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Apple doesn't want their customers to get f'd over you say?

You might want to check out Luis Rosmann's videos, a famous Apple repair geek who fixes for cheap the products Apple themselves misdiagnose[1] in order to rip off their customers[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7RXJP4mxCc
// teenager's MacBook's display is not working correctly so Geniuses tell him he needs a new motherboard replacement while Luis discovers in 2 seconds that the lid-close sensor cable is broken so he replaces it for $8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_SZ4tfLns
// customer's MacBook's display is not working correctly so Geniuses tell him he needs a new motherboard and display replacement while Luis discovers in two minutes that the display connector has a bent pin and fixes it for free
that article mentions that drought was one of the many reasons of the Syrian civil war, not a “significant factor”.
> you don't have a right not to be shadow banned

You kind of do. They can't claim they offer one experience and then knowingly provide another, lesser one.
To answer the obvious question: we don't store your thoughts.

We store anonymous behavioral info like strings of "USER-a23o13jaf signed on to a free trial." Then our bug-checking system also stores some anonymous device info like what phone you're using, how big it is, the language you're on, that sort of thing.

We don't sell your data. That's pretty scummy.

We protect user data by collecting as little as possible and not storing it. We don't collect your email or your phone number or anything really. Signup is handled entirely by the stores.

> recent history has taught me to be cynical.

You should be cynical. I'm cynical. There's no real way for us to convince you to trust Quirk, since people at companies change and because people change.

That's why we're so focused on systems thinking rather than just telling you to trust us. We'd rather set the company up so that it's always headed in a direction that benefits customers. This isn't a perfect solution, but it's the best one I can think of.
They'll most likely want to loan you some DKK, not EUR.
The self-driving tech, presumably, and a ready-made userbase, brand, and presence across the globe. They could then seamlessly have both self-driving and human-driving delivery/transportation.
Interesting, use that money to fund R&D to reduce CO2 in atmosphere?
Trust but verify. I'd bet if the author went to the original source, the "no man" himself, they may find that there is actually no such policy! Just a mishearing of a conversation parroted by "wrong people".
> In some cases, no jobs is better than subsistence/dead- end/exploitative jobs. At least the former makes the problem evident, and ups the pressure to do something about it on a society/policy/economy level -- as opposed to helping perpetuate it.

I strongly disagree with this position. Yeah, sure, supporting people at the brink of poverty is one of the government's responsibilities, but taking away one of the few options they have goes in the opposite direction. Most of these gig-economy jobs differ from a regular job in that they're much easier to get, at least in most parts of Europe. If you meet a few basic requirements you're in. For people at risk, mentally ill people, and plenty of other segments of the population this is a real lifeline that they're not getting from anywhere else. This is keeping a roof over they head and food on the table.

Obviously, they're doing it because they can't get a better situation. Taking this option away is making them a lot more vulnerable, and doing them a lot of harm. It's not like they don't realise they're being exploited.

Sure, they should be supported etc. But that's just "shoulds", policy is difficult. For many, this gig-economy is an actual lifeline, that exists right now.
> ...this is one of these utterly bizarre public sector things where the govt will hire a private company to chase down people (usually immigrants, unemployed, etc.) and give them a cut of whatever is looted...unsurprisingly, this has proved to be controversial in practice.

This actually happened to me! I (Mexican living in the UK) was at my rented flat with my father visiting. We were watching a movie in a TV I had (which I mainly used to watch DVDs or things from my computer) when suddenly someone knocked at the door. I usually never opened (I did not have many friends while living there) but given that my father was there, it would have been weird to leave the person ringing the bell while we were watching the movie.

Turned out to be one of those license guys. As an expat without knowledge of my rights, I did not know what to do and the bastard kept pushing... until I let him in. He "inspected" the TV where we were watching the movie, and I told him that yeah I had a TV but did only use it for watching DVDs. At the end, he "saw" that it did not have an antenna and he basically said that because of that, we were OK (it kind of felt as if he just wanted to get out of the awkward situation).

