skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unlikely this information is coming from Google or Apple directly. There are a ton of ad supported apps out there which collect location data and feed location data (and piles of other metrics) back to the advertising companies who sell the data to data brokers and use it for advertising.

> Also, is there any way to prevent Google from tracking the location of my Android phone short of uninstalling Android?

Good question.
Serious question - are they're any popular (define that how you like) sites that prominently use / require Flash?
> They have a major uptight brand problem, maybe the Mac v PC ads helped cause that, perhaps

Maybe because the standard advice given when purchasing a Microsoft device was to spend hours reinstalling Windows to remove malware. I know technically it was HP or Dell or Sony’s device, but since there was no non malware option, obviously Microsoft chose to let those brands sully Microsoft’s brand for a few dollars in short term profit.
> Microsoft had all the cash in the world to make it happen. But instead, they put Candy Crush in the start menu.

And got rid of Pinball. :(
Collapse of Wirecard has temporarily taken down payment card service Curve
Child malnutrition in Thiel's home countries (Germany, US, or New Zealand) is 100% solvable with money, maybe even entirely with his personal money.
That vice article is more interesting than the OPs one.
Sure, but a large portion of the Apple store crowds has always been people just hanging around and goofing off on the laptops. IIRC it's policy in those places to always let people do that however long they want, even if there's clearly no intent to buy anything. I've always wondered what portion of those crowds are actually customers.

EDIT: Yes, everyone, I understand the marketing and lifetime-value reasons for doing that. I'm just questioning the value of comparing crowd sizes as a direct measure of relative instantaneous revenue/success.
Exactly! Never bring a smartphone to a protest and keep the dumb phone shut off, except if an emergency qualifies otherwise.

There are hundreds of reasons for not bringing a smartphone, not only the abuse of companies like Mobilewalla. Imagine if you happen to be close to a storefront that is vandalized or a statue that is brought down - cellphone data will make you a terrorist suspect! (At least in the current US).
Fantastic news. Adobe Flash is a digital tumor.
I made a CLI to simplify navigating through directories on the terminal. When I started it I did not know about cdd but in the end it did a lot more than that. I use it everyday and would love it if anyone could give a review. I would love it if I am not the only one using it.

https://github.com/nsr-py/Teleporter

I know this a basic project but I also finally started learning web development in this lockdown and target to come back here to talk about a better project than this.
Till then,
Peace.
That's an interesting and I think valuable angle to all of this. Trust in institutions is absolutely key to the proper functioning of government, but it is also key to maintaining ethical behavior in any institution. If you can't trust your institution to do the right thing, it means you're less likely to speak up when there's wrong doing, and it emboldens those who commit wrongdoing. Over time one can see how this system calcifies into a culture of unaccountable behavior.

This is why the solution to police misconduct problems is going to require systemic change. There needs to be independent investigations and oversight of misconduct, and better systems to support whistleblowers. Those that are terminated for misconduct should not be reinstated and shouldn't be able to become officers elsewhere. In the military, you can't re-enlist if you've been dishonorably discharged, why should officers who abused their power be allowed to regain that power?
Back in the day, once upon a time bunch of toads valued their happy lovely pond of fish and stayed put. They turned out humans.

Some, valued freedom. They wanted to see what's beyond that blue yonder and where those white clouds came from. They became birds.

I regard birds to be vastly superior to humans in spirit and function. Say, what is our most proudest achievement, flying in a rocket? Yeah. They did that a million years ago.

Everything we do becomes completely irrelevant if we can become birds. Every thing. Just every thing. Completely irrelevant.
Huh!

I thought it was always me and I was being too cynical but on mobile web, half of the times, I am scrolling and stop to click on media/link in the tweet and freaking add shows up and I end up clicking on that. May be it's just my device but annoying as hell UX.
I feel Spotify makes it hard to listen to albums. I can queue up a song to play and it’ll then get back to my playlist, but if I play and album eventually it’ll reach the end and quit playing anything. Then I will have to stop what I’m doing and find something else to play.

