skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't weigh in on Apple's internal process, but that explanation you quoted from the article is far from convincing to me. In fact, having been in the industry for a very long time, it makes the whole article smell pretty naive.

It's _extremely_ unlikely that Screen Time went from nothing to launch in nine months. It's a deceptively complex feature that requires support throughout the OS as well its own foreground and background components. Between product design, prioritizing, development, and testing, they'd probably been exploring the idea for several _years_ before that shareholder pressure appeared.

Did they maybe rush the work out early because of the growing pressure? I'd buy that. To me, being pressured to rush it out would even explain some of the rough edges discussed in the article without having to assume Apple was reluctant.

I can't know if I'm right, but neither can you or the article's authors. It turns out that there are quite a few ways to make sense of all the facts that are out there, and any final conclusions we draw probably just emerge from our own biases.
They've been releasing a lot lately, that's for sure. Not for the best though.
I expected someone at Mozilla discovering a tracker blocking trick making YT not notice you watched particular video.
I don’t think that was ever in question.
> perpendicular

Neat trick. I think it was the proximity to elevated that made me do a double-take as to your meaning. I had visions of vertical trains, like those in sci fi (eg. 5th element).
I don't know why the guy is getting downvoted. It's a known city for having rather unpleasant police. Most of my friends who live in Oakland have really unpleasant experiences with their officers.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-police-average-30-million-...

I tell them: At least it's not Vallejo. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/12/willie-mccoy...
A Tor exit node can block destinations openly by declaring limitations in its exit policy (in principle by IP address or port, although I don't know if any exit policies use IP address this way) or by simply firewalling connections from itself to particular destinations. In the latter case, the node may be marked as a BadExit if a scanner detects that it intentionally blocked a connection that it offered to relay.

A node in an earlier position in a circuit can't know the ultimate destination of the circuit, or the content exchanged over it, although it could in theory blacklist individual nodes as a next hop (which doesn't typically really accomplish anything for content-blocking purposes, and could also be detected if it were a pervasive practice).

I think in HSv2 (the old hidden services protocol) there were a number of different opportunities for relays to selectively disrupt hidden service connections, while in HSv3 (the new revision) there are fewer.

A difference between Tor and IPFS in regard to what you're mentioning above is that in Tor, a specific entity (a specific clearnet or hidden service site operator) has to continue actively hosting a resource in order for it to remain accessible at its original location, while in IPFS, it's more like that there need to be some participants who haven't actively declined to host it, but they don't have to be the same as the original publisher.
All those problems are solved by taking the phone away. We got a cordless phone when I was a kid (yeah I'm old), and it didn't take long before every night my mom or dad came around and made sure the phone was on the base.

I also played a lot of video games, and if I played more than a couple of hours in a row my dad would come and just unplug the Nintendo. Drove me nuts (saved games on those old cartridges were very finicky), but it made me go outside.
Obligatory: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
The main difference is we use a standard openSSH setup for tunneling - a full ssh key exchange is performed between you and the assistant.

We’re also a paid service so we’re incentivized to make sure things run reliably and customers are well supported.
I wonder how much of it was learning the wrong lessons from the relatively quick decline of Service Merchandise [1]. While a more "regional" competitor to Sears, Service Merchandise remained in the catalog game longer than Sears, was possibly the most successful catalog merchant of the 80s and 90s (depending on who you ask, and again some regional biases), and was also relatively active on the early internet (making millions apparently in internet sales in the early 1990s, ahead of Amazon).

Every article I see about Service Merchandise's decline blames the catalog business (despite doing well in internet sales) as being "too old fashioned" and the root cause, and certainly that's what people seemed to be thinking in the 90s (again, wow how they ignored those internet sales looking at the quoted figures). I'd love to see a better retrospective on the company's 1990's management given we saw Amazon succeed.

Maybe more so than Sears, the fact that Service Merchandise didn't compete better with Amazon is fascinating. Service Merchandise and Sears thought they were competing with Circuit City (dead), Wal-Mart, K-Mart (bought by Sears, dead), Target, rather than each other in the 1990s, and Amazon was left almost entirely uncontested to eat Sears and Service Merchandise's original core competencies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise
The web is open. You can design things the way you want, standing out or blending in, depending on what you want.

Some apps are web technologically, but are local tools by purpose; that's where blending it could be beneficial for the user.
In most cases where the "wait them out" strategy is abandoned, it's because their are children involved and there is legitimate reason to be concerned for their safety.
Please point out the first substantive parent comment you see at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Does Not Work. Its all smoke and mirrors. You can create new account, disable YT history altogether and it will still keep learning and recommending garbage based on a milder version of what you previously watched.
A Report on Statutory Powers and Monitoring of the Hong Kong Police Force
Finally getting around to answering this:

I use a "Travel ideas" tag on emails from cruise lines if they suggest a specific place, time and cost to travel somewhere. Those words aren't in the email. The criteria that qualify the email for the tag are easy to check in a scan of the message but I don't know how I'd grep for them.

