skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a poor rebuttal.

>Mobile applications should be using the system browser, not a WebView

Maybe honest ones, however there is no reason a dishonest app that is trying to steal your Google account should stick to best practices.

>I can also make an application which opens an OAuth page to a fake-google.com which looks exactly like Google

You have ignored the part about bypassing Google's IP and location based fraud detection. Your idea wouldn't work.
Thanks. Will look into this
> No one wants onion flavored pancakes.

Somebody's never had latkes before.
> Yes, you call it fundamental which goes right back to that it only holders water if one considers reproduction a higher goal that all must aspire to.

Reproduction is a fundamental function of your organism, whether you chose to use it or not (for example, I am not going to reproduce). Any entity forcefully removing your body's ability to perform any of its fundamental functions is obviously abhorrent. If the state were seeking to remove your ability to see or your ability to consume food or excrete it, would you find that a matter of definitions?

By contrast, male circumcision and teeth straitghening are essentially cosmetic differences. Male circumcision is more problematic (and it is certainly not considered anywhere close to normal in most of the world), but even there the harm is minimal - being able to cover one's glans with one's foreskin is not a significant ability that anyone could claim has a significant effect on their life (of course, the risks of complications associated with the procedure itself are a different matter).

> I've noticed that he moral queasiness of sterilization of the male seems to be quite a bit lower than with sterilization of the female

I have no idea where you have seen this. I haven't even seen the sex or gender of the person being potentially sterilized discussed at all in any discussion of the horror of forced sterilization. Certainly nowhere in this thread or even the deleted tweet.

Overall, you seem to want to either make some kind of eugenic argument for forced sterilization (which I consider so abhorrent it's not even worth arguing against), OR some kind of strange more-liberal-than-thou argument that reproduction shouldn't be given some special place (which no one is, it's just that reproduction is the ONLY function of the body that anyone seems to think it might be ok to take from you for some strange reason - it isn't, anymore than gouging your eyes or removing your inner ear would be).
But isn't that the goal? Namely to automatically (without human interference) refactor to a correct program?
This is the main reason. Twenty years ago it was very hard to get your message as Government out there to the people, with media being the only conduit to do so, of course with their own agenda. Now if you want to communicate a point, or refute something, you can hop on Twitter and sort it out.
Ask HN: How do you think software development will look in 20 years?
Would programming still look like sitting in front of VS code (and chrome tab open with stack overflow explanation for that pesky compiler error)? I hope not.
I like this quote from "coders at work"

"So I think one direction Erlang might take, or I would like it to take, is this component direction. I haven’t done it yet, but I’d like to make some graphic front ends that make components and I’d like to make software by just connecting them together. Dataflow programming is very declarative. There’s no notion of sequential state. There’s no program counter flipping through this thing. It just is. It’s a declarative model and it’s very easy to understand. And I miss that in most programming languages."

Do you have any interesting books / articles that discuss this topic?
I recently inherited a product that was developed from the ground up on AWS. It's been a real eye opener.

Yes, it absolutely is locked in, and will never run on anything but AWS. That doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is all of the unnecessary complexity. It's one big Rube Goldberg contraption, stringing together different AWS products, with a great deal of "tool in search of problem" syndrome for good measure. I am pretty sure that, in at least a few spots, the glue code used to plug into Amazon XYZ amounted to a greater development and maintenance burden than a homegrown module for solving the same problem would have been.

NIH syndrome is certainly not any fun. But IH syndrome seems to be no better.
You continue to conflate "handing out condoms" with forced sterilization. The two are not the same thing.

If you permanently and compulsorily sterilized everyone in Frisia, yes, that'd be a genocide. Giving them condoms they can voluntarily and reversibly use is not.
I think it's terrific that you raised the prices and are finding customers at that level. I think there's also a ton of value in writing this stuff down for your future self, before you start remembering it differently. Best of luck in 2021!
I picked up The Selfish Gene because I was hoping to figure out how JavaScript got so popular.
I feel like an important often missed variable is what part of the population is actually not having enough food & shelter or not able to support their family.
It's worth reading Britannica's response to that study:

https://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response....

Wikipedia is riddled with far more and far deeper types of errors, I do edit Wikipedia daily but am quite disillusioned with it. Even articles on major topics can include made-up paragraphs that no one notices for years, errors caused by an editor's misunderstanding of what the source is actually saying, and errors that slowly accumulate through various editors' well meaning copy-editing.
Also worth noting is that Private.sh is run by Private Internet Access / Kape Technologies [1] in partnership with Gigablast for its search index. [2]

[1] https://www.voxmarkets.co.uk/articles/kape-technologies-to-a...

