skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once again, that's tautology. He's asking you what actions are those of a zealot. If I recycle, am I zealot? If I say global warming is real, am I zealot? If I sabotage a petroleum refinery, am I zealot? There are degrees to actions

All three of those are entirely orthogonal to whether or not one is a zealot. For example someone could sabotage a petroleum refinery because they’re following military orders without any particular obsession with petroleum. And someone could be a zealot about recycling by being obsessed with it and calling people who think recycling is a waste because China isn’t taking it anymore “wasters” or some other pejorative label and insisting everyone else take recycling as seriously as they do. Perhaps you’ll find looking up “zeal” in your favorite dictionary helpful for understanding what zealotry us.

> I mean, your logic is bad

I’m fairly confident in “A is A” having pragmatic value and uninterested in a model that doesn’t accept that axiom. The correctness of my logic isn’t harmed by assuming my interlocutors can recognize zealotry.

> You've also defined anyone downvoting him or you as zealots.

Now here is an actual logical error: confusing the implication and the consequence or confusing either or both with the equivalence. Observing that zealots will downvote does not mean that all those who downvote are zealots.

Edit: One reliable indicator of a zealot downvote is that other completely unrelated comments from the objectionable author that are still eligible for downvotes will get downvoted at the same time, which I’ve observed in this instance.
It's the app ecossystem that really changed things and makes a true smartphone. Symbian could technically install and run apps. I think there was a Nokia/Symbian app store, but it only had like 10 crappy apps. I never had any idea where you would even start if you wanted to build one of your own or get it on the store. I'm pretty sure even power users of those phone never had more than one or two aftermarket apps. Rumor was that the development experience was terrible. I used Symbian phones for like 10 years I think, and never saw any improvement whatsoever in the app situation.

Apple and Google now both run app store hosting millions of apps, they both maintain their own development environments and adopted more advanced languages to make it easier. It's easy to submit apps (relative to Symbian days) and even nontechnical users commonly install and use dozens of them. The development tech and available APIs are being added and improved at breakneck speed, relatively speaking.
Shhh can’t you see they’re collecting donations?
Let us hope a rollback on this bad idea will remedy the confusion
I don't know what you mean.

China is far from the South Pacific.
If I had to guess, cropping and other transformations result in the same (exact) fingerprint. So different images but same fingerprints.

Of course, that's just a nasty way to imply that the images match exactly.
Correct, my bad!
SLCFs it is.
This is very interested. Many careers were started, built, and ended there. Many fond and not so fond memories formed there. Now its wasting away.
If climate change is a manmade problem than you cannot ignore politics, psychology, etc. in the solution. Otherwise 'nuke China' is more of a solution than 'tax carbon' is.
What I learned (and still want to know) from the UN Climate Change Report
Discovery, Inc. To Charge Poland with Violations to US-Poland Investment Treaty
Lots of other organizations who operate this way establish two separate brands so that the sleazy one doesn't sully the other. I'm kind of surprised that Buzzfeed News hasn't ditched the "Buzzfeed" name, even if it's still run by the parent company.
BB10 was QNX-based, otherwise I wonder if RIM and Nokia could've pulled their efforts along with other big guys (Samsung and Intel who went on to do Tizen) to set up a compatibility layer between their respective platforms to allow an app ecosystem to flourish.
You can install darts with conda using

conda install u8darts-all

We are working on improving our support of conda based installs.
I'm going to say something not to be flippant, but in the spirit of being helpful, and I'm being genuine in my question: Have you considered seeing a therapist?
The police begs to differ. Negotiation is an effective tactic used by competent police forces against hostage takers.

Also, fundamentalists are people, not pre-programmed robots. Many ISIS fighters, for example, are young adults whose very active learning capabilities are being exploited by a subversive group.

Also, I think the track record of arguing and butting heads kinda speaks for itself. Everyone's doing it and yet the world is literally on fire and on a path towards destruction.
I regret is not the same as corrective behavior. I’m sure Jeff Bezos regrets that Amazon drivers have to piss in bottles, but that doesn’t mean anything is going to change.
I tried a random site from that list and it doesn't work without js enabled, so I wouldn't call it a text only site.

> HackerWeb — a more accessible version of Hacker News
I agree, but I think there's another aspect to this. The way many news sources with an agenda operate is by mixing news and opinion (vague, impossible to verify, sometimes omit context, but grounded in reality). Where it starts to cross the line into propaganda is when news is mixed with misleading falsehoods and an active attempt to manipulate context. An individual associated with InfoWars should be viewed with a large amount of skepticism.
> Chet Haase and Romain Guy both were treasures in Java community

How so? Anywhere I can read about their contributions during Java time? Thanks.
Why then do it on the device when you can do it on the backend with much less publicity and constantly updating it?

