skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many instances in which doing something that many people find offensive and being a good example are the same thing, or at the very least are not opposed to one another.

E.g. In the 1960s, the head football coach at a recently integrated high school treats players of all races with dignity and respect; in the present day, two married men raise their child to treat others kindly; etc.

It’s particularly difficult to distinguish between inoffensive activity and being a good example when the root cause of at least some offense is due to nothing more than your existence—you can be the best father to a child you can, but that will never make up for the fact that because you are gay some people do not think you should be a father at all.

Turning back to the specific content of the article, I am glad that Maurice Claurett was able to use his history and his personal connection to Representative Marisco to enable the betterment of so many people’s lives. A system in which 90% of petitions result in expungement but only 10% of the eligible persons ever know they are able to make a petition is a moral wrong, and its automation (for less than $200,000) seems as if it will result in significant harm reduction for relatively little burden and risk. It also seems like the benefits of such a bill should be apparent with empathy, and that Claurett’s intervention should not have been necessary to change Rep. Marisco’s mind, but so it goes.

I think a story like this, where many disparate groups generally opposed to one another worked together to effect positive change, is refreshing especially these days. Criminal justice reform has a lot of low hanging fruit and I hope this sort of progress continues (or kicks off) throughout the country.
Change the display size and also decrease font size far smaller than iPhone allows.
It could also be survivor bias. You don’t rely on it as much because you’re experienced. I do the same for the programming language I’ve now got 7 years worth or experience.

The picture was much different when I started out, and I feel like StackOverflow is still an invaluable resource for juniors/mid-levels or for those transitioning to an unfamiliar technology.
iOS has significant restrictions in the realm of Bitcoin wallets compared to Android.
Termux and Emacs on the go has made me never want to go back to iOS. Orgmode capture templates for everything synced by git is my favourite note taking solution.
Primarily the custom launchers. But to be honest, the novelty of that is quickly waning with all these "Hey, how'd you like Home Depot?" notifications that I can't turn off without crippling the android experience. NOYB, that's how I liked it. I'm probably going to be in the market for an iPhone next time around.
Can you tinyurl a file?
As he says, TECO used a gap buffer in the early 60s, and he would like to know why authors of later editors made such bad choices.

My guess is that they took CS classes, and actually thought things taught there were good ideas and not desperate dodges for when the simple thing won't work.
Food is fungible, if I don’t eat this food then I eat that food. Etc. In terms of my time, I can get a better return on investment spending 10 minutes working or socializing or cleaning than saving 80¢ worth of leftovers.
Run emulators (easily), as they are not allowed in the iOS app store.

That's pretty much the only thing that I am sad to miss using an iPhone. It's not enough to make me switch though.
I thought Safari had the best power to battery consumption ratio of all the browsers. I certainly notice it on desktop where I switched to Safari last year, but that's pretty massive on mobile.

Safari seems to take this seriously instead of the race to the bottom on performance and resource consumption. I also like features like how Safari extensions are now 1st class apps and its declarative content blocker (1Blocker X being best in class imo).

What makes Safari so bad in your eyes?
You can remove the nagware in your preferences on Reddit. Still unacceptable but it's there
Absolutely watch the talk "Are we there yet", it's my favorite of all time.

In short OO gets time fundamentally wrong, is unable to represent a discrete succession of values, and entangles state with operation.

OO has been ~35 year wrong turn for the software development industry.
this reduces the duration of pulling time! it’s a strategic asset in a paceline.
What makes it "painfully bad"?
Well can confirm. I prefer pure English than romanization pinyin ANY time.

Pinyin for Chinese isn't self contained, you have to guess what really means. If I saw pinyin code, unless it is absolutely necessary, like not ambiguous and no proper English translation, it won't pass CR if I am reviewing it.
Well I'd be fairly sure that there some cases of "X attended a meeting and then suddenly had a mysterious heart attack on the way home" which do happen within western powers...
The RPi has several proprietary binary blobs required for it to function, and always has. This has been one of my long-standing gripes about the platform’s security.
While I share your excitement at the wonders of the universe, the language you are using is confusing (borderline misleading). Gravity has very little to do with any interactions on a scale smaller than an asteroid (and definitely has nothing to do with chemistry or biochemistry). "Dispersal of some kind of quantum entropy" is not really a thing either, unless you interpret it to mean "something cool and sciency" (in which case, yes, unifying gravity and quantum mechanics would be as cool as science gets).
Gravity is important for heavy elements to cluster in one place in sufficient concentrations to form organelles.
Basically if your personality is such that you like to adapt your environment to suit YOU, you'll probably hate iOS and Android is the way to go.

If on the other hand don't mind adapting your workflow to someone else's conception of design which many people find ok iOS will suit you.

