skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There a APIs in iOS (which existed before iOS 14) that allow you ask the OS if the clipboard content matches a pattern (e.g. is it a URL) that doesn’t trigger the warning in iOS 14.

It does appear that lots of apps don’t use these APIs, the developers probably never knew the existed till now, but there is a privacy preserving method of the building the functionality you talk of.
That's very interesting and useful, thank you for sharing
It's worth noting that (AFAIK) iOS has never allowed apps in the background to read the clipboard buffer: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/176375
Personally I have noticed some changes, but nothing that impacted my productivity in any significant way, and paid no more attention.

I believe sometimes we tend to overreact to certain changes that have minimal impact on our lives, because of our attachments to the tools. For instance, on HN, we seem to get a sea of "That's it I'm moving to Firefox/GitLab/etc.." comments often when their counterparts change something. Sometimes those reactions seem warranted, and in this case, not really.
This woman should be on the front of a limited edition $100 US bill.
According to Wikipedia [1], comedy TV shows with LGBT characters by decade (which is probably a good proxy). Ellen's "coming out" episode was in 1997.

70s: 12
80s: 11
90s: 28
00s: 45

Willing to wager the trend is similar to movies.

We had (just the ones I can recall off-hand, but had to lookup years):

Paris is Burning ('90)
My Own Private Idaho ('91)
Fried Green Tomatoes ('91)
Philadelphia ('93)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar ('95)
Jeffrey ('95)
Birdcage ('96)
Bound ('96)
In & Out ('97)
Boys Don't Cry ('99)

Of course, most of these role were filled by cis people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comedy_television_seri...
There's plenty of bright and good people working for Microsoft, even producing some decent software. But Microsoft as a corporation remains harmful and untrustworthy.
I've been writing HTML directly for my blog [1] for 20 years [2] and back around 2003 I started to be a bit more pedantic about the HTML I use, so I always (try to) close every tag. About five years ago I set up a gopher server [4] and use it to mirror my blog. I went the easy route and decided to use Lynx to convert the entries from HTML back to text, and ... it looks horrible. Now that the Gemini protocol [5] has stabilize, I've decided I should convert the HTML to text myself, and because I decided back in 2003 to close every tag, it's easy to do (after spending an evening cleaning up a few entries here and there---there are over 1,000 entries pre-2003 that need extensive cleanup though---sigh).

The optional tags make it easier to write, but make it far harder to mechanically process later if need be.

[1] http://boston.conman.org/

[2] It's been only the past year or so that I've created my own markup language [3] to render the HTML, and it's the resulting HTML that I store.

[3] A mostly-up-to-date sample of what it looks like: https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog/blob/master/NOTES/testmsg And the Lua script that parses it: https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog/blob/master/Lua/format.lu... It's still buggy, and there are corner cases I know how to avoid, and I'm not recommending it to anyone else, as it works for me.

[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/
Sorry, but both "transparency" and "accountability" are considered censorship now.
The podcast "50 Things That Made the Modern Economy" has an episode about this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0504qtn.
Would be great to get some metrics. It makes sense in principle, but no way to judge it efficacy.
How much profit do you think it is typical to make on rent of $1343 per month? Here's my attempt at estimating for the whole industry:

$1343 rent

x 12 = 16116 [1]

x 7.11 p/s = 114,584 [2]

x 3.5% = 4010 [3]

/ 12 months = $334

Which is to say, from the renter's perspective, they're paying about 25% of their rent towards the landlord's profits, but from the landlord's perspective, they're making about 3.5% on their capital.

So I'm curious if you find this believable, whether it's an outrageous level of profit, or what? Do you see any logical problem with my calculation? Does it seem like a good explanation of why, even if you think you're being ripped off as a renter, owning property isn't an automatic way to get rich?

While your landlord may not be a big fund that is professionally managed, and might be making more or less, it seems reasonable to me to assume that the people who are the best at extracting profits work in such places and their performance represents the competitive climate for everyone.

You can invest in real estate and reap the profits with literally any amount of money, if you live in the US or have access the financial system there[4] But I think 3.5% isn't exciting to most people.

[1] Yearly total of rent payments

[2] 7.11 is the average price to sales ratio for Residential real estate investment funds.
I'm equating sales to total rents and price to property value or amount invested.
As a cross check, $114K seems like a reasonable value for an apartment; in fact I happen to know that my former apartment's building was assessed at about $90K per apartment, and the rent was noticeably higher than $1343.

https://www.reitnotes.com/reports/REII-Price-to-Sale-P/S-Rat...

[3] 3.5% is about what a residential real estate fund, called REZ paid to investors in the past year.
(0.46+0.50+0.63+0.51)/60 = 3.5%. As a cross check, this is in the ballpark of what corporate bond funds pay, and you'd expect them to be similar when investors who want steady income can choose either (but the real estate funds don't get taxed at the corporate level).

https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239545/ishares-residenti...