I feel the UX could be improved and it might change listening habits similar to Discover Weekly
Are there any statistics on officers who are shot but not fatally? With the widespread use of body armor, you’d expect that would drive fatality numbers down.
This machine has a six-core SoC that has 2 fast cores and four slow ones. It's more or less equivalent to what you'd expect from a low-end laptop, which is consistent with the price.

In general, faster cores will dedicate more silicon to out-of-order or speculative execution, branch prediction, internal caches of various sorts, etc. The slow cores, OTOH, are most likely simpler, in-order cores with less less smart tricks, aiming to be simple and low-power. Vendors add/remove/tune all these tricks and more (memory channels, IO lines) to put processors in a given spot.
MongoDB Replica Set Auto-Сlustering for High Availability and Performance
Thanks for linking. I missed the 6 hour 'coordination time' when I made that comment. I think that async as the default is very important to be remote first https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchro...
doesn't work for mobile unfortunately
Same as my experience. While it was admittedly usually dead inside my local store, the clerks were happy to hang out and talk shop, super generous with freebies like t-shirts and the actual buying process was very smooth. As much as I complain about Microsoft, they did a very good job with their stores.
In most states, the legal definition of assault doesn't even require physical contact.

Trying to shove a police officer and miss? Assault. Stepping on their shoe while being arrested? Battery, and also probably assault. Spitting on a police officer? Battery, and probably aggravated assault.

It's very misleading to claim that 10% of police officers were assaulted in 2018. That might be true in a strict legal sense, but most of them probably walked away from their "assault" without so much as a bruise.
SARS-CoV-2 detected in Barcelona sewage water sample from March 2019
We don't have megafauna today because our ancestors ate them. Mammoths, Giant Australian birds, giant groundsloths, all disappeared when we showed up.
I think there's a similar effect in school - I realized in college that in many of my classes, it was not hard to get a B, but significantly more work to get an A. So lowering my effort level and aiming directly for a B in a class or two significantly decreased my stress levels over the semester, freed up time for extracurriculars, etc.
TFA literally says don't use full screen modals, ever. I disagreed with examples of that not being necessarily relevant with the way today's applications can work.

Important from the NNGroup article you linked even demonstrates great modal usage and states "3. Modal dialogs can be used to fragment a complex workflow into simpler steps." and "4. Use modal dialogs to ask for information that, when provided, could significantly lessen users’ work or effort."

That's important - modals are not just intrusive pop-ups as many designers and others in this thread have decided that they are. Again, every element can be used inappropriately but that doesn't mean the elements are to blame.
Me too! They also don’t make much sense. The innovation in data storage was from “self-hosted” to “managed”. That’s quite a broad generalization over what’s happened in data storage over the last several decades.
Yes, I did. It doesn't change anything. It's still transphobic to lump them together and then attempt to justify your attempt to avoid them on your perceived notions.

As a thought exercise, if you were to change your argument to be one about race, it would be a racist thing to say 'I don't wish to work with black people because they take things so personal'.
Right, but the ideal number of feral hogs is zero. The ideal number of wild wolves is not zero.
Good apples get fired, harassed, and stripped of pension for breaking the code of silence.
I well remember the Weeping Woman incident as around that time I'd heard Patrick McCaughey's voice on a recorded tour tape and I'd thought he'd done an excellent job at describing the tour and artworks.

What I still find amazing is how anyone could just seeming walk out of the gallery with the work without actually being noticed, but then the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne wasn't the only one whose security could do with a boost.

I recall being in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam some decades ago and being able to come with just several feet of Vermeer's The Milk Maid—close enough to examine it in fine detail and even photograph it. On the same visit, I turned a corner into a sort of alcove only to 'confront' a Rembrandt self-portrait hanging on a wall by itself. In both instances I was the only visitor there viewing the works at the time and the guards, whilst present, were a considerable distance away (and with the self-portrait the only guard in the immediate vicinity was effectively in the next room).

