skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have Win10 Pro. Updates put new 'Apps' on very frequently, the number shown on the Start menu have become a lot larger since install.

The updates turn telemetry on, I haven't even bothered turning it off now, not using Blackbird, or scripting with WMI (you cannot use the Task Scheduler GUI to turn it off ('Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser' under 'Application Experience')), you just get an error unlike everything else.

It used to be quite something to watch the Telemetry read your entire hard drive to do whatever it did, and it did slow the computer down. But it seems to be better now, haven't noticed any performance issues with it at least (Windows Defender is the noticeable one now, but not that bad). Maybe it is better because the EU looked specifically at Microsoft Telemetry and the introduction of GDPR laws, I don't know. It has most definitely taught me to monitor my home PC all the time for things like file access and memory usage.

EDIT: Telemetry may been better for me because it seems it has not been enabled by recent updates (all of 2020), at least for the scheduled task part of it. I was so used to updates re-enabling telemetry that I had assumed that one of them would have after a few months. My bad, and my apologies.
"each country would have their own implementation" would not mean anyone has to serve all countries. Services only available in English today would only need to learn the NATO alphabet to remain fully available in English.
To say, what you're saying, but with fewer words; with Apple you pay for your privacy with money, rather than paying with your privacy instead of money.
Because sandboxing harms the user experience.
Because TikTok is winding down its operations in the US and moving its international operations to Europe.
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It just needs the right press releases, precisely timed, carefully worded.
You're completely right - I misworded the "interesting" part, when I did in fact mean "on-topic."

However, I don't think it changes my ultimate point. All the same, an (assumedly) big enough populace decided this was not on topic.

You make a number of good points, which I won't argue with, except this one:

> Given the context, you might therefore ask why "hackers do not find this interesting". Is it because a non-trivial number of hackers are sexist, and empathize with the harassment against women in tech, so flag in order to silence?

I you're forgetting a very significant populace of "I have a millions issues I could worry about at any given point and just cannot provide meaningful resources to worry about this specific one."
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I used the bible to translate
my dutch name “Joris” to “George” for when I’m in the USA.
The US isn't doing it. Companies are doing it. As stated in the article the company which is currently planning to place satellites at a height likely to have the greatest impact is OneWeb which is a UK company. It is soon to be controlled by the UK government and an Indian conglomerate. The satellites it launches are built by a joint venture which includes Airbus.
Correct- "interesting" was poor wording here, should have been "on-topic."
orbitRage
That was before SpaceX added sunshades to Starlink, which reduces their brightness in their final orbits to below the threshold for naked eye visibility. https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/
And in this particular case, these people, calling themselves Belarusian patriots, are destroying the country: if things start look like they are succeeding, of course the country will be invaded and occupied by Putin, and will just be dissolved, joining Russia as 6 regions plus the city of Minsk. The very Belarusian ethnicity will cease to exist within a generation.

Is that what they really want? If they are patriots, they should hold on to Lukashenka for as long as he is alive, and pray that power transition will happen smoothly so Russia has no reason to intervene when he dies - or it will be the end of their nation as such.
The man has spent a lifetime getting there. You could, too.
I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket, so I am growing income streams from subscriptions, ads and affiliate partnerships. I target niches without a lot of competition. The amount of customer support is negligible, customers are happy and everything is automated, apart from invoicing.
Qt 6 will come with a rendering abstraction layer
People always complain about Latency.
But Latency to where?

And is latency in Asia or the Caribbean or anywhere else outside of North America that bad? Nah.

In 2020, latency from almost every continent is good enough for 99.99% of use cases.

Good enough that I can sit here in Bangkok and use Vim all day remotely into servers in Texas without any difficulty.

Starlink will be awesome for the majority of the world. Even "gamers" (if the pricing is good).
The problem was that people overused "primary" and "secondary". They have meanings when it comes to database replication, but people then erroneously transferred that to the query resolution process, where they do not.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-database-replication.html
The embedded 5G won't be for movies, but for ads, telemetry and forced updates.
Yes that is what they call service deploy.
If Swarmpit doesn't satisfy you on deployment you can use Apollo or command-line. It's all up to you.
Swarmpit is like having a kubernetes interface without the overbloat of Kubernetes. If Swarmpit evolves in the future it will not makes sense the Kubernetes.
I am almost finishing a swarm only setup in 512 MB of free RAM. For Kubernetes you need at least 4 GB.
>I'm cautiously optimistic about this, even if it is self-interested.

I'd say that I'm cautiously optimistic about this, especially if it's self-interested. They're less likely to change their mind later if they actually benefit from it vs. empty posturing.

See Google's "Do No Evil" for a counter-example.
> privacy friendly ads

Out of curiosity, can you give examples of privacy friendly ads that indie devs can use?
This is easy to have a lot of bandwidth when you only have 10s of users, but when the bandwidth will be shared between 10000 users will it plummet?

