skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not unusual for 0-gen or 1st gen immigrants to be conservative (at least culturally and fiscally). The Republican party to their detriment has not taken advantage of this reality --being too busy fighting for somewhat edge cases or constituencies (conservative religion and corp interests) to the detriment of growing their base. Not that dems have not been guilty of the same mistakes (catering to edge constituencies like the progs and corp interests, just differently).

If the Republicans could find a candidate who better reached out to conservative minorities while not alienating their present constituencies they certainly would prove a strong contender, specially if the Democrats veer further to the Progressive agenda. Trump's problem was while he appealed to more minorities than most past Republicans he did not market it well and didn't put it front and center enough and also turned off the so called 'soccer moms' with his poor approach to the pandemic.
That's exactly it. Cancel culture as a term is used as a term to deride anyone bucking the system as this point.

In case a)(this one), it's used to put down people who don't agree with singing a song, later we will see b) where a lot of netizens pile on someone when they had incorrect information and further we will see c) where people displaying Nazi salutes are complaining about deplatforming.

If anyone wants to have a conversation about any of these, then we can, but to decry cancel culture is just trying to lump in the good reasoning with the bad.
Perhaps they can find some white athletes who will perform in blackface to make the alums happy.
I would go the other way. What can China do to me unless I go there? Vs what can the US do to me since I live there, and even if I don’t live there, the US government reach is a lot wider.
AFAIK Apple has departmental walls for information access, linked by AppleID #. If you route to the wrong group they will likely not have the training nor the information access to help you.

That said, I usually have done really well just asking them to route me to the right group.
Socrates is a prominent early example of "cancel culture" he was cancelled circa 400 BC for Impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens.

I suppose we are fortunate that nowadays a twitter ban doesn't come with an accompanying sip of hemlock.

Impiety is essentially failing to respect something considered sacred.

To (mis)quote another controversial philosopher "History repeats itself, first as tragedy than as farce"
I agree with you, it's great. Wonderful to see people valuing white supremacists less.
Are you thinking of something specific here?
Compass's business model is taking VC cash to pay above market rate for realtor labor in an attempt to capture market share purely through more "boots on the ground".

Whether this approach has any long-term value for shareholders seems dubious once the cash injections stop.
This. Go burn as many contacts as possible, and if a wide enough group you will see the company change its policies.

Otherwise, well we're the product most of the time. (yes even apple messages, all your friends are there!)
Oh, wow, then that just changed my whole understanding of what you're doing! Very cool.
> Apple made a mistake with the credit process

An important detail left completely out from any of the tweets.
To an extent, although many times you still rely on a centralized tracker and dedicated seeds. Unless you belong to a private tracker where users are forced to maintain certain ratios to continue using a service, then in most cases a torrent will end up like an IPFS site without any pins.

If IPFS provided the ability to track pins from users of a site like private trackers, and provide rewards or some incentive then I think IPFS would gain much wider adoption.
Not an argument I want to have but I feel compelled to express.

While the ideology is terrible, hateful, close minded, harmful, etc, we tolerate their right to speech because no one knows when you might be the next “Neo Nazi”. A flick of the switch politically, and TPTB might find that LGBT speech is hateful. Perhaps people new to the tech industry don’t remember a time when being a computer nerd was anti-social, and clashed with the norms of society. Sure there are consequences to this ideology. People can get hurt and people’s lives can be impacted. But that is the price to live in a free society. Speaking to your last question, I think McDonalds should absolutely have the right to refuse service to a Klan member. But if I was in charge of McDonalds I would serve them. Because IMHO the outcome of a society where speech is no longer free, either by corporate cancel culture or government regulation, is not a society I want to live in.
FreeBSD has an analogous mechanism called etcupdate[1]. I think Boot Environments[2] are pretty similar to SilerBlue but I don't know how BEs manage /etc.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=etcupdate

[2] https://mwl.io/archives/2363
Exhibit A pro: Singapore, Inc.
Exhibit B contra: everywhere else
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read - Mark Twain

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26308324
FYI: This article was likely published in summer 2020.
Last mile doesn't have to be a monopoly, but there's a clear limit to how many overbuilt networks can be supported.

