skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I knew that Amazon banned firearm sales (makes me sad), but they have some stupid arbitrary rules.

Prohibited: Single point, 3-point, tactical, and quick detach slings

Why? seems like slings can be used for many things.

Permitted: Fixed stocks, with the exception of thumbhole stocks

Prohibited: Any non-fixed stock, including telescoping, folding or collapsible stocks

Someone please tell me why non-fixed stock are so horrible?

Permitted: Magazine floor plates/base plates

I'm actually surprised by this one.

Prohibited: Full auto sears (also known as drop-in auto sear or DIAS)

Haha. Amazon would be the least of your problems if you sell one of these. They should also probably stop selling metal coat hangers.[1]

Prohibited: AR-15/M16 armorer’s wrenches or combo wrenches

Really? So I cannot by a castle wrench if it's marketed as for AR-15s?

Prohibited: Magazine loaders, except for those that can accommodate the following calibers: .223/5.56; 7.62x51; 308; 7.62x39; 5.45x39

Okay but .300 AAC, 6.5, 30-06, .338, .50 BMG/Beowulf are fine.

So much irrational hate for the AR-15 platform. It should be right up HNs alley as it is a fully customizable and reparable platform unencumbered by patents.

[1] https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/01/04/coat-hanger-m...
Smoke bombs or similar in the clean rooms would probably be a good start
Why go through all the steps of deriving gradient descent when there is an analytical formula to get the estimate of the parameters ? Maybe I guess to scale up in big data contexts? But the analytical solution in my opinion gives more insight to the problem than the gradient descent solution
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I was there in '79.
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The right of freedom of speech is the ability to express any political opinion.

This was the historical and traditional understand of the right, and it’s why the founders protected that right under the constitution.

Using the 1st amendment to justify selling pornography is an outrageous and blatant manipulation of the words of the constitution. 1A was never historically understood to protect degeneracy. Pornography isn’t a political opinion (except in the most abstract and meaningless sense) and it should be universally banned. Full stop.
In my opinion, there are many valuable lessons for any IC moving into a people management role. PMs are not as unique as they might think.
Which in this context probably means don't operate your business on the assumption that you can have an application in the Apple app store.
If the ticketing system is sane not so much. Obviusly this is always troublesome with the big players.
Imo, it's an unalienable right for everybody, but that doesn't mean cancel culture won't #$(% on you for speaking your belief. However, sometimes you have to say what you believe in even if you know you are going to be shamed for it. Perhaps this would be a good time for us all to go re-read The Scarlet Letter, eh?
There has been a long list of assholes that people would have gladly shut up at the time that turned out to change us all for the better. Galileo, for instance, wasn't known as the nicest guy. He basically wrote a book calling the pope an idiot. (The guy probably wasn't a genius, but Galileo could have made his point without going that far)

Offhand I could come up with a list of dozen people who were widely unliked by the folks in charge that were critical to our advancement. Oddly, many times the more unpleasant people found their personality, the more important the change eventually brought. They killed Socrates.

ADD: Related fun read for those interested: https://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Middle-Finger-Heretics-Activ...
> I don't think there's much evidence to support this. Lots of speculation and interpretation, but not much actual evidence.

I dunno, imagine trying to explain current year to a victorian sociologist/anthropologist, or a space alien in the large Magellanic cloud looking at a video feed of current year 170,000 years from now when it reaches them. People wave around these preposterous magic wands, knock over statues, banhammer people for saying taboo things. Functionally speaking a lot of weird human behavior can be categorized into "religious" whether or not there as an actual religion involved.

The Gold Hat: I saw it two summers ago in Berlin, and wasn't convinced at the time it has any Calendrical purpose. Could have been coincidence. Could have been some standard of clothing from that era (aka everyone walks around with calendars for the same reason everyone now walks around with small radio linked computers in their pockets; monkeys are weird; maybe this was some honcho's top hat). Personally I find the previously accepted idea these things were post decorations to be about as likely as magic hats. The past is a foreign country.
freedom of speech is a bit of a red herring here. liability (and even criminal penalties) for certain speech is not generally considered incompatible with the first amendment. keep in mind that section 230 exempts the platform from the usual liability and penalties that an individual or company would normally face.
If that's the case I don't see where it's clearly stated, unless they consider that to be a "rip off".

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#bus...
> ... through commingling the bones of several individuals” might have been especially important to people burying their dead in the cave. That process might have helped remind the living, in some way, of the connection between the individual and the group.

It's interesting that the speculation gravitates towards some symbolic meaning here. One could also make the point that maybe humans in the paleolithic era were not so different from humans throughout history, who moved or commingled remains of the dead for every reason from the veneration of saints to the fact the remains were in the way and needed to be put somewhere else.

