skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iMessage (and more importantly, FaceTime) is the single most important reason why I buy apple devices for my whole extended family, so that we can communicate without ads, with privacy and with proper security in place.

So that's pretty decent market strategy on Apple's end, i'd say.
Indiegogo and Kickstarter are doing a very bad job at screening applicants.

At least something obviously physically impossible should've been cancelled.

They are burning their credit of trust.
>Most other public infrastructure doesn't try to make you unhappy or manipulate your desires in every aspect of your life.

Taxes make me unhappy and yes, all sorts of things the government does, many of them related to infrastructure are designed to manipulate people at scale. Often it's manipulation for "the greater good". Sometimes it's not.

Having my infrastructure subsidized slightly more by ads and less by taxes makes me less unhappy.

Advertising on public space is highly unobtrusive, like a banner ad compared to some JS advert that covers the whole canvas and tries to trick you into clicking it.

The overwhelming majority of of advertisement is irrelevant to any given person. I'm not in the market for ED pills, high end vodka or student loan refinancing. When it's irrelevant like that it's just white noise. If I do see something relevant them maybe I'll look into it and maybe exchange my money for whatever is being sold and it's a win for both parties.

Paying for infrastructure is a necessary evil. That money has to come from somewhere. Ads are a fundamentally less evil way of satisfying that necessity than taxes.

Also, the ads on the subway have never tried to run malicious code on me and don't report my metadata to Google/FB/the NSA/etc.
I'm leery of any movement that the media refers to as "populist" as it seems many of these movements in the past years have been fueled by concerted efforts by despotic governments to destabilize democracies (Ukraine, US) or spread internal discord (Myanmar).

Facebook and Twitter play a key role in these influence operations by not adequately detecting and removing accounts controlled by these despotic governments until after the fact.

Traditional media outlets are not blameless as they frequently treat the results of these intelligence operations as though they were authentic grassroots movements.
How exactly are truck drivers, provincial plumbers, builders, deliverymen, teachers and parents parents on the edge of French society? How are their lives being made harder?
Language might be the optimal self-regulating system
You can find the whole calendar at twitter (@svg_js): https://twitter.com/svg_js
Can someone explain the nuances of these protests?

Am I wrong to find it weird that the seemingly liberal, "woke" French are rioting over a carbon tax? Aren't carbon taxes progressive and environmentally responsible?
signal on desktop it's next to useless and good luck sharing pictures through signal, which it's basic functionality they haven't fixed for years, who is fine with sharing pictures one by one? what is this 90s?
I'm not patronizing any nation or bringing up the "holy" democracy. Even jumping the gun and introducing that "holy" in there makes betrays your message's very... zealoty nature. That is entirely your wording and understanding. If you want to make a point do it without distorting the message you're replying to into oblivion.

This being said, to this day there is no better real world alternative to democracy. I take it you know very little of how Russia and China work internally. It's going to sound cynical but if you did you'd appreciate the "lesser evil" of western democracy. Think at least of the fact that you're now free to express these opinions, as you do.

You know the upside of democracy? With enough people behind you you can easily install dictatorship. The other way around needs slightly more sacrifices. Pretty sure those people fighting in the Arab spring against their not elected leaders weren't doing it just to jump on the bashing hype train ;).
In other words, there's identification, there's authentication, but authorization is replaced by "if in range, then authorized." Two out of three is still game over.
Not to mention PR firms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-hired-firm-h...
FCC buries 2-year-old speed test data in appendix of 762-page report
Ask the Apartheid states how sanctions benefited them. Always is a bit of a strong word.

I think "justification" internally matters for the internal role. If the people view the actions and its consequences as unjust nothing changes to benefit opinion wise.

However even if (they think) it is totally unfair that they are being sanctioned want to just because they burnt a few evil witches/abolished slavery they are still weakened internationally.
Orban is shutting down press and educational institutions that question him. That's despotic behavior in my book.

Just this week: https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/central-european-univer...
That seems to be the way these conversations always go:

1 "iPhones are too expensive, people should buy cheaper Android phones"

2 "I buy cheap Android phones and the quality is terrible"

3 "You can get good quality Android phones, you just have to pay iPhone prices for them"

Every time a conversation about price vs quality comes up, the conversation starts at the price, goes into the quality, and then ends up at the same price and quality as the competition.
Or the other way, by governments of democratic countries to destabilize nondemocratic countries, which is arguably easier.
This is not even MITM, the thief just blindly proxies traffic.
Thats not the favored narritave worldwide. We are being sold that the french are antarchist ingrates on american media. I still don't knkw how to get an unbiased view.
I didn’t say it was always faster.

