skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter flags Trump tweet featuring fake CNN chyron as 'manipulated media'
You want people to build, give them money. Folks aren't living in tents because it's fun.

"For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades" https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
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> only 2 hours because push notifications kill your battery.

No they don't. Push notifications are managed by a push service like Firebase messaging or Apple Push Notification Service. Do you even know what you're talking about?

If you don't want push notifications, fine. But don't force your opinion on the rest of us who want them. No email client is useful without them. You're arguments are honestly ridiculous at this point.
Google and Facebook “read” that personal information by algorithms and by robots not by humans (except rare mistakes) to show you better advertisements.

FSB would try to read that information to try to damage the countries, to spy, to steal databases, to hurt people and so on.

If FSB could read private messages of US citizens it would be 1000 times worse than Google or Facebook reading them even accounting for leaks and misuse in G and FB.

G and FB is thousands engineers who love unicorns and rainbows and are extremely offended when the see a person wearing MAGA hat. FSB is men who regularly drink vodka, who are trained kill, who are not allowed to leave Russia, who are constantly told that Russia is surrounded by enemies.

Don’t compare G and FB to FSB.

(I doubt FSB can read Telegram.)
This is the sort of craziness that led to the Dark Ages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. We humans are pretty much our own worst enemies.
Houdini is a great tool, but caveat emptor: proprietary tool.
Huh? FCM is free: https://firebase.google.com/products/cloud-messaging

I don't see the anti-competitive part there. There are good reasons around consolidating resident daemons and only using a single TCP connection with a special keep-alive configuration.

And from experience, it's perfectly possible to not use FCM, at the cost of a persistent notification that alerts the user about this, so they can get rid of abusive apps.
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Posted this in another thread:

It seems that China is picking fights with everybody....and losing.

Against Canada, China threatened Canada for actions taken against huawei's CFO with trade punishment. The case is proceeding, with US clearing a major hurdle to extradite the CFO recently.

Against EU, China has tried to lure countries such as Italy and Spain to its side by delivering mostly faulty masks and machines, in turn for declaration of unity. EU this week won a landmark WTO dispute against China, and allow EU to combat low-price Chinese exports with high tariffs. Germany moves to shield german companies from foreign takeover recently as well.

Against UK, China threatened to punish UK economically for offering citizenships to Hong Kong citizens and denying huawei's involvement with 5G. UK in turn, has decided to ban huawei entirely by 2022. And allowing Ericcson to proceed.

Against Japan, China has been aggressive against Senkaku island, sending two ships to pursue a fishing boat in May. Japan, in term, is pulling its companies out of China by funding $2.2B stimulus package.

Against India, this month they engaged in a deadly border clash where many Indian soldiers were maimed/killed by Chinese soldiers with spiked clubs. #boycottchina went viral in India, and multinationals must be quivering that the largest/fastest growing consumers are boycotting goods made in China. So is China. Even Chinese government's mouthpiece, global times, is subtly suggesting India should 'curb' boycotting china.

Against Taiwan, they sponsored a pro-China presidential candidate who was a mayor. That candidate lost horribly in the presidential election and was subsequently impeached by the people and stripped of his mayorship. Most Taiwanese now favor independence.

Against Australia, China is punishing Australia with barley, beef, and coal ban after Australia called for a 127 countries investigation into coronavirus origin.
43" 4k masterrace here - I beg to disagree.
any censorship systems in place to protect the company could easily circumvent that setting. I understand that there is user moderation, but I also understand that doesn't mean anything about top down censorship.
It's not the price that's the problem. It's that it is closed source, and therefore any work you produce is on a guaranteed path to bitrot.
> But push notification absolutely kills your battery.

No they don't. Push notifications are managed by a push service like Firebase messaging or Apple Push Notification Service (APNS). Do you even know what you're talking about?

If you don't want push notifications, fine. But don't force your opinion on the rest of us who want them. No email client is useful without them. You're arguments are honestly ridiculous at this point.

All other apps are killed in background after 20s on iOS.
I have push notifications "on" on my iPhone and my battery is fine.

Now stop playing devil's advocate, because the devil really is guilty in this case. It's Apple.
It has been most of the US history
This only applies to the use case of creating static websites with React. A lot of React websites are dynamic and comparable with websites built using PHP or other server-side frameworks. Even if you write html by hand while using PHP, you still need to maintain the server code and constant upkeep/maintenance will be required.
> And yet, it is still the most popular desktop OS

"most popular" in the sense of "most widely installed and tolerated", perhaps, but definitely not "most popular because people actively chose it where there are other viable options" because, for many people, there is no viable alternative (e.g. gamers).
I don't think "Toddler justice" is the fix to our societal problems. Although props to POTUS is trying his best to set an example!
Isn't the final rendered product portable? Also, I'd imagine you could always export the necessary assets into a format less prone to bitrot.
They require you to use their store, servers and bandwidth. It’s not fair to claim that’s value provided to developers when they are forbidden to not use the infrastructure.

