skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every day I read about another outrage being committed by another garbage app that I do not have and would never install on my phone. Why do people need a LinkedIn app? Even if you think that you need LinkedIn, can’t you access your please-spam-me account through your browser? Isn’t it obvious that every closed-source mystery program that you install increases your attack surface? You wouldn't click on an email attachment from a stranger in Russia, so why install an executable from a company that you already know is unethical?
is there any company we can still trust?
There are few analogies that are unassailably perfect, but I stand by mine. Ideally, if I leave the USA and renounce my citizenship, I am no longer subject to its jurisdiction. Likewise, when I left Facebook, I should no longer have been subject to its jurisdiction. But you and I both know that neither of these statements are true. The USA has a vast surveillance network that spans the globe. Its government has a disproportionate impact on the internal politics of other nation-states. Likewise, Facebook's dominance over social networking and the internet itself means that it influences everyone, not just its own users.

Facebook is run as a dictatorship from the board room down to the users. Sure, we can leave - and people have been leaving nation-state dictatorships since antiquity. But, like a powerful nation-state, just because you can stop being a Facebook user doesn't mean you escape Facebook's reach, and just because I _can_ (and did) leave Facebook doesn't mean that Facebook will somehow be responsive to the needs of its users.
the 747-8F freighter will continue, so the title is misleading. The era is not over, at a maximum closing the era of jumbo passenger jets.

and as points of interest, the hump on the 747 keeps the cockpit out of the way allowing freight to be loaded more easily and completely, and freighters don't mind stopping to refuel (too expensive to carry all that fuel for the whole trip) and that's what makes the 747 continue to make economic sense for freight, while the A380 never did.
Put CloudFront in front?
It is not just Facebook and LinkedIn. I've seen this from random small sites.

Some other silly shit that come to mind - having the unsubscribe link after half/full page of white space, once you click on unsubscribe "give us 24 to 48 hours to remove your email" etc. Really? they need 24 hours to delete (or change a flag) in the database?
> Programmers must forget that they're visible to users.

GET parameters aren't usually visible to users; with the deemphasis of the URL bar, you'd have to have an incredibly short URL for that to even be a possbility. Right now I'm looking at

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23717577&goto=item%3Fi .......

That's one visible parameter. There's PLENTY OF SPACE for firefox to show the rest of the URL, but it won't; instead, a bunch of icons are unhelpfully crammed into the same horizontal layout.

In the larger sense, where users can see the parameters if they intentionally look for them, despite the fact that they are normally invisible, POST parameters are just as visible.
What? This is incomprehensible drivel. It reads like an AI wrote it, except that it's slightly more coherent than that.

I guess the author wanted us to come in on the same level of angst that they have, but couldn't rationally express it, so just wanted us to feel it. Whatever, but that doesn't communicate very well...
This article is riddled with false or misleading statements, it's got lots of interesting information but take basically anything it says about south park (negative or positive) with a giant grain of salt. Doubly so for any other topic.

The whole article is filtered through the lens of a far-left extremist who just got off a 48 hour marxist bender.
> So the next problem was that you couldn't query quickly for things that weren't the primary key. So new columns had to be added called "opt_key1" and "opt_key2" where certain rows could put key values, and indexes could be added on those columns, so you could quickly query by it's first optional key, or it's second optional key.

It's all fun and games until you realize DynamoDB works more or less the same way: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...
Having a personal account in a local bank may be a data point if you want to make a case about where you should be taxed but it won't automatically make you have permanent establishment or tax resident in Estonia
“If being the largest economy in the world and extracting from its tax base the largest governmental budget in the world is dysfunctional, that sounds pretty awesome.” If this is the logic that defines a functional government, then the Federal government seems to be a massive success as well. I’m not sure why this would be the metric for a functional government, however.

Government dysfunction in SF/CA can be seen in the following:

- California’s attempts at public infrastructure: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-bu...

- Housing affordability

- SF Central Subway https://sf.streetsblog.org/2019/09/12/advocates-flummoxed-an...

- Homelessness

- Bay Bridge https://sf.streetsblog.org/2019/09/12/advocates-flummoxed-an...

