skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many of the objections come from wanting to do things the old way, without privacy and responsible handling of private data.

No, they come from the fact that privacy comes at a cost. In this case, it's much harder to receive support, find your account if you lose it, and get proper communication. Everything is a trade off, and anyone who thinks the reason things have been done this way is only to scoop up as much data as possible is either brainwashed or naive. These changes are adding a whole new layer of complexity, which may be worth it in some cases, but in others it just is a net negative for the customer.
I think this is great but the "Why KDE moved to GitLab" section is downright weird - doesn't seem to provide any clear reason why and mostly talks about how hard it is. Why put that section in if then to not properly address it? It is almost counterproductive because it makes me really wonder now why when they can't actually state a clear advantage.
> the hastert rule.

Rather I am surprised to discover that the speaker has so much power in suppressing proposed legislation. How are member of Congress called lawmakers if they are not allowed to propose laws?
Would be happy to buy a usable cryptocoin card. I was thinking about interest-free crypto-loans where the debtor would speculate on the value of the currency at the time it will paid off (like options trading). If you loan 100btc you would loan with the speculation that for example it would be 10% more valuable in a year. If in a year your speculation is correct, you break even, if the price is 10% lower, the debtee still has to pay using your speculated valuation, if the price is 10% higher you lost potential money you coulf have gained had you hold onto it. Either way, you have insurance against loss the debtee takes on risk but they don't get endlessly canibalized by interest payment. Escrow or credit rating is something I have not figured out.

Regardless, an acual card and a payment processing network would cost billions to deploy.
Dang didn't this just come out. I just learned about this app. I thought it was just really small, iterating its business, and just blew up. I didn't even know they made startups like this anymore.
It's up to the people who run Reddit. If they want to wipe out some subreddits, who is to say they can't? Any mechanism you can imagine to prevent them from doing so would have the effect of forcing speech upon them.

A website declining to carry some content seems perfectly in line with American values and traditions of free speech, in much the same way that Fox News is free to choose not to carry Rachel Maddow's show.
GNSS systems typically use MEO ~20,000 KM.
I bet this is just a corrupted ban for promoting local app of friends of friends of some minister.
Payment companies are being used to block citizens access to firearms granted under the 2nd amendment.

PayPal for example:
https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-is-paypal%E...
>> This might be a shock to most people in the western world, but if you go on almost ANY news website in china, the headline news is dedicated to government propaganda.

>> The reality is that Chinese firms and government operates together intimately. Nearly all sizable firms have a party secretary that is involved in board level decisions, and steps in when things get political. You can ponder who has the final say.

> No, I get this, but here's the thing: YouTube and, more specifically, it's advertisers do everything that you're accusing China of. There are material consequences if YouTube doesn't keep in line. What this means is that a status quo that pleases advertisers will be maintained.

You're basically saying: "YouTube has to please group X, TikTok has please group Y. Since they both have to 'please groups,' they're doing the same things!" That's a flawed comparison, because the the devil is in the details: the relevant differences between group X (YouTube advertisers) and Group Y (the Communist Party of China) get obscured when you're reasoning about such high level abstractions.
I listened to "The Rabbit Hole" podcast series this past weekend produced by the NY Times. They actually interviewed YouTube's CEO about this and they have realized that and have made changes to move away from that.

https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
So, how does one build a card network?
We are talking about two different things. I claimed that purging white supremacists from platforms is a good thing. I also claimed that silence is complicity. These are orthogonal. I am not a decision maker for one of these platforms, and don't feel the need to draw a specific line in the sand. Your attempt at a "gotcha" is fruitless, I'm afraid.

Let me turn it around, do you think that white supremacists deserve a platform?
> So an eye for an eye, eh?

So if a criminal is shooting at you (violence), the police should not shoot the criminal (also violence)?
You can! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
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I find this statement oddly racist/xenophobic. White people aren't the majority in every country. It seems like you are implying white people are superior to all others, and have control over every country on earth. What if someone from Africa made the same statement, wouldn't that be an issue?

I think it's better to err on the side of disparaging someone based on an immutable characteristic is a bad thing, regardless of who says it.
Not so sure about the US of A, but in Germany there was RAF, it is widely known. Just because it isn't big in US doesn't mean it's harmless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
>The mods, not the admins, made it so that only a shortlist of approved users could post content in the subreddit.

Admins banned virtually all the mods, without warning or explanation, so the remaining mod(s) had no choice but to lock the sub.

One of the tricks leftist groups like to do is they'll brigade right-leaning subs, post a ton of "offensive" content, then before the mods can remove it, they'll screenshot it, post it up on a blog, and then alert the admins to trick them into banning the sub. That's how they got the sub quarantined.

