skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have my doubts that being a weirdo is actually that much easier today, and I see that others have made the same point. However, the kinds of things that qualify as weird have definitely shifted. Wanna be gay? Sure, no problem (in most cities in most parts of the western world). Want to avoid sending your kids to formal schooling, sell things out of the back of your truck, or avoid working a full-time job? Expect to get a lot of hassle both from society and from the state.
The biggest risk are longer contacts, not very short ones. You don't want to notify everyone that passed that person on the street, but you do want to notify everyone that was reasonably close in the same train for half an hour.

This is pretty much just an extension to classic contact tracing. And there you also have to work with very rough categories of risk, this isn't so much different.
They're very, very local. My customers are doctors. They need face to face conversation to be convinced. The big sales effort was a big reason why I stopped.
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People will choose convenience over privacy when they can't see the threat. Zoom is convenient for video calls because it allows you to see all the people in the call on one screen, you can schedule meetings, the connection quality is good, it supports screen sharing and it's fully cross platform.

You already disqualified Facetime because realistically some of your friends and family have Android and Windows. WhatsApp connection quality is flaky, same with Skype. Does signal support group class? If it does maybe it could replace Zoom. Maybe. But all these options existed before lockdown and people still settled on Zoom because it's more convenient.

Either some massive scandal has to happen to make the public more privacy conscious or there needs to be e2e encryption by default, as a standard. With or without invisible state surveilled cameras shouldn't factor in to which dining table I buy.
Last time I tried, the web version of Zoom required you to create an account (even when using Chromium and the trick of canceling the download twice to make it show the web version link). The app, on the other hand, does not require creating an account.
I've just read a nice little contemporary Japanese book about a woman who has a hard time not being "normal": Convenience Store Woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convenience_Store_Woman
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Here's a podcast episode I created with GPT-2, after fine tuning with transcripts of Elon Musk on The Joe Rogan Experience.

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So you're basically agreeing with the article.
Happy to hear you like them!
Dumb question: with all we know about theoretical quantum physics, couldn't we compute what happens in these extreme conditions? Or is it still computationally intractable? If so, why is that?
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I keep in touch with my high school teachers every now and then, asking about how "kids these days" are evolving. The biggest trend has been that socializing now occurs digitally – during breaks, classrooms are silent as students use snapchat.

Another trend that's really stood out – not just at my school, but according to other educators I've talked to across the US – is much less bullying, and much more acceptance of kids who are different (especially those with disabilities). I'm lead to believe that the sort of kid who would previously have been a bully is now the type to really stick up for someone who is differently abled. Of course, having a "weird" preference of some kind – like a partner of another race or a long beard – is a different thing, but still, my impression is that most schools at least in the US are far more tolerant of differentness now than even 20-30 years ago.
> ... We had very poor test coverage in the areas most in need of refactoring because they were the oldest code, written before we established good test practices.

That's probably not a coincidence. I like to ask those most strongly opposed to test-first development how they refactor code. I have yet to get an answer the leads to anything other than a rewrite at some point.

Of course, the rewrite might be coming for the test-first codebase as well. But in that case, the test suite can be leveraged to great effect as a detailed specifications document. This is one of the benefits of test suites that doesn't get enough attention.
I wonder if the iPhone's sapphire camera lens helps?

My 4 year old 6S (used caseless and without much caution its entire life) lens is still pristine.
You are over-simplifying things way too much. Derek Chauvin, along with the officers accompanying him are collectively guilty. In my view, equally guilty. Now, a policeman on the other side of the country who a week ago had no idea that George Floyd or Derek Chauvin or the other officers existed?

That's the equivalent of blaming any European for the Holocaust or any Muslim for terrorist attacks or any eastern European for car thefts or any other stereotype you can think of. I mean isn't this what the whole thing is about? Abolishing stereotypes? I'm all up for that, but trying to abolish something by actively using it seems really counter-productive to say the least.

As I previously said, I've had encounters with horrid police officers, regardless of my polite manners. But I'm also aware policemen are people with the exact same problem like any of us. I see something deeply hypocritical in the whole situation(and the many similar situations across the world over the years). Truth be told I only know one police officer personally. And the truth is he is one of the kindest people I have ever met, despite being utterly strict in his work. Now given the opportunity to choose between rocks flying his way and people calling him a dirty pig or playing with his 2 year old granddaughter in the evenings, which one do you think he'd rather pick?
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> I think it must be a lot easier to be a weird misfit now than it was in 1935.