This was one of great and most unforgettable experiences of my life. I consider it a great privilege that I was allowed to view these great artworks at my leisure without anyone breathing down my neck to see that I wasn't doing anything untoward.

I was surprised and it wasn't lost on me at the time that I had had such easy access to these works, especially so given that Rembrandt's The Night Watch had only recently gone back on display after having been restored, it having been slashed by a madman some years earlier.

I suppose this is the dilemma faced by all gallery directors—overprotect the works and people cannot fully appreciate them or to make them more accessible and then risk possible damage to them. This dilemma was never clearer to me than when I was visiting the Louvre: the Mona Lisa was behind glass with hordes of Japanese tours hovering around it all clamoring for a view, essentially I could see nothing interesting, a photo of it in an art book was much clearer.

I left the area immediately and went back to different part of the Louvre to see another great work—one of my favorites—Caravaggio's The Fortune Teller, here too I could appreciate the work close up and in detail without hordes surrounding me.
You can add Edgars, one of South Africa's oldest, most profitable, and largest retailers to that list. They filed for bankruptcy recently in the aftermath of a botched Bain Capital 3.5bn USD buyout in 2007.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/407279/edgars-credi...
I think on that last point it would be dangerous if everyone that that way. What the police need are honest good and moral cops who are not afraid to stand up to their colleagues.
Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes
Lessons for Coronavirus from the Adult Film Industry
What do you want to happen after an album is finished?
My first paid gigs was software for the Arc while I was still in school (BBC’s and Arc’s were the computer of choice of many U.K. schools at the time). My first HTML was written on an Arc.

Fond memories of the platform. Lander is still hard as fuck to this day...
Common Lisp also has this:

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along with the ; one liner comment.
I do enjoy it, and I think if it were $100 more and included a better display (brightness is not great) and a much better trackpad, I would love it.
That's what happens when you open stores no one wants.
In my opinion this is linked to the shutdown of windows phone. If you haven’t been following it it went from Windows Phone is dead[1]. To Bill Gates use Android[2]. Subsequently Windows Phone was removed from the Microsoft Store.

[1]: https://windowsphone.stackexchange.com/questions/16686/as-20...
[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16365424/bill-gates-andro...
That happens in many stores. I call them "store groupies." Around here, vape stores have them in droves. I remember them hanging around Science-Fiction bookstores; often using the back rooms to have D&D games.

I think that every one of them becomes a customer, eventually. Many of them become evangelists, which can sometimes be even more valuable.
A credit default swap is not an insurance contract; you're in the world of 'buyer beware' not 'utmost good faith'.

Even the monoline insurance wrappers around the various credit products were very atypically constructed insurance contracts.
His Spotify Artist page lists ~70k plays a month, so he's just slightly over $1/1000 plays.

I suppose this is peanuts compared to what a radio play is, etc. but strikes me as fairly reasonable?
More excited about improved WebAuthn support. Time to finally add this as login option.
Stupid Patent of the Month
Spotify does allow you to store your songs locally on your smartphone. Although you are of course locked into their ecosystem.

For me it works, for others it may not be adequate.
I think many have controls and you could always set it to 80%.

This is a bit like having better VRM's and cooling improves the life of CPU's.
Good looking people cause enjoyable chemical reactions to occur in people’s brains. If you take two identically qualified people, the person who appears/sounds more pleasing to the buyer will win the business. It’s part of nature, for better or for worse.
> I don't like Strang books that much as I find them a bit verbose

I'm not sure I agree with you. I remember his elementary calculus book, where he states and proves the fundamental theorem of calculus on the first two pages (including the definition of derivative and the definition of integral). He says something like "this is not a car analogy, this is the real thing and we are already done, the rest of the book is just minor details and examples". I do not know how you can be more concise than this, considering that half of the first page was taken by a cute drawing of a speedometer and an odometer. That you call verbose?
I have such a hodgepodge of purchased music. I have a giant library of old pirated MP3s. I have 30ish MP3s I bought from Amazon years ago when I was trying to avoid iTunes. And then I have about 15 tracks bought from iTunes, mixed with some mixtapes that were free but imported into iTunes.

