skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even that is destructive. The slippery slope of "speech I don't like" has a tendency to ever expand; not completely unlike, say, government. It is a very human tendency. This is the main reason, even small encroachment should be pointed out.

I think we are in agreement on Google's case in particular being a little more straight forward.
Yeah not bad but with 4k screen the cheapest I can find is $1700 which isn't cheap. And its 5.5 pounds.
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Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird
Thanks for this. I had no idea what to search for but this is a good start.

I guess it's unsurprising to find that even at the single cpu core level, there's another layer of parallelism. And that will of course complicate things further.
Well, macs don't run at full power either if you don't plug them in. And thermal issues are definitely a thing on macs. I have a friend who is complaining about stability issues on his 16" mbp already. And there is of course the whole notion with the uncertainty around ARM and their commitment to supporting what they are selling right now. So, I'm not super keen on buying that just yet though I probably will eventually.

I've had lots of silly issues with bluetooth, wifi and other things not quite "just working" lately on my 2017 MBP. Don't get me started on the keyboard situation. Apple's standards have been slipping on that front. But they are undeniably still very good laptops overall. If it wasn't for the weird keyboards, they'd make pretty decent linux laptops too. As it is, the touchbar is a PITA for that, even if you do manage to get that working (apparently it is doable).

I actually wouldn't mind a linux laptop except that seems to involve a lot of compromises on form factor, sucky touchpads, plasticky/fugly designs, screen resolution, driver compatibility, and manufacturers with not so great reputations on the quality and support front. Apple is also problematic for support lately of course.

I recently bought a new camera and the ability to take the usb-c power cable and plug that into the camera to quickly transfer some photos is quite nice. I don't really miss the memory card slot that much. I also charge my phone of my laptop via usb-c when on the road. I once watched 8 hours of offline netflix on my phone on a transatlantic flight and left the plane with a full charge on my phone and 80% charge on my mac.

I've been considering a linux laptop for ages but there are not a lot of models that meet my requirements of having a form factor that isn't hideously ugly (no "gaming" laptops please), has decent specs for CPU, memory, ssd (this eliminates 98% of the market), an hdpi screen (now we are talking 2, maybe 3 models), and a touchpad that comes reasonably close to what I'm used to. There are not a lot of things in the market that come close enough that I would consider them and none that I'm aware off that don't involve compromising on at least a few things I care about.
Dell also sells an XPS “Developer Edition” with Ubuntu pre-installed and officially supported, and Lenovo recently announced a range of workstations and Thinkpads being certified to support Ubuntu and Fedora. There’s also Purism that created a custom PureOS to closely fit their custom hardware, eg. a TPM designed for user security instead of vendor lock-in.
I spent far too much of my time trying to explain this to Humanity.com’s support after someone created an account using a dotless variant of my email. I didn’t want to freeze the guy out of his account as I imagine he was using it for shift work notifications but in the end they just told me to change the password. Their support repeatedly insisted that gmail was broken and I should contact Google.
I get the same thing all the time. I think it's relatively common for people who signed up for Gmail early, and thus we able to get a bare named email (i.e., no numbers afterwards like john.doe420).

The weird thing for me is that it seems to be more than just a single person writing down the wrong email or using it for junk mail. I have gotten emails from places all over the US, a couple places in the UK, and in the past year or so from someone in France. And while some of it is junk mail, I've gotten emails about rental agreements, company emails, insurance policies...

I used to try to be nice and email people back and tell them they had the wrong person. Now I just delete them. It's not worth the time and effort. Unless it's a kind old lady sending an email to her grandson, it's getting deleted. Hopefully their insurance company or whoever will call them after not hearing a response. Unlike regular mail, there's no consistent "return to sender" function, so...deleted.
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Using this rationale the Facebook and Twitter apps should be removed from the Play Store as well: an abundance of hate speech can be found in/with those apps.
High end malls never had any of those things, anywhere I’ve been in the US. Victoria’s Secret and Spencer’s are pretty far from sex shops or pornography in my opinion.

Not that I agree the policies of app stores to restrict items solely because they are pornography or sex related. But high end mall operators might reject sex shops for many of the same reasons.
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> Like hate speech is bad and it’s not censorship if it’s not mandated by the government.

To be fully accurate, this is absolutely censorship, but it's not a violation of anyone's First Amendment rights. People often conflate the two.

We can argue about whether or not Google should ban certain opinions on their platform, or where the line should be drawn, but it is arguable that hey have the legal right to do so. And the Federal Government, just as inarguably, does not have this right.
Sounds like an adventure!