I still do searches but for other reasons.

If you wrote a note about a neutrino-hunting instrument at the South Pole, how many searches would it take you to find it later? What about a science station at McMurdo, which is in Antarctica but not at the South Pole?

You could allow yourself to have or not have a line of free association, whose only purpose was to match future searches that would otherwise miss because of how the content was phrased.
What a lot of people don't understand about democracy is that it comes in 2 levels: the hardware and the software.

The hardware are the objective written institutions: the laws, separation of powers, freedom of assembly, movement and opinion, open elections, etc.

The software is what is within the mind of every each citizen, how he respects and relates to the ones that are different from him, including different social classes, religions and ethnicity, how he feels about corruption, nepotism and abuse by authorities, how tribal or civilized are the disagreements, etc.

Most people think that to implement democracy you just need to make the hardware. But the hardware doesn't work without the software. Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Egypt and other countries (Eastern Germany and AfD?) tried democracy but felt back into tyranny, plutocracy and theocracy precisely because there wasn't a software, a democratic heart.
DEC had some innovative ideas with VMS, for sure... 40 years later, we still don't see anything quite like its clustering with Unix / Linux. I'm happy VMS Software is keeping it alive.
Similar fraud: a guy who looks like a bad guy “finds” the wallet near you, makes sure you seen it and then inclines to split it. “Don’t even try to call cops!”, take your cut, etc. If you take it, even out of confusion, bad guy vanishes and their friends come and claim they seen all in reverse and that you took most of the money. Banknotes with known serials / pen marks are in your pocket, threats, police.
It isn’t always socially appropriate to friend request people, which is why I rarely do it (because I have no idea what the other person’s expectations are). If I’ve been introduced to a total stranger via Messenger, I don’t necessarily want to (nor should I have to) be their “friend” just to have them see my messages.
Yep. I did it over 100 times including a couple bad trips. A friend of mine was more fragile started abusing it as well and didn't do as well.
In America, most areas (even many cities) lack public bus infrastructure with the reliability or capacity to serve this role. However, in cities that do, busing is often outsourced to public transit - each student in my city gets a bus pass with their student ID.
It sounds like you missed the show, because I don't know how anyone who watched it realtime could forget the comical cycle of Greenwald releasing enough to draw out Clapper for a denial, followed by another release proving Clapper a liar. This happened repeatedly, it was amazing how long it took for the USG to realize that their only option was to STFU, because they certainly were not going to stop doing what they wanted.
I'm genuinely curious about how you came to the understanding that only meta-data was collected. The majority of my time is spent wading through bitrot and cataloging manipulated news stories, so I've seen a lot of concerted effort in rewriting history - but nothing on the scale of memoryholing Snowden's whistleblowing. Because the original lie was the meta-data misinformation you just unknowingly parroted, followed by a laughably stupid analogy wherein the NSA is running a public library and we are all books... with every revelation the analogy got more twisted. The moment they jumped the shark, signalling peak entertainment, was the director of the NSA showing up at Defcon in a black tshirt and jeans - trying to behave as if it wasn't the most cringe inducing "hello fellow kids" ever.
There's a great scene from the show Modern Family where one of the parents threatens to ground the kid by taking away their iPad. The child's response was perfect: "that's going to affect you way more than it affects me."
And mom is fixing bacon and eggs and no one is eating, dad is seated with the morning paper with his tie on. Mom in her robe or apron is the stove happily serving everyone.
I think Twitter should add a “save” feature so that those who want to actually save a reference to a tweet don’t actually have to “like” it. I wonder how much this would change the “heart” counts for world leaders...
The real question is why does the state have any say? There's no fundamental reason to trust the state over a child's parents; the reason the state has any say has more to do with might rather than right.
You can Not disable recommendation learning algorithm despite whatever Google claims in their documentation. Deleting/disabling watch history does nothing.
In re: LSD,

> Of course, the drug dose does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures. The nature of the experience depends almost entirely on set and setting. Set denotes the preparation of the individual, including his personality structure and his mood at the time. Setting is physical — the weather, the room's atmosphere; social — feelings of persons present towards one another; and cultural — prevailing views as to what is real. It is for this reason that manuals or guide-books are necessary. Their purpose is to enable a person to understand the new realities of the expanded consciousness, to serve as road maps for new interior territories which modern science has made accessible.

— Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

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

LSD merely gets you "high as a Lord".

Leonard Orr used to help people have very profound healing "trips" using set and setting and oxygen (hyperventilation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirthing_(breathwork)

If you want to explore your inner world in a responsible way, a few LSD trips with deliberate set and setting might be educational, but it's much safer and easier to just use hypnosis and/or meditation.
If people weren't doing this with YouTube/TikTok/Netflix, they'd be doing with television. The difference is you actually get to choose what type of garbage you are addicted to watching. I consider that a huge improvement.
That those leaders choose to a) not inform us of massive government policy decisions except by tweet and b) this has geopolitical impacts is a pretty tough issue.

If/when the "leader of the free world" decides not to use Twitter (or make that a subordinate communication channel), things will become normal again.

Right now it's a race to the bottom.
They're most likely working together.
I hope this emboldens people as they see that their protesting actually works. I'm often super pessimistic that large corporations are immune to protest because people have short attention spans and get bored of being outraged.
Mobilizing[1] seems like it's already implemented using ActivityPub !

https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/
In addition to the Schmidt/Frank paper (already linked to by namirez in another comment), there's a cute suggestion that the best place to look for dinosaur civ remnants should be on the moon, Mars, and the asteroids, because their spacecrafts should decay less quickly than their Earth settlements. :)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.07263.pdf
btw. we are using it to read pdf's unfortunatly no pdf/a-3 creation support
Great observation, but the analysis here seems wrong to me.

If you took the median income of people between 45 and 60, I bet people here would STILL be shocked at how low it is. The reason isn't a lack of taking life stage into consideration (the link has no analysis of the numbers there). It's mostly about rich folks refusing to admit they're rich relative to most people.
Sure, but this is a tool to build cross-platform mobile apps which look and feel native. Imo, proper UI defaults makes sense for such a purpose.
> There are some people alive today who still believe that getting a disease is a sign of not praying enough. Like, living in the USA right now. We know they are wrong.

That is a dramatic generalization,and who is "we"? Your initial argument seems sound to me but the analogies and the method you arrived at the conclusion sounds like you are not aware of your own confirmation bias.

If you mean that introspection is a bad way to recognize when you're being manipulated I agree. That concept is not exclusive against taking responsibility. One can say "I am responsible for my actions but youtube is also responsible for manipulating my thought process,on purpose and with bad faith"

P.S.: None of the major world religions teach "not praying makes you sick", perhaps you meant "prayer cures illness"? Plenty of medical doctors and surgeons believe prayer helps (even if they think it is strictly the hoping and positivity aspect that allows the mind to work with the body to fight illness),which is why I asked "who is 'we'"?
Jeeeez, rental prices in the States are INSANE.

I live in a dense urban area of ~1 million, on a tropical island. My 550 sqft apartment is ~$520. Hardwood floors, natural gas range and hot water, structure is proof against typhoons up to Category 5 (already experienced several), as well as earthquakes. Gigabit fiber optic internet @$35/month Speedtests around 550MB. Daily flights to practically every major city in Asia.

HOUSES, however, are insanely priced. The mortgage rates are low (1-3%, slightly less than 1% if you are a government employee) but the principal is stratospheric for the size of home and land you are buying.
It is literally a great model on how rise to the challenge and avert a disaster. Rather than paint the present with alarmism, we need to act.
In all fairness, if you look at cars preserved from the 80s, when electronics started becoming pervasive, there are a lot of failures there too.

For instance, the multi-segment displays tend to fail in little bits. I have a car that doesn't have that problem, but the main ECU tends to fail and have to be resoldered.

Of course, mostly people don't care because after 20 years you expect the vast majority to be scrapped, but in any case, you still design for a certain lifespan.
So... make up a new term, define it as somehow not speech, and attempt to attack free speech with it.
If you use the Mac, you might like the app Dash.
no, i didn't.
I will never forget how Debian hijacked the real ffmpeg with their hobbled version until some point later [1]. Pretty disgusting. While I unfortunately use this distro fairly solely, I will move to other options at some point. Debian may be free but often it proves to be too expensive.

Edit: reference.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9477115/what-are-the-dif...
Not exactly a listening device, but I was in an AirBnb once. Every time I would open the door, I could hear a notification being played in the upstairs unit. It wasn't the back door that caused the notification, but the actual door the apartment I was staying in. It was displeasing.
Which Linux distro are you going with? Any recommendations for/against distributions.
“So, we have got 89 million people in between 21 and 38 years old that are about to start their lives, form households, do incredibly economically impactful things...”

I hope he isn’t holding his breath. Might want to look at Japan for his future.
No it's not. Even the CEO has said the amount of hour is equivalent to a 2-year program.