I think it just depends. Some things are more accepted, others less.

It might be pretty career-limiting if one admitted that the reason one never works Sunday mornings is because one is at church.
Canadians don't realize how high their telco bills are because that's their reality they don't know prices elsewhere and the closest neighbour have also high prices
Agree on the cheapening part - but I really love the reminders on my phone - 5yrs ago or 3yrs ago of simple everyday events - cheap photos but fond memories.. photos that probably would not have been taken with an actual camera.
Now might be a good time to mention that if you join the Free Software Foundation as an associate member you gain an account on their Jitsi server.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-gives-freedom-respec...
Co-operating with police isn't a 'PR disaster' when directed by a court. Checks and balances establish the legal framework for which Zoom aids the police - a court order. It's not hard.
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What will be the effect on individuals and the economy?
> Want to avoid sending your kids to formal schooling

Acceptance of perceived weirdness at the intersection of the custody of minors seems like something which should move on a generational timescale
Static type systems don't necessarily prevent accidental null value usage. Not sure where you get that impression?

However, for initialized variables, nulls (or None) was an example I used as that is the common one in python and conveys the point rather than language details. All of the "decent static type" systems I'm aware of have the same issue with undefined values that break behavior. E.g. zero's as integers, empty strings.

Heck even in C# where where you have a Nullable type, it gets abused more often than used legitimately and is seen as a nuisance by most developers. Not only that, but even with that static type system you mention, initialized variables are a big problem. Hence all the null-reference exceptions that are all-too common.
The GSA publishes their regulations for registering .gov domains: https://www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/policy/information-in... . In short, an authorized representative of the agency (head or CIO) needs to send a letter: https://home.dotgov.gov/registration/authorization-templates... . It's safe to assume that, since those partitions were created as part of a federal contract, those letters were a normal part of the buildout.
Did you use install first Ubuntu yourself and did you use standard images for first Ubuntu install?
Both of these books are fiction. I don't see how any conclusions can be drawn about how easy or hard it is to be a weirdo in any particular time.
This video is a few years old now, but I found it interesting:

The long, slow, SaaS ramp of death

https://businessofsoftware.org/talk/how-to-negotiate-the-lon...
Overall they have lower population density but how does that translate to reality when 1/3 of their population lives in cities?
I suspect a certain government advisor, notorious for driving across country during a lockdown as a bizarre form of eye test, wants to siphon private information to data mining companies owned by his friends in order to manipulate future elections. And the GDPR, as far as I am aware, only applies if you are in, or doing business with, the EU, which the UK is no longer part of thanks to the aforementioned government advisor.
Look people can build killdozers and flatten police buildings for all i care. The point is that blocking traffic is an escalation that could literally cost lives, either by denying travel in an emergency or by putting cars and human bodies in conflict.
Citizens who kill looters are heroes. That part is not a fantasy.
Why is zoom succeeding? Its truly a mystery to me. Why don't people just use meet or teams, which are free?
Nice random personal attack! You'd make a great cop!
I'm really liking this classless movement. Looks like a nice basic template by itself for docs or a blog post in HTML too.
> - the highest incarceration rate per capita on Earth except Seychelles (5% of pop, 25% of prisoners)

Maybe they commit more crime.
This is circular reasoning.

"We're not any nicer to weirdos. How do I know? Well, because the subset of people we're still not nice to, we're not nice to!"

Bare minimum, there's always going to be some demographic ostracized by society, even if that demographic is only, like, murderous cannibals.

Only looking at whichever demographics are currently treated poorly to evaluate how society treats the people who it treats poorly means you've fixed the "niceness to weirdos" quotient in place by definition.
> As far as I know the Swedish healthcare system wasn't overwhelmed.

They werent because their official position was to not send old people to the hospital and to just let them die. 50% of all people who died lived in care homes, despite the intention being to protect exactly those people.

