skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments here so far seem to be jumping to conclusions. Commenters are being quick to defend the professor. I'm not sure that the full situation is being understood.

It seems there are three important points being overlooked.

- It seems that the phrase he said was not directly related to the course material.

- He was politely asked to stop saying it.

- He was likely not even pronouncing the phrase correctly and the correct pronunciation does is not easily confused with a racial slur.

> The students said some of them had voiced their concern to Patton during his lecture, but that he’d used the word in following class sections anyway. They also said they’d reached out to fellow Chinese students, who “confirmed that the pronunciation of this word is much different than what Professor Patton described in class. The word is most commonly used with a pause in between both syllables.”

This seems to me that there is an underlying problem/tension between this professor and his students who are people of color.
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Because the virus isn't coming back in Sweden, whereas its neighbours are already experiencing a second wave. Sweden's argument was always that it was "front-loading" the infections, so over the long-term other countries would see a similar number of infections as they experienced multiple waves.

Plus they avoided the rise in depression and domestic violence that countries with lockdowns endured. As well as avoiding massive violations of human rights, although you leftists seem to care nothing about that.
Hopefully the keys get leaked someday, as often eventually happens with such DRM-ish schemes.
Well this is awesome: dosemu2 seems to work well in 64-bit Linux. I just tried it with old DOS OrCAD (a schematic design tool).

32-bit Windows-XP still works a little better in one way: OrCAD has a plug-in graphics driver architecture. Some sneaky person wrote a driver that uses DPMI to make Windows graphics calls. The result is that you can do things like resize the window or switch to full screen mode and the ancient DOS program thinks it's attached to a monitor of that size. So dosemu2 needs to merge with Wine for this work properly...

Some screen shots of Old DOS OrCAD:

https://visio-for-engineers.blogspot.com/2019/11/old-but-not...
Today is absolutely the golden age. We stand at the point where making and selling a game is easier than it has ever been.

I think over the years, people will continue to move away from PCs as a gaming platform to mobile devices, and shovelware from the casual, pay-to-play game companies will keep the market so saturated that it will be hard to discover great indie titles.

PS. your list is missing Disco!
> FAANG
> 18 hour days 7 days a week

Really it’s the workers fault when one of the richest companies in the history of the world is working someone to the bone because they can’t figure out staffing?
My brother teaches in an Arizona public school classroom which has one window and poor ventilation. The Security Officer for the school forbids leaving the door open because of the risk of active shooters.
Apple has a bigger impact on the economy than most nations. It’s not a frivolous comparison.
Yes, but what we’re really trying to see is what happens if essentially everyone is a moderator? Or more specifically, what if the only people who can take part in the discussion are those who can care enough about high quality discussion to ensure that they and others adhere to some set of principles that encourage that kind of discussion. Those are obviously the kind of people who should be moderators, but if the whole community of contributors is that kind of person, maybe you could maintain the quality of the discussion as you scale?

Of course, you’d grow much slower, and maybe it’s impossible to get that kind of site to a critical mass of contributors. But it seems worth trying :)
It just says "USB image writer has stopped working" when trying to create a backup image file from device (on Win10 Pro here).
submitter @abc-xyz had a strong China topic focus.
I thought so.....but it's always good to hear validated or contrarian thought on the topic.

Maybe I'm just in a self-created confirmation bias loop or force fitting, but I'm noticing what appears to be Zipf's Law all around me since I've become aware of it.
Sweden allows gatherings above 500 now (https://www.thelocal.se/20200827/breaking-sweden-to-allow-pu...). And it never forced business closures, which is way more open than most US states.
Apples going for blood.

They're asking the court to give them all the commissions Epic failed to pay while their direct payment system was online, going out of their way to describe it as theft.

> Award restitution and disgorgement of all earnings, profits, compensation, benefits, and other ill-gotten gains obtained by Epic as a result of its conduct inviolation of the UCL
> We would never even be at the level we're at if there weren't those malware-plagued PCs

The mobile industry would also never even be at the level it's at if it wasn't for the iPhone.

One of the biggest selling points of iOS was precisely that it was free of random third-party crap that everyone was sick of by that time.

Ever since Apple refused to let AT&T shovel their bloatware on the first iPhone, the very identity of iOS has been that it's a curated platform, and you only have to be concerned with one company for almost everything.

It was a breath of fresh air, bringing the philosophy of consoles to a mass consumer device.

Millions of people love that. For everybody else, there's Android.
Fast-charging Li-ion batteries from 0% to 80% in 10 minutes
The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages
Next time Project Zero finds an iOS bug and people suggest it is a commercial hitjob, point them at this.