Unfortunately my team didn't end up visiting when I participated in the rally, but every team who wanted to go to Turkmenistan had to advertise some horse show that was running in the country that summer. They made everyone slap a rather large sticker with the logo on their car. I wonder if the campaign was considered successful considering most people outside of the country weren't able to attend or watch it anyway :)
Most service platforms are not public, either, requiring, at minimum, a way to identify the content creator, even if only to the admins. While consuming the content may be anonymous, production is not. The platform itself is only acting as a publisher. In this specific instance, Google is n the wrong.

4chan, being the obvious exception, since content can be created anonymously.
Censorship, deplatforming, and cancel culture are some of the most dangerous developments that have been normalized by progressives. I am not surprised to see Google do this given their internal culture has been weaponized by the progressive left.
That's actually very disturbing considering the amount of misinformation over this incident, and that they're charging that kid for murder!

Were you able to find the videos? They tell a pretty different story than the media narrative. Every person he shoots attacked him or had a gun. He doesn't shoot the kid behind them who had his hands up, or any other bystanders. He then walks with his hands up and turns himself in to police.

It's still up on several alternative sites (BitChute and PeerTube instances) along with some I can't mention here. I always use youtube-dl to download YouTube videos, Tweets and Reddit videos for anything that's going on right now; especially shootings. They get taken down pretty fast and it has a chilling effect because people are only seeing the CNN/MSNBC/FOX versions that are HEAVILY edited.
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Reading this while sitting in a 787-9 that's just about to take off isn't very comforting.

Jokes aside, this again brings up the fact that Boeing as a company has deep quality control issues and I really hope this "structural issue" (vague sounding terms aren't comforting either) is limited to the 8 aircrafts in question and hope many more don't pop up, else it'll be a serious blow to public confidence on Boeing, especially after the MAX situation.
Saving me from myself is not the greatest strategy when all it accomplishes is to make me use a different browser that avoids this type of nanny treatment.
Sometimes I like to play penny stocks and in some cases I bought $800 worth of shares and that wound up being 40% of the volume of that day.

(Don't laugh I sold half of the stake for $1200 a few months later. It has been up and down and I haven't looked at it for years but the other half is worth about $1500 right now)

It's true that you can't move AAPL that way but there are many things about trading that I didn't understand before I adopted a few penny stocks where I can see all the trades.
He mentions this doesn't work with RIP-relative addressing, but I don't see how it would cause a penalty otherwise.
Public access and small local radio were cheap or free to access, and common sources of fringe ideas. It wasn't until the spectrum ownership was consolidated that this access disipated; but by then, dial up BBSs were common and growing popular.

Also, handing out and distributing hand-pressed folios was common; and a source of much of the zeitgeist for several political revolutions.
Don’t bank on herd immunity to save us from Covid-19
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> As to touchpad these are all disappointing on all ThinkPads but probably especially on T440s where it is something called "clickpad". The entire touchpad is a button and you need to press it and try to move your finger while pressing HARD to drag things, for example.

My T440 also has the "clickpad", and I hate it for the exact same reason you described. It's another example of the modern design trend toward form-over-function "overminimalism" (e.g. lack of ports, too much focus on thinness, etc.), in my opinion

Lenovo must have realized their screwup, because the later T-series editions went back to discrete mouse buttons.
Edit: Seems like they don't actually surcharge on Apple device. You can ignore this comment, I'll keep it for posterity.

I believe it's because they surcharge on Apple platform because of that fee, thus they want to show why they have to surcharge.

It's like saying that websites shouldn't show shipping if they got a physical store because at the physical store they didn't show the shipping rate they got there....

It's possible though that the 30% Apple fee could include the transaction fee, I guess they could round it up to 28% but then your comment right now would probably be that the number is incorrect as transaction fees are variable between cards.
I have a fairly common first name and last name and I thought I was a genius when I jumped onto an early gmail invitation in (I think) early 2005 to bag my "firstname.lastname@gmail.com".

Now I realise I was a chump and should probably have just stuck with sexxiboi69@hotmail.com
Asking a platform to moderate the content on its website isn't the same as asking an app distributor to ban apps which could conceivably be used to communicate objectionable ideas. Those are completely different.
The idea that a random person on a message board could inspire someone to write software because someone said they needed a tool is the daftest, most out-of-touch thing I've ever read.

Oh wait, that has happened multiple times.

Granted, a genre is bigger than a tool. But this free-floating hatred for commentators of all stripes literally blinds people to reality.

