skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you risk getting punished for the arbitrary back and forth crap that might not get you banned completely if you hear give in to seemingly random whims and how much the reviewer feels like looking through your app that day. As an Android developer that works with iOS devs it's frustrating that the problems that crop up on their side are becoming more common in Play store reviews now too
Being in shape is way less important than fit and style, though you can get away with looking blah much more easily if you're in shape.
The culture here was better 15 years ago

Emailed you

My observation and experience in the transformation of society towards ubiqutuous technical surveillance, data hoarding and abuse, narcissism related to unnatural and unhealthy social constructs in the context of a global informational machine with hidden asymmetries and agendas is troubling. I’ve had to bear witness to totally unaccountable data abuse practices by all big tech companies. No accountability for malice. Lawyer-codified protection to cause harm and experiment on people. And total gaslighting and blackout upon any attempt to inquire, coupled with a hubris infused escalation of data abuse targeting, often mocking the victim.

Mocking life trauma events is normalized. And much more.
this is 2012. In 2015 they launched Office Mobile (UWP) for Windows 10 Mobile, Hololens and Windows 10 PCs.

They killed a few years later.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-office-mobile-apps-ge...
Judging by the size of their tunnel network and sheer amount of weapons, I’d say that number is probably 10x, at least.
The thing is, I don't know that MTV news was much of a resource and I don't know that losing it is going to change life for anyone.
Let's hope it forces their hand. Either way, it shows that there is room for improvement to the DMA language to prohibit that type of behavior explicitly, which other countries could address in their DMA versions.
By the way, thanks very much for the suggestions!
Which choice?
I think more broadly, a problem that needs to be solved for journalists is archival rights or something for their work. In the past, you could just buy newspapers or keep copies of your works after they were published. You can still do that now, but it's not as important until it goes down. It would be better to negotiate into contracts something like archival rights to writing, or at least a permanent credit/record.

Journalism is unique in that it's almost always public in some form. It should be a reasonable expectation that it stays in its original medium, or is accessible in archives if that medium vanishes. Major newspapers often offer reprints or back issues. NYT offers the "Times Machine" [0] with basically everything they've ever run digitally. This should be the standard, not the exception.

[0]: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser
What is the base rate who would’ve gotten housing? It’s well known that the vast majority of people (almost 80%) who are homeless at any given time are only transiently homeless. Chronically homeless people constitute a fraction of the overall population. So in any random sample of homeless people, you’d expect most to have housing a year later even without the money.
Interestingly:

People who received $1k/month: 44% housed

People who received a $6500 lump sum followed by $500/month: 48% housed

The control group who received $50/month: 43% housed
facepalm

Ugh, this is a horrible article. 45% of people found housing, but there was zero difference between the treatment group (given $1,000/month), a group given a large lump sum, and a control group given $50 a month!

https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research

A lot of people rotate in and out of homelessness, so we should expect some percentage to find housing after a year, even if nothing is done. Indeed, this seems like pretty strong evidence that giving more money does not help people find housing (at least in the range from $50/month to $1,000/month).

They cite a decrease in public service costs, but again, there is no difference between treatment and control! See page 6 in this PDF: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f507a995b636019ef88...

They calculate "saved costs" by estimating the difference in costs between the start of the program (a year ago) and a year into the program (now). However, since they are tracking a particular group of people, some of them will find homes and jobs on their own, so we should expect costs for that cohort to trend down no matter what. (This wouldn't lower costs overall, because in equilibrium, they would be replaced with newly homeless people with higher costs. But this is a cohort study, so those people wouldn't be included here.)
Find me another example of a social safety net program that reduced its cost by 50% in one year, by lifting its recipients out of the qualifications for said welfare.
Not when the claim being made was that his leaks would lead to death.
There aren't enough people in most major cities to come anywhere occupying that many bedrooms. Are there enough people in rural areas, suburbs, and minor cities that want to move to major cities to supply renters for them?
archive.is: https://archive.is/6o363
Weinberg didn't say there was a correct answer.

He wrote the questions back during the bad old days when a lot of shops tried to measure developer productivity in KLOCs.

Understanding the context, something similar today might be "How many story points will this take your team?" and if the answer is anything specific, the project is in trouble . . .

Hope it makes more sense to you now!
I love the word (e.g. the movie Perfect Days), but I feel a little sad seeing these beautiful ideas adopted as names for mundane products. I guess there's no harm in it - it's OK, really - but it feels a little cheapening.
They're doing it so quietly it ends up in the new york times.
IMO, you lose half the benefits by shimming OTP (genserver, hot-reload). Platform owners like Apple or Google could easily make Erlang processes first class citizens on their Unix(-like) platforms - one can already run full-fledged Erlang/OTP processes on Android (via Termux).

