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> In the 2010 Citizens United decision, the court’s conservative majority opened the door to allowing corporations (and unions) to spend unlimited amounts on political advocacy, as long as they donated to interest groups and political-action committees rather than to campaigns.

Unsurprising to see Emily Bazelon deeply distort Citizens United. That case wasn’t about “unlimited money.” The entity that was prosecuted was a small 501(c)(4) non-profit (the same category as the NAACP or ACLU), who made a movie critical of Hilary Clinton too close to the election. The government’s lawyer admitted, that under the government’s theory of the first amendment, nothing would preclude the government from prosecuting a corporation that spent corporate treasury money to publish a book: https://www.ifs.org/blog/citizens-united-its-all-about-the-b....

In fact, had Citizens United gone the other way, the Trump administration would be able to tell Google and Twitter they can’t use corporate funds to moderate political content. There is a reason the ACLU was in the conservative side in that case.

That the media has for a decade created a Twilight-Zone reality to make the public believe that Citizens United was about money and not a political movie should call into question the article’s whole premise. Do you really trust these gatekeepers of “the Truth” to yield the government’s power to police speech?
It depends on what the definition of stranger is. At the point she sent the money she had entered a relationship as an employee. Granted, it was a new relationship, I think it is easy for most people to now think of this entity as no longer a stranger -- even though they probably should.

As noted in a below thread, the solution can still be to make the funds available, but to note clearly that the actual funds may not really be there.

As you note, this scam has been going on forever, and some simple UI changes could make it harder to execute, while not hindering the common case (non-scam).
If someone put you in a lead position it's their responsibility to see you grow into that position.

I've seen great engineers be terrible people managers and vice versa.

Also, you should also have the option to become an IC again.

I think your company failed you
There's an unbelievable amount of woo and magical thinking floating around this subject. It definitely requires more effort to learn and remember. But yes, point taken.
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There’s the whole X86 arena of middle ground.

Most people don’t need a Mac.
Not OP, but it's good if these two are met:

1. You and the client can converge on what should be done.

2. You have the skills/experience/whatever to help the client do that.

Lack of #1 is bad because you could end up signing up to do work that you believe is the wrong solution (or solution to the wrong problem) and end up being ineffective.

Lack of #2 is bad because doing things that are too far from your expertise will result in worse outcomes.
To be fair, that's gcc, not C.
At the same time you have a major advantage by most of the internet being (language wise) accessible to you from the get to go.

I can just say that if I would have been able to speak english in my teenage years it would have majorly influenced my life in a likely positive but at least more interesting direction. Sadly back then I neither had any reasonable english skills nor was I aware of how much it would help me.

Through I guess by now it has become quite obvious how use-full english is (wrt. IT/CS).
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I love the iMac 27 monitor. Curious what is not to like? I prefer it over the LG Ultrafine.
I agree. I quite like the "Chemical Crystals" under "Polarized Transmitted Light Microscope" at https://www.dealcorner.com/Photomicroscopy/
I was hoping the first link would be Johnny Lee... He was a true pioneer and hacker in this space.
It’s the same AR tech except you move your head instead of your phone. At the end you still gonna need glasses to have the best experience
I think you probably mean "consistent" rather than "coherent." Either that or you have a low view of our writers!
Not necessarily. In most cases people won't check the status. As noted in the story the sister actually checked because there was some suspicion. In this case she would have paid more attention to the status and possibly could have said, "its still in pending... can't transfer yet". Of course the scammer would have a well-rehearsed reply, but it at least moves the level of suspicion up a notch.
It seems strange to me that you would build without already having a problem to solve.
Ok but part of the reason people lower their skepticism is because they see their bank’s UI heavily implying that the check has cleared. The main point of the post is that banks’ UI about whether a check has cleared is very misleading and really needs to be changed.
The problem isn't the developers, it's the industry. If developers are having to learn the latest frameworks to climb the career ladder, it's because companies have built all these sites with crazy inverted-pyramid tech stacks and need to hire people with ever more narrow skills to maintain them. The developers are just adapting rationally to the market.
Quote from WSJ story:

"In late 2017, when Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm to minimize the presence of political news, policy executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including the Daily Wire, people familiar with the matter said. Engineers redesigned their intended changes so that left-leaning sites like Mother Jones were affected more than previously planned, the people said. Mr. Zuckerberg approved the plans. “We did not make changes with the intent of impacting individual publishers,” a Facebook spokesman said."

https://archive.md/uhZpP
I'd love to watch a ship clear a bridge by 10 thousandths of an inch.
Expanding on what katbyte said, the Hays code was adopted by every major studio in the US to replace state run censors. They did this because of the same battle going on right now in social media: "if we self regulate, then we won't need government regulation placed on us." When an entire industry agrees to follow the code and has enforcement options available and does it with the threat of government action if they don't follow it, the only difference between it and a real law are the name. The consequences to ignoring it were that your funding was dropped, the offending scenes were removed from the film, or you were kicked out and blacklisted from the industry. They were apparently pretty strict about it. You can tell that by how stringently it was followed for decades.
Just a sidenote that to build stuff that is "also easy to be repaired" is not that easy.

