skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds reasonable to me, could be a reporter, private eye, or wotnot
Yes, but it is no longer their "motto" (the guiding principle for the company). So, it appearing in the CoC does not mean that it's the guiding principle.

But I think you are raising a good point. Why is this piece of "misinformation" being spread so much? What do you think? I think it is because it corresponds to people's experience with Google: "an entity once liked by the users and did good deeds has quit doing those." So, it may be "misinformation" as you put it, but I don't think it bears no value.
This "point" about children is not about children at all. It's about scared, egoistic adults willing to sacrifice children's welfare for their own.
> I have promised myself never to build weapons unless the United States is attacked

Attacked by whom and for what purpose and for what ends? How would you moderate your response to an attack based on the circumstances? How do you even know the attack was real or that it had the intent that was reported by the media[1]?

The US is a big country, and while its mainland has never suffered any significant attack by a nation-state in de-jure war, the US is "attacked" in some way or another quite regularly - the immediate example is 9/11 of course, but what about economic and social attacks (e.g. Russia social-media manipulation, or the PRC's attempts to replace US influence abroad)?

I assume the US is your home - but from my perspective (as a non-American) that seems a tad chauvinistic: do I detect you implying that the US worth defending but not other democracies? Or 1,001 other points one could make along similar lines.

I appreciate that one's moral philosophy and position on the extent of the right to self-defence (from the person, to the home, to the town, to the nation) is a very complicated and subjective topic, so to be clear: I don't mean to attack your stated position at all (I'm sure you have a well-reasoned position), but it's a bad idea to try to succinctly summarize one's opinion on this matter in particular on the Internet.

[1] Thinking of 9/11 again: I'd wager the vast majority of Americans would repeat the "they hate us for our freedom" line without thinking too much about how much of a gross-oversimplification that line was when there were in-fact many reasons for the plot (e.g. https://mershoncenter.osu.edu/news/what-caused-911-and-conse... ). I guess if anything good came out of 9/11 it's that Islamofascist militants realised any political message they want to make would be completely distorted or misrepresented in the American media landscape - even if some of their goals were still achieved (e.g. getting the US stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East).
Reminds me of the director of the royal coin cabinet in Stockholm, Sweden. He sold coins and medals from the museum for a value of 20 million sek (~$2m) through a coin collector/trader from 1997 until a few years ago. He could only be sentenced for selling 10% of those coin because of lack of evidence.

https://coinsweekly.com/theft-at-the-stockholm-royal-coin-ca...
> I'm in a position where I'd like to develop a better client for Bitwarden

Beware that, if you use GTK, you exclude a certain segment of the population who need Accessibility and aren't on Linux. This definitely includes screen reader users, but probably also users of voice recognition, switch control etc. QT works much better here. This is yet another tradeoff to make.
In discussions about this I've seen multiple people tout "they have to defend their trademark or risk losing it". But no, that's not how it works. Defending it means you make sure your tm is not watered out or becoming a generic term. This is far from doing that.
What data do you expect them to mine from gsuite customers?

What do you think they do with the data?

Their privacy policy mentions they don't scan gsuite customers data and they were auditted by a 3rd party: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650?hl=en
No, you're saying a business that treats everyone equally is a charity.
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Can you name one specific example of a conservative media outlet spreading a demonstrably false story and not being penalised?
I don't deny the technique has its uses. The point is it is a poor technique to use if your goal is hypothesis testing, which, as I said, is what most statisticians care about.

I didn't reply to you, but to goodsector, who claimed that statisticians cared focus on efficiency at the expense of reliability. I dispute this.
The nuclear option that could be implemented by a grassroots movement is an organized campaign to use Apple's trademarks in such a way that they become genericised.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

Even the smallest amount of headway in this direction represents such a threat to Apple that despite it's might, it would have to back down.
Why should you worry about DNS attacks?
> People in US cities do have cars. They're parked everywhere in San Francisco, the streets of New York are filled with them.

This is equivocation. The streets of Shanghai are filled with cars. But you'd be crazy to claim that people in Shanghai have cars. Just enough of them do to fill the streets. That's almost nobody.

Similarly, USD 2000 and six months is trivial compared to what it takes to get a Shanghai license plate. (Though a driver's license costs less money and probably a similar amount of time.)
Hey, are you absolutely set on GTK for non-linux systems?

It has accessibility problems, excludinga certain group of users, including blind people. I'd urge you to reconsider.
>The reason customers went with Google Play is simply because it had momentum and scale, and customers don’t want multiple stores.

The reason customers went with the default is mostly because it's the default. Given the choice, we'd see a lot more competition.

