skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're already seeing agent provocateurs in the current protests. White nationalists are purposely trying to incite violent riots throughout the U.S. as part of their "accelerationist" plans. The regrettably widespread opinion that the original, peaceful protest against police brutality is per se violent and thus to be opposed is very much a false and racist claim.
>social media sites should not be the business of censoring elected officials.

It would help to make things clear if FB in their terms of service would specifically and explicitly excluded public officials from limitations on hate, violence inciting and other otherwise prohibited on the platform speech,and marked that speech accordingly.

Or let an official to explicitly checkbox such exception in his/her profile or may be at individual post level, a la carte style with separate checkboxes for hate speech, racism, etc., and mark such his/her post as made under that exception - "This post is published under the hate speech, [comma separated iterator over the checked checkboxes' values] exception requested by this public official"
I think you don't need to trust the server just if you can audit the frontend and assure it does not share any sensitive information with the server-side.
If they apply the concept of data minimisation, decentralisation and distribution properly, there are fewer risks involved.

But, if the server manages sensitive information, yes. It is preferable to audit the server code to understand how they handle the lifecycle of the information.

"If you think you need to see the server source then any trust you have is mistaken."

Sorry but I don't agree. I trust in systems I can verify. Trust without verifying is not trust, it is faith.
In Germany the demand is also much higher than the supply.. I'd say there are other reasons why (most) swiss developers won't come to Germany.

I know btw one developer personally who went from Switzerland to work in Leipzig, Germany. He said he much preferred the openness of the people there to his home country.

In the end everyone is different and people move for different reasons.. not only because of salaries or taxes..
I used to be obsessed over image clarity and sharpness, and now I'm not. When using a DSLR or EVIL camera with a traditional body, I tend to degrade image quality in post for added charm.
Its not a net loss if they have to increase their prices to pay for the new higher premiums?

These failures to understand basic economics are frightening.
"An authoritarian culture, however, can get work done much quicker while staying with a razor-sharp focus."

Only in the extreme short term. In the medium term, the dictator inevitably ends up severed from reality by the inability of (true) data to flow back up to the authority, which results in their decisions becoming increasingly suboptimal over time.

This is the pragmatic argument in favor of free speech, really. If for the sake of argument we ignore moral and philosophical issues, the reason why free speech is important is that in its absence information does not properly flow back up to the authorities. Free information flow does not guarantee proper functioning of the system, but impeded information flow guarantees improper functioning. If your authority dictates the use of 4-inch long bolts in a place where there's only 2 inches of clearance, and nobody in the organization has the ability to feed back to the authority that information, the only possible outcomes are bad ones. This all compounds, too; the next dictate from the authority won't be able to take into account the fact that in order to fit the 4-inch bolt in, a new hole was cut in some vital structure that shouldn't be there, and some new bad decision will be made to add load to this structure, which will cause other effects. The authority ends up living in a fantasy land.

Note how this toy example seated entirely in engineering-space doesn't have any moral or philosophical component, and yet it is already sufficient to cause a bad outcome even in pure engineering terms. Moral and philosophical issues can cause yet more problems, but they'll be arriving to a space already broken.

It also doesn't matter for my purposes why the information can't flow back up to the authority. Even a well-meaning, "enlightened" dictator can end up in this situation by sheer inability to process the incoming information. The dictator may be the nicest, most well-meaning person in human history full of compassion and love and every other virtue you care to name, and they'll still break things if they insist on authoritarianism.
That seems reasonable to censor. Regardless of intent, that language clearly does promote hate. I don’t see why it matters if you’re white yourself.
Unproven to treat COVID-19. Leaving out that last part is the debate. If you're not going to discuss the whole context, then you're being disingenuous and just trying to work people up into a political fight.
I try to explain this to people all the time. People discount tribal knowledge. I always use the analogy what if we where hired to build an app for Islamic banking, and ask them do you know anything about Islamic banking usually the answer is no. I know one thing about Islamic banking, they are not allowed to charge usury and I think they charge an upfront fee. I don't know how it is paid or if it is rolled into a loan, but the point is, someone who is from an Islamic country would know this, just like I know a US loan is going to be amortized with compounding interest that does not compound. Though I am not a banker, I have tribal knowledge of this contract. This filters down to very simple things that people take for granted.
Zoom CEO says it won't encrypt free calls
It's definitely possible, it's just a bit expensive. There's nothing in the USB-C spec that disallows you from doing this. Also if you're trying to do the thing where you have charging input but data output on one port, it gets complicated.

That said, I see no reason why you couldn't design a basic USB-C USB2 or USB3 hub. Hell, it could have 5 ports with no defined 'input' port (just 5 USB C jacks), and you could have that work properly with some pain.

