skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. This encourages segregation, which if i remember correctly was a pretty big issue in America. Who would have thought that a movement to treat people more equally has offspring ideas which cause more segregation. What a joke. This is just a greedy attempt to capitalize on the divide in the US and profit off it. How very American of you to put profit against society's current landscape. Carry on. However maybe, just maybe you should focus your efforts on an idea that is more integrating vs divisive.

What's next? Here are a few ideas:

The NBA channel for white people and please only white basketball players on the teams
Track and Field channel for asian people with only asian athletes on the teams
Chess for dogs channel with only dogs playing chess, poor cats they are not allowed to play chess on this channel
Landscaping for black people with only black landscapers on the shows

What i like about the porn industry is there are many sub-genres within it, so one could argue that this BlackOakTV is an attempt at a subgenre. However at a time like this in the US... You know, Edward Bernay's was right in his book Propaganda, create a suggestive environment and people will buy what ever the environment suggests and they will think it was their own idea for wanting to buy it. But who knows, maybe the equality and diversity crowd really is screaming inside for more segregation and preventing all sorts of freudian slips from surfacing.

Actually i have a better idea for the chess dogs, let's only have dalmatian dogs playing chess and keep golden retrievers from enjoying any media attention while playing chess on this channel. This will lead to great narratives in the minds of the niche consumers and dalmatian ownership will skyrocket along with chess board sales.

Anyone want to give me funding?

Good luck with it regardless. More friction in the market means someone is making money. Let it rip.
>They already scanning all of the photos up on iCloud already

I can't find a source for this. Do you happen to have one?

It seems to me that Apple doesn't want to host CSAM on their servers, so they're scanning your device so that if it does get uploaded, they can remove it and then ban you.

They're not scanning all photos on iCloud, as far as I can tell.
I hope I am not the only one offended because there is a need for this.

I wish someone with deep pockets will get the message, buy it, and add it to their (bigger) service offering.
TBH my Macbook Pro does the same, really annoying when going on holidays and not using a laptop for few days.
this is somewhat racist... but in a good way

crazy you have to do this in order to give some people a chance

youtube biase is a fact. good luck on the project!
My T470 has the Fn on the edge, and Ctrl on the inside. I like it because it requires moving my pinky less to hit Ctrl.
I'm Russian and, probably, I don't really understand the situation with race in US.

But I think that MLK was fighting against this "X for black people" thing. (X == buses, schools, shops, etc). Isn't it racism and segregation?
I have an Argus C3. Didn't even realize I could still buy film for it! (edit: hah it's just 35mm.... I'm dumb.)
> Living Single isn't Friends with African Americans.

Implies that Living Single came after Friends, but it debuted the year before.
Lutron diva dimmer handles up to 8A of fixtures, you don’t need to rewire anything
> A high level of quality in software is not important unless you're entering an already well-served market. I wish it was.

Somewhat weird mindset. It is natural that when a new market gap is discovered, the first iteration of products are crappy and do the job just barely. Applies to software, cell phones, forestry machines, water toilets. Having a mindset where everything should be perfect from the start will get you nowhere.
Sometimes I wonder how much wealth transfer there is based on people who were never taught how to avoid this kind of trickery being duped.

The person that buys the overpriced "value" pack is basically giving money to PepsiCo or whatever, but in effect that subsidizes the conscientious consumer.
Isn't it just a few XOR gates? I'm probably missing something, but they aren't that hard to make out of AND and OR gates, or even out of transistors.
That's really not true for all applications, and Windows applications tend to require being installed, while Mac ones are all over the place.

Yes, the OS doesn't impose any opinion. It's just a matter of what application developers do, and the developers of Linux applications tend to write code that doesn't require installing. As an example, there's Postgres :)
It would be nice for the building code to start dictating some interop standards for this stuff to overcome the natural tendency of the business to make this a winner-take-all market at the expense of the consumer. At first blush, it feels like it would be a little out of their wheelhouse, but it's not entirely unusual since it responds to consumer interests. For example, Energy Storage Systems (batteries) are a new-ish thing added to the code around 2014.
I don't know the percentage, but some do prefer it, and I'm among them.

I'm surprised so many people express any preference, though. My take is that the Fn key is an abomination and it's not present on desktop keyboards so either choice of location is wrong. If I could, I'd remove both Fn and the 'Windows' key. Neither my Chromebook nor the T40-series Thinkpads I first used have these keys, and they are noticeably more comfortable due to the larger Control and Alt keys it permits.

I'm also surprised people complain about this but not about the layout of Apple laptop keyboards, where 'fn' is also in the corner.
The WOKE crowd is literally making everything worse in America. They act like they care about certain subcultures, but gentrify those subcultures out of their own lives and indirectly take advantage of them. They probably represent less than 5% of Americans, but no one wants to deal with the downside of telling them to shut the hell up and that they're fake people.

