skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as we're playing this game then Winnie the Pooh loves genocide against Muslims, thus so must you.
Having the esc key on my 2019 model is good. But I hate how the touch bar offers zero tactile feedback, and reacts to even the slightest brush from the edge of a finger.

I've deleted all buttons except volume control and mute on mine, and I still end up inadvertently hitting mute sometimes when typing numbers and symbols.
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>Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that, "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."'

Is it paradoxical? There's "no paradox of peace", the idea that "In order to maintain a peaceful society, the society must be violent against the non-peaceful"
>The existence of this thread, with no mention of the Touch Bar yet, but we're seeing keen enthusiasm over shortcuts with as much as 3 keyboard keys involved, demonstrates exactly how useless the gimmick of the Touch Bar is.

For the vast majority of users, the shortcuts we all know and love might as well not exist.

>About 90 per cent of computer users don't use CTRL-F to search for a word - as they don't know such a keyboard shortcut exists, a Google survey found. The results stunned Google's Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness, Dan Russell.

"I think we just all assume that we all know it, but no one actually does."

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/only-one-in-10-know-what-c...

This specific audience is exactly the wrong group to ask about the utility of the touch bar, since we are in the tiny minority who find traditional function keys to be useful.
I think it's important to clear up why Google left China. Google was complying with Chinese rules. They left China because of a state-sponsored attack on Google[1]. Trying to play the high road with CCP, while leaving this out, is whitewashing American tech history in the state.

Given that the Chinese state elected to hack an American firm that was operating in it's borders, you could make any sort of excuse to prevent Chinese firms from owning American infrastructure for any sort of national security reasons. TikTok doesn't have to break any rules. If I see my roommate get mauled by a tiger, that doesn't mean I have to sit around and wait to get mauled before I take an action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#2010%E2%80%932016...
Adding humanizing details to news articles produces mixed results
Yup. Gathering the data is a large part of the value he provides. I wrote an article about how to implement this, and data gathering tasks are crucial: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/security/breached-...

He touches on the non technical difficulties as well with his comment: "We invite parties to form their own views on the legality of the data." So the fact he's gathered it all lets HIBP be an service that other companies can use without worrying about the thorny legal question.

But there's also his reputation as a steward of the system, which is valuable beyond the data itself.

Anyway, while he didn't actually open source anything yet, I'm glad he's committing to it, as hopefully that will allow this internet resource to continue.
Git Branch –Delete Master
Eh, having used both Tcl and Lua, I definitely think Lua is the better of the two when it comes to a scripting engine for games.

And I think Lua is more elegant than TCL overall. TCL's stringiness really gets clumsy in certain types of programs, and it's a much larger target than Lua overall.

Not to say that TCL is bad, but I'm glad that dict-based languages prevailed over TCL's string-based-ness
> so it's not like people would just die without it

People will go without medicine.
Ideas such as tolerance, non violence etc cannot be unconditional. Reciprocity is the key.
Add auth support to a Next.js app with a custom back end
> In just about every other graphical file explorer I've ever used, including the DOS ones, Enter opens the selected item. In the Mac Finder, it's Command-O. Yes, I get the fact that it's mnemonic with the others in that list, but it's completely contrary to the customary and rapidly learned behaviour of navigating using the arrow keys and Enter ---which is located very close to the arrow keys, and requires only one hand to operate easily.

Aside from the fact that other users exposed the CMD+arrow shortcuts, Finder's shortcuts are also consistent with the rest of macOS, where "enter" typically renames the selection (try it with a folder in Notes, for example).
Derek Sivers: The Meaning of Life
Rectangle is another like Spectacle but adds window snapping.
The fruit was rotten under Kruschev too, the difference between him and Brezhnwv is that his administration picked a lot of low-hanging fruit that the public approved of (Apartments, and a relaxation of absolutely insane Stalinist repression.)

The economy didn't work well under either of them, but Kruschev is credited for leaving things much better than he found them.
This is old style propaganda: clean

The alternative network, what we have, is dirty, soiled, unhealthy, blemished - because of Chinese influence. By removing China from the connection, the network is cleansed.

It's transparently racist. It is not necessary to use words like this if you have a persuasive argument based upon facts. This is an appeal to ignorance and fear of things that are filthy.
Externally, as you know, Google‘a reputation hasn’t been great when it comes to maintaining their services.

What should have happened is to turn Classic Sites (and new Sites) itself into Squarespace competitor.

I just see this as a massive failure of vision and execution.

Why didn’t they improve classic sites and added yet another product called Sites? May be I am seeing some internal politics surface as fragmentation of product line.
I've been using Mac for a couple of years, before that Windows and Linux and have to say that the bottom task bar (as in Windows 95 and Gnome 2) is easily the best window management paradigm I've used. The best implementation is Gnome 2 / MATE because you can switch windows with the mouse wheel when the cursor is on the task bar.

