skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call him conservative because conservatives call him conservative. He writes opinion pieces for conservative media and goes on conservative opinion shows. The "IDW" (heh) gets labelled as conservative because it stands in firm opposition to a giant list of things that conservatives like to oppose. I mean, come on.

There is a culture war. He picked a side. That's what I meant.
The disconnect is, that there are some opinions that are protected (religion, and recently also gender identity) but there are other opinions that aren't (political views or anything roughly correlated with any political party). (I use "opinion" in a broad sense here, as "something you choose" as opposed to "something you're born with" such as sex and race) There are obvious downsides of firing people for any such opinion that (1) people feel extremely passionately about, but is (2) ultimately irrelevant to the job at hand.
Gh_touch: Placeholder repository to keep your GitHub activity going
Labs use of fax machines blamed for long wait times for Covid test results
Not only was it a scam, it was the first time in US history that a shadowy cabal of unelected federal government officials tried to invalidate the results of an election. It also led to the erosion of rule of law, which will impact the US greatly in the future.
Well, yes, getting to Russia's shit list is a nasty experience even for non-Russians, as well known examples show, such as that of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessikka_Aro
Is there a term for when someone says something, followed by 'but', then something that completely invalidates the first sentence?
I guess I'll just have to keep voting for Libertarians.

https://joj2020.com/
Thanks! I sent you an email. It's from my personal domain, so might have gone to your spam.
Billion
You mean like this? http://lite.cnn.com/en or this? https://text.npr.org
Technology doesn't exist in its own bubble isolated from society, politics, and economy. Changes in mainstream OSs and mainstreaming privacy concerns are absolutely the result of social, political, and economic change.

Keep in mind the companies involved in these technological changes make up a huge portion of our economy, and their users affected by their app store changes, for example, touch every sector. These changes come due to social pressure--these companies aren't doing this out of the goodness of their heart. And particularly with regards to Facebook, political pressure is being placed on them to self-regulate with regard to user data to avoid government regulation.

I am not accusing you of being anti-leaking (or pro-leaking), but it does sound like you've fallen for an anti-leaking narrative here.
But the relevant question is "Why should a person's private medical history be public knowledge?"
sorry for the confusion, I'm aware why ARM added those instructions (a very good decision compared to the bizarre barriers available on classic RISCs); what I meant is, if store release can be implemented to be as fast as a normal store, why wouldn't Apple just give release semantics to normal stores? I guess this allow them to be forward compatible with future more relaxed architectures, but I don't think they care about forward compat of translated code. Still it is certainly possible that you are right.

Re TSO mode, I thought I remembered that Power8/9 had a TSO mode (explicitly for compatibility with x86 code), but I can't find any reference to it right now.
> This ignores that the web has birthed a global culture of people where participation in online discussion is the majority of their lives.

I'm not ignoring that, I'm describing what I see is an underlying cause. If online discussion tools respected the principle of setting proper expectations for each communication channel, the problem would be much milder, as the problems you describe would be limited to smaller groups of interaction, instead of being escalated to viral dimensions.
Simple Candlestick Chart Using Streamlit and Plotly
This is an age old debacle with toggle switches. How do you indicate it is ON/OFF and how do you indicate pushing it will turn OFF/ON particularly when the states are binary but not as simple as ON/OFF and you’re working in two dimensions.

You’re trying to show status and allow toggling all at once. There are basically 4 ways to do it with a binary setting and no one right way.

- Icon shows current status, Text shows current status. My coffee maker does this with a button that goes from “Single” to “Double”.

- Icon shows current status, text shows what a click will achieve (Zoom)

- Icon shows what a click will do, text shows current status (Example?)

- Icon shows what a click will do, text shows what a click will do (Play/Pause buttons typically work like this)

As a result, as a user you have to spend the cognitive load analyzing the icon, maybe trying to guess what the current setting is, to try to intuit what a click will actually achieve.
That's not how absence of evidence works. You're the one making the claim of herd immunity - not me. And also disrupting that claim, with:

> HN readers: there is no conclusive science behind anything reported about COVID-19.
Given small enough communities: no one, and that’s okay. If you start behaving in a way I don’t like after inviting you to my home, I’m well within my rights to kick you out, and there isn’t (and shouldn’t be) anyone policing me on that.

No, this doesn’t work at Facebook scale. I think we had a good thing going on the early web with lots of small discussion boards.
This seems to increase the amount of work a user has to do in practice. I suspect most users will end up sharing the entire library. From the link above:

> There's also the entirely new option Select Photos..., which leads the user through to the Camera Roll to pick one or more images to share. It is specifically images that users can opt to share, rather than albums.

