skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to correct you, most of what your complaint is about does not violate GDPR. It's perfectly fine to set cookies under GDPR for technical reasons (e.g. sessions), it's also perfectly fine for them to use a 3rd party to deliver functionality. They can pass data to third parties for processing (delivering a chat app I assume).

In this particular case nextdns would be the data controller and intercom their data processor. That is not in violation of GDPR and is something covered by it.

I certainly don't think you deserve any sort of 'bug bounty' for this. At best you might have a case of emailing the nextdns information officer and asking them if intercom is selling your email address as intercom seem to claim they do.

However, Intercom seem to be very wrong about what they claim as their rights. But at the moment not a lot seems to being done about it for much worse violators so don't hold your breath that will change.

In the UK our version of the EFF (ORG) are trying to raise funds to force the ICO to prosecute big adtech that are in much more egregious breach of the GDPR.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-us-protect-your-data...
Linux is also like the United States in that you are in some sense free, but everything just barely works, sometimes things don't work at all, and there is no hope of many well-documented problems ever being fixed. If you have a problem, you are "free" to fix it yourself, on your own, without support.
That sounds like it might just be a bug. At least, I wasn't able to find any information whatsoever on this phenomenon on Google.
I think a matching level of emotional investment is hugely important.
America’s big problem is lack of consequences for stuff like this. The First Amendment has long outlived its utility when you compare the US to any other well-established democracy, and yet Americans take it on faith that it’s somehow the key to everything good about America.

Edit: and 30s later this comment is at -2. It’s bizarre to me that so many Americans simply cannot entertain that the First Amendment might not be a net positive for the country.
I’m surprised by how many people in this thread (and I assume a good portion are American) are unfamiliar with the existence of these. I knew our social studies education sucked in the US but I didn’t know it was that bad. The arguments of the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers (and therefore their existence) is supposed to be taught in a middle school level history class in a unit on the formation of the republic after the revolution. At least it was in mine and I can’t understand why it wouldn’t be in others since it’s at the core of the debate around the passage of the constitution and then shortly thereafter passage of the Bill of Rights. The two sets of papers also reflect on issues people had with The Articles of Confederation.
China has done so with restrictions that would never fly in the West, in that they are illegal or unconstitutional. New Zealand did so by virtue of being an island and thus having tight border control. South Korea and Vietnam are interesting cases, we should learn more from them. In the case of Vietnam, I do wonder how many cases are undetected.

Also, in the case of Vietnam, only 14% of their population is over 55 years old, whereas 29% of the USA is over 55 (and 31% of Belgium, another hard hit country). Seeing as this disease hits people over 55 the hardest (and is barely noticed in those under 30), it is no wonder Vietnam is seeing less of an issue here.

It seems age demographics _could_ have more correlation with outcomes than any government intervention. That of course doesn't explain Vietnam entirely. Also keep in mind, Vietnam has only administered 12,000 test per 1 million people, whereas the USA has administered 492,000 per 1 million.
Avoid caches shared with strangers. Do not use third party recursive DNS.
As far as I can see, there is literally no way to disable network caching via a toggle in the dev tools. This is a huge problem for me.
Why stop at companies? The government itself should decide everything for us. Can we really be trusted to think correct thoughts or do correct actions? Just look at covid - it's shown us that people don't voluntarily make the right choice at scale and that the government needs more power to force us to make correct choices so that lives can be saved.
What ? Who would ever think they need to update their app to support NEWER OS ? Or are newer generations completely oblivious to the fundamental concept of backward compatibility ?
> What they want is predictable, maintainable error free software that still works when the "artist" moves on.

Producing such software is the essence of the art! Managing the complexity of large software systems as they grow demands the ability to creatively invent elegant abstractions that factor that complexity into manageable chunks. Without that factoring, the complexity grows until no one understands the code -- with entirely predictable, and sadly familiar, effects on maintainability.
Furthermore, if you're one of the majority who don't know, you cannot turn it off when it affects you.
If, for example, the NY Times hosted their website on AWS, do you think Amazon should be able to shut off their servers if the NY Times publishes something Amazon doesn't like?

This where we have to ask whether we want Facebook to be a publisher or a platform. Is Facebook responsible for Steve Bannon's speech, or is Steve Bannon?
this is really neat, thanks for sharing. ironically Firefox for Android and Desktop (with mobile view in dev tools) pixelates them - not sure if this is normal behaviour
> - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons are trickling back into the ecosystem - I'm happy with my AdBlocker and Nightmode extensions

The critical functionality required for uBlock Origin and other request-based ad-blockers is blocking using the WebRequest API, which isn't supported in WebExtensions in Safari [0].

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
[0]: https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/master/webex...
We changed the title from "Cairo Is Dead", which is a phrase from the email, to a perhaps more representative phrase from the email. (shortened to fit HN's 80 char limit)
>Perhaps put the "kills" in the proper context of 240,000 / 350,000,000 and then evaluate the relative risk vs. sacrificing one's privacy.

