skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably not just the ads, but the fact that they have complete, unlimited access to one's machine to install apps and copy/modify data as they see fit that makes them worse than the MS of the 90's. To me, it's incredible anyone who cares at all about security would even consider Windows at this point, let alone large companies with company secrets and other private information. MS is likely mining through any file or data on any machine it wants. This invasion of privacy in many ways eclipses FB and Google, which provide services that can be avoided. This data collection is unavoidable on Windows. We don't even know the extent of the data collection, let alone what they're doing with it and they are doing it something like 90% of the installed PC user base or whatever their market share is these days. That's an incredible surveillance machine, likely the largest in the world. It's amazing to me people who work in tech can defend such practices and claim they are not a big deal. A lot of people just don't care at all about security, judging by their use of Windows.
Why putting Xbox games on Switch isn’t as ridiculous as it might sound (2019)
Can you point to any attack that can be attributed to errors in the Tor code, anything where a rewrite or audit would have helped? Most "attacks" seem to be based on well-known drawbacks of the design which are usually discussed prior to specification or implementation (but unavoidable).
> Wash your fucking rice

Even better: use no-wash rice. It's easier for you, and better for the environment:

> [...] believe it or not, the cloudy water consumers pour off when washing their rice has been identified as a significant source of water pollution in Japan. In the B.G. method [used to make no-wash rice], the bran comes out dry, so instead of going out with the wash water and ending up in rivers and streams, it can be diverted into fertilizer and animal feed.

and:

> It’s considered enough of a problem that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government urges residents to water plants with their togijiru [cloudy rice water] rather than sending it down the sewer. And Shiga Prefecture, in an effort to protect Lake Biwa, has asked its citizens to switch to no-wash rice.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/04/16/reference/no-wa...
Yeah, fuck them. Just let them resort to barter.
I am still waiting for Equifax leaders to be charged for their negligence. They failed to keep their software up-to-date [1], while storing sensitive information about millions of US citizens.

[1] https://techbeacon.com/security/why-equifax-breach-should-ne...
The free trips to Disney World aren't for directly incentivizing management to open the purse strings. Rather, what the trips do is indoctrinate management into the culture that such workshops are a highly beneficial thing. After this, the money flows naturally.

It's a similar social proof by misdirection as millionaire motivational speakers selling expensive seminars to "get rich", mid level marketing schemes recruiting new members, etc.
I expect they thought they were doing the right thing by using Tor.
Nice!

I currently use DSC, but want to stop because it was purchased by Unlever. If Harry's doesn't become part of a multinational conglomerate, then I'll switch to them.
I agree it’s not best analogy but the point was that Firefox is more lightweight and implement more privacy and secure features than competitors.
If your page logic is small and trivial, anything goes. This thing, svelte, knockout, even jQuery, even bare JavaScript event handlers.

As your logic grows, you need a one-way binding to preserve the app's maintainability and your sanity. Hence React (normally with Redux), Mithril, cycle.js, Elm, etc.
An excellent example of complementary goods! :)
Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained
How Will the Chinese Navy Use Its 2 Aircraft Carriers?
An interesting aside, the Celts descended from Iberian fishermen.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/celts-des...
The creationist position is that if it is not in scripture, it didn't happen.
This title is pretty misleading. The article is actually recommending larger extended families which include nuclear families, not recommending that nuclear families be dissolved or otherwise done without.

As retro as that might sound, I agree with it. I wish I'd had access to multiple adults other than my parents growing up, but I didn't. Still feeling the lack of it.
The New York Times's success lays bare the media's disastrous state
A colleague just bought a new desktop and set it up last weekend. He ran into Microsoft wanting him to login to a MS account _on initial install_. He ended up having to go into the BIOS to disable networking so he could force the installer to let him initially setup a local account. I don't know if this is for every install and is just my anecdotal perspective.
You need to cite your good authority because I know WGA screenwriters and it is definitely not anything like 30%. On a $10m film (tiny) that would be $3m. On a $100m film (pretty blockbuster-y) it would be $30m. Stop a minute and think about it: that's Tom Cruise's sort of per-film salary.

Screenwriters are great and all that, but they're eminently fungible, whereas folk like Cruise are not.

I'd suggest it's more like 5%-10% upfront. What they get on residuals may be a lot higher, but that assumes the film covers its costs, which in Hollywood can mean anything.
>Whether this corporatization proves a good or a bad thing in the long run, it remains to be seen.

Is it? How could it end up being a good thing?

Bureaucracy always pops up somewhere where there is money floating around like a patch of moss grows in humid tree bark. It doesn't produce anything of value besides justifying its own existence
That's a choice though.

If you care enough to put in some extra time ... you've chosen to care.

