skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are you actually saying, without irony, that it's bullshit and baseless that Linus Torvalds, one of the most famously abusive OSS maintainers in history, had made people's lives worse by way of these actions?

Yes, at least on any scale that matters. He might have (temporarily) upset some people, but that doesn't even come close to what I'd consider "made lives worse".

> one of the most famously abusive OSS maintainers in history

Nice ad hominem by the way. Also bullshit. He was outspoken to the point of being considered rude sometimes, and he was what I would consider abusive in his language on some occasions (like the infamous "abortion" rant; if you never had a bad day and said something regretful, feel free to cast the first stone).

You however make it sounds that he raped a lot of people. Or murdered his wife (hello Hans). Or at least was like this all the time (which he was not, he was mostly polite and professional if maybe a little to direct for some cultural backgrounds).

Get a grip. Some feelings were hurt, some egos got nicked, he crossed the line verbally on a few occasions, got criticized for it, learned from that it seems, some people - which, again, is perfectly fine - decided not to work with him. Linux lost some contributors maybe. In order words: life.

If you expect utter perfection from everybody always, you'll be in for a big surprise.

>Suppose it was a huge deal to other people. I mean, it's not a hypothetical, I've provided citations.

You provided some one-sided hearsay, from mostly anonymous stories, nothing that even amounts to harassment either, let alone sexual harassment. That's the evidential standard of a kangaroo court and the kind of "crime" dictators use to silence their most outspoken dissidents, not due process (which you seem really fond of by mentioning it all the time).

Regardless, that RMS made some people uneasy - while a bit problematic and surely something he could and should have improved - does by far not warrant the way people punch down on him, destroyed his reputation and negated his entire life's work, called him names, fabricated false allegations such as that he was defending Epstein.
Where is your empathy for his humanity and plight? Or is that reserved to people who are slightly irked out and/or offended to see he had a mattress in his office (which he used to sleep on, because he was essentially living in his office, btw)?

>Are the feelings of other people illegitimate when they disagree with you?

Their feeling are legitimate - which by the way does not mean they always have legitimate cause to feel that way, nor does it mean they never have a legitimate cause - but matter a lot less than facts or actions.
not OP, but a superpac is a US political group separate from a candidate. They collect money from random sources in a very unaccountable way, and spend money to get candidates elected or promote specific ideas. The "Super" comes from the fact that after the "citizens united" supreme court ruling these groups have basically no restrictions on the amount of money they can raise or tracking of how they spend it - essentially allowing billionaires and the super rich to buy as much influence as they want.
Is there any evidence that it was planted by a foreign national? We don't censor based on gut feelings that something was planted by a foreign national.
maybe so, but it's kind of silly to compare corporate taxes with taxes paid by individuals. capital gains vs. income tax would be at least a little better.
Geographical IP relocation seems like a common reason to use it. Also just because Google may have access to some information it doesn't mean that everyone else has.

You can't stop companies from gathering information when you interact with their services but you can do things to avoid having all that information aggregated (it would require using different IP addresses for different services, so a VPN can help, among other things).
I’m more worried about too many non-brainy people.
It's still a pain setting up a new one and learning its quirks. If there was a compelling reason otherwise, might be worth it. Can't think of any upside myself, even the price isn't good.
> I don't really know what your first two sentences about human organizations and context are supposed to mean.

They're mean that you have completely misinterpreted the conversation, and apparently continue to do so.

The discussion started about moral responsibility. You're the only one confusing it with legal responsibility. And that's pretty much that.
Mac sales offer lower margin than iPhone sales, as I understand. 9B in mac sales does not translate to the same amount of profit as 9B in iPhone sales would be.

China sales were down quite a bit (28.8% QoQ). That drew my attention because China is supposedly a growth market for Apple.
I've been to a few events lately that have used https://www.airmeet.com/ and achieved similar, in case others are looking.
The whitepaper they link to on the bottom might be more interesting: https://www.gstatic.com/subscriptions/marketing_page/vpn/whi...
Unless I’m mistaken it just appears to be for Android phones ? I guess I can see some value in it, but will no doubt be heading for the Google graveyard in 18-24months !
aka Surveillance As-A-Service
This is beautiful writing and it deserves a reply, but for now I’m just going to read your words and wonder along with you.

I’ll edit this comment at some point but for now, thank you friend. This is beautiful and poignant. :)

Edit - I notice you edited your reply but I’m happy I got to read the original. You’re a beautiful writer.
I genuinely wonder how hard it would be to break these developed habits.

While the article specifically points to the detriments how using multiple forms of digital media at the same time, does it also apply to using one form of digital media while performing analog tasks, like say listening to a podcast while working out.