Qualcomm (and all Android vendors) look like they have been screwed by this. (To be clear - they are screwed because their processes are to slow to get security updates out).
That sounds fascinating. Is there an article or book about it?
Then home come their case rate just keeps falling? And their death rate. And unlike the countries that locked down, they're not experiencing a second wave of cases.
Or doing an ad where you are a self insert into 1984 and your competitor is big brother?
Full paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.09.021
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This feature has a lot of amazing potential

Lots of potential for abuse, especially. Any API introduced into an industry-controlling browser granting too many local privileges seems absolutely wild given that the Internet's full of people trying new and creative ways to scam, hack, or otherwise inconvenience end users.

As someone with professional experience in web security, this API is like a nightmare come true.
> which implies that Apple is the bad guy here and Epic is not

Correct.
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Only if we are Luddites. The argument that we need more children to take care of the elderly is moot ..and false.
My grandfather, who's in his 80s and has been using WP for the longest, has switched to WordGrinder about 8 years or so ago. He co-wrote several books with WG as well. He likes it a lot but it'd definitely not as feature-complete as WP. He mentioned to me that he still starts up WordPerfect every now and then to do some task.

When I bought a computer for him, an iMac, he asked me about WP and I setup a DOSBox with it for him. But then I managed to compile Wordgrinder and showed him how to use it and he's been using it since. Wordgrinder used to be a pain in the neck to compile on a Mac but it's much easier now after 0.7.x version was released. I still update it for him when I visit him.

You can see what WordGrinder looks like here: https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/
Your comment was killed by user flags, but I feel we should optimize for irony by unkilling it.
Sounds like Apple are describing themselves?
why? To what end?
They provide two different qualification methods that require nothing of the content of the movie - just the off-screen staffing.
I don't dispute the point that children require commitment. I'm not sure how that makes employees with children less accountable for work than those who don't have children.

What if I have no children but I have a grandparent who is ill and requires care. My point is that if employees with families require support during these hard times, there are probably many who don't have children who also have changed their lives due to this pandemic. Perhaps we should relax the expectations for EVERYONE and not find one circumstance more special than others.
Thanks. I've changed the title to the article's subtitle (shortened to fit HN's 80 char limit), since the subtitle is a bit more factual than "simplifying access to local files".
Depopulation is guaranteed after it peaks.but we just control population because with exponentially growing population, we also have exponentially exploding consumption rates. It’s like Carroll’s Red Queen analogy. We can never outrun.

We must control population to conserve non renewable resources. So we can comfortably perpetuate our species without burning the house down and killing everyone.
You don't always have to be a dummy to act stupid: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
Here's a segment of Billy Taylor where you can here him (and almost every time you can see his lips you can see him scatting along) from an incredible series called The Subject is Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexWRuvJfwQ&t=16m10s
there are many types of utopia i can think of, one could say fukuyama's "the end of history" was a declaration of capitalist utopia (and we all know how that turned out)...

nothing is ever perfect, but it doesnt mean we shouldnt imagine and strive for a better society, i think thats the big point
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The Arab spring started because police confiscated the produce of a street vendor operating without a permit.

Granted, there aren't many people that would self-immolate over Apple's terms of service, but the point is that economic freedom is still an important political freedom that people are willing to die over.
Gould is an incredibly eloquent speaker isn’t he?
It is a simple music player specifically made for playing music from osu! (https://osu.ppy.sh/).
since we’re blaming here, I blame the dominance of web by multi billion dollar tech companies. This requires any site/app that wishes to be taken seriously to have a look and feel comparable to the big guys and the only way you do that on a budget is with a hefty heap of framework abstraction.
> unlawful

lol wat
What makes it concerning? Tylenol is concerning if you take 2.5x the safe dose. Of course the efficacy is unclear — it’s still in trials!
Reminded me of the guy used Python with nEdit and produced the first BitTorrent client.
Don't worry. Some rando at Google is bound to see this message or the next one!
Thanks!

> Can you elaborate how this compares to some open source solutions, for example react-admin?

I would say that ...

React-Admin is a programming framework that a skilled React programmer can use to produce an application with great features that are limited only by the skills, drive, and dev time of the programmer. It looks like a very impressive and powerful programming framework to me.

DataSpeeder, on the other hand, is not a programming framework. It is a finished application that is ready to run immediately, can be deployed by a non-programmer, and has intentionally simple features that were designed to solve a specific problem ... Providing an instant end-user web GUI for MySQL.