I listen to none of it now. I was a Pandora customer, now I'm a YouTube Music customer. In the car, it's SiriusXM.
He's really talented as well, so that helps.
Internet Monarchists Are Coming for Your Children
Yes, they accidentally posted this one a month early: https://local.theonion.com/man-just-buying-one-of-every-clea...
You'd need a computer that's substantially more powerful than a Mac in order to emulate one. I believe Apple's premium will not be high enough to make this economically viable.
These are always fun to read. This is from 2015.

Sadly it looks like they discontinued this series in 2018.

https://www.eff.org/search/site/stupid%20patent%20of%20the%2...
Really? Because even really old portraits had huge amounts of background blur: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/aU4oh69TPgC0JrujNVvk... for example.

Now of course, it wasn't trendy to take portraits with only one eyelash in focus, but the vast majority of people even on FF don't do that. On my 50 1.4 (a lens made for film cameras, btw) if you want to take a picture with such an extreme amount of blur you need to have your subject quite close to you. And there is virtually no one with a lens faster than f/1.4 nowadays.
Radios don't have to pay anything unless they're an internet stream
>There is no reason to go to an empty office

With my entire family WFH and the prospect of school not being full time, I have a MASSIVE incentive to go to the office. I'll have a reasonably comfortable place to work! I also find the commute to be useful for gearing up to and winding down from work.
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded
Ironically this is "broken windows" theory applied to the police: if they don't see the rules fairly enforced inside their own organisation, how can they enforce them outside?
Do you have any source for your claim that "grams of butter", "grams of flour" and "grams of sugar" do not all refer to the SI unit "gram"?

I live in Europe and have always weighed exactly 100g on the scale, whether I was asked for 100 grams of butter, sugar or flour.
It also makes sense to use 600$ device that continues to get support for 5 years. Therefore , less waste overall. Cheap phones don’t produce less waste.
Don't worry, most projects in the olden days were over budget and time too. The business normally manage to make things complicated enough to overrun the schedule. I'm only able to go back about 30 years but Fred Brooks seemed to agree.

What we don't have these days is large teams of career programmers that have worked on the same systems and technologies within the same business or industry for 10+ years, often supported by business people with the same experience. This makes us more susceptible to consultants, marketing and technology fads.
There is a setting for that: "Autoplay similar songs when your music ends" - does that not work in your case?
Do traditional radio stations pay per track play? I'm unfamiliar with the business.
People I respect use the term decolonisation so I'm trying to keep an open mind about it, but I'm unclear what it means and suspect there may be a motte-and-bailey strategy at play around it.

Could you explain where the dividing line is between decolonisation and cultural segregationism?
I buy digital music from Bandcamp whenever possible. (Otherwise I buy it from Amazon MP3 or pirate it from Soulseek.) I like to build a collection and I can't stand the notion that some streaming company or copyright holder can just decide I'm not allowed to listen to an album anymore.
There's a setting to have it play related songs after it finishes an album. On the desktop client, it's in hamburger menu > edit > preferences > Autoplay > Autoplay similar songs when your music ends.
Hackaday launches Hackaday-U, first course: Reverse Engineering with Ghidra
Cloudflare: Cache Analytics
Xbox totally is...But I honestly don't think many (normal, not HN or tech) people associate the Xbox brand with Microsoft so strongly. Maybe somewhere down the stack of other things but many likely associate 'Windows' or 'Office'.. which of course is not interesting at all to the normal person.

