skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be fair to hold it against anyone who believes it's acceptable. I'm pretty forgiving of those under a regime merely trying to survive, but if then they voluntarily gave 1000 RMB to a "Let's keep the Uighurs Oppressed" charity which tries to convince the Politburo that more attacks are better than fewer attacks, I think I'm going to judge them for using the instrument of the state as a weapon against people, yeah. And because my society is free, I get to judge. And because my society is free, I get to speak my mind. And because my society is free, I get to say, "I won't use this product".

And because my society is free, you get to say, "Oh okay, I'll do what you want" or you can say "Fine, don't use the product". We're just people interacting freely. And thank god for liberty.
I have to say, at the very least, the UI is a breath of fresh air compared to new Reddit. New Reddit is just...I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just feels awful to look at.
>> Why don't they say "WHO has no recommendation about their widespread use" instead of "does not recommend." Are they really advising against masks?

Yes, they are, because there are potential risks associated with wearing a mask, not only potential benefits:

The likely disadvantages of the use of mask by healthy people in the general public include:

• potential increased risk of self-contamination due to the manipulation of a face mask and subsequently touching eyes with contaminated hands;(48, 49)

• potential self-contamination that can occur if non-medical masks are not changed when wet or soiled. This can create favourable conditions for microorganism to amplify;*

• potential headache and/or breathing difficulties, depending on type of mask used;

• potential development of facial skin lesions, irritant dermatitis or worsening acne, when used frequently for long hours;(50)

• difficulty with communicating clearly;

• potential discomfort;(41, 51)

• a false sense of security, leading to potentially lower adherence to other critical preventive measures such as physical distancing and hand hygiene;

• poor compliance with mask wearing, in particular by young children;

• waste management issues; improper mask disposal leading to increased litter in public places, risk of contamination to street cleaners and environment hazard;

• difficulty communicating for deaf persons who rely on lip reading;

• disadvantages for or difficulty wearing them, especially for children, developmentally challenged persons, those with mental illness, elderly persons with cognitive impairment, those with asthma or chronic respiratory or breathing problems, those who have had facial trauma or recent oral maxillofacial surgery, and those living in hot and humid environments.

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/advice-on-the-use-of...

Btw, this is not a new discussion. There has long been uncertainty about the benefits of wearing a surgical mask in the community, to protect oneself or others from diseases. e.g. see this article from The Conversation dated October 17, 2019 and titled Can surgical masks protect you from getting the flu?:

https://theconversation.com/can-surgical-masks-protect-you-f...
Likely s/signal/single/
Probable sources would be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Nuclear_Power_Plant
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Notably the second uses RBMK-1000 reactors, the same as used in Chernobyl.
Just finished Last of Us 2 and I am pretty disappointed.

The gameplay is tight and it's fun but the story is absolute garbage. Abby and Ellie are such unlikable protagonists and the political undertone of the story is overbearing.

You play two characters in the game:
1 is a lesbian who's girlfriend is carrying a chinese guys baby and she goes out to avenge the death of a guy she can't seem to forgive.

The other is what looks to be a steroid taking muscle woman that more or less risks her life for two people she just met while getting her friends all killed in the process.

The story is pretty bad to say the least. I say this as someone who actually walked into a store to pick it up on launch day.
And. To the point of 1984-style revisionist history, old man. Statues are symbols we use to celebrate heros and victors. It's plain-as-day simple to look at a statue of a treasonous black-hating slave owner and say "maybe a statue of these pricks isn't the best way to memorialize history". It's not re-writing history to say "the union won and let's not celebrate slave owners". It's re-writing history to say "these slave owners are heros, lets memorialize them in statues".
> become far-right oriented?

The problem is not so subjectively limited as to be a right-wing problem. Communities, unless extremely well policed, tend to become gravities of like mindedness when there is a visible vote system. This seems to occur because vote counts, whether positive or negative, are viewed as a form of credibility and because people are generally hostile to disruption and originality.

When you step back from a subjective slant the phenomenon of group think has been well studied.
Okay, but how is that our problem? If your company can't exist without pouring lead into the river it doesn't exist. That's exactly what I'm asking, why are internet platforms supposed to let Frankenstein's monster lose on the world and we are supposed to deal with the consequences?

If a scientist can't guarantee that their scientific experiments comply with the safety standards we demand of them they can't do them.

Not to mention of course that internet platforms do exist that handle individual content reliably, they're just smaller and don't collect the economic rents that Facebook does.
Interesting, I had the opposite reaction: isn't it sad that a post with genuinely insightful information and discussion momentum has to be prefixed with "not new news" to head off the inevitable cloud of detractors who argue that a lack of novelty implies that a subject isn't worth attention / discussion / action?
Open letter from a Texas county judge about his Covid mask order
I came here to say this too.

