skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political activism by tech companies that can roll out changes within <1 release cycle is going to be such a major force to be reckoned with in the upcoming years/decade, solidifying passionate users in their base and allowing them to increase their clout. It's really quite impressive to watch. Slightly tangential, but look at how Apple was able to just quickly flip around and be "the privacy megacorp" after just a few combative swipes with Google/Facebook on the issue. Seems like a trend to watch.
> If you've a following on instagram and you decide to leave for whatever reason, you can't take your followers with you. Maybe some will jump over if you link them to other platforms

You should diversify your social media presence then and let your followers know "look if I am not here one day this is my website or you can find me here".

> If you've an iOS app and you've run afoul of the app store, you can't take those iOS users with you without asking them to switch to another platform or asking them to use a web app instead (both of which are forbidden, I think)

This is probably the only valid scenario presented due to there being only two players realistically in the mobile phone space.

> If you're on gmail and your account gets suspended, you can't set up a magical redirect that sends all your mail to another address. Can you even use Google Takeout?

This actually happened to a friend of mine (he got locked out of his account). He ended up learning from the experience and owns his own domain and uses one of the other email providers.

The government might fix these issues in another 10 years ... maybe? You are actually validating my point about people being ignorant of the risks of using services that can suspend you account for any reason at any time. Don't use them, or if you must then mitigate any potential fallout from losing access to that service.

People that have been being censored by large tech companies have already started doing this.

> In too many cases, the switching costs are so high as to be destructive. Yes you can technically switch but the
price is dire. That doesn't count in my book.

As we are arbitrarily deciding what counts, I don't think the social media accounts or the gmail issue is a big deal.

They are easily mitigated against as long as you aren't ignorant. Being a smart consumer, smart user will protect you much better than anything else. Which proves my point.
Taring everything with the same brush. There was a time, not so long ago, when it was impossible to install Windows over the Internet because so many other machines were compromised and your machine would, with certainty, also end up compromised before it had gotten as far as applying the latest service pack. Then we got automatic updates, and we all breathed a sigh of relief because things got better. We had empirical evidence that other people do not keep their systems secure. And now apparently all automatic updates are bad, because people think I should trust them to be competent and proactive, when I know for a fact that other people are not competent and proactive. Or because people think it is the vendors problem, yet don't want vendors to push the necessary fixes.

Yes, some vendors suck. But the solution isn't to demand they stop making fixes. And the solution isn't to demand they stop pushing fixes, since we know in most cases the fixes won't be voluntarily applied until it's too late. I say it is a requirement for a competent vendor to push the best version of their software. The problem I see is a disagreement between consumers and vendors on what that best version should be. And not all vendors are like that.
Is there a Stripe Atlas equivalent service for Canada?
> so you are claiming majority of the rioting is by alt right and law enforcement?

Am I? I don't see the word “majority” or any synonym used in my description.

The point of provocateurs isn't normally to numerically dominate.
I haven't used it personally, but https://sneek.io/ will do ad-hoc video chat. Those that aren't "live" on the call are still up on the wall of faces, with a screen capture from their webcam every few minutes.

Avoids the waste of unused video over the network, but still gives a sense of your teammates being live people going about their day.
>there are now way too many candidates to get follow-up observations on all of them. So now exoplanets are "validated" by calculating the probability of a false positive

I don't math good, but this sounds like a "dial that goes to 11".

If you have a model to identify false positives, why not incorporate it into the original model to eliminate those positives? Or, if you really need observations, how can tweaking the model eliminate that?
Since it was not previously mentioned, Sarah Novotny (while at Google) was on the original bootstrap committee that organized the Kubernetes ecosystem. This is by no means "Microsoft attacking Linux" or promoting GitHub; this is a personal critique from someone that has helped to create a more approachable, better organized, large scale project for the Linux Foundation already.
> What is consistent

What is consistent would be your experience if you choose to only use the Apple App store. That experience would remain consistent.

> No thank you.

Then don't use those app stores?

If the conversation is about your rights, as an Apple user, then other people doing what they want with their own phones does not matter.

Someone can, right now, remove their app from the Apple app store, and nobody would claim that if they did they, then they are infringing on your rights as a user. So I am not sure why you would bring that up.

Nobody would claim that you are forced to do anything, if an app just removed themselves completely from an app store, so that is not relevant.
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt -

Fantastic walk through his six factor model of human morality. It's as revolutionary to me as learning about the five factor model (& HEXACO) of human personality.
So if someone uploads a 2 hour version of a rickroll and tags it with the name of the latest blockbuster movie and then takes it offline, there is now going to be a permanent record that at some time there was a copy of this movie uploaded? When in fact that never happened?

How is this in any way better, or even something beneficial?
I'm curious, can anyone shed light on the particular significance of this problem?

