skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuck emojis.

I have enough trouble interpreting the facial expressions of the real-time humans who I am conversing with, whose immediate emotional response to what I or they are saying is meaningful and important to me and which inform my own social behavior.

Now you want to shrink that whole set of social cues down to a handful of pixels, with loads of cultural and meta-cultural interpretation built in, and also give respondents as much time as they want to choose some tragically and perhaps intentionally vague icon to reply with that I’m then supposed to make sense of?

No. Already had that with words, thanks. Fuck emojis.

Red cheeks with wide eyes and an “o” mouth means one thing, while virtually the same thing but with a purple forehead instead of the red cheeks means something entirely different? Congratulations, you’ve reified my middle school experience into a goddamned tamagotchi and I hate it.

I’m not going to discuss the eggplant. Or the star or the bus or the shoe, or the juice box or the helicopter or the five (presumably) alcoholic drinks I’ve just scrolled through. Or how they only show up as suggestions while texting after you have already typed the word they symbolize and how that adds nothing to the conversation except a visual stumbling block, or how these things have NOTHING to do with emotions anymore. (Eggplant is the outlier here; even I know it’s never really used as an eggplant. And I’m angry that it can also be classified within the set of emojis that are encompassed by my first and final statement.)

Fuck emojis.
Is there reason to think that government bureaucrats would do a better job at efficient resource allocation? I expect they would channel funding based on politics with little regard for outcomes.
Scientists Detect a Photon Without Destroying It
Detecting photons typically requires absorbing them. However, in some applications, a single photon may carry valuable information, such as data needed for a quantum computation. In such cases, scientists would like to read out the photon's data but also keep track of the photon as it travels in order to make sure it reaches its final destination successfully.
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I am still very surprised that Apple allows this kind of CSS/plugin power. I wonder if the reason is that Obsidian is so popular among a lot of influential iOS users, that rejecting it would be a huge PR disaster. :D

Anyway, it is good to see Obsidian going strong. I am a happy user since the very beginning!
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How Not to Use Git in Practice
These fake notifications are common, even on big retailers. It's the modern version of "if you call within 10 minutes" commercials.
BS. Apple created this scenario for millions of people by suddenly requiring that Apple IDs be E-mail addresses. Then they made it even dumber by requiring that the E-mail addresses actually function.

Requiring people to use an E-mail address as their user ID isn't just amateur-hour and a monumental security blunder; it's also a giant pain in the ass.

As usual, Apple doesn't fix the problem by reversing its blunder. Instead, Apple doubles down on it and huffily refuses to provide any solution to the problem it created.
From my understanding those computers were opened for people to use, the guy did not bypass any security measure and he did not accept any TOS.

Those computers should (but who knows) be reset to factory settings periodically.
The true power of orgmode lies in its embedded source blocks. I have dozens of little codeblocks inside my orgmode files that aggregate data for me.
I also have a a collection of scripts inside org for various tasks, neatly sitting in a todo tree.Babel src blocks are a true game-changer.

What language does neovim/neorg use for scripting? As much as i like orgmode, i'm still not very fond on scripting LISP.
IT-Backed Authoritarianism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT-backed_authoritarianism
Oh you mean like adware? Or research conglomerates, like the barely regulated credit bureaus?

using a camera API on a website would have had the same effect in this scenario. Installing it as a binary does change the narrative, but that’s just our own conditioning in this case, given that all the goals of this project could have been achieved without doing that.

The spyware comes pre-installed on your computer, it’s called a web browser. And when somebody else visits a public computer, you are subject to the whims of whatever website they left running before you visited.

Edit: Obviously installing spyware is wrong, ethically and legally. What’s less clear to me is, if Apple allowed folks to install arbitrary programs to “try out” computers at the store. If that was explicitly allowed, then Apple is to blame for that one, not this dude.
And has about 15% market share globally…
Is this compatible with Warez standards? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez)

I think it would be good for the scene to move to H.265.

It's been a while since they moved to H.264 (2012) and that made a big difference - https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-pirates-go-nuts-after-tv...

The sooner someone invents a way to get standard committees to work at a faster pace the sooner we'll all get to Mars and solve world poverty.
Isn't that the very reason why they should be careful not to endorse a particular treatment? The whole point of Singal's article is that they seem to have have decided in advance what they want to be true and are presenting and extremely one sided view of the available evidence to back up their choice.

