skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today though, conservatives are mad about what exactly?… It seems like they're mad about a generalized disrespect which the mainstream culture has towards them. And fair enough, they aren't imagining that.

It's a bit more than that. A growing proportion of conservatives see the world very differently than their left-wing counterparts. This is most easily demonstrated at the moment by the fact that 60% of self-identified Republicans believe the election was stolen via voter fraud[1].

Set aside your own beliefs about the specific issue for a moment, and ask yourself: how would you feel if you honestly, truly believed that Trump legitimately won the election? Would your beliefs be strengthened or weakened when the opposition compared the person you believed won the Presidency to Hitler, and their supporters (you) to Nazis[2]?

> But they vent this anger into really bizarre things like trying to keep trans people from using the bathroom and imaginary voter fraud prevention laws. And those are the mainstream, non-conspiracy minded Republican issues!

You're right. Those issues are politicians pandering to their bases, and emphatically setting themselves on the "hardliner" side of a party that is in turmoil and at risk of fracture.

There are other issues that, if pressed, will absolutely unite the GOP and sweep everything else aside. Foremost among those: gun rights. If the Biden administration is successful in moving against firearms - especially if through legislation - the divisions within the GOP will disappear in a heartbeat.

> So my current best guess is that we are in the quiet period now, things will stew along for the next 2 to 4 years, then Trump will run again or some other crazy thing, and then there will be secession crisis.

I agree. I don't know if Trump will remain relevant, but I see every sign that red states are beginning to seriously consider secession as a possibility. It's an extremely unlikely one today, yes - but it was extremely unlikely in most of the 1850s as well... until it wasn't.

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-disinformati...

2: https://www.salon.com/2021/04/11/trumps-big-lie-and-hitlers-...
Well you really need to feed those Electron apps you're using don't you? Since they primarily feast on tons of RAM and disk space.

At 'least' the SSD is replaceable, so you can upgrade the space after you bought it. Unlike the M1 Macbook Air that has everything soldered.
Who would launder money in a way that would not only require finding a developer and going through App Review, but also losing 30% in the process (plus however much that developer costs)?
Ok, but didn't concern the end user, as far as I can remember.
This reminds me of a line from an NPR story. It said that "false" information spread twice as fast and twice as far as "true" information on twitter.

No interrogation of why it spread was investigated. It immediately made me wonder, maybe people just thought "false" information was a whole lot funnier, and hence sharable.

The problem with misinformation is it vaguely doesn't exist. There's parody, non-orthodoxy, true things people disagree with for political reason, unproven things, urban myths, rumors, etc etc. These are all classes of information people blame all the ills of society on.
There's an anecdote about a similar effect in the article too:

> Fun fact: while at Mozilla I heard multiple anecdotes of [very intelligent] Firefox developers thinking they had found a bug in Rust's borrow checker because they thought it was impossible for a flagged error to occur." However, after sufficient investigation the result was always (maybe with an exception or two because Mozilla adopted Rust very early) that the Rust compiler was correct and the developer's assertions about how code could behave was incorrect. In these cases, the Rust compiler likely prevented hard-to-debug bugs or even exploitable security vulnerabilities. I remember one developer exclaiming that if the bug had shipped, it would have taken weeks to debug and would likely have gone unfixed for years unless its severity warranted staffing.

Sometimes people think that they're right and that the compiler is wrong, but often, (not not necessarily always!) it's that they forgot some important piece of context.