There's no "fleecing" with that.
Because there’s very little money is invested in Alzheimer’s research. People were very conservative in their choices.

We were spending a lot more on AIDS research 20 years ago than on Alzheimer’s today:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222902/

This produced great results for AIDS, which many people thought would never be treatable.

Anyway, medical research is expensive. Considering the number of people who will get Alzheimer’s and the cost to deal with the disease, you would have thought we’d have been spending more on research for the past several decades.

Maybe soon we will all agree that it’s probably worth investing more on research?
We have more resources than we know what to do with. Negative to zero interest rates all over the place. The problems on Earth are not being solved or worked on due to political problems not resource limitations. Plus total current space related expenditures are probably 0.05% of global GDP. Global GDP is ~$85 trillion would mean a space spend of $42.5 billion. Sounds about right.
you are comparing 2019-nCoV Case Fatality Rate with Influenza mortality rate? why?

Wikipedia states:

Asian (1956–58) flu ~ 0.1% [44]
Hong Kong (1968–69) flu ~ 0.1% [44]
Influenza A, typical pandemics < 0.1% [44]

So 2% would be roughly 20x Asian or HK flu, or in terms of of a typical Influenza A pandemic at the very least 20x harder...
If I go to H-E-B and buy a rib eye steak for $15.99 a pound and cook it. I'm out less than $15.99, because I don't want a pound of steak. If I go to a mid range steak restaurant I'm going to get a rib-eye for $29.99 for 12 oz of steak. And it's going to be of lower grade and less seasoned. Why would I do that?
Also, I'm not working all the time. Cooking is a way of relaxing.
If that were so, everything about the issue would be different, but it is not so.
> drive to a Starbucks

Didn't help Ross. It's a bad idea to do illegal stuff in public.
The funny thing is that Disney actually could teach a university something, but that's not it. Disney is really good at a few things, like line, crowd, and parking management. Disney could probably make a school's football stadium and parking run better. Disney creates the illusion that they're better than they are by over-maintaining the visible stuff. So they could help create a culture that makes a school look less run-down, like making sure the bathrooms are clean, functional, and never out of supplies. Disney is good at maintaining heating, ventilating, and air conditioning standards. So they could help with indoor air quality.

But "mad about the Mouse" training? No.
deter - discourage (someone) from doing something by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.

^ this is the deter I am talking about.

APT is on a different level than what you are used to. Also my question was rhetorical. Didn't actually mean for you to answer it. For you or your company it is not a viable solution since you don't have the resources.
I feel that the ally situation is entirely different - they are USA allies solely for protection against China, and in any real conflict against China the interests of China would be mostly limited to ensuring a regional win against those countries, and the USA would have the choice of either taking real action against China by supporting these allies or not take action and abandon them.
> keeps producing markets where the available choices are only skin deep

Because it turns out that catering to minority demands only works for some markets, but not others (i.e. all cell phones look and function the same, but there are dozens of different flavors and textures of peanut butter). And also, because it turns out that convincing the customer base that what you offer is what they want is easier than making the things they actually want (mostly because people rarely know what they want in the first place).

Also, all three examples you mentioned have fairly straight forward reasons. There are no physical keyboards on phones because most people prefer more screen space and a keyboard takes space. There are no "dumb" TVs because people prefer their appliances to work out of the box and that is exactly what the "smart" TVs provide, you don't have to plug them into any other device to get them to show you content. And cars have been pretty standard for a while now, there might be some demand for a car with a dildo shaped joystick instead of a steering wheel, but maybe not enough to warrant actually making one.
The +1 makes the range inclusive rather than exclusive. This matches the summary, which is inclusive of floor(500/k). Ceil wouldn't correctly handle the case where the number of rooms equals a perfect square. That is,

[k**2 for k in range(1, ceil(484**0.5))]

does not return 484.
I highly recommend the History of English Podcast for anyone interested in this topic:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
Can you switch your Linux-needing work to Alpine or Void?
Looks really cool! Unfortunately it looks like there is only a Windows version available to play around with.

If this could run on Linux and have support for running arbitrary x11 apps then it would be very interesting! I don't have a lot of personal knowledge about Unity3d, but I do hope the creator puts this up on github or something. I'd love to take a closer look.
Looking forward to reading this more carefully later. I find the idea of visiting Antarctica super interesting and I'm glad she talks about the prep/training that went into it as will as how science is done practically in the coldest places on Earth.

I'm also curious if there are any valid concerns of super bugs getting released from melting Antarctic ice? A bit morbid but all this unknown life being released could have interesting results.
Apple does the same sort of thing these days, Music.app on my phone keeps showing me a full screen ad for Apple Music around a month, dismissed it about 5 times now.
Please explain the flux pattern?
Where do you think all that student loan money is going? Universities are flush.
> A good rule of thumb is that the more a corporation talks about "culture", the more the employees should be wary that they are getting fleeced.

