skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire technical infrastructure to scan your entire device for arbitrary content is being built and deployed.

The only change necessary to scan other files is changing a path and that's configuration that could even be silently done per-device.
1ms is significant if you're a heavy user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4.
From what I can see textual is purely for the terminal. Nothing involving HTTP.
I'd honestly consider your take as lacking nuance. Or lacking a dimension.

Accepting uncertainty doesn't mean abandoning objectivity. On the contrary - difficulties in objectively measuring things or falsifying hypotheses are best handled with mathematical tools, which absolutely can work with uncertain quantities (that's what probability theory is for). Throwing hands in the air and saying "it's too difficult therefore there's no objectivity", or "it can go whichever way, so it may as well go the way I like", is not the solution.
This is presumptive whataboutism with fairly incendiary language. You don't know my views on this question and have lumped me in with am amorphous blob you've labelled "conservative". You might be surprised to learn that I am not against social media censoring hate speech, for example.

For the record, what Trump was doing was clearly authoritarian and had the intention of controlling moderation decisions on these platforms. It was anti-democratic and awful due to its underlying intentions. Ron DeSantis is trying a similar thing to Ben and Jerry's now.

However, I was and remain less concerned by this than I am with the influence of the Democratic Party on tech firms, mainly because the Republicans have so little influence despite the threats. You can see the power asymmetry (and revolving door) on display through a single example, the censorship of the Hunter Biden story on the eve of the election.
> It does not exist. There is no such thing as "misinformation".

I'm sorry, but this is complete BS. If someone makes statements that they know are false, then they are a liar and are spreading misinformation. If someone makes statements for which they have incontrovertible proof, this is absolutely not misinformation.

Just because the gradients between those two are complex, doesn't mean that misinformation doesn't exist, just that the definition of "misinformation" is fuzzy (like so many other words.)

(I don't believe in objective truth or meaning. I do believe that communication is impossible without mutually shared subjective truths and meanings.)

Edit: The reality is that there is a significant amount of misinformation put out by all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons. Some of it (e.g. some press releases) is widely recognized but also generally tolerated. Some of it is partisan. Some of it is widely accepted as truth by almost everyone.
I agree alternate interpretations are valid -- I mentioned I used to believe the same as the commenter I was replying to -- just unlikely.

Given Orwell's preoccupation with language, his mixing authorial with fictional voice in this way would be too clumsy.

There's also the fact another fictional essay exists in 1984, namely the one supposedly written by Goldstein "explaining" the nature of power and the status quo. Do note this account was written, in the fiction of 1984, before the complete success of Ingsoc, and once Newspeak was fully implemented it would have been neither possible to write nor needed.

I don't deny other interpretations are possible, but I think this essay works much like Lord of the Rings' many appendices: they are describing a piece of past "history" as if it was real, they are not the voice of an author from our world describing a fake world.
I mean the structure of the way later writers refer to Euclid. Apparently, from Wikipedia, "ὁ στοιχειώτης" but I hope an improved discussion/potential rabbithole occurs if we know whether that unambiguously translates to one male author.
Hiring fast like a Black Friday session
Interesting that an opening is just like a sale announcement in a holiday session.
Hey boss-- you asked to get in touch over another comment.

(wife stuff)

I will put my email in my profile for a little bit.
> Ignoring copyright law and people's desires for their own content, isn't the solution.

If this were actually true, then all these other platforms wouldn't exist.
My point is that it should not even exist as it's uses are quite marginal, and it's very easy to go wrong with it.

If it really be needed, one can always do something such as:

exec(['/bin/sh', '-c', "curl ${line}"])
Well, I live in Brazil, so yeah, it's an overpriced hellhole(just as food for thought: someone making minimum wage here, saving 100% of his paycheck, would take 4-5 months to pay for a PS5).

I'll be moving out from here soon, the only reason I'm still here is because supposedly there will be in-office days after covid is over(so, therefore, I am paid a salary that "corresponds" to the city I live in).
I run macOS on some of my laptops, connected to the internet only via a VPN router on which I have root and can filter traffic.

