skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you don't have to think "porn is good" or "prostitution is good" to acknowledge that it is something that a large % of men consume and protect workers and consumers.

Exactly. Law making isn't about philosophical discussions of good vs evil. It should be about "what's the best way to improve life for people in the real world".
Interesting. When Twilio kicked them off of their platform, this caused Parler's email authentication to "fail open". Meaning anyone could access any user account. So they (the hackers) are now able to download everything.

Apparently "everything" includes verified accounts, which have real-world state ID card photos attached.
Doesn't work, ASAICS
No people do this all the time - a few years ago I read an article where the secret sauce was writing everything in lisp (good luck hiring for that). Goldman Sachs does a lot of work in erlang but mostly to limit turnover on the dev side - try getting a job if all you have on your resume is years of working with a language nobody else uses, you can do it but it’s going to take a lot more effort on your part. I came across a place in Austin once where they did all their work in a toy language the manager wrote in college (greatest job security move ever). Java was supposed to be the solution to every problem, so you could migrate seamlessly between the single platforms in use at most companies. I remember lots of articles were switching to Java is what made the volume go to eleven for company X. More recently I see a lot of articles are Golang is how company X is keeping ahead if their peers. I’m sure I’m a few more years there will be something else.
You don't actually know that. Clearly, ISIS didn't need YouTube to spread. It conquered large parts of Syria and was defeated via military means. Plenty of ISIS sympathisers turned up in the west later, but I don't recall reading about many that were radicalised by watching YouTube. Normally they'd either been to Syria, or it was local mosques.
WhatsApps cloud backup on Android sits on Google drive by default.

It is encrypted with a per user key known to WhatsApp.

That means for a third party to access the chats, they need Google to hand over the data, and Facebook to hand over the key.

The logical next step to add would be for Google to additionally encrypt the data with the users logon password or something derived from it. Google won't do this anytime soon for business reasons.
There is a small group of core "editors". I am not aware of the dynamics within that group, but obviously it is sanctioned and directed by the Wikimedia foundation (certainly through setting policy and allocating budget, but likely also through other forms of direction and interaction). This sets the historical, political and ontological outlook of Wikipedia, in very broad strokes; and decides the actual content on a huge number of articles.

Of course, lay "editors" contribute a huge amount of text, but that's not the "driving" part.
I had this app too, and I remember thinking it was weird because I think an official google developer blog (or something like that) mentioned the need to install it, as there was no built in QR code reader at the time. I can't remember which old phone I had it on though.

I also think those reviews might be left by people who can't find the original offending app because it's been removed. https://www.apkshub.com/app/com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner seems to show it had BILLING permission though, which is always an alarm bell.
> those who called for the short-sighted defunding of police departments in cities with high crime (look up the uptick in shootings and murder in NYC after the city removed $1 billion from the police department)

This is facilitating illegal insurrection?
And NYC is your example...

Surely this could have nothing to do with covid and the whatever else but a 112% increase in shootings must be the consequence of a budget cut of a bit more than 1%....
Have you perhaps considered who it is that is registering this uptick in crime and drawing the connections?
Why it was the insanely high to begin with. Like what? Do their janitors earn a million yearly?

Not having a slightly less mindblowing budget is not meaningfully facilitating illegal insurrection it's slightly more sane fiscal policy
Here, the "proof" works by absence

Absence from where? It is perfectly legal to not have an ID or social security number. Not having those things proves nothing. And nobody is going to track down everyone in the country with the same name and DOB that you selected and ask them if they are the Fred Wilson (example) that voted in California. People move all the time, so it wouldn’t be unusual if they went by the house and that person doesn’t live there.

The way that system is setup to accept voters without ID verification, there is not a way to legally disprove that the person with whatever name and DOB chosen does not exist (assuming more than 1 other person in the country shares those characteristics). Hence it would be impossible to legally prove that this invented person isn’t real.
Giant QR codes on highway signs? Haha, an attack by spoofing them would be interesting.

Next trick: QR codes with cryptographic signatures, and a huge traffic jam when the traffic authorities forget to renew their certificate...
> rote learning of multiplication tables

How can you do maths if you can't multiply single-digit numbers? Doesn't knowing long multiplication help with learning algebra?

> don't waste any time actually explaining what continents are

Is Europe a continent or is Eurasia?

[edit]

Quoting Wikipedia: "A continent is one of several large landmasses. Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria ..."
You are downvoted, but it is often observed that rallying left leaning people behind a cause is much more difficult. Contrary to all the stickers we had the last years, it is indeed due to diverse opinions.

In my opinion that is a good property in general, just no for elections.
In a perfect world yes. But the majority of JIRA stories that I’ve come across often don’t contain complete information. The best, well disciplined folks recognize that they will inevitably forget details and write careful summaries, most people write a few bullet point to satisfy the acceptance criteria for the story.

