skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to accept pastes wouldn't require any permission.

Being able to read the clipboard without the user knowing would.
Is this seriously what constitutes an article premise these days for the smithsonian?
Well the motivations are completely different. Xenophobia is a pretty normal human condition, and very reasonable as well (“strangers” carry germs, which is being amptly demonstrates right now). It could also be motivated be preservation of culture, nation, etc. - basically same reasoning as makes you prefer your children vs other children, just extended a bit to the whole nation.
Does it really matter? By nature, all web browsers are essentially the same, with identical features, except some are open source and others are not.
No, I mean, non-sarcastically, what concept is it intended to communicate?

Is it not possible for a market economy to have a food shortage? Just a price of food at which some people happen to starve to death?

No programmer shortage, but just a price of programmers at which some business opportunities fail to be profitable?
unlike the implication of the wsj title, the real takeaway is that physical distancing is the primary mechanism of prevention, with mask-wearing for when you can't distance (like during rush hour in hong kong). it's not lockdowns, it's not masks all the time, and it's not no masks all the time. it's both more nuanced and simpler than most people, on all sides, want to accept.
Drawbot! https://www.hackster.io/news/drawbot-automatically-spray-pai...
Basic mindsets that ensure keto diet success
USCIS furloughs 13,700 of its 20k employees
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued furlough notices to 13,700 of its 20,000 employees, potentially putting as much as 73% of USCIS staff our of work temporarily. The furlough will go into effect on August 3, 2020 unless Congress and the President take action to provide emergency funding for USCIS to continue operations at its present level.

Why were the furlough notices issued?

USCIS receives 95% of its funding comes from filing fees paid by applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits. USCIS operations have gone from a yearly surplus to a massive deficit: the agency had a total carryover balance of over $1.26 billion at the end of FY 2019. It is now requesting $1.2 billion

USCIS asserts that the budget shortfall is due to COVID-19 and the decrease in petitions/applications being filed. However, many reason that the shortfall occurred due to a focus on increasing fraud detection operations and several policy changes which significantly increased the already high percentage of issuance of post-filing Requests for Additional Evidence, and consequently increased overall processing times.

In May USCIS asked Congress for $1.2 billion to support operations while charging a 10% surcharge on future filing fees to reimburse the Treasury. This surcharge would be in addition to an average 21% fee increase that USCIS proposed in December 2019 and is close to finalizing by regulation.

Based on an internal USCIS document, the $1.2 billion request breaks down into $571.2 million to support operations in fiscal 2020, which ends Sept. 30, 2020 and $650 million in carryover funds to ensure that sufficient resources are available at the start of the next fiscal year. Of the $571.2 million in fiscal 2020 aid, $373.4 million would be used for payroll and $197.8 million for other expenses including rent, FBI name checks and fingerprinting, and information technology contracts.
It doesn't matter how you intended for it to be taken. If you jokingly told someone to kill themselves and they did actually kill themselves, would you hide behind "they should have known I was joking"?

I read your post three times before I first commented to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding. What you claim to have said is horribly offensive and I can't believe you're trying to shrug it off as no big deal. Maybe it's a cultural difference, but hopefully what you're learning is that it may be okay to tell a human being to kill themselves in Scotland but that is not considered acceptable in the US.
I can't see your email address in your profile. :-(
Mine is my username (without the underscores, all one word) at gmail dot com.
I remember the days they were slapped with a hefty lawsuit for bundling IE with Windows. What they are doing now is Beyond Good and Evil.
But since the type of a function can't change at runtime, why is this necessary?
I completely agree with that. However, it's not always possible to go down the rabbit hole of inherent human rights during a casual lunchroom conversation while you're making a coffee.

These "quips" have their place. Hopefully, they make people think and at least consider the importance of privacy.
lets not forget that this OS API was designed this way.
An industry audit can fast-track your next redesign
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Care to back any of that up with evidence?
You can send using SES or SNS but if you send from your own EC2 instance you are gonna have a bad time.
I can attest to this.
And linkedin is probably installed on a hell of a lot of corporate phones...
Whats the confrontational tone for?
There are some societal functions, some conversations which cannot be conducted over the Internet. And the rest of them probably ought not to be.
> OP's comment is pointless.

We at least have consensus on something.
From what I see, there's no IP anonymization. But maybe one can use it via VPNs, Tor, etc.
The text-to-speech on Edge is fantastic!

Select any text, and speak it. Jump anywhere in the page. Works on both, regular web pages, and PDFs too.

