skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter Strike was translated as 反恐精英, where 反恐 meams counter terrorism. I have no idea how these elite things came into play.
These scum companies use data gathered from your friends as well, so even if you block ads, they will still use data gathered about you to “improve” the ads your friends get.
That is an excellent and very helpful writeup!

I'm particularly disappointed to hear that Google doesn't provide any way to rotate the signing key for an app.
Is there an issue for that file with them anywhere, or more discussion?

Some day, I hope reputable services have migrated to The Update Framework, which has been pointing out and solving these and other problems related to software updates for several years now.

https://theupdateframework.github.io/

Actually, a quick search leads to this - is it indeed possible to rotate your key, at least for Android's Pie version?

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/08/13/android-pie-includes-key-rotation-way-developers-change-app-signatures/
Okay, let's go to 1989 and apply this mentality.

Three languages to suffice all needs:

* Low-level systems language: C.

* Highly expressive, high-performance industrial language: C++.

* Interactive interpreted language for doing easy casual things: Basic! Everybody knows Basic already.

Halt the language research, stop trying to develop Python, Lua, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Smalltalk, etc. Who ever needs them?

In plain words: diversity is how evolution works. You cannot build a perfect thing from the start (no, not even Lisp, apparently). You have to try and reality-check. Standardizing on One True Tech is how you end up with reams of despicable legacy code 15 years later, and with no way out.
Looks like details are TBD, but it's almost certainly going to be something like either discounted rides or X free minutes of riding per month and discounted service if it breaks.
I'm not convinced that in pushing the issue further.... that they're going to get someone friendly, possibly the opposite.

Trump, if anything, may have shown you can call out China and do things and ... the sky doesn't fall.

I don't doubt that it is possible that China's leadership feels something will change, I'm not so sure they get what they want.
Allegedly around $200
source - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/pinebook-pro-video-demo
You can get a street legal new Honda Ruckus or Yamaha Zuma 50cc for ~2500. 115mpg, no motorcycle license required, 100+ mile range, and no charging. This is a tough purchase price, when you can order direct from amazon or Alibaba for at least 50% lower.
> I don't think it's a deeply unpopular feature

And yet

> just the fact that engineers at Google thought users would appreciate having their private financial information parsed and stored by Google services is absurd.

> It should never have crossed anyone's mind to even do that, let alone advertise it as a feature.

That was an awfully quick turnaround from "I can't believe anyone would ever think this would be useful" to "I don't think it's unpopular".

Almost like your initial position was absurd on its face, so once challenged you had to immediately back up to a softer, more defensible one.
Iran will take food and hard goods instead of dollars.
Indeed, the contract we sign is not “do I trust Google,” it is “do I trust Google in perpetuity.”

I can think of many, many outcomes wherein Google’s collected data is more valuable for uses other than “helpful”.
How much actual uninhabitable desert is there in the continental USA?

I'm in the Mojave and it's far from uninhabitable. I've never seen a barren wasteland desert of infinite sand dunes like they show in the movies, not in the USA. It might exist here, but I don't know where.

My experience in the Mojave has been one of diverse and abundant life. According to the elderly folks around here there used to be Tortoises everywhere as recently as the 1980s, but all the automotive traffic has practically wiped them out.

We still need to practice restraint and consider consequences in the desert.
Is there actual evidence of wrongdoing on Xiaomi's part? If they're abusing my data it should be trivial to verify by MITMing my device. Can you point to someone who has done this and found something?

Forgive me if I don't take your word for it. There's been a lot of anti-anything-that-isnt-america news going around lately.

Anyhow, as another poster points out, it has LineageOS support, which is what I use.
The reality is your subjective take on Facebook? HARD PASS on your steaming hot take.
I don't know if it falls under "freedom to tinker", but having a microSD slot saved my vacation once (well, the pictures of it anyway). We were out at a children's amusement park in the mountains with poor service, so just moving things to the cloud wasn't an option. Deleting apps from my phone to pick up space is of course an option, but also a silly one. Swapping out the microSD card, however, was simple and I just got back to taking pictures and videos.

I went iPhone -> Android -> Windows -> Android. I'd really like to get back to an iPhone for privacy reasons, but the storage situation really doesn't work for my family. Traditionally, it's been a low capacity entry model and then ~$100 to upgrade to each new tier, paying Apple's wildly inflated markup. The pricing is also way out of line with our budget. I was really hoping for a new SE model for my wife.