So much of my life seems to be structured around interacting with digital media in some way while I go about my day. I'm aware the study only shows that a correlation does exist and that there isn't necessarily any hard evidence as yet, but it does seem something that will be hard to work out of my routine., if that ends up being the case.
> 1) No customer support

Google One has customer support. Largely, Google One is paid support Google consumer products,. That's actually one of the main selling points. Since this is a feature of a particular Google One tier, it comes with support.

> 2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months

Probably not.

> 3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail

How would being a VPN (for Android only) provider change that? It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you, and it decreases other people's ability to. Which, insofar as your private information is valuable to Google, it makes sense for them to do as effectively as possible, even if you take the most cynical view of their motives.
At least they are being honest, it's "Increase your online security" instead of "Increase your online privacy" :)
Why change something that works? It is much easier/faster to use short IDs than long user story titles.
Wasn't that a large part of Microsoft's strategy? I remember taking an "IT" class in high school in the early 00's that was 100% focused on learning MS Office. People bring what they know into the workplace.
I had this happen - but I chalked it up to a punishment for using ad block, .. I got youtube premium for free when I bought Google Music (which is now youtube music?) ... it was a fair bundle for $10, all the music I want and no ads on youtube to boot ...

If they de-couple them I don't know if either is worth $10/mo indivdually.
I really love this concise yet informative summary!
> "The Courier sites — for example, UpNorthNews in Wisconsin or Gander in Michigan — aren’t allowed on Facebook’s “news tab,” which is where users find a concentration of journalism, or what passes for it. In this election week, they also are banned from “boosting” their content with advertising.

> That’s because their funding mostly comes from Acronym, a nonprofit with deep ties to Democratic politics that has received criticism for its lack of transparency; the Center for Responsive Politics, among others, calls it a “dark money” group."

How is this controversial?
From the link in the post Facebook has two different metrics: MAU (month average users) and MAP (monthly average people). They don't define these terms but MAU sounds like someone with a Facebook/IG/WhatsApp/etc account who logs in, which that 2.74B figure applies to.
Similarly, the same often goes for classification of people as racist without the burden of evidence or thinking.
> Aren't you reinventing email exept its compatibility to every device on the world?

No, in fact I'm just dreaming about the return of FidoNet, which already had none of these problems back in the 1990-ies ;-) Sure, there was no UTF-8 yet, but a standardized set of 8-bit ASCII codepages was already not bad though - you could always tell the codepage given the language/country and you didn't have to fit a symbol into 7 bits.

And this is an illustration of FidoNet-style concise quoting: quote just an atomic idea, answer it, then quote the next one:

> ...

This way.

Whoever needs to see the whole original message you are answering - it's up there in the thread tree, just a button away. And it is meant to be automatically pre-downloaded for you.

Meanwhile, almost every single e-mail message I get just includes the whole thread quoted under its actual body (duplication level = insane). And it looks and works very weird when people actually need to respond to particular parts of my message paragraph-by-paragraph.
Curious, do you mean: if a task was part of project ABC, with an ID of ABC-123, then if someone moved it into project DEF, its ID is now changed to DEF-621, those two should be linked, right?
I wonder how this compares to Cloudflare's WARP product [1].

[1] https://1.1.1.1/
> your IP is not associated to your activity

Does this mean your incoming IP, or your outgoing IP? And if payment info or Google identity is associated with your activity, why would they need to bother associating an IP to your activity?
This slide deck makes me really uncomfortable.

1.8 Billion Active Users on Facebook in Q3 of 2020

Every user in the US brings gives Facebook about $40 in advertising revenue every quarter

Facebook made $21 BILLION dollars in advertising, just in Q3 of 2020

Facebook has an effective tax rate of between 4% (in Q3 of 2020) and 20% in Q4 of 2019.

You’re worth a bit less than $160/year to Facebook in advertising revenue. They made 70 Billion dollars last year, and have made almost 60B this year already (82% of what they made in 19). They are taxed in the low double digits.

My questions to you:
- Did you get $160 worth of value out of Facebook?
- What’s your annual tax rate?

My guess is it’s No to the first question and a lot more than 4% to the second.
Neat idea! They can be charged on a giant hydrogen balloon platform, which can pump the SO2 to about 20km. I started making pictures of a related concept.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r6CPFJ1AX1ZULacguTf6...
Even if you assume they do honor their promise to not tie any user accounts to the traffic, this would provide Google valuable traffic data.
I did my part by clicking on every Trump ad sent my way
Some public networks (like those at airports and coffee shops) still do sketchy things like injecting ads into HTTP sites and breaking DNS. A VPN is a great solution to these problems.
> > The only thing we have to lose is privacy for domain owners.

> This is a huge downside. Anonymous publishing is a very important right.

It also wouldn't work. Or rather, at best it would only work as well as political campaign message attribution does (and that's with considerable enforcement muscle aimed at it).

