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Assuming good intentions from TikTok is pretty ignorant. ByteDance's other app, DouYin, is unambiguously a CCP controlled tool that censors dissent and their CEO ingratiatingly and apologetically dedicated the company to "Strengthening the work of Party construction, carrying out education among our entire staff on the “four consciousnesses,” socialist core values, guidance of public opinion" in a public statement [1].

Suggesting that TikTok is leaving MAU on the table to keep users' data safe is laughable when ByteDance's other Party-controlled app, DouYin, is remaining in Hong Kong with a captive audience (as helpfully confirmed by Global Times [2], a well-known mouthpiece of the Party). To even suggest that it's a sign of good intentions would ignore extremely important current events and ByteDance's self-proclaimed devotion to the Party. As we speak, the Party is aggressively assimilating Hong Kong into the mainland by banning public expressions of dissent, controlling educational curriculum, and yes, good old censorship. Forcing HK residents to use only Party-controlled tools that the rest of the mainland uses, like DouYin made by ByteDance, only serves to further the "work of Party construction".

TikTok is political because it is wholly owned by a self-proclaimed political entity: ByteDance. It's disingenuous to suggest there is no reason to assume malintent when ByteDance has a history of censorship and propaganda in its flagship app: DouYin. Your glib dismissal of "China bad" has no substance behind it, while China's ample human rights and totalitarian abuses speak for themselves. Putting the actions of independent private corporations in a free-speech democracy on the same level as the actions of a publicly-proclaimed ally of an authoritarian human rights abuser is plain nonsense. Context matters.

[1] https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...

[2] https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/12803650546557911...
Since GNOME 3 has launched almost 10 ago, the whole environment has been crashing down an endless downward spiral of shortsightedness and idiocy. Replacing what was probably one of the clearest and simplest UIs ever made for an iPad-like, user-hostile interface that threw away decades of well known, polished UX was a gigantic, unforgivable middle finger to their users.
A clumsy, me-too shitfest of minimalism that never managed to achieve anything but complicating computing by removing things, all for the sake of an unrealistic ideal of simplicity that nobody ever asked for.
GNOME 2 was _already_ simple, intuitive and clear. It was feature rich, but easy to understand and use.

GNOME 3 removed everything, feature by feature, without realising that everything was simply becoming more complicated. Having to install at least 3 extensions in order to make a desktop environment behave the way it is supposed to is asinine, and it feels like they totally forgot who their target users are.

Plus, GNOME has been deliberately hostile towards anything non-GNOME for so long now that I am surprised there aren't more people out there telling them to screw themselves. GTK+ has also been monopolised by them and it's become harder release after release to keep track to what they were doing to the point that some devs actually found rewriting everything using Qt a more productive way to spend their time.
This is just for external headsets.
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You’re being downvoted because you’re mentioning a strategy. This is not educational. Furthermore, as someone who does a lot of quantitative research on the market I’m not convinced at all that your strategy will beat the market when adjusting for risk.

You also say things that are unintelligible to someone who knows nothing about the market. Buy undervalued stocks? What does that mean? Most people think stocks with lower share prices are cheaper — let alone something that’s not dead wrong like evaluating based off P/E ratio, which is still incredibly wrong.

So I’d recommend against giving trading advice to someone asking for how to educate themselves.
The question was only "what" recourse there was (and the answer - some), not whether said recourse fixed the issue entirely, nor even whether it is effective.

The difference between "some" recourse and "no" recourse is not insignificant. It is exponentially harder to move the needle from "no recourse" to "some" than it is from "some" to "more."
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A lot of the 'canceling' is legitimate expressions of speech, even if you disagree with that expression of speech!

Consider a lot of what gets classified as cancel culture is:

1. Boycotts - OK we should be forced to purchase things (like Goya, or ads on Tucker Carlson's show) that don't share our values? No, that's crazy...

2. Organizational politics - The Pinker thing[1], and the issue with the Poetry society, has more to do with the internals of some organization. Should we restrict those advocating for changes to organizations they belong to?

3. Firing - Either organizations are able to have 'speech' or they're not... And without cultural norms, we're not going to from on high create top-down standards around which values are 'correct' or not.

I have yet to see a PoV neutral definition of 'cancel culture' that doesn't devolve to litigating whether the issues for the canceling are legit or not.

[1] The Linguistics Society did NOT remove Pinker https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1280950807819628546
I have the same with my headset. It has a physical mute button for the microphone, which I engage as soon as I'm done talking in Teams or similar. It's a dumb switch, so instant and with no annoying woman telling me I muted. Being a dumb switch it's also tactile, so I can tell by feel if I'm muted or not.

