skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short legth limits, audio captioning, using audio from another video so you don't have to talk, easy text placement (again, so you don't have to talk), all videos are vertical, ability to respond to a comment with a video (and encouraging it by imposing 150 char limit), responding to another video with video (including part of it for context), ability to download videos (so you can play or edit them however you want),

— and that's just off the top of my head on the content creation side. Off the top of my head.

Most importantly, it's that algorithm does a good job at bringing you the right audience, having one-click promotion tools, having detailed analytics, etc.

If you don't see this as accessibility features, well, that's my entire point.

The net result is that a TikTok post can start a conversation, with videos. And someone just talking - or just acting to audio - is first-class content. As is just showing a slice of your life and slapping some text on it.

Even if you make such content on other platforms, it'll have zero reach there. You have to do much more work to have people watch a video on IG or FB (people would just scroll past your video without playing it), or YouTube (whose UX strongly favors long videos, otherwise it's too many clicks).

The effort required to make a video for other platforms that people would see is a barrier that TikTok creators don't face.

This applies to everyone, but neurodivergent people benefit from it especially.
I'd submit two more:

An incredible amount of whistleblower leaks made it possible for citizens to know what horrible things their governments are doing. There is a real check on state power when the press has such a reach now, and you can publish (or dump) materials anywhere online even if you don't trust the press.

Frozen/convenient dietary alternatives to enslaving and killing animals are now easily available and it's no longer conventional wisdom that veganism will kill you or make you a stick figure person. Not likely considered incremental by those living beings!
I was an early user of insync (Linux and google seive) and had issues with it when they added one drive support. I tried it out when I was getting all of my stuff off of google a while back. I pay for office and one drive so if I could consolidate it would be nice.
$4 million bug bounty! Eclipses anything here...
https://www.pcmag.com/news/7-huge-bug-bounty-payouts
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Poland’s divisive media law passed by parliament
There are tons of live improvements from my point of view, but the few downsides that exist today make it worse in overall. The main downside I see is:

- big tech companies are becoming so powerful that they will interfere in our daily lives through tech (because tech is everywhere) and there is little we can do about it we want it or not.

You cannot escape Google/Microsoft/Facebook/whatever. You just can't (unless you go full offline, but then the tech live improvements since the 90s go away as well).
people seem to forget that paul is a board certified surgeon (not just a canonical politician), and his post cited 2 peer reviewed articles that ostensibly passed muster. i don’t have expertise on the science, here, but people are making it out to seem that he’s some nut job science denier. i don’t think that narrative is fair
"these changes in front-end frameworks makes everything slower" everyone starts screaming

"these changes in front-end frameworks makes everything bonkers faster" chirps

kudos to the Next team doing the good work
Seems like they plan on cutting costs regardless. Today it was "not enough Jira comments", next time it'll be something else. It's not like anyone's going to ask to audit the algorithm.
Freedom of association is not explicit in the first amendment but it is still widely understood, and tested in court that it protected by it. Financial transactions between two individuals or corporations is an exercise in free association. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy an iPhone.

* Apple makes a phone, it works in X, Y, Z ways and asks someone to buy it. <- this is what people call "speech" for a corporation.

* Someone says, ok - I will buy this. <- spending money in a consensual transaction is considered a form of speech. This is well established in American law.

* Government later comes in and says - hey, you MUST provide feature A, even though Apple doesn't want to. <- this violates the "congress shall make NO law prohibiting the free exercise theoreof" of the "free speech" portion of the first amendment.

It's also an infringement on the first amendment right of the customer to engage in a consensual transaction with Apple as now the government is forcing them to pay for and use something that they did not agree to in said transaction.

Apple is not being deceptive about how their walled garden works. If they were, then it's just fraud.

Anti-trust in and of itself is an infringement of the first amendment, and is often counterproductive to the intended goal anyway. How did getting slapped with Antitrust work out for Microsoft? They are bigger and more powerful than ever, and they still ship two web browsers with their operating system, and nag you when you try to change it. Standard Oil got splintered and Exxon came out of it. Many such cases.
ArsTechnica did a run down of various options recently.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives...
Used to own software-engineering.blog. Big plans on it. Not anymore
Dropbox, OneDrive, icloud, and others have a free tier that is completely sufficient for a password vault.

Their client used to support this and they stopped. Because their current way makes them more money.

Their old client was super easy for non-technical users and groups (just enter Dropbox credentials, etc).
That's almost an unfair comparison. I don't know how old you are but 1991 was an incredibly optimistic time in western history with the fall of communism in Europe. Maybe a closer comparison would be 2000 vs 2019, both years right before a big global event.
It is so weird how many people seem to have a stake in the version number. Personally I'm all for date or build numbers, and removing version numbers entirely
StackFinder: A VSCode extension to help you find and use Stack Overflow answers
StackFinder makes it easy to find what you're looking for on Stack Overflow without having to go into your broswer. The process is seamless. Type what you want to search for in the editor you're working in and hit:

CTRL+ENTER
CMD+ENTER [MAC]

or press the Search StackFinder popup (new)!

