skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only important distinction is in self-identification. Who calls themselves a leftist, not who is called one. For instance, look at the program for the left forum 2019: https://www.leftforum.org/program-2019 or the offerings of say Verso books: https://www.versobooks.com or the self proclaimed left-wing news sites like in these times: https://inthesetimes.com or jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com ... there's effectively zero identity politics.

Instead, they critique and criticize it.

For instance, here is a book review from verso

> "...argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements. It marks a retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to the collective struggle against an oppressive social structures"

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2716-mistaken-*%20identity

People who see identity politics in action on news sites indeed call it leftism, along with fascism, liberalism, racism, and socialism. These people are just flinging words around however, they don't draw a distinction between any of those things. They're using those words as a form of profanity, purely emotive.
I don't know exactly what you mean, but recipes cannot be copyrighted in many jurisdictions. Images are of course a different matter.
I see firing in such a case as a cop-out, a cowardly way to appease mob-mentality.

In this case if the employee responsible for firing the moderator did such acts repeatedly despite management warnings than perhaps it's a good idea to fire that person. However this doesn't seem to be the case, the CTO correctly assumed responsibility in his apology of green-lighting the moderator's firing.

He does the right thing, in my opinion, by promising a better process that wouldn't lead to such a hurtful (and seemingly unfair) dismissal.

You don't fire an employee for mistakenly deleting your production database, you update your process so this cannot happen (at least not by accident).
That goes with life in general. Equalizing gains with mandatory measures comes at the cost of a less responsive economy with less gains overall.
Love the simple step sequencer with scale selection. Wish this was part of a "creative scratch pad" in every DAW (It usually is possible but it's often cumbersome to set up).
I first saw one in the lovely http://www.tones.fm
It'll be here soon enough and it'll be interesting to see how it's handled, especially as the parties pushing for change tend to apply pressure as a group to those in authority (in our tech world, project leaders and moderators, but beyond it's appeals to universities or the media…) and flag/downvote (or worse) against those who show any dissent.

The Opal project's little kerfuffle[0] a while back comes to mind, and the subsequent adoption by several Ruby projects of the Contributor Covenant[1] (of which, it never seems to be applied to its supporters - maybe that's just me being cynical). It convinced me that the best way to go is no code of conduct (I favour the delightfully named NCoC[2]) for most projects.

[0] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

[1] https://github.com/bundler/bundler/issues/3444

[2] https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC
High speed trains don't derail that often if built well. Modern high speed rail systems have better safety records than planes.

China's high speed rail system has had 1 accident with 40 deaths out of several billion passenger kilometers of trips, and that was involving a slower, older technology. The latest, fastest trains in China have not had any accidents to date.

Japan's Shinkansen has had 2 derailments in half a century of operation, one due to an earthquake and one due to inclement weather. Both incidents had zero injuries.

The European systems have had notably higher accident rates but still surpass the safety records of planes.
great to hear that. I have so many ideas to work on but not enough time to execute them
There was another much more recent commuter helicopter service in NYC. It did not have any incidents but ended up going out of business during the 2008 recession. It only cost something like $150-$200 IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Helicopter
Yes, apparently something like 8000 incidents of attempted solicitation of children on Facebook last year.

I'm not saying E2E and encryption of data at rest doesn't benefit these scumbags. It does, no doubt, and that's exactly why the tech savvy ones use them. I'm saying that inexpensive computers, digital cameras, and broadband internet also benefit them, but these things are also an enormous benefit to us all.

I'm not willing to give these things up because some bad guys use them. It's fair to ask if the trade off is reasonable. Assume those 8000 incidents are all different children and different predators and none of them are iffy/false positives. (not likely) Assume 1 billion people used FB to send a message during that time. (a low estimate) Is it weakening the security of 125,000 people for each one of these bad guys? Why should 999,992,000 people have to go without for the sake of 8000?

To those who think that the many should have to suffer for the few, I ask: Where does it stop? For example, Should all digital cameras be required to upload photos to the police before allowing the user to see them? That would certainly help the police, wouldn't it?
I don't mind this if they let me decide which apps to kill and let me override any app from being killed.

Unless it has changed recently on iOS you are very restricted what you can run in the background. I want the freedom to run anything and I have that on Android.
Changing the inequality is work in progress. Rather than feeling guilty, perhaps you could volunteer to help disadvantaged groups. Another alternative is to donate generously to appropriate charities.

From what I have read the homeless epidemic in SanFran is extreme, people sleeping rough, in broken down cars, etc. I am sure that wherever you go you will find people having it very tough compared to you.
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If with "recovery", you intend recovering that file, it's not possible, since all the copies available in the mirror are corrupted.