"Bobo's in Paradise" and "Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy are good books to explain what's really going on.
A forecast driven watering algorithm can look for rain in the immediate future, rather than the current state of the ground. It can also change the duration of watering based on temperature and relative humidity. RainMachine does that while only consuming weather data. You also have the option of turning that off and just using wireless control of the sprinklers, which as the GP says is extremely handy.
CalyxOS is fantastic. You can get a like-new Pixel on swappa.com for cheap, and have a virtually Google-free, Apple-free phone that supports most/all the apps you would want via MicroG. Can't recommend it enough. GrapheneOS is similar except without support for MicroG if you don't need it.
What are the benefits over graphene OS?
> "The very fact of existence of such Spyware Engine has effect that each person would behave as 'someone is looking'. This means zero privacy. This means 'no privacy' feeling. Everyone is more 'careful' when people around."

These are pressures which likely help keep society relatively stable. People's behaviour is guided and influenced by what other people might think of it, and human ancestral environment up until cities(?) was small groups and families and villages where everyone knew everyone else's business. I don't think we should take it as given that changing that is unarguably for the better. Historically there was always the chance that someone would eavesdrop, or see your diary lying around, or open your mail,

> "And this has prolonged effect on society's freedom, democracy and rights of individual because independent thinking happens when true privacy is there"

Citation needed because "Please don't machine-process my photos because I get so anxious I can't think" sounds like a problem you need to deal with, not a problem for everyone else to deal with. So does "The effect will be also huge. Just imagine what they will do next if they get away with this." - always jumping to the worst possible doom scenario is something people see therapists about.

> "The issue here is installation of Spyware Engine."

This is no more than a bank having to make sure you aren't storing stolen diamonds in their bank vaults, and they've now found a way to check only the things people are about to bring into the bank to alert the bank as early as possible.
Yeah, and a simple docker compose for local dev does the job pretty easily.
As a result, populations poorly represented in 1890 were prevented from immigrating in proportionate numbers—especially affecting Italians, Greeks and Eastern European Jews, as well as Poles and other Slavs.[1][3][4] According to the US Department of State's Office of the Historian, the purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of U.S. homogeneity."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

Of course they didn’t have it as bad as black Americans, but that isn’t the topic of this discussion.
Instead of calling it 'The Rule of Three', call it WET (Write Everything Twice); makes it easier to remember (although I think that is one less repetition than suggested in the parent.)
The thing is that no one has the same experience as anyone else. Do all "white people" have the same life experience? That's just absurd.

Ask yourself this, what makes Blacks in America different than Jews or Asians? Heck, the Jews are probably the minority who has suffered the most historically (and still does, btw!), and they managed to integrate quite well.

What has the gov't done to help Jews or Asians advance that it hasn't done for Blacks? Nothing.

I think it's time to look for other solutions, rather than keep blaming the amorphous "white man" for all problems.
But if someone need to type on your keyboard, then they will have problems and this workaround only works with Laptops. You cannot swap keys on a standalone Lenovo keyboard.
Agreed. People look at homes and things like light switches and blinds that have stayed the same for decades. These things seem boring, but the fact that they haven't changed is evidence of great design.

Smart homes to me have always felt like tech looking for a problem to solve.
Ciphertrace Announces Enhanced Monero Tracing Capabilities for Governments
Costco has great bacon, sliced fairly thick (though not as thick as you'd get from a butcher)
Gold is the only one that matters. Including two more consolation places is completely arbitrary. (Why not have one and stop at silver? Why not have three and include copper after bronze?) It just benefits countries that can field larger teams. Number of second place finishes should only be used as a tie-breaker.

That is actually what pretty much every medals table, including the official table on olympics.com, already does (except in the USA because it's important to say we're number one, even if it's number one in third place finishes).
It's a valuable reference article by a lunimary I am not qualified to disagree with, and it captures the time well.

When you look at who the antagonists to privacy are, they are political institutional actors. Rogaway even suggests they are in-effect predators on those they surveil.
Framed that way, I'd wonder whether cryptography engineering for privacy is a substitute activity, and its neglect is just an enabler for what has historically been the meekness and even cowardice that facilitates the domination of human populations. As though there is a generation of young (mostly men) who are saying, "yes, the institutions are compromised, there are spies on every platform and brownshirts in the streets, but if we can just get this blockchain product to market, we can escape them." History indicates that's not how it works, and I think the time for cryptographic solutions has passed.
You might not find it helpful right now, your current mode of thinking taken into account. I would however urge you to dig a little deeper into your beliefs and you might find that you've been thinking about this the wrong way.

