skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Its not just my opinion, its the UN opinion.

From the article you linked:

Mr Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; is part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures’ experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.

>they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.
As someone who typically votes conservative, this is the kind of ignorance that makes me seriously reconsider my stances. This would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and go a long way toward emulating China. No thank you! Time to double down on encryption efforts and Tor usage.
Assange is the one in jail. If "proof" had any chance of putting e.g. Pompeo in jail, we'd be happy to provide it.
WSL(2) and pyenv?

;-)
When you're singing in perfect harmony, are you trying to be in tune with the people singing simultaneously to you or with the previous note sung? Presumably there are times when you can't do both at once.

For example if you were singing a major second above someone else, and then you had to jump a perfect fifth and they had to jump a major sixth to end up singing in unison. At least one of those intervals is going to be out of tune.
The article contains a large paragraph on how the phrase might be harmful.
Toss enough coins and you'll get a good streak of heads going.

There's plenty of D's who just love to come up with bills that make citizens more vulnerable to the government.
It's funny how your comment has turned evil without a context!
I had a friend who worked up in Alert while he was in the air force. It may be one of the most remote places on the map, it's essentially an out grown air force base/research station, there would be nothing there if not for the cold war.
If the 'winners' have to adopt your ideas, you've won.

At least if your ideas where more important to you than 'winning'
> War is a stress test for societies. By destroying less efficient social structures it promotes long term progress and reduces inefficient practices like slavery.

War destroys progress and is incredibly inefficient. The mere threat of war creates an endless arms race resulting in half of discretionary spending going to defense.

The reason for submitting to government authority is for protection of life and liberty. War results in destruction of life and reduced liberty, so it's a major failure in that regard.

"Sorry ma'am, but your son died in the Great Stress Test of 1861. I know you just spent your last nineteen years raising him, but we weren't sure if slavery was efficient or not, so we needed him to help settle the question on the battlefield."
Was Maemo open source, including the shell? I wonder whether anyone will try and revive it now we have mainline kernel Linux phones, like Librem and Pinephone.
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Why would you need fractional bitcoin shares? The smallest unit of bitcoin isn't 1 bitcoin (like with stocks), it's 1 satoshi or 0.00000001 bitcoin.
I vote for the threading model.
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Who polices those giving the "boot"? Who polices those police? What about nuances and interpretations and lack of context?
They innovated away privacy and security by relying on the human poor ability of impulse control and hardship with delayed gratification. Basically they made everything shiny and addictive. Is that really innovative? Perhaps 'bad' ui is better when you consider higher order consequences as opposed to concentrating only on first order popularity contest?

I'm not saying Nokia and symbian were better BTW. Just noting how our contemporary value system where, "it makes money"="it's good" is short sighted at times.
That’s an interesting point of view I didn’t think about yet. But as long as there is no collective will, should there be a law on that at all?
Sorry, if my post upsets you. And sorry i'm not a spammer. C
If all you need is a simple CRUD app then Django Admin + your model definitions is literally all you need.

In my experience, that's a 4 to 8 hour project.

Oh, and runs against a real database.
NASA's helicopter Ingenuity set to make first powered flight on Mars
I owned every generation of the Nokia 9xxx Communicator series and especially the 9500 with Symbian 7 was a joy to use.

Nothing beat laying by the pool and doing a little office work on the brick.
> Then the fake news was discovered: https://i.imgur.com/plF3WDu.jpg

> Same newspaper, same story, contradictory reporting. Obviously this was done for different places.

I believe you are misinformed. A couple searches on the headlines tells a different story.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wsj-different-trump-headli...

> Yes, the images represent two different editions, published at different times, and the headlines represent the news at the time of publication — before and after his speech.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-wall-street-jou...

> While the two covers are both authentic, they were published at different times on that day to reflect evolving developments.
I mean, it's designed to capture telemetry and push it into Azure for IT to figure out whats going on in the enterprise. It isn't aimed at consumers.
Yes. World IQ is dropping fast.

The contest will be won by the person using a robot finger on an old spare iPhone, able to provide the longest continuous support (power, internet, etc). The contest would last months if not years. Uptimes for computers are in tens of years, but for iOS system, one year might be a maximum. Uptime for lego robots may be much shorter, but uptimes for professional test robots are probably much higher. So I'd bet for some idle professional test robot. (electricity bill and hardware amortisement would largely allow it).

Knowing that, only people with such finger robots available to them (or able to build one) should participate, and the organiser would lose the price.

The fact that he won't is proof of the lowering IQ in the world and that he's an immoral scammer (but we already knew that)... :-(
No losing the user-to-number relation is way worse than a bad number representation.
Windows LX?

