skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context: I began my teaching career over 25 years ago and cannot think of a time before now where I have ever felt pressure to bring a political movement into my classroom... https://twitter.com/gummibear737/status/1293255134923890691/...
Good point. And the ones in the bottom quartile on the pay scale are doing most of the work. The more senior profs don't teach much and get paid a lot more.
As much as I hate Gab, I hate the possible extension of "unwanted content" especially considering Google's possible interests in China. I would not be surprised if next up to be removed are apps that allow access to instances that discuss the Uighurs or 天安门大屠杀 freely.
Based on New York isn't that off by 5 or so? Around 1% die each year, in New York State around .17% of coronavirus (confirmed/probable), and more likely ~.2% from coronavirus (excess deaths). To double normal deaths, reaching 2% dead for the year, it would need to be 5X higher excess deaths. There is still a quarter of the year left, but it doesn't seem enough.

I think it would be closer to doubling everyone's mortality risk only in the zero mitigation scenario.
There is probably more than what is being said here otherwise clients for reddit or 4chan would have been removed a long time ago.
The e-ink corporation has some lifespan information in their datasheets. For example, their Pearl screen is listed as having a life of 10 million refreshes. If you are updating more than once per second when in use, you will use that up in a year or two.
I've seen fediverse numerous times on HN
Power-to-Gas is in the "works but is not economical" phase of development right now. Pilot plants are up, it's a matter of scaling and optimizing cost. The advantage is that every country already has infrastructure for strategic gas reserves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas
If you read HN you might know what sideloading is and how to do it. 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).

The point is that sideloading presents several barriers to entry and at every extra step you'll lose a few more users. very few people will get all the way through enabling sideloading, figuring out how to actually do it with ADB or something, ignoring the scary prompts, and get all the way to actually installing and running an app. This is a nice workaround for a few people, not a solution to Google applying their policies in an aggressive way to remove apps they don't like that clearly aren't themselves dedicated to hate speech.
as a computer moves ever more towards a white-label appliance with a single purpose, the act of "installing" becomes more and more alien. It sucks, but a majority of the computer-using population cares not for it, and only want it to work. Think washing machine - have you ever seen people want to install apps into their washing machine?
I have worked on several hundred of these types of contract processes in the last few years, and you are absolutely correct: sequential is where it's at for these situations. I have, however, encountered a few situations where time was an issue so I had two or three different versions out to different parties at the same time, and then merged the proposed changes where possible and sent out alternate versions where the changes differed. That process was... not fun, and could definitely use a more coherent workflow than manual merges or Word's built in merge features.
yes, it's an arms race/prisoners dilemma, which is why the government needs to step in and align incentives. Personally I think a danger tax (similar to gas guzzler taxes) makes sense.
Not Covid related, but something happened to me around 2012. Pre-2012,I was a part time fitness instructor and runner with slight exercised induced asthma but it was controllable.

I went into the hospital for a week for severe asthma, has coughing spells for a year and my lungs haven’t been right since. It’s not as bad and I can do some level of resistance exercise, but I never fully recovered.

I’m paranoid about getting Covid. I know how terrifying it is not to be able to breathe and how irritating it is not to be able to do slight strenuous day to day activities without giving out of breathe for a couple of years afterward.
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Some opinions are wrong, we don't need to open our arms to all of them. Ever heard of the paradox of tolerance?

A new account means you could be hiding a post history that is pro-China, or comments you've made on another account alluding to living in China. You could be coming in here entirely to deflect arguments away from the real thread of discussion and attempting to turn it into an anti-U.S. one. It means I at least take what you say with much more skepticism because there is no record of your thoughts on other subjects to get a more complete picture of who you are.

Being ESL means you could potentially be Chinese, living in China, and very much in support of pro-Han activities such as annexing Tibet and burning down historic monasteries, or committing genocide against ethnic minorities. Which means your opinion is one of the ones that we don't need to open our arms to.
On the one hand, we need an anti-CCP boycott of similar scale as the anti-Nazi boycotts of 1933 onward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_anti-Nazi_boycott

On the other hand, those boycotts pushed German Nazis to counter-boycott Jewish businesses and double down on anti-Jewish propaganda, and as far as I can read, didn't meaningfully hamper the escalation of Nazism toward war.