Switching between tabs in a web browser is a very similar UX problem - and browsers got it right. Imagine that you would have to switch tabs in your browser using like you switch between windows in Mac OS. It sounds horrible. And the W95 style task bar is even better than browser tab bar because it's at the bottom of the screen so you don't have to position the cursor vertically.
I agree. Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn etc should not be controlled by the US in the EU.
it’s silly to assume that you are so sure of what you believe that you can call something that doesn’t align with your beliefs to be “misinformation” or an attempt to “undermine election results” when things are not black and white, both sides of a polarizing topic have truth to them, that’s why it’s always those topics that get this type of treatment, nobody is going around saying the sky is purple or the sun is a cube
I had the exact same problem you are describing. Unfortunately, I never found a good answer on "how to do it right".

In the end, third party apps mostly fixed the problem for me.
Hyperswitch (https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch) for switching between windows instead of apps and
uBar (https://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar) for minimizing and maximizing apps by clicking their icon in the task bar.

I hope this helps.
As the product lead on the team, it likely is their decision (not to say that excuses rudeness though)
Although the focus of the discussion seems about TikTok, what really should get more attentions WeChat and Tencent - this is basically the only way one can communicate in modern fashion with people in China.
I have worked in blockchain / cryptocurrency for years. Remember team - it's a "utility token", not a "security"! Words matter!
My understanding is almost all countries have laws that apply to their citizens abroad. If you don't like it, you're welcome to renounce your American citizenship (at a price)
My question remains: what, exactly, are the demonstrable harms that come to users as a result of the tracking needed for ad targeting, and how do these harms (if they exist at all) justify our current privacy moral panic and overregulation response?
> green supposedly reduces pain

There's a Jasper Fforde book[1] which treats green like an opiod (of course, the book is about a dalton style genetic dystopia - colour vision instead of race, but one with Ford in a Mao style "great leap forward").

The whole book treats colour as a powerful thing to manipulate bodies and minds.

[1] 125-66-53 in - http://www.jasperfforde.com/grey/chroma.html
in a first past the post election system it isn't sure that someone who wins 51% of the vote would win in a civil war, as other factors than sheer numbers apply there.
Any chance of supporting arbitrary static sites behind a login screen? You can almost do it with a Google cloud storage bucket but you have to put it behind a load balancer for https and the IAP login gate is not supported for bucket backends making it unsuitable for intranet sites.
Reminds me of Peter Thiel's observation that monopolies lie.[1] Also, IANAL but I can't imagine a memo/training that says not to use certain words because of "regulatory issues" is not itself evidence that Google knows of its own monopolistic status.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-...
I see this going the other way. All the keys will become a large touch/display area eventually. It wont me much worse since eventually we'll have dynamically morphing surfaces so the keys raise/depress and have tactile movements/vibrations/sounds. If history and trends have shown anything the future is more gimmicky not less, and useful bits come out of it from time to time. We'll be the generation to say "In my day keys were physically separate labelled and actually moved--crumbs getting inside were a real problem."
I think it's about intensity. It's well known that powerful light in the morning from the sun is good for you. But it needs to be above a certain intensity.
That is how the propaganda goes. But in modern C++ style, memory errors just don't have many opportunities to happen. I.e., with the more powerful libraries C++14 and up enables, there is little temptation to drop to a risky level. And, anywhere you choose to, you can give it your full attention.

So, overwhelmingly the bugs you do get are specification bugs: the code does what was asked, but the ask was wrong. The only way to avoid those is to pay attention. Anything that steals attention generates them, in C++ as in Rust.

Old, pre-C++11 codebases (and codebases still written that way, or in C-with-classes style) suffer more. Mozilla and Google have a lot of old code.
Yes! It's not the first time I posted a rant on the net and found myself guilty of the sin the very next day. This time, a web app of mine has big tables full of dates, and I didn't quickly figure out a way to show the full date without too much clutter. So, I used "dd.mm" and postponed a finer design till next year. Guess what, this UI element hasn't changed in the next three years and today I finally stumbled on a bunch of records which really can't be deduced from context.
I'm not in agreement or disagreement but I'm genuinely curious how you can embrace globalism without damaging your economy? I have found myself leaning more towards neo-liberalism in some aspects but I don't know how this piece fits in.
It is sometimes punishable by federal law https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-federal-law-draws-a-...
Well, if there was truly a quid-pro-quo, then the United Kingdom should pay China reparations for its atrocious actions during the opium wars, similar to what Germany had to do to survivors of the holocaust.