Technologically, there's very little difference between top of the line Android and iPhone though you do get more interesting featuretrade-offs to choose from in Android (eg. Samsung Note 9 has a great stylus, Huawei P30 has by miles the best camera in any phone, Pixel is stock OS etc) - which again kind of links to personality.
I didn't know that. I've been using Bread/BRD wallet on my iPhone for a few years. What are the restrictions?
It does indeed win in terms of performance, however the situation in terms of add-ons is depressing. There’s basically no add-on API other than a very limited content blocking API (which doesn’t allow you to do powerful things like uBlock Origin can).

(full disclosure: I am a happy Safari user, and the content blocking API is good enough that I tolerate it but I do miss uBlock for sure)
One probably very niche thing is availability of a terminal along with full linux-y environment (including package manager for all the usual tools) on Android via the termux app. Pretty useful if you want to, for instance, make minor code changes (in vim or similar) or deployments on the go.

I googled around out of curiosity if such a thing exists on iOS and turned up nothing, which seems reasonable considering the more open nature of Android vs iOS - could be wrong about this though, happy to be corrected.
The fact that the RPi has writable onboard state/storage of any kind whatsoever (save for the fuses which are WORM) comes as news to me.

The SoC firmware is loaded from the FAT partition on the SD card, so there is no “flashing” (in the traditional EEPROM sense) of the system firmware. Apparently the USB chip has its own EEPROM?
For the record, I'm also on Chromium on Linux (Ubuntu w/ awesomewm) and scrolling works for me. Weird.
Why call it probabilistic programming? It is bayesian inference with mcmc (or am I missing something).
I imagine that in some distant future we are going to have to have near perfect recycling. Human waste, and even our bodies will have to go back into these closed ecosystems.

I wonder if the energy from the sun is enough external input to sustain human life.
There is a kind of person in this world who is only able to empathize with others after an experience is made personal for them

I really wish voters don't elect such people to positions of power
Everybody knows who the toxic people are in an organization. That's pretty much the definition of toxic. Conversely as the old saying goes, if you think everybody in the organization is an asshole, it's likely the real asshole is you.
I am not affiliated with these apps, I just use them all the time and are apps you probably won't be able to find apps like these on the app store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clownface....

- map the sides of your phone to actions like slide volume and brightness.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.synapse.al...

- batch your notifications to specific times of the day.

All in all I find android apps just offer more functionality for the power user.
So let's say we did this way back in time, when only 100 humans had been born. They could have been in the 1st half or the 2nd half. In either case, this would seem to predict that no more than 100 more would be born, which is clearly absurd.

What am I missing?
Basically all USB 3 host controllers run firmware of some description. Some can be updated in the field, some can't. You pretty much can't get away from proprietary code if you want USB 3, but in most cases it's hidden from you.
The author is using wizards as synonymous with geniuses plus some geeky RPG terms used as metaphors. She's not implying that wizards exist, rather, that her peers seemed to be performing magic compared to her skill level at the time.
Firefox with uBlock Origin. I'll never switch to a phone that doesn't support that combo. Super smooth scrolling and various other eye-candies are nice, but I'll sacrifice all of them, without a second of hesitation, for it.
> How am I supposed to explain to you that protectionist policies benefit a small minority of workers at the expense of almost everybody else?

Given that none of the most successful economies developed without protectionism [1,2], you'll have a difficult time explaining that indeed. That pesky reality, always getting in the way of "good Freshman-level Economics textbooks".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Criticis...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20320483
Surprise $4M gift from frugal librarian goes to pay for a big TV
Excuse my language, but I want to stress how preposterous this statement is: this is complete and utter nonsense. Gravity is way more than 10^10 times weaker than electromagnetism at this scale.

Unless you mean "gravity is important to make planets, and planets are where we have observed life", in which case you are stretching the meaning of this expression to a meaningless level.
RTLSDR through the usb-c port is pretty cool, easier to manage music on an sd card, real FM radio (as far as I can tell from a quick google search, not available on iPhones), and much of the stuff others have mentioned
How often do you need to write methods just to forward to another method that _stay_ that way, and don’t evolve more logic later on? I avoid inheritance like the plague, but I feel like I don’t really write forwarding methods very often.
I added to my comment just as you responded but I ended up looking at the declarative content blocker as an upside after developing my own. Have you tried 1Blocker X? I haven't missed uBlock Origin when using Safari. Though I can certainly appreciate the power of an onRequest(req) at-runtime API that you definitely lose with declarative rules.

But for example I have a script that can convert Adblock format rules (like Easylist) into content blocker rules.
Just another statist who wants to tell others what to do.

> In the end, the questions boil down to this: do we want to hand over our money to a company that

The hell it does! If that were the question you'd want to let them be and leave the decision to each individual.