With only one or two mods left, they couldn't properly police the sub anymore, which had close to a million subscribers and tens of thousands of active posters at any given hour. Put yourself in their shoes. If it was the choice between accept random unknown (but admin approved) users as moderators, or lock the sub, what would you do?

Of course you'd lock the sub. It was just an attempt at a soft-takeover. Better it be outright banned than lobotomized by replacing its mods with Reddit users who likely hate Trump.
How do you make money on demand deposits when interest rates are effectively zero?
> it is much more difficult to opt out of these insidious and unnecessary web APIs

I don't know what you mean by this. A native app has far more access to your machine than a website has. If you've installed untrusted native code, it's game over.

Are you thinking of web-trackers like the infamous Facebook 'Like' button tracking you around the web? We have a solution to that, and it doesn't involve trusting native apps. Firefox Containers sound like just the ticket. [0]

> This is especially the case when the leading browser happens to be created by a data collection company.

> Avoiding browsers that implement this and shaming sites that use the APIs is apparently the approach that will be necessary going forward.

As far as I know Chrome doesn't leak browsing data back to Google any more than any other browser, not counting features like auto-complete. If you want a Google-free browser, though, you can either go with Firefox, or a Firefox derivative, or go with an alternative like 'ungoogled-chromium' [1]

As for shaming, I have very little confidence that this could work. The 'cookie law' gave websites the choice between not using tracking cookies, or showing a popup announcing to the user that the website uses tracking cookies. In response, virtually the entire web now shows a popup announcing their use of tracking cookies. Many of us thought the law would have a sort of shaming effect, but it didn't.

edit I'm ignoring the option to click the 'Deny' button that the popups are required to give. I wonder how many people click to deny. I don't think I've ever seen hard numbers.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18053079
The other 82% is ACH, not cash
You can weigh small objects with most smartphones with decent accuracy these days using the barometer. Put your phone into a ziplock bag, blow full of air, zip closed. Take a small object with known weight to calibrate your scale. Carefully place the object on the ziplock bag with your phone inside. The barometer in your phone can measure the air pressure change by having the weight placed on top of the bag. Knowing the weight of your first object and the change in pressure observed, you can calibrate the scale to know how much pressure change correlates to weight placed on top.

Then you can weigh arbitrary objects using your phone! Be careful, don't break your phone (don't try to stand on it to weigh yourself!)
> That person replaced gun with manhood implying that the person's manhood is derived from them power-tripping with weapons.

That’s quite the convenient stretch. Pretty impressive how some people are amazing at reading subtext where non exists as long as it plays into their narrative.

> Threatening violence IN RESPONSE to violence is a far cry from INSTIGATING violence against peace.

I mean... police going after law makers isn’t exactly peaceful. But again, whatever fits your narrative is true and everything else is fakenews(TM).
I can't explain why I love this so much. And I never read traditional newspapers, so I'm not nostalgic.
This is one lovely comment thread were two people learned something (ok, at least three
-I learned something as well), instead of fighting with words.

Thanks people, I had a rough day on HN today and you put a smime on my face :-)
And Apple has integration points with third party password managers.
they've already got Carlos Slim
Tolerating the intolerant, or intolerating the intolerant - that's not a paradox.

It's no different from the police using violence on violent people.
No because they don’t want to be on Parler, they’re just proving a point.
There's an old saying that has long struck me as being both horrid and true - "Kick a dog and it will always crawl back in the end". While I don't condone animal abuse, I see this all the time in human relationships. Once someone has power over you, you will gladly suffer abuse from them. And return for more. Repeatedly.
My Bay Area tech company is likely WFH due to Corona until as late as next February. I question daily why not immediately move to a lower COL town, at least until then? If I was single and renting, I already would have gotten out of here, but it's slightly more complicated/difficult with a family and mortgage and a house to sell.

The two reasons I can think of not to move:

1. End of WFH happens, and Company says, "Well everyone, back to the office! Now I'm screwed and have to move back to the Bay Area or quit. Bringing me to...

2. If I had to look for a new tech job in Nowheresville, USA, how many months (years) would it take?

Unfortunately, working in tech tends to handcuff you to the expensive Bay Area or other expensive hubs. If it weren't for these areas' relatively secure pool of jobs to choose from, there's no way I'd choose to live here.
Conservatism has a place in society. Racism, bigotry, hate, and white supremacy do not.

The fact is that American "conservatism" now is so run through with hate and vitriol and othering that no one can tell where one starts and the other begins.

