skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point is that the touch prompt is “out of band”: it shows up in its own window. Some other app could open that request while you’re looking elsewhere then yiu type sudo, look up, see it (without focus), so click it and then put your finger on the sensor. When your sudo remains blocked you see the other, click I, and proceed under the assumption it was a glitch.

Sounds complicated but is actually quite plausible. And worse under face I’d as it would be more seamless. iOS is different as the user interface is largely single task (slightly less under ipad) and background tasks that need face ID need a notification and explicit selection to get it
periods of global cooling and warming have always happened (ice age). The fear is our activities are accelerating the change, not that it causes it
>Plenty of national newspapers are willing to give people front-page editorials to say things that are not mainstream.

Do you have some examples?
> Everybody is equal no matter what?

It's not even clear what "everybody is equal" really means.
The easiest way to confront cancel culture is to embrace it and try to get everything cancelled for the most minor of reasons. Hopefully, people will just get fed up and ignore it. The hardest part will be to stop companies bowing to the twitter mob for fear of bad publicity.

Also, twitter needs to go. Humans can't handle it.
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I feel like this discussion is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. Ishiguro has a new book out and the article doesn't mention it til half way through, as if his mildly presented, fairly specific remarks about "Cancel Culture" are even notable. He mentions young writers with precarious careers, and the author of the article brings JK Rowling into it, which is about as far from what Ishiguro was talking about as can be.

Either way, I've only read The Remains of the Day, and I'm interested in reading more, but I can't say this article drew me in to Klara at all. Any suggestions for next books of his to read?
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History is written by the winners, if Cancel Culture "wins" this will just be seen as a positive embyrotic formation of the dominant culture eradicating and stomping out evil in the world via a superior tactical formation (cancellation). If they win this will be seen as a very primitive form of mob-cancellation whereas in the future it will be cancellation via sophisticated "fair" social-credit scores.

If the anti-cancel culture people win out culturally this will be seen as a historic dark age of self-censorship and a period of significantly degraded cultural expression.

All history is relative.
It's an interesting phenomenom the one described in the story.

I myself a great number of times have experienced situations where I held back on writing down certain thoughts even in places like my journal where the whole point is to write down every single thought crossing through my mind anyway.
Eh, I don't think it's here to stay. The political correctness pendulum swings back and forth every 10-20 years it seems to me, the last time it was on the watch-what-you-say spectrum felt like the mid-90s.

That said, this feels way, way more extreme than it was then. I'm maybe less worried that it's here to stay than I am worried that the swings are getting more and more extreme
It famously started a panic in the plot ofg that movie "Radio Days" made by New York City favorite son and child-rapist Woody Allen.
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> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves

Who do you think wakes up and thinks, "I love poverty. This life is so easy"?
Here's a counterpoint: in the last 150 years we've seen the enslavement and legally mandated racial segregation of African-Americans, same-sex marriages illegal until recently, enormous and largely forgot historical support of Hitler and Franco, a mass shooting of a synagogue amid a resurgence in neonazism, and are only celebrating 100 years of womens' right to vote.

It's hard, from the outside of the bubble of this generally white and male forum, sometimes to appreciate how badly other people have it. Some people are effectively cancelled all the time and even a small taste of it has people in an uproar here. Perhaps a little empathy on all sides would be beneficial.
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There is no lack of dissenting opinions to be found outside of the mainstream (the same place where punk once existed exclusively).

Cancel culture is primarily a problem with mainstream/pop culture. The "underground" today is more vast and diverse than it has ever been.
> Just about everyone I speak to about the subject agrees that cancel culture is bad but very few people seem willing to confront it. I sense that people hope the rest of society will come to its senses and we all stop being so judgemental.

I found this[1] article very interesting. Basically, only 2% of American adults generate over 80% of all tweets. "Cancel Culture" really is run by a few extremists who have a louder voice than everyone else.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...
If you're bestselling enough for it to matter, probably a publisher would protect their property. Being pseudonymous doesn't necessarily mean that no one knows but that just a few people know who generally won't go blabbing to the newspapers. But if authorship of something becomes a widespread puzzle to solves, e.g. Primary Colors, it does tend to get out sooner or later.
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> This is not an intended use case for sscanf.

It's almost like JSON and XML were invented so people didn't have to understand lex/yacc.

And behold... they don't.
Making president "do what you want law dont apply to you" is policising the justice system. And it advantages parties willing to break law.
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The problem with cancel culture is much the same as the problem I'm having with my QA department:

We have a very small, rock solid front end. Most of our work is simply updating content. It's very straightforward work and you have to try very hard to introduce bugs. But when you staff a team of 6 people and tell them "it's your job to find something wrong with this website", they WILL find something wrong. I have a meeting this afternoon to explain to my Product manager why the content looks different on a mobile screen than it does on desktop because the QA team thinks line breaks are a bug ("the content document didn't break the line here, but the mobile view did, it's a bug").

