skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But a lot of voters do and a lot of the party does. That was not true 10 or 20 or 30 years ago. It is true now. And who cares if the presidential nominee is some lefty or not? Until 50ish senators and a couple hundred representatives are on the same page it doesn't matter. We're moving in that direction but it's not going to be freaking instantaneous. At least we're not ruled by blue dogs and Clintons anymore, and are moving in the opposite direction.
How about all the iMessage created "Liked", "Loved", "Emoji" messages? Each and every one of those creates a message alert on non-iPhones. It is by far the most spammy type of message one receives on an Android device (in the USA at least).
Dealing with patent trolls is the rite of passage. It shouldn't be a deterrent if you really cared about open sourcing your software
Or something short and sweet, like Synapse. Fully uniting the global village.
I stopped reading TFA after the characterization of police as “violence workers” to claim that all they can bring to a situation is violence, which is absurdly reductionist.

I think these quotes are not much better. The primary purpose and responsibility of our government is to protect life and property and maintain the rule of law. What we’ve seen in the last week is peaceful protests subverted by essentially militant groups into what is perhaps best described as insurrection.

If anything the initial police response was mismanaged and totally insufficient. The lack of policing gave space and air to the riotous members hiding within the protests to spread mayhem, destruction, and death. (e.g. [1])

That much at least is my own opinion from following many hours of social media, live-streams and first person accounts.

I would also take issue with the idea that body cameras have not increased accountability at least, even though the cameras do nothing to change the baseline level of danger and violence inherent in police work. I think most police are happy for the camera as it will tell their story and protect them against false accusations.

Of the 10 cases last year where an unarmed black person was shot and killed by police, in most cases the police officer(s) involved were being violently attacked by the person they shot, and video footage was often crucial in evaluating the use of force after the fact. In the two cases that did result in charges, body camera evidence was a material factor in at least one case (Atatiana Jefferson).

[1] - https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1268176768822685696?s=2...
> In a group chat with non-iMessage users everyone gets downgraded to SMS. I'm not sure how else it would even work?

I was thinking that there might be a way around it: send iMessages to people who are iMessage capable, and send MMS to people who aren't. The people who have to send MMS will just send their replies to everyone in the group over MMS, and the messages app on the iPhone would just figure out that the messages belong to the correct group.

But then I realized that I don't think there's an analog to the "reply-to" header for MMS. So there might not be a way to send that group message to the single MMS recipient without sending it to all recipients over MMS. In order to get replies to go to the entire group, each group member has to be in the "to" field for the MMS-using phone to know all the group members.

It's a shame, because my understanding is that the MMS protocol is actually pretty similar to email in some ways... and yet they apparently left out "reply-to".
Little bit off topic question

Is there a public API or a database ASN ownership? Contact information would be nice also...
A friend of mine has a startup around something like a DAF for everyone. https://www.charityvest.org

I don't have any association with the company other than knowing the founders. No endorsement other than that they're good folks who want to help people have an easier time giving.
>Are you implying a direct causative link

No.

The person I was responding to was making the claim that budget cuts were made to make tax cuts possible. I was trying to say that the tax cuts did not lower the revenue so budget cuts were not needed to justify the tax cuts.
Is there a chance you publicly reveal your other IM contacts? Because as it stands I pretty much never get spam on Instagram, Whatsapp, Line, nor Messenger (FB). I don't even get spam in the "Message Requests" of FB messenger.
iMessage has read receipts, faster and more reliable delivery, higher quality images/videos. More than just the color of the bubble
Insurance payments being equal, I don't think it needs to be said that not wanting your things to be set on fire is a reasonable ask.
Vi was made for a keyboard without arrows, which is why it has hjkl instead.
I can tell you that we haven't pulled any of the tricks that you outlined (nor any other tricks that I can think of).