[4]I'm not a customer and this is not an endorsement, but see:

https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/fractional-shar...
How many percentage are there? I am not from English speaking countries, and I have never met anyone using non-standard layout before. So, like, do I need to care if I am not targeting software developer?
sure! and canada can just fuck right off then!
I'll agree that allowing corporations to steal most of the resources that were intended to help people trying to quarantine, and failing to ensure both the ability to quarantine and the safety of those who absolutely could not, have been abject failures of the governments handling of this crisis.
Why shouldn't apps use the API they are provided with?

It wasn't offensive to the user before iOS changed the rules. It is just a technical detail behind a small feature.

Every app can do bad things. For example, every app with a password field can use that data to crack your account on others services. You shouldn't reuse passwords but we all know that too few people follow that rule.

If you installed an app from some company, it means that you trust it to some extent and with that in mind it is reasonable to think that the issue is innocious. If you think a company wants to steal your passwords, why did you install its app in the first place? Clipboard or not, it will find a way of doing bad things.
And with that, racism was destroyed forever.
I wonder if there's a local solution to this, store it out of Google's hands.
"I'm used by Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and I feel down!"

-- most of the planet.
The US and the West faced for 45 years a totalitarian system that had conquered a dozen neighboring countries and had a powerful military. How far was "too far" in combating that?

As mentioned, there were Communist spies in the US government, far more than was generally understood at the time; we know that now thanks to the Venona files. That doesn't change the fact that Joe McCarthy was almost always correct only by accident. (You shoot in a random direction often enough, you'll hit someone eventually.) Worse, his excessive rhetoric likely for years discouraged legitimate rooting out of said spies.
sexism as well
To be clear I’m saying that static typing makes things more complex.

If the original simple argument were true, then everyone would introduce static typing, it would be a no-brainer.
Is software just too easy to write that everything becomes incompatible. Everyone has the next best idea. It's XKCD 927 all the time.

Now if you instead look at Trucks and Campers, Rear Hitches, Fifth Wheels Hitches, Goose Neck Hitches. Every truck you can buy on the market today (with some strange exceptions Cybertruck cough) has very simple compatibility with all of these various trailer types. Yes in some cases you have to buy a mod kit, but when you look at the mod kit it literally bolts into pre-drilled holes in your truck frame. It's all plug and play.

I feel like the reason it's like this is because no one person can go off and design a truck in the dark. It's designed by many people and is beholden to customers.

Software, on the other hand, just gets built by whoever wants to build something. It doesn't have to fit some kind of standard. And it's not like there are a lot of standards that already exist in whatever it is that the software is doing.

In the real world however, you have Kubota tractors that need to fit a CAT bucket.

I mean just read this page:

https://www.spartanequipment.com/pages/buying-tips/attachmen...

Small quirks to it, but yeah, the rest of the world really is Legos, Software is organ transplant.
When you buy a house, do you let the realtors keep a copy of the keys to snoop around whenever they want?
I am healthy and in a low-risk group for complications from Covid-19. Nevertheless I do not want to contract it. I don't care about herd immunity - give me a vaccine ASAP. Until then I'm wearing a mask and social distancing as much as possible.
Agreed. The final total number of deaths projected back in April [1] is about half of current deaths. It stands to reason that the problem is significantly worse than what our top epidemiologists expected and should be addressed accordingly.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/04/09/830664814/fauci-says-u-s-coro...
We haven't been to the moon since 1969.
Face or finger data is akin a login name... What is the password in that case? Because if you cant change your password, that could be a problem
But how often were those characters the butt of the joke or gay for comedic relief?
> In Williams' case, police had asked the store security guard, who had not witnessed the robbery, to pick the suspect out of a photo lineup based on the footage, and the security guard selected Williams.

Great job police
Are Used Goods Marketplaces a Fad or Here to Stay?
Relating this back to the article, I just want to let you know Carroll Gardens is definitely not a poor neighborhood. Your alternate perspective does not hold up there.
I wrote a piece about this paper a few years back.

http://nateburke.com/open/?p=52

Tldr: Romeo and Juliet was a much earlier distributed system impossibility result.
This is also the "off" season for heating oil, so it's usually cheaper.

According to the NH page, that price was June 2. For the Commonwealth of MA, as of late May it was $2.07 on average and it's down 33% on last year:

https://www.mass.gov/service-details/massachusetts-retail-he...

You can see it has dropped from $3.04 on Jan 7 2020.
Ah! was everything else in your setup in dark mode? Perhaps I'll consider letting the user select the theme as each have their own preference.
In that Reddit thread the author of a Reddit app mentions that they look at the clipboard to see if you have a Reddit link, and offer to open that page in the app (as iOS offers no better way).