Not to be dismissive of the point at hand, but a short story.
I had decided I wasn't getting as much value out of a particular RSS feed than I'd thought I would, so I right-clicked the name, clicked delete, and it was gone. It was so delightfully anti-climactic.

No "are you sure?" confirmation, no "{name of feed} will miss you!" guilt tripping, nothing behind the feed trying to cling onto you for engagement, nothing in the program trying to understand _why_ I deleted it and trying to build a model of me so it could recommend me better things... it just deleted. Because I told it to. This used to be the norm, but now after years of social media usage this freeing feeling felt weirdly foreign.

Anyway. So that's how I'd found myself reflecting on how enjoyable using RSS felt, though I use social media for similar purposes (find interesting things to read)! Reading the article, RSS seems to satisfy most of these rules, so perhaps I'm not alone in feeling like RSS might cultivate a more mindful experience.
> nothing wrong with pedophilia or nazis
"TikTok is a government tool by the Chinese communist government to mine information from future leaders and blackmail them."

This is truly scary.

"People need to understand the timelines these people plan for."
Remote telemetry configuration and collecting basically everything they can about the device isn't anything new really. I think mobile apps (especially on Android) have been doing that since the beginning of time.

What's surprising for me is the claim that the behavior of the app changes if it detects someone is inspecting it. This seems a bit handwavey to me and would like a more detailed explanation if anyone has one.

At this point, I think for me the bars for me are:

Don't upload content that I haven't explicitly posted to your servers. This can come in various forms:

- Assuming you gave an app access to your album because you wanted to post something from there. How do you know it's not simply uploading all your photos and videos silently in the background?

- Microphone data: Again you let an app record some video and thereby give mic access to it, a malicious actor can then snoop in and listen to your conversation whenever they want.

These criticisms apply to both iOS and Android although iOS is a little better in terms of how background services work. Don't do mobile-dev as a profession, so I'd appreciate it if anyone could correct me if the OS does enforce some sort of protections here.
> If you're advocating for people to shut up and take the abuse you sound pretty authoritarian to me.

No I never said that nor do I think it. There are definite problems with some cops and there are many instances of gross abuse. I have no problem with billionaires.
You mean working at Google or in the Android team?

I've rarely seen a worse example of absurdly over-engineered code than the Android codebase...
Absolutely. It's not a bad interface, and for better or for worse I think this is critically important to get right, and was a huge part of Mastodon's success. I think so many other well-intentioned projects fail because of inscrutable interfaces, so it is good to see the UI taken seriously.
It should be easy enough to check with a geiger counter, right?
Nope, a signal symptom is a thing:

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/signal+symp...

"A symptom that is premonitory of an impending condition such as the aura that precedes an attack of epilepsy or migraine."
We don't get to fire anyone because we don't run the company. But if you want to say "I won't use this product anymore because I think they're bigots", then I will defend to the death your right to say that because Freedom of Speech is a beautiful thing.
No, where does it go? Are the big editors unsuccessful?
"Reflection enables us to correct distortions in our beliefs and errors in problem-solving." - Jack Mezirow, Columbia University.

I felt so stupid. As a self-taught engineer, I felt I needed to stay on top of everything online, driven by constant reading. But what's the use if I don't remember anything?

This is a Chrome extension that assists your memory on the premise of spaced repetition. It tracks articles read, and give you a daily report.

Features:

- Daily report with read time
- Memory from the old similar articles
- Automating 81 taggings
- Article/book suggestions
- Web interface for search
- Friends' update
It's a self defeating record. The point of the abstract is not to be the conclusion. It's meant to be a summary of the work. If the conclusion section was "no" I'd be more charitable to it, but a conclusion is not a summary so it doesnt really do its job as an abstract
So, they made a unique, precision rock mold, exactly one for each unique, poured-concrete megalith, and then... turned the mold into more concrete, and poured that into another unique, laboriously constructed rock mold? Color me not satisfied with this picture.
my guess would be some symptoms provide more information for a unique diagnosis than others. Fever, headache, cough are very common symptoms for many things, like the flu, so having them does not single out covid.
I liked the article, but a few things rubbed me the wrong way.

She said she stopped using Signal because the service was hosted on AWS, and that she didn’t want to use Apple products.

If a service is hosted on a large hosting company or a small one, it doesn’t seem to matter. Also, Apple is probably the best large company for protecting our privacy.

