skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to care about that too until I got enough money (not a TON, but enough to put my worries aside for 5-10 years) from equity working at a smaller company.

Now I'd rather keep a simple job and work on side projects that interest me than working at a FAANG.
> But, and here’s the kicker, if I hadnt been pushed into vim I would not be nearly as productive now.

It's interesting how the winds have changed toward Vim advocacy in a quarter century or so.

I switched to Vim around 1994, amidst a definitely anti-vi climate. In the university environment, almost nobody used vi. I remember nothing but vi trash talk.

The computing environment was proprietary Unix without a whole lot of freeware at all. Free Unix was just beginning to rise in the word. Only in the freeware world surrounding the Linux kernel and GNU utilities did I begin to discover alternative programs like Vim, still far from any sort of mainstream at that time.

I saw all this trash talking as weakness; by making fun of trivialities like the command sequence to get out of a program, you're just showing you're a moron. I looked into it and found it wasn't difficult at all.

Until then, all editors I ever used were fundamentally modeless: type characters to insert. I was curious about what it's like to use the modal editor after training oneself in its use.

I was quite pleasantly surprised; the naysayers were bigger morons than I thought. There are all these useful commands that can be touch-typed without any modifier keys!

Taking every key that produces a printable character and turning it into a command which inserts that character is an incredibly ill-considered decision. I mean, the machine can do anything you want, and you're insisting that it behave like a typewriter.

Because the computer/terminal keyboard traces its inspiration to the ancient typewriter, whose keys are mechanically linked to hammers that produce the characters those keys are labeled with, it must be so in a computer's editing program also. That is parochial thinking.

I don't understand how someone can go from, say, playing a game of Tetris where the unmodified keys ijkl control the falling pieces, to editing text, and suddenly insist that in this editing context, it must be that ijkl simply insert their image into the buffer. Like keys being commands is just something for games; editing is typewriter-like, so we simulate a typewriter, end of story.

Moreover, to be so vehement about this, so dead-set against the idea that an editor might be driven somewhat like a Tetris game, so as to not even give it a chance, in spite of relying on editing for enough years to become a programmer.
> based on their choices

That's the difference. You shouldn't exclude people for characteristics they can't control (like race or disability) or characteristics core to their identity (like religious views), but I see no problem with excluding people who choose to behave asocially.

> An actual "inclusive" construct would work with people to understand and respect their concerns, and meet them where they are

You're free to not get vaccinated, and we have accommodations for those who are unable or unwilling to get vaccinated. How do you see an alternative inclusive approach working?
Ah, right. I can't math.
> That could just be a coincidence, but it's a pretty remarkable coincidence

Not really.

It was always likely to be found in a major population center where people cluster tightly, where the r0 would be higher, where superspreading events would hit more people, and where there would be more educated hospital staff that would notice something going on.

Wuhan is the largest city in central China. It is also about as close to Yunnan where the bats are, as Guangdong is (where the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak happened).

If we understood what kind of intermediate animals might be involved in the zoonotic transfer and what their movement was around China, I strongly suspect that the chances that it was observed in Wuhan are something closer to 1-in-12 than 1-in-1000. And this is the second round, the first roll of the dice we had was with SARS-CoV-1 where we rolled a different number and it hit Guangdong.
Absolutely do not see Google doing anything about WhiteHatJr publishing apps on students behalf with dead privacy policy pages(which are actually google doc links of all things!). And all of the app websites being linked back to their own subdomains hosted at WhiteHatJr website. Such a shady company, acting as if under 14 years old kids have paid the $25 fee, read all agreements, built apps in any IDE & published the same....
It's not just contrast. It's also font size. It's also the font itself.

All websites should be readable in Firefox or Safari (or Chrome but I don't use that) with the minimum font size set larger than the default. I use 18 min and a lot of stuff breaks. I'm sure that other people would greatly benefit from even larger fonts.

I don't care about "pretty". I'm resigned to not getting that. But a lot of text simply disappears when the minimum font size is bumped up.

At least Firefox manages to render most sites at a decent size when I set 18 min. Safari, for some reason, still struggles with that.

Also, I generally read everything using Lucida Grande. It's a nice legible font. Firefox allows me to force that font. Safari doesn't. Just how fucking hard would it be for Apple to let me choose my own font in Safari?
I've always considered TOS's an abberation of contract law myself.

I've had many professional contracts with both private and commercial clients. In none of those cases was I ever allowed to provide a contract where I could just decide whatever I want, whenever I want and the customer is forced to agree otherwise...fuck them...and I still get paid.
Sorry, set them up as a separate user.
PTFE? It’s so non-reactive that it is commonly used in medical implants, precisely because of its high biocompatibility. I don’t think that there are any connections at all between PTFE and cancer.
> you're not given the choice to boycott the CIA.

