skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC Windows 98 was released 2 months after the iMac, so Apple has received a lot of credit for hardware that was probably mostly intended for Windows users. As the article mentions, it originally was supposed to be Windows 97. (USB was finicky under 98, but I never had issues with XP.)

The iMac was very much a boon for Apple though, as many older Mac users upgraded and had to buy new printers, zip drives and etc. This encouraged retailers to expand their Mac sections, which had shrunk to practically nothing, and the platform started to look viable again.
I am "qualified in politics"...I can tell you that people who are "qualified" think no less bizarre things than people who are not (they are just of a different type).

Stating that there is some kind of qualification suggests, ironically, that you don't understand what politics is. The point is that there is tension, uncertainty (this is a bit like modern views on capitalism...can we have the money but no failure, pls...lul).
We considered using this client a year or so ago, due to Instagram/Facebook's reluctance to provide an API for Instagram Direct Messages, but eventually decided against it given some horror stories about ban sticks and them possibly shutting off access to the API some day.

Guess that day is here.

Seriously though, we've been waiting years for an Instagram DM API. Anyone know why they haven't yet released one?
Ah, well after I deploy this next round of changes verified accounts bypass the spam filter (and verifying a comment marks it as not-spam).

I'll experiment with this. I bet it'll have to be configurable in the future.
How about I make this offer to companies I'll show up do my job to the best of my ability and get a paycheck, I'll also agree to not talk about politics religion or other contentious issues that lead to bad feelings.

In return you agree to judge me on how well I do my job and make you money and we all agree that whatever shit I do on my own time is my problem not yours. How's that sound?
Me not helping someone speak is not the same as silencing them.
This main thread this is related to is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22211363.

Please don't editorialize titles like that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You can still install it using the Composr package manager: https://packagist.org/packages/mgp25/instagram-php
This may just select for obedient employees. Which, may very well be what employers need. But, it could potentially eliminate diversity of opinion. (Presumably that offers some advantage...)
You want to work for companies that use this service?
Aliens might consider water to be a special substance.
100% correct - the company linked assumes everyone behaves the same all the time in every scenario - which is naive at best.

Some forums swearing and sarcasm is OK, it’s not a professional work environment and there’s no obligation to not hurt someone’s wittle fweelings by sugar coating the big fat dose of reality that many people need to hear.
Do you set up your accounts in a way that makes it easy for others on those forums to associate you with your employer?
The issue is that there is no way their algorithm understands context. Saying "Fuck nazis" will probably flag you for swearing and being a nazi. An actual person looking your tweets/posts can understand the context.
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857236
That’s how you know you’re reaching the light at the end of the tunnel, when the borrow checker errors start showing up
Having more freedom to adjust regulations and needing new business/investments while still being part of Europe post-Brexit Britain can possibly find its future as the Chinese base and tunnel into Europe .
Problem is, things like this will never be used. Everybody wants to have their own application chrome, so these sort of features end up buried and forgotten.
>The class conflict [...] is really the driver of much of social progress.

How so?
Someday we might not have a choice.
I don't think this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit
Was distributed outside the store before adding to it.
But does it really matter so long as they don't bring it into the workplace. Like does it matter if the person you sit next to spends their free time beating squirrels as long as they don't spend hours of time talking about it at work and making you look at their pictures?

On the flip side would you want to have on your team someone who sucks at their job and who you always have to cover for but they spend all their free time helping teach one eyed orphans how to do multivariate calculus?

Does it matter as long as they keep their personal life at home and their professional life at work?
'Windowlogy' exhibition in London explores windows as cultural objects
Why is this article written like ad network spam?
That doesn't sound right :( Did you use an "anonymous" email through Apple or your real email address?
Hey HN - we built Clips.live since we wanted to share clips of NBA plays as soon as they happen. Before this, you had to make these clips yourself or wait until someone manually made them in order to share them. Eventually, we want to record and index every play of every live sports game.
Coronavirus: Cement mixers become celebrities in China lockdown
Uber suspends 240 accounts in Mexico to prevent coronavirus spreading
>If the group of people that idolize Steven Crowder and other PC anti-police can't handle the rhetoric they dish out

You realize you're basically just stereotyping half the country, right? These are people with families and friends and communities and jobs. "White trash" is an exceedingly small minority of people who voted for Trump - if they voted at all.

People didn't elect Trump because they're secret closet nazis...but this style of black and white thinking, increasingly common online, was a major contributor.
> which will lead to the content being put back up if no lawsuit is filed.