On Twitter I saw a. Doing app mention they trigger the notification on every key press because they have custom ‘paste’ button that only shows when you have something copied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_...
How can you expect people to have self control over a system which does everything in its power to weaken/stop that self control?

Facebook in 2010 was what we all loved. It's garbage now, and we all know it.
There have been six Moon landings. The last happened in 1972.
Of course, they inspect received/sent email for spam/antivirus purposes
There was an example on Twitter of a coding app offering a custom "paste" button that’s only enabled if they have something on the clipboard.
The Senate’s new anti-encryption bill is even worse than EARN IT
> A 1 in a million event happens to about 100 people per day in the US.

This is a meaningless statement, you could choose literally any number for this statement, because you are missing the denominator.
I guess that latter situation is my point. Even if they are not the primary beneficiary they are a large beneficiary of all these illicit products. I'd imagine that they are probably not a minor beneficiary either since they probably get a huge chunk of the sale off these mostly commodity products. For each cheap plastic widget they sell probably the majority goes to advertising + Amazon Prime + warehousing + shipping + customer support, and I'd imagine the actual a manufacturer gets the short end of that stick.
A great movie indeed however it uses the white savior trope gratuitously. The scene where Kevin Costner’s character lets Octavia Spencer’s character into the mission control room never happened in real life.
> Should a language be able to form predicates total over all possible expressions in the language (including these predicate expressions) in a non trivial way, could these be then identified as 'types' in the sense that each can partition the set of all expressions in the language into 'of the type' and 'not of the type'?

Normally you'd want to give each term a single type, rather than say that terms do or don't have a bunch of different predicate types.

> Is this still type theory, or something else?

If your predicates apply opaquely to complete expressions then it's not (nontrivial) type theory. The point of type theory is that your typing rules tell you the types of your expressions (or whether they're validly typed at all) in terms of the types of their subexpressions.
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Victory Boston Bans Government Use of Face Surveillance
Ask a lawyer friend to refer you. They're pretty good at that. I imagine an initial 1/2 hour conversation will clarify a lot and cost nothing.

If you don't have a lawyer friend, find a friend who does.
Wait of apps can use clipboard to track me from Safari into their app then I’m super glad I get notified about that now!
You should go sit through a day in housing court when it opens up again. The first time I went to housing court was literally life changing. The injustice was eye opening. It’s probably the single event that switched me from Republican to Democrat because I spent my whole life thinking “the system” was fair and reasonable until I saw the system in action.
Not only that, but this also works!

a, *b, c = (1, 2, 3, 4)
a == 1, b == [2, 3], c == 4
London's just an example. Many other cities are the same, and every year more and more cameras are installed in more and more places all over the world.

Video surveillance is just one example too, web tracking, tagging people in photos, facial recognition, email surveillance, spyware, workplace surveillance, profiling of various kinds, and much more is getting more and more prevalent as the technology that allows it becomes more sophisticated, cheaper, and widely available.

Yes, you could try to move to more and more rural locations, further and further away from other people that might spy on you, disconnect yourself as much as possible from the internet (as Stallman has), and maybe, if no one powerful or knowledgeable enough cares about you, you might sneak under the radar and be free.

But what about your kids? What about your family? What about your friends or the rest of society? Most people aren't willing to go to such extremes, even if they have the means, knowledge, and care enough to do so.

No. The solution can not be individual. That's failed for decades now.

Collective action must be taken. Not violent action, but legal and financial action, and educating more people about why it matters and what they can do apart from trying to run away.
Ability to write code - is the main way to deal with application complexity.

If Amazon Honeycode does not have that critical feature (ability to write code) - then Amazon Honeycode is useless for creating any complex applications.
Tcl is (last I knew) still remarkably big on “the edges” of networks: f5/a10 devices (iRules scripting[0]), used to be (is it still?) used for Cisco iOS scripting[1], was used as the glue language for Tealeaf session/network capture[2] (when it was deployed as on-premises installation ), and control language for Argonne National Lab cluster control[3]...

[0] https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/irules-concepts-tcl-the...

[1] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ios_tcl/co...

[2] https://help.goacoustic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043736414-P...

[3] https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wozniak/papers/Swift_Tcl_2015.pdf
Yes, because a 'security hole' isn't a term defined a God. What security holes are holes or not is entirely a matter of user expectation.
missing ludens.cl
That was on purpose, the main theme color is RED, the username was made light to shift focus on the problem title instead of users to add friction towards votes biased towards users.

When the users are logged in, the voting buttons get RED and you'll notice less of the pink(Please do give it a try and let me know if it's better).

Thank you for your time.
Becoming a NASA engineer in those days must have been extraordinarily challenging. That Mary Jackson, a black woman, succeeded in doing so in a society, and a professional culture (engineering) dominated by white men (nothing against white men, am a white man myself, just pointing out an objective fact, please put your pitchforks away) speaks to her talent and the grit it took to achieve what she achieved.