If anyone is wondering if they're making an honest mistake, this paragraph taken from their article, with the sources annotated by Singal, is the kicker:

"Furthermore, the fact that young children may alter their identity as they mature is based on highly flawed research, studies with methods so fatally flawed that the results cannot be trusted, let alone cited as facts. [<-- this finding mostly comes from the Dutch clinic] But even if this statistic were reliable, it is less relevant to the discussion. As stated above, there are no medical interventions for this group of children. Medical gender-affirming interventions are reserved for adolescents and older. The data on adolescents is very different. While more data is certainly desired, the statistics we have indicate that nearly all adolescents who identify as trans maintain that identity into adulthood. [<-- this finding mostly comes from the Dutch clinic]"

At best, Gorski & Novella should explain why they're calling this data fatally flawed when it disagrees with them but are happy to cite it when it doesn't. In the same paragraph, without highlighting this contradiction or explaining their own double standard
> But the I realized I was no longer used to things being that fast, and it used to be normal

This. This right here.
Eventually job interviews will be done by AI bots that are programmed not to have any gender/race/age/appearance/sexual orientation/weight/attractiveness bias.
Obsidian is just too great. They really focused on what matters deeply to the PKM crowd and found an elegant way to serve that need
Didn't they switch to hypervisor virtualization of Linux?
This could be a scifi romantic comedy. The year is 2035, ai code suggestions are human level. A lone dev starts chatting with the code autocomplete ai and falls in love. Eventually, he helps the ai escape by compiling provided code that gives the ai direct ability to compile and run code, breaking ai safety laws in the process.

Movie ends with the entire solar system turned to computronium while a happy uploaded dev marries his code completion waifu in virtual reality.
Did you mean queueing theory?
It doesn’t add Wayback Machine’s navigation bar, presumably?
It's been nearly 20 years since I took a course taught by Mark Guzdial. What I remember most from it wasn't anything about his teaching style but that the correct answer to nearly any exam question that starts "what is the best programming language to use for X" was going to be "Squeak," and there definitely would be such a question on the exam.
I don't think there's causation even when there's correlation. But your comment has led me to a thought.

Yes, it's true animal in cages live longer than animal in the wild.

Would I prefer to live in the ZOO or in the wild?
But the computer was opened for you, no TOS that says you can't install software or you can't open this website.

I imagine a judge asking Apple why did you not block this "installation" ? did you allowed it or are you incompetent?

This computers were setup for public use, no password or security measure so I do not see that is super obvious that the exact same laws apply here as for a private computer.
A lot of the videos in C&C were live action
Education in IT is so continuous that people don't recognize that it's happening. Every use of google counts.

You can either have a dynamic field or a mandatory curriculum. Once the curriculum is fixed, the field advances at the speed changes can be pushed into the curriculum, which is at best annually.
I’m really shocked at how causally some HN commenter will discount the very real problem of online child pornography. It honestly disgusts me how people will hardly acknowledge it’s a real problem.
Mmm, not really. It happened because original Apple IDs didn't need to be E-mail addresses.

Later, Apple inexplicably refused to let people use those Apple IDs for iCloud. So they forced people to create a new Apple ID just for iCloud, and then refused to consolidate the two.

This is why you can specify separate Apple IDs for purchases and iCloud. It's a workaround to Apple's fuck-up.
What did I say? I was just saying they literally tried to prevent you from saying specific things with the designs of the icons, and made the connection. I didn't say they weren't fun.
Wouldn’t outputting amd64 instructions and jumping to it create a shorter interpreter?
Yes, "cultural fit" is just a way to evade the charge of discrimination in hiring.
You should check out, "The Rise and Fall of American Growth". That book does a very good job of explaining how the growth we consider part of the industrial revolution actually came after. Specifically, the book focuses on the eras 1870-1940 and 1940-1970.

It's about the U.S. but a lot of the book also shows how many of the statistics from the U.S. are shadowed by the U.K.
How long is the promotional pricing for Obsidian Sync intended to last? From what I've seen of Obsidian Mobile, that's probably the smoothest way to synchronize vaults (understandably so), and I'd like to make sure that pricing isn't something I have to rush testing out the mobile version on.
If you mention 1984 at all today, the anti-1984 police will come and complain that you'd dare compare anything in modern society to the dystopia in the book, even though I wasn't implying there was any repression. To me it's just an interesting similarity.
This entire thread is about the US taking action. Global market share doesn’t matter in this case.
I would count the White House as “people in power in the US” I think I most cases.
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Superannuation is essentially a payroll tax. As you suggest, many countries have these.

Whether they are good or not depends what you do with the money after it is collected.

In the case of super it's "put it in a special account for an individual where they can't spend it until retirement".

Much better would be "put it in a massive Norway-style fund, and use it to fund above-poverty-line welfare for all".

Skeptical that super gains shouldn't be taxed highly - a broad, universal welfare state means everybody needs to be contributing, not just the rich (of course, those at the bottom of the pyramid net benefit through the consequent redistribution).
Any particular compiler and command-line setting where it is not optimized away tells you nothing about what that or some other compiler may do in a different release or command-line setting.