And it isn't some Critic-On-High making pronouncements and waiting for followers to act. It is observational.
I'm still mourning the loss of PTB. Not just a bookstore, more a collection of hundreds of subjects in excruciating detail, rabbit holes that would take years to follow of programming, electronics, physics, machinining, steam power. I hate to think what happened to it all. It really did feel like a reservoir of discarded knowledge, like a massive grimoire of nerding.
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I get what you're saying, but I don't think this is because Google cares about hate speech. Google is simply using hate speech as an excuse to get rid of apps that it doesn't like. Deciding which apps you like and which you don't isn't that hard of a line to draw.
Been using this for a while -

https://github.com/johno/normalize-email
TBH as someone licensed in Canada, the basic exam is just that. I have an EE background and it is not needed for the basic license exam. There are a number of apps that have all the possible questions for studying. Would recommend using that to study.

Having an EE background definitely helps with the advanced exam though
Can they be side-loaded?
Hard to take someone saying what you're saying seriously, when this is given in such a crass and uninformative manner

QUIC is a vastly superior transport to TCP in every technical regard. What exactly makes it a "purely corporate needs fulfilling step backwards for human people", if you don't mind adding some context to this extremely vague statement/opinion?
There's racist stuff all over Google's biggest properties. Racist results on Google, videos on youtube, sites hosted on GCP. Give me a break with your fake trashy virtue signalling Google.

This is nothing more than a monopoly stomping out a platform it doesn't like. Probably because federation is a threat to Google's position as the central hub of the internet.
Even if you do it completely top down, it doesn't mean all cells need to update if you change something on the top, so you'll still profit from the dependency graph.

And notebooks are mostly for exploration, and you don't really have a fixed order. You start getting the data, then you run the model, then you go back and change the data in the import... The order of your internal logic (or how you want to explain it to others) isn't necessarily linear, and of course you can just go back and write like a normal program but you lose the chain of changes that led you to the result (in this case the compromise is that your chain is restricted, like you said you can't define the same thing twice, but in exchange the notebook will provide with you the program order for free).
I really don't get that logic. Of course, everyone agrees that hate speech is bad (and so are a lot of things, but I digress). But how is it not censorship when one of the world's most powerful companies does it? Do they get a free pass because they are governed by shareholders and make a lot of money? I can see how it's not censorship if Bob does not want people to post things he disagrees with on his cat picture forum with 200 users. When a few massive companies effectively control the possibility of reaching 95ish% of the audience on the Internet, it's censorship in the very worst sense of the word, and I don't see how it's possible to support it without being an unequivocal opponent of free speech.
The fascinating part of this is that Google has officially claimed the mantle of arbiter of what is allowed on the internet ( they are not exactly a gate keeper yet, but given how people have trouble accessing information outside FB, Apple, Google gardens, they are well on their way ).

edit: Trouble in a sense that it is inconvenient for them.
This comment got unwieldy, but I wanted to relate a diet experience to OP after facing a similar health/weight-gain situation. Most people can just ignore me

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This is totally tangential, but I've been forced onto a low-/no-fat diet (fewer than 30g a day) due to a health problem of indeterminate cause (thankfully, COVID was ruled out completely)—of which acute necrotizing pancreatitis was one of the outcomes— which puts me in the place where I'm eating a lot more carbs to make up my caloric requirements than I was when I was in the gym every day.

I'm losing stubborn fat I couldn't drop previously like crazy. That said, I loved cooking and food is not exciting now. But I didn't realize how many calories I may have been missing in my counts due to added olive oil here and there, etc etc.

I know keto/low-carb diets are all the craze right now, and the faddy low-fat diets of the 80s/90s had glaring problems, but it might be worth reassessment given the current circumstances.

My current situation, to sum it up is:

• working from home, at a desk 4-5 days a week

• go for a walk most days, but not every day (I should be doing more, but bouts of pain have interrupted forming better habits)

• no weights — I'd like to reintroduce this to prevent further muscle loss after years of so much hard work, but again—been warned against this for now

• under 30g of fat in my diet a day — doesn't matter if it's "good" or "bad" fat. Just total volume. This means I have to select food options I used to think were awful. If I want cheese I have to pick the cheaper, non-fat options like store-brand plastic-like slices. A lot of chicken and turkey cold cuts. Low-fat bread and bagels (I used to avoid bagels like the plague)—nothing with seeds or nuts. Hardly any oils. No butter, no margarine, no nut butters or spreads. I can have small amounts of low-fat cream cheese.

I previously lost a great deal of weight suddenly due to the inability to eat properly for two weeks, and being taken off solid foods for several days entirely.

In June 2020 I was up to 225 from 198lbs. From mid-June to early July I went from 225 to around 205 (I suspect mostly muscle loss since I was still flabby). Since returning to solid food and the new, unwanted diet I have gone from that 205 down to 186 today. Some of that loss may be due to other health factors as the rate is probably a bit high for healthy, but a large part is due to a much more calorie-restricted diet. It's actually a lot harder to read my caloric requirements without those fats and things I actually want to eat...