I think we treat the tenants fairly. My wife's background checks are her way of assessing whether someone can actually pay the rent that we're asking for. If the applicant makes $20K / year and the rent is $1300 / month, both parties are just asking for trouble if they sign a lease.

> People just want a place to live.

Can I stay at your place?
This doesn't make sense to me.

Javascript is a breath of fresh air after writing async code in almost every other ecosystem from Go to Java to Python to Swift. Pretty much any async code snippet in those languages can be improved by porting it to Javascript.

Async/await + the ubiquitous Promise make it my go-to choice for writing anything networked. Especially over the other popular dynamically typed languages.
Yet the stonks go up.
SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites and achieves a reusability record
Building Cloud-Native Apps on Azure
How Azure Principal Product Manager builds cloud-native applications on Azure services
> each from 400 undisclosed locations

A point of clarification, submarines are the only nuclear platform with "undisclosed locations." It is trivial for a nation-state to observe the construction and fitment of a fixed ICBM placement, or track the movements of a truck/rail mounted launcher.
This is interesting. Have you noticed any practical effects on your workflow or productivity?
In 2017, a macOS VM (even on Mac hardware, iirc) would function impeccably with the sole exception that iMessage would be blocked. Hypervisors (and kexts) have improved considerably since then, however.
The Making of Tron
> ... the officer said he was unwilling to go further with [the FBI] because he did not want to wear a wire or take a polygraph test.

Why is the FBI still using widely discredited tech (polgraphs)?
Doesn't this solution as well?

> I do now have a fully working iMessage client that runs on Windows and sends messages via an up-to-date macOS High Sierra installation running on my rMBP.
This is why I would never use Amazon Web Services for my startup. You can't count on them to not pull the plug if a product doesn't gain traction.

killedbyamazon.com

/s
https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_...
Thanks! I’ll try this out.
(I couldn't load the drpeering.net link.)

As far as business models having this enables, it's digital land that belongs to SpaceX/StarLink, which doesn't really restrict what sort of business can be run with it. ISPs will have an AS (sometimes more than one), but non-ISP Internet companies sometimes also have an AS. Google for, example has AS15169 [0] and Google Search and Maps and YouTube and everything is served from there. (Ignore Google Fiber as it predates it.)

Wikipedia[1] goes into peering far more elaborately than I, but it would be pure speculation on my part to say anything more elaborate than "StarLink will be an ISP". Elon Musk could give the StarLink receiver hardware away for free and start his own TV channel, having this AS enables that, but doesn't give any indication other than StarLink intends to be on the Internet in a some way. (Not that you'd necessarily need an AS to have a TV channel.)

[0] https://bgp.he.net/AS15169#_whois
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone
I lived in a building with a few section 8 tenants. Most were disabled, some elderly, and others young single mothers. I only found out we had any at all because the property manager mentioned it to me. It was primarily a building of young professionals and grad students. She told me management love them. Government always pays the rent on time. They still had to pass a background check so that locked out a lot of the assumptions.
Was fun to meet people there! Thanks feross
This is also my understanding and why I don't agree with people who consider the press a protected class that can refuse to comply when the police delcare an unlawful assembly and order everyone to leave. That doesn't mean the police can act with impunity. It just means that the press are mistaken to think they can seek legal remedy when they are arrested for failing to comply with the order to clear out.
Curious, what were your issues with Whatsapp?
Funny, I've actually spent a good amount of time tearing apart the iMessage database back in 2016-2017. The queries you end up with are hilarious. Here's one from my website's sample code

```

INNER JOIN chat_message_join ON message.ROWID = chat_message_join.message_id
INNER JOIN chat ON chat.ROWID = chat_message_join.chat_id
INNER JOIN chat_handle_join ON chat.ROWID = chat_handle_join.chat_id
INNER JOIN handle ON handle.ROWID = chat_handle_join.handle_id
LEFT JOIN message_attachment_join ON message.ROWID = message_attachment_join.message_id
LEFT JOIN attachment ON attachment.ROWID = message_attachment_join.attachment_id
...

