skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the company had hired a right-wing opposition research group, Definers Public Affairs, to dig up dirt on George Soros, after Soros gave a blistering speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos decrying the power of social media, especially Facebook and Google, for their “far-reaching adverse consequences on the functioning of democracy, particularly on the integrity of elections.”

What is this about? Because it's weird friendly fire. Both Soros and Facebook/Google want largely the same outcome from elections: liberal politicians who keep the markets humming while allowing for easy international trade and migration.
Remember that stocking stuffer you bought in 2011? Amazon does
Great starting point!
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I always thought that Apple should have pushed Project Titan to Tesla and realized any gains from afar. The problem is thst Tesla is on the rise and would be premium to what they could have paid a year ago.
Do not lose focus.
George Soros and the faceless associates of globalism are in absolute panic.
This article, as well as the comments, are in essence a hit-and-run on Facebook and Zuckerberg.
I expect the people who make agreements with the Serbian government to have. That's why they do the job instead of me.
Let me clarify and expand. I don’t want to minimize existing sports. They are great and people love them dearly.

I think that new sports that don’t have biological biases based on sex or gender will be interesting mainly because the competitor base is doubled and the fan base is larger. So having more potential competitors should lead to better contests and having different events merged into a single means more viewers per events.

For example, esports not having gender categories is a positive. Or this type of endurance running is cool. Although I don’t expect there are too many viewers for a 67 hour event, having an event that allows people regardless of sex means more events possible.
Is this what the level of discourse has sunk to? Disparaging comments on a person's looks?
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I hope someone launches a captcha cracker soon as an extension.
ProtonMail costs 8€ per month, almost twice as much as Fastmail. I'm not sure yet if I'm willing to pay that much. I guess I'll check out the other mail services listed on privacytools.io
Commercial compilers are still produced - IBM with its XL C compiler, for example, and Intel's icc. Both are good. Intel's icc often produces slightly faster code than GCC. And a little back in time, SGI's MIPSPro compilers were extremely good. I'm sure there are a couple more contemporary compilers out there but the IBM and Intel compilers are something we use at work, at least.
How effective do you find uBlock Origin on mobile? I find that half the time elements don't get blocked. Disabling most JS using uMatrix seems to be more effective.
Thank you for this, there is a lot of doomsaying in this thread but this reads to me that it would be possible to refuse requests based on these limitations.
This is why Australia was formally handed over to the Illuminati in the Treaty of Westphalia.
Ha, you forget how often we change our PMs :p
I use iMessage and FaceTime across many devices that are not my iPhone. What I can't do is go to a random computer and sign in to see my messages.
> Sometimes new IT users do not comprehend why many things exists to navigate through text since they are born in mouse/X graphics era.

You’re right, but the way I like to put it is: I often use text rather than moving a mouse & clicking for the same reason that human beings often use speech rather than pointing & grunting (indeed, using a mouse is a lot like pointing & grunting at one’s computer).

Using a smartphone & tablet really drive home how powerful it is to have a full-featured input device (i.e., a real keyboard), rather than just a mouse-driven UI.
And then somebody from inside will get a guilty conscience, but remember what happened to Snowden, and just sell the backdoor straight to Huawei or NSO or Mohamad bin Salem (salving themselves by pretending they're going to donate hundreds of millions to "improving the world", but instead will by private islands and matching citizenships to Peter Thiel's...)

:sigh:
The pollies seem to think so. I don't know anyone who admitted voting for Abbott in 2013 either but a lot of people obviously did.
Can't believe that table-full of dishes is called smörgåsbord in this article.
You might be mistaken about what Facebook "wants".
It's rare to hire CTO for a startup.

Most of the times, cofounder is the CTO and often unpaid untill ofc the startup gets funding and takes over from there.
Because publishing a package on PyPI is trivial compared to publishing on the Anaconda cloud. For the latter, you need to build your package for every platform and Python version you want to support. So sou need to setup some CI. This is just such an overkill for a pure-Python package. It makes a lot of sense for a project with a nontrivial C extension though, and I do build a conda package for one such project of mine. For everything else, I publish just on PyPI.
Your example shows why XML parsing is so strict.

If I add your example into my XQuery processor, I get: "Different start and end tag: <i>...</b>."

Also, HTML != XML.

An HTML parser may forgive that error, an XML parser clearly does not.

Also, with JsonML there is a lossless mapping from XML to (array based) JSON (and vice versa), which makes the project linked here, totally redundant.
Remember that the Australian Government (whatever party happens to be in power at the time, it doesn't matter which) doesn't want technology or innovation in this country. They only want the value of dirt to remain high. So that buildings remain valuable and that we can export more natural resources.
I've only ever had this happen on very very patchy internet connections. Usually when there's a captive portal that I haven't logged into (so the app doesn't know it's being blackholed).
On the flip side, I have another friend who was brought into a small town for a small branch of a medical-related practice. After awhile, he joined with the other guys in town and they started their own thing.