It works even better than what’s on the iPad Safari. And Chrome doesn’t have any working feature like this.
Elastic Search
Meili
Sonic

Depending on your use case, a front-end search library would work too:

Elasticlunr
JS-search
Flexsearch
Fuse
For something you could use with a consistent approach:

If they willingly undid their imperialism and colonialism, it's fine; the symbol is one of learning to not be racist

If you had to invade and force them to stop it, and the regime ended while clinging to the racist policies, then it's bad
> signal [...]
> if there is a single client implementation its not secure at all to these kind of attacks.

There are (where?) actually multiple "distributions" of signal, like textSecure on f-droid. Last I checked it worked with signal, but that was a few years ago.
> I do not have sympathy for the notion that free speech is the only right worthy of protection

This belief is held because all rights flow from free speech. You can't have any other rights without functioning & free discourse.
Sorry, but the ticket will never get done, once you stop coding, your skills start getting rusty very quick.
Huh. So you can't drive a four wheeler on your farm while drunk? That seems pretty harsh :(
1. A cosmic ray storm turned all ASCII charactees into ECBDIC

2. Lightning struck the 12 V feed and upped the voltage to 10 MV, turning all 0 and 1’s into 6’s

3. Someone spilled a New England Pale Ale on the server

4. The process was assinated by the mysterious killer only known from his modus operandi of leaving OOM written in blood across the syslog

5. Birds nested within the server and fed all the SATA cables to their babies

Seriously though, disk writes aren’t atomic.
And in the resulting flurry of science that came from JFK's speech, we got many amazing and good things. The easy thing to do is say "space doesn't matter" like many countries have chosen to do. We did it even knowing it was hard, because the benefits outweighed the difficulty.

What is "terrible" about advancing science and putting humans in space?
Oh, sorry. My bad and thanks for posting the link to the abstract.
No wonder BMW drivers are often seen as assholes. Being nickel and dimed for minor things after spending such huge amounts of money on a new car would certainly make me bitter and resentful.
I know. It perpetuates the racism and derogatory attitudes.
OH MY GOD. Is this jimmyruska of jimmyr.com and those youtube tutorials from way way back?

I'm going to get every opportunity I get to tell you this, but you are the reason I'm where I am. I followed you since middle/primary school. Always checked up on you every now and then, and your site[0] is STILL my homepage. In fact I reached this very link from your HN tab (although the link to the HN tab leads to a webarchive).

Thank you. This is a little weird, I'm sure, but you're definitely had a tangible and very significant impact on my life!

[0] http://www.jimmyr.com
> Am I alone in absolutely loving Edge?

Isn't that besides the point that you love Edge ? I think the problem here is that they installed it without user consent.
>if someone murders another person we should ban them from murdering people but not put them in jail.

If conflating the act of violently taking someone's life away irreversibly to displaying an offensive custom skin in a videogame sounds like a reasonable and genuine argument to you, I don't think there is anything anyone can say to convince you otherwise.

I agree with the parent comment that restricting customization for the offending users in the game is a reasonable punishment. They can still play the game AND have zero actual possibility of committing the same offense. The desired outcome of the user not using offensive imagery in custom skins is achieved.
Ask HN: What are the less known HN-like forums?
With the rise of cancel culture and remotely offensive language being censored where can one go to find a community more tolerant of opposing views? Of course, I realize the moment the name of those communities are revealed, if any exist, they will be filled with people seeking to ban them.

I guess that makes this more of a meta-question, not a direct question. How can I learn about more open communities that may exist on the net where I can have the type of discussion with people that was possible 15-20 years ago?

Topics of interest: hacking (actual, not just in the name), startups, entrepreneurship, internet marketing.
>No need to be insulting yourself. I was asking for evidence of the personal attacks and you listed them.

There was already plenty of evidence if you actually read the quote the and setup that it was the answer to a question about the attack.

>At least Turkey got some balls and they talk openly about Adrenochrome in the main stream news, can’t be that bad their censorship.

If you're talking about the fictional drug, there's a movie and a TV show that openly talk about it. If you're talking about the chemical substance, you can buy it in the US.

If you're talking about the bullshit pizza gate conspiracy, the mainstream news mentions it when it's newsworthy. Like when someone shoots a hole in the floor of a pizza restaurant. But most of the time they don't talk about for the same reason they don't talk about lizard people or the tooth fairy.