I remember when 4G was new and only few user where using it, it was very fast, but when more users arrived on the spectrum, the bandwidth per user decreased and the latency incised.
The modern problem of having your data locked up is a much bigger one than the old arguments about Free Software. Data portability would be a good solution to a lot of the problems with user-hostile technologies.

The trouble is, given the vast range of things we do with technology, it may be unreasonable or impractical to create a universal obligation for software developers to provide export facilities that allow transfer of the data in a standard format. For example, what if there is no standard format, perhaps because your software genuinely does something new or in a different way?

Going after hardware developers who try to contain data within their walled gardens isn't a bad idea, though. For example, the GDPR imposes certain requirements on data controllers to provide for data portability, and imposing similar measures on the makers of devices could both solve immediate problems for some users and provide for much more competition in the marketplace.
When was that? Because that is not how I remember the internet from 96 onwards at all. Even more if you were involved in gaming communities, as an example: early MMOs were prime time for dogpiling.

Trolling used to be more prank-ish but it would already at that time certainly devolve to doxxing and start affecting people's real lives. I remember it took me a long time to stop caring on not leaving traces that people could link to my real name, my real pictures or whatever online.

I remember people on online forums salivating when Google came out and was a much better search tool to link an username to an email and from there to your life outside the internet. It was scary to post something confronting these trolls because they could try to find you, they had enough free time for that.

So I don't know when the internet was really that naive and innocent place, it had more innocence but this bad side of it was very present from the get go, at least in my experience.
I completely agree that there shouldn't be an expectation of an immediate reply and rather expect the exchage to be asynchronous.
However, that renders to whole "presence indicator" moot, which is the subject of this particular thread.

If I try to talk to Bob and the expectation is that he might take a while to get back to me, it doesn't make any difference to know that he's "available" or "in a meeting". If he's available and coding he might not anwer for an hour. If he's in a meeting and bored he might answer right away.
While what little you highlight are directionally correct, both the backstory and current debate are far more interesting and nuanced. This recent episode of Vox's The Weeds is a really good summary.

WTF is happening with USPS
[2020-08-18]

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtf-is-happening-with-...

https://overcast.fm/+FOORtkRGM

(Long concerned with USPS wrt postal ballots, I learned quite a bit.)
Here are the rumours - London or Frankfurt:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2020/0815/c90000-9721956.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12295304/boris-johnson-clashes...

I am guessing it will be official soon.
I did the same with my Samsungs... no internet/network.
But in the new one, I can't even use it in a private LAN (for DLNA, ...)... without connecting online. Doesn't bother me too much (HDMI from PC is superior anyway), but it would be interesting to have a solution for occasional uses (like streaming from laptop, maybe phone).
Check vanhack.com
i bought used NUCs too. new one cost way too much :D
Beta eVTOL.

https://www.beta.team/
> Well, after building an airtight case for incredibly gross behavior on the part of the mob, you lost me completely. The implication is that "incel 4channers" are mainstream programmers. They are not. Not even close. I have worked with hundreds, and not one of them is like this.

1. citation needed

2. The fact that people active on Github (i.e. with active work accounts, according to the article) were part of this would suggest that your overall point is probably wrong. Maybe your point about the small sample of people you've worked with is true, but I'd be surprised. After all, how would you know - you think that your colleagues would openly share that they're secretly a racist/sexist/whatever internet troll?
The computational cost of "training" a polynomial would be the same as just one iteration of the training algorithm used by typical NNs. When it comes to trig functions, the story is the same as with the exp function e(). When you call the sin() or the cos() functions in your favorite language, in the end it uses taylor series (polynomials) to compute it (plus some hacks to add precision on certain ranges of the function and to overcome some floating point precision limitations).

The degree at which a polynomial model would fit the real world system has to be validated against data, just the same as with NNs. What does one do when an NN fit is not good enough or too good (overfitting)? One adds or removes layers. Same with polynomials, one increases or decreases degrees.

Sorry for the rant, I am not saying NNs are useless, because I do believe they are super useful for certain problems, specially for categorization. But it seems to me that now a days there is this trend of using NNs as a hammer, and not all problems are nails. Specially when it comes to control, and lives or big economic losses are at stake, it is the responsibility of the engineer to resist the fuzz and craze and use the right tool for the problem.
Perhaps putting a camera at the outer side of each satelite and a screen at the facing-to-earth side transmitting what the camera sees could help. Plus google advertising benefits, of course.
The amount of connectedness is a spectrum. DK [1] is at one extreme end of the spectrum, the other end is getting a notification at any time of the day or night when you get an email and immediately reading it.