Rarely do I need to do macOS-specific stuff though.
No single music download site has 'everything', even mainstream. You have to shop around, maybe a little.
Yes, they screwed the pooch with us, representing:

1. The few who care about privacy.

2. That's about it. Maybe 1% if you're being generous. ( And subtract the portion of that 1% on this site who DO care about privacy but are being compensated $400k/yr by Apple and with Bay Area rents being what they are, they shouldn't rock the boat, and they really need to make good on their Tesla Roadster reservation. )

But go ask your mother-in-law, your dad, or any random normie friend. They're fighting PedoBear! And if they expand this further, well, they're fighting terrorists! And if they expand even further, well, I have nothing to hide! Do you?

feh ~/memes/dennis_nedry_see_nobody_cares.gif
And if you then apply DLSS, you may even get the original image.
There is objective truth. Trump did not win the last election if you look at it in the right light. The absolute truth is, he lost. That isn’t misinformation. That can be applied to a myriad of other things. The earth is not flat. The vaccine does not contain microchips. Masks do prevent the spread of airborne disease. Jan 6th was an insurrection by the Republicans and not a tourist trip.
"No PM in history has ever said “This seems to be working pretty well, let’s leave it the way it is.” Because that’s not bold. That’s not visionary. That doesn’t get you promoted"

I think it's something else. It's first of all a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of "keeping up with the Joneses" brinksmanship. When Hulu releases a shiny new homepage layout, the Director of Amazon Prime Video probably fires off a memo to the PMs and designers and UI/UX researchers (haha I joke), demanding that they also refresh their style. Doesn't matter if it's perfectly fine. You need to DO something, dammit!!! And of course, since the motivating factor was how beautiful the competitor's UI is, you need to make your UI equally pretty. Usability? Who cares. The CEO/Director probably doesn't even use the product, his/her kids do.
Well there is a difference as stated on the article that they don't expect to see CP or CSAM and says "We are not 'knowingly' seeing it since it makes up less than 0.06% of the uploads ... We do not intentionally look for CP."

Whereas Apple is moderating the suspected images so they intentionally look for CP (which, according to the author and his lawyer, is a crime).
But it contained the great depression which probably will never happen again. Same for 2000-2010 period. It may be cherrypicking but given that bull markets are much longer than bear markets, the median return from 1940-1970 and then from1980 to 2000 and then from 2010 to now gives you a better idea of the returns going forward. The odds are you will be in one of the 8 winning decades instead of the two losing ones. In the absence of bad decades, and given how low interest rates are , how fat and strong corporate profits are, and low inflation is, real returns of 15-25 percent per year going forward would not surprise me.
Amazon is certainly the big bad wolf here, but I wouldn't be surprised if the move is also designed to inconvenience the small players like logz.io, Graylog, Searchly, etc who might be interfering with their flow of introductory level customers. A quick search reveals there are more of these providers than I ever realized.
Didn't realize it says "inspired by modern web development". Nevermind.
Please let me know if you find anything in there that actually addresses the fundamental issue I raised about these alleged tipping points, rather than just being a pile of links that appears to a casual observer to be contradictory evidence.
If you happen to be interested in the "my grilled cheese said P=NP" type papers [0] for entertainment value, check out Vixra [1].

Though calling them papers can be a stretch.

Here's one that "proves" P=NP [2].

[0] https://vixra.org/pdf/1903.0040v1.pdf

[1] https://vixra.org

[2] https://vixra.org/pdf/1502.0047v1.pdf
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I used to love old aws UI. current one sucks and wastes my time so much.

I knew i could not change their minds so decided to change the cloud provider and using alternate services whenever and whereever i could.

in my opinion, Whoever designed the current AWS UI should be fired.
Friendly reminder that CDs are music files, wrapped in a physical optical disc.

For downloading, take a look at this list from Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_digital_music_...
What good is end to end encryption if the OS is prebuilt with a method of breaking that encryption? This is definitional backdooring, and you’re back to trusting Apple’s goodwill (and/or willingness to resist governments) to keep your data safe (I.e., not add new decryptable triggers).

Not having backdoors is a hard requirement for end to end encryption offering privacy guarantees.
* At some point they should've just said "welp, don't need a UI team any more"*

They could have made the service compatible with all of the existing media players, and never hired a UI team to begin with.
Immutable Architecture
I was one that stayed up and watched the first broadcast. I remember it extremely well. I was a sophomore in high school, the exact demographic they were pandering to. The interstitial logo animations were the icing on the cake. Until MTV, all we had was "NightFlight" - some, I think, Australian video program on public TV at 1am.
Sounds pretty woo-woo, so… source to convince me?
> Fighting paper spam would be trivial if there was a mail DNS.

Keep in mind that the people running the mail system and being in power to change it may be benefiting from paper spam or too stupid to call BS on spam-friendly lobbyists' arguments.
Why did Electron kill it? And don't say size, because people gladly install 0.5TB games at the drop of a hat.

ElectronJS is brilliant, it just needs to go on a diet. It truly is write-once-run-everywhere, which makes my life worlds easier as a dev supporting three OSes.

But it doesn't make your GUI pretty: you still need a designer. And because of that, I miss native GUIs where the design is consistent.