Maybe, if you’re lucky. More often it will be ignored.
Well, a web browser is a pretty big thing to be built on top of.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696246
A look back at the triumphs and stumbles of the original Kindle
>I'm unconvinced that a college education is actually even that useful.

How is this a question? How many high school grads have you interviewed and thought you could spin them up to the usefulness of a graduate from nothing in a reasonable amount of time/effort?

Education is expensive, sure. We can talk about that... but useful? It seems obviously useful to me.
200, including partial content, and still with adds.
Hahaha, has Xi Jingping felt yours? The guy is a billionaire who literally doesn't live in the same world as anyone he rules over.

Thank god that people vote for people like Cameron and Obama. Both are examples of politics working. Competent, middle-of-road types, not ideological, willing to compromise, intelligent...the aim of politics is to further the aims of the people (both were democratically elected) and do so with competent leadership. They are both examples of processes built up over centuries working (even Trump is, in terms of personal values he is disgusting...but this is a democratic choice of the people, and seeing the checks and balances of the American system jumping into action is very reassuring).

Politics isn't a suffering competition where we all get really angry about the bad things that happened to us, and compete to see who has suffered the most grief. A politics built on jealousy, pain, and suffering is no politics at all (for references, Chinese history is the perfect example of this...Mao achieved something that Hitler never could, he convinced ordinary people to murder their neighbours in cold blood, how? Jealousy, pain, and suffering...works every time).
>Meritocracy is a dangerous ideal for humanity to continue to hold so dearly. IQ is partially genetic, and with a low ceiling

How can you possibly allocate resources efficiently if you don't consider whether those you are allocating to are competent? What do you propose? Derisk with massive government bureaucracy?
You're right, it doesn't matter. What matters is that stuff that can be viewed as controversial or actively discriminates against someone/group of people can be found under their name.

Look that story a few years ago where a woman tweeted something like "I'm going to Africa something something aids. jk I'm white." People got pissed and attacked her company.

I don't care she said that. I care that she was stupid enough to say that under her own name.
What a shit service to sell.

AI ratting.
US airlines follow a limit on the size of Lithium ion batteries of 100Wh.

https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/more_info/?hazmat=7
Lock Up and Go in Safe Security Complex in Kenilworth
Speaking as someone who has spent multiple decades in niche Internet communities, I can vouch that in many cases, it's taken out of context when talked about or observed by a third party. Sometimes (often?) it's not as much of an attack against another person as it appears, and sometimes it's just outright satirical. It's your prerogative to judge how you see fit, but by doing so you legitimize an orwellian crackdown on free expression (and please spare me the tired argument that that's okay as long as it's not state-sponsored).

From my point of view, a person's conduct on the Internet when pseudonymous does not necessarily reflect on a person's ability to conduct themselves professionally at the workplace or in front of customers.

Is there an epidemic of people spouting off at the workplace? I must have missed the memo.
Huh, why are you downvoted? This is absolutely correct.

There's effectively no atmosphere up there for optical purposes.
311 years ago, Alexander Selkirk was rescued on a desert island
Got a citation on that? Counternotices being ignored are rare from what I've heard.
I deal with Docker daily and don’t run as root and quite frequently am not dealing with a local
Docker instance. Maybe you should RTFM, as they say?
Today is the 43rd birth anniversary of Shakira
You're going to blame Obama/Biden for things they didn't do that never made it out of a bipartisan committee? And this was the same year they passed Obamacare.
Didn’t Tim Berners-Lee originally envision a way to pay for individual World Wide Web content via micro-payments? This would have been perfect for that. While most content today is monetized via advertisements (which ultimately directs which content gets published to maximize views), I’m guessing this was originally meant to enable the sort of transactional content delivery originally envisioned at the onset the web.

I know there have been multiple experiments with content micropayments (I remember google had a product that was meant to allow you to charge up a wallet and use it to avoid displaying ads on participating news publications), and I vaguely remember reading something about Brave doing something similar. Really curious if this would go anywhere in this context.
There have been a bunch of threads about this in the past year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250990

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403271

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258485
If you look in my recent comment history, you'll see one where I'm advocating for a debate platform that weights submission/comment voting by user similarity. The buried lede in that concept is that you could use that same platform to collect (and sell) data about how people get along with other people, or about how similar they are to known desirable (and undesirable) users.

