skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have non-native fullscreen windows it's Apple's fault. They don't like this window style so they don't support restoring it. Could also be that you have "System Prefs > General > Close windows when quitting an app" turned on, or that you have iTerm2's "Prefs>General>Startup>Window restoration policy" set to something other than "Use system window restoration policy"
I have anecdotes to your anecdotes. Seen or used lots of Android devices that "wear down" under day-to-day use. The battery goes first, but flash degradation seems to be a thing too. And of course software bloat.

The report looks interesting, and switching to service model seems like a plausible explanation.
Does YC have any links to Chinese businesses they might want to disclose?
GDPR compliance is obligatory as long as either data controller, processor, or subject operates, resides or is temporarily passing through Europe. The only way to avoid GDPR is if say you were a US company handling Chinese data, or vice versa.
As a practical matter, no. Legal told me I have to implement it for all users because it covers EU citizens who might be accessing our site from or living in non EU countries.
Thanks! I knew there was a name for it but.couldn't remember.
I do not remember ever seeing price per 500g
No, just lots of very unhappy people, who blame everyone else for their lot.

Ultimately, each person is in their own world, alone.

And here we are.
Always interesting when a statement is unpopular, but no counterarguments are presented.

A bit more clarification from the researchgate link above, talking about the movement toward presumption of innocence (POI) in China (emphasis added to the statements that Western societies came up with this behavior and that at least one non-Western society doesn't work that way):

"As POI is a legal principle originating in the West, its acceptance in the criminal justice context of China is a gradual and longstanding process. The CPL’s first revision, in 1996, adopts the clause ‘no person shall be found guilty without being judged as such by a People’s Court according to law’, but the protection guaranteed to criminal defendants under Article 12 of the CPL (2012) is different from the classic concept, which, according to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), requires POI. Article 12 focuses on who has the power to issue a guilty verdict rather than on the presumption of the accused’s guilt or innocence during the investigation and trial."
You know who else doesn't allow you to delete your account / post history? HACKER NEWS!
"...hardcore schizophrenia..."

As opposed to the softcore kind, natch.
If exif information is incorrect, that's just programmer error at the firmware/library level.
It's one month, not 30 days (important distinction), and can more-or-less arbitrarily be extended to 3 months. Also, it doesn't require that any specific action be taken, just that the subject be informed within that time period.

Most notably, nothing within the GDPR requires removal of an account, only (in some cases) removal of Personal Data.
I've just read some book proposing to make the blades out of natural fiber materials such as bamboo. There seems to be quite a lot of research going on.

Edit: The article does indeed appear to talk about composite materials.

> According to research, there will be, at current growth rates, 225,000 tonnes of rotor blade composite material produced annually worldwide
Yep, those are fair points. For documentation (and for other things) it would be better to be able to search on that directly by e.g. looking for projects that have open issues around documentation. Will try and add these soon, I've just been focused on the interviews recently.
One would hope, but it still seems like common courtesy to give him a heads up.
If you search the U.S. Patent system, you can find a lot of crazy things, because the patent office never actually verifies them. Take everything you read in patents like this with a grain of salt. One example I've seen is a mind control patent circulated in the conspiracy community.

> by displaying special images using Visual Basic, the CRT will emit electromagnetic waves at specific frequencies corresponding to the images.

This is real, many side-channel attacks use these techniques, you can even broadcast amplitude-modulated radio.

> And if we emit EM waves of a certain frequencies, mind control is achieved. It even has some code!

Probably bullshit. Even if it's possible for EM waves to alter the mind, a CRT doesn't work well. But you can say that it's easier to mind control someone using the web page displayed on the CRT, which is technically electromagnetic waves...
Looks like yes, but it's not a particularly high priority, based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21205948
Even outside of machine vision this issue has caused me all sorts of headaches. Especially when switching between tools that honor or ignore the tag.

"But the tricky part is that your camera doesn’t actually rotate the image data inside the file that it saves to disk."

Cameraphones are so powerful these days. I don't understand why the app can't simply include a behavior setting to always flip the original pixels.
Freedom of speech is a core moral principle in the United States: it is literally the first right enshrined in our constitution and for good reason.

I believe much of the recent moral outrage stems from China (and Chinese companies on their behalf) using the financial threat of lost profits to force American businesses to self-censor in ways that do not uphold this value.

Allowing totalitarian censorship of unpleasant truths like Tiananmen Square and organ harvesting of political prisoners gives governments the ability to continue committing similar atrocities in the future. If you look at American political discourse that is critical of the government, a significant portion of it is related to similar government suppression of information that prevents the public holding government officials responsible for the atrocities they commit: see Abu Ghraib, Wikileaks Collateral Murder, Bay of Pigs, Snowden revelations, current Trump whistleblower crackdown, etc.

