skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My claim is that there is nothing in your constitution or legal set up which establishes anything like a "legislating from the bench" objection. I haven't failed to understand your system, I am claiming, there is nothing present in it to understand.

The constitution itself places a court as its interpretive body: the power of the constitution is exercised by judges, explicitly mandated to interpret it.

Judicial power isn't some "secondary" feature over which congress is meant to preside. It is the primary mechanism of the constitutional order itself.

The american legal order is established, maintained and exercised by the judiciary. There is a mistaken view that Congress as a democratic body has more "legitimacy" and therefore that others exercising power are overstepping their mark. But the american constitution is not democratic, and has no high regard for democracy as the principle authorising source of power.

The founders were far more concerned to rest power in as narrow hands as possible, hence the supreme court and hence the electoral college. There is no such thing as "legislating from the bench" -- this is just judges exercising their constitutional role.
It started that way. Now any use of "master" is considered problematic by a small group. Same with blacklist and whitelist.
I would have used it for good news sometimes just to throw people off.
Zoom seems to be a poster child for the surveillance state.

Does anyone reasonably want their "encrypted" conversation to route through servers physically in China?
Their argument doesn't make sense.

The objective behind verifying accounts is to prevent spammers creating lots of spam accounts and using those to spam.

However, spammers rarely care if their spam is encrypted, so putting E2E behind verification won't do anything as far as spammers are concerned - they'll happily keep spamming using the unencrypted accounts.

There's some other reason behind this that isn't about reducing spam.
I think alternative sleep schedules are like alternative medicine. If they were actually feasible and beneficial, they would be commonplace, and even recommended. Especially considering how often posts like this come up here, there is obviously a high level of interest.
I would love some insight on how you found that out. I searched but was unable to find anything related to an API. And it is way better than what I achieved, since for some places (Yosemite Valley for example) the coordinates obtained from Open Cage's API differ to much from the ones expected by WeatherWidget.io to be corrected via trial and error.
My read on this is that they found a way to backdoor all supposedly E2E-encrypted calls and legal compliance is no longer a problem for them. Perhaps I’m being too cynical.
The Saturation Effect in Fuzzing
I sure don't. I encourage people to use Jitsi.
We used to get bad news at Blackberry before the news but they never did stock updates....
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In general sharing passwords to a third party website is a red flag. HN may blacklist your servers for security. In general social networks like Facebook, Twitter, reddit, Github, LinkedIn,etc use Oauth2 for better security.

But you may have more chance if you build an open-source desktop app, using electron if you want to use web technologies.
It's a mutation simulation with colorful shapes. You will get a autogenerated sequence of 8 shapes (on my screen at least, you might get fewer for a smaller screen) then you can choose to start mutating from either shape. The new mutated shapes have the same option to mutate from so you can mutate until you're happy with the said shape. Once satisfied you can add it you your garden (your repository of shapes you chose to keep). You can fork from any of the shapes and mutate them further. There's a refresh button that autogenerates new shapes, took me a while to spot it.

I personally find this very interesting both conceptually and visually. I've been doing myself a lot of autogenerated graphics in Racket from lists of features but never went as far as to show it to HN.
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Yeah, I've started using terminus... probably 10 years ago now, and I still haven't found a programming font that I liked more. Tried using some retina macbooks with hyped-font-of-the-month, they just didn't work for me.
OK, sorry, maybe I was confused -- we're talking caucuses weren't we? I definitely agree with that for voting at large, but I always thought the whole point of a caucus was the messy political "fun" of it all. (Disclaimer, I am not American.)

Anyways thanks for the reply, I am familiar with that book and these arguments. I just don't understand why they should apply to a caucus, which is once every few years, and mostly for more politically-involved folks by definition already.
As a Lutheran, I feel this any time someone breaks out a guitar or a praise song. Church doesn't need to be "hip".
The problem isn't a technical one per se, but rather a legal one. Google the company is offering a browser that purports to make someone "incognito" while simultaneously working to track people who are using it - the exact opposite of what one would expect.

Mozilla isn't getting sued for the failings of Firefox's private mode because Mozilla doesn't operate a surveillance system that exploits those failings, and Facebook isn't getting sued for their exploitative surveillance because they aren't offering a product that claims to protect you.
UX design is more than visual design
The problem is that a little more can be waaay worse. You need to to double your pixels to avoid turning everything into a blurry mess, which means 200+ PPI. But there are literally no monitors like that not made by Apple. A 4K monitor at 32 inches is 138. No thank you. Gross. There actually are some 4K 22-inch monitors, but I don't want a 22-inch monitor.

I'm just going to stick with my 1440p 27" monitor until someone can sell me something better.
What CRT(s) are you using?
>With GH now letting you create Organizations with private repositories

I thought this was always the point of Organizations..?
Wow that is also my estimate of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin!

