skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was effectively a challenge: how bad can you be without explicitly violating the rules?

(I call this "I'm not touching you Fascism", after the popular children's pastime. The goal is to enrage people without ever crossing anything that might be considered a clear line. Most systems evolve a meta-rule somewhere that "pushing the boundaries of the rules is itself against the rules". At the very least "ban evasion" is itself bannable.)
Apps go through some for of validation by the "gatekeepers", and as a user you curate them a bit, you install the trustworthy looking ones. I mean you have a greater degree of control over what apps you install and use.

Now what's the level of control anyone has over a website? In your lifetime you visited many orders of magnitude more websites than apps. How do you plan on validating every link you ever click on? Every redirect? Browsers are the front line on the internet, they face the biggest threats because they can't afford to work in a walled garden with curated content. You are one minor bug away from giving access to your USB connected devices to some random website without even realizing.

I don't think anyone is arguing that you are wrong about what you want. Just that what you want is wrong. Like a kid wanting more sugar, they can't spell diabetes so it can't be a problem. You're selling your privacy for trinkets and that wouldn't be anyone else's concern if there wasn't a critical mass of such users pushing everyone in the same direction. Every questionable decision made by companies was made with the (ignorant) backing of people like you who saw the shiny feature and couldn't see past that. And again, you have every right to want whatever you want no matter how smart or dumb that may be. But don't be so shocked when people call you out on it. It's only because you brought just your own personal preference into the discussion instead of the merits of giving up every shred of control over your stuff in exchange for some marbles.
You have to be joking. This is obviously one programmer's experiment on some esoteric data visualization mode that nobody ever used. The author even says in a footnote that:

> "One of my favorite¹ concepts for multi-dimensional data visualization is the Chernoff Face"

> 1: "Favorite" might be code for "useless," going with the theme of this blog"

Don't act like this project will have actual real world uses and ramifications. No, it won't literally teach people to associate good or bad qualities with facial features, because nobody will ever use it for practical purposes. No, there's no liability to promote prejudice, this is just some programmers ML side-project.

> How is that not objectifying?

It literally is. The generated faces are mathematical objects. They're not real people.
Why African Americans Should Start Investing in Africa
By definition there's tons of hate speech against white males on reddit but Americans have invented these insane theories x can't be racist because you need power etc. It's just made up words to justify your own prejudice and feel yourself better about it.
Thoughtcrime and crimethink is 'illegal' now.

/s -> or is it...
Yep! US citizens get 6 month tourist visas, so that's nice. And they're not fussy about "visa trips" (renewing by crossing the border). Obviously, that's gonna be a bit harder now.

Finding a place was a real problem, though. They use Facebook Marketplace for everything, and I didn't have a Facebook account (you can't use marketplace until your account is at least 6 months old). On top of that, most places I found were unfurnished (not even a fridge).

If you're gonna move here for a year or less, I think it's best to find a room in a share house. Luckily, I had a friend who had a spare room.

Also, make sure you bring your debit card. I forgot mine. Boy, is that long story.
I think this sort of response was inevitable and will be seen in more and more nations. China bans most of the popular websites and apps (including Wikipedia). The most recent trigger was the border standoff between India and China where Indian citizens could see and read both governments' responses, but Chinese citizens were only told Chinese govt's talking points.

This seems like yet another instance of the paradox of tolerance (reciprocity is a must have for a tolerant/liberal/globalized society): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
My guess, and I hope I am wrong, is that it might be a world of pain for backend/cloud developers.

Virtualization gives us Linux ARM docker images, which is nice, but not the same as running the same Linux docker images that run on the cloud. (while ARM in the cloud can be an option, it is a whole different topic)

The developers will have to find and develop with the ARM equivalent docker image of their production x86 ones, which will make the local dev and production environment unnecessarily more distant.

The good news is that the Docker ecosystem has a relatively broad ARM architecture support, but still, this will be a significant difference with prod environments.
The Klutz Lego and Paper Airplane books stand out in my mind, but I know there where a ton of them. One of those few companies that actually managed to nail 'cool.' Not many companies managed to do that back then.
> like

No, just because something exists doesn't mean it exists to the same degree.

I visited there irregularly just to see what was happening. It was on another level like OAN and some shows on Fox News.
This doesn't count unless girlfriend's parents sleep in an adjoining bedroom.
Ive had this happen in real life trying to moderate arguments. Some people just want to fight, and if you draw their fire, they'll fight you.
GitHub Action for binary crates installation
The text you quote is not even part of the article.

But it is related to text that precedes my quote:

> One of the problems the two friends looked at was a version of a century-old unsolved question in geometry.

> “The problem is so easy to state and so easy to understand, but it’s really hard,” said Elizabeth Denne of Washington and Lee University.