We all have different jobs, and all jobs require different amounts of connectedness. But if you want, you can move slowly towards DK's end of the spectrum. I don't have email on my phone, for instance. While inconvenient sometimes, the benefits outweigh the costs. And when I want to do deep work, I close Thunderbird.

[1] Such appropriate initials.
If you want a really good solution, consider using an SSH CA.

See e.g. this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24157781
Breaks down completely for languages like English + Thai.

Forget about living on the beach in Thailand with the ladyboys. Hahaha.
A bit preposterous to speak on behalf of "the rest of humanity", don't you think?
Hahaha I know that feeling!
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Like I said interferometers exist but they are very limited in their capabilities.
For example the VLT interferometer is limited to observing objects that are brighter than 18th magnitude (and that's using multiple 8m telescopes! Using the auxiliary telescopes which are still 2m you are limited to about 10th magnitude).
Something that is easily within the reach of a single telescope less than 50cm in diameter (single 8m telescope can see objects fainter than 25th magnitude - 7 orders of magnitude difference!) - something you can buy for less than 30k$!

Interferometry gives you high resolution at the cost of sensitivity. And there way more things that require high sensitivity than high resolution.
And I haven't even mentioned spectroscopy, which is hugely important in modern astronomy. And there is no way around having a big light bucket - I wish there was.
Have you read the paranoia about TikTok?

I can see it "Trump: China puts 10000 eyes on the sky, they pretend they want to give Internet to the poor but they have cameras and spy on the traffic, and some reliable sources told me they can release viruses from this satellites in a targets back yard, this needs to stop , I will build a space wall and China will pay for it...
- "you can, for example, examine HTML in your tests"

- "that sounds super fragile, there's only a few circumstances in which I would that"

- "Here's the circumstances in which I'm doing that"

- "Here are the problems with what you're doing, and here are alternatives that don't involve examining the HTML"

- "I'm not examining the HTML!?!? Whatever gave you that impression!"

---

Not worth my time.
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> This is a hill I'll die on.

bit dramatic for a comment on the Internet
You’ll love how effective it is, right up to the point where you discover someone in your neighbourhood participated and you can no longer use github.
Because WebDAV implementations aren't that good and a true pain in the butt for system admins to setup. If someone made one that was half as easy to setup as say PHP, it would be doing really well right now.
My point was clearly that is not white supremacy, not that it is ok. Please work on your reading comprehension.
I am not praising anything, I am correcting your statement that much of the financial industry is a waste of human ingenuity. That "waste of human ingenuity" enabled us to build the modern world.
One of the coolest little (well probably big) projects I've seen in ages! Great job!
The Xbox 360 for example used these fuses in the CPU to prevent downgrades [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_eFUSE
Why it should probably be the President initially is a much longer answer, but as far as only targeting specific businesses the answer boils down to not every Chinese businesses being viewed as a problem. If you only view certain companies or industries as strategically significant at the moment then why would you want to ban the rest? That just drives prices for imported goods higher while accomplishing nothing of value.
I think that the evidence can be really simple (not extraordinary) - just gas it up, fly it for 4500miles in about 11hrs.
"all these things are internal US politics stuff"

I do not believe your statement is correct.

Literally the first search I did was "police Poland" in a DDG news search on DDG and the third link was to earlier this month https://www.out.com/news/2020/8/10/polands-stonewall-police-... titled "Poland's Stonewall: Police Attack and Arrest Queer Protestors" :

> Nearly 50 people were arrested following the arrest of trans activist Malgorzata Szutowicz, better known as Margot, on Friday. The protests come amidst a rise in homophobic hate and rhetoric, and the recent re-election of President Duda who called LGBTQ+ rights a foreign ideology that seeks to destroy basic Polish values.

Or from https://euobserver.com/justice/149112 :

> Police were also investigating a separate case, in which a man on a balcony, next to a rainbow flag, grabbed his crotch during a World War II memorial march last weekend, Marczak said earlier. ...

> "No democratic country should allow the kind of incidents we saw, in which police enters people's private homes," [Rafał Trzaskowski] added, referring to police efforts to stop the balcony protester last weekend.

A DDG news search for "racism in Bulgaria" (literally my second search) includes this summary at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50060759 about repeated racism by Bulgian football fans. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/20/bulgaria-sofia... points out "While racist abuse of players inside stadiums attracts attention outside Bulgaria, within the country it is the Roma who are the principal targets of thugs in black and men in suits."

A DDG news seach for "black lives matter Croatia" finds https://balkaninsight.com/2020/06/10/balkan-protesters-show-... where we read "Activists in Zagreb, Belgrade, Podgorica, Warsaw and Sofia rallied to show solidarity but also to point out the problem of racism and police violence in their own countries. ... Dozens of people took part in a protest march in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica on Monday evening. “There is no doubt that racists are also hiding among all our local Balkan fascists.“"
If peers communicate directly, then it doesn't seem to be that clear. I am not sure if they do, though, some people claim it does and some that it does not.
A smart TV is dumb as long as it never sees an internet connection.
> has to help fund space based telescopes.