I liked the phrase “I am a digital vegan and a real one” (or something like that). ‘Digital vegan’ is an interesting expression.
On Cultures That Build: Why the US cannot recover its builder ethos
As other comments have said, Why bother? Whether I use miles or km on the road is pretty much irrelevant. Everyone’s kitchens are filled with mostly US measurement stuff. And truth be told if I’m weighing things I switch effortlessly between grams and ounces on my digital scale. Some people may but I’ve no particular ideological position on it.
I have used pico8 for a while. And even written a few really bad example games with it.

I read and re-read the post in the wiki and it is just complex. Super complex.

There needs to be some really dumbed down examples. Hopefully that will happen over time.

Pico8 rocks. If you are wanting to write a game it is a great way to get started.
Sure, very shady. My point is, I’d be much more concerned about a WeChat that has your conversations, transaction history, etc than a non-topical video feed (e.g unlike YouTube people don’t really look for STD/mental-health videos on tiktok, and things that reveal a lot about a user).
Wait now. Let's be honest with ourselves here. There's a big difference between these situations. The police didn't throw tear gas at the republicans.
A federated reddit system needs ways to lock down user accounts. That it’s basically 4chan in terms of anonymity gives too much of an open door to extremists and trolls. I don’t see any difference between this and voat except the assumption of goodwill rather than being centered around right wing extremism.
The latter includes the former, so yes.
The 'punishment' involved people saying they don't want to:

a. work for you

b. use your products

unless the guy goes.

That's a free action by free individuals. And the idea that we would force individuals to work for people they don't like or that we'd force individuals to use products from people they don't like is authoritarian.

Freedom to choose to work with someone also involves the freedom to choose to not work. Freedom of speech gives you the ability to say you like things and also say you don't like things.
How many of us developers would take a principled stand when tasked with implementing features such as these and how many would silently comply?

I know I've folded unknowingly, adding all sorts of extra tracking including behaviour tracking to my startup's web app and looking back now I believe it's one of the reasons we ultimately failed because we broke trust with our users.
I get that loss of smell is a symptom of COVID-19, but what’s so special about 1 AM?
> People should be marginalised, and made second class citizens, and marginalised people should be kept marginalised" is a pretty common theme on the far right.

What? Not that there is no one with this view but it is an extreme minority. Same with people calling for the killing of all cops on the left, very small minority.
They are unscalable.

I love Emacs, and it continues to be my editor of choice, but it doesn't seem the design is amenable to adding good threading primitives. NeoVIM seems like a success story in this regard, though VIMScript is a much less pleasant extension language than Elisp, which is not perfect, but is at least a real programming language.

There may be a way forward for Emacs, building a sandbox that looks like a full Emacs instance to existing Elisp, and slowly factoring out the whole-editor blocking issues; but that might be almost as complicated as starting fresh, with fewer benefits.
Platform widgets do a lot of the accessibility work for you. In some cases you can get away with doing zero* work.

*Or very close to zero
> You cannot sail within 45 degrees of the wind.

You can get closer than this, but it depends on the shape of your sail and how large it is. The physics is not intuitive, but the sail is effectively a wing when pointing close to the wind, and it acts exactly like the wing on an airplane does to generate lift. The sail then deflects the wind roughly perpendicular to the chord-line of the sail, and by Newton's second law the lift is then opposite the direction the wind is deflected. As you get closer and closer to 0 degrees relative to the wind less and less of the force is directed parallel to the direction of motion, so the boat gets less and less efficient.

Look at the sails of America's cup boats. Notice how they have a very high aspect ratio? It's so they can efficiently point close to the wind by generating a lot of lift. Now look at a glider. It also has a high aspect ratio for the same reason. Of course, in a glider (or airplane in general) the lift is keeping the plane in the air, while in a boat the lift is pushing the boat along.

Edit: it also depends on the shape of your keel.
They also have a very young population, which may mean they have more asymptotic/mild cases.
Look, there are two ways to approach this.

1) Physical source

The source could be physical, so you should go to an orthodontist to get a professional perspective. I've heard of people doing a minor surgery to solve the problem.

2) Emotional source

The source could also be emotional, as you mentioned. Then, you should seek professional help (from a therapist) to learn how to deal with the stress you are feeling. This could mean simply rewiring how you deal with stress, exercising more often or take medicine.

Sometimes, you simply need to pay attention to how physically tense you are due to work and try to relax your whole body.

I suffer from the bruxism as well and I got significantly better by going to therapy.
Also see the International Atomic Agency's report on the accident (linked from the wikipedia article):

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub815_web.pd...

It's a heart wrenching story. The guys who caused the accident were scavenging for scrap- pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring their families money. On that day, they brought death to their families- death in the form of an enchantingly blue-glowing powder that their kids played with and put on their skin like glitter. These people didn't know anything about radioactivity. They couldn't have imagined what they brought into their homes. They never had a chance.
> Are the big editors unsuccessful?

