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Reddit's top user in the sense that he reposts to farm karma and moderates over 1000 subreddits. He is an opportunist seeking power. Generally, he is disliked by a large portion of reddit. Spamming reddit at that scale to become self appointed "top user" has a major impact on the site, and it's for the worse when it dilutes the content on a site. Unsurprisingly, there are several accusations of him selling his influence to other companies.
As opposed to?

This just sounds like dumb shell hate.

I personally would have used another language, but shell ain't that hard if you have some experience with it, and are using shellcheck as the author does.

The config formats of the distro are optimized for command line tools, and writing the package manager in shell seems like a good way to ensure that this is indeed the case - basic dogfooding.
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Jetbrains IDE MacBook Air 2020 crash likely an Ice Lake CPU bug
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That's basically what PeerTube tries to do. It doesn't work well in practice for most people and organizations that try it because most videos only have 0-1 watchers at a time.
As someone who was mentally and physically abused as a child, I'm so sick of people on the internet saying they have PTSD from mean comments that they can ignore and escape from.

You cannot escape abuse from someone that is supposed to be protecting you in childhood. You cannot escape from the trauma of war when you sign up or are conscripted to be a soldier. You cannot escape the horror of death being an EMT. Seeing actual horrific death, watching ones you love die, or having someone that is supposed to care for you destroy you cause trauma.

A stranger saying, "you're a piece of shit," is not fucking traumatic to anyone but an immature child or a weakling.
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Apple DOES collect telemetry. They just use Differential Privacy to protect users.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...
> how can software improve if the majority of people actually using the software don't give feedback at all?

Software, especially Microsoft software became much worse in the past 5 years or so despite their heavy push on telemetry. Therefore I don't think telemetry is a magic bullet that will make software better.
dodgy yes, but it's a conventional blacklist that was leaked before.

what we can do is suing them. censorship became too popular recently.
Deep introspection is free... audits cost $100k+
There's not a whole lot of technicality to it imo. Say I take to google and start looking for your username. Will other websites turn up? Will one of them have a link to an email address of yours? Can I take that email address and find something else you've done? Perhaps you've used your real name and I can Google that to find info about you.

Maybe you've said something in comments that hints to an identity. Who is your employer? What is your line of work and the city you reside in?

Basically... how much effort does it take from me scouring your public profile before I can narrow down who you are with that info? People have built tools into reddit that does that automatically by pulling all the user comments then looking for info about the person they've shared.

The technical side that GallowBoob talks a bit about in the article is people engaging them in conversation and trying to get them to click a link to some site. If he was to click that link they'd have the IP he connected from and would probably start running hacker tools to try and find a vulnerability in his network.
It's not important what any other company has done. Motivations and end goal is. Microsoft's embrace might be a vampire's.

Long term, the involvement of companies like Microsoft in OSS and OSS communities might be damaging, not beneficial.
I think they just got drowned out as it grew. Libertarianism is a very niche political position outside of the "opinionated hacker" crowd. I'd be very surprised if the actual gross metrics for /r/Libertarian have decreased rather than increased.
No-- Apple collects tons of telemetry. The difference is they allow you to turn it off.
Absolutely nuthin!!
This was my same thought. We should understand the size of the problem and whether technology can help. If tech can’t help moderating, maybe tech can help in other ways. For example, establishing an anonymous unique internet ID that allows you to be online: if you get three strikes, your ID is suspended and you can’t spend time online for the duration of the suspension. Of course the system should be built so that you can’t bypass the one person-one ID and so that it’s completely anonymous. Also, the ID should not be transferable.
Evervault raises $16M for ‘privacy cages’ that simplify data protection
Nobody has solved "that problem".

No malloc has absolute detection of all corruption and even tools like Valgrind don't catch everything.

Let's not pretend that a few pointer hacks and checks have solved a problem.
I thought everyone knew it was the pseudo official Microsoft policy to extract as much data as possible. I mean if you use windows, you must be anyways used to something like this.
Analysing over 1M leaked passwords from the UK's biggest companies
If you do something for a friend ... and take money, is it really fair to call it a favour?
You make it a binary choice, whereas it's very simple: you can make the dafaults you like, but then you should also offer an option to opt out, clearly explaining what it does and why, and you should respect the choice of your customer throughout subsequent updates. This is what being decent means.

Most people will just accept the defaults, so why piss the rest off?
In fact, you don't need a pin and you don't need the last three digits either. Pretty much every terminal can do a "card not present" transaction where you only need the long card number and the amount. My bank classes those as "telephone transactions" and I can disable them entirely on my card, but they are enabled by default.
I wouldn't mind the Windows telemetry, if it ever seemed like they were using it to actually fix things that suck. However, it's been almost ten years since the Start Menu search has worked at all, and wonky multi-monitor and settings/control panel settings dichotomies persist.

