skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't regret, and I did leave the big tech after a few years to build another company with some of my colleagues that I met. Since I started the company quite early in my career (about 12 months out of college), I think building the company gave me focus in my early 20s which would have otherwise spent with video games / internet / counter productive things. The added advantage was that I committed fairly costly mistakes but the cost was discounted since they occurred pretty early on in life. I do have slight regrets around how I treated some of my co-workers, including people who were more powerful than me, and I think being a founder early on without the right level of maturity was rather depressing, so yes, I would start a company after a year of employment and some built up savings but do it with more maturity and self awareness.
Thanks, I misread the source and didn't think about it.

You're right the quantity isn't specifically important but it does illustrate that there is a problem. Even if it is not the #1 cause of death it is disproportionately higher.
Contact your local chapter of Black Lives Matter (or a different social justice group if you prefer) -- thats the besr way. The more we technologists can engage directly with the organizations and communities, the higher the odds we will be sble to build something that meets a real need.
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Thanks but I was referring to answers more in terms of OP's question where known people or companies would NEVER make statements opposing BLM. Anonymous users and people in surveys have no accountability but companies and famous people have users/fans that could be lost.
One side of this coin is that the police have a monopoly on lawful force and therefore should be held to a higher standard. The other side seems to me that police derive their tasks from laws (handed down by the same institutions) and a certain degree of pressure is therefore accorded to enforce said laws.

I agree that we should expect better from the police and authorities in return, but also that we accept their use of limited force (even when not physically harmful) when necessary as the means to do so.

I personally lean towards presumably the same direction as you: that police should first and foremost be held to a higher standard before their legitimacy is accepted. However, I think it's not that far from the views of some that see their role in this conflict as imposing harsh law and order.
Security does not equal privacy.

They are two distinct concepts. Security with encryption is about trust guarantees. I send message X to Alice and I know Bob can't read the plaint text of message X because I encrypted it with Alice's key.

Privacy can benefit from additional security. But it's generally a whole other ball game. For example, Bob will still know I sent a message to Alice and can hit me with a wrench until I reveal the plaintext of message X.
I would be prepared to raise lockdowns and "sacrifice the elderly" (no, I don't hope they die, I would just advocate instead for better equipping care homes with PPE and sealing them off from visitors) for the sake of younger people. But it isn't really how I myself may be affected, as my existing lifestyle of remote work and reclusive living in the countryside handles the lockdown quite well. Rather, I am concerned about a generation much younger than myself which strict lockdowns prevent from engaging in the perennial rituals of youth. All the reasonable outlets for courtship have been closed in some places for months. You might laugh and say that young people can just suck it up, but lack of courtship opportunities is such a stressor and a source of social instability that large numbers of young men without such prospects are a major focus of their country’s domestic intelligence service around the world.
Same: the first thing i ever did in a Smalltalk environment - after grinding through swapping floppies in and out of my Mac Plus for twenty minutes - was define an empty LinkedList class, or rather, redefine the LinkedList class that the Smalltalk kernel used to schedule threads to be empty.
So what were your thoughts on Hong Kong?
As the people say, "Fuck 12".
No, in order to have privacy you can choose applications which appeal to different user base and have different tradeoffs. Like Signal, or even WhatsApp.

Zoom appeals to a different user base and offers different features as selling points. Please read the twitter thread mentioned below to understand their perspective.
100% agreed, I tried to highlight that with the + but I think this nit is helpful and will hopefully flag this for people who might not think back to that type of history, like how sheriffs were originally created to track down runaway slaves. Perhaps this showing of true colors is just underscoring their original purpose and how little the system and culture within it has changed.

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-a...
This is pointless.

Because you didn't mention white lives, does that mean you want all white people killed?

All lives matter; the lives of police suspects, the lives of police, the livelihoods of shopkeepers and their employees, the livelihoods of customers of those shops who now face higher prices to pay for the theft and higher insurance premiums.

Don't be drawn in by those who foment unrest, be suspicious of their motives.
Yes, but that doesn't include the ground pin.
The problem isn't WASM and DOM, it's that in the web environment because the storage and expressiveness are so limited most of your data lives on a third-party server and now you have to integrate with that.