In all seriousness, I would think that a) finding life on another planet in our solar system and b) determining whether it shared a common ancestor with life on Earth is the next thing that needs to happen to refine our assumptions for terms in the Drake equation.
I certainly agree that some like them, while others don't.

And some grow to like them - I used to scoff... before I tried it for myself.

I think as well, it depends on your eyesight, and also your workflows and apps. I use Rider (and previously Visual Studio), and these have a lot of panes/windows - it's really nice to be able to have the code front and centre, with debug output, logs and a command prompt in another screen, for example. Another example would be to have zoom/webex in one screen, while I'm taking markdown notes in another.

A good while back, I moved to a dual monitor setup at home (1x 3k in landscape, 1x 1200p in portrait), and a triple monitor setup at the office (1x 1080p in landscape, 2x 1200p in portrait). I also use a Dell screen manager, so I can easily setup regions that windows can snap to - for example, the portrait displays are usually split in 2 horizontally.

The triple monitor setup is admittedly gratuitous, but I'm never going back from a dual setup - it's just so convenient to have everything I need always there, instead of constantly flipping back and forth through the many windows I invariably have open. It feels like I'm context switching much less.
If implemented correctly, the server doesn’t get the key. Look up Diffie–Hellman key exchange for more information on how this is possible. This can be verified by auditing the client so you don’t need to trust Zoom.
This is very cool and interesting, thanks for sharing it.
The idea that companies can dictate terms that can be arbitrarily changed at whim where the only consent users need to give is the continued use of their product is pretty ludicrous as far as I'm concerned. I realize people should read terms and I do tend to, but often companies will make their policy changes obscure, they intentionally downplay when the make changes to terms.

If i enter into a contract with someone, specific permission is required from both parties on any changes. I personally don't understand how these terms of services, which are effectively contracts, get out of following contract law. If I agree to a terms of service, I an agreeing to a contract set out by that business at that time. Refusing to allow service for not agreeing to later changes put out by the service provider is illegal in any other form of business contract. I can't write a contract for some consulting work, get a customer to sign it, change the terms then refuse to hand over my completed work until they agree. I'd be taken to court.
They did not break any rules. Its perfectly valid to use an account with a subscription not created in an app (and no ability to do it).
How does moving off of Github solve any of these but the first one? If you make the mistake of your software project becoming popular, and you give a shred of an indication that you're open to suggections/criticism/commits, you're going to get tons of emails telling you what to do and how.
When dealing with case you rarely (if ever) need bijective transformations...

Case-insensitive search/comparison requires a temporary mapping, not a permanent transformation; the German case is easily handled in Unicode's CaseFolding.txt by just mapping all three of them either to ss or to ß (depending on the implementer, if he prefers a length-invariant mapping or not).

Position-dependent? I read about it, but the Unicode case folding algorithm doesn't support it, so I imagine it's not considered useful for case-insensitive comparison

You will probably do want a good library when dealing with Unicode, but for this case thing it actually doesn't seem to be that complex to implement by hand...

I don't doubt case-sensitive is far easier to program , but you usually program for some user's sake, not for your own pleasure :)

And in most cases a normal user expects case-insensitive search
Looks like it's a key related to South african social security agency and cards are replaced because the dudes rampaged the entire bank system.
"Control it by editing XML config"

NOOOOOOOOOOO! So close! Ack! The example is blinding my eyes!

The example even shows arbitrary attribute-heavy vs tag-heavy mixing. Truly a blast from the past.
I understand this and I don't want to argue against anyone's preferences. You know what's best for you.

I'm just pushing back against these out of touch fads. Most developers worldwide don't have a three-monitor setup. There is no proven correlation between quality software and 4K displays or mechanical keyboards (to name other fads). More importantly, the best devs I've known -- people I admire -- used tiny laptops with tiny displays, and shrugged when offered even a single external monitor; it just wasn't a big deal for them.
Startups vs. Ordinary Companies
As long as zoom is closed source from end to end, they could pretend to use quantum entanglement over IP, for all I care.

I still use it, don't get me wrong. My threat model for the use case that I make of zoom does not need strong encryption, only being script kiddies proof.
What rule did they break?
Plus there's actually a way to deal with that- California operates an unclaimed funds/property division that companies are supposed to hand money over to if they don't have the right to it. My wife actually found out that she was owed money from a previous medical provider who overcharged her- just had to fill out some forms.

You can't just steal people's money because it's inconvenient to return it to them.

https://www.sco.ca.gov/upd_msg.html
You can probably buy 3 different androids over for the same cost and have support for the same period. Hmm.
While HDFS is indeed used for exporting old data and storing some partition mapping metadata, it's clear from the blog post that MetricsDB is much more reliant on BlobStore as well as MetricsDB-specific services.