In this case, the recovery (repair) of the system (that is, to bring it to a clean state) simply consists in deleting the file (see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/E37384/gbbbc.html#...).

If there was an intact copy of the file available in the mirror, then one doesn't need to do anything, as ZFS is self healing: https://blogs.oracle.com/timc/demonstrating-zfs-self-healing.
> has apps that can’t be updated or deleted

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sell them rooted

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Root it. Unless it's something like Triada[^1], in which case, it's f'd.

Around ~2001, everyone at high school knew how to reinstall windows and find cracks for games. Maybe it's time to be at least that "tech savvy" again with smartphones.

[^1]: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/200072-trojantriada
I don't think the law can be cleanly separated from the reality of politics or the economics and practicalities of law enforcement.
However, it is still better than in the most of the other European cities and it would probably take less or equal time if you had to do the same trip by car.
> In Opus Magnum, I finished every puzzle on my first try.

I never was close to failing to finish a puzzle in OM. It was just a matter of how poor my solution performed whatever metric I chose to optimize first. The puzzles at the end of the campaign had me "give up" and settle for an ugly slow solution though.

> I feel no compulsion to return to OM after finishing the main campaign

If you haven't tried the Journal puzzles in OM, I would recommend you give them a shot. Many of them are in confined spaces rather than an infinite plane. I have yet to find a puzzle as hard as the ones in the TIS-NET directory, but they are a step up from the rest of the OM puzzles in terms of difficulty.
In short this is the nearest analogy to a prison cell. Add to this that people only move around in fixed routes- Office to home to grocery shopping etc. This is more less like self created open air prison.

I'm not surprised that the psychological effects of this are any different than staying in prison.

I've been in this living-in-small-home position, and half the depression was just happening looking at the birds flying away from trees to wherever they want from small room I was living in.

Get out, the world is big.
No private companies, as usual, destroyed the system. The government had to pick up the shambles left by the ravaging capitalists.
I watched the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on China official TV daily when it was broadcast until the end of May 1989. I was a teenager at that time. we talked about it at school. we talked about at home. we talked about it heavily at college. we just didn't talk much about it publicly. nobody got arrested by simply talking about it, which may not be like what you might be thinking.

when I was young, there was no GFW. I remembered that I visited lots of western medias about it to better understand it by two-sided stories. and I believe that I did better understand it.

I do use VPN as many of others when I am in China. It's a common thing.
Unfortunately, a majority of new Unisoc (Spreadtrum) chips have bootloaders that cannot be unlocked without a key, which is not provided by the SOC manufacturer, and is beyond the control of the ODM. Many low-end Android smartphones are powered by such chips, and the end result is that root is impossible on those devices, i.e. ZTE Blade A5 2019, Doogee N10, etc. (Unisoc SC9863A)

edit: I have obtained the source code of the U-boot bootloader used on those devices, however, the algorithm for the key verification is stored on the Trusted Execution Environment, which means it cannot be extracted (the TEE is a SecureEnclave-like device, with no possible direct access to it's memory or storage, besides de-capping it and reading the bits with an electron microscope) -- more info here: https://source.android.com/security/trusty
Thanks. This whole debate is more than strange for me, having a primary language (hungarian) which do not use gender pronouns at all when referring to a person/object.
You quoted a bug in 2015, then three in 2019. That's not on a yearly basis. Aren't your views colored by a bad iOS 13 launch? Because I do agree with you that iOS 13 seems bad (not my personal experience, from the general clamoring around us).
And nowhere are you generally a jerk for not calling someone "Colonel Mustard" in a grocery store instead of "Rick". If you are in trouble for that, it's in a narrow circumstance probably involving the chain of command or some generally inapplicable honor code. The grocery store certainly wouldn't ask an insubordinate PFC to leave for being careless in addressing a superior officer.

American disregard for formalities is literally a fish-out-of-water element in Saving Mr. Banks that the British "Mrs. Travers" bristles as the American Walt Disney (always just "Walt" to his employees) keeps calling her "Pamela" because that's how he talks to everyone. And the insistence on using last names formally seems archaic to the modern American viewer, besides. The screenwriters have P.L. Travers explain why she finds that form of address too familiar instead of assuming the audience understands implicitly.
I've switched from KeePassXC, stored on my Google Drive with an offline key file, to BitWarden last month. I previously was a customer of LastPass and switched to KeePassXC after being tired of LastPass' UI mess.

Anyways, BitWarden works absolutely flawlessly. There are a few things here and there that I'd wish it had, like the ability to create templates for custom categories, but apart from that, it does an amazing job. The websites autocomplete works really well, and I was pleased to see that I can unlock my vault on my phone with my fingerprint reader.

Migrating data from KeePassXC to BitWarden went smoothly. I took a moment to clean my database and reorganize a few stuff. The database takes a bit of time to load, but nothing that's a real bother.