You’re assuming that you’re always hunched over the computer with your hands on the keyboard.

Often I’m in a relaxed position looking at the screen. We all agree that we spend more time reading code in writing? So, do you really want to be sitting at the computer with your hands on the keyboard at all times?

You’re also assuming that you have a physical keyboard. In the 21st century billions of people use tablets and phones.

Finally, I didn’t say you had to give up the keyboard. I said I would like to have the other option. You can still use AceJump.
>In my experience of people with half a dozen Androids over the last 6 years, they are Just Shit.

As some of the other commenters alluded to, there really are a huge variety of different devices. I'd be curious as to whether the folks you knew were buying e.g. Google's Nexus or Pixel devices which IME have generally felt higher quality to use, or whether they were Samsung/HTC/Huwaei-branded devices.
SSE Student? One of the two SSE-programs is arguably the hardest program to get into in Sweden. Sometimes the Karolinska medical school has a higher entry requirement.

Graduating from there usually means you are set and don't need to scam anyone for a _very_ comfortable life.
I agree that this type of headline would've been written like:

"Facebook Gives People A Voice in France" - or something along those lines, a few years ago, if the Arab Spring is anything to go by.

The writer's perspective very much matters in this type of articles. It's especially obvious in politics (although many people still don't notice it, and think they are just being served "the facts").

That said, I'll hardly spill a tear over people "over-criticizing" Facebook. If there's one company that's worthy of waves and waves of criticism, Facebook certainly qualifies for that role.

It certainly deserves it more than Tesla, which, with the exception of the criticism of the reckless promotion and implementation of Autopilot, I think the criticism of Tesla lately has been largely off-base and undeserved.

But for some reason, people seem to assume that both good news and bad news should be delivered evenly throughout the year, or something. Like they get surprised when there's a lot of bad news/negative press continuing for many months about something (whether it's Tesla, Facebook, or cryptocurrencies), but forget the same has been true about the good news about those things in the past, too. The good and bad news are almost never evenly distributed over a period of time. They are far more likely to come in bursts of either positive or negative stories.

Not long ago, I remember reading on this very site comments dismissing the idea that Facebook will suffer over the Cambridge Analytica. I said then that Facebook will likely not see an immediate effect, but will likely see it over the long term, when it starts declining, the Cambridge Analytica will be one of the reasons for that decline.

All of these negative news stories you see now are connected to the Cambridge Analytica story, which seems to have opened a kind of "Pandora's box" for Facebook. It's all downhill from here for Facebook. Some people just haven't realized it yet.
Socialism is populism on the Left (i.e. distributing wealth at the point of a gun). Populism on the Right is instead via a more democratic method of building a strong market that lifts all ships.
The issue described in the article is not an issue with Facebook. Filter bubbles are an issue that's much larger than Facebook. Blaming it all on Facebook would mean we ignore the fact that they also exist elsewhere.
While not being perfect, that is still far better than regime in Zimbabwe, Venezuela or North Korea, where the head of state keeps the power as long as he is alive, or is replaced by force by another thug.
I'd argue it's more a defence of accuracy than Facebook per se.

Just because you don't like a person or company or country or whatever doesn't mean that it's reasonable to accuse them of all the ills of the world.

I'd even argue that it can be detrimental. If you get enough "Facebook killed my puppy" stories, folk will start ignoring stories about Facebook and miss the stuff that's genuinely a problem.
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"France has riots" is hardly news, since '68 onwards. This time it's not the banlieus or the students, but what in the UK we'd call "white van man"; the self-employed working class.

The spread of fake news at viral speed is somewhat new, but people taking to the streets is a much more normal part of French politics.
Protesting yes. Breaking the law... maybe also democratic. This doesn't change the fact that there is no comparing this to Arab spring.

The same act can have very different meaning in different contexts. In this case it doesn't feel like those protesters have exhausted their options before jumping to violence. As such this is a condemnable act.
That real milestone was passed in 2013, not a few months ago.
Frankly "populism" has been a code word for nationalism/racism/xenophobia my entire life.
I'm sure it's not just you but you could still be wrong. :>

What you consider alternative / independent journalists could be charlatans by journalistic standards. It's hard to say in the abstract.
Reading comprehension doesn't cover you retconning what you said. You didn't mention SSDs at all in your previous comment. What you actually said did imply that professionals don't care about latency. Full stop. Perhaps that's not what you meant to say, but that has more to do with your writing than anyone else's reading.

