skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a pretty large number of even paid apps are happily vacuuming up data and sending them to the developer and often third parties

Please name some examples. I certainly do not have not use nor know about any paid software that "vacuums" my actual data or tries to track me.

> analytics/debugging platforms

You cannot compare anonymous, aggregate details about overall usage of an app or crash stacktraces (which is what most paid/OSS apps do) to the kind of identification webs do for ads.

Again: native apps do not care about showing personalized ads to you nor their business depends on it.

> I tend to think of an app for most things as a loss of privacy

Mobile apps from vendors like Facebook definitely. Normal paid/OSS desktop software, no.
A quick note: Anti christian sentiment is very much not a left wing stance. Quite the contrary, I’m more like to find crap like that in libertarian circles. The left wing are often the ones jumping in to defend religious tolerance.

About the dead cops and dead fascists... sure I’ll admit to that. However that is very much not the same. Fascism is an ideology that is a direct threat to a large number of people’s livelyhoods. To declare militant intentions against such an ideology of hate is a matter of self defense. The same applies to cops (albeit to a lesser extent).
Nice work! Curious if AWS's Comprehend would help you extract organization names from the text: https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/features/
Not an expert by any means, but from my experience with physics experiments I would guess the error goes down as 1/sqrt(n). So more satellites help, but with diminishing returns.
The whataboutism in this thread is really tiresome. Engage an argument on its own merits. Don't rely on rhetorical fallacies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
And parents will appreciate that their kids are spending less time on social media (hopefully) :)
Enhanced security monitoring in newest ROS 2 release
Odd that Russia would feel threatened, considering they have been annexing territory rather than losing it for decades. Do they feel threatened that the US will try to stop them from aggressively seizing territory?
Also paid moderators can't be trusted to moderate without bias. Supporting the ability for Trump-friendly speach (as long as it's relevant and civil) may get you bluelisted+defunded by advertisers who get harassed.
Oh this very nice, thanks for the heads up on this!
> People generally already have their own packs, and not much time for new people, so it takes some active effort to find a good crew to be a part of.

It's true, but some communities are more naturally configured to integrate new people. A major forcing function for this is having children. Children do not have the same set of guards up as adults, so they will often force new parents to go outside of their existing circles.

Examples of this are communities that grow out of schools, childrens sports teams, or other community-based functions. The most basic community fostering venue is the sidewalk in front of your house where children may play.
Estimating the Dollar Cost of LLVM
Are kids committing suicide while using Alibaba website?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/bengaluru...

https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/people/story/tiktok-star...
I don't understand that argument. It sounds like you're saying that the way to get freer trade is for all parties to restrict trade, since "free trade has to work both ways."
What software teams can learn from rock bands
I don't understand what's the objective here. Banning these apps will have 0 or little financial impact on China. This seems more like a publicity stunt. Banning Alibaba would have been a bold move.
Its just that right now programming jobs pay well. Not all passions line up with job that earns enough.
Why not just remove them from r/all?
really cool! cant wait to have a use for this
OMG yes. So many times all you needed was what Tomcat delivered, but had to go through the convoluted and slow config of WebSphere. WebLogic was better but that's damning with faint praise.
The Missing Operation
Because people don't expect their web browser to be able to brick their hardware.
I kind of agree, but 99% of the videos I see on FYP are just absolutely silly, hilarious content.
Be careful with btod reviews and blog posts. They sell their own desks under the VertDesk and NewHeights brands.
So you're thinking about investing in Bitcoin? Don't – Technology – The Guardian
> You would think that mask requirement is far less exploitable but I hear from libertarians that the government is not allowed to do so (granted, this is state government we're talking about).

Sounds like they are just arguing out of the constitutional purist principle and not out of practical realities. Which isn't the same argument I had in my original comment addressing app bans.

My argument against blanket app bans by the government was all about practicalities of it and very real potential (bad) outcomes that can come from it. Not from some constitutional purist perspective of "they don't have this power cause muh constitution, hence why I disagree with it" (which, in case of masks, is very debatable in the first place, because it isn't clear-cut at all whether constitution grants them that power, but given the pretty much non-existent exploitation potential with mask requirement laws, I am not worried about it at all).
Facebook and Reddit are successful because it allows for the users to be social with people they know/recognize.

Spam removal is the biggest element of reddit and FB. Unwanted content detracts from the original goal. (Also moderating in it's self does kill a community if done badly)
Thats exactly how HN keep misteriously pushing things out of the top 30 no matter how many upvotes.. Also theres control in the flagging mechansim - as in shrugs, we don’t know, it was flagged by some users... shrugs again..