They actually did buy the business from the group who had brought them out, but it was a bit of a forced sale because there was no legal way for the group to stop them.
I don’t think this article makes a valid point that women are biologically advantaged to ultrarunning. It just give an example of an awesome woman ultrarunner. So possible that men and women could be competitors in the same sport.
Does the legislation say they can do this without justification though? Can they just ask for anyones information or does there need to be some sort of warrant?
The problem is you don't view it as oppression because your worldview is one where group rights exist. I don't believe in group rights, I believe in human rights. You don't, and that's fine.

But fundamentally it is your lack of understanding of the past, while being super sure of your position, that I find most interesting. You think that in the past that the bad companies were discriminating based on race, and then the good government came in and fixed it.

This is a completely incoherent reading of history. In fact it was the bad government forcing all companies, good and bad, to discriminate based on race. That's why they were Jim crow _laws_, not Jim Crow _suggestions_. The government was forcing people to discriminate based on race (like you probably do when you support things like affirmative action, etc).

I see history as Plessy V Fergusson. Where the railway didn't want to have discrimination so they challenged the law. Unfortunately people like you, who want to use the force of government to discriminate won.

Now you can object and say you want different discrimination so you're better than those people. Personally, as someone who believes in human rights i don't see a major difference between you and them. Just in who you want to discriminate against, but no ideological difference.
I always inputted the optional word with slight errors. A totally wrong answer would be easy to filter out, but one or two letters being wrong while it's still a proper word would hopefully be harder to get out of the training data.
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>Both Soros and Facebook/Google want largely the same outcome from elections

I think we are consuming wildly differing news sources.
In politics looks matter like it or not.
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I think it creates false hope. I'd much rather see role models who present realistic goals like teachers and scientists. Sports and entertainment dangle low work high income fantasies.
>No one uses SMS because it's primitive and limited compared to regular messengers.

No, noone uses it because it doesn't use data. I walk into a supermarket and lose signal so I can't SMS anymore. I can use the wifi to send messages even without signal.

Yes, I know there are SMS over Wifi apps, but they're proprietary and usually require signal to enable.
If you were to pay, then you'd have to enable Google cookies to know that you've made the payment. If you enable Google cookies for those sites then you don't have to deal with the reCaptcha (as much).
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If you missed it, the tiny section on ITS has some gems:

When you connected to one of the ITs machines (even over the net) and wanted to log in, ECC suggests checking to see if anyone is logged in with the name you wanted and if not, login in with that name. Not create an account. “Logging in” in those days mainly set your home directory. No accounts, no passwords

The command interpreter (shell in modern parlance) was the debugger, DDT. If any program crashed you could debug in in situ rather (with all connections open, files open etc) rather than sifting through a core dump. It’s ass if /bin/sh was gdb.

Those were great days in a more civilised age. You can see here where the mutability of the Lisp Machines came from.
I don't think he was disparaging his looks, but rather his social skills. It's undeniable that Zuckerberg is not really an extroverted social butterfly with good public speaking skills, which is kind of a requirement if you want to get into politics.
My personal social circle and Sydney Inner West socailly aware bubble all thinks it's a disgrace, but I'm not kidding myself into thinking I'd need to go very far before I bumped into people who'd justify it to themselves as "necessary for the country", and not a lot further to find people actively and vocally celebrating the cruelness...
Reading reviews of the OS updates?
What a wonderful article!
I think Facebook would like to be perceived as a liberal tech startup but keep in mind they knowingly sold the user info to Cambridge analytics for the republicans. The truth is their in it for the money like every other company. Apart of that means maintaining public perception.
Dorothy Vaughan – Space Heroine
I don’t have a good answer to how important sex and gender is for young people in choosing role models. My biggest role models in sport don’t share a gender, nationality, or race with me. It’s hard to say how I would have acted if they had more in common with me. Interesting.

Maybe the question, if you think gender is really important for role modeling, is what other physical characteristics would be useful to segregate sports by. I think segregating by sex is valuable when there are sex biases (I don’t know of many gender biases in sports), but segregating to increase participation would be something to think about.
That multiline select seems to work fine on an iPad, but I have issues with iPhones. So, I wonder if it’s a text size issue?