Why do you think we've done the things we've done? Why do you think we build houses, have conventional farming, create sewer systems, create water purification systems, drive cars, have electricity, heat our houses, fly, have heavy industry, run global supply chains, combustion engines, aqua farming, nuclear power plants, create hospitals, going into space, send up satellites, develop new medicin, use fossil fuels not just for energy but also for 99% of all out materials and material creation? Your phone, the internet, your computer, glasses, windows, airconditioning.

If nature provided us with alle these facets naturally we wouldn't have to create them ourselves but as we both know it doesn't. We have to create these solutions our selves. We have to create our own resources by creating knowledge.

And yes this process have negative externalities. Each problem we solve, create new problems we also need to solve. But the difference is that the problems we are facing today are better problems to have than those we used to have.

Trying to come up with a way to make energy cleaner is a better problem than not having energy to begin with.

Trying to deal with plastics in our oceans is a better problem to have than not having access to plastic materials.

We have better problems to solve today than we used to and when we solve them they will create new problems that are again better problems to have. That should make you hopeful not pessimistic.
Indeed, that did happen with some games, especially with the newer CPUs. I remember my A3000 didn't run a bunch of stuff that worked on the 500. I wasn't sure if that was due to the ECS chips or the 68030.
" ... I noted this phenomenon in describing how ice cream underwent stealth inflation late in the Bush Administration, when the venerable half-gallon container was disappeared and replaced with 1.5-quart and 1.75-quart lookalikes."

https://reason.com/2012/06/01/more-stealth-inflation-shrinki...

I remember the 1/2 gallon square boxes of ice cream.

The tubs now make it less messy but the point still stands. Secret inflation.
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Yeah, very poor judgement. What he did was deeply unethical and almost certainly illegal. You don't get a free pass to break into wherever you like simply because your intentions aren't malicious. That's what professional pen-testers are for.
> 30 years later Mortal Kombat is the number one fighting game franchise of all time

Smash Bros and Street Fighter are probably more popular actually.

Mortal Kombat really, really sucked between 3 and 7. MK started to get good again around 8, but really it was "Injustice" (which used Mortal Kombat's engine) that made people start taking MK seriously again.

MK9 is a modern, competitive fighter. But its not as well respected as other games: Street Fighter, Tekken, Smash Bros even. Japan has a real arcade scene (or at least, it did before COVID19 struck), so the games that have proven themselves in the public arcades are more fundamentally competitive than American games like MK9 or Killer Instinct.

I dunno how Smash Bros became so popular though.

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Honestly, the extreme violence of Mortal Kombat is a big turnoff to the competitive crowd IMO (much like the extreme "sexiness" of Dead or Alive is also a turnoff). Its good for carving out a niche, but... I don't think people actually like seeing the characters they attach themselves to die.

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There was a study I saw: its not that violent video games cause violence. Its that violent individuals choose violent video games.

In a mainstream setting, you'll just gross people out with a lot of the Mortal Kombat stuff. I think kids like it (because they like seeing their parents get grossed out). Otherwise, when adults get together to play fighting games... "Injustice" seems to be more popular than Mortal Kombat, despite Mortal Kombat being the mainline game and Injustice the DC-superhero "skin".

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Now that I'm an adult, here's my viewpoint on the whole thing. Children like breaking taboos. Adults don't like it when Children break taboos (children should listen to Adults). I feel like Adults sometimes make up stories for why children should listen to them, but this only encourages more taboo-breaking behavior from kids. That's why Mortal Kombat is such a draw for me when I was younger (I knew my parents didn't like it, but that was part of the charm).

Similarly, I see my sister freak out about her daughter playing Mortal Kombat (despite me and my sister playing MK back when we were her age) and turn off the game. My sister claims that the improved graphics make it different... but my eyes see the same thing. Her daughter likes breaking taboos and sometimes not listening to her mom, and playing MK is an avenue to do so.
Reminds me of this classic scene from Top Secret: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJoTBlDfVhk :)
Not sure if it is a bug or intentional - If you dynamite, ctrl, dynamite, ctrl quickly so that both animations are still going the screen still clears.
>It's fine to be worried about the second one, but it's wrong to conflate the two.

Agreed, and just to be clear, I'm worried about that too. It just appears that we (myself and the objectors) have different lines. If Apple were to scan devices in the US and prevent them from sharing memes over iMessage, that would cross a line for me and I'd jump ship. But preventing CSAM stuff from getting on their servers seems fine to me.
Freeman recanted that statement. You can't solve bad culture by not taking about it. It will just thrive. Imagine a corporation had a toxic culture. In what way could not talking about it ever fix the company culture? The toxic people would just thrive. Would sexism and sexual harrasment just end if we stopped talking about it? The only thing close to what he said that would make sense is if parents and media stopped teaching their kids racists ideals both consciously and subconsciously.
What would be wrong with that? Different ethnic groups have different expectations for what a funeral means.