> It starts with a closed loop — any kind of curvy path that ends where it starts. The problem Greene and Lobb worked on predicts, basically, that every such path contains sets of four points that form the vertices of rectangles of any desired proportion.

Emphasis mine. The article explicitly describes the problem they solved, only to later point out that they actually solved a different problem.
Whether you believe that COVID-19 is more deadly or not, there is no disputing the horrendous after-effects that up to 40% of survivors are suffering. Every physician is saying the same thing: You do not want this virus.
I'm not seeing "school vouchers" or "individual responsibility", classical pillars of Conservative values, being censored.

I am seeing a ton of censoring of racist and hateful comments, both openly so and dog whistles. So unless you're claiming that right-wing values are inherently racist or hateful...
According to https://hypersecu.com/tmp/downloads/files/datasheets/HSTE-NB... it does support FIDO2.
The inactive claim is hilarious, let's remove all the mods so you have to close the community so we can claim you are inactive...

The funny thing was they removed mods because of the lack of moderation... which was unfounded as they never said what content went unmoderated.

It's annoying to be persecuted based on political ideology, but we all know what Reddit is now, the most extreme liberal echo-chamber on the internet. It's their site they can do what they want (see their terrible redesign), just like Digg.

For anyone interested you can find T_D here:
https://thedonald.win

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> They weren't banned for political ideology, they were banned for doxxing, fear mongering, and generally being a community full of toxic posts.

There was never any proof of said doxxing, which I'm sure happens on all subs across the board in small instances.

Fear mongering and generally being toxic? I didn't see anything like that, I saw people supporting their president and voicing their disdain of liberals and Dems.

I'm sure it's good riddance for you, but you're talking about hundreds of thousands of supporters of the President of the United States.

Good riddance to Reddit, it's a toxic PoS now, T_D was the only good thing about it, glad they have their own site and I don't have to visit Reddit.

I really enjoyed Reddit before it was hijacked by MediaMatters and ShareBlue.

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> At this point been pro-Trump isn't really an ideology, it's a cult in all but name.

I can see how you would think that if you listened to liberal propaganda all day.

What makes you think that you're not in the cult and the other side is right?

Trump supporters come from all political spectrums of the right, I'm a libertarian, not a conservative.

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> This is a strategy imposed against racism and violence. If conservative voices include a lot of racism, then, yes, I guess they should stop being racists.

That's how they label the right when they don't have anything else to say. We're terrible people with terrible ideas, don't listen to us. No, we live together with races, many of us have mixed families, like myself, and there is no mainstream racism. Racism exists on both sides in a minority and has nothing to do with political ideology.

Labeling someone a racist is #1 in the Democratic playbook, fake sexual allegations is #2.
Rhe fact that people don't realize PWAs are the next push by Google to regain control is shocking.

The number of hackernews threads calling out Apple for not supporting PWAs is just as insane.
11 Weeks of Android: Privacy and Security
Well they broke off and made their own website after the quarantine and it's on it's way to the top-1000 US sites (alexa rank).
I disagree pretty strongly. I wrote lots and lots of practical software as part of my undergrad. And the software I wrote was pretty diverse, including, file system drivers, image recognition, data mining / text classification, exploit utilities, etc. Most of the complex theory has been offloaded to graduate school to make way for "practical applications." Plus, I feel like my education set me up to be a little ahead of the job market, as data science was a track of my CS ten years ago, and you'd have left university with your own little scikit-learn library.
http://archive.is/DIKFA
20th Century Dystopian novels are now operations manuals.
> For reference, the C++ ABI is changing with every minor version of gcc, making compiled libraries like glibc or Qt incompatible. Major distro releases upgrade gcc so all packages are incompatible.

It’s actually not as dramatic as that and you can still ship libc as a dependency of your project like I described if you really had to. It’s vaguely equivalent in that regard to a Docker container or chroot except you’re not sandboxing the applications running directory.

This is something I’ve personally done many times on both Linux and a some UNIXes too (because I’ve had a binary but for various different reasons didn’t have access to the source or build tools).

I’ve even run Linux ELFs on FreeBSD using a series of hacks, one of them being the above.

Back before Docker and treating servers like cattle were a thing, us sysadmins would often have some highly creative solutions running on our pet servers.

> I agree on compiling statically to avoid DLL hell. However it is fairly difficult in practice because software rarely document how to statically build them and they very often take dependency to some libraries on the system. All it takes is one dynamic dependency to break (libstdc++ is not stable for example).