My costs for direct distribution on Mac are ~8% and are absolutely dominated by payment processing - and that’s only because I choose to use a merchant of record instead of Stripe to save on VAT accounting costs. The rest of distribution costs are peanuts.
I used to love google inbox but switched to fastmail when google killed Inbox and it was easy to choose between old gmail and fastmail. Hey might address why I loved about Inbox. However, it’s clearly designed with companies in mind. The $100/yr is steep for a personal email service. Plus, they don’t have custom domains yet.
The N Judah in SF is actually slower than it was 100 years ago. I lived on 12th ave and if I missed it I could usually beat it to the 9th and Irving stop and get on there.
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Yet the general population also wakes up every day, exists on a rock hurtling through space at ridiculous speeds, exist for years on end doing all kinds of things. They wake up and do things you or I are incapable of.

You can look at all the dumb shit humanity does and scorn it all you want then stop and think about the fact that, you me and everyone else is here with all the things around us. This shit didn't come from nowhere. Humanity, for all it's faults and weaknesses did this and you exist because of this.

The average person, as much as that implies, is capable of some pretty impressive things and to dismiss them is pretty arrogant and I bet if you took a look at your life you've done some pretty dumb shit...and if not I salute you, you are truly above all others.
Nice to see this. The book came out just before Bair's death. I've reviewed it here: https://niklasblog.com/?p=23209. On the other hand, I recommend Kate Kirkpatrick's 'Becoming Beauvoir' a lot: https://niklasblog.com/?p=24693
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I’ve never been able to search my entire mail archive quickly over IMAP, using Gmail or Fastmail. Mobile IMAP clients seem especially slow and inconsistent.
Well, sheeeeit. If we're going for fever dreams, don't forget the electric sheep! https://electricsheep.org/
I agree, the lack of parametric modeling is one of the most frustrating thing about blender (that and the super weird multi-object select/deselect workflow)

The modifier stack is, to a limited extent, a flaccid ersatz for full-blown parametric, but it's light-years away from what Houdini can do.
You might have to agree to follow traffic laws to get your driver's license, but that doesn't mean you can't seek to improve them.
Key features in Android 11 which will Redefine Mobile Applications(Updated)
Google has announced its first Android 11 developer preview, the next version of its Android operating system. It’s the earliest Google has made such a preview so the changes here aren’t the front-facing, but Google is making some big announcements, such as enhanced 5 G coverage, better privacy features, and new messaging interfaces.
"all Android Users". IS it possible to get these alternative stores without rooting?
Copying something quoted on HN ~4yrs ago:

"IBM has a well-known disdain for vowels, and basically refuses to use them for mnemonics (they were called on this, and did "eieio" as an instruction just to try to make up for it)."

- Linus Torvalds, 2009
So much this. Bad plugins and outdated versions, cheap hosting with outdated PHP versions, cheap development with bad code quality. WordPress imho is not made to last without regular maintenance.
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I used to run my own mail server and it's not actually fun. If you run everything on the cheapest VPS possible then you still end up paying about $50 or thereabouts. So they're in the right ballpark. I'm happy to pay them extra so I don't have to worry about email server maintenance.
With the continued dominance of chrome based browsers, cross-browser testing may soon be a forgotten art.
Nofollow helps a fair bit but requires cooperation from all high ranking sites to ensure that they don’t leak their PageRank juice.
I think they meant "Machinists, masons, mechanics and teachers."

To which I would say a lot. Spaceships, CERN, LIGO, giant skyscrapers, and a lot more.
Yep, the rest connect with OpenVPN at the moment
No it's not a "nightmare". My mom and dad have their own laptops with windows. They never got a virus. And they're non tech people in their 50's.
I don't know of any format that supports full parametric modeling the way Houdini does.

As the OP said, parametric modelling is what makes Houdini so nice.

And if you want any chance to rework anything in a project - say - 10 years later, exporting to a "baked" format is a dead end.
I wonder if this is related to colony collapse disorder [0] somehow.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
> What would you think about sandboxing all media related components?

You have to be very _specific_ when you say _sandboxing_.
Since, the attack surface is mostly at the decoding layer - there are at least few dozen ways to sandbox the processing logic on modern UNIX-like OS based on the requirements:

1. Farm out, give it its own namespace and filtered list of seccomp2 calls to do the decoding.

2. Farm out, compartmentalize the decoding layer to BSD jails

3. Same as 2) but using chroot - give the necessary libs/bins/mount

4. Farm out, run the decoding components on a separate VM - somewhat akin to QubeOS.

5. Farm out, run ephemeral spark jobs to process the decoding on a compartmentalized VMs/Containers....

These days the word _sandbox_ is overloaded.

