skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will never replace Linux on invisible devices, but on consumer facing devices with a screen (ie. car info systems, heck even possibly an Android competitor). First of all, there is no GPL, second its an integrated system with a single path from kernel to any component so makes customising easier, third the design emphasis is on latency not throughput (so great for GUI but not for file serving). If Haiku was available in 2004, Playstation 3 would be Haiku based (not FreeBSD based), and Android would have also been Haiku based. Google are working on Fuschia to replace Linux in Android, whose core development team are ex BeOS engineers who built the kernel Haiku is based on and there is talk of Fuschia adopting BeFS from Haiku.
While it seems paradoxical it can go in both directions, where sometimes the app is the danger; the question is about the choices available. Here is an example for you. I know more about how Facebook operates and what its app does than most people. I have opted not to install the Facebook app on my iPhone and instead use m.facebook.com for the few occasions in which I need to interact with Facebook.

WebKit on the iPhone limits the APIs that a web site can access. An app has fewer limits, even on an iPhone. This means that with a VPN, a decent DNS server, and some content blockers on the iPhone I can limit what data Facebook has access to in ways that an app does not allow. This is only possible because I have the choice between the app (with fewer limits and protections) and a restrictive browser environment. If the browser provided all of the goofy APIs Google wants to shove down people's throats I would have a much more limited set of options.
FWIW, I think that Bush II, Obama and Trump should all be tried for war crimes. Probably Clinton and Bush I, and all the veeps, but I'm not as informed about them.
> There's also a few snippets of code on the Android version that allows for the downloading of a remote zip file, unzipping it, and executing said binary.

If these claims are true, a remote state actor can now take over 40% of young American's phones.

Imagine if they decided to shut off everyone's ability to communicate. That would be an incredible capability to possess in the event that they wanted to launch an attack or distract us. (I'm not saying that they would, but that we should be wary of the possibility.)

This is incredibly dangerous.

Furthermore, this does not seem like an accident in TikTok's design. This app is very well put together. Given the expertise involved, I can't see this as an "oops, we didn't know" oversight with respect to either alternative design choices or platform rules. It feels very deliberate.

Google should ban this app immediately for breaking the terms, and US legislators should make a law prohibiting it outright.

We have to do some more due diligence to make sure these claims are valid, but if they do turn out to be true, then we have some very serious issues to consider.

This is one of the few instances where I'll admit that I wish Facebook or Twitter had an answer for this.
Well.. besides the blatant privacy concerns, it seems fair to ban Chinese apps since they themselves also ban foreign apps.
At least some of the games (the ones on Apple Arcade) are also available on Mac.
You entirely missed my point: I'm not questioning the existence of a "special relationship", I'm asking if it's based on "values". What values does the US share with the UK more than with most other western countries?
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Fair enough, sometimes you have to make a decision with what you have. A/B testing adds complexity and specially when doing contract/agency work you don’t have either the time nor the budget to pull it off. Been there myself.

Personally I would have considered to hack something on my own time just out of curiosity :D
A few high profile companies deciding to stop advertising on Facebook is not "All American companies move in lockstep". Thousands of companies still advertise on Facebook, and Facebook is still doing fine.

Tell me what kind of videos you'll be banned by payments companies over, please. Because I used to run the (at the time) biggest BDSM porn company on the internet, and yes we took credit cards.

There is no "North American cartel". There are no chemtrails either.
Imo they are even worse than TikTok since they are actively being used by decision making bodies in nation states. The amount of classified information those companies are privy to is mind-boggling. Political parties, NGOs, companies, private citizens - they all store their information on servers belonging to American companies.

If you consider that they also run on operating systems made by American-owned companies who don't really care that much about privacy, it's even scarier.

China isn't the boogeyman here. The United States is.
Even if it did, he's forgetting that US was incredibly racist towards the Irish, and they are as white as they come. Racism is racism, no matter who does it towards whom.
Can moderators remove utm codes from the url?
> True free speech is valued because it fosters debate, and allows bad speech to be rebutted by more speech

Sure, but in practice this is what true free speech on reddit for a large sub looks like before moderation

* 3 knee jerk replies

* 10 pieces of spam asking you to buy their bit/altcoin or click on their affiliate links

* 5 people who are hurling vile insults at you for whatever reason

* 8 more people who are hurling vile insults at each other, and just happen to be in your comment chain for some reason

* 1 reasonable, well thought out response

* 2 people who are lost and looking for a different sub

* 1 person replying half a year later after everyone's gone

Something in that ratio

With no moderation at all, you're lost in a sea of spam, scams, and insults. And because of the extremely poor SNR, your reasonable replies dry up and just leave.

