skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where’s the Chicago requirement? Here are “the details” from your link:

> Up to $15,000 forgivable grant with the purchase of a new home with a cost of at least $200,000

> Not current Michigan resident
Must purchase a home in zip codes 49022, 49085, 49106, 49103, 49127

> Must be considered a fulltime Michigan resident (obtain Michigan driver’s license and claim Michigan home as primary residence)

> Must prove full-time employment and are working remotely for a company outside of Southwest Michigan

> Consider volunteering on a non-profit board, in local schools or participating in a civic organization in Berrien County

> $5,000 forgiven after each year of residency

Those zip codes are for Benton Harbor / St. Joseph. If you like the beach (Lake Michigan is practically a freshwater ocean), it’s not a half bad area. First time homebuyer programs like this are nice, because the down payment is a huge hurdle for people.

If you want free college for your kids (value >> $15K), then take a look at Kalamazoo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_Promise
If you use quoted strings in both lines, your intent will be more clear.

set a "puts"
$a "Hello World".

On the other hand, I have not used Tcl since the last time I run a Verilog on AIX (21 years ago). I don't miss it.
To add to the other comments: because giving a placebo is essential for the experimental results to have any validity, not giving a placebo would be imo way more unethical, since it would mean you are exposing people to a medical risk (experimental vaccine) for no scientific benefit.

(Needless to say, running an invalid vaccine trial also has very bad consequences: it would delay the actual deployment of a working vaccine to the general public, resulting in millions of unnecessary person-hours of potential virus exposure.)
> My experience is that even small shops care about JVM tuning.

This hasn't been my experience at all after running java on production servers for over a decade.
My point is that that is not the reason for the account suspension. Twitter's policy is very clear and equally enforced! Here is a short video from a reporter that got a suspension for posting private info in a news article, and had to delete the post before getting unsuspended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loylqtvKAbU

It would seem to make this case very clear. Right?
No disagreement here, but if we're talking non-contrived examples, actual facial recognition cameras for video conferencing have gotten all the way to sold on store shelves with an inability to recognize black faces.

I think it's fair to assume that had there been at least one black individual in the development pipeline, the company that made that camera would have avoided an embarrassing mistake.
Your comments seems contradictory. How is optimizing to provide a good experience for those with bad internet not providing a good user experience? I have fast internet and it works fine for me, maybe the problem is on your end?
If states really want to attract high income remote workers, they should construct communities specifically designed for them.

I’d like to see a town that isn’t meant to have a lot of commuters. Have lots of public space and encourage social organizations to connect people together.
I'd wager the law is written more as a way to be able to charge people who the authorities are concerned about but haven't provably done anything yet. Not that that's much better but that's the slightly more reasonable application of the law.

There's been several times where the people who've gone on to do attacks were known to whatever the national security services were but hadn't been caught actually planning the thing. It's the kind of law that'd be great in a world where government is and could be guaranteed to always be run by angels and saints but is absolutely untenable in the real world.
"Our lawyers made us".

Lawyers can't make you do anything. They can advise. They can't act without your consent.
> Yes, from a man who happens to be legally blind and can't verify who dropped it off.

Still more verifiable sources than the Atlantic and NYT stories, which were based on zero verifiable sources.

> Turning up a week before the election?

The Atlantic and NYT stories were also published very recently, also a few weeks before the election.

> The was supposed to be a professional servicing a machine, he violated his clients privacy for his own purposes, and now we're to trust him?

The NYT story was based on illegally leaked tax returns. Whoever leaked these documents has not only breached their duty of confidentiality and privacy that they owe every taxpayer - they in fact committed a crime.

Why didn't Twitter and Facebook block a story that could only come from a source who breached their legal duties and committed a crime? And in your words, how can we trust such a source?
I don't think most do. I don't. And can't help but think many just upvote the titles.
The tool itself is not inherently illegal. Intent and marketing is the only important factor.

A tool designed to be used by police and marketed towards police is legal, as its intended purpose is not infringement. A tool advertised as "hey, kids, use this to infringe those copyrights" is totally different, even if it's literally the same tool.
No, that kicks in once you have 50 or more of them and they work for you full time.

> The alternative is the way California is heading: instead of taking care of people's needs directly, it's regulation after regulation to lock everything up so that only entrenched corporations with the scale to afford all these benefits can afford to operate.

These companies spent almost 200 million for this proposition (highest in California history, and since it's California - highest in all of the states). They are not poor mom and pop shop.
FWIW, I think the complaint was legitimate and the redaction was well handled.