That way I don't have to worry about my annoying my colleagues by my mechanical keyboard, occasional excess gas events or similar.
Who enforces the non-compete clauses, to no-poaching agreements ? - The govt. Remove the enforcer and not many employees will honor a non-compete.
It wouldn't solve the problem, but it would solve a problem. And the USG refusing to act in good faith is a pretty big problem. Any mutually beneficial solutions would be at best infeasible or at worse impossible without at least that.

Yes, it would be messy and complex. International relations already are, why would intranational relations be different?
HM is pretty easy implement actually. You just need a unification function, the rest is just a laundry list of rules available everywhere, like Wikipedia. Source: I implemented a typed python dialect as a college project that used HM.
According to my iPhone, I've used 7.7 GB since last December. Of course, I've been spending more time at home than usual, but even without a global pandemic, I'm mostly at home or at work, both where I have Wi-Fi and fixed Gigabit connectivity.

I'm definitely not the biggest consumer of data but at least I don't have to change my browsing behavior at all whether or not I'm on Wi-Fi or not. There's also the luxury that whenever I'm out with my laptop, I just tether instead of trying to figure out how to connect to the local Wi-Fi.
That is interesting, thanks. As you can probably imagine, I fall in the build business logic into data with constraints at the schema layer.

Yes, I understand that FB have a bunch of MySQL instances with a hacked graph layer - same in other places. Makes the case for native solutions and I think that is why Dgraph exist.

Graph will become the base, because it does everything an RDBMS can do and some more.
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GPUs having hardware explicitly for sorting sounds a bit odd, when you can efficiently implement sorting networks in software on the same GPU.

If you have a source, I would like to learn more.
Czechoslovakian experience: the indigenous high tech supply chain could not survive the combination of wild privatisation (new owners often just sold everything off and pocketed the proceeds instead of development) and need to pivot to products attractive to completely different markets than before (unresolved licensing of intellectual property did not help there).
Also, pretty unlikely, but what if the LED dies? :)
I did not mention harassment, or an emotional outburst.

The most controversial part of cancel culture is the blurred lines - is something in your private life grounds for you losing your job, is a tweet outside of the context of your job grounds for losing your job, etc.

If someone wants to boycott sellers of JK Rowling's books for her tweets about transgendered people, that is reasonably called cancel culture.

If someone wants to boycott sellers of JK Rowling's books based on hypothetical comments about transgendered people within the books themselves, that is something quite different.
This actually makes sense to me, but for those who aren't familiar with set theory, you may want to link this for context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis
Stock trading and investing, while not mutually exclusive, are not the same thing. Please be aware of the difference before starting to trade.

That said, I don't have a good resource on trading, but when I looked into it many years ago, most of them were either selling a platform/brokerage that promoted frequent trading (hence earning commission fees) or trying to sell information products by "gurus" that somehow decided to teach the ways of trading instead of becoming a trader themselves.
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> How else would online multiplayer work?

Right, because I said "multiplayer", obviously I meant "multiplayer over the internet".

Multiplayer would work by letting you connect however you want.

> you're asking vendors to potentially do some pretty major re-architecting.

From a game architecture perspective, there is no difference between connecting to someone else over the internet, and connecting to someone else over a LAN. As far as the networking stack is concerned, the difference is that in the second case, you're most likely using IP addresses that are reserved for non-internet use.

But wait, there's more!

> How else would online multiplayer work?

You could just... NOT require a registration when connecting to the internet. Remember what I said about requiring a serial number? Try thinking of a more iconic, prototypical example of DRM.

> GOG's games are entirely DRM-Free for single-player and local multiplayer.

No, they're not, this is just false.
I’m in support of a movement for truly free speech. If we were to achieve that, it would be the first time in modern history where that would be the case.
Other democracies actually have a solution to that too, the government provides financial support to the kind of candidates you describe. That kind of spending is not ideal, but if it means reducing corruption and getting candidates that support the people more than a few corporations then it seems like money well spent.
I’ve been investing for a long time. Biggest key: open an account, add money, and buy something. You will rapidly learn what works, what doesn’t, what drives price etc.

Reading financial statements is a good exercise and certainly important if you are investing at the institutional level, but you’ll find that price has a lot more to do with supply and demand of investors who want the stock than anything else.

This supply and demand principle in economics is oft lost in investing principle books that try to teach theory of valuation, etc.

Assuming you are into tech, since you’re here, you will find that tech stocks will barely reflect what an investing value book would teach. Possibly even teach valuations that are off by orders of magnitude due to the money being thrown at tech growth stocks.