(Oh, and Rust absolutely can do "allocate in a block and free at once" stuff, or "run once and exit" stuff...)
Meanwhile they are regularly rejecting updates for legitimate, established apps, because the given reviewer didn’t like the way the pricing page was worded. It doesn’t matter that the same copy was used for the last 10 versions of the app, you must change it and re-submit for review :^)
I always wondered what prevented an employee from skipping several check-ins, then filling in the missing signatures/timestamps at one time.
Somewhat tangential but looking up names is not always safe either, they could be made up. Latest scam on YouTube is to reply to comments with a clone account of the owner of the channel. They copy everything but the scam itself is quite bad, they want you to call a w-h-a-t-s-u-p number or something dumb that I would never bite. Youtube does nothing to stop these even when heavily reported.
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I fully respect that these things are not easy for a complete beginner! I might not have expressed it very clearly but that’s what I tried to say; the browser environment requires you to deal with asynchronicity to do almost anything other than log to the console, so that makes it a tough place to start.
I'm an engineer, so presumably not the intended audience wrt Figma. I hate it. Hopefully changes to the free tier curtail adoption. Three big reasons:

- It's built around an un-cropped 2d view. Cute-sie and unique, I know. But sending teammates links in an un-cropped 2d expanse is hit or miss. All us working in it don't know where/what one another are referring to. We've taken to slacking screenshots and pretending it doesn't exist.

- It feels super heavy weight. Load the page and look at the network requests. It's seconds just to get a menu of projects. Jumping into a project takes just as long. I assume this has to do with them trying to do a bunch of collaboration stuff that's already done by better, more established products. Why is ms paint so complicated?

- It's super clumsy to search. For comparison look at storybooks -- searchable, cropped, focused on compose-able components. Very, very simple UI. I spend minutes hunting around Figma for a random design I need to attach to a PR description when I know the name of the component I'm looking for!
I've been using Colemak for 6 years now. Although not faster, it's much more comfortable, especially in the wrists. Along with frequently switching between mousing, a tented+split keyboard, and remapping programming punctuation on a third layer with QMK, I'm very glad I made the investment to reduce the chance of developing an RSI.
You can also test this, similarly to how Stackoverflow does it: send people a post that you know is bad (or good) and check that they flag it. If they don't, let them know that they are doing it wrong, lock them out of moderation, or silently ignore their voting and use it as a signal of voting rings.
The X1 is awesome, but Thinkpad T-series had it down in the 2010s. The T440p, the T460s, the T420, and so many other legendary laptops were born from that line.

As a side note, it's a shame they never made any "true" successors to the x230s, I'd love to see them made with today's technology.
I don't know that you and I should get into a discussion here.

It sounds like we're so diametrically opposed that it could get pretty heated. At least from my end. You do have a right to your opinion, but I don't want to play in the space where I could get emotionally dysregulated by some dude on the internet.

I'd rather not bring a flame war to the HN community.

I'm also not entirely sure that your argument is in good faith and i'm really not in the sort of place where I want to tease out the things you say which are hyperbole versus the things you really believe.

Do you really think that I said all interviews should be tailored to all people throughout all time and space? I can't believe that you really think that, so you can't be arguing in good faith.

Are you really saying that you think it is unreasonable that we expect accommodations be made "for amputees"? Like their role or position in society is somehow a burden on you, or god forbid employers?

Honestly, maybe you do. Maybe you're super into eugenics. I don't want to find out really. It is best that we go our separate ways.

I hope you have a very peaceful day.
Again with the made up numbers that erode trust.

I’m 25 and I’m relatively healthy. The risk that the disease kills me is significantly less than 1 in 100; it’s hard to find numbers but one chart had the hospitalization rate for me at 1%, and the death rate 0.01% (edit: though the death rate only covered age and didn’t divide by other factors such as obesity). The “chance” the vaccine kills you is currently zero as there have been no recorded deaths that have been linked to a COVID vaccine. The blood clotting risk has been cited as 1 in a million, but we’re working with limited data. This is the problem with making such extrapolations.

I write all of this as I’m on day 2 of dealing with the side effects of J&J.
Thanks, that is a much more reasonable statement, and I agree. On the one hand we don't know, but on the other hand a lack of knowledge does not mean everything has equal probabilities.