In a perfect world there'd be a marker for "this post has been edited by an administrator", but clearly marking each change makes do in a pinch.
This got immediately stuck in my head as soon as I started dropping tiles onto the grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDQY3zGEbQU&t=123s
It's a logo not a paragraph of text. The overall image is supposed to convey the brand and not just a piece of it. Even W3/WCAG agrees and logos are exempt from the contrast requirement. So your whole argument of citing WCAG is irrelevant as it explicitly doesn't apply to logos.
So it's a matter of definition, not behavior. Because the point of unconscious bias training is to help people see the ways in which they are racist even if they don't think of themselves as racist.

In other words, there's no magically non-racist person out there. Everyone's a little bit racist.
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Most news outlets used to have RSS feeds which, once upon a time before it was removed from a lot of big websites (such as news outlets), allowed lots of people to get a feed of what was published. It worked for a lot of years and, if kept up and published, it could probably have given Twitter a run for its money. You could share the feeds you followed or even build public feeds from that (there are stil a bunch of them, mostly named after planets, for very niche things), so you could have a network effect.

Twitter doesn't have a paid service for users (it has paid access to their API, just in case somebody on this site still had doubts about what really is their core business), I was just making a (probably poorly phrased) example.
One of my favorite VR games (Crisis Vrigade) is only available on the Quest via sideloading because it apparently doesn't meet the FB store's standards. I also thought Half Life:Alyx was really compelling
"Ism" is a suffix that implies a philosophy. An ism is a suite of beliefs. Anything that is unconscious is, by definition, not an ism. Racism refers to people with a philosophy of racial hierarchy, or ideas about race that evoke or imply such a philosophy.

For instance, Buddhism is a suite of beliefs about enlightenment and transcendence. We don't refer to people as "structural Buddhists" simply because they have equanimity.
The Imperial College London team found the number of people testing positive for antibodies has fallen by 26% between June and September.

They say immunity appears to be fading and there is a risk of catching the virus multiple times. ...

The researchers say their findings do not scupper hopes of a vaccine, which may prove more effective than a real infection.
Would the distinction be there are credit cards and then there are debit cards? Credit implies some sort of ability to be able to pay for something essentially out of the creditor's pocket with the agreement you will payback the creditor based on agreed upon terms. A debit card is a digital version of cash where if I don't have any, there is no transaction as the bank says no funds.

I have never heard of a debit credit card. Are we using the term credit card as a generic term meaning the little plastic card in my wallet?
The word "any" has a specific meaning. Most people in the world aren't American and most countries at least from my experience allow private copying.
Here's a fun feature of tcl.

set a "pu"
set b "ts"
$a$b "Hello World"
---> Hello World

In Python terms, this would be as if Python could do:

a = "pr"
b = "int"
a+b "Hello World"
---> Hello World

Who needs eval?
There are already mortgages over a century in Sweden [0], and they changed the legal limit to be a maximum of 105 years for mortgages [1].

[0] https://archive.is/b1xWM
[1] https://www.thelocal.se/20160324/sweden-limits-mortgage-loan...
Sure. I still do software, though more of a R&D sense. Lately I've been doing a lot of different things: compiler passes, along with all sorts of static/dynamic analysis. Lots of fun!
>Then, they shined a red light outside the skull and were able to activate neural circuits in the midbrain and brainstem at depths of up to 7 millimeters

This appears to be extremely dangerous. One strong NIR lamp in a public space would drive people with this insane. Everyone would have to wear special hats. What if it was possible to implant memories this way? A new type of crime: catch someone, take their hats off, reprogram their brains and make them forget the hijacking occurred.
A surgical implant seems way safer in practice.
Political activists regularly equivocate between "racism as unconscious bias", "racism as benefiting from systemic forces", and "racism a overt discrimination" at will, going to whatever definition is expedient to achieving their tactical aims. It's not a truth-seeking process, it's psychological manipulation. A growing minority of people are recognizing those tactics for what they are and rightly rejecting them.

And for the record, unconscious bias training has not been shown to have any correlation with actual discriminatory behavior, and the the researchers who developed the test reject how it is being used in these training sessions.
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This is Joe, from the Year 2220
The parallel is obvious and I fail to see your point.

Original sin is a concept couched in Christian mythology. Unconscious bias is a concept derived from statistical study and observation. The similarity is that unconscious bias, like original sin, appears to be innate to the human existence---a byproduct of the way we think about the world, the thousands of quick decisions we make subconsciously to go about our days. The parallel doesn't make it untrue.

The entire point of some exhibits in science museums I've seen is to bring people awareness of optical illusions and help them transition from not knowing that the human eye has some fascinating corner case failure modes to awareness of the existence of those failure modes. And the eye being imperfect doesn't make it "worthless," it's a pretty ordinary side effect of evolution in the context where those failure modes are rare to observe.
I'm out of the loop, I knew they were in trouble but Mozilla is carving up the talent pool?

