skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why they recommend against it. I guess the monetary costs don't outweigh the benefits, but that's only if you care more about saving money than potentially preventing cancer. It's not like the vaccine going to hurt you. But the HPV vaccine is not particularly cheap, so it sounds like the insurance companies have lobbied against it or something. In my opinion men should also be vaccinated for it since they are often carriers and can be affected too.
I'm sure they lost some subscribers when Tyra Banks appeared on the cover in 1996, too.
Yeah, if they wanted to keep users safe, all device permissions would be user controlled and all permissions would be default off.
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1x1 gifs are still commonly used in emails, aka tricky-pixels!
Yes: https://cbuck.substack.com/p/the-freedom-to-choose-medicine-...

Also, HPV causes head and neck cancers in men and women. These are very unpleasant and not recommended: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/09/09/life-swallowing-tasting-a...
Or they stay on the App Store and none of those fees apply.
You guys have to understand that delivering static text and images over http is still an unsolved problem in computing so it's normal that web sites like this one go down when they receive more than one request per second.
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I used to think this but I don't know anymore. Without our bodies to provide stimuli what input is the brain going to use for thinking or reasoning? So much of what we do day to day is hard-linked to our body/sensorium. The brain without the spinal cord/nervous system is useless.
I'm not sure how long I subscribed afterwards but SI in the late 70s/early 80s at least was still pretty good in my memory.
Small fraction of users but a huge fraction of the market share (and revenue generation share). Being that the DMA was specifically targeting these two things it seems quite at odds with "A free app like Chrome must pay us millions if it wants to distribute itself instead of using the legacy terms deemed illegal". If they didn't allow legacy terms it'd have a bit more of a leg to stand for opening the markets, same as if it didn't apply to apps distributed via third party, but the way it is now seems a contentious combination.
Far too many comments are glossing over this.

To comply with the regulation they've introduced even more egregious pricing.
No. I don't know if Microsoft "partners" have some special privilege, but for 3rd parties Microsoft will _never_ sign your CA. They sign individual binaries.
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Behind a paywall...
In grad school I got interested in knots while doing structural biology and asked my advisor (extremely well known chemist) if it would be possible to make proteins that fold into knots and he pointed out (correctly) that entropy makes it very unlikely this would happen, as the process of folding into a knot typically decreases the degrees of freedom a protein can adopt. It was a reasonable point and I ignored the problem for some time.

It turned out later that a small number of proteins are found in a knotted conformation experimentally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knotted_protein and alphafold even helped design a knotted protein. I can imagine there are also enzymatic modifications you can make to proteins that would generate knots without paying the entropic cost of threading the needle, so to speak.
There are literally thousands of options for configuring your device in the Preferences app. Should we put all of them in front of the user's face the first time they set up their phone? How would they know those options exist otherwise?

Knowing that you can configure your phone's behavior should be a basic point of technology literacy. I know that it isn't at 100% today, but what percent of users are now going to have yet another forced decision to make before using their phone for the first time, just so a minority of technology illiterate users can be "educated".
Many European nations have started vaccination of boys too.
I worked on developing compartmental modelling software for consultants to use, so they could estimate how radionucleides moved around the environment. One of the parameters the consultants had to work out for their model was - how much dirt does a child eat in a year. I don't know what figure they ended up with.
The rules (payment per install) differ for apps installed from the app store to those not installed from there.

That gives preference to apples own app (the app store) which they can only do because they are still Gatekeeping.
If the donor really wanted to work towards space based power the experts could convince them the first step is achieving KM-scale coherent transmitting aperatures on Earth. If they just want the money and have no intention of fulfilling the goal, or if the dude is as you say... not open to input, then yeah, you end up with waste like here.
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I think intelligence is a continuum from not very intelligent to very intelligent. I guess a bimetallic strip would be at the bottom end of the scale above a lump of coal but below Einstein. At least in thermostat form it can keep something stable in contrast to say Turkey and it's currency as mentioned in another HN thread today. Maybe they could rig a bimetallic strip to raise or lower interest rates with a heat input driven somehow by consumer prices? They could then use that to replace Erdogan.
> So EU made it a requirement that you should not pay any extra at all for international calls between EU countries, and whatever data package you bought at home works everywhere within the EU with no extra charges.

Arguably that's not a new requirement, but simply the EU enforcing the existing single market rules.
You know these rules were drafted in cooperation with the EU right? Vestager was at Apple's HQ 2 weeks ago, and the EU spends millions to keep a regulator presence in Silicon Valley.

The commission knows they really don't have much to stand on, if they go any farther they know other EU countries are going to step in again (these rules are not very popular anymore after GDPR and now that the EU is falling even farther behind the USA economically).