Plus the average person has no idea what Hololens is and the Surface brand is not actually strongly associated as well (at least it's not the first three things a customer thinks).

Basically to the average person it seems like a `Best Buy that sells less cool stuff`.

In comparison, the first things when people think of Apple is 'iPhone' followed by 'iPad', and 'Mac'; all of which outsell the Surface Brand multiple (or in the case of the iPhone, hundreds of) times to 1.

If Microsoft opened Xbox stores.. I actually would expect success.
Verizon Joins Growing Facebook Advertiser Boycott
They actually have a setting for this, look for "Autoplay" in settings.
I didn't know wanting the government to follow that actual law was By and large your arguments are that of every entitled spoilt brat ever, who wants mommy & daddy to come rescue them.
Not to wear a tinfoil hat, but couldn't this data be entirely made up?

It also seems to imply that the data is 100% accurate. And that is also wrong based on what I see.
With great power comes great responsibility, Spotify Data Scientists.

If discover weekly is truly that impactful a decision made by a model to include or not include a song could determine whether or not an indie artist can pay their rent that month.

Not quite iris dataset classification.

Edit: I should clarify that I only mean that this impact raises interesting questions and DSs (I am one) should pay close attention to the impact of their models.
Alternatively, you could look at the version on the EU website. This article[1] links to the standard[2].

[1]: https://www.cencenelec.eu/news/articles/Pages/AR-2020-008.as...

[2]: https://www.cenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=104:110:877190265864601::...
65,000 listeners a month – $800 in revenue. 1.23 cents per listener per month. That works out to 14.7 cents per year. To earn a modest $50,000, you would need ~360,000 monthly listeners. This doesn't seem sustainable without outside sources of revenue.
Wait, what? The same virus? March 2019? Are we sure that's not an off-by-one typo, or an error?

If that date stands up to scrutiny, wouldn't it call into question everything we thought we knew about the origins and history of covid-19?
15 years old camera with 50 years old glass: https://i.imgur.com/lcVh2dc.jpg

Pixel 3: https://i.imgur.com/Tl9Qjhj.jpg

Phones are good snapshoters but for everything else a dedicated camera will be superior in every way besides size.
Also evolution probably didn't involve any conversation or human language at all.

I think the author admits that this is tongue-in-cheek style like the short fables on how camels got their hump.
Oh, it’s mentioned in the very last paragraph!
Mandela's many years in prison were the result of his leadership of a "terrorist" organization that killed thousands, mostly fellow blacks, frequently in horrific ways. You're right that this was not on the scale of Genghis Khan's crimes. Yasser Arafat is a better comparison.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/17106-...
I just listened to "Lullabies For Little Crimes" and "Circles", it was great! I'm really happy Spotify found a way to surface artists like this who deserve attention!
> Where are the soldiers?

I think the rate of death and injury where they weren't back to work in a couple of days for US troops in Iraq was a bit less than 2 in 100. *

Note that most soldiers work in supply, administration, artillery, cooking, running the mail system, and things like that, and aren't exposed to any combat at all at any point in the careers.

I can imagine refuse collector being more dangerous than that.

* Death and Injury Rates of U.S. Military Personnel in Iraq , Goldberg, 2010
> The biggest thing to me was that I learned that motivation was something that could come after you force yourself to wake up early and just get started.

This is such a great reminder. Thank you for sharing!
Celebrating Pride 2020: Stories of LGBTQ+ community members impacting tech
It’s a positive thing for the very reason this thread exists. Microsoft stores are now shutting down. If I’m investing time into a product line, I am interested its continuance.
This seems to assume there is no suffering in the US, so we have to import our suffering from elsewhere by going on a fancy suffering safaris. How decadent and gaudy.

Where exactly would they go that would dissuade them of socialist ideals? Maybe some sweatshops run by multinationals? Some cobalt mines? Non-fair-trade coffee farms? Countries harassed by aerial drones?