skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>e.g. a restaurant can't kick black people out

Well they can, just not for the sole reason of being black...

>>This isnt criminal law.

No it is Civil Tort law, but that does not mean your rights are completely removed, nor that principle does not apply

>>This is the right a private property owner (say the owner of a bar) has to kick you out. There are some limits on that

Absolutely, and those limits are normally set either by over riding civil / businessl law passed the government, or a contract entered into by 2 parties

The problem with Google and many other online platforms is their ToS (their contract) is sooooooo one side that IMO it should be considered an unconscionable contract thus void and unenforeable.

Also we have things like Truth in Advertising laws, many times these platforms Public messaging, and advertisement in no way match their terms of service

I am fully in support of the right of a private business to choose who they want to do business with. I am not however in favor of allowing business to use marketing manipulation, false advertisement, and unconscionable contracts in the form of ClickWrapped Terms of Service to abuse the public

the "mah private business" defense is a weak one, very weak, and it is telling that people defending the large companies with this defense often times do not support it in other contexts.

Google has every right to choose who it does business with, but it need to make those choices in transparent, and public manner.
Those who are planning to delete all Facebook activity(posts) instead of deleting FB account itself, please note that FB seems to be hiding posts at random in the activity log when it detects unusual deleting spree and pops it up on a later date at a random interval.

I still find some 10 year old cringe post being the only post in my timeline occasionally, something which should have been deleted several years ago when I deleted all activity from my FB account. This has happened about 3-4 times now, it's no fun when the only post on your timeline is a 'liked' photo of a girl from your school whom you don't even remember now.

This dark pattern has been corroborated by others using an automated script[1], not that I'm agreeing to using any such script.

[1]https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB/issues/88
"Can"

Play protect is a complete joke, it can't even detect malicious chinese apps that request every single permission that exists.
They did get back to him. What evidence do you have that they were still investigating anything? They answered his questions and the answers were no good.
It is also because Pit Bull is not a breed and so anytime a dog bites and a dog has an unclear breed, but looks vaguely like a terrier it is easier to write down that the attack was by a Pit Bull.

It is also likely that owners who desire a dog that was bred for fighting want their dog to be aggressive and so train them to be.
The BBC had a fairly objective review of data a few years back[1]

I think at least a few things need to be understood/considered in the context of "farm murders". There's been a growing movement from the EFF/ANC for "expropriation without compensation" of (primarily white-owned) farm land, so apart from any attacks there's a perception that the farmer's control of the land is illegitimate and must be taken by force.[2] Many of these attacks have also been horrifically violent, involving rape, prolonged torture, murder of children and the elderly, etc.[3][4]

'The white minority took our land. Enough is enough' - Julius Malema, EFF President and Commander-in-Chief

Lastly you need to think analogously to other countries - crime tends to be concentrated in poor, dense urban areas. For rural farmers to be murdered at a rate comparable to a dangerous inner city is extremely odd, and if you think the per-capita murder rate is closer to the high end of 150/100k vs. low end of 9/100k, you're talking about a level of ongoing violence seen almost nowhere else on earth.

Then separately there has been a recent/ongoing wave of violence against foreigners[5]:

A refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo told Human Rights Watch: “I was selling clothes on the street when nine South Africans carrying sjamboks and sticks came. They were beating people, shouting ‘You foreigners, go home! We don’t need you here! You are taking our jobs and money!’ I started to run away, but I was beaten, and my two bags of clothes were taken.”

In the US context this is difficult to comprehend since it's "black against black" xenophobia, but there's also the topic of racism against "coloureds" in South Africa. Perhaps one takeaway should be that Americans need to have a less parochial and US-centric understanding of other countries, which often have conflicts that don't smoothly map onto US politics and racial categorizations.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41807642

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49145347

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-31/south-african-farm-mu...

[4] https://www.news.com.au/world/africa/farmer-killings-farmers...

[5] https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/17/south-africa-widespread-...
Do you though? People with a lot more information than you have disagree strongly with you.
There is no evidence of alien life, articles' like this are just entertainment.
It is an exciting idea but please lets not get ahead of ourselves.
aka due process
I keep seeing high profile cases of this pop up every month or two. If it happens to this many high profile people, imagine how many people it happens to that don't have a voice.
If you want to build native mobile apps, you probably better stick with Kotlin/Java on Android and Swift/ObjectiveC on IOS.

If you want to build progressive web apps; sure. You can use Cordova (https://cordova.apache.org/) to package them.
Exactly, the term typically used for the specific type of callback being discussed here is a "continuation callback", and the specific style is "continuation passing style"

The term is actually used correctly; callback's definition is broad. Of course, noone can resist the temptation to berate members of the JS community.
Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin and plans to start accepting it as payment
>GPT-2 doesn't have a concept of self, so it constructs plausible in-character excuses instead.