>but I see section 230 levels of lack of understanding out there.

Mirror mirror on the wall....
Brazilian Portuguese: mostly is called "boogie", our garbled pronounciation for bug.

Sometimes is called "erro" (error) or "defeito" (defect).
I've eaten mangoes from China, Thailand, and Pakistan (not Cambodia). The best I've ever had was in Paraguay, South America. Brazil was a close second.
I agree, but I don't think that's an excuse to mischaracterize what the feature does.
It isn't down for me, thankfully.

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> I think it has been, dramatically, over the last 120 years. Plenty of countries have tried radical appropriation and redistribution, and it failed spectacularly every time.

How about non-radical redistribution?

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Piketty puts forward the idea of a (net) wealth tax on the order of something like:

* 0-10M net worth: 0%

* 10-100M: 0.1%

* 100M-1000M: 1%

* >1000M: 2%

This would allow two things: first the documentation of people's assets (and liabilities) to find their net worth for the tax regime, and second the skimming off the top of a not ridiculous amount of the assets of those that have a lot.

So if you have a $1B portfolio, and manage to grow it 8% in a year, then you end up with "only" 6% growth. This still allows for incentives for people to acquire wealth, but tamps down on some of the compounding that the largest estates end up getting (there's often only so much that can be spend, so a lot of the previous year's gains just end up sitting and accumulating).

The key would be for the US to get onside: by some measures it is one of the largest tax havens out there.

* https://fsi.taxjustice.net/en/introduction/fsi-results

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Secrecy_Index

It has global reach which would probably change a lot of international behaviour. Just look at FACTA:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
> Paternalism: A serious fallacy of ethos, arbitrarily tut-tutting, dismissing or ignoring another's arguments or concerns as "childish" or "immature;" taking a condescending attitude of superiority toward opposing standpoints or toward opponents themselves.

Source: Master List of Logical Fallacies - http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl1311/fallacies.htm
That was the era when everyone thought Microsoft was un- defeatable. Including myself. Little did I know how Microsoft was totally incapable to execute anything. Windows Mobile ( Or heck Pocket PC ) was there years before Android was even founded.

And Bill Gate blame it on Anti-Trust and monopoly lawsuit against them.
Yes, scanning is happening on the device. Apple markets that as a feature.

That is different from scanning the device. Saying they are ‘scanning the device’ is a lie.

Yes, Apple could scan the device in future. It’s still a lie to say they are doing it now.
It's already been telegraphed wide and clear that there are a bunch of Western people dying to pin covid on China and that western media will give them airtime and print.

Why would China give them ammunition? Even if we assume that the virus didn't come from a lab, it's impossible to prove and handing over a bunch of raw data to a motivated actor has no upsides.
The main appeal of the article is that it uses the language you criticize, but applies it to a whimsical subject. It’s somewhat humorous and self-deprecating.

Your comment is similarly rich in adjectives, but lacking in all other regards.
MinIO – the smartphone camera of object storage
command-line version:

curl -L https://per.quest/$URL | mpv - # or aplay etc.
I used to have the Jolla phone, running Sailfish OS, which also supports most Android apps via their emulator. I was extremely happy, until the device itself suffered a hardware fault.

I did not make the leap to the only other device now supported by Sailfish (which I think is the old Xperia model) because my work had ready provided me with a backup phone, so now I'm back on Android.
Yes, it was confirmed. It’s to protect the narrative that immigration is good for Europe.

Just like every time there is a religious terror knife attack they claim it’s someone with mental problems.
This system has 0 transparency. I cannot appeal. I cannot check my status. I cannot check this mysterious "counter" I cannot even check an image i have to see if it is flagged. I cannot know who is manually looking at my data no matter how private it its.

I get a note in my fruit delivery with the name of the person and time they were at work packing my food. Yet I'm told that I cannot know anything about what is happening with at least a partially automated system that can potentially put me in jail for the next 20 years?
I see this as wrought with constitutional issues.

If Congress has to obey the Constitution, then they cannot create an organization which they control, and then push for that organization to execute functions they cannot perform by getting in cahoots with industry.
Admittedly, existential despair results from this argument.

If population control had been enacted in a humane way centuries ago, maybe I would be one of the millions of people missing from the present. On the other hand, I did not consent to being born, either.

It's harrowing to consider that your existence may be a liability on the rest of the human race in the near future. But I'm only capable of despairing over it because someone gave birth to me.

It's why I think that once the decision to have a child has been made, the consequences of reversing course are severe, especially since society bestows an unalienable right to exist to the people that do leave the womb. A living agent like myself is able to contemplate its own existence and is most likely to fight for its continued survival. Nobody questions the rights or individual liberties or consumption levels of people that were never born. We are likely to be willing into existence a generation that will curse us for not acting sooner.

