skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you say that's the only way to fix it, you are literally correct. There is no real ticket or support mechanism, no appeals process, nothing. The fastest way to raise an issue with Google is to email a journalist or hitup your twitter followers.
I feel like there's a whole series of articles that could be filed under "Tech industry decides aol really had the right model after all."
I'm not drawing an equivalence. I'm talking about opening up a dialogue by finding common ground first.
Yes, and no. The old Firefox for Android supported many extensions. The new one that came out just a few weeks ago only supports about 10 extensions, including uBlock Origin. They should be adding more over time, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24302711
Iranian hackers impersonate journalists calls and gain victims trust
Probably not. These rules were put in place to prevent spies from using HAM to exfil data during the Cold War. Really I think it should be something that should be revisited but I don't know how the 3 letter agency's would like a method of communication that they can't access.
Webrpc
Perhaps it is time for a law forbidding political discussion in the classroom.
> Splitting this configuration into multiple places is bad.

This is because OSs are ossified. They need to move along or get left behind, they decided to be left behind.

I'd also remind you that DNS wasn't very configurable even before, plenty of devices I've seen that ignore DHCP DNS, NTP and domain. Even if they should respect them. DoH is no exception to the general type of behaviour that already exists.
Underneath the monopoly problem is the nationstate problem. The issue is about power and how to limit it with rules, but rules are too exploitable at multiple layers unless all the players agree to play by them. So first we need the world governments to consolidate (which is happening – USA federal level growing in power relative to individual states, EU growing in power relative to countries, and of course 1000 years ago power was much more dispersed than today).
> Bookstores offer something electronic media doesn't -- discovery.

No, electronic media provides excellent ways to discover new books.

What you seem to be missing is browsing physical books in physical bookstores, which is different and grounded mostly in nostalgia.
Former engineer pleads guilty to Cisco network damage
Gmail does ban users for content though.
For anyone else concerned with the recent Big Tech censorship, people are actively building alternative social medial platforms and they are taking off. The RedditAlternatives subreddit [0] provides a fairly good overview of them. Some are rather extreme, others are more reasonable, but there are alternatives, and it's up to us, the reasonable people, to choose where we want to spend our time and money.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...
It completely fixes a huge number of the gripes in the JupyterCon talk I don't like notebooks by Joel Grus.

The primary complaint there is that notebooks have a disconnect between the state of the program and the display of the cells. By using a completely reactive mode the state is no longer hidden. It's more akin to a spreadsheet than a notebook. A number of other complaints are completely circumvented by using a file format that's simply a pure Julia file with clever comments.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700
We must - otherwise the continued takeover of America by White Supremacists like Trump and Ted Cruz will be the end.
Not sure, I contacted this person, since I got their phone number from one of their emails (e.g. they registered for a hotel). I specifically asked them if they made a typo, according to them they have been using this email for years (maybe they lied but why would they).
Preventing commercial use is still a major argument used.
I wonder how much of the new licenses have to do with FPV flying and long range ISM radios for direct FMV feeds.
Southern Water customers could view others' personal data by tweaking URL
:) I wonder how this fits into the Chromium team's insistence that URLs are user-unfriendly and that browsers ought to redesign them?
This is the tweet: https://twitter.com/tolmasky/status/1297199788316692480
Apple should be allowed to do what they want regarding charging for use of the app store, but they shouldn't be allowed to keep their policies secret. Censoring apps that inform users where the user's money is going when they spend it in an app is unconscionable.
Many people complain about newer washing machines not using enough water to get their clothes clean, etc. So yes, even if they don't know it.
I thought I read somewhere in the HN comments that Medium articles are automatically down voted by the algorithm. I rarely see them. But I might be mistaken.
IBM ordered to pay £22k to whistleblower
If the singular fucking purpose of the washing machine was to run apps, I sure as fuck would expect to see people wanting to install apps on their washing machine.
Getting the blame is part of being the country’s chief executive. There are two main categories here, economy and health. We are performing worse than Europe on both accounts (higher death toll and higher unemployment rate). Does that tell you we are doing something wrong as a country?
I think you are assuming someone else should have created that email address without the dot because you are getting emails addressed to someone else.
The reality is it is more likely that someone who hasn't created that email is using it as their address because they don't really understand how email and email addresses work
Can't the same offending toots be viewed in Google Chrome? Just screenshot their own browser with the same content they are reporting and ask when they will turn the lens inward. Or, find similar content in Twitter, or Facebook, etc. This sets a dangerous precedent.
Kubernetes moves to end ‘permanent beta’ for some APIs
“ this is basically extrapolating the New York and New Jersey numbers”

That’s a poor measure for a number of reasons. Not least of which is we’re getting a lot better at treating Covid medically.
CCP’s atrocities are nothing new.. the only thing that’s new is that we finally have a couple of leaders that are beginning to stand up to China (such as USA and India), and Trump’s actions are forcing other nations hands.. for instance, Canada got dragged into it when Meng Wanzhou was rightfully arrested, to which the CCP responded with arbitrary arrests of Canadians in China.

