skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a similar was (maybe is) used by the California Highway Patrol to determine whether or not truck drivers are carrying too heavy a load, or too heavy a load down specific streets or highways.

my father was erroneously pulled over by a CHP that used a similar method, taken to a weigh-scale, and was actually under-weight. Wooops!
Out of curiosity, why did you go with height instead of timing? Wouldn't you get equivalent results without the use of the sensor by activating the motor for a set period of time?
You asked what more does Tiktok (Social media) collect that Aadhaar doesn't already provide through a data breach? My answer was to that question. It has nothing to do with implications of an Aadhaar data breach. If that was your question, I would have answered that specifically.

Now coming to your new point: The details that are taken by Social Media platforms are transferred to third-parties too. And identity theft is not as big a problem as invasive tracking and profiling is. Identity theft happened before Aadhaar existed and will continue to happen whether we have Aadhaar in the future or not.

The former needs someone to actually misuse breached data. The latter is being misused in realtime. And what do you feed these social media companies apart from your realtime data? Your DOB, your address and your phone number. Then they ask you for verification that you are a real person and not a bot. For that you have to hand over your passport/aadhaar/voter ID/PAN or any detail that will confirm your identity and address location! Like I said, you can't even compare the two! Aadhaar is nothing in comparison to what is collected by social media companies and handed over to third-parties like Cambridge Analytica.

And if you think you can dox someone only through Aadhaar then you are so wrong my friend. You can literally dox anyone who has interacted online to some significant degree. Traces of their digital footprint is left every where on the internet to be exploited.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/how-far-gone-...
I remember dialing up to a local BBS that was a FidoNet node. The discussion forums/mailing lists had the same sense of urgency and intensity as today's Twitter hashtags or subreddits.

The amount of misinformation was about equal, too. I learned a lot of outright bullshit stated as fact reading those as a 12-year old. The difference is there's now zero limit to that nonsense being spread...
Whitman also integrated Paypal after the acquisition.

Eric Jackson's book, Musk's biography, and other sources paint Paypal as an organizational mess. Successful mergers are no small order. Whitman succeeded.
I don't think I've even seen an explicitly racist post here, despite having dead comments turned on, maybe excepting obvious trolling or spam. Implicitly racist posts are usually downvoted.

I have seen downvoted replies that nonsensically infer racism in a post. I suspect that's how I would describe what you're thinking of.
So long as YouTube issues bans to users that are as egregiously racist as klan members I see no problem.

I don't know any of these people, but if they are undeniably white supremacists, then it's a hard sell to dispute this individual action.

But another argument lies in the policy of bans for certain types of speech, and that's the argument that's more pertinent. If we accept that YouTube can ban users for hate speech, then we also accept that YouTube is the arbiter of what constitutes hate speech.

The question at hand is if we can deem YouTube a fair judge.
One of the biggest drivers of cost on GNSS satellites is the need for an extremely accurate clock. Position is calculated based on a series of ranges to the satellites with a "known" position. That range is calculated is based on a time-of-flight so you need a very accurate time source. The whole Galileo project cost is 10 billion [0] and this is "cheap" compared to the US GPS system. I can't find great numbers for it, but for the cost of building two new GPS satellites this year is $1.8 billion [1] and operating cost for the existing constellation I believe is on the order of 100s of millions. I know someone could probably do it for cheaper, but I guess my point is putting an atomic clock in space is expensive.

But I also wanted to come back to the cost of operations and "known" satellite position. Because if you need your GPS satellites to have good enough position and time knowledge you need something on the ground with a better than extremely accurate clock. See this picture of the backup clock arriving at the GPS operations center [2]

Edit: Also see my comment a couple comments down on my assessment of possible accuracy of the current one-web satellites to get an idea of accuracy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)

[1] https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/20...

[2] https://www.schriever.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/27...
It’s certainly possible my intuition is wrong. Run-flat tires can support the whole car, but it is possible this support only kicks in at very low pressure.
They used to be quite a bit cheaper, around 600$ for an 8 week course.

The price increase is concerning.
> If C++ was a person it would be mad/salty at this fact.

Are you serious? Wake us up when somebody implements something as complex and performant as UE4 in Java. Or even UE3 for that matter.
Why does this title have a question mark at the end? (The ACM did it -- it was copied accurately here?)
This seems to be a common problem, made more visible when using third-party authentication, that your application has taken the concepts of "Account" and "Authentication Method" as if they were the same thing.

It appears that the "account ID", "preferred contact method+address" and "authentication ID" are all the same here - which then creates the "account management code into a rat’s nest" scenario they describe in the post.