I'm fairly happy with my Galaxy S9+ now, but I really miss a lot about Windows 10 Mobile. I'll never forgive Google for doing everything in its power to make sure another mobile platform didn't become viable.
From https://shop.bird.co/:

“Bird One owners get access to additional rides on our dockless shared network in 100+ cities worldwide—so even if you’re away, you’re never without Bird.” [They mention “20 free rides” but don't say if that's per month, per year, or a one-off with the purchase.]

“Bird Service Centers offer expert vehicle care and added peace of mind.” [No word yet on location or what sort of care is included.]

The Verge has this on the service centers/anti-theft:

“If your scooter breaks down, VanderZanden said you can bring it (or mail it) to one of Bird’s service centers, located in North America and Europe. If the scooter is stolen, Bird’s “bird hunter” network of freelancers may be able to track it down and find it.”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18535698/bird-one-electric...
Uber is customers voting with their wallets... because they're cheaper than Taxis! Here, we're simply facing the unfortunatey reality of network effects / moats (barriers to entry).
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I'm sure I'm missing something, but in the past when I've replaced thermostats it's pretty easy. Easy to find a replacement and easy to do the work. I know that everyone has different levels of skill here but this is less involved than, say, replacing an outlet.
> Perhaps it is all server-side?

Probably.

> translate, vision and speech

To me, these types of technology are both wonderful, and particularly dangerous.

With Google Translate, I was able to read technical posts on a Russian forum, which contained a piece of critical information to the problem I was trying to solve. And with Google's speech recognition on YouTube, highly accuracy text transcripts are now generated at an industrial scale, and even in real-time, that enabled me to see parts of unintelligible speech in some videos which are otherwise impossible to understand. In the future, it's expected that these types of technologies would see greater applications, for example, using automatic translation in international conferences or private conversations is not a "far future" Sci-Fi idea anymore, and may eventually be crucial tools for a specific propose, or even play a central role in the human society.

> The implicit message was clear: “Yes, we have all of your data, but the fact we have all of your data is a good thing, because it allows us to make your life easier.”

On the other hand, due to the very nature of these types of technology, it's mostly impractical to deploy them locally, the only natural way to implement these is running them on Google's computers. It means soon enough, Google, would have access to massive volumes of information, not only personal, but human information, such as private conversations and communications. And unlike those cheap IoT devices you could refuse to purchase, using these services may be essential (e.g. being able to understand the conversations) to live in a digital society. And even if it's not Google, the information collected would be vulnerable from another service provider as well, in addition to a government subpoena.

To some extents, the search engine already showed the existence of these problems - it's not possible to run a search engine on your computer (I know there are some FOSS Proof-of-Concept projects, but they are what they are...), the search engine has to be operated by a large centralized provider which would be able to see and track everything you've searched. Meanwhile, you must use an search engine to find information produced by the human civilization.

In the future, it's certain that Homomorphic Encryption and Differential Privacy may be important and must-have solutions, but only for some very specific applications, they allow some computations and queries to be performed by a 3rd-party without revealing their contents or nature. Theoretically, if there's a future breakthrough in applied cryptography, you would be able to execute an entire blackbox program on someone else's computer without revealing anything.

But I doubt if there's a solution in general.
A 25% tariff results in low-singe digits % price increase at in the store. The tariffs are on cost of goods, but cost of goods is usually a fairly small fraction of retail price.
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It is encrypted (except email) but Apple has the keys for the stuff I listed: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202303

Also, in China Apple handed over iCloud operations to a government owned company, including the keys.
It's common for a good article to get a lame title, because writing articles and writing titles are different jobs at many publications. The solution in such cases is to replace the lame title with a good one, so HN users can discuss the article instead of getting distracted by the title.

I don't think that at HN we have much power to affect "trust in media" or "the power of words", but if we did, the way to wield it would be to select the best articles and deselect the worst titles, which is what we try to do anyway.

Banning entire publications wouldn't help because the good and bad articles are scattered across many publications and often exist side by side.
This seems like an incredibly complicated way to fit an exponential to data...
The problem is that the longer the Chinese government steps in to absolve, tweak or undermine the market...the worse the market gets over time. It's like pushing on a string. Unfortunately recessions are necessary, asset prices sometimes need to come down because there is capital market misallocation. Unfortunately China is very hamfisted here and the longer the dance goes on the worse the potential outcome becomes.

The Fed and western policies get a lot of flak for "too big to fail" but in the end, they still let them fail...just very softly and to prevent systemic shock. That's not the Chinese model at all.
I'm afraid you are mistaken: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202303
Thanks for the validation. I was beginning to wonder why this hasn't been done already and maybe I'm the exception rather than part of a group who need/want it.
> Wouldnt data collection become meaningless?

Data is used for more than advertising.