Perhaps the bones were put there in that way because it was the only thing that made sense to the people of the time.
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> Moderating content to fit their narrative arguably makes them a publisher with all the consequences.

The problem being that there is no proof that this happens. Despite all attempts to construct some kind of "one side gets moderated stronger than the other" narrative this stays a conspiracy theory.
What to expect from WWDC 2020: OS updates, ARM Macs, and more
The two dead comments below are right. The premise of the article is that people who scored higher on IQ tests tended to be more likely to support free speech. That’s got to be the laziest argument I’ve ever seen.
Bad troll.
What type of VPN software are they using ? Hope it has some obfustication
> but it is NOT a FREEDOM of speech issue. It is an issue of access to megaphones.

Let them speak freely, but in a room with nobody else.
No ads to be pushed in an RSS feed.
If they have a warrant a VPN isn't going to protect you. If you think you are under active surveillance, you want more than a VPN.

Write-ups of the 2013 leaks revealed they did not compel ISPs to correlate traffic to subscriber information. It doesn't seem like they had any subscriber information in their database, only enough metadata about the communications to later compel a ISP to provide the subscriber information _postmortem_ (i.e. who did this cellphone number belong to on this date?).

ISPs weren't even compelled to share that metadata. It was a voluntary program. Some ISPs said no. Others said yes and then later backed out. In the end something like 80% of the traffic the NSA was after was able to be collected through the ISPs that voluntarily shared their data.

But, again, this was 2013. 2013 was forever ago, things may have changed.
"Whining" is an overly prejudicial word choice for this title. These are legitimate issues people have with what Apple is doing, not mere whining.

This echoes the "if you don't like it so much then just leave instead of speaking up" dismissal that is so commonly used as a lampshade for suppressing dissent. Not sure if that's the intent here but that's what it comes off as.

And this point from the article needs to be strongly rebutted:

> I don’t know, it seems silly to me to cry about monopolies. The solution is obvious. Stop making apps for iOS. Sure, you’re going to take a huge hit without access to those consumers [...]

This guy doesn't understand what monopolies are and how they work. The whole point is that there are no other alternatives, so you literally cannot "just stop using them". "Just stop patronizing the monopoly" is not a strategy that has ever been successful. The monopoly needs to be broken up.
Apple closing some stores because of Covid spike
We participated in the last SUS and it was awesome for us. Lots of feedback, improvement, new users and a successful PH launch.

Its an on line animation platform https://toonclip.com
I have never used them, but I guess I am still allowed to complain about how their action impacts my life.
Legislating in this direction might lead to there being a quiz at the end of every privacy policy. This doesn't seem like it would be great outcome to me.

Perhaps a better way would be to legislate what privacy policies can contain, so that they are more like Creative Commons licenses.
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For what it’s worth, this is the best in-depth summary of a phrase I’ve also been using: The right to speak to is not the right to sponsorship. The freedom from censorship is not the freedom from social consequences inflicted by other free people.

Overall I think the Internet works well for free speech in the US. It’s still cheap and easy to start your own website, so even if what you have to say is abhorrent to the majority you can still say it and have access to billions of people on earth. Just make sure you avoid CloudFlare.
And if you are really paranoid, you can just download the whole set of hashes and do the lookup yourself.
No, I'll do both.
The author changing "Hey" to "Yo" was also a poor choice considering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573386
The primary feature is the integration with Actions. Surprisingly most linter actions don't give you inline annotations. For each linter you have to find a separate solution.

Css
Eslint

Etc

I ended up using jest and the linter plugins for that, just so I would get readable inline reports.
Otherwise it just fails and my devs have to search for the raw log in the checks panel.

I didn't do any others because it's too much work to set up and runs longer, burns more carbon.
I'd imagine significant changes in the market is the best way to get Apple to do anything. If people keep buying and using all their products then they will keep doing what their doing.
I would find interesting if someone conducted a study, where they asked if the participant supports freedom of speech for various categories and their perceived ability to argue pro and con in that category, if it was possible to test their argumentation ability in said categories it would be also insightful. Mostly I suspect that while people hold strong beliefs, they don't have a deep enough understanding of it to rationalize why and argue if someone disagrees with them. In addition it would be interesting to know the participants readiness to enter an argument if they support the freedom of speech in each category.
I can't stop. I've been buying computers and peripherals and gizmos since 1974. I have a house full of them. I code for food. But I've yet to buy my first Apple product or service. Yes, it's mostly because I'm cheap. But it's also because I avoid walled gardens. I feel pretty good about that now. Climb on out, y'all, the weather's fine out here in the jungle.
I struggle to see how clustering trolls so they're just trolling each-other is a problem?