The only thing I don't store in BitWarden is the 2FA TOTP I use (mainly Google Authenticator) as I feel it breaks the entire concept for 2FA. I've seen people on HN do it, but to me it just feels wrong.
Wouldn't a solution be to install Lineage OS [1] or similar custom ROM and have the advantages of a cheap phone and the privacy of a high-end one?

[1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
>In the United States, these users are mainly made up of economically disadvantaged individuals, who are disproportionately black and Hispanic.

I mean you could say the same thing about everything. This affects poor people, and those are "disproportionately black and Hispanic". It's like the writer is trying to trigger someone.
Zach-Like is primarily "A book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics."

Now that the kickstarter is finished it's available for free as PDF (link in parent post)

"In addition to PDFs of the book, the digital version contains all pre-SpaceChem Zachtronics games and a bunch of early builds and prototypes, including some of the unreleased games depicted in ZACH-LIKE."
Please tell me how giving criminals the right against self incrimination or the right to an attorney makes us safer? If we really cared about the children we should just lock them up without a trial, right?
Also worth listening to the Zachtronics Podcast

http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/

There hasn't been a new ep in a while but it's an interesting insight into behind the scenes of developing games (and whatever Universe Sandbox is)
That is a very lame straw man argument.

Are you sure you appreciate how many criminals got convicted because their phones have been tapped?

Does your stance against lawful surveillance also mean that law enforcement must never try to look into a suspect's seized phone or computer?
I think we can't assume that these people have access to a computer, which is necessary to be able to root it. In the article the author refers to "smartphone only users" who can barely afford a 17$ smartphone. Even if there was a service available in their region which offers rooting Android devices, a lot of people might not afford to do so.
You can see the government's version of the US Code at https://uscode.house.gov/. The Cornell version is more browsable.

The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is responsible for taking each individual Act of Congress and updating the USC appropriately.
Unless the phone has an un-unlockable bootloader -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178430 -- but still has spyware apps.
Another reason privacy is becoming a commodity.
Eventually only the rich will be able to live a "private life" while everyone else can't afford it.
Open Source and Power
SO has so much information already, I think it would be frustrating for people to have to walk away from it and start from scratch, and a huge loss to the community (or anyone who has ever googled "how to do X in lang Y"). However when your community is built on top of a VC-funded for-profit company this is always a risk you take. Maybe the only solution is starting over with a non-profit model.
Same people who sell it could root it.

In the UK, removing carrier lock is legal, and nearly all mobile corners stores can do it.
Zach also wrote Infiniminer ( http://www.zachtronics.com/infiniminer/ ) , which was the main inspiration for Minecraft.

"Infiniminer is a first-person competitive mining game that takes place in a procedurally generated block world allowing players to mine, build, and explore. Sound familiar? That’s because Infiniminer is the game that started the “block genre” that everyone knows and loves!"

Download at http://thesiteformerlyknownas.zachtronicsindustries.com/infi...
I write in English. Not a lot but I do. It’s not my native language though. My mother language is greek. I grew up in Greece, then in age of around 23 went to study piano in Germany for 5 years and instead of going back to Greece I landed in Croatia. Here I had to learn a complete new (Slavic?) language. It took me 3 years.
In the meantime I was consuming English content in the “usually suspicious” ways, internet, software, books, movies, tv etc.
The way I communicated with my wife was in german first(where we met), then a little greek and after we got back to Zagreb / Croatia, we crossfaded to croatian the more I learned it.
My point is: I can read and write a specific language (croatian or english better the other two less) the same goes for talking. But there’s absolute no distinction whatsoever in my head about what is the way I think in : croatian or greek?
I really don’t know. It’s like a fog or cloud.
What do you guys think ?
One of my latest questions got as first comment : "Please use English punctuation when writing in English."

Certainly polite but a bit jarring as a non-native speaker that feels fluent. Also a bit nonsensically-bureaucratic : I made the mistake because I didn't know any better, after the comment I still couldn't correct the mistake because I still didn't know any better, I wasn't even sure what rule of punctuation I had wronged.

I would've preferred a direct edit instead of a comment prompting though I guess that can be seen as worse by some people.
> Presto, now if the user makes an edit on page 223, TeX can quickly back up to the state of the world just before page 223, and continue on forward with the modified input. Page 223 gets recomposed and immediately redisplayed, essentially in real-time.

Isn't it possible, in the worst case, that editing the source line that maps to page 223 could trigger re-rendering arbitrarily far back before page 223? Like if you wrote all 223 pages without any chapters, parts, \newpage, etc. How does your program handle this?
I wasn't aware of this, for some reason I thought most of the low-ends are mediatek, and unlocking android 6 mediateks was not a hard feat.