Traditional college courses meet for a few hours a week. This is a 9-month all day program.
AGPL or over 4000€ per server.
Immigration enforcement is easy. Jail every CEO and executive team that hires undocumented immigrants, and fine the company or individual $100 per hour of work from undocumented labor. If you have a threat of jail time or bankruptcy, you won't hire undocumented workers.

If you are a farmer who uses undocumented workers, same thing. Put the onus on wealthy citizens for doing the wrong thing and have real consequences. Have sting operations. Yes, there's a basic underground economy of labor like maids, but that's a small portion of the undocumented economy.

Then, create a Real immigration system that does not have 15 year wait systems. (http://www.openlawlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMmigra...) Fix the H-2A guest worker program. (See https://www.farmworkerjustice.org/advocacy-and-programs/gues... ) Provide pathways to citizenship. Replace the H1-B program with one that is not exploitative. (permission to change jobs? Immediate deportation if you lose a job and don't immediately have another?) Accept that grocery and dining prices will rise.

Oh, and don't put kids in cages. Treat asylum claimants as human. Provide pathways to legal status.

The problem is that every Republican solution is based on punishing those who are poor and turns a blind eye to those who are wealthy.
I'm pretty sure most logos are retina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina
The worst part they made the player gave up $10,000 of tournament prize he already won. It's a lot of money in China.
What a lot of people don't understand about democracy is that the nation most responsible for spreading it isn't one - it has a representative republic. There's a reason that the US government was not set up as a democracy - it is rule by mob. But I completely agree that in addition to having just rules and a fair legal system, people must believe in the same for it to work.
Worse.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiments
Never? Is Breitbart “election interference” because they post biased coverage in favor of conservatives? Or ActBlue, because they only fundraise for left-leaning politicians and causes?
Says Lesbian in the article’s headline and Queer in this headline. Since the acronym has different letters for Queer and Lesbian can they be synonyms? Seems like people want them to be different

Interesting project
I completely understand (and have had) the problem, but I don't understand the solution that this offers?

Or rather, I didn't without going Readme > Wiki > User Guide > something else - a YAML example should really be in the readme, this looks great!
This boils down to [the incoherence of] free will. Same consequences too (mostly none) -- you still want to control antisocial behavior, regardless if you think people are wet robots running their unique blend of experience and wetware or if they are sock puppets possessed by magical souls unencumbered by earthly effects. Or anything in between and to the side.

You still want to throw malfunctioning unit into a cell, or repair it some way. (Some soul-having scenarios are downright dystopian -- can't fix a defective soul unaffected by natural events, might have to dump it into a volcano).
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Clicking "Not interested" Doesnt work. Its either a placebo button, or its implemented in a funny way like on Twitch.

Twitch also has "Not interested" button, but what they never mention anywhere is that it simply pushes stuff into 1000 size limited FILO list. You know, 1000 entries because storage is expensive at Amazon.
Nothing, really. The world moved on but a lot of fanbois didn't. I learned to code C on a VT420 and used VMS for quite a few years, many professionally. I never felt it was anything superb at all. As soon as I learned UNIX (and I've used every brand and flavor of it), there was just no comparison at all. SunOS and later Solaris were my favorite until Linux matured.
By whom?

99% of the rural population isn't Eastern Montana.
IMHO that's not chess anymore, as that explicitly violates the rules of the chess - if you manage to get an advantage by distracting your opponent and obscuring line of sight to the pieces, that's simply violating the laws of chess (specifically, FIDE "12.6 It is forbidden to distract or annoy the opponent in any manner whatsoever.") and appropriately punishable by the arbiters.

Chess is a well-defined, strict game not only from the "on-board" perspective but also regarding how the opponents can behave - e.g. it's explicitly specified that if your phone makes a sound during a match, then you lose the game; the rules of chess IMHO are exactly a sterile, well-known, controlled environment, and attempting to transform it to a novel, potentially adversial environment would generally be a violation of both the spirit and letter of laws of chess.

E.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing is a fine physical, adversarial form of sports, but it's not chess.
"Even though it might sound absurd, Tesla actually applied a "cloud thermostat" approach to car engineering, by which I mean that they did not refrain from using basically consumer-grade equipment for some critical functions of their cars."

Who didn't assume this to be the case? Teslas are automotive iPhones, and I've always assumed they would be scrap in 3-5 years rather than 15-20. This is why I don't think it was ever valid to compare the purchase price to a regular car.
In Germany you likely visited a tourist area and in Brazil you likely were in your local area where you live or work.

That has nothing to do with the country. In my hometown in Germany nobody would steal anything, but in São Paolo I saw lots of pickpockets in the tourist destinations I visited.