skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess I just don’t understand the argument. For decades everyone knew commercial breaks were just that, no one was being influenced by 30 second ads on TV. The stuff that influenced people back then is the same stuff that influences people today, social pressure and desire to fit in/attain status.

TV programming in the past was optimised for engagement as well. There were extremely limited slots, so each slot had to appeal to the maximal number of people. This resulted in content that was generally relatively bland and inoffensive.

Fast forward to today, and digital 'slots' are limitless. Each user gets their own personalised view. No longer do you need to optimise for what appeals to the maximal number of people as a group. Instead, you optimise for what results in continued engagement by each individual.

It turns out the vast majority of us are stupid (myself included) and are easily manipulated through negative / divisive / controversial content.

The revenue model hasn't changed. It's the content delivery that has.

So to your point, I agree, ads aren't the problem. To my point, Facebook as it exists today is the problem.
If I wear a speedo on the train, then walk into the office like that, you can bet that I will also face social repercussions. Freedom isn't about being free of the consequences of what you're doing, it's about the law not forbidding you from doing it in the first place.
Yeah I saw, but Netflix is pretty much perfect(I think it has maybe a frame or two of audio delay, but not enough to notice most of the time), so clearly it is technically possible, just that these companies don't care about sitting down and fixing it.
Wasn't Tolkien a lifelong, devout Catholic, who himself inspired Lewis's conversion to Christianity? I don't think it was a gulf between them.

Tolkien famously rejected the Vatican II reformations, and continued to respond to the priest in mass in Latin, rather than the vernacular.
One of the comments has an amazing line “ Persuasion is at the heart of information security. Not “information technology security”, but the security a person has about their ability to make information-based decisions about which actions they can take in their best interest.”

That being said, its seems the event that has brought the concern over persuasive technologies to the fore is the election of Donald Trump. New sorts of persuasive technologies may have Trump over the finish line, but I'm pretty convinced that he ran a competitive campaign without them. He identified policies and cultural grievances (immigration, anti-elite sentiment, trade, and white identity politics for example ) that no one else was talking about, ran with them. I dislike that these subjects resonated with enough of my fellow Americans to win an election, but they did. To retreat into a mindset of "those rubes must have been tricked" is to deny them agency and is problematic in and of itself.
What is a minimum viable AI product?
I'll tell you about International Data Spaces Assocation, just for the sake of completeness, and because others have mentioned some sort of certification of apps, etc. Finding a general solution to the problem posed by OP is quite difficult, as it requires a lot of extra infrastructure, technical and non-technical.

One idea would be:

1. distribute to the data owners a base system (something that can "run" stuff on their premises). People here have mentioned browsers, but for a more intensive processing this might not be enough.. so think of a docker daemon, keys for some docker registries, etc.

2. have a trusted "app store" (e.g. a docker registry where images are built in a reproducible manner from code which is inspected and certified, and then are cryptographically signed)

3. make a well described interface to the apps to consume the data (thinking of the general use case here.. if you just want to analyze fb info then you can make an adhoc parser...)

4. Have the data owner download, check the signature of, configure and run the app on their premises.

Things get even more interesting when the analytics need data from different non-trusting partners, so that Homeomorphic Encryption becomes necessary.

There is at least one specification that aims at supporting all of this: https://www.internationaldataspaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2... although implementation is, so far, lagging behind.
Automate the Boring Stuff is one of the sources I have used. I think perhaps I just need to be patient and keep at it and trust that I will find an application for the techniques.
> Facebook inadvertently auto-generated jaunty recruitment videos for the Islamic State featuring anti-Semitic messages and burning American flags.

Wow what an amazing slant. Done reading at this line.
This joke is a joke
Is that why so many people in African countries are addicted to cough syrup?
It might seem like a stretch to us, but it was actually used to justify slavery in the past. As early as Aristotle who thought that slaves didn't have the ability to think properly and therefore needed masters to tell them what to do.
The population of Illinois peaked in 2009 and has been declining for the past decade.
Thanks! I think I’d have been typing it wrong for the rest of my life had you not pointed this out haha.
I can only speak from my own experiences and my internal monologue, but I think the attribution to self-esteem was an error in correlation vs. causation.

The problem is that self-esteem can come from both true competence and false self-evaluation. If you've cultivated your ability to learn, if you believe based on prior history that you can master things over time, and and if you've developed the patience to give yourself time, you get a virtuous cycle, and self-esteem is one of the outcomes, imposter syndrome be damned. If you have a falsely confident sense of your own capabilities borne from not being able to truly assess yourself, self-esteem happens to be one of the results, but it's emotionally fragile.

I think control and self-discipline is a repeatable path to competence and self-esteem based on what you are actually capable of.
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I don't see what the problem is if some foreign country captures a diplomat. We can just elect another diplomat in their place. There isn't enough turnover of diplomats anyway and they typically have too much power or they know too much stuff that their citizens don't know - It creates a massive disconnect between politicians and citizens. Maybe they should be less powerful and more disposable. If every country had highly disposable diplomats and government officials, everything would probably be much better for everyone and each country should mind its own business.

No matter how you put it, diplomatic immunity disproves the idea that everyone is equal under the law. You can't have diplomatic immunity and also have everyone equal under the law. It's a logical contradiction. You have to choose one or the other or else it's impossible to know where to draw the line.
I'm not sure how you're getting this. In what way is Paxos a negative example? Raft, which is also a take on Paxos, was also formalised in TLA+ by its inventor, as were many other variations on Paxos; in fact, it is hard to derive any non-trivial distributed algorithm, based on Paxos or otherwise, without formalisation. This is true for most subtle algorithms, and distributed algorithms are prime examples of those. Algorithms that had not been formalised on inception, Chord being a famous example of one thought to have been "proven" correct without formalisation were often found to be incorrect once formalised [1]. Not to mention that that work won Lamport the Turing Award.

[1]: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/03/08/model-checking.html
Based on the frequency with which Windows 10 decides to reset my default browser to Edge "because reasons" I disagree.
Is Pakistan winter humid and windy ? That does play a role on perceived cold. Variations in temperature as well I believe.
>run into a wall when they get to a level where their giftedness is no longer enough for them to get through every situation without also putting in hard work

I have hit this wall and have sometimes wished I was less intelligent but more diligent. I would be healthier and wealthier for sure.

To any intelligent but lazy young man reading this, don’t delay improving your diligence. Seek counseling and coaching if you can. Don’t let your good grades, impressed teachers and peers, and fancy college acceptances convince you otherwise.

But avoid ADHD drugs. They will wreck your body, make you numb, and sap your enthusiasm for life.
*LG and Amazon, no idea why I said samsung :P
On my new work laptop, I installed Firefox first and haven't touched Google Chrome. I've been happy with this and it was finally what made me move off Chrome.
As user of mac with M1 chip, was waiting for this release.
> "Their account" is their account on your platform.

You mean, the Apple account on my platform? How does it get there? I don't have the Apple account of a user. I just have an email address.

> "Their device" is a device that they own and that you are collecting information about.

I don't collect information about their device. But you still didn't answer the question. What is "their device"? Is it a unique device ID? A fingerprint? What is it?

> Are you linking it to _ANYTHING_ else ? Yes or no ?

I use the email to create an account on my backend. Users can backup data to their account. But nothing ties to "identity". They could fake all of it. I don't care. I send transactional emails, such as a reset password email.

> Or are you collecting an email address (or hