skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Queue all the conspiracy theories and people ignoring the fact that every MacBook ships with an HD camera.

Could it be that M$ (haven't used that in a while) is tired of manufacturers shipping garbage with Microsoft's latest OS installed?

I remember purchasing a brand new HP Tablet for under $100 that shipped with Microsoft's latest OS (8.1 I believe). I knew it was going to be bad, I was curious just how bad though. I wasn't prepared for HP to look at my incredibly low expectations and say "hold my beer".

When you purchase an Apple product, any Apple product, you know it's going to be at worst a middling experience.

It seems like Microsoft's requirements for Windows 11 are just holding manufacturers to higher expectations.
Spoken like somebody who doesn't read Buterin.
not yet (and not with this framework) but soon with pytorch itself

https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/proposal-torch-js-a-javasc...
It is the Stream EDitor after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Takahashi
I am now fascinated by how those people can cut ice at the right angle to not have it fall on them... they are interlocking, and sure, its ice/snow, but with no measurements, by hand, just eying it. That is pretty impressive.
Just one more reason to not update to W11, on my work computer I run W10, but if I had to reinstall system Is probably opt for W7, this year reinstalled backup laptop to W8.1 but no reason to not go even lower.
Yeah something to be said for this and stuff like Randonauts.
We've banned this account for taking HN threads into nationalistic flamewar as well as breaking the site guidelines badly in other ways (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012266).

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Acid3 tests for a few things that have been dropped from the standard, so if a new browser passes it 100%, I'm suspicious.
Thanks for this. I totally wasn’t aware when I got the email. Thought to myself - they’re struggling?!
My impression is that the EU in general is a lot more paternalistic than the US.

Whether with regards to guns, health, environment, taxes, speech the EU values personal freedom less than having the government watch out for you.
If the law were serious about medical price transparency, it would just state that no medical bills are valid or enforceable in any court unless the exact price is clearly disclosed to the customer and agreed upon up front. Without relying on any government enforcement, we'd see an end to surprise billing overnight.

Business practices would have to change. In cases where the all the steps and treatments aren't knowable up front, providers would have to pick a price and stick to it - like any business or service provider they'd make money on some and lose money on others. Instead of issuing separate random bills from various providers, hospitals would have to pay their subcontractors out of their fixed prices, like a normal business. There may be exceptions for emergency care but those would be the rare exception, not the rule.
It’s only for your protection. /s
There are certain precedents: if you travel abroad to have sex with children, or commit espionage or terrorism against your home country, you can be prosecuted in the US even if what you did was "100% legal" in the jurisdiction where the acts physically took place.

Applying this kind of logic to speeding or indeed healthcare does seem like an overreach of government - but in general Americans who support women's reproductive rights favour more government overreach, not less.
UNIX Power Tools defined, and largely proved the sole occupant, of a class of technical literature.

It's the single book that more than any had me finally grok Unix. I still have my copy, first edition, two-colour printing (blue for "hyperlinks" to related sections).

Jerry Peek is also an absolute treasure for Unix shell wisdom --- bash in particular though he's highly knowledgeable about others as well.
Indeed. Let the child decide for itself, when it's old enough to do so.
Only some Americans - namely, the ones who started the culture war in the first place.
Sure they exist, does anybody actually use them? We're talking about the average user, not someone who is so in the scene they have multiple private tracker accounts.

Bittorrent, by definition at the protocol, includes sharing all pieces you have downloaded as soon as the piece is completed and finished its hash check[1]. The fact that there are nonstandard workarounds for this changes nothing for the broadly shared default that almost nobody is going to go out of their way to change, especially if it means using a specialized client.

[1]: https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html
The behavior of ball bearings as they self-assemble under an electric field
The point is to train and run DNN in browsers and mobile phones.
I have a really hard time with motion--my brain is unable to block it. I've become very frustrated with, for example, news sites that instad of text and still images, have started showing animated clips or short videos. I've tried a firefox extension that is supposed to stop everything, but it doesn't work terribly well. I use "reader view" extensively, but it doesn't always work.

(Incidentally, I have the same issue in real life when I go to a restaurant with a TV, so I intentially sit with my back to the TV.)
>Dealers reap the markups, not Ford

Because the dealers are Ford's customers, not us. Ford makes the dealers happy.

>Didn't they just announce fixed price direct to consumer sales for EV's?

Because they really have to. EVs will be the end of dealers, as Tesla has demonstrated. Tesla has put Ford in a difficult position. Given how dealer friendly Ford is (see above), it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Might simply be that they simply have separate ICE/EV relationships until ICE goes away.