I would strongly encourage you to read Orwell's 1984 if you can access it: it is somewhat superlative and dated, but artfully illustrates the danger to personal freedoms that can result from totalitarian government control of discourse.
Because the technology was classified at the time.

In 2008, a CIA analyst named "Ron Pandolfi" signed off on the declassification of the technology in a documented that he signed, here : https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/gravwaves.pdf

Pandolfi testified before the senate in 1998 in regards to the Chinese stealing U.S. technology:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campf...

The US patent office rejected the Navy's patents initially, then signed off on them after the Navy protested that China was working on something similar. Details here : https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...
They have cameras everywhere in banks. To make an in person deposit, you're logged by default when you show id and get caught on bank cams... Even so, banks could issue apps of their own, backed by the FDIC. That would be the right way in my opinion.
Not a good example. Kubuntu uses the same package repository as Ubuntu just installing different desktop packages. Also Ubuntu is used much more than Debian so its packages get more in-the-field testing. Xubuntu is my standard default or Ubuntu with LXDE for mobile tablet-sized laptop.
Just send an email to the moderator. It has been discussed many times here before.
> It was obviously wrong to be the creepy sexist.

It's not obvious as we haven't heard his side of the story.
>a lot of people also think there is a "true" theory that will perfectly explain how the universe evolves

Doesn't Godel's incompleteness theorems make this doubtful? Logic was not my area of focus but I thought the basic idea was that there is always going to be some un-answerable question(s) or un-provable answers in any consistent theory[1]? I'm pretty sure there is not significant work using non-axiomatic math, I'm honestly not even sure what that looks like. I'd actually be quite interested to find out about some theoretical physics work that did not fall under the auspices of the incompleteness theorem.

[1] There are certainly caveats to "theory" but I believe all those caveats are satisfied by any version of String Theory be actively researched.
I'm not saying dictionary.com is the be-all and end-all of dictionaries, but their definition of error uses the word mistake several times. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/error

Likewise their definition of mistake uses error a couple of times. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mistake

I get it though, there is a subtle difference. I'm just saying both terms mischaracterize (intentionally) what I think was likely a very intentional, knowing and calculated action by Twitter. I'm asserting without proof that there was no inattention as in your first example, and no miscalculation as in your second example.

The baseball example is problematic because "error" has a game-specific meaning just like "run" and "base," and whether you commit a mistake or an error, they will both be recorded as errors.
So you intentionally disable a crucial component of the browser which has been around for 20+ years and you are surprised the website does not work without it
I am not insinuating that human rights are a reason the conflict it's happening. I just said I think it's nice that these sanctions hurt china at a time they are violating human rights. That's a completely different statement. Please read.
>Companies are made of people.

That is "technically correct" but meaningless in practice. It's like saying that people are just a collection of molecules. While technically not wrong, humans are of course more than the sum of its parts. The collection of molecules, arranged in a certain way, exhibits emergent behaviour; it will seek food or have intelligent thoughts, which molecules individually can't be said to do.

Likewise, companies as institutions are more than the sum of their people, and will display behaviour that cannot be fully explained by looking at their people individually, and this has very much real consequences. Like a nation is more than a collection of people, and this fact has consequences on the real world.
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If possible I would like to steal that?:

"You don't look for a work you're already passionate about. You grow passion by doing meaningful work that is deeply rewarding."

This is a great advice for many management ppl.
Well I waited all day for someone to tell me how awful it is and... I’m still waiting. So as much as I hate it, the BUB (big ugly button) does indeed live on!
Though really, the goal is not always virality. For the content creators who’s goal is that, then selling them audiences probably works. My problem with that is that it incentivizes triviality and lowest common denominator creation in the long term.
The Chinese government thinks it could lose the power struggle over Hong Kong, while it was confident about the Chinese invasion and assimilation of Tibet. Hong Kong is a real threat to the Chinese regime.
Thanks, I'll look it up for comparison. What was it that you learned from them if you don't mind me asking?
This is needlessly aggressive and a bit ridiculous - unless you've worked on Google Docs specifically (and I'll assume you haven't, since most people would disclose in this case if they had), you have no way of knowing the unique challenges for both engineering and scale they'd have dealt with.

I'd bet good money it's nowhere near as simple as "serving a text file".
Not the person you were asking, but I did a double take on your question because I had thought growing up in the DRC that "mazut" was the French word for diesel. Turns out mazut is a separate thing. Also, it was definitely used in the local heavy trucks up to the last time I was there in 2011 - ones like this: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5292/5509628757_f8219820b9_z....
Right, casually downvote literal behaviors of our government as if they’re being presented out of context. Cherry pick to support ones argument by omission.

