skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany is a very new country (1871) and still comprised of markedly different regions. the French German axis has increasingly dominated the EU and driven a strong export culture. As globalization has hit a plateau Germany are now in a tricky position.
Many are loathe to admit it but the 'desirable products' Germany produces have a very distinctive Germanic flavor which people identify strongly with the idea of Germany and its people. Consider Jaguar, a car firm strongly identified with Britain and now owned by Indian Tata Steel. They were selling well in China as a 'British' global brand, but when they built Chinese factories sales fell off a cliff, partially due to Chinese people not wanting to buy a 'British' car owned by Indians and built locally.
Consider how BMW bought the Mini brand and marketed the car as 'British', with styling cues from Issigonis's original quintessentially English mini. BMW literally plastered Union Jack flags all over it despite it being a German car with a French engine. Buyers care deeply about places and their peoples. Unique identity. Who wants to fly 5000 miles and get off the plane in exactly the same place they just left culturally? The bland out and erradication of cultures is a disaster on multiple levels, not least ability to market differentiation
> funded by Germany so there are various forms of wealth re-distribution within the union.

This "re-distribution" feeds an enormous compliance sector in the receiving countries. An useless sector chocking domestic innovation and allowing the politicians to trumpet successes in "receiving the EU grants".
If MS were bound to only used telemetry in the way you suggest, it might be fine. But they specifically are not.

Here's the first part under "How we use personal data" in their privacy statement:

Microsoft uses the data we collect to provide you with rich, interactive experiences. In particular, we use data to:

* Provide our products, which includes updating, securing, and troubleshooting, as well as providing support. It also includes sharing data, when it is required to provide the service or carry out the transactions you request.
* Improve and develop our products.
* Personalize our products and make recommendations.
* Advertise and market to you, which includes sending promotional communications, targeting advertising, and presenting you with relevant offers.

So, points one and two are nice. Three might be nice, but really depends on the motivation for the personalization and recommendations. Four is full on, deep advertising.

BTW, you may want to make a distinction between your personal data and telemetry, but MS does not make any such distinction. Also, in the next section, MS notes they'll share your data with anyone they want.

(https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement)
A good general rule of thumb is if you think you've found some clever simple "hack" to get around tax or other regulations, it's probably not as clever as you think and has already been accounted for.
read. more. tech. history.

You have no idea how furious your comment made me.
> While I have no idea why hot air from a congressman is relevant here, the first quote from Graves is accurate.

Because you wrote, "certainly nobody is "blaming" them"

Clearly that was wrong - here's another article:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/23/boeing-737-...

Where the Amercian airlines pilots union is saying Boeing blaming pilots is inexcusable - whereas you say 'nobody is blaming them'.....

> I encourage you to read what I'm actually writing rather than imagine what I'm thinking.

Hmm - see above.
Anbox Cloud: Scalable Android in the Cloud
What Is a Sales Demo?
I thought that was Al Gore?
Did you know that Delicious was bought by Pinboard? Maceij put it in permanent read-only mode and fixed the export feature to make sure people didn't lose their data. https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
Engineer's Guide to Career Growth
Not a solution for Linux users. There are ways to sync to Linux but I’ve had plenty of issues with it.
That's not a problem with Rust, it's a problem with back-pointers. You basically just need to fall back on raw pointers and do all the correctness checking yourself, precisely because the ownership model is not that helpful here. (Although if there is a pattern of "owning" references which involves no cycles plus back-pointers that are actually identifiable as such, that is directly supported via Rc<> and Weak<>.)
Well, yeah, it is. Or to put a very slightly more positive spin on it, they want to subsidize a company with a military program so that it has surplus capacity. A bit like the way we subsidize farmers: we want more production than we need so that if something happens (weather, somebody going out of business, bad harvest, etc) we've still got enough.

Whether we really need that much military capacity... well, I'll leave that up to you. But it's not really hidden that we're throwing more money at them than the market would call for. This corporate welfare scheme is very glorified.
They follow up on that thought:

> In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want.
> Yeah, I can't wrap my head around why they would do that.

Investors before customers.
iMessage is. iMessage backups are not.
Why not just contribute to BioJulia[1][2] instead? It is a more mainstream language but the one that fits computational tasks better than Python.

[1] https://biojulia.net/

[2] https://github.com/BioJulia
> At this point, most uses of Rust are also entirely academic

At this point, this is not true. There are significant production deployments of Rust. Heck, Rust code helped me post this comment, and read yours! (Okay that's strictly not true because I have Chrome on this computer, but had I posted from my phone, or from my other computer, it would have been Firefox.)
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yes, the new design is very bad, those icons are very distracting.... please get back the old design
Are there betting markets for this sort of stuff? Because I'd like to bet that in ten years there will be summer sea ice.
This language is awesome, but I'm quite conservative when it comes to syntax. I don't like how Rust is trying to move away from C when considering syntax. I tend to prefer languages that can adopt the "C flavor". Python, in my view, does this very well: its syntax is simple, because it borrows a lot from C in its "flavor".

