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> 1. allow all men to enter the same bathrooms as women, but stop calling them "women's bathrooms"

Are you planning to enter a women's bathroom any time soon? Do you plan to "self-identify" as a woman solely to go into a bathroom?

There's a great TikTok that makes fun of this concept, that goes a little something like this:

Would you be afraid if a man who identified as a woman was in the bathroom with you?
Why would I know?
Well you wouldn't, and that's the problem. There could be a penis nearby and you wouldn't know it!
So then why should I care?

Ultimately yes there are other solutions, such as having only gender-neutral restrooms, but the reasoning here only makes sense if you assume that either trans people are predators, or that there are enough people masquerading as trans people who are predators that the danger outweighs trans people's rights. Neither of those things appear to be true, and the whole "you assume trans people are predators" as part of the reasoning is important, it's the same kind of reasoning that was used against gay (usually men) for decades. "Trans bathroom danger" scares is this generations "gay men are going to come after your kids".
I mostly agree but there are a lot of caveats here. Health insurance is the biggest one, of course. ACA is better than nothing but it's not great.

The other that comes to mind is life insurance. Some people can't buy individual life insurance at any price due to preexisting conditions but they can get a group policy from their employer (up to certain limits) with no questions asked.
"Wisdom of crowds" is pretty fascinating in that it does really well under some circumstances.

A friend of mine has been running an Oscar contest for years and I grabbed some data from him a few years ago. We knew that "consensus" did well but I actually did some graphs and analysis; it's pretty striking: https://bitmason.blogspot.com/2012/04/crowdsourcing-predicti...

Undergrad, we were were both on the movie committee where we had an attendance-guessing contest that had similar results.

But... outside of some very specific and often artificial circumstances where the effect is very robust. It doesn't really work.
You just invented video podcasts.
Are you saying that, unlike other injustices where we as a society generally approve of at least attempting to correct the injustice, this particular injustice is unique, and we shouldn't even attempt to remediate? Or do you oppose all attempts to correct past injustices because "cosmic justice" doesn't exist? I don't hope for cosmic justice, I think justice is up to us humans.

Nothing about my argument relies on racial language or philosophy, any more than my argument for returning stolen property relies on "'thief'-like language or philosophy." My argument for remediation is simply that the injustice occurred, and I think our society should attempt to correct this past injustice just like other past injustices.
Apropos of the rightness or otherwise of this stance, I don't think "specialist physicians" typically fall into the category of people who "cannot afford 2 phones".
> (What would happen if UBI was based on regional cost-of-living? Well, for one thing, we'd see a lot of people who either don't "live where they live", but instead consistently renew their IDs within the highest cost-of-living areas; or, if the controls are tighter, we'd see people migrating to high cost-of-living areas to live out of their cars in the middle of them, to save up the most money.)

IMO those would be exploited infrequently enough that it would be worth it to base it on regional cost-of-living and tighten the controls until exploitation falls below an acceptable level.
Beyond a certain point Apple computers became a status symbol and now they seem to be able to get the users to cater to them instead of the other way around.
One-sided? Have you seen what has happened to revenues of news publications since the advent of Google and Facebook? The idea that the tech sector is seriously threatened by the news media is silly. All this fretting about negative coverage basically amounts to persecutory delusion from what is easily the most powerful sector in the US economy.
I'm actively building a solution for programming related content, with the goal being that courses feel like games:

https://qvault.io
While I understand this sentiment - especially since as you say, most (if not all) of today's accepted states and borders are the result of bloody, unfair conquest - I do personally struggle with a system of objection/dismissal based on the "well, it's a dog-eats-world" mindset. Interestingly, I've also found that many people (I'm being a bit hand-wavy here, I know) who are completely fine with dismissing indigenous land acknowledgements have plenty to say about Tibet re: China, or Crimea re: Russia, etc. Perhaps it's all realpolitik posturing, but if it has been I certainly haven't been able to tell.

Seems to me that so long as the peoples who "lost" in history are still around and able to generate sympathy, empathy, and understanding, it lands upon us to seriously think about whether or not we should continue the status quo and carry history into the present.
You read all of that in 8 minutes? Try again and maybe even read the very first link. Facebook and Google aren't creating unique fingerprints for you based on high frequency audio... Read the two other research reports, they mention that TikTok's aggressive data collection is much more extreme than apps like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

Why defend China? You are aware that they are currently conducting an operation that is likely the worst human rights crisis since the Holocaust. You need to re-evaluate your views.
Fox News got a big boost on YouTube from an algorithm change
https://cathyduffyreviews.com/ is a resource that my wife likes for curriculum reviews.
How many people are both important enough to be on call and can’t afford to add a line?
Disclaimer: I am not a HW designer, I could very well be wrong.