The EU commission is a lot less powerful than a lot of terminally online Americans like to believe. EU courts constantly rule against them for overstepping their bounds and they have been caught submitting fake evidence before (see: Qualcomm case)
Even one of the original developers of the vaccine questioned the benefits: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/ . In VAERS post-market data there are more issues associated with Gardasil than any other vaccine prior to the covid vaccines. You just don't hear about it because pharmaceutical companies spend an incredible amount of money on advertisement and lobbying.
Wouldn't it be the same scenario as if I sign a release binary with a GPG key, or even sign a commit with GPL code with a GPG key?

I don't get what is different between signing workflows that OSS has used for decades and this?
A lot of times, there's suspected, or known, inside actors who enable the process.
> I'll update that to "The CDC doesn't recommend it", in that case.

As a native speaker, even that language feels as though the CDC discourages vaccination despite the literal meaning not implying that. This is a case where it's probably best to be more verbose and explain in full details.

I don't know why the CDC themselves choose to use this language. It's confusing.
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That might help in dev, but nobody would use transactions when hand manipulating the live production database. ))
> you could make a decent case that older vaccines contained things (Thimerosal) which could be causing problems

No, not really; there's no case to be made there. Long and conclusively debunked, and the removal of it from most vaccinations didn't change autism etc. rates at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_and_vaccines

> Maybe she doesn’t understand most new ones don’t?

Little in Michele Bachmann's career gives me reason to give her that much benefit of the doubt.
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Reminds me of this scene from My Dinner with Andre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8v_XqFO8Bc
Steam has seemed perfectly fine with basically no real competition. For the most part the consensus seems to be that users only leave Steam when they have too not because they want too.

The iOS App Store is fine with no competition (for users).

How do users loose out from payment competition on iOS? I can't think of how I loose out on anything, in reality an app trying to convince me to use their payment option instead of iOS saves me money because I don't want to fall victim to dark practices when I want to cancel.

Sure developers get a 30% cut but that seems to be the norm in the industry, that is what Steam charges. Developers can't just not tell me a yearly subscription is about to charge, make me call to cancel, but as a USER that is a good thing.

If a developer tries to push me outside of the App Store to pay them, once again that is the Developer making the choice for me.
They don't. That's kinda the point. The service takes known genetic markers for things like dark hair, skin tone, bushy eyebrows, freckles. And generates a mockup face with those features.
Since nearly everyone is infected with HPV, if you've had sex with a few people you're almost certainly already infected and therefore the vaccine will be of no benefit.

I guess if you were 50 and still a virgin, and planning to change that, it might be worth it.
+1, I bet it amounts to same as AWS/Microsoft: they get contact info for biz dev, a button in Inference Endpoint deployment for GCP, and mayyyyybe some custom integration to let them offer models without having a literal HF repo with the weights.
I am sorry, I can't watch someone else's talk to understand what you mean. If you're willing to engage in a conversation, could you say here what you think the problems with OCSP are? (If you're not, just ignore me.)

As I see it, the main problem is that browsers don't want to do OCSP any more. Sure, we have a problem with how stapling is implemented in _some_ popular platforms (but not Caddy—hi Matt), but today maybe even those are fixed. The main problem IMO is that browsers won't support must-staple.

In the interest of full transparency, I have a pet peeve about people saying revocation doesn't work. I appreciate that that's the current reality, but—again—only because browsers choose not to implement it. Things would change overnight if Chrome (obviously) changed their stance.
The point isn't to make things perfectly tight. Its to make Russia work harder to penetrate our defenses and increase the costs for them.

Every black market trick they do to penetrate customs to get these chips is another trick we can track and close down. Its ongoing work, but likely important for other wars that have yet to come (see China, who might pull the same crap if they start anything with Taiwan).
There's a reason I cited the entire paragraph, yes.
This is only for devices in the EU, there aren't 2B devices here.
>So it's essentially some kind of twisted Orange County MLM logic.

Are you referring to something specific here? Does Orange County have some stereotyped association with MLM schemes or something? (I'm genuinely asking as that would be hilarious and I'd love to learn more)
https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu#d...

> First annual install. The first time an app is installed by an account in the EU in a 12-month period. After each first annual install, the app may be installed any number of times by the same account for the next 12 months with no additional charge.

This is on a per account basis - not a per device basis. The install for a phone and iPad are the same install.
Maybe this has already been answered in a downstream thread, but I think it deserves its own thread... For applications delivered via a 3rd party store, how is Apple going to (a) identify them, and (b) count their installs so that it can charge its 0.50 per install fee?
A big reason for alternative app stores is to allow apps that do not comply with app store rules though. Think emulators for instance. Or any other of the long list of arbitrary app store rules.
That's why papers get away with making big claims that are unsupported by the data.
If you don’t understand such things, that’s fine, so long as you keep your ignorance to yourself.