Im just making the case about HN not because I disagree with their job of keeping things civil, in fact this is much less toxic a platform than many others. My point is that whoever has the control can dictate whatever they see fit or serves their interest. For that reason I’d never use TikTok, not even to see what it is about because of who is backing it
Nope. Got a wife and three kids :)

But fortunately we live in a very affordable town, still quite near the big city.
It's a cost benefit analysis. We may value free speech, but not so much that we are willing to protect the right to tell 'FIRE!' on a crowded theatre. The cost of that 'freedom' is not worth the benefit.
Access to a few Chinese apps is not worth the cost, which is providing China with access to sensitive personal data (WeChat) and/or subtle propaganda tools(TikTok). Anyway, if you ban either app, alternatives will quickly fill the void and the consumer loses nothing.
Yeah. It's crazy to me that they haven't decided to create some abstract virtual midi instrument.
That you can instruct the browser to pass through to your devices.
If the user is going to be tricked on the web, they can be tricked in other ways. If the web doesn't support MIDI, users will just download MIDI malware as an app.

By your logic, the web should not have video support either, because users are users and it will inevitably be misused.

If you were serious about addressing this: We need clear and robust and granular permission dialogs on web and native apps. Ideally they'd be consistent across web/native, which would help users trust their software, and understand the permissions they give.
If anyone has concerns about the reliability/safety of electric desks and are also put off by crank desks, I can recommend pneumatic standing desks. They can transition between standing and seated very quickly, faster than either crank and motor. This looks like what we have in our office: https://www.standupdeskstore.com/pneumatic-adjustable-height...
Former trader here. This is cool, but also a tremendous amount of work for something that the average prop shop arcade jockey can do without any specialized system. I quit the hedge fund space about 3 years ago but I still have hundreds of tickers memorized, and order management systems (especially the in-house prop ones) are designed for this exact use case: quick tactical trading, whether it’s headline/event driven or run of the mill options market making.
> Take Apple: their entire business model is reliant upon the government never waking up to enforcing open standards and protocols to ensure consumers get hardware-agnostic, operating system-agnostic, service-provider agnostic, company-agnostic tools and services, which is what everyone would agree we want, except the sociopaths who value profit over humanity and run these corporations.

Did you read this and the only conclusion you came away with, is big corporation = bad?

Feel free to address what's actually been said, rather presenting a straw man.

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Let me clarify why big corporation = bad is a straw man because I suspect some uneducated people may take your position seriously.

Big corporation = bad is in fact a truism, if the government that's supposed to regulate corporations, is not doing their job. This is political science 101.

There are people far more educated and likely smarter than you and I who don't consider USA a functioning democracy. Noam Chomsky considers USA a plutocracy. Have you studied this matter and have rebuttals to numerous arguments that he has presented to support his case?
There were a ton of Quibi ads on Tik Tok. But it doesn't have the virality and originality, and honestly I don't think it ever will. Big production budgets and incredible story lines are something that Hollywood does a really good job of (and we've seen that come to TV over the past 10 years). But the sort of Tik Toks and Youtube videos that I like are pretty basic, and would be laughed out of the room as boring. It's like comparing a newspaper article with a novel. They're different products that do different jobs.
Similar to how leftists promoted the "punch a nazi in the face" meme'. They will of course be the ones defining who is a "nazi".
Tucker Carlson has a "plurality of support"? Less than 2% of Americans watch his show. Do you mean a pluraility of support from cable news viewers (a.k.a. poorly-educated boomers)?
No, only by Google.
People have been committing suicides due to social media in General. It's nothing new. Nothing to do particularly with TikTok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_suicide
Beating C with 33 Lines of Java
Maybe. Those other ones aren't banned though while TD was. Combined with the fact that their new rules explicitly allow for harassment of majority identity groups, I'd say this isn't a good move.
There’s a reason that the phrase, “Content is King” is so prevalent: it’s a fact.

Like many, I saw dozens of ads for Quibi (many of them on YouTube) and the entire campaign was centered around selling me on the concept of short-form content—-something I found hilarious on YouTube since anyone who frequents YouTube is probably already pretty sold on that concept. At no point was I given any indication of what I could watch. Every ad left me totally disengaged because I was either left to guess at what they might have or to assume that their library must be pretty shit if they aren’t going to talk about it.

