skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a libertarian capitalist in the previous decade. The amoral charlatans running various media houses converted me into a national populist.

One particularly nasty example from my "you evil fucks" folder.[1]

Headline designed to be shared on twitter and cater to the anti-gun mob:

> Man paralyzed by concealed carry holder in 2017 dies from injuries, police say

Last two paras of the story:

> Ford’s injury stemmed from a Dec. 12, 2017, shooting that began with the then-18-year-old pulling his own gun on a 27-year-old man driving his vehicle into a rear yard in the 9100 block of South Harper Avenue, according to Chicago police.

> The older man, a concealed carry holder, pulled his own firearm and shot the victim, police said. Ford was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn for treatment and was later charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and misdemeanor aggravated assault. But the case against Ford was dropped by Cook County prosecutors nine days after his first court hearing.

There are thousands and thousands of these if you go looking. Want to make the world a better place? Ban journalism.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210623065433/https://www.chica...
I'm not familiar with the "think for yourself" crowd that you describe, but i'm definitely not calling for ignoring authorities/specialists. The thing i'm calling for is to map it out, identifying, contextualizing and comparing all the information flows. Scientific method cannot a priori exclude any source. Your allowed to be scientifically convinced of something only when you're confident that you know the full map of what other people think about it (eg understanding your peers ideas better than them).
This validates my LaTeX usage, but honestly, can’t you only detect it if I’m using Computer Modern? I am, precisely because of people like you, but I don’t think you could tell a XeTeX-built resume with a Unicode font from one done in Word. And conversely a Word user could simply download CM Unicode and reap the LaTeX bonus points, no? :)
The EU can tackle more than one issue at once. In fact, the EU has already put out mandates and regulations to reduce food packagin waste and a directive to combat planned obsolescence in TVs and Kitch Appliances.
> When you say 6pm, everyone has an understanding of roughly when that is.

OK. How is that related to the claim "we all agree that we work 9am - 5pm"?
Well we need to feed the beast because we love freedom and if you don;t you are free to go to gulag... or something along those lines.
The price of land in the middle of the desert east of San Diego (Ocotillo Wells, Borrego Springs) is skyrocketing.

It would be utterly impractical to live there most of the year. And yet compared to NFT's and some cryptocurrencies it's probably a great investment. There's definitely a bubble going on, I just don't know when it will end or why.
Apple is not responsible for the web's content. Facebook is most definitely responsible for the content they store and provide on Instagram.

It's absurd how some people dislike Apple so much they're willing to defend Facebook's right to provide human trafficking services.
It's more or less the same. The employer is obligated to giving a truthful and sensible reason for the dismissal in writing, the employee has no such obligation. The union can only object and demand compensation if the employer is lying or the grounds for dismissal are unreasonable.

Also, Denmark has public salary insurance backed by the state, so in case the employer goes bankrupt, all back wages will still be paid as if the employees were just dismissed. Overtime, vacation and severance packages will not be lost by the employees, giving them more security and time to relocate to other jobs.

But eg. in Sweden the dismissal process can be extremely difficult and complicated. As a consultant in a Swedish corporation I experienced the crazy consequences of extreme union protectionism of employee rights.

In one case, a worker was fired because he was caught sleeping on the night shift, while he should have been keeping an eye on a multi-million dollar food processing machinery, making ingredients all night long - ingredients which has to be produced within strict food safety tolerances.

The union blocked his firing, so the department boss let him go after a few month, giving lack of work as the reason.

When the boss of the department finally had waited long enough, and went looking for another employee with the same qualification in the small towns near the factory, the union representatives at the factory demanded that the boss re-hired the Mr. Sleepy, because he was the last one to be let go, and as such had first priority for being re-hired.

Also, I was informed of a factory of domestic appliances being shut down and moved some 300 km away, because the top brass was annoyed by the grey haired middle management at the site, their obstructionism and resistance to change, backed by the manager's union. The C-suites figured that they could easily replace the employees, but the middle management wouldn't tag along, sell their houses, etc. The union was told it was a cost cutting exercise, and all employees would be offered their old jobs back at the new location if they were willing to relocate. The real reason for the exercise was actually the elimination of the useless middle management layer and getting free hands to rebuild the organisation.
What's the situation regarding Dwarf fortress and Macs with the Apple M1 silicon? Last time i checked it didn't work (crashed during world generation) after Apple released macOS 11.1.

I sure would like to give it a try!
Why do they require a photo in the resume?

I'm curious about the reason.
What an incoherent article.