If there were truly a quid-pro-quo, the West would be clamoring for statehood for Puerto Rico like they do for Taiwan.

If there were truly a quid-pro-quo, calls for the 'entire western world' to band against China would make as much sense as calls for 'the entire western world' to band against the United States, who did quite a bit to rig the global economy in its favor after WW2 and Bretton-Woods.

If China treated the Western world the way the Western world treated China, there would be hell to pay. And yet people like you just can't stand that they would act in their own self interest, and become a superpower without asking the permission of the West.

Countries will take whatever advantages are available to them to develop and benefit their people. China never tried to hide what they were doing. All of the world's economists were aware of their economic protectionist policies for the past 50 or so years. Let's call a spade a spade. This 'outrage' about China's policies in the year 2020 is nothing more than a frustration with the West's ruling classes for failing to respond to China's rise at all in the last 50 years. And there is clearly a sense of entitlement as well, as though those of use living in the West deserve to live in the hegemonic country despite not working as hard or valuing progress as much as those in other societies.

The Western world never cared about Chinese people or what was happening in China until it started to threaten their own global dominance. Now all of a sudden you have elite clamoring for civil rights and justice in China, while those same elites profited for decades off of cheap Chinese labor after the Great Leap Forward and Tiananmen Square.

Sure, you should advocate for your country to change its policies if its getting a bad deal from China. But turning this all into a "West v. China" thing is how we got here in the first place.
The Chinese government only listen some of the time.
Lightweight ad-blocking with dnsmasq and Raspberry Pi
Some perspective from the other side.

We've found intercom to be a massive improvement in our user conversations, up from when we have a live chat button as well as when we had a direct WhatsApp/chat functionality through a page.

I'm with everyone here in how annoying chat plugins are, in fact I was so against it that I fought tooth and nail to keep it out of our product. I eventually decided i should back it up with data and decided to give it a shot.

Speaking to the users, they love it. We're short circuiting a lot of conversations about usability and "how do I do this" little things that wouldnt have even reached us otherwise.

I rub with all of this is that I think we operate in a different user space than most of the commenters here (but I may be wrong). I say this because I still have chat popups, and it actively turns me off using a product and makes the decision for me in whether I buy something (to a no).

The difference might be that our users skew older - 40s to 50s and up, and are from a very old industry with little tech penetration. Email is still the preferred mode of communication, And they don't escalate anything except complete system failures. Intercom has somehow jumped that gap and makes them talk to us more. I'm as surprised as anyone.
I use Ctrl+Space, C instead of Alt+F4 because, while it is one key more, it flows much better and doesn't cause me RSI.
The cost/benefit formula you're proposing works out most in SSTO's favor if you literally have just one one launch vehicle, but you're using it constantly. If you're allowed to have more than one launch vehicle, though, and can interleave their usage, then that gives you a lot more options for how to maintain throughput while controlling costs. Oftentimes the optimal solution to a multivariate problem ends up looking decidedly sub-optimal when you focus on just one variable at a time.

Also, YAGNI. Right now, it's not certain that we will ever see a time when trips to space are as commonplace as commercial flights. It's far enough off that, even if we take for the sake of argument that it does eventually happen, there's no particular reason to believe that the vehicles we use to do it will be chemical rockets.
I feel like in this case, regulators should be able to re-substitute any of the "good" terms, with the "bad" terms when citing email evidence, since clearly, Google has now shown that phrases like "valuable to users" are synonyms in their parlance for "network effects".
Learn Blockchain by creating one, Part 2
"C:\ doesn't have an etc folder"

~Most people.

The problem here isn't any one person circumventing the 'censorship', it's influencing mass movements to prevent mass data-grabbing. If every tech-savvy Linux user uses TikTok, it's probably not that big of a deal as it's less than one percent of the population (and arguably the group most well-equipped to deal with the potential spying).
yes, that's a great summary of where I've got to with this :)
You can even embed and run javascript from within an svg, http://nowhere.superkuh.com/js.svg
You might expect two alphas to make 8Be and then another alpha to make 12C, but 8Be is unstable on a very short timescale 10^-16 seconds.

Amazingly, 12C has a resonance called the Hoyle State that allows a triple alpha to 12C process. The Hoyle State is basically the only quantitative PREdiction of the anthropic principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-12
Legal Silences
I agree with you to a degree, but would argue there has always been a distinction about what is allowable as civil speech in the workplace, e.g if I cuss out a co-employee I would expect to be fired, even though I was just freely expressing myself. What I find disturbing is the firing of individuals for what they say outside of the workplace e.g on social media, and then due to internet outcry the person is fired. This is far too close to your workplace being able to decide what you are allowed to think, for me to be comfortable with, and it is becoming a norm.
I'm now imagining Sundar walking around the Google offices with the buzzer from the Taboo game.
I don’t think it’s rude to tell people facts, this person is leading this effort.
Twitter blocks all bitchute links
Agree. Dashes alone are worth the price of a MacBook Pro: <minus> for a hyphen, <option-minus> for an en-dash, <shift-option-minus> for an em-dash. Trivial to remember.