There are a couple of commonly used flags but usually reading through the Makefile or configure.sh would give the game away. It has been a while since my build pipelines required me to build the world from source but I don’t recall running into any issues I couldn’t resolve back when I did need to commonly compile stuff from source.
I generally agree with everything you said. The phrase "politically unviable" has taken on a totally different meaning to me this year. I don't watch his show, but Tucker Carlson has the most watched cable news show at the moment, and yet somehow it's becoming politically unviable to advertise on his show. Who would have ever thought that ideas with a plurality of support/viewership would be politically unviable. We are living in clown world.
The protection of the whole system is a sound education that teaches people how to think not what to think. you should try it sometime.
The whole US was definitely different, Mitt Romney to Donald Trump is quite an extreme transition.
Full list of subreddits banned today: https://www.redditstatic.com/banned-subreddits-june-2020.txt (with "blurring" after top 10)
The reddit administration honestly does very little active moderation. It's a shocker that they actually enforced their rules in the title.

Almost all censorship is moderation. And that's "decentralized" and not part of the company itself.

Honestly, Reddit would be better if they started laying down the law.
> Interestingly, the Geekbench submissions report that the Developer Transition Kit (which resembles a Mac mini) is a four-core machine. The A12Z chip actually has eight cores, four high performance and four low-power efficiency cores.

My guess as to why this is, is that Apply locks Rosetta to run only on the high performance cores.
If this drives away lots of users of that subreddit, it may well be the case that Reddit becomes less representative (of drastically unpleasant people) and more cohesive. So, good to see it go.
I spent countless hours with these books as a child. My aunt owned a small gift shop and sold all the Klutz books. Every birthday and Christmas, we'd visit and she'd let me take one home for free. Among my favorites were:

Magnetic Magic, which featured a metal cover and five ring magnets

Kids Travel: a Backseat Survivors Guide, this was one of my favorites since it seemed to have a little bit of everything, but I really liked the puzzles included

The Klutz Book of Magic, with fake thumb for doing a disappearing handkerchief trick

I even sent a letter to Klutz (using an address from inside the book) asking for a catalog. I dreamed of owning all of their books and learning everything they had to offer. Nothing else in my childhood inspired such wonder as these books.
Guessing it was for additional browser fingerprinting.
If it was malware, I would be looking for a malware analysis on one of the malware detection / threat sites. At very least I would expect such a write-up on a security analysts blog, that is referenced by a security company. If the code itself is not malware and is being used as command and control, then I would expect someone has captured it being used in this manor and could show the questionable system calls being made.
Makes sense to me; the Reddit folks have learned from their experience. Maximalist free speech policies have failed all over the Internet, the only places that adhere to them are Nazi cesspools like Gab.
Reddit really had a good run as an interesting site, but it's really angling for a FB style consumer ad experience now. I think the final blow will be when they go after porn like tumblr did, then it will die forever. Too bad the alternatives are pretty extremist. I think Dread is really the best one because people who want to buy drugs on the internet aren't there completely for the politics.
You have to build these APIs before people use them, and a lot of what Google has been building into Chrome is stuff native apps can do, so the use-case is clearly there.

IMO native apps are capable of far more invasive privacy violations than the web is. But for some reason they're given a very free pass by comparison.
The virus is hard to personify. People want human scapegoats. That's why the politics is so vicious.
When you define any speech that doesn't parrot left wing talking points as "hate speech" I can see how you could come to that conclusion.
In many markets, the options are extremely slim to buy good alternatives. Ikea is almost everywhere - and even in countries where they are not present (I lived in two), businesses exist that can get you their products from neighbouring countries at a 20-25% markup.
As I mentioned, the lack of damage tracking is an important problem. It leads to high CPU/Battery usage which isn't great for laptop & phones.

Electron/Web might eat lots of ram but I think the renderer is more optimised for UI and will use less CPU/Battery.

Also Godot has an internal architecture made for games which might be a bit overkill/less elegant for UI-only apps :

https://godotengine.org/article/why-does-godot-use-servers-a...

I'm not sure if the separation of logic and rendering in separate threads like that is the way you would build a high perf UI library
Virtually every tech / professional bookstore I'm aware of has folded. In the Bay Area, Stacey's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423524, Cody's (Berkeley), Books Inc. (Palo Alto, Univ. Ave.), and names since forgotten in Cupertino (another Stacey's possibly) and N. 1st Ave. in San Jose. As well as chains, notably Borders.
A piano teacher my junior year of high school had me do exercises I didn't understand. A teacher in my college audition heard the result of those lessons and started me down another path of exercises. Essentially, the one teacher had communicated certain skills through me to the next teacher without my knowledge.

During one particular lesson my junior year of college, everything clicked and I began to play a melody with more control and direction. It was only at that moment that I could hear and feel the result of those exercises.