The logical fallacy that this is a "slippery slope" is ridiculous, and the number of people who are crying about losing the "freedom" to attack, incite, and threaten others is astonishing. The number one terrorist threat in the US right now is right-wing militant groups, condoning threats and violence towards anyone who thinks different than them.

It's pretty clear to most that deplatforming people with hateful, violent, and dangerous messages is less of a threat to society than allowing them to keep spreading their vile hate. This isn't some arbitrary thought experiment or a white-room theorycrafting; people are dying because of this kind of hate.

Conservatives who distance themselves from hate and bigotry and violence are fine, and I can live with those people, but the American far-right are a blight on society and private corporations are within their rights (and, I would say, responsibilities) to actually enforce their own policies against these people.
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99% of the time Plaid functionality is used to transfer money from your previous business bank account to Mercury. In that scenario it's useful to have balance information.

Most people transfer money from personal account via another means (checks, wire etc). Though agreed that it's bad when a personal account is used and the balance is leaked to cofounders.
Do you think it is correct or incorrect to deplatform white supremacists? Do you think white supremacists deserve a platform?

Edit: I've asked variants of this question several times in this thread, all without response. I can safely assume that those who won't freely answer this question are (attempting) to hide their bias.
"Both" is word that will not make the Newspeak cut.
And to measure how much of the grooves are in contact with the ground, you could add a known weight to the car (like 100kg of people), measure it with and without that weight and see what proportion of the grooves you need to account for to get 100kg difference.

You'd get better accuracy from a bigger added weight, but the bigger the added weight the more you risk changing what you're measuring by forcing more tire rubber into contact with the ground.
It would change the dynamic, but the issue is the fact that the presidency is "winner takes all." In a multiparty legislature, they parties compete at the polls, and THEN they form a coalition. The stakes for the presidency are such that it encourages coalition building BEFORE the polls, to produce a candidate with an expected majority.

You can see the dynamic during some of the less polarized political cycles of the past. The parties and candidate had to build coalitions of "interests" groups that weren't necessarily pre-committed to one party or another. I could imagine a transferable vote system looking getting us back to that "coalition" state where the parties platforms changed based on the dynamic coalitions.
I said "Apple takes many anti-competitive and consumer-hostile actions. They can freely get away with it, though, as they aren't a monopoly." I did not say this action was consumer-hostile.
I am not an American. I am an Indian. Stop assuming stuff.

And who better to know about expansionism than Indians? We have been colonized multiple times in the past. We know the exact difference between expansion and invasion. An invasion can turn into colonization if the oppressing party annexes territory and sets up a Government of its own against the interests of the people. US hasn't annexed Afghanistan and Iraq. No matter how much you try to paint it that way it isn't the case.

Manifest Destiny is a cultural thing in the United States. It is not official State policy. The term was itself coined by a journalist (John L Sullivan).

We have a similar cultural quote in India called "Akhand Bharat" where we wish to go back to the time where Bharat was one territory and not divided into Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Doesn't mean we go around conquering neighboring Nations. It is not our official State Policy. But we have definitely had multiple Wars with our neighbors. We have even invaded Pakistan multiple times: Once in 1965 when our Army marched all the way to Lahore and in 1971 when we invaded East Pakistan and liberated it from its oppressive dictatorial armed forces creating Bangladesh in the process. In neither of these cases did we annex territories. We had all the opportunities to do so! We did not.

Every big power has something similar to the "Manifest Destiny". China has one too. It is its Silk Road project called the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative). Except that others aren't actually acting on it and expanding their territories. China is!
Perhaps something like NTP could be used to keep the clock accurately in sync to the precision required? I mean do you need the atomic clock to be onboard ? could there not some error correction with multiple satellites to handle skew problems ?
Patreon does not seem very spectacular but I don't exactly see what the reason not to have a patreon page is. I have one and it is one of several different income sources for my open source work. it's 100 bucks a month I wouldn't have otherwise.
I'm not sure safety has anything to do with long compile times, can you enlighten?
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Many around of the world see the US also an authoritarian state with little regard for human rights.
My background is academic and so I worry that any recommendations I give will suffer from reflecting that. It's way easier for me to say "spend ten years of your life living and breathing this stuff, it'll clear up your thoughts nicely!" than it is to point to a YouTube channel. CGP Grey sometimes does very 101 level topics on electoral systems, but very little on what I'd call the political science of representation or US-specific institutions.

My advice, if you want to get a sense for the academic lay of the land is to try an Intro to US Politics course at any college that is well ranked, and to follow currently active professors from research universities on Twitter. Often by reading today's journal articles, you a) get a sense for new findings, and b) get a sense for whose shoulders they stand on, and where they come from. And academics do a shitty job of sharing these ideas with the public. I do read Andrew Gelman's blog, but he's a social science statistician and so mostly he's working on quant methods and not substantively interesting questions.