Is it really outlinking if it's reddit's own image hosting service? Where is the data for the analysis discussed and why are all of the percentages expressed in ranges? Really shoddy stuff, even if I am sympathetic to the main point that hate speech is extremely hard to regulate.
Hi, lovely work, thanks for sharing! Is there a link to a repo somewhere? I'd like to use it, but I think in my use case I need to be able to specify the exact RGBs for the color palette. Thanks again!
Google does similar things with files stored in the corporate G-Drive product, which is supposed to be a replacement for on-premise file servers (i.e. there is likely no other copy of the data).

At a previous job, we had a forensic image of a compromised laptop stored in G-Drive. Google blocked access to it because of the malware on the disk. No "no, really, this is important and I need to download it, I acknowledge the risks" button, nothing. Good thing the person who uploaded it hadn't deleted the original copy yet.
I am anti the clocks moving around.

Others can fight about what we call “5pm”, but for the love of everything holy, just stop moving the clocks. I’ll happily ally with whichever side (“anti-winter” or “anti-summer”) that appears most likely to deliver a political victory that ends the madness.
I think this just highlights the problem inherent in allowing Apple to be the sole arbiter of what can run on a device you paid for. I should be able to easily install apps that Apple hasn't approved, or in this case, has a legal beef with the company in question.
OH yeah
In my opinion, Jetbrains has the better model.
After all, what happened to JBuilder? Nobody is using it anymore, Codegear/Embarcadero priced themselves out of the competition.
Eclipse was free, Netbeans was free, JDeveloper was free, IntelliJ could be had for around 500 bucks and asking price for JBuilder was 4000 or more.

Jetbrains proved that you can successfully can compete against free. But the pricing needs to be reasonable.
I think it's likely GP was explicitly targetting the USA with that comment.
> Google's SafetyNet will prevent you from using many crucial applications, like your bank's Android app

I don't think that installing your bank's app is a good idea. First, banks are interested in collecting as much data about their customers as possible so the app will be used as a spyware. Second, installing an app eliminates second factor for authorization - now if your phone gets hacked, the criminals will be able to steal all your savings.

It is better to use only bank's website from desktop computer and use a phone only as a second factor to confirm transactions.
> odd that for touchscreen phones we just decided to grab the near exact keyboard layout we use with physical keyboards, and just stick them on a tiny touchscreen

An anecdote: Early in Steam's controller support, they used a really nice alternative keyboard, where you picked one of 8 directions with the analog stick, and pressed a face key for the specific letter. It was fast, convenient, and built for controllers.

It didn't last.

Steam shortly moved back to a standard QWERTY keyboard layout with the joysticks moving virtual fingers. If I had to speculate, I'd say that they received too much negative feedback, because people didn't immediately recognize it as a keyboard, and didn't want to learn something new.

Even if it's slower, virtual QWERTY keyboards are (almost) universally familiar, and there's nothing new to learn.
… in a preliminary injunction that "[...] will remain in force until the disposition of this case" (pg 38, bottom), so once the appeals process has run its course, Apple is no longer bound by this.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21949772/g...

That said, Epic could always try to get a further injunction on this, and I don't really see an upside for Apple from banning further accounts.
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It makes me uneasy to have governments mandate technical implementations like this. Would USB-C ever have been invented if all companies were required to use USB micro-B for everything?

Maybe I'm jaded by my American government, but I have zero faith in the ability of a group of politicians to stay up to date with technical standards and keep legislation like this up to date.
Yes. The A4 and A9 (A1 and A19 are ground) are the only pins that transmit power. Putting 20V/5A through the copper is not a problem even for the cheapest cable.

edit: Ok looking at the other reply with the link to the google engineers stuff some have messed up the A5 (configuration channel) pin and thus the negotiation for giving more power fails and just defaults to normal levels that are safe for any device.
initrd is a (very) small subset, far from a clone.
> Why are we comparing raw numbers?

Because it’s one of many ways to look at this disease, and any reasonably intelligent person will understand that this one comparison doesn’t tell you the whole story, but it does tell a story. The story goes into explaining this more, and also why we might not want to compare this to the 1918 pandemic itself.

I mean, the article addresses pretty much everything you mention in your comment, so I’m not sure why you bothered posting.
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Thanks for the feedback. I think that’s a good point. One reason I have collapsible work/education is being able to reorder them.
Tim Sweeney and Epic planned and executed an entire campaign (hilariously even given a secret code name as if Epic was either some super hero or villain) that was predicated on knowingly breaching a contract (read: a promise). Then they sued. Then they lost. Now they have a new promise?