Rust is not doing that, and that's a hurdle.

In my view, the "C flavor" is very important because it's a standard of how people are able to read code. This has nothing to do with the C programming language, I'm just saying that simplicity is what made C popular and easy to use. I can understand that Rust brings very nice innovations, but in my view it should have done so while keeping the "C flavor" as most as it could have.

I admit it's a conservative view, but I tend to believe that a language can be more easily adopted if at its most basic level, it's simple to read for beginners. Rust is not great: I'm not talking about its learning curve, I'm just talking about the "flavor". A language is a tool of expression and communication, features matter less than readability.
Flying Cars’ Oculus Moment
They absolutely did not. But even if that were true, how does that excuse this awful behavior?
Your company is “harder to get into than Harvard”? So is Walmart
Yeah the Dyson purifiers are awesome.
IBM's Melissa Sassi talks startup mentoring, digital inclusion [audio]
Yes, same as everywhere else.
Yes

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
I second the Pinboard suggestion. By paying the relatively inexpensive yearly fee, you get full text archives too which is great in the fight against link rot.
Only on the end closest to "neutral", past some arbitrary point your subjective opinion on evil stops mattering to people with morals.
Look, I like I lot of things about Germany, but the supermarkets here are a joke. There's more product variety in a single Whole Foods in America than there is in the entire combined inventory of all German supermarkets.

Most processed foods (ready meals, frozen pizzas, etc) are also extremely low quality.
They've built browsers, standards, protocols, libraries, and frameworks for the web. They've contributed more to the web than probably any company outside of CERN.
I’m the opposite. I figure the safest time to fly is when all the problems are foremost in everyone’s mind. Not worried/haven’t checked if I’m flying one today.
I feel very bad your original well argued post was flagged.
duckduckgo.com
What would you recommend to read?
This post led me to finally create my perpetual motion machine!

"Screw it, just do it right!?"
Not blindly. Outside of marketing material there have been more meaningful signs and signals indicating that they did care. Including principled people working there, threatening to quit if the FBI got its way on San Bernardino, etc. This is new.
You do know that the amount of telemetry you do leave to google is an order of magnitude more sophisticated and subtile than what MS is doing?
Death is evil. It must be eradicated, like other nasty diseases. https://www.kurzweilai.net/death-is-an-outrage
Depends on the definition of "all platforms" By strict definition, none have ALL platforms covered
Name calling is not cool here.
The key is included in the iCloud backup stored by Guizhou on the “Cloud Big Data Industrial Development Co., Ltd.“

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
Still there, as it always has been.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
> What incentive do doctors and patients have to keep vending the data to Google at that point?

Inertia, if nothing else. Moving platforms, especially in a highly-regulated industry, is no small thing.
I don't ask them what's in their bank account. We study the market and price our products accordingly and competitively.
The NASA scientist that made those erroneous predictions in OPs post: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...

Whoops.
There are a fair number of video game kickstarters - they have a mixed reputation.
I would argue globalization
They botched the original Windows Phone through a failure of management. They botched subsequent pushes on it because the bootstrapping problem around apps had grown too deep. At this point, if they tried to give it another go, there would be trust issues: "Am I investing in a phone ecosystem that's going to be dead in a few years?" Not to mention how much they've gone all-in on Android development.

A Surface-branded Android phone wouldn't be out of the question, but my gut tells me it would die a quiet death from thin margins and differentiators that aren't big enough for people to get excited.
The 5G Elephant in the Room
Firefox bookmarks. Sync and powerful search in the speed bar with mnemonics
> not because I cannot do anymore.

Then it sounds like you don't actually believe you're at 0% remaining. What your parent is saying, and what I've observed myself, is that most people really believe they physically cannot (say) run any further.
> You are severely misinformed if you believe these to be mandated by law.

The US Department of Labor says they are:

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/overtimepay
I have many friends who fly a lot more than me, and I've never heard any of them mention the type of airplane as an issue. Most of them don't know the exact model or even brand of "that plane that was grounded"..