When you empower people to take others down via subjective rules, then it's always a moving target. You can never reach a point where people are safe and happy. Check out the shuffles deck subreddit for some egregious examples of cancel culture gone wrong, https://www.reddit.com/r/Shuffles_Deck/.
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Perhaps we should use NLP to change the writing style but maintain the core idea. :)
I'll gladly change my mind, what is it useful for?

On your other point, I'm sure many people find it fascinating and are inspired. However a young geologist or biologist might not be inspired to start a career at NASA. Another point the author of the article above makes it that in the ~2 hours of live coverage, 6 seconds were spent discussing the rovers instruments.
As for budget, this is also dangerous; after all, if the next funding round comes along, anyone who does not like NASA can have an easy argument that the $80M on the helicopter are wasted and did not produce any knowledge about Mars or the universe.
I think it might be caused by the modern pension system. There's no need for children if pension is provided by other means.
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This looks more and more like money laundering the more I look into it.
That's correct, which typically defeats the point of using it since in that case you still have access to Touch ID. The above link works in both scenarios, and can be used as a fallback for pam_tid.
I don't think the "fear of women" thing is real. At least it isn't real in SF where I've worked for the last eight years.
Or fired from your job, branded with the scarlet letter, have your private information shown to the public by some news outlet...
I use uBlock Origin to delete the GDPR banner, clicking neither "accept" nor "reject". I just hide it. I have no idea whether this makes any legal difference, and I am sure the assholes responsible don't care either way, but it makes me feel better to circumvent the silliness.
True, but not strictly true. I played with 100% manual attacks and cures, but made heavy use of color coding to recognize threats in the rapid scroll of incoming text. It wasn't any harder than playing a competitive puzzle game: recognize colors, make matches, try to throw sand in your opponent's gears and make combos faster than they can.
Very interesting. He credits his perspective to the fact that he grew up in a Japanese’s family without the western influence limiting his creative output.
> It's a big, by definition both very visible and very social feature

But you only see yourself as a thumbnail so the feedback is quite lossy.
I'm... not sure what the point of this is.

The cynical take from that is that they can burn on non-profitable choices for far longer than your average competitor. Since, as you say, they can do this for a long time.

Note that this isn't really new, either. MS used to (still does?) give ridiculously reduced/free offerings to students, only to build an entrenched mindshare that "this is the way." Nor is this just MS. Fusion 360 recently made headlines by changing their "reduced" option. I recall for years it was open speculation that Adobe used to turn a massive blind eye to piracy, as long as it was growing the demand that shops have to use their product.

Now, I think a valid criticism of me on this, is that I don't have an alternative. I don't know how to really regulate the behavior I think should be the norm here. My pipe dream would be that they have to use open standards for data exchange. If you are trying to build a new foundation, it has to be one that either pays for itself, or has an exit that is not encumbered by vendor lockin.
It may be an unintentional side effect, but doing this may prevent some degree of "Win rot", which Macos (and iOS) has also suffered from to a degree in the past. A huge number of mysterious iOS and Macos problems are caused by an accumulation of issues when config files of various types are "upgraded" along with the OS from one version to the next. If you look at all of the minor and major versions that come out in a year, small issues become large issues after being compounded by a couple of dozen updates.

There was an issue with iOS a few years ago that caused higher than normal battery drain when I was managing a department that supported a lot of iOS devices. A lot of users thought they needed a new battery. The battery drain issue was resolved for 100% of our users by doing an "Erase all data" and NOT restoring the backup. This process will still fix an amazing number of weird iOS issues in 2021, especially issues with the device slowing down, getting hot, or draining battery. It works because you end up with default config files that were designed for that version of the OS. If you restore the backup, often it will "restore" the problem you were trying to fix because the iOS restore process puts some OS config files back.

It will be interesting to see if Macos becomes less susceptible to win-rot type issues because of this config file reset behavior, as annoying as it may seem.
I have a counter example, just look at the debacle when the New York Times published an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton and the editorial page editor had to resign because of the outrage about its content:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/nyt-opinion-bennet-...
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Agreed. If I were hiring pharmacists and had two candidates, I'd hire the one who read up on their field outside of work and participated in industry organizations, etc. Passion is not required in any field, but in every field you are a better employee if you love your craft (and I'd venture, as long as with proper work/life balance, a happier individual for yourself and others).
And fired from your job. And yelled at on the street. And prevented from working in your field ever again. And death threats.

So, blacklisting: check. Excommunication: check. I'd rather not wait till it goes down further.