>If someone wanted to develop a better store, with libraries better than ‘play services’, what stops them?

The anti-competitive google behavior where they forbid you to sell any android phone with Google Play if you sell any android phone without it? IIRC there was a lawsuit/fine in EU a few years back regarding this.
This reminds me of the "Fontus" Kickstarter:

https://youtu.be/aPvXnmBIO7o
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For those who want to cut Google but still have to use AdWords (you advertise your product), AdSense/AdMob (you earn from ads), Play (you publish Android apps), and Contacts (integrated with your Android phone) -- what's your setup?
Good question. One problem is, that you need time to explain implications of non-free software. I found, that I cannot explain it better than Stallman himself, with the 4 freedoms and examples from the past, how the whole argumentation is based on the 4 freedoms and how those were thought of.

If someone wants to know and is willing to invest an hour to actually show interest in something you are enthusiastic about (not so many people usually), I ask them to watch Stallman explain it and help out, if there is a question of understanding.

Other than that, I tell people that in my free time I only do free software for ethical reasons. They can decide, ehether or not they are interested in what I do.
Loosing the energy on Mercury is only part of the problem. You also have to get there.

Contrary to popular belief, going closer to the Sun is as much difficult as going further away from it. Orbits require energy to change them regardless which direction you want to do it. You can go to tables and see going to Mercury costs almost the same as going to Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget

There are handy maps of Sol system if you are interested:
https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/131682...

You can of course minimize the energy even further using gravity assists, but this would require multi-year journey.

There is another trick when you want to go very close to the Sun, which is to go further away first, and then use much less energy to actually stop your orbital speed and fall however deep into Sun well you want. Unfortunately, Mercury is just far enough from the Sun to make it unprofitable and it also takes an awful amount of time to execute.
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In the heart of Europe we let this go on for years. Still makes me furious, the willingness to look the other way.
The word was used because it was in the prompt and the prompt was constructed in such a way as to force it to use the new word in the place of an old word. No "understanding" is necessary, other than from the human constructing the prompt who needs to understand how the system works.

In any case, it's a language model. It has no ability to "understand" anything. It can compute the probability of a token to follow from a sequence of tokens, and that's all. There's no "understanding" there, nobody made it to understand anything.
> They should create legislation to control access to all app stores to prevent this rent seeking

Thinking a bit wider, the same legislation should affect e.g. how Amazon can treat people who sell on their platform. They are all monopsonies:

“In economics, a monopsony is a market structure in which a single buyer substantially controls the market as the major purchaser of goods and services offered by many would-be sellers.”
What's more funny to the Greek mobile internet comedy (or maybe drama for us greeks) is that before 1 year, after the elections, the new prime minister asked nicely the telecom operators to offer cheaper mobile internet. The operators agreed of course.

The result? There were some mocking offers in the form of double GB for the same price right after the meeting (ie instead of 10 euros/1 gb you'd get 10 euros/2 gb). After 1 year nothing more. The telecom operators think that we are in the 2000 where mobile internet is something that only company executives need...

I think the time has come for the government to stop asking nicely for cheap mobile internet and force the operators to align with the rest of Europe.
> Trying to find an alternative to Android.

For privacy and security oriented folks, there’s Puri.sm Librem 5 phone that looks interesting. I wouldn’t mind buying one if the reviews are good.

I am particularly excited about the removable battery! Anyone has any hands on experience with the phone? Links/resources would be highly appreciated!

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
This does introduce hash functions, list MD5 and other cryptographic hash functions as examples, and then go on to explain how hash functions are used in hash tables.

Not advocating for MD5, but it does strongly imply the use of cryptographic hash functions for hash tables, which is almost never the case, and a useful distinction to explain.

Cryptographic hash functions are trying to make the original data unrecoverable in any way, and essentially distributing as evenly throughout their output space as possible. They are also often trying to be slow to compute to prevent brute forcing.

On the other hand, hashing for a hash table doesn’t need to be secure in the same way (hence Python’s smaller bits just returning themselves as their hashed values). They also don’t need to distribute themselves evenly. They need to be fast, unlike a cryptographic hash, and they need to restrict the data to a fixed size.
Apple seems to think that it owns trademark on all minimal fruit emblems with leaf to the side. Maybe they should also try to sue Whole Foods Market and Amazon and let's see how that goes. This is just incomprehensible ridiculousness.
In the US, everyone pays for their own lawyer, even when they lose. So it makes sense for companies like apple with deep pockets to sue others, they win by forcing their opponent to pay huge legal bills indefinately.