Very few organizations are willing to build a third network when an area is already covered by two networks; the cost to build is too high, and the number of customers you'll attract is too low; and the profit margins are too slim, given how quickly incumbent networks can be made competitive when there's a will.

Vanishingly few would overbuild a fourth network.

Often two, sometimes three, and almost never four competitors is not a healthy marketplace. There's no way for a regular person to say 'my ISP stinks, I'm going to go out and do a better job', like you could in the dial-up days by getting a T1 for data, and a T1 for users to call in on. Yes, T1s were expensive, but they weren't as expensive as wiring up to every customer. If we want competition in ISPs, we need local loop unbundling, but for realsies; the companies owning and operating last mile networks should be strictly separate from the companies providing Internet Protocol services on those networks.
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I find this insanely obvious as a product. I'm considering updating my Mac to Big Sur just to run this. It's all the text manipulation I run from the CLI without having to look up syntax.
Poor reputation, expensive service, whats not to love?
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This is not uncommon at large companies,

- because different divisions have different budgets, you might see each department running their own Slack, etc.

- you want to make sure work doesn't fall on the floor, so you want a persistent queue of requests. I see this almost always as a Google form or via email - except development organizations.
A can affirm the first sentence is true.

(I don't dispute the second).
I recall the article that said obfuscation is the final solution to our privacy.

But do we really want this solution?
IP addresses are not identifying info under the GDPR. They are only potentially identifying. The address in your nginx logs does not count, if you are storing other data and can use the IP to identify an individual, now its identifying data.
This is bit of an off-topic question, and I realize that it might sound a bit "out there", but I'm compelled to ask and I'll take the down-votes that I deserve:

Twice in my life I have seen what I believed to be a satellite make a sudden and abrupt (near instantaneous) 90-degree turn. I realize this is impossible [probably?], which is why I ask. Once was in 1992 - and I spent nearly 30 years telling myself I mis-remembered. And the second time was in 2018 while backpacking with my wife - she was a second witness and confirmed that we saw the same thing. Both times the turn occurred when directly over-head.

When casually stargazing, I don't spot the satellites when they first pop up on the horizon. I usually spot them around 30-45 degrees above the horizon. One way to differentiate between an aircraft and a satellite is the blinking, but that's not always reliable - so a more reliable way is to note how quickly the "perceived" speed changes as it moves from 30-degrees towards the azimuth. The larger the change in perceived speed, the lower the altitude, while constant speed indicates orbit.

In both cases, I was casually looking at the sky - I had no measurement or recording tools. In both cases I took mental note of the speed when I first spotted it and how it changed (or didn't) as it moved. I mentally noted that that both appeared to be a satellite. Obviously, a 90 degree turn is impossible (?), which leads me to guess that I may have seen an extremely high altitude, high speed, aircraft make a near 90 degree turn while reflecting sunlight shortly after sunset. This also seems to be a stretch.

I hate to ask such far-fetched "I saw..." questions here, but it's been driving me nuts since 1992. All attempts at research have been fruitless. I thought maybe someone here could help?
Non-competes are being used everywhere: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627682297/regulators-investig...
I would prefer the program always exited on undefined behavior. That would be a hell of a lot more secure than it continuing going potentially blowing the stack or letting the attacker call arbitrary code. It’s the same with memory allocators: if malloc() fails to allocate new memory, I don’t want it to return a NULL. I want it to use a static buffer to log the problem and then exit the process. There is almost never anything you can do when you run out of heap and if you can you aren’t naively using malloc() from your system library and checking for NULL return values.

