skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think deplatforming is a mistake in most cases, it make an "US vs THEM", David vs Goliath narrative that people love to follow and identify with. It make people think their opinions are more transgressive and more interesting that they really are.

But this deplatforming and this "cancel culture" is only a manifestation of what millenials heard for years: if you want change, vote with your wallet. Well, we now are able to. I'm not agreeing with everything, but boycott is the only power my generation have right now, and nobody can prevent this. Twitter and the social network allow people to explain why they're boycotting this or that, that's all.
I've been using this[1] for the last 4 years. It's soft fabric and it can be easily removed. The adhesive can be reactivated with a tiny drop of water and it can be reattached easily.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JY8C606
There's a pretty horrific short story about that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel)
I’d be more embarrassed being seen wearing a camera cover
Doesn't that require the same kind of trust in the correctness of the wiring that is at issue in some other comments? I can see that a camera cover works, but I think I couldn't see that a physical switch was actually interrupting the wiring without doing a teardown.
A capacitor?
Well so is a lot of stuff being said by the folks being “cancelled”! I don’t really understand the anti-cancellers perspective, to be honest. They want people to listen silently to their “free speech” and not be able to speak in return? It’s so blatantly hypocritical that it’s kind of funny
In the US, "Christian" homeschooling often means creationism, denial of evolution and geology, and social teaching aimed at making sure that women understand that if they are doing math, it's only to be able to scale recipes.
I still use an EeePC on a fairly regular basis, so I agree with your statement, but also I think that the desire to drop support for older platforms is itself a concession, that it's too hard to engineer software at an abstract enough level where ISA doesn't really matter. I understand that maybe fewer people are using those machines, but outside of some really platform-dependent code in the deeper parts of the kernel, how much should ISA really matter? Of course, in reality it does, in the sense that virtually nobody writes truly "portable" C code and instead encode all kinds of implicit assumptions about things, but that doesn't mean we should accept that or that the solution is to just bake those assumptions into the system as a whole and stop supporting architectures that violate those assumptions. Instead, supporting more architectures and finding more instances where implicit assumptions about hardware behavior are violated is actually beneficial to constructing a more abstract and easily-portable system, which incidentally can benefit all of the rest of the architectures as well.
That right there is why runaway consolidation and Monopoly building is a very bad thing even if they don't jack up prices like Ma Bell. If the leaders of these megacorps have no scruples, the public has little choice but to take the bad with the good. We've lost the ability to vote with our money when it turns out buying a mobile phone or joining a social club which makes use of a social network ends up funding antisocial and even evil behavior by other parts of those companies.
Love this idea! Interested in trying out the split-and-pay option
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Yes there are companies organizations and governments locking out tiktok - and thus far there's not much evidence that tiktok does anything more than linkedin, facebook, or any number of other social networks, because of the permissiveness and leakiness of the platforms that everyone's mobile devices run on.

Tiktok is not some extra special danger, except to those who have extra fear of a Chinese owned company. India has banned Tiktok, around the same time they've had border skirmishes with China and are running a big nationalist government.
> This has been the case for quite some time (10 years or so).
Agreed - it's really hard to give somebody the benefit of the doubt when they sound like they enjoy making fun of people with differing viewpoints.
> TikTok's scheme is to be spyware that even puts Facebook to shame

Are you referencing something specific?
Agreed. The price is fine. I think the sinister looking icon will be a bigger barrier than the price.
America still doesn’t have enough N95 masks
I'd recommend Daniel Dennett's talk If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? as a counterpoint to this article [1]. Dennett's talk is a bit long but I mostly enjoyed it, especially when he points out the computerphobia of many of his colleagues.

Of course, it's easier for me to agree with Dennett than for many other people, because I'm a computationalist in the philosophy of mind and suspect that consciousness is an emergent property of certain computations. It might in theory even be possible to realize that by analytical insight - though probably not in practice. I'm generally not a fan of the philosophy of mind, though, because it mostly consists of speculation and intuition pumping.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTFoJQSd48c
I'm confused. A lot of these areas overlap. Are these areas of land ownership or something else? How do you have multiple owners of the same physical location? In which period of time?
The important thing isn't whether the indicator will be lit or not.

The point is whether you will be able to prevent the camera from taking a video/picture you don't want it to.

Unless you can physically disconnect or block the camera, there's not guarantee that a piece of software can't record.

The best Apple can offer here is that you will know the recording was done (assuming you are looking at your computer, and not looking away or in another room) .
Does Disney have any good comedy series?
Wikipedia says that doesn't work for smartphones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone_blocker#Smartphone_... . If a smartphone can override it in software, then couldn't a computer also do so?
That's not what Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook says:
https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2742701.1470151986!...
Thank you! Lots of resources to explore!
I don't buy your broad definitions and I believe you're being disingenuous.

