skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when you mean "Big Tech" do you mean employees, the companies themselves, and / or the executives that lead those companies. Looking around, I only see some statements says only 96% employees of tech firms and media orgs back Democrats.

Looking at companies themselves it seems like they readily back Republicans as much as Democrats. I didn't do any super deep digging, but this is what I am basing my statements on.

https://www.mic.com/p/tech-companies-have-given-millions-of-...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17219930/facebook-campaig...
What issues did you have with the Lilygo? A watch with an integrated ESP32 sounds nice to my ears.
Someone not human then I guess??
Yeah unfortunately they are already effectively independent on a island. And somehow mainland people don’t admire Taiwan people that much
> The US has concentration camps for blacks, native americans and immigrants, where they reeducate you to follow a tyrannical political system?

What do you think the school-to-prison pipeline and legal prison labour amount to? Black, brown and native people being forced into slavery and imprisonment. Not to mention ICE detention camps.

> Are they tracked through a social credit system where you can't get a train out of your town if it's bad?

Ever had to get a background check for a job? To rent a house?

The only reason this is so visible in China is because it's foreign to us. We grew up with redlining and ghettos and mandatory minimums, so we don't even realize it's a different implementation of the same system
I think many of us have the whole 'blackhat SEO' topic on our minds given that there's a thread about it on the front page right now. That said, popularity ranking algorithms often heavily weight votes early in their life cycle, so this kind of behavior isn't necessarily suspicious.
But are these printers open source thus allowing it to be tinkered?
I'm only posting this because I never intend to visit American soil. Otherwise I wouldn't dare. Because I know that these kinds of messages might be connected to my person and used against me if I ever come in conflict with American enforcement.
Super interesting. We're working on something similar within the news ecosystem.

See https://onesub.io/chrome for the extension (and https://onesub.io/mission for our wider mission)..
This does highlight a real problem- advertisers feel like they deserve a better tool than the users they're targeting.
While it might have been the intent, that was never a realistic option.

The treaties and decisions of UN can only be binding on the members iff they voluntarily join these treaties. If USSR wasn't admitted to UN, then UN would be even more useless than historically. If UN was designed to be more strict - to require effective, significant delegation/surrender of sovereignty - then even other major powers would not join, and it would also be even more useless than historically.

Theoretically there could be a model of "UN" that would consist of the West trying to impose their decisions on the whole world. But that would require both the will and the ability to actually enforce these decisions despite the cost in blood, and there is neither.

Regarding will, it would have to be sort of like a military aggressive super-NATO - which "the west" was not willing to do; there's a reason why the NATO treaties are strictly as a defensive alliance, and even then limiting the territories which will be defended (so i.e. a military attack on British and French overseas colonies would not trigger any obligations from NATO); and regarding the ability - throughout the Cold War the West was obviously not capable to unilaterally force USSR to do anything, so a super-UN was impossible, and the current UN was the most that was achievable.
And it's pretty early in the day.
You have a point, but China and the US are rival countries with ideologies that aren’t completely compatible
That was a specific reference to a famous speech of Orson Welles in The Third Man:

> You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
That’s not true. The 538 model was very close to the actual outcome in 2018.
Ngn/K (WASM Port)
Well, the use of this framework seems to "enable" developers to create some of the worst designed, resource wasting abominations in the realm of "native" applications. So I'd rather have that stay closed source.
Hmm, I didn't know about that. Then it would be 20 or something.

(The special case I accounted for is because there's a bubble in the instruction pipeline if the next instruction uses the last register)
Not the OP and I cannot provide any evidence. However, for a large number of controversial topics, I try to guess the top comment in my head before opening the comments page. My estimate is that 70-80% of the times I guess it right.
The first global body was the League of Nations, if you exclude entities like the British Empire from the perspective of their colonies.

When exactly did following the UN or any other body result in desaster?
The slippery slope is a fallacy only if the slope isn't, in fact, slippery.
No. It is a good datapoint that one should consider the seats in play when making claims about the senate. The map this time is much less unfavorable for the Democrats.
Definitely. Windows got worse after XP, mostly with 8. Why did they move things around and setup multiple ways of doing things? Gnome got worse after v2, and what was Ubuntu thinking with ads? OSX/macOS/iOS got worse with flat design (which thankfully morphed) and AppStore and awful windows-style install nanny.