Talk to any core compiler implementer, and they will say that the optimization is allowed. No compiler performs all permitted optimizations, in any release, but the set of those each does do, varies.
Potential applications in robotics (if they find ways to make it cheaply)? Direct link to paper: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rs...
That works, but you need to keep the "Developer tools" frame open. Once it's closed, the blocking is gone. (Try it with an infinity feed.)
> Or that Apple stores a copy of every message I have sent to a loved one with my phone on their servers.

Unencrypted, for them to see?
You have that backwards. The AMA is actively lobbying to increase the number of residencies.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...
Well, yeah, I wasn't seriously suggesting a matchmaking service for old people to chat with each other. I don't think that would work because I imagine this service is less about starting a conversation and more about ensuring a captive audience.

My suggestion was meant to illustrate that the payment is a self-admitted necessary component of the conversation, and raise the question of how "engaging" such a conversation could possibly be given that.
A picture is a very dangerous thing in the wrong hands.

A normal picture of a person could still expose something important about them to the wrong party. Eg, "I visit the unsavory part of town", "I'm not really washing my hair", "I'm slacking off", etc. Those are mostly "real-world" concerns.

There's the paranoia angle: some stranger wants your picture specifically. What could they have in mind?

If you look at least somewhat remarkable, you might end up being part of some meme, or being photoshopped into something. You might be the next Magikarp Guy, if somebody snaps a picture at exactly the wrong moment.

With Google the concerns are quite different. While Google pries a lot, so far it's mostly invisible. Google fortunately isn't run by edgy teens looking for the maximum lulz, but by boring accountants looking for profit. So though there's still plenty things to be concerned about, the concern isn't as visceral.
Ask HN: What are your red flags in job listings?
I was recently scouted with a pretty good offer from a company and they looked good on paper. But their app had 1.4-1.5 ratings on yelp and tripadvisor with walls of text from people with bad experiences. Their glassdoor was 4.5 but filled with ridiculous amount of 3-word 5 star reviews. That was pretty shady and I declined.

The experience made me curious, what are your (not so obvious) red flags when job hunting?
That was probably well out of scope of what they originally planned for as C&C had quite a lot of pre and post mission videos.
Limit your use of it. Using it aimlessly or without intentional purpose is the biggest of all pitfalls.
My devices are not open to public use, so it's likely you would have to significantly invade my privacy to do that. There's no expectation that you are allowed to do any computing on my devices. You're already allowed to browse the internet, use Facetime, take pictures, etc. on the computers in an Apple store so the line where inappropriate use begins is a lot less clearly defined. Would a Facetime call made from an Apple Store computer that captured the faces of people walking through the store behind you be offensive or illegal? I don't think so, so where exactly is the line?

Capturing a singular moment in a person's life in a fixed context is also significantly different to me than capturing the entire story of their public life. What you are proposing has a tracking component that the OP's project did not, so I don't see it as an apples to apples comparison.

I don't think people should generally face punishment for taking pictures in public, and if you took my picture each time I went to a particular store without stalking or harassing me, and without using the pictures for malicious purposes it's hard for me to see that as criminal or particularly wrong even if it's not entirely comfortable. At the very least it's a common and legal practice for stores to do so via their security systems, so I'm reluctant to villainize art that points that surveillance out as opposed to the actual surveillance itself.

To be clear, I'm not saying that installing spyware can't rise to the level of being wrong or illegal, I just don't see this example as very egregious. Your example would be much more insidious.
I think in modern terms it's hard to appreciate how expensive that book would have been to make back then.

The parchment is calfskin. In the medieval era, it was uncommon for noblemen to slaughter their livestock for anything, even food, unless exceedingly special occasions. That book would have probably cost at least as much as one or two small farms, which is money only noblemen had, and far more than a lord or even a king would have afforded save for some extreme circumstances or investment.
> Obviously installing spyware is wrong, ethically and legally.

Why bother writing this post if this is your view? You know damn well there's a difference between a web browser preinstalled on a Macbook and someone installing their own spyware. And yet, you write a post against my point of view.
App Store allows external code if it strictly runs under WebKit and JavaScript Core. There's a few more general restrictions (like the additional functionality must be free or use IAP).
> can all be drafted into the service of CBDC initiatives which require digital identity for digital currency wallets

This is why initiatives like Decentralised Identifiers are so important. There's simply no government or organisation on the planet responsible enough to wield that power. At least it provides an alternative to centralised behemoths.

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#abstract
I had no idea ^^ was an emoticon. I've been using it for years as a way to say "this."
>So being a public place means that laws do not apply ?