You will be instantly presented with a (hopefully) relevant stackoverflow question and answer where you have the option to paste code snippets directly to the editor, switch between questions, view the original source in your default browser, and more.

The motivation behind this development was to make it as seamless as possible to get solutions into your code. Instead of having 100 chrome/firefox tabs open with different stackoverflow pages up, you can have one open in your code editor. This saves a little time every search, but given how much us developers do this, it can add up to some substantial time savings while keeping you in your coding zone.

Thanks for checking it out!
Absurd-SQL – Use sqlite3 on the web with storage in IndexedDB
I feel like individual productivity is a pretty much solved problem and comes down to picking your tools. Whether it's one out of a million 3rd party Todo/Note taking apps, or just whatever is available in your OS, is a matter of taste. If you want to be productive you will find your way and most importantly, just don't get too obsessed about not being at maximum productivity.

Group productivity and collaboration, however, is a problem with square root complexity (if not worse) of the number of collaborators. It is not a solved problem at all. I hate all the existing ways and tools for sharing, working on something together, planning, scheduling, all the Asanas, Trellos and Jiras of the world. They all feel somehow wrong and counter-productive for any more or less non-trivial collaboration.

I think we all know there's a golden opportunity here, just not clear yet what a better collab tool should be like for 2021 and onward.
Using `envsubst` to merge environment variables into config files
No, it's the whole "the word 'master' is somehow racist" crap.
So it seems that the dominant opinion in this thread is that twitter is a private company, and that they are allowed to operate as they see fit. They can ban whoever they want, as long as they say it violated their tos. But in [1], it says

> Claiming that the tweet was in violation of provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had asked the Delhi Police and Twitter to take action over Rahul Gandhi posting the photo of the girl's family on the microblogging website.

So my question is - would twitter have done anything if not asked by the police? I doubt it, but I cannot say for sure. But doesn't the fact that they were asked to take action make the whole "they're just enforcing their tos" argument moot?

It just seems like this is a truly horrific thing that happened, and frankly it makes me sad that so many people come in and say "well, the billion dollar outrage production / data mining corporation said it was ok, and the government who is being protested for not prosecuting anyone said it was ok, so what's the issue?" Would that be your response if this happened in america? I know they are different countries with different laws and multinational corporations need to follow the laws of the countries they operate in, but isn't there more to it than that?

Also, is there anyone who is Indian or understands Indian politics who can provide some more context?

[1]: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/delhi-rape-murder-a-ca...
Break room and cafeterias can be bugged, company phones and email addresses can be bugged or monitored. With externally controlled neural implants I'm not sure if there is any means of avoidance, the majority of the human race may simply end up as slaves, to provide extra brain matter and creative visual processing cores to a corporate computer network.
To clarify, I didn't assume anything. The article says that breakthrough case were a given, but we were led to believe otherwise.

My point is, the jabbed can carry and spread the virus. Less effectively perhaps, but none the less a carrier with no symptoms is to some extent more dangerous as they are unaware of their status and can likely think they're safe to in contact with more ppl.

The idea that the unjabbed are only getting infected from the unjabbed simply isn't accurate. But that's the gist of the article - and the ongoing rub of many - there's simply too many mixed signals and otherwise lazy reporting and "leadership". People are not responding for a reason, actually plenty of good reasons. To ignore that is text book insanity.
US kettles are much slower than UK kettles though, due to the voltage difference in the power outlets.
> Can we think of any examples of physical media that this applies to?

Interesting question! I can think of a bunch of examples that are somewhat similar, but don’t feel perfectly analogous. I’m thinking painting with a camera obscura might count. Optical film compositing isn’t done anymore, along with a lot of special effects techniques that predate computer graphics. Photography used to be much more physical than it is now, for example the process of famous photographers like Ansel Adams involved building the camera, mixing chemicals, and a lot of darkroom work.
Horton Hears a Whostyle
>no one used NHS track and trace

Why would they? so they can get to stay quarantined for 2 weeks?
The second group doesn't touch the first group (e.g. just use coinbase custody and forget about that "unlawful anarchists"), but the first group always want to regulate the second. Like they doing something wrong voluntarily rejecting financial protection for their own property and asking for more privacy, independence and less taxes.