Price doesn’t equal valuation until you are trying to sell.
Counter perspective: The process by which the brain produces intelligence might not be complex at all. Maybe it is just a simple algorithm which, when applied en masse, produces it. See for example the neocortex is made up of billions of cortical columns which are all basically the same architecture.
Just as a social observation I noticed a pattern which always struck me pretty hard:

Nearly all (say 9 out of 10, and not, it's not an exaggeration) of my friends – me included FWIW – have some kind of cover over their webcams. This is true even for people who you would describe as the opposite of tech-savvy. Sometimes these folks even have no ad blocker installed and use Chrome happily.

But still: Everybody has something over their webcams. It is truly ubiquitous! Might it be we dislike the fact something like an eye stares us right into the face all the time?
One suspects that if these particulars were ever stated plainly (as didn't happen in TFA, for instance), many modern published "novels" would be found to lack them? It may be that the line was drawn here, and no further, merely because Elizabethan English is difficult for modern readers. Otherwise we'd realize that any written language has novels as a matter of course.
Ok, I guess we'll change the title to that since the submitted title ("The TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email") has become misleading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But can't you specifically wire the indicator light to always be lit if the camera has power?

I don't see Apple claiming they've done that but a correct design would make the indicator light work that way and be related to software at all. Meaning you could only disable the indicator light by physically modifying the device.
Surely it depends how they would frame it? I'd imagine they wouldn't lead with "Cryptographically secure with BitCoin .."
Haha some people would pay to have a plausibly deniable third party send masturbation videos to their contacts
That's a nice Friday surprise..! My company is in the process of migrating from an in-house ecommerce platform to Shopify and we picked Stitchlabs for ... that piece (inventory mgmt? warehouse mgmt?). Oh well!

Any suggestions for a "modern"[1] piece of software that plays the role of Stitch, specifically in a set up with Shopify?

1: I ended up being pretty disappointed with Stitch. My fault for not checking deeper, but I thought they would have an API, at least. Nope, they use sftp for integration to sales channels they don't "natively support". That's what I mean by "modern": does it have an API that you don't have to pay >$2k/mo to access.
Also if you explicitly log out but don't clear the cookies and then log in again no 2FA is required.

Combined with the problem of 2FA not needing 2FA to be disabled logging in at a compromised computer can totally steal your account, even through 2FA is meant to prevent this.

This mean never ever login to google on a hotel computer, library or any other computer you don't trust. Google 2FA has gaps.

Other problems with 2FA include:

- To enable 2FA with authentication app you need to first enable 2FA with SMS (but SMS 2FA is known to not be secure).

- It will also implicitly enable all your android devices to be able to provide the second factor by unlocking the device and pressing ok on some google dialog.

EDIT: Or at least it was the case for me. Due to e.g. A/B testing or regional differences it might differ.

You might want to disable both. Through I can somewhat understand why they do it as if you then lose access to you 2FA app you are also locked out of google, or at least should be if there are not other "gaps" in the account recovery process. Note that recovery keys are still another thing you can enable, print and put in a save (or whatever way you want to keep them save). And tbh. auth app + offline securely stored recovery keys seem to me the best option.
Starting with #1, why do you believe that "Scott — and from what I can tell most of the rest of the SSC chud[1] community — made an assumption about the ill intent of the author for which there is no evidence."

From what I've seen, everything Scott has written has claimed exactly the opposite. He claimed several times that his expectation was the article would probably be mostly positive. In his explanation for taking down the blog, his words were "It probably would have been a very nice article."

In one of the most discussed postmortems, Scott Aaronson explains why he personally vouched for the NYT reporter and encouraged people to cooperate: "I told Scott Alexander and others that I knew Cade, his intentions were good, he was only trying to understand the community, and everyone should help him by talking to him openly."

While there were a few opinions on the blog pre-shutdown that suspected it would be a negative article, these were generally people who had poor earlier experiences with reporters in general, and weren't specific to this case. Countering them were multiple reports from interviewed posters saying that the reporter seemed genuine and well intentioned.

But somehow you've reached the exact opposite impression: that led by Scott, practically everyone assumed ill intent. Since it's easier to define the opinion of an individual than a group, let's concentrate on just Scott. Could you explain how Scott demonstrated his belief that the reporter had ill intent? Has he written anything that would back this interpretation, or is it based on the assumption he actually believes the opposite of everything that he has said in public? Conversely, what would he have said differently if in fact he didn't assume ill intent?

[1] Chud as in Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller? Or is this a typo I haven't been able to decipher?
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https://www.twitch.tv/thestockguy - I can personally recommend this channel for your daily dose of stock related entertainment. It's not a yolo on options channel, it's just a guy that wants to see other people grow their hard earned money into something meaningful.

The discord associated with this twitch channel has an amazing help section, search and you'll find some remarkably well written answers. Just avoid the degenerate-chat topic though.
The impressive thing about free was that your 4g cap was bigger. 4g is spectrally more efficient (one reason why it’s faster) so they wanted you to upgrade your phone.