Spookily similar to the confabulations (made by the left hemisphere in the brain?[0]) that people with brain damage often use to deny/rationalize their deficits (even denying paralysis sometimees!).[1]

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27484245/

1: https://youtu.be/ymKvS0XsM4w?t=141
The Kafka solution to this will be our terms of service prohibit single spacing after periods and you are in violation. Therefore we can terminate your account at any time of our choosing.

Alternately we could prohibit posting in any language other than Latin and Klingon, or using the letter e, or accessing our services using any unapproved operating system (and our only approved OS is windows 3.11 with winsock drivers).

Anyway the point is now the company can ban you for any reason at all. Being the wrong religion, voting for the wrong candidate, being the wrong race, etc.
It has already been done. One of the oldest Schools of Indian Philosophy called Samkhya (which is atheistic) has a very beautiful model of the Universe/Elements/Evolution of the World which has influenced all other Schools (including Buddhism) and is worth studying.

You might find the book Modern Samkhya: Ancient Spirituality for the Contemporary Atheist a good starting point.
Show HN: LessThan5, a list of twitch streamers with less than 5 viewers
Even funnier, "no" in polish is "yep".
I deleted my main Facebook account in 2012.

Two years ago I need to test out some business features and API’s, so I made a new one. They needed my phone number, my gov ID, and my full name. I did everything but shortened my last name so it was “John S.” as I didn’t want it to be searchable. After a day they banned my account, they are dropping my requests to verify or delete it because name on ID isn’t the same as on Facebook account. My phone number is still attached to account. I even contacted a head of Facebook in my country to which she replied “sue us or be gone”.

Now, when I try to open a new one it’s deactivated second after confirming gov ID. So I’m banned for life. It’s sad what they have become, but I’m happy with the result. They could just stop profiling me on the internet thought. :-)
Weird, the initial traffic when I announced it on /r/selfhosting was bigger than this. Must have gotten in a bad state. Anyway, thanks, it's back now.
From where I sit he is entirely justified, and the only reason problem is getting fixed is precisely because he finally decided to warn others about this problem.
If it is a probe, how does it send back data?

The data would arrive, when the civilization, sending it away is probably gone..

Doesn't make sense.
Maybe a rocket book?
Plenty of captive portals use mac-addresses to identify if users have used the captive portal (or have paid the fee of entry if it’s a paid service).

Though I’m not sure I ever bothered to lookup someone’s MAC address.
From Wikipedia- it's being developed by Wallenius Marine, which is a ship design, building and management company which was spun off Wallenius Lines in 2003 but is still owned by the same group.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen seems to be a joint venture of Wallenius Lines of Sweden and Wilh. Wilhelmsen of Norway.
Complete speculation because I don't actually know how this works, but I wonder if the explanation would be something like this:

"You've been banned because our black box ML algorithm says your usage patterns share similar traits to those of known spammers."
Even if so, people will judge and measure by the long list of Google services cut-off just „because“ and sometimes on short notice.

Would I start any new business on GVP? Never, now, because I would be scared that they just change something that breaks my app because they can.
.eu is classified as a ccTLD [0], not gTLD by IANA, so for the purpose of this discussion it is one - and the registrar for it (EURid) requires ciitzenship of one of the member states to hold .eu domain. EU citizens living the UK can have .eu names, but no-longer-EU-citizens of UK do not.

Very much agreed on .org.

[0] https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/eu.html
[1] https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
The number of stories of alien encounters is so huge, and share so many common aspects between them, that at the minimum one must be open to the possibility. I mean, there's even official docs released by CIA and etc. The problem is, for each true story, there are 100 fake ones.

For me personally I don't even speculate about it. They're here, and have been visiting us for hundreds of thousands of years.
It's no different than pre-internet. Complaining publically has been around since TV, it's a staple of local news to have "exposes" on bad local businesses to shame them when they won't do right privately. Before that it was radio. Before that it was newspaper. Before that, it was just gossip.

Humans have been using social pressure to right wrongs.... for millenia.

Twitter is nothing more than a common social square.
Voyager https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html

time capsule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_capsule

on edit: some links to things that might cause someone to think it might be done anyway, whether or not it makes sense.
> all the one's dismissing the professor have not explained the acceleration and cha ge of trajectory in a satisfying or convincing manner

I find the explanations pretty convincing.

https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/solar-system/inc...

> Davide Farnocchia of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, recognized ‘Oumuamua’s increased speed and altered path as consistent with the actions of comets, which eject gas and dust as they approach the Sun. These jets of ejected material increase the comets’ speeds by giving them a slight push.

> People really think the guy is financially desperate to cash in with a kookie book?