But as all statists do, you want the State to make that decision for us.
an employees value is being predictable
Are there no trademark issues from using the restaurant's official logos? These restaurants may not have filed on everything they should have and probably don't have the resources to fight it regardless, but what if they did? A large company would definitely send a C&D immediately for actions like this.
1) Notifications are much better. Taking direct action to read and archive/delete emails directly from the notification is great. Not sure if iOS has this yet, but last time I checked iOS Notifications were primitive by comparison.

2) Direct sharing to/from ANY app. iOS is frustratingly limited. On a similar note, being able to assign default apps for specific types of content.
I too noticed and was very annoyed with the UI sluggishness of my Android phones (LG something or other and Samsung S7) but decided to give it one last chance. I picked up the Pixel 3 with stock Android and I've never looked back. It's smooth and fast and hasn't seemed to slow as time goes by which was a huge problem with my last two devices. There's such a huge difference between stock Android on decent hardware and "custom" Android (LG and Samsung both apply themes, among other things, to their Android flavors to make it unique) on any hardware, even the best.
"Install a ROM that respects my privacy" is right up there at the top.
I know this is now totally unrelated to raspi but where do you live? Setting your AC to 20C seems freezing to me and I almost never set my AC below 26C (Tokyo)
If you were a young Chinese person, why would you study in an American university?

Under normal circumstances you would want to see America. You would want to be with the best to get a bit of paper at the end from a top notch place. The world would then be your oyster. You would know people, you would know what America is like and how nice American people are (under normal circumstances).

But what happens if you know you won't be welcomed? What if you had got wind of this hysteria going on?

You go somewhere else.

It might not be America but at least you could do your degree without people muttering 'Chinese Whispers' (!) about how you are there just to harvest people's IP and steal their state organs.

If English is the language to learn then there are plenty of universities in England that will gladly take Chinese money. The hysteria hasn't sullied the atmosphere in the UK yet. Then there are Scandinavian countries, Germany and other places where you get English going on in science subjects. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada are good options too.

Then there are the non-English speaking countries that roll the red carpet out for China. Anything belt and road. Russia. There are plenty of places. Now there are options and the idea of studying in the U.S. is not really looking that exciting. Plus, the more you look into it there can be better places to get a particular degree than one of the Ivy League big names.

This could precipitate a serious decline in the international standing of U.S. universities. If departments are not getting the big bucks coming in from Chinese admissions they will have to get students from elsewhere. The bar gets lowered in the process and it becomes a downward spiral.

The only American cars of interest internationally are the ones by Tesla. Nobody wants an American car. In Europe we used to imitate American cars albeit cut down to cheap size. But, nowadays, Tesla aside, nobody in Europe would consider an American car as a serious proposition. And there isn't anything Detroit can do to change that.

If American academia gets to go in a similar downward spiral then there is no way back out of it. American universities could become the preserve of American rich kids with no intake from Asia or elsewhere. Then the ambitious U.S. students would have to be studying in Europe to get an education that was a cut above, or, even in China!

This is a slippery slope that we are on, all because of a minority that want to forego hospitality, trust, warmth and international spirit and succumb to fear, nationalism, hysteria and rumour-mongering.
iSH (https://ish.app/) works well for this, though it's in a public TestFlight beta currently.
Fair point. Except I don’t post, follow feeds only, put nothing about my personal life in my profile, and they asked for my birthday.

So my point was aimed more at advertisers buying on Twitter: they filled in the blanks and got them all wrong. And the one they had the data for they got wrong.

That and I’m not a internet consumer really. Twitter can see I’ve blocked over 1,000 accounts that promoted tweets. Is that statistic being shared with advertisers?

Likely not. Advertisers believe so who cares.

It’s so ephemeral as to be useless.
These kinds of support forums are the blind leading the blind - same thing is happening over at Apple’s support communities and it’s depressing to read because most people just believe the BS copy/pasted answer and don’t bother thinking about how absurd it is or doing some more research.

I wonder why companies even bother running these - it’s not like they attract any kind of useful knowledge. It would be best if they disappear and clean up search results so communities with real, knowledgeable enthusiasts can rank higher.
You can detect wifi network strengths and channels with Android.
In addition to the other things mentioned, like Firefox, launchers and Shell access:

1. Real multi-user, with fully separate profiles

2. Apps on SD card

3. Side loading

4. Connect to monitors on Samsung phones

5. Use USB-C card readers

6. Run torrents, run in the background
Huh, that makes sense. I always wondered about that.

It's a little like the related (though different) question of "can you sail downwind faster than the wind is going" (and the answer is yes: https://inhabitat.com/wind-powered-vehicle-travels-faster-th... )
The 8500 students are numbered off (assigned id's) from 1 to 10. Then you wait. Your first random number is the ID of the first person who dies. Second random is the ID of second person to die. Etc.