I know that many mathematical problems are more about "charting the terrain" and don't have a particular use until long after they're discovered. But this one seems especially arbitrary; almost like a brain-teaser. And given the funding involved, I have to wonder if there's some usecase that's already known- even if that usecase is just for other high-level math.

Edit: I found this https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2694/what-is-the-im...

Sounds like it has something to do with the predictability of primes, which has obvious importance
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
Two days after they filed the lawsuit

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/tiktok-sues-the-u-s-govern...
I am actually not sure, but they do it somehow.
So all in and assuming the company gets charged the Silicon Valley Bank monthly account fee, the annual cost of existing is $1,100. Which honestly doesn't seem that substantial to me (someone who's never founded a startup).
Their patent application implies that it is optimized for cruising at 50,000 feet.

[1]https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/3b/f3/9a/928c862...
> "PS: Many people ask, so I’ll just note here: no, I haven’t made this system available for others to use. It’s still an early research environment, and Premature scaling can stunt system iteration."

Damn, looks like an interesting way to browse knowledge... I want it!
> No. Racism is bad but not all police are racist (I would guess most aren't) and the violence is not for political purposes.

The police are reacting to a direct political criticism of their legitimacy by hurting, disabling, nearly killing protesters indiscriminately. Of course it's political. They're fighting for their own budgets that are at risk via the political process.

We could discuss of all the fun ways that the police are racist (it is primarily, but not solely, systemic), but I don't think it was really a point of contention.

> Disagree. They're burning down businesses, attacking people, threatening them and intimidating them.

This doesn't contradict anything I said.

> You can be in pain without attacking others. Once you attack others you're not communicating pain, you're attacking people, and you can expect to receive it in kind when the people you intimidate and threaten communicate their own pain.

I hope you never experience the pain and frustration they did, because that is exactly how this kind of systemic abuse is expressed. I highly doubt you've have to see your friends beaten, arrested, killed, mistreated, talked down to constantly, and then watch executions by cops of people like yourself over and over and over again without anyone caring to do anything about it.

This is essentially a form of tone policing long after the damage and horrors have already happened.

> >The organized protesters are making such demands. They're being met with extreme police violence and aggression.

> yawn

I have to wonder what you find boring about extreme police violence and collective punishment happening right in front of you.

> >Please actually attend a protest to see how the power dynamics work.

> I have been to protests

George Floyd protests where the police form a line to block you, then start moving on you?

> but violent riots are not protests, and rewarding violent rioters and defending them is its own power dynamic.

You haven't been to them, so please stop trying to explain the power dynamic to someone who has.

> The power dynamic right now is heavily on the side of violent rioters and people pushing political violence, and it will lead to even more tragedy.

It absolutely is not. Protesters will be beaten, gassed, maimed, and arrested. Cops will get off scot-free regardless of the extreme violences they commit indiscriminately against protesters.

I'll give you an example: I watched a woman get shot with a grenade in her chest. It stopped her heart. She was rushed to the hospital by medics and that's the only reason she lived. Her crime? Standing in the middle of the street yelling protest slogans 20-30 feet away from the cops.

Tell me, what was the power dynamic there? What consequences will any officers face for nearly murdering that woman?
> At the same time, there's something really telling that after all of the years of the advertising industry talking about how users actually want to be tracked and targeted, they are nonetheless terrified of something as simple as a prominent opt-out button.

I actually gave it a chance. The problem was during that time the ads (from Google) were more irrelevant.

Back in the old days you could often see how ads were relevant to the topic of the web site you were visiting or the topic you searched for even if they weren't always relevant to me (e.g. selling expensive software while I was a broke student, living outside the US).

The next years - sometimes after the Double Click acquisition it seems - I started seeing almost only irrelevant ads everywhere.

I don't have anything against companies making money - in fact I liked it when Google were earning good money before Double Click. But when they add invasive tracking and the quality goes way down at the same time something has gone wrong.
Better to underpromise, and overdeliver, than vice versa.
https://archive.is/Wwicp
That's not correct. To quote Apple:

> New in macOS 11 on Apple silicon Mac computers, and starting in the next macOS Big Sur 11 beta, the operating system will enforce that any executable must be signed with a valid signature before it’s allowed to run. There isn’t a specific identity requirement for this signature: a simple ad-hoc signature issued locally is sufficient, which includes signatures which are now generated automatically by the linker.

An "ad-hoc signature" is Apple jargon for a code signature without a certificate (so really just a set of hashes, no actual public-key signature); I called it self-signed since it's a more familiar term. By "there isn't a specific identity requirement" they mean it's not required to be Apple-signed.

