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I understand the need for developers to know more about the hardware and software running on their client machines. For example, I believe information like the hardware survey from Valve [1] are very valuable for the whole industry.

But there's a some kind of an etiquette you need to follow, if a company wishes to collect data:

- Be straightforward. Say what information you are collecting, at what time and what for.

- Tell me in what way this information will be stored and how will it be anonymized.

- Will the data be stored forever? And is there a way for me to request the data or it's deletion?

- Don't collect data per default. Make it opt-in.

- Publicize the data in a suitable way. It may be useful to others.

Wacom simply ignored all of that human decency. How can you ever trust this company again?

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
What if you were given a budget of $100 million to $500 million - just for 1 company? What about $1 billion like Dow Chemical and the US Navy?
Universities are made of people and the politics* of people run things, no matter what is written on the wall. The people who run those institutions are motivated by the same human motivations as anyone else. And there is an academic hierarchy and an administrative hierarchy and the actors on the latter side tends to be far more hard nosed than those on the former, though there are plenty of hard nosed players on the academic side too. In some the President is a fig leaf from the academic side while the deans wield the real power; in others the president or chancellor is the straightforward CEO. There is innumerable literature on this matter both analytic and fiction (as in stories, not "fake news" science I mean -- think David Lodge). From aphorisms like "science advances one funeral at a time" to the continual travails of tenure, adjuncts, post docs etc this is all very well known.

You can see the attitude I described in my "I don't get it" comment in the US universities that pay so much money for their athletic programs. Doing so gets the "job" done.

This is not intended as any sort of cynical view -- I very much enjoyed my time in university setting both as a student and researcher. In fact it's the opposite: universities must operate this way to even exist. But behind the veneer it was little different from my time in corporate research. Well, more bureaucratic.

* I don't mean in the partisan sense, just in the "relations of people" sense.
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> What about aggregate data limited to art apps?

Well with the proviso you stated that informed consent has been obtained first, then this would be fine (as would more frequent/less targeted collection). If not, then this is not fine.
Buyers and Lenders are in fact, colossal fools. People build in floodplains all the time.
Real estate prices are priced by mostly by current demand, not future oncoming disasters.

Much waterfront property is _already_ vulnerable (and expensive to insure) today, regardless of whether you believe in consensus climate science, due to storms and flooding in current climatic conditions. That house by the ocean is going to destroyed at some point, the only question is when and how.
For the lolz right? amirite??

In all seriousness, Kids that have skills should have a proper mentor so they dont end up like this kid. Touch of narcissism, with no regards for his actions. Poking the bear is not wise. Sad imho.
No, I’m not. The NOAA site does not posit that the underlying trend is linear over the period - it simply displays a linear fit on the graphs. See here for more details https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/recent-sea-level-cha...
Well, the fact is that those “abstracts away stuff” are actually a bunch of different products on the market and Docker is probably the worst one.
> Moving between language groups is harder though, still struggling to wrap my head around lisp and haskell for example

I played around with CL and Scheme before coming to Clojure. I did not have much success with the first two but with Clojure it finallly clicked because at least on a superficial level Clojure seems to have more syntax than the other lisps (because of vector and hash-map literals). And eventually I understood why "code is data" in lisp. But I think that the visual distinction for the different collection types really helped me understand the concepts behind lisp better.

FYI: I haven't used Racket yet (if that should be relevant).
It depends on the jurisdiction but definitely. I am not a lawyer, though; I’ll just defer to your favorite search engine on this one.
From article:

"How does lithium treat bipolar disorder?"

The thing is, that this isn't a question that's insignificant. There has been quite a bit of debate whether various drugs reverse the basic process happening with a given psychiatric disorder or whether they provide a different change which allows a person function. The phrase "chemical imbalance" has been based on the supposition that various drugs that change brain chemical distributions "cure" various conditions - but the question these drug are directly reversing a condition or whether they are adding something more seems important, even if we assume the drugs are broadly useful for helping people function in society.
Well now that you've got me thinking about, maybe it does. Perhaps I should be more considerate of how I use my variables. They may have feelings, after all.
This is great proof of the point:

- You would still technically be committing the legal definition of those crimes, you just have a valid defense, under the rights afforded by defense of others

- You could aways weasel out by saying you're referring to the physical acts, not the legal definitions of those terms

Once you start arbitrarily shedding context, it becomes easier and easier to flat out lie, using the "truth", then weasel your way out once held to task for it.
> Can I ask why this is not something people want?