Why not drop both protection and regulations for that protection from the second group and not bothering anyone?
> Pet Lemon Market

Since a few years I am slowly developing a cancer peptide vaccine online tool for humans [0]. I wonder if someone would be interested in developing this tool in a business for pets and hire me as CTO ;-)

Seriously, there are online tools for peptide vaccines such as NetMHCpan since a long time. Yet they are not very effective in real life and anyway they are not usable with cats or dogs. In addition as they do not propose a ready to use peptide, lot of arcane chemical modifications are required to make the proposed peptides usable.

I would be happy to design such a tool for cats and dogs if someone is interested.

(email in profile)

[0] https://padiracinnovation.org/en/peptide_PoC/
does anyone actually use SEV in cloud environments? My impression was that its lineage (my understanding it's basically AMD's intel-SGX) is to enable DRM for stuff like netflix. I know for a time there was a lot of talk about using SGX in the cloud, but I was under the impression that the trust in SGX has been eroded over time to the point where no one thinks it's a good idea.
I can't relate with these at all. I realize that most people have an internal measure of "worth", but why? I don't assess myself, in interviews I detail facts about what I've achieved and let others do the assessment themselves. What good does it do to say (or even just feel) that I'm not good enough for a job that someone thinks I'm great for?

I just do my best and hope that's enough. If not, they can always fire me. Why worry about it?
Not being an Apple fan, I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of watching them destroy the arguably most-favored, though one of the last remaining, qualities of Apple products -- people used to see them as the great protectors of their privacy.

It fits, though. They also used to be considered the masters of UI design, and the best at hardware innovation, and in manufacturing. They've mostly destroyed those reputations, as well.

It's actually good when old institutions/companies fail, because the opportunities created for others. The problem is that their failure often takes many years (i.e. look at IBM). If only we could accelerate the process across FAANG, the world would then truly be a better place (and their mission statements fulfilled).
> If this is not the case, could you point me to some sources and not just your anecdote?

It's difficult to find sources, but generally speaking you are going to go 'on warning' at around 1.5% and if you go too much over 2% chargeback rate you just get dropped by the credit card company as a customer. Credit card companies don't like dealing with high fraud customers and won't support you.

https://chargeback.com/average-chargeback-rates-how-does-you...
https://chargebacks911.com/chargeback-rate/

Bitcoin helps in two ways. The first is that it gives you a way to accept money at all. As stated above, if your chargeback rate is above 2% for any extended period of time, all of your payment processors - including your banks - are going to drop you as a customer. You may be willing to pay 5% overheads for a higher chargeback rate, but your credit card company doesn't want that as a statistic and they just won't support you.

The other way Bitcoin helps is that once your wallet (use BTCPay) says "2 confirmations" you've got a 99.97% guarantee that the money is yours and won't be reverted. And that's true whether you are receiving $2,000 or $2,000,000. Regardless of whether that money came from "an illegitimate user", you as the merchant can be confident shipping hardware out because you know that the payment is not going to be clawed back.
Twitter takes like full two minutes to load in recent years, is that normal?
Mozilla has been committing suicide last 10 years or so. I'm forced to use long outdated version because I'm too horrified by looking at screenshots of each new release, not to mention the obvious API and settings cuts.
To me it looks like the company suffers from poor management, unclarity of goals, and maybe unbalanced staff (e.g. more "UI designers" than there needs to be and fewer actual programmers than desirable).
Oh god yes. I don't want a device where I have to choose between full services and full control (for myself). The introduction of SafetyNet really annoyed me for those reasons.
It's open source, just contribute a patch.

Oh wait..
I don't know much about codecs, but I just did a screen recording and checked it out with VLC:
H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
>Again, completely wrong.

You are saying the same thing as the OP.

There are generally two type of heat in this scenario sensible and latent.

Think about when you heat up water on the stove. If you were to graph the temperature T against the heat energy added Q, you would see the temperature gradually rise as the amount of heat was added. This is the 'sensible' heat. But at a certain point the water would hit boiling temperature. You're still adding heat but the temperature is no longer increasing so what gives? The energy is now going towards phase changing the water from a liquid to a gas. This is the 'latent' heat.

The OP is just saying there are more paths than just latent heat transfer, which is why they said you won't overheat in Antarctica if it's 100% RH. Your statement here is that evaporative (latent) cooling won't happen at 100% humidity but sensible cooling can still occur. You're both on the same page.
I have in my files a sci-fi novella written by my grandfather 100 years ago, in which by 1980 a megalomaniacal scientist has stopped up the Gulf Stream in order to plunge Europe into a new Ice Age in revenge for not respecting his genius. (I'll publish it once I get around to registering the copyright.)