I worked at Netflix when the company began the idea of a “Netflix Original.” Everyone points to House of Cards as the first (and, in terms of Netflix-produced content, it was) but there was a lesser known first original called “Lillyhammer.” You didn’t hear about it because it was literally dipping the toes into the water of what it meant to “own” content rather that just license it. It wasn’t a signature piece of content we could build a brand around.

House of Cards and Orange is the New Black were the big ones and they came 6 and 9 months later respectively. They were “signature” shows that set the tone of what Netflix originals were all about. I remember the lead Product Manager and I sitting together and discussing whether we should include a promotional photo of one of the characters from House of Cards giving the camera the middle finger in our main experience. We knew that parents and conservative groups might be upset by it being right there in our UI; but, we also knew the tone we wanted to set for our content. We put it in. The content drove our marketing.

It was important that people get on board with the idea of “Netflix Originals.” But it was more important that the content spoke for itself. In Quibi’s case, they need content they can showcase that speak for itself and gets people on the platform. No one will care if it’s “short form” or “long form” as long as it’s GOOD.
I'm not an American. Many of us foreigners watching the US think that what's killing you people isn't Trump himself, but the obsession that "progressives" have with that man.

Democrats have spent years hating on Trump instead of building a good case for the 2020 election.

Why have a solid candidate and a solid policy package when instead you can have a senile corpse that can't put a sentence together, partnering with quasi-marxists that want to dismantle the rule of law.

The democrats achieved what nobody thought possible. They made Trump look sane.
Will ML become part of software engineering?
Why is it ok for native apps to do all such (and more) fingerprinting, utilized across apps, and not the web? Maybe I’m saying this backwards, why aren’t native apps given the same restrictions?
Why is Friends still so popular among teens?
> There are shootouts on a regular basis between India and China, and they’ve intensified recently.

There are no "shootouts". There are standoffs sometimes (think once a year if you want to define regularity) due to the loosely demarcated Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China. It's usually a melee. Even the recent escalated incident wasn't a shootout. There are agreements between Indian and Chinese governments that prevent usage of firearms in standoffs like these.
Is this regulated for US companies?
Samsung researchers build solid-state EV battery with 500-mile range
" I dont think the level of political animosity that the USA seems to have now has been seen before, maybe ever."

Wait til you find out about what happened from 1775–1783 or 1861-1865. It's gonna blow your mind dude!
Letter from Silicon Valley: Our Ghost Kitchen Future
Wasn't the "Gang of Four" book written entirely in C++?
> Remember that Brendan Eich was forced out of Mozilla for his views.

He was forced out due to a 1000$ personal donation to a political group that was Christian/right leaning. Political speak: "Incompatible/Hostile views"
Banks Have No Idea Who Is Creditworthy Anymore
I dumped the apple news app shortly after they finished soft launching. It turned from the slick clean usable news app to, "BUY APPLE NEWS+" blasted in your face constantly. A pity really.
The difference is you can just wait out US presidents. The US is significantly slower at getting things done, and for the most part everything the US does is going to be at risk of going public through whistle-blowers or the freedom of information act.
Mental Models for Designers
What do people here consider to be CS? I couldn't really tell from the article. As I recall, CS was in the math faculty and dealt with theory and core principles or developments, stuff you typically read in whitepapers.

Regular programming/software programmes were in the engineering faculty, as well as some software development being covered to some extent in all the eng programmes. I also recall CS + computer eng made up a large fraction, about as much as all the other math depts and more than physics + biology combined.

The title suggests that there aught to be more and I'd agree that grads going into computer science fields should be better prepared but I don't think that has to be via a CS degree.
Cops.
I like this article a lot and would like to see it expanded upon further. Based on their visuals and explanation (without seeing equations) it looks like they've modelled an individual's political alignment based on a number of orthogonal issues and based on how they see their peers. So if there were 3 issues (examples used were marijuana legalization, gay marriage and income tax) then there are 4 forces acting on each person - marijuana legalization, gay marriage, income tax, and pressure from peers.

But their model could be expanded to account for people who are single issue extremists (e.g. a dot that isn't pulled to other dots but does pull other dots towards it), randomness or irrationallity (dots suddenly jumping, possibly to be pulled back or possibly not), and in general more variance in the weight of the force for each individual.

Side note: Is there a field of political science that builds and works off of statistical models similar to how they did in this article? I know that basically the entire field of economics does this, but what about political science?
I don't see it that way. This is not freedom at all. But throwing others out of your home turf while cornering others' markets. Business should be two way thing.
Oh! Thank you for that term, tsundoku. It's perfect.
And it's just a conspiracy theory.