>Ford has made non-Shelby Mustang Cobras in the past and currently have the Mach 1 to replace the Shelby GT350.

Mach 1 MSRP $56k. My local dealer has one for $79k.

>Having shopped for both I can say with confidence that regular Camaros trims in general tend to be higher marked up than Mustangs because their production volume is much lower, especially with the 1LE package.

LOL. My last mustang was a PP and I had to special order it and wait months to avoid paying an extra $10,000 just for shit I didn't want. Sure, at $35k (2016) it was good value for money. I still got the limp mode on the track because of the rear diff, but at least I didn't pay $90k for that privilege!
Yep - users have to actively decide to use a new Bitcoin client. Users who are against PoS would just not upgrade to the new client, or would fork it.
if you really don't want a build pipeline, then in js land your options are limited to alpine and vue. there may be more, but these two are more popular ones
Before this, claiming that Roe was going to be completely rolled back was also "fear mongering nonsense".
Guess I'll have no friends to avoid their deaths then.

You're welcome, ex-friends!
Show HN: Pointless Chrome ext that makes Twitter pic spin if it matches regex
i think the author conflated "is openly sexual online" and "works on a game targeted at children". As you say, strong evidence in the article, cloudy delivery.
Those standard statical methods probably don't have the gift of thousands of parameters.
Ditto, learned ed and C that way. Tried again recently but quickly switched to editing files remotely.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Really pray on the vulnerable don't they.

I wonder if they have to mention that they're not a medical practice during in-take.
You also perpetuated a hellish nationalistic flamewar in this thread. I know how easy it is to get provoked by provocative comments, but it's totally unacceptable and against the site guidelines for people who disagree to keep going at each other like this—regardless of how wrong the other person is or you feel it is.

I'm not going to ban you because you don't have a history of doing this and you make good contributions in other areas. But for heaven's sake please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(In case anyone's worried about bias, the reason for banning one account and not another has nothing to do with which side of a flamewar they were on. It's because of the history of the two accounts, not just in this thread but in other threads, and previous warnings.)
https://dannjs.org/
Yep, still chugging along with Windows 7 here; it sure is fine by me
Beautiful articulation. Very clinical though. You should become a writer.
Disclaimer, it's mostly a personal thing.

Dividing things into methods mostly gives the benefit of naming and reuse. If you can skip the method's content and reasonably assume it works in some way, it can make reading easier.

If the reader instead feels inclined to read it, they now have to keep context of what they read, jump to the function (which is at a different position), then read the content of the function, then jump back while keeping the information of the function in mind. In bad cases, this can mean the reader has to keep flipping from A to B and back multiple times as they gain more understanding or forget an important detail.

The same thing happens with dividing things up in multiple classes. Don't need to read other classes? Great. Do need to read other classes? Now you have to change navigation to not only vertical, but horizontal as well (multiple files). Some people struggle with it, some people hate it, other people prefer it.

You're basically making a guess what's best in this scenario, and there isn't a silver bullet. The extreme examples are easy to rationalize why they are bad. The cases closer to the middle, not so much.
"Green" is an extremely politicized term. The nuclear aversion has nothing to do with rational thinking and everything to do with emotions. And since most people have emotions, you can get highly educated people to be "green" extremists. These people don't balance the equation with the suffering of the poor people (which rising energy prices absolutely bring to the table), and secondary effects of green extremism like shrinking economies and inflation is not something on their radar, all that matters is that there is less CO2 being produced (or so they think), everything else is secondary and temporary.

All of that would be fine, there will always be extremists (and to a degree, we need them) and if you seriously believe in the cause, more power to you...

... the real problem is that left wing has adopted this extreme green position as one of its core elements. Now all the left wingers have to adhere to green extremism, otherwise they're not part of the team. In 2022, it is not acceptable for any member of any left leaning party to be climate moderate.

The right wing has abortion and guns, the left wing has green extremism and critical theory. Try to be openly anti-gun or pro-choice on the right wing. Try to be openly climate-moderate or anti-woke on the left wing... see what happens. THAT's the problem. Nuance in politics went completely out of the window in the last decade. It's either extreme A or extreme B. And the other side is not only wrong, it is evil.
I'm sure lots of parents would reluctantly spend 2$ on an in-game purchase here and there, but that's not really a whale. To be a whale we're talking tens or even hundreds of dollars per day. Think of people getting addicted to those time restricted pay2win clicker games and impulsively buying in-game currency in dribs and drabs until they've spent a pathological amount of money.