What about just the last letter: Windows X

Of course Windows 10 is the last major version of Windows, so you got to have that in the name: Windows 10X
Last Symbian phone I used was a SonyEricsson P910 (Symbian UIQ3?). I loved the on device programming - writing a script answering SMS based on content was the best.
You don't think China has protestors? They protest on a scale not seen in the US, with 2010 having 180,000 "mass incidents".
i'm pretty sure that's what they're going for, except that the rest of the world doesn't think so.

It will definitely not help any CIO or anyone in an organization who tries to lobby for their org to adopt cockroach db.
We too in a bad situation right now and feel sorry for you. Stay strong man.
All my work on the Irish slaves myth
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I make a similar argument when I say that “CoffeeScript was merged to main.” Yes, JavaScript 2015 won... By adopting all of the ideas that CoffeeScript made mainstream for front-end web development.

I realize this is a philosophical distinction, but it really does come down to whether you are attached to the fundamental characteristic of a thing, or the label/name/brand of the thing.

Financially, the brand matters. If Uber fails commercially, but ushers in an age of gig economy transportation, the idea won but the brand did not. As an investor or employee, you care deeply about the brand.

But as someone trying to change the world, you care deeply about the idea coming to pass by any means necessary. Sutherland did not get rich. But do we say he lost because “The Mother of All Demos” was not an Apple II or Macintosh?
The Russian cache was eventually quietly published online elsewhere, to almost no attention or scrutiny.

...with no f#@*ing link to the "eventually quietly published" material so we may examine it for ourselves! Does this material actually exist?! FP is truly a useless excuse for journalism!
Why do you have to jinx it?
I really liked the Meego iteration. Its UI was top notch.
There are in fact five small Norwegian towns on this map.

Vadsø, Hammerfest, Trondheim, Bergen and Longyearbyen.
It’s working out for China somehow though ..
To be fair the Equador government helped him a great deal but apparently even them got tired of it.

I think they did what they could given the circumstances.
nice, well done!
this is such a beautiful comment. So very true
The EY point is interesting. I'm not sure if it's still this way, but when I worked there, a lot of care was put on audit clients as the partner(s) signing off the work had effectively unlimited liability, and could lose pretty much all their money in a worst case scenario.

Unfortunately audit work, where the company decides on their auditor, has an in-built conflict of interests. If the auditor is too harsh/rigorous, then they risk losing the audit. If they're too lax and miss something material, then they risk lawsuits and regulator attention.

Then for large companies there's further complications liket doing the audit may preclude a company from doing other (more lucrative) consultancy work, or that large companies essentially only use one of 4 companies to do their audits, which leads to people rotating through that but little effective competition.
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I guess that's why NEC and Blackberry never took off in Europe, as the data usage would financially ruin you.

With prices of about 5 euro per megabyte you lived in constant fear of accidentally using data.
Lots of journalists, say, in France for example, hurl shit in the face of US every day, with lots of investigations, and they still are more or less protected and the country where they live abide by the law...

So, that's what personally I would have expected and hoped about Assange too.

The reality is different from what you present: it is not common that journalists opposing to US are (internationally) repressed at all. And, of course, because such repression is illegal, it is not expectable.
... but I can't place it.
I think even the publishers suggest a title thats best suited for the content too, and the author still gets the final say. I too am skeptical when it comes to so-called “hacks” in general but I’m happy to try this one out.
How Programming Shapes the Mind
I like xkcd's description of Mercator:
https://xkcd.com/977/
Being a journalist is not an endorsement of character.

You can be a criminal and a journalist, a thief and a journalist, a horrible person and a journalist.
If you put a title "may rewrite chemistry books" on top of an article about "a new paper worth reading", you're doing it wrong. Classical click-bait at best, fake news at worst.
I remember SK feature phones with WAP support that did ask.
BB worked slightly different before 3g and it's advancements made mobile internet pretty much "free" for most people.