My Outlook and Thunderbird inboxes are files on my local disk, so if I'm determined enough I can dig through those files with custom software. If I want to process my gmails no amount of time in a hex editor will help me because that data lives on a server somewhere. In practice, Thunderbird acts as my interop tool here, because the developers of that program did the work to keep up with whatever method was offered to pull content out of gmail. In this case there are standardized APIs (network protocols) for talking to mail servers, and lots of software that implements those. What's the equivalent if you want to do this in a webapp? Is there a common API that I can use in my webapp to access a user's gmail, apple mail, outlook mail, etc?

In practice you need to do 1-off integrations with almost every given web service a customer's data might live on, and some of those services don't have any APIs so it's screen-scraping or nothing. It's as if every user's photos were stored in a mix of 50 different custom image file formats.
The JVM's "write once, run everywhere" doesn't just apply to any OS that happens to have a JVM available... it means any architecture. You don't have to compile one version of your program for MIPS, ARM, x86, etc. The same bytecode will run on any JVM without being touched... something C/C++ (which were popular when Java was being created) couldn't do.

> and many modern OSS command line utilities / server apps only worked on unixes

This, I think, likely has more to do with being POSIX compatible and/or oriented for headless server usage where a shell is "home" for many 'nix admins.
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Trying to provide an alternative to zoom/google.

I wrote the UI and my friend did the backend. One key point for me personally is doing privacy right. No identifiable data in logs etc. Tricky cause there will always be an element of "trust us".

Next weekend I hope to implement the experimental e2ee feature in WebRTC. Only for chrome so far, but maybe it'll take off for all browsers.
> Are your friends' ideas just way too infectious for your free will to handle?

Good point, but I'll add: if the ideas they are spreading weren't infectious, they wouldn't be spreading them in the first place.

I've been on FB lately because my local government has decided that it will use FB to give background info and outlooks wrt Covid-19. From what I saw in the local groups, the "ideas" people spread are not original content, ever. They don't have those ideas, they just read them and say "yeah, share", so the ideas that make it to your feed have proven themselves many times to be infectious. There's a reason we call it "going viral".
FDR packed the court with his own judges when others had retired during his term. That's how he got the New Deal through, not on threats or cowing.
Congratulations and best of luck!
This seems like a great idea on paper, but I fear that adding more bureaucracy to the situation only introduces a new way to strangle our society.
It’s already too hard to find security bugs in clean source code. Analyzing a binary can confirm the existence of encryption and the overall crypto scheme, but not the absence of backdoors.
That's exactly what spurred me to use meal-replacement shakes. If I couldn't enjoy eating, I at least could avoid wasting time on it.
People generally don't get arrested or have their stuff stolen over noise complaints. More likely they'd issue a citation, which is really just a piece of paper that leads to a court date, i.e. the same thing you can get by bringing your evidence to a judge/prosecutor.
I don't see what you seem to see in that video.

I see an umbrella put way over the fence. I see a policeman grab an umbrella that was way over fence. I see then someone else reach across the fence in response to the police grabbing the umbrella. I see the police then react to that person reaching across the fence.

I don't see blame. I just see tinder, a spark, and an escalation.

I'm fully 100% for "Black Lives Matter" and 100% against police brutality and the militarization of the police. But that video is too ambiguous convince all people. It's the same with the CNN reporter. People who want to see racism see a black reporter get arrested. People who don't want to see racism see 3 people getting arrested, one black, one white, one latino? Yes, racism exists but that video is also not proof of it.
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there shouldn't even be parties. there are meant to be representatives of areas of people, who come together, not representatives of parties.
Hard to say without knowing the product.

But if you understand your customers better now, focus on a marketing towards the same kind and see where it gets you.
The idea is that the Squeak image is a "binary blob", so doesn't count as a source package. The image file does come paired with two text files (sources and changes) that can be viewed in any text editor (but with old Mac line ending) and have the full sources. But there are objects inside the image that aren't generated from these sources (some have been "alive" since 1976) and these can be only examined using tools that also exist inside the image.

Once in a while someone asks for a tool to save the image as a XML or JSON file. They don't know enough to write this tool themselves. The problem is that the people who do know (it is pretty trivial, actually) have no interest in doing it. Normally the idea is that you could then use Unix diff or similar tool to check what has changed from one version of the image to the next.
Sorry for not knowing about local history from 100 years ago from a far away nation. The main reason we don't hear about this more is probably because neither offenders nor victims, both black and white, are alive anymore.
Also, you could share Java code, or entire libraries or applications, by posting some files on a website. You already had the files, and someone downloading them could use them straight away. To share Smalltalk code on a website, you would go through the file out / file in process, which was considerably clunkier.