I would ding Electron because it facilitates a diaspora of GUI design when we actually need consistency.
Possible precedent for the use of copyright law in such a way: https://www.eff.org/cases/lexmark-v-static-control-case-arch...
There used to be bad writing contests for academics. One of the famous winners was Judith Butler's timeless[1]:

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

You just can't argue with that.

[1] Ironically.
Rather than forking it seems easier to create an additional module and just subclass the two Transport classes and override the _do_verify_elasticsearch method. Looks like they've made it easy to modify that particular dependency, which is helpful.

And perhaps it'd be a good idea to override that method anyway, unless you're fine with your code doing some unnecessary handshake every first time you use a client.
No pressure, I just think you’d enjoy yourself!
Look for Normalized EBITDA. It's -121! A negative number isn't really killing it. Unless your growth number is poppin!
> Tech companies are large yes, but competitors are, as Google actually correctly put it at one point, one click away.

Except they're wrong. There's no meaningful competitors to choose from. The big tech platforms - and arguably most SaaS software - are not commoditized. There's no competitor you can just switch to. This is mostly achieved through purposeful incompatibility, and all kinds of network effects.

> Size is not an indicator of market power, inability to chose alternatives is.

Exactly. But in winner-take-all markets, the two strongly correlate.
That last one is a choice of descriptive words, not an objective truth.

Personally, my bar for 'insurrection' involves at least one gunshot. You can differ! But it's not objective.
A few choices here via your part of the world.

https://www.pro-music.org/legal-music-services.php
I had issues as well with that card in 20.04. I did some research and there was a fix for my issue that was resolved in 20.10. I still have issues with the card gaming in Windows though. Not completely stable with some games and can’t play Elite Dangerous because it always crashes before I get out of training.
"Supposed to be" according to whom? It's fine that the author wants to run a social media company like an email service, and of course he's free to do that. But none of the major social media sites share that business model. Their revenue is based on engagement, and that model is deeply and inextricably entangled with their content and how it is pushed out to users. Are social media sites qualified to be arbiters of truth? Of course not, that's not their business model. But they're well within their rights to decide what content gets exposed to who on their service, and they've done that from the very beginning. People who are upset at being "deplatformed" are in the exact same position as SEO optimizers whose business gets gouged when Google changes their search algorithm.

If you want to make Facebook some kind of common carrier, you're going to have to outlaw all of its engagement-optimizing AI and targeted marketing, the very core of its business model. When you get on a platform to take advantage of exactly those tools, you can't complain when they change the rules on you---you knew the score when you signed up, you can save the crocodile tears.
The Rise of Meson
>Think of it this way: Your landlord owns your property, but in the United States, he cannot enter any time he wants. In order to enter, the landlord must have permission, give prior notice, or have cause. Any other reason is trespassing. Moreover, if the landlord takes anything, then it's theft. Apple's license agreement says that they own the operating system, but that doesn't give them permission to search whenever they want or to take content.

Yes. That is an analogy only with Apple's software but not hardware. In Apple's view they are selling you the experience. So they are more like Hotels, You dont own the hotel room, the bed, the TV or anything inside that room. And in a Hotel, they can do Room Cleaning anytime they want.
Definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I really hope it it going to mature and prosper.
Would you mind pointing me at a canonical source on that please. Chess is way older than a few centuries, so why do the extra rules sidle in and when?
Sure, but there should never be a need to translate the same phrase back into English.
No need for the headers just return a 401 or 403 on a GET to '/'.

> If call to '/' fails with 401 or 403 pass the check and show a warning (message will be linked later). This happens if the monitor permission missing for user. The subsequent checks must be ignored.
Yeah, it's really sad. I don't know what to do about it. There's just a shocking lack of context when it comes to news/politics here. Which, I guess, shouldn't be so shocking -- why should we expect people to have expertise in this area?

Maybe the truly shocking thing is the ratio of strong opinions to actual knowledge.
Static analysis protects your code from time bombs
> My favourite, UI widgets that cannot stay where they where originally placed, resulting in failures to click them as they keep moving/reflowing under the button. Because the toolkit decided to reflow while the user was already allowed to interact with it.