These data silos are enormous blackmail machines waiting to be activated. There is tons of evidence of crime, adultery, extortion, and all the other fun things humans get up to in there.

Google, FB, and the other big surveillance outfits protect this data now. Who knows what happens tomorrow, or if that protection is "enough", or if $nation_state will grab what's stored in their borders, or...

Building these blackmail machines is incredibly dangerous, _even if you completely ignore_ the garden-variety privacy problems they cause for "little people".
No, it's maintained by a special interest group within Fedora:

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).

EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more.
I’m not saying it’s ok, just trying to answer the question. California is a place people love to live that’s been glorified by the media for decades, and is the seat of power of the ascendant tech industry. Of course people are going to bash it.
Python Notebooks will the be the PERL of 2010s - write once, pretty impossible to maintain long term
The point the parent is making is that Apple doesn’t have your data in the first place, therefore if things go south, or they become nefarious, you’ll have to give them your data first.
Is There an Open Source Solution to Launch Darkly?
Odd you call them out for "clickbaiting" yet yourself selectively post quotes

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But as Uber slashed incentives, Raut’s earnings dwindled swiftly. His income dropped to about $540 a month this year and he defaulted on his taxi loan payments. Deciding after an accident that he couldn’t afford to fix the vehicle, he quit Uber and now his monthly income, from a new job driving a truck, has crashed to $200.

“There is no benefit in driving for Uber ... my life was much better just as a cook,” said 26-year-old Raut.
No. If you hover over a link in your web browser, regardless of what it says on the link, the hover text (often appearing at the bottom left of your web browser) should show you the real, full destination URL. Try hovering over any link in HN, and you'll see the URL you're going to actually go to when you click on it.

However, when you hover over a Google Ads link, it does not do this. It shows you a friendly URL for the destination (such as https://www.ebay.com) but when you click on it, you get redirected with a bunch of tracking stuff added or even through a URL not on the ebay.com domain, as shown in this "exploit". In fact, even if an advertiser were to use a "clean" link as the destination, you first get redirected on that click through a google.com URL, even though the hover text is still lying about the destination.

I'm not even sure what it's doing here, there's some neat JavaScript in play. The hover text shows the "clean" URL, but if I inspect it, and then hover over it again, it shows the real redirect URL through google.com.
I mentioned my sys call filtering issue with eBPF taking up massive amounts of CPU time...
Right. It seems like the issue is that "calorie in/out" means different things to different people. For some people it refers to the simple fact that humans are subject to the laws of thermodynamics. For people trying to lose weight, it refers to diets which are structured around counting your calories.

It's hard to doubt that lowering your calories consumed will cause weight loss. However, it's not obvious that the physical mechanism behind weight loss in itself provides enough structure for people to use as a practical tool for weight loss.

It's like if someone is trying to pitch a faster baseball and their coach introduces them to the "conservation of momentum" strategy for throwing faster. The idea being that if you want to move the ball faster, you have to move your arm faster too. Well, duh, but it's not obvious whether this will help anybody. It might be the case that practical strategies for pitching faster never make reference to the principle of conservation of momentum. That doesn't mean that conservation of momentum doesn't ultimately explain why every different strategy works, but it doesn't make "conservation of momentum" a strategy all by itself.

"Eat high quality foods" may very well be a better strategy for losing weight than counting your calories. It might be easier and more healthy than calorie counting for most people. That doesn't mean that "calorie in/out" doesn't on some level explain why this strategy works (although, there might be good reason to doubt this in some cases, new research suggests that the interaction between gut bacteria and food are an important factor in how people respond to different diets). But the fact that "calorie in/out" explains weight loss doesn't mean that it needs to be the central concept in everybody's dieting decisions.
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Complexity is the enemy of any reliable system. No energy source is simpler than solar arrays. They don't require any moving parts, thermal management, waste containment, or strong security. The only maintenance required is dusting. Why otherwise intelligent people cannot appreciate the cost of complexity for nuclear energy is beyond me, especially when viewed in contrast to something as simple as solar.
I am not arguing for open borders though. That is a separate argument.

You can definitely limit immigration, and do it fairly.
I find this argument exhausting. You can always define the system in such a way that there is some deleterious effect somewhere.
This isn't "ironic" or a "creative solution", this is straight up censorship. Wow.

China has basically made it known they will go after a company's employees. I'm sure that CBS is very concerned about general access to the Chinese market and don't want their shows banned for purely economic reasons, but the subtle threat of their Chinese employees disappearing because of a cartoon is a real thing.