I really wish we could come up with sustainable models for not for (much) profit tech companies that was beyond our current systems of volunteer and "strategic partnerships" (as in, it's a side effect of a larger business strategy).

Basically in this model, engineers would make maybe 80-160k. No options, no equity, no "going public". No fancy offices or amenities. Just a reasonable pay, a mission for the public good, and sincere dedicated people.

I've looked hard and searched for jobs like that. Maybe wikimedia and internet archive. But yeah, can't get my emails returned so maybe that's not who they are.
Not really, it's important that yt-dl be able to download partnered content to allow for their fair use.

Plus, the unit test IIRC only downloaded a 100KB (thus less than one second) chunk.
This is a pretty good point and actually just thwarted my planned purchase of the new Oculus I was planning on buying.

"I think people should continue to make sure their Facebook accounts are in good standing before they buy the headset. They can work through those problems before they do it." ~ Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Vice President of Augmented and Virtual Reality at Facebook

Source: https://twitter.com/thebigdev433/status/1316926387664584704 (linked to from OP)

This seems similar in some way to Google deleting the Cloud Print service that my printer I paid $300 for uses. Google has this listed on their site "Note: After December 31, 2020, Google Cloud Print will no longer be supported."

Seems like a dangerous thing to buy hardware from these companies now. And the only sane thing is to buy open hardware when it exists.
I'd imagine that most people in HN live in a locale where you can get access for free. It's a pretty common service from public libraries, although you have to periodically re-request access. I'd imagine that most people who read without paying for a subscription are just using some combination of ublock/umatrix/clearing cookies
YouTube's TOS is not law.
I've had an IDF soldier tell me that the old city of Jerusalem is the most surveilled place in the world, but I guess that wouldn't show up on this list because it's only a relatively tiny section of a much larger city (and who knows if they did their research on that or were just boasting).
Yes, that's true. I think they could also mentioned that you can at least use Sketch everywhere and anytime. Figma never seems to work, as it always wants you to login, and due to the internet being flaky at my part of London or on trains that can become problematic.

Before you know it you aren't able to login and unable to use Figma. That's my main pain point. I hoped the downloaded version of the app would solve this but no dice. Really looks promising but this is a bit of a no go for me to switch t Figma.
Section 1201 requires that the piece of software is meant primarily for infringing purposes. Which means that it being able to infringe alone isn't enough for it to violate 1201, but also that because it can be used for non-infringing purposes doesn't mean it doesn't violate 1201. As with many many laws intent matters and deciding intent is why we have judges and juries.
Why is resolving those edge cases anything but a matter of collecting enough live data from the actual cars, as they are doing right now?

I think it will be pretty easy for Level 5 to be an improvement over human drivers that get tired. And let's not forget that some number of people decide to drive drunk and high, along with a whole host of other factors. In total, somewhere around 35k people die per year in auto accidents. So I think FSD has a pretty low bar to beat.
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> I guess you can think that this isn't bad, if you want. But I can assure you that many of their drivers, and customers, do not agree with you.

I'm not sure about that:
https://www.cnet.com/news/uber-drivers-sue-they-say-company-... and who cares about the customers? Many of their customers wouldn't have problem if Uber was using a slave labor as long as price is low, and ultimately that's what it is about.
very cool. I struggled to find a good tile editor a few years ago, Tiled didn't seem to make the grade.

I would like to suggest a JSON export option.
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We registered the trademarks as part of other process that we were not super diligent with.

We also course-corrected as soon as we realized of it, much before it came public a few weeks ago.
You should look up what 2 very specific events happened in July 2016 and July 2020 when "black lives matter" trended on Google.
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For example because it's kind of homoiconic. Since everything is a string you can define your own control flow constructs for example...
Ask HN: Social media disabling dissenting views
With social media taking stances on the what is acceptable and what isn’t, does it mean there is no such thing as first amendment rights anymore on the web?

Often, they collect personal details and have no healthy
serious competition : Twitter, Facebook, Google, Nextdoor. Linkedin has surprisingly been a conflict free zone. It’s mob rule everywhere else.

Will this lead to a homogeneous society? Is it time to quit the righteous social media?

The world is now divided into right vs righteous. I can’t stand it anymore. I am tired of hearing just one narrative.

I guess my question is...where are we going? Adults in public spaces are acting like kindergarten kids telling on neighbors, co-workers, bosses and anyone they perceive as ‘the other’.

For now, the liberal/progressive side is the rule maker. It won’t take long to flip to the other side. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. So this is a dangerous trend.
I mean, technically, can this be called obfuscation when Google provides to you the code to de obfuscate it?
DISCLAIMER: This is entirely uninformed speculation. I have no inside information, nor any particular depth of knowledge in the subject. Please seek more qualified sources for discourse at a higher level than "Thanksgiving dinner political talk".