Also, i don't think Smalltalks of the time had namespaces, which also makes sharing code harder to get right. Java's reverse-DNS package naming is a surprisingly important innovation.
> The Democratic Party used to be the party of the south/segregation. What year (or decade) is the point where the two parties flipped places on this issue?

They started flipping with the New Deal Coalition, which gave the Democratic Party a new but not yet unifying working class national agenda.

The splitting off of the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party (“Dixiecrats”) in the late 1940s was a response to this and the Democratic Party’s support for Civil Rights at the time.

The major turning point, though, was Johnson's support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the subsequent Republican effort to exploit that known as the Southern Strategy. The Dixiecrats hadn't lasted as a breakaway group; the Republicans in the 1940s and into the 1960s had a strong base of support for Civil Rights too, and there wasn't anywhere better than the Democratic Party for white racists to go. But when the Republicans actively courted them, that changed.

The phase of political realignment that started in the 1960s (which was itself an extension of the one starting in the 1940s) completed around 1994-1995, as the last of the Southern conservative Democrats (those further right than the center-right neoliberal faction like Clinton) in office jumped ship to the Republican Party.
That's nice and all, but unless you can install their software by compiling the source yourself you have no chance of verifying that the implementation is actually correct. Even with the source available that's an extremely difficult task.
Resolution goes back even farther than that, to the number of line pairs that could be "resolved" (distinguished from one other) in an image. It was a way to compare the ability of imaging systems to capture and accurately display fine detail.

With digital sensors and screens you can pretty much just calculate it directly since you can't resolve detail below the pixel level. But, note that moire can eliminate fine detail well above pixel level if not controlled.

Before that, there were standard targets with fine lines in tight tapering patterns. Folks would take a picture of the target with a particular lens and film, and then count the smallest line pairs they could make out before the taper disappeared into an undifferentiated blur. By varying lenses and films, they could compare resolution. Example:

https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2014/12/36-megapixels-vs-6x7-v...
They do have the authority to prevent you from returning to the store. This is the only reason I ever agreed at Fry’s.

At Best Buy I stopped shopping there for years. I don’t remember why I eventually went in one again, but in the years since I’ve never been asked once. I do wish they’d get rid of the guy at the door entirely. It’s weird. And they always greet you from the side or back.
Go open source.
I remember terrible times trying to get some Lucasarts and Origin games going in that era. You want a cdrom -and- a sound card? That’s crazy talk. No no don’t use sound blaster’s driver use ours and our crazy ass memory manager too. Oops no sound for you! You’re in Windows! Etc etc. Thank goodness for autoexec.bat and config.sys.
This is practice. Trump has no intention of ever leaving office, and he'll literally stop at nothing to ensure that. It's likely to get way worse before and if it gets better.

I don't say that because I hate the man (which I admit that I do), I say it because he's telegraphed these intentions and I am not alone in this assessment.

The coup is effectively complete, and now it's a matter of whether or not they can make it stick.

This is not a partisan screed, this is a sober assessment of history unfolding.
> [...] part of me gets really giddy when I discover a site with very little styling.

You can set your preferred font families in your browser's settings that would be used exactly in case of "no page author font preference".
(You can even tweak default sizes, and even default colours, but setting wildly unusual default colours just reveals flaws in most author styles, so are not very practical, unfortunately.)

It is quite widely known fact (I think) but probably very rarely used feature; sorry for 'mansplaining' -- I bet you all know this and I would not be surprised if some of fellow HN readers even have non-default settings in there.

> I usually prefer Georgia [...]

What a coincidence, I read HN (and Wikipedia) in Georgia font, but not because of default browser settings, but because of site-specific user styles. I like my browser to be real "user agent".
Has, not had. The vast majority of things still work flawlessly, and Microsoft continues to invest serious efforts in this area. I don't have any 32-bit programs on my computer which don't run on Windows 10, and I have plenty of older Win9x-era EXEs of various tools from developers which don't exist any more.
> There'd been a number of spectacular C++ project failures...

And the most successful company of that era (Google) went ahead and implemented their product (the search engine) in C++...
People doing high-profile illegal activities will always be able to use simple open-source software, that cannot be stopped.

Terrorism is not a valid reason - well, perhaps unless you're going to take the jump to including a Chinese national that says 'Tiananmen Square' to their wife in a random call, as some 'Law Enforcement' will.
Personally I think the whole topic could just have been avoided by not saying anything at all.

Zoom needs a business model and saying "if you want encryption you need to pay for it", to me sounds like a reasonable approach to making money.