You couldn’t have picked a worse example lmao
These aren’t independent variables as people on average can only pay so much for housing per month.

High interest rates lower the value of properties to keep things sufficiently affordable. Thus low inflation is actually really bad for first time home buyers who can a just afford the mortgage in year 1 and likely still just afford the mortgage in year 15.
Those definitely work, but adding a comment is the easiest and clearest way. No need to avoid comments like the plague, just avoid overuse.
-- (which is considered an investment and not included directly in CPI

That's really weird ... because it's an investment, yes, but not for the renter paying the increasing price. I don't understand how they allow for that.
He did not disclose the company name (but easy to guess if you work on IT in Spain), so I don’t think he could have legal issues because of the post.

But, the cyber security professionals working in the consultancy firm can gather easily the small pieces of information left behind and sue him if they find out data extraction, for example.

Keep in mind that he claims he extracted sensitive data, but he could be lying just to be in the HN front page. Who knows.

Unethical, risky… and very stupid.
My point was more a question/observation as to why this is contentious, but "X for Women" is not seen as contentious.

While I don't appreciate your condescending tone. I agree with you that "tribalism" is generally problematic. However, you'll also find that "tribalism" has also been essential throughout history for the persistence of marginalized people and their cultures. There is an inherent tension in many places and times throughout history between identity and assimilation.

> but to remove the power and significance of racial identifiers entirely.

The issue is not the power of the identifier, but the difference in societal treatment, amassed wealth and political power that flows along racial and socioeconomic lines.

Which brings me back to my original point, why do we not see the same ire when talking about resources directly aimed at specific underserved needs of women?
A doctor I know set up an appointment scheduling workflow using FileMaker on MacOS.
The melting pot is a goal and a living idea, not an idealized time in the past.

And yes, groups of white Americans that were hostile to each other a century ago are now so integrated that it’s not even thought about. An Italian Catholic marrying a German Protestant was a huge deal in 1900. Today it is nothing.
The reality is that most of the country remains extremely segregated.
I'd class swapping outlets, switches, and light fixtures, as among the kinds of home-repair stuff you have to know & do unless you're rich enough to never personally do work on your house. Like replacing a faucet, a leaky branch water shut-off valve, or the tank-innards of a toilet.
> We took the distribution route, because ultimately we believe it's the direct relationship with the consumer that will allow for this to work.

Be honest. It's less capital intensive, with much higher valuations.
As long as postgres is your only external service, this is fine.

But looking at my docker list of auxillary services for 8 projects, I see redis, postgis, postgres 10, postgres latest, memcached, mailcatcher (fake smtp), ldap, a custom oauth, kafka, MySQL, piwik(matomo), in various forms and configs.

Sure, abstraction layers and adapters keep many such dependencies out of the way in Dev and testruns. But the inevitable debugging and troubleshooting does require a quick way to run such a service.
And unstacked !

It was surprising to see that it only took them about an hour to unstack (I didn't catch the stacking but I think I heard it was around the same amount of time ?).

I'm still very perplex about the "catching" mechanism they are designing, Musk mentioned in the Everyday Astronaut interview [1] that it was a very hard problem and I'm very curious to see if/how they can solve it.

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw
The key thing is that it's a double-pole, double-throw switch. You can put any number of them in series, and the circuit essentially counts the parity of the switches, so flipping any of them toggles the state of the lights.
So you'd say Netflix is mostly for white people?

Asking seriously, I'm European.
Saddening that the top comment is a banner rally for questions that are posed naively whose direct answer can easily be gotten at by asking an actual Black person in real life instead of a niche space like this one. But that's not the point.

You should see the diversity threads on this board. It's the same dog whistling every time, but here its about some made-up 'we're reverting back to segregation' argument but no one had a problem with Minari winning awards about the Korean-American experience. It's the same idea, simply expanded to an entire platform of such content.
> Saying it is For <group> implies it is not for other groups.

Umm, no? Like I tried to convey in my original comment, "for <group>" means a focus on that group, as opposed to just general content. Nothing I've ever come across that was marketed as "for <>" has ever been intended to exclude me as a non-member, nor have I ever interpreted it that way.

I suspect you have a bias to hear it as exclusionary more than is typical.

Anecdotally, I watch BET fairly regularly, if not often. I'm aware that it's business model is generally content by black creators, for black consumers, but again, I don't remember any hints anywhere of implications of "if you're not black, you can go". If anything, wider viewing would be more informative and promote sharing across groups.
What a bizarre culture we live in. Pushing back to segregation rather than away from it.
A Nigerian, or Jamaican may have a completely different understanding of culture than black people whose family history ties back to US slavery.

It is weird how we just tend to generalize over all of this because of the color of one's skin.