Those are some pretty horrible numbers you're attempting to use. 350m people haven't been infected, so it's nowhere close to 240k/350m. It's closer to 240k/10m.

As for privacy: if we were told we'd need to be permanently tracked from now until the end of time, I think just about everyone would agree with you (at least on HN) that it's just not a sacrifice worth making. But NOBODY is saying that, they're saying: how about we use this tool until a vaccine is ready - which is a far more reasonable ask.
Android without Google: The Reg talks to founder about the /e/ smartphone
I buy em cause apple laptops just maintain their quality way longer than other laptops. All the other laptops I’ve had start losing all their charge within 30 mins after a year or two. My 5 year old MacBook still can go probably 2 or 3 hours on a full battery charge
Threats of violence are illegal. We could leave it to the police to handle this, as they always have until now.
And that that service is using the malware detection data?
This sounds like the old adage:

If you owe the bank $1000, then you have a problem. But if you owe the bank $100 billion, then the bank has a problem.
Rosetta2 is emulation just as much as qemu and Dolphin are emulation, both of which also use binary translation like every other modern emulator. Apple marketing just doesn't want you to call Rosetta2 an emulator because "emulators are slow". Anything running software on a different architecture is an emulator.

If you read my parent comment you'll see how DAWs are going to be using Rosetta2 for years to come, maybe even a decade, for many people. Even if there are ARM versions, you won't be able to use them until all your dozens if not hundreds of plug-ins, some of which won't be actively developed any more or will require a re-purchase for an ARM version, have also migrated.

People invested in such ecosystems aren't just going to up and give up half their collection of software, or spend thousands re-purchasing upgrades to get ARM versions.
The part that struck me is this:

> The major value in a flying car (as with supersonic) would not be in taking the same trips you do now, only a bit faster. Instead, it would be in taking the trips you don’t take now, because they’re too inconvenient. A flying car would shrink your world, expanding the radius of what you would consider for a commute, a shopping trip, a visit to friends, a business meeting, or a weekend vacation. [...] increasing the effective radius for each of those trips increases the effective area open to you quadratically (doubling your travel radius means four times as many destinations).

This very same effect happened on a small scale in the last ten years, when Uber/ride-sharing unlocked journeys that would have been impractical for many with regular taxis. Affordable flying cars would do the same, but with a much bigger sphere of impact.
MLflow and PyTorch integration – autologging and TorchServe plugin
Yes! I do the backup OneDrive backup too. (Not a typo, I meant to say backup twice.) And I actually do it for my live Google Drive as well.

I rsync my Google Drive folder to network storage, without deletion, and I have OneDrive syncing that. So I have a local and cloud backup of everything that's ever been in Google Drive.
Not necessarily so. The States can punish or replace faithless Electors, but a punishment doesn’t necessarily replace a faithless vote with a faithful one.

In theory, Trump received 306 EC votes in 2016 to Clinton’s 232[1]. In reality it was 304 for Trump, 227 for Clinton, 3 for Colin Powell, 1 for Bernie Sanders, 1 for John Kasich, 1 for Ron Paul, 1 for Faith Spotted Eagle[2]. There were 3 others that voted faithlessly but those votes were invalidated by their State’s, one of them changed his vote back to who he pledged for, and the others were replaced with alternates. Some faithless votes on the Vice Presidential vote as well, but refer back to [2] for those.

[1] https://www.270towin.com/maps/2016-actual-electoral-map

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...
The main barrier to enter the search market is not tech, it's money: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-22/google-competition-is-just-...

And of course there are lots of other issues. For example the Web is very hostile when you are not Google Bot (i.e. there are a lot of big sites that will forbid you from crawling their content, unless you are Google, or Bing).
> Facebook FB.O Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension when he urged beheading two senior U.S. officials, according to a recording heard by Reuters.

Because, apparently, he didn't do it enough times.

I mean, I guess it's good that they have a policy, and they stick to their policy even when it's politically inconvenient. But maybe there ought to be some kind of sliding scale or something. Publicly calling for someone to be beheaded is egregious enough that it might belong in a more severe category.
The US has 13x more lawyers than capita per Japan. Which country is better known for everyone following the rules?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-263B-7182
>Out of curiosity, do you believe the NYTimes should have the right to censor its own comments section?

No, no I don't, not as a "comments section," anyway.

To an extent, NYT is riding on users' past experiences with uncensored comment sections in other contexts. It's the violation of expectations (both of commenters and readers) that grinds.

Were NYT to put up a disclaimer to the effect that "This is our damn site and we'll delete whatever we want," I think they'd actually get some respect for it. The ire comes because they want it both ways---they want the engagement metrics, without the freedom that engagement requires.

