skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GameControllers API on macOS is completely useless. They forget to say it in the documentation, but only a tiny fraction of game controllers are supported, so you have to use a lower level API to have any level of compatibility.

On iOS it's a different story. Only a tiny fraction of game controllers are allowed to connect to iPhones in the first place, and this API supports them all (1).

(1) They have deprecated support for game controllers that don't have joysticks, so even made-for-iOS game controllers may stop working.
Ask HN: Why does Apple need my contact list to take dictation
When trying to enable the dictation feature on macOS, the popup is telling me that: "To help your Mac recognize what you're saying, other information is sent as well, such as the names of your contacts."
Yeah, no. Try to tell that to Serbs and Croats.
Google is your friend. Eg this one https://whatculture.com/film/10-batsht-crazy-japanese-movies...

Hausu the most famous, Crazy family was even in the theaters worldwide. Sion Sono is every year in your next film festival (Love Exposure his best), and many many batshit crazy small films. Like the crazy Czech comedies from the 60ies, my favorite being "Who killed Jessie". But also the crazy polish scifi comedies.
Sounds plausible; I was just looking up a few of the eastern Siberian towns - Ust-Nera (143E, 64N or so) at 6,500 inhabitants, Bilibino (167E, 68N) - also home to the world's northernmost nuclear power plant, 6,000 inhabitants...)

Closer to (my) home - Vardø (2,000) and Hammerfest (8,000) at the extreme north of Norway. Positively crowded!
The only "business" model I see is when someone like Musk decides to pour billions into freeing humanity from Windows. Ironically, it could be Gates Foundation's next big charity project!
Or Broken Phone in Russian.
I would phrase it like but I agree with the conclusion.

> Facts matter but stories sell.
You think that initially. But vacation costs the same or everyone and you also wanna splurge too. Appliances cost same, building costs slowly approach rest of Europe.
But clever technological workarounds might expose those idiots for what they are:

Clowns trying to "regulate" things they don't understand without seeking expert advices beyond their narrow lobbyists.
I feel nausea...

This and the new anti-encryption bills...

I am happy to know the existence such a lot of great American minds, mathematicians, scientists, visionaries, because, else, with only the kind of ugly news such as above, my image of US would have been tainted for good.

(*) I'm not American. I'm neutral about not being American, thanks to the existence of both plus and minus items. By the way of course you can say the same about pretty much any country.
Mangalor said "should" rather than "could". Even then, I do not think that it could be interpreted like that. He talks about distributions of traits, the sentence that you quoted did not put minorities in a single box.
> but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy.

On Linux and BSD we've been having very good privacy features for years now.

Therefore I don't think that privacy is at the top of the list of Apple's motives.
We're certainly witnessing a religion. Just one without mercy, repentance, or atonement.
Why write in any other language when we have typescript? /s

There is a world outside the JS/TS/Node ecosystem, pick up some of these other languages and it will answer your question.
That was my understanding, as well. I was under the impression that Manning already had pretty carte blanche access to a lot of stuff, and that was how she was able to get it in the first place.

Maybe one of the items she provided to Assange was encrypted, and he worked to break the encryption, without consulting Manning.
reading those bills makes me feel quite hopeless, considering Gell-Mann Amnesia[1]:

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open
the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s
case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see
the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or
the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the
story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet
streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple
errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international
affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more
accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the
page, and forget what you know.

It is horrible to think the same thing probably exists in politics, and I cant even imagine what goes through in fields I don't understand.

[1]https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
5 clicks to accomplish something is fine if each takes 10ms. 5 clicks to accomplish something if each takes 5s is an eternity (JIRA).
Lies, Damned Lies, and Geographic Visualizations.
Such a crack-down on the free-sharing world of the Internet has been a popular prediction at least since the 1990s, and you can probably find it in the oldest Usenet archives. However, it isn't hard to imagine that we are at a turning point in history, moving beyond the status quo in international relations that has been in place since WW2.

That means a possible end to a whole range of international agreements and treaties, and a fragmented world where anything is possible, somewhere, now that there is no chance of global consensus about anything at all. I'm waiting patiently for the international consensus for protection of "intellectual property" to break down. Plenty of countries take a net loss from it, and without the carrot of access to international trade systems like the WTO, if such are discontinued, they won't have an incentive to continue with it.
This is a cool idea. I'm in a somewhat similar position to the OP. I might look into this.
Unfortunately it does not change bad parts.
Wirecard Files for Insolvency After Revealing Accounting Hole
I may be misunderstanding your comment, but Assange is Australian.
Yes, you can record meetings and download the recordings. We have started just recording all our meetings so that if someone wasn't able to make it, they can just review at 2x speed later.