This is a prime case of YMMV, and my diet is a bit extreme, but I was in exactly the same case as you prior to the emergence of my health problem and am on a diet I would never have considered otherwise. Also—my heart has been in great shape so I don't know how this would hurt someone with heart issues—I probably get a lot of salt, but my needs for electrolytes recently probably also buffer that a bit.
> Just wait until you tell them to take down their own browser

Well, they're taking the address bar away, bit by bit; they have SafeSearch; and they have AMP. It's a very slow erosion, but there will come a point at which going outside of the list of officially acceptable sites will become more difficult - first with mandatory warnings, then maybe with mandatory reporting to law enforcement or whomever, and eventually not at all.

Yes, it sounds like a "slippery slope" argument, but we're a few steps down the slope now, and any argument that encourages us to climb back up has to point out where things may go if we don't resist.

It sucks that this requires us to defend the rights of people to speak whom we may intensely disagree with, but that's the crux of the matter. Either we become mature enough to understand that people will have discourse we dislike, and avoid it or engage with it as we see fit, or we continue to hide behind authority figures who will purport to keep us safe by controlling what we can say and think.
Lidar-based systems are pretty good at detecting stationary objects. Humans on the other hand crash into traffic jams pretty regularly.

So in that situation I'd prefer that to be an automated truck.
This is surprisingly cool. I bet a significant market would be into this. And with the current situation in the world supporting local businesses is all the rage. I just wish they had a phone app with ebooks.
I think comparisons between trillion dollar companies, counties, and houses make for weak arguments.

Counties can imprison or kill you for speaking incorrectly.

Companies? Only have the power to cause me trouble when they are oligopolies, e.g. big tech right now. It can be quite severe trouble, even if it isn’t literal imprisonment.

A house? I am aware that poverty (and being a minor) forces some people to live with abusive persons who can give them a choice of silence or homelessness. That kind of evil doesn’t scale up to affect everyone (perhaps if it did we might try harder to fix it?)
We still don't have enough data to get a good estimate of that, because we don't have good data on the number of people infected by the virus. Even the best surveillance testing regimes are known to miss a bunch of cases.
I suspect most people in this crowd either don't have direct experience with Office 365, or haven't discovered its versioning/real-time collab features.

That said, "track changes" is still used extensively especially with parties outside the organization, especially for legal documents.
I completely agree that the data from China is not particularly reliable. In fact, I remember noticing this in early March.

That being said, it's clear that they have dealt with Covid 19 much better than much of the West.

Like, I guess I got sucked into geo-political flamebait here, but this FT article is quite poor by their standards and it's a shame that it's getting covered on HN.
If all he did was to not speak up, your argument is totally valid. But the truth is he actively tried to silent others by saying Daryl Morey was "misinformed and not educated on the situation", when nobody asked for his opinion about the matter.
It needs to be regulated first by law makers to prevent companies applying arbitrary rules and discriminate clients based on subjective/someone's personal preferences.

Countries like Austria and Germany have a law called Wiederbetätigungsgesetz which prevents public display of neonationalistic symbolism or speech. I think such a law would be a great starting point for a new law preventing hate speech and discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

We can see a shift to the alt-right in the USA at the moment, where reasonable people and certain ideas like universal healthcare are being labeled as extreme left.
If it's really slow loading:

https://archive.is/vz3kE
For reference: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/oct/19/news.busi...
Yes, quite a bit stronger.
LLA: the optimal hub — at least in summer. (and modulo transpacific routes?)
I think you can turn off that smart selection thing. There is corresponding "smart" behaviour when you drag a selection to a different place so you don't end up with missing or duplicated spaces, so the precise boundary of the selection isn't as important as you think unless you want to select mid-word. I think for most people this behaviour that you find annoying is actually useful - remember that Microsoft is one of the few companies that actually does real user testing.

For your other objection (and maybe what you were also really getting at with your selection objection), maybe you'd like WordPerfect 5.1's "reveal codes"? :-) We can all agree that Microsoft wouldn't have hesitated to steal that feature if it would have benefitted them. The fact that they didn't is proof that formatting markup is something that was historically tried (or considered) and rejected, rather than something waiting to happen in the future.

In any case, for a program as huge as Microsoft Word, I think this is all quite minor. How much of your day is really ruined if you start typing after some bold text, find that the new text is bold when you didn't want it to be, and have to manually turn it off again? It's a fundamental problem with the model, like you said, but has surprisingly tiny impact on usability. If this is your biggest objection, it's almost proof that the program is pretty good. (But I can sympathise with minor objections: I hate copy and paste works differently in Excel then any other program!)