What's needed is a rule of law, such that users can predict beforehand what the outcome of an action will be.
I would be ashamed to work as an engineer at Facebook today; they empower the proliferation of lies that undermine democracy and our common health, hiding behind the "oh we're just a platform" pretense.

Yes, I know free speech. However, there's a responsibility here that needs to be filled when the information is so carefully crafted (actual facts be damned) towards people who haven't got the education to understand the manipulation that is happening.

The big platforms are falling well short.
"Heads on a pike" is a common expression.

"Eviscerate you and then hang you from your mother’s dining room ceiling by your intestines" is not.
I recently tried reading some of the Federalist Papers, but found the writing style too opaque for a casual read (perhaps some of the other authors' are more accessible, but then, Hamilton did write most of them). Can anyone recommend some kind of annotated version that's more accessible to a modern reader?

These Anti-Federalist Papers seem a bit more accessible, but part of my interest is in understanding the motivation of the writing of the constitution, and it seems there is no better source for that than the Federalist Papers.
Homebrew deprecates FUSE-dependent packages
We don't need to tear down the First Amendment, but our society does somewhat depend on civil society rejecting and not amplifying dangerous, uncivil, undemocratic ideas.

I think the freedom of speech Bannon has is fine. He's welcome to make whatever calls he wants - though I do wonder if he may have strayed from merely "uncivil" into "incitement".

But Facebook, Twitter, the New York Times... they don't need to amplify it. He is not entitled to their audiences too.
Safari privacy is a dumpster fire that has been ignored for more than a year now. https://www.imore.com/google-engineer-says-apples-intelligen...

Also, it doesn't support clearing data upon closing the browser if you're interested in that feature.
Aren't actual convicted murderers allowed to have Facebook accounts?
It would be inappropriate if the boss said "Susan Williams and Mark Goldwyn, if you don't get this done I'm going to cut your heads off and mount them on the main entrance as a warning to the other employees".

Notice how my example has similarities to what Bannon actually said, and therefore sounds far more inappropriate.

Let's also keep in mind that this hypothetical "boss" is probably not linked to various groups known for frequently making death threats and engaging in political violence.
And I, a hapless plebe, am clearly unqualified to judge whether calling for beheading someone is reasonable. Only Facebook should be able to determine what is reasonable for the hoi polloi to hear. The general public, as we all know, are helpless infants who need Facebook and other tech companies to censor their media for them.

You are missing the point. It is not about the content.
It'd be cooler if they were called "system32". JK
+1 this. Just because we are used to specific business model with gaming consoles, it doesn't mean that it's the only one available or even that it is the best one.
> What? I thought we were talking about the immediate user-visible bug here, where some third-party apps could not be opened on some Macs for some period of time today.

>>>>> these problems are extremely rare, they don't last very long, and they tend to have fairly simple workarounds.

This is about Apple controlling what software you can run on your computer, for all third parties, and in a way that if the system/service is malfunctioning or shut down there's a chance it blocks all non Apple software.

You can either choose to accept that Apple is a good steward of this because they haven't screwed up too much yet, and that you're okay with it because you have no or little need for third party software it might affect (or are willing to deal with it), or you can view this as an erosion of your rights to control the hardware you bought, which while only slightly inconveniencing now are still fundamentally the same as what could be used egregiously in the future.

You either vigorously defend the rights (or what you want to be a right) now, or you watch it erode slowly. That's how the system works. You want privacy or believe it's important? Protect it now and even if you don't have anything to hide. You want the ability to control your own computer and run your own software, and not be beholden to some companies deprecation schedule affecting things they didn't write, or at least believe it's important for a possible future? Then defend it now.

Given how iOS functions, and how Apple is moving to their own silicon for their other products, do people seriously doubt that a future where you actually can't run anything on MacOS except what you get through their store isn't at least a possible future? If that's something we care about, it's something we should be vocal about now.
It can be, but one of the big guys will buy you and raise the price of your product.
Facebook does not only moderate through algorithms. There was a documentary on UK Channel 4 where subcontracted moderators were instructed to allow controversial topics [1].

1: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/17/17582152/facebook-channel...
I've entertained the idea... and rejected it. Is it bizarre to you that someone might not agree with you?
Why Quitting Your Job to Chase Your Dream Is a Terrible Idea (2016)
I think network effects are much less pronounced with microblog platforms like Twitter, Parler, and Mastodon — most people sign up for these platforms to follow a few big accounts with orders of magnitude more followers than the average account. There’s no detriment to flipping between a Twitter and Mastondon/Parler account depending on which big accounts you want to read.