If you don’t understand such things and make unsubstantiated, incorrect claims on a national stage as a presidential candidate, I have a lot less tolerance.
Wouldn't be surprised if the US allowed this - but I'll be shocked if they get away with it in the EU.
Right, if you don't have QUALIFY you need a nested SELECT with named outputs within a WITH. (The example is taken from the website.)
I am not sure what's hard to understand. Developers have tasks to do right? They are generally employed to do specific things.

Productivity is how quickly they do those things.

If I hire two developers to make me a website, and they both make websites of similar quality but one gets it done in half the time then he is twice as productive. It's not complicated.

Measuring productivity is of course extremely difficult, hence my original comment about the difficulty of proving productivity improvements. But defining it is not especially difficult.
Can you explain how it's shameful?

I'm coming at it thinking it's their award process then who do they have to answer to except themselves and their own standards? Also that as an outsider, I don't know all the demands they're trying to satisfy, or what imperfect process they're accommodating.

Maybe I'm making too much of shameful - where this could be undesirable, unsatisfying, evidence of standards we don't like, or even cause to create a different award program, but shame is about when you know you've done something wrong and violated your own code of ethics
10 to 20 years ago, you got a lot of pushback if you wanted this vaccine as a male, with some insinuations about gayness, or it being "too late" if you wanted it in your early 20s when you heard about this benefit. To this day I don't have it as a result.

Maybe today that has been fixed.
I don’t understand either. My doctor recommended I get it despite being older, because it’s possible there are strains of HPV it protects against that I have not yet been exposed to. He also said it could theoretically help clear an existing infection faster.
> as young as 12

Why the arbitrary line at 12?
Many vaccines become 'perfect' by causing the disease they treat to die out in the local community.

It doesn't need to be perfect at the individual level to cause that - and in fact many vaccines at the individual level actually have pretty bad metrics - like for example only preventing half of cases.
I love that this exists as software. Me and coworker argued for hours with our boss about what "rubberducking" was.
Is there an ISO variant of the above?
Per install is the worst model and Apple knows that. This is definitely retaliation for being forced to allow sideloading.
> Right, but WSFS then seemed to loudly proclaim that they have _no ability_ to enforce that each Worldcon obeys the rules?

Where are you seeing that the WSFS has loudly proclaimed that?

As far as I know, there isn't even anyone who is authorized to make statements on behalf of the WSFS with the exception of getting a resolution passed at the business meeting at Worldcon, but that doesn't happen until August.
One might say uncomfortably slow.
Yes, it can be exploited, just inside the sandbox. I'm pretty sure this is why the write-up is always so careful to say "read/write inside the Chrome sandbox."

With the chain that's documented, you basically end up with full R/W/X control inside of the sandbox process, so what you can do is highly platform and version specific. For example, IIRC you used to be able to unmask Tor and many VPN and proxy users from inside of the sandbox using either JavaScript or native networking APIs. It's my recollection that this is less true on newer Windows versions, but I don't keep up with Chrome sandbox protection that well.

Presumably Exodus also have a sandbox escape that didn't get burned so they didn't include it in the writeup.
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In the byline:

> For users, the changes include new controls and disclosures, and expanded protections to reduce privacy and security risks the DMA creates

...

>Across every change, Apple is introducing new safeguards that reduce — but don’t eliminate — new risks the DMA poses to EU users.

...

>The new options for processing payments and downloading apps on iOS open new avenues for malware, fraud and scams, illicit and harmful content, and other privacy and security threats.

That being said I agree with them, the reason android is a buggy, low quality piece of crap is because of their lack of control over their platform. Apple should be able to closely guard the apps that get on users phones because its Apple that will be judged, not the app. We're going to see lots more malware for sure. Lots more dark patterns. I'm not surprised they resent it.
I recently heard a doctor mention that cervical cancer typically crops up around age 40. As a result, a study like this is a bit premature. It's not bad news, of course, but it's also not exactly good news.
This was the biggest win for me. One time asked ChatGPT if it could "write python to convert a docx to pdf using any python package of your choosing" and its response was a paragraph telling me doing so is difficult, followed by a python function, with just an inline comment //implement conversion here
Probably not. Bandcamp still sells albums, Amazon as well, and there are bunch of streaming services out there. If everyone was ripping from YouTube how would they stay in business?
It's not the frequency of the antenna that changes, it's the directivity of the emitted power. The resonant frequency is determined by the length of the metallic strips of the helix which determines how thick and tall the helix is. The angle of the helix when the strip lengths are fixed is what determines the directivity pattern, which is what they are adjusting here by squashing it down.