> The servers checkpoint in-memory data every two hours to durable storage, Blobstore. We are using Blobstore as durable storage so that our process can be run on our shared compute platform with lower management overhead.
"...the virus has accelerated the adoption of technology like e-commerce, virtual learning, streaming, telehealth and delivery, said Gavin Baker, chief investment officer at Atreides Management, which invests in private and public companies.

“Covid pulled the world into 2030,” Mr. Baker said."

I suspect we're also accelerating income inequality by a decade or so. Most of the tech industry is booming, most of the ways the lower & lower-middle class earns their money is on pause.
What law would you think is being broken here? I don't think they are talking about bathrooms, where one might argue there is a "reasonable expectation of privacy." If you are working for an employer on their premises I think they have a right to do monitoring including clandestine. Just like they can monitor anything you do on their computer
> I compare it to having a large, wide desk when you’re working on something. Who wouldn’t want that?

I have used between 1-3 monitors over the last decade, and there sure are advantages to having 3 for certain tasks. However, I noticed that having multiple monitors resulted in me having a dedicated screen for email (usually the smallest, my laptop screen). This decreased my productivity.

Perhaps not everyone has this weak spot, but for me using multiple monitors has a downside from an attention/focus perspective.
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I agree with other commenters that monitors are subjective, but I find it surprising that FAANG companies are so stingy when it comes to monitors. We get top of the line desktops and laptops, but rather mediocre monitors.
OK sure, now write your own backend or use one other than LLVM (which one?). Now you're going to learn about a different set of tradeoffs.
How much do you hate going back to 60Hz?

The hedonic treadmill is getting brutal. Going up to a 4k/34" monitor was nice but it quickly became normal. The main effect was how bad it made 1440p/27" monitors!
You raise some very interesting points. I've appreciated the physical lightness and ease of positioning of LCDs, plus the absence of flyback whine. And they can go to higher resolutions than the scan circuitry in a CRT can physically manage.

But all those other things, yes the color resolution, the smoother fonts, the response time. I might have to swing by the recycler and pick up a nice "new" Viewsonic. :)
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Does Chrome really take snap shots of the pages that I visit?
I kind of thinking such Display's "Design" could overlap with the new iMac. One reason Apple used to having a "Chin" in the iMac was to distinguish it as a Computer and not a Monitor / Cinema Display. Judging from the leaks, New iMac would not have a Chin at all, and since there is no similar sized Cinema Display in the Line up this doesn't really matter.

I just wish they bring back Target Mode, or something similar to iPad's SideCar.
Hey, even the outer boroughs seem more-or-less normal. It's just Manhattan that looks post-apocalyptic, and even there it depends greatly on the neighborhood.
> They absolutely do not do this. Please provide evidence of this. God knows my entire feed is filled with political speech by friends and family, so if you're right about this, I may have the cudgel I need!

Repeat some of the messages that Trump cross posted to both Twitter and Facebook. Facebook will take them down for violating community standards.

Do they remove all political speech? No. Do they enforce their restrictions unless you're a political figure? Yes.
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with closed source, hosted software E2EE is as much about trust as it is about technology since you can't verify its implementation. arguably, if trust is there, E2EE doesn't get you much anyway other than for scenarios where the company itself is breached.

in any case, if the trust isn't there, you can't validate the E2EE, so your risk profile with regards to using the software doesn't change much.
Aside from whatever the Zoom news story of the day is, it's completely unsurprising that they're eating WebEx's lunch. I just tried scheduling a meeting and it was outrageously bad.

The bright green "Start" and "Schedule Meeting" buttons just pop up an error. The correct button to progress is the dark grey (as if disabled) "Next" button.

It prompts me to create a "personal conference number", whatever that is. This errors and tells that I need set a PIN in my preferences. I search for the preferences for a while and eventually find that I _do_ have a host PIN set...

At this point I gave up.

Gripes on the participant side: Why does it ask me to provide my name in the browser when joining a meeting before launching the app which already knows my name? Why do I have to manually press the refresh button to discover scheduled meetings?

Cisco pulled a Boeing with the development of one of their crown jewels, and Zoom swooped in, even with shady practices, and snatched up significant market share.
Why can't that be the opt-in part?
I've never heard of object sealing or freezing, glancing at the Table of Contents. JavaScript keeps surprising me.

// Levels of protection: preventing extensions, sealing, freezing
Object.preventExtensions(obj)
Object.seal(obj)
Object.freeze(obj)
IIRC, I have fewer fingers than that.
Wow, I didn't realize google analytics doesn't respect the do not track flag. But I just independently verified that is correct. It sounds like this is a simple and elegant solution to the problem (and the moral solution too).
You may be downvoted because it sounds like an ad hominem.