Fairly slow algorithm. And only good for 8500 random numbers. But I think it would give a good distribution.
Nobody yet has mentioned a film that was premised on the invention of a black box "capable of breaking the encryption of nearly every computer system".

IIRC the movie plot was somewhat convoluted and confusing and I don't have any desire to see it again. I'm bringing it up because there are a number of "what would you do if" posts here.

In the end, the "sneakers" use the box to cause: the sudden bankruptcy of the Republican National Committee, and the simultaneous receipt of large anonymous donations by Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and the United Negro College Fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
One key problem with the premise is the assumption that your (lack of) priors indicate a flat distribution. It sounds reasonable at face-value, but in the bayesian framework it is actually a rather strong assumption that can be leveraged to arrive at far less reasonable conclusions.
> Requiring 3rd party certification that your food/vape juice/whatever won't harm me should definitely be a barrier to entry.

So then don't buy anything without third party certification. But why shouldn't you be able to choose the EU's certification rather than the US, or a private one, if you want to?
Where i live most people use android and it's hard to transfer files via Bluetooth. I wish ios support universal Bluetooth protocol.
I forgot about the running in the background thing. Arguably a strength and a weakness, depending on what's actually running.
Reminds me of Cappucino, which professed to let you build a single-page webapp using "Objective-J," a strange hybrid of Javascript and ObjC.

https://www.cappuccino.dev/
Thanks! This was very interesting to me given it was a topic I knew nothing about (nor did I even know China was a two currency system).

I found this article on Medium (written by a fintech firm) that explains how it works with slightly more detail and specificity, if anyone is interested:

https://blog.sendwyre.com/cny-vs-cnh-rates-whats-the-differe...
Please do not confuse MobileSafari, an application with features, and UIWebView/WKWebView, a rendering API.
What app gives you those notifications? What do you have to disable to stop them?

(I haven't seen them so I assume I already have whatever turned off, though I'm not sure what experience I'm missing out on!)
Cool, thanks! Looks great, and I'm glad it exists because this is a useful enough thing that it might have stopped me switching to iOS, something I'm tempted to do for my next phone.
Blackberry KEY2 is quite good, with timely security updates from both BB and Google.
Using Basis Textures in Three.js
An amusing side note (or maybe I'm easily amused):

A couple of years ago I bought a USB-C drive enclosure, and when I use the Windows "safe removal" menu it shows up as "VLI Product String".

Yes, the case manufacturer didn't bother changing the string in the sample VLI firmware!
I agree, One UI would definitely win for "most improved" of the skins. Even stock (Pixels) is really great now.
If you slide the Google Maps notification to the right, a settings gear will pop up. From there you can disable some or all Google Maps (or any other app) notifications by category, so you still get the ones you want.
I feel like the problem is just the way power is distributed to nation-states with money. We've got to start working towards a world where nation-states aren't forced to compete with each other economically--instead where they are incentivized to work together economically and compete over citizens. Nation-states serve a purpose, as religion did/does. But the scope of that control must change as civilization does. I feel in a couple years they may look back on this age as we do now with the crusades.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values/

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...

If you're going to watch any of these, at least watch "The Value of Values".
Or you can see it as a manager getting plenty of ammunition on members of the team to use at his or her whim. You're not creating a safe space, but rather a miasma of fear. Trust will break down in the team.
New electric cars in Europe have to make artificial noises
I'm attempting to do that, but I've bumped up against an issue in which I have no radio access from the custom rom. Need to be picky with the hardware, and the stuff most likely to be supported is the most expensive.
It feels like they all want to ascend to that nirvana where they monopolize and get to charge a fee on everything like iTunes.
I'm pretty sure this just means she moved to China but her family didn't. It's a bit of an awkward phrasing as it includes "she left her husband" but adding "in the US" means she just left him behind rather than divorcing him.
I forget, are we talking about workers in first world countries or workers in developing countries? I’m not quite sure why you are gloating like you just made a strong counterargument, but it’s not a good look.
Lectures and rambling are distinguishable.

Some of my professors did ramble, now and then, but that was mostly OK.
Why is that? Is USB 3 a proprietary spec?
I'm very confused by your comment. Can you add some context or clarification?
i can headphone jack (for now anyways...)
This seems to be a relatively simple case of tit-for-tat. Chinese scholars were welcomed in the US, but a significant minority of them have abused their welcome (defected). It is not all of them, but it was systemic enough to lose a lot of the US technological edge. In order to cut its losses, the US is now defecting on educating those students and researchers. You may say this is very unfair to the students, but in Chinese culture it is not uncommon to punish the family members for crimes of their relative.