It used to be that you put things that are in userland under selinux and go to bed at night.....
Came here for this.

Don't even have to open it - it's a solid punch.
For a big part it is the social media game. Sites like phantom buster help you automate these activities so you can focus on your core business.
I'd bet a dropped tool on an offshore rig could end up causing an expensive breakdown or even explosion. Similar to why aircraft grade stuff needs tool checking and checkouts and all bolts use safety wire, where for a car there is less need as the failure modes are less catastrophic.
Of course we’re our own worst enemies. At least now that our technology allows us to overcome all our non-human enemies.
> Nowadays even some government agencies have their own channels on it, in spite of the "ban". There's a saying in Russia: the strictness of Russian laws is compensated by optionality of compliance.

Technically speaking there was no law prohibiting telegram for citizens or government officials. “Optionality of compliance” does not apply here because no user of telegram broke the law.
Being a stateless protocol is the big one, for mobile. There’s more: https://fastmail.blog/2014/12/23/jmap-a-better-way-to-email/
Off topic, does Firefox depend on Chromium code?

> As I’m a Chromium committer as well as an owner of the Windows sandbox I realized I might be better placed to fix this than Mozilla who relied on our code.
I didn’t know that they allow different prices. A few days ago someone replied to my comment on HN and told me that it’s not allowed. If indeed it’s allowed, I think it’s more reasonable for Apple to require app makers to offer the IAP signup option.
This is very cool! I wonder if this is related to agent oriented programming.
> I highly suspect Apple is somehow putting pressure on HN to do this.

On the internet, "highly suspect" is a synonym for "entirely imagine". That is not happening. Nothing remotely resembling it is happening. Nothing remotely resembling anything like it has, to my knowledge, ever happened.

People imagine whatever they want about these things and rush to post breathlessly about them, but the truth is boring. laser's explanation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23570990) is correct.

Since your speculation was obviously refuted by the very submission you posted it to, I think we could have been spared this offtopicness. I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23570530 now.
What gets me most about these fools is they completely ignore how much such a huge fake job would cost. It would be so expensive that you could cut the budget in half and just...go to the moon.
But what is the great new experience offered by something like twitter’s web site that demands all that new power and brings that machine to it’s knees? What cutting edge features is it offering that it didn’t offer in 2010? Thats kind of what made the web a cool platform, it was backwards compatible by default and could run on all kinds of things.
Devils advocate.

Why can’t they sell this direct to consumer in iOS via safari?

And make it a web app on mobile just like how it’s a web app on desktop.
"Living in tents" is more a problem with restrictive zoning laws; zoning needs to be liberalized. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/05/ne...
The letter is great, but it doesn’t have the same impact Buzz Aldrins reaction to the skeptic had.
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I was reading the original article and thinking tomyself ’am I feeling this’. Apple and Google came to my mind, they are the governments in digital business whose regulations and tantrums I have to abide by. Past are the times this kind of business could have thrived without restrictions. Maybe we should build a reasonable choise to them?
This is exactly what I did a few weeks ago after getting fed up of Wordpress for my personal site. Static HTML pages and some php for the header the and the blog homepage. It means I need to write in plain HTML but that’s fine, the only js is prism syntax highlighting.
What it really comes down to is these people severely lack in critical thinking, so while it is surprising that they fail to account for other, seemingly obvious externalities, it really shouldn’t be.
Saw a video of him responding to another skeptic by beating the shit out of him [0]. Honestly when people are that deluded a good knock on the head might be a more persuasive argument...

[0] https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2019/0...

[Edit] Mixed up Neil with Buzz... oops. -_-
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> Push notifications are managed by a push service like Firebase messaging or Apple Push Notification Service (APNS)

They can still wake up your phone when they're delivered and that will drain battery.

https://www.apple.com/uk/batteries/maximizing-performance/

* If an app frequently wakes your display with notifications, you can turn off push notifications for the app in Settings > Notifications. Tap the app and set Allow Notifications to Off.

> No email client is useful without them.

I've had an iPhone for 10 years now and I've never had push notifications on for the 5 email accounts on there. Mind you, my battery isn't fine because the phone gets used a lot and that's what kills batteries quick.
> No they don't. Push notifications are managed by a push service like Firebase messaging or Apple Push Notification Service (APNS). Do you even know what you're talking about?

I’ll just leave you this post on battery drain from push notifications.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-push-app-notifications-drain-ba...
You can say moderated, manipulated, curated, censored - people just choose between these words depending on how they feel. None of this is secret, or new. HN has always been a curated site. I've posted about all this countless times and answered countless emails. No one has any trouble getting their questions answered if they actually want a real answer.