More to the point, your gaslight version is still wrong. Professionals do have latency expectations even with hard disks. Those requirements might not be as stringent for hard disks as for flash (or for distributed vs. local) but they're very much still there. If a significant fraction of users' requests are taking too long, they do complain. Loudly. Data scientists don't care if the system is simultaneously delivering dozens of gigabytes per second to other users, and doing ten kinds of background maintenance stuff besides. They care that their job is slow. When you're dealing with truly large amounts of data being processed by thousands of machines, and ad hoc queries none of which are likely to be repeated, "just use flash" isn't an answer.

Maybe you're dealing with a different kind of professional than I am. That's fine, but you shouldn't keep making these super-general statements that are wrong for one of the largest classes of data professionals. "Couple of hard drives" was so far off the mark I literally laughed out loud.
Google maps get it right? so i can download just country package before visiting it? i can just use it as offline navigation avoiding steep roaming fees or even better lack of network coverage in wilderness? i am honestly surprised by anyone using Google maps, that app it's missing basic features other apps had for years

F-droid Maps user
Those classes seem disproportionately affected by higher transportation costs in already low-margin but nessarry jobs and careers. While the effect may be exaggerated, it is not imaginary by any stretch.
It's a lot more of a gray area than democracy vs. despotism. Much of this unpopular policy is emanating from Brussels, made by a chamber of unelected officials - closer to a Politburo than a Senate.
There's a very good reason why there are even international treaties forbidding an army force to physically molest the opposing side once the latter has surrendered, because that way the conflict doesn't need to escalate to the point of total destruction for both sides.

More to the point, the protesters seeing this video will know that surrendering to the police will probably get their arms and feet broken so next time they protest they'll do almost anything in order to not let that happen, i.e. they'll become even more violent or/and they'll come better prepared for physical confrontations (better body-gear, actual weapons).
This is an interesting choice for a first post. What does it possibly mean? Why was this enough to finally get you to sign up after all those years of reading without response?

In context, are you saying that the piece is "encouraging"?
https://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/transla...

Are you Georgian and saying that you "heart" the piece? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guli

Are you from a place named Guli and just leaving graffiti?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guli

A devoted but taciturn fan of the long distance runner Mina Guli?
https://www.minaguli.com

Don't leave us in suspense!
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It looks passable, but as I have said any Art Noveau building would give more eye candy, and there's a huge number of such building around the world, it's not we praise each and every of their architects.

It also looks like a side of any cruise ship. Last time I have checked cruise ships were not considered masterpieces of architecture, and they also float.
I was able to solve it with "resistFingerprinting" set to true but I had to unblock Google's domains in uMatrix and it took 3 submissions. I really dislike companies that use Google's reCAPTCHA...
They're also a burden on poorer people, especially from rural regions (where cars are necessary), proposed by a government that's generally been seen as helping the rich and burdening the poor. It's less a protest against that specific tax in isolation, and more against the general trend, that was triggered by the proposed tax as the last straw.
250 pages of documents being released contradicting prior statements could reasonably be expected to cause an increase of coverage.
Who said democracy is a perfect system? I certainly didn't. Democracy is flawed because people are flawed. But western representative democracy -- limited democracy supported by strong institutions -- is the best way to avoid autocracy on one side and mob rule on the other. There are no perfect solutions.
How is reporting on British MP's actions regarding Facebook an "intensive negative media campaign"? Is this not actually happening or something?
Not an expert by any means, but to my understanding the carbon tax is only part of a series of taxes that the French people are protesting about, which they feel help the rich and hurt the poor disproportionately.
I’d also recommend not picking a fight with people in riot gear.
> Am I wrong to find it weird that the seemingly liberal, "woke" French are rioting over a carbon tax?

Yes, the French routing over taxes is not historically uncommon, and the French aren't unified ideologically, and particularly aren't uniformly left-wing. And, as I understand, it's not as simple as just carbon taxes, either.
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Those were essentially the UK's fault, and it's not like Soros was the only one taking advantage; if you're a market economy it's hard to blame a market for acting like a market. Today, it'd have been automated trading systems, probably.

Edit: I do think, by the way, that it’s telling that Soros is about the only example people ever give in cases of market forces harming a country. When Britain sold gold just before the gold bubble really inflated, no one blamed the gold traders; they blamed Brown, say.
Yeah, establishment journalists consistently provide accurate information, like the time they discovered that huge stockpile of WMDs in Irak.
Right, I forgot to mention the statistics. Yes, you can publish statistics in 6-month windows -- which is kind of what warrant canaries are supposed to provide information about -- but I'd be surprised if the "cannot be broken down" might be used to restrict the usefulness of statistics...