I looked again and I guess the low bandwidth setting is called "Bandwidth Saver" behind the little gear icon on the left hand side when you're in a call.
Reading gamedev subs on reddit, I got a very strong impression that Macs are generally being looked down upon and not considered worthy of porting to.

In part due to a significantly weaker hardware compared to Windows machines, in part due to constantly changing API surface and breaking backwards compatibility, and in part due to historical game-hostile stance of the company stemming from Jobs' personal dislike towards having games on Mac.

Is this off or did I get the sentiments right?
You basically describe Soviet "obkoms". The commitee of people who decided what is ok to say/sing/write, and what is not.

Needless to say, they became corrupt very soon, because no one was allowed to say a word against them.
A digital video recorder and streamer
I have developed a digital video recorder and streamer that also detects movement and audio.
It has been in the works for about 4 years now and I'm super proud that it actually gets usable now!
A friend of mine helped with the web-interface.
It is targetted at Linux, but it may work on other unixes; I did not try that yet.
I love to hear feedback. If you would like to see certain new features or things that need improvement; let me know!

https://vanheusden.com/constatus/
Aren't the initial news stories credible?
Chrome does and it may be one of the most popular viewers currently in use. If you've never seen it, I encourage everyone to try breakout.pdf [0]. I know it doesn't work in Firefox's viewer, but it does in Chrome's. And yes, it's exactly what it sounds like: an implementation of the classic Breakout game in PDF.

[0] https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments@...
I think most of the time this is just Parkinson's Law playing out:
"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"

Things get over-engineered because too much time is allowed for the task.

The forcing function that's helped me is simply giving me and my teams small but meaningful time boxes to get a feature done. Sort of like "sprints", but with more teeth. E.g. An important feature is going to get announced in a newsletter ever 2 weeks. Sprints too often don't seem to focus on the shipping to customers part.

So we focus on shipping the smallest thing that could possibly work in an arbitrary time box. You know users need X. So you make X or X' or X'' - some version or whittled down version of X that'll relieve user pain. The time box does works wonders from keeping over complexifying from getting out of control.
> While this is ultimately a political problem it will only be practiced where it’s enforceable like all other political problems.

Building a company in the US becomes an untenable legal and security risk as if you don't backdoor yourself you'll be liable but if you backdoor yourself and competitors or spies or journalists get the keys, I'm pretty sure you can't ask the US government to pay back the financial or PR losses (which is actually something you can do in Switzerland for privacy-related issues)
What is your non-programming job that pays the same for 8 hours?
Oh, sorry if it was not very clear, I was saying that US treatment of the Assange case was disgusting me.

By "American great minds", I was thinking about all the American mathematicians and scientists whose books I passionately devour, and the splendid futuristic projects of some tech corps, which bring sci-fi dreams to reality.
> Google is corporation, of course it's for their benefit.

I'm thinking a diverse web that isn't controlled by another big actor might be enough of a long term benefit to google.

Some times I get the feeling that these huge actors don't necessarily silo everything because they necessarily think it's a good idea, but because if they don't someone else will and that's a bad thing.
There’s Ittoqqortoormiit [1] on there too at a population of 452.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ittoqqortoormiit
Wow some actual hacker news.
That seems like a reasonable excuse to me. Tesla's only been doing high volume manufacturing for 8 years, and these things take time to build up expertise for. If you buy a Tesla today you should expect you're trading off some fit and finish for their advantages.
I like this. Will try in the next days and then give feedback.
Yes. That’s the concept I believe. I’m not sure how big a landmass had to be to make the map though.
Cool! But you can't edit messages in WhatsApp and desktop support is very bad - I need both all the time.
Are there any additional features in those versions? I get the impression there are not, in which case I'd rather just donate, so Valve don't take a cut.
This works only for the development of simple applications. If these no-code/low-code platforms want to be considered for serious development, they need to decouple front-end and back-end tiers. A developer can build front-end in one no-code application (e.g Webflow), or Angular/React for slick single-page applications; and the backend in another backend APIs specific no-code application. It will also enable the backend code to be called from native iOS and Android apps.
There's totally a middle ground between 'full access and no access'. Apps can show UIImagePickerControllers and CNContactPickerViewControllers whenever they want, without any permissions. They then get the photo[s]/contact info the user picks.

Which is exactly what most apps actually need.

WhatsApp has no good reason to look at any image you aren't explicitly choosing to share right now. The only user-facing WhatsApp feature that requires Photo library access is the scrolling list of recent photos on top of the in-app camera.

WhatsApp has a better case for asking to continually scan your contacts to show you people with accounts. But instead of just falling back to asking for a phone number when you don't give permission, it could show the contact picker, and check the accounts you pick.

