skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, I will ask you to take a step back and listen to yourself. You are putting the literal beating to death of a police officer on the same level as people taking their frustration out on an empty vehicle. These two are in no way comparable. That was the best you could do out of months of protests attended by millions of people in dozens of cities in which the protest was in direct opposition to police violence. You can't find anything approaching the violence seen on display on Wednesday. Do you not see the difference?

>PS. Also your video is a bit indistinct, I'm not sure it does show them beating a police officer who is on the ground

You can see them drag someone down the stairs in the first few seconds of the video and then you see them beating someone on the ground. One man is literally beating an officer with an American flag if you are one for symbolism. The next tweet in that thread shows a photo from above in which you can see the officer down on the steps and there is a reply that has video from a different angle.
I like the first point, but for the rest -- I think not knowing where or how stuff is deployed is too inefficient...
> but a theoretical model published in the journal Medical Hypotheses

Medical Hypotheses is the very opposite of a prestigious journal. It intentionally rejects peer review, and is infamous for publishing AIDS denialism – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Hypotheses

Press release talking up a speculative theory published in a dubious journal.
I use the Microsoft launcher and a qr code scanner is part of it
There is a categorical difference between looting your local big box store and attempting to overturn the results of a national democratic election through violence. Did you see the videos of the crowds shouting “hang mike pence” at the capital? The elected democratic mayors of the cities begged the crowds and the police to deescalate violence, and they sent help when called. The elected president of the US escalated conflict, was pleased when he heard initial reports of the capital being breeched, and he refused to send in the national guard to disperse protestors. The first back up that showed up to protect the capital police arrived despite trump, who had told the national guard to stand down. The call came from one of Mitch McConnell’s staffers who knew some folks in the justice department. These aren’t remotely equivalent situations. In BLM, the elected leaders made tough choices, suffered, and worked to end the conflict. Does it not reach you that the maga protests as a violent movement matter because (1) they have express the support of the president and the political power that entails and (2) they are quit literally a coup attempt, however farsical and unrealistic, aimed at the core democratic functioning of our governance structure? And (3) these weren’t isolated instances, similar events happened at like 6 state houses, earlier this year a right wing militia planned to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

The power matters, burning down the government is different than burning down a Wendy’s.
This is exactly the main situation where I'll happily "get clever" with my code.

It's not being reused and one of the following is true...
I don't want to leave behind intermediary objects for whatever reason is relevant, or I feel its worth it to compress the logic to make it possible to use a language feature that requires an expression, like lambdas or list/dict comprehensions.
How is the average user expected to use adb and Android Studio to identify & remove malware from their phone?

Android security is broken.
You can do this without the walrus in a one liner as well, I believe:

[area for area in (to_area(x, y) for x, y in zip(h, w)) if area > 10]

or generally, you can take a multiline statement like the one you have and replace named value with its expression. Add some indentation and it's not too bad:

[area for area in
(to_area(x, y) for x, y in zip(h, w))
if area > 10]
LibreOffice had (has?) a similar strange race condition when typing. When the computer was acting slow and LibreOffice Writer was lagging, the Finnish layout's characters äöå would jump to the front of the typing queue somehow. So if I typed "menkäämme", I might get "äämenkmme" when LibreOffice finally renders the typed text. I don't know if it still occurs but it was really annoying and I always wondered how on earth it could happen.
The way to fight with Fascism is to be Fascism.
I've switched to Android (Huawei) 2-3 years ago (after the Apple battery fiasco). I keep installed (and updated) the NoRoot Firewall app, which by default blocks all access.

I also added to my mix the Nova Launcher. It makes it easier to tap&hold an app icon, gives you a quick shortcut straight to the specific app's Settings --> Apps --> specific app's properties, in which I (usually) block access to data/wifi/roaming/background (e.g. for a QR Code reader app).

90% of my apps do not need to reach out to the interweb, and I block them both on Settings as well as Block Data/Wifi on NoRoot Firewall.

Although Huawei is beeing Huawei-ing (some sneaky apps are running).. I do like the interface into "Manually" managing backround running (battery), internet access.
Do you make sure that in group chats no one there ever enables it by accident? Because it's really, really easy to inadvertently do.

Telegram's UX is better for security. You know when you can expect difference levels of security, and the best that can be done is just as good if not better.
Same. Folks in a Linux bubble don't seem to appreciate that the idea of a password login is, frankly, quaint at this point. You're getting downvoted, of course, but that's just reality: on Windows and MacOS (and iOS and Android, of course), MFA and biometrics are the norm.
Firefox for Android comes with an integrated QR code reader. Works great. No add on needed.
Google should really ban Breitbart News from collecting ad revenue...