K-means clustering can quite easily distinguish between "echo chambers" -- where people just want to hear others who parrot their opinions and downvote any other voice, from "reasoned debate" -- where people downvote others who spout un-reasoned opinion, but upvote people they don't agree with, but who bring reasoned, respectful debate.

This is a solved problem. Its just that platform owners don't like the financial (and other) results of the solution.
> Paying customers may be product too.

That was implied ever since Microsoft decided to make Windows 10 free or at a very low cost to a majority of users. And, why not, as long as their fee is not outrageous for application developers and they don't restrict the users' ability to install software from other sources.
This is great, thanks for making it! I've got a bluetooth midi adaptor with my old Disklavier too - there is an iOS app for streaming midi files into it but it's got a monthly subscription. Your Chrome extension looks perfect.
The freedom of the press is the right of like minded people to print what they want (barring slander and libel). It is not a requirement that those like minded people print content they object to.
So author would have us abandon a duopoly, and give google a monopoly? That should work out well. Anybody remember microsoft in the 90s?
My self-check on restricting freedoms is whether I would let someone I ardently oppose have the same power.
Agreed. There's a false dichotomy here. You can use a product, and as a stakeholder demand change. Refraining from using the product entirely is one way to achieve that, but it's not the only way. Many products evolve because of user-feedback.
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I'm wondering how you jumped from "K-means Clustering", which implements much stronger and more fairly applied moderation than any current scheme, to "total removal of moderation".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794
Anti-trust problems can't be solved by individual consumer choices.
Agreed. I feel as though it's akin to saying "if you don't like America, leave!" Voiced legitimate concern can bring positive change.
Workers re-hired on a contract could defend themselves against lack of employment protections by working outside IR35 and providing these protections themselves. The change takes this away as only the client will be able to decide how worker is taxed. This favour agencies over independent workers as agencies have more freedoms what business costs they can deduct from tax and what salaries to pay to their workers. This is a seemingly subtle change, that changes from benign to lethal.
I do wonder ... Introduce fear, or just personal interests and does that support go out the window?

Anecdotally, my view of 2A rights completely flipped once I saw police attacking people in their homes and property for no other reason than filming protests.

I used to (naively) think the police and government were generally passive to citizens even when politically differing. It's amazing how quickly the illusion can be shattered.
The relelnless push to apps aka blocking ads & tracking marches on
Not all can freely choose platforms. Clearly a fully free one would be ideal, but unless you do web development, who has that kind of luxury?
And that's great if you just want to vent. Just don't expect change.
"Style" means things that the human sees. If it changes execution its not style any more. This is what tests are designed to enforce.
Is anyone forced to listen to any of these megaphones? From the listener's perspective, there is no difference between an individual making some claim or some statement, and a corporation or someone with a newspaper making some claim or some statement. The problem you have is that now more people have to do more thinking for themselves, and you don't think they're capable of handling it.
I agree. I also hate the sentiment "vote with your wallet". By all means, send them a message by not buying their products, that surely will do something. However, it's also important to give feedback in written form either directly or by publishing editorials.
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A competitor could charge x=0 if they can get sponsored apps to pay up so that they appear at the top of the listings.
> The solution is obvious. Stop making apps for iOS. Sure, you’re going to take a huge hit without access to those consumers

The solution is obvious. Sabotage your own business. Sure, you're going to go out of business without any customers.
Or root, mod, buy on secondary markets and avoid updates, can't expect them to not piss the pool if you let em…
"I know that the devices are pretty and feel nice and maybe your friends all have one and you want to signal that you’re one of the crowd, but it’s not worth it."

That's quite an over simplification of the appeal of an iPhone and comes off as him whining about whiners. I'd like to switch back to a flip phone from a privacy perspective, but there's a few conveniences that would be hard to go without. I refuse to buy any more Android phones as I've only had issue after issue with software and hardware, and Apple seems like the lesser of two evils.

It feels like we're stuck in an American political party system where our only reasonable options are to choose between two companies that only have their own best interests in mind.
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If you don’t like how Apple does business, stop using their products.

If you don’t like how Google does business, stop using their products.

If you don’t like how either one does business, stop using technology all together.

I am being facetious, but mainly to illustrate the point that we now have a series of entrenched monopolies in the tech world so “stop using X” isn’t a realistic solution.
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Apple is based in a country that allows you to buy firearms in your local grocery store.
I recently bought a system76 lemur pro after being a long time macbook user:

https://system76.com/laptops/lemur

I will not claim that there are no trade offs, but I find it a very productive machine, and very light weight. I use an external monitor and keyboard, plugged in to a usb-c hub, and it works well.