If you tried to design an antenna that was good at both directions, you'd end up with an omnidirectional antenna which is exactly what the extended helical does. If you don't know where the receiver is, you build an omnidirectional antenna that will send power out in all directions. When you do know where the receiver is, you build a directional antenna that puts most of the power in a specific direction (and make sure the antenna is pointed that way). You can see the polar plots in Figure 8 in the article that shows two different plots, one with a flat shape that puts most power in the horizontal direction with little being directed backwards (extended helix). The next plot shows nearly all the power being directed to 0deg, meaning straight up (squashed helix). The next plots show that at 1.1GHz, the extended helix has a pretty flat gain between -100 and +100deg but the squashed helix has nearly 10dB gain at 0deg. There are other directional antennas that can get better gain at 0deg but they aren't flexible like this design.

I could see this kind of design used for cellular modems mounted on vehicles. If you are within range of a tower, the antenna is in the extended state. If you are out of range, the antenna moves to a flattened state to try to reach a satellite capable of receiving cell communications.

It could also be used in other applications where the extended state and is used to locate a signal but then once it's been detected, the antenna morphs to the flattened state and is pointed at the signal source. Extra gain means you can increase bandwidth of a digital signal.
I had a wince proj that someone had used that thing and did not understand the 'pulse' part of that. Where it could go off but if nothing was waiting it would not signal. So they were really confused why sometimes their home grown event queue would be delayed until another event went off and it would drain their queue.
GrapheneOS devices lack push notifications, and lot of other features that make it unviable for most users.

Making exceptions like installing the Aurora Store or microG, defeat the point of a degoogled phone.

iOS can’t be hardened it to a 0 telemetry state like GrapheneOS, but it is a fully featured OS.

It strikes the right balance for general consumers, and prosumers like myself.
Maybe you shouldn't use an example that is synonymous with viruses and malware throughout its history.
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I'm really excited to get 3.5 with JSON mode. Trying to get it to consistently generate JSON has been one of my biggest issues. I've been playing with GPT-4-Turbo's JSON mode, and it works so well.
Now that weems only enforceable through notarization and the DMA clearly states that this is not allowed.

(They'll argue that this fee is required to keep the platform save which is obviously bullshit)
> whatever your reasons for hating the idea of rust, you’ll have so much leas hatred if you go and learn scala first.

Sounds like a lot of work for someone who does not want to use Scala, though.
Los Angeles needs more subway is what. Because everyone taking the subway is not driving a car. Also brings up the point that it's inexcusable San Francisco hasn't built out a mile or so of subway per year over the last 30 years.
Most obviously the lines are a lot thicker on the fake.
Quite often this is not actually true, the ink cartridges that are bundles have less ink than new cartridges.

But everything is misleading to make you spend more money, so who knows anymore.
Maybe not side projects, but I'm running Android and Kde Connect, Home Assistant, Element or Mastodon are all listed as having more than 1 million install. I can't imagine these FOSS projects paying any significant amount of money just to distribute their free apps.

OsmAnd has more than 10 million installs, VLC more than 100 million. Can you imagine the fees? They obviously don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars on hand to pay every month to Apple.
Sick people with life-threatening diseases are incredibly impressionable and a lucrative customer base.

… and dead people tell no tales. They can’t warn others against ineffective treatments and the preventive measures that they would love to have access to.
> I'm curious how shim avoids the issue Microsoft is concerned about.

IIRC, shim has a way to allow someone physically present to add additional keys which will also by trusted by that instance of shim. That's enough to satisfy the GPL requirements.
I think that Perl taught us that there should only be one correct way to do something. Otherwise you wind up with a write-only language that nobody else can ever maintain.
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It looks like, while allowing sideloading, apps must still be signed by apple (notarized).

Why do playstation, nintendo, and xbox not need to allow sideloading?
I've understood that the WSFS does not really exist. That there is nobody who could act on its behalf outside limited circumstances. It's kind of like a meme in the original sense of the word. It's a parasite that attaches itself to a convention. That convention then holds a WSFS business meeting and does a few other things, and its attendees vote for a future host.
Could easily be true. It's harder to judge embeddings quality.
Very embarrassing and unacceptable. /s
I thought I used it years ago on an iPad. It was just a scaled up iPhone app so the resolution was bad but, then again, how many pixels do you really want in a music player?
I find it really ironic that they disqualified Babel considering that it was pretty anti-imperialistic and pro-China (though pre-CCP). They just hate Kuang because her grandfather fought against the CCP.