It's remarkably prescient and timely now in its environmental concerns – but Pop didn't predict the success of the helicopter, so the villain is delivered to a Congressional hearing (in Washington, Missouri, whence the US capitol was moved in 1975) by a very weird VTOL hybrid airplane-balloon-helicopter:

"One by one the three retardiers ballooned above the plane like white puffs of smoke; now only the hissing of air around the struts was heard. Then the sudden whirr of the helicoptic blade and the LL-2X1 settled feather-light into her berth."
Then don't use that software if prod if that’s how you feel. The project is literally telling you “this will change and isn't _api_ stable yet. I don’t see how that’s the project’s fault. Maybe if they’re advertising themselves as production quality but won’t commit to a 1, fine.
With 11.1, SWC support is still experimental (we haven't enabled it by default). In the next release when this becomes stable (and replaces Babel), we will provide more guidance and examples. If you have an existing custom Babel configuration, you'll still be able to de-optimize and "eject" from SWC and continue using Babel. This ensures we don't break existing applications and make it easier to incrementally adopt these new performance improvements.
Windows' font rendering just plain sucks compared to macOS, to a point I'm actually getting headaches. I know, subjective anecdata and all of that, but I haven't been able to pinpoint why exactly...
What's kind of bonkers here is that IndexedDB uses sqlite as its backend. So, this is sqlite (WASM) -> IndexedDB -> sqlite (native).

The Internet is a wild place...
Again, I’m glad it works for you and others.

I think about sustainability quite a bit and if everyone who needs password management spends what you’re comfortable spending, that’s a waste I think. And when tech stops making things cheaper and faster it’s a bit sad.
Watch out, GPT-3, here comes AI21's 'Jurassic' language model
What does “trusting trust” have to do with this? That problem is a bootstrapping problem when trying to establish a trusted base. Simple summary is: if the first compiler was backdoored to detect when it is compiling other versions of itself and then inserting the same backdoor in the assembly of the target then how can you trust anything compiled by it?
>That wouldn't work without the company being at least passively complicit. Links between datacenters are encrypted.

They aren't always. In fact the Snowden leaks were the actual event that got many of these companies to do just that.

You mentioned MUSCULAR, but it was that revelation that the DC to DC connections were not in fact encrypted. I believe that program was taps on the DC connections, since the SSL connectivity was added and then removed in the front end, leaving the replication in the clear. Google seemed to be relying on the physical security of those links and them not being on some shared infra. [1]

WARNING: the link below has classified info from the Snowden leaks. If you have a security clearance, dont click it.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
MathML has many potential uses. It's been around for a long time, and its advantages over LaTeX are clear if you've spent any amount of time with it.

Why I think LaTeX "won out":

1) Chrome dropped MathML 10ish years ago

2) MathJax got LaTeX support

3) People don't care about accessibility/ambiguity enough to bother with anything else

4) There aren't good, mainstream frontends for MathML other than MathType, making LaTeX more convenient to learn and use
Well, I’m saving $5/month so I’ll tell you in a few decades.
To anyone saying "Users will complain about anything", I'm on a Windows desktop and this is honestly the most unpleasant reading experience I've had on any big website in recent memory.

There seems to be an issue with the OS antialiasing that is rendering characters slightly blurry to feel it's not focused, further straining my eyes.

Seems to have only been tested on Bay Area Apple devices.
> Was entering a negative number in a web form "hacking"? Should that be illegal?

Many hacking laws were drafted in the 80s and are exceptionally broad. What you did was almost certainly illegal hacking, as the laws define it.

Of course, whether the victims would care to complain; and whether they could get the police to take them seriously; and whether they can find you; and whether you and they are in the same jurisdiction; are other matters. I certainly wouldn't recommend you rely on the CFAA to protect you from ransomware gangs.
When you have a 1Password.com subscription, you are not "working in the cloud" like with Google Docs or something.

Your vault is local, and synced to/from the cloud.

Basically just like Dropbox. If your internet is down and you cannot reach Dropbox, all files synced to your computer are still there, on your computer. It's just that any changes you make locally or changes made on dropbox.com cannot be synced until your connection is back.
They know it's a valid email address. There's a long sordid backstory there and unsubscribing should have been an option via contacting them if they weren't abusive dirtbags.

I am only interested in understanding the part where I forwarded the spam email to MailChimp per their instructions and Gmail did not let me keep a record of my "sent" mail because it originated from the spam folder and then unmarking my "sent" email unmarked the original spam email as well.
Is it a Mozilla project because that is some Mozilla type version inflation?
> Kafka lived his whole life in Prague, Czech Republic.

Kafka had been dead for 70 years when Czech Republic came to existence. He even lived only a handful of years in Czechoslovakia since he died young. So saying he lived most of his life in Austria is more correct, than assigning him to an entity which didn't exist at all at the time.
I've been using this for a few weeks now, and I can say it is one of the best extensions I have ever used. I love having access to context right there.

Most of the time I use it to document external resources related to what I'm doing, or sometimes cross-link stuff in other repos.
The assumption that someone with a PhD is smarter, on average, than someone without a PhD is quite laughable.