Some have posited that this official package manager will be a death blow to Chocolatey, but I doubt it.
Nothing new here. I've see programmers that basically use x for everything
1. There is a significant amount of improvement with regard to performance.

2. The partitioning improvements are tremendous and well worth the change if you're using trigger+constraint based partitioning.

3. Parallelization and the addition of concurrent reindexing

4. Built-In Logical Replication

5. JIT query optimization
So, essentially, 230 was a gift by legislators to businesses running walled gardens at the expense of those being paid to patrol the bazaar.
Is it? According to the videos, they outperform delivery drivers bound to cars. Sure, with a car you can easily work in rain, cold, long distance deliveries. But usually it does not pay out to commit full time or to a specific, expensive vehicle.

If one does plan to deliver (bulky) non time-critical items, payment drops significantly (almost no tips, fixed fee for each parcel).
What is stopping companies that make money (to pay for UBI through tax increases) from leaving the country to elsewhere with lower taxation? Where would this money come from then?

If things do get automated it means labor is no longer needed to be sourced locally, making it much easier to uproot and go elsewhere.
This is actually not how I understand the origins of the phrase. Before the PC, all computers were owned by large corporations and governments, and the PC was seen as a way to take back that control. See also: Apple's famous 1984 ad.
> I think we also overrate the significance of the corporate labs. There are not a lot of successful examples where the host company actually profited from the invention. Just a lot that bungled them or prematurely killed them (like when AT&T almost invented the internet). Or snuck out accidentally (like the Xerox Alto).

Only on HN would someone argue that we've overrated the significance of the invention of GUIs because it didn't make the company that invented it enough money.
As someone who loves coding and design, this was a very fun read.

But in all seriousness, the visual design of code these days feels archaic. The only real "innovations" in the last 50 years of on-screen coding have been block indenting and syntax highlighting. (And arguably coding ligatures.)

Coders of the future might find our source code as clumsy and impenetrable as ancient writing before the inventions of punctuation, headings, spaces, arabic numerals, footnotes, etc...

I'm working on some ideas and playing with some prototypes. If anyone else is interested in the subject, give me a shout. <my username>@gmail.com.
Designers and monks all over history beg to differ: https://www.gwern.net/Red
The carrying capacity of the earth will be reached whether you have children or not. So the consideration is different: whose descendants will take up that carrying capacity. If you, as a person concerned about the environment, opt to have children, then, statistically speaking, you are biasing the future composition of the human population toward being more concerned about the environment (since your kids share you innate predispositions and will be raised in the familial and cultural milieu that you create for them). And if people who are concerned about the environment systematically choose to not have children because they have become infected by this meme, then you have a situation where the future composition of the human population is becoming more biased toward doing nothing about the environment. So not having kids is a losing strategy.
doh! Updated, thanks.
It doesn't have to be that technical. People search for references that connect your username with a real name and possibly a location. If there is only one person with your name in your town, then your home address and likely phone number can be derived from there. No hacking skills required there, just researching.

If you send the target a link and they click on it and you control the server, you can find the IP address use to click on it and aren't using a VPN.

Home IP addresses don't change often, so with the IP address you have another bit of information that can searched on. This might lead to a second username associated with the IP address.

Sometimes simply paying attention to the content they post reveals a lot.

Once on a Reddit someone posted a "Guess what state this photo is from" post. It could have been from many places, but I checked out his profile and all of his posts from the same place in Pennsylvania, so I guessed that. He seemed amazed that anyone guessed so fast, but also unaware how the other content he posted made it very easy to fill in the blank.

Also, many people aren't trying that hard to hide, because they don't expect that anyone to put any effort into "outting" them.
Why do you free work for a for-profit social network, especially if you say yourself that the work negatively impacts your mental health and that the community you are moderating is toxic?

What are you getting out of this?
You can make telemetry opt-in and ask for consent at the moment of the installation. Microsoft refused to make it optional and lost the trust of millions of users worldwide, all while doing nothing to actually make Windows 10 suck less.
We started using RabbitMQ for several projects last year, and it's been a joy.

Some of that joy is surely just moving from older, creakier solutions. But it hasn't let us down, and everyone is eager to use it for new features or refactoring legacy code.
We can spin it the other way too: Should people be fed only with information approved by some TV boards or government committees? Are we adults expected to vote, but not allowed and/or trusted anymore to make our own mind on what we believe in?

And even more importantly do you realize that in such world it's far more likely that only a priest will get invited to a TV show, not the biologist? Because that's the "how far" that I'm afraid of, fundamentalism that believes that the only way is to force "the truth" upon people, and it's of course always their truth.
Given the amount of shitstorm it generates agains MS, I bet it's Nadella himself who is behind it, obstinately refusing to give up.
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Warning: rant (but a hopefully useful example of this, none the less) ahead.