On the third hand, to do nothing is to side with the oppressor.
This looks fantastic! How soon before your github has the code in there? The STL files look great.
The feedback loop for government is supposed to be voting, but that’s really slow and the politicians have gotten so good at distracting people during campaigns, nobody seems to be paying attention to the things they are actually doing when in office.
It is said that sideloading in Android will essentially be disabled in an upcoming release. It will still be possible for that small handful of nerds who know how to enable developer mode and install an .apk via ADB, but for the vast majority of people, the Google Play store is only going to become further entrenched as their sole source of apps.
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Fedilab is also available on f-droid and it doesn't do any silly blocking.
I have used it all the time over a dozen years, both for site-specific email addresses and also for having lots of handy test email addresses in my personal app development. Often I just wish I had been more disciplined about using it even more for site-specific addresses, but fortunately more websites about friendly about unsubscribing these days.
And let's address this counterargument: "Regardless of 9/11, why wasn't the DOJ doing literally anything else?"

I mean, the DOJ is a department. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's not just a single boardroom stocked with sneering capitalists plotting to get back at software pirates.

Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty big department, I don't doubt that this evil boardroom probably actually exists in some capacity. I just also happen to think that is... kind of normal? Would you prefer if the DOJ didn't enforce laws? It seems like putting the cart before the horse when one criticizes the executive for executing instead of criticizing the law itself.
For me, this whole thing has really highlighted how huge a role stress plays in my weight management problems. I made the mistake of sheltering with someone who turned out to be an emotional terrorist at the same time my gym was closed down for several months and I still had to go to work because apparently my company interpreted itself to be "essential" and so was my presence. I put on a lot of weight in those months. How much, I can't say, since I have wisely avoided the scale since early on so I wouldn't end up offing myself over it.

Since then I have kicked out the emotional terrorist, taken up several disciplines of biking, and my gym opened back up. I am still fighting my weight, but I can see how directly my overeating is tied to stressful events at work, how it gets worse when I can't get out riding often, etc.

It has inspired me to accelerate my plans to quit IT as a career since that's my current major source of stress.
Thanks! This is great. It appears that China's argument for Xinjiang are:

1. Anti-terrorism / Religious Extremist Activities
2. Poverty alleviation

We have certainly seen similar situations play out in the past (e.g. US & Middle East), with different approaches. China's approach is to eliminate "ethnic separatism" through these "re-education camps". Not ideal, for sure. But what would be a better solution?

If we had terrorism in the US -- in fact, an entire state of people subscribed to that mindset -- what's the best way to deal with that?

(This is, ofc, assuming China's terrorism claims are real)
This is a hint that the next step maybe blocking certain websites in Chrome.
Are Archive.org not themselves archivists?
RE: religion, the impression I've gotten is that it's specifically organization that the government sees as a threat. So, without the context of Urumqi riots or bombings, they'd probably default to seeing catholics or certainly falun gong as a bigger threat than disorganized Uyghur muslims. Protestant christians less so, if they knew enough to discriminate.

I don't have any great reading materials for 2020 daily life, there's laowhy86 and serpentza on youtube who I haven't watched much but they've been recommended.

Books:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MHHREI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Mao, the unknown story, fantastic original research but you've gotta discount for a LOT of bias as the author is clearly still butthurt over the civil war. Not to say that Mao was a nice guy, but if you're refusing to use pinyin in the 21st century, calling Beijing 'Peking', you've got some baggage.

https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-China-J-Roberts/dp/06...

Longer run of history, makes you realize all of the cultural context that they have which differs from ours and makes conversation impossible at times.
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And if only cities had subdivisions of /neighboring/ areas.
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arm released is not going to happen in the next 2 years, IMO mpro 16" is going to get better and it is good enough to switch to it permanently. I was testing a few mpros before purchasing one
Does anyone know the US case law on the 1st amendment being applied to corporate actors?

I see the argument often that things like this are a free speech violation but the 1st amendment says “Congress shall pass no law...”. It doesn’t apply to actors other than the state.

I’m not defending Google’s actions here but I also don’t think it’s technically a free speech violation at least as the amendment is written, so I’m wondering if there are any cases addressing this sort of censorship w.r.t. the 1sr amendment.
For me, Safari content blockers work very well except for a single website: mobile Reddit. Blocking the Reddit app promotion banner disables scrolling, and Safari content blockers aren't flexible enough to prevent this AFAIK.
Gab isn't the only source of hate on the fediverse; there's plenty of diversity in the hate speech to be found on the 'verse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-hong-kong-losin...

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-tiktok-ban-us-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/18/pressure-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Tsai_call

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/183...

https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-google-android-ban-9...

For the concentration camps: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/asia/trump-china-sa...
I don't think there is.