I imagine in an alternative universe were interoperability is more profitable than walled gardens, this technology exist and was standardized and not just a preserve of a few services on iDevices that can "hand-off" to each other (without process migration)
MSCI World Index is much worse for historical performance compared to S&P 500. I would guess that half the profits of companies in the S&P 500 are international. There is little need to directly own companies in developing economies, when you can own their safer counterparts from developed countries that do a lot of investing in developing economies. This is probably true in the US, Europe, and Japan.
First, Assange isn't a whistleblower, nor a leaker. He was a publisher. Wikileaks received leaked documents from whistleblowers and published them. Or at least received documents from somewhere and published them.

In the beginning Assange tried to vet the leaks he published. He contacted the US over the Manning leaks to go over them so he could publish without risk, the US refused.

So Assange set up a huge team of journalists to comb through the documents to see what was safe to publish. One of those journalists working for The Guardian proceeded to publish the key to the entire database, ensuring everything was leaked

Shortly after, he ends up in embassy and was unable or unwilling to do similar things.
He’s a Russian citizen now. He could have gone to Ecuador after he got citizenship, and possibly even before, but I think because he’s not a moron he correctly assumed that he’d end up at a CIA black site within a week of leaving Russia.
The real question is how are they finding housing for less than $500 a month?
Waaay overdue to roll back copyright to it's original limits. There's a lot of history that's just wiped out and it's a great loss to humanity.
Obviously you can't post like this here. Since you've done it repeatedly, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The details matter because most people don't think everything their governments do should be public knowledge, but also don't think everything they do should be a secret. So most people will judge something like this based on how close they think the leaker got to hitting the right mark with what they released.
> Apple Intelligence - points you to Apple Music or Apple Maps as a response to your query? Illegal.

There's a very trivial solution here that Apple already applies to password managers and Android applies to a bunch of things: allow the user to pick a Music and a Maps app.
There is a precedent from the Pentagon Papers:

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/new-york-times-co-v-...

As the last paragraph points out, not a clear victory for the free press, but the Assange prosecutors know this case very well and you are absolutely right that they want to avoid another one.
He was juicing the real estate market before the aughts, and he was even warned before the aughts. There are clear indications and evidence that he did that with designs.
Indeed, "compared to what?" is always the question you should ask.

In this case, it's "compared to $50/month" or "compared to doing nothing."
Could you please stop feeding flamewars by continually responding to things like this? I appreciate your more substantive contributions but you're doing too much of this.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls
> if I don't want to be known to another person I shouldn't have to be

This sounds like you want the right to prevent people from talking about you at all.
Unless there's an explicit reason not to, you should indeed assume that men in the middle will look at what you pass by them.

Then you have to decide for yourself if you're OK with that or not.

I know Microsoft looks at my files when I put them on my OneDrive. I take that into account when I decide what to put there. I know Google reads my mail when Thunderbird sends it through their SMTP servers. I know it'll be read by some unknown parties along the way to the recipient. I take that into account when I write my mail.

If I pasted a URL into a feed reader, I'd most certainly assume the app, and by extension its creators, would access that URL and read what's there. I'd take that into account when using the app.
They deserve punishment too.
Yes, but my mother doesn't live in New York proper, and getting there via public transit would require, uh, I think four different things? Bus to the train to the subway to the airtrain.
It is worth mentioned that iDOS 2 was a paid app on the App Store for 6-7 years before it was booted.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/23/22590511/idos-2-emulator-...

Safari on iOS has no issues emulating DOS games, other than the UI, I am surprised someone has not just wrapped a WebView in a console-esque UI.
They likely had either supplemental sources of income or additional assistance.

E.g: If you have $500/month, you can afford to pay your buddy $200/month to crash on his couch. Now you have reliable access to a shower, an address to put on your resumes, a bit of cash to thrift a suit/dress clothes and a beater laptop, and it's way easier to get a job.
Who’s perhaps underrated is Bill Atkinson. He famously left it all behind, but QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard are a helluva hat trick.
If it's coming via somebody other than the USPS, that just means law enforcement doesn't have to bother with those pesky laws protecting real mail.
Assange wasn't really a threat on his own. He was merely an outlet for others (Chelsea Manning, Russian propagandists). The question was whether he encouraged others.

Snowden showed that leakers didn't need Wikileaks for Chelsea Manning-like releases and the Russians have just switched to directly releasing on Twitter.
>use anecdotal evidence while denying others the opportunity ...