Ideas, tolerance, and their cross-sections are not binary.
Or why play into the mindless paranoia?
I remember seeing those ads on the CTA.

And then promptly went back to either reading stuff in Instapaper, or listening to podcasts, or playing Pokémon Go if we were moving at a slow enough speed.
Why does Netflix have half a dozen different database/database-esque systems?

Snowflake, Hive, Cassandra, RDS, Druid, Presto

Is there a good reason for this that people without experience at FAANG orgs can't grasp? To the naive, it seems like mixing Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, and Oracle.

Also why is it on Medium under a Paywall, they are worth, quite literally, nearly $200 billion dollars =/
Yes, I did...
This deplatforming and this "cancel culture" is only a manifestation of what millenials heard for years: if you want change, vote with your wallet. Well, we now are able to. I'm not agreeing with everything, but boycott is the only power my generation have right now, and nobody can prevent this.

Twitter and the social network allowed people to have reach to explain why they're boycotting this or that, share their outrage, sometime about really dumb things, but still with their own reasons.
I really wish that firefox and ubuntu would hop on board with this. It seems like they both should be at the forefront of this, but for some reason it's still impossible to make a PWA show up in my app list on ubuntu without installing chrome.

Firefox on android does a great job of notifying and offering to install PWAs, but on desktop seems to pretend they don't exist. The bug report for adding any PWA support on desktop has been languishing for years. And as far as i can tell, the ubuntu software center team doesn't believe that PWAs exist at all.

it seems crazy to me that there's no functionality built into ubuntu that allows me to add youtube to the app list.
I don't this definition is accurate Often times the victim is not a celebrity. And it isn't a "boycott" a simple boycott would be fine. But what happens is people go after the victim's job. Trying to get them fired, kicked out of school, removed from the board, their talk canceled, etc.
Imagine having enough money that you don't need to work a single day in your life.

Now imagine all cool stories your friends told you about what they did during vacation, including the expensive ones. This is how your average day could look like. Even if the money couldn't bring better experience (which it definitely could), it could still bring you the good experience more often. Most of the interesting things you can imagine, you could simply do them one by one, without taking long breaks; experience in one year as much novelty as other people do during their lifetime.

Altering your life would actually be easier, because if you'd decide you want to spend the next few months e.g. meditating in Tibet, you would simply go. No concerns about travel costs, or the impact such break could take on your career. Wanna try something? Simply do it. Change your mind and wanna try something else? Do that, too. Repeat as many times as you want. If you have a goal that requires cooperation of other people (e.g. you'd like to design a computer game, but you don't have the skills to do it alone), just pay someone to play along. You want to learn something? Hire the best tutors. Etc.
I don't see why they need the same 5 or more senses we have.

Self-driving cars have rudimentary visual input, proximity sensors, location data, and other inputs.
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Seems like a reasonable default would ask for your second factor if you attempted to remove it or add another, as these are potentially account compromising events. And since these changes should very rarely happen, it's not exactly an onerous requirement for everyday users.
This is utterly disingenuous.

1. Cancelling targets anyone who fails to adequately toe the progressive party line. Sometimes those people are "powerful" relative to any individual mob constituent, but often they are not (for example, the hispanic worker at the California utility company who was fired for making the "ok" gesture without realizing that it offends progressives).

2. Cancelling isn't criticism, it's harassment, usually by doxxing or trying to get someone fired. Criticism is perfectly fine, cancelling goes beyond criticism.

3. Focusing solely on the power dynamics minimizes the moral issue, which is that slander, harassment, and bullying are abhorrent irrespective of power dynamics (although yes, being 'powerful' means you're better capable to weather the injustice).

4. Not only is cancellation wrong on an individual level, in aggregate it creates a climate of fear which affects everyone whose views are unapproved (although as the mob realizes its power, it increasingly goes after its own for astonishingly trivial offenses). For those lovers of "power dynamics", it should be noted that this climate of fear disproportionately affects the powerless (who could have predicted that an angry mob would be more invested in its own destructive catharsis than the people it purports to care about?).
Oh which? I haven't heard of others, MicroMDM is fairly common, even used by some smaller companies.

I'm always interested as it's my work so I'll probably give them a spin.
Disclaimer - the $70 and $60 price points refer to AAA games and game developers, not indy games, which often run closer to $20-$40.

So with that disclaimer, any time someone (like the author) says that games have never been cheaper at the $60 price point, I like to point out that the AAA game developers have never turned higher profits than they are right now. Activision Blizzard is reporting over 4 billion (yes, ‘B’ billion) dollars in profits.