I agree not everyone has to go the r/askhistorians route of completely iron fist, but you can't actually run a communication forum with millions or tens of millions of subscribers without a lot of automated and manual moderation. True free speech ends up being no speech because everyone got scammed or insulted and just decides to leave to go somewhere smaller. (edit: trying to untangle my confusing sentence)

It might work for smaller communities. It does not scale.
I think that even comparing NY/NJ to CA right now makes me slightly more confident that the NY Metro Area will handle a potential future resurgence better.

I was out at some of the protests a few weeks ago, and the fact that NYC hasn’t seen a measurable uptick in cases after that and the reopening is promising IMO.
You literally have to send a picture of your black skin to the mods of r/BlackPeopleTwitter in order to be added to the country club.

Imagine a subreddit forcing people to send pictures of their white skin to the mods. People would be outraged.

The only good way to use reddit these days is to unsubscribe from all of the default subreddits and only subscribe to small subreddits dedicated to your hobbies/interests. Everything else is garbage.
There are many high-quality CI platforms that integrate into Git that look great. It doesn't have to be built into a large monolithic platform like GitLab. I feel like this is a bad decision too. You'd think they'd at least move to Sourcehut.
My understanding was that someone would prevent me from owning private property or acquiring capital? I've read both The Communist Manifesto, and Capital, and they both left me with the impression there was going to be a violent revolution with people like me as the target. I'd be happy to be wrong however.

Edit: I'm sorry someone is down-voting you. While I'm not sure I get it yet I want to hear your side.
I don't think anyone would argue that RDS isn't vastly simpler. If it weren't, there'd be no reason to pay such a premium for it.
that may have escalated it but I think this was coming and honestly Chinese companies being in Gov's lap called upon itself.
So you're agreeing that anyone who is silent on racial issues should be purged from the internet?
If you can't denounce without getting into dehumanization, you're guilty of exactly the same kind of hate that the most virulent racists in history are guilty of.

It's never okay. Not for any reason.
Ubuntu's motd-news is transmitting private hardware data without consent
Have you considered that they took those steps because they felt threatened? NATO influence has been expanding eastwards for decades. Russia wouldn't have annexed Crimea unless they felt there was a real chance that Ukraine would host NATO bases and they would lose access to their Crimean naval base- which were absolutely real possibilities.

Russia is surrounded by NATO bases. I wonder how the US would react to Mexico hosting Russian troops and weapons...
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675892
> So cat owners should start buying remdesivir then

Yes! For many reasons.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0422-covid-19-cats-...
Telegram is just a chat app. What would it mean for video uploaders to "go" there?
Writing great software isn’t all about the software you write
TikTok tried and that tactic didn't seem to work.
I thoroughly enjoy going to Indigo to browse their somewhat dated Software Dev. Books. I always find something that could be interesting in there. And I have to say that buying a book physically makes me commit to that purchase waaaaay more thank any ebook.
Compromise isn't necessarily a positive way forward. Sometimes there is no way forward but to fight for power and the victors impose their will on the losers.

Look at the compromise of alternating slave and free states to prevent a rupture in U.S. politics in the mid 1800s. It satisfied neither side, and no compromise possibly could have.
Having worked in fintech, they're essentially the gatekeepers of any new technology. Have a great idea for a value add in the payment processing gateway? They will not let you on any platform for 4 years while they launch a (poor) competitor at scale.
TBH that's true for the original article too. I feel that most of these opinion pieces are 'just so' post-facto explanations. I'd rather have a prediction market where people put predictions and confidence values along with detailed explanations, and then we can see in a few years how things play along.

It's very easy to make confident pronouncements when they are basically unfalsifiable.
The former literally segregates users by requiring them to send in a picture with their skin color visible. The latter expresses a racial prejudice in the name.
You need to dig history more before making such statements; also, the concept of racism has nothing to do with any context .
This is bonkers and absolutely doublethink.

I guess you Americans are not familiar with ideologies like the Big Stick Policy and Manifest Destiny. (coined 1845).
Pretty sure there's lots of viable options between "gut feeling" and "number-driven"..

But I get your point, either extreme can potentially produce less than great results.
+1 for android app from someone in the Mercury Tea Room!
Louis Farrakhan is not left-leaning. He’s as conservative as they get. He just happens to not be a white supremacist.
If you make $10B/year on revenue of $20B/year (great margin at that scale) you keep quiet I think for good reason :)
"Your off-Facebook activity is currently turned off."