> Which then means there is an issue that the next time a user wants to post an image, they find their selection confined to solely the ones they specified before. To change that and allow all or just different images, the user has to go to Settings on their iPhone.

My wishlist for fixing photo privacy on iOS:

1) Applications don't need to ask for permission to write photos to iOS folders. These get written to a separate album ($appName or $appDeveloperName by default), e.g. if you save a photo from Twitter it gets saved to your Twitter folder.

2) Photos taken by the iPhone Camera (presumably your personal photos) get stored in a special 'Camera' folder. Apps can ask for read/write permissions specifically here. Eg a photo editing app like VSCO or Darkroom may only need read permissions to begin with, but if it also wants to in-place replace your photos with its edited photos, it'll need read+write permission as well.

3) What about apps that occasionally need access to photos (e.g. social media apps) but you don't want them to have access to everything? The solution is to implement a OS-level photo picker in iOS with a UI can't be over-ridden and which makes clear you're sharing your selected photos with $appName. And ensure apps which want access to photos have to make the user go through the OS-level photo picker.
I'd be pretty happy were I able to run office on linux (apart from 2010 version in wine).
You said weaker hardware but really it comes down to cost and modular builds with PC's are a huge factor from a game player perspective. You can piece-meal together a decent gaming system for half the cost of a Mac and the most useful upgrade is a new graphics card.

You can't upgrade Macs.
How to find vulnerable domains by CVE ID: CVE-2019-3396
Almost the same story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634138 (1439 points | 15 hours ago | 516 comments | #5 in the front page)
> racism and sexism are used as some form of emotional sink.

Reminds me of the 10 minute hate from 1984, which was also intended for catharsis not outward justice or remedy.
If you think who is currently president matters one bit when it comes to passing bills increasing federal spying and power then you haven't been paying attention.
Security Updates for Thursday
This is another miracle of the Youtube algorithm. I was recommended this video 2 days ago after having never watched a single bee-anything related video. And I watched every second of that video with rapt attention.

Only problem is now I'm getting of bunch of beekeeping videos and I still have zero interest in the field.
SDL2 is a layer over Metal, or Vulkan, OpenGL, D3D and others.
There's something attractive about this example but i'm struggling to figure out why i think that. What is it that makes this attractive?

+ There's a signal to noise ratio that's off the charts
+ You've not cheated to achieve succinctness; there's no blackbox.nowDrawTheRestOfTheOwl()

- I don't think that's "pretty" code
- i don't find it easy to parse, i had to read your example with my index finger pressed against the screen as i traced through it - i didn't have to do that with the Typescript further example down-thread
Facial recognition to 'predict criminals' sparks row over AI bias
None of what you say seems to contradict what I said, so what exactly in my comment is wrong?
Secure in your papers and affects means that they can't just go rifling through them. But if I have a bag in my car, and cops want to search it for drugs or weapons, then that's okay. So we've passed the point of the 4th having any legitimate meaning.
More importantly, why did they ask you about secure connections, but automatically assume that insecure connections were okay?
OK I'll be explicit.

You attempted to spin the opinion of special rapporteur into that of the UN. In every special rapporteur article they have to put the disclaimer I posted because of people like you attempting to frame something in false or malicious ways.

To recap your claim:

>Its not just my opinion, its the UN opinion.

UN's actual position as stated in the article you posted:

>The Special Rapporteurs are 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.

That line is meant for you:

>they are not UN staff
As an officer of a public corporation, how much privacy can one expect? I agree that he had a right to privacy, same as anyone else.
I've seen laptops with Bang & Olufsen stickers for the sound so I guess, no, the cult didn't last. The company is milking its former reputation.

The stickers are quite silly since B&O was mostly famous for their good furniture design, not the electronics.
I think you are focusing on clear examples, and not the grey areas that can easily be abused.

Should a CoC have a "no politics" rule?
No profanity (in an 18+ group)?
Part of the reason for the switch was more and more users on mobile devices, so the proportion of users that could act as supernodes got much smaller. I think I remember one of the Skype developers describing this in a comment on HN, but I can't find it now.
Assange helped Trump win the election. Now, the administration that he enabled is coming for him. What a turn of events.
From consultant towards value creator
Terrible news. This framework needs a future!
how they think the world is != objective reality
He might be "doxxing" himself in the process. This non-story might have more SEO traction than the story would have.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...
you can submit a bug or you could just use another browser to open the link
I have never heard "out of tune unison" described as an interval, except in a joke about viola players. Sure, there's a difference between 440 and 442 but that's not considered an interval in western music theory.
Obviously I meant from an end user perspective.