You need another new skilset from designers and mechanical designers to not only make small, beautiful and "easy to build and durable things" but also easy to fix things.

You also need more from the production chain to be able to ship parts and instructions how to change them. And ship them.

Things needs to be recyclable and should be fixable. Just saying, IMHO, that it is harder and I understand why in some stage it's not done.
Some of my favorite test queries for shopping sites (from back when I used to work on a comparison shopping engine:

[apples to apples] -> frequently returns random "Apple" products, because when you dedupe, stem and remove stopwords from that query, you're left with "apple", and Apple products are big ticket items.

[shirt dress] -> frequently returns dress shirts, because many sites essentially ignore word order or the notion of compound words.

[fish swim vest] -> frequently returns fishing vests, partially because of overstemming (many POS stemmers will stem "fishing" -> "fish", but in a product search setting, it's usually the wrong thing to do).
Buying a product with an illegal EULA and then refusing to adhere to the illegal EULA is in actuality one of the highest forms of protest around this topic that one can carry out. Otherwise you're complicit via fear.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's a valid point, Chrome and Firefox will strongly limit third-party cookies soon, Safari already did as far as I know.
This congregates power into the already powerful

As opposed to throwing people in prison for expressing incorrect views? Who do you think will be in charge of that process? Hint: not the powerless.
If FB looks at an account in depth for a new Oculus, why don't they just start scanning all accounts and locking them for the same violations?
Before I read this article, I was thinking about how repair shops are making a come back. uBreakiFix has about 600 stores in the US that repair phones, tablets, computers, gaming systems and other devices every day.
Ah yes, let me prove that I am worthy enough to use the $400 device I just "bought".

Makes me wonder how these things happen and how no one at Oculus turns this feature off when the first case turned up at their offices.
See: Apophenia (clustering illusion)
Somewhat related: there is a Pandoc "writer" on GitHub that pretty prints most formats supported by Pandoc (including Markdown, of course).

https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/pandoc-terminal-writer

I contributed some changes back in 2019. The writer is written in Lua and the lead maintainer seems happy to welcome PRs.
> wise for a language to be parsimonious with syntactic constructs at first

Absolutely.

But Swift wasn't parsimonious at first. Not even close. It unwisely rejected the parsimonious case and chose tremendous complexity.

Keywords? Or parens? Both! And we'll throw in a bunch of other stuff as well. And the weird case of having two keywords, one with a colon and one without, because we decided to make the keywords the names of the parameters. Sometimes.

And then afterwards they noticed that the parsimonious choice that they had initially rejected in favor of their much more complex choice was needed in addition to all that initial complexity.
I think this rationale is largely conflated with the idea that the laguage we speak dictates how we think. As others have mentioned, this is largely considered a falacy nowadays.

The most obvious argument against this is that you can very easily conceive of something but be unable to articulate it. You can _think_ something but be unable to _put it into words_. Given this, it stands to reason that thought =/= language.

Similarly, new words are coined all the time to refer to new and original ideas, these ideas must - if you believe language dictates what we can conceive - be impossible to form.

If you're interested in this subject, I can strongly recommend The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. (It's available on Kindle and there's plently of 2nd hand paperbacks online too.)
Is it this? Reading the new yorker article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16232898
On the other hand, interest rates a low right now, so you could also invest that extra $100/month, and come out ahead.

Maybe just before the election isn't the best time to invest though.
Good to hear that your have liked it. Also thanks for the Suggestion. Will consider this for a future release.
"Left-leaning news" - you mean every major news outlet not named Fox?
Good luck training anything in any reasonable time on it.
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My Apple first-party USBC hub has bizarre ordering issues with my Macbook (have to plug it in, in the order HDMI, pass-through USBc charging, then the USB-A peripheral), and the hub doens't work with my Chromebook. A third-party hub does work, but my Macbook seems to recognize each different hub configuration as a new device, so every time I disconnect a USB-A peripheral, the screen flickers as it reestablishes a connection. Inevitably, my internal sound card is no longer recognized. If I disconnect the pass-through USB-C power cable, the screen goes black and takes 1-2 minutes to reload the login screen. Performing an NVRAM reset seems to fix most of these issues, but I now have to do it every few weeks.