Someone in my neighborhood (in the most white-flighty of white-flighty suburbs, sigh) recently posted a picture from their stupid privacy invading doorbell camera of someone peeking in their front windows and asked if they should call the police, if you see this individual let someone know, etc.… on a house that was empty and for sale. No fucking shit he was peeking in the windows, he was probably thinking about buying the fucking place like everybody else peeking in the windows all damn day.

Similarly I've seen pictures of my own neighbor posted several times and labeled a "suspicious individual" while walking to the grocery or wherever. I walk the same route when I want to go to the hardware store or grocery, and somehow I (as a white dude) have never been labeled a "suspicious individual", and yet these people are still like "oh, it's not because he's black, I just didn't realize he lived here…"

/rant
If you are in the suburbs, there are always lawns to cut.

Make a simple sign outside your home.

"Most lawns $25. Cut, trim, edge blow. 555-555-5555 No contact payment by eTransfer"

This works very well, and will generate a small side income, get you outside of the house, fresh air and exercise.

From here, it's just letting you imagination run wild... Hire and train some young adults, grow from a single person to multi person team, etc.
This probably doesn't meet the criteria for an allowed HN post but I laughed when I thought of it. The moderators here do a good job and this is just meant as a funny tribute. Please don't shadowban me for life, it was meant with purely good intentions.
"...we just don't know about them..."

We also don't care about them nearly as much because it's driving fast that leads to greater injury and death, not driving more slowly.
Probably the first place to look would be CRSP (crsp.org) and WRDS (wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu). You would need a .edu email to set up an account and get the data. (If you don't have one, hopefully you can find a buddy who does.)

In terms of pulling price history on-demand, Yahoo Finance seems to be a popular choice, but I don't think it will allow you to download a large enough dataset for meaningful training--that said, I haven't tried it, so I invite anyone to share their experience.

Additionally, you may want to try searching for the most cited papers for "ML in trading" and see what kind of datasets they use. Be prepared for a lot of gruntwork formatting the data before you feed it into your model: those papers might also give you a lot of context on how to do this gruntwork right from the first time.
I agree, most of us have built applications that capture plenty of telemetry data about how the application is being used to improve the product using OTS tools or SaaS solutions. Of course Microsoft is going to do the same thing, they've even built their own tooling for it so it isn't going to some other provider.

Is there a particular company size when you suddenly can't collect telemetry because of the privacy implications? Why aren't they allowed to compete using the same tools as everyone else?
No they would not like to be the phone company that pipes data around.

For example: They could easily - but actively choose not to - host pornography.

They do not want to host everything that is legal.
perhaps you're not a part of Microsoft's target audience
Look at the thread and note that it also happens inside a virtual machine:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2310#focus=streamIt...

... and on a Microsoft Surface with the same generation chip.

This is probably an exploit (denial of service at least) but unfortunately we could not follow responsible disclosure as we stumbled on it during a collaborative debugging session.

Might want to not use these chips in anything security-critical that executes any untrusted code.

I am now hoping Apple dumps Intel for ARM or perhaps AMD. I'd be perfectly happy with an ARM64 Mac that worked and was free of CPU errata and security bugs... as long as Apple doesn't also lock it down like iOS. They shouldn't change much at all in the OS... just rebuild it all for ARM. (Or use AMD Ryzen and no rebuilds needed.)
They'll just disable support for it in VSCode. Got a brain up there buddy? Or maybe you're just an MS shill.
The optimism comes from a desperate desire not to confront the need for universal healthcare or land reform.

As long as real estate is an investment and health care has a middle man, UBI is just a subsidy for those sectors.
That's....usually not true. At least the way it's implemented in the EU, yes, your bank has to verify if the transaction is legitimate, and optionally show you a challenge step. So when you pay online you usually get a small window displaying your bank's verification page, but unless there's something unusual about the payment, they don't actually verify it at all. So when I'm placing orders on Amazon it pretty much never comes up, but when I'm buying flights it usually does(but even then not always).
Yup. I grab all my Office keys from eBay too. Guess I'll look at G2A as well.
It's mostly about the construction. The "miracle" part refers to just two clues (filled-in numbers) leading to a unique solution, which is a ridiculously low number.
FYI, I'm not sure what the site is doing but it ended up using up a ton of memory and I had to kill firefox to unlock my desktop (FF 76, Arch Linux).
People tend to believe that they have no responsibility to not bait criminals, acknowledge fault if their actions enabled crimes, etc.