I am hoping that the mudita pure can replace my iphone:

https://mudita.com/products/pure/

I do wish someone would do a not-dumb-but-not-too-smart e-ink phone with basic maps and a physical keyboard, but I recognize that I am likely a market of one for that product.
Ask HN: What software does Linux need?
C++ developer, soon to be recovering from surgery. I thought I might use this time to work on a project.

What software is missing from Linux? I've written a text editor and a window manager in the past.
How do you distinguish between censorship and social consequences inflicted by other free people?
I thought this was actually about Yo again! Had me tricked out they were relevant again.
This strikes me as one step removed from that meme: "I see you complain about modern farming practices and yet still eat. Interesting..."
Maybe he should have used "Let's go" instead...
The argument is basically from the fact that it occurred once and never again. Eukaryotes are the result of a symobiosis between archaea and bacteria, and we have yet to find any intermediary steps nor anything else that looks like a similar occurrence in nature. And yet there's nothing stopping that fact from happening again and it hasn't. Though apparently there is one tantalyzing find that may or may not amount to something.

And also it seems to have taken 2 billion or more years for it to happen.

And bacteria and archaea are pretty much "happy" the way they are.

The development of eukaryotes broke an energy and complexity limit because of the symbiosis between mitochondria (which were once free roaming bacteria) and the host cell. It freed up the host cell to create genetic complexity orders of magnitudes higher than what a prokaryote can produce. Complex life cannot develop from prokaryotes because they simply can't produce enough energy to make it happen.

Nor do they need to, they are extremely successful.
"I'm going to make one of those unpopular opinions, but alas, it must be said: It is far easier to just drop Apple support entirely."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23286883

(Its becoming more popular! Yaaaaaay!)
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> Such as if you had a theoretical, nonexistant ground terminal that was capable of communicating with a satellite at only 1 degree look angle elevation above the horizon.

No, no, that is not even close to true. Measure the big circles. They have a radius roughly the same as satellite altitude. From an altitude of 550km, the area the satellite can see all the way down to the horizon is wider than the contiguous united states, east to west.
When I tell people I don't like tracking the defense of all this nonsense is "People prefer getting relevant adverts"

I then ask them, "Is it working? Do you really see advertisements online that mostly show you things that are meaningful to you? Are online ads more relevant to you than what you see on TV or hear on the radio?"

The honest always answer "No."
> Stop buying iPhones. Seriously. They’re overpriced and locked-down and controlled by Apple in infuriating ways that hurt you, even if Apple has succeeded in keeping you ignorant of that fact.

I'll take your word for it... not! iPhones are fine, everyone who has used both current Android and iOS devices can see that. It's not hurting me that "Hey" has to pay 30% for their subscriptions. Hotels, restaurants and other companies have to pay similar rates to their respective dominating "gatekeepers" as well. For the consumer it doesn't matter. For someone like "Hey" the way to go is to pay up now and if they are successful, they might be able to negotiate better terms later.
They do not define the term "assault weapon". It only has a legal definition in a handful of states.
The application layer is OpenJDK.
Science thinks it’s unbiased. Queer scientists know that’s not true
The cesspool's already on the clearnet, we have examples of what it looks like: 4Chan, Gab, Voat - are all platforms that pride themselves on minimal moderation.

If we want the entire internet to either look like that, or force platforms to review every post for potential illegality (an impossible task), then yeah removing S230 is the way to go. If we think that sounds silly, then preserving S230 is essential.
Am I the only one who loves Apple products?

I love MacOS. I love iOS. I love all things Apple. Customer service is totally top notch. Physical quality is excellent, of course I have my wishes and pet peeves (don’t like cold aluminum, stupid touchbar, keyboard!).

I’m willing to pay even double the cost of other cheaply made products from Asus, Acer, Samsung, etc.

Not to mention the whole ecosystem thing and I trust Apple with my data - more than Google and I can’t even think about Microsoft (windows is a billboard of ads). If China had a competitor to Apple for OS/hardware (not talking about Foxconn, that’s a ODM), they would need to literally convert to democracy before they can even get in the playing field. They’re not even in the same league, not even the same sport right now.

Initially, I was apathetic. Then I liked Apple products. Then I started loving them. They’re arrogant, they care about you, they made mistakes, they charge a lot of premium - I love them. They must have done something right to win me?
> I do not think the public should get stuff unfiltered from the megaphone of anyone with a Twitter audience of 50,000 or a podcas audience of 40,000

It doesn't matter what we think, that's why it's a right - it doesn't depend on how someone feels about it.

Imagine if your right to live or own property depended on someone's opinion.

Last but not least, it seems you forgot about your right to ignore anyone whose speech you do not like or approve of.