The Apple-branded USB-C ecosystem is a giant mess right now.
I agree with the concern about crew qualification, but maybe at least convert the worst offenders? The Guardian said [1] that "just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars". Why not convert those 15-20 biggest ships to nuclear (with a UN or IAEA compliment aboard if you want)? I believe this could be a huge win for the environment achievably today with mature technology.
> The image also twitched when my wife tried to get a glimpse alongside me. Sony says it’s designed for one viewer at a time.

Please drink verification can.[1]

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
The code is up on gitlab, you can hack on it for private purposes to your hearts content.
If you're starting a pool, I'd like to put $20 on "Zuck tried to talk tech policy, but really they only talked about Trump."

And how about $5 on "how to drink water in public" while we're at it?

It's difficult to imagine conspiracy there, friend.
Some writers use "she"/"her" as genderless pronoun. Example: CEO should fire her own people for the last resort.

What do you think of this?
I use Cloud9 all the time for AWS based dev work.

The whole AWS integration is prett awesome, but compared to VSCode it feels a bit old school.

I tried running code-server on it and it gave me the best of both worlds, but the integration feld a bit clunky. But on the other hand I didn't put much work into refining it.
When I saw the title, my first thought was that banks’ janky non-standard and often-changing login flows make it easier for sloppy phishing attacks to work.
That's the thing. The people railing against disinformation are responsible for as much of it as anyone else. They have no moral authority to put themselves in charge of the speech of everyone else. Their illiberal desire to be in control of others speech should be terrifying to anyone who cares about the future of western civilization. Many people are cheering for such control because they think it will only be applied to the "bad people", it's breathtakingly shortsighted.
> I'm surprised, always thought the Rackspace premium price was to prevent or significantly reduce these issues.

I've found that these systems are often there to make the business-minded customer feel better vs. offering up any sort of highly-competent technical support. Rackspace fits this bill for me although I haven't been their customer for close to 10 years due to how badly they've burnt me.

On the contrary, free-tier Linode support has always been incredibly technically competent and has never let me down for the 10+ years I've been with them. If anyone from Linode is reading this - you guys are awesome, and your support staff is amazing. I can't say enough nice things about them as they've done so much to support me for a solid decade!

All I'm saying is paying for support vs. not paying doesn't mean you'll have any more technically competent help in my real-world experience. It just means "you're paying for support" on paper, and typically is just an up-sell from legacy hosting providers like Rackspace or GoDaddy. Free from Linode is 100X paid from Rackspace - all depends on the company.
If you suggest this site has astroturfing you'll be chastised for not following the site guidelines even though it's perfectly possible that there is astroturfing
Ask HN: Tool for creating an online documentation from Google Docs
I wonder if anyone would need a tool for creating a web site automatically for online documentation from multiple Google documents. Something kind of Gitbook, but only for Google Docs.
The site will be SEO optimized, with built-in search, with the ability to customize the styles of the site view.

You may see some other features. Then please complete the description, if you think the idea is promising. Thank you in advance for your answers.
Forget dialects, why is it possible in English that words sound different while being spelled the same way? Pronunciation is completely unpredictable, you have to know (guess) the etymology of every loanword and remember which of them have the original pronunciation and which of them the butchered one.

Why is scythe spelled with a C?.
It's an Apache helicopter
I’m sure similar scams existed long before the advent of online banking. I wonder what warnings, if any, existed back in the days of paper and pen? Bad checks were much more common decades ago and I think people were more wary.

Younger people don’t have the same knowledge about checks. Banks are outdated in their assumptions of consumer knowledge. But I also think a certain level of common sense also applies here.
Yeah this is something that seems really easier to fix now and really hard to fix afterwards
I’m going to be pedantic here, but Phillips head screws serve a purpose - they limit torque by allowing the driver to cam out. They’re almost always improperly used, but my point stands :)

Torx is far superior to square drive, too...
> But the value of "staying competitive" is to better earn money and status. It's less greedy than maximizing money/status, but it's on the same line of pursuit.

No, the point is to be able to get another job if you lose your current one.
What was the outcome of Citizens United?
Absolutely.

Keywords I remember (?) from a developer perspective:

- basecamp (product from 37 signals, now Basecamp)

- prototype and scriptaculous

- tags, "folksonomy"

- later: gmail
I wonder how generalizable research on parrot language would be to other bird species? They seem to be pretty unique in their capabilities, but perhaps that's just from a human perspective.
hmmm "news" what a funny way to spell propaganda
> I don't think that adopting a syntax that looks similar to Smalltalk means it has 'adopted Smalltalk syntax'.