Slack conversations often contain more data. It’s also easier for me to follow a human conversation than a poorly written summary with many missing details.
Gather.Town provides avatars moving around in a 2D world that you can design, or you can clone from a library of templates. it's not full 3D characters walking around a space, but when we used it for a 48 hour weekend conference we found it a great balance between simplicity, usability, flexibility, and power.

We could go from room to room, conversation to conversation.
Performance Comparison of Condition Variables and Atomics in C++20
The description of the hack is not accurate. Okta is the service that disclosed the endpoints used.
"permanently suspended free speech" doesn't really sound much different than "banned free speech".

I can't really see this being a big deal, Bannon's got enough wealth to make his own website.
Bitcoin v0.1 Released (2009)
"Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
It’s completely decentralized with no server or central authority."
One thing which really grinds my gears about old hardware is the commonplace use of brass screws. If you've ever tried to unscrew one that hasn't been turned in decades, it's an utter pain. Sometimes the only recourse is destructive.
I came across this documentary this year and found the people interviewed to be shockingly credible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZIJ0tJD5vU

The signal/noise ratio has always of course been terrible when it comes to this area, and there are tons of obvious hoaxes, charlatans, mentally ill people, and plainly bone-headed claims. However, this film does a good job of sticking to solid evidence from the best sources like former nuclear launch officers and former senate leader harry reid. It also does a good job of reviewing incidents over recent years from which military footage was released. I reccommend it to anyone wanting a good overview up to late 2020.
E2 – Laptops, Motivation, Brain Fog, New Tutorials?
“I+am+the+Way,+the+Truth+and+the+Life”+-John+14:6+Meaning+|+Gospel+Of+GOD
On nearly every OS I know (now I am on MacOS):

1. System boots up and starts some apps which are creating windows. This may take some time.

2. While all of that loading, I am seeing some of the apps of no use, I am quickly switching to one, capturing focus, and pressing the quit shortcut.

3. Between my reaction and actual button press, some other app loads, and focus is switched to its window.

4. My keypress goes into another focused window, which gets closed instead of original one. Tada.

Why OS focus has a priority over user focus?
It's PR for Bitcoin Cash, a blockchain looking for a problem.
I don’t think you really need any 3rd party utility on Windows anymore, for the basic tasks. Any hrowser has PDF viewing, .zip support is already there (since Win2000), it has basic image manipulation and text editing, screenshot editor, and i think even desktop-recording. Sure, none of these things is a “best in class” app, but that’s normal (and leaves market space for developers). Anything beyond that is not “basic” and I wouldn’t expect it on MacOS either.
It doesn't.

1. There's already pages where people can inscribe random text and images into blockchains: https://cryptograffiti.info/

2. Researchers found that the Bitcoin blockchain already contains presumably illegal content: https://blockchain.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/

Excerpt from paper #2 on that page:

"we consider the remaining three instances objectionable for almost all jurisdictions: Two of them are backups of link lists to child pornography, containing 274 links to websites, 142 of which refer to Tor hidden services. The remaining instance is an image depicting mild nudity of a young woman."

As for who is hosting it ... even though illegal, blockchain mining is still very profitable if you have subsidized cheap electricity like in China.
The ebay search button has been like this for ages. To the extent, that sometimes, you correct your search query, hit enter to search and it resets back to the previous search query and re-searches that!
Hm, it says updated February 2019?

But I also use this app for QR-codes, since I was never able to find an alternative. The vast permissions required make me nervous every time I install it... Good to know it is on F-Droid as well, built from a source tarball, so should be OK [1]?

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.google.zxing.client.andr...
> This is why Free desktop operating systems are a joke and haven’t been popularly adopted. It’s little things like this that add up.

> It stands though that KDE seemed to have this feature working for ages, and they’re doing it for free too. Also, operating systems from the olden times also had it too—Windows 98, as you see at the top of this HTML document.

I'm sure this will upset NN but it is 100% the truth.
I think I see what you're saying, but it seems like we are focusing on two different aspects of the event. I'm perfectly comfortable with people taking issue and protesting the de-platforming. I personally think it was the right move, but I fully support that others be able to think differently and try to affect change.

But the ban is not dictatorial. It is fully within these private companies' rights to refuse service to the president. And most importantly, this is not the government suppressing the people, it's the people suppressing the government. I can hardly imagine a stronger example of true liberty. Surely in actual dictatorship that would never be allowed to happen.

What these corporations are saying is not "no investigation and you're banned". They're saying they believe Trump purposefully incited people to take action so he could retain power despite the results of the election.
I have been experimenting with Element for some time. I made accounts for myself and family members on the German host privacytools.io. (I since learned Debian operates two distinct homeservers, on social.debian.org, but cannot tell which is for what.)

