skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As they point out at the very bottom, all their arguments apply to all third-party sign-ons, so they're removing Facebook as well.

So there's nothing specifically against Apple, despite the title seeming to imply it -- just that they're taking the move right now because of Apple's new policy coming into effect.

I've got to say, I really wish there were a way to know whether I already used Facebook, Google, or Apple to log into a site or app before. My password manager is usually pretty good at letting me know if I've got a "normal" account with user/password, but it doesn't do anything to remind me if I ought to log in with one of the other services.

Every time I'm occasionally asked to sign into Spotify, Pinterest, Medium, Quora, etc. -- it's like, I'm pretty sure I've signed up with something before, but who even knows which one, or multiple?

If password managers could start saving that you've got accounts associated with Apple/Facebook/Google and highlight the relevant button on sign-in, it would be a big feature improvement.
I used to carry an Amex, but I also had to carry a Visa for all the times the merchant wouldn't take my Amex. Life got a lot easier when I got a Visa with all the same rewards as my Amex.
US states had to deploy the national guard to defend their supplies against federal troops
Why not just use GTK or Qt?
Moved from CA to NV in March. Then Covid began.
Super happy here now.

No income tax, less liberal BS, friendly people.
He likes Trump because Trump is a 1980s Democrat.

The Left treats people like him as The Other and is very loud and rude about it. See: http://archive.is/QRJ6m
I vaguely remember seeing that he’d endorsed Trump in 2016, which surprised me because it hadn’t been long at the time since I recalled him advocating completely abstaining from the political system.

I’ve not kept up with him, but it seemed like he was moving in a direction that was incompatible with the extreme libertarianism that brought him into the circles I frequented at the time.
Like rubber to glue, bounces off of me and back to you?
I agree app stores need to face antitrust scrutiny... but websites having crazy types of permissions isn't the answer.

Web apps by default talk to an outside server, native apps by default do not. Native apps will always be the more private by default option.
I was on ChapoTrapHouse a day before the ban. It was indeed leaked, and the ban happened exactly at the same time that it was leaked. This probably wouldn't have been the case unless it was coordinated.
No, I haven't.

And rather than try to infer your implication(s) about Investigation Discovery I will ask directly:

- Do they treat murder as a venue for entertainment?
- Are they seemingly indifferent to the impact on victims?

Because, if it was not clear, those were the points I was trying to convey about the unhealthy aspects of Quibi's show.
It's great to see more introductory ReDoS material! I took a deep-dive on ReDoS myself recently and found the material available to be somewhat lacking, especially for beginners. Over the course of my investigation I found some interesting bugs in big name projects and created a few blog posts as an introduction to the bug class:

* https://blog.r2c.dev/2020/finding-python-redos-bugs-at-scale...

* https://blog.r2c.dev/2020/improving-redos-detection-with-dli...

The culmination of this work was a Python regex linter that could automatically detect ReDoS expressions with fairly high accuracy - Dlint's DUO138 rule: https://github.com/dlint-py/dlint/blob/master/docs/linters/D....

In my opinion, the best solution, as this article mentions, is to avoid the bug class altogether by using something like RE2 when possible. Nevertheless, I found ReDoS to be a really cool bug class at the intersection of computer science and software engineering.
This is what I wish was more studied. I feel like social media are intentionally designed to cause people to share violent and toxic speech. I hangout on discord in few big servers and I rarely encounter anything outright racist. Might just be because they are all tech related or maybe a no politics rule change the atmosphere if enforced ruthlessly.

There could also be something about speaking in public vs speaking something in semi-private real time chat app. You have time to clarify what you mean or be more empathetic. On platforms like twitter, when I check engagement metrics for replies to the tweet. I see a decrease of 10x often which is to say a lot of people never see past the first tweet a person makes and since tweets are limited by length, they encourage people to respond from their own biases rather than looking at things optimistically.

I do wonder if there is a reasonable path to punishing a platform that is responsible for encouraging content that causes toxic behavior or higher "engagement".
What I don’t quite understand is why array was used here in the first place instead of equation* or similar.

Anyway interesting post I wouldn’t have guessed that carries onto the next array.
Why does it only affect the first cell (or first part of the first row) though instead of the whole row?
This same line of reasoning was used against people who stood up for the Jews in Nazi Germany. How soon we forget the lessons of the 20th century...

Edit for reply: No. Not even close. I'm comparing your reaction to people standing up for free speech to how Nazi's treated the people who defended the Jews.

Edit 2: Yes, YOU are acting like a Nazi (the real, historical version). I deleted it b/c it wasn't productive to the convo and you missed my point anyway. Either way, it's disturbing that you don't see the parallel.

Edit 3: I'm not calling you a Nazi for attacking white nationalists. You totally missed the point.