If it has a captive USB-C cable and 4 USB-C outputs, that would be even easier to program. Again, it's just expensive. You need a lot of active circuitry to make it work.
Those who feel the way you do, myself included, haven't used Twitter in years
I have now tried that. But logging in isn't working for me :(

app $ youtube-dl -u yyyyyyy@gmail.com -p zzzzzzzzz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1234343
[youtube] Downloading login page
[youtube] Looking up account info
[youtube] Logging in
WARNING: Unable to log in: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

I disabled 2FA, and confirmed that my password is correct by logging out on the web, and back in again.
Really? I don't think that's true: I use Tor (well, not right now, d'oh!) and people respond to my posts.
It's something that's so obviously common sense that you really don't need a study to back it up - let alone in today's culture any study that would even suggest this would be in the news with labels of 'racist' or 'alt-right'.
That story does not say anything about that.

The UK app's source code has been released. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23107553
> Let’s see if it gets suspended for violating twitters TOS.

How is this a story? A user called “suspendthepres” posted the presidents tweets and encouraged like-minded individuals to report them... gets banned?
Dyson seems like a company/brand mired in being clever vs. actually creating anything of practical utility. We have a dyson stick vacuum thing that was ~$300 and it can't even pick up cheerios. The airblade hand dryer supposedly spreads something like 60x more germs than regular dryers and over 1000x more than regular warm air hand dryers.

This car thing apparently didn't work out.

$400 hair dryer?

$1,700 dyson roomba competitor?

I guess every brand has its fans but this is one I just don't get. I'll never purchase another dyson product after being bamboozled with that damn vacuum.
I've seen versions of this take over the last few days and I'm curious what the actual stance is.

Is the belief that Twitter shouldn't have any rules against violence speech, or that those rules shouldn't apply to the president? Or is the belief that the president hasn't violated those rules, but if he did the rules should still apply to him?
The consensus regarding automobiles and touch interfaces is starting to form that they are just a bad idea.

Physical switches, knobs, toggles, buttons -- these things can be activated using one's hands without needing to coordinate with sight, meaning, our eyes can stay on the road.

There is no road to keep your eyes on in space though, so needing to coordinate hands and eyes is clearly not that big a problem for the Dragon, and might even be better than lots of physical inputs: you can cram more virtual inputs into the same area by using menus and what not, and that might make it easier to navigate one's way around them. Then again, complex menus might make things worse in an emergency. There's not that much for the astronauts to do in Dragon though, so it's probably all OK.
TLA+ is basically an academic tool. It allows you to verify your specification, but it is useless to detect bugs in your implementation. In my experience, the process of writing your specification in TLA is a buggy enough process to make it all a waste of time.
Larry Summers is simply not credible. This is an "oh fuck things are about to get out of hand, let's try to insert ourselves into the debate so we don't get locked out" paper.

Here is Larry Summers from his 1998 speech "The Challenges of Success".

"
The world looks very different than it did at the beginning of this decade, a time when America was said to be in decline. It is now clear that America will grow faster in this decade than Japan and Europe. Their four-decade-long story of convergence has ended and America is pulling further ahead. Why this success? A large share of the credit must go to the two forces that this conference brings together: technology and finance.

The twin forces of intonation technology and modern competitive finance are moving us toward a post-industrial age. And if you think about what this new economy means - whether it is AIG in insurance, McDonald's in fast-food, Walmart in retailing, Microsoft in software, Harvard University in education, CNN in television news - the leading enterprises are American.
"

Edit:

I tried deleting this, because it is an ad-hominem, which feels good but adds nothing.

It is just endlessly frustrating that one of the principle architects of the current status-quo demands so much attention.

Summers helped structure post-Soviet Russia, viciously attacked Brooksley Born when she sought to regulate the swaps market, among many many other serious lapses in judgement.

And yet, when he and his students come up with another insane policy proposal we have to take it seriously and challenge it on the merits.

It feels a lot like the allied strategy during WW2 of saturating enemy air defenses.

[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-amer...
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things move slow in government that would take like probably 15 years, and in the mean time every other nation would have an advantage of 5G.
The pandemic demonstrated that luxury retail is non-essential (you can still buy your Gucci bags online). When luxury retail was closed the world did not fall apart. Nobody is protesting because they can't shop at the Apple store.
Porn of course.
I've heard of the SKU problem that e-commerce stores have to face with their vendors. Would you mind if I contacted you to learn more about it?
They have 3 screens. If one screen fails, they can probably continue using the others.
And the prohibitionists of the 1890's.
Doesn't sound like something that they could actually care about. How much theoretically would they have to lose in order to actually have to comply?
> An American programmer might not be too concerned if a body temperature measurement returns 45 degrees Celcius.