- State budget issues (see pension liabilities)

and many, many more things that go beyond this.
Shameless plug, but if you ever need to crop out the frame/surroundings of a bunch of photos of art:
https://artsy.github.io/blog/2014/09/24/using-pattern-recogn...
The Cornerstone Speech is required reading: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornersto...

> The prevailing ideas entertained by [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew."

> Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.

Two things jump out: 1) someone defending secession in 1861 unambiguously calls out the founders for mostly believing that slavery was evil; and 2) it's an early invocation of "science" against the "zeal above knowledge" of (overwhelmingly religious) abolitionist "fanatics."
Web Scraping and Data Preprocessing for a Machine Learning Model
Think it's just the app? Hope you don't have your clipboard events enabled in your browser

Edit for those interested:

tl;dr: "asynchronous clipboard API" [0]

Overtly, it's used by shit news sites like WSJ, nytimes, and bloomberg to inject their shit into your clipboard when you copy-paste. A common thing I've noticed is selecting text, copying the text, and then pasting somewhere and seeing a link to the original article instead.

I'm not sure if they're still doing it; there has been several people complaining about this over time [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. I found this awesome article on the Security StackExchange from 2013 [8].

Also it's not just javascript. You might be forgiven to think that using a command-line interface would spare you. Unfortunately you'd be wrong; mosh, tmux, vi, emacs all support your terminal emulator's clipboard events. [7] [8]

[0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/

[1]: 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352674

[2]: 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22446940

[3]: 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21377598

[4]: March 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19384895

[5]: December 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16034854

[6]: September 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301881

[7]: Three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815757

[8]: https://security.stackexchange.com/q/39118/47800
The 1619 project said it was one cause, not the sole cause, as

> that one primary reason the colonists fought the American Revolution was to protect the institution of slavery. This assertion has elicited criticism from some historians and support from others.

> We stand behind the basic point, which is that among the various motivations that drove the patriots toward independence was a concern that the British would seek or were already seeking to disrupt in various ways the entrenched system of American slavery.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the...
I think everything noted here is well under their control: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23717729
Yeah I noticed that too. If you go to the profile page of someone who has the LinkedIn pro version and hover over the gold "in" symbol next to their name, it links to a URL containing

upsellOrderOrigin=premium_badge_profile_upsell
> Almost no one thinks about actively retraining the way they think. In fact, I don’t think this last one even crosses most of our minds.

This is so, so false that it makes the rest of the article hard to take seriously.

A ton of people thought about these things. Some thousands of years ago, and wrote quite interesting books about it (like a good amount of Buddhist treatises but definitely not only).

A lot of modern people think of that too, problem is that junk food / bad workplaces / tensions in the family / lack of good sleep etc. all change your brain chemistry so that it's very hard for you to look for the problems inward and try and start a change from within.

I don't have proof for this; but I've spoken with therapists and psychologists and they often admit that the pills that some patients want to take literally change the brain chemistry. And dietitians and personal gym trainers tell me that the right food and the right workout routine change your body's composition, hence the brain's as well.

So an article that starts with such a sensationalistic and untrue premise is kind of dubious.

A lot of people think about what the author says they don't. But many don't know where to begin for most (or all) of their lives. That's a modern tragedy we all have to fix: to educate people on mental health, how to avoid the worst kinds of stress, how to deescalate properly, how to give the benefit of the doubt, how to eat what's good for you and avoid the rest, how and what to workout, and many many others.
People don't get physically addicted and spend their every last cent on murder for hire after murder for hire. Think of how stupidly lucrative a substance like crack is, it is water to an addict.
What it took to delete my 'like' history
As far as I'm aware, the Go team don't really consider them design mistakes.
The question is, does Android itself have that flag?
An excellent point. Facebook's demographics now skew heavily towards Boomers who have lots of money to throw around. These boomers are never going to leave Facebook based on some "delete Facebook!!!" comment on Hacker News or Reddit.

Literally the only effective way to force Facebook to change their ways is regulatory action or advertiser boycotts.
I highlight the Apple Watch’s FDA approval as a medical monitoring device as a counterpoint. This was in 2018. Wearables for health have been approved, legally speaking, already for some time now.
Ah, right.

Yeah I should definitely check with an accountant in the country where I will end up residing.
> The problem with hosting a site on S3 is there's no way to use TLS.

