skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Splitting hairs over the semantics of the word 'journalistic' is an attempt to discredit the study about authoritarianism being at an all time high in the U.S.

Those two things are not the same, and in many ways aren't even connected within the context of this article.

1. The article's definition of journalist would allow me to claim that I'm a journalist. I would never consider myself as such, nor would any reasonable person, yet my photography has adorned the covers of published books, my writing has been published on respected news sites, and I've been invited as a speaker to conferences as an authority on a variety of subject matters.

"Some track record of journalistic work" is a very low bar, depending on the meaning of "journalistic work" and "some track record".

"self-identifying as a journalist" is an even lower bar.

2. If you'd read the article, they even assert that half the incidents reported occurred to people not associated to any known or major media organizations and presumed to be freelancers.

So, I don't think it's just "splitting hairs", the definition is central to the validity of their methodology. Is there a problem with growing authoritarianism in the US? In my opinion, yes, unequivocally. I've been discussing this matter in my circles for more than a decade. The revelations from Snowden, the work the CATO Institute/Radley Balko did on police militarization and brutality, no-knock warrants, asset forfeiture, etc. are all strong evidence of a persistent and growing authoritarian trend in the US. That may or may not validate the evidence in the article, but the way the article states it's evidence and methodology comes very much down to semantics about what it means to be a "journalist", and that is not a decided question in 2020. One can recognize and acknowledge growing authoritarianism in the US while at the same time pointing out flaws in the article and it's associated study methodology.

I think it is not in good faith to try to tar people who bring up good questions about definition as "splitting hairs", or being pro-authoritarian, or in other ways trying to straw man their position. You can be anti-authoritarian, be against police brutality and the suppression of the press, have observed with your own eyes credentialed reporters being harmed and assaulted by the police in 2020, and still want to know with some specificity what this study considers to be a "journalist" for the purpose of reporting their stats.
Visa/Mastercard should not have this kind of power :\ They've become a SPOF for our supposedly free markets.

I hope in response to this more companies adopt cryptocurrencies and help make visa/mastercard obsolete.
What's Periscope?
Foreign-Memory Access API in Java
Show HN: Unofficial FAQ for Google Cloud Run
Spectre ES GUI
I’d imagine for something like Siri they’d argue it is too deeply embedded to be replaced and the rules would have exemptions for that. I think the rules applies more to superfluous apps on Windows and Android that you can’t remove like the Xbox app on Windows or having Facebook preinstalled on Android.
See also the term 'poaching', which implies ownership of employees.
I think it's wrong to arrest journalists for doing journalism, but I don't really care about legally punishing "journalists" doing "journalism", where "journalism" is targeted violent harassment, slander, vandalism, etc.
There is! I do! It's Parsing Expression Grammars!

There's a reason Rakudo adopted them in its quest to out-Perl Perl (5).

Regex is fine as an adequately-powerful shorthand for command-line munging and text editors, where the terseness is useful. It turns on you as soon as you want to use it in a programming language... which is where Perl comes in.
Beautiful photos, but the decision tree can be shortened immensely to:

Do you like big phones?
-> Yes: iPhone 12 Pro Max
-> No: Do you often run out of battery?
-> Yes: iPhone 12 Pro
-> No: iPhone 12 mini

It's kind of ironic that all the questions about photography don't change what phone you end up with in their decision tree.
Why is everyone missing the obvious replacement: Oracle Linux

It is superior to CentOS in a lot of ways:

- A lot less delay releasing (rebuilding) RHEL updates compared with CentOS (specially important for security updates)

- Free to use and distribute like CentOS

- You have access to optional support

- You can install UEK that has BTRFS and a unlocks a whole new kernel generation to RHEL base

It was better than CentOS for years.
You can switch from CentOS with a script that updates your repos and that's it.

And second: CentOS Stream is not that bad ideia. Why way to long for fixes/updates? It is and will continue to be slow, just not super-slow.
I don't think it's misleading, given the SNES history. For me the SNES was famous for its expansion chips - I immediately assumed one like the super fx chip that gave it 3d graphics.

The title may be skewed towards an audience that knows slightly obscure details of SNES history, rather than misleading the general audience.
Except those aren't example of manipulative language as they're factual descriptions of the claims. If I say the sky is made of honey without any evidence to back my claim and you report on my statement describing it as having no evidence, you've done nothing wrong. Your description of my statement is not using superfluous adjectives.

Anyone making a claim of fact needs to be prepared to back it up. Far too many people game the media by making absurd claims knowing their claims will simply be reported verbatim. Accurately reporting a claim is presented without evidence or is repeating a previously debunked statement is a necessary counter against people making absurd factual claims.