It is true that there are tasks where threading matters, but still require a CPU rather than a GPU. I wonder however if these tasks do need full SSE/AVX etc. Couldn't these extensions be removed of the CPU cores and instead have the necessary work performed by the GPU?

It would be interesting to produce statistics on how much these extensions are used in these scenario. Imagine how much space and complexity could be saved on a CPU die by making stripped down versions. That space could in turn be used for more cores!

I read a little about the Xeon PHI cpus, which iirc, is a multicore CPU with a very small ISA, but I wonder why x86 makers aren't trying to go in that direction: isn't there plenty of dedicated workloads which would happily run on these (eg, web servers), or is this just a (too) simplistic view?
Some politicians, like some journalists, have integrity. There are high pressures on both to not have integrity, and yet they persist.
that's the raison d'être of structured approaches like design sprints, to control for the collapse of the creative space during brainstorming sessions (colloquially, groupthink).
I personally would avoid docker, but 'containers', yes.

> Snaps are completely redundant there.

Yes, they certainly are but it seems to be harder and harder to get rid of snapd. It's probably not going to be an actual issue for Focal, but it's about this trend... Maybe Canonical will see sense -- who knows?

Meanwhile, I do have to at least have a broad plan for the next 2-5 years, so...
With a neural network trained debugger, of course.
I think there's a place for Apple to get this right. They have a music streaming service that makes sense. They're a major player in the podcast space. They've long sold digital music, TV, and movies. Apple has been in the content game since the early days of the iPod. A properly executed Apple TV+ could fit with their brand.

But you're right, they're fucking up.

To me, Apple's content tends to be way too safe. It's boring. (Or, at least it was boring when I saw it.) If I want straight-down-the-middle-of-American-culture-type content, I already have Disney+ and way too many other choices. If they want to grab my attention, they need to take some risks and/or find their niches.

This is what I appreciate about the other major tech company with a me-too streaming service: Amazon. Prime Video is willing to take risks on weird genre stuff, and some of it is really good. I could never see Apple releasing something like Fleabag or The Boys. That perception is probably why Apple TV+ has been so forgettable. Boring has no place in Apple's branding.
It's just a warning. You can ignore it, you may damage your display. Nothing more, nothing less.
Privacy incursions have been made by data brokers for 50 years. There's been plenty of time to legislate privacy. The people controlling Congress won't let it happen.
It doesn’t exist. The people would stop working for the employer. They would work in other business. Perhaps work for those in direct competition to The Employer. The Employer would go out of business.
“Hearing from the heart”

This is just undefined, non-falsifiable, linguistic drivel that allows you - and you alone - to dismiss any response you dont like.

Which you do.
Not right now, but we are planning to release it eventually!
Yes and no. One of the concerns about cancel culture is that it results in people's lives being ruined/ended. This (usually) is not the case, even among the most egregious examples that people can come up with.
Ah... that answers my real question then. sTR4 will likely be a short lived series.
TikTok left Hong Kong because HK is a tiny market, and they wouldn't want the PR backblash if they had to share HK data with CCP.

There's evidence that Bytedance is not independent of CCP interferences though - such as the CEO's public statement in 2018 where he stated that Bytedance products should support "socialist core values" etc.

https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...
When I moved to Germany I was surprised how everyone taped the camera on their laptops with these small, thin, easy to remove stickers that left no residue made for bookmarking your notebooks.

This should still work on Macs as a sticker is thin enough not to damage the display.
Does anyone have any technical detail of that story. It is hard to imagine how a bug in the image parse library can be utilise to steal text message.
Enough with the stereotypes. We can probably agree that a table of people who are all trying to "win" whatever their degrees and motivations is probably not the best way to tackle a problem.
Very cool. Thanks for the ref! Are there any books of his you'd recommend?
Can you point out where it says this? I need to correct this with s/topic/course as all the content and code is available for free and licensed as AGPL. Even API access is available to build alternative clients.

This is supposed to refer to "courses" which are structured, project-based peer groups where mentors spend time to evaluate your projects and answer your questions. By compensating them for their time, we can get really high-quality mentors for 1-1 feedback on your learning projects.

The unstructured peer groups (in the Slack channel) are and will remain completely free.
Yes of course. If you lose your property to a stronger person in a fist fight, it is now his property. Who are we to change this ancient wisdom.
Which is sort of the definition of having your customers cater to you instead of you catering to your customers.
Has anybody else noticed that when walking in a group of more than 3 you end up in a really uncomfortable tempo? It's like everybody tries to adjust to the slowest, but nobody knows who the slowest is so you end up in a really weird and slow tempo that really no one ever would walk in normally?