The UX is pretty good, but certain oddities stand out.

1. When visiting rooms, it spends a very great amount of time displaying a spinner instead of postings. It displays a banner offering to scroll back to the last read posting, but forgets that you have already seen later ones. It often displays a banner indicating some bot is operating, but no indication what it is for, or any way to control it or find out more.

2. Messages in the scrollback for private rooms are very often replaced with a note, "cannot get key"; and sometimes appear again, much later.

3. Element advertises an ability to conduct audio and video calls, but I have not succeeded in getting the other end to ring, in recent months.

4. There are supposed to be gateways available to direct Signal and SMS traffic to/from one's Matrix client, but I did not succeed in getting them to work--probably just because their documentation was wholly inadequate.

I spent quite a few months on a subscription to Purism's LibremOne homeserver, but abandoned it when it became clear they had no intention ever to maintain it.

I have not been able to determine whether 1, 2, or 3 above are the fault of my homeserver, or matrix.org, or the protocol.

A Matrix client should be able to work in multiple accounts / homeservers at once, as is done with e-mail clients, but I don't know of any that can.

It seems like it should be possible to run a homeserver on local equipment, tunneling to ports on a cheap VPS, but I have not found anything suggesting how.

Enlightenment on any of the above welcome.
I checked it out yesterday. It had Maria Bartiromo on it, along with many other American conservative commentators. She's not exactly at Nazi.
That explains why there is not as much traditional Decision Theory in the book as one would expect from the title, such as Peter C. Fishburn's work, issues in MAUT and MCDM, seminal work by Bouyssou, Vincke, Pirlot, Keeney, or the older discussions about SEU vs. EU, evidential vs. causal decision theory, etc.

It's a rather technical book, focusing on issues like advanced sensor data fusion, control theory, and optimization. Not that there is anything wrong with that, the title is just slightly misleading.
It is tiny compared to Emacs, and it is very modular. A stripped, functional minimal build (Without bidir) is ~60KB executable.
Because sometimes you need the persepective of an outsider to point out how completely crazy you've become.

signed,

A Brit.
I'm not saying the Capitol Hill rioters should be absolved from their actions. Those who breached the capitol violently should be charged accordingly w/ the federal crimes they violated. I personally think Trump is also responsible for inciting the angry mob, and should face the according consequences.

However, while there certainly were some riots in the summer done out of spontaneous rage, there certainly were planned events as well. For example, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, which lasted 3 weeks:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/ch...

Also the 100 consecutive days of protest in Portland, where the federal courthouse was set on fire:

https://apnews.com/article/b57315d97dd2146c4a89b4636faa7b70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8z0jFxOmFo&ab_channel=Bloom...

As for the peaceful protesters on Capitol Hill, I think they tend to be a bit misunderstood as well. These folks often get grouped into the extreme right, but in reality, they are moreso moderate people who face a harsh economic reality caused by the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, the automation of jobs, and losing jobs to regulations. They also seem to be the population most affected by the Opioid epidemic. However, the left-wing media has an agenda that is increasingly focused on identity politics, and not the economic realities that they face. Instead, these folks are constantly painted as racist, uncultured, and extreme by the left-wing media. So lots of them are left with no choice but to support Trump in spite of his delusions, not for them. So I personally don't paint the entirety of the MAGA crowd as the enemy; many are reluctant supporters.

But again, the insurrectionists and the violent protesters at Capitol Hill should be punished. But for sake of consistency, perhaps we should also be also outraged at the riots that occurred this past summer, especially the ones that caused loss of life and/or damaged government buildings?
Do you have a quote from the Young Turks?

With BLM there’s an argument to be made that public policy backed by Republicans (and Democrats) created an environment where blacks are disproportionately targeted and harmed by police without consequence, resulting in the inevitable death of yet another unarmed black man.

With the capital riots, all Democrats did was win an election and every single resulting court case.

Plus the riots during the early days of BLM were stoked by the videotaped suffocation of a black man. No one was fanning the flames. The videotape itself did that.

With the capital riots you have Trump and his “team” manufacturing anger with lies. If Trump put country over ego and conceded, none of this would be happening.

You don’t think Democrats were pissed off when the FL recount was ordered to stop and Gore lost by 537 votes? Gore could have easily seized that moment to create anger and perpetuate violence, but that’s not the kind of country we want to live in.

Plus, it’s not like these bans are coming preemptively. Companies are sensitive now because people have died and political leaders have been targeted.

If after the Young Turks comments you had targeted political attacks on Republicans, then I can see your point. But for me the capital riots are far worse because they’re being actively exacerbated with the intent of threatening our democracy.
But each weight can be reused almost infinitely... The cost doesn't matter too much.
Curation: How to Beat Negative Network Effects
Still won't have enough people

Still have security issues

Still have big beasts dominating

I won't be in it any more haha
Nazis don't deserve to be heard.
> "well some people don't object to all violence".