I guess people in general rely on the government agencies to do this decision for us..
I don't think it's fair to say that Rust is entirely academic. It has a lot of production users including some very large names: https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users
Packaging will dominate silicon costs? I see plenty of silicon chips directly soldered onto PCB's for the smallest and cheapest applications, i.e. no packaging whatsoever.
It's more like your toaster saying "we have another model that provides xyz features you may or may not want"
Windows 10 LTSC is common among some enthusiasts. No candy crush or start menu ads, but it still tries to trick you into using an online account during the install if you make the mistake of connecting to the internet when asked, and you still have to change a bunch of privacy toggles. I don't like or trust it, still, I just put it on my parents' machines since they probably would've resisted switching to GNU/Linux and Windows 7 lost support.
Ublock Origin will fix the problem. Why spend more effort on cleaning after Google than necessary?
I believe that statement is aspirational. Their compiler is using LLVM and standard LLVM optimizations. Yet I can imagine a situation where you’d want to write domain-specific optimizations or heterogenous backends.
Before reading the article I had a worse version of this in mind. Cross-promoting their own products, while not especially great, is a lot less bad than having "regular" ads with all their privacy issues embedded in your OS.

Pretty similar to what Apple does with their "Sign up for Apple Arcade" push notifications, iCloud Login badges etc.

It's still pretty bad but the headline is blowing it a bit out of proportion.
Show HN: React Nice Dates
Seeing their elites enjoying themselves on the southern French coast, Italian and Spanish islands, Caribbeans, and wherever else the last thing that comes to mind is that they're "saving a lot". It's more like they decide on whose cost the "saving a lot" will happen - employed taxpayer.
Clearly the best way to create lifelong learners is to cram them elbow-to-elbow in noisy open offices so that they have to listen to one another’s conference calls all day long or try in vain to drown them out with loud music so that they can only dedicate a fraction of their concentration on a task at one time. You should also demand that people with advanced degrees from research institutions who’ve spent years perfecting their research skills clear a set number of Jira tickets every week and penalize them financially for missing their targets. And, of course, it goes without saying, don’t encourage reading or experimentation or learning or any sort of self-improvement.
Rust is C + ocaml. C doesn't have some of the features of Rust and in those cases it makes sense to adopt the ocaml syntax.
Brazil Charges American Journalist Glenn Greenwald with Cybercrimes
> if you want real protection, do local backups

Yes, this is unfortunately true and unfortunately complicated compared to iCloud backups.

I backup locally to my mac (encrypted), then I have my mac do time machine backups to my Synology NAS (encrypted) and then I have my NAS backup to BackBlaze (encrypted). I do that to satisfy the two pronged backup strategy: local (fast) and remote (slow, but useful in catastrophic local situations such as fire, flood, theft, etc).
Can Rust do things like heap compaction? You could do it by hand I guess but its not exactly trivial. There's probably a whole class of problems the GC still excels at.

JVM tooling is also pretty nice. Can you trivially get deep app metrics from any Rust program?
As someone who never much got into systems programming, Rust feels like a breath of fresh air. It makes systems programming way more accessible for me personally, coming from non-systems languages. Learning to write C well is just not something that appeals to me at all.

From mostly an outsiders' perspective, I just don't think C is a very nice programming language. It looks easy to to pick up and it probably is (for some definitions of "pick up"), but I don't think that's a good thing. The language gives you almost nothing. Pointers, structs, arrays, control flow. Not much else. I'm barely exaggerating when I say that all the C code I see looks like a chaotic pointer juggle fest for precisely that reason. The few features and library that it does have come with non-obvious gotchas that will punish you later.

Rust is probably much harder to "pick up", and way more complicated in general, but it's just, uh, more language. I'll take pattern matching, encouraging immutability, functional style programming, trait programming over C's simplicity any day of the week. The safety is extremely nice, but I think Rust's biggest eye-opener for me is that all these "higher level" features are just possible at (close to) the performance of C. That makes it very appealing to me.
The secure enclave is a feature to secure the device and the data on it from casual threats. Apple gets a bit evasive any time the subject of security shifts to their cloud services. (i.e. they will talk about how a particular feature is e2e encrypted but their security talking points seem to mostly end at the device)

I think a better way to look at what they're selling you is a device that provides you pretty-to-very good protection from casual hacking and theft. But in the event of a government knocking on their door for more information, they'll quietly hand over what they can which probably is quite a bit more than the average consumer thinks it is. All bets are off as to what the full story is when the government/jurisdiction involved is not the United States.
I read comments like this as anthropomorphizing the machine - it's not like the machine has to remember to not harm the operator or not to leak.

Anyway, I don't find this a compelling argument against allowing mechanical failures. Manufacturers these days understand the trade-offs between cost to manufacture, part reliability, and tolerance of failure.