The telescopes from space can't do what the Earth based can, so the premise is false.
Only if it has cryosleep chambers on-board.
I don't think putting quotes around the word gamers helps you get your point across particularly effectively - it sounds like you don't really think it's important enough of a usecase to be worthy of much consideration.

Many years ago, before life got so busy, I used to play FPS games online over various forms of dialup and then (somewhat) faster links. Bandwidth was fine, if you were patient about downloads, but latency caused real problems, even on "good" days when you could get close to 100ms on some of the better links. In short, 100ms latency (taken from another thread) is definitely enough to cause problems for many games, and would also make things like stadia/geforce now/playstation now not viable. This doesn't mean it's not useful tech - I can think of many useful applications, but I don't think we can just handwave away all the cases where 100ms of latency might, actually, cause an issue.
Exactly.

Elon confirmed the target is <20ms and <10ms over time.
If you read my post you can see I mentioned I was the target for chan trolling/abuse/attack (whatever you want to call it) while being a white cis man. Also they attack each other inside the chans while being god knows what every one of them. It has nothing to do with white supremacy or misogyny but with mean kids that will attack anyone.
Classic government "intervention" that stifles innovation under the guise of doing good. You didn't "solve" the problem. You basically made it harder for innovation from newer players to occur whilst still letting the "evil capitalist corporation" do what they want because you've imposed a cost that they just incorporate into their margins. It's not the best of both, it's the worst of both.
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Anything that doesn’t rely on IDFA, e.g. your Google account in Google’s Apps.

But I was thinking more about tracking within apps that isn’t concerned with tracking across apps or even tracking for advertising purposes, hence, “does not kill all forms of tracking”.
Going from 5-10ms to 30-90ms* might take some getting used to. That's on top of geographic latency.

Chrome's devtools will let you simulate this. It's not pretty but it is better than nothing.

* Yes yes yes, Elon promises better than that, but 30-90ms is what it's currently tested at.
you are a nut job.
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Oh like that? I watched her biopic and she was having general intelligence I think, based on the biopic.

She was a jerk to her parents and to her only daughter. But at the end she did patch up with her daughter.

I don't think she was outstanding outside maths.
I don't remember America claiming it was. The relevant international treaties are being followed. Also not all these companies are American. OneWeb is a UK company soon to be owned by the UK government and an Indian conglomerate. The satellites it launches are built in cooperation with Airbus, a European company.
Yep, except for FPS & RTS games involving fast hands and quick minds. Anything more than 75 ms is gonna hurt your reflexes.
Starlink aims to achieve sub 20ms latency. This is OK for gaming, especially with modern shooters.
I generally don't reply to unsolicited email, giving up on billions of dollars in inheritance money from my Nigerian relatives.

If I can do it, so can you.
I don't see why it is a strong indictment of any sort of ethics. Waging war is wrong, and saying that it's perfectly acceptable to do so is entirely missing the point.

Firefighters are a separate issue altogether, because the subject being discussed is a lot more ambiguous than firefighting (where the problem is clear, and the consequence for sending a firefighter is a positive result).
This is understandable, though it then creates a new challenge: problems that have always existed with hearsay and rumour are greatly exaggerated by the speed and reach of modern technology, and now we have reviews that come from unverifiable sources, which can cause real damage to a person or business, who in turn may have no way to defend themselves even if the review is malicious or inaccurate.
At least for now, until they decide that they can get your money and also further monetize the private info that only they have, which will command a premium. Hopefully that doesn't happen, but who knows.
> it's not always practical

Any reason why not here?

> consumer rights only protect individuals

he's an individual. It was not apparently a business expense

> with little if any protection

If you're in the EU you've got protection.

> that modern devices often contain large amounts of private data

It's a TV so in this case so what (in general, perhaps, but don't most devices have encryption?)

> And it's all rather academic anyway if competition in that market has failed and all the major products are doing to same user-hostile things

And you're rolling over hopelessly as if you can't do anything. Fair enough, you get (nothing) what you give (nothing).

> because representatives usually aren't technical experts and so may not understand the implications of modern technologies or the potential alternatives to current practice

IT'S A TV! WITH CRAPPY UI RESPONSE! Stop making excuses for bad practice. Do something.

> the tide of increasingly user-hostile actions will only continue to rise

OK, let's stop here. I complain when necessary & shit gets fixed quite often. You clearly can't be bothered to fight back so you're rationalising that it's not worth it. I'm not wasting time on this.