I'm baffled by this statement... I worked in the medical device industry for years at a company of 10k people and you would be hard pressed to find a sw engineer that didn't default to Celsius. Almost all sw engineers there either had EE, CpE or Biomedical Engineering degrees; Celsius is not remotely foreign to these types of engineers. I would be incredibly surprised if it was different at any medical device company.
I am a healthcare professional, and I've published in one of the Lancet Journals. I understand perfectly fine.

Here's the thing - The Lancet is not impactful. Researchers choose to publish their impactful research in The Lancet. Other researchers donate their time to peer review this research. It is the researchers that have shaped how medicine is practiced, not The Lancet. It is the researchers and the peer reviewers that are rigorous. The Lancet itself is none of these things, it is a business run by people who don't do research. Without the people who actually do the work, or the patients that volunteer for the research, it is nothing. The Lancet, like all top tier journals, has long forgotten this distinction.

The problem isn't healthcare professionals lacking training. Take the Wakefield study. Did any doctor decide to stop offering vaccines because of that study? No. But it had a large impact on a the anti-vax narrative. These top journals have influence far beyond the professional sphere. This is why your suggestion we should give them a free pass is dangerous.

I think it is clearly true that rapid publication and out in the open discussion and peer review is very healthy. I don't see how you could argue otherwise? Why wouldn't I want to be able to read the opinion of someone I respect intellectually eg Andrew Gelman, on a study they have decided to comment on? How is that 'dangerous' if I am a healthcare professional who should be able to critically review a published paper as you suggest? Why do I need to rely on the reviewers the journal has chosen? The Journals want to keep things as they are to maintain their importance and their bottom line. We suffer as a result.
Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO
This is bonkers. The UI did look good, I'm suprised it wasn't something native like QT. But I guess when I think about it, does it really matter? Chromium has some of the best engineers behind it, and web developer supply has never been higher.
Unfortunately, you are probably right. But if we want software to stop being in various states of "broken" forever, we will need professionals not scared of losing their jobs for doing the right thing.

This sounds like syndicalism, and I think it's another great route to improving worker freedoms. I wish them well.
Scientists say warm weather may not slow spread of Covid19
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Some resources aggregated here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FFixoVlj1p2gqJOhycwxxPNliuFupp2svIBQ4caLtGI/edit?usp=sharing
This is a nice take on an old problem. If your project makes HTML creation more straightforward without introducing a tonne of baggage, I'm all for it.
I'm torn now between Termes and Pagella.
Bankruptcies are evidence that private businesses are more efficient: you can watch as the less-efficient ones are eliminated.
Wonderful illustration of how perception is still reality even though perception can change thereby altering reality or vice versa.
Those are not simple debates and you are just taking them as black and white and then offer one solution (e2e) and making huge issues on the other side (organized crime, corrupted politians (If I understand you correctly, you are most worried about them - China?). The "think of the children" and "terrorists" are the least problematic topics here).

The judge only access prevents mass data gathering of law enforcement agencies and three letter agencies (at least in my country). And enable control of further institutions. Secret and hidden backdoors (Crypto AG, Dual_EC_DRBG,...) or corporations bribed by government deals are the worse solution here as it doesnt prevent the access to the data to either corporations or secred agencies while it might hold away law enforcement or also not. And surely enables mass data gathering from all without any supervision or control. What the real issue here is that no one is mentioning any court orders. Everyone would just want to have access to everything. Now THAT IS an issue.

I was talking about legal entities operating in same manner as telcos were. Also in real world you can invent your own one time pad encoded speaking and no one will understand you even if they wiretap the communication. And actually mafia historically has been using slang to cover up the communication. Same as you can do it in open source.

Anyway, do you communicate over the "secret encryted communication channel" covered with rag, to prevent recording your lips, recording with laser measuring shaking of window glass, you face muscles, IR recording and probably next 100 methods I am not even aware of. As this are the issue you also have with warrant being issued. Guess not. So the police looks like is not an issue for you (or warrant).

Then the three letter agencies, except for "warrant" methods they will use rubber hose cryptography to break you and any of your e2e communication and actually you might wish they would be able to read from your communication without contacting you in person. So e2e doesnt change anything for you here either.

I refuse to handle open source solutions that you install on your server to use them in same manner as corporation entities that use their solutions to wiretap the communications of everyone so they can earn more money from informations they gather.