The whole problem with undefined behavior is that it is faster to not check for undefined behavior and calling exit(1) (exit(0) would be a successful exit). Think about it in slightly higher terms: you implement a linked list that can search for an item and return a pointer to it once it finds it. Your implementation explicitly says that if you search for an item that isn’t in the list you will hit an infinite loop. I disregard the warning and let it search for an item not in the list. I hit an infinite loop. Could you have added a check for “if (current == head)” and bail then returning NULL? Sure you could but that introduces a branch and slows things down. Better label what can happen as undefined behavior because maybe on some future processor you’ll have that check because it’s cheap but on x86 it isn’t so you don’t. This is essentially the same thing.
The enforcement of antitrust changed from market share to consumer harm. There is nothing stopping a court from changing the definition back. NPR has a really good 3 part podcast on the history of this and future implications:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/704426033/anti...
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I imagine the data will be aggregated/anonymized.
Still, I would not be surprised if early AOL implementations used a VAX! Does anyone know what that stuff ran on?
If you imagine me offended, you are wrong a third time. Or fifth, I might have lost count.

It should worry you to be wrong so frequently about other people. But I prognosticate that nothing will change.
I have a Recruiter label in Gmail, whenever a new recruiter messages me, I make a Gmail rule to mark as read and label as Recruiter for the sending domain.
This also prevents the “three touch points” tactic they all seem to use from working. Works like a charm, then whenever I get angry at my job I can go look at the recruiter label for an ego boost.

Phone - don’t answer unknown numbers

LinkedIn - don’t open the page. It’s generally useless I find. Nobody notices when you don’t congratulate them on their 3 year work anniversary.
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Because it hardly makes a difference to power users, let alone average people. The Pixel phones come loaded with Google spyware, but you can flash your own rom on it to do whatever you want. But unless someone is out there developing an alternative rom without spyware that does everything you need, it may as well be locked down.
I like this a lot because it shows the distance between me and the satellite on the same scale as the distance between me and other ground locations. Otherwise it's hard to know how close/far satellites are.
You say "we" want x&y almost as if they are firm, broadly held opinions. If there were a flash Brexit-style vote across the USA today, and democracy were on the ballot against some type of Trump-led monarchy, and the majority of the country voted for a system that dismantles all the things you value, are you now going to accept the fair and democratic result or fight back? Would you resort to blaming the masses for being uneducated and not knowing what's good for them? The Paradox of Tolerance may seem like some abstract concept but it could very well be central to an actual decision you'll have to make.
> the main issue is that Apple shut down his other Apple services because of non-payment. This presumably wouldn't happen if the charge was on a non-Apple card.

Not entirely true. If you owe money on the App Store because maybe your non-Apple card expired and you never updated it, Apple will shut down your account still.
I teach English as a second language. Just an anecdote to add here, there is a lot more background processing than you would imagine here.

Most learner's are trying to parse the new language into their old, and discount context (understandably with English), and that sudden burst your noticing, is that realisation.

I could go on for quite a while about this, but my main point is: learning a new language is a whole bunch of background processes that most people don't realize.
It should also be pointed out that it hasn’t officially been called the “Coon Carnival” in many years since “coon” is in fact a racist slur in South Africa, despite McNeil’s insinuation that it’s just an American thing.
I don't know what's the point for Huawei using Android. Using Android is the only viable choice to make usable smartphone for developed world and it's (basically) OSS.
Just like 10 years ago
The National Association of Realtors controls a huge percentage of real estate transactions, and works to make sure it doesn't drop, to the point where there are multiple open anti-trust lawsuits. For example: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-anti...

Basically, if you don't play the Realtor game and agree to pay those commissions, it's difficult to participate in the market at large.
Pretty sure I didn't state that. But I agree with what you're stating.
Do you know where and when it was?
> Also, the irony of you talking about "meandering writing" is just breathtaking. Ever heard of a period?

Petty. No one in a HN comment is claiming to be a journalist.
Why do you think that? Is data usually anonymised in private court orders in the US?
I’ve become a fan of text-only sites and looking for a good sports one. This is great!

Do you plan to make it open-source?
Some interesting ideas, resonates with frustrations with poor dev workflows I have suffered from at times
> I live under a rock
I'd also add https://jepsen.io/consistency & https://jepsen.io/analyses. Of course they're not foundational, but are also good to have on-hand!
Another hit piece sponsored by monopoly isp's
Ask HN: What is a good replacement for CGI.pm?
I still use cgi.pm for doing server side stuff like processing forms and AJAX calls because I've been lazy I suppose, but it's still really handy for me and I'm not aware of anything else quite like it for .cgi scripts.

