skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with Marc that many of the things he'd like to do will take money. Solving homelessness in San Francisco, for instance, will cost a lot. But that doesn't mean all we need to do is spend some money. We've tried that - we're already up to a conservatively estimated $300 million a year. But plenty of people, hardly all on the right - including Gavin Newsom, who admits he was behind some of these failed attempts, for instance - opposed Benioff's initiative on the grounds that if we keep spending money they way we've been spending it, another 300 million will just make things worse off.

And while San Francisco may be a wealthy city, there's only so many times we can go to the well. As an example, every year there's a story in the Chron about how low and middle income San Franciscans sit at their computers with a list of affordable city run summer programs for kids, looking at the international clock, desperate to hit "submit" as if it's tickets to a Stones reunion tour - and the aftermath and scramble for where to put their kid this summer if they don't get them, which is about half the time. 300 mil would go a long way to helping with the middle and low income families that San Francisco is, frankly, bleeding away.

If I thought 300 mil more would solve homelessness, I'd happily spend it - hell, I'd triple it. I grew up here and I still love this city, but things are bad. The main difference between me and the people who bash SF here on HN is that to me, it's extremely painful, I don't get the gleeful thrill of pointing out how shitty SF's policies have made things, it hurts. I'd be willing to dig pretty deep into my limited financial assets if I could see it get better. But unfortunately, I really do think that 300 million more of the same will produce, well more of the same, which is things getting worse and worse.
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I think separatist movements will be the trend in an increasing number of regions. The reason many present nation-states exist is so that in the era of industrial war, outlying eras didn't get rolled by their more technologically advanced, more productive neighbors. Or alternatively, because they did get rolled by their neighbors and are now part of the conquering nation-state.

With the world being unipolar for the last 30 years and that sole superpower being seemingly incapable of winning wars for the last 20, many minority groups are thinking that's a bad bargain and they'd rather trade security for self-determination.
I don't think it's true that the relative risk didn't change. The Back-to-Sleep campaign cut down SIDS cases proper to something like a third, and the overall cases of unexpected infant death to almost half. (https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/13...)

The paper you cite seems consistent with that also: although the number of discrete risk factors was unchanged, the number of SIDS deaths per year fell to less than half after the BTS campaign, so probably not all the risk factors are equally risky...
It is a huge market, almost every single one of my colleagues uses the built in MacBook note taking app on a daily basis (as do I).

Personally I have never found the need for a markdown editor (never really liked markdown much for typing) but I can see clearly why lots of people like it.
I think you're missing the point. Kids repeating these memes is the NATURAL THING FOR KIDS TO DO. Humans are social creatures, and we mimic patterns around us. I've seen myself do it, and I'm over 40, so I have great confidence that younger people, particularly those in or around their teens, will do so even more.

I mean, look at the geek community. How many jokes are just references to common patterns to signal that we're insiders? I mean, Monty Python was entertaining, but not THAT entertaining.

Kids aren't knowingly repeating offensive stuff with the intention to get a "rise" out of people that care about it (at least, not 99.9% of them). Kids are repeating what they're exposed to. Something encountered once or twice gets amplified into "normal", and soon it IS the new normal. To turn your position: 99.9% of the time people don't think about what they're saying.

I've experienced this myself - I'm notably socially liberal when it comes to things like civil rights and acceptance of diverse sexual identities and practices, yet I found myself doing "did you just assume my gender" jokes without thinking about the underlying meaning just because I was passively exposed to it. I even found myself trying to rationalize how it wasn't offensive - using logic I hadn't ever considered in the first place - to avoid admitting that my behavior was part of the problem.

It turns out that thinking about the impact of our words and taking responsibility for the impact we create is hard, and requires effort. If "being an adult" is tricky for adults to pull off, why should we magically expect kids to be any good at it?
I lived in HK up until about 8th grade and I don't think there were similar readings there to 1984 in Chinese. I imagine in upper grades, 1984 itself and a few others may be English class reading, but certainly nothing similar in Chinese novels at least in school, or novels that were famous. Growing up, most famous Chinese novels were around the themes of ancient martial arts fictions (e.g. Jin Yong's series). You may find tangents on the topic of authoritarianism/dictatorships here and there, but not a whole book like 1984.
Squoosh is a much better demo of how to do in-browser compression (using optipng, mozjpeg, etc): https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/

There are far more knobs you can tune whereas the native browser conversion only has mimetype and quality (via toBlob: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasE...)
It stopped working earlier this year, due to OAuth API changes by Google, if I'm not mistaken. Or did you manage to get it working?
> One current, big, internal effort is to encrypt the code on the controller, so that people can't dump it, or at least not modify it.