For a forum of “disrupters” it likes to remain politically milquetoast.

I guess when you’re looking to simply disrupt how much money others have in their account, disrupting the political status quo that enables the gambling risks the game.

So what about the things I brought up. Got disruption to do.

Guess I’ll have to be the “politically unreasonable man” alone.

Nothing exposes weakness like being a single minded doofus. Like Adam Smith warned, extreme division of labor will make for a mighty brain dead and easily manipulated public. Stick to your lane.
You can also do a hardware mod by swapping some data pins on the connector and soldering a special cable just for you.
There's solid evidence he was fired.
These docs are outdated and incorrect, sadly. For example, nearly everything under the UWP heading can be done via traditional Windows apps. Current leadership seems to get it, "write an app, use any APIs you need" (rough paraphrasing). Just hasn't fully set internally and externally so these warts exists.
Learn more about iCloud in China mainland
Moon base we took from Nazis.
Nice. One small suggestion is a preview of some sort for the color palette. I find it hard to tell if it's a good palette from a stack of rectangles.
Not that China is part of America. More like the two are squabbling lovers locked in an embrace so tight that it's literally "'til death do us part."
> Childish prose

English is not his first language.

> childish attitude

He is one of several contributors who share that point of view. While I don't agree with it, it's something that had to be discussed sooner or later.

> inadvertently illustrated just how dysfunctional GNU actually is

Has GNU been dysfunctional? To me it appears it has been more successful than many other projects with similar resources. And about Andy Wingo, the author, looking at his commits just on guile [1], he has been much more functional than most developers are.

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/
> What secret space programs?

Personally, I believe that the "UFO" seen by the Navy pilot Commander David Fravor was a Navy craft. I don't think it was extraterrestrial in origin.

Hence, "secret space programs."
You might not want rotation invariance in your algorithm. Our own perceptual system is not rotation-invariant, most obviously for faces in this illusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect
A critical piece of wisdom I find myself repeating to younger students, handed down from an advisor: "always look at the pixels". (Sometimes replacing pixels with voxels/lidar points/meshes, etc.)
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While we could have another attitude towards it, most Swedes are well aware of the contributions to the German war effort through industry and trade.
Undefined behavior can cause perfectly functioning code in one compiler version to be completely elided in a different version, as we've seen numerous times in the past. Review the article and comments here[1] for a good example of exactly this and discussion about the how and why, but the TL;DR is that a specific optimization in a specific compiler release determined that the adding of two variables, one of which a pointer, would result in an overflow which is undefined for pointers, and thus elided the check to see if the result was less than should be possible (overflowed), and the entire error handling case it resulted in. This caused the value to be used while invalid (as the error check and handling was elided), causing a segfault.

Perhaps the features used in this project protect against that, but my point is that undefined behavior and the way compilers deal with it is variable and problematic.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163111
Yet another symptom of C++'s terrible user library ergonomics. Official-batteries-included has benefits, but I would bet the majority of request for networking in std:: is really "I want to reliably link to a networking library, and the only reliably linkable library is the STL".
This actually is generally true for any computer programming debugging. You need to look at the data as it appears to your program, to catch bugs in your preprocessing pipelines.
European in terms of nationality is irrelevant, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean.

Most articles I've read on it state the user must be in Europe and taking a product/service delivered to Europe. A US tourist buying something in a store when they arrive in Europe has GDPR protection, a French tourist visiting the US (or even at home in France but buying something online to be delivered to a friend in the US) is not.

https://www.dyspatch.io/blog/gdpr-location-or-citizenship/
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> As much as I want to think change will happen, it's much more likely this will be a few weeks of PR and ultimately nothing will change.

I would agree with you if this wasn't all tied to ongoing protests in Hong Kong and a continued trade war with China that both don't appear like they're going to be resolved any time soon. Blizzard has inadvertently added an anchor to the situation without a clear way of removing it.
> First, Python uses loose typing, which was great for a small team rapidly developing new ideas and putting them into production—but less great for an enterprise-scale application that some customers were paying millions of dollars for.

Code review is supposed to catch people trying to mix return types, mess with or overload parameters in unexpected ways.

Static typing removes this need but adds a million more.