Biden went on record saying he would end Trump’s China tariffs, and we can also see how little the EU and other western countries are doing to stand up to China (and how little Biden did during his 8 years’ vice presidency)..
Blog: Linux Commands for Developers
If you're anyone else and you even get as far as trying it (which isn't likely) you get a big scary warning about how obviously everything sideloaded is a virus and Google won't be able to scan it and you should use the play store (I don't actually know what it says, but the point is that it's a big scary warning).

So now you want both side loading and you don’t want warnings about the possible risks of doing so?

So on one hand you’re arguing that users are too ignorant to figure out side loading but they are smart enough to not download apps that may be malware?

It’s not like any mainstream vendors have had side loading and introduced a security vulnerability....

https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...
Hacking printers has been around for ages, people will never learn, no matter the consequences (sadly).

Phenoelit also have a few "fun" tools around to mess with printers: http://www.phenoelit.org/hp/docu.html

I can't recall when exactly this was (around the 2000s), i think there was a talk or paper by FX of Phenoelit who wrote a proxy for HP printers.

So you'd go Internet <-> Printer <-> internal Network - now, that should send a few shivers up peoples spines but apparently not.
It’s a modern day nazi. If we don’t boycott and pressurize China now, we have no moral ground to criticize Nazis. China is going to be an expansionist power and it must be stopped. We have to boycott China
I was just saying today how I wish I could have a graphical representation of things like hashmaps and collections while I'm debugging!

Then this pops up on front page!
All visualizations (i.e. json ~> ui transformers) are available as standalone library too. A playground can be found at [1]. The entire project is open source and can be easily extended!

[1] https://hediet.github.io/visualization/
> Finally, kids books should be physical, forever. I don't let my kids read on a tablet or other device, ever.

That's an interesting position; would you mind commenting on why?

That said, if we're talking about things in the long-term, then neither old-fashion books nor tablets would seem relevant. Something like a good neural-lace would quickly obsolete both.
- machine marketed as "Pro" dies from a drop of water
It might help if you don't all-caps shout it...
You're referring to the peaceful protests that deteriorated into days of violence which killed 197+ people and injured thousands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...
NetApp reorg: Plans to 'scale public cloud', grow storage systems biz
I am glad that you like your macbook, but your experience has been very different from mine. It has the worst WIFI radio in a laptop that i have used; one area of my house is basically off-limits to it despite every other Wi-Fi enabled device i own working there (phones and several laptop brands).

The fancy metal case isnt properly grounded- I get occasionally a slight tingling /shock from it when I have it plugged in.

Battery life is on par, at best, with my other laptops.

Macos doesn't let me configure or change the things I want to configure or change. Some programs are usability / discoverability nightmares.

Performance of most programs is, at best, similar to linux or Win10, and is frequently worse against other machines with similar hardware.

I have used several models of MacBook and an Air, and personally will not purchase another again... I am tired of paying top dollar for a mediocre experience.
I'm glad I degoogled. This kind of thing is why.
It wasn't even hard after I got email switched over. If they didn't have a video monopoly, I would never have to use their stuff.
Absolutely. You can also find great deals at thrift stores. But there’s nothing like having your kid open up a brand new set of Legos.
Same here. I am weirdly attached to my books and having an ugly crease in the cover of a paperback still bugs me when I look at it years later.
I'd nominate "loss of trust in traditional media / fractionalization of society-wide narratives" as a major one. PropagandaPunk? TruthPunk?
Author of the post here and I'm curious, did you ever try Spacemacs? Not that it's better or worse, but that's what got me into emacs. I'll have to give Doom a try!
Governments only need a check of approval from the masses, businesses need people willing to pay for their product... Two incredibly different things
I think we need to re-evaluate what governments consider 'public' data.
Autonomous robots that can be injected? Not as far off as it sounds
> I think that's a better metric because it puts it in perspective.

It’s interesting that you see it this way. Personally if someone said to me I have a 50% increased chance of death, I’d really struggle to make a proper risk assessment. Maybe it’s just hard to talk probabilities about ones own mortality
I Self-Published Your First Machine Learning Model in the Cloud
Haven't podcasts apps recently been removed as well? Something about it being possible to listen to stuff about covid on them.