I personally don't see any good reason to think that the risk for long term side effects from the vaccine is higher for the vaccine than for COVID itself.
But the same applies to many, many other discussions on HN. They may seem like shouting into the void, and then they may either stay that way, or garner enough of a critical mass to reach someone relevant--at a minimum they create discourse in our society.

So why single this one out? I understand why the cited rule exists: Broken website formatting or back-button breakage is indeed not interesting to discuss, mainly also because it's a nuisance problem with one specific site, and therefore indeed rather futile to discuss without the maintainer of the site actually present.

But this issue here is not just a nuisance problem of a broken website, it's an intentional choice by Ubuntu to apply unnecessary tracking to readers of their blog articles, and top it up with some dark patterns to coax their reads into accepting that. It's both something with much more intent than a broken website, and a systemic issue in our industry.
> It’ll be great if you fix security so we can all feel safer.

:eyeroll: - Regardless of past drama, this is an unacceptable way to treat any opensource contributor. Fuck this guy.
Example of MST being told by Sawyer to leave him alone and MST not relenting.

Of course over the years he has done worse to others. Mainly new users, especially women.

https://gist.github.com/wchristian/4e1bcdb761f20985b0a5c97a4...
Wix is the worst page builder I've seen so far. It's fun, even their own company blog doesn't make it to 40/100 in lighthouse.

I dislike page builders, but I'd use Elementor or Gutenberg any day over Wix.
Oatly went from foodie fad to $10B IPO
As far as forums go HN is very low volume.
I initially assumed the missing space was a typo in the headline, so I tried [0x for x in (1,2,3)] and got "invalid hexadecimal literal" as I would have expected. Took me a few minutes to realize the typo was intentional.

I still can't figure out what the author was trying to do when he stumbled onto that, though...
But we're not observing people for 3 months and picking an arbitrary two week window. People do not get added to the population until they have taken the vaccine, and they are all observed for different lengths of time. We did not hypothesize a 2 week period beforehand and compare how many landed within to how many were outside that range, the 2 weeks is just a circle drawn around the datapoints after the fact.
Reproductive rights? Funny. Yes, they can get an abortion. But there was a time, rather recently, when they literally did not have the right to reproduce.
Here's a tip for you: if what you're doing conflicts with your employer's profit-making, don't expect to be doing it for very long.
What I find an interesting is command interfaces in GUI applications. For instance ctrl + shift + p / cmd + shift + p menu of visual studio code or the new windows terminal, or the commands in slack. A GUI gives way more options for displaying information especially for auto-complete even while staying in a keyboard-only interface.
Yea it’s a useful tool but the UI gets super slow for larger projects. And I dread opening Figma files now with my Comcast data cap.
Privacy has been Apple's thing the last few years though, very unlike that they implement FLoC.
> When I do, I try to have an "exit strategy"

Oh, yes. We need more people talking and doing that. A SAAS with no "readable" export option is a major no for me.
At university, I became obsessed with Bresenham's algorithm (I was great fun at parties). I managed to adapt it to render hyperbolic functions, which are used in perspective correct texture mapping (this was back in the days before gpus). This gave a division free algorithm for perspective correct texture mapping, which was something of a holy grail at the time. Then GPUs arrived and made the whole thing moot - still, it was good fun.
Advertisement in disguise regardless of its childliness ;)
It's not. For non-essential stuff you need permission from your user. So don't track and you don't need to show a cookie banner even if you use cookies.
I’m not denying or minimizing these policies. But your argument relies on a survivorship bias. You think, “well, I know that potlatches and totem poles are indigenous cultural practices, and the Canadian government banned those around the turn of the 20th century, so 100% of the lost cultural practices are due to the Canadian government”. But we don’t even know the cultural practices of the majority of indigenous people who were killed by infectious disease between 1492 and maybe 1800 or so. And we barely know how the cultural practices of their survivors were fundamentally altered by those changes.