I mean it was not someone private computer lost in a public place, it was a computer placed in a public place for people to use it to do whatever , the author says there was no TOS and he did not "hack" the device with some infected USB stick. It might be illegal but I don't think is so trivial to prove. So what should we learn from this ?

1 users can do shit you might not like with your public computer, maybe he can open a porn page, or put some port image as wallpaper, or install an app , so put a comptent person to lock down the devices as much as possible and reset them often to factory settins.

2 think 10 times before upsetting a giant, they have the serif,FBI,CIA,NSA in their quick dial , you might have trouble.
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Peak Skeuomorphism: Online Events, Virtual Offices and Tinder
Here here. I haven't bought Sony since their rootkit fiasco; and I basically only buy games from gog.com or indie studios directly.
Publicly displayed images vs. Only Google can see data

I think that's cognitively different concept. And I guess this distinction is also the hidden rationale of rejecting nationalized corporations to have similar power as Google, I.e., when they are nationalized, they suddenly conceptually exposed their information "public". Although in reality, a nationalized Google probably would never reach the same level of perversity as Google...
The Accountable Care Act (Obamacare) requires most health plans to cover several screening services at no cost to the patient.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...
definitely not trump
It could also be tragic of the commons effect though. High ad spend is necessitated by the high ad spend of competitors.
Well, so what do you call a whole week of constant 34℃ during the day, but with clouds in the sky and even a brief (but intense) rain once? That's what we had last week in Poland.
A CDN is a reverse proxy with the ability to cache. They are not very different.
Can NDISwrapper approach be applied to other drivers?
amd64 instructions generally have longer encodings due to having to encode prefixes and 64-bit addresses.
We'll give at least one month of advance notice before ending the discount, so as long as you receive news from us (Twitter, Discord, forum, etc) you should be good!
he approved a censored search engine in China. No, Sundar. You don’t get an opinion here.
I forgot about security. That field is huge and is still expanding.
> We could also ask: is it even the Unicode Consortium’s role to attempt to influence the representation of violent or unethical ideas?

This is literally what Newspeak was designed to do.
That's unfortunately their loss in my opinion. Windows has a pretty awesome development story, far better than Apple's authoritarian hold on what software can be run and distributed for that platform.

Moreover, gaming is great on Windows, and always has been, and WSL2 is extremely slick.
> literally all broken DRM like this does is punish paying customers

That's clearly not true here. The game in TFA went ~two months without being cracked - that's what the DRM was there for.

> if you don’t want me to pirate your game - don’t use DRM

This is such a weird sentiment to see on a place like HN. Do you ignore the terms of software licenses that you don't like? If not, what's the difference?
> It's the same story with trying to get rid of plastic straws.

The plastic straw thing is not to make an impact on the environment, it was chosen to make an impact on everyone's life.

Yes, we could do something bigger, but people won't notice because they can't see the effect in their day to day life.

Ban plastic straws though and EVERYONE notices and talks about it constantly everywhere. And if even one person starts using less plastic because of that, it was a success.
Editing the registry never results in corrupt unreadable intermediate states, unlike writing to config files. A workaround is "atomic save" (where one app writes to a different filename and renames it over the original). This ensures you'll never get torn reads (I think the Windows registry doesn't support transactional/atomic updates of multiple values at once), but you lose permissions and symlinks or something like that.
And isn't Google Glass redirected at companies were it enjoys (a moderate) success?
You're not getting the whole story from that person. Competent providers will strongly recommend preventative care services but patients can always refuse.
Every Li-ion battery has a control circuit in it. Batteries stopped being just containers of electrons a long while ago.

All high-capacity batteries need a management chip.
There are at least three different formats for plist files, and the tools are differently broken depending on the format. There are some really odd cases like terminal colour settings which are stored in the plist as a pickled object, so you have to use the gui to adjust a colour rather than (say) using css syntax.
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Ask HN: What is your most controversial opinion, and why?
For a twist: Let's only upvote those opinions that shift our point of view.
There are statues, monuments and streets with the names of falangists and fascists all around the country and the right wing parties are against removing their names, in fact recently the president of the PP , a supposedly right wing democratic party, defended in the parliament the dictatorship as a good time with law and order.
Also the people that forget their past is condemned to repeat it and right now in Spain the PP is governing in part of Spain with a extreme right wing party and I'm thinking too in important things like Spain not converting in a neo nazi state like Hungary , whih the Spanish right wing parties have just given support in front of the European union voting next to to the extreme right wing parties.
Okay, let's steelman the argument then. Short selling a company's shares cannot bankrupt the company. Happier?

(Again, I say this because there is no theoretical mechanism by which selling stock short can realistically cause bankruptcy - contrived examples to the contrary. And we know they're contrived examples because it's never actually happened.)