```

But it really wasn't that hard. I was able to programmatically send and receive iMessages. The problem (as the author pointed out) was that this changed, and didn't really work for the long. Although, I'm sure it could still be reveng'd – it's a pain in the ass, and (for me) not really worth it... =/
Former Defense Secretary Mattis' Statement on Trump and Protests
>No one ever stopped and asked what would happen if someone a little more irrational now had these expanded powers.

Now that's just deeply wrong. People have been complaining about this my entire life. I was 12 when the PATRIOT act came into being and I remember people pointing out all the deeply unamerican ways it could be used, and then later all the ways that it was in fact being abused. I've been complaining about consolidation of power in the executive branch my entire politically conscious life. And right now on HN there are people constantly complaining about the overreaches of surveillance under the belief that they will all be abused one day. This isn't a surprise.
Woah, that’s a thing?
I'm sure that the ~richest company on Earth could have consumed VirnetX without a hiccough.
> It is making some of them unusable, requiring a hard reset.

Well that's still a "soft brick" right?
At the same time, it's inconceivable that a journalist could be mistaken for a rioting, window breaking, projectile throwing looter.

Which says something important about where the riot-gear-clad police are aiming their "cross fire". (And hence why the protests are needed, and why some of the protesters become violent after a few generations of the same old same old...)
I was thinking about moving to Android about three years back. The thing that stopped me from even seriously considering it was iMessage.

Everyone I know uses iMessage. SMS is unreliable, works poorly in group chats, and can't easily be sent/received from my computer.

(I will still eventually need to go to Android because I'm not giving up my headphone jack, but I'll be hanging onto my iPhone 6S for as long as possible.)
Meanwhile American police killed 9 unarmed black men in 2019.

(In 2015, 36 unarmed black men were killed by American police)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
In the second scenario, I don't think it's the pre-increment operator that's shown but the unary-plus.
> Typing ‘HE’ (in Colemak) forced the hand to make a very unnatural sideways twisting motion from the wrist and then back again.

Perhaps I have larger hands than the average, but I don't experience this. I can even type DE with the index and middle finger of my right hand. Anyone have video of how this is uncomfortable? I'm having trouble imagining it.
Sorry about that. Just noticed that I misread your comment. It took me a while to realize that you wrote WYSIWYM to mean "what you see is what you mean".

I don't get the appeal of logographic scripts though. I personally think an alphabet with strict pronunciation rules is the way to go. It's easy to learn and more predictable. And psychologically speaking it doesn't even matter all that much whether meaning is contained in words or characters. We read scripts by meaning anyways. In reading English for example, we read words, not characters.

"It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Right, and smaller island countries like Iceland were able to go for border-line eradiction without a full lock down.
> What is in your opinion the opposite of White Nationalism on the radical spectrum?

Not him but I'm giggling over here thinking about insurrectionary anarchism with compulsory interracial characteristics.
In my password manager notes section
Chinese in practice is a rebus for a language that was spoken 3,000 years ago. There are a few hundred basic characters and most other ones have a meaning half and a phonetic half shoves together. E.g. 論 lun (discourse) = 言 speech plus sounds like 侖 lun.
I think there's a problem of how the keyboard works and when in the boot process it's reset. With NVMe drives, the boot processes is even faster!
I have a bit of a hard time with you there, I like to use maps in my code and trying to map a parser over a list of strings and getting the wrong answer is far from 'of no consequence' to me.

I'm not saying these issues make the language unusable, but you've got to be a bit more honest that you were if you want to be taken seriously.
Looks like you have never used Whatsapp!
I’m at FB and the nuance between supporting BLM/racial equality and preserving free speech has been lost. If you don’t think Zuck should’ve taken down Trump’s ramblings then you’ll likely be seen quite negatively by people all across the org chart, potentially including your direct and indirect superiors.