It’s not just the interface. iOS and macOS got embedded spyware years ago, and it’s still there; they can backdoor whenever. Dig through your logs and sometimes you’ll see output of a menu choice upon being connected to. Windows has similar from what I’ve read. I’m willing to give up some privacy, but it seems like B.S. to make people pay for things that do that in such a hidden way. It leaves things exposed. Unfortunately, the desktop OS alone is not enough for security either. Hardware doesn’t lock down, with potential openings for instructions in multiple places in modern computers.
I don't think so. The current situation suggests that we really need an open-source printer, because otherwise there is no privacy at all.
> A report claims women in immigration centers are being given unnecessary procedures that can leave them unable to conceive.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/unwanted-hys...
A private party setting standards for acceptable content is NOT censorship. It’s their right, and it’s also a good idea. Anything other than that WOULD be censorship.
API Pagination Design
Yep. It's a new API that other browsers haven't implemented yet.
Cuba has a much better human rights record than Russia, China and the USA, at least as far as their impact on other countries goes. The presence of Saudi Arabia in the Human Rights council is a much worse travesty anyway, by any measure.
When does something become a crime against humanity? Is terrorism, like handful of men and women just stabbing random people with kitchen knives on a train station, is that a crime against humanity? What do you do, when a group of people constantly advocate for such crimes?
I'm in the same situation as you: work from home, own noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones, use elementary OS.

Personally, the only problem I've ever had is when two devices are connected to my headphones (laptop and a phone). When a notification pops up on my phone, my headphones get "taken over" by the sound from my phone. I basically just turn off Bluetooth on my phone at that point (easier than disconnecting a device).

Minor annoyance for sure (especially because I have notifications turned on for like 3 apps on my phone), but I'm so used to elementary OS (using it since 0.2) that there's no way I can switch to anything else — Windows or another Linux distro — at this point.
if there's one sub-sector of tech that is more than willing to take data and massage it until it fits a particular narrative, it's advertising.
I meant actual action. The Munich agreement was just a meeting that allowed Germany to keep things up without making any concessions in return.

From the wikipedia article that you linked:

> Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become "a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states".
Lawmakers should learn from software programmers to improve transparency (2014)
It's crazy, Twitter and its peers are now the largest public space and forum in all of history, with no precedent coming remotely close, and we're all in uncharted territory and everyone is struggling, either to get this right, or to gain power and influence through it. To make things worse, the mode of communication, too has completely changed – never before has there been a medium with that reach, such low barriers of entry and such short cycle times, it's completely novel. It's fascinating and scary and very exciting to be a small part of it, really. But as Twitter has become an occasional stage for highest-level international politics, stakes have become much, much higher – it's no longer a relatively niche platform on a medium most people may have heard of on TV, with mostly kinda sorta nerdy, strongly self-selected participants and little to no actual reach and consequence to what happens there. So I get the urge to demand something be done about the ... unintended side effects, especially from people who've been thrust into this new world over the last few years and must find this even more disorienting.

Will the current knee-jerk reactions by the platforms work out well? I strongly doubt it. Yet all the the free-for-all, hands-completely-off approach has achieved is to hand vastly outsize influence to those who game it best, often without any transparency at all as to who they even are, and quiet assistance by the platforms themselves in some cases. The last bunch of elections in western societies have illustrated quite well that that's quite certainly not how we should want our democracies to work. So that's not the way to go, either. No idea what we'll end up with when the dust settles, but I expect it will have ended up being a lot harder and a lot more complex to get right than we currently expect it to be.

At any rate, the old internet some of us grew up in is no more, it's dead and gone, and it cannot be brought back, in the same way that the neighborhood I grew up in and that has been massively gentrified, modernized and rebuilt, the former neighbors all driven out, cannot be brought back to what it was. The early internet was a unique experiment that may not see its equal for a long time, and it was great to be a part of it, history being made by nerdy people in front of big CRTs and all, and it turned out pretty well, actually – for all the issues the current internet raises, it is doing enormously, mind-boggingly huge amounts of good. But it's now a whole other experiment, and I feel like it's time to move on.
No hugging, no learning!
Some of the article could have used another read-through: "...made it more difficult for buyers to roll out new campaigns easily". If it's now more difficult to do it easily, how is it in the end?
Part of it is that Google does a very good job making it FEEL like employees are making a lot of money, plus they have all these perks, which are mostly gimmicks.

The reality is that Google, Facebook, and Apple make at least 2x what they spend on software engineers. Good software engineers are enormously valuable. They are making products used by billions of people.

Yet, most of them are unable to afford a house! This is the most lucrative sector of the economy (like Banking was before, and Chemicals was before that), and the best grads go there. Adjusted they are still making less than bankers did in the 80s.