Go ahead and talk about it though. I guarantee you the government won't censor you and throw you in jail the way they will in Turkey if you insult a government official.
No, that is the LinkedIn app. It's the messaging dialog (you can see their custom "send" button at the lower right corner).
It’s possible that the limited supply of drugs lowers opiate tolerance enough where the fentanyl causes an overdose. Like when an addict relapses and does the same dose they used to with a much lower tolerance and ends up ODing.
Black Workers Allege Employment Discrimination at Facebook
Curious. So, this is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/IJBlT4q
The actual dropdown doesn't happen on a new tab. (It will if I click on the bar or start typing, though.)

I'll admit, I did not think of the bookmarks bar. (I don't use it, myself.) Thanks, too, for responding.
It would be interesting to compare using Eigen's BCDSVD solv er vs handing it off to julia's library to compute the SVD and handing it back.
The problem with that is that the primary effect of open racism and bigotry is to normalise and encourage more open racism and bigotry.

It's all well and good to be able to identify these people, but the downside is that their victims have to put up with more racism and bigotry.

Frankly, if we drive it underground, great! Let's keep driving it underground until it suffocates.
Hopefully some word sense index is applied (or implied).
>When pressed the elites say that the reporting isn't wrong but that they should still be portrayed in a positive light.

God I would love to see what you'd come up with as an example of this.

Media does terrible things on a constant basis. They're smart about rarely writing since sentences that are out-and-out lies, but their portrayal of people, companies, and grand social narrative is highly motivated at every level.

The reason is because every major journalistic organization is completely dominated by activists, which means that all their reporting is motivated to specific ends. Their goals isn't to tell the truth, their goal is to remake the world according to their ideology. A perception of trustworthiness is just a resource to them - to be built up in service and spent in betrayal. It's not an end in itself.

This story is a great example, since it's so incredibly motivated to do damage to these people. Every quote is pulled out and placed in the most damaging light possible. It's entirely a hit piece with a single purpose and that purpose is not to give readers a rounded understanding of all sides of the situation, but to gain power.

It's not a story. There is no news here. Nothing happened. It's a private conversation between friends and the only content is thought. The story is an accusation of thoughtcrime. The fact that we're hearing about it at all is an indictment of the media.
Truly hate that I have to deal with deleting the .m off other people's links. It's so ugly, it has these disgustingly oversized fonts, and because all the sections are hidden by default, it works badly on mobile and even worse on a real computer.

How come I can't just stop seeing that loathsome mobile design, both on my desktop and on my phone?

And no, I'm not kidding.
As someone who has experienced it, it’s absolutely unreal just how thoroughly your priorities shift towards the substance. Everything revolves around it, nothing and no one else matters until that need is fulfilled.

I’m glad I’ve escaped that hellacious ride (for now)
> To completely dismiss the more prominent factors at play including states rights

Question #1: Name three states rights the South supposedly aruged for.

Question #2: Count how many of those rights they actually granted to their own states.

For it being supposedly such a major factor in their succession, states rights are conspicuously silent in both the ordinances of succession, contemporary oratory, and in the text they wrote in their own Constitution.
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This reminds me indirectly of a great metaphor from The Wire. One of the working class guys is buying a bird and asks the handler, "Why don't they fly away?"

"Because their wings are clipped."

Not directly applicable, but thinking you can just provide job training or an app or whatever and solve this problem is incredibly naive.
iPhones being transported halfway around the world isn't? In both cases the difference in labor cost is large enough to make the flight profitable.
If he was in your team it would be your fault. I think you just need a healthy balance of senior/juniors on the same codebase.

As OP said they were siloed from each other and he definitely needed some mentorship. I've seen devs like that turn to incredible coders just after a couple of months of pair programming.
Especially at least pairs: when the human is tired, they are like "oh well; let's play with one another".
Selling the ~4 trillion created is going to take a while. Though I have reservations about that happening at all. Iirc the last time the Fed tried to unwind their balance sheet the market panicked.
I’ve been practicing off an on for about ten years. I’m definitely not an expert. I like your explanation, but I think there’s more to it. Mindfulness doesn’t necessarily have to be about focusing on a particular thought. You can focus on nothingness and receive similar results. You can focus on a certain feeling for different results. Your focus object has a lot to do with what you get out of the experience. Additionally, the habit of recognizing what it feels like to not let your thoughts race can be powerful when your thoughts start racing at a later time.
Desktop LinkedIn is terrible too, it's absolutely unusable in Safari, lags and stutters constantly and seems to have a memory leak or similar where the page will get even slower (as if it wasn't already slow) proportional with the amount of content you have loaded. It pretty much instantly triggers the "page uses too much energy" warning.
People who are paralyzed and unable to speak aren't spreading hate in video games, so it's pretty pointless to hold them up as a counterexample. I know my grandparents probably have a lot of racist thoughts but unless they're unloading them at the Thanksgiving dinner table I'm not telling my grandmother to shut her mouth.
Your conclusion strikes me as a bit defeatist. Managed systems might be 'better' for users now, but in the long term, they leave users with almost no agency, and that becomes a great opportunity for companies to abuse their position of power.