Unfortunately, in both cases, WhatsApp takes the all-or-nothing approach - it asks for the blanket permission, and has no fall-back if it is denied.
No that I believe is an aquaslide case from the 70’s. I was looking myself for the case I am referencing and kept getting this case too (and some inflatable slide cases).

Very similar factually...someone bought a aquaslide, slide was delivered and installed (but what was delivered wasn’t an aquaslide, but unlike the case I reference the aquaslide and actually delivered slide had no markings/branding. IIRC in that case multiple insurers examined the slide and as you say admitted the slide was an aquaslide, but after being examined by an aquaslide employee they reversed course.

The details are slim, but I have a feeling the slide actually wasn’t theirs as confirmed by testing the plastic (but this I really don’t know).
China Hypersonic EMP Threat
Where is Saint Petersburg, Russia? It seems to be on the border of the boxes and might be in the same box with Helsinki (metro 1,495,271) or Minsk (metro 2,645,500). Saint Petersburg's population is 5,351,935.
Well, the 3D performance is very poor in general - my 2018 MacBook Pro 15" is about 30% slower under macOS than on Bootcamp Windows on the same hardware with the same app. And that comes on top of the fact that the GPUs in these MacBooks aren't really all that good and can't really run games at native screen resolution with any kind of decent performance.

The Windows world has made huge strides - e.g. laptops like Razer Blade Stealth 13" pack in faster GPU which is actually usable in a MacBook Pro 13" sized chasis.
I’m fairly sure Toronto is larger than Chicago...

EDIT: Yeah, back in 2013: https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/03/05/torontos_p... - and I’m pretty sure it’s almost at or crossed the 3M mark (COVID may have tossed a wrench in the latter).

Ah. It’s because Toronto is in the same box as _New York_ - my bad!
Gerrymandering was the very first thing that popped into my head when I noticed the most populace city in my country lose out to what's basically a town because it ended up on a grid with another country's city. I nearly started a "that's clearly a mistake" comment before realizing what had happened.
Agreed. The semantics should be like <input type=file> and let me pick one or more each time.
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the government at this point that they wouldn’t do everything in their power to spy on citizens and punish people for trying to stop them?
Why are we beating around the bush even on anonymous platform like this one?

What do "conversations", language policing, social media activism, etc actually do to improve the situation? Where are the actual actions and involvements like volunteering for actual work in a poor community?

Why is the suggested action so often giving money? Buy this book about how to be a good white person, donate to local BLM chapter, support this twitter activist on Patreon, hire a racial issues consultant for a company seminar?

If anybody really cares about black lives they should be deeply concerned with gang violence, human trafficking, drugging minors, etc. Where are the conversations about that?

For me it is clear that a lot of individuals are taking advantage of a real problem for their own goals and purposes, even wiling to do more harm than good. And now we are debating whether it's worth to sacrifice certain freedoms not to offend them.
Patriot?
And then make sure in the Chinese App stores it is given a very communist-patriotic version of that name.
> People celebrated it

No, some people celebrated it. A noisy minority.
It’s not quite the 1970s, but I really enjoy The Witness (A tanú), a Hungarian satire of communism from 1969. I’m pleased to see that it’s available on the site and strongly recommend watching it.
Lessons from the Pulse Model and Discussion (on bias in AI)
Pretty much, except I don't think Flattr allowed content creators to set their own price & put stuff behind a paywall. Flattr is more of a donation / Patreon model. Contributor instead set an upfront price on accessing each article.

(I could be wrong, it's years since I last used Flattr. I'm surprised but glad to see they're still around.)
> (R-SC)...(R-AR)...(R-TN)

It's funny how you can read just that and know that the bill is going to be absurdly bad. Not even just bad in the philosophical/political sense but actually just bad as in not understanding the problem space, or not even formulated clearly or coherently.
Fascism was a direct result of social conflict and worker's movements in Italy after WWI. Check out the "biennio rosso" (two red years); "The revolutionary period was followed by the violent reaction of the Fascist blackshirts militia and eventually by the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini in 1922"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biennio_Rosso
I came to make the same comment. I was surprised to see that "technically" Jacksonville is nearly 2x larger than Atlanta but digging deeper it just seems about city borders. Jacksonville is pretty large and not that dense. Atlanta is pretty small and fairly dense. When you look at the metropolitan areas Atlanta is nearly 4x larger than Jacksonville metro area and that really just includes the area covered by MARTA so it is all pretty much "Atlanta".
This can be food to try, but doesn't always work. Over time, the honeymoon phase will get shorter and shorter as you realize most problems with the job are universal. At least that has been my experience.
how does something like this affect password managers like 1-password?
"More harm than good" cannot be assessed objectively. How could you possibly weigh "one extra death" against "ten unnecessary treatments"?