Yip, the whole "team pep" talks and the like, all reminisce of what we would call a "cult" in mentality they wish to install in the worship of the `company`.

But unless you have a vested interest in that company with shares or a good profit share package, then giving any job your life and soul is only going to end badly for yourself and you will burn out. Though the trend may seem to pull them in, burn them out and install a agist mentality upon older workers, don't make it right - however indirect that mentality is played out.

Remember, a career is a progression of job measured via what you get paid, but they are still jobs after all. If on the other hand you are more involved in the risk and rewards aspects, that is different as your being fair upon yourself with what you invest. Otherwise, it is just a job.
SoftBank-backed Brandless to shut down business
This isn't the most readable changelog, the main takeaway is at the bottom: The package has been completely rewritten.
>I don’t care about thin or light at all. I’m happy to carry a few extra pounds;

That's a small niche now, most people don't want to lug a heavy laptop around with them.
> People don't remember but, what actually killed Nokia handsets in one stroke was one memo by their then CEO Stehphen Elop where he basically stated their platform as it is was dead in the water. Until then they had had a fairly good portion of the market, but that single statement just killed it. People who did not like IPhone moved from Nokia phones to Android after that.

The way I saw that was that Elop was pretty much hired by the board to sell the company to Microsoft. Maybe he had some last ditch efforts in mind to save the company, but the fallback plan seems to have always been to lean on his connections to sell the place to a former employer. As a random example, he was allowed to keep his shares in MSFT, a direct competitor and eventual buyer, while working as the CEO of Nokia. This conflict of interest would likely have been blessed by the board of directors.

Android certainly make Nokia's life harder, but like, if Nokia couldn't negotiate subsidies from operators, they were going to be sold for parts regardless.
My roommate at work used to give me grief for using MacBook. He used Ubuntu on some kind of Lenovo laptop. His keyboard would stop working at least once a day. I knew because he was using really loud mechanical keyboard. So I would give him grief about spending half his time "fixing" his Ubuntu. One of the best work roommates I ever had.

On a more serious note; I could not believe how little, at least from looking over my roommate's shoulder, Linux desktop experience improved since I last used it in 2005.
I'm gonna plug my favourite solution to most Win10 BS> Open shell. It does a decent job of turning the start menu / add platform back into a start menu.

https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
Caring about the little things IS a culture and a pretty good one at that.
As someone who is not from North America, this positive/good vibe culture really baffles me. You are a human being. Negative emotions are part of life. World is full of pain and sufferings. You are supposed to feel empathy for other people and feel bad for their misfortune even if you have the good luck of not going through suffering. I just don't understand this obsession of feeling good all the time. I don't know how people can just brag about themselves with things like "good vibes only". If you have never felt sadness, pain, shame, or embarrassment, is it something to brag about?
Very true. Also words vs. conversation tends to be very efficient although often lacking cues that come with voice or visually. No wasted time and much less boredom from feeling trapped.
Tldr: rhoticity was the norm, but the prestige dialect became non-rhotic at a certain point.
Corona viruses are a well known class of virus.

Sure, this is a new strain, but the flu is a new strain each year too
It's a non-issue. If you can build it, someone else can (and will). If your business is dependent upon the idea itself you are probably doomed or at least in for a hell of a fight. Anyone with funding could always come along with 10x the cash and resources to throw at the problem.

I recommend designing and building a business around some kind of competitive advantage, like data. In that case, even if your competitors have all of your code they still can't compete with you.
But is React simpler for building UIs than the RAD tooling of Visual Basic, Delphi or the Flash Designer?

Obviously there is the advantage of the web platform to leverage with JS frameworks, but there was something really nice about being able to drag and drop standard controls that all users were familiar with, and then just attach some code to them that talked to a database or whatever. I think that was the Parent's point that modern web development, while having the advantages of the web, is still more complicated than what was popular a decade or two ago for making UIs.
This is the way Elm works and I believe some people used or advocated for using Redux in this way early on. It never really caught on in React apps in my experience but it makes some interesting debugging methods easy to implement.
Understanding the original context and intent of a tool is important. Back in 2017, I wrote a post that covered the overall intent behind Redux's design [0], as I was already seeing that folks didn't know the background. That lack of understanding behind Redux's history has become more apparent over time.

The terminology exists because Redux was originally designed as "just" another implementation of the Flux Architecture. Both "actions" and "action creators" were terms that had already been introduced by Flux [1]. There was considerable debate during the initial design phase about what terms to use, and the conclusion was to stick with Flux terminology to match the target audience of the time [2].