The standard solution for having TLS on sites hosted on S3 is to use CloudFront.
I don't exactly consider dropping two atomic bombs on top of hundreds of thousands of civilians an act of kindness.

War used to be extremely brutal. Genghis Khan used to execute entire cities...even after they had surrendered. Hell, prior to WWII, civilian populations were still legally legitimate targets for military actions. It's a very modern development for war to be fought purely between recognized armed forces.

That being said, dropping two atomic bombs is estimated to have saved millions of Japanese civilian lives that would have been lost if the Japanese Emperor had waged a city-by-city resistance as they originally planned.

Americans also don't exactly apologize for their acts, still glorify their brutal heroes (and even people who fought against their own country).

This is not true, at all. The US Government is constantly apologizing for its past acts. We don't just apologize for them, we set up memorials to our own bad acts as a nation so that we can't erase them from memory or hide from them. And after the atomic bombs, the US paid for the surgeries and medical treatments of numerous survivors. Similarly, after Vietnam, the US has made significant efforts to make up for the damage inflicted on the Vietnamese people during the war.
Well, that is them and this is us. I think expecting other cultures to stop using something because someone else "ruined" it is stupid.

I'm also getting a little sick of down votes every damn time I mention Native Americans. I'm starting to wonder.
They could have been using regular iPhones/Galaxies/Pixels etc. Then it wouldn't rely on this bespoke operating system and its updates. It seems unlikely Play Store or Apple Store would get compromised. But you could always compile the PGP app yourself.
> The implicit argument that an inability to display Confederate flags on others' property generates comparable negative externalities to environmental damage

Attack the strongest interpretation of an argument, not the weakest. Your choice to focus on this flag incident and ignore the wider context that I described of platforms of all kinds censoring speech and banning people reveals the flaw in this sort of response.

This is but one more example of a trend, and the trend is what should be alarming. One should rightly be suspicious of any claim that a specifically bad storm, or a specific heat wave was caused by global warming, but one should be very alarmed at the growing trend of worsening storms and increasing incidents of heat waves.
It’s a little sad that we’ve retired the 747, the Concorde, and (almost) the A380. And we haven’t introduced anything cool :(
Did you even read the post you replied to?

"...as has happened so many times before."

Clearly it's not just the response.
I think that various legit long-standing domains of mine, commercial and personal, have been in and out of gmail and MS blacklists randomly. Indeed, some of the domains predate gmail for example.

For this reason in part I have backup outgoing domains that I can fall back on if I need to, occasionally.

Rgds

Damon
Make clipboard behave like a channel[+], like GNOME native apps do, additionally require a standard paste command to paste, then this clipboard attack will be impossible to conduct.

[+]:A sample pipe might be a good analogy for this behaviour. You cut or copy the input, send through the sample pipe, and the receiving end unpacks, receiving itself makes the sample disappear for further use. Multiple samples could be sent through the pipe, though the pipe should behave in a LIFO, no sample adding allowed after removal starts, manner if this is desired.
https://reason.com/2020/07/01/police-departments-asked-live-...
Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds
Why does a website or app even need access to the clipboard? I would maybe naively think that the OS could send the characters on the clipboard as if they were typed quickly, end of story.
That won't happen; context matters. If you're posing with the confederate flag and a bunch of guns during a BLM protest, and flashing the OK hand symbol, it's going to be taken very differently from just using that same gesture to a friend in a random grocery store or something.
I would tend to disagree with this. Facebook's customer is advertisers, which inherently requires scale/ad placements + live auction system + the FB graph matchmaking. I am not familiar with the internals of Uber, but they earn revenue if they can get a rider in a car, pay both parties, and then take a cut.
Yeah, but companies are more competent than government and that's what matters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716931

right?
Thanks, I will definitely check this out.
> The 737, 777 and 787 combined have eliminated the need for the 747, 757 and 767.

There are huge demand for A321LR precisely because there is a need for 757-like capacity and range. Granted, when 757 was discontinued the demand wasn't there yet.
This plug-in allows you use to all of Qt/QML with .NET Core.

https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet

I'm the author.
iOS isn't free from this kind of snooping[1][2].

[1] "How popular apps can read your phone's clipboard without permission": https://www.mysk.blog/2020/03/10/popular-iphone-and-ipad-app...