Contrariwise, people sign up for Facebook to socialize with their friend group as a whole. An alternative platform with only a handful of your friends would be pretty useless. Worse, having your friend group split between platforms would completely prevent being able to socialize as a group, defeating the whole point of the platform.
Right, so we have a platform where tens of millions of posts are made every day, and we leave all of the threats of violence up for however long it takes the appropriate law enforcement agency to respond.
What if the Mac had a newer OS than Mojave originally installed on it? That is how I interpreted the parent poster's comment. Given this interpretation, I'm don't think I'd have the expectation to be able to install an earlier OS.
"But won't you think of the children."

-- Apple apologists
`/usr/libexec/trustd` exists on Mojave, too. There's a (very unhelpful) manpage.

I think you were just lucky to not open non-Apple applications during the outage.
You keep posting this like it's a smoking gun but clearly whoever runs his Facebook page just copy posted some blurb from another website.
The problem with takes like this is that they don’t acknowledge the equally serious issue of misinformation and propaganda in social networks. Of course it’s worrisome to let Zuckerberg decide what people see or don’t see. It’s also serious to do nothing while Zuckerberg’s platform amplifies misinformation. That stuff has serious consequences. A good chunk of the country thinks Biden stole the election based on claims that have no merit. These people are pushing the health of the American democracy to its limits and yet so many comments on HN seem to be solely preoccupied about censorship.
If my boss said "we need to finish this or I'm going to put heads on a pike, one on this corner of the office and one on that corner" I think there would be repercussions, but keep making your false equivalence.
It’s more complicated than that, there are other downsides to public health and economic well being to consider. We could completely eradicate the virus by welding people into their homes, the question is how to trade off cost and benefit.
He's being ironic. As Will Smith's character said in The Pursuit of Happyness, finance is just about being good with numbers and good with people (for which you need rules 1 [Be Attractive] & 2 [Don’t Be Unattractive])
I dunno.

Maybe he's so skilled that his employers (e.g. hospital) disregarded his appearance?

Or perhaps you were thinking if he's sloppy with his appearance, he'll be sloppy providing care.
JWT Authorization in a Microservices Gateway
Big Sur removed network kernel extensions (NKEs) in favor of a different API (NetworkExtension) to accomplish the same thing in userspace, but it didn't affect filesystem kernel extensions.

For GDB, the instructions on the GDB wiki should still work on Big Sur, and they actually last changed in the release before Catalina:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/PermissionsDarwin
Both are inappropriate, but even your example I would not take literally unless it were 1350 and my boss were a feudal lord.
I came across similar conclusions when researching CA Prop 16, and it makes sense. Many affirmative action-ed students, by virtue of their systematic disadvantage, just can't keep up with their more privileged colleagues. I'm really disappointed, though, that the authors did not address the fact that this "mismatch" is still just another symptom of the problem affirmative action is trying to solve.
https://mobile.twitter.com/itsluncht1me/status/1326996963649...

Huh. Interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278103
“Bug” is an unverified assumption. For all we know this could be a designed outcome.
> Replace Apple with any CA on the world wide web
This is what everyone misunderstands. The Developer ID code signing program is not analogous to web certs. The usage of these certs is entirely different.

The brilliant thing about pki is that certificate usage is based on its cryptographic purpose. It doesn’t care about the application itself.

It’s actually a good thing that Apple doesn’t just verify the certs on install. The kill switch serves a vital security purpose.
Maybe we've entertained it and we still disagree.
My ex-sister-in-law has the worst RBF. Didn’t like her when I met her. 7 years later, still don’t. Maybe it’s not just the face.
Ecosia explicitly specifies "Results from Microsoft" on every results page, so they seem pretty transparent there. I don't think DuckDuckGo and Qwant are as upfront about that.
Disgusting or not, there would have been delicious irony in Trump dying from a Democratic hoax.
If there was any serious discussion in the US about the utility of 1FA I would be willing to believe Americans were able to entertain it. What weaknesses with it did you come up with when you entertained it?
I am also beyond tired about the nebulous interplay between word and deed when it comes to right-wing violence.

Bannon is "just joking" about beheading his opponents, Pompeo is "just joking" about Trump not stepping down, constant talk about jailing political opponents -- sorry, constant jokes -- and constant talk about lynching journalists (e.g. "rope, tree, journalist" t-shirts that you see at MAGA rallies, not at any others).

And the FBI eventually breaks up a ring of people who are planning to kidnap and ??? the sitting governor of Michigan, but all of the violent-yet-it's-a-joke speech continues unabated. Was the kidnapping plot a joke, too? Where does all this end?

Serious question, what's the end-game for increasingly violent, increasingly authoritarian jokes?
Rupert Murdoch has been defining election outcomes for decades. Murdoch won't be around much longer, and it seems like a natural progression for Zuckerberg. Quite the progression from FaceMash.
Honestly sounds very interesting and necessary book.
That's a microbenchmark. There are a myriad reasons why one specific thing might be faster under a new CPU even under emulation. That doesn't mean other things won't be much slower.