Playing around you notice having your finger between lines results in selecting a full line where having it on a word ends there.
I consider ITIL, Kanban and all other managerial erotic bureaucracy harmful. If I need to document something said by voice I have only to push a button on my deskphone and an mp3 of the conversation with reasonably good audio quality will be created and sent to my mail when I end the call, also I use to have a small portable recorder with a good mic in my pocket, while it's not legally valid it I do not tell others that I'm recording it turn out really useful in few cases.

Fortunately I'm in EU (France) so I have still a bit of choice (less and less, unfortunately) to avoid certain bureaucratic companies too much common in modern English world (and I evidence modern because when UK was a real power and USA was a really strong economy they do NOT have such modern mania or at least it was far far far less developed).

What I simply measure is how much I can do with single tasking concentrated operation vs how much I can do and how bad the resulting quality is when I multitask. The result are simple: the more I try to be quick the more error and time I waste, the more I go calm the best result I achieve.

And while I do not have real consistent data I can see result of a certain kind of work paradigm everyday in any aspect of our society.
> Huawei denies having any ties to the Chinese government beyond those of being a law-abiding taxpayer.

I find it interesting that these kinds of verbal games are continually played out in the public eye despite everyone involved knowing exactly what's going on. And that goes for all APT / nation-state actors.
Everyone technically has a conflict of interest or premeditated motivation. An argument should stand on its own merit, regardless of who makes it. Analyzing anything other than the argument is immature.
Well, the world is laughing, including the clergy men in Dharmashala.
Well considering their terrible returns net of fees and the massive outflows into passive, I think it's about time the industry did some soul-searching.
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Ask HN: Hosted version of GNU license product
If an Opensource code has GNU license v3.

Can we sell its hosted version under a different name?

I am not sure if it's a violation of this license.
Ego creates accountability on both sides of the equation (ex. victim & assailant) when it comes to something undesired in society.

Ego is constructed by the person viewing what encompasses reality and comparing the self to form self-esteem or self-importance.

As a person who understands determinism, I feel my ego has diminished when it comes to individuals. I realize me comparing others who are "unfortunate or fortunate" to myself is nonsense and accountability for individuality is diminished to null. My accountability for society as a whole is instead greatly increased and where I view the complete system of what makes an individual who they are being at fault for any undesired outcome.

Basically if someone were to do a horrible act it is by fate, how they were raised in the family they were born, with genetics and all the events that happened in the specific linear order of no real control because free will does not exist. I would see everything at fault "the will of the universe" and where the best humanity can do is study what made the outcome; with working on fixing the problem and rehabilitation for the person.
Ughg, what the previous poster is insinuating is that she wasn't arrested because she's the daughter of Huawei CEO, but because of her role as CFO of the company violating US sanction.
You make it sound as if she’s not a company executive and this is some political maneuver, arresting a family member rather than a company employee.
For now. I bet there's a lot of passports being dug out and resumes being polished up tonight...
Perhaps they don't take the bus because car-centric cities with lots of free parking usually have crappy public transport.
Oh, I will steal (and credit of course) your "pointing & grunting" comparison :D thanks!

On power I often leave some new colleagues astonished when they see how quick I am with Emacs vs with their "modern" solutions :-)
I think what you identified is merely a shared instrumental goal, not an objective goal for either of them.

I think, from how they talk, that Facebook wants to have everybody watching it all the time. From how they talk, more even than making money.

I think Soros wants intellectual freedom. Not so sure about that, but it looks that way from the philanthropy.

Both just happen to be using free markets to work towards their goals.
This would be really easy to do, just fetch several blocks of 100 links programmatically for a search term, then immediately apply a filter to them that would first pull out everything on a shared community blacklist, you could remove items from a blacklist if you desired.
>You think THIS proves the US is not a trustworthy nation?

Yes

>Why choose to ignore the last 100+ years of the US's backstory

I was born in '93 so what happened 100 years ago isn't much of a concern for me.

>and focus on this rather minor setback to make such a bold statement?

Calling climate change a chinese hoax and exiting a global climate deal is not a minor setback.

Destroying the trust that Obama built over 8 years since Iraq and rolling back all his promises to the world, while having a 40%+ domestic approval rating, is not a minor setback.

>Surely, you realize the US earns its status on the global stage via its violent & powerful military, and the PetroDollar? It is foolish to suggest that the US expects other nations to possess any pretense of trust.

No I'm not aware that USA/EU common trade and foreign policy interested rest on us being afraid of the American armed forces, or on what currency is used to buy petrol.

>You don't have to believe me, because after all I'm just some dumb American. But you may want to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself who is being the true "American"

What? Is this just a roundabout way of telling me I'm dumb?
I experienced this as well, a few years back.

I'd been feeling fuzzy all day at work - losing track of what I was doing, constantly searching for common words. Eventually I decided to head home.