I tend to think that this even happens mentally to groups. We start to think slower when we are in a group of other people. I guess this is why discussions on social events also ends up on subjects like celebrities and sports rather than abstract philosophical topics.
They are/were planning to IPO, and their financial will be published so I doubt the conspiracy theory. I've used the original TikTok(Dou Yin), it is super addictive, even my parents fall into that. They do a very good job in terms of engaging both the viewer and content producer(profit cutting etc.)

In my opinion, are still "evil" in terms of hijacking our brain, but I am a bit fed up with those prevailing political prejudice nowadays for anything related to China.
When will we consider prudes a public health issue? Their shaming is unhealthy and when they get power cause generations of harm. Worse they have no care for it so long as they get their righteous indignation high! Given the sheer toll of prohobition judgementalness is the most insidious and deadly of all of the vices.
Half of my office has camera covers, honestly at this point I'd have a lot of respect for any maker who had a physical mechanism to their camera... Sort of like the original iSight https://www.coolsmartphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/is...
Least plausible of all is that someone would try to shore up this argument in good faith.
Everything on my phone is automatically backed up. Whether I would accept the tradeoff of them being able to remotely wipe my phone or wanting to carry two devices is up in the air.
I love programming but hate to do it in corporations full of red tapes
I’ve been involved in hiring since my very first dev job - not sure I’d trust a random resume builder more than my experience sifting through 100s of them. But I guess there may be some small market here.
How to Use Sidekiq in Rails 6
https://twinkletray.com/

Brilliant app that does the same for windows 10.
For real. You should only be using HN as a social outlet, or for casual conversations. It seems like a lot of products shown here are just devs developing for what other devs talk about. Or abstracting a formula for how to saas and then applying it to whatever tech seems approachable.

The majority of the real world is not HN at all. If your models are using this site as training data, you're probly gonna have a bad time.
Just cover the camera with a piece of sticky note paper, problem solved
They probably had people come to them with broken screens and they wanted to establish a policy to waive responsibility, which is understandable.
I doubt the government even has the right to ban an app. If so, could they also ban a website?
Not OP but the ability to ignore games that don't support English. Steam Labs introduction of price filters should've have been available ages ago.
Clever techniques to make jumping feel better in platformer games
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Ocaml use Hindley-Milner type inference. I was taught programming with it and ended up deeply spoiled.

I could not understand why most static language required writing so many types that were easy to deduce and why people where saying that not having to write types made dynamic language better.

I can count on the finger of my hands the number of times when I needed to write explicit types in Ocaml (my single use case for explicit types in Ocaml was data deserialization).

Plus, the compiler is fast.
oh bugs in the parsing libraries are the things MOSTLY used for attacks like this.

Parsing is hard, and parsers are buggy and lead to all kind of unsafe C code
I'm definitely not anti-technology as a whole, but I very much think many of the environmental problems we're facing in agriculture were caused by an over reliance on technology in the first place. We abstracted ourselves out of the process too much and it has had horrible consequences.
Well, being in the security field I would want to know if that light is software or hardware controlled.
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I never understand these kinds of arguments. Is the idea that "because there are still enough good and decent people resisting the mob in order to prevent long term consequences for their targets that we should not condemn this mobbing at all"? What point are you making?
This is an interesting side effect of designing a thin, fancy glass display! I see a lot of people who cover their camera and I appreciate their concerns but I do trust the green light.

Although... You may not see the light on if you leave your laptop open when you're away from your desk. I do wish it was easier to get a laptop with no camera or microphone at all!
This seems like a pretty mild warning for folks who might stick a bulky cover on their camera and press down / pack their laptop tightly and now have wedged part of the screen open with the cover.

I'm a fan of using painters tape.... pretty low profile, easily removed, stays on really well. Also the weird blue glow you get when the camera is on tells you pretty quick "Hey there's a cover on there" where sometimes with the all blackout covers ... I can't tell.

I renew my calls for all devices to have an led indicator (good on Apple here) and a physical switch that cuts power to mics and cameras for all devices with them. With the endless layers of software we have today, I have trouble trusting anything but cutting power.
Sure, the blog post below covers it, and the vulnerability was probably CVE-2019-11931. You can do an awful lot with a buffer overflow if you're clever.

https://www.okta.com/blog/2020/04/what-the-jeff-bezos-whatsa...
> Typically the jurisdiction of crime is based on territory, not ethnicity.

The US Constitution allows the country to enter into treaties which are otherwise unconstitutional.