(That said, mechanical failure might not even be a problem with the machines. It could just be the need to claim their offline so that staff can service other customers better.)
Wine 5.0
The phrasing about genocidal ethnic replacement, polluting water with oil, eradication of the native French etc. etc. didn't set off any alarm bells?
Comment on the proposed National Environmental Protection Act changes
Study – GPS outage would cost 1B per Day [pdf]
Paid users shouldn't be exposed to advertisements like these.
Personalisation will be 2020's most overhyped marketing practice
Yes the whole QE of the EURO by the ECB has been most dramatic and artificially kept the EURO competitive for the export market over the import market.

That's one ticking time-bomb that they keep resetting with new QE initiatives, that will have to end soon and suspect BREXIT will offer a wonderful scapegoat opportunity that may well be availed.

[EDIT ADD} Nice article highlighting the QE situation: https://www.ft.com/content/e4964f08-f196-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281...

Also worth noting that negative interest rates seem to be the new tool that will replace/augment QE. Which may just work, though once again, perpetuating a mindset that borrowing over saving mentality in a way that whole generations will become saving avert. More so if/when negative interest rates take traction.
I have never in my life regretted working out, but I regularly regret not working out. It is so weird to me that, despite hundreds of trials of this dynamic, by brain still hasn't totally internalized this lesson and I end up having to tell myself "dog it if you want to, just show up", then proceed to have a great time.
I felt the same about Google alternatives up until about 3 months ago. Google's results have been declining in quality for a decade, with much more rapid decline over the past year or three.

Google's results are uglier and blatantly revenue based. They have now lapsed behind DuckDuckGo in usefulness for me. I fall back to Google a few times per week, with inconsistent results when I need a "second opinion."

I'd suggest giving DDG another try.

I plan to remove Google from my life this year, at least as a central dependency. Search is already behind me. Mail, calendars, docs, and drive will be taken care of throughout the year. And my Android phone will be replaced with an iPhone.
Marijuana legalization may hit 40 states. Now what? – POLITICO
Well yeah, hence TFA;

> More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud, according to one current and three former FBI officials and one current and one former Apple employee.

> Under that plan, primarily designed to thwart hackers, Apple would no longer have a key to unlock the encrypted data, meaning it would not be able to turn material over to authorities in a readable form even under court order.
It doesn't. Fairer skin would reflect more radiation, than darker skin, but it gets burned in the process.

I don't think skin color has much of an impact when withstand heat, as sweat is a much stronger temperature regulator. If it's humid heat, it becomes a matter of circulatory efficiency, body mass and plain endurance, as sweat can't evaporate and actually makes it worse.

Source: grew up in tropical coastal region.
>They cared not to be evil back then.

The never did, that was just marketing nonsense we all naively swallowed.
I used to hoard lots of bookmarks to never look at them again.

It was a markdown file full of links, organized by a category, sometimes accompanied by a short comment. A never-ending backlog of articles, papers, videos, past live streams, blogs, and Hacker News threads that I will presumably come back one day.

I no longer save bookmarks and I no longer get a pressing urge to clear my backlog.

Recently, I have published a single HTML page on my personal website (ironically, called bookmarks.html) with a half-dozen of links that I found particularly remarkable. But the purpose here is to share good stuff with folks rather than look at it later when I have more time.
I still don’t understand the hive mind downvote patterns.
Jesus, that's so embarrassing.
> I used to work at Bing. If you really want Bing to improve, the best thing you can do is just use it: clicks on search results, plus backs and dwell times, are vital training data.

A million flies are attracted to shit. I don't believe this sort of training data will ever become useful if it's in the same pool with the rest of the world. See also: voting with your wallet against the tyranny of the majority of uninformed consumers who buy whatever is most marketed. Those pennies don't matter.

In fact, I believe this sort of training and optimization for the mainstream plays a role in allowing bad results to proliferate.

This is before we even consider the fact that clicking on many results can indicate that they're bad (I click another result because the previous wasn't good), or because they're good (I'm browsing choices). Dwelling long can be bad (crappy & slow site, it takes me long to find the information I want or turn away) or it can be good (I found good stuff and I'm spending a while on it). Whatever conclusion your training system draws might be completely wrong. And probably prone to being gamed.
ScyllaDB: Scylla Open Source Release 3.2 (LWT, CDC, DynamoDB API)
This is why I adblock. I had adblock disabled for a minute and started clicking ads by accident because I really couldn't tell them apart quickly. Terrible.
Aldi is not the same everywhere. The company split into two in 1960 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi), and standards differ between the two.

Aldi Süd has a much more pleasant store environment, in my experience. Aldi Nord is the variant present in the Netherlands.

>Internationally, Aldi Nord operates in Denmark, France, the Benelux countries, Portugal, Spain and Poland, while Aldi Süd operates in Ireland, Great Britain, Hungary, Switzerland, Australia, China, Italy, Austria and Slovenia.
History of Sushi