This is absolutely the worst thing that interfaces do. It’s terrible, I hate it so much.
I have to trust the closed source software does that it purports to do. This is something we all have to do when we use computers. I certainly don't know that Amazon doesn't program the wifi to turn on, find open networks, and phone home while it pretends to be in airplane mode. It does seem rather unlikely given the risks/rewards that Amazon would face in implementing such a system.
I’m not sure I’d consider a Dem wearing a MAGA hat or a hipster wearing a hillbilly shirt “ironic” because it’s not really usurping the viewers’ surface-level understanding of the message. Whereas I think several people wearing a “Think Different” shirt would be ironic because in trying to communicate that they think differently they’ve actually communicated how alike they are. What they’ve said on the surface is not at all what they’ve actually said. I think the MAGA hat dem example misses the critical two-different-messages aspect that makes something ironic.
DIY Air Quality Sensor
There aren’t, actually, at least not in the US. When an account has no activity on it for long enough, it gets liquidated and transferred to the state until someone with a rightful ownership claim comes forward to claim it. This is called “escheatment.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat
Competition forces you to make a good product or die and be replaced by a company that does. When previous versions were a source of competition, it was likely easier for companies to notice their mistakes and correct them. With SaaS, a company can coast along on brand recognition for awhile, slowly become zombified, until one day all of your customers switch to an up-and-coming competitor.
This app is intended for tourists and is intended to operate in parallel with paper cards and the blockchain-based Excelsior Pass.

Linux Foundation is working with Gates Foundation and others on the internationally interoperable, blockchain-based Good Health Pass, which can converge with EU Health Pass and iOS digital identity support for driver's licenses and health passes. This is expected in Q4 2021 and can replace half-baked state mechanisms. If successful, Good Health Pass would be one step closer to a trans-national planet-wide digital identity infrastructure that could be repurposed for CBDC fintech use cases, including KYC/AML.

There are multiple permit-approved rallies for medical freedom taking place at NY City Hall at noon on Monday 9th August. Unions (teachers, police, firefighters, health, postal) have a rally at NY City Hall at 4pm on 11th August. At least one lawsuit will be filed on August 16th, when the mandates are scheduled to take effect in NYC.

Several million doses of vaccines are expiring across the USA in coming weeks, which is one possible motivation for unenforceable mandates that can be overturned by courts, as the US Supreme Court did for NY restrictions against places of worship.

In the meantime, many small businesses have neither the staff nor incentives to enforce arbitrary rules which defy science and the US constitution, and would exclude >50% of some minority populations. US vaccines and vaccine-related deaths in VAERS both peaked around April 2021. US Covid deaths peaked in January 2021.
> Where the networks are

> The networks being sold operate under the CenturyLink name and are in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
I would wholeheartedly agree with that. Developers don't talk about enabling people or making lives better anymore, they don't talk about helping people work more efficiently or use their computer more effectively. Developers treat their users like cattle now. They addict them and herd them and farm their eyeballs for ad-revenue. They don't program to make the world a better place, they program because it's a fun way to make entirely too much money at their favorite hobby: reinventing and overcomplicating the wheel.
I built this over the weekend as in Australia, there currently isn't a way to find the soonest AstraZeneca appointments. Should work anywhere that HotDoc works.

It's open source on GitHub, PRs and remixes very welcome :)

https://github.com/jakecoppinger/gp-vaccine-search/
I'm sure there's some engagement KPI metric that increased from forcing it in front of users. And even if it's a worse UX experience and the increase is due to frustrated users attempting to navigate away from Discover, you know those pesky details won't be included in their product and engineering "wins" ;)
One thing I noticed as an English person during my time in the US is that you have less words.

E.g. everything really is awesome! This is pretty much exactly double plus good. In English English we have a dazzling array (sorry, awesome list) of adjectives, often particularly tied to certain nouns. For example 'a splendid view [out the window]', we wouldn't say a person is 'splendid' - except the somewhat archaic 'splendid fellow'.

Given the direction of travel of a large part of US society, perhaps Orwell was on to something.
That’d be really exciting if they managed to get a working Malaria vaccine out of this research. Would be useful in so many places.
I can't say this for certain, but I suspect most people are actually happy about this sort of thing; their elected representatives are doing exactly what they want.
I've seen this too. It's endemic.
I grew up in the Boston area in the 60s-70s, and in those days it was still largely ethnically-segregated neighborhoods, forced busing, race-baiting and redlining.
I have a Samsung TV and use the YouTube app every day. You can see when they update it, the fonts change, layout changes, etc. usually subtle stuff but sometimes there's a big change.

Anyway, for a while they had the feature where you could hold the main button on the remote while on a video, and a context menu would pop up and you could save it to watch later.

One day, that feature went away. So now you have to play the video, watch 1-2 ads, then go to the menu and add it to watch later from there.

Such a pain in the ass. I wonder why they got rid of it.
I’m one of the people and that’s not my way.

I wonder where you got your data from.
Upstate NY.

I don't have trouble sleeping through the night most nights.
As a user I've definitely seen this. But as a PM (product manager) in tech I have not. Most PMs I know push back against UI changes that UI/UX experts push forward because we know (I've been a PM in this position) it will annoy users and add very little value.