Note that the new Redux Style Guide docs page specifically recommends "modeling actions as 'events'" [3], using the "ducks" pattern for single-file Redux logic [4], and writing Redux logic using TypeScript [5].

In addition, our new official Redux Toolkit package [6] is our recommended approach for writing Redux logic. It has several utilities for common use cases like setting up the store, writing immutable updates, and creating slices of state, and it's written in TypeScript with an API designed to minimize the amount of type declarations you have to write. (In fact, I've even used its `createSlice()` function to write some fairly complex reducer logic that I used with React's `useReducer` hook.)

Finally, you _can_ reference multiple parts of the state tree in your reducer logic, but you have to explicitly set that up yourself [7]. The `combineReducers` utility is meant for the standard use case of defining update logic by domain "slices", and it's up to you to write custom logic if you need more specific behavior than that.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

[1] https://facebook.github.io/flux/docs/in-depth-overview#actio...

[2] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/891#issuecomment-147...

[3] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#model-actions-a...

[4] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#structure-files...

[5] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-static-typi...

[6] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[7] https://redux.js.org/recipes/structuring-reducers/beyond-com...
> It makes no sense to me why you're getting voted down

Because it comes across as mean-spirited, whether he intended to or not.

You can speak "truth" without being a jerk.
I get "500 Internal Server Error" when I visit this post.
I wasn't whining about it. I was just pointing out that the people saying "Micrsoft is evil! Use Firefox" aren't telling the whole story.

I don't mind either ad. Both are easily removed.
I love learning new things, but I have to take a special approach to doing deep-dive learning recreationally.

First, I keep it recreational -- this means I don't go through an intensive learning process unless I'm enjoying doing so. The minute that it becomes unenjoyable, the intense study comes to an end.

I tend to learn things all the way through by incorporating that learning into a hobby project of some sort. I learn best by doing, so this is very effective for me both in terms of maximizing understanding and in terms of keeping the interest up.
Essentially all the data contained in the Equifax breach has been for sale a long time before this breach, the other breached entities stayed quiet so people unfamiliar with the business tend to just assume that Equifax is to blame for everything.

Makes all the people talking about suing Equifax for subjecting them to identity theft look pretty silly.
I think you've touched on an important point here, namely that functional programming is a feeling. We know it when we see it! But it's hard to get any two people -- even two domain experts -- to agree upon a common definition.

To me, functional programming is the feeling that you can successfully reason about a local fragment of code, because you know what the code (and its callers, and callees) can and cannot do with the data being passed around. It's functional in the mathematical sense -- i.e., the output is a pure function of the input, no matter how convoluted the definition -- and knowing this helps us to reason more clearly, mainly because we don't have to worry about unseen effects at a distance. So, functional programming is a feeling of confidence achieved by making data transformations as local and as pure as possible.
> At the top of this bureaucracy are college and university presidents earning seven figures a year and also earning additional income from sitting on corporate and non-profit boards.

s/earning/receiving/

How much do all the administrative salaries add to the average student's tuition bill?
Culture should be apparent. Repetitious reinforcement of the "culture" is propaganda.
They can leave far out in the suburbs and other areas of low density and then switch in areas of high density. This would be something new. Hard to realize but a hybrid of the current system that can be the best of both.
I think this has a name, but I can't recall it -- Workers always end up doing whatever that the higher ups reward, not what they say they want. They can parrot about culture however much they want, but in the end if being an asshole is what get you bonuses and promotions, that's the employees they'll get
For anyone not familiar with UI app design, you do not need to always default to a Redux or Mobx. I've found a simple object / class with an event emitter will suffice for many cases.
See the docs for the original Flux Architecture:

https://facebook.github.io/flux/docs/in-depth-overview

Redux was originally designed as a Flux implementation:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...
You seem to have answered your own question. :-)
> How were they identified exactly? I'm always fascinated with these DOJ indictments of foreign state actors but I'm always left wondering how they managed to narrow it down to a small group of people.

My guess is they counter-hacked the PLA’s 54th Research Institute to identify the culprits, then used parallel construction for the indictment.

IIRC, the public intelligence report on the Russian 2016 election influence campaign revealed that the US had counter-hacked some of the Russian groups involved, and used the information gained from that as evidence to attribute the overall campaign to the Russians.
Running a hosting service is sure to include far more exploitable surface area than the tor network itself.

Just assume any one of their servers were vulnerable to RCE attacks, they hosted dynamic web sites on conventional web hosting stacks! These things leak deanonymizing information like a sieve.
I don’t really mind him profiting off this if it means nasty companies stop stalking me. As far as I’m concerned it’s a win-win situation.