Of course, macOS on Apple silicon will still require an Apple signature by default like it does on Intel, but you'll be able to disable that like you can on Intel.
>Especially getting 20+ mpg for 4500 miles, while flying at 450mph

That's not what they're claiming though. They're claiming that:

1. 20+ mpg

2. maximum speed of 450 mph

3. range of 4500 miles

are possible individually, not that 1+2+3 are possible all at the same time.
The social values promoted in this video are appalling. I'd like to see viewer's age demographics but I'm afraid I already know the answer.

(Also anticipating downvotes. Hopefully the set of those interested in this article can withhold downvoting-for-disagreement.)
How to Be Stylish and Standout
Ask HN: What PII is Scribd likely to get after Slideshare acquisition?
I just received an email from Slideshare that Scriptd will start operating September 24, and after that their Privacy Policy [0] and ToS [1] will apply.

Opting out means you have to close your account before that date. I will probably do that as the Scribd policy does not sit well with me (but I am no lawyer so what do I know).

Does anyone know what information they're likely to receive? Would it be full LinkedIn profile data, since they might have merged profiles for their services?

[0] https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210129366-Privacy-Policy

[1] https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210129326-General-Terms-of-Use
Greedo, Drakeo and Shoreline Mafia are probably the most exciting West Coast hip hop artists at the moment.
Hi! I was in Blacker, too (same year as Andy). I matriculated wanting to do astro and stuck with it, but there were enough excited CS majors around (of which Andy, of course, was one) that I ended up taking a number of CS classes for fun before graduating.

And thank goodness I did! I eventually left astro for industry and that experience (both the formal classes and just being around a bunch of CS people a lot) helped with that transition tremendously.
Australia had a good amount of its citizens killed in the Bali bombings.
Can I make a TODO link to a piece of code and have VSCode email it to me periodically? When viewing a particular function, can I have a link to the actual email discussing this feature in a comment, and have VSCode open up the relevant email?
HTML in email is awful but sadly in most place it has won. In Apple Mail you can't attach pictures to plain text email w/o them being converted to HTML again. Gmail behaves completely different. And on Android you can't really deal with fixed lines of plain text emails.

But what is even worse is, that most clients create extreme awful HTML, Outlook comes to mind. In a few version they put in the font-family "sans-serif" instead of sans-serif. Which meant the fall back would fail.
It’s funny you mention Microsoft, because I have a windows machine to play games on. It regularly updates itself and re-enables telemetry I had disabled, shows spammy news in the start menu and ads for Microsoft products in my toolbar, and reinstalls skype every time I try to get rid of it.
This reminds me of a sysadmin in one of my previous company tried to edit a Solaris config file in Word. He told me he couldn’t make it to work after he ftp it to the server. I looked at file and saw those CR characters and found out he used Word to edit it.
People actually put a mini-ITX in a micro-ATX case?!?!?! faints
This is also how I think of it. Billions of years go by where you don’t exist, then you do, for a tiny slice of time, maybe 90 years, then more billions of years when you don’t exist.
I’m not sure those mpg numbers are correct: the more fuel efficient Piaggio EVO update, with winglets etc, in the extended range version can hold about 450 gallons of Jet A and has a 1770nm range, so even with plenty of reserves that doesn’t get it anywhere above half of 15mpg (from what I can find IFR reserve comes out to 75 gallons, thus 4.72mpg nautical or 5.4 statute).

Which is why the jump in efficiency would be so extraordinary.
Understand that the ad industry isn't a monolith. The advertisers shoveling shit ads onto local news websites aren't making some grand bargain for short term revenue at the expense of long term consequences (blocking, etc.). Those advertisers simply wouldn't exist otherwise. They're filling a small niche while they can. The fact that their behavior might cause the whole industry problems over the long term does not matter to them.

Google, FB, et al would love it if these shitware ads disappeared because fewer people would feel the need to block ads. But there's really nothing they can do about it without being shouted down (or worse) as being anticompetitive, regardless of whether that's true or not in this case (and there probably is some truth to it).
> I'm building a desktop app, and the process to even get a certificate is absurd...

When switching providers, I don't suppose you tried K Software? Mitchell Vincent has fantastic personal customer service. Been a while since I last used his services, but he's always been patient & helpful when I ran into issues getting verified:

https://www.ksoftware.net/code-signing-certificates/

That said, I've noticed a lot of big companies in the music industry stopped signing their software altogether and distribute it unsigned now. Doesn't seem to have hurt their sales - or maybe even improved it, there's less lag on Windows launching an unsigned app.
It's not my field so I don't completely understand it, but I think it helps to have one method to propose candidates, and an independent technique to validate candidates. (Though I would welcome correction from someone who works on exoplanets.)
I used neither. Not sure about the lock in, but the Stripe cloud credits seem very generous.