And I also think that "encrypted Apple" phones (and everyone else doing any business with government) and the whole FBI story is just a sharade to bait people that are hiding something in ecosystem where the can simply access the information by agencies that CAN issue gag order. The whole story surely looks like counter-espionage operation from 1970. Time will tell if I am right.
Perfect, thank you for sharing.
Are there any other non-corporate "parking lots" with anywhere close to the same network effects?
The US happens to have a huge population speaking the same language and dealing with roughly the same regulations, so the economies of scale are even better. But, as the article says, labor everywhere faces the same risks.
I've had mostly good experience with P5x laptops. I haven't gotten the fingerprint reader to work, and have had some minor issues with multiple monitors with the proprietary nvidia drivers. But other than that they've worked pretty well.
You're moving the goal posts. BKs are a sign of economic dynamism, not organizational efficiency.
They really timed that well
Why, they'd have had the perfect accessory for one of their vacuum cleaners to do just that!
Please consider clicking through to the link before commenting. You obviously did not do that. There's also accommodations for different disabilities, like the Deaf and hard of hearing via sign language.

https://www.federalrelay.us/ip-relay.html

>IP Relay uses an Internet connection, a computer or mobile device with a web browser and a Communication Assistant (CA) . An IP user types what they want to say, the CA relays the conversation to their caller and then types their caller's response back to the IP user. To start using IP Relay, users are required to register for a 10-digit number through the Federal IP Relay website. To make your call today, go to www.federalip.us.

https://www.federalrelay.us/vri.html

>Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) is a feature of Federal Relay's Video Relay Service (VRS). This option provides deaf and hard of hearing Federal employees with on-demand remote sign language interpreting in order to facilitate communication between individuals who are in the same location (i.e. office, cubical, front desk, etc.).
A programmer from the US won't know the nuances of US banking either. I agree that someone has to know and write the specs. Does it have to be the programmers?

I agree that domain knowledge is invaluable. But in the examples given, the difference in domain knowledge between local talent vs remote may not justify the 5x salary.
Another way to phrase jobs being exported is the rise in imports of partially completed goods for final assembly locally. This is how the USA "manufacturing output" continues to go up while employment goes down - we no longer smelt steel, cast parts, weave textiles, pick-n-place electronic components, etc in the amount that we used to. Those things are done overseas where environmental and worker regulations are laxer and then the parts are imported for final assembly, and then in many cases re-exported.

Data to back this argument up is available on FRED if you're interested.
Article says crash, not brick. Brick is not recoverable.
After trying it, going back to Java/C#/JavaScript was kind of rough. I realize that despite their external polish popular IDEs/languages today have some glaring, fundamental deficiencies.
Nice article! I'm currently trying to give windows 10 + WSL a shot too. I wrote about my experience on https://tdom.dev/win10-review.

I might copy a thing or two from your setup, we'll see how it goes. So far I had a mixed experience with windows.
Surely Twitter is both, just like every other platform?
Lafayette square is such a sacred place. Right in front of the white house. It’s always full of protestors, regardless of the administration.

If we can’t let people peacefully protest here, then we’ve really lost legitimacy as a liberal democracy.
Are you still weird if you find a community where you are normal?
This is exactly how it works in Japan. The country lies in the sweet spot where software development will likely never be able to compete globally, but local talent is good enough and the cultural divide big enough that local players almost always dominate the global competitor (e.g. Yahoo vs Google).
You're just being obtuse now. It's a shame you don't value ordinary people's lives. It's a very privileged position to be in.
The astronauts show parts of the touchscreen and physical controls here: https://youtu.be/llbIzbOStt4?t=150
See, you could technically design something that does that. Per-port up to 100W charging it definitely possible. Basically you have a USB PD controller on every port with dynamic voltage control.

This is all possible, it's just a HUGE pain in the ass (and costs a lot) to design that way. The problem is you essentially end up with potentially a giant, VERY expensive USB hub. And no one wants to spend $400 on a USB hub.
It can be, but it kind of should be the other way around. Your identity and your values should inform what political party you should belong to. Your political party shouldn't inform your identity.

There should be things you disagree with your party about.
> Unknown.

That quote belongs to Chase Jarvis.
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>Have you ever tried {insert recreational drug here}?? You're missing out, etc.

Yeah I get that a lot.

I get what you're saying and, incidentally, you made a pretty good point,

"People distance from you because they don't want to be judged as weird themselves ..."

Isn't this, more or less, always the case?

The way I see it is some sort of 'tribal' instinct, us vs. them, kind of thing. The norms that define inclusion/exclusion from the group could change everyday.

I find it frustrating and honestly quite sad how many people cannot get past this issue, and how many good relationships and opportunities never take off because of this barrier.
If we solved systemic issues that improved quality of life, we'd be left with what? People having better quality of life? That's not the same problem.