[2] "Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/03/30/popular-ap...
Wow, the end of an era! The 747 was the workhorse plane for domestic US carriers for quite some time.
> Slavery was not the primary factor of conflict in the Civil War.

The historical record written in the confederacy's own words disagrees with you.

The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States shows slavery up front and center. These Declarations from five states, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia include the word "slave" 83 times. (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...)

Mississippi: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery"

Georgia: "For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery...The prohibition of slavery in the Territories, hostility to it everywhere, the equality of the black and white races, disregard of all constitutional guarantees in its favor, were boldly proclaimed by [the northern Union's] leaders and applauded by its followers. The prohibition of slavery in the Territories is the cardinal principle of [the northern Union]. For forty years this question has been considered and debated in the halls of Congress, before the people, by the press, and before the tribunals of justice. The majority of the people of the North in 1860 decided it in their own favor. We refuse to submit to that judgment, ..."

South Carolina: "A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery."

Texas: "[Texas] was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race ..."
> Like someone internal at Google said people will use and adopt en masse anything they make, regardless of how good it is.

And bend over backwards to defend it. "Being bad is actually good because it's more beginner-friendly" okay lol
Except that Google’s stock price is both in the hands of its employees and directly benefits its employees. They have a clear stake in it. Besides, this idea is separate from the idea around purpose in terms of values/ideals. This is purpose in terms of defining success. The goal is to steel man the idea, in contrast to what I’d probably call a straw man of purpose as represented in a line in the Constitution.
I also think the analysis is completely off. South Park has always spent much more time making fun of the status quo than of those pushing for change.

South Park is reactionary when rich white people have decided to take up a cause that they previously ignored. It makes fun of the self-serving, hypocritical actions of those in charge, not of the change itself.
There are, in fact, even heroin dealers in Switzerland, and of course all sorts of other drugs are still being sold illegally, but compared to the early 1990s, before the heroin prescription policy, there is practically no visible drug addict scene anymore.
> you cannot reason or meditate everything away

100% agree. I was born a Buddhist and was a devout Buddhist until I was 13-14 years old (then I became an atheist). I went to monasteries for weeks on end to meditate. But what I found was that meditation is not for me. I cannot get rid of my recurring mental sufferings (anger, fear/anxiety, jealousy/envy, self-/guilt) just by spending more and more time in meditation.

One thing that I found extremely useful is stoicism (at least in the way I interpret it). I simply learned to accept that these bad feelings come and go, and that is the nature of being a human. There's nothing wrong with having such bad feelings, which I personally call as 'bad karma'. I just need to be aware of them (which meditation supposedly helps detect, but I find myself being able to do without meditating equally well) and be at peace with the fact that they come and go in my life as a human.

What is in my control is how long I dwell on these moments of bad karma. For that, I always try to get myself out of these bad-karmic situations by trying to see things in a bigger picture or in longer term (e.g., 'Well, I am not making as much money as I want to now, but that's okay because even if I don't earn more than what I do now, I can still retire pretty comfortably by living a minimalistic life. Alternatively, I just need to work maybe 2-3 more years with the current income to save up to the level of savings at which I want to retire. In the worst case scenario in which I get sick/disabled, I will just learn to adapt as human beings and other living beings are observed to do in adversity.') Trying to see things from such larger perspective makes me feel pretty content and thus, releases me from a lot of anxiety issues.
Mobile is read- and very-occasionally-edit.

Desktop is basically the full admin interface for a Google-scale website with only rudimentary authentication requirements and a default-allowed policy. That works.
Funny. My line of thought was “it’s probably still not fixed, but those old cpus won’t be running new code anytime soon.”
Is there a reason to say "Fuck You AWS" other than to cause offense? It's certainly devoid of any meaningful criticism.
Hope you sell those soon before you lose it all.
Can you explain this a bit for me here?
Ever copy and paste sensitive data on your laptop? Clear that clipboard before using your iPhone.

Apple's Universal Clipboard may share your clipboard across devices.
How would you even collect this data? Survey local crackheads? Would you find this reliable?
Both represent institutions built solely for racist motives and the subjugation of another race.

The swastika was used by multiple cultures for thousands of years before it was co-opted by the Nazis.

The confederate flag was created for the sole purpose of committing treason so that some people could enslave others.

Not even remotely the same thing.