The cost of producing lies is way lower than producing real journalism.
Sometimes we need to write. Just because we have devices that assist us there is no reason not to learn it.
There's "Up one folder" button and keyboard shortcut in Windows. Button is placed next to weblike Back and Forward buttons. It works according to path displayed next to it and you can even click the elements of the path to go up as many levels up as you want with single click.

I agree that KDE still feels better though.
What I believe the author is saying is that he received a push notification to chrome from the malicious app.

Coincidentally, I just spent my Saturday evening pouring over malicious JavaScript hosted on Cloudfront that does extensive browser fingerprinting and if a match is made to an Android device a fake Captcha pops up in Chrome which actually enables push notifications and from there a full screen pop-up appears that vibrates the devices and claims the phone is infected with (N) viruses and the “repair now” button pulls up the Play Store app to install DFNDR antivirus/cleaner.

If you look at the reviews of that app you’ll see all the angry reviews of users having their browsers hijacked.

The app itself is just an advertising server wrapped around Avast’s detection engine and is funded by the Chinese Qihoo.

It harvests users social media data and charges the users almost $10 a month after a 3 day trial period.

Novice users are unable to delete the app if “advanced protection” is enabled because it becomes a device administrator and uses deceptive language to confuse the user trying to remove the app.

If the app gets installed it will not let you clear the storage of the app from within settings even if you had never opened the app and before you agree to any terms and conditions.

The fake virus warnings that lead to DFNDR have been going on every single day since 2013.

I’m putting together a webpage that will include the JavaScript and other details as we speak.

The Google Play Store is a dumpster fire full of scam apps and Scummy developers.
I believe you've misinterpreted Guliani's words. He is not claiming that they were not Trump supporters, he is saying that they did not scale the walls. By which he means that they did not have to sneak or break in because no one really even tried to stop them. That sentiment seems true on its face. Now whether the blame for that can be placed on Democrats is an entirely separate matter.
In the case of Stripe cutting off the Trump campaign, I guess you could make the argument that Trump (and therefore his campaign) are indeed alleged to have committed crimes. Then again, Trump is still the sitting president and therefore the effective head of his party (even tho, thankfully, at least some of his party are now abandoning him). I wonder what would happen if the Trump campaign switched to RNC-operated stripe accounts, with the RNC's blessing...

As for Google + Apple + Amazon (+ probably every other cloud provider and virtually every other hosting company) cutting off Parler or refusing their business in the first place: Parler was accused of not moderating "enough". This in itself is not yet criminal, given section 230 (which in this context ironically Trump wanted gone so bad he tried to hold the military budget hostage over it), and the definition of "enough moderation" was kept vague enough by Apple and Google and Amazon that Parler couldn't possibly ever comply if they wanted to.

The same argument about under-moderation can be made against facebook, e.g. when they aided - or even enabled - the Rohingya genocide, which saw thousands of people killed and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Even the UN directly pointed fingers at facebook. Facebook admitted to their role[1], but came up with a bunch of lame excuses like that they do not really have any content moderators that understand the language.

People dug up quite a number of screenshots (anecdotal evidence) of abhorrent things written on Parler to justify them getting punished. But I found that not really convincing to single out Parler like that. If I went digging on Twitter or Facebook, or could see what people tell each other in Whatapp of Telegram groups, I would find the exact same things. I have reported things on twitter in the past, like people making extremely thinly-veiled death threats or inciting violence, and twitter's response has been sluggish and often in favor of the people talking about "nooses" and "you'll get what's coming to you" in the same sentence.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Hi, good catch. I have answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25724252
Huge fan of Tyler Tringas. Do you have any advice for startups founded by parents with toddlers?
... as long as there is no confusion possible for the end-user.
The product department (of a sizeable software company) generally lacks the technical ability to actually construct a competing product with the business knowledge they have.
They understand the business' financials and interface directly with customers, but they don't understand how the product works. Any features or issues end up being proxied through these nontechnical resources.
This is why you will hear devs complain loudly about the parasitic product department (or equivalent layer above them) that always just seem to be
> getting in the way

However, because developers often don't actually want to interface with customers and just want to build cool tech, and charming socialites are very glad to act as that interface, this usually works. As a secondary effect they (non-intentionally) obfuscate the inner workings of the company from the devs who would otherwise (as the GP points out) realise how much they are being (ab)used and turn the screws on the upper management.
Open-source free Agile and SCRUM project management solutions
My Firefox on Android has a QR code scanner, I typically use that even when I know it's not a website. When you open a new tab and select the address bar you get to see the button for the QR code scanner.
Most PC laptops have the option to upgrade memory and disks, specially the enterprise lines on the same price levels as Apple hardware.
I think this was the vision of Keybase before they flipped.
At least when it comes to BLM vs Capitol there are three very important differences that far outweigh the surface level similarities:

1. Power - what happened at the Capitol was conducted by people who have enjoyed broad political power, whereas the BLM protests were about the people who have been unjustly under the thumb (or knee) of those in power.