Well, you could refuse to pay taxes, but that would land you in jail (like most civil disobedience).
Apple's straw man argument could be that there is no battery standard to allow for a thin iPhone.
My other gripe is their white cables no longer go with their hardware. They worked with the original macbooks and ipods, but with so much bead-blasted aluminum on their new devices, the white cables don't really match.
> (admittedly largely left-leaning) Sydney reddit

That's a cute if daft way to describe a propaganda mill.
I was also thinking about this. I remember the days of "Does anyone have a Nokia charger with the slim head?", and it was not fun at all.

Nevertheless, from that Wikipedia:
> Although compliance is voluntary[...]

Which sounds weird, because the Wikipedia describes Apple phones comming with an adapter to be compliant.
For grown up Sci-fi Phillip K Dick is where its at. Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkly are the foundation of what PKD is about. Once you grasp the level of mindfuck you are dealing with you can move on to valise and the other post-OD stories if you want. Skip the man in the high castle. I know that there will be other signals telling you to not skip it, but skip it. If you can't help yourself just say "this is what happens when a great author writes a book with a D20" and look back to why all "DnD" books suck.

If you want space opera, you can't go wrong with the culture books. Consider Phlebas, is a fine place to start. Later books build on the mythology and themes, but if you don't connect with book 1 you probably aren't going to like the rest.

A student of PKD who likes to play with scifantasy ideas is Johnathan Lethem. If he has written a book set somewhere that you have a connection to start there, otherwise start with The Fortress of Solitude. Follow with Chronic City and Motherless Brooklyn. Don't watch the Motherless Brooklyn movie.
What? No! Apple is the company that refuses the FBI to unlock an iPhone. Admitting that you are just the puppet of surveillance government is exactly the same thing as is happening now.
Some years ago that “universal “ in EU was USB-A, Apple had Lightning. Now EU wants that “universal” to be USB-C, Apple has Lightning. And in few years EU adapts USB-X as “universal” and Apple still goes with Lightning.
Here in UK every single new station being built that I see is exclusively CCS. It really only affects Leaf owners as nothing else uses chademo standard.
HN also visually avoids gamifying everything. Pay attention to how interactive likes on a site like Twitter are, it's literally a little heart that pops up. A lot of those sites look like slot machines.
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)
Yep totally. There’s a lot to me be said for a steady pay check at a decent firm.

I just don’t want to wear one of L. Bob Rife’s headsets to get that. :P
tl dr.. use grayscale instaed?
Apple built the product(s) that have generated the most buzz this century.

If you think the EU regulator is going to do a better job of deciding how consumers want their phones designed, you aren't making evidence based decisions. The more of this stuff gets locked in to be regulatory decisions, the worse the final quality is going to be.
> Slightly tangentially to your comment, I believe that people tend to vote based on the fact they believe they either are, or will soon be, part of the one percent.

As quoted in A Short History of Progress (2004) by Ronald Wright:
> John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. This helps explain why American culture is so hostile to the idea of limits, why voters during the last energy shortage rejected the sweater-wearing Jimmy Carter and elected Ronald Reagan who told them it was still “morning in America.” Nowhere does the myth of progress have more fervent believers.
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The same could be said about all the shenanigans involving cloud and being web scale.
For 95% of the companies this will never become a problem and your need to spin up a VM in another part of the world does not justify using an expensive cloud provider like AWS,GCP or Azure.
> hn is not sensitive

In literally 30s looking at your comments it shows that you're an HR and an amateur pilot.

Seeing the number of comments, with slightly more time, your place of residence and political leaning would probably become apparent.
Kubernetes multi node on prem installation with k0s distribution
Even without publicly sharing your iCloud photos, they are accessible on iCloud.com (e.g. you can see your camera role there).
It basically devolves the workplace into wargames where the employee focus becomes an "us vs them" battle stalemate with management re: tracking and obsessing over the KPIs vs how to beat the KPIs.

I worked in call center management and saw this play out real time. They made clients wear fitbits and hit metrics to qualify for the cheaper health insurance plan. Workers put the fitbits on drill bits and ran drills to whirl around the fitbit to beat the metrics. Then there was a mass group chat about how to beat the system. Then peoples personal cell phones had to be banned and kept in lockers outside the offices. And around and around and on and on it went. It was literally like Tom and Jerry and everyone was miserable and meanwhile the company wasn't doing well because nobody was focused on getting any high quality work done because of all the distractions and drama over the tracking.
It doesn't take Einstein to understand that George Floyd could just be anyone in that scenario.

To focus on his personal history is simply irrelevant and is in disrespect of the judicial branch and the principle on the separation of powers. No one is contending the truthfulness of his criminal history, but he didn't die as a result of that, he died as a result of the disregard of human life by an officer of the executive branch.