It has entered into a treaty with a different nation with overlapping boundaries, due to the nature of the treaty, and it has to honor that. Congress can further renege on their promises and change the treaty, but the reason that treaty exists is because a prior older unconstitutional act involving the relocation of those indigenous nations to that area of Oklahoma. So Congress and the President won't touch it, not just the current one, but no congress and President will touch this without consequence.

So its not about what we want, its about atonement and having to deal with this incongruency now in the 21st century. We are still in the process of recognizing that there are hundreds of separate semi-autonomous and co-dependent nations within the continental US, and we have to have diplomatic relations with their people, people that cannot be simply deported when they commit a heinous crime, and share a porous border with the rest of the country.
A duck is an entire organism with a known genetic code, suspected lineage in the tree of life and defined characteristics.

A brain is an organ within another known organism in a differing position in the tree of life with different characteristics.

A computer is a device which takes in input via some means and uses input to transform elements that together represent its internal state based on input and prior internal state resulting in output that is the result of both internal state and input arranged in a fashion such that an actor with sufficient knowledge of functioning can manipulate input in order to achieve desired output.

A programmer is such an actor.

In such a context it appears that a brain is merely programmer and computer and AI is merely the achievement of a sufficiently complex and capable system as to represent the same thing in silicon or whatever medium you prefer.

Arguing that such is impossible seems to be merely a failure of imagination.
> Went to the website to see some example code.. looks basically the same?

The main difference is that there are separate types for the following concepts:

1) A point in time in global timeline

2) A specific date and time in specific time zone

3) Specific date and time but without any information about time zone (and two more related types that contain only date information or only time information).

There are a few more types, but these illustrate the main difference from .NET DateTime. In case you missed it, the basic concepts are explained here: https://nodatime.org/3.0.x/userguide/concepts (which I should have linked to in the first place).

This blog post by Jon Skeet explains the troubles with DateTime: https://blog.nodatime.org/2011/08/what-wrong-with-datetime-a... (he's also one of the authors of NodaTime).
One downside is that it's old and only works on 32bit machines. It only mentions up to Windows 7 too, I wonder if it would work on Win10 (is there 32-bit Win10?)
As long as it's thinner than a standard page of printer paper, according to apple at least!
Lenovo gets pretty close. Most thinkpads starting from 2018 have a thin plastic cover to block the camera [1]

[1] https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkShutter
Alright you guys when the conversation goes to "It's absolutely nonsense" followed by "which rock have you been under", you're forfeiting the right to have this argument on Hacker News. Please read the site guidelines until you see that this is exactly what they ask you not to do here, regardless of how wrong the other person is, how right you are, or how right you feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Maybe you don't owe the person you're arguing with better, but you owe this community much better if you're posting to it. The idea here is to have a place on the internet that doesn't destroy itself with flames and screams... or at least to stave that fate off a while longer. That's getting harder lately, and we need you to help haul in the right direction and not push it off a cliff.

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They tell you what route to take, what car you can drive, how long you can wait for pickup, and so on and so on and so on.

You don't tell the person building your home how many employees he's allowed to have, and how new his tools must be.
> People are, in the large, morons.

They're not, and constantly assuming they are is incredibly patronizing.

And if they are, aren't the people deciding all of these things for everybody also "people"? Clearly then we shouldn't rely on their decisions because people are morons.

> That goes double when it comes to money and health.

So give a tax credit to individuals for having a minimum amount of high deductible health insurance but structure it as a "tax" for not doing so, which triggers loss aversion and causes people to buy it to avoid the "tax". It changes nothing for the people who were already doing the math and it catches the "morons" you were worried about.
That's not what I asked. You stated companies shouldn't do this. Just because some entities have chosen to act in a certain way doesn't mean that it is morally correct for all entities to act in that way.

Certain companies have been founded based on religious beliefs forever, that doesn't mean that it is morally correct for every company to have religious foundations. If you want to run your company that way, you're absolutely welcome to, but upon what reasoning do you claim it is wrong for me to act differently than you choose to?
Well, for me, that is a hill I choose to die on.
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People are suggesting just using tape, but the issue is when you want to un-cover it frequently (which is probably more common now than a few months ago). For a couple dollars you can get a thin, nice-looking little plastic cover that you can actually slide out of the way when you need to use it. Most of these are thin enough not to be a problem, but they vary, and even the really thin ones usually don't quite let your Macbook close all the way, potentially putting pressure on a narrow point.
"Maths" is the standard Anglophone term outside of North America.
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> The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on.

Has anyone torn down the hardware and verified this lately?

It should not be a complicated feature at all. Just ensure you have the same voltage applied to your LED circuit as your camera circuit, and enforce that by having them on the same wire...
The light is hardware controlled. The camera can only get power when the light is on.