There's a clear dividing line between making statement claiming fact and a statement of opinion. If I tell you I think the sky is made of honey I may be factually incorrect but I'm not claiming to be making a factual statement.

Claims of fact deserve much more scrutiny than opinions. You're entitled to any opinion you want but you are not entitled to your own facts. When your claims of facts pose a material danger to persons or simply the rule of law, especially when they come from people with a wide audience or power, they deserve even more scrutiny than some Joe Shmoe.
"Facebook’s UK users will remain subject to UK privacy law, which for now tracks the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)" - so, what changes for users?
Thank you dang for this statistics. No wonder people find these SV extreme ideas weird and even weirder when they try to blame it on 'russian bots' etc. So deep in bubble that they can even grasp the idea what world is out there outside of these SV local ideas.
The success of OnlyFans is usually presented as a liberating moment for sex-workers but it will almost inevitably decrease their average wages within a few years. Although in its defense, it does help some workers who would not previously have had access to these opportunities.

Less restrictive social mores will paradoxically destroy the main element that used to boost salaries to an enviable level compared to more mainstream professions. It's already the case as shown by Aella's research that the median revenue is very low, even taking into account workers who only post occasionally. You end up with a winner takes all market not too dissimilar to the music industry on streaming services. Instead of it being something that adventurous people do to finance a fun life in their early twenties, it's going to be just another McJob soon.

All of this being said, I still don't understand on an emotional level what could bring so many people to pay as much $15/month for such subscriptions. Judgmental as it sounds, it's hard for me not to see it as at least a little sad.
That would be superfluous to the content in which most people would refer to that document for. Amazon already state it’s for Chaos Engineering, they don’t need to list other similar projects on their own product page.
I work on a product named http://vantage.sh/ that provides something similar as a managed service specifically for AWS. I respect the effort that went into this!
Regulations are fluid and often end up raising the barrier to entry often stifling the competition.
Gmail Gone Again
Getting "x not found" on a lot of previously active gmail addresses.
I think 'for now' could possibly be pretty short.
What kind of data structure does it use?

Ropes?
Tolkien's work shows influences of both the sagas and his own Catholicism. Often, they began with the North European influences and reconceived them in his own world-view. Most prominently, the story of Turin Turambar is inspired by the Finnish Kalevala, but became very different over decades of rewrites. Due to his son's lifetime of effort, we have an extraordinary wealth of information on the evolution of his work.

The universe containing Arda is very different from ours, but Tolkien used it to work out his philosophy of what humans mean in the universe. The Elves are bound to the world, but Men have the "gift of death" and get to go beyond it. The analogy to Heaven is too facile; what's really being explored is the problem of evil, suffering, and the fear of death. It's all an explicitly pre-Christian world, before the sacrifice of Christ and salvation, which allows him to dispense with the trappings of Christianity to look at the real nature of humans (as viewed through the eyes of a people who don't have that gift of death).

All of that is much, much more subtle than Lewis's simple allegories. (Tolkien famously wrote that he "cordially detested" allegories, though he indulged in them once in a while as well.) Reading Tolkien's influences deeply requires a Middle Ages mind-set, both medieval Catholic and pagan views.

None of that is necessary to enjoy, appreciate, and even study his books. But we have the luxury of being able to read the works as they developed, and that gives us an almost unique insight into the multiple worlds that influenced them.
I don't think Amazon would mind being in that position.

Realistically though, with 3 major cloud vendors to choose from, I don't think the danger of app-store style control holds in the same way.
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To provide one datapoint, I think I've got a pretty strong imagination. For example, if I get into a book or story, at some point it's like I stop "reading" and start "watching" it unfold. I day dream a lot. I've got an internal monologue running almost constantly while awake. But I'm definitely a hermit, and I never feel lonely.

I've been working remotely since March and not seen anybody socially since December last year, and frankly it's been great. In a normal year I only meet up with my friends once or twice anyway.
I wonder if the SE is eating into iPhone mini sales. I’ve been waiting for iPhone mini since the 5S, but I got an SE earlier in the year and now I don’t need mini for a few years.
I know somebody who named their dog Emacs.
> I've often wondered if this means I am an introvert. I don't hate other people

I think the most basic and least-controversial definition is that introverts feel the need to "recharge" after a period of socializing whereas extroverts want an encore.