But because unchecked growth is a default behavior of humanity, it seems that the only way of putting in societal controls on humans is to let humans carry their knowledge of negative externalities through multiple generations.
I guess he was certain that anybody so well versed in the 80ies cult products would have to be a good person.
Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
Sigh.

Rebase is very useful:

* pre-processing step to a merge. The developer can see that the merge to main will be successful.

* when the branch has cherry picked commits from main, those cherry picks will disappear from the feature branch's commit list.

* rebase also includes the ability to combine commits (get rid of all those WIP commits)

* rebase allows reorder of commits.

rebase is so so much more than just rearrange commit pointers in some "bad" ways.

Failure to include functionality just invites my old fallback when a rebase fails badly.

git checkout main;

git checkout -b new_branch;

git diff -R old_branch | git apply;

git add -A ;

git commit

Removing a tool just invites developers to work around the gap.
Google already allows/requires tax-exempt donations to not be done with Google Play billing. This doesn't apply in the case of this app because the developer is supposedly an individual rather than a non-profit organization.

>Or a rule that "donations" are allowed? Well then you get "donations" that come with "bonus functionality" and so forth, and a new line has to be drawn.

There really isn't any ambiguity about what constitutes a donation. If you receive something in return, it isn't a donation.

I would argue that Google could easily permit donations of any kind at no detriment to themselves.
Aytu BioPharma is a small company bringing UV light into the body, and the early trials on COVID last year showed it worked. The same was true for Hydroxychloroquine too. You fell for propaganda.

https://aytubio.com/pipeline/healight-technology-platform/
Was it not a Friday Night news dump? They were hoping that outrage will die over the weekend when everyone moves on to next news topic.
There are three major national carriers (a fourth launching soon), and an absolute glut of smaller MVNOs which offer devices on their own terms. Most of both the national carriers and the MVNOs will also allow you to bring your own device, which as long as isn't running Android, is probably not encumbered by malicious code.

Even if the horrors you suggest are true, consumers would have options to get around them, whilst right now, a single monopoly, Google, controls the entire playing field, and actively attacks anyone who tries to offer a path around (Epic, for instance).

The "ISP bogeyman" issue constantly feels hollow in tech circles considering there's a ton of actual competition in the provider space, and a complete and unassailable monopoly in the tech platform space.
I found k0s to be fairly skin deep, much is missing compared to the other solutions.
“They expected a 2 foot wave, and they are getting a tsunami.”

Are you sure? My local Apple store is just as crowded as it was two weeks ago.
I guarantee you the progressive Democratic politicians have climate change as a high priority—and "Democrats more broadly", depending on how you define it, don't have anything remotely resembling a coherent agenda.

The progressives don't get to make laws all on their own.

Even a single lost Democratic vote on a bill means it doesn't make it past the Senate, and Senators Manchin and Sinema have both made it abundantly clear that they have no interest in fighting back against the Republican obstructionism to advance a positive agenda for the country. I'm frankly surprised that anything got passed at all, given their resistance in the past few months.
Amazon Installs Lockers on a Chicago Park’s Sidewalk
Why do you hate new balls? Does it make the game too fast for you?
The truth is they're rephrasing what was already known. They're going to match match finger prints of pictures against a database. Every picture. This was widely report. What confusion they're referring to I don't know, because they're saying exactly what has been reported.
@pfdietz the battered remnants of the cult of "Six Sigma" looks strangely like post Soviet abandoned building triumphalist wall writings, albeit with western typography
fwiw, I thought I was replying to the comment one level up from the one that I did.
So then they are scanning photos on your device.

I'd call that photo scanning... and they are scanning the photos on the device.
According to company legend, the name was a combination of "Motor" and "Victrola"; the company founder Paul Galvin made some of the earliest car radios, and the Victrola brand name was well-known at the time for its phonographs.
What, really? Why? It's one of my go-to examples of clear, impactful data presentation.
The Great Resignation: From Full-Time to Freelance
They had to follow through a bunch of not-so-prominent links on the website to discover the donation page. Whatever that is, I don't think it qualifies as "lazy".
What difference? Are you suggesting the UK or New York have authoritarian governments?
> was/is involved

was.
That's a tired talking point. The investigation has been done and it's human activity by a country mile. You can Google it if you're curious.

Basically all countries have to cut emissions to zero or nearly zero. I think this is actually looking hopeful. Even China and India are on board. The US must do it's part too and demonstrate leadership in this area.

There's a massive phase change in the global economy away from fossil fuels. The counties that embrace it last will find the market already captured. It pays in this case to lead the way.
This last point is key in the modem connected world.