Do you think you can do it? This is what the industry has abandoned more than a decade ago. DRM keys from efuses leak, credit card protected flash getting copied, "physically uncopyable" security elements have few POCs against them shown
This is a pressure tactic against Facebook. They are also carrying signs and chanting slogans. Of course the signs and slogans are in English; wouldn't do much good in Chinese. So it makes sense they would follow the custom of the country they are in and the company they are trying to pressure.
If that article offends you by discussing race, you can grab the CPI article that talks about white people being exploited, too: https://publicintegrity.org/business/warren-buffetts-mobile-...

My comment stands:

> Yeah, you've gotta hand it to them, they really commit to the long-term hollowing out of the economy and the wringing of money from poor stones: none of this short-term loot 'em and flip 'em mentality for BH!
what does this have to do with hacker news, technology, computers, or science? these are off-topic political news.

edit to paste the relevant guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
There were so many bits of this that I found weird but this one stood out:

> Linux 2000: There is only One True Way of installing software: using distro packages. If you do anything else you are bad and you should feel bad.

I was in my "dating phase" of testing Linux distros out as a kid in those days, and I never felt "bad" building something from source when not available from aptitude (or portage, or whatever)...?

I feel like being able to build one-off software has always been part of the ethos of Linux due to the whole "freedom" aspect and all =/
I used to work with Google's account abuse team. The company will never comment on suspensions, so you are right that you only get 1 side. Every consumer account suspension I ever looked into was due to severe abuse on the part of the account holder: folders full of child porn, account being used to spam or distribute viruses, etc. Every advertiser account that some jerk whined about being "wrongly suspended for no reason omg google is satan" was actually due to either click fraud or advertisers' sites distributing malware. Whenever you see one of these complaints you should reach for a massive, galaxy-scale grain of salt.

In this case however the account holder is being totally up front about their activities: they were using a proxy network to rip off YouTube. This is a bit like Trump committing treason on live TV and then later whining about impeachment on Twitter. What's in question is not the facts but the policy.
>So many apps are not DPI aware.

I tried to use Windows on my laptop to run some ETL software, not because I was trying to get off of macOS but because that particular tool only exists on Windows for right now, and running it on a 4K display or a HiDPI display makes it completely unusable. The fonts for the icons and everything else are so unbelievably tiny and using the scaling features just makes everything bigger. If Windows had a good way of dealing with apps that aren't HiDPI aware, it wouldn't be an issue but even the tools that they do have aren't consistent in how they fix the issue. Scaling the UI by 200% isn't a good fix.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_California#Polling

Roughly 60% to 70% say "No". So, it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
> Ignoring iOS...

iOS is also not a monopoly. When you contort the definition of "monopoly" to mean a "non-open ecosystem" then IMO you seek to abuse the anti-trust regulations on the books to promote an open-ecosystem ideology.

iOS is a closed ecosystem in a highly competitive marketplace. Customers -- when given the choice -- have chosen to opt-in to that closed ecosystem billions of times over the last decade.

There are absolutely pros and cons to a closed ecosystem. Which is why it's so great that we have so many options for computing devices on the market occupying various spaces on that closed-open spectrum to choose from!
Politics and the world climate have no impact on technology, computers, or science?
Meh, it's like saying New York could fight off the entire US army by using asymmetrical tactics. US invading Vietnam or Afghanistan isn't exactly the same: China is literally surrounding HK and has one of strongest army in the world. They could obliterate HK in a few hours.

The only way I see it ending well is if somehow the military/police side with HK and China decide that it isn't worth the trouble. Even if China goes full berserk on HK I don't see the EU or US doing more than economic sanctions, and we all know this is as bad for US as it is for them.
This is actually very helpful way to understand the utility of news organizations to maximize emotional appeals in order to garner attention by directly (or perhaps unintentionally) misinterpreting/misusing the intent of the speaker. As a general practice, the intent of the speaker isn't necessarily well known unless you have seen the evidence of its use in practice. Fascinating take on the misuse (or in this case likely purposeful misuse) of language.
"Apple 2019: fanboys will let you know in no uncertain terms that their system is the best and will take over all desktop computer usage. Said fanboys are condescending elitist hipster latte web site designers." - sounds much like the Sonos discussion forum.
Inkdrop is really nice. Have just used the demo. Can't afford it right now as a student,but really amazing product.
And china, hk and blizzard aren't?
New YouTube Videos of Anthony Scaramucci and Kyle Bass Talking Bitcoin
Have you replied to the right comment? I didn't say I use git without push and pull.
You scared me for a second until I checked my gmvault logs.