> It's time

If this author really thinks that a price hike of the minimum game experience they’re selling is going to stop any of the predatory behaviors, they’re being incredibly naive. AAA game developers don’t just want your money, they want as much of your money that they can squeeze out of you.

Fifa - the only game confirmed at this new price point so far - is particularly bad about this, with individual players occasionally spending tens of thousands of dollars on this game.
True, yes. But this is for a financial services mobile app... one of the first concerns was the user experience. The org is well versed in the other back-end security and data issues that also have to be looked at.

But if you're Facebook, and you're pushing your SDK as a great solution and it's embedded in high profile apps and you are letting this happen a couple of times, I get to make fun of you. (a dollop of sarcasm, to be sure..)
There’s a Coronus Goblin there, posted Dec 18 2018.

Maybe the Corona virus did not start with bat soup in China after all :O
> Naive view of the world

The irony is blinding here. The kind of entitled opinion that can only be supported by strong ignorance and is only remedied by education. Every one of your arguments can be refuted in half a line just like in all of your other comments. And you'd reject every one of your arguments if they were used against you.

Are Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, etc. better off now than they were before being bombed to shit to "fix their dictator or terrorist problem"? Is Iran better off after making a deal with the US and sticking to it? Central America after all the "fight the communists" regime changes? When a country gets taken over by a leader undemocratically elected with a minority of votes should there be a military intervention to fix it? How about when you spy (with every advantage that entails, economic, political, or military) on every other country and citizen on the planet? When you blackmail entire countries to get your economic interests? When your citizens are illegally shot on the streets and abused by corporations but their voice means next to nothing?

In the meantime China has seen the biggest economic boom any developed country has ever managed to maintain ever so the US feels threatened and ups the "dictator-like" measures against the world.

There's a reason you use a throwaway account. Your opinions aren't controversial, they're embarrassingly immature, uneducated, ignorant of the realities of the world we live in and you don't want that to rub of on you actual account. I guess you're not at risk of being shot in the back by police (or ever reading a book instead of an Alex Jones podcast) so you are still free to maintain this happy view of your "we're definitely not acting like the dictator of the world" system.
>Certainly it's true PWAs are subject to the user's desires about browser data. I think that's a good thing for users.

i mostly agree, but the user experience isn't there yet. browsers make it easy to delete all data, but don't have any workflows that encourage deleting the data from only a single app. at this point, it seems less about empowering users to have control over their own data and more like browsers just don't care about PWA data.
I don't think it has anything to do with souls. Most "knowledge" deep learning systems have seems tacit to me: it would be practically impossible for people to write programs that articulate and incorporate that knowledge without machine learning (people tried, for decades), and it certainly isn't "derived from formal principles of reasoning" in anything but a tangential mathematical sense.

(I too have not read the whole article; I'm just replying to this comment.)
I meant that by the time you notice the led, if you do, the picture was already taken and probably sent over the wire.
Seeing that pic was eyeopening for me. I believe he had other ports taped over as well.

At the same time, he's going to be an exclusive target for myriad actors big and small, up to and including entire nations, so extra paranoia is probably warranted.
I would actually recommend learning accounting, not 'investing'. Why? Because accounting teaches you to understand how a company reports, which is frankly more important than any get rich quick investing book.

Accounting is incredibly dense, and you will come to appreciate the many ways in which companies can report the same information. You'll also understand what the terms you see thrown around mean, and you'll also see why financial math is not software math.
All I'm saying is that I have literally worked with systems that have drawn power over differential pairs and it's fucked with our power measurements. So don't rule it out.
this is a pretty simple way to absolve people of responsibility. Just because an institution has compartmentalized tasks, so that every single individual team appears to do nothing wrong, doesn't mean this actually absolves individuals, because following that logic obviously nobody would ever be responsible for anything.

It's like Kierkegaard's example of the mob who collectively intimidates but every member argues they have contributed virtually nothing, and so any sort of responsibility is simply dissolved.

Anyone who is responsible needs to be aware of the holistic system that they're part of and that they are enabling rather than just their own little world. That's no excuse.
Surprised Apple didn't announce it's selling a $500 camera cover for your MacBook.
Depends on the laptop hardware in question, just as it does on which smartphone you’re using, as your link indicates.

If your laptop (or iPad, in the case of the latest gen) is an Apple T2 equipped device, this is somewhat relevant (“somewhat” as it’s not directly related to my original reply)

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/...
> Never use a custom domain name - these require some of your personal information when being registered. Even with whois privacy protection, certain law enforcement can demand for these credentials.