Edit 4: Where did you get that I'm defending white nationalists? I'm not. Not even in the slightest. I despise any ideology that treats people differently based on immutable characteristics that they have no control over (like skin color). I'm defending free speech and arguing that ideas should stand on their own. I'm saying YOU are acting like a Nazi for attacking anyone who isn't also aligned with censoring a socially outcast group. You are also misreading my comments, misrepresenting what I said, and you still don't get my point (even though you think you do).
I might have lost count but I think they reimplemented the file storage twice in local Docker installs and twice in Kubernetes... it’s at a point now where if you trust cloud network storage performance guarantees, you can trust Postgres with it. Kubernetes and Docker don’t change how the bits are saved, but if you insist on data locality to a node, you lose the resilience described here for moving to another node.

Here’s a different point to think about: is your use of Postgres resilient to network failures, communication errors or one-off issues? Sometimes you have to design for this at the application layer and assume things will go wrong some of the time...

As with anything, it could vary with your particular workload... but if I knew my very-stable-yet-cloud-hosted copy of Postgres wasn’t configured with high availability, well, you might have local performance and no update lag but you also have a lot of risk of downtime and data loss if it goes down or gets corrupted. The advantage to cloud storage is not having to read in as many WAL logs, and just reconnect the old disk before the instance went down, initialize as if PG had just crashed, and keep going... even regular disks have failures after all...
Twitter, YouTube, Facebook serve a global audience - but the “conservative”/“liberal” dichotomy you describe is unique to the USA.

If social media companies will be bifurcated as you say, it’ll be a tiny fraction of their American audiences - leaving the rest of the world sticking with the mainstream. Those smaller Ameri-centric sites will fail to reach critical-mass needed to sustain themselves in the long-term and hopefully those movements will fade into the background.

Your comparisons to the *chan imageboard splintering is apt, but look at how the more extreme chan sites have been having in finding a web-host (with enough capacity) to host them.
Wait? We have a a “rep” on Twitter? HN is like one of the most civil places on the Internet insofar as ones where any debate of substance happens.
analogies are not evidence
I call myself a computer programmer, because I program computers for a living. Yes that's not the only thing I do at my job, but the other stuff is in service of the programming. Patio11 is a fine writer but he got a little too 3-dimensional chess on this one. You can just say programmer, it's fine.
> Threatening violence IN RESPONSE to violence is a far cry from INSTIGATING violence against peace.

So by that logic it was wrong for Twitter to sensor the President’s tweet regarding using force to stop vandals destroying monuments.
Talk to them but avoid social media. Eventually people return home and you should try to be a friend if that is something you can deal with.
This was when a 14.4k modem was the last word in speed, and you were literally paying your phone company by the minute for a connection. Public access to Usenet required access through an ISP, who would also charge - separately - by the minute.

Modems were very optional, because not everyone had that kind of money.

At 14.4k it takes maybe 10 seconds to download a JPEG, and tens of minutes to hours to download a low-res video clip.

Neither Usenet nor Fidonet had anything like a browser. Files had to be converted to ASCII for upload, often in parts, and then glued back together and converted to the original format manually using various helper applications.

It was still exciting and fun though.
International travel may never be the same, particularly if there is never an effective vaccine. It looks like the globe is breaking down in to areas where Covid-19 is effectively suppressed and other areas where it is not and herd immunity will be the eventual answer. Travel between the areas will require quarantine in at least one direction, limiting ad hoc travel and tourism.

International tourism and cruising may also lose their impact for social signalling. Both are at least partly motivated by the desire to come back and tell all your friends about where you were and what a wonderful time you had. The actual experience of having your pocket picked or being in a norovirus outbreak may not be all that great.
That's reassuring to hear.
I've done the same.

And unsorted returns have a "customers who liked this also liked" aspect.
And groovy, and surely more that I’m not remembering
EU creating its own FAANG would be a great thing for consumers - more competition. Americans wouldn’t mind using EU based services. I personally already use one such critical service - Email.

When you turn inwards(like China) and then expect widespread adoption and cooperation whilst banning domestic competition, do you really think that’s better for India?

India has the capability to compete at the global level without turning inwards. Entrepreneurs in India can and will compete internationally. When you have virtually no international competition, the overall incentive to compete is reduced and the quality with it.
"The 2% cashback has to come from somewhere."

Yes, but in reality, the program comes from an upside down approach to overcoming the obviously anti-competitive practices that VISA/MC use to forbid retailers from offering discounts for not using VISA etc..

You can't say "Get 2% if you use cash instead of VISA". (Notice that nobody ever advertises that?) Because VISA doesn't allow it.

You also can't say "$1.99 + 20 cents processing charge" - no, the price must be listed including charges. (Notice that nobody every does this?)