FYI, it still works.

It's true that I had to create my own google console project[1] to have my own tokens some months ago, but I think that's a very good move in any case.

[1] https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335#issuecomment-4...
Hypo-Egoic Nonentitlement as a Feature of Humility
In sane countries like Japan and Taiwan, the entire working population pays into social insurance, from the time they start working until they retire, no exceptions. Even foreigners pay into the system if they work there. The government negotiates as a single payer, which keeps the cost of medications and other supplies down. Doctors' offices and hospitals are private entities but they get to work with a single insurance provider instead of the craziness of our system (my mom was a medical provider so I've heard her horror stories of dealing with insurance companies). The system spends less per capita than we do and they have better medical outcomes as a society. I call that a win.
Marx was so popular because he's really great at identifying problems. He could pinpoint exactly what was wrong with far more insight and acuteness than you did. What he never ever could do was propose a better one. We have tried his plan of having the government temporarily seize the means of production several times, and it never ever ceases and becomes Socialism. He's like a philosopher version of the hipster who will mock your taste in music, but never tell you what makes music good.

I don't love our problems. But I hate every single other large country's problems more. I am open to change, but if your change wants to be some minor variation on the old, perpetually failing socialism-like ones that we've seen kill tens if not hundreds of millions of people, I'll pass.
You can have a read here: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201222

Basically apple does not release security updates after a major version unless it's a really extreme case.

I was in the same position and need to support several iOS apps and upgrade them to iOS13. I don't like buying new technology so I purchased a refurbished iPhone 8 with a new battery and screen.
Exactly.

And to add to that public telephone service couldn't exist without a heavy public infrastructure investment in telephone lines, and continued support of that infrastructure.

The costs of supporting an email service are probably not great enough that government intervention is necessary.
You can't assume it at face-value, because how could he receive the email if he's banned?
I blame Ubuntu's mid-2000s decision to offer "Ubuntu", "Lubuntu", "Kubuntu", and "Xubuntu", which seemed to convince people that the only way to change desktop environments is to reinstall Linux.

They're all there, just a few clicks away in whatever crap-ass GUI Ubuntu has stuck on top of apt these days. At the end of the day, all these distros are just Debian, Redhat, or (rarely) Arch under the hood, so if you get sick of lack of support for JimBobLinux, you can just install Debian and quit fucking around. I did that 15 years ago (good god) and haven't regretted it.
Every Model 3 has a forward collision avoidance that has a better reaction time than I do. I know because it's saved my life already when I narrowly avoided a suddenly stopped car in front of me. Tesla's Autopilot (not full self driving) has its issues, mainly with vague lane markings, but collision avoidance isn't one of them. I know plenty of drivers who fall victim and cause accidents because of the same issues that Autopilot has: poor lane markings, not seeing cars that are immobile on the side of the highway.
Same place Scotland separation is, except perhaps that now Scots probably think they were wrong to vote to stay.
welcome to the bubble. yours is different that most of everybody else in the west.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
Hmm, unemployment in the US is very low. What is happening is underemployment through gig economy jobs like Uber. You seem to be advocating for more of that.
I understand what you're saying, though it's still whataboutism that tries to compare apples to pears. The USA essentially still cares about your privacy and individual rights. China doesn't. In the USA, where there are infractions on privacy (and sadly there are some), it can be openly criticised, discussed and possibly changed democratically. In China that's simply not the case.
The financial implications depend a lot on your provider. AWS has usurious prices at 90 USD/TB, with Google Cloud and Azure being similarly expensive.

While traditional hosters often include traffic with their offerings or charge a much lower amount. For example Hetzner (Big traditional German hoster) costs 1 EUR/TB and traffic is inclusive with most bigger/dedicated offers.
Ironically, strong rent control policies help the rich exactly because of this dynamic. The city is thriving while its most valuable real estate is empty.
You’ve been here since 2007, you know HN better than this.

Please don’t even start.

E: Yeah, I get that I’m going to be downvoted as this political cause is not as popular as HK, but this is regular HN content.
> There are ~1.25 million car deaths per year (20-50 million injured or disabled), a lot of room for "progress" to save countless lives.