After he left, my father and I talked about how crazy was that system were they send mafiosos to check if you had a TV... first world problems.
Why should a system provide fairness to a user who is banned? The purpose of not informing them that they are banned is to slow down their attempts to work around the ban. Shadow banning is what you do when you do not want to interact with that user ever again. They are no longer a member of your services.

This does not masquerade as providing fairness at all. It's nothing to do with fairness. It is removing that user in a way that makes it difficult for them to come back. That is all.
Although I broadly agree with your point, a quick run through Beautiful Soup revealed ten links to HN comments - some of them heavily downvoted. (It's possible that they were added after your comment, though.)
Is it possible that FB did this so they could block any potential patent trolls? Correct me if I'm wrong, but FB isn't really known as a patent troll.
Yes, however it's very difficult unless you have strong banking relationships in eg Denmark. Having a lot of money usually helps. I've routinely run across stories about prominent financial industry people that get mortgages in currencies they believe will drop in value. If you have the connections and financial heft to make it worth their time, you can get international loans. It's nearly impossible for an average person.

For example:

"Kyle Bass Is So Bearish On Japan, He Financed His Home In Yen"

"The Dallas hedge fund manager (no relation to the famous Bass family of Fort Worth) is so convinced the Japanese government's profligate spending will drive the nation to the brink of default that he financed his home with a five-year loan denominated in yen, which he hopes will be cheaper to pay back than dollars."

This bet may have paid off. The Yen/USD went from 80-90 to 1 in 2010, to 122 to 1 by mid 2015 with the Japanese move to debase.

https://www.businessinsider.com/kyle-bass-is-so-bearish-on-j...
I suggested:

> ls Debloat-Windows-10/scripts/*.ps1 | % { . $_ } # YMMV

Notice YMMV comment :)

So now you made the entire thing about it ... :)
Yes, you can. But the whole idea of the shadowbanning is that the one who is shadowbanned does not. So you get this effect where someone is talking to himself or the walls and they don't even know it, sometimes this goes on for years.
Own symbol type

=> 'foo
HySymbol(u'foo')

Assignment and conditionals are expressions, however assignment returns None.

=> (setv bar (setv foo (if True True False)))
=> (type bar)
<type 'NoneType'>

Quoted expressions evaluate to Hy AST.

=> '(+ 1 2 3)
HyExpression([
HySymbol(u'+'),
HyInteger(1L),
HyInteger(2L),
HyInteger(3L)]
)

So it's kind of a frontend for the Python compiler, it goes:

Hy AST -> Python AST -> Python bytecode
It happened because the first 95% is tractable. Waymo probably got that far. But there's this infinitely-long tail of edge cases, and 95% isn't good enough when it's literally a matter of life-and-death.
Can you write an article on how to do attacks on low entropy next? Lol I can't find any good guides.
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ104

If you are only watching Netflix / Amazon etc on Demand programs you do not need a TV licence.
> they can't even be walking around looking poor without harassment (especially if also black/latino)

I don't quite know where you're getting that. I mean, it's not like the city has enacted some kind of Jim Crow regime. Beverly Hills residents were among Barack Obama's most generous donors. You think they would stand for that kind of evil in their own city?

Beverly Hills is represented by Democrats at the state and national levels. It sits in the middle of one of California's bluest counties. Are you saying LA County is tolerating that kind of blatant discrimination in one of its cities? This isn't Louisiana or Alabama for goodness sake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills%2C_California#20...
There was a story going around a while back that claimed that one of the big Silicon Valley companies was doing this: Bought TV ads that had such audio clues, then eavesdropped on you to detect them. I don't recall if it was Facebook's mobile app or Alexa that supposedly did the listening.

A very quick web search didn't uncover anything concrete, but I'm somewhat certain I didn't dream this.
Source article: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102018/exxon-climate-fr...