Not just law enforcement, shady companies like FB all try to get their greasy hands on that info. Panopticon is one closed circle.
> There was a wine derived thing that used to work on Win64 to run win16 apps

Does that mean winevdm doesn't work anymore?

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
I see your point, and I'm not particularly defending neural networks, but IMO, nothing prevents a network to generate a kernel able to detect 'fuzzy edges' and to refine it to an edge after some convolutions. So, if the input images are always consistent between them and with the input images for inference, I think the problem may be diminished (?), even if, as you say, we introduce some misclassification error. Obviously, to have the guarantee that all the input images are generated in the same way is a very strong condition difficult to achieve.
Hi all, I thought I'd share this guide that I wrote after coming across some weird applications of array functions in my workplace. Hopefully you like it, and I'm interested in feedback :)
There were some rumours floating around for about that long of them potentially shutting down. The rumors didn't mention the acquisition part, but they turned out to be accurate about an impending shutdown. It was also clear from the last 6+ months that the platform was stagnant.
I clicked to see which one this one, and it wasn't even one of my two guesses:

Southern Vermont College: https://newsletter.tpw.com/t/d-689D3D2456F21DFF2540EF23F30FE...

Marlboro College: https://vermontbiz.com/news/2020/april/21/530-acre-marlboro-...

It's a small state, and is losing a lot of colleges. If you are in the market for a Vermont college campus and have been waiting on the sidelines, right now it's certainly a buyer's market!
I don't personally mind people putting in a fancy ui, put whatever ui you want on it.

Just also give me keybindings and let me hide whatever ui you make.
The US has approx 9x overall GDP as India, despite approx .25 the population, for 36x the spending power on a dollar basis. On a PPP basis per capita, its still 9x. In the very long run I'd certainly not bet against that GDP difference getting down to near 4x, but thats certainly multiple lifetimes away in terms of Social Networks
Works just fine for windows and mac. I know of that shit storm when they neutered the linux app.

I think you're referring to this fiasco? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856209
The argument here is more like: people can’t fly by flapping their arms, therefore human flight is impossible.
The UI pattern of a button with a crossed-out camera/mic always makes me think twice: is it a status indication that my camera is off, or is the button's action to turn off my camera (meaning my camera is on)?

I cover my camera to avoid that 5s mental dance at the start of every meeting.
I have managed to extract the files from icloud but found that they are encrypted SQLite files. How do you access unencrypted whatsapp files?
They started supporting other file systems again though.
But we're already killing them in vast quantities using chemical biocides. Micro Laser Drones (tm) are only killing pests that are already doomed. They just don't seep into the water table or cause cancer.
They're both cropped out of a full screen grab.
Pieter I simply cant keep up with our startups ;-)
What do you have cooking under those sleeves these days?!
Nomadic societies, shifting borders, partially shared residence. There are other possible explanations.
I'd like to see market size considered here too.

Games cost a fixed amount to develop regardless of how many copies you sell. How many copies did developers sell 20 years ago compared to today? If you sell 2X the copies, the game can cost half as much and yet the profit would stay roughly the same.
Conversation ends with disrespect.

It's kind of self-sabotage in the end, ruining potential for good arguments to flourish.
I curse the ribbon. I still haven't found all of the 2003 features.
I cover my camera (not MacBook, but I did when I had one). Partially because of what you read about hacks.

BUT, the main reason I cover my camera is as a stop gap to user error. I have started chats with people (co-workers, etc) where I accidentally enabled the camera. Wasn't entirely "presentable" either, wearing just an undershirt or haven't shaved for several days, etc. Luckily all they saw was a black square. Will never NOT cover my cameras when not in use because of these experiences.
Having been wrangling this over the years, I've come to conclude that these abstractions create more problems than it benefits society.

I think these very abstractions are the cause of class inequalities, and by extension, racial and gender inequalities as well. Many identity issues come from that specialization. We've defined worth to society to how economically productive someone is. There are many things that society as a whole and individuals can benefit from, but society don't value them economically to pay for them. People involved in that (such as artists and musicians) are constantly struggling with the tension of authentic expression as an artist and creating something popular so they can make a living wage.

I won't even go into how these abstractions are a detriment to mental and emotional health, let alone, someone's spiritual life.

I am not advocating for things to go back "to the way they used to be".

Rather, I think there is a way to move forward. I think it will involve decentralizing our food system using resilient, and regenerative practices at the household and neighborhood scale. People will have to become more involved with growing their food, and that is generally a good thing. We have collected a number of design patterns that can yield nutrient-dense foods without as much labor, and reducing transport costs to ... going to your backyard (or going down the street).

Our society is already moving towards more remote work (for some segment of our populous at least), and that will drive a trend towards the hyperlocal. The big missing piece is the decentralized food system.