But that's not true (I believe) in Canada. So what's the deal here? Do Apple actually think pears are apples and they can win the case?
There are dead spots even in Berlin proper. I had more reliable signal in developing countries than in Germany.
The analogy is very apt, from “Two Suns in the Sunset” [1] with Pink Floyd:

“The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in

Gives way and suddenly it’s day again

The sun is in the east

Even though the day is done

Two suns in the sunset, hmph

Could be the human race is run”

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TSz30Nj2n4

For some reason I never understood why the record has such a bad reputation, I am a huge fan of both the Waters’ and Gilmour eras.
They should just break up the cartel and let them compete normally, that would take care of everything else. How to break up a cartel of the richest people in a corrupt society is a different issue...
Cryptographic stamps on hash chains to understand who made specific entries to a layered & immutable database is super useful. I don't know who needs to hear that as it isn't blockchain, but it borrows the best ideas!
I don't think the stats are that relevant, at least for romania.

For example I pay 6 eur/month for a prepaid sim that has something like 2k minutes and sms, and 6 gb of traffic. The thing is that my carrier (Orange) always offers an extra 50gb of traffic for free. Afaik, most carriers have a deal like this.

The quality is decent, they have 4G coverage almost everywhere, maybe except in the mountain areas, but that's to be expected.
And there's plenty of examples of computer-related companies and organizations with Pear and fruit-related names, what about [PearPC](http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/)? Their SourceForge website and GitHub page are up.

And this company is selling Apple logo parody MacBook stickers on Amazon - how is this also not infringing on their trademarks if we use the same standard? https://www.amazon.com/Sockeroos-Sticker-Partial-Macbook-Uni... -

Colour Banana too (Banans are fruit!): https://colourbanana.com/

It's too easy to find these just by googling right now - I want to know what Prepear did that attracted Apple's lawyer's attention...
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Why is the American market so expensive for data? Is there some kind of market manipulation going on? I’d naively expect free market ideals to put America near the bottom of the price range for a commodity.
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A a Belarusian friend asked me this, but I can't find anything on my own.

The common pattern in Belarus is once you are arrested, you are beaten until you give up the pin code.

So, if they could give a pin code that would immediately trigger phone reset to factory settings or show a dummy profile, without Telegram and its opposition channels and groups, that would at least protect their family and contacts.

It would be nice to the phone to be usable afterwords. Protesters may be given their belongings back after detention, and having a working phone is an advantage if they land in a hospital or just outside the detention center with none to pick them up.

So far I suspect that to have this functionality one has to fork Android or LineageOS.

Why Android? Because back in Belarus, iPhone is much less popular than in the US or EU.
There were a few reasons why I couldn't use IaC:

1) Using conditionals to achieve this usually makes terraform unmanageable specially if your terraform is complex.

2) Sometimes you'd need to do more complex steps to save some money, for example in case of ElastiCache you'd need to snapshot/delete/create.

3) Using terraform in a Lambda to schedule this was not straightforward (in my current company) so I gave up making it work :D
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I’m worried that the political jokes (which I personally appreciate) may put some people off.

Also, I believe there is already an extension to block sponsored segments - is there an reason why you chose to make a separate one instead of just contributing there? Any chance the block lists can be shared across both extensions as to not waste the volunteers’ efforts?
Just in case, there are other projects creating lists like these:

- https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives

- https://prism-break.org/en/

- https://www.privacytools.io/

At least prism-break and privacytools have a community-process for suggestions and evaluations. I don't know how this project does it.
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Quantity has a quality of its own.

T-34, which was superior to most German tanks like pzkpfw 3/4 when it was introduced, was produced in vast numbers, around 80000. German designed a competitive tank with the Panther, but only about 6000 were made, and they were beset by reliability problems.

Add in the production by the Western allies, such as 50000 Sherman tanks, the surprising thing is that Nazi Germany didn't collapse faster.

Don't know about modern hardware. Certainly Soviet hardware has a reputation for reliability in adverse conditions. OTOH the first Gulf war was a pretty damning indictment of the warfighting ability of Soviet armour.
Parody is protected under fair use. Though those stickers don't seem very parodic.
No longer their motto? Can you please provide a source?

"Why is this piece of "misinformation" being spread so much? What do you think?"

Because of multiple articles spreading this misinformation a few years back, for example:

"Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct" - https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...