Are there previous examples of a lawsuit over a company misleading shareholders about potential future liabilities, where the liabilities are still unknown? We still don't know how much business Exxon might lose, or how much its penalties might be, as a result of climate change. So how would you calculate which shareholders lost how much?
Hey David, love to see you guys on hacker news! Come visit us in Czech Republic again soon :D
if you’ve got a big enough army to command the sky’s the limit. if you don’t then don’t expect your new country to survive for long.
Nokia 2.2 has a removable battery [1]

1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/one-of-the-cheapest-...
No. I have no issues with supply and demand based pricing. The issue for me is that two different people may get different pricing for the same trip only because AI found a certain customer can/will pay more.
If it's just to fund the BBC then why is the TV license necessary for watching other TV channels live as well?
People did have to work at the mine. At first because they needed to eat, and later because they were in "debt" to the company store, thus the term "debt slavery". I'm not quite seeing how this is comparable to a consumer product decision.
West Virginia benefited for a long time from being represented by Robert Byrd, a powerful and savvy U.S. senator who was adept at directing federal dollars into his state to pay for nice infrastructure and federal jobs (the FBI, among other agencies, has a major center in WV).

At the same time, much of WV's private economy was centered around extraction and manufacturing, both of which have declined over the decades.

There's a big highway under construction into the center of WV, currently called "Corridor H", that is intended to link up with 66, a major artery in and out of the DC metro area.

I think it's unlikely that high speed rail gets built in that corridor any time soon, simply because high speed rail in general seems unlikely in the U.S. right now.
Flip side argument: I have moderated forums and bulletin boards going back to around 2000. Every time we were "attacked" or "raided" the people would IMMEDIATELY create new accounts after being actively banned (telling the user they are banned, and publicly labeling their "rank" as BANNED). When we switched to shadow bans (I think it was termed "global ignore"), the attacks would immediately stop, because the [usual] script kiddie / troll just thinks he isn't getting any bites, and leaves. Of course a few figured out what was going on, but it was seriously one or two orders of magnitude better in terms of manageability, specifically dealing with trolls and spammers.

That said, I would never support something such as disallowing shadow banning in an internet bill of rights. That goes way overboard and just ties the hands of legitimate platform operators.
I am almost done with my "addslashes" patent. Given a string, my algorithm will put a backslash in front of all quotes. It's been rejected 4 times and cost $32k, but, this next time my lawyer informed me it's going in.
This is one of those things I try to google every once in a while but the results are so clogged with junk that I still don't really know the answer. Why are our brains drawn to click on headlines/titles with a number?
All years are free if you don't pay for a license for a TV ;)
Of course they're not exploits. They're escalation techniques. Suppose you find a way to get yum executed, maybe through some automated devops tooling. This is a way to parlay that into root access.
> want to live in a place with people from a wide variety of backgrounds

Our largest city is also our most diverse.

> Auckland is one of the world's most culturally diverse cities with the fourth most foreign-born population, an international study has found.
> With 39 per cent of its population born overseas, the city is revealed to be more diverse than Sydney, Los Angeles, London and even New York.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
Just a warning for those who haven't ventured into actions yet, I would have to say so far I've found the experience very, very average. Even just doing something simple like posting a release notification to Slack seems to end up with me having the action triggered a random number of times causing multiple messages being posted to slack. The whole experience feels amateur and clunky.

There are issues open to look into it but no fix in sight yet. While this announcement sounds useful, don't throw away your current CI/CD tooling which is probably a lot nicer to use.

Lastly I really dislike how pretty much any really useful actions are created and maintained by single people. There are just some actions I'd want to see be supported by GitHub, I don't wan to have to handover things like Slack access keys to a non-trusted third party to post messages.