If your people aren't catching this stuff in review, they're probably not catching other stuff, that is, static typing isn't going to save you like you think it is.
The point is that Docs is a tool for collaboration on writing, sheets for collaboration on spreadsheets, etc. Unless you get a contract with Google to use it as such, these services aren't meant for hotlinking or adding dynamic content to your website or article.
Yea historically the SAM file on windows has always been a weak spot because of its NTLM hashing scheme. By breaking passwords larger than 7 letters into multiple sub-password hashes it virtually guaranteed rainbow tables would destroy its security.
Luckily, my local Publix that I shop at does it quite well.
Have you tried SiFive?
Learned this from one of the Blizzard threads [1]. I'm surprised this move by Apple went unnoticed on HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207949
Ironically, my example of what gets censored in the West, including a Wikipedia link, got, well, censored on HN (as in not visible for the majority of readers). Although yes, it doesn't come from the government, it's our society that is becoming less and less tolerant to points of view outside the accepted ideology.
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Same object, different interfaces.
As an anecdata point, I recently asked a person who lives in Shenzhen the same question -- what is the broad public sentiment about the HK protests in the PRC, and how much information do ordinary people in general even have?

I was told that people who live near HK can get HK TV and radio, which carries substantially the same news information about the protests as in western media, and this group has a variety of opinions.

Outside that area immediately adjacent to HK, I was told around 80% of people are unaware that protests are happening in HK at all, and most of the other 20% believe the protests are a western plot to undermine Chinese sovereignty.

I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this information, of course. It's one data point from one person.
> I'm against cryptographic backdoors, but claiming they're not technically possible is a losing position.

I never seen anyone serious ever claim that cryptographic backdoors are impossible.

> Even the halting problem is easily solved in practice.

Like, how exactly?
It's a bit more difficult than that, I think.

If you look at free speech in Europe for example, in eg Germany there are laws against hate speech or defamation of individual people (quite differentiated, an opinion is ok and true facts are ok, but invented facts are not). One of the targets is Nazi propaganda, and in general the support is good.

Still, the goal is similar, social stability, peace and protection of minorities. People do not get disappeared, but they do get sued.
It depends on how you interpret it, I interpreted it as asking if there are provable statements that can't be "computed" directly.
Patenting potentially workable ideas using vague nonsense solutions in hopes on profiting if/when someone else makes them workable is pretty BS.
> Would you still feel safe if a burglar broke into your house and left a note saying they didn't take anything?

That doesn't make it okay, but it certainly should result in a much lesser sentence than if the perpetrator had damaged or stolen property.
It's the simplest way to do it and has so few downsides that it's not going to change until someone invents a googly eye camera that rotates with the phone.
So as long as there is one physicist on the right side of the fence the “field” is somehow in the know...? Would you be willing to extend that kind of reasoning to the “pop scientists”?

I often wish Feynman (or anyone of his kind really) was still here. Science nowadays seems more and more like one big appeal to authority...
thanks, that's what I was looking for. Do you find the 306Gs work reliably and the cables don't get messed up in routine research work?
While I agree about Google Maps, I'm not so sure about Gmail.

Take your example:

- Forward is in the lowest toolbar in the hierarchy, since it applies to a single e-mail.

- Archive is in the top toolbar in the hierarchy, since it applies to a whole conversation.

Does this mean there are no improvements possible? Of course not, but I think the UI choices in Gmail are mostly sensible.
> Let's say I paid $200 for 1 ETH before the fork, and after the fork I own 1 New ETH worth $195 and one 1 Classic ETH worth $5.

> Do I now owe tax on $195 even though the total value of New ETH + Classic ETH equals my acquisition cost?

Let's say for simplicity sake that all this happened within the same calendar year. Here's where you're at.

You bought 1 ETC for $200 and now it's worth $5. That's a $195 unrealized capital loss.

Let's say you acquired your ETH from the fork and it was trading at $5 when you got it. You now have 1 ETH that has a cost basis of $5. This represents a $5 realized capital gain, and a $190 unrealized capital gain.

If you disposed of everything within the same year, it would be a complete wash, as your $195 capital loss would offset your $(190 + 5) capital gain.

If you carried your positions into the next tax year, you'd have to pay taxes on the $5 your ETH was worth when the fork happened at the end of year 1. Then in year 2, you have a $195 unrealized capital loss and a $190 unrealized capital gain. This would yield a $5 net capital loss, which you could use to offset other capital gains or carry forward into future years, deductible $3000 per year for the rest of your life.

In reality what happened though is that both ETH went up and ETC went up because a fork of a currency is just a copy-paste, as they have no intrinsic value and their performance afterwards is frequently totally uncorrelated other than in the way the whole crypto "market" is correlated to BTC.
What if his buddy John's password is "HiJack!"? Is it logical to treat that the same way as if he yelled it in an airport?