They said "It's not possible to install a local account any more.".

I'm sure you can understand why my own memories of just recently doing the apparently impossible thing will hold more weight -- to me at least -- than a comment saying the thing I just did is impossible.

That might not be super convincing to an outside reader, but for me the alternative is to conclude that I'm having a multi-day hallucination.

It'd be hard for me to pretend like the anecdotal evidence is equal in this situation.
>> Then, just take the example and imagine they declare bankruptcy. That loan is going to be worth 0 in the vast majority of cases.
>> Loans go to zero. It happens in real estate, it happens in oil and gas, it happens in other places I'm sure. It's not especially common, but it happens.

It is common, but at the end of a cycle. The chances of second lien loans being worth zero are higher and higher as leverage increases. This is for two reasons:

1. The greater the leverage, the smaller the required downturn to turn everything underwater. With 5% down mortgages, a 5% decrease in housing values makes you underwater (esp once you consider transaction fees.)

2. The greater the under-water, the less incentive owners have to continue paying, especially in non-recourse jurisdictions where no bankruptcy is required. Owners do "jingle-mail" where they mail the keys to the bank (figuratively) and walk away without having to declare bankruptcy. The bank is left with the mess.

Freddie Mac is already pushing to do 2nd lien HELOCs (https://www.housingwire.com/articles/freddie-macs-proposed-h...) and Fannie is considering it.
There was no difference between the treatment group, and a control group given $50 per month.

https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
> Where is the punishment for the people commiting the crimes and treason that Snowden and Assange exposed?

Other funny things have been exposed too and nothing ever happens.

Like for example $12 billion, in hundred dollars bills, being send by a military cargo plane to Iraq, after the Iraq war. Of these $12 billion, $9bn are totally unaccounted for: it's not even clear if they ever made it to the plane. That is well documented.

Just imagine the number of crooked politicians and military officials involved in such a highway robbery: robbing the people, to enrich themselves.

"Which fraud are we going to commit today, we didn't steal enough money: we need to choke on more money, what's our plan?" "I know, I know, let's make $10 bn in hundred dollar bills disappear!"

It is also very likely, but probably too soon to be exposed/revealed, that such similar shenanigans happened with SBF/FTX and the funding of the war in Ukraine, where monkey business happened with US donations that probably never made it to Ukraine.

To me it's no coincidence that all the charges against SBF concerning the bribing of politicians have been dropped: that's quite the can of worms for it's certainly related to money which disappeared while supposedly going to Ukraine.

Another really funny one too is the government refusing the audit of the (missing) gold in Fort Knox (yeah, no, if out of $12 bn we know that $9bn vanished, I guarantee you there's no way all the gold supposed to be in Fort Knox is there). "It's too complicated to do an audit". I read: "a sizeable amount of that gold indeed vanished, like those $10 bn in $100 bills".

That's my main reason for wanting to pay as little taxes as possible: it makes me puke to know I encourage crime.

Now although these traitors and petty thieves shall never ever be send to jail, at the end of the day there are more important things, like having a clear conscience and being able to look your kid in the eyes.

So let these traitors choke on their ill-acquired wealth, they deserve to be the miserable cockroaches they are.
I actually disagree. Archiving is a complex issue that touches on the interests not only of the general public but also those who produced or are covered in the materials to be archived, and the ways in which it might affect their interests might not even have been clear at the time of publication (think about LLM training as just one example), or their interests might not have been heard at the time. I think a public institution would be better placed than a private organization to deal with weighing the - evolving - legitimate interests of all parties concerned by the decisions of whether and how to archive something.
This reminds me of this article: "The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church Encoding" [0], although I think this comment [1] and this one [2] on HN explain it better. The article is written in Haskell, but it's basically saying that, because object-oriented programming languages lacked sum types, the visitor pattern makes the transform from

(a | b | c) -> T

to

(a -> T, b -> T, c -> T) -> T

where (a | b | c) is a sum type saying "it can be either a of type a, type b, or type c", and (a -> T, b-> T, c -> T) is a stand-in for a record of functions (i.e. the v-table of an instance of a visitor class).

[0]: https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/01/the-visitor-pattern-is...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26034790

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26024600
He's also not a journalist by traditional definitions i.e. no formal training, no accreditation, no redaction to protect innocent parties, no protection of sources.

He's more akin to an activist.
Maybe I don't understand how Uber works, but why would they have accepted it to begin with?
Excellent question. There was actually zero difference between the treatment group (given $1,000 a month) and the control group (given $50 a month).

https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
Also, there are many apps from sanctioned Russian companies that can't be published on Google Play, so they only exist in alternative app stores like RuStore and/or as self-updating apks.