Let's say this was my decision, pretend I'm a director or VP at CBS and I need to make the call about this cartoon, and whether the threat against my subordinates in country - or myself on my next business trip - is real. After Fan Bingbing's disappearance last year, I would take this very seriously and I'm not sure I would make a different call.

That's censorship, full stop.

I'm not sure what CBS alone can do about this - they're a single company against a sovereign nation. Not to let them off the hook, but I really feel the U.S. government has to step up here.
I have a friend on Nextdoor who routinely complains of neighbors freaking out about "suspicious" people in the neighborhood, how crime is on the rise, and oh my god what are we going to do!? All that angst despite that neighborhood has one of the lowest crime rates in Denver, and there is zero evidence from publicly available police records that the crime rate is going up.
> Are we really promoting good security practices or just adding security theater cruft?

We're taking away easy attacks, just like blocking known spammers from delivering emails to your MTA. Yes, it doesn't solve spam completely, but it reduces the amount. Add other things like SPF, DKIM etc and you can identify even more malicious emails and warn the user. And certainly, the OP's description mentioned matching urls (though the text would have to match the href, so "ebay.com" would likely be fine for "https://ebay.com/something"), but again: what's the harm in linking to the actual URL? Why the need to hide it, IF you already make the link text look like a URL? I'm sure there are also reasons why a site operator wants to avoid SSL, but I do like the fact that many browsers do warn users when (potentially) sensitive data gets transmitted via plain text.

> Who said anything about a third party?

The super majority of click-tracking runs via third parties. And yes, every additional detail you share with them (PII has gotten a lot of attention lately, and I'm beginning to come around and love GDPR) will put your users more at risk - now it's not just your database that risks exposing your users when a leak/breach happens, it's also your email provider's.

> How would you implement link url / text mismatch blocking? Have you thought through the consequences for your users and their understanding of security or satisfaction with your product?

I'm sure that it's not trivial, but few things are, so rejecting it for that reason doesn't sound like a good idea to me. "Hey, let's not do SSL, it's not that simple to build and might inconvenience a user that has their clock set 100 years into the future"
It's not just cooking, it's all the spray cleaners, liquid detergents, and so on, too.
Show HN: Trello-like board for your remote job applications
Working remote nearly 100% of the time.
That makes more sense to me than this whole "China is waiting for the US elections" stuff.

China pushing back publicly (rather than making a deal and then ... simply not following through) against the US doesn't play well in the US as far as getting someone they want elected. Americans hurting economically are the folks cheering on Trump to some extent (well a vocal portion) and aren't likely to back a deal that isn't perceived to be favorable.

If the administration in China is playing an internal game, that makes a lot more sense than trying a potentially very counterproductive play in the US.
Well, as of right now, you can choose to delete your data, so it's not necessarily perpetual.

Of course, absent something like GDPR, it's possible in the future Google could change their minds about that.
Yes that's my intention soon. I'm still dogfooding for a while to shake out its design warts. This post was so fitting I had to mention it.
> involving non-EU consumers

GDPR covers any interaction of people or organizations in the EU.

So non-EU consumers are covered once they're visiting the EU (citizen of a member state or not), and potentially (untested, not spelled out explicitly) when they use a VPN with an endpoint in the EU (because they're then likely talking to data centers under the control of the European subsidiary).

> they don't have to afford the same protection to non-EU users

Given that "EU user" is murky like that, I'm not sure if any company goes through the trouble of differentiating which action happened from inside or outside the EU beyond raw GDPR blocking that refuse service entirely for accesses from within the EU.
My understanding is that you can run Android apps in Linux, but I've never tried it.
The Frankfurt Kitchen Changed How We Cook and Live
Is muscle memory even a thing though?

Whatever "muscle memory" is, it's in your brain.

It's when you've done something so many times your brain has pathways for it so you can do it unconsciously.

It's like riding a bike. There are like 10 things going on at the same time and you don't even think about them once you know how to ride a bike.. your brain is doing a lot of the work in the background.

Heck even using your balance to walk around is the same thing.
Nice catch, I wrote too fast for my own good.
Yea, it's interesting how many comments are flat out wrong

or can't seem to differentiate between what Google does now
...vs what might happen with Apple in the future.
That is like saying that 'unless its 100% perfect, I may as well send everything to Google and the ad-verse'

People can't simply get rid of their cell phones. At minimum, I need one for work.
"Mounting debt from taxi loans was a key concern. Many drivers took loans to buy cabs, while some leased cars from the companies themselves."

I think this is the aspect the article is trying to point out. The earnings have halved from what they used to be. The drivers went all in based their lives/future on sustainable earnings from Uber and then were all but abandoned by Uber.
The Dronepocalypse Is Here – In Documentary Footage, at Least