Then the article literally mentions at the end that it's still in the code of conduct...terrible reporting from multiple outlets.
Yes, I hate that, not only since sometimes people accidentally get it wrong like just now, but what if it's in all lowercase? What is 32gb? Oh it's multiple of 8 so it might be bits.... Imagine how great this world would be if we just settled on gbit for bits and any variation of GB for bytes.
It's more about defending your trademark. In principle, Apple doesn't care about some random company using a pear, but if they don't defend it now to the full extent, in any future dispute with a potential competitor, then "you didn't defend it that one time!" becomes an argument.
Your comment makes a strong implication that prices are correlated with quality (and thus attempts to provide justification for price gouging by Canadian telcos) but the rest of the data makes it clear that’s not the case.
That's a good alternative for EC2 / RDS instances but when it comes to other cases like DynamoDB provisioned throughput or Kinesis shards or ElastiCache it wouldn't help much
Relative to performance.
You're not contradicting the GP. If the bringers of the success stories are outgrouped, that is what determines the evolution of the culture.
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The constant financial losses aren't a symptom of poor management because some services - like health care and public transport - are public costs that shouldn't be run to generate shareholder profits.

The dogma that they should be run at a profit makes as much sense as expecting your plumbing, heating, and car to generate cash for your household budget.

"Empty trucks" are very much a thing in capitalism. Ask any airline about flying empty planes to keep slots.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airport-slots-ghost-f...

The real difference between "capitalism" and "communism" is that capitalist economies are consumption-driven and geared to producing status-signalling Veblen goods and services, while communist economies tend to be run on a defensive war orientation.

It's easy to sell ad-driven acquisition and consumption as freedom, but real freedom is a rather difficult principle for a society to deal with.

Both are totalitarian, strongly nationalist and propagandising, and unsustainable in their different ways, but - at least in the home territories - capitalism does a much better job of painting a smiley face on its bleak underside and keeping its failures out of the mainstream narratives.
> The point is that code doesn't belong in Rust to begin with!

I'll reiterate: it is often safer to embed short snippets of bash into other languages than to invert control and call out to other languages from bash. By calling out to bash, you do the majority of your work in better languages.

> No it isn't. Code auditing and vetting has been a thing for years. Say you have a CI pipeline that hooked into Shellcheck to validate your .sh files for errors, that same pipeline wouldn't vet any pseudo shell code inlined in Rust.

You're making a rather particular set of assumptions there.

> Not all, only the concerns you've cherrypicked.

The three you originally mentioned...
Your lack of life experience is showing. Some people who are born in unfortunate situations need heroic amount of efforts just to "make it", and it's not like in the movies where there's always a happy ending. Sometimes you just lose, nature doesn't care. If you are 5 feet tall man with a face that only a mother could love your dating options will be extremely limited. Yes you can "improve" your situation by massive amount of efforts, but it's not realistic for the vast majority of people.
I like what you said so much, to digress just a bit two thoughts:
- I was thinking about the same lines few days ago watching coloring of Roman statues, and how they look lifelike, and then coloring of WW1 photos, and how it looks as business as usual, no fuss no drama, just another ordinary day - sky is blue birds are singing and humans are having war.
- 2nd train of thoughts were some fiction "theory" how we humans were created by aliens as working force. And then somehow amusing thought was that if you have bionic robots or mechanic, but after they served their purpose (mining for instance) they need to dismantle themselves, all you need is to add a self-destruct feature, but feature must be part of the character so they will not suspect. So instead you as overload alien creating killer switch and risking they going after you, they will do it on their own ...

To go back to main subject, most of us are unaware are the things we do good or bad, we work to feed family or just to survive. Maybe some guy out there thinks he is working in strict chemical factory but in fact he is working for a drug lord or some dictator that is creating chemical weapon. For him not feeding his family is bad thing, and he does the job he is educated for.

Very much like biblical "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."

Most of us do not, I am working on a banking software... maybe it will create misery putting in spiral debt some family that will become homeless...
At the very least, I know Apple (as a company made up of people) is not universally supportive of action like this (at face-value: assuming Prepear isn't hiding anything from us) - nor the whole App Store tax situation - and many other controversies Apple gets embroiled into: I've got many software-eng friends at Apple who share their personal opinions with me with fair criticism of the company all the time. Apple practically bans their FTEs from identifying as Apple employees on social-media (all the Apple FTE SEs I know all have private Twitter accounts - and they never talk about their work online) so obviously you won't see anyone Retweeting AAPL SWEs voicing their support of Prepear (or Epic Games...). I know their social-media policy stems from their culture of secrecy, but it also has the effect of making it seem like everyone toes the company-line.
Chrome uses setuid, so it’s already root-ish.
The market was not really competitive because of a very high barrier for entrance (building the communication infrastructure). The regulation forced competition, then the prices fell of their own, when new players joined.