A well deserved announcement.
I think it’s more just that a) having a classical allusion makes you seem erudite in this genre b) it’s clearly part of the shared culture that you get living in China that you could miss by living abroad. The second half where Confucius says he no longer trusts people without observing them probably plays some role (he’s giving his own observations) but I don’t think it’s that important to the whole.
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I have a friend who just installed a modern air source heat pump in a new build in Mass at the end of last year and he's pretty happy with it so far. The tech has improved significantly in recent years -- up until recently, they were not recommended north of DELMARVA.
“I seen Candace Owens try to convince white America, ‘don’t worry about it he’s a criminal anyway', I don’t give a fuck what this nigga did… I don’t care if he personally kicked Candace Owens in her stink pussy. I don’t know if it stinks, but I imagine it does."

- Dave Chappelle, civil discourse champion, also
Nice! I didn't know. But it still does not bring back the classic usage in Perl 5 style, that made intensive use of runtime options as shorthands for looping on all lines of a file etc.
Funny enough, Safari just opened up clipboard access via the async clipboard API: https://webkit.org/blog/10855/async-clipboard-api/

It does require a user initiated event to work, but then you can access the user's clipboard with:

`await navigator.clipboard.read();`

There are some additional restrictions though (you can read them in the first link) which it might make sense for iOS as a whole to adopt.
This doesn’t refute the parent.
“Technology” er software er The top few vendors are gonna drive us backwards
The recent releases of software from almost all major software vendors (Apple, Microsoft, Google etc) point to even more invasive data collection.

I don't get it.

WTF is sooo freakin valuable on people's computers (or their online travels) that is SO valuable that these companies are spending TREMENDOUS amount of resources to develop software that can scrape that data.

I get , how social media has no choice but to sell your data, but we're talking operating system manufacturers. Why do THEY need to do it.

Who is buying this data? or rather...who the fuck is buying this data.

I seriously don't get it.
Face/finger data is never revealed to the web sites. You can read webauthn for more information.
As of 2015, same-sex marriage is legal across all 50 states (no idea about territories). Progress can sometimes can incredibly ugly, and I wish it wasn't, but a win is a win.
Guacamole also has one of the best, most succinct open source websites out there. No BS, easy to navigate, clear call to action on most pages. Bravo.
A chaplin recently had to resign in apology at a distinguished academic institution for ... making factual and insightful comments about the George Floyd incident.[1] McCarthy eventually was shamed and disgraced by his casual destructiveness. "Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/06/17/mit-chaplain-resigns-over-emai...
> If the UI team that worked on this just completely took over the AWS console, I wouldn't complain.

This is the fundamental misunderstanding. There is a centralized AWS console team/organization. They are responsible for the UI libraries, guidelines, common elements, mezzanine, etc, across all of AWS.

They dont write the actual "service pane" UX that you interact with when you start an EC2 instance or upload an S3 object. That surface area is so large, varied, and changes at a frantic velocity that there's no way a single team or group could ever keep up. Even a single "service" like EC2 or Systems Manager actually has multiple front end teams responsible for different portions of the UX or functionality.
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I still use Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Why?

Facebook:
I met lots of elementary/junior high school friends many years ago who have been lost contact with more than 2 decades via this platform.
Useful, isn't it? Remember, it was before 2010.
And I don't spend much time scrolling on my timeline because I prefer group discussions.
Remember that Google had shut down it's consumer version of Google Plus.

WhatsApp:
My de facto messenger app. Many years ago, it was BlackBerry Messenger. Now Whatsapp.
I like this app because it's essentially just a messenger app without useless stuffs like news, job search etc (yes Line, I'm looking at you).
Telegram is also cool. It's open source so you can make your own modified version.

Instagram:
Ahh Instagram. I don't want to sound like an grumpy old man. Do you remember that in 2010 till 2012, it was a "privillege" only iOS users can enjoy?
And when they announced Android version, we Android users shouted in joy? I'm a photography enthusiast so I purposefully post my photos on it.
You won't find my latest dinner photos or selfies on beautiful beaches there, promise.
I also follow the accounts of some famous photographers and photographers hashtags to provide me more visual references.

People some also to forget that many many years ago, back in the film era, gaining recognition is harder:
you need to build years of reputation, publish your works on magazines, do exhibitions on gallery etc. Now? We have social media. Waaayyy easier.
Post your photos and in less than 5 minutes, people in Africa or Alaska can enjoy them. Even any kid can do that.

Despite the useless craps, I'm glad that there are people who still use social medias in a sane way :)
That link was posted here on HN and then got flagged. You can find it if you paste the URL into HN's search.
Do you like TikTok reading your clipboard?