BlackBerry came with it's own data plans and they had they used integrate with the mobile providers on a much lower level than just internet traffic.
> due to constantly changing API surface and breaking backwards compatibility

Interesting that those same problems exist in Linux Desktop, and Ubuntu nearly pulled an Apple and dropped 32bit support on x64. The fact that Valve maintains a platform for devs to target that is relatively independent of distribution shenanigans, and that you can run Linux without paying for it or buying new hardware (probably), are the only reasons it gets any attention at all.
Brazil should be wealthy. It has every advantage, huge amount of resources, no natural enemies ...
This is great, anyone got a source of EE children's movies?
Why were this apps approved by the app store?
If you're only 5% of the market, you can't afford to try vendor lock-in tactics. But that's exactly what Apple is doing with Metal.
I _think_ it mostly was, with the exception of binary driver blobs. At least a few years ago it still had very active dev community at maemo.org, so it is not inconceivable for it to be revived. Alas, the neo900 project died.
Apple isn't doing this for Macs primarily, this is for the iPhone and iPads. With Nintendo starting to bring a lot of titles to the app store, Apple probably expects other big publishers to start using it as well. They are going to want good controller support. Dark Souls on the iPhone 13? Yeah, I'm going to need a controller. Fortnite is huge and more titles that offer mobile experiences are coming.

There's also an entire generation of children growing up right now who gamed mostly on their mobile devices. One of my friend's kids actually made fun of me for still playing games on my desktop.

Think about what a Nintendo Switch is. It's an iPad with controllers stuck to the side. I can imagine a future where Nintendo might say "why are we building hardware, Apple does it better and cheaper than us, let's just be a publisher". From what I understand, most hardware is sold at a loss anyways, so what's preventing gaming from consolidating around a few devices?
> With the latest releases of Android and iOS, we’re back to where we started. Both now prompt you the first time an app asks for access. Both give you regular reminders of which apps may be snaffling your data. Both let you manage access and selectively deny apps.

Every OS should do this, desktop OSes included. For the last 2 decades I've been using personal firewalls on Windows to do just this, now I use LittleSnitch on Mac (I just hope it's going to keep working on ARM macs), AFWall+ and XPrivacy on Android and miss this level of control terribly on Linux (it sort of can be achieved with AppArmor or SELinux but both are nightmares to use).

If only iptables would allow to filter by the executable path and other process parameters - that would be just so awesome. There was such a feature in some 2.x kernel but, sadly, it was deprecated long ago.
Namely, Power Query and some of the formula stuff (the entirety of the formula ribbon is just missing). I guess I could just start using pandas more, but its super handy to just click Excel, tell it where the CSV file is and start messing with something.
Agreed. There's also the hypothetical case of a potential entrepreneur building this data into content, with the purpose of marketing services towards either party. If things are exaggerated, skewed or misrepresented to rationalize a policy goal, this could potentially have negative impacts on further uses of the data.
If you want free speech you have to accept the bad with the good. And if you don’t, well, just go back to your safe bubble.
I like the idea of using the laser for that - it'd allow for a more interesting 3D arrangement than folding and layering of different hardness materials. An obvious one is interlocking structures of hard/soft steel within the part.
> You are describing a structured echo chamber. Or worse an internet of endless safe spaces to get just the view of the world that pleases you.

I'd ask you to think how this is any different from anything we had before the internet.

I actually think there is a difference in current communication patterns, but it's not being a structured echo chamber (we already had plenty of those before), and it's not something to be proud of.

The novel effect of social networks is amplifying and concentrating in a single point the worst instances of biased and unsubtle discussion, causing the recipient to burn up from the concentrated heat.

It's a process that replicates the dynamics of lynch mob; at least those were local effects, while now we get to have world-reaching lynch mobs. We need to put up firewalls so that inflammatory speech won't set everything on fire; and structured small communities is as good a solution as any.
And they both go to show that statements/calculations about things like urban density are heavily influenced by historically and culturally determined political boundaries and definitions. Even look at the US Census Bureau 80% urban metric that a lot of people like to quote. Lots of small towns with farmlands and orchards (like where I live) are "urban" by this particular definition. And they are "urban" relative to truly rural Wyoming. But they're not urban in the sense of having any of the attributes of a dense city center.
What if the thing that is pushing the error object has an error?
It is unfair to compare. An application with an offline map is different, by design, that one where you can download the map or require a connection. Compare TomTom and Garmin with Google Maps and Apple Maps. Which one's used much more nowadays?

What has won is capability-based design, and the fact that the review system in iOS is better (but not perfect) compared to Google. The install base is also much larger though, and the amount of personal data on a smartphone has also increased greatly.

The question we need to ask ourselves is the following: do we really need all this data available on our smartphone? Or, put different: do you need to be able to access this data while on the go, 24/7? Do you need to take your smartphone with you 24/7?
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> "Tell me Mr. Siberian Bear, where does power come from? The Hare says it comes from money. I say it comes from truth."

