skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for help with Wordpress Gutenberg/React
I am trying to create a plugin/feature for Wordpress Gutenberg. I really only need the basic proof and then I can style and expand upon it from there.

The basic function is applying an HTML attribute to a Gutenberg block via a dropdown.

I would be looking for someone to either do this first step or provide an outline for me to do it. I have already done research into it, just don't have very much React experience.

I have struggled finding developers that have Gutenberg experience and/or the time for this job. I have Wordpress development experience, but not as familiar with React. Thanks!

-Troy
It seems to me that the problem in the US is that a lot of people think it's more important for their party to win than for the election to have integrity.
Here in NY (and I'm sure in many other places), you manually mark up a paper ballot with your vote. You then insert it into a scanner which confirms the ballot's validity and then drops it into a lockbox.

The votes can be tallied instantaneously through the electronic system, but if there's any irregularities the lockboxes can be opened and manually counted as verification. And you can open a small number of randomly selected lockboxes every election anyway, even absent any suspected wrongdoing, just as a check to verify that the electronic counts are working as expected.

How is this not the standard everywhere? Yes, there's more paper (and thus expense) involved, but surely having a non-hackable paper trail is worth it to protect our democracy?

I was at DEF CON the first time they did the voting machine hacking. Those did not fill me with confidence.
Counting paper votes is a solved problem, and nations that use entirely paper ballots don't have slow preliminary counts. Australia, for example, has a somewhat complicated preferential voting system and relies entirely on paper ballots, and yet they are generally able to provide a conclusive result the night of an election (with televised tracking of counts throughout the country).

This may not make sense intuitively, but counting paper scales quite well by being distributed to the polling locations and physically sorting the paper ballots. The Australian Electoral Commission documents the counting process quite thoroughly [0].

The only time counting paper takes a long time to get a win/lose result is when results are close enough that every vote needs to be counted. This is surprisingly rare in practice.

[0]: https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/index.htm
I tried to be Google free for a couple of months by dropping Chrome and Google's search for Firefox and DDG. It was a painful experience. Without going in to detail (though I easily could), the stability, performance, and quality just was not there at all. In the end, the final straw was a critical business app that I use that had one too many problems with Firefox. I ended up having to bail. I still look forward to the day that I can ditch Google, but it isn't going to be today unfortunately.
"where the reporting of the journalists who are experts on the topic can be too highly influenced by the industry they're covering."

Yes, I worry about that, too. I try to balance it out best I can.

"A quick search suggests to me that it's well documented that she canceled some kind of party at the Javits Center on election day rather than days in advance."

Nope, I suspect that's the one. Sorry about the time-frame lapse. Should have Googled it myself.
> Everything in moderation.

Including moderation?
This has been submitted twice in the last few days but never picked up. I'd love to see some community input on the actual formulation of the contest (https://github.com/google/unrestricted-adversarial-examples/...) particularly on the "what should be public" part.
The key insight here is that this should not even be possible. Yes, corporate-owned phones need to be administered remotely. Yes, Google needs to be able to perform internal testing (this is in fact just an example of corporate ownership). Sure, maybe some individuals want to opt in to something like this. But the key is that this should be opt-in.

It should simply be impossible for Google to do anything pernicious to a newly-purchased Android phone: it should not be able to write settings, nor should it be able to read any data.
I'm not sure this is a key differentiator. I don't know how many times I've searched for a tv show, movie, song, etc and wanted the wikipedia page, and Google has only shown my IMDB and a ton of other corporate marketing sites, with wikipedia nowhere to be found on the first few pages.
Amazon looking into claims that employees delete bad reviews for cash
iOS 12: The MacStories Review
Is there instructions on how a newbie can install this?
I am blown away that DuckDuckDuck.com continues to claim no tracking after being exposed for tracking here:

https://archive.is/qntuk
https://www.sagamoreinstitute.org/case-study-in-culture-chan...

That depends on the state, honestly. I am from Indiana, where they worked on improving that experience. I haven't lived there for 5 years, but even before then I noticed a vast difference. It was no longer a soul-sucking experience that had the very real potential to eat your day.

https://www.sagamoreinstitute.org/case-study-in-culture-chan...
You committed the fallacy of posting a fallacy without support.

In a theater, you sit in the dark, if you are a good citizen, you don't talk. 90% of any social piece to going to a movies happens at dinner before or after, which you can still do and then go home to watch a movie.
You can negotiate yourself onto the street, I suppose the fresh air could be considered a positive life change.
I can choose who I buy my car from. I have governance over politicians who manage my roads through voting and the political process. I can pick where I buy my coffee from. With rooftop solar, I can pick clean energy over the natural gas fired generation my city picked for local residents instead of the slightly more expensive clean nuclear the local utility was previously providing (Illinois allows local government to aggregate citizens into a bundle and obtain power from an independent generator, and they typically only care about cost, not externalities).