Even if you don't like BLM, which is okay, it stretches too far to claim it a terrorist group.

Please don't just reduce it to 'facts you don't like', facts won't get you banned, but those claims the OP made are more than that.
Apple lawyers are probably already at work drafting cease and decist letter to the author :)
Interferon is a cancer cure (albeit limited to specific kinds, and abysmally low complete cure rates -- but a cure nonetheless for some people).
As Taliban advances, China lays groundwork to accept an awkward reality
It should be remembered that the Obama administration carried out the same type of research as Cambridge Analytica to influence the 2012 election.

If this research is going to be criticised, it should be done evenly, not just when it's politically convenient.
I too recently looked for a dumbphone, open source and privacy-oriented, with a way to communicate using an open standard messenger protocol (XMPP, Matrix) and CalDAV support – so basically either a web browser or a good app store, with decent battery life. I could not find anything, at all, and gave up.

Imo the variety is lousy. There are countless models to choose from, but they all pretty much work the same, come with vendor lock-in, uninstallable apps, integrated Google services and all of that.
Well, media in the USA is often being accused of being left-leaning, when in fact it is almost universally right-of-center on almost every topic, except culture issues.

The claim is not necessarily that they ignore essential topics, so much as that they present a biased narrative of the world, even in the facts that they chose to cover at all - one biased against workers and against America's (perceived) enemies.

The people who accuse the NY Times of being biased towards liberals or progressives often forget how pro-war they were for example, how friendly they are to the military and security apparatus in general etc.
That would mean forcing Qi on all phones, this would have cost, size and material repercussions quite larger than using USB-C.
Indeed, I think HN has a bug[1] where posts about labor rights are implicitly downranked. This can happen even when the topic is technologically interesting (such as here) and the workers in question are tech workers. I hope we’ll fix this bug soon, because HN is really the perfect place to voice concerns about labor right issues related to tech workers.

That said there were some pretty goods discussions following the walkout at Blizzard/Activation where this implicit downranking didn’t happen. I want to see more of that.

1: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#implic...
It's just the cable. And it hasn't changed at all from the first iteration. Now Apple uses the EU legislation as an argument to avoid shipping a charger with the phone.

Garmin also has proprietary watch and GPS charging cables.
Ugh, this one hits close to home. Language Transfer is an amazing project that I recommended to multiple people in my family and they loved the Turkish lessons. I hope this doesn’t discourage them, you’re providing a truly generous resource to all language learners in a space where similar courses cost hundreds of dollars per language.
I still have a Phillips vacuum cleaner. It's 10 years or more. Impressive build quality.
Can only launch an “app” there but it doesn't react to taps.
I'm sure they could split it into /16s and sell off the empty ones.
<del>It's a copycat of another's work in a different framework. Please do proper attribution.</del>
I don’t like the idea of a forced standard. All manufacturers with exception of Apple have converged to USB-C or micro-B for older models. Even Apple uses USB-C on iPad Pro’s. Apple should just switch to USB-C everywhere out of their own volition and be done with it. Though I like lightning, ditching one cable when traveling would be nice.
...If the keystrokes stop for 7 minutes. ToT (Time off task)
Apple doesn't have that capabilty though. There are countless ways to get copyrighted material on your phone that are perfectly legal. Apple would have to be able to decide if you're legally owning your files. With how the IP system works currently that's impossible. For CSAM this isn't a problem because we assume that there is no legitimate way to have CSAM files on your phone.
I don't think Apple has at any point included an adapter. Mine at least didn't come with one. What I remember them actually doing was releasing a separate adapter and putting it on sale on their website, meaning that there are probably hundreds of them out there.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD820AM/A/lightning-to-mi...
If we had 100% evidence it came from an US lab, nothing would happen either. Your point being?
Them adding encrypted hashes to photos you don’t intend to upload is pointless and not much of a threat given the photo themselves are they. They don’t do it, but it doesn’t feel like a huge risk.
Okay.. experimental vaccines?

There are about 30 different COVID-19 vaccines around the world, with all kinds of different technology. There are inactivated vaccines, live-attenuated vaccines, viral vector vaccines, you name it.
And then there are also nucleic acid vaccines, which deliver instructions to our cells, either as DNA or as mRNA. These aren't new, and they have been researched way before COVID-19. It's just that these vaccines save costs and time, which makes them good option for this pandemic. Do note that in less rich and developed countries, more of the other types of vaccines are being used. It's actually a luxury that we can have this type of vaccine and personally I am quite sure that this is the future of most vaccines anyway.
Please forgive my personal pet peeve, but nothing BurningFrog said was a straw man as far as i can tell. I don't see any way they misrepresented your argument.
Exactly.

The technical implementation is trying to hide the fact that the design mojo of this system is an actual Backdoor for governments of the world to oppress, censure and do whatever they like.