Somehow "dark money" often manages to evade these efforts, and evade the consequences of violations, and I wouldn't expect transnational phishing and scams to be any different.

Which isn't to say that we should stop trying, but sacrificing the capability of the general public for anonymous speech in return for dubious-at-best attribution by well-heeled actors seems like a poor tradeoff.
His unflagging support for Aaron Coleman doesn't phase you?
You have to pay money for this. One of the features they advertise is: "Premium support on everything Google".

So, no customer support for non-paying customers, but I don't think that applies here.
> Can't think of any upside myself, even the price isn't good.

The price is zero if you are already on that Google One tier, which is pretty good.

Whether its good if you aren't depends on not just the VPN service itself, but how much you value the other things provided by Google One.
Tuvalu is growing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-isl...
For one thing, I blocked that foolish kid who tweeted that browsers should warn about "googie.com" (a term that refers to a style of architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture ). Knee jerk response make things worse.
I find it strange that they’re tying this VPN to a subscription with drive, gmail, and google photos. Who cares if the VPN logs are anonymizes if I’m using the VPN to upload all my files and send emails to the same account as the VPN?
> Google will never use the VPN connection to track, log or sell your browsing activity¹

I like the honesty here. Oftentimes you learn more about someone's intention by paying attention to the omissions.
The first sentence is

>If you're, for example, contributing to a reddit thread about something which is irrelevant or anything with only a short-term relevance, this article does not apply to you right now.

Forums often end up with some posts that have a more long term benefit, and those should be hosted somewhere else.
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Most of the time to access netflix catalogue from a different country.
"Free" in the title should not mean free-as-in-been on a website called "hacker" news......
i was just about to say -- now they can just read from your dns directly :) guess don't use 8.8.8.8 either :)
Young people are usually more radical, especially when they are inexperienced and believe in some ideology. Maybe we're just witnessing a generational shift in power in media where it's not a 50 year old person taking over for somebody that retires, but a 35 year old person (because more digital skills?).
I don't know if I experienced direct harm from their actions. Certainly they had a culture of being ... not good, and that probably filtered down to customer service and processing, which hosed me over multiple times in the short time I had used them. They ended up costing me hundreds of dollars in fines and late fees because they mishandled escrow (and I was told it wasn't just me, they mishandled a lot in my county), so... ~$140 15 years later is probably not all the useful. A more accurate figure may have been, let's say, ~$1000 15 years ago, to cover the late fees/penalties along with my own time/stress figuring it all out (multiple trips and calls to county office, time away from work, etc).
If you read the article then you would already know the answer to this question. They are using a blinding protocol so that the service that terminates the VPN is unaware of the identity of the user.
No, I believe they are saying if you use any one of those three services in a month you are part of the unique MAU.
Haha!

In think they called it that way because you do use the space key very often. Much like in the game.
OK, but doesn't there have to be at least a shred of evidence from any source, partisan or not?
US coverage

...and there lies the problem/laziness.

The United States is far to large, populous, and diverse to expect a single entity to do a good job covering the entire country.

It's like reading an encyclopedia entry about wine and expecting to get insights into how 1,000 different varieties taste.

Or closer to the point, I don't expect to understand what's happening in Bangkok by reading the news in Tokyo. It's all Asia, right?
None of these are good looks... for Hunter Biden.

I'm 100% down with condemning failson grift! Let's start by instituting 100% tax rates for inheritance or gifts over idk, 100k, and making legacy university admissions illegal. For me it's a "nonpartisan" question not because it spans R vs. D but because the largest fundamental faults that cause it are so divorced from any one candidate or party it can only be seen as a partisan campaign tactic if someone tries to make it about a specific person.

So, to you and Greenwald - don't fucking do it.
Leaked Document Reveals Binance’s Elaborate Scheme to Evade Bitcoin Regulators
Will this one trigger Unknown Device alarms in Gmail as other VPNs do?
The job of an editor is literally to make decisions about what to publish, not to publish everything or kowtow to celebrity journalists or potentially big stories.
I love the TouchBar!
I bet you're fun at parties...
Don’t forget that you have to do all this within 10 minutes, because after that time the network configuration will be totally different.
> In the end that was clearly the correct choice

You think (and to be honest, I agree with you) it was clearly the correct choice. If you ask anyone from the MSNBC/NYT/CNN/WaPo's audience (substantial amount of people), they will say it was clearly the wrong choice.

Two movies on one screen.
US usage is actually down though. DAU 198M -> 196M
Private vs public.