I got to the train station and started feeling a rising sense of worry, especially once I noticed that my left arm had stopped obeying any commands, so I texted my partner. Texting was hard. The words were in my brain but my thumb wouldn't obey me. Eventually I got there. I noticed a few typos, but I couldn't find it in me to correct them and I reckoned it was understandable enough, so I sent it; partner later reported back that the text was completely unintelligible. He called me, and I couldn't get any words out except the word 'help'.

He looked up my location on Maps, called an ambulance, and told me to find a seat. By the time it came, the episode was mostly over and I was back to just feeling very fuzzy and having trouble speaking clearly.

They took me to hospital, booked me in for a CT and MRI, kept me in for a couple of days of observation. The doctor later told me that what I'd had was an atypical migraine, rather than a stroke. I'd never had a migraine in my life, and (other than a regular pain-migraine which kicked in the day I came home from hospital) I've never had one again.

Brains are really, really weird.
Yeah but not for mobile, which I assume means you have to use their own client? Ridiculous how much computing has regressed.
Not to be pedantic, but wait, what about the security by design concept? It is at least astonishing that you implement a functionality without any thought to how to protect it ...
I can’t think of too many. Maybe target shooting. Or darts. It’s now a fun data analysis project to look for Olympic sports with continuous, ratio dats that results in ranking where men and women are similar. And start there.
Realistically, if you were a developer not in the chain of command and asked to do this: Would you? Could you?

You would be knowingly putting your name to a vulnerability, and if someone asks then you have to keep it a secret and feign incompetence. Then if they revert your change you'll have to re-implement it.

If you do tell your superiors (which would be most likely what would happen, even before writing the code) then you would be in violation and could be put in jail.

If you refuse you would be put in jail, or they would go to the next person in their list.
it would be nice to look at a word and say select/delete/cap/rename etc.
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As a George, my name did some g(lobal) operation. It was an editor more talked about than used. SOS linemode edit on tops 10 was just simpler on a decwriter or vt52. I do recall teco being quite like ed: you really have to be comfortable with an amount of text carried in your head. So..it's an editor for people with a coherent mental model. I was more incoherent.
Does this mean that if I take my iphone into an Apple Store in Australia for repair that a Genius could load unknown software (under legal compulsion) without Apple itself knowing?
From what I remember fastmail has always cooperated with law enforcement. It is not zero-knowledge so they always had access to the user data already.

Their promise has been to not use it for advertising purposes or share it with third parties. I don't see much changing here, but I would like to know if it is.
> I'm not sure yet if I'm willing to pay that much.

So what do you value your privacy at?
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Considering that one can purchase a zero day exploit in pretty much any piece of network equipment for ~$50k, I don't see how these 'national security' claims hold up.

For a government who wants to spy, the difference between inserting your own exploit in a piece of equipment and paying $50k to find an existing exploit is insignificant.

Using an existing exploit is preferable anyway, because then it's harder to trace the origins of the exploit back to you.
I was waiting for the new TableView for Quick Controls 2. Nice!
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I mean, it says it right in the article. Soros (like many people) is worried about social media pseudo-monopolies. That's obviously going to be threatening to said pseudo-monopolies.
Calling someone's argument or stance immature is immature.
I seriously wonder how that would work in practice?

"Hey Joey, will you work on the fizzibizzi feature that does xyz?"

I can't, I have other stuff to do?

"What kind of stuff? This feature is the top priority for the whole team?"

I JUST CAN'T TELL YOU OKAY!!!
'Chat' supports 'Rich Communications Services' (RCS), the protocol that will replace SMS.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-rcs-messaging/

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8dneie/do_you_believ...
My condolences to those attempting to maintain that the media is simply on a witch hunt out of petty revenge.

These people are just endlessly greasy. I can’t imagine how they sleep at night.
Nixon didn't break down with a panic attack the first time someone asked him a hard question in public.
I wonder what the world would be like if everyone put this amount effort and discipline in everything they did. And I'm referring both to the author of the article as well as the artists/creators at Pixar.
“Princess Huawei”, Meng Wanzhou Arrested in Canada, Risks Extradition to the US
I think there's another way look at this. Per "Zero to One" Google is a very powerful monopoly. It wants to protect that position, as well as make it less noticeable.

All these "side projects" create the illusion that Google is not a monopoly. More importantly, new Product X, whatever it is, helps to attract new top talent. Top Talent is going to want to fix old things, they want to build new.

While this might sound a bit extreme, even if it's not actually true (in tandem) both of these "incentives" are real. Google does need to mask its dominance. And it does need to attract top talent (if only to keep soneone else from acquiring it).
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Well if there is anything the Middle East can agree on, it’s their hatred of Israel. Probably better for Israel that they fight amongst themselves.