The technical implementation is optimized towards minimizing the cost for Apple. That's why they scan on the device. And this decision is made with knowledge that in the near future "scanning" will be not limited only to hashes. Scanning and processing will be required for $Some_Cool_Functionality to work.
This is actually the same author of the famous MacOS in React. He’s a legend, and has been very active in the Svelte community / discord lately!
A repeated topic in Agre’s writings are the practices and consequences of (computable) abstraction, which is reflected in his (and Chapman’s) AI approaches, his criticism of AI and his writings on privacy. A core claim is that engineers make abstractions based on an implicit aristotelian/cartesian philosophy, assuming that what they abstract actually exists in the world and is merely "extracted" or "found".
I have a theory that belief in authority (and conservative/authoritarian political ideologies that build on it) evolved because of this pressure, as a way to protect the culture and shared knowledge. In this view, hierarchies are a side effect of the belief in authority in large-scale societies. (I don't buy into the social and sexual dominance theories of hierarchies.)
I also have an old etrex with AA batteries. It's a wonderful device. It supports OSM map data, so it's easy to update, the batteries last a week and you can buy replacements literally everywhere.
It’s code running your device is the point, so while “you” doesn’t include everyone, it does include people who will verify this to a greater extent than if done on cloud.
I usually used Teamviewer.
I mean you are here now lol

I like this website. I feel like I learn a lot - mostly on discussions about fields I only have outside knowledge of.

Its not like I was personally offended but had the realization that it is possible for large groups of smart people to convince themselves of something even when it is not true (or at the very least, have no actual data to know if its true)
Microwave transmission could send it somewhere else... wirelessly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Microw...
Why curbing methane emissions will help fight climate change
I wouldn't call HN an "end user forum". So I think this content fits very well with the crowd here.
Sure, just disable IPv6 support in your OS.
Pretty sure I've had 4 different cable types with Apple devices over the years; they weren't always all Lightning and they're still not all Lightning.
It's for charging a phone, so the minimum of 60 watts is fine.

It's for charging a phone, so data rate doesn't matter.

And that's about it for variations.
Show HN: Dystopian, post-apocalyptic screensaver for chillaxing or sleeping
The functionality is there but is hidden away in the command list inside devtools. I don't know of an easy way to expose it - this extension is a lifesaver.
What is a reasonably “Good enough” alternative for an iPhone that does not tie into Google services?
I've always assumed that when illicit things are well-known enough that I've read about them in the mainstream press that probably means criminals have moved on to something else long ago.

It's a bit like "top secret" military tech. If you're reading about it that means it's old news that no one can be bothered to keep a secret any more.
Any connection worth its salt should be TLS protected.
That's my point. If the original photographer doesn't delete them by the time they're known to NCMEC and the hash database is updated, they would match. As I said, I recognise this is beyond implausible.
Netflix has profiles intended to keep track of different members of the households preferred shows. The most expensive plan only allows 4 screens to be used at one time and they might notice when the "family" members appear to be in different countries.

In theory a single someone can share with another single someone but multiple households would be hard pressed to do so as it would be easy to exceed the number of screens preventing others who pay for the service from watching.

If you aren't already paying the extra $5 for 4 screens and UHD you only get 2 HD screens which is even more unsuited for sharing.
I talked to someone who made such a purchase - it’s not actual cash, it’s just showing sufficient assets to pay cash, then financing when you close.
You just quote some survey stats. They are bullshit. What people want and what they say they want are two entirely different things.

Small example: I run a small app. The number of GDPR-related requests is zero. The number of emails like "can my deleted account and deleted data still be recovered?" is like 1 per month or so.

WhatsApp is also a good counter example. People want privacy, but what they want more is utility and network effects. Most people I know didn’t abandon WhatsApp despite numerous privacy mishaps and I think the same will happen here with Apple. This will blow over – unfortunately.
This is false for the general case. The employer always needs a reason, e.g. the employee appears to be browsing the internet the whole day instead of working. And even then, the work council has to be consulted.

The employer can look at work emails if it's the last resort (no other means to get the information), they have a reason (like if employee is sick and a customer emailed them directly with important contract data), a member of the work council is present, and it's been cleared by the GDPR person (whatever they're called in English).

Labor laws have been shaped by courts so it's quite confusing, even to Germans. Rulings are often decided by minuscule details that don't appear to be big but often are, so generalizing is hard.
I feel like people are getting outraged at the title. This isn't a keylogger. It's recording keystroke/mouse patterns to create behavioral profiles, not monitor content. It's just to try to heuristically detect whether the wrong person is operating an account.
Wouldn't the dongle be even bulkier than a built in RJ45?
Are Trisolarians happy now?
The radio and emergency services part of company never went anywhere and it's now Motorola Solutions.