This happens all the time--recently, a podcast app was removed from the Play Store because it could be used to listen to content which didn't meet Play Store guidelines. The only way to fix it is to post about it and generate enough outrage that Google hears about it and can undo the ban.
Moving forward with the Go generics design draft
All the articles I’ve read on this use anecdotal evidence. I haven’t seen much in any peer reviewed sense. From a scientific sense, what we’re looking for is something like “Covid causes a 50% increase in the occurrence of asthma.” It can be a rough estimate. In fact, given the omission across the scientific world and given the vast amounts of data, my estimate is there are no or mild after effects of covid.

25-50% of people in certain areas have gotten covid. A comparison to baseline is required. Having covid one day and developing seizures the next does not determine causation, as your prior is baseline.
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Well, we asked for this. We demanded Twitter and FB censor their content, we applauded Cloudflare* for deplatforming websites. Now those monopolies can use the precedent to control more of the web.
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The blinking/color changing thing when hovering over links is very painful for me.
Cashierless stores are popping up at gas stations, stadiums and even Dunkin
Don't make the mistake of believing that systems run by human beings are required to be logically consistent.
> since 1 is added to a number, the number will eventually reach a power of 2

Why do you think that's the case?
This matches my experience. I have been using macs for 20+ years, and have on occasion tried to switch to Linux. Linux is definitely way faster (sometimes, amazingly so), but that is it; almost all other parts of the experience are quite a downgrade, so I haven't really come close to switching.
one of the most infuriating phrases in tech is the mac "just works" one
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Here the main issue complex is IMHO that a) the ability to access is counted, b) this is penalized despite the system shipping with apps doing that too and c) the policy isn't consistently applied.

Roughly, web browsers, podcast players and Fediverse clients (and probably a bunch of other apps, those are just obvious examples) all fetch contents from a user-supplied source over HTTP(S) and display it. As long as they are not specifically promoting "banned" sites, they should all be treated the same in that regard.
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"Data is a toxic asset."

— Bruce Schneier

It is an asset, not waste.
There are so many correlation-and-causation problems with that study that it's very difficult to take it seriously. And from common knowledge about the world, if this effect does exist, it's not a very large one for indirect relations. [1] COVID, on the other hand, is contagious as all hell.

The other thing about COVID, though, is that I don't even need to know the person who I can catch it from.

[1] If your obese parents raised you, it's quite likely you'll be obese. If you and your extended family fell into poverty, and your cousins became obese, it's quite likely you will become obese, too. But subtract direct role models, direct sources of your habits, changes to your economic status, and the fact that as time goes on, you get older (And older people tend to be more obese), geographic effects (The rust belt started becoming depressed and poor over the years, which lead to obesity)... And what sort of effect is left?
> Opinion without supporting arguments and consensus is inherently unfair when we're talking about an un-ownable concept being changed for all people.

I'd say it goes both ways. What makes it "ours" in the first place, I don't think it gets an ownership at all.
If you're on a Mac, you use emojis in iMessage texts.
Why does Walmart want TikTok? Look at how teens shop in China
Whats wrong with the tex typesetting?
A bit late to the party (came from Hacker Newsletter) but it seems obvious to me:

- If you happen to choose a door with a goat (⅔ of the time), the host has to choose a goat door, leaving "switch" a guaranteed win

- If you happen choose the door with the car (⅓ of the time), the host opens a random goat door and you have 50/50 between staying and switching

So always switching is the correct move - if you do that you'll win the ⅔ of the time (every time you open a goat door).
They didn't. You get email because somebody either typo's their similar address or they simply think that's their address when it isn't.
None, the Constitution only limits the power of the government, not private organizations.
That will be the moment when Chrome drifts into it's slow death spiral.
Got it, so my initial understanding (I hope :D) was correct.
Having said that, you don't want to do this process live, right? (if so, what you want will definitely be doable, withing 1.5 months or so)

LATER EDIT: On another note, I'm curious how big of a use-case is this, 'cause if it's big enough, I could actually make a subset of my app which would do just this (allow you to cut which camera is the "active" one) - and I would give this for free.
Not OP, but I share some of his views.

> Inadequate package manager -> Somewhat nebulous, most package managers on Linux are available on Unix.

Here he probably compares homebrew with apt/dnf/zypper. Compared to these three, homebrew is quite primitive and prone to be in a bad state. Luckily now you can use nix on MacOS which is a good package manager.

> Can't have a minimal desktop -> Beyond hiding all icons and the dock, what more are you looking for?