Once you start dragging other reasons into it, you need to start defending them.
i dream of a house of independents.
21 USC section 878(a)(5) is what allows the AG to deputize the DEA like that.

It's fascinating, seeing the lawful mechanisms of executive overreach in play. Horrifying, but fascinating!
How do you use vscode on your iPad Pro?
> or even WhatsApp

Ummm, no.

(I mean, sure, it sometimes uses Signal protocol, but seriously a _Facebook_ product recommendation in a privacy discussion???)
Help me understand how the exact opposite thing isn't true? The binary is the true record of what the platform is actually going to execute, unlike the source code.
Is available for download in the whole country, not only the 4 testing regions
I'm neither weak nor strong, I'm just stating my opinion that I don't feel the need to wear a wear a mask to improve how I protect society by 1% more, I'm already at 99%(IMO), that 1% is more expensive then I'm willing to make.
Yes, I investigated the conversion issue and it seems it's due to HEVC / H.265 video being the default in iOS 11, but not supported in older versions of iOS / OS X. I was transferring to a Mac running OS X 10.13 High Sierra.

I had always thought of AirDrop as a straight file transfer, but that's not the case.
Democrats removed super majority requirement for Supreme Court nominations. I believe a super majority would have acted as a check against a stacked court. There would be compromises and more moderate justices would have been considered. [1]

People take less notice of transgressions when their party is in power. As much as we might like to think there’s universal recognition of the current administration’s misuse of power there’s a lot of people who support it - “to get things done”. People just hate it when it’s not the things they want.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-poised-to-lim...
> that video.

First of all, it's two videos. Watch the aerial view in the immediate reply. (If you didn't see it, you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the...)

> I see a policeman grab

You see an attempted robbery resulting in the destruction of someone's private property.

> I see then someone else reach

You see a person trying to hold onto their property as they're pulled over the fence because a cop just assaulted them.

> I see the police then react

You see the police immediately start spraying and bombing and gassing, with the flimsiest excuse, an entire crowd of people who are literally just chanting.

This coordinated initiation of violence is extremely typical from the police playbook. Watch this third video from 26:30 as the filmer explains the meaning of a "posture" change when the police swap in gasmask brutes in place of the bicycle cops who were standing there before, showing that they planned to escalate from the beginning. https://www.facebook.com/omarisal/videos/10220021035848747/
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A friend of mine in Little Rock connected the dots on how police were ignoring burglary reports en masse to rig the stats in favor of businesses and realtors with a vested interest in lower perception of crime than there really was.

The radios were encrypted to stop him from doing so within the next calendar quarter. He was plotting dispatch calls versus FOIA reports of burglaries to find the variances.

I’d expect this to be a growing trend. Local political corruption is ubiquitous in USA, that’s why they accuse every other country of it.
> I don't follow; the Western world has put sanctions on China in the past [0], I don't think they would avoid straining their relationships with China in a situation like this.

Those weren't economic sanctions, but focussed ones. And against a much less economically-important China. If China cutoff a country in '89, whatever. In '20, uh oh.

The US already strong-armed Canada into arresting Huawei's CFO/founder's daughter. Things are a bit strained at the moment.
> Security does not equal privacy.

It's all privacy here. End to end encryption provides privacy; the company can't view your conversations. Not paying with a credit card provides privacy; you don't have to give them your personal information. So if you can't have one without the other then you can't have privacy with Zoom. (Unless you're a terrorist with a stolen credit card.)
It takes some legwork, but both my wife and I (thanks to our parents' curiosity during their retirements) have been able to go back to the 1700's for at least some lines. Even the europeans were moving around a lot internationally, though.

The portion of my family tree from the US is about half pre-Civil War, of which most were pre-Revolution. (and my father told me that, while researching, he found the Mormons for some reason have records on way more people than just their adherents. Could be useful)
This is complete and utter BS.

EVERY communications provider has to comply with lawful intercept [1] regulation in all the regions where they operate. If they do not they find themselves hauled before the regulator and they'll be fined or worse until they do or go out of business.

'Encryption', while it would make it harder to snoop on your calls from third parties, will not 'protect' you from lawful intercept.

Furthermore specific to the US Zoom also has to comply with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [2]. This does in no way mean Zoom can not encrypt its traffic. It just means it has to provide law enforcement the ability to covertly wiretap every and any communication. If Zoom provides end to end encryption to its paying customers, it still has to provide access to law enforcement to the content of those communications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...