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Current title on HN: Indian Startup WhiteHatJr files suit against reviewer exposing fake ads

Title on article: WhiteHat Jr and the curious case of disappearing dissent

Actual subject matter: an entity abusing YouTube’s copyright systems to suppress negative comments on their advertisements (giving examples of one case of fun mockery and one finding inconsistencies in allegations made by the ads), and YouTube handling things typically badly.

I see no mention whatsoever of WhiteHat Jr filing suit, and the article is much more about the abuse of the Content ID system and copyright law than about whether the ads make illegitimate claims (though it’s certainly not painting WhiteHat Jr in a favourable light even apart from their attempts at suppression of dissent).
and the british electorate could have used its power in controlling the levers of one of the most pampered and privileged members of the eu to keep laws friendly to british business in the same way they've done it since thatcher, but apparently that wasn't good enough
The original post reads "he didn't study at WhiteHatJr". I think it was a satire, as I found it was a pretty funny remark. I believe you are pointing your finger at the wrong person.
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Most of the time, jumps like that are done by touch. You often need to look at something else like the music, the other hand, or the conductor.
Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer? Maybe
No, a ton is 2000 lbs or 1000kg, you’re using ton as 1000 lbs.

Max US ordinary large truck loading is 80k lbs, or 40 tons.

(Source, I trained as a civil engineer. Units in us practice were all over the place, but kip was generally the one that got used the most.)
When science was the best show in America
Seconding The Economist. A league on its own. :-)

I never subscribed, but like/liked to read (e.g. at B&N)

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Even the Rolling Stone can have good articles. E.g.:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-amer...
It's a complement not an opposite.

It's exactly like properly/cleverly documenting your code/project: not only for others now or in a few year, but also for yourself later on.

It's having common rules across teams to get more reliability out of the whole company.

You build it, you run it. Fine. Until the point when you can't anymore (because... reasons - it just happens). In any activity you want to sustain, you always have to have backups (in people and in processes), instead on relying on your-(self/team) alone.
We can and do make nonhuman mammals sit and repeatedly do tasks all day even when rewarded. Neuroscience behavior experiments in rats, mice, and apes are exactly this.

Humans are considered much less exceptional than they were in the 1950s.

I'd say our big edge over other species is the scale of our social networks. For example, apes can have economies where they trade currency, but that economy is going to be limited to a single tribe.
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The limitation on just one external monitor at a time beggars belief in a Pro device.

App crashes were not reported elsewhere. Aside from some subjective commentary, there's a genuinely different side shown in the review.
> does Parallels fall into the category of software that runs poorly on the new M1 chipset?

It does for most use cases where you want to run images meant for different CPU architectures, like amd64. It shouldn't if you want to run something meant for the same CPU architecture, which isn't going to be a thing for a long long time.
This has gotta be the first time I’ve heard of anyone using Edge on macOS... I mean, why?
I was chuckling at the insane dedication of the Amiga folk, who have at this point built all-new Amiga-compatible 68k hardware far beyond what existed at the time, new generations of system software, modern repro parts for everything, an incredibly robust emulation ecosystem, secured distribution rights for or replaced almost all the commercial software that existed for the platform, etc.
I have an A500 in my collection, they're interesting machines, and fortunately not workstation-expensive.

There are several decent options for emulating NeXT stuff. Previous ( http://previous.alternative-system.com/ ) emulates Cubes and Stations quite well (and its 68k core is derived from Hatari, which is derived from UAE, bringing this full circle).
x86 OpenStep runs well in QEMU (with some careful VM configuration choices) or VirtualBox, there are several guides for setting it up.
The author seems to confuse "Brexit can be viewed through the prism of" with "Brexit is". He provides evidence for the weaker claim, but then treats the issue as if he has proven the stronger claim.

I highly recommend reading Dominic Cummings directly to see the level of thinking exhibited by one of the Brexit architects. For example, https://dominiccummings.com/2019/02/21/on-the-referendum-29-...
If what you said was actually true in practice, then why would people be mad that they were leaving?
Yep WhiteHat JR has started expanding to the Phillipines as well, where they're continuing their MO of targetting hapless parents and children with blatantly false advertising
> isnt that close to how Cambridge Analytica happened?

Close to. But different.

Cambridge Analytica drew from Facebook’s servers. This plug-in pulls from users’ computers. Cambridge Analytica was not academically affiliated. This is legitimate research. Cambridge was closed source. This is open.