Of my own team:

30% definitely support

20% probably support

50% unknown/neutral

0% definitely against

I wrote more thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411899
Only seven? Rookie. I probably have 15 to 20 folders that somewhat serve that purpose :P
Please don't. Yes there is a database of contacts, but the people on the other end only want to hear from you if you also run an ASN.
I'm not for this reactionary sort of rhetoric. Assault of a journalist shouldn't be worse than regular assault any more than assault of a cop should be worse than regular assault. Your job is not a shield. All people are equally deserving of protection, and qualifiers based on identity screw that ideal up massively.
Epidemiologists have been saying that per-capita comparisons don't make sense, since if you start with 10 cases, and have an Rt of 2, you get 20 cases, no matter if your population is 1 or 100 million.
Why would anyone want to buy an iPhone because of iMessage. It doesn't do anything special
Well, you are going to spend all the saved effort in ensuring you have the layout working everywhere.

I am contractor, most of the time working on corporate PC. I use dvorak and it is already a huge PITA to explain to yet another corporate drone I need to be able to set up my own keyboard layout. Windows does not have Dvorak layout with polish accents so I have to either use my own driver or, more likely, write without polish accents.

Another problem is that Windows can have different keyboard layout when logging in and different when unlocking the machine which might cause additional login failures. Some applications try to be smart (which rarely works) and control keyboard layout. At one bank the remote desktop app would switch keyboard layout periodically (like every 5 minutes) depending on my locale settings.

So this is with Dvorak, which is popular enough. Try with a completely unknown layout and you are pretty much screwed if you ever need to be able to use computer that is not your own.
The justification for the Fairness Doctrine was that the airwaves were a public resource and that anyone using that resource was required to use it responsibly and in the interest of the public.
Will this effect the economy and the stock market at some point? That is not clear to me. The way the stock market is going it makes me quite scared. The whole thing might just collapse under its own weight at some point.
Finding it by knowing the dev tools is a technique not everyone has at their disposal. I offered the suggestion of how it could be fixed, someone provided a copypasta to do it for everyone regardless of familiarity with the dev tools. That should be applauded!
Clip of the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwrSlzZC31w
^ As of 11:24 PM EDT this story is now the top story on HN. Kind of nuts!
I think it's a pretty safe bet that starlink will act just as an ISP. The business model is obvious, "existing ISPs target people living in permanent ground based dwellings in densely populated areas well, we'll target everyone else". Everyone else includes some obvious lucrative targets, passenger jets (especially on intercontinental flights), ocean fairing ships, rich people living in places that simply aren't hooked up to other ISPs - such as many cottages.

The military isn't particularly interesting, for the most part they're just a special case of the ship and plane market segment.
Here in Sydney Australia some local council restrictions are very onerous when it comes to trimming or removing older trees (except a short list of excluded species). I've heard of fines of $40,000 or more. Nothing like that near you?
Same for me, but with my primary number on Google voice. Google dropped the ball here with an option to compete with iMessage, whether with Voice or Hangouts/Gchat
Markets function through buying and selling. More people need to be selling then buying for prices to go down. But the fed is just coming in and buying in the markets with no buyers so this mechanism stops working and unsurprisingly prices are staying inflated.
Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram based disposable mail
I did something very similar, extracting the iMessage database. It works by you making an iTunes backup of your phone, and then accessing a specific file in the backup. I ended up with a query that looks like this (only tested with iOS 8, as I sadly lost interest afterwards):