Here is the BBC reporting about it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52704836
If you're running in DX crop all the time, consider a D500. The sensor's smaller, sure, but I don't have noise problems at ISO 2000, and the blazing fast shutter has caught a lot of jump shots I'd probably otherwise have missed. I do use a D850 for macro work, but I wouldn't replace the D500 for wildlife. (Or the 200-500, which is amazing, even if it does make people think I must be a pro and lead to being annoyed with questions when I'm just trying to take pictures of birds.)

edit: Doesn't have the D850's focus peaking in live view, though, as far as I know. I never use it for that, so better off checking the manual.
My view may be colored by living in occupied DC, where there are a lot of armored vehicles and heavily armed federal security forces, some of whom appear to be quite comfortable amping up the violence levels. Given their past actions, black people with guns would be a time-honored excuse to say they felt threatened.

I have a number of coworkers who are veterans and while they’re generally confident that the military would refuse to follow general orders to attack civilians, nobody wants to test what might happen in confusion if they’re deployed to backup the police. All you need is one mistake and a lot of people can get hurt before the confusion clears.
Updating the firmware changed nothing. On the product page I don't see linux compatibility even mentioned.
I've heard that Jedi is an official response in Oz, but is there anywhere one can claim "Bill & Ted-ism" as a religion?
This is a great tool for Italy. It's too bad the US government can't step up their game with contact tracing -- we could really use something like this right now.
> TBH I don't know. How much money is spent determining whether or not someone is eligible for welfare? How much is spent on sourcing vendors and distribution?

Probably a lot in absolute terms, but insignificantly little in relative terms, i.e. if you pay somebody (in cash or in rent or vouchers) $1000, you're not adding $1000 on top. Romney claimed as much in 2012 and the numbers don't support it [1]. Money quote: Combined federal and state administrative costs range from 1 percent to 10 percent of total federal- and state-funded program spending.

That's considerable, but it's not going to fund UBI, especially not if there's an expansion beyond those that currently receive money from the programs.

> If UBI resolves, to pull a number from no-where, 90% of the issues social workers are needed for, now you've got 10x the social workers to do that engagement with your neighbor.

True, but we've tried "increase the number of social workers" in Germany, and it didn't help. After all, you can only achieve so much with offered help. If you want change, you may have to force it. It's similar with drug addicts: you absolutely can get them clean, but only if they want to (and want it enough to stick it out, as it's not a fun process even with help and support) or if you force them. Simply building rehab centers alone isn't going to do it.

I'm not a fan of UBI, I believe it will be a terrible thing medium to long-term and will create a permanently unproductive under-class with zero agency that requires constant adult supervision. I do believe in a Universal Right To Work, though. Guarantee them a job, even if it's not a productive one but merely picking up trash, visiting lonely elders or explaining directions to tourists, and pay them in return. It changes the dynamic and you keep a habit of exchanging work for money (and getting out of bed), and it has basically none of the moral hazards of UBI, does not incentivize not-contributing, does not require closing your borders immediately after introducing the policy etc. I'm sure it's hard to work out as well (e.g. you don't want the state to ruin markets etc), but I believe it's a much better approach, and it's also much easier to sell to those that will have to fund it (which, let's not kid ourselves, are never going to be the 1%, the international corporations or those that inherit large sums of money, but the average worker).

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/romneys-charge-that-most-feder...
To my sibling commenter (because reply stops at this depth):

> I'm not black but I've been subjected to stop and search on the streets of London. I've been taken aside and put in a room by police while they checked me out on entering the UK only to eventually be told "OK, you can go" at the end of it, no apology. But generally I've found with police that if you're polite and cooperative they are respectful in return. My first boss in the UK, who wasn't white, one of the first things he said to me was to be wary of black people, they have a chip on their shoulder. I was pretty shocked to hear him say that actually.

I'm not black either, and I live in the UK.

I've been stopped by police, I've seen others stopped by police, and I've been with people who are stopped by police.

For the most part the interactions have been fine, but I have seen what looked like black folks "hassled" in London which I have not seen happen to white folks. It is just anecdata and may be nothing but random experiences.

For me the most striking difference was on the border between France and Switzerland.

My girlfriend was black; I was white. We were stopped at the border driving across, by men with extremely large guns. I got a cursory skim of my papers, but my black girlfriend had to get out of the car, be detained for a while, have her papers checked other and generally given a hard time. Even though she had a stronger connection to both countries than I did. However we both had UK passports. They basically didn't believe she was a UK citizen, or that she worked for the UN... just down the road!