The vast majority of those occur in areas that will not see autonomous vehicles for a very long time, and have a lot of environmental challenges that make it much harder for an autonomous vehicle to outperform a human.
One argument for keeping politics out is this: politics are way more important than most of what we post here. If they allow it, it would dominate the site.
blizzard is a video games company. china is often here because they use computer technology for mass surveilance.

iirc the catalan separatist made some interesting use of technology when they protested in 2017 so that is relevant.

this article is about how they are now sentenced. i.e. TV news
> that sole superpower being seemingly incapable of winning wars for the last 20

Is it not obvious, at this point, that "winning" the wars are not the goal? That the wars are used as pretense for endless military presence to serve geopolitical goals?
I mean this sincerely: in the sense of not hurting people, wouldn’t Facebook, Twitter, etc., obviously also be on a list like this? It seems beyond dispute at this point that these services have failed entirely, except in a very narrow economic sense that only matters to a very tiny subset of the population and only when considered independently of harm caused.
Sure. I think we mostly see eye to eye on this FWIW.

I'm glad you found your way through what sounds like a tough situation.
In terms of making it a fund, I don't see how it can done effectively. But if you're an individual investor that knows what you're doing (ie have experience with options, etc), it's fairly straightforward to just allocate 5% of your portfolio to liquid long-dated put options.
> and I could not instruct it to stop.

Can you please expand on that?

In my experience with the most advanced available Tesla driving features over the past two years, touching the brake pedal immediately disengages all of that software, and putting more than a pound or two of turning force on the steering wheel immediately disengages autopilot (steering control), but leaves adaptive cruise control on.

You can also use the same stalk you used to engage autopilot to disengage it.

'could not instruct it to stop' is a very bold statement.
Not all of us. The DOS version was great :-)
I don't see a problem with this if there is demand. If anything, this is schools catching up with reality. Kids share their gaming experience with one another. It is a social thing, and they've been using Twitch and Youtube to create alternative media choices for some time. Kids even stage up Roblox and Minecraft videos to tell stories and present shows.

Still, I do think it's sad that the bro culture has completely erased every other kind of competitive video games. Most of our top competitive games (particularly those made in the US and Europe) replicate some of the worst aspects of human society. Lethal conflict, industrialized warfare, conflict over scarcity, imperialism simulators, and a view of science as a tech tree with resource unlockables. It's a fairly toxic view of the world and it taints a lot of kid's viewpoint of the world.
IMO, the right of secession should be covered by the "right to self-determination" enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the same manner that the right to abortion is held to be implied by the Fourth Amendment in the United States.

Any population that is unhappy with the government of the territory in which they reside should be able to renounce citizenship toward that government in favor of one more congenial to them without having to move to another country.

However, every government should be required to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international baselines for good governance.

Yes, this would cause chaos. But that's OK. The world needs more chaos.
This is not like forcing motorcycle rivers to wear helmets. This is like banning cigarette ads on public spaces.

Cheap sugary food, like cigarettes, get most of their buyers from addicts getting dopamine hits from the ads. This is specially bad because of the unhealthiness of this food, and was definitely the right choice.
Seperatist movements of oppressed minorities have always been a thing and have little to do with security.
I live in Silicon Valley, and I've yet to see any major tech company representatives show up at our local school board meetings. Occasionally they kick in a small grant for a specific program. But their influence on the really important stuff like budgets, curriculum, and hiring is nearly zero.
There is still a huge amount of amazing content in flash, tons of games and movies on sites like newgrounds.

The older ones are fully self contained games, some of which are amazing, in a single swf file that works in all major operating systems (The newer ones started side loading data from servers though.)

I hope there will always remain ways to play those.
You can't get rid of "inequity" if inequity reflects different desires and choices by human beings.

Beauty, strength, intelligence, youth and health are wanted by most men and women. But they are not distributed or desired equally. That unequal distribution of desires and characteristics among people will lead to some kinds of inequality.
That scared sh*t lot of me.

I am using android only because i get freedom to do anything i want. If this type of thing will happen to me, my entire internet life will be ruined.
EU Coordinated Risk Assessment of the Cybersecurity of 5G Networks
Slovakia was allowed to leave, the Czechs and the federal government approved it. There was no recognition of the right of self-determination. That's only done with blood.
Thanks. Looks like they fixed this quite a while ago and now either you can verify an account after which it will accept your From header (and the web and app UIs let you select that) or, if you haven’t verified the address then if you send an email through their SMTP servers it will rewrite the From as your gmail address and sets a new X-Google-Original-From header to the address you put in the email originally.
> Not under the current laws, no.

Which laws forbid the construction of a US social credit score?
The USPS wanted to provide a registered email to people back in the 90s, and was prevented by Congress.

The USPS or some similar highly-regulated corporation could easily provide basic email, banking, etc.

That, or we should start regulating email providers since it's no longer rocket science.
I think it is a matter of degree. There is a certain degree of shadiness that is acceptable (most of the world) and certain that should not be acceptable (China, saudi Arabia, etc). There is no moral equivalence between the US and China.
Except the Flash development tools still exist https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html