[2] https://gigablast.com/blog.html#privatesearch
Well, linseed is the same thing as flax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flax

So linseed oil is flaxseed oil, the question is only if the process of extracting it is food-grade.
> My source of rules are national level exams

Even my sources are the same. I took multiple national level exams organized by the government and private colleges just a few months ago.

The phones arent even allowed inside the exam hall. You have to keep them outside for national level exams.
See, and I knew that, but I still typed HEIF. I'm an idiot.

Thanks for correcting me.
It's not really true that lockdown cannot open the pubs again, take Australia. Their pubs are open. All because they mastered lockdown.

When a case occurs they close for a bit. But they're open 90% of the time. That a lot more of the time than uk pubs are managing.

I'd accept a working test and trace program too. Like Singapore used.

Don't think me greedy but... We could even do both, as we have more resources than Aus and Singapore combined and we've had a lot more time to do all this.

Once again, I have to ask: why hasn't my government managed such a thing? Could it be that it's impossible (despite Singapore having done it) or are they just too complacent?

Instead were stuck with the shitty parts of a long lockdown (closed pubs) without achieving the desired outcomes (single digit daily death rates).
This is what one would call "cherry picking" a type of logical fallacy, but I will play for the movement.

Your first link is 404, so I can not comment on it

The second likely would not rise to the level of a "True Threat"

The third I think likely would / should be bannable as that is close enough for me to consider it a True Threat.

Apple's complaint was the Parler was not aggressive enough in removing posts, not that they were not removing posts at all

Apple, Google, and Amazon all have a very clear political bias in their enforcement of their own rules, I am not sure how this could even be debatable anymore.

I can easily cherry pick comments from Twitter, Facebook, etc that have the same or stronger lang around incitement to violence only towards groups like the Police, or other unpopular groups... This level of aggressive enforcement does not seem to be present if the target of the incitement is unpopular
I've probably never had to say it aloud, and haven't come across that before, internally I've read 'et cetera d' for sure.

That said, 'etsy-dee' is somehow better to me than 'etsy', since it's like 'et C.D.' which makes some sort of sense.

(You could of course make the same argument for 'etsy', it's just that nobody reads 'etc.' as 'et see', it's always 'et cetera'.)
I think you replied to the wrong post.
Hey HN, this is a project started abut 2 months ago as an assignment to myself so that I can finally learn Go. Its an implementation of Kademlia DHT protocol in form of a Go lib. I eventually want to make it useful for the community but right now its largely untested.
https://github.com/r0ck3r008/kademgo
@dang can it be un-flagged please?
That's part of US legal system which always amuses me.
I think it's forbidden to have a bill with different matters mixed by our (Russian) parlament's bylaws, and I was pretty sure that's a popular stipulation in many parlament systems
Unwanted pregnancies can be prevented through education. This is not something that must be done in teenage years, there are adults who are unaware of contraceptives or don't have access to them. Permanently preventing someone from having children is immoral, the alternative is actively being ignored by the govt. in question.
The Controversy Behind the False Memory Syndrome Foundation
This Turchin fellow seems to have missed the boat by about 20 years.

The book "Generations: The History of America's Future" by Strauss and Howe was published in 1991 and predicted exactly the same thing. It was a bestseller at the time.

It's so well known that it's notable on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...

It predicted a "crisis of 2020" caused by a number of factors including the temperaments of baby boomers.

There's an interesting interview with one of the authors here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/politics/coronavirus-r...
I don't think you can discount them like that. Maybe they aren't as front of mind as services like S3, EC2, etc, but if you were to try to rebuild your setup in a personal data center, replacing the capabilities of VPC, IAM, CloudTrail, NAT gateways, ELBs, KMS etc would be a huge effort on your part. The fact that they are "basic building blocks" makes them more important, not less. In a discussion about the complexity of cloud providers versus other setups, that seems especially relevant.
Also, there's always the "Dark Web" (Tor & Freenet ?). I haven't been on Freenet for more than a decade, I hear these days websites there have 'warnings' like "This website does NOT contain child pornography" ?
Reddit Is Down Again
It’s OK to Build Wealth Slowly
You're a stabilizing anchor during a tumultuous storm. Maybe more than a few Anchors, actually! ;)
Hacker used ransomware to lock victims in their IoT chastity belt
Yes, I think this is a good idea. Might make this optional or as an alternative. Added to the pipeline.
> I'm of the belief that any coercion with the intent to disuade women from having any (or more) kids is ethically wrong, (except for some very very limited cases). Govt really shouldn't have a heavy influence on what is a family decision.

What about government policies that persuade women to have more children? Are those ethically ok?
How is something so useful so available? Is it the karma from past year?
The deadline for mail-in ballots was not based on delivery time, it was based on postmark time.