I agree with you that concentration and scale does drive down costs; but it's myopic to look at only the raw cost alone (similar to how we don't price carbon into fossil generation costs). We subsidize food production in the US. Why? National security of our food supply, not being behold to other countries for our food.

We should never be enabling the creation of monopolies (to your point about the necessity of centralization), but the distribution of power with citizens. In scenarios where centralization is unavoidable, rigorous governance must be implemented (which does not occur with for profit natural monopolies).
If you have the time, sure. Journalists do this work for you and are trained to do it

There is an unfortunate trend arising from the coincidence of two motivations: 1) Increasing click-bait factor of news in response to economic pressures and 2) The pushing of group agendas by a 4th estate communicating ever more intensely via social media and electronic means.
For once, news about the UK Government tracking things that DOESN'T look like 1984.
One of the problems is that feedback should happen in the form of criticizing bad results without attacking the person. The teacher has the responsibility to clearly express that. The student needs to be able to distinguish that.

I have a feeling that Swedish culture is a bit too conflict-avoiding in this regard, and not very good at distinguishing the two.

(To be clear: I was not ranting Linux Torvalds style)
True == 1 but
False "not ==" 0

Wut?
Illegal means against the law or against the rules. A crime is a function of how severe your illegal action is.

Put it another way, people think if something is illegal, punishment for that must be a felony or something. But often times, it’s just an infraction so punishment is at most a fine or a minor action like getting kicked off the free beach
Hahaha, amazing. I'm adding this to my repertoire. I just started using the aspirin analogy. If you take 100 aspirins at once you'll die so what are the odds that you'll die if you take 1? Is it 1/100? Or is it 0?
DDG is a better search engine for developers for a number of reasons:

- Infinite scroll allows you to find information faster, even from not so notable sources

- Privacy means you can search freely and do research on issues that will probably not be found out on a civil case (patents, papers, dev articles etc).

- Bangs allow for a streamlined, faster search experience if you use certain services massively.

- Search results are very simple. No knowledge graph boxes, etc. So you can just get the content you want.

- Less (irrelevant) advertisements when you leave the search engine. You will be tagged by the content you consume and not the one you search due to privacy settings.

- Your personal data will be safe in case of a Google hack.

* Disclosure: Some years ago I was a DDG ambassador.
You can please everyone with AdNauseam ;-)

https://adnauseam.io/
You can still have the "out", like Dinner and coffee at a restaurant. But the specific watching a movie part is "in" whether it is at a theater or your living room.
..in the case my my experience living in the south of France, taxis wouldn’t show up at all. That happened to me more frequently than they actually showed up.
The Toxic Smog of the Information Age (2016)
Not only are Apple products difficult and expensive to repair, but if you've done something with your device that Apple doesn't approve of and voided the warranty they may even refuse to repair it for you. You're essentially not allowed to perform iMac Pro upgrades on your own -- this voids the warranty. Only authorized third parties can do this. It's kind of ridiculous given that the design of the machine ensures thermal issues long term...and it has to be partially disassembled just to be properly cleaned!
Hell, you can easily recount paper ballots by hand. No need to bring any machines into it. We did this for hundreds of years, and it still works.

The ambiguities we had in the 2000 election in Florida were from people improperly marking their ballots (hanging chads, etc.). If the paper ballots are generated by machines, or at least have already been verified as being readable by a machine at the time the ballot was cast, then you will have a much lower margin of error during the manual recount.
You don't necessarily have to fix it yourself, though. You could get it serviced by a professional, just like people do with a washing machine or a fridge.
The worst of the worst being Microsoft's Surface line where iFixit says a battery replacement is simply impossible on the Surface Laptop.

>According to iFixit, the Surface Laptop isn’t repairable at all. In fact, it got a 0 out of 10 for repairability and was labeled a “glue-filled monstrosity.”

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/251046-ifixit-labels-s...
Because following a trend is your only argument. I can see how restoring good fame to nuclear power can improve our chances to see fusion in our lifespans. And fusion, basically, is the best.
> But then, anytime I do anything involving printers, it is a huge pain.

I've not had great luck trying to get random printers to work with Linux, but it's also not something I've attempted in a long time.

For those times when you can choose the printer, the OpenPrinting compatibility database ( https://www.openprinting.org/printers ) is very good. And if you don't want to bother with that, any PostScript printer will work fine.

If you are already stuck with a printer with poor compatibility, you might be in for a bad time, though. :-(
>I'm kinda baffled by that. I'm no economics major, but this seems to imply that keeping wages low (or at least decoupled from economic growth) is actually a goal of economic policy. Is that true?