If an Account is, by design, it's own entity - you should be able to have 100 different authentication methods linked to that same account without impacting any other flow or part of the application.

Turn on and off authentication methods would also allow for seamless transition for users, without worrying about when one method is about to be killed.
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I don't agree that the validity of his claim depends in any way on his character, reputation, or personal political views. The validity of a claim is independent of any attribute of the person making the claim. The only way to make any judgment about the claim is to see the data and methodology.
While it's a euphemism for nazi, I hope you don't just assume that it's appropriate to use "white nationalist" to mean "nazi". Just because other people are being stupid doesn't mean we have to. A white nationalist could be from any political faction and could have different ideas for economic policy. A National Socialist is a very specific kind of person.
For posterity’s sake, I believe the commenter is referring to thedonald.win, which I’m purposely leaving un-linkified.
The USSR are no role model for modern leftists no matter how many times you folks repeat it.
Publishing official government statements is bad, including when there is no sane way to independently verify them, but slander you've just made up is fine?
You should check out some of the Stefan Molyneux quotes the SPLC has gathered: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

An example:

> "Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane."

These all have associated YouTube video links - which are now taken down it seems.
Sometimes drastic actions like this is the only way to maintain high quality
There’s no federal law but it’s not a myth. It varies by jurisdiction. Several states (New Jersey, Rhode Island, and I’m sure others) and cities (NYC and Philadelphia, for example) don’t allow a retail business to refuse cash.
I doubt anything can kill Kubernetes at this point. Enterprise is adopting Kubernetes faster and now asking for it specifically. It's where the world of computing is going. That's what I'm seeing anyhow. Definitely would not recommend Netflix OSS for clustering features at this point
Yep, my feelings exactly after reading.
All this whining happens only when your business is very dependent on specific information that gets taken from you.
Lots of people seem to conflate how bad someone's speech is with how "free" it is.
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i'd be interested to hear more about the bigger differences, but what you pointed out before didn't strike me as all that different.

for instance, the movie (and tv) business more readily lends itself to a repetitive process constrained on storytelling, which is more focused, on a macro scale, than tech. it would be akin to tech companies settling on only building web businesses over and over again, albeit with different twists. the video game sector has possibly hit that kind of stride.

i don't know that this affects their ability to succeed though, well-funded or not.
If YouTube shows itself as an unfair judge, then let's criticize them for that when it happens. Otherwise, having a judge is much better than having no judge at all.
In general, diversity makes groups behave better.

Whether by age, gender, race, sexual preference, nationality, or religion, increasing diversity increases the pool of experiences and points of view.

When someone offers up some toxic behavior, it is less likely to be tolerated in a diverse group. We all have in-group attribution bias to some degree, and we find it easier to overlook transgressions in people who we view as like us.
Militaries want to be independent and capable of waging wars on their own terms, not beholden to foreign powers. If the best they can do is piggyback on GPS, then it leaves them subservient to the US's military interests.
If we can't check the videos, how do we confirm the quotes were really said and in what context?

Racists: 1
Censorship: 0
Funny you say that, because Walmart and many other brick-and-mortal retailers will happily price-match Amazon and each other. You know why? Because they are not a monopoly or pseudo-monopoly and so need to do good by their users to compete.

Many stores get around that by having special SKUs that are only available in their store.

Also, Android has a slightly larger share in the US and a much larger share worldwide. Apple is no more of a “monopoly” than the console makers.
Can anyone link me to one of those jobs where most people could not do fizzbuzz? Thanks. In the age of leetcode that seems vanishingly unlikely.
Definitely Prolog. I have barely played with Prolog except when it is included in the PL as in picoLisp or Shen, but it's in its own category. I agree about Erlang too, but it made me stop to think. Erlang without the BEAM or OTP is pretty much a functional language like Haskell, no? I looked at Pony once. Yeah, ok, Erlang too! I prefer the Lisp version: LFE!
Here is why we did not:

https://twitter.com/Niteshgarg06/status/1277557314489159682
The terminology issue just shows us that people have got way too much spare time during the pandemic.
The EU has now largely quelled the disease, mostly restored freedom of movement and is in the process of mobilizing financial support and reforming its institutions while the pandemic is only picking up steam in the Americas, the ME, Africa and India.

There was a lot that went wrong and the EU is as always excruciatingly slow and lacking solidarity, but compared to much of the rest of the world despite being hit early the situation has been managed well.