Isn't business office required in the UK? Also mail forwarding if one is outside of the UK. It is still way lower than anything I researched, but all these service costs keep adding up and I can't help wondering about some real nasty landmines further down the road. Like what happens when something goes wrong? Getting caught up in some legal matter in a foreign country I have no presence in nor any knowledge how their legal system works sounds like a recipe for disaster.
If the number of sales are picking up again after prices have dropped so dramatically then I view the uptick in demand as a positive sign that aspiring property owners have found new market clearing prices and are willing to move into the city.

I'd be much more alarmed if the prices kept/keep dropping further.
> a fizzbuzz

You mean a ceremonial hurdle that has absolutely no bearing on that person's worthiness to work on a particular project?

Yes, it does sound like a fizzbuzz.
I think it's preferable not to push fixes as long as people are made aware of the risks they're running. So there should be an automatic opt-in but an option to opt out with suitable warnings issued at the time.
I agree. I wanted to make a minor change to the Linux kernel. Nothing more complicated than fixing a typo.

Getting everything configured correctly was a pain. Finding out who to email for an unexpected hurdle. It took a bunch of emails back and forth until I got the format right.

I did it, but it put me off contributing again.

Would I have become a top-notch kernel developer if the process was easier? No. But I'd certainly have done some of the boring busy-work to fix minor issues.

I appreciate the workflow is set in its ways. And it probably (intentionally?) prevents a lot of casual abuse of the process. But surely there's a better way to let new people contribute?
I can’t view that Marc site on mobile. I have to horizontal scroll text...
> You are actually validating my point about people being ignorant of the risks of using services that can suspend you account for any reason at any time. Don't use them, or if you must then mitigate any potential fallout from losing access to that service.

I love to trot out the "don't be stupid" argument too, and it never works. If "don't be stupid" was at all an effective mantra, tech would look a whole lot different. But people being stupid is what sustains these practices, and it is what provides the lock-in effect that I'm describing. Plus, someone will argue that it discriminates against unintelligent or mentally handicapped folks (which it does), or underprivileged folks and minorities (which is debatable). And then someone else will argue that people should be able to drive their car without having to know how to repair them (that's what services are for!) or that their specific choice in make/model/whatever shouldn't have a future tragic effect on their life. And those arguments are supported by law and government agencies backing them up.
If it's an option for you, it is possible to downgrade most apps if you jailbreak your phone and install a downgrade tweak.
Sorry for the amateur question, but why does it take longer to take off in hot places? Doesn’t heat generate lift, like in gliders crossing hilly terrain? Or is it the heat offsetting with the cooler ground that helps, so you’d need a greater amount in hot places?
It. Just. Works.

The only people who are unhappy with Mercurial are git users. Everyone I know who is coming from something else to Mercurial never have a desire to leave it.

It has a lot (most, really) of the power of Git, but no one has found a need to make an "Oh Shit Hg" site, because it's not trivial to screw up in it.

Because it has a separation between simple and advanced features (many of which are disabled unless you explicitly enable them), you don't get people wasting a lot of time trying to find the ideal workflow in Mercurial. In a sense it's a bit like Perl vs Python. Perl has many ways to do the same thing. Python is more opinionated, and has preferred ways of doing things. As a result, a team of N Mercurial users will usually not have N different workflows. In my current team, there's been a lot of thrash/arguments over the workflow (rebase vs merge, squash vs not, linear vs branched history, history rewriting vs not, etc).

The documentation, though, sucks. It's quite outdated.
Death is indeed nothing and is nothing to fear. The dread of having minutes, or seconds left to die in suffering on the other hand, is not very pleasant.
I've worked on a system that relied on it to do fast upgrade reboots and it worked. I'll have no problem relying on this again.
The verge article paints a different picture, which I kind of agreed with (as someone who has grown as a developer in last 5-10 years). But then again, I haven't contributed to Linux so it might be a bad thing. FWIW, the problem with email clients seem to be with Google and Apple. My Outlook mail client handles the text email very well!
> And, as a USian, I'm willing to accept lessons on virtue from any corner.

If that's the case, prepare to accept lessons from phony, hypocritical people, because in my experience those are the ones most eager to hand out lessons on virtue to all comers.

> When you reach a point that you think nobody has anything to teach you, you're cooked

Learning new knowledge is an entirely different dish than moral teachings. I'm 100% willing to admit it when I'm wrong and learn new facts and perspectives from all people, even folks that I have fundamental disagreements with.

But I'm also very unlikely to accept any kind of teachings on "virtue" from such people. I find them generally to be not virtuous.

Actually virtual people tend to be more humble, and you have to seek out their input.
But once you've found the bug, you'd like to add a test case that prevents regression - a test case that doesn't require a supercomputer.

That might not always be possible - but if it is, the test would be based on implementation details.
I like kk.