"People are often willing to lie for money" seems like a claim with a lot more evidence behind it.
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There is a recent related article from Amazon Science if anyone is interested:

"Does the Turing Test pass the test of time?"
https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/does-the-turing-test-...
Actually this is effectively a broadcast/multicast MAC address.

The first byte of your MAC address should always be an even number. The value of the second bit is supposed to indicate if the MAC is "burned-in" and basically doesn't matter. The LSB of the first byte, however, should always be zero.
Unfortunately for Google's products- sorry, users, the machines doing the bans don't give a damn for reputation in the eyes of humans.
Were the trackers already labeled in F-droid? They maintain a list of these anti features for all apps. If not, when you reported your findings to F-Droid, did they flag the app as having trackers at that time?

Nobody said blanket trust anything. F-Droid is a community project with a framework that allows for disclosing user hostile behavior in apps. By using it and paying attention, we can all make it even better - the exact opposite of Google, whose incentives do not align at all with these goals.
Nope. Because I truly believe in community and open source. I'd not be able to sleep on night and I'd prefer to shut it down rather than selling.
Um, in countries where the government can play the ultimate arbiter of truth in speech they also get to determine what due process is, which usually is exactly what suits them. Private companies reflect the values of their shareholders and customers, which at least is made up of citizens without the coercive and exclusive power to say, lock you up for your reporting, or literally kill you and your loved ones over your reporting, which still happens to this day. If there is demand, and placed out of the state's hands, at least alternate channels, whether more accurate or not, more ethical or less, with or without an agenda, can exist. The alternate scenario easily renders them unable to exist in the first place. "Due process" when applied outside of official government action is simply coercing a standard set by the government upon collectives of private individuals even if - especially if - it is unwanted. It's an illusion of fairness that masks coercion, because there's either enforcement mechanisms for compliance - coercion - or there isn't - which is a charade and meaningless. Neither produces positive outcomes. Those in power will simply use it to cover up mistakes or intentional wrongdoing first.

Companies can't literally speak as in vocalize as a person, but they can, as entities, create the equivalence of speech in the societal sense, and shifting the arbiter of truth to the state will simply centralize that power in an entity that, in addition to dominating the marketplace by default - you can't exactly pick where you're born, nor where you can move to realistically for the most part - they can bring real consequences. Deplatforming is child's play compared to actual imprisonment or getting pushed out of an airborne helicopter.
Yup... I mean, you wouldn't keep a wolf around your house either, but dogs (if well-trained and with responsible owners) are usually no problem. So who knows, if humans would breed and train chimps (gorillas are too big) the same way as dogs, in time they probably could be "integrated" into society. Of course, that would bring with it a whole new set of moral issues...
Fnt: apt for fonts
You want the latest and greated fonts from Debian sid? Now you can! No matter if you're on some strange Linux distribution or some macOS! Single shell script for the rescue...
Even if they haven't said it out loud, Google has already decided to cancel Stadia, so unfortunately cancelling a game for it will have zero impact on Google.
I would be interested in a list of (used/popular?) applications that are written in Scheme.

I get the impression that a lot of Scheme code is in projects that never get published. I can easily name 5+ Scheme implementations that I heard of, but I don't know any prominent examples of software implemented in Scheme.
Thanks. Is there a performance advantage to the template approach - compared to writing the handler for each opcode directly in assembly language? Or is it just easier to implement?
Lots of ghost stories and religious experiences and accounts of telekinesis and ESP. Are all those true as well?
I'll admit the vaccine stuff's been good but a lot of the other stuff has seemed kind of mistimed etc, especially coming from Thailand where I was in April. For instance masks - straight away in Asia, UK took 6 months. Restricting flights and isolating - should have been Feb / Mar when it started which Asia did but brought in 6 months later when it was too late. Hotel quarantine made sense at the start - now we have this weird hotel quarantine 34 countries out of 200 including non quarantine for some countries that have the SA and Brazil variants. Plus no bid contracts for the chums. Could be worse but kinda disorganised. In comparison Thailand was surprisingly coherent and had 1000x less death in spite of being a tourist center with the first case outside China. Before it got going I thought the Brits and US would have it down and SE Asia be 3rd world chaos but it was kinda the other way.
Waiting to see the comments here. Did Musk just change his opinion, or go insane? Or could this happen without Musk's direct intervention?
I will agree with this. I don’t think Pit Bull types are inherently more likely to bite. I just think that they cause a lot more damage when they do bite. Most minor bites are probably unreported. House cats bite and claw all the time and no one reports it because the damage is minor.
Where can I find this in the blockchain?
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I think either giving the book away for free (thus removing any profit motive to pump it) or constantly updating the book to cite responses (thus addressing the tendency of book readers not to perform their own literature surveys) would both be fair.
Something investors need to consider going forward - invest in company X you might be unknowingly gaining exposure to crypto Y
Some of them are I believe. After you have one experience you open yourself to the rest. I had several.
People say the same about Muslims in general in the west and we get pretty outraged. Why don't we get outraged when Muslims do the same to their minorities?
Legitimizing Bitcoin more than offsets the environmental benefits of electric vehicles.
But then they should be required to refund your purchases, fx in the app store or their movie store.
I was 100% impacted by this. I've used that barcode scanner app for pretty much forever. I can't be 100% certain, but it's one of the first apps I ever installed on my first android phone (around '08/'09). It was what I directed other people to since all the other barcode scanners had ads.