Furthermore, that teacher later speculated about the lessons my previous teacher had taught me. That speculation lined up pretty well with what I remembered of the exercises she gave me. And it was only then that I understood the efficacy of those lessons toward connecting a melodic line on the piano.

That's about 4 1/2 years and two mentors setting me toward developing a skill (in addition to others, granted), the process of which I didn't really understand for another half year after that.

And that's the best case of someone willing to do what seems like arbitrary work, and lacking the skills at the time to rationalize persuasive reasons to avoid doing that work. In my experience adult students are experts at talking themselves into the skills they think they already have, and talking themselves out of the will to learn new ones.

So without a decent mentor I'd speculate most people are hopelessly incompetent at assessing their circle of competence. Or at least they are if we widen the circle from "getting ahead in business" to "life."
Nope, analyzing various social dynamics between two interrelated parties is not "victim blaming", its basic social science. Anyone trying to use a univariate analysis to explain human social relationships is an anti-scientific ideologue, or just an idiot.
Correct! This was a pretty unique find. It's because I'm living with a friend, in a very non-touristy area, waaay out in the suburbs.

I'm actually moving closer into the city in a couple weeks. Rent will be closer to $100 for a similar room there.

I never would've found these places without a network, though.
Could it simply be that the degrees are now being called "computer engineering" instead of "computer science" degrees? That would be a simple explanation of this observation.
> a lot of people will really really hate you.

That's an anticipated cost of removing hate.
> I felt like I saw some strange patterns where whole hordes of users would appear, disappear, mob another sub and so on. It felt like a very non organic community in many ways.

Wouldn't that match the claims that it was largely just full of bots?
TikTok for sure is in the eye of the storm. US army has forbidden personnel from using it. Apple has caught the app using clipboard capture mechanisms to spy users.

To get more details, around 2 months ago, Reddit user ‘Bangorlol’ commented on a discussion about TikTok claiming to have successfully reverse-engineered it. He advised users against using the app and telling their friends and family to stop using it as well due to its intrusive user tracking among other serious problems.

Here is the link https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
Understanding the Psychology That Drives Us Apart
"they" I'm not quite sure how to define that outside what was somewhat easy to see on reddit.

It was hard enough to get a feel for what was going on just on reddit, outside who knows...
You mean the Senate, not the House
What site is that? And is that actual organic users, or a ton of bot traffic?
It has done that in most societies across the world.

Except in one country that is heading into elections this year.
What Are the Health Benefits of Ginger?
> Native benchmarks wouldn't be very interesting, since this is the same processor we see in the iPad Pro.

Not necessarily. They might be interesting. The processor might have active cooling and be less thermally limited in the Mac Mini form factor. In which case Apple might have clocked it slightly higher.
What's a Coronavirus Superspreader?
Even the chains can have quite excellent staff, though YMMV considerably.
Hello imposter syndrome my old friend
So THAT is what that is for... I have had some of these Bekant tables, never understood the reason that thing needed to be plugged in.
Really this is what it's all about. T_D has been dead for months and its ban is mostly symbolic. Chapo has still been active.
Many people don't see COVID as a crisis anymore with better numbers out now and if anything saw people become more self center rather than coming together in this time of trouble.
Having the latest books does not interest me overly much. Unless I am interested in something relevant to current events, or want the last book of a long series that I started, I find the backlog of good books to be sufficiently gargantuan. The main feeling I get when I go to a library looking for some fiction is the immense number of novels sitting on the shelves that probably have not been checked out from the library in a decade.....and it makes me want to try that dusty tomb with the boring but sturdy hardcover sitting on the bottom shelf.
After 20 years, the Playstation 2 can play burned DVD’s without a modchip
That can change at any moment. Being good at video games was worthless until Twitch and eSports.
A metriocracy being preferable isn't just the viewpoint of white supremacists. However, anyone expressing that view is labelled as a white supremacist. The game is rigged.
Seriously! They tried spinning it off years ago, remember "Qwikster"?

Anyway, it's no where as good as is used to be. After the rise of streaming they shut down many fulfillment centers and quit mailing out on Saturdays. My quick 3 day turn around turned into 5-7 days. Eventually I canceled the service once I figured out that Redbox could in fill in my new release rental needs for less money (with coupons anyway).
‘Largest Distributed Peer-to-Peer Grid’: A Decentralized Internet
I guess Google has received 30 cents from when I bought something on the Play store.

It still seems to be a pretty good deal when you compare the bill for GMail, YouTube, Google Search, Drive, Docs/Sheets and Maps to the cost of the phone bill, cable tv, and internet.
I'm curious, though, will Apple's own ads require consent? When you open the App Store for the first time, will there be a popup asking for consent to track for ad purposes?