Edit, found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219427

And well, they should probably remove the apps of Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc as it's plenty of hate speech there too.
Actually, 0.02 cm * 60 seconds = 1.2 cm (not inches).
Yes, totally the opposite to my own experience with mac. Getting external displays to work properly has often required nasty EDID hacks and disabling SIP on the machine.
This. Thank you, we underestimate what we can do with our money. We can collectively bring an expansionist power China to a halt if we systematically boycott them.
Bethke coined the word cyberpunk and here's a little essay about it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130716211015/http://www.bruceb...
Weird to see HN just four links away from 4chan.
That was the original Microsoft vision (Blackbird project, MSN and other names). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(online_platform).
A reminder that F-Droid banned Gab from their store.

https://reclaimthenet.org/f-droid-bans-gab-app/
Similar things happened to some android reddit clients a few years ago and it was resolved by removing certain subreddits from menu of pre-filled subreddits. So maybe these apps just need to remove any problematic pre-filled servers.
I think that for Enterprise customers (G-Suite) dots might matter as I tried to create a new (bot) account in Github with my email sans dots and I never received the email (email was not @gmail.com)
Liked the tip to find answers in another questions. Do they ask any of VPC questions?
Been looking for a good client. Can you disable the block on Gab? I know the place is a cesspool, but I don't like the idea of missing content because an app developer doesn't like an instance.
> I don't mean to be rude

Well that's how it comes off. Obviously I didn't think I'd made some breakthrough in five minutes with some JavaScript, and obviously I know that the formal proof is the important thing. I was just poking at the phenomenon and expressing my curiosity. There's no need to be so eager to jump in and shut that down.
So what do you propose? Not only have most HN users been advocating that the platform vendors allow alternate means of installing apps and being forced to do so by the government, now do you also want the government to make rules about what is allowed in the App Store?
> as Keynes quipped "in the long run, we're all dead"

This is one of the more over-used quotes. In this case, it's not particularly relevant since US fiscal and monetary policy is almost entirely designed around incentivizing long-term investment over short-term gains.

If Palantir is indeed a good "long run" bet, then every pension fund, 401(k), mutual fund, or ETF (read: most institutional investors) should in theory eat it up after the IPO.

To borrow another pithy quote:

"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."

- Charlie Munger
Biopunk's been done but pandemics and battles for cures and control over cures and 'was this all a conspiracy' seem very relevant to this year specifically
Wait till they start blocking those Reddit alternatives in Chrome.
When it comes to Bluetooth headphones, I have a totally different experience with iPhone 11. I have Sony WH1000XM3 headphones. I really like them, yet every time I connect them to my iPhone the sound volume jumps to almost 100%. I reported the issue to Apple but got no answer (the headphones are working without any problems with my old android phone - Samsung Galaxy s7). The only solution so far was to enable EU sound volume limits to decrease the initial bang.

The other problem that I had with my iPhone is that for the first few days it was getting really hot. I called the Apple support and they told me that it is "normal" - just wait for about a week. OK they where right, after a week problem was gone, but for something that costs a lot of money I would expect better.

Macbooks (I got one at work and I own a small 13'' MBP) are OKish. My only complain is that they can heat up to really high temperatures (maybe I will appreciate it in the winter).

When it comes to Linux, it a good OS but it still has troubles with hardware accessories. About I year ago, (I have a 4 year old PC with Ubuntu) I tried to connect Bluetooth headphones with it and it was a total disaster. I tried about 2 different Bluetooth dongles and installed at least 2 different BT stacks, without effect. After about 15 mins the BT disconnected. I searches the Internet but I couldn't make it work. It may be connected to the fact that I was running quite old Ubuntu 16 LTS back then.
This does highlight how important the relative freedom of Android is. This is unfortunate but it does not stop the ability for people to load the APKs or get them off of F-Droid.

That being said, imagine if this happened on the Apple App Store...
I think OPs point is that online platforms are natural monopolies. Physical stores are not.
BioPunk?

Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl" is an interesting take on this.

The most concise take I've seen for the core defining aesthetic of cyberpunk is: "high tech, low life."

With that in mind, I don't think it _really_ matters what the tech is, so long as the story is about those on the fringes of society and their interactions with it; how _alien_ the world is to them, and how alien they are to the world.
> it seems that Go is far more popular outside of Google than inside it

Blame the cargo cult and hype driven development for that one.
I'm confused - is this complaining about the genre as a whole being less popular? Or just books?
I think with one of the most hyped and games of the year being a cyberpunk game (with "Cyberpunk" literally in the name) - its definitely premature to call the genre as a whole "dead"
If this article is just lamenting the absence of Cyberpunk books - well surges in popularity in one media can always carry over to others...
Here's a simple riddle:

First they came for Alex. Then they came for the frog...
then they came for the corona and now they come for all the elephants in the room.