Usually scummy télécoms try to charge you more for the faster service, even when it’s more efficient for them.
my lil lab cluster is at 4800th highest contributor to folding@home :-)

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Pretty insightful, I hadn’t thought of it that way but you’re right. I guess the counter would be that cancel culture restricts others speech.
I wonder if the early successes of "brainstorming" come from having someone at the front of the room saying, "No, really guys, ALL ideas are welcome" and allowing the quieter types to speak up.

The special sauce was asserting a commitment to psychological safety.

However, now brainstorming has become a corporate cliché, and actually allowing new ideas is scary, so we all understand when people ask for "brainstorming" they mean just bring up every mediocre idea you can think of that's not too offensive.
Just last night, I was considering how we should tax land area devoted to cars the way costal beach property has been taxed in Florida.

In that state, their Proposition 13 moment occurred about 20 years ago. Owners had their beachfront property assessed at value least as much as a benchmark rate, set by resort and luxury condominium revenue.

Tax a parking lot at the market rate of commercial office space of the same area.
Free speech doesn't cover any kind of threats. We tolerate "veiled threats" to the extent that we can't confirm that they are threats, and they are difficult to confirm by design and definition. They exploit our presumption of innocence.
I think cameras are generally expected in non-budget laptops just as they are in phones.
You can't stop cancel culture without harming the speech of those 'canceling'.
Why didn't they attach the LED indicator to the PSU to one of the image sensor PSU rail? Thus in order for the camera to physically function, the LED must be on. Why not use a hardware interlock? Unless you have physical access this is literally unhackable.
I agree - unfortunately there is enormously vocal, though predictable, pressure from elements of the opposite extreme to throw the baby out with the bathwater. (I say "extreme", but both extremes seem to account for quite a large share of expressions...)
Nice try there Mr.CIA (wink-wink)...
As a former one plus 7 pro owner, I agree with this sentiment.
It is a fun little hobby project. I enjoyed building it, although it's quite simple.

I must say that the load on the battery is not equal exactly to the actual load because the solar charge controller doesn't seem as precise in its measurements unfortunately.
I guess a significant share of those data only plans are used in different kinds of m2m and iot devices.

Of course, the availability of unlimited subscriptions surely is a big factor in popularity of home use of mobile connections in Finland. In places where mobile typically has a data quota, people probably are less likely to use a mobile connection instead of DSL.
This is the only correct design, yet almost nobody does this. One of the challenges is verifying that this was done correctly.

You may be able to verify a design like this once with a teardown, but it's impractical to verify your particular device, and next to impossible to re-verify this every time you leave your laptop unattended.
Black electrical tape actually retains stickiness surprisingly well, and it peels off easily.
I’d extremely not recommend this. Everyone is different of course, but there’s no way you can work a full time job, stay healthy, and dedicate enough time to a serious new endeavor. Don’t listen to the hustle bullshit. If you want to do a startup, just quit and jump into it.
Why is it not realistic? Is it too slow or too unreadable?
even then there probably should be some minimum "flash" time in that if it turns on and off faster than the LED lights up or human eyes can see then it may still take images faster than we can register?

EDIT: a commenter below said

"Macs newer than 4 or so years also have a feature that forces the LED to stay lit for at least 3 seconds after it has been turned on to prevent the single-frame-grab attack."
I have managed to program a REPL in Lua for game development. I also added a feature that lets you reload any single Lua module at runtime, thanks to late binding through tables. Nobody seems to standardize on a good way of doing it so I had to roll my own but I've saved countless hours of restart time doing so and had fun programming at times.

There really, really should be a standard protocol for communicating with a REPL in a running program like there is for IDEs in the Language Server Protocol. Maybe that way the concept would become more mainstream if you could just take any REPL client and walk up to a program with a REPL server and interactively explore its state. The closest thing to said protocol is nREPL which is what Clojure uses, but there are a lot of nonstandard extensions to the protocol for edge case features only applicable to Clojure, so almost every client assumes you're using Clojure and it greatly reduces the viability of using it for Lua or other languages. It doesn't have the backing of something like Microsoft either, I guess because this REPL thing lives in its own world with the Clojure userbase.

I opened an issue on Clojure's REPL integration with Emacs for supporting more languages[1]. I wanted to take advantage of the effort spent on Clojure's client side tooling for things like the command prompt and state visualiser but apply them to at least Lua and allow others to add their own support for other languages. It would be a really big effort but I've already seen the value of it by integrating a REPL with projects written in Lua. As you said I can't ever imagine using a dynamic language without one again.

[1] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/issues/2848
Company doesn't want employees to install spyware. Is Fortnite next?