The main journals in US politics are: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics.

I checked the syllabus of my first graduate level American Politics class from, err, a fair few years ago now. Here are some of the canonical books I'd recommend that speak to the kinds of questions I study:

- Anthony Downs: An Economic Theory of Democracy
- John Zaller: Nature and Origins of Public Opinion
- David Mayhew: Congress The Electoral Connection
- Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal: Ideology and Congress
- Keith Krehbiel: Information and Legislative Organization
- Mathew McCubbins and Gary Cox: Setting the Agenda (or their other book, Legislative Leviathan, both great)

These speak to some of the biggest theoretical and measurement considerations in American Politics and Representation. All of them should be readable without prior college experience. I will note that I just offered you like 5,000 pages of book that will probably take a year to get through.

Hope some of this provides a useful jumping off point.
Chinese immigrant in US here:

I don't think it's a stretch to state the risk of tiktok being mass propaganda machine, from India's perspective.

Additionally, I don't take this as a particular politically charged statement against China, as quite a few replies stated. The reason is that China and India are on a very delicate geopolitical environment. The history is long and ambiguous. The current rivalry is subtle and dangerous. You just cannot give any chance in this situation. After all, China do not have any foreign social network services anyway. There is no reason to gift the opponent an potential upper hand.

The Pandora's box was formally opened in the Arab spring already. It was a well intended start, followed with an ugly development and messy prospect left for generations to suffer and struggle.

Now the whole idea of social networking services as an actual helper of connecting people with different cultural background roughly reduces to nil. That really was a buffer.

Lastly, I don't think it makes sense for any sovereign government to force their country's corporation to serve them directly.

That would immediately destroy any chance of those organizations to expand beyond their home country. Someone might argue Chinese firms are OK to that because they had a big market already. That's a totally unreasonable imagination on Chinese business men's brain structure. I never encountered any such Chinese business man who believe loyalty to CCP is higher than their profit. Other argument is that Chinese law can coerce, but all the laws are saying the company ought to corporate when necessary for the security of the country. I cannot imagine any sane political personnel can convince anyone else that offensive propaganda in peace time is necessary for national security. At least I did not see any such behavior or even minor behavior with hint of such reasoning from past history.
> Furthermore, if there are platforms where AnyList doesn’t support Sign in with Apple, like Android, and someone wants to log into their account, they’d have to know their privaterelay.appleid.com email address. (And that certainly won’t be easy to find if you no longer have an iOS device.) And then they’d have to create a password with us, since they wouldn’t be able to sign in using Sign in with Apple.

The easy answer is: they should just support "Sign in with Apple" on every platform. (That absolutely works. Sign in with Apple is a [mostly] standard OpenID Connect provider and has a web frontend that should work on every non-Apple platform just fine, just like FB/Google/etc.)

You wouldn't think to only support "Sign in with Google" only on Android devices? Maybe "Sign in with Facebook" should only apply to web browsers?

It's an interesting misconception or miscommunication that so many developers think "Sign in with Apple" should only show up on Apple devices.
It's just racism dude. Not even white, just tired of the mental gymnastics people go through to justify their actions against white people based sole on their skin color and what they've committed against their people. You're doing the same thing. In the end it's just the tribal, racialist bullshit I'm freaking tired of. It never ends, because we keep justifying evildoing whenever it benefits our side at the given time. If we keep doing this, we have no right to complain when some other group does it to us at some other point in the future.
Great response. If my startup weren’t in such a regulated industry, I’d be checking you guys out. Maybe next time.
PWA's have always lagged behind Native Capabilities, even when API's exist the performance has been poor for high performance apps so the allegation doesn't quite make sense to me.
I'm fairly certain he can stand for it.

Also, tptacek is fairly far to the left it seems (in an American context) so it actually surprised me quite a bit that he'd write that.

Based on that last observation I think most of us can agree, can't we?
Sign In With Apple would require that AnyList enable SPF protections on any outbound domain registered with Apple for SIWP use:

To send emails to users with private email addresses, you must register your outbound emails or email domains and use Sender Policy Framework (SPF) to authenticate your outbound emails.
I’m not saying they can’t, I’m saying they shouldn’t. I disagree that reddit can be analogized to serial television media for these purposes.
Yes, but many are. This app in particular needs an email address that is actually checked.
For #2. You can use any email address for an iCloud account also.
How does having these apps on my phone hurt my privacy?
{being ultra cynical here} The ultimate will be when companies specifically start advertising on Facebook, just so they can then pull that advertising to do the virtue signalling.