I block it because the data it collects is none of Google's business. Being "anonymized" doesn't make it any better.
> which it hasn't, it used to be one of the most homogeneous mono-cultural countries in the world

Really? Well let's take a few seconds to see what Wikipedia has to offer on the subject:

"Five national minority languages are also recognized by Swedish law: Finnish, Yiddish, Meänkieli, Romani and Sami. "

Interesting approach for a "mono-culture".

"For most of its history, Sweden was a larger country than today. At its height in 1658, the Swedish Empire comprised the territories of what is Finland and Estonia as well as parts of Russia, Latvia, Germany, Denmark and Norway. Hence, Sweden's linguistic landscape has historically been very different from that of today."

And historically, even more diverse. Or is all the above wrong?
> Child bearing is only an initial factor; after the baby is out it goes away.

The effects of spending 9 months in the body of the mother never go away. No more profound experience is imaginable. Nothing else that happens to a human being will ever come close. So, vitally important as fathers are, the asymmetry is fundamental and permanent.

(I'm talking about the typical developmental experience here; I know there are exceptions.)
They quote "We’ll handle setting up, backing up, and updating". I interpret that as literally the database itself, not the application specific nature of it—how it's used.

For example, I would be surprised if they noticed that your IOPS was high and you needed to upgrade the storage/disk components. (That would be cool if it's the type of thing they offer).
More info:

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/04/pro-israel-buttigieg-seth...
The Tesla short community has always been full of much more professional investors who pay attention to diversification and position sizing. People like Chanos/Einhorn, with probably a $100 million+ short position, are only risking a few percent of their funds. It’s relatively easy for them to liquidate other positions to provide collateral in the case the stock goes up. Also many own options to cap losses from going up.

As for the Tesla retail shorters, I still don’t know anyone in that camp who has their entire capital bet against Tesla. Tesla longs are a much different story...
Terrorism is actually one such thing. Good thing that the post-911 age of "terrorism" as justification for everything is mostly over.
Sea level rise will not be the problem. It is going to happen on multi-generational timescales.

Food insecurity, resource conflicts, extreme weather events, and a global migrant crisis (caused by the first two issues) will be. Unlike sea level rise, all it takes is one bad year to spark these.
Libsodium (a fork of NaCl) is preferable to NaCl.

JS: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sodium-plus (I wrote this one.)

Lisp: https://github.com/orthecreedence/cl-sodium

Java (Android): https://github.com/terl/lazysodium-android

Other bindings: https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/bindings_for_other_language...
Look at the most popular stock on RobinHood these days.
I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as entertainment, but I'm kind of having a mind blown moment with this Epstein stuff...
Thanks for replying. I hope I didn't come off as too arrogant or bashful. I do see your point with having tiny dependencies and reducing cognitive load. I have projects balloon up in size. I think the small dependency is a point you should highlight on your website. With regards to the JS interoperability, does Mint play well with libraries from the JS ecosystem?
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Well, she says that the university is supporting her free speech rights to publicly object to their policy. And from an ideological point of view I think the first amendment is excessively restricted.

Be all that as it may: the university, like any other corporation public and private, has good telelogical reason to pursue this course and what I don't get is that she doesn't acknowledge that. They could be right or wrong overall in implementation but by ignoring that I don't really think she has an argument.
Stocks eventually trade on reality. Sometimes it takes awhile though.
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It appears that the colours have more to do with migration compared to historic trends:

Many may end up moving to the suburbs in the Midwest, where the model shows a larger-than-average influx of migrants compared to historic trends.

So, it is really showing places that have not historically had a lot of people moving in.
I didn't realize that. How sketchy and frustrating.
Twitter already has sole power of deciding what exists on their platform... there's no freedom of speech.

They don't need the excuse or the train of action:

we don't like that => but it's true => label as lie => removed as lie.

They're allowed to go:

we don't like that => removed.
Nice, but very simplistic (on purpose, it seems), write-up on the topic. For a much more comprehensive and excellent coverage of designing & implementing large-scale systems, see https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer. Also, I want to mention that an important - and relevant to scaling - aspect of multi-tenancy is very often (as is in Alex's post) not addressed. Most of the large-scale software-intensive systems are SaaS, hence the multi-tenancy importance and relevance.
How is this new, Windows Search breaks all the time. What’s new to me is that apparently it started sending queries to Bing.
> The long-term linear trend is also shown, including its 95% confidence interval.