Well yes. Today's policymakers were mostly taught to work under the assumption that stagflation occurs if you explicitly target wage increases, as policymakers prior to the '70s sometimes did. They're fighting the previous war, so to speak, since their policies brought about a deflationary crisis.
> “I don’t know any conceivable way you could change Georgia’s election system . . . in a matter of weeks,” said Cathy Cox, a former Georgia secretary of state who oversaw the 2001 study that led to the state’s adoption of DREs. “It would be chaotic beyond belief.”

Oh yes, it would be awfully hard to make this switch in a matter of weeks. But this time crisis was created by negligence, since it's now been 2 years since officials were made aware of the problem.

> The unsecured server that Lamb exposed in August 2016 is part of an election system — the only one in the country that is centrally run and relies upon computerized touch-screen machines for its voters — that is now at the heart of a legal and political battle with national security implications.
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> “I was absolutely stunned,” Lamb said of his discovery of the exposed data. And he was angered when six months later, despite warning officials at Kennesaw State University’s Center for Election Systems (CES), which housed the server, the data was still publicly accessible online.
And upgradeability! It's infuriating that the only way to get more memory into a MacBook is to buy a new one. And I don't believe Apple has any real technical reasons for the current state.
This is something the world does need. What data does my phone automatically send, what commands does it listen to from the outside?! I have no idea.

Google is fucking creepy and it probably shouldn't be legal for them to bully me into using Play Services.
Fortnite's Self-Building Structures: That's How They're Made
I don't have this information. However, IMO the current Apple's approach suits a vendor of $300 phones, not $1000+ ones. If Apple really wanted to be the technologic leader in this field, the gigantic markup and the billions of dollars that they make on phones should be funneled into engineering excellence (stability, security, performance, device longevity) and not gimmicks (face recognition). Unfortunately, it seems that the market does not demand engineering excellence even from premium products.
Splitwise Python SDK
Campaign against it? While in the short term they certainly don't want to pay for a non-service, they are 100% behind the government taking away their waste problem.

There is a bunch of defense-related politics here. The US doesn't generally reprocess nuclear waste into useful things (ie new fuel). The DOE, who control nuclear weapons, like to have a huge pile of waste lying around because some of it can be reprocessed into weapons-grade material. Yucca would have been more a stockpile than disposal site. That's why more practical means of burial (deep cores) were never really discussed. They didn't want to put it somewhere out of reach.
There had been live news reports on camera where any button pressed goes to one specific party, but only for n times & m times works normal; n being way bigger than m. Then, other reports say EVMs controlled by Bluetooth etc. Now one faction is asking EVMs with paper trail, one other asking for paper ballots, & ruling party wants only EVMs & all local & federal elections at same time.
News to me! Interesting - do you have a source for that? Surely browsers will be flagging up HTTPS warnings for this?
This may be falling victim to another form of flawed thinking: that long-time passing familiarity with an issue is useful expertise. We know how to drive our cars on the roads, but that doesn't mean know how our cars and roads and city-wide traffic management works
"Capitalism" is totally orthogonal to this, any alternative to capitalism requires the use of force to confiscate carrots from one person to give carrots to someone else, by definition (replace carrots with whatever you grow on your farm or make at work all day). This sort of scheme is so unnatural to human psychology that it can only persist where there is a total lack of any criticism, which means there is no 'media' whatsoever in non capitalist countries, there is only state propaganda.

You might say "what about slavery", and you would be correct, except that this makes my point perfectly. It was illegal to teach a slave to read, at a time when the only media was newspapers and the written word. Why did they have to prevent slaves from having access to media? Because the system was so unnatural to human psychology that it could only persist while there was no media whatsoever.

So talking about 'media' in an environment besides 'capitalism' doesn't even make sense.
I guess people just realized that blue collar jobs were horrible?
Guess what it is same for many other of those jobs , construction, healthcare, army,...
One can only wonder what a backlash Google would get if they had their analytics script at https://improving.google.com/ instead of https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
We are also heavily using it since 3.x. Thank you!

Any reasons for picking Cpanel::JSON::XS over JSON::XS? The latter has marginally better performance.
For anyone wondering how to see your Inbox "pins" in Gmail, search for "label:pinned" (it's a secret label!)
Yes and nuclear plants in the U.S. already pay for that, and it comes from the money paid by electricity customers.
There are still a bunch of old MUDs (which are like multi-player text adventures) online.[1] A good list of the top 10 or 20 MUDs can be found here: [2], and a much bigger list can be found here: [3]

[1] - https://tmcchat.discoursehosting.net/t/old-muds-still-open/5...