Every time I try to use actions I'm surprised it was launched in it's current obscure, unpolished state.
It doesn't restrict immigration based on nationality. It does restrict it based on a lot of other things, so it's not really open borders.
When you say "this user" you're talking about Dr Ichikawa, the professor of philosophy? Who specializes in the very topic you're attempting to correct them on? I can't tell if you're serious or if this is just some sort of Poe's Law attempt to satirize the behavior he's pointing out.
I have to say "no" a lot in my role. Thank you for this post.
These myths lists are definitely falsehoods programmers believe in.
We have seen what happens when someone who should receive Government protection is able to get by without them; those protections are removed.

See the hospitality industry for an example. They have tips, so they don't get minimum wage.

The US government is famously bad at protecting people who need it. Anything which disguised that fact, even a little, should be removed.
Doubly moot.

A use case isn't a functional product. And, the unethical or mis- application of a technology does not obviate ethical use cases.

I concur that replacing usernames (and, by extension, hardware identifiers), rather than logins, is of relatively limited benefit, but it's a use case nonetheless.
NZ's pretty diverse. South Island less so as it's mostly rural.
Taleb writes about this extensively in his Antifragile.
GitHub does offer self-hostable enterprise edition, but its price is not publicly available.
My interpretation is that the MVNO plan and number would only serve the purpose of keeping a constantly on data connection to then use your own infrastructure and number. The number from the MVNO would not really be used.

It seems this would solve the hijacking issues but you’d still likely get bombarded with robo calls to the MVNO number.

Does your setup have any mitigation against robo calls for the anveo number?

What do use for dialing? I’m wondering if it would somehow be possible to disable the device phone app to disable getting nuisances from the MVNO number.

I’m very interested in a write up. Thanks for sharing!
The enforcement actions and publicizing of the license in the UK seem to be the most dystopian, in Ireland it's a bit over the top as well

But you're right, it is present in multiple countries, I think Germany and France just turned it into a household fee
> Why couldn't you just deposit it with the state's central bank,

Because state central banks won't take you as a customer because they aren't commercial banks, aren't interested in being commercial banks, and are often legally prohibited from acting as commercial banks.

Also, because negative interest bond rates are produced by the same conditions which motivate negative central bank interest rates, so it's not much of a solution even if it was allowed. Bank deposits and bonds are both ways of loaning people cash you aren't currently using (but demand deposits mean it is legally expected for them to give money back on demand, so usually has lower interest due to the greater convenience.)
I appreciate your response. That said, in the Flickr Help Forum that everyone is directed to when asking about Camera Roll, there has been absolutely zero update for months (plural!) about its status. I have tried to find other updates elsewhere on the web and failed, do they exist?

Furthermore, calling Camera Roll just a feature undermines its significance. This isn't just removing some insignificant feature like "search by focal length" or whatever. Camera Roll _was_ Flickr for many people. Not most of the total users, sure, but for everyone I know it was. For half a decade Flickr pushed it as _the_ way to use Flickr. It was what you saw first upon opening Flickr, and for any users to Flickr that joined in the last five years it was basically the entire interface.

Then it disappeared, supposedly for a very short time which then became very long... And then the updates stopped. During that entire time, myself and everyone I know that uses Flickr basically stopped using it. This includes people like me who pay for Pro. It became worthless.

The frustrating thing is that I really loved Flickr. I loved it so much I considered applying for a job there as the first job I've applied for in my life (I never apply for jobs, I just get referred to the company usually.) I loved it so much I evangalized it to my friends, family, random strangers.

But then the core Flickr interface, the way everyone I know managed and viewed their photos for half a decade, disappeared. And it's still not back. With the time, and the silence, I grew frustrated, and so did many people. I can't use it without Camera Roll, and everyone else I know can't either.