So there is absolutely nothing wrong with a ballot arriving after 5PM November 5th, so long as it was postmarked before the cutoff.

So the laws were followed, no contradiction, just a selective lack of understanding by a group of bad actors.
Passcod/cargo-watch Watches over your Cargo project's source
Being in a job like this makes me feel like I'm in a Dilbert cartoon.
As a corollary to the idea of taste, I've noticed that the most interesting people tend to have very definite tastes and views of the world. Moral relativism and its associated themes are generally not only a dead end but also an illusion since they imply aesthetic and moral choices in and of themselves.
For good reason - len(something) or alternatives might be expensive to compute, bool(something) is actually what you are trying to do and can be optimised depending on the container.
I don't see how you can look at the United State's incredible incarceration rate and decide "Well we need to put more people in prison"

I would say Amazon removing Parler due to a TOS violation is preferable to locking up thousands of people in federal prison.
You mention educating and healing twice. Could you elaborate on who "we" is, and also, how we can go from where we are to a place where education and healing is taking place? What are the steps we should take?
1 and 2 are a contradiction
Hillary tried to stand up to Panetta over drone killings and back up her ambassador in PK and Obama threw her under the bus.
If you know that "something" is a sequence, then is the idiomatic thing to do. The point is that any time you rely on truthiness of a value, you need to think (sometimes quite carefully) about what type of value you're dealing with.
If you are feeling nervous about a possible drop in your portfolio's value, perhaps your current asset allocation may not be well-suited to your temperament: being able to sleep at night has a value just like stock market returns do.

Consider liquidating some of your equities and moving to a higher percentage in bonds/fixed income:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/08/why-would-anyone-ow...

If 100% stock, or even 80/20, is too much, then perhaps 70/30 or 60/40 may be better.

Further, should a crash occur, you can use your bonds to rebalance. So if you have a 60/40 and equities go down (which generally also means bonds go up), you can cash out some bonds (sell high) to get more equities (buy low) to get back to the desired 60/40:

> Bonds can be used to rebalance. When the stock market sells off that’s the time you want to dive in and buy with both hands. The only problem is you need capital to buy. That could come from new savings out of your paycheck or a cash hoard or the bond portion of your portfolio.

Doing this during the S&P 500's so-called 'Lost Decade' from 2000 to 2009 would have given you much better returns than 100% equities:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de...
They missed the opprtunity to name it as grust.
When you search on DDG, it sends it to bing via their servers. Bing doesnt know you are searching, it can only see duckduckgo and the search term, not you.

DDG gets results back from bing, sometimes modifying it with it's own results to make them better.

> But I think you're talking about which index it is that DDG queries internally to yield regular (non-bang) search results?

Yes. Most of it is Bing.

Ecosia doesn't proxy it properly. It sends it to bing from you browser, not from Ecosia's servers. Bing knows your IP and sets cookies to track you. You can observe it with dev tools.

They might have changed it since I last checked.
Because sudo really was “superuser do” and is unrelated to the UNIX utility “su” (at least by lineage.)
It uses Bing as a backup and for most general search. We have our own index that focuses on specific communities, including HN. Eventually you'll see more tailored search for that index, including a "privacy rank" and page size.
I recommend reading William Strauss and Neil Howe's book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny [1]. The book introduces the idea of generational cycles [2] According to the theory, historical events are associated with recurring generational personas (archetypes) and I couldn't put it down when I read it over the summer. Several people whom I deeply respect recommended this book, including the famous bond trader Jeffrey Gundlach.

After reading the book, it was really no surprise to me when the capital was overrun with rioters. The book convinced me, we could very well have a bloody revolution or war considering the unaddressed underlying conditions: extreme wealth inequality, pandemic, desperation, hunger and feeling like one has no personal stake. The rise of China and decline of the United States contributes to another dangerous possible outcome. The tech industry's most recent moves to purge conservatives/libertarians may make our social condition even worse, by isolating rather than including the most desperate people in our society.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rend...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theo...
Hiring more people means less money at the end of the year for that annual bonus. So you’re kinda making that choice, even if you shift the problem to management.
Lets say I wanted to verify a student read a page of text from a novel. And I wanted to automatically generate a question from that text. Any algorithms that can currently do that?
The absolutist interpretation of the First Amendment currently in vogue has only been so since 1969. When Biden restructures the Supreme Court, we'll see how long that lasts.

Same with the Second Amendment.
I prefer to deal with EU-based businesses because they are more likely to care about GDPR.
That's true, but this is also an attempt to a moral question with a pragmatic empirical answer. The problem with this is the data can always change.