It's entirely possible to be introverted and also gregarious, outgoing, etc... It just means you need more breaks.
It works perfectly in literally every piece of software I use other than Firefox (which I don't use, for this reason).
The fact that the example demonstrating the box drawing characters is broken on mobile tells you all you need to know...
are they wrong?
They're a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation
We are people foremost, not consumers, especially in the context of privacy. Please do not use their terminology, it empowers them by framing everything in the eyes of corporate interests.
By non-native I mean non-native. I am definitely not going to do that, I will simply keep using Edge.
> That's obvious to many of us, but depending on the role I wouldn't fault someone for not being in tune to that question or ready for it.

The job interview gets debated endlessly, week after week, on HN. There isn't one interview method or question that numerous people would consider unfair, irrelevant, broken, etc.

Eric was interviewing people for very high paying jobs. A decision has to be made about the candidate based on something. A person who wants such a job should go in eager and ready to convince the employer that they're a great fit for the job, and do what it takes.

And yeah, Eric's question was pretty obvious. It's open ended, and you can interpret it as you like, which is part of the point. But being a smartass and/or complaining about the question isn't likely to leave a favorable impression. A "faster horse" answer isn't likely to, either.
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If "California is bad for business. Period", then how come it has the 7th largest economy in the world? Seems like business has been thriving there for decades.

(Reducing a complex ecosystem to a pithy statement usually reveals more of your own personal projection, rather than positively contribute to conversations.)
This is the balkanization of the internet. We've lived through a brief period of free exchange among peoples, but it's soon over. I predict only one viable future for all technology companies, big and small: Pick a single national jurisdiction, keep your employees and servers inside it.
It sounds like the existing (albeit semi-hidden) ability to stream live from Twitter is not going away, so if your audience is mostly on Twitter that might still be a good option for you.
I know people will be up in arms about tech companies abusing data, whatever that means, but what I don't fully understand from the article is why this is happening.

> Facebook’s UK users will remain subject to UK privacy law, which for now tracks the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

My understanding is similar to this, which is that all the privacy laws are the same, so is this a Brexit thing because the UK is outside of the EU so it's a legal liability to hold information within the EU (Facebook Ireland as it says)?
It even is sometimes weaponized to help fight competition. For example, by making it expensive to conduct a certain type of business and requiring even higher entry costs (things like certification, licences, etc.) it actually favors large, established businesses.

Case in point: Uber suggesting minimum wage for their workers, some time ago. Think about this, the company refuses to recognize them as their work force but are fine to suggest a minimum wage. As it happens, the minimum wage would put their competition out of business at that time so it must have been seen as favorable for Uber. The competition was not so well funded and so this would be an attrition war at a point in time when Uber was potentially able to win it and wipe all competition out.

This shows that you don't even need corrupt bureaucrats to have regulation steered this or that way by private business.
Traffic costs is one of the issues. Getting approval to use the cloud providers is a pain at work
I found this page useful to test how code I've written handles unusual characters.
There is a slight difference. Slack is used by workers for personal social interactions as well. For many workers Slack is as much a social media tool as it is a work tool. Many workers actually prefer to have slack open during off work hours to share memes with their work buddies.

Even for workers that don’t engage in social activities over slack normally might install it to their personal devices during a conference because that is where their colleagues are conversing, and then simply forget to uninstall it after the conference is done.

A workplace has to be aware that this is how normal people use this tool, and needs to make sure that no one misuses this access to workers during off hours.
Linux was on Pi 4. On PC it was actually Windows. The first version went out some 7 years ago I think and was rock solid since the beginning. They must've done something right ;)
> This only affects servers that do indeed serve the "anybody can talk to me" CORS headers.

That's simply not true, it can effect things that aren't even web servers at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-protocol_exploitation
>I always wondered what's stopping a rival to Facebook that offers users a share of the money they are generating.

They sort of do. The money is converted into the utility of the product to each user. Technically, they could lower the utility of Facebook and pay you the rest.
Breakthroughs in Wireless Charging Extend Across New Zealand, Even to the Moon
What changes is that the regulation won't be backed by the EU, so perhaps Facebook sees the UK regulator as toothless, or at least less likely to pursue things?
Sorry, I’m a pleb but in what capacity/setting is this particularly useful?

EDIT: I don’t mean this in a negative manner, I just don’t know about this kind of stuff so I’m curious about what settings this is useful.
Title is very misleading. M1 is faster than a macbook pro without discrete graphics, slower than a macbook pro with discrete graphics. But who is training models on their laptops? Any real (i.e. non-toy) machine learning model requires a desktop and Nvidia GPU, which is several orders of magnitude more powerful.

If you can't afford it (but can afford the newest Macbook Pros?), Google Colab is free. Or use other cloud based GPU providers.