Eventually they let us drive on, but it was a very striking difference in treatment.
The annoying thing there is that even with hardware support, login managers or pam specifically still don't get the idea of "you can use either the password or the fingerprint now". You get a choice of their using empty password then the finger, or exhausting fingerprint attempts before using password. Neither is great. I'm not even sure that's possible to solve with the way pam works.
I wonder how quickly contact tracing applications will be leveraged for other uses. If a significant number of protesters are using such an application then I imagine government will throw the “for your protection“ excuse to go harvest information from the phones of protesters to see who was meeting with him and who their social circles are. Of course, to keep us and our children safe.
> I'm lead to believe that the sort of kid who would previously have been a bully is now the type to really stick up for someone who is differently abled.

Or who enjoys bullying a different outgroup now. That does raise questions about the nature of bullying. Do bullies see themselves as heroic protectors of the norm, whether that norm is white people in the 1890s or trans Eskimos in the 2020s? How do bullies experience their own bullying of others? Do they feel righteous?

There has to be a literature about this.
I agree. Being different isn't any easier or harder. We've just moved some things from the "socially accepted weird" list to the "socially unacceptable weird" list and vice versa.

(yes I know my comment is a massive generalization)
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Ask HN: Can the `lang=“en”` attribute interfere with the text content in Chrome?
We had a wired situation and I would love to get some input from others if they encountered something similar.

We released a React application two weeks ago and had some great feedback on the project. Several newspapers wrote about it, we also had some online coverage, many visitors and also users who signed up.

The wired thing was, that about 1.5 weeks later a journalist wrote about the project and he complained in his article that our language was really bad. He pointed out two sentences. In one the German word "schnapp" (means grab) was exchanged for "Schnaps" (which is booze) and another one where "Gründen" was changed to "gehören".

I did some review of the source file and we never had these words in our git history of the file. He told us that he is using Chrome (no version mentioned). The only thing out of the ordinary was that we had in our markup the lang attribute set to English `<html lang="en">`. After changing only that one attribute to German he reported to us one day later that the issue was fixed.

So the only thing I can think of is some Chrome translation or auto correct feature or plugin changing the text from German to German.

Did anyone ever encounter something like this?
Maybe it is the "everyone is born guilty" mantra? That would make the policies job a lot easier.
I didn't feel I needed to know Go to read the example code.

(Plus, didn't "if err != nil" give it away?)
I thought it was the Four Chans of the Infopocalypse? shrug
A society which truly integrated their murderous cannibals would reserve bbq spots in the park for them. But no, they just have to put up with the cold shoulder.
Really happy to see that Lenovo is improving Linux support.

I picked up my first ThinkPad, an X1 Carbon with a i7-10710U and touchscreen, on sale last year and installed Manjaro Linux (with a vanilla Gnome DE). It's not a perfect hardware/software integration - the fingerprint reader doesn't work and neither does the onboard mic with the 5.4 kernel - but otherwise this is one of the best laptops I've ever used.

I don't think of it as a workstation. It's a portable premium keyboard with a decent screen attached. It's been great for light web dev and long form typing on the ~go~ couch. It barely weighs anything in my bag. Battery life on Linux is comparable to what I was getting on Windows, which is ~8 hours for light use.

Speaking of batteries, I had some issues with my battery not being recognized recently (it started by randomly reporting 0% charge before the machine started refusing to charge it altogether). The Lenovo support experience was surprisingly fast. I dropped off the machine at FedEx on a Tuesday morning and it was back in my hands by that Friday afternoon.

If you're thinking about going down the same path, my advice is that the Arch wiki is your friend.
How is this a test-first argument? You can write tests at anytime, bad discipline is bad discipline. I've never worked somewhere that didn't write tests because "they didn't write them first", they didn't write them because they were an immature organization.

My current job leaves it up to the developers, and most don't write tests first. Its no miracle that despite us not writing tests first, all changes have their unit tests, integration tests, and end to end tests. This is due to the fact its baked into our SDLC and enforced in code review.
These restaurants signed up for a voluntary man in the middle attack.

The reporter should have asked why these restaurants don't quit grub hub.
And the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
The Icelandic app is here https://github.com/aranja/rakning-c19-app
Is there a good site to different list models and rate compatibility? The anecdote about fans being super loud are scary. Not just Lenovo if possible
Security firm leaves more than 5B records exposed on unsecured database
What do you think it means to become nicer to weirdos, other than whatever counted as weird becoming more socially acceptable?