To see the differences in how the tools are used, you can take a look at this (very nice!) React-Admin tutorial ...

https://marmelab.com/react-admin/Tutorial.html

And then take a look at the DataSpeeder "Create an Application" video tutorials ...

https://www.dataspeeder.com/support

I hope that helps!
s/worth supporting in the browser/something Google wants you using/
I find it interesting that subscription services (Spotify
or Netflix for example) can have multiple channels for subscription and get away with it. What part of this am I missing that makes Epic's use case unique.
Thank you. I did consider 1st point, but I dismissed it (maybe wrongly) with higher success rate of launches in the future, crashproofing payload etc. But the 3rd did escape my mind (no pun intended)
Epic is disingenuous. They could totally transform the mobile market by investing in IOS alternatives. If you don't like what/how someone is doing something, don't cry about it. Do it better.

This is simply a political gamble. They are hoping that the publicity gained results in politicians opening up the app store to favor app creators (epic) through regulation. It's a pathetic move.
It's important not to forget about drive-by DLL injection when making the "execution is the problem" argument.

Lots of executables on Windows link to DLLs that are not protected by the "KnownDLLs" protection. This means that if you can save a malicious DLL next to that executable you can make a perfectly legitimate executable run malicious code.

I haven't read into the API yet to determine how it protects against this, but it's definitely more nuanced than the argument you're making.
I respectfully disagree on the need to fund the military.

How might we use the trillions of dollars spent on the military for education, healthcare, retirement and other betterment initiatives for U.S. citizens? If hypothetically all nations agreed on world peace, then having a military becomes superfluous but the would-be soldiers can find other meaningful professions in society rather than being soldiers.

Again I'm not against supporting parents. Just when there's immarginal benefits being conferred, that are not available to non-parents.
Nowhere in the Spotify or Netflix app does it tell you how to sign up other than the in-app purchase option which is 30 percent more.
"I do believe in consequences for actions, as do most people over the age of 25."

Of course- there can be no well-considered arguments for things like prison abolition. No, even considering the idea of such a thing means you're too naive. When people break the rules, they need to have consequences- and, of course, those consequences must be "being locked in a cell". Nothing else is possible. Don't show me the data- don't show me the recidivism rates- don't show me the thinking. That's all just crazy. Grow up. Nothing can ever meaningfully change. We must only fine-tune our existing system- the structure, the heart of it all, is unquestionable, absolute, no less so that the divine right of kings. Can't you see that? After all of human history, we've finally figured things out. Don't question it. Moloch is powerful hungry, after all. We need to do what we've always done. Everybody agrees on that. Better things are childish fantasies. Don't dare question the hegemony, kid. Be realistic, we say, closing our eyes, developing new adaptive noise cancellation to blot out the sounds of the child in the basement, God have mercy we need to be realis

But maybe in a few years we'll, say, legalize weed. Would definitely keep a lot of non-violent people out of jail, and that's definitely something. Maybe by 2050 we'll have cut inmate labor by 10%. I think that's a fair compromise.
And "Apple accuses Epic of “Willful, brazen, and unlawful” conduct" seems much more catchy while still using wording from the legal document, wouldn't you agree?
Epic also barely uses any of the toolkit stuff and has their own UI. They may use Metal, but I don't think there is a Vulkan option from Apple on iOS. They probably only have native widgets where mandated (text entry, etc.).
uhhh,
we already have a shattered incentive structure and are not reproducing enough humans to support the next generation. US fertility is below replacement, as is pretty much every other developed or middle income country. Its likely that we will see peak world population in our lifetime.
Are you a Chinese propaganda bot?
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/epi...

And relive all the early-2000 SCO drama at your leisure: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2003083117...
Sahara Forest Project
https://www.saharaforestproject.com/

Desalination + desert greening + solar + farming. Awesome
The twisting of logic is by you, a person incapable of recognizing absurdity as a joke instead of real. You are Poes law incarnate because it serves a political purpose. If I put a gun to your head and asked you to guess whether Trump meant it or not you would say he didnt. You know it. I know it. The only people who dont know it are the people who are uninformed who you hope to sway with your pearl-clutching rhetoric. Anyone with a third grade education those bleachers bad for you. Duhhh
As opposed to all the other stores that ... charge 30% or so, but don’t host free software as well?