WITH groupchat_membership AS (
SELECT cache_roomnames,
group_concat(id, ', ') AS members
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT message.cache_roomnames, handle.id
FROM message
JOIN handle ON message.handle_id=handle.ROWID
WHERE message.cache_roomnames IS NOT NULL AND message.is_from_me=0
)
GROUP BY cache_roomnames
),
unsorted_messages AS (
SELECT message.ROWID AS rowid,
CASE WHEN message.cache_roomnames IS NOT NULL THEN groupchat_membership.members ELSE handle.id END AS recipient,
CASE WHEN message.is_from_me THEN 'Me' ELSE handle.id END AS sender,
message.date,
strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S', datetime(message.date + 978307200, 'unixepoch', 'localtime')) AS human_date,
CASE WHEN message.cache_has_attachments THEN '<Attachment>' || message.text ELSE message.text END AS text
FROM message
LEFT JOIN handle ON message.handle_id=handle.ROWID
NATURAL LEFT JOIN groupchat_membership
)
SELECT unsorted_messages.recipient, sender, human_date, text
FROM unsorted_messages
NATURAL LEFT JOIN (
SELECT recipient, max(date) AS latest_date FROM unsorted_messages GROUP BY recipient
)
ORDER BY latest_date DESC, date ASC;
Sweden made some very bad choices and a lot of people died unnecessarily. Compare with Portugal, same population, right next to Spain, lower GDP, a fraction of the deaths. There is no excuse, no 'second wave', no economic payoff, no wait and see.

Scientists are trained to make judgments based on experimentation and evidence. In a fast moving novel pandemic situation, where there is no time to carry out experiments, where evidence is confused and hard to corroborate, their utility is much reduced. That is why politicians exist, to make these hard decisions. It is unfair to pillory scientists such as Tegnell, as it is the politicians who abdicated responsibility in the face of this crisis that should rightfully face condemnation.

Except of course, there was evidence, from China, Taiwan, South Korea and elsewhere. It was clear what needed to be done, and how to do it. Shame on Sweden, and other places, for not heeding that guidance.
I'd hate to break it to you but if you look at the actual data collected on police shootings you will see that while black Americans are overrepresented (they are 13% of the population but represent 24% of people killed by police), there are many many cases where the person killed is the same race as the officer. The majority of people killed by police in the USA were white.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

BLM doesn't form protests when black men are killed by black cops. They are politically savvy and understand that the optics of that aren't conducive to their message. In fact, they don't appear to care at all about non black people killed by police either. The 76 percent of people killed by police that aren't black don't interest them.

The real danger to black men in USA is being murdered by a non cop. Black men are insanely overrepresented in both homicide victimization and perpetration.

It should be noted that southern whites in the USA had massive rates of homicide until the early 20th century. They have significantly higher rates of violence compared to northern whites even today.

Culture > Race
interesting and sad story. It is light on details of the incident, other than a passing reference that it was a DUI, and the cop shot the handcuffed son in the head claiming that the son went for his gun (when his holster had actually snagged on a car mirror)

Would be ideal to have bodycam footage from all officers
Like pretty much every other messaging app on every phone platform currently existence?
FaceTime has used h.265 since the iPhone 6: https://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/13/apples-iphone-6-i...
Individual SMS is fine. Group SMS stinks. You can’t remove yourself from a conversation unless everyone else moves on to a new thread without you. Also, you don’t get contact names for ad hoc group conversations with new people.

Trying to get people to agree to a proper chat platform is like wrangling cats. If everyone in the group has an iOS device, then there’s no decision to be made.
The security stuff for NodeJS is really frustrating. If anything, NodeJS is more secure than something like the JVM or C++. If I include a 3rd party package in the JVM, I have absolutely no guarantee that it will work well, much like in Node. In fact, in Node, I can actually read the source code and see what the package is, running is doing. In nearly every other environment, you may simply have access to a binary, with maybe some interface info.

So why do people not throw the same kind of fit about nearly every other programming environment as they do for Node/NPM? And frankly why do those other environemnts not have the ridiculous security breaches we have seen in Node/NPM land?

The real problem with Node/NPM i suspect is a lack of a standard library. Simply having a standard library would have greatly reduced dependency and package hell. Further, a standard library would mean people would be more willing to write a little more code rather than include a new dependency.