EDIT
I don't think Doogee N10 falls into low end, at least not by specs. Compare it with Moto C, which is indeed low end.
I would love to know the PRO and CON of this alternative approach to React
Westworld wasn't just a fantasy, they were doing 'real' science fiction in that they were saying look, this is happening. Here's what computers can do right now.

There are plenty of examples of faked CGI back in the day. As has been pointed out, alongside some CGI TRON had a lot of hand drawn cell animation. The 'wire frame' of the skyscrapers in Escape From New York was done by building it with black painted models, edged with neon strips. In both cases it is possible to tell.
I actually love my MBP 2015's keyboard, and the trackpad is for me the ergonomically-superior choice. I don't have any wrist pain no matter how long I work on it, and the gestures are brilliant and useful.
The screen size is the only problem, but the built-in display is gorgeous and sharp, so it mostly makes up for it for me.
Yes, you can.
https://support.1password.com/create-share-vaults-teams/
What's the "reddit future" a reference to?
I have a Ulefone from China, with an American operating system. It was locked with Factory Reset Protection when I got it so I used Albanian hacking software to circumvent that, as it was easier than shipping it back.

I do not trust this phone a single bit, luckily I only use it as an emergency phone for outdoors using a separate Google account and a separate SIM-card.
Some shells do parse manages and use other tricks to auto-determine completes. Though they're not POSIX compliant shells so you'd have a to retrain a little there.

I'm interested to know more about that ELF / --_complete trick though. Do you have any more details? (when DDging the only result I can find on the topic is your comment)
This looks very impressive. 60 volumetric cloud layers, plus 20 data layers of various other atmospheric conditions. Sounds like they're utilizing RTX to fullest because I doubt this is possible for real-time without ray-tracing acceleration hardware?

But this part in the article sounds weird to me:

> the new engine brings higher-fidelity collision detection, which makes things like bumpy runways, braking on slick surfaces, varying degrees of friction, etc. much more nuanced. Under the hood, the development team has done significant work with integration, using something called adaptive time steps. The upshot is that the simulation now always updates at the same frequency as the visual frame rate.

This sounds more like the physics solver can run adaptively at whatever timestep currently needed, based on the simulation conditions for the frame, no?

Edit: Sounds like a framedrop results in a dropped physics solver iteration as well I suppose?
Low-margin yes, but is the motor vehicle industry really so well run? GM was the biggest auto company in the world for decades, then it basically went bankrupt. Toyota has been blindsided by both electric and self-driving technology. When will a Volkswagen car get 'sentry mode' which can identify the person who keys it?

The incumbents have enormous corporate inertia which has allowed the smaller Tesla to develop a better car. And by the time the big guys catch up, Tesla will have the scale needed to compete
In Germany we simply have driver education which is a bit more extensive complex than driving around a block once and making a single T-turn, then putting the car into park at the end. Sorry for sounding a bit snarky, but the consequences of leaving out a proper education, including driving etiquette, should be obvious.

It took me next to nothing to get a license in the US. In Germany, it took me months with a minimum set of mandatory lessons required by law - theoretical and practical.

I also don't think the argument about needing a driving license asap on the country side works because it is the same in Germany. Only major cities truly allow you the be car-free. Public transport elsewhere can at least be spotty if not outright disastrous and comparable to the US.
China has all the resources to lead in semiconductors. How can you stop this? Companies are being happily sold to Chinese investors all the time: Kuka, Putzmeister, Volvo, etc. Geely slowly takes over German carmakers: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-geely-electric/da...

Just wait couple decades...
Browser integration is great. There a a few sites in which it can't autocomplete, and I wish I had the ability to "program" it like you can do on KeePassXC. In KeePassXC, you can specify a chain of commands in a string, with hardcoded elements, like "{USERNAME}{TAB}1979-05-22{TAB}{PASSWORD}", and it's really good. The Android app work really well too.

Apart from that, it's been audited, and praised on HN multiple times.
Your governments have been reading your facebook messages, sms, logging telephone calls forever.
This attack on encryption is attempt by the governments to suggest that somehow facebook is actually your friend and has some weight in protecting you. Facebook is losing dominance on the access of your communications, and your government wants you back on facebook where its contractors monetise it most with the least amount of effort. The security contracts need to maintain high ROI, otherwise they will lobby for more of your tax money in the name of security.
Micro Front Ends Curry
>The question was answered in the comments

It's lucky that the person who answered had enough carma to write comments. SO's job seems to be to prevent users from answering questions.
Actually, the right to not incriminate yourself does make us safer, in the long run, because it is part of due process.

Other than that, you are making a classic straw man. I never argued against due process, nor do I think getting rid of due process would make children any safer.
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Google builds its own AV1 decoder for Android
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