Seriously, I need someone to explain what makes this any different from The google store or consoles? I mean aside from consoles not supporting free (as in price) software either
Sometimes, the IRS identifies the overpayment and sends the taxpayer a CP268 notice. The taxpayer can choose to receive a check or a credit against other taxes.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/understanding-your-cp268-not...
People can have children without congratulating themselves for a sacrifice well delivered. Newsflash: there is NO village that will raise the kids. Families raise kids. Not society. The trade off for the hassle of procreating is making sure that ones genetic pool continues. That’s how we evolved. Kinship for species only extends so far and not much at all when there is parental entitlement.
Can you be more elaborate about your last point like give examples where it's not proper?
1. the $500 of child care in France is more expensive than $1500 child care in California if you factor in lower salaries.

2. with the attitude of reopening schools in France and elsewhere in Europe in spite of the pandemic I’m actually happy that schools and day care are closed (at least on the west coast). I don’t want the government to mandate school attendance right now (not sure about France, but in Germany attendance is required by law), thank you.

That being said, I completely agree with you that tax dollars are well spent on early education and it’s grossly neglected in the US.
>So in essence, all this new API is mostly buying you is offline mode.

There's been, for a long time, local storage APIs.

This is filesystem access, which is very different.
If I put a cpu in a server (Dell, HP, whatever), and that CPU then doesn't function in other equipment, than that cpu is broken. That's not an exaggeration in any way.

So, the server maker then owes me a new cpu (of the same model obviously) that does work.

It'll be interesting to see the legal fallout from this, as purposely breaking customer owned gear is not going to end well.
You could have responded to my post but instead you did this. Why?

There are more than two skin tone phenotypes. It's a gradient that gets lighter as you move away from areas of higher UV radiation to areas of lower UV radiation.
It was also the strategy of South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Utah, and they seem to be doing a lot better in terms of both GDP hit and caseload than places like California and New York with heavy lockdowns.
It’s only a pathetic move if it doesn’t work. If it works, then it was a great move.
10M is a lot. It’s a population larger than the majority of US states and by far enough to draw conclusions from.
Vanly is live, share your driveway space
What about parents of children who are a burden to society? Should they pay back the subsides recd for their bad seed?
Imagine Facebook forcing users to install their own App Store to install Messenger. I think such outcomes are quite apocalyptic if you see what road that leads down.
That's just flat out wrong. If that were the case, than the Spanish Flu would still be killing millions of people per year.
There are some realistic benefits. If my phone gets stolen, there is no way for it to be wiped and reused without my input. And if it makes it back to me, it is extremely unlikely that it has been loaded with malware which will send off my data when I log in again.

But yes, its really shitty how the downsides end up with the loss of user control and ewaste. Especially when it is possible to design something that is secure and that the user controls.
You realize immigrants do that ALL the time for their families, right?
Your understanding of the immune system is not quite correct. Just because you can't detect antibodies doesn't mean you lack immunity.

B-cells can stop producing antibodies and reactivate production in response to an antigen. T-cell memory appears to be quite robust for coronaviruses (and this one in particular)

To establish a lack of durable antibody response, challenge trials would need to be done, where the host is challenged by the virus (or something that looks like the virus like it's spike protein). These trials have not been run.
And then you spend 10 hours trying to surf on a truck in the hope of getting that #251.
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One of the new forms of entertainment that exploded in popularity since quarantine started.
Noita is a rather interesting game that has some similarities: https://noitagame.com/
This administration is “tough” on China only because the Chinese haven’t agreed to illegally help them with their re-election efforts, and because blaming China for Covid19 is a convenient diversion from the abject failure of the US federal response, and plays nicely to its supporters’ racism and xenophobia.

According to Bolton’s book, when Trump met Xi he praised the Chinese treatment of Uighurs, and begged Xi for help (to borrow Trump’s favorite description, “he begged him like a dog”).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-x...

This goes along with Trump’s at-least-monthly private phone calls and meetings with Putin where he gets his next instructions, his (as he personally described them) “love letters” to and from Kim Jong Un, his praise for Balsonaro, Erdogan, Orbán, Duda, Prince Salman, Netanyahu, and so on.

The idea that the administration wants to stick it to the Chinese as a way to defend human rights and democracy is ludicrous on its face.
But they would still be using iOS, right?
That’s what most of the immigrants in Silicon Valley went through..and it seems like they have thrived and haven’t perished due to the move.
I'm sure GP would agree, as that seems to be the reason for mentioning that the title was editorialized in the first place (and probably also why OP chose the most inflammatory quote in the source rather than the more neutral document title)

Inflammatory, click-baity titles can be "catchy" for sure, but that doesn't mean we have to use them here. The fact that it uses "wording from the legal document" doesn't make it a good title, regardless of how catchy it is.

".. please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In any case it's a dupe as GP correctly pointed out while linking to the existing and more substantial discussion.