When military is getting active, they seriously don't care about a chat app.

Except if it's from the invader ofc.
Its easy to come up with that after having thought it over for 30 seconds but on the spot, when what the person just told you comes as a shock, you're unlikely to muster up such a response.
Alibaba and AliExpress aren't banned because Indians aren't involved as much in drop-shipping as the West is. And US has already banned ePacket. AliBaba and AliExpress will collapse on its own if the West doesn't lift ban on commercial shipping. There is a huge backlog right now with shipping time going through the roof. You need to have a reliable agent in China to get goods out of China. It is pretty terrible state of affairs. If you are part of any drop-shipping groups on Facebook you'll get to see how drop-shippers are having a hard time getting packages delivered to customers.
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Hmm, I could use this finally realize my dream of the "Squatting Desk".
"So" followed by mind reading is not a good way to have a conversation.
I don't think they're especially successful right now.

Their President is barely holding on to majority support in Texas and is losing every purple state. He seems powerless to appease his law&order base by stopping the riots and indicting their leaders as he wants to do. Their Supreme Court justices keep ruling against them (another bid to chip away at Roe v Wade knocked down just this morning). Their online presences keep getting canceled (Twitch ban against Trump just this morning). The New York Times has decided that publishing a right-wing essay by a Senator, with which the majority of the party agrees, is a fireable offense.

Their right-wing legislature failed to repeal ObamaCare. The right-leaning Supreme Court prevented Trump from canceling DACA. Although the courts didn't explicitly prevent Trump Wall construction, they did the next best thing: allow it to get tangled up in litigation, injunctions, and counter-injunctions for 4 years, thereby preventing substantial progress.

Lots of people have lost their jobs for criticizing BLM, whereas criticizing the right is practically obligatory. I see a lot of rhetoric, and very little success.
That's honestly one of the Big Questions™ about stuff like Mastodon; is how resilient it is against that sort of behaviour.

On a lot of levels, it seems to be designed to allow multiple groups to share blacklists, so that if a given target is a bad actor anywhere, as long as other groups trust the group they initially burned, word is allowed to get around and close the door in their face before they even say a word somewhere else.

That's really the sign of our times when it comes to internet communities - almost all communities have this "innocent until proven guilty" stance for random strangers. Having been a moderator before on at least one internet community, it's almost like you're a police detective "building a case". You don't just get a whiff of "gee, this person's probably acting in bad faith, let's just ban them" - you have to gradually build up a strong dossier of sorts proving that they're genuinely bad, otherwise (at least in the old-school communities I grew up in) it reflects extremely poorly on you.

But because of this, they're susceptible to all sorts of really rudimentary social hack vectors, some almost feeling as silly as "the same guy coming back five minutes later wearing a Groucho Marx mask and a slightly altered name - and fooling everyone".

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I feel like that's really the novel thing about Mastodon et al - being able to ditch these social norms lets people unload a whole raft of scorched earth tools - like pre-emptive IP bans that follow people around and are in place before they even arrive.

They're dangerous tools - we could easily make ourselves susceptible to attacks where trolls get people kicked out of their own communities by impersonating them elsewhere, but it feels like the pendulum's been swung way to far in the "gentle and understanding" direction for decades, now.
An interesting thing I've noticed is that starting last week, NYT RSS feed content no longer displays thumbnails in Feedly (and probably everywhere). It has been driving down engagement for myself at the very least. You'd think that taking themselves off Apple News, the New York Times would improve their alternate delivery methods, but alas.
> From a developer's point of view, I can see the value in PWAs (for them), but as an end user, I really don't see the benefit of PWAs over native apps.

I suspect the bigger demand for PWAs is for non-consumer apps. If you are selling to businesses or building internal apps for a business, often delivering a multi-platform + web app with decent performance/ UX, often a PWA or PWA + Web platform is the way to go.

> Why would I use a Twitter PWA, when the native app provides a much better UX?

This is why I think vertical/ internal apps make a lot more sense for PWAs. If consumers have a choice on what they use, they are going to opt for the faster/ better integrated app and PWAs can't compete. For a purchasing manager, the difference between a cross platform PWA and delivering 2 native mobile apps plus a web app can easily be tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in development costs.

(FWIW, I work on a large SAAS web app/ PWA which obviously colors my perceptions)
I used to work at Maker Studios, and the expectation by a lot of the bosses was that their YouTube videos would replace the traditional Hollywood production model.

They were wrong. People want high quality, professional content.