If you're trying to deal with your demons sleeping under a bridge, you're going to get warped. The social safety nets in this country are so inadequate, so when people fall, they fall hard.
Although I'm all for the study of T. gondii, they also state other factors that could affect schizophrenia outcome:

>> Environmental factors are also important. Epidemiologic studies, for example, have established that winter-spring birth, urban birth, and perinatal and postnatal infection are all risk factors for the disease developing in later life.
That video does exactly the same job explaining the underlying reasons -- down to using much of the same wording, and the same visuals.

And it was online for a few weeks before this article was published.
Amusing that this has been released so close to the hbomberman video on plagiarism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ).
It's just moneyed interests manipulating things behind the scenes. They can influence which judge will be assigned to a case, they can lobby politicians to add special loopholes to new legislation which suits them preferentially. Big companies have hundreds or sometimes thousands of lawyers with plenty of time to oversee every small detail of every case they're involved in and every law that affects them. They will offer loyal politicians and judges fancy jobs after they finish office.

I don't think this will be uncovered because you need money to have a voice in this system and as this serves the bigger moneyed interests, anyone who has an incentive to cry foul will find that their cries fall on deaf ears. Also, PR firms will manufacture narratives to spin things to make the people who are complaining seem like a lunatics. They will also gaslight individuals who raise alarms to lower their confidence. In many cases, they can dig up dirt on whistleblowers and have them jailed. In some cases they can manufacture dirt on whilsleblowers (e.g. Julian Assange) to have them jailed to send a message to future whistleblowers. So they can hold the fort for a very long time.
In the 80s, the rhetoric was that Japan was going to buy everything. And, if not the most advanced tech industry, a very advanced one.