I hope you'll forgive the reader for interpreting this as them positing that the trend is linear.
I see a theme here...... :)
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Are obscene phone calls still a thing, with the technology we have?
Consider yourself lucky, any account i create without a phone is immediately flagged\blocked and if i do use mine(personal), i get asked to add permissions like the parent said every single time.
I think you miss the biggest point. This will have a significant impact on the wages of women. As suddenly women are not longer at a disadvantage when companies need to decide who to hire for a certain position.
There's a major research initiative taking place right now into Thwaites Glacier, as unexpectedly fast melting is occurring. It's thought this is due to warm saltwater penetration underneath the glacier but other factors are being considered.

The issue with Thwaites Glacier is it has a tapered edge that generally resists thawing, but that widens out to a huge contact surface area once erosion by salt water progresses.

This glacier alone will cause a global sea level rise of three feet.

https://thwaitesglacier.org/
Most people don't have enough in savings to last more than half of a year without a job. I'd call that "quickly".

You could try to stop corporations from preferentially hiring people who have recent relevant experience, but I am not going to hold my breath on that.
My point isn’t so much that the Pixel itself has a low sales volume, but more that Google is almost completely reliant on advertising for profits despite their “other bets” for over two decades.

Compare that to Apple’s product mix.

https://sixcolors.com/images/content/2020/financials-2020-1-...

If you go more fine grained on wearables, it’s estimated that Apple Watch and headphones taken individually or both larger than the iPod ever was.
Could it be due to different CDNs providing outdated CSS files ?
It really depends on how you look at short positions. If you also have a long portfolio, and you would like your returns to be less market correlated, then short positions can be fine. I’d recommend almost every retail investor never short anything, but the math can be different if you are a large fund or institutional capital
No, I'm not delusional or schizophrenic, but I'll agree asking serious advice on this topic on Hacker News is a stupid idea. Anyways, I'm serious about the OP and have even been bothered by Secret agencies before IRL.
Curiously... Any take on Michael Slaby, Timshel (defunct), The Groundwork (defunct), the dozens (up to 70 at one point, many from SV/NYC) of engineers that worked on it for roughly two years in close contact with HFA 2016 (The Groundwork was right down the street from HFA 2016 HQ), and the $700,000 that HFA 2016 paid for that work? More generally, do you think there is a problem with for-profits which focus on political organizations under the guise of "focusing on non-profit"? How often do you think illegal in-kind contributions take place through these companies to political campaigns?
Like a survey? I'm not sure the information would be all that accurate.

If you want to put resources into "hey folks like to use this product with ours" you need accurate information.
Windows new one as well.
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I'm sure that most people feel as you do. So manufacturers should get informed consent before doing the data collection -- that way, you can give such consent and people who feel differently about such tracking can withhold it. It's win-win.
probably nothing good, but the alternate question is, what happens to the well-being of patients overall if no standardized workflow exists, what error rate and dysfunction will it produce across the entire system?

Complaining about large corporate structures failing to meet individual needs is always a very appealing criticism, but people rarely seem to point out that these large behemoths need to be judged by their overall throughput.

The mass of people who benefit from standardized workflows are always anonymous, the failure cases always have a face, but it doesn't mean the trade-off isn't net positive.
What if the replacement has a pregnancy? Do they also get the 14 months leave?
define "your data" because from their perspective, the data they collected watching you through a window, is their data.
Puts cap your losses, but they also are inherently more volatile than the stock itself.
CoreRT is an UI frameworks, what ?
It hasn't, or at least the media's whining about the gap as much as everywhere else.
I think the OP meant more expensive housing in the hills. Not affordable or dense.
What if you think the entire car market is overvalued, but Tesla specifically so?
Inclusion is as simple as saying "parents" instead of "mother and father." If you'll read my post again you'll see the wording did include those groups. Maybe examine why you have such a violent knee jerk reaction to these groups being mentioned.
NIO hasn’t exactly been doing well
This. My students have been absolutely astonished how quickly I can spot any problem they had in their code. They made the same beginner mistakes that I made many years ago so it's relatively easy to find what's wrong.
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I have been in tech for 5 years now. For most of career I have been taking salary to pay off student loans. I am coming to the point where I have extra cash laying around after expenses. I am very fresh to the world of Investing. What advice do you have for a young dev just starting?
But the biggest benefit of all was in the lives of my older children.