VPNs are to allow you to connect to a private network over a public network. They are not about user privacy. Once you hit that private network, privacy is determined by other protocols, not the VPN itself.
Just a reminder: git was developed as, and can be used as a decentralized source control system. You don't need github at all. Github came 3 years after git was invented.
When you're watching a video and there's a ~1min segment on squarespace...etc, its an ad.
I also didn’t want to believe, but the amount of evidence is staggering and now there is an active FBI investigation. At the very least the press should report that.
It's plausible. The mall could have a stingray device monitoring everyone's data.
I think it is a combination of Work from Home, ARM Transition people wanting at least one more x86 MacBook / iMac and possibly Mac Pro from Studio so everyone could put off the ARM transition with Pro Tools for as long as possible.

But 50% increase in Mac is quite something.

The problem with these sales figure is that Apple thinks their Mac are doing great and their customer loves it. ( There are lot of people forced / locked into buying it and use it but dont loves it )

Let wait and see if Apple release a new Mac customer satisfaction number after discontinuing in the past quarters.
One of the best things I've seen in a long time on here. It reminds me of a few different games; "Little Big Planet", "The Incredible Machine" and of course "Factorio" but this synthesises the best part... Inventing machines!
"iOS, Windows, and Mac coming soon"
"Looks to me like there have been plenty of overly-alarming predictions about a Blue Ocean Event over the last two decades."

Absolutely.

I clearly remember, back in 2008, that many scientists predicted a Blue Ocean Event by 2015. We are entering 2021 and still there is sea-ice in the Arctic (granted, it's thinner and the covering area has diminished, but still there is sea-ice in the Arctic!).

I am not a climate change denialist but because of these over-alarming claims the climatic scientists have lost credibility with lots of people. And no, having Jane Fonda arrested is not helping in the credibility department.
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> The Intercept -- which has published more articles than I can count that contain factually dubious claims if not outright falsehoods that are designed to undermine Trump's candidacy or protect Joe Biden -- is now telling me, someone who has never had an article retracted or even seriously corrected in 15 years, that my journalism doesn't meet the editorial requirements to be published at the Intercept.

IMO, this makes Greenwald look bad. “I was willing to be a part of a knowingly incorrect news organization until it affected me directly.”
> Reaching a settlement is also considered 'winning' the suit in these kinds of cases.

That's in interesting conclusion. If CNN settled for a few thousand dollars to make Sandmann go away, did he really win? Either way CNN looses, they either have to pay for lawyers on appeals or settle out of court and end up where we are.

Pretty much every lawyer whose chimed in on the subject says that Sandmann is unlikely to have won a significant amount. So he "won" in the sense of some PR points with people who already thought he was in the right. That's probably about it.
> What is Google One?

Google One is Google's paid-storage-plus-premium-support-for-consumer-products service.

You could view it as, in an imprecise way, the consumer counterpart to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps.)
Absolutely. QEMU is JITting so decode is only done once. What helps here is the absence of crazy semantics, like flag updates. Some things are still expensive, such as indirect branches (jalr), virtual memory translation (load/store), and handling RISC-V's 31 registers without hitting memory for each of them (the host ISA, x64, has only 16 architectural registers).
Actually there is stuff I posted to Reddit just a couple of years ago that neither I, search engines, or any of the clients can even find anymore. Same for a couple of public Slack groups. I consider these services as wholly ephemeral.

Same goes for any product from Google, since they are notorious for service termination. In doing so, they abandoned their core promise of indexing the world's information. G+ is gone, and the Groups archive is ever-thinning: Usenet posts I made a couple of decades back were once accessible thus, since Google bought the Dejanews archives, but are no longer discoverable.

Fortunately all my most interesting snippets and contributions these days start life in my own private repositories, so I have my own record. Everyone should do the same.
I'd suggest reading the e-mail thread regarding the article:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...

The editor in no way seems compromised to me. There's a lot of very clear, straightforward and polite feedback. I suspect what we're seeing in the statement is a great deal of frustration, which is perhaps not surprising.
It's been included with their Google Fi service for a while. Unless they are planning on killing Google Fi their VPN service is going to stick around I would assume. But they did just kill off my nest secure I bought, which was very disappointing.
From the top of my head making all wires out of gold you would get much better conductivity & avoid the issues copper has with oxidation. I'm sure there are examples for other currently expensive materials.

Also aluminum used to be super expensive and only used for jewelry until it became dirt cheap and is used for about anything.
A 4% effective tax rate has a lot more to do with investment in R&D, declaring losses in accordance to the tax code etc.

The optics are terrible, agreed on that.

Regarding your first question, its not about how much value I get out of Facebook, since I'm not paying $160 for it, advertisers are paying for the ability to reach people.
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I understand why no one would want to trust Google and after Snowden's revelations, I don't see why anyone should.

But when it comes to the largest VPNs such as ExpressVPN or Nord VPN, it is impossible to tell who is truly behind them. You cannot put a name on physical person in charge which is very worrying. And since the NSA is known to use front companies to spy on people [1], why couldn't they be behind all these other VPNs? At least, we know who runs Google.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20131016033046/http://www.foreig...