No, but if that's the only criteria, we already have plenty of those.
The very same thing that is viewed as a strength ie oversight of everyone and everything is also a weakness in its own right --

Classical example of "do you have the power to let go of power?"
Good catch. I think I copied one more than necessary, and then messed up when trying to fix up the indentation for HN.
The point of the abstract here was to ATFQ in the title.
Right, but apple don’t charge $20 for a motherboard, its more like $900, vs a third party repair shop charging $100 for labour + $0.40 for the cap. The third party is still a lot cheaper because apple don’t want to repair those parts.
> This only works for small communitie

That's simply not true

Ad blocking works because I decide what to block, not because the websites posting the ads are moderating them in a good way

Let me decide, is it really that scary?

My email account is not on Gmail, I manage the spam, and it's ridiculously easy to get just the content I want and delete everything else

It's hard to scale it for hundreds of accounts automatically, but it's not on a personal level

Forums are about what I want to read, not about what it's good for me because a platform says so.

"People have the power" Patty Smith used to say
Backdoors are "bad security practices rather than looking malicious"?

> 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.

That sure looks malicious to me.

EDIT: Ditto for the active evasion.

> For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren't outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent
"Stable storage", perhaps; I seem to remember the SMTP RFC uses that name.
There's actually quite an important difference between making an assumption about a group of people who choose to associate and those that are a group because of an imutable characterisitic. Making assumptions about black people? Probably a bad idea, because that doesn't define who they are. Making an assumption about people who hang out with that loud racist guy? Probably fair - since they're making a choice, and that choice tells us about their charateristic, which brings us back to it not being a stereotype, it's an observation. People who hang out with wildly unhigned racists spreading conspiracy theories, are in fact, probably wildly unhinged racists.
I think the point being made is that it is required for fast text rendering.
I'll take the 90s please... we all wanna go back to some period of time where the memories evoke the strongest feeling...
The fediverse has proven quite resilient to trolls, bots and numerous other challenges as users and instance operators can block other users and instances, (or mute/content warn media) among numerous other moderation tools to prevent bad actors from destroying the signal to noise ratio of each instance.
> If there is a way to make something like this accessible to screen readers in some useful way

If by "something like this" you mean a text editor, then there's no question; they can be made accessible with a screen reader, and some complex ones (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and Xcode) are accessible already.

> it would likely involve specific accessibility work either way.

For the main UI of a full-featured programmer's editor or word processor, that's definitely true.

What I want to avoid is developers using a custom GUI toolkit where the platform's native toolkit would do, because they want the best possible performance (regardless of whether the platform's toolkit is good enough), and forfeiting all of the accessibility benefits that the platform's native toolkit brings more or less automatically.
How different is tiktok compared facebook or any American social networking app/company?

Is it just a decision of whether I want to give my data to the American government or the Chinese government?
Hacker news has excellent moderation, and high standards for comments. Relax them a bit to allow for memes and harmless troll threads like Rick rolls while strictly moderating against those participating in bad faith. Mind you, moderation needn't be by paid or even volunteer moderators. There are various solutions axiall available and the most successful are always multifaceted in their approaches.
Google’s Marian Croak Aimed for the Top. She Couldn’t Escape Racism
it is scarry that most users don't have any clue of what app collects and why it matter. I feel like we are in the dark age of Internet when only few knows how it work and 95% of the population trust them because they don't how it works.
Clothing, night-time, and shade all make their exposure far less than 24/7.

Also higher melanin skin blocks?/absorbs? radiation.
ActivityPub, the web standard that powers the software that currently holds the #1 spot on top of HN today, is better.
“Start employing people under contracts like those typically held by key employees that do not allow them to be fired but for enumerated reasons and with specified, fair process for determining that the reasons are factually true”, perhaps.

Otherwise, if you are asking for protection of those not firmly established as guilty of certain accusations, you are advocating for a double standard designed to delegitimize pressure in that area, not for protection of the innocent in any principled way.
Yeah that one seems bad. Although isn't android cracking down on the functionality?

I thought that was the reason why Termux wouldn't work anymore.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

I can't say anything about the second statement without knowing op's background.
English Link

https://www.stuk.fi/web/en/topics/environmental-radiation/ra...
Ah, good. More echo chambers.
I'm trying out Parler. While I absolutely hated having to add a phone number to sign up, a positive side effect is that I have not run into any obvious troll or bot accounts. So far, it's keeping everyone honest.

This will probably also turn out much better than Gab due to the presence of high-profile politicians.