That's how it seemed to me, too. When my second child was born, I was working for Facebook so I got a nice chunk of paternity leave. My wife was breastfeeding, so she was basically with the baby all the time. The most helpful use of my time often wasn't to be the second parent in the same room as the baby, it was to go do something else with our 2-year-old so that he could still do fun stuff that the baby wasn't ready for, and so that at least my wife only had to deal with one kid at a time.
As a tech worker in California, your income is triple to that of a Finnish tech worker. You can easily take unpaid time off for your paternity leave, perhaps even quit your job for a year, and still get out ahead.
They’re forgiven - but if you’re saying NOAA are saying the trend is linear and will continue to be you’re wrong. All the site is saying is it displays the “average” trend over the period as a straight line. It’s a comment on how the data is presented, not on the underlying dynamics.
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Thanks for bringing this up. That is a very concerning trend. Still not quite Mao level, but it certainly is starting to look a lot more like totalitarianism.
Another rule (in Sweden at least) is that a company when interviewing a new person is not allowed to ask about family planning. You can't ask if a woman is pregnant or planning to get kids soon. You are not allowed to fire someone that is pregnant and planning paid parental leave. This goes for both father and mother.

In general you as a father is expected to go on parental leave at minimum 3 months, if not 240 days. If you don't, people will look funny at you.
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Yes, I just meant that it has worked in the sense of reporting timely results. I agree there are other flaws with caucuses.
At the beginning of the article, it mentions the phrase "the 5th state of matter", which I've heard before; personally, I find it quite misleading. Even if you exclude all of the intermediary states and all of the non-classical states (things like glasses and liquid crystals), there are a lot of exotic states of matter. The Wikipedia page for "States of matter" includes a lot of them[0]. Though perhaps the idea is that there is something fundamental enough about the Bode-Einstein condensate that it should count as the fifth fundamental state of matter?

On an unrelated note, its interesting to see the Riemann zeta function turn up here. Does anyone know why it cropped up here, in the critical temperature equation? The page on Bose-Einstein statistics[1] doesn't seem to include it at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statisti...

EDIT:

This paper seems to provide some insight into the latter question - https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3116
Do Tesla Solar Roofs work? The number of installations three and a half years in have been pathetic
I'm not convinced that "standard practice" is a sufficient legal defense.
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I have seen ample consensus amonsgt reputable scientists that the earth is getting warmer, and this fact is due to human activity (e.g https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-clima...)

I have not yet, however, seen any such research on consensus for the effects of climate change. Is there a large, documented consensus on any estimate of sea level raise?
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Someone should tell B&G Foods, given it is way past time for them to modernize the Accent brand anyway (people see it in my spice cabinet and wonder what's with the "weird 60s salt shaker").

https://www.accentflavor.com/product/flavor-enhancer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/06/children-...

Breastfeeding is one of many variables and formula has come a long way.
If you use the web client, they have a header that asks for your phone number repeatedly until you give it.
That's not damages though.
Pretty certain that DO tunes to broad usage performance optimization (all the easy, obvious performance wins), not dynamically per client to each client's usage.

Here's their pitch: easy setup & maintenance, scaling, daily backups, optional standby nodes & automated failover, fast reliable performance including SSDs, can run on the private network at DO and encrypts data at rest & in transit.
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> Tragedy of the commons.

Possibly, but not necessarily. The tragedy of the commons applies when there's a non-zero marginal cost. But with zero marginal cost, you have have to find some way to cover your expenses, and then you can give away the rest as a public good. E.g., the NYT can happily give away a ton of pageviews to non-subscribers as long as they keep their subscriber base up. Public radio, another medium with zero marginal cost, has been giving away their content for decades.

> Coke doesn't consider an ad vended to a broke person to have zero value

[citation needed]

I highly doubt Coke thinks that way. There is approximately nobody who sees their ads that is so permanently destitute that they will never have the opportunity to buy a soda. Indeed, at least in the US, the poor are better customers than the well off. About 2/3rds of people below $30k in income drink soda, while only about half of people over $75k do. https://news.gallup.com/poll/163997/regular-soda-popular-you...
I don't know if I've ever seen a java application where performance is so maxed out that this was needed. Not to say that they don't exist, just that it seems like an unnecessarily complex knob to turn.
That's fine, but those are cases where by definition they were caught doing things that are NOT allowed. The article's point is that you can off load your liabilities and keep the profits perfectly legally. Those cases prove that isn't true.
That’s because their price target is complete BS meant to hype the stock they own.
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On ARM there's a whole series of controller blocks that sit between the CPU caches and the outside world. Start looking up the AMBA (Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture) and you'll see how complicated it gets:

https://developer.arm.com/architectures/system-architectures...