Support for brexit in the UK itself has now fallen to 35%, while almost 60% would support staying in the union. Similar rise in support is also visible on the continent with support for anti-EU populist parties pretty much in free fall, so I have no idea where this narrative is coming from.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/uk/uk-supports-eu-four-ye...
"But it has to run in Kubernetes!"
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So, between war and trade sanctions.

Trade sanctions still seem to be the better solution, no?

While actually trading could be considered a reward for a decent government and a + for it's civilians.
Block them from Facebook and only see them at family functions like weddings.
> My understanding was that someone would prevent me from owning private property or acquiring capital?

You got this the other way around. Private property needs force to be upheld.

The sacralization of private property is so deeply ingrained that people actually prefer the KKK to even thinking about limiting it. It's so dogmatic that it's depressing.
"Just build your own web host" is feasible, but "just build your own app store" is not because it requires replacing half of your users' mobile phones.
> That is only an issue on the web

After championing it and spending 13 years adding it to the OS and getting it supported everywhere, Microsoft removed ClearType subpixel rendering from Windows 8’s UI framework for those same reasons, went on to ship Windows 10 without it, and only went back on that decision with the Creator’s Update and are still working to correct that mistake and its fallout.
+1 Any authentication method that I have enabled for my email should work -- there shouldn't be a need to remember which one is associated with a particular service...
Did the Greek crisis wipe most anti-Euro objections? How? At least for me the Greek crisis tipped me over to the side that thinks the Euro was a colossal mistake. (I’m strong proponent of the EU, but the euro only works well for Germany).
As I got older, it started to sound dumber and dumber.

I think there is a way in which that idea appeals to someone young, because until a certain age, you can imagine being anything, knowing everything, your future is unlimited.

And then somewhere around middle age, you realize that whether you are the best specialist in a field or not, whatever you've achieved, your life is inevitably going to be a tiny fraction of the scope of possible human experience and far from the extremes of what is possible.
Did you not read anything you're responding to? Your whole comment is senseless in context.
I'm not sure if things like this are exactly grey...

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/108248906874151321...
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/118100374698304307...

I just took the tweets from the other comments here.
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A light nanosecond is 0.3m (1ft), I know no more than you do about the tech, but it seems plausible that NTP isn't accurate enough.
Do you consider this failure to include this social media site, “Hacker News”?
One of the interesting things about the 500 vote threshold for downvoting is that it kind of incentivizes incendiary comments. If you make a comment that picks a side on a hot-button topic and delight 50% of users and annoy the other 50%, you will on net get upvotes, because the half who like the comment have more sway on the voting than the half who don't. I like that we limit downvoting, but it has side-effects.
> Color blindness in men is about 1 in 1 vs 1 in 200 for women.

I assume you meant "1 in 12" for men, otherwise it seems too much.

I wonder whether mentioning this fact is considered okay simply because the result is worse for men. If there is a parallel reality where 1 in 12 women and only 1 in 200 men are colorblind, mentioning this would probably get you in some trouble.
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For games, probably the worst thing about Java, especially if you're still on Java 8, is the garbage collector. Its pause times can be brutal. This won't be noticeable for games that aren't too hard on memory, or games where framerate doesn't really matter, but it was definitely noticeable (and annoying) in earlier versions of Minecraft.

On Java 11 or later, I wouldn't expect it to be nearly such a big deal. At least not relative to some other issues. For example, it being a reflective language means that there's a fair amount of memory overhead that's really only there to support features that aren't so useful in games development. Also, there's a fair bit of overhead, in terms of both CPU and memory churn, to making calls into native libraries from Java. Nowadays, neither of those is a big deal for a large swathe of games, either, so I don't think one can really make a blanket statement that Java is not great for games development.
What if you are a user receiving 50 notifications a day from an app? You block them. Same with the web app.

People have very strict mental models of what “the web” and “native” should do but they’re not actually based on anything. There’s no actual reason why a web app sending you notifications (which it has to prompt for permission to do) is different to an app doing it. From the non developer perspective the divide makes no sense.