On iOS, they just can't "legally" have an app any more, period. Some made their apps PWAs, some say "just use the website", and some (Tinkoff/T-Bank in particular) keep trying to get into the app store with those double-bottom apps and also distribute them signed with enterprise certificates.
It's the third result for me, after Rachel By the Bay and... your comment.
Please don't cross into personal attack and please don't do drive-by internet tropes.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The US and UN sanctioned the Act of No Choice, a rigged "vote" that saw Indonesia take over West Papua and continue with a largely unreported brutality to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Free_Choice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_conflict
Which illegal government activities did the Manning/Assange leaks uncover? The only thing I can recall is that "collateral damage" helicopter footage but it was an isolated incident and was deemed legal following investigation.
Are we reading the same document? It clearly states Assange “knowingly and unlawfully conspired with Chelsea Manning to commit the following offenses against the United States…”

The case isn’t about Assange simply receiving classified material from Manning.
Or go with a more open platform like Android.

Although, people might think you are poor. Which would be.. worse than death? Rather just not have an app for some people? lol
> apps have to be self-contained and can’t execute code “which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps.”

Meanwhile, on the very same app store:

iSH – runs unmodified x86 Linux binaries and even supports custom APK repos: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243

a-Shell – runs WASI binaries (via Apple's native out-of-process runtime, so it even gets to JIT, I believe!) and comes with a C compiler, as well as Python: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-shell/id1473805438

LibTerm – compiles and runs arbitrary C via lldb: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/libterm/id1380911705

But yeah, sure these are all somehow self-contained in a way that a DOS emulator can't possibly be in a way only App Store reviewers are enlightened enough to grasp.
>I am not aware of anything he has leaked being problematic.

I hesitate to even bring it up because it tends to poison any online discussion, but the DNC leaks were a pretty obvious one. Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt that the leaks were truly whistleblowing despite not actually revealing any illegal behavior, the way he continued to insinuate that Seth Rich was his source despite Assange still being in contact with the source after Rich's death should make it clear that Assange was not acting ethically.

>but ultimately a clear net benefit to mankind.

And this was exactly my original point. This isn't how the law works. We don't throw the good and bad on the scales of justice to see which side is heaviest. He did plenty of good things. He committed some crimes. The good things don't excuse the crimes.
Wanted to post it. Posted it.

If you think more "point" than that is necessary, you are deeply confused about a great many things.
Yeah I think the world collectively needs mark-to-market rules for real estate quite urgently. This "we will give you 6 months free rent but never lower the rent rate" scam is pretty toxic.
when the verge story details your app, why your so was denies from the app store, why future apps from the same developer might be blocked from the app store, I'd consider it relevant
The difference is that the subway is the main transit mode. OP is very reasonably complaining that every reasonable public transit option to NYC airports is multi agency and multi modal.
That would be Prabowo Subianto, formed US-trained special forces commander implicated with a whole bunch of murder in East Timor, Papua and in the final days of Suharto's regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabowo_Subianto
So I have a couple of thoughts on this. For context, I'm a big fan of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Julian Assange is... more interesting.

Imagine you're a journalist and someone hands you a shoebox full of SD cards with classified materials including video evidence of war crimes. Most of us would agree it is the ethical thing to do to publish that and you're definitely a journalist.

Now imagine you had a contact in the military with acccess to classified data. What if instead of simply receiving that information, you tell that person what you're interested in. Are you still a journalist?

What if you procure tools for that person to bypass security procedures? What if you instruct them on methods they can smuggle out that information from a secure facility? Are you still a journalist?

What if you run someone off the road so they have a car accident and they miss their shift and that person is in charge of facility security, making it easier for your contact to smuggle out classified materials? Are you still a journalist?

This can go on and at some point you're no longer a journalist.

My point is that Assange was allegedly more of an active participant in acquiring these materials so there's an argument to be made that he wasn't a journalist, legally speaking.

But here's where I think Assange really hurt himself: by playing politics in selectively releasing the Podesta and DNC emails to try and sway the 2016 election. This demonstrated that Wikileaks is not, as it portrays itself, a vessel for unfiltered publication. This mattered in the court of public opinion because that's what would ultimately have to come to Assange's aid.

Now make no mistake: the US government did what it set out to do, which was to create a chilling effect on journalism that exposed US government secrets. Assange has essentially spent 12 yaers in confinement between the Ecuadorian embassy and Belmarsh awaiting extradition.