[2] - http://www.mudconnect.com/#top10

[3] - http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?mode=tmc_biglis...
This might work if you don't have kids - I tried a four-day week like this so I could spend a day a week with my daughter in the years before she goes to school, but I was so knackered by the day off that the extra day was an extremely low-quality one!
This seems very similar to Freenet. The only difference I see at a glance is that Cloudflare is running gateways so that everyone does not have to run a node.
Why couldn't those processes be electrically powered?
Coincidentally, Yom Kippur [1] begins tomorrow, when observant Jews fast for approximately 25 hours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur
I'm not even sure why people work there. The warehouses are universally known to be shitty places but people sign up anyway.

Surely if its terrible and no one will work there they will have to improve or pay more? Or am i misunderstanding basic economics?
Been missing Scroogle just about as long as I've been a DDG user....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Goo...
Since DuckDuckGo always seems to get the most publicity, I feel compelled to point out two other search engines:

http://www.startpage.com

Searx (https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/)

You can install searx on your own host/PC, or use one of the public instances like http://searx.me (although no one can guarantee that the public instance isn't tracking you). Searx has apparently been around for quite a few years. I installed it recently on my machine and the results are decent enough that I continue to use it.
Killer robot Assassins to be sold on Black Market for untraceable murders
LMAO. They already track people who disabled tracking without telling them about it.

If you request they delete your data they probably won't, either.

Tech companies (especially Google) are giant black boxes with vast control over our lives. "The Circle" wasn't a good movie in my eyes, but it might give people a feeling of what such a company is capable of.
Ganesha was way before ( even before Krishna ) Buddha. So, not sure from where you get this to info.
Any piece of software that receives updates can have its settings changed. Automatic updates worsen that. Almost all major companies have done so in the past, some of it justified, some less so.
Show HN: How to inject malicious contracts with delegatecall
"If there are minimum wages laws (and there are) and people paid minimum wage still need food stamps then perhaps the problem lies with minimum wages and those who set them... Politicians."

If by "politicians" here you mean the one politician the article is discussing, Sen Sanders, you should know that he is for increasing the minimum wage. [1] Of course he needs other politicians and/or their voters to agree.

This corporate welfare angle he is currently attacking is just an attempt to point out the problem with a different argument. An argument that some people may be more receptive to. We've already agreed that we as a society will pay to support poor people. Corporations take advantage of this to lower their payroll costs. Whether they foot the bill for the government costs via corporate taxes or just pay a living wage in the first place is worth arguing about once we fisrst decide to stop letting them take advantage of people.

[1] https://berniesanders.com/issues/a-living-wage/
Repairable devices create a market for third-party device repair.

When something on my car breaks, I take it to a person that has no direct affiliation with the company that built my car, and it is always cheaper than taking it to the local repair shop that the manufacturer runs. Always.

I can also replace the parts in it with parts manufactured by yet another third party. Again, the parts of equivalent quality are nearly always cheaper than the original manufacturer's replacement parts. You can also spend more on premium aftermarket parts, if you like.

I don't even want to change the oil in my car. But I can pay someone who wants to service and repair cars all day, as their job, to do it for me, rather than sending the car back to the factory to have its engine replaced every time the oil gets dirty.

If I like tinkering with electronics, I could swap my own iPhone battery, and then I could also do that for other people. The problem is that Apple, Samsung, et al do not wish to share the repairs market, or allow repairs to eat into new sales, and therefore do not sell repair parts at reasonable prices or release part specifications so that third parties may produce repair parts of equivalent quality.

So the only way to get cheaper than an official first-party repair is to get crappy grey-market parts. Proprietary and patented connectors that don't get licensed on reasonable terms make things worse. This stuff doesn't need to be repaired by everyone, but it needs to be repairable by someone that isn't beholden to the original manufacturer. Repairability is the consumer check on planned obsolescence.
You assume as you age you'll figure out things better and really just find life easier - I've found it just becomes a larger list of fears and unknowns. You get better at handling them, but they keep popping up. Your values are challenged and what you thought was important shift. That surety you had when you were just starting out evaporates as you now need to keep your family/job/house functioning like a pile of spinning plates. You get bigger and bigger rewards, but the obstacles also get bigger and more and more varied to match.
I still have to fall back to Google every now and then or tweak the request more. Random example I encountered today:

"Mastodon API". DDG does not find the api documentation on the first two screens, on Google spot 1 is the old location of the docs that has a link to the new, spot 2 is the new location of the docs.

"Mastodon API documentation" and DDG understands it too.
The huge problem for me would be the 10 hour days followed by a 2 day weekend. Hard pass.

I'll also second the 10 hours being useless. Most days I really get about 4-5 hours of 100% work in. I don't think this would be any more productive than simply doing 3 day weekends with 8 hours of work, which I would prefer between the two.
While all political parties are sheding alligator tears over this why are they not coming together to Raise the minimum wage?
Thought this was gonna be about the country :/
Yikes, that does not sound like a good society to live in.