Before internet, you marketed by being in the right places with the right people. Now you have to have a global internet strategy and compete with companies who have nothing but marketing (and funding).
I’m surprised they didn’t have this thing imaged and further forensics done on it. Certainly numerous device logs show other useful information. Maybe they did, and I missed it though, or it was intended as a read only device in the field.
>It's just an arrest

I wonder how many people who say, "just an arrest" have actually been through being arrested.
In that case the employer should take the employee to court assuming the meritless case does not get thrown out. There is nothing to "settle" with an at will employee.

Is there any sucessful case history of this?

Again an offer letter is not a contract. After you start working your employer can change the terms of your employment, whether it is a month or a year later makes no legal difference for an at will employee-employer situation. Similarly you are free to quit your job after a month or a year without being sued by your former employer in either case. At will employment means the terms of employment are continuously negotiable. However, I believe in some US jurisdictions, if your employer cuts your pay or requires you to work in a new location you may be eligible for unemployment compensation in some cases if you quit. That is about it.

This idea that highly paid programmers could sue their employers if they require them to show up at the office seems ridiculous to me. Unless you are an independent contractor you do not get to decide the terms of your employment. You are always free to quit and get another job though.
Elon Musk didn't start Tesla.
I for one am looking at alternatives.
> They are scanning photos chosen for upload.

This is about the 16th time I have seen language just like this used to explain away this concern. I don't know if you realize, but this wording makes it sound like you can select some photos and leave others local. I can find no indication anywhere, including on my phone, that iCloud Photos is anything other than an All Or Nothing singular toggle in iCloud settings. If you have instructions to the contrary, I will be happy to stand corrected.

Seriously, everybody is wording it like this. "Photos you choose..." and similar.
"Sow confusion, and reap inaction" - common military tactic. If what you're doing is too big to hide, you also cause visible activity in multiple places, so the enemy can't decide where to send reinforcements. The Normandy invasion had quite a bit of that. The enemy was confused for days about where the main attack was hitting, and didn't commit reserves until it was too late.
For the record I'm more of a center libertarian.

I dislike both political parties, and wish we would pass ranked choice voting ASAP so we can break out of this two party system already.

Both parties are corrupt. However, only one has recently tried to overthrow our entire governmental system.

Edits for clarity, and to add that if someone takes an attack on their party as a personal attack, there are larger issues there (not that I am claiming you are, but it seems something worth mentioning in a discussion like this).
My Japanese work phone came bundled with "app pass" an app store with a monthly 350yen subscription cost. I didnt even know it existed till I saw some brief toast overlay about it updating successfully.
https://kuronekoblog.com/6169/
Yes, Apple would agree with you, but I assume you would not call it ‘scanning the device’.
> I’d say Americans on the whole are actually pretty strongly averse to this, despite everything, and it seems like this was too creepy for mant people.

You mean that country which gives a damn about privacy altogether because all those fancy corps are giving them toys to play? You know, those companies which feed on the worlds populations data as a business model. The country which has a camera on their front door which films their neighbourhood 24/7? The country which has listening devices all over their homes in useless gadgets?

You have to be joking or that scale you impose here is useless.

This whole thing will go by fast and there won't be much damage on the sales side. Apple is the luxus brand. People don't buy it for privacy. Most of the customers won't probably even understand the problem here.

The only thing we might be rid of are those songs of glory in technical spheres.
They're still part of it because they were there.
> The difference is that an asteroid is an existential threat to humanity while climate change is just short of that.

This is a valid point.

To clarify, though, I don't think climate change is likely to make humans extinct, but I believe it has a non-trivial chance of destroying our civilization.

If/when the climate gets really bad, human irrationality will go into overdrive, and we'll be a massive danger to ourselves.
Part of what makes the DOM slower by comparison is the fact that it supports such advanced, declarative, adaptive layouts. There's a tradeoff for having that vs not having that
Apple for what They wanted and what they needed. Each year Facebook scans and flags tens of thousands of pictures with child pornography the majority of which got to Facebook through an iPhone. Apple flags less then a hundred each year.
There is definately pressure politically for Apple to do more. So what do they need? A thousand mainstream news articles explaining a massive backlash to them doing any sort of scanning on their devices from across the globe.

They can stand back and say “we just can’t do anything, the users won’t have it” while Facebook keeps drowning in political pressure while doing a thousand times better than Apple.
Facebook owns WhatsApp now, so . . .
I guess it sort of depends on what you mean by the algorithm. I'm not an expert on this either, but the general idea is that you pick some sort of thing you want to promote (e.g. engagement), and then you use a really large data set with thousands of parameters to construct the `parameters -> engagement function`, some of those parameters will be user supplied, and some will be Facebook settings.

The thing that's opaque is this function that the program produces. You can really only know how the function works experimentally.