I mean, a literal reading would allow you to provide minute-by-minute 6-month windows (or a new 6-month window each time you get a request) which could be used to get very detailed alerts each time a new request was given but obviously you'd get into hot water by doing that.
They can't provide specifics only ranges. In Division 6, section 317ZF, Unauthorized Disclosure of Information, section 3) subsection 13) a person forced to do one of these TAN/TCN/TCR things can release a count of how many of these TAN/TCN/TCR things. BUT Note: This subsection authorises the disclosure of aggregate statistical information. That information cannot be broken down (a) by agency; or (b) in any other way.

So Division 6, section 317ZF (3) (13) is the ONLY way someone can tell the world what is happening.
I know that, I've been part of the Romanian protests for almost two years now and I've seen my good share of fake news attached to similar events. It was just that the article was somehow hinting that all news shared on Facebook and other social media about the protests were fake news (which is obviously false), or at least that was my feeling when reading the article.
Many drugs that put our metabolitism on steroids cause deaths from overheating - the energy has to go somewhere.
The article even mentions the French Revolution!
How about not cutting out a key part of the sentence?

"in one of the worse civil unrest ever seen in France"
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.
CSP provided the basis for the occam programming language designed for the Transputers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)

Edit: The CS course I did in the 1980s had a Concurrent Programming course that covered CSP and another one of my favourites: Petri Nets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net

Edit2: Go also has concurrency features influenced by CSP:

https://golang.org/doc/faq#csp
I wasn't imply otherwise, just following up on the original poster.
Can someone with understanding of the matter ELI5 why this matters?
I live in the US but have many friends from northern Europe and I've noticed the same thing. The only thing I use WhatsApp for is communicating with my European friends, and every single one of them prefers it over text or iMessage even though they all have iPhones.
That's a mischaracterization. Any type of entity can be targeted, but not any agent. That's an important distinction to stop people acting as private individuals on their own time from being exempt from the law.

Not that I think this will work—it wont in the long run—but I'd rather argue against the strongest case of an argument.
Used to good effect to in one step program and test the Kickstarter "Public Radio" devices. I thought that was neat:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centerlinelabs/kickstar...
This also extends to which incidents of police violence are approved and covered or not. If circumstances were different we might see cries of authoritarianism and calls for regime change!
Israel doesn't sponsor radical Islamists it just creates them by it's disregard for international law in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Uber did change substantially. Kalanick was forced out. Adults run the company now hence fewer scandals to report on.

Self driving car division is dead in the water. They will end up licensing tech and competing with Waymo.
> He funds organizations specifically to interfere in fair elections and attempt to maintain a far left hegemony across Europe.

Maintain a "far left hegemony"? Have you ever been in Europe? Does your knowledge of Europe come entirely from 4chan?

Hint; there are no far-left ruling parties/coalitions anywhere in Europe.
Because astroturfing has utterly subverted discussion on hot-button issues on all social media platforms (including this one), whether you choose to believe it or not.
A social network stops being cool when that coworker you dislike tries to connect with you.
Then find me an autocracy with those freedoms.
Didn't British Petroleum do the same thing? Now they are exclusively known as BP.
Agree, show users stuff they don't care about, that's how you win the market
It doesn't really matter that much in any practical sense; it's just kind of cool.
No, those pictures of brutal Spanish police action to block people from casting ballots were fake. There are plenty of real ones. As a casual but interested observer, I personally don't remember seeing any of those fake photos shared.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/photos-from-catalo...
Edit: UK outage vendor confirmed as Ericsson: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-o2telefonica-outages/erics...

Old paranoia filled post left below for reference. Thanks to saaaaaam for pointing the above link out.

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There's something going on here, political or technical.

O2/Telefonica subcontracted out a lot of their core to Huawei in 2012 [1]. Literally today, after their CFO was arrested in Canada [2], we've been hit with a massive telecoms outage here in the UK which has taken out data / SMS. O2 have stated that it's due to one of their technology provider's software [3].

Edit: Giffgaff (virtual provider) have also stated that this is a global problem which is even more worrying [4]

I hope this is a coincidence.

We've had data down here in UK from 0500 to 14:00 so far...

China stock is falling, this happened, Huawei already have a somewhat iffy reputation and now BT is throwing out news about jumping ship from them suddenly.

[1] http://telecoms.com/44197/huawei-wins-managed-services-deal-...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46465768

[3] https://twitter.com/O2/status/1070612301110226944

[4] https://twitter.com/giffgaff/status/1070674248606339072
No, a key part of this is misrepresentation: Russians saying things about politics as themselves would be one thing, but Russians pretending to be Americans en masse with thousands of fake accounts and promoting obviously false rumours and driven by audience-targeting ad technology starts to become a problem.

(This is not an argument against anonymity; I don't need to know where these accounts really live. I do need to know where political advertising is funded from, because there are laws about that.)