GP is arguing that for Roblox, the whales are the pedophiles. Indeed pedophiles tend to be prone to addiction to predation or to hoarding porn. And they will similarly end up with out of control spending to groom more and more kids.
The Republicans chose abortion as a way to create safe voters for their party and voter disgust for the opposing party. Now they've won (at a state level) and they need to keep those voters. They must continue the battle even after it's already won.
But all the “magic” that makes the scientific stack so great is largely due to numpy (and many other Fortran or c driven code) being fantastic. Python is the glue scripting language for organizing and calling procedures. That’s,IMO, it’s original and core purpose.

Now the fact that you can do some fun metaprogramming shenanigans in Python just speaks to how nice it is to write.
A co-op flight sim for short sessions like Ace Combat Infinity. Even if you get bored halfway, playing with game engines are fun and interesting (at least I think so).
https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/biomimicry-a-history
https://www.mntmn.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-mo...
I think their point was that we've experienced multiple "generational events" within the last single generation.
In the case of a literal Ponzi scheme it is pretty obvious who to prosecute. In the blockchain space many players have figured out ways to avoid being prosecuted for their schemes (many of which are little more than outright scams), but that doesn’t make what they’re doing ethical
> I think the issue is a little more general than just banner blindness

Beyond banner blindness and also the general page design as you say I think there is another, more subtle problem as well: the user doesn't care about the distinction. "Official" vs "homebrew"? What does that even mean in the context of D&D gaming? Although I'm sure it's possible to fully appreciate the distinction by reading whatever legalese is provided I'm equally sure no one will.

It's hard to make people notice things they don't want to notice. It's even harder when your callout looks like an ad festooning a clutter.
Here are some artists, tools, etc that I have experienced "in the zone" states which I absolutely cannot achieve on my own without some kind of stimulation.

Deepchord (dub techno) – https://open.spotify.com/artist/45g23Apmqo2x4obM7LjmpW

Binaural Beats – https://uazu.net/sbagen/

Pink Noise – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtimhT-ff4

Sci-Fi background – https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/relax-with-over-99-...
"Bad tool is used by bad guys so don't support it" doesn't imply "any tool used by bad guys is bad." It's perfectly valid to think that different tech has different value based on specific pros and cons.
Yes, but this and the Dred Scott decision backfired on the slaveowning South so badly that they, ironically, cried "states rights" for the next century or so.
My father was born in 1914; they didn't invent nuclear power until he was 40. It wasn't until the early 2000s that there was consensus that coal and gas caused pollution that was a very serious problem, if you set aside the smogs of the early 50s.

My grandparents were from the era of steam-powered mills; I doubt the word "pollution" had been coined before they died. I'm pretty sure the term "ecology" dates from the mid-20th-century, after all my grandparents had died.

So yes: my grandparents left me with a problem; but it's not their fault, because they didn't know. We do know, and my grandchildren would be right to curse me if I left a similar problem for them to solve, knowing what I was doing all along.
Shader-like holographic effects with CSS
Is there anyone who knows why facebook thinks the GDPR doesn’t apply to them? I can guess why they would like to be exempt but how is it justified?
I consider the spokesperson for the party leading the government to carry more weight than a journalist, but that's beside the point. I'm ignoring the pretexts and prevarications, not only because they aren't justifications (two wrongs don't make a right), but also because they're one-sided. There is not a venue, for instance, where those of the religious minority being persecuted, can seek a trial judged by a jury of their peers, and present their own justifications, while those of Hindu faith are nearly guaranteed it. Thus, those of the latter faith can realistically mock those of the former faith with no official punishment, whereas the inverse is punished by the government severely.

Contrast the FIR you mentioned, issued at long last, only after criticism, with the family home being demolished without due process, of some Muslim Indians who engaged in that very criticism of the ruling party's bias, thus reinforcing that very bias
> What do these apps collect that prove that a user received an abortion?

I'm skimming the article and yes, I don't see that mentioned anywhere, despite that being the lynchpin of the whole article.

I suppose a pregnancy would throw off a woman's menstrual cycle, but so can many other things. No way that a mere scheduling change of a woman's period would hold up in court as evidence of an an illegal abortion.