Just as good is the way Apple handles diacritics. You type a prefix keystroke for the diacritic, then follow it with the letter that's being modified: ö is <option-u, o>, ï is <option-u, i>, è is <option-grave, e>.

Most of the prefixes have easy-to-remember mnemonics: umlaut is <option-u>, grave is <option-grave>, tilde is <option-n> (for eñe, I suppose), but even hunting down these prefixes is fairly discoverable. After typing the prefix, a placeholder character is displayed in the text box showing the mark you've just entered, something like: ̲̈.

Then:

- <escape> or moving the cursor with an arrow key enters the diacritic as standalone character (e.g. ¨ is <option-u, escape>).

- <backspace> deletes the diacritic.

- A character that takes the diacritic enters the modified character.

- A character that does not usually take the diacritic enters the diacritic and the unmodified character (e.g. <option-n, 5> yields ˜5).
I did not realize that free trade is such a failed system, that it completely breaks down when not enforced by gunboat diplomacy.

All this time, I was taught that it is a positive-sum, virtuous system that improves everything it touches - and that military interventions that enforced it were purely altruistic humanitarian acts, that were done for the targeted countries' own good.

Which is it? Is it a fragile house of cards that we have spread in self-serving ways? Or is it actually a robust positive-sum ideal that we should aspire to? (And therefore, we should ignore defectors, as they only hurt themselves.)
The Space Shuttle was considered a reasonably conservative design using a lot of existing technology. Despite this, it had cost overruns north of a billion dollars, and it was late by several years. Chrysler's more unconventional layout would've probably cost even more, and been delayed even longer.

This counterfactual is directly related to the mindset that led to the “conservative” option going upside down value-wise. Instead of viewing the difficulties as being opportunity, the nation chose to play it safe. It lost the attitude towards doing things “. . . not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. . .”

https://spacecenter.org/exhibits-and-experiences/starship-ga...
I would say the real and more fundamental problem is the anti-competitive behavior. This is what makes their corporate censorship as powerful as it is.
>European council with an average age of 70ish not understanding what all the fuss is about.

I was curious about this and went to look:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/european-council/

I would say there's a very wide range of ages and experience there, but practically nobody is even 70 years old.

However it is true that the EU as a whole doesn't really care that much about an overall digital strategy and would probably leave that up to each individual country - how they would react if e.g. Italy started aggressively protecting its home grown tech I'm not sure.
Even easier is just to double click the header bar. Will maximize the same way as option+click the green dot.
Trump's administration has been pretty powerless to affect any meaningful change, and faces plenty of very vocal opposition on all fronts (public, legislative, courts, ...).
There's a theory that one cause of myopia is lack of high intensity light due to indoor living:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29371008/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
> The ccp were correct on all points and the last decades proved it. .. The arab spring. Many elections worldwide, notably the 2016 US presidential. Prism. Flat earthers.

In the short term this might be true. But any view that holds non-democratic authoritarianism up as a superior long-term approach has to grapple with the fact that open societies have systematically outperformed authoritarian ones over the past century. This is in the face of world war, revolutions, and developments in communications technology that destabilized entire political movements.

Protests and electoral chaos are bad things, and new communications technologies can make them more destabilizing. But the ability to peacefully avoid something like 25 years of Maoism is worth an immeasurable amount of short-term chaos. We should be a little bit careful before we copy the Chinese approach.
Housing market correction? Nah, that's never going to happen
The reason people are being killed is supremely relevant in such a discussion.
A Garden Without Walls – SMS on XMPP (Jabber)
"XMPP is the open standard for messaging and presence." (https://xmpp.org). It is also known as Jabber.

While some companies (Google, Facebook) have (ab)used this free standard to make their own Walled Gardens, there is another group that is using it to move technology forward: JMP (https://jmp.chat)

JMP allows you to get a real phone number and use it for texting, calling, group texts, picture messages, and yes - it can even receive messages from short codes. You can use it with any XMPP-capable client on any device with an internet connection. You can also use it with a SIP client to make and receive VoIP calls.

Unlike Google Voice, JMP does not mine or sell your data. Also, you can use/buy JMP's service completely anonymously.
> On Using Twitter

> (medium.com)

oh the irony
TikTok app called 'fundamentally parasitic' spyware by Reddit CEO