I'd like to stick with perl but I'll appreciate and look into any suggestions offered.
Americans dont have a monopoly on self absorbed totalitarian assholes.
It’s absolutely infuriating how many IoT devices round trip to the cloud for no good reason at all.
I’m completely disappointed with this post. There’s a curt one sentence update at the end saying the accounts have been reactivated, but the author didn’t add any details on the correspondences about that. I don’t understand such posts that make a lot of noise to get attention when something goes wrong but don’t really help others out when their situation gets sorted out. If it’s just going to take time to compile information, that could’ve been added in the update, but there’s no such statement there.

Did someone inform him about the iCloud account reactivation? Did anyone at Apple/Goldman apologize for the issues? Did anyone say what went wrong and how they’re going to prevent this from happening in the future? Did they provide any indication as to whom to contact if the issue happens again (would be very useful for others)? I’m glad that this vexing issue got sorted out and I agree it shouldn’t even have happened or be so draconian, but the information sharing leaves a lot out.
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Perhaps, but as far as I'm aware, none of them are as flexible as my interface (to support e.g. streaming, pipelining.) I have not looked at all of pandas' time-series functionality that closely.
This takes me back to when I played around with sound using the C64 midi. There were four attributes that you could adjust to try and emmulate the timbre of a particular instrument: attack, delay, sustain & release.

Was a lot of fun when I was young.
Google updates some iOS apps after a pause due by lack of privacy labels
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Idk how giving someone your Snapchat/Instagram is less risky than giving them your number. You can block people from calling/texting you. In fact iOS recently came out with a feature that blocks all incoming calls/texts from unknown numbers. So even if you give somebody your number and they are evil enough to sign you up for a robocall list it would still be fine
"friends on the left opposed to free speech" is your willful misunderstanding of the issue
> A new special input function forward-single-char moves one character to the right, and if an autosuggestion is available, only take a single character from it (#7217, #4984).

Huh.

It feels super weird to see this finally hit release. Feels like a lifetime ago that I made this patch, I'd completely forgotten about it.

Since then I've gone through another lockdown, quit my job, started a Rust GUI framework, and started doing self-employed consulting.

Also it feels kind of humbling to think about the weeks I spent writing it, and then see that it's only a bullet point in a changelog that has hundreds of them (most of them a lot more useful than mine).

Cheers to the fish community!
This makes a strong case for determining the contact details of the Apple executives, and reporting them all as spam.
Aside from the socioeconomic circumstances of one's birth, luck favors the prepared. I also come from a poor background and got "lucky" a few times in my life (in particular the sequence of events leading to me joining a US tech company while making web apps in Russia was rather tenuous), but the cause for the luck each time was prep.

E.g. I aced an interview question on GC design because, after doing some GC tuning for a web app at work I read GC docs and then a couple research papers at home to understand it better. After the (group) interview loop, someone told me they were asked a hypothetical SQL backend design question they had trouble with, and I realized I knew then how SQL Server solved that, for similar reasons, so I could have aced that question too.
Sure, I could have gotten yet another design question that I knew nothing about ("unlucky"), but to even have a chance to get "lucky" you need to prepare... to win the lottery you at a minimum need to buy a ticket ;)

As for the luck of the birth, almost by definition, when you are poor you grow up surrounded by people in similar circumstances; if you "make it", it is very easy to judge those who didn't, because well, they were in similar circumstances to you and you saw what they did differently, often in detail.
Perhaps Amazon needs a little anti-trust love.
Because my comment was about the title. Not about the content.
If you read till the end, you'll realize that the original support request was framed in a way that caused the agent to assume the customer was reporting a fraud or account compromise.

It was only down in the chain, around November, when the customer mentioned that they may have accidentally signed up for a WaPo subscription (due to dark patterns), and not that their account was compromised.

By then it was too late, as Apple had already applied the nuclear option of a password reset, to keep the customer's account secure.
I really love the demoscene from the mid-to-late 80s into the beginning of the 90s.. Second reality from future crew was just mindblowingly awesome.. About 91/92 PCs were no joke anymore (Amiga and Atari ST users used to pick on them and still do ;-) )