How would your opinion change if that correlation were found to disappear in the coming decades? Or if it actually began to reverse (for example as populations shift to being more urban where kids are expensive and access to assisted reproduction depends on wealth)?
I would wonder why an alien visitor wouldn't have the sense to turn the headlights off. ;-)

I would love to have seen what you saw though. Being so close to a cluster of air bases though, it is very likely you saw some kind of experiment.
We were in a state of military conflict with Libya, which was openly hosting and funding dozens of terrorist groups dedicated to attacking the U.S. and American citizens.

The U.S. wasn't behind the killings of Ghadaffi. Ghadaffi was killed by his own bodyguards after Ghadaffi's own citizens overthrew their government in a civil war spurred by resistance movements in neighboring countries arising from despots incarcerating and assassinating political opponents.

The U.S. was behind the killing of Bin Laden. He organized the single largest terrorist attack against the U.S. in history. As a non-state actor, he was not protected by any laws, therefore, killing him was not illegal nor was it extradjudicial. This has been the state of international law for over a century, as codified in the Geneva Conventions and the amendments and followup conventions. If you have issues with international law, take that up with the Hague.

This is false, since several members of the bin Laden family died in the attack, including women and children. I'm not saying that killing bin Laden was wrong, just that Twitter policies are wildly inconsistent regarding violence and falsehood.)

Bin Laden's sons were killed in the attack and one of his son's wives, but no children were killed. They were not just innocent collateral damage; they were killed in the attack while resisting U.S. forces. The non-resisting members of the family are alive today to talk about what happened because we didn't kill them.
This link seems to work better: https://web.archive.org/web/20180224191459/http://bitsavers....
Strikes me as bull -- there are many ways to look at the failure of communism and others are better.

Im the US we have a long history of building systems that dont work or only sorta kinda work. Some examples are the health care 'system' and the Space Shuttle. (e.g. the russians did not buy the idea that the Space Shuttle was intended to lower the cost to access space -- it was an obvious boondoggle that maximized the cost; looking back we know the study that killed the O'Neill colonies and associated Gumdam dreams said there was no point in that because if we gave the Saturn V the Falcon 9 treatment we could have launched solar power sats by 1990)
Walking robots are great, but they aren't actually very practical. I wouldn't be suprised if the majority of their sales are to rich people who just want to have a robot dog as a status symbol/toy.
Right, so I don't know what inventing a new such format will do to improve things.
I mostly agree, although ECS with Fargate is often nicer to use than EC2
Netscape might be the worst example for your claim. Read why here:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I have replaced Hangouts, WhatsApp and Messenger front-ends on my phone and laptop with Element. I have been running the Matrix bridges for each[1] and am donating monthly to the creator. It's worth it.

So far the "network effects" have been coincidental: one small group of colleagues registered on matrix.org after one more colleague from our small circle turned out to have a home server. There are 7-ish of us now, 2 with their home servers (myself and the "other colleague"), and 5 with accounts on matrix.org.

To go "native", I see one lacking point with discoverability: I don't know of a way to discover my "contacts" whether they use Matrix without asking them first. Which is not true in any other messaging apps I have tried: Signal and WhatsApp use my address book and their phone numbers, Messenger is tied to my "friends". However, although Matrix allows entering phone and e-mail identifiers, I haven't seen an easy way to "find" them. Any pointers?

Overall, Synapse is easy to install and run. Took about two evenings to configure synapse + 3 bridges (whatsapp, messenger, hangouts).

[1]: https://matrix.org/bridges/
Yep the shape was likely closer to a B2 as in a flying wing than an actually flying saucer.

It’s quite possible that what he saw was the YB-35 or a similar experimental aircraft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-35
KRZ only had a limited physical release through iam8bit and it sold out shortly after it was released last year. Though it looks like it's also included in a collector's edition bundle of games from the publisher, albeit at a very high cost: https://www.iam8bit.com/products/annapurna-interactive-delux... It's also available DRM-free from GOG and Humble Bundle (the Steam release might also be DRM-free, but I haven't checked).
Actionable public policy is difficult and requires to think stuff twice, measure results and to be practical. Even for general guidelines (unless you just want to dump money around).

I can tell you about public policy that mentions no racism that would change the life of poor black people in the US, allowing them to capitalize themselves easier, and have a better life.

It probably wouldn't be the most trendy, but it works.
This is exactly why a focus on the one event that happened this week would be a big mistake. That was just the latest most extreme result of a much deeper problem, it was not the problem. Those responsible will of course be using the above technique to turn it into an isolated occurrence that has nothing to do with their own activities.

The saving grace may be that the Leader himself didn’t stay on message and continued calling the rioters “patriots” after the “shocking” event took place. That was way off script.

But if we don’t figure out the deeper problem, the next Leader may be much more competent.