I agree that it is an unflattering choice and do not understand what makes people use images like this to represent themselves to the largest audience possible (i.e. anyone with internet access). There is no easier way to positively influence what others imagine than by not choosing an unflattering image. If someone really does not like any image of themselves, they can still leave it away and let people's imagination run free instead.
i should have said 'value proposition' instead of 'point'. i'd have assumed that was obvious, but i guess not.
Chinese is also a nationality and that does have relevance if the person has ties to Beijing and the CCP. If the founder were Russian and had ties to Moscow would we be complaining about “casual racism?” It’s racist to suggest racism when a Chinese is involved when similar accusations wouldn’t have been made if the situation were Russian.
As far as I know FB also does this. They create 'shadow profiles' around users who are not signed up to FB too.

https://www.cnet.com/news/shadow-profiles-facebook-has-infor...
Not only, in Ada, Modulas and Oberons you can have them as local variables as well, and in the variants with GC support, they split further into traced and untraced references.
My personal workstation has a Samsung Syncmaster that I don't have model number available now. The maximum resolution is around what people call 2k, but 60hz, that I don't like. My current resolution is 1600x1200 75hz.
The first time, you can use a Yogurt without artificial flavor. Afterward, you can reuse the Yogurt made the first time. Or just use a common Yoghurt from the store. You can use less than 0.2L the first time because the artificial flavor mixed with the natural Yoghurt flavor will not taste that good. The second time and afterward you can use the Yogurt made the first time, the artificial flavor will be diluted.

EDIT: Warning, I do not know how many times can you safely reuse the Yogurt. I've reused the 'same' Yogurt several times without any issue, but please do your research. Of course, I store it in the fridge.
We had an app rejected for this yesterday (June 16). We've skirted the guidelines in the past by carefully not mentioning any type of external payment system or subscription offering at all within the app. Users had to subscribe on a website for app content. Previously this was fine.

AFAIK you weren't required to implement in-app purchases for each subscription offering available outside of the app. That seems to be the change to the guideline or something that is now being enforced that was always there. This is a non-trivial integration to build and maintain. Not only will this have a real cost in engineering hours but the 30% fee is absurd - made more so by the fact that you cannot even inform your customers of the option to subscribe out of the app. I'd happily enable in-app purchases and increase the price 30% with help text that says "Want to save 30% - subscribe on the website HERE"

Netflix removed their in-app purchase options years ago. When you open the app it says you have to sign up on the website and provides no content or other utility without signing in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I used "first-class" here to denote "explicitly a feature, a thing you can operate on", like "first-class functions" [1]. I didn't mean to say "best in class". I don't even think we have a definite winner in this area.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function
I used to spend a lot of time browsing through the Explore and Trending pages on Github.

Now it's just useless.
The Motte-and-Bailey is the ploy of either an intentional deceiver, or a parroting crony. Neither shows sign of arguing in good faith or reason.
If working with law enforcement was to important to them why did they backtrack so quickly. Seems suspicious at best.
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Not exactly. Google Translate was always a statistical approach from day one. That was the reason it was better than the rules engines that dominated before that. The Translate guys really pioneered statistical machine translation.

However it was all done with hand-crafted statistical functions and code. The new stuff using deep learning is the first time it'd have been referred to as "AI".
>The retail side blew up -- no consumer wanted it, and it was technologically bad.

Didn't help that thr superior user experience of NFC built into cards was drowned out by the klaxons of the media continuously warning customers of proximity theft.

Wrong threat model, the cheap mag skimmer or camera or unsecured database models were the real risks. It wasn't that someone will stand butt-to-butt with you to steal a NFC token.
Except Eric is not any sort of govt or party representative.

He is a naturalized American of Chinese ancestry.

In history, this kind of scapegoating was counterproductive.
I used to use this exact setup, but specifically eliminated monitor #3 as I felt it was counterproductive to have an "always on" comms monitor. These days my main monitor has one workspace, while my secondary has the normal secondary stuff in one workspace, and comms in another.

I found it to be less distracting and the two screens are more physically manageable, and easier to replicate if i change setting (cheaper too!). The only thing I will change is whether I'm in landscape/landscape or landscape/portrait. I can never make up my mind about what I prefer.
Good to see they're listening and customers are able to bring some accountability here. But it still seems like their heart isn't really in this move.

At work we have been looking at two fantastic "indie" alternatives:

https://whereby.com

https://team.video
Fair enough and I don't think anyone here will find that statement controversial. I think what bothers me in some of the dialogue here is what I perceive as an attempt to play "hide the ball" by pretending that CCP interests don't run counter to the interests of liberal democracies by labeling raised concerns as racist. No one framed anything in racial terms to begin with so I don't see why it needs to be placed in that context.