But you can possibly find ways to give points, or 'cash-back'.

Until now ... [1]

VISA is now saying that even such 'cash back' rewards programs are a violation of its rules.

Have a look at the press release - it's positively Orwellian:

"In order to maintain a level playing field" -> "In order to avoid all transparency and maintain our hidden monopoly" we require that nobody can take steps which highlight the how our transaction fees are embedded in the price.

These are pretty blatant anti-competitive practices and taking them on is tantamount to taking on the entire banking system. It's not going to happen.

There would need to be an 'outside disruptor' like the Word Processor to the Typewriter kind of thing.

[1] https://www.pymnts.com/visa/2018/non-compliant-cash-discount...
This kind of half-measure response is exactly why white supremacy continues to thrive in America. You cannot argue with a white supremacist on reasonable ground, their world view is intrinsically incorrect, and I am convinced that you cannot convince a white supremacist they are wrong through debate.

> Nor is it ethically palpable.

Do not ascribe your ethics onto me. I think it is extremely ethical to deny white supremacists a platform. In fact, it is the most ethical choice. Those who refuse to interact with our society in good faith do not deserve the stage.
Socialist subreddits being banned for glorifying John Brown (who caused an insurrection against slavery in the South) was not an anti-racism initiative. It was probably a PR move calculated to look good to the mainstream media and co., while being able to "both-sides" conservative media.
How does outsourcing the decision to the SPLC/ADL “assure fair enforcement”?
Apple is a corporation listed on a US exchange, an entity where the only motivation is to generate profit for shareholders. It helps for corporations to frame business decisions in moral terms. If Apple cares about privacy, it is only because there is alignment with profit. If Apple cares about locking out APIs that disrupt their App Store profit, it doesn't hurt to frame the decision in privacy terms.

Currently my desire for both privacy, convenience, and usability align with Apple's current business decisions, so I choose iPhone. When Apple pivots to a new business model, I'll find the best compromise product.
In defense of your father on "Defund the Police", the last time I checked, the Black Lives Matter's website where the idea was first widely publicized had a release on it that I was hoping would add nuance to the phrase.

It didn't, at all. It actually reinforced an abolition viewpoint. I went to donate to BLM that day from the Airbnb website's banner, and that release caused me to donate my money elsewhere.

This line got me:

"Currently, we are fighting two deadly viruses: COVID-19 is threatening our health. White Supremacy is threatening our existence. And both are killing us every single day."

Plus (see lack of nuance)

"We call for a national defunding of police. We demand investment in our communities and the resources to ensure Black people not only survive, but thrive. If you’re with us, add your name to the petition right now and help us spread the word."

Oddly, Ben Goldacre of the NHS in Britain (I've met him in the past, and he hilariously stated on stage to a bunch of UK business people that anyone in the audience who voted for Brexit was racist.... the reaction was priceless) has a ton of data showing that black people are dying at higher rates of Covid independent of "deprivation" (UK term for poverty). The position on their website is that it's because of systemic racism. In the US, I absolutely think that is partially correct, but due to Goldacres work, I think it's one variable among others contributing. The added "White Supremacy threatening our existence" is absolutely absurd and overwrought. A little over a 1000 people were killed by police in the US last year. 24% of them were black.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

If that is threatening "our existence", then their has been an unprecedented drop in the birth rate for black Americans. (there hasn't been, it's just activists can't do basic statistics and don't care to learn apparently)

https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/

Frankly, I think it's intended to be left vague enough to appeal to radicals as well as more centrist types simultaneously.

If somebody from the BLM organization is reading this, I would recommend that they add nuance to the position on their website unless they want to lose voters. My dad was planning on voting for Biden, but the combination of Defund the Police and the removal of Washington/Lincoln/Jefferson statues has pushed him to Trump, who he despises. He lives in a swing state. He tells his friends he's going to vote for Biden, but privately he told me otherwise after calling me about a vandalized Jefferson statue.

For the record, I think that police in the US have become a catch-all for badly needed social services and that reallocating funding is highly desirable.
>By the way, it's not free speech. The government isn't banning them.

Free speech is a principle outside of the 1st amendment.
How do you feel about this video advocating violence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijJu75WXLLs
I enjoyed using Phabricator but the barrier to entry is too high for a community project like KDE which needs every new developer it can get. Just a few small hurdles are enough to put people off.
Perhaps, but you could say the same thing about something like an `if` statement in the era of branch assembly instructions. One requires more discipline (and knowledge) but that doesn't mean the problem is solely a lack of willpower/discipline.
Reasons can be different:

- Taxation can be complicated depending on where in the world you are
- Being paid can feel as a responsibility and you are doing this for fun
- You are employed for working on the project or have some nother clause preventing being paid
- You might be rich :-D
GP is not making a legal argument. Nobody is arguing that the First Amendment applies to users of products provided by Facebook. GP is talking about the principle of free speech, which is why we have the First Amendment to begin with.
Are you seriously comparing the struggle of Jews in Nazi Germany to white supremacists being deplatformed in America?