This is the best summary of issues I've seen: https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloom...

There are so many technical problems with Bloomberg's article that I find it hard to take it at face value.

Beyond technical issues, the graphics belie the lack of editorial oversight: the image of a penny with a chip next to it is labeled as "[m]icrochips found on altered motherboards in some cases looked like signal conditioning couplers", but the chip shown is not a signal conditioning coupler. It appears to be an artist's conception based on a google image search for "signal conditioning coupler".[0] This is not the sort of ambiguity one expects in a well-vetted piece.

And further absurdity is this circular reference in a follow-up article[1] they published:

>In response to the Bloomberg Businessweek story, the Norwegian National Security Authority said last week that it had been "aware of an issue" connected to Supermicro products since June. Trond Ovstedal, a spokesman for the agency, later added to that statement, saying the agency was alerted to the concerns by someone who had heard of them via Bloomberg's news gathering efforts. In its initial statement, the authority couldn’t confirm the details of Bloomberg's reporting, but said that it has recently been in dialogue with partners over the issue.

It's a game of telephone:

----

Bloomberg to 'A': could you tell us about <story>?

'A' to 'B': I was talking to Bloomberg about <story> recently.

'B' to government: I heard about <story>.

Government to Bloomberg: Yes, we have heard about <story>.

Bloomberg to readers: Government confirmed they independently knew about <story>!

----

All of this makes me suspect that (a) relatively minor event(s) were misinterpreted by the authors as evidence of a widespread attack. I do not doubt that intelligence agencies interdict hardware and add backdoors (Snowden amply demonstrated that the NSA does this -- even without cooperation from any manufacturer). But I also would not be surprised if Bloomberg confused an Amazon red team/blue team exercise for the real thing, or confused an internal report on the hypothetical risk of supply chain compromise for some real event.

[0]: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1047935859020902400

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evide...
It's only public humiliation if people perceive it to be public humiliation.

what's humiliating about having the same problem that basically everyone does?
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I believe you are conflating quiet with success.

The United States is currently undergoing a massive upheaval in multiple major cities about its willingness to sweep racial discrimination under the rug and call it "success." It's an unstable equilibrium; it works until it doesn't.
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Michigan is a beautiful state. Lake Michigan beaches are the best of the great lakes.

However, transportation between the two cities is terrible. Worst travel experience I've ever had. And I've been to India.

I landed in Chicago, and wanted to take the train to Detroit. Had to get to the Train station from the airpot, on time. So was in a hurry.

1. Got off the airport, waited in line to buy Metro ticket, on some antiquated machines for buying tickets. Italian couple
in front of me got confused, and gave up. I ended up completing their transaction for a week long metro pass by mistake.

2. Get off the metro. Ask for directions to the train stations, get pointed in the wrong direction. Waste 15 minutes.

3. Walk back, my flip flops break, need to change shoes. Unpack my luggage in middle street. Walk towards station see a pigeon get hit by a taxi. Walk further, and a sky scrapper is blocked off with police cars, helicopter flying around. Think its some sort of suicide going to on. Keep walking. Later found out they were filming spider man.

4. Make it to train station, wait in line to buy tickets. Tickets are sold out. Girl in front of me in the line starts crying, has a break down. No tickets left.

5. Decide to walk to greyhound station. Police car outside. Think thats a little unusual. Quickly figure out that this must be a popular way for poor black people to travel between the two cities.
Go in, lines everywhere. Its crowded chaos in there. Go to washroom, smells like urine. Wait in information line. I've never seen anything like it. The guy in the line besides me asks a question from the info guy. Gets in some sort of 30 second argument. The attendant, calls in the cops. And the cops arrest the guy! WTF. My turn to ask a question.
I ask if I can buy a ticket to Detroit. The response "who told you that. You've been bamboozled". I don't don't even know what to make of that. Decide to leave.

6. Walk back to the train station. Get told about Magabus. Wait 5 hours. Bus shows up after midnight. Driver is pissed about people having too much luggage. Starts charing people extra for it. Bus is crowded. I end up sitting above the wheel well the whole night. Back hurts the next day.

Never again!
If I leave SV, I'd prefer it not be for another place crawling with engineers.
Sea level rise will not erase Manhattan. Only some significant geological event (or extra-terrestrial impact) could conceivably erase Manhattan to the degree that it would not be easily discoverable (or partially visible) to future generations.

Documenting and distributing one's history is not especially difficult to do with today's technology. The easiest solution I can think of would be to scatter mineral etched documentation into orbit around the planet, along with some very long lasting vertical markers on the land.

But really, one most ask what the point of documenting anything is if all humanity is expected to be eliminated. It is likely that our waste will document our existence more accurately that our intentional efforts, and the later (more advanced) visitors will recognize our primitive collective mentality, choices, and demise.