When you think about potlatches and totem poles, you should consider that these are the culture of a remnant of survivors of a vast cultural collapse that utterly eradicated entire civilizations across two continents. That doesn’t minimize their value; if anything, it makes them more rare and precious, and hence makes it even more fundamentally evil, if such a thing is possible, for the Canadian government to have attempted to destroy these things.
I think they do this with the USS Hornet aircraft carrier:

https://www.uss-hornet.org

I remember seeing a corvette club meet there, and I believe they drove their cars onboard.
> If I'm literally prevented from using any other kind of spam filter, you bet I'd be complaining.

Actually, you can use another kind of spam filter - your brain.
Why is the correct solution not to support people enough that the only reason anyone has to interact is to do "essential" work--for which the they should be paid hazard-level pay--and then do this slowly and carefully? We can offer the vaccine to people who would then feel better taking it--particularly if it means they get to make hazard-level pay--but it wouldn't matter if people didn't: the main risk of getting covid should be "I decided to interact with people, knowing the risks", and it isn't our job to prevent them from getting ill any more than it is our job to police peoples' home lives. This whole "the sky is falling" emergency scenario is a false dichotomy we have constructed to avoid actually staring at the problem of wage slavery :(.
That wasn't a security or privacy issue and nobody forced those coaches who abused it
> Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need it.

This is the one thing putting me off, I want my chats on my device not on machine I don't own or have access to.
> I’d like to remind you that the code wasn’t developed by WordPress - it was General Public License (GPL). We didn’t steal it, and we gave it back according to GPL (JavaScript is not linked)

This doesn't really address Matt's point that the Wix app should be GPL licensed and that attribution should be given in order to comply with the library's GPL license. If anything, this response from Avishai just makes Wix look worse.
That's an iPod with a data plan.
> she would leave on a given date.

She doesn't say that she had given a date. Who sets the last day is sort of the definition of what makes an end of employment a firing or a quitting.
Their true "pro" computers will be the last to get updated. Integrating ARM at-scale like this is an uphill race, and it's going to be difficult for Apple to deliver a successor when the 5nm node is already so scarce.
I agree, this post doesn't address any of the real feedback. I'm a fan of Signal, and I think a crypto wallet inside Signal could work, but it should:

- Not be MobileCoin or any small-cap coin
- Support Bitcoin/Litecoin/Etherum/other popular and trusted coins
- Sync private keys using the same mechanism as messages

Signal has had some questionable choices in the past, but this is over the line for their goal of privacy/security/trust. MobileCoin does not belong in Signal.
Yes, it is fully automated. I don't think wg-dynamic will be ready in the next few years, or even remotely cross-platform when compared to the current wireguard implementation and popularity. Our code for choosing an IP address from our pool is really short, just a quick SQL query and a round robin selection.
The end date was chosen by Google, not by Timnit. That's a firing not a resignation.

If I send HR a letter saying I resign effective 2 weeks from now and they reply "no, we want you out immediately", I was fired.
The primary intended audience for this article is people Googling either "does vivaldi use floc" or "what browsers don't have floc." The secondary audience is giving Vivaldi fans an easy way to answer when someone asks those same questions on social media. So it's mostly targeted at people who have at least a vague idea already what FLoC is. And for that audience, the content flow is ideal: the article leads with a direct at straightforward answer to the question at hand.
Sabotage at Iranian Nuclear Plant Likely Meant to Permanently Damage Centrifuges
Does the Dunning-Kruger effect apply to people's knowledge of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
If you've been there less than 2 years, they're not required to provide the reason. It's "at will" employment like the US. Like you say, if they stupidly choose to say something you might have a case but why would they?

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/leaving-a-job/dismiss....
I fully agree with this.
If big enough and hi-res enough, it could be doable.

Also if you often do multiple things at once.