I don't know what Roboflow is, but I wouldn't trust claims they have on their website given the deceptive headline.
Companies are often fluid, especially smaller ones, and can more easily adapt to a changing world.
> Both companies stand to benefit,

I wouldn't be so sure.
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8...

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We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior. We will provide an update by 12/15/20, 5:30 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.
Probably the Google-sponsored cryptography library you want to use is Tink, whose maintainers include Daniel Bleichenbacher, Sophie Schmieg, and Thai Duong.

https://github.com/google/tink
The pricing just for the ingest seems way off. $0.002 for 10,000 metrics might not seem like much by even a simple node_exporter will grab 700 metrics every 15 seconds.

Thats $24/month just to ingest the cpu/ram/diskspace data from each server. Plus storage and query costs.

At work I have a single r4.xlarge instance handling 1.3 million metrics every 15 seconds. Storage is not clustered but cost is only $500/month. It would cost me $45k/month just for the ingest with the new managed service.
I thought the plan was that on Brexit all existing EU laws would become UK law, until we decide the change them. Did that not happen in the end?
Covid-19 infections continue downward trend in South Dakota
What problems does route53 create? Is the api not available? Or the dns servers returning ko data?
It's been over for quite some time.

I'd explain more but this content is not available in your country.
Guess that's why Revolut or Monzo asked what my citizenship status was. To do the same in short term future.
Different Types of Capital
Just have Fannie and Freddie give preference to those loans in their purchasing decisions. You'd end up with weird MBS based on population performance as opposed to regional or time based, but at least then you can bid up the mortgages (and down the yields faced by consumers of color).
I've lost a lot of masks and it's not because I'm intentionally littering. I just get home and find that I don't have it anymore. Perhaps the shape of it makes it work out of a pocket easily?
As the co-founder of Apache Java and a 20+ year member of the ASF, creator and contributor to hundreds of projects over the years, I think I've contributed enough of my time to OSS. I'm more than happy to let the new kids jump in. Thanks for the 'advice'.
Like Britain's tainted Indian cotton, and Caribbean sugar, and African diamonds, and Kenyan coffee, and Irish wheat, and Malayan rubber, etc, etc, etc.

No country is saintly. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." applies to Britain's BBC as well as many other countries' media.
Email is the rare "validate, don't parse" case.

With an email address, you almost always want a valid email address, and don't much care why it's valid.

So, sure, check for an @ in there, but then just... try and email it with a link, if the page gets visited, congrats, you have a valid email address.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1327774883002998784?s=2...

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298145371009380352?s=2...

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1296075594896039937?s=2...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-protest-press-throwing-o...

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1296610943514812418?s=2...

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1300690653714591744?s=2...

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=26109...

From above police report link:

"Portland Fire & Rescue treated two Portland Police members injured by rocks thrown by individuals in the crowd. Both of them went to the hospital for further treatment. One of the rocks (pictured) weighed 9.5 pounds and was thrown by a person in group of people wearing "press" as the officer prepared to ride away on a truck. "

"At about 12:36 a.m., Portland Police began moving the crowd to the west as before. This went on for about twenty minutes. Police made more arrests. During this time people in the crowd mingled with those with "press" written on their outer garments as cover and threw rocks and bottles at police. People with "press" written on their outer garments also threw objects at police. Somebody threw a rock, which broke a window in the vehicle giving public address announcements. Others pelted the same vehicle with rocks causing dents. Other vehicles were dented by thrown objects. At least one car parked along a street had windows broken out when a rock or rocks thrown at police, missed them and struck the car windows. "
Do you need to change your location to UK or how does it decide you are a UK user?
you know what sort of corporations you get without governments? without schools and universities that educate their employers? or the research that has supported ALL the technologies that these companies have exploited? or build ALL the infrastructure (roads, electricity, water...)
I do find the years where the big-phone has a notable camera improvement frustrating. Because I like the fancy camera, but am at best ambivalent about the really big phones. So I'm tempted, but really just wish I could know I was getting "the best possible phone-camera" by buying the middle model.

Even though "it's huge so we could fit better optics and sensors in" is a completely reasonable position for a device manufacturer to take...
I truly love Firefox for what it (should) mean: an opensource browser that fights for open and diverse web. Specially now that everything is Chromium based.

However I'm very disappointed with the corporate way it is managed. Lot's of money for the CEO and cutting development funds.

Things I would absolutely buy from Mozilla: private internet services

- Something like Zoho: Calendar/Mail/Notes replacement for Google services!

- VPN server if available in my country

I want to ditch google/apple/microsoft for something "encrypted/private" first. And self-hosting is just a hassle. Provide me easy, "self-hosted"-like services please.