This is straight from a cult Russian movie Brother 2 (Brat 2)
Blackberry was quite popular in the UK amongst the corporate users, however BBM universally came with it's own data plans and they had their software running inside the cell providers as well as within the organization itself.
I don’t know what the OP refers to, but using strings was ‘different’ from doing it in other systems. http://descriptors.blogspot.com/:

“Most programmers come to Symbian OS from some other development environment, and tend to think they’ve already got strings pretty much sussed. After all, there’s not much to C strings to understand, although there are plenty of ways they can go wrong. The Java String and StringBuf classes have about the best combination of power and simplicity that you can get. And the various String and CString classes found in different flavours of C++ environments are usually mastered fairly quickly.

But then they encounter Symbian OS descriptors. If there was anything invented to bring a high flying C++ developer firmly back to ground during their first week of Symbian OS development, it’s descriptors.”
This is a ridiculously shallow dismisal.

Android and iOS "won" because the phones were vastly more capable.
The other problem here is the lack of regulation.

It's reasonable for a non-technical person to assume that any app whose provenance is known (thanks to the App Store's policies and requiring a valid DUNS number or similar) would be investigated & punished if they end up doing something malicious, so as long as traceability can be ensured (which it is) then it must be safe.

I myself used to think that as long as I use apps from a major brand (so like Facebook, Google, etc) I should be safe because there's no way they're going to pull spyware-like tricks and steal personal data... right?
Oh hey! I've been to Bristol's Clojure Meetup last year! Or was it two years ago? Anyways, happy to hear about it. I'm not in the UK anymore, but I'll drop by next time I visit.
In this era I was into mobile phonery (is that a word?) and in 2006 the Nokia e50 (Symbian 9.1) was such a great phone, it went to many countries that year and I just loved it (it was maybe my 3rd Symbian). Not as a developer but an end user hacker lite, all the flexibility it offered over other choices at the time (most devices were "dumb").

Until the end of 2006 when T-Mobile (US) introduced the BlackBerry Pearl; it was at that point Symbian/S60 died in my life when I realized how limited it was and what it could have been, haven't touched one since (the Pearl being eclipsed by the first Androids after that in 2008). They had a shot and a solid following on HowardForums and just sort of blew it and let the competition outrun them.
Maybe, but Apple's choices (described by other replies ITT) only made it worse. Deprecating OpenGL and dropping 32-bit compatibility, for instance.
It wasn't fully open source, but mostly. It was merged with Intel's Moblin into MeeGo. Once Nokia stopped working on that, MeeGo was forked into the fully open source Mer. Mer is nowadays used by Jolla as a basis for Sailfish OS (which again has non-open source parts at the top of the stack).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer_(software_distribution)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS
> now I use LittleSnitch on Mac (I just hope it's going to keep working on ARM macs)

It should. Kexts are still allowed, for now. They're almost certainly only a couple of releases away from being deprecated though.
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"Intellectual Property"

you mean your copyright?
Yes, i left Open Source projects because referring to co-contributors is such a minefield. I don't wish to work with self-identified transgender people due to this anymore. They take everything so personal even if its not about them.

And just for saying this, same people will accuse me of hating trans people and rejecting their right to exist. But you know what - people with successful HRT who also pass don't exhibit this behavior. They also don't self-identify as trans.
In fairness, I think it was a just crappy. It never occurred to me that anyone would sell a ladder that could catastrophically fail, so I wasn't on the lookout for that.
Valid point about technical changes. But most of the big leaks were sold as if they would lead to social/political/economic changes.
You: "Look, I found a paper on google scholar that seems to support my opinion!"

PhD: "It 10 minutes I can find a 10 papers that seem to support your opinion and 10 more that seem to contradict it. 2/3 of everything published is meaningless due to methodology mistakes and 99% of what remains has extremely narrow scope and implicit context. At best the paper you have found is a small piece of a big puzzle. To understand the big puzzle I'll have to take a class, read a textbook, read 3 annualreviews (or w/e the equivalent is in immunology), and conduct a literature survey of about a hundred papers. Then I can call my opinion somewhat informed."

The authors of the paper you linked are not crackpots. Someone who thinks they can skip the long and arduous process of developing an informed opinion because they found a paper that says something is a crackpot.

I don't know that you're a crackpot, but I need to see strong evidence that you aren't a crackpot before engaging in scholarly discourse in order to avoid the 5 minute / 5 hour problem. One sufficient piece of evidence would be if we met in a scholarly context. HN is not a scholarly context. Another sufficient piece of evidence would be a demonstrated familiarity with research techniques. Your inability to find the most basic regulatory filings in this field does not bode well on that front. I don't know that you're a crackpot, but you haven't passed my filters for not being a crackpot, and that's why I'm unwilling to engage in scientific discussion with you.
If MSFT figures out how to make this uninstallable on Linux, I will stop using computers.