I also thing think that saying that something is annoying is dismissing what is actually a pretty dark pattern. What comes to mind is how modern day censorship works the internet. If you outright block someone's ability to visit a example.com, they will spot the censorship and try to find workarounds. If on the other hand, you simply introduce a 5% packet loss to example.com, people will blame the _website_ and not potential censorship.

What's to stop Microsoft for adding another 5 minutes of hassle to install chrome or firefox? You couldn't sue them for it, but it would be enough to destroy every other browser on the market.
I really like it, actually. I finally had a free hour this afternoon to start getting into it. I'm only on video 6 so far but I've already learned quite a few things that I had missed and/or misunderstood previously. I've also sent it out to my team so that they can check it out next week, after the holidays, (and during work hours) to fill in some of the gaps they may have, as well. Thanks again for mentioning it and linking it!
Searchify.com (I'm the founder), you pay per number of documents only. Not number of queries.

http://www.searchify.com/plans/
I'm using Chrome on OS X right now. I can highlight text and select "Speech -> Start Speaking" and it reads whatever I highlight. It also works fine on a random PDF file I found.
https://www.oberlo.com/blog/facebook-statistics

I posted this link as another response. The average user spends 58 minutes a day.
Implementing a protocol correctly is easy. Implementing the primitives is harder (and tons of work), but you can easily grab them from a low-level crypto library like Libsodium or Monocypher.

Designing a protocol correctly is not that hard, as long as you understand exactly what you are doing. By which I mean you are at least able to write an informal (yet rigorous) proof that it has the security properties you seek. Also, verification tools like Verifpal are a godsend. The tricky part here is avoiding the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's easy to have the illusion of perfect understanding while being unable to write the most basic mathematical proof.

The hardest part is convincing others that your protocol is any good. People who don't understand what you are doing cannot (perhaps even must not) trust your work. They need the vetting of someone reputable, and getting those reputable people to take a look is pretty hard if you don't have the right connections (an uphill struggle without a relevant PhD).
You definitely shouldn't use this in production.

Looking at the code there's:

- race conditions everywhere.

- bad and inconsistent formatting, which doesn't help with the

- huge if-else monstrosities.

- Also uses synchronous IO and asynchronous IO randomly.

- Uses try-catch liberally, doesn't check the caught errors, and just re-tries blindly forever in some cases.

If you do any parallel updates/inserts/removals with this "database" you're pretty much guaranteed to lose data. Updates are essentially: 1. read table, 2. make changes, 3. save table.
Which at least would work if it was all synchronous.

I know this is going to sound harsh, but building databases is hard for even the most experienced coders, and whoever
wrote this is clearly at the other end of that spectrum.

https://github.com/Devs-Garden/jsonbase/blob/master/tables.j...
This reminds me greatly of Leonard Cohen's line

"There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qjmxTQ1o0M

(In Wikipedia jargon, I guess some people or countries are apt to say that their opponents' points of view are non-notable?)
> Some may say it’s not a significant problem

But not the people who have the authority to make the call, plainly.
It isn't necessary for a central server to be able to intercept messages. In an end-to-end encrypted system any boxes in the middle can infer stuff from traffic but they can't read message contents.
It's a dirty move, but it's an immensely lucrative move.

By switching users to Edge, they are switching them to Bing. The vast majority of users won't notice the switch since Edge and Bing both look a lot like Chrome and Google.

This will give MS billions of dollars of additional advertisement revenue.
> I think the problem here is that they installed it without user consent.

That depends. The post doesn't clarify whether Edge was already installed in its legacy incarnation. If so, and they received an update, that's not ""installing without user consent".

I recently installed the Chromium version of Edge manually and didn't encounter any of this behaviour. It's a shame that Microsoft are doing something Windows Update-specific, although maybe people who are the most averse to this behaviour are the more technical crowd who will have already grabbed an installer for themselves anyway?
Further, I think a lot of the recipients of that mockery are those who aren't so much genuine in their liberal or otherwise intentions, but those who just want to be seen as right about whatever it is they're saying. Wanting to be seen as having been right, is worth mocking. That's something that was true in the 90s, and that's true today.