2. Message - the BLM protests were about very real and well documented and long-standing mistreatment of Black Americans at the hands of police, where the ‘stop the steal’ crowd is angry about a complete fabrication.

3. Stakes - is the event threatening to the foundation of society? I think this one is pretty straightforward.

While on the surface the BLM and Capitol events look similar (large groups of people protesting, small groups within committing violence, some government buildings involved), their basis and moral authority are entirely different.

As far as the decision to deplatform, the nature of these types of things is there will never and can never be a simple rule to dictate important judgment calls. Law is not code, nor are the actions or ToS’s of companies. Trump is such a singular figure that is completely unlike others, commanding a huge amount of power through 85M followers and the bully pulpit of the presidency. He is nothing like any BLM or frankly any other Twitter user that it’s almost seems like a joke to draw comparison. That can’t be ignored, in fact that’s the very point - he’s unique, and uniquely dangerous. There is no double standard because there is no comparison. He’s literally the most powerful person in America and Black people are as a group are the least powerful. That matters.

As far as the consequences, well it’s damned if you do damned if you don’t as far as I can see. We have a lot of real problems and divisions in society, and now a lot of people have been whipped up into holding imagined grievances that some are likely to translate into violence down the line. Meanwhile the next few weeks are an incredibly vulnerable time in American democracy due to the power vacuum that occurs during a transfer of power, and based on what information we have available to us, it looks like violence and disruption was being planned prior to any deplatforming. That’s very scary, and we need to do what we can to reasonably minimize that risk.
Thanks for feedback. In principle it is a measure that says - this repo will handle your PR quickly, but the base chance of it getting merged is low. The result in this case is skewed by spam however. Until I find a way to filter the spam PRs from counting it will remain uneven for repos like this one.
OMG, This is all I wanted. Thank you so much for building this. I think it will make easy to read long HN threads.

I'm interested to learn more on the tech stack behind this project.
Sedition and treason are two different but related concepts/offenses. Sedition is plotting to overthrow the government or encouraging other people to do so. Treason is waging war against the country or helping a war-time enemy. Both can be federal crimes. And a seditious conspiracy can potentially lead to an act of treason if the plot is undertaken.

Here is the law against seditious conspiracy https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384

> If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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Here are some definitions of fascism:

"forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism"

"violent suppression of the opposition"

The business owner in the video has said the Antifa group has retaliated against his business by smashing their windows and causing destruction to other business for sending a letter to the Mayor.

Victoria Beach from the African-American community relations says in the video "if you don't agree with them they're going to attack you in some way, in a group, not one on one. They are cowards and we aren't going to take it".

According to the literal definition they are fascists.
This seems like it's incorrectly estimating orders of magnitude.

Some actual numbers:

In 2019, Google's gross revenue was ~$162b. ~$76b went to "costs of revenue", ~$26b went to R&D, and ~$11b to stock-based compensation. It's unclear what % of costs of revenue is attributable to "salaries of software engineers", though. Let's approach it another way. Google employs 30k+ SWEs, the vast majority of which are in the US. The median outlay probably falls somewhere in the L4 - L5 range, though there's a fat tail at the top. If we want to be conservative, we can just ignore the tail and say ~300k/dev. $300k * 30k = $9b (this is probably low).

Google's net income in 2019 was $34b. So you could multiply SWE comp at Google by not-quite-5 and zero out Google's net income.

What do top pro athletes make? Wikipedia says the top pro athletes earn mid-high eight-figures/year.

There's some headroom to pay engineers more, but it's definitely not "top pro athlete" more. Engineers can and do make that kind of money by founding & growing successful startups, not by working for FAANG (possibly with a very small # of exceptions at the top).
Why Israel is leading the way in the vaccination race
Trump assembled a thug caste that stormed the capitol while pretending that the election was a fraud but he didn't follow the rest of the list. I would say he is not dangerously facist yet.
The IBM 2321 Data Cell Drive (2010)
I have a hypothesis: autism prevalence is up because of the “back to sleep” campaign, which babies hate because it massively decreases sleep quality. This reduced sleep quality adversely affects brain development.
Most of my friends and myself who became Trump supporters entered this area after feminist issues, investigating them and finding out they were spreading lies on national TV, in a discourse that easily passed thresholds of direct incitation to hate. In national newspapers and TV.