Their promises are worth less than dogshit. Apple apparently isn’t in the market for dogshit.
I believe vegan considers the ethics of production too, so milk is out, even though milk is not technically an animal. Honey is a common example that is considered on the borderline I think that may (or may not) be similar to lab grown meat depending on the specific process.
How have you been able to flatten a USB cable with your foot?
An illustration of lies, damn lies, and statistics?
The risk / reward of giving children the Pfizer vaccine really doesn’t make any sense.
Western Australia is the absolute best case possible for solar panel cost effectiveness though. You can't generalize from that to it being cost effective everywhere. Lots of people live in places like Europe where there often isn't strong sunshine, and there isn't a lot of available land. And as for being solved, well, that's my point. Batteries have been around for over a century. They haven't gone through some sort of exponential progress explosion that renders them "too cheap to meter". They improve but only incrementally and it's simply not enough.
https://www.science.org/news/2020/09/one-quantum-physics-gre...
But semantics don't really matter if we're talking about vegetarianism for sustainability of the planet.

Define fish as meat or not, that is, in my understanding, a currently unsustainable model.
as far is i know, the main(almost only) magisk developer got hired by google this summer, so it's likely there won't be magiskhide anymore
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/08-02-2021-lab-alert...

From the link:

Is CDC retiring the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel because it has produced inaccurate results?

No. There are no performance concerns with this test. The CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel is a highly accurate test. It has been used to successfully detect SARS-CoV-2 since February 2020.

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Does the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel confuse influenza with SARS-CoV-2?

No. The CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel does not confuse influenza with SARS-CoV-2. It is a highly accurate test that detects the presence or absence of SARS-CoV-2 viral genetic material within a patient specimen.
You joke, but if the web were invented today, browsers would never be allowed onto mobile app stores.
The obligatory greatest bug report ever. Dwarf Fortress developer gets in depth about it. So great. The complexity of this game is mind boggling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY
They just want to know whom they're dealing with. And I don't think it's such a big deal because once they invite you to an interview, they will know what you look like anyway.
So is the argument is that users can't be trusted to use hyperlinks?

A scientific approach to explore some of the issues would be to try to measure how much racism occurs, to what extent that racism is having a real world impact, and the extent to which regulating speech more on Reddit would have a chilling effect on other speech. But instead the article takes for granted that Reddit doesn't censor its users enough. My impression of the article is it is ridiculously one-sided punditry containing very little evidence.
> otherwise Apple will drop the port and move to wireless charging

Since the aim is to reduce e-waste, I suppose going all-in with wireless charging wouldn't be a problem (or even preferable) in the eyes of the law.
All the numbers have secondary forms with extra strokes. (In Chinese too.) It's originally an anti-fraud/legibility technique. But they sometimes get used in formal/legal contexts just because. (One stroke turns 十 10 into 千 1000 otherwise, which is problematic on something like a cheque.)
I think that this attack is not possible to prevent without hardware tokens. At least user will be immediately aware that something's not quite right.
Wait isn't unbundling the sale of the charger the thing everyone got mad at Apple for? And now they are legislating it?
If someone is considering an "evil maid" style attack, the objective is to compromise your security without you knowing (so that you will continue using the device believing it is still secure). "Asking nicely" isn't going to accomplish that.
Because an occasional glitch when the client & server sync back up is acceptable in a game. Finding out that my order didn't actually go through is much worse. Especially since click button, see success, and close browser is an relatively common use case.
But AWS have less regions than Azure:

25+8 under construction for AWS[0]

65(some under construction) for Azure[1]

However Azure regions are a single DC, while an AWS region is 3 Availability Zones ( each being at least a single DC), which is much much better for redundancy. Remember that time the whole of Azure's portal and O365 were inaccessible (nobody could log in) because some equipment failed in a single DC in Texas? Design for failure

0 - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
1 - https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/microsoft-azure-announces-...
I used to work at a company whose products included USB-C ports that only supported cable insertion in a single orientation--if the cable was inserted incorrectly, it would fry the board. Manufacturers have a lot of freedom to cut corners with this standard in all different places, and you better believe that they are going to do that to the greatest possible extent.
> This way the big disk can have full, real FDE (not LUKS).

I thought LUKS was the only way to do FDE in Linux. What other options for FDE are there?