So I've been thinking about this for a while, and I've come to the conclusion that anything along those lines will immediately be used to target marginalized people and will generally be ignored for certain privileged groups. You yourself are giving an example.

We should definitely not be doing anything of the sort.
We linked out to the logs, I kinda wanted to figure something else out for slack to embed them but it ended up not working out. But you’re right it’s kinda appealing
I would say this is too high level for the HTTP protocol. It sounds like an application-level check. If we had application-level error codes bubble up to the HTTP layer like this, we would have trouble keeping up with them all.
I wouldn’t care so much, actually. After all, I am not even using my native language to write programs in, but English.

It doesn’t matter as long as I can do my work.
Thanks. I wonder if this would be any different if the VM executed MoonScript code directly, rather than first requiring translation to Lua.

I’ve been thinking about the syntax of an embeddable language myself, and have ruled out significant indentation because of the difficulty of writing such code inline inside C files. If that’s not a common use case, maybe I should reconsider...
Okay so everyone go here: https://fama.io/product/

It has examples of what Fama "finds". Here are some from the website (some might be offensive):

1. “white people can't say the n word, but at least we can say we know our dads and that police don't target us”

2. “Kyle and Pete are really trying to convince me that One Direction is cool. They’re one more gay comment away from being kicked out of my apartment.”

3. “Work is the last place I want to be right now”

4. “Black men like thick chains because it reminds them of the good ‘ol days”

5. “You can’t buy a girl a drink and not have sex with her after, I don’t care what you have to do, get what you paid for.”

6. “Unpopular opinion - black lives only kind of matter.”

Plenty of racist comments there. But getting red flagged as a potential 'toxic employee' for saying that you don't like your job? I mean come on... That's dystopian as hell and straight out of 1984. Call me old fashioned but I don't think people should lose future employment opportunities for a few dumb twitter comments. This is taking political correctness to some next-level techno-nightmare.

Maybe it's time to get ahead of the curve here and make a startup that provides people with new identities complete with online banking, 'social credit', and face masks to fool humans / AI.
The reason companies have to do so damn much checking upon hiring is because the employment laws make it damn near impossible to recover from a mistake. If you want to make a difference in this space, don't always vote for whatever issue the screws the rich companies.
I don't know this attacker's reason. I only see the attack.

But I can offer some baseless suspicions:

I'm forwarding traffic from Tor to the Internet Archive. During the last French election, someone DoS'ed most of their media outlets. As a result, lots of French people used Tor to access the current news from the Internet Archive's collection. Shortly after that, someone tried to DDoS my onion service.

With all of the voting and elections and the impeachment vote coming up, I'm expecting attacks since the Internet Archive stores lots of information that the current administration tried to remove from the Internet.

Then again, it could be a "researcher", or just someone seeing if it can be done. Perhaps they will decide what they want to do after their attack succeeds.
Replaceable plug costs more money and I don't expect you spent a lot on your burner phones. My flagship Android did come with a replaceable plug.

The fact you couldn't charge all your other gadgets is the point of the regulation though.
The question is - does the "bad PR" really matter? Is there actual data/research proving that it in fact has an impact on the business profits? I doubt that people won't go and watch the latest Guardians of Galaxy just because James Gunn is back at directing it. I wouldn't put that much weight on the usual twitter outrages.
Don’t get tricked into playing zero sum games.

Status, prestige, being the “best” are relative, not absolute measurements. Someone else’s gain is your loss.

Health, love, education (to build a skill) are absolute. Someone else’s gain can benefit and inspire you.
Ya, especially on GitHub, GitHub always puts the repository back up once they review the counter-notice. The people that sent the original DMCA must show proof they are pursuing a lawsuit to get it taken back down.

See #8: https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/dmca-takedown-...
I would have less time to legitimately read Hackernews!
Big fan of the place, especially fond of a very nice programmable (perforated cards) loom and a big Foucault pendulum.
Isn't this against GDPR?
Good to have confirmation of this; my 16 sounds like it's trying for vertical takeoff constantly. I resorted to disabling Intel Turbo Boost to get some relief.
But cars have made horses obsolete. Although horses aren’t extinct, owning one is more of a hobby in the western world.