Not to mention the privacy argument by Apple feels disingenuous. The reason people are so outraged by tracking on the web is because they know it’s happening. Meanwhile native apps include bundles from Facebook to implement sign in with Facebook and it does whatever it wants. But because you can’t inspect and check no one talks about it.
I don't wanna sound like "that guy" but we have to take a step back and ask ourselves how we got here. The entire software industry has it's roots in espionage and war, even though the past 30 years have seen a massive expansion of consumer technology that, on the surface, completely removes us from that history. Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. It's a wonder that we have consumer tech for entertainment and enhancing our lives and that we've built vast markets on it. But, we can't forget the fact that our experience on that end of the technology spectrum doesn't negate where and when we fit into a broader timeline spanning generations. If the doers, the technologists and creators forget this, countries like China are going to run roughshod over the United States, and use what they've learned from and about us against us and against democratic ideals abroad. I've been telling people for the past year or more to stop using TikTok and I get mostly snickers or "that's interesting". American hubris leads us to think we'll always be "on top" and that discoveries like this are fundamentally inconsequential. There's larger plays in flux at the geopolitical scale and it'd be a mistake for Americans to ignore it and pretend it's "no big deal." India has it's own reasons to conduct the ban, right or wrong, but American's should really consider following suit, especially as we head into election season and as social unrest and loose ends continue to shape America's future.
Not sure about whites and blacks in the US, but as far as genetics are concerned, (black) Africans have far more genetic diversity than (white) Europeans.
Interchange fee pricing is set based on how much MasterCard charges the bank

That’s not true though, or at least is a massive oversimplification. In the US, interchange fees are extremely inflated to allow banks to recuperate the rewards they give out to distinguish their card offerings from one another. The 2% cashback has to come from somewhere.
> "I don't want to participate in spaces where religious white nationalists feel safe"

VS

> "I don't want to participate in spaces where atheistic colored globalists feel safe"

The weight there is different though, in the groups you analyse the violence has historically flown in one direction more than in the other.
I am inclined to think that there have been historically much less concerns of safety for "religious white nationalists" than for "theistic colored globalists"
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I know that exact feeling. The first time I solved an issue and felt that rush is the moment I knew I wanted to pursue CS. Haven't looked back since.
They directly address this point. In the article they say they considered adding sign in with Apple everywhere. Besides the fact that it's more code to write and test, they say the documentation is very poor for other platforms, as it's not even great for iOS.
Not quite, but almost. I had about a month's savings. So about two pay cheques at any time in the bank. I've had more or less at any point in time but about that on average, i've almost tripled my savings since then and I haven't been that careful or anything. It's just been the cheaper rent it went from $1600 between two people to $600 between two people, less than half of before, cheaper food and savings in travel expenses. I still ended up traveling at least an hour or more to and from work each day. The cost of my commute has gone way down.
> So if a page is running a computation in the background, for example, rendering some real time chart or something, you'd rather it continue to do work and waste battery life, then to throttle itself?

Yep, that's the behaviour I expect. If I want you to stop I'll close you.

> But then you'll say "well the browser should just throttle any tab i'm not looking at"

Why would I say that? I explicitly don't want pages to act differently when I'm not looking at them. If they're updating when I'm looking at them then they should keep doing that when I flick away to something else.

It's a privacy issue and it's a functionality issue. It's literally none of the page's business whether I have it in view or not.

Next you'll be telling me that pages should be able to use the camera and face sensing tech in smartphones to detect if I'm looking in the right direction. For my convenience of course, nothing to do with advertising, tracking, analytics...

FYI I've managed to find an addon for firefox that blocks this API. No noticeable difference in battery life.
That's the current situation, and maybe it's worked well so far (I don't create content on YouTube).

What appears necessary or at the very least helpful, is to have a very clear terms of service that outlines exactly what is unacceptable so these situations can be avoided in the first place.

One question is, why did it take until now for these bans to come into effect?

Gray areas are always going to emerge. For example, the popular YouTuber Jenna Marbles came under criticism recently for old videos (years ago) that could be construed as hate speech, or at the very least, mildly racist. Does this justify a ban?

A few comments say Stefan Molyneux (again, don't know this guy) is not specifically racist but has white-centric views.

These issues are going to be decided by the discretion of humans, many of them with a geographically-concentric worldview (i.e., Silicon Valley).

EDIT: Stefan, not Peter Molyneux.
> It is a win for the far-right to have y'all here on HN "disagree with them but still believe they should be here and not on the fringe"...

The "far-right" is becoming a broad term in media usage and will end up in the same place as "racist" where it is a category that catches the views of a good 40% of people. It isn't obvious that wins for the far right is a bad thing.

Nobody is going to lose sleep over the Klan being pushed off Youtube, but Molyneux is not a member of the Klan.
Do any of them (films or trailers) survive? I've never heard of black-owned studios and I'd like to know more.
Save the New York Times? They're profitable and growing, with 5m digital subscribers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/media/new-york-t...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/new-york-times-ad-revenue-to...

Ads revenue is obviously going to be hurt with COVID-19, but they have a brand that is better placed to withstand the shift to digital than most.