Reason? Doing so would reduce their rights, increase their responsibilities, etc.
No. Healthy public housing, universal healthcare, free public transit don't have the same ability for the benefits to be converted to income for a landlord.
Who's the first to announce X in Rust?
Muzzleapp
What makes Microsoft software "much worse"?
Right, but a pandemic like this may last 1 or 2 years. Driving a car goes on for a lifetime, and for most demographics highway driving is the single most dangerous activity they ever engage in.
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Oh right, my mistake, I forgot that one-size-fits-all solutions are the norm when it comes to economic and political solutions to complex problems. Yes, carry on.
Maybe if mods were more transparent across all the subs.

This is a common refrain I've heard going back well before Reddit ever existed.

I helped moderate the Vault Network boards for a while back when they were a thing.

Its hard to overstate how amazingly...disturbed and vitriolic some of the individuals of a community can be. And dishonest. And spiteful.

No amount of transparency helps when all it takes to refute any evidence is to label the mods as lying or "corrupt".

Let's say a user says something bad and you mod the post and give them a warning. You tell them exactly what the offense was and why it was moderated. They might even act civil in response.

Then you see later them talk about "X mod totally censored their post for no reason and refuses to explain why. X and the rest of the mods are totally corrupt".

So, what do you do? Post a screenshot of the private messages exchanged (something, for instance, we weren't supposed to do)? Take a screenshot of a browser window with the "mod view" (aka. uncensored) of the original post? Something said user will point out can be easily edited because well, its a browser showing a website, not exactly hard to alter).

And that happens every day, all the time constantly. And no one is being paid and there is a constant stream of other stuff you are trying to stay on top of.

And sure, some of the mods are shitty and "corrupt" in a sense. But I would say its as much a reflection of the community itself as anything.
Plan9's dial is derived from OSI approach of separating service and protocol (aka implementation), with name service as first-party component (BSD Sockets have it stapled over and it hurts).

The example with calling kremvax over datakit specifically goes to show-off that all that specifies datakit usage is the "dk" string - nothing else.

Similarly with XTI (and other OSI-oriented network APIs), what you are telling OS is "I want to have a stream oriented connection with graceful close, to service Y on host X", and you don't have to care at all whether it will be IPv4, IPv6, TUBA, CLNS over Ethernet, or direct serial modem exchange using HDLC.

Go doesn't have all of that flexibility because it works from userspace, but it reuses the "service, not implementation detail" approach and lets you concentrate on human-readable domain names and service names instead of providing a maze of "hardcoded IP" issues.
It's absolutely not an alternative to RustEnhanced. Sublime-LSP + Rust-Analyzer complement RustEnhanced, adding Language Server functionality. They don't conflict in any way.

Source: me, a contributor to both RustEnhanced and Sublime-LSP
Unfortunately (or fortunately, as the case may be) PTSD and trauma in general are not yours to define or gatekeep.
I had my bike stolen recently so this hits me hard.
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I think instead you would find that it has only become more partisan. Stratification of subs where people with opposing ideologies don't mix, and if they do they get hella down-voted.
I’d consider switching jobs if it meant I could work from home or have an office with opaque walls and an opaque door.

I’d forgotten how much more productive I am when I’m not in a cube farm or open space.
Yes, but it requires NixOS. This “docker compatibility layer” is about being able to use nix style packaging in environments that expect Docker. Eg: ECS. https://github.com/tomberek/nix-runner
I use C but I never use the C standard library. It blows.
I'm always torn about Nextdoor as well. On the one hand, I love the idea of a hyper-local social media network that prioritizes civic engagement. On the other hand, such a platform should be a not-for-profit or possibly a cooperative. A company can set lofty goals all they want (and I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they probably actually believe in their mission, etc.), but the pressures placed on a for-profit company are inherently in direct opposition to the goals they state. If it ever comes down to a choice between doing something bad that their investors want to get X more people on the platform and doing something right for their communities, they will have to pick the former under US law. While this is generally a hand-wavey argument and I have no specific example of this to cite, it doesn't become a problem until it does, and it's very likely to become a problem if it isn't already.
This disrespect to our privacy has been going on for a while now, but it good to see that people still care about it and are trying to inform us. Hopefully our privacy respecting products outside the jurisdiction of USA will not bend over to the FBI.
Awesome, now its official...you just plugin and you are doomed...
It's software that is easy to use and actually works.
> Once I lost my key to my bike lock and went ahead and got to cutting it. As I was about to take off a cruiser pulls up and takes my info in case someone reported it stolen. Neighbor called the police.

That seems very different than the examples you're replying to.
> Which almost nobody does, unless they are either completely unsatisfied with the software or completely in love with the software (just like TripAdvisor feedback)

Good point. Better build in a surveillance engine to spy on your users. /s