It has to be an individual decision. Give me the false positive rate and the harm of an unnecessary treatment and I'll weigh that against the risk of my premature death.
Should we really have to research each word we use before using it?
Feels like the last decade has shown Leaking to the General Public is not very productive. As in outcomes are poor.

There is always something else lined up every 2 minutes to pull attention away from the leak.

I am not sure if anyone studies "leaking effectiveness" but I am guessing in info tsunami conditions larger the leak less impact it has. Cause no one knows whose network of power is going to get impacted so everyone does nothing.
> In 2012, Assange communicated directly with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack. With respect to one target, Assange asked the LulzSec leader to look for (and provide to WikiLeaks) mail and documents, databases and pdfs. In another communication, Assange told the LulzSec leader that the most impactful release of hacked materials would be from the CIA, NSA, or the New York Times. WikiLeaks obtained and published emails from a data breach committed against an American intelligence consulting company by an “Anonymous” and LulzSec-affiliated hacker. According to that hacker, Assange indirectly asked him to spam that victim company again.

This is almost certainly sabu/Hector Monsegur. [1]

This guy put Jeremy Hammond [2] behind bars, and now he's being used to bring down Julian Freaking Assange. More lives ruined than you can count on one hand.

I hope people don't forget that Wikileaks has never published anything that has been proven false. Not once. Julian Assange is in solitary confinement in a prison on bullshit charges, and this is just another one.

Stand up for journalists. Real journalists.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Monsegur

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond

edit: as pointed out below, Assange was moved from solitary confinement in February.
Did the prices for ads not dramatically drop over time?

To me, it feels like it was just market forces driving those decisions. They could have kept the ad sales team and fewer ads, but that doesn't mean that would have worked out.
I prefer in-depth article that don't skip over "details" and I expect that from an university publication.

Otherwise I would read my Twitter feed.
> (and complaining about lack of encryption and so on)

Well most people here in Germany constantly complain about the lack of privacy thanks to Facebook and still don't mind using WhatsApp.

I haven't been to the US myself, but I have met a lot of internation students from the US and Canada. All of them were mainly using either iMessage or Facebook Messenger, they were really surprised why everyone is using WhatsApp here.

Anyways, actually privacy focused apps like Threema or Signal don't seem to be popular anywhere, so I don't think there is a significant difference
Basically. Also, amusingly in this context, they have bad joypad support (No built-in support for xbox controllers is pretty grim, you have to rely on fan drivers. [Rumble stopped working last year]). Maybe they'll improve it, but maybe not. I'm very skeptical.

Also on iOS they totally let gamecenter rot.

They're a bit more positive now now, but for a long time in their conference talks they tend to up productivity tools and downplay games, which are a biig source of app store money IIRC. They're ashamed of games a bit (their original theming for gamecenter was a casino, which I think accurately reflects their distaste for games). And that's a position you can have, but it makes it less appealing if you're a game developer.

[honestly, raw hardware performance\value for money is the least of the issues].
You're an asshole
The CIA just made its first television recruiting ad
If learning new pronouns was really that difficult, none of your peers would speak more than one language. This is just the way society deals with issues that are personal or to do with respect: you don't ask people why they use Ms., you don't ask why someone hasn't had children, you (probably) don't fistbump strangers, and you feel guilt when you forget someone's name. Similarly, in most of these cases, it's worse to be on the other side.
I'm happy with my work on Checkbot, a Chrome extension that checks multiple pages at a time for SEO, speed and security best practices:

https://www.checkbot.io/

I also wrote up a concise guide on everything the extension checks for and why those checks are important: https://www.checkbot.io/guide/

I found working on the above solidified by existing knowledge I'd picked up as a web developer and filled in the gaps. It's satisfying to know the extension is helping people identify website problems every day and teaching them tips they didn't know before.

Also, I've been wary of what seems like SEO snake-oil advice in the past (like a lot of developers) so it was good to digest all the evidence-based SEO advice I could find and condense it into small actionable tips most developers would agree with.
scratch that.

Bafin (german bank watchdog) just froze the accounts, incl. cards of Boon, which is a wirecard subsidary.
Wow I could understand that mentality about the Microsoft store, but steam? They are the most indie friendly platform.

Maybe ppl still upset that HL3 was the biggest hoax since Duke Nukem Forever? But before I let you finish, TF2 hats and the steam platform were the two best things Valve ever did for the world.
So then why people can't run their hand inspected code on their iOS devices they own ? Why can't people run good privacy respecting GPLv3 licensed applications ?

The walled garden actually makes it harder to run software you and others can check to be sucure, instead you have to depend on some opaque QA somewhere in Apple to check that for you.

Not to mention you can't elect to use software that has features blocked by default for security reasons where you are sure it will not misuse them as you have audited the source (or even written it yourself!).