Most importantly, users are explicitly sharing their data with NYU. There is no carrot of a personality quiz to obscure the quid pro quo.
I'm guessing to side-step the issues the raspberries are having. USB-C can carry enough juice but there are just so many crap cables out there & then the device gets blamed by the user because it's such a subtle failure mode
The dubiousness of digitized signature services
Keeping a cheap BOM, I'd bet. No licensing fees, conformance tests, etc.
And it's sad because Apple has actually provided a very robust translation layer in Rosetta 2

Every single day we hear of at least one well known app adding support for M1 Macs. It's all a matter of time. I'd wager we'd have a robust ecosystem of apps once the Pro Macs launch (higher end 13" and the 16")
There is a GNOME and also Android implementation.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp
When I saw it yesterday morning, he was at 175 followers. So I think it was just this one thing going viral.
I'm sorry that this happened to you but now that it has happened to you and to this guy, I looking forward to the day when one or both of these two things happens:

1. anonymous whistleblowing/exposes of shady business practices becomes a thing

2. hedgefunds like muddy waters emerge in India whose goal is to find rotten companies and profit off them through short selling

Hope it rains creative destruction on such companies.
> Facebook has an Ads library that allows you to research currently running ads for a given Facebook page and for politics

The library omits targeting information. The specific subject of this research. Also, Facebook has a culture and history of lying. There is public interest in auditing its disclosures.
> Not-throttling means going faster.

No, it means not going slower. You don't go faster by not going slower.
Makes you wonder if they’re actually the smart ones.
The Economist if you want to get all the wrong information about the world.
What OS is it compatible with?

I learned from version 1 that even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too
Ask HN: How big are your tablespoons?
This is kind of random, but I was watching a cooking video where the presenter said things like "we add two tablespoons of olive oil", and it looks like they pour much more than that.

And that has been my feeling all along. "Sprinkle a tablespoon of kosher salt on a chicken"? That seems very little.

Then I googled "1 tablespoon to ml" and found that about 15ml is the definition of tablespoon.

I just measured mine. They hold 10ml, and I consider them regular size.

Are American tablespoons larger? Or is the measure "tablespoon" independent from actual utensils, and whenever you read "two tablespoons" in a recipe, you know to pour three actual tablespoons?
How much effort of human mind is being lost to solve these ORM or JS frameworks problems. Programmers community is fighting with problems which at first should not even exist. With good tools we shouldn't even bother about them
Qualcomm's payments IIRC are also dependent on the final device cost so I'd think that the payments can get absurdly expensive. I'm hoping that cellular modems might come to the Mac when Apple gets their in-house modems ready
The transition of LEGO to more of a model building thing has been interesting, as has the increase in level of obsession places like HN have for LEGO. I feel that this is field ripe for disruption; for someone to build model kits that are as accessible and approachable as LEGO, but drop the pretence of being general bricks.
Le Roux is a case for the most interesting man in the world, a bit like your man McAfee. They have stories to tell the grand-kids that's for sure.
I tend to disagree. While a pro market magazine, it often suggests strong government actions. I think you have never dealt with real fee market fetishists.

The only annoying things is the double Christmas issue and the "New Year outlook". They always write the same. The world has never been better and everything becomes better and next year will be better than the last.
Over 10k followers now - seems to have worked out well for him. I wonder what 10k followers equals in terms of value, for lack of a better word...
IDK not a biologist, but I found some videos of carnivores eating (parts of) their prey alive. Caution, graphic content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VECtHHQjCqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAt7mrAfMRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhRd3bqghHo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg7xp9lMyZw

Do you know of any videos showing carnivores kill their prey before eating it?
Micro usb would have trouble delivering enough power because of its limitation to 5 volts. USB type-c could do higher voltage, but it requires power delivery circuitry which adds to the cost and complexity.

Well I still prefer USBC, I can understand the choice of a barrel jack here: it's simple, reliable, and less expensive.
This does not match my lived experience over the last 25 years. I would argue from that that you are incorrect.
The point in my post was to point out that storage implemented using keys and values is fundamental to all filesystems. To say that the very model that is fundamental to all filesystem is the thing that somehow precludes S3 from being considered a filesystem is kind of bizarre.

Also Nowhere did I say or even imply that a key/value store is all a Unix file system is. Different filesystems have different features. Object storage is a type of filesystem with a very specific feature set.
It seems to work really well are you sharing the model and code?
You can usually access dataset and run comparisons.
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Happened to me with Amazon retail business account in Germany.
> partly via suppressing competition and exploiting labour
These companies talk about Human Rights only for marketing & not because of conviction. Non of them care of human rights if they have to confront China - see Taiwan & HK.
Just main stream propaganda.
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Jobs famously said quite strongly that they'd never do one. There is a video around of him justifying it due to the user's hands getting too tired https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=S9ZJHy8QOso .