I run a minimal desktop with a tiling window manager (bspwm) and a status bar (polybar in my case), I don't need a window decorator and so I don't have one. I also don't need drop shadows on windows and so I disabled them (while keeping them on popups). AFAIK that is simply impossible to achieve on MacOS.
I recently ordered an illustrated novel with a rather heavy paperweight - Amazon shipped it in weakly padded envelopes and the corners were banged up. I even bothered to contact their customer service to ship it with better packaging, to no avail on the replacement item.

I then ordered 10 of the damn things, to see what the packaging would do. 4 came in one box, 3 came in another, and 3 came in individual poorly padded envelopes. The ones in boxes had insufficiently inflated plastic bags, and only 2 books out the entire 12 ordered (original, replacement, and the 10) were what Amazon defines as 'New' upon arrival, though all were shipped as 'New'.

Definitely a frustrating experience.

Edit: I returned all but the one showing the least damage, and received a full refund after some time.
I mean look at their share price man. You should really define 'complex'. I also recommend installing React Dev tools, you'd be surprised by how many large known websites run React apps.
There are dozens or hundreds of other hosts in the tildeverse that you could check out. I'm a member of ctrl-c.club, which has a much shorter sign-up form.
it looks very interesting, I came around purism a couple of times but never got to hardware switchers section, very nice.
Is there anyone who has any experience with puri.sm?
It's not a 1st amendment violation, but it's still anti-free-speech. There's more to free speech than just the one sentence.
> Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech.

Good thing you can't find any hate speech on Play Store–promoted corporate behemoths Twitter and Facebook!
There's the first amendment and there's the concept of free speech. This absolutely violates free speech but does not violate the first amendment.

The only current framework to protect freedom of speech from private companies is to designate them as common carriers, e.g. phone companies legally cannot police what is said over their wires.
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Well, we didn't. Did we say that apps that give ubiquitous access to generally positive content should be removed? No, not really. Did we say that apps that contain user content should consider a bit what behaviour they enable and promote? Yes, and they have done so for a long while, remember, there's illegal content other than what people would call "hate speech".
Things that I like about being on a Mac:

- The ABC - Extended keyboard layout gives me easy access to diacriticalized letters like é or č as well as typographic characters like – and –

- long battery life. I'm currently sharing a charger between my work laptop my personal laptop and my iPad and life is easy.

- access to mainstream software like Office, Adobe etc.

- I can easily use my iPad as an external monitor while I'm away from my desk.

- The trackpad is so much more usable than any Windows laptop I've been given from work

- I don't need to spend much time getting stuff in a workable state. Other than disabling caps lock and selecting ABC - Extended as my keyboard layout, I don't feel the need to do much customization on a new Mac.
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Both of these categories have been known since early on. There have been plenty of stories and initiatives focused on age (and BAME and comorbidities like obesity).

"Male" not so much.
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There is a specific exception to web browsers, so Mastodon app(s) could probably classify as one by prominently displaying the web url of a post above the post.
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You can call of whatever you wish. But how did loading from any untrusted source work out for the average consumer for the last 30 years? Viruses, malware, ransomware, etc?

Yes outside of the little HN/geek bubble, it’s way too easy for the average consumer to install malware on their computer.

HN users have been whining about not being able to side load on iOS devices for years. What they really seem to want is to force the app stores to carry anything.
Unfortunately knowledge alone does not equal access to mechanisms of these disciplines. Without wealth, good luck using your law or medical knowledge to improve your situation aside from preventative measures. However, if knowledge is all you got, it's better than nothing at all and puts you ahead of many who won't be bothered.
The only way they can define and enforce "hate speech" policies is by torturing the language, the definitions, and hoping no one looks closely at the resulting policies.

In the US, beyond explicit calls for illegal behavior (usually illegal) and kiddie porn (always illegal), we don't have many restrictions or even a legal definition of "hate speech." But even those laws aren't consistently applied. For the most part, it's up to the judgement of the viewer or based on the "reasonable person" rule and "reasonable people" seem to be getting rarer and rarer..

Ref: https://www.thoughtco.com/hate-speech-cases-721215
They should ban Gmail too, what if some asshole sends me a death threat via email?

Wait, Gmail is made „by us” and not „by pesky them”. Gmail is sure ok.
What are, in the 20's, the big concepts that "cyber"[1] was to the 80's?

Ecopunk has apparently been done, in 風の谷のナウシカ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24298259

[1] we started with Tron and wound up with "I put on my robe and wizard hat."