We don't moderate HN with specific business interests in mind because that would make it less valuable. HN's value to YC is simply in being as good/interesting as possible, because that's what keeps the community happy. Plenty of past explanation is at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

That's the main point, but really, you'd have to reach deep into the pool of imagination to fish out any specific business interest in moderating this story in the first place. What a bizarre discussion.
I am interested in bird watching as a hobby. An "unfortunate" but intrinsic aspect of it is that since bird species varies between continents, some knowledge is less applicable. When I bought my first book about bird songs in English I did not realize that, it mostly mentioned American species that are not present in Europe. I did not learn much applicable knowledge from it.

Another example, in the /r/birding subreddit people are mainly discussing about American birds.

Obviously, this is natural and nothing to really complain about. But it often requires to "read between the lines" to understand the location context in a discussion, especially when you are new.
Lol if there was even 1% chance of it being fake, the Russians would have made a hue and cry.
That was Buzz, not Neil...
Isn't this the joke? That if Kubrick really was going to be employed by the US Government to "fake" a moon landing that, with his penchant for realistic set design, he would've filmed it on site.
> Why does there need to be a specific word to describe that?

Communication efficiency. I'd like to have one short term for this so that I don't need to make elaborate differentiations every time I need to use it.
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There are always people that actually believe it, but there are good reasons to suspect it's not entirely organic. If one made a list of times the "fake landing" thing was used, the vast _minority_ would be arguments agreeing with this skeptic; in reality, it serves a different purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21170684

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21057230
Apple doesn't allow push notifications for PWAs, a fairly essential feature for an email app
Killing apps in the background and offloading them from memory is a godsend for a Android ecosystem. It is literally so much harder to make anything battery optimized since you have get information about almost everything to make it right: need radio? beware that it is in active state and only then send data. Want do background processing? Wait until user will charge it's phone. Making apps battery efficient is insanely hard task and it is solvable by just offloading everything to an OS.

I have built several push services for my previous projects it always sooo hard to implement right. iOS for example, uses 25+ different parameters to optimize push delivery depending on your app usage, on how you are using your phone and so on.

Good luck to build this as "third party" and keep everything private.
Most men would have soiled myself if they were put into a position of having to reboot the rocket and make it back to Earth. And then seeing how one of the astronauts kept his cool when one of the components for redeparture failed. Just incredible!
On what basis do you say it's a static process? The burden on proof is on those making the allegations.
Agree on birdNET. It is golden, makes it so much easier to learn.
What do you mean by "versioning" them? If you mean running two different versions of the same library and putting them in different shared modules, then: maybe, that depends on the library. I'm quite sure that that's not possible with React, though, and I've experienced the same problem at a previous employer that insisted on using Polymer: Web Components have their own tag name (e.g. <google-maps>), and you can't run multiple versions of them at the same time because they'll both want to claim that tag.
They had me in the first half, not gonna lie
I think the sad part is there are people who still fall prey today to this and many other conspiracies, anti-vaxx just to name one.

But this is a core tenant of freedom of speech and information, so not matter how objectively wrong, I'll defend the teacher's right to say it.

There will always be those who fall into fringe ideas regardless of how disprovable they are because they choose to believe the moon is made of cheese. The tool of critical thinking not being applied well can easily end up here.
They would have you believe that the United States Government perpetrated a gigantic fraud on its citizenry.

Well, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that happened, by any government. The “Weapons of Mass Destruction” lie could be described using the exact same sentence, and that wasn’t even twenty years ago.

Not defending the moon landing doubters, or conspiracy theorists in general, but: the proper response to these things isn’t to point and laugh. It’s to recognize their origins - a (often justified) loss of trust in institutions and governmental narratives - and work on addressing and fixing them.

Edit: commenters seem to be focusing on a single example, which I presented as an illustrative point for a much deeper and more important phenomenon. You’re missing the forest for the trees.
Does that part of the guidelines apply to video apps? I can’t think of other video apps offhand that allow background play on iOS.
Is it fastest at simulating 'random noise in quantum computers' like IBM one?
not sure why I feel the urge to reply :) but Zack is the very opposite of that teacher. Zack is asking questions and wants to learn. That teacher just tries to push her opinion on someone, leaving to room for reply, no room for a conversation, exactly what no teacher should do, no one in general but especially someone who should promote discussions, questioning and argumentation
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For those who haven't seen Aldrin punching a conspiracy theorist in the face:

https://youtu.be/jc7gsdonMHw
Workers are living in tents both because wages are miserable AND because police and building codes keep them from building small shacks and because land prices are disproportionately high.