After 12 years on Macs I picked up a touchscreen PC and would simply never go back to a non-touch machine, it is not essential, but it is incredibly convenient. Why shouldn't it be possible to touch rather than tap when appropriate? After a few months selecting an appropriate option for any particular input is totally natural and subconscious. I have no idea why noting the lack of touch on a Mac should be considered "biased".
I doubt there is a magazine in the world that can compete in deep, knowledge and network (And I can read magazines in at least 3 major languages, possibly four).

Would you mind to elaborate where the Economist delivers "wrong" information? Preferably give some specific examples.
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Lots of back-and-forth on specs and compatibility, yet somehow the complete lack of privacy outed last week has suddenly vanished from the discussion. There might be something to that "Apple-Chosen Reviewer" thing. Perhaps Apple's best technology is the one that mutes all their shifty acts.
> During Covid-19, I know many people using their LTE-infused notebooks so they don’t have to compete with their kids for bandwidth.

That's just bizarre and makes me question this reviewer's comprehension of technology. He doesn't understand hotspots? He things hes maxing out a home wifi+ISP connection but LTE can handle the load?
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I think WhiteHatJr was asked by the indian advertising self-regulation body to take down five misleading ads.

https://thetechportal.com/2020/10/28/byjus-owned-whitehat-jr...
> she says the files are stored in real clouds

I have fond memories of a visit to a children’s hostel in Hyderabad, India in 2006, and a rote answer they were taught in their textbooks:

“Why is a computer called a number cruncher?”

“A computer is called a number cruncher because it crunches numbers with its teeth.”

Dad took the children to the office where there was a computer and showed them that it had no teeth.

I’m glad to say that the children don’t go to that school any more, and that I haven’t found such egregious errors in textbooks for any subject more recently (I’m over there again at present), and there is less rote in their education than there was, though still more than is ideal as it’s hard when the teachers and students are all used to that method.
I don't get that exclusionist attitude either. If they think its subjective, why not just tag it accordingly, or move it into some sub-forum instead of outright killing the discussion.
Seems like a lot has changed since I looked at postgrest in its early days.
This suggestion is literally colonialism.
I've had it happen to me with four Twitter accounts at once. All locked overnight in January with no explanation or response to emails from their support dept[0].

It took 6 months and a formal GDPR complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner before Twitter finally unlocked the accounts and admitted they'd made a mistake[1]:

>Hello,

>We’re writing to let you know that we’ve unsuspended your
>accounts. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to see you
>back on Twitter soon.

>A little background: we have systems that find and remove
>multiple automated spam accounts in bulk, and yours was flagged
>as spam by mistake. Please note that it may take an hour or so
>for your follower and following numbers to return to normal

So yes. It does happen and, when it does, you have little to no chance of actually getting hold of a real human being to talk to, or who can give you any explanation as to why it occurred.

Thankfully in my case, it was just some shitty Twitter accounts and I'm actually quite glad it happened now as it gave me the impetus excise another pointless moronic social network from my online life.

[0] https://stiobhart.net/2020-03-18-twittergdpr/

[1] https://stiobhart.net/2020-06-14-twatter-revisited/
We need to abolish landlords. If you want a profit open a business.

Im tired of seeing 'poor landlords arent making profits' comments.

And 'Support local businesses' everywhere. Why? Are they taking care of their workers? Are they paying them better for taking risks during the pandemic? Probably not. Restaurant/fast food chains still open are making a killing with a leaner workforce and collecting far more money, but no workers got a raise ir even sick leave.

Are they helping their communities? No. But at least they serve a purpose. Paying rent every month instead of to a mortgage to build someone else's wealth instead of your own.

At what point in society did building wealth become married to screwing over fellow humans?
I've been using Rebrickable for around 8 years, and I've shared over 70 of my creations there, so I wanted to share some of the things I've appreciated about the site beyond the core features of being able to rebuild LEGO sets into new things, manage LEGO inventory, and share creations.

1. The community. I've shared a fairly large amount of content (some of it of pretty low quality), and I've always received positive feedback or tactfully worded constructive feedback. I've yet to see a negative comment on my work. It's a community of folks hanging out sharing their hobby together.

2. The set inventories. The community works hard to keep these up-to-date. I've found them to be very reliable. These are all freely available for download as well. This is a godsend to folks like me who prefer their LEGO inventory to be in a local database they can query.

3. The business model. Most features are available for free in an ad-supported manner, but users can pay for premium features and the removal of ads.
What? To upgrade Debian (the archetypical stable distro) to a new release, you just do an "apt dist-upgrade":
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade

Minor patches to the Debian kernel are released all the time and you get those with a regular "apt upgrade". With Arch and other rolling-release distros, you get major new kernel versions all the time as part of the normal package upgrade flow.
There's no information on payment rates for supplying compute.