Seems fine to me?
See previous comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668069

Short version, instead of letting APIGW do the routing and applying its own intelligence, it just passes the event straight to your lambda. Your lambda has to process it. The plugins I cited, will translate the Lambda event to a form that your standard API framework expects.

Those plugins also work if you put your lambda behind an application load balancer.
You had me until here:

>Violence used to curb violence is peace. Peace used to ignore violence is violence.

So an eye for an eye, eh? And if I use my eye to look away, I also deserve to lose it? I think you are a dangerous fellow. I'd sooner allow someone to say some mean things on the internet than let someone like you ever get into a position of power.
I'm curious now that I read this, this means that web midi can access the virtual midi devices created under alsa on linux also? Which means if you have it routed to other software using Jack or aconnect, websites could send midi notes directly into whatever software your midi device is routed through?

So theoretically then, could a Jack aware payload be created that runs in the background, say disguised as a vst or ladspa plugin and when a user browses a malicious site, this site could, recognize the malicious midi device, create connections to other software and gain access through possible buffer overflows or other things?

It seems like a stream of midi notes could itself possibly cause a buffer overflow in certain programs. Muse and rosegarden are a bit buggy as is and frequently crash for me. From what i can tell there's a lot of midi aware audio software that likely contains a bunch of avenues for exploits and when you throw virtual midi devices into the mix capable of doing far more than hardware midi devices...
I had the same experience about 30 years ago. A very old man (more than 80) had a used book store with 5 meters high shelves and stacks and piles and heaps everywhere. I came in and asked "do you have the works of Antiphon, by any chance? The bilingual version?" "He think for a moment, "ah, do you mean the 1923 translation? I must have it somewhere up there..." And he went up a ladder, rummaged on some shelves, and came back with the old, uncut book, in the battered original edition.

I've bought many, many books there for a while, particularly the rare (and expensive when new) "Guillaume Budé" books in their original, paper-cover, uncut editions (https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/les-budes). Some very sad day, the guy died and the magic store closed forever.
If you mean Bernie Sanders he's like moderate-left from an European pov.
Lot of countries are banning Chinese 5G hardware for the same reasons. Trump also issued ban on mobile device makes like ZTE etc for the same reason.
/r/stupidpol should absolutely be banned if they're banning subreddits. It's everything bad that people thought the Chapo subreddit was, plus a ton of bigotry and genocide apologia.
> TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device... well, they're using it.

They might as well be describing Facebook or Google. They are data harvesting services - first and foremost. The actual applications are only the bait yet since they're owned by the country that makes those great movies and TV series, somehow, they aren't as bad.
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I've done MySQL RDS, and I've seen k8s database setups. (But not w/ PG.)

RDS is okay, but I would not dismiss the maintenance work required; RDS puts you at the mercy of AWS when things go wrong. We had a fair bit of trouble with failovers taking 10x+ longer than they should. We also set up encryption, and that was also a PITA: we'd consistently get nodes with incorrect subjectAltNames. (Also, at the time, the certs were either for a short key or signed by a short key, I forget which. It was not acceptable at that time, either; this was only 1-2 years ago, and I'm guessing hasn't been fixed.) Getting AWS to actually investigate, instead of "have you tried upgrading" (and there's always an upgrade, it felt like). RDS MySQL's (maybe Aurora? I don't recall fully) first implementation of spatial indexes was flat-out broken, and that was another lengthy support ticket. The point is that bugs will happen, and cloud platform support channels are terrible at getting an engineer in contact with an engineer who can actually do something about the problem.
The paper Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast [1] has a time complexity plot that clearly shows how backtracking engines are more exploitable than finite-automata engines.

[1]: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
It did, once you finished debugging everywhere.

That aside; these days, it actually more or less works.

I avoid it as far as I can after having built a couple of systems in the language. For all its faults, Go is still a much more pleasant language to solve the same kinds of problems in.

But my latest project needed multi-platform printing, so I cobbled together a tiny Java program using the print API that I run in the background and pipe data to, and it just works.
Definitely not when put that way, but it is actually not that far fetched. For example, spending $3000 more for a safer car is not uncommon. Insurance premiums, cost of installing guard rails on your balcony or securing your electrical installation, buying protective equipment, etc... Plus what you pay so that the government can make roads safer, to have water that is safe to drink and food that is safe to eat, etc... That's a lot of $3000 in the end.
First Republic has phenomenally great service and absolutely terrible tech, UI, etc. It all boils down to what your needs are from your bank. FRB are not great when it comes to lines, venture debt, etc but for day-to-day banking it's nice to have a real person on the other side.
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> Local ecommerce is not viable because international is cheaper, faster & has extra advantages.