Around the end of December started seeing web page notifications after my phone had been locked for a while. I clear those and it goes away for a day or so. I originally attributed it to an open tab, or some site that I had inadvertently enabled notifications for. It took me a few days of seeing these and checking browsers to realize it was more, so I started checking apps recently installed. I even installed malwarebytes to do a scan, found nothing. There were three recently updated, including barcode scanner. I opened that and malwarebytes immediately flagged it. So the scanner seemed to know about it at that time, but couldn't detect it until you actually opened the application.

I used to have Theft Aware before it got bought by Avast, and I tried Lookout some years ago. But it was this incident that finally convinced me to install and keep anti-malware app on my phone. I've also disabled app updates from the play store.

EDIT: Mine was by "The Space Team", not the one listed in the article. Seems like a number of barcode scanner apps were targeted recently.
I have been bearish on BTC for a long time, but when I realized a few years ago that the fiat system we have in place is unsustainable, I see it as a safe hedge against it and the inevitable hyper inflation which will happen in our lifetime. I know HN is highly skeptical of anything crypto and I agree that blockchain as a technology doesn't have any notable usages. But right now, Bitcoin is the safest deflationary asset out there.
One can hope this doesn't cause full-blown mania, followed by a crash. On it's own, this is a bullish development for BTC, but everything Elon touches, tends to generate a lot of hype... could be too much.
Doesn't seem an issue at all for almost every other company in the world.

Only seems to be an issue for companies like Google who ideologically don't provide any way to talk to a human and escalate. Amazon manages to have some of the best customer service in the world while operating on similar scales with far more things that can go wrong.

There is no excuse.
never bet against Elon , Burry
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So that's what Elon meant when he said Dogecoin is the people's crypto...
Considering how much Elon Musk was pumping Dogecoin I'm surprised they didn't buy altcoins too
Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot
63.8T USD o_O
I'd love to buy a Tesla with my Bitcoin, but it would make taxation so much harder, so I'll stay with using an exchange :(
On the money Elon, as usual, but more importantly on point with ideas, and ideals.
That's not good for the environment.
I think I speak for many, many people when I say that I am done trying to understand Elon Musk.
So this is legal and ok to do:

- You buy a lot of bitcoin personally.

- Then as a CEO you make your company invest in bitcoin. Make it news. Prices go up.

- You've made a lot of money for yourself.
Thanks. It's not quite production-ready, but I do think it offers some unique features. There are reasons I decided to make it even after discovering 20+ alternatives that all do pretty much the same thing.
Seems it calmed down a bit already.
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Except that Finland was not taken over by Soviet Union and the Helsinki Stock Exchange was kept open after the war. Though apparently 1940-1960 was quite a slow period for the exchange, as Finland was in the process of recovering from the war.

Interestingly, around half of late 40's trade in the exchange was from obligations, which were distributed to population relocated from areas of Finland that were lost to the Soviet Union[1]

[1] https://www.taloustieteellinenyhdistys.fi/wp-content/uploads..., page 315, in Finnish
Terrorism is a threat to telecommunications in Northern Kenya
Yikes. You weren't kidding about doing everything wrong.

Just out of more curiosity, can you comment on the idiosyncratic code style? I saw in your other post that it was written in PHP 4. So that means it did have access to classes and whatnot, right?
Now all ransomware "hackers" will be able to easily buy Teslas, a nice incentive for people to get into that business.
> EDIT: Found it - https://twitter.com/miguelytob/status/1315749803041619981

From recent tweets, it seems he's now leaving Google, and is busy retweeting stuff about people who have been fired and/or are suing Google. Wonder if him leaving has anything to do with that incident and whether it was ever resolved.
That's a 'template compiler' you're describing there, not a 'template interpreter'. OpenJDK doesn't include a 'template compiler'. Its lowest tier, C1, has a basic IR. OpenJDK does use a 'template interpreter'.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share...
It will, that’s when you buy. This happens every single time, whether it’s $250 to $70 or $12,000 to $5,000 or $40,000 to $????... ride the wave.
Might have been an intentional mistake ? It fits the arguments pro build-packs.
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In retrospect, it was inevitable.