If you are, you should really take a step back and evaluate the gravity of that statement.

Edit: Saw your edit. You can usually click the timestamp to reply when there is no reply button.

Thank you for the clarification. I'll repeat my previous statement because it still applies, I can tell that you simply don't grasp the gravity of your statement. It is -hilarious- to be called a nazi for calling for white supremacists to be deplatformed. I think I might print this out and put it in my cube (when I eventually get back into the office). Turns out, I was the Nazi the whole time, not the white supremacists! /s

Edit, again: For the readers, he edited-in, and then edited-out, calling me a Nazi for saying that white supremacists shouldn't have a platform. Just wanted to make that clear.

Edit, again, again: I did understand your point, I just refuse to engage with it, because it is ridiculous.

Edit, again, again, again. This edit-back-and-forth is funny, but I have to go now. I sincerely hope that you do some research and realize that your defense of white supremacists only entrenches them into our culture further. I hope that one day, you look back on your views here, and realize that you truly did not have to defend them, but chose to anyway.
You _just_ might have no idea of what an organized Marxist movement is so you might want to sit this one out.
Data is unrecoverable on macbooks with secure boot if T2 firmware gets corrupted
I don't get it -- Amex and Discover are still providing healthy competition, so the "duopoly" the author complains about seems to be largely irrelevant. Competition between cards is thriving and consumers benefit -- witness the miniscule transaction fee the credit card companies keep after paying your rewards back of 2% to 5%, when you pay your bill on time.

The article's main point is that such large companies are a cybersecurity risk, and that the government should regulate/nationalize/globalize payment infrastructure.

Unfortunately, experience tends to show that governments would be far worse at providing secure, low-cost payment services. Also, credit cards already are highly regulated when it comes to consumer protections.

So, this article is just not making a lot of sense to me.
Ah, I wasn't aware that e-mail was used as an addressing system within AnyList. Do users not have any usernames associated with their e-mails?

Still, I think in this day and age, having a requirement in your product that says "e-mail that is provided should be the one the user uses the most" is pretty naive. In general, it's true, but when it comes to 3rd party authentication providers like Facebook, Google, and now Apple, this kind of requirement is not really useful and will likely cause issues for you down the line, which is why usernames are better for addressing people within apps (e.g, Instagram handles).
I felt the same way for a long time. And then I've started doing one very simple thing. I've created tasks.org file, and whenever I find some use-case, something I don't know how to do or even not sure if that's possible - I would just add an item to that file. Then I would ask questions - on emacs.stackexchange, on r/emacs, in slack channels, in mailing-lists, etc. Slowly, I have started using other Org-mode features. I started writing my own emacs-lisp snippets. Even though I still haven't mastered Emacs, today, I share Emacs tips with my colleagues and other people. If I may suggest - don't try to "boil the ocean." Emacs is huge. Nobody truly masters every aspect of it. Just do it slowly. Start with a simple list.
This is fascinating - I have been quantitatively tracking TikTok trends and Indian songs consistently top the charts on TikTok by view counts. This will displace many Indian TikTok users and either a new platform will spring up, or Indians will get slightly better at using VPNs (just like internet users in China).

(For the curious, my TikTok data is shared here: https://tiktometer.com)
I dunno. To me there seems something personal about sending forward a book with your own notes in it. Especially if you encourage the other person to comment on the notes, and then return it. Could be really neat to see their thoughts and how it changed, etc.
Terms like master and slave would probably be fine with everybody if we actually properly addressed the history of slavery and genocide that set our countries up so comfortably for some of us. I don't think anyone really cares about a word, they care about a casual flippant reference to something they care deeply about, an unfair society in which some of us are beneficiaries of brutality that is not entirely in the past.
This happened to me recently where, in a hurry and distracted, I logged in with one or another third party auth service then realised that wasn’t the correct login as it displayed a new account.
Given all these third-party sign-ins are a fairly transparent grab for power by the central company, I'm not sure why anyone would implement any of them. By doing that you're giving up power over your sign-in process, which is a pretty enormous concession.
Why not Bugzilla though? Gitlab bug tracking looks much better to me. The switch worked pretty well for Mesa which was also using Bugzilla before. Bugzilla feels clunky in comparison.
> Religious white nationalists want me deported or killed.

Where do you get that religious thing from? Because for all their faults all major variants of the mainstream religion in US and Europe is pretty clear about not supporting that -to the point that a number of clergy got in real trouble with nazi Germany.
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