I find most of the time, I'm looking at one or two long documents (web page, source code) and running shells on my landscape laptop monitor so the combo works perfectly for me.
It could (and does in my experience) as the cost of tracking goes down to practically nothing. If the employee has options to work elsewhere, then the employee morale might enter into the equation. But as far as I can see, even doctors and pharmacists are tracked nowadays. Drivers are tracked more than ever, dash cams are becoming regular. Call center employees have been tracked for a long time now. Hotel employees have iPads where they go through their checklist.

And if you're indoors in a public business setting, there's a near certainty you're on camera for any big business. Of course, there's a difference in tracking minute by minute movement, but my point is that we went from no tracking to quite a bit of tracking already, and I don't see any reason why this won't become widespread either (absent laws preventing it).
I don't think anyone would disagree that if there were no cost to delaying supplies of the vaccine then we should do that. But that's simply not credible. The governor of Michigan seems to think that additional vaccine does would be helpful.[1]

Suggesting that effects on the order of the ones seen here is a good reason to delay the vaccine should make people doubt the ability of our public health authorities to make reasonable tradeoffs.

[1] Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared her state a "COVID hotspot" as cases continue to rise and has asked the federal government to increase vaccines in response.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cdc-director-michigan-vaccin...
So you're underwater from the start... :)
Wix is an unethical company. They lure less tech savvy users in, get their content, and provide no way to export the data. They effectively own your content, it is terrible.
The Israeli intelligence services nonstop sabotage campaigns of Iran's nuclear ambitions would probably make a great comedy.
I think it would still poison the “Apple experience” to have many AppStores all competing with their own closed ecosystems. The Apple Experience of not being able to install some apps sucks, but its always been easy for me to help someone with an iOS device. That’s not true with Android or Windows. A walled garden ecosystem isn’t for everyone, but it does have value.

Instead, I’d like to see Apple be forced to provide bootloader unlocks and some basic drivers for alternative operating systems. We own the hardware, after all. Then they could have their walled garden and people who wanted more could run something else.

It’s also a simpler and more generalizable goal, in my opinion. If you own it, you should have low level access. That sounds more reasonable than forcing a corporation to add open App Store access, maintain it, and deal with whatever market effects precipitate.
Missing and Missed
You can already block third party cookies in Chrome (and probably other browsers.)
I remember that one too, I was able to find it by searching comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553390
Yep, I used averages not made-up numbers.

The reason everyone has to get it is so that the average goes down to 0, for everyone.

7 million trials is not limited data. It's dramatically, and I do mean dramatically more data than basically any other clinical trial for any other drug you've ever heard of. By probably 2 orders of magnitude. It's simply not limited data.

The average phase 3 trial has 300-3000 participants [1]. Not seven million.

Also a week in after J&J.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research
If I were unfamiliar with 1Password, I'd imagine the product is an absolute dumpster fire from your post.

In reality, the macOS and iOS clients work fine. I have a dozen friends and family members using the product with no complains on those platforms. I surely haven't seen any performance or UI problems that aren't worse on different services. Sure, there is some current confusion between the use of the 1Password X and classical browser extensions, but it's hardly "a mess."
1. The current mRNA vaccine, only produces antibodies to the spike protein. A natural immunity produces antibodies to several components of the virus. If the virus mutates its spike, a natural immunity will still provide some protection.

2. A vaccine producing (IIRC) two orders of magnitude more antibodies than natural immunity is not necessarily a good thing.
Not sure if they still do it but Wix use to run like 10 different tracking services on every single one of their clients websites.

Weird post to read, not very CEO like to be spitting the dummy like that.
Is it a planned PR?
Tips for Building High-Quality Django Apps at Scale – By DoorDash
If you are into synthesizers check out youtube channel "Look mum no computer" and it's side channel "Museum of everything else"
"We didn't steal it and we gave it back" - whoever wrote this sentence doesn't understand the GPL at all, and maybe not even software in general.

I shall return momentarily. Linking JavaScript.
more like "i swear she said she was 18"