Is it time for co-de-escalation? Would one be ready to get rid of men-hating on TV as part of getting rid of political lies?

As long as there are pressing, daily hate speech issues that allow mass recruitment of youths by Fox News and the likes, there will be a good share of America who will vehemently not share the Democrat project.
I read this post this morning and felt pretty smug in my choice to use Windows.

But when I went to share a photo this evening, I found that the Chrome file picker in Windows is actually much worse! Not only does it not show previews for thumbnails, it doesn't even show the image in the detail pane. It just shows the registered application icon. So, you get a sea of big blue (E) Internet Explorer icons.

Not sure if this is a Chrome or a Windows thing, or if there's a setting for it. But as a user, I clicked about a bunch and couldn't find a way to see the actual images.

https://i.imgur.com/NYHCDZw.png
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Wait, did he get the wiring wrong?

I was under the impression that cables with power delivery used two pairs of power and ground (upto 20V iirc). https://images.anandtech.com/doci/11667/usbtypec-pins.png
> to which sides* agree:

But that assumes both sides are operating in good faith - it's pretty clear in the example that A are not (as are some sides in the real world.)
> But unlike the BLM protests, they were based on lies

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/17/393646640/hands-up-dont-shoot...
Nice info! keep it up!
Space Law, like ultimately all law, is the law of the party/parties with the biggest guns, as it has almost always been. Any perceived or claimed neutrality so far isn’t likely to remain as commercial interest continues to expand into the space, pun partially intended.
It's stuff like this that makes so hard to onboard new non-techie users. The proverbial mom or grandma, whose knowledge about the "filesystem" and "directory hierarchies" is already pretty weak, would probably spend 30 minutes or more with this exercise in frustration, before giving up and/or grabbing the phone to ask for help.

When you're past the stage of first impressions, it's a death by a thousand cuts.

Windows is not better in lots of these details, but at least users already know its tricks due to Microsoft's years of desktop dominance. I'd argue the effort of changing platforms should be about improving the experience, not about swapping a list of UX issues with a set of different ones, otherwise the change isn't really worth it for most users.

EDIT: oops I meant to write this comment as a reply to the sibling that talks about how difficult it is to select a parent directory in the file picker dialog (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25721368)
I just tried with my Samsung s9+ and the camera app picked up the qr code, don't know what you are saying
I'm not a scientist or anything, but your optical illusion, could it be this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
“Standard” is just your habit built on another operating system. macOS has a fundamentally different application and window model, which is also why there’s a consistent application menu bar across all applications and windows, not what each app decides to invent or not invent for itself within the window.
I'd be pretty annoyed if my school or employer forced me to work so suboptimally. Still, a POST is a POST, whether it comes from a web browser or curl. Or from Emacs.
> I live in the UK, a country where people spend far more time evading work than actually doing any

Uh, what?
If it was truly irrelevant, Twitter wouldn't censor it. They even locked out the New York Post out of their account for posting about it.

Biden is in the politics for decades, there is more then plenty of pretty damning evidence to show that, at the very best, he doesn't believe in anything he says.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xXx0yUvSw
What this really means is that different people are different and good collaboration tools will allow people to customize their experience while providing some kind of shared infrastructure. Even in an in-person meeting, you have lots of different behaviors, the people who chat to each other, the people who are super focused, the people who take notes on their laptop, the people who sit farther back in the room, the people who arrive late or leave early, the people who distribute the agenda, etc.
Unfortunately it doesn't update anymore, not before adding a option page at least.

All the features still work, but I really want to turn of some (like the new style).
Oh? that was fast. Only a month has passed since opening the issue. Thank you.
With their price I buy instead Thinkpad graphical workstations, no laptop CPU/GPU combo on Apple's side can match them.
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here's the source code: https://github.com/trungdq88/hn-big-threads

the data comes from the firebase API: https://github.com/trungdq88/hn-big-threads/blob/master/code...

the dataviz: https://github.com/trungdq88/hn-big-threads/blob/master/inde...

is using the d3.js plugin "flamegraph": https://github.com/spiermar/d3-flame-graph
> I wonder why it is not the same in any version of Android that I have used

I've had this on Samsung phones for a long time.
he received a push notification
to chrome from the malicious app

What does that mean? How does an app send a "push notification" to Chrome?