AI is cognitive automation. Not only will blue collar jobs be replaced, but so to will white collar jobs as well. We’re approaching the point where capital alone (without labor) will be able to generate wealth in more general cases. When that happens, employing people will be a hobby. When that happens, humans will need other ways to make income than with their labor.
Sure, but those are generally degrees which are well known for having poor employment prospects (philosophy, art, history, etc.). Doesn't that just change the advice from "go to college" to "go to college in one of the majors with a track record or leading to a good career"?
An actual person looking at a list of tweets/posts hundreds-long is not going to spend more than a few seconds at most on average per tweet. That's not enough time to understand context. As a matter of fact, I've given up trying to engage on social media debates precisely because most of the time, the other party(ies) in the conversation still do not understand context despite being part of the conversation! Often because they are not spending more than a few seconds themselves. I remember conversations being a lot more civil when done by e-mail.
I agree, but in many locations society doesn't pay baristas enough to own a house, pursue their hobbies, and raise a family.
I'm not sure where this comes from. Any halfway-competent company in a right-to-work state can drop you like a sack of potatoes with no cause or notice, and you won't be able to do anything unless you have a documented history of them doing something stupidly, obviously discriminatory.
I'm talking about the 70s.
Worked-owned co-ops (combined with workers banding together with courage, solidarity and decency) who treat their HR and all of their employees decently and with fair compensation are the way out. Jobs and employment shouldn't become so commodified because then ownership becomes rent-seeking, management goes the route of Boeing/Enron, work becomes pointless and workers become extremely disposable. The net effect is producing crap, no employees caring and treating customers like crap too. It's only learned helplessness that convinces people they must be exploited, underpaid and treated like cattle. And there's no universal binary utopia/slavery formula, each culture can evolve to suit its industry, style and members.

Herman Miller, WinCo, Publix, Mushkin, Graybar are just a few employee-owned no one thinks about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_compani...

If anyone wants to learn more, check out videos and writings by Dr. Wolff and Democracy@Work.
"Craft" here translates the French word "métier", which means something like craft but also something like profession or vocation.

There's a gallery of looms, which is immensely confusing until you realise that "métier" is also the word for loom.
The difficulty of micropayments in my experience is 1) payment processing and 2) taxes. Our payment systems and laws just aren't set up to make this feasible. I think it would actually be common and well-accepted if these obstacles magically we're removed.
I think this idea is really only viable now that we have cryptocurrencies--just to keep your payment information out of the wrong hands. That said, the popularity of adblockers has forced website owners to rely more on affiliate links and sponsorships instead of ads in the traditional sense.
I would think Little Snitch reduces your attack surface enough that it's a strict improvement in security, not just privacy. After all, macOS has bugs too.
"meaning some committee must have thought this would be important for the future (of the internet)."

Have a read down the entire standard [1] with an eye to that. There's a number of codes that are useless (some deprecated), and a number of other codes that I feel uncomfortable calling useless, but compared to how the web evolved, certainly aren't working the way the initial designers intended. 406 "Not Acceptable", for instance, is for when the client sent up Accept-* headers that don't match anything the server offers. That's technically usable, but content negotiation ultimately didn't play as big a part of the web as RFC 7231's text suggests the authors thought it would.

There's a lot of response codes squeezed on both sides by the fact that 1. they're too underspecified to be really useful (yes, it's great that you can return 402 payment required, but where is the browser supposed to go from there?) and 2. had they been specified enough to use at the time they were specified, they would have been utterly wrong. I don't think there's any way to square that circle at a standards level.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.2
The UK is a good example of this...the Labour Party went from solidly working class with good connections to voters to a party of the wealthy, metro elite with no connection to voters.

You can point to individual factors of circumstance (an ill-conceived 2015 leadership election) or big structural issues (rising inequality). But the end result is the same: no empathy, no interest. It is funny the article talks about race...did everyone just suddenly become a racist overnight? Or did they just decide they don't like being talked down to? Which is more likely (bearing in mind that the people talking down do like to talk about race a hell of a lot).

The left will get nowhere by trying to "learn to talk" to these awful poor people (sarcasm). They don't care. Not interested. Give the working class their voice back (Blair and Clinton did just fine). Go back to suburbia, find another job in which you are way overpaid for incompetence, and stop talking. Btw, Trump has done this...he is the worst candidate, the worst president...and still the Dems can't muster anything up...how is this incompetence even possible?

Just generally, as someone who falls firmly into the category of metro elite...I have never understood why other rich people feel the need to always tell poor people what they want. Politics is to help those people but it has gone from helping them to telling them what they should think, how they should live, etc. Is it any wonder that doesn't win votes?
That’s usually when I give up and start writing go, tbh.
Well discriminated unions are TypeScript's implementation of ADTs (but whether they are "clean" is could be debated)