We know that Apple, Google, and the big monopolistic companies conspired to keep wages down. That kind of thing would never happen in a fair economy. I believe that if these companies were broken up - you would see wages go up rather than down, which may hurt Google stock, but would benefit the whole development community.
I couldn't read the article, on the monitor of the ancient workstation I am using, the article is impossible to read, seemly they assumed everyone by now would have 1080p monitors or something, the site has a giant fixed menubar on the top, and a even bigger "subscribe me" bar on the bottom, and these almost touch on my screen, leaving like 3 lines of readable text on the middle... It is just silly.

EDIT: for a while this reached 10 points, now it is at 2... makes me wonder, what I wrote so horribly wrong that deserves all these downvotes?
Thanks! Very informative!

What was it like living in the desert? Where abouts was it in the world? Sounds an interesting life.
Right there in the first article:

> There was no immediate indication of Russian involvement in the release of emails that the Post obtained, but its general thrust mirrors a narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies have described as part of an active Russian disinformation effort aimed at the 2020 election.

So the only proof that it comes from Russia is basically "that's the kind of thing the Russians would do." Aren't you spreading disinformation yourself by claiming that it is Russian disinformation?
> What connects the story to Russian disinformation?

Everything. It's made up evidence for the same false story that Russia has repeated for years.

> if it is completely made up the FBI and/or the government can say so.

They have several times.

(1) FBI found it false

(2) The Republican Senate Report on Hunter Biden found the story false

(3) DOJ investigation started by Bill Barr just find the story false.

This new hoax evidence just repeats the claims already disproven without any ambiguity.
YouTubers engineer hyper-realistic plasma lightsaber that can cut through steel
I wish that the intelligence in printers would migrate back to the computer. Having printers with their own complex formats (PCL, PostScript, etc.) only makes them inscrutable and lends itself to proprietary competing formats and printouts which never gets quite right. I think the original NeXT machine was on the right track with their simple bitmap-only laser printer, where the PostScript processing was done on the computer side.
There has been plenty of aggression from islamist groups, its one of the main reason they are treated like they are. Countless of mass killings on public places, but it only gets mentioned in western media when some american tourist is unlucky enough to perish in an attack. Do you honestly think that china just decided one day to treat these groups like animals, or did they do something to merit that?

Edit: What is up with the down votes? Is this reddit or is this a place where we can actually exchange opinions and world views... What an echo chamber!
Good point!! You have highlighted my foolish complaint!
No I’m sorry. We still don’t have a reason why grown adults are scared of a color and we can’t even talk about it without it becoming a race thing. What a world the democrats have made.
They did physically invade Vietnam in 1979, whereas the US got involved on one side of a civil war, and never invaded North or South Vietnam. Great Leap Forward induced famines also killed tens of millions of people.
Then when that job is no longer needed by society you are really, really lost.
Given the size of the damn drivers you’d think this was already the case.
I remember reading his account of the LA riots. Very vivid, some parts that were obviously bullshit, but a few that ring true.

He also got a guest appearance in Jagged Alliance 2. Or at least one of the characters (Calvin Barkmore) looks and sounds a lot like him.
Buy any Brother printer and use the generic Linux driver. Done.

Well, perhaps not the "replaceable parts", but that is doable with a 3D printer. I doubt Brother would come after you for printing a new output tray hinge or custom-colour button set ... and I doubt any other parts are likely to outright 'break' (my laser printers of various brands have lasted around two decades each). Any other parts, such as the image drum, would require too specialized fabrication to be done at home or at the local fab lab.
Wait--it does run backwards!?

I had thought that the non-logical features at the Prolog-implementation-of-Lisp level would lose relationality. And it does, at the level of the Lisp implementation. But you gain relationality at the microKanren level!

I love it!
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The Japanese in WW2 were also trying to create an "earthly paradise" in South East Asia.
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>>But on what basis does the West have any moral authority to judge China's emulation of Western colonialism.

Our great-great grandfathers beat their wives, thus no one should be able to judge me for doing the same today. Is this your argument?
I’d say Amazon even has more value from CCC (and the likes) by reverse picking data on “acceptable price”, which is avg. price watch set by watchers.
On the mobile site the subscribe thingy that covers most of the screen can be closed by tapping the x in the corner of it. Was this not the case on your desktop?
Fun Ways to Use Kubernetes
Facebook has the worst platform in the world. It's normal to get 6 support reps in a row ask you the same identical question you've already answered 5 times in a single thread they can scroll up to read. Each time you reply, a new rep is assigned the ticket, and they want to maximize throughput so they just use a canned response instead of dealing with the issue. But this is normal. They also ban you by default, assuming, I think, that people who aren't legit won't appeal, so legitimate merchants need to appeal to bans multiples times just to begin buying ads. They also restrict your account so you can't do anything, but they leave the ads running and keep billing you. This bankrupts people who can't pause their unprofitable campaigns. My business partner was being billed ten grand daily via a banned/restricted account for weeks on end.