As a two sided market, it will always be hard.

Initially, it does not have to be. While it is small, you can provide all the compute...even if it looks like its crowd sourced to the consumer. That allows you to bootstrap the demand side of the market and work through the technical hiccups of the supply side directly.
A fairly honest assessment of node here. People that use it aren't usually so candid about it though. Kudos!
iSH is amazing, but in practice most things don't work.

Try doing a git clone of a large project, it takes forever and the phone gets uncomfortably hot. Also if you don't keep the phone from locking you will have to restart the (possibly 20-30 minute long) process. You can do this by turning on location tracking (this is something apple mandated) which probably turns on the GPS RF amplifier and is one of the fastest ways to drain the battery. I've had the phone shut down while charging leaving the GPS running with another CPU intensive app before (Spotify I think.)

But on the iPad this is just about the only choice.
Losing access to the schengen zone travel and trade wise is a big deal. IIRC EU market is largest single market, or was. 'The Troubles' was really devastating and people rightfully fear going back.
I realize that this is probably the wrong thread for this, but I wonder if the Apple Silicon will have an end result of more architectural diversity in web/cloud apps?

In other words, will people continue to use Macbooks to develop on? Therefore forcing things like Docker to switch to more architecture-agnostic ways of running? Or will people just use more remote VMs and container services?

I am also wondering how much of a hold the OS X UI has on people. Because I really enjoy using iTerm2, and having Homebrew and all the UNIX applications just a terminal away is great. They're also closer than the Microsoft WSL way of doing things because you don't have 2 home directories, multiple network addresses like you do with the latest WSL2 in Windows 10. (not to diss WSL2, it's great, and can run many things much closer to a true Linux/UNIX "experience")

I guess, along with winning the lottery and a pony, I want the underpinning of Linux, the games and Microsoft development effort of Windows, and the UI of OS X.
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1) 20h/week seems like a pretty big chunk of time. If you can allocate that much, it's a good thing. There are surely some great apps you can do with that time.

2) It depends. If your app consists in a simple "CRUD" app (most apps), you don't need fancy algorithms. However, it's always a good idea to know some fundamentals. You can learn that on the way, though.

> A feature like adding a new way of auth take at-least 2-3 weeks to complete at large enterprises with multiple folks working full time. What chance can an individual have against these large companies?

I don't think so. It can take 2-3 hours as well. It really depends on which company and what kind of software we are talking about.

3) Learn as you build it, it's much more fun and encouraging!

4-5) I think it's always valuable to spend time learning/experiencing in a new field.
Not trying to troll here. But Monocle? I always wondered who reads this? Poor people who want to know how rich people live? (Trust me, no rich person I know of would buy this poser magazine).
This sort of proves the point though, doesn't it? REST as initially defined has become some kind of hyperlinked / referenced platonic ideal that very few do or even attempt.

Postgrest, returning/modifying predefined resource(s) based on standard HTTP verbs and whatnot, is at least as RESTful as most other things that use the term. Despite the imprecision, this is still a somewhat useful descriptor beyond "oh it's arbitrary RPC". And it's not at all like GraphQL
modem = MOdulator + DEModulator

Dial-up modems used the public switched telephone network to transmit data via audio signals through regular phone calls. The modems had an internal speaker so the operator could “debug” the connection with their ears, e.g. if they called the wrong number and an actual person was talking on the other end.
Various reasons, e.g. losing the perceived economic benefits of a free trade zone with the rest of the EU countries.

EDIT:

I can't reply to the comment below for some reason, so here's what I was going to say:

Much of the EU's unpopularity amongst the Brexit-supporting section of the UK's population comes from it repeatedly being used as a convenient scapegoat for domestic political issues, and the country's most-read newspapers printing decades of nonsense ("EU bans yogurt and cheese from school dinners", "EU bans straight and bendy bananas", etc.) that were taken as fact about what a broken institution it is.

Brexit was really just the end result of a spectacularly successful sustained propaganda campaign.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQKOGKnryhK2GLrZJIWoEkAnQx0.... Kindly read this.
I've never understood the exact mechanics/limits of those schemes, but that is exactly what I was missing as it's (literally) a foreign concept to me. Thank you.
Seminal papers in this area AFAIK are StyleGAN1 and StyleGAN2:
https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04958
Pascal was not really used professionally (the original Macintosh toolbox notwithstanding -- Microsoft used C to reimplement it when they developed the Windows API). It was the undergrad teaching language until the recommended curriculum of the ACM replaced it with Java. Neither choice is an excellent technical language for professional use but they're both considered simplistic enough for pedagogy.