Behind the scenes FB was nefarious then and now.
People use pattern matching all the time in ML or rust or haskell or Scala or Elm. It's totally uncontroversial there, and it's helpful to readability, not harmful. Erlang and Elixir also show it works in untyped languages pretty well.
> If payments regulation worked like that, Stripe and PayPal and Venmo and Apple Pay wouldn’t exist.

I don't know how much of the complex regulatory barriers to the payments industry are designed by industry insiders with an explicit aim to stifle competition, but the fact that there are only a small number of actors in the space indicates that it's far from a "free market".

You can have a corrupt market full of lobby-influenced regulatory barriers and still have more than a pure monopoly. Sometimes you have a small number of competitors, or 1-2 firms with the lion's share of the market. Sometimes you have a cartel. Sometimes newcomers even break through regulatory barriers through innovation!

All that to say that your evidence doesn't do much to support your claim.
It’s interesting, at least for me, I couldn’t watch most recent hollywood movies, they’re too predictible and barren of essence. Older hollywood movies are a different story but what’s been coming out lately I find highly unwatchable.
>There is nothing illegal about an underground market

Underground markets, even when selling legal goods, exist to avoid taxes. They are inherently illegal.
Have you tried absentee voting? It's honestly pretty great. I spend maybe three hours at my computer googling the people I don't know, then send it back.

Not sure if it makes a difference in the end but it's cool to know who's claiming they represent you.
There must be a way to come up with an (almost) universally applicable metric of city-ness, regardless of the adminstrative boundaries, that can be applied to situations like this map. Something like, the area in which the population density is above a certain threshold, and the population that lives in that area.
I actually never understood why iOS and Android don't offer the same system browsers offer for the Web. When you pick a file, the OS prompt a screen to navigate through your pictures to pick the item you want and give it to the webpage. Because this workflow is what most of the apps needs. I don't want apps to have access to all my storage system, but just the picture I want to share. The same system could be applied to contacts as well
I mean, you could easily not pay the 'early termination fee', and dare the landlord to do something about it. Not advocating for skipping out on debts, but just from a practical point of view (having worked in the real estate industry): very unlikely they'd be able to enforce it, and if they did go to court and you told a judge you didn't have the funds, it would almost certainly be dismissed.

You could just e-mail the landlord 'sorry, I'm broke and don't have any money right now, feel free to waste time in court if you'd like'. 80-90% chance they'd just let the fee go. Then if they did, another 70-80% chance it'd be dismissed by a judge or magistrate.

People put one-sided things in contracts, but the odds are very high that they could never actually enforce them
If it causes one line of chem textbooks to change, it's fit the claim. Not a very high standard, just sexy sounding.
I once sued my former landlord. As a result, I had to sit through many housing cases (neither of us was represented by a lawyer, so we were put at the end of the docket... that was unjust, but it was equally unjust to both of us). In the end I won (though it was a long and drawn out process- something that impacts landlords and tenants equally), I felt like the rulings, whichever way they ended up going, were pretty fair based on the facts presented. If anything, the judge was more favorable to tenants.

I follow various landlord forums because I feel like one day I may want to start a business related to it. Landlords worry most of all about tenants destroying a building, and having no legal recourse. With eviction courts shutdown, many have had tenants just stop paying rent- often times when the tenants still have their income, some times more income than they had before. The tenants in many cases won't communicate with the landlords about the situation.

Obviously, you mileage may vary depending on where you are, and I have had my share of problems with lying, slumlords (like the one I sued)- but that isn't the majority of them. Most are just trying to run a business.
A Makefile for Getting Dressed
> Every stable community already has things you can and cannot say

My point is that every stable community has a different subset of things that you cannot say.

It's easy to create a group where pederasty, war or heroin can be freely discussed or praised. The problem nowadays appears when utterances aimed to that specific group are picked up and propagated by the general network, reaching people who were not their intended targets and who didn't share the original channel's assumptions for what can and cannot be said.
Nintendo will not give up control of their distribution to a company that takes a 30% cut of software licenses. The expectations of people who play Switch games and people who play mobile games are also vastly different. You can see this by looking at the types of games Nintendo publishes on the respective platforms. Their mobile games are free to play, chock-full of mobile game style in-app purchase garbage, whereas their console games are much more traditional premium titles with an up-front purchase price. These are 2 different markets with different audiences.