But yes, putting /boot on an external USB drive is the only way I know of get FDE on your hard drives. Possible with UEFI, not BIOS/MBR.
The government already mandates the electricity interconnect one step back at the wall socket. This is just extending that to modern devices.
I wish those didn’t exist. They’re wrong a lot. And people think they’re some official source of business hours even going as far as saying “on the website it says the hours are”.
Because we have wagered our entire society on the idea that the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated.
>Because otherwise a car crash in a small town would be equivalent to a major terror attack in NYC

You can probably adjust for this using some sort of statistical significance test. However, without actually doing the test I'll go on a limb and say that the world's population wasn't small enough in 1918 that this phenomena (ie. n being too small) would skew the results.
I used to be anti touch screen for typing, until I learned how to use swipe typing. I think I type much faster on a touch keyboard with swipe...

I wonder if there are benchmark for swipe versus normal keyboard...
It really depends. If you're attractive and certain beneficial information can be gleaned from your resume (e.g. things that recruiters are measured on come performance review time), I can certainly see it helping.
Yeah and that's part of legalizing it just like allowing anything. Allowing alcohol means you will deal with drunk drivers killing people.

There are downsides to having legalized cannabis. Sorry that upsets you. I'm not advocating for it to be illegal.
Just out of interest how does a uk farmer find themselves on HN?
No, I don't. Here the EU is creating legislation that forces manufacturers to increase interoperability, be more consumer-friendly, and more climate friendly.

This all seems within the remit of governments to me.

> I guess I just wonder if in 20 years will every device still have a USB-C port on it in some odd location? No one is using it anymore, but it is still mandatory on everything.

Or course not, it's not like legislation is set in stone and will never change.
You see there's a logical contradiction between the two different posts right?
Xiaomi phones are the gold standard of price/performance where I live and their bootloader can be unlocked.
I'm glad you found it usefull.
Sorry for the misspelling ! (i'm not english native )
I have my own 20 acres of forest, too. I know how much effort it takes. And I agree - it would take work and money. And yes, there would be some culture change required to accept that your trees are not permanent, and to accept that other plants and trees will share the space. Yet at the same time, doesn't it feel like a healthier end result to have a natural resource that came from our deaths vs. a fairly nondescript patch of grass with a bunch of stones? Even if it does take a bit more work and money? After all, we're talking an incremental increase, not a 10x increase.
Strawman. Nowhere am I advocating for it to stay illegal.
that's how rumors work, what rumormongers considered merging of the two OSes, were in fact attempts to make chrome os able to run Android apps, and that's exactly what happend.
I think the expectation is that there will be additional rule changes to adapt to technology advancement. This isn't the sort of rule meant to last forever. The EU also has less of a problem with people being elected that try to prove that government doesn't work by intentionally making it work poorly.
> it causes me to have unavoidable bias.

Admitting you're susceptible to bias is one thing (we all are, I think). Calling it unavoidable makes it seem like something innate and implies you lack free will. I'm curious why you see it as unavoidable.
Google bots killed my Adsense account I never used
I opened a single Adsense account in 2017 and have never created ads with it, just wanted to understand the process and keep it ready in case I need it some day. Today they sent me this email:

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This email is to alert you that your publisher account (Publisher Code: pub-923XXXXXXXXXXXXX) was found to be non-compliant with the AdSense program policies and as a result, it has been disabled. Because of this, the ability to serve and monetize through all products which depend on AdSense will be disabled (for example, AdMob and YouTube).

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I don't like the idea of governments anywhere dictating technical standards like this.
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I'm still not sure why we have Daylight Savings Time, is it ok to abolish it? Makes coding timezone logic hell.
Im not a fan of the quick charging standard being forced as it sounds like it will be one hell of a step back for anybody on a oneplus/oppo phone. The quick charging there is absolutely amazing. Im on an older version but even then my 1+ 7 pro charges fast and never gets hot while charging. Compared to PD or QC it is leagues better.
I started using full disk encryption (except /boot) this year, so far no problems at all. I'm using ordinary luks on Fedora.
This is why the EU is looking into carbon-based tariffs.

If you want to enact global change, you can't just change yourself, though it's always a good place to start.

And probably a major beneficiary of similar laws currently is meat production and animal welfare laws used to exclude imports.
See edit in original post. The point is that we all know when 9am is regardless of location. For those that work in office settings (which is a massive group of people), yes, 9am-5pm tends to be the rule. The reason we can do that is because 9am is more or less the same "time" everywhere.

If you don't have timezones, times cease to have any meaning. 1pm where? In New York? Great, that's after lunch. In India? Oh no, that's late at night.