I disagree, some companies in my own country try to claim the same, but when I look at the market, there are a lot of players, a lot of profit being made, it can be done.

In a sense I have a suspicion that this is just some companies gotten lazy and not realising multitude of thing e-commerce provides. People want warranty, a nice fast mobile app in their native language, fast shipping, to support local companies - there's quite a lot a local company could offer. But a customer doesn't want to pay 10x as much and get quarter of that, that should be very clear.
Ok, we've de-cheat-sheeted the title above.
I feel like it'd be fine if every single payment processor were individually part of the surveillance-industrial complex, as long as there were enough players in the space that one could get running a service by hopping around between them. For grey-market businesses to succeed, they don't really need air-tight legal protection; they just need their actions to be illegible.

This is basically the situation VPN service providers are in. Yes, in theory, any given provider could be beholden to the state. However, when a new VPN provider can spring up so easily (spin up some DigitalOcean instances, stand up a WordPress/Shopify e-commerce frontend), it's unlikely that any given new player in the space has been gotten to yet by the state (unless, of course, it's a new marque of an existing company, set up specifically to serve as a honeypot for switchers.)
I work with many freelance photographers who use QBO, so it is common in some industries.

BTW, your example sounds a bit like those people have a complete disregard for tax law. That sounds like the end of the year is going to be very shocking when they figure out that the patreon money which they used for rent wasn't actually theirs to use.
Pretty much the digital economy. As long as the consumer only get screwed a little per transaction, and consumers don't see the charge directly.
>the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority

Wow. Like, holy shit wow. So racism and hate is ok with Reddit but only as long as it's directed at "the majority"?

What the hell is the "majority"? I'm white. Yet I live in a city where blacks are the majority. Am I still the majority, meaning it's ok to harass me and send me hateful racist insults on Reddit, or would Reddit grant me honorary minority status? This is legit sickening.
I like the point in code reviews, usually I feel bad when someone says I did something wrong. It's always awkward.
"White" is a catch-all term for light-skinned ethnic groups with "defaultness" in American society. There is no such thing as "white history," "white heritage," or "white culture," except in opposition to "non-default" ethnic groups.

If you change the founding principle to "we want our community to be largely Russian," that would be totally fine by me.

Additionally, opposition to the "largely black" founding principle implies opposition to women-only spaces and other community groupings that are largely accepted in society.
I don't mean to divert. Allow me to try to summarize:

You: Gab can't use Visa (A) for reasons, it's not reasonable to suggest that (B) a competitor be built

Gab: we can kick you off (A') for reasons, you can always spin up a Gab instance to run yourself (B')

What is the difference between A and A', and B and B'?
The financial justification for antivirals is terrible, given alternatives. Hence why we have so few.

So whether the DoD or whatever government branch catalyzed progress doesn't matter much to me.
> email clients, calendars, WYSIWYG editors and spreadsheets

The web killed serious desktop development of these outside of Microsoft. Google's services are good enough for everyone else, and run pretty much everywhere that has a reasonably modern web browser. As a desktop Linux user for the past ~2 decades, I'm mostly happy about this.
> using ranked voting for elections instead (allowing multiple candidates from all parties)

Some variation of ranked voting is the one thing I truly want to see in electoral laws. Still it is not the only way to easily allow for multiple candidates. Candidates could register in coalitions such that people chose either just the coalition or the coalition and a candidate and then the coalition with most votes wins and in that coalition the candidate with most votes wins.

This would potentially devolve into keeping some token candidates to capture fringe voters, but at least you would have to pretend for longer that they are indeed a serious candidate.
That might be "the goal", but history shows us that the goal is never attained, and instead you end up in a perpetual dictatorship. Marx himself wrote in the manifesto:

>The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

>Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production

You can't get communism without having a dictatorship or some other massively authoritarian government first (or at the very least, if you can, there's no precedent for it on the nation-state level), and autocracies, once installed, have a peculiar desire to continue being autocratic.
Your iCloud account does not have to be paired with an iCloud email address. Mine is paired with my regular email address.
When did you have this issue? My account is tied to my Google account because on launch the Go servers were completely inundated and the account creation was just constantly failing but using a Google account allowed you to skip that step and start playing.

This was the first month of Pokemon Go years ago. I haven't heard of it being an issue lately but I also haven't needed to create an account in a very long time.
Every time I load the page for a tweet in their PWA on iOS it gives me an error, and then I reload the page and it works fine.

Why would I use the Twitter website, when I can get the same out of the app, it loads faster, and it actually works consistently? Plus I don't have to log in in app webviews all the time.
As always with failures like this, it was the answer to a question no one asked.