Actually, after rereading the original comment, I'd have to say not some people. Instead Id say you specifically. You specifically pretty much tried to said that the violence was justified.

Ex: you said this, which is a not so subtle attempt to justify the violence:

"of the opinion that violence may be an acceptable response to injustice, well, there's a whole lot more reason to believe that BLM protestors have justification for their claim of injustice ".

> well no, both sides aren't the same

Specifically you, kinda do seem at least to be pretty similar to the "other side" actually, after rereading your comment, in that you attempted to imply that the violence actually was justified, and that it therefore "may be acceptable".

Your comment was a pretty clear attempt to say that this violence could have a "justification" that would make it "acceptable".
Web apps are too complex. This is how we can simplify them
That guard should probably be dug out deeper.
> rote learning of multiplication tables

I'm curious - doesn't rote learning of multiplication tables make it easier to do a bunch of K-12 (in the UK, Foundation through Sixth Form - I think) math?

Also, yes, coins are less important now, but I always thought those problems teach little children how to solve a particular type of knapsack problem, which has learning benefits beyond knowing how to wrangle coins.

I'm all for making math more approachable, but not at the cost of producing people who're utterly out of sorts without a calculator.
What am I missing?
Mmap may slow down your Go app
My Huawei phone actually does come with a QR scanner. You just have to open the built in camera app, then click this icon[0]. It defaults to the translator camera, which I find really that you can just point at text and it translates it on your screen. Then there's a picture of a square with a line down the center that turns on the QR scanner.

As you can imagine, when all the covid checkins started, I couldn't find this. Everyone would say to me "just open the camera on your iPhone it's easy" as though it was a given that every visitor was using an Apple phone.

I went through three different QR apps based on what I found on the play store and all of them blasted me with inappropriate ads I kept wishing I didn't open in public. A bit if visibility in the UX would have solved this.

[0] https://ibb.co/L5XG21G
I doubt you would find my handwriting a thing of beauty.
Yeah the lying needs to stop. I'm not sure this piecemeal approach will work though, what if some right-winger starts a new social network and we're not able to stop it?

I mean sure with Parler it worked because of the coordinated effort of Apple, Google and Amazon, but can we always count on that?

Wouldn't it be better to have a centralised authority that regulates these things, with the legal authority to shut down any service that broadcasts lies and evil things? Like a Ministry of Truth.

To avoid people lying to each other in private conversations, I think it would be best if messaging services would also fall under their control, how else could we stop people from texting conservative propaganda to their friends?
Show HN: I built a tiny product: scan.lol
If you're not signed up as a foster/adoptive parent, now is a good time if you want to have an impact. There are going to be a lot of kids flooding into the system from families that felt emboldened to become domestic terrorists by the President and those he surrounds himself with.
name sounds super sketchy. Member cash? Sounds like you are making money from members.
kinda similar for me. When I look for a small app like a QR code scanner or a flashlight I search for "QR code scanner open source" or "QR code scanner github" to easily find the open source ones that likely dont contain ads or malware
> The code is open source too: https://github.com/TimDaub/scan.lol

Am I missing something or does your repo only contain the minified version of the javascript, and not contain the `index.js` referenced in the `package.json` nor the method to build to minified artifacts? This seems like it's not open source.
iMessage works around this by generating the preview on the sender's side.
I use the built-in QR-code scanner available in Opera Mini beta. Also, its the only browser I know that has a built-in RSS Feed reader. I use an old APK, as the newer version of Opera Mini removed the RSS functionality.
It weirded me out when I moved here, but in practice, it's enforced like anywhere else: at the beginning and end of school days.

Since a large fraction of kids are driven to school (at least in southern California), you know that this is happening because of the massive traffic jam near the school.
OpenBSD uses clang/llvm on most arches by now for the system compiler.
The versions of Android that vendors ship usually have a QR scanner. For example, Samsung's camera app reacts to them by default. I don't think AOSP has a QR reader, but Lineage OS ships a camera that reads them.
> The point is that Monero has Privacy level / mixin settings

I'm sorry but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about
This was already busted by Thunderf00t:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhCuzxNvv0
How to merge branches in GitHub? With comparison of merge options
You can do the same on any android phone by opening the google app and tap the lens icon in the search bar.
> This is not rocket science.

it is literally rock science ;)

Seriously, in Germany, concrete costs arount 100 EUR per cubic meter. So we would end up with around 150 EUR per kwh capacity. But they would not have to use concrete for the task. They could as well use 23 m^3 gravel (which goes down to 10EUR) and some steel scaffolding. Or even just plain water (35m^3).