One of the interviewees also implies that states will start criminalizing miscarriage, which is just idiotic. Nobody involved in this article has actually thought these ideas through.
Agree and it's not just Chinese users. Just talking about that one country (there are others, let's set that aside) it's Chinese users, and anyone who happens to be in China, and it would seem to be also anyone who, knowingly or unknowingly, anywhere around the world… in the US, the UK, the EU, etc… anywhere, has so much as a one-time interaction with such a user.

I feel like that paragraph would lose most people because it's a long chain of connections. It's hard to do a TL;DR but here, I'll try:

Basically "If you message someone in China, Apple sees to it that your identity and content is handed to the Chinese government."

I don't know this for a fact. But as far as I can tell (and they aren't saying anything) this is exactly what is going on.
No, you're just wrong, even if your statements were right which they aren't either. Again, by your logic every single communication system on iOS is "backdoored" simply because iCloud Backup exists. Or for that matter any comms method on Linux or FreeBSD or macOS or Windows if someone makes unencrypted backups. That's horse shit, and it degrades the specificity and value of the term "backdoor" in the same way as "bricked" has become. Backdooring is a specific part of a given product/stack, a covert method of bypassing regular authentication. There is no convert status here, Apple clearly lays out exactly what components of iCloud are encrypted and how in their "iCloud security overview" [0]. And it's not as if E2EE backups have no downsides mass market, it means that users are fully responsible for their data with zero recovery possible. I still think Apple is wrong to not offer even the capability to do better wirelessly/networked and in fact that should be against the law, but it's not a "backdoor" and if there were options I'm sure lots of people would still pick the "recoverable in an emergency" one. Think, if it turns out there actually is a backdoor in iMessage, like a secret second key that can be applied to any MITM'd data to decrypt it, how would you even describe that pray tell as different from "choosing to use a non-E2EE backup method"? Or do you not think any differentiation there would matter, that such a thing would be identical to you saying right now that "Signal has a backdoor"? All that said:

>a) on by default

I've never seen it on by default, it's a toggle. I can't find anything to support this assertion, and Apple's docs seem to indicate too it must be turned on [1]. How would it even be possible for this to work? Apple only gives you 5GB by default, and backups absolutely count against the quota.

>and b) isn’t clearly marked as being readable to Apple

As I linked they do clearly convey that. If you think it should be some extra warning dialog on enabling it, maybe that's a criticism, but there's certainly no standard around that across software industry-wide including on computers. Whether something is E2EE or not is usually something those that care need to look up. Maybe that should change. But no, it's not a "backdoor in practice".

>Let’s not even talk about Chinese users, as apparently Apple bending over to store all their data in CCP data centers doesn’t count.

No let's not, and no it doesn't here. That's a case with a lot more complexity then tends to come out on HN where instead people like you use it as a lazy bit of whataboutism. Apple is in the wrong there, and the US for allowing/encouraging it as well, but not for the same reasons as with the FBI and the path away from it is very different and harder as well. They deserve major blame in both cases, but why they deserve blame differs, and that matters.

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0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

1: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-iphone-iph3ec...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Fact Checks
I have seen it in use on Intel and M1 Macs in a developer-heavy userbase. It's fine.
FWIW, I'd also flag extreme religious beliefs as "worthy of note":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Us_(2017_film)
Looks like more people are going to realise the value of privacy.
The opening discussion in the article about how the US takes forever to accomplish transit projects and does so few contrasted with Spain's rapid and frequent construction reminds me of the maxim "if it hurts, do it more often"[1].

The way to get better at something is to do it more often. This is a lesson software developers learned from the agile movement. Do hard things more often. Experts in every field become masters at their craft by practicing it for many thousands of repetitions over tens of thousands of hours.

Rather than trying to make success more likely by approaching difficulty with excessive caution and planning, expect that, at first, things will go wrong, but have rapid feedback to learn for the next attempt. Rather than a big bang integration at the end of a software development project, integrate daily/hourly/continuously.

The US builds automobile-centric transportation successfully at a prodigious rate. American civil engineering is really good at it because they do so much of it, all the time.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty.ht...
“It’s hard to enforce the rule of law” is not a good reason to abandon it entirely. Data privacy laws make data privacy better even without being 100% infallible.

We should be both practicing good data hygiene and using legal tools to combat those who abuse data privacy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31643917

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...
If a user has regular cycles for 2 years, then a late period, then the cycle resumes slightly offset, that could be a pretty solid hint. There are plenty of examples of women being arrested for miscarrying [1], which is more than enough reason to strongly advise anyone using a period tracking app to stop.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/miscarria... lists examples from Texas, California, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Nevada, and South Carolina