They also typically don’t sell their consoles at a loss, unlike the other manufacturers and stated they wouldn’t sell the Switch at a loss.[1]

1: https://venturebeat.com/2016/10/26/nintendo-wont-sell-switch...
Go is probably the best candidate for a safer and faster python. However, if i had to choose only one statically typed language to learn that would be Java. The language is super popular, the tooling is great. There are tons of learning resources and books. It's used by big tech companies(amazon, google etc) for some serious engineering work. It opens up the door to the jvm world where you can also explore languages like kotlin, scala and clojure.
No, that sort of continued excusing of the manufacturer is why Tesla, after 8 years of production no less, continues to deliver substandard quality. What pressure is there for them to do otherwise? Tesla accepts this, their customers, only occasionally grumbling, accept this, and their die hard fans go to the mat on social media to insure everyone else accepts this.
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mkws(1): Generate a static website with minimum lines of code
Music is doing great. At no other time in human history has there been more music being created and so easily available.

The music industry is not doing great and this is fine. You would say it's definitely terrible if you are a musician clinging to the dying once-prevailing industry models that did not adapt to the Internet. That's your fault (as a musician), though.

> the majority of activity in any industry is likely to be absolute garbage and in need of reform.

> This does not mean the best next step is to destroy that system wholesale.

Kill it and start over. Why is this not a good thing?
Free-Speech is a concept that governs government interference, not people losing their jobs or having university acceptance rescinded.
User data stolen from Android app provider Aptoide published online
It sounds like survivorship bias. Netflix is a passive hobby and Facebook is an active one. The people who discuss on HN are likely to indulge in unproductive discussion. Whereas the people who lurk HN quietly and excessively may be likely to indulge in slothful behaviour.
Wow I didn't realise this and I just tested my XBox Controller with Evoland and Limbo and it just worked! Thank you! Now I can finally continue playing these, as controlling them with touch was horrible
This one made my day
Ah yes, that's why his net worth goes down every year.
Can you give an example? I've never heard of this recommendation and I have a bit of trouble imagining it in a way that is simpler than a bunch of if-else

I came up with the following, and that definitely doesn't convince me.

def call_a():
pass

def call_b():
pass

def default_func():
pass

myswitch = {
"a": call_a
"b": call_b
}

myfunc = myswitch.get(x, default_func)
myfunc()

vs

if x == "a":
pass
elif x == "b":
pass
else:
pass
Yes, artists were getting very creative with censorship during communism. A lot of those movies are masterpieces
Let's not go down the "those aren't real communists" route. The communists in the West were by and large always very cozy with the SU. Hell, they loved Stalin so much and wanted to hear so little that Orwell sat down to write a fable to explain the issues to them.
I do that too, out of interest, but I'm under no illusion it will help me against data exfiltration or protect my privacy. There is lots of software of which you just don't know what it is, or that plain doesn't work when blocked. Some even crashes when their connect() call doesn't immediately succeed. If you do a few weeks of real world work on a machine and then go back through all system processes you allowed, you ask yourself what half of them even are.
I like your optimism and I hope true change happens For the better, I’m more than a little jaded and in my experience things only get worse.

Take “Poletown” where GM got the government to seize 1,500 homes, 144 businesses and 16 churches and bulldoze them to the ground to build a GM plant.

Ultimately GM provided half the number of promised jobs and ultimately closed the plant.

I fear what we are seeing now is 20-40M Americans lost their jobs, nearly that many will become homeless in the near future, and ultimately they will be swept under the rug (just removed from employment numbers And every other program like they don’t even exist). Watch unemployment Numbers go back to 5% or so and the politicians go back to bragging about the economy. Once you have 40M+ homeless there is no possibility for them to organize and have a voice...they won’t even have the literal energy to survive let alone effect change, they will be steamrolled just like poletown was and no one will ever even know not unlike poletown.
It's important to know the meaning of the words you use. I can't believe I have to say that.
The FBI’s Secret War
It’s really a question of rate of spread v. vaccine availability.

If a vaccine really does become available in early 2021 then there is value in slowing the rate.
>Marxist groups seized ppart of one city (Seattle) and staged riots nationally.

Seriously? You really want to play up a national Marxist uprising? And you want to cite a benzo addict who put himself in a coma in Russia to "escape western medicine" as proof, because he spoke of Marxists on universities?

>antifa affiliates

And where is this antifa or their affiliates? I've been seeing a lot of arrests of white nationalists and right wingers for instigating riots and ambushing cops to kill them, where are these antifa super soldiers?