How so? That is literally what they did. The trailing closure syntax is Smalltalk keyword syntax, and so Smalltalk keyword syntax is used for that one special case. Which exists in addition to the non-keyword trailing closure syntax and the non-trailing (regular argument) closure syntax.

> but it's not fair to say Swift 'added Smalltalk syntax to address a special case'.

Can you explain how it is "unfair" when that is exactly what happened? Smalltalk syntax is really compact, there just isn't that much there.
A problem is the inherent asymmetry in the ease with which one can create a believable lie and the difficulty of ensuring that its refutation reaches everywhere the lie has reached.

You can easily tie up the fact checkers and refuters with what amounts to a denial of service attack.

Should one curtail free speech ? My opinion is no, but one needs to realize what we sign up for when we do that.
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I always found it odd that people expect tech companies to be leaning either way. Their goal is to be as good friends with whoever has power as possible.

If they cared about ethics they wouldn’t have the supply chains or be in the markets they are.

Of course they cozied up to Trump, why wouldn’t they? The only reason Facebook is pretending to take democracy and truth seriously now, is because they have data that tells them they need new political friends post November.
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I have a 2018 Mac Mini and a Dell 4K monitor (U2720Q).

Unbelievably, if the monitor is connected over USB-C, the FileVault unlock screen will not render at 4K60, which means that if you enable FileVault, and then reboot, you just stare at a "no signal" screen, forever.

I had to switch to HDMI just because of this bug which has apparently existed since the 2018 Mac Mini was released.
In my undergrad studies I learned to do assembly on z80. Is there something similar one can get for educational porpuses using RISC-V?
I pay people or donate willingly, to encourage them to continue writing. I buy books and pay for movies so the authors can keep making them. It's possibly more rare that people are looking to find ways out of paying. The developer here must have made compelling content, well done on them for their efforts.
Seconded. I divide my programming into pre- and post-having-read-PAIP eras.
I use a Thunderbolt Display through a TB2 -> 3 adaptor too and it’s an unreliable piece of crap.

I haven’t had any panics from that (although plenty of unrelated panics), but I have to unplug it before I close the laptop, else it’s very unlikely to sleep. Despite not having any external peripherals connected, it always goes into clamshell mode rather than sleep. It then appears to sleep (i.e. the display goes off), but then I come back to my desk the next morning to find the laptop uncomfortably warm with the fans running, while closed and doing literally nothing.

The more I spend on MacBooks the more issues they seem to have.
> I'm still on two generation back

Perhaps that's why you aren't asked?
Agreed probably but I would consider el chapo to be the world's number one incarcerated criminal.
While all of these things may be true, how does this stop Chase from implementing a new cheque status?

This scam is so incredibly common and effective that I think we have to move beyond blaming individuals for making a mistake, and consider implementing a fairly simple safeguard.
The obvious reason is that there were too many returns.
I hope Tesla gets its quality issues under control.
Human Crap
On one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, you say this is a hardware issue but do you know for a fact that is what happened?

Migration sounds to me like you migrate data from one state to the other state, then delete the old state. To me, it would be logical that before you delete the old state, you verify whether the migration was successful.
I think this was revoked a year ago after a major outcry.

Still doesn't excuse them though.
Cynthia, cinder, cyrillic... I wonder why scythe is spelled with an S...
And the big players had a stronger monopoly than seems possible today. Downloading obscure foreign movies isn't quite as easy as Netflix, but in 1960 what wasn't on TV or a few screens was just about unobtainable for almost everyone.

(I guess paying for these downloads runs into a similar situation, mastercard & friends choose to ban things they aren't legally required to.)
Exactly my thinking. I think this is the year of compressing tabular data with differentiable programming tho, instead of the fun flashy incremental woo projects. Certainly it's what I'm up to...
FYI: The HTTPS cert for this domain expired.
Theres a lot of predatory pricing now with these algos (not in the legal/official sense of the phrase which is to undercut competitors). For instance I noticed that I was being charged 6x compared to others for something that I frequently bought on an app.
> Nothings stops you from learning whatever second language you want.

A lack of incentive is what stops most.

> we can travel to a large chunk of the world and have a pretty good chance of being understood. We can work in globally relevant jobs with no language barrier. And so on.

You described the benefit of knowing English, not being a native English speaker.
Oh but not trans of course, so polite of you to leave them out in your heteronormative take on the world.

I would have hoped most were aware of the pressures the transgender community is under and would offer more care than such casual takes on gender in the workplace.

A good place to start
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/trevor-support-ce...

You don't have to be perfect but you could at least try to be better.