I really, really want Flickr to succeed. But this whole thing really stings hard.
don’t all countries in the EU have a 3 month stay period after which you have to register as a resident?
i’m a european that has lived in multiple EU countries and the hassle of moving between them is more or less the same as moving across the globe.
Denmark is not in the Euro, it uses the Danish Krone (DKK), though it is pegged to the Euro.
Just an FYI, the poster is female.
So pretty clearly I have wildly underestimated the amount that flagging is used to suppress stories. Is there some way for me to see which stories are getting flagged and by how much?
i was at this company when this happened, and oh boy, EVERYONE who knew the person in question and the 'new' kernel feature got some amazing, long-lasting and well deserved laughs.

btw, it was /proc/<idiot's username>, not /dev :)
Wealth is accruing to people with power and capital. The people who produce automations are laborers like the rest of society, just with a temporarily elevated standard of living. As writing software is deskilled and supplanted, it'll be increasingly apparent that we were just a midterm necessary evil to the people signing our paychecks.

To me, the central problem is wealth disparity as a proxy for power disparity: our democratic government is more than capable of addressing our ongoing needs and desires if not for the overwhelming, unjust, and unearned influence of the wealthy.

This is why I think Sanders has the correct prescription and Yang is naive: the solution isn't a policy or set of policies to fix specific problems, no matter how farsighted, it's restructuring our political system to be solely answerable to people who it feigns to represent.
Eh, this doesn't really work well with too much immigration running in to land and water use issues, along with uncontrolled need for infrastructure expansion.
I feel like you're both supporting the parent's point: fears about open international borders are overblown because things like cost of living, culture or private property naturally limit massive migration.
Parsing JSON Is a Minefield
Zero or negative rates for consumer loans is crazy everywhere. But so is having a fixed 30year mortgage of 3-5% when the interbank rates are near zero.
Remember one-click is a patent which expired in 2017. So back in 1997, the technology was actually transformational at that time, and now it’s free for anyone to use forever more.

You can argue the exclusivity period is too long, but Amazon absolutely trail-blazed checkout technology, and the trade-off of the patent system is now their exclusivity is over, and the technology is free for all.

At least one thing we don’t have to worry about in tech is “ever-greening”.
“phone calls and SMSes were ludicruously expensive, and mobile internet roaming all but unaffordable. Now? No roaming charges any more.”

except Switzerland.
Shadowbanning didn't originate at Reddit either, it's been a feature of online forums since at least the 90s.
For the record, the author is a "she".
Yes. In many countries that's how nation-wide infrastructure, services, art programs, and so on are funded. Not on a person per person basis.

Not everywhere it's all about the individual and their whims. If the majority (well, through elected representatives) wishes to have and sustain a public good (whether a public broadcaster, or national health service, or arts grants, or whatever), individuals have no other say on the matter.

Some countries believe in public goods, and in maintaining through taxes infrastructure to make citizens more educated, informed, cultivated, etc. If someone is a brut and could not care less, they don't get to dictate to the nation not to have those services.

E.g. the German example of the tax for the national broadcaster a fellow commenter mentions:

"Any household in Germany is legally obliged to pay this quarterly fee, regardless of whether or not you watch the TV channels or listen to the radio stations covered by it. It also covers media consumption online via on-demand services such as media players, streaming services accessed online via computer or smartphone, as well as in-car audio.
Shared households are only required to pay this per household, so 4 students living together for example would only be liable for paying the fee once."
That is a very narrow and shortsighted way of looking at. The ol' pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
Pro-China forum's plan to troll Hong Kong protesters foiled after doxxing
> ‘...every big tech company will patent everything under the sun.’

And when litigation, right or wrong, is won by the deepest pockets (settlement), I imagine this is just one arrow in the quiver of evil FB. WTF else is in there?
You didnt. It is a real thing. Solid way to do tv ads conversion tracking.
> subinterpreters might be able to share data without copying it

In the current proposal as described in the PEP, they wouldn't. Subinterpreters will only be able to communicate through channels, and arbitrary objects can't even be sent through channels; they would have to be pickled or marshaled, similar to sharing data between processes.