But this is the game. I've spent millions of dollars on G/FB/etc and that's just how it goes.
Neither did they continue with these claims. Stop moving the gioal post. If we keep applying unreasonable near-perfect standards to one side and way more lax standards for the other we don't do good to neither side.
This is not what happened, not in the US anyway. Fauci, after the recommendations changed, admitted that masks were discouraged to prioritize them for first responders[1].

So we have government health experts publicly saying they engaged in misinformation. But they are the experts against which every other opinion is to be judged as misinformation.

1: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
It's the lying and saying mask are of no use then doing a 180 and forcing everyone to wear one. Nothing would say shut if they said it was because of the low stock.
Or at least they could have added figures in both units. Makes it easier for everyone
As a minority in America I gotta say this is probably the most racist comment I have seen on HN. There is no need to call anybody out on their genetics. Its almost like people forget that absolutely nobody chooses to be born as a specified skin color or culture. Not every single "white" American is racist. That is more than absurd. Racism exists in other countries as well, we are so quick to forget Rwanda and other genocides.
"In the 3D printing world, there are plenty of open source choices, ..."

The 3D printers you are talking about are very simple. Those are Fused Deposition Modeling and StereoLithography printers.

But there are also 3D printers that work like 2D printers. For example Selective Laser Sintering and PolyJet printers. Just like 2D printers they are very hard to make. Those type of printers are also not available as open source choice.
> Surely the equivalent...

No, and that's exactly the kind of categorical error that software engineers make and Google seeks to avoid. Merely speculating on the topic in writing can be used against Google in a court of law.

Google encourages the software engineers to point out the food is rancid. Via the proper channels, so they don't accidentally put something somewhere that leads to a New York Times headline that says "FAMOUS FOOD TASTER SAYS FOOD IS RANCID---SHOULD RESTAURANT BE SHUT DOWN?" The training is about how to have the desired effect without the undesired effect.
Ask HN: Auto-consent cookie and other banners browser plugin?
My Firefox is configured to not save history. No cookies or local storage persist across browsing sessions.

The drawback is constantly dealing w/ the same banners regarding cookies, personal data, privacy policy, etc.

I am looking for a plugin to automatically deal (via whatever means) with all these intrusive banners on popular websites.

GitHub would be a great start. There are two intrusive banners: "Join GitHub today..." and "We use optional third-party analytics cookies...".
Then your allocator would need to know that if it's already decided to use one register of a pair that the other half of the pair gets the save/restore for 'free' and is now better than using a different callee-saves register. I suspect that unless your allocator was designed from the start to be able to deal with that kind of "my choice of register here affects costs and thus my decisions about allocation for a completely different value over there" it's not going to be able to do a great job under that kind of constraint.
You raise a good point. Is the problem "social media", or is it simply democratized publishing? Would a "fediverse" of distributed blogs really be more resistant to misinformation, or would it just be harder to censor? Is this simply a problem inherent to the internet?
What was the "disinformation" exactly?

YouTube has spent the summer censoring doctors because their views didn't match the WHO. The WHO has changed its own views so much that it's now contradicted itself many times, showing how terribly naive Google's policies are on this. Google never used to be naive, but clearly, times have changed.
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I've successfully bought a home by self-GPG-signing and emailing documents (even in a country that has an official (albeit horrible) 'digital signature' solution).
not GP, but most immigration systems violate human rights all the time by treating people as if they were people without these rights - or not people at all. Most of the time the legal leeway is based upon them not being citizens (yet). What is the path to immigration in your country?

It begins with a legal dilemma: E.g. asylum is a human right, but how to determine who is eligible? In a timely manner that is. Especially if you have thousands of applicants and (almost) no documents. How do you house people in the meantime? What rights do they have?
> Why shouldn't everyone churn their own butter? Why shouldn't everyone sew their own clothes? Why shouldn't everyone build our own homes? Should we continue to dumb down feeding, clothing, and sheltering ourselves for exclusive casual usage of <insert offensive stereotype>?

Why shouldn't everyone read? Why shouldn't everyone write? Why shouldn't everyone do the basic math?

Being able to use computers efficiently is knowledge, not chores. To be able to use them as a bicycle for the mind goes way beyond pressing colored buttons according to emotion.
1080 is ancient dude..
Its terrible, i cant even make the simple ads with the wizard anymore because at the last step there are JS errors in the console, in every browser. Support doesnt know what js errors are. nightmare.
Also fascinating satellite images of the suspected Russian beluga pens:
http://www.hisutton.com/Russia_Navy_Beluga_Whale_update.html