This isn't 'doing the right thing' and Google is not your friend.
I’ve experienced the grounding thing, but almost always only in houses with dodgy wiring. It never happens in office buildings or newer apartments. I’m not sure that is actually the MacBook’s doing.
> Call your representatives. They will respond to thousands of phone calls from constituents saying "do X".

What do you say to people who don't really believe this? I don't think I'm the only one who looks at the political scene (and much of "reality" as it is projected into our brains through the media) and thinks it's largely theatre. Kayfabe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMe0dsxk_Q Kanye and The End of Reality – Wisecrack Edition

Oh sure, you can surely find discrete examples of where the system worked as advertised, but are these examples actually representative of the overall truth?

I can't shake this feeling that if I (or most any other person from this forum who has worked on large, complicated projects with many interconnected moving parts) was tasked with managing the affairs of this planet, the organization and means of communication/documentation would not look anything at all like what we've seen with our very eyes, for many decades.

How does a person sort out what is actually true anymore?
I think this is a good example of "you can't solve human problems with cute tech workarounds" because I think Google is actually in the right here (given you think their ban on hate speech is general is legitimate). It shouldn't matter at all the technical details of how an app works or the fact that it's federated or distributed. All that really matters to the policy is what a user sees when they download and open the app.

And on that front I completely understand where Google is coming from. Because the fediverse has a laissez faire attitude towards moderation (i.e. instance owners don't really block much) much of what you see on the fediverse is stuff that would get you banned on mainstream social networks [1]. And that content is the default experience unlike a web browser/chat programs/communities where you have to seek out that kind of content.

I expect that an app tied to a specific instance that put effort into moderating their content and put up some safeguards against seeing content on other instances by default with some popup like "content on other servers is not vetted, are you sure?" would be allowed to stay.

[1] Which makes sense since these are some of the only havens for people who can't make it on Twitter/FB/Reddit.
Apps being rejected was a talking point for the anti-trust investigations for Apple. I don't think Google is quite so famous for its rejections but they were part of that investigation for other abuse, hopefully any changes that come about will apply to them too.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/26/antitrust-investigation...
Blue states can't go back to normalcy since diseased red staters can still travel freely within the country and ruin it all over again. Also because Americans are too stubborn to mask up for the privilege of normalcy.

Places like Australia have gone back to normalcy(+masks) now. Japan can pack a train full of people(+masks).
Wasn't William Gibson (author of Neuromancer) roughly quoted saying: "I don't write 'cyberpunk' dystopias anymore...because we are living them. They are our reality today. So I just write contemporary fiction." ....somebody help me out on this...I might be off the mark.
I find that running powertop on my Thinkpad I can go from modest battery times of like 5-6 hours on my t460 to all day battery times. Really wish it was just built-in to the distro or kernel in a more automatic way at this point.
Ex-Cisco Employee Pleads Guilty to Deleting 16K Webex Teams Accounts
Atomic Kotlin is the book and associated learning resources by Bruce Eckel
An attacker can run pipeline jobs as arbitrary user
Disgusting censorship in such a position of power. Corporations like Facebook and Google and Apple shape society. There is no getting around it. It should no longer be acceptable to use the concepts of 'capitalism' and 'privateness' as an excuse for censorship on platforms that have become as good as public utilities.

The open web has never been more important. What next, will Google's Chrome browser start blocking fediverse web domains? That's their 'platform', too.
DOJ Aims to Seize 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Used by Hackers
I think I was pretty clear about who I was representing.
Not only are these apps web browsers of a subset of sites, other web browsers on the Play Store already allow access to these sites in exactly the same manner as the app, using the SAME PROTOCOL.

In respect to this move by Google, there are no differences between web browsers and Mastodon browsers. The only difference is that if Google applies their ban equally and fairly, they lose tremendous amounts of money by banning all web browsers.

We shall see if Google follows it's own policy on this manner or if they are descriminating based on what lines their pockets.
“What if when your mind wanders, an implant prods you back to the task at hand?”
I would agree that online there are a bunch of loud "get off my lawn" type voicer (I remember a published article on one of the bigger ham forums, where the guy bemoaned that a local ham club advertised a event as a "maker" event to appeal to young people, to him maker was for women, i.e. home maker.)

But my local ham club was the most helpful, open, and interested group of people. Yes, they are mostly 65+ and some quite old, but they are doing new and interesting things, including many of the digital modes like the ones listed in the article. There is a group of about 5 of them, nicknamed the QRSS Mafia. They are using ultra low power (200mw and frequently less) to send signals to the opposite side of the planet. One of them was recieved 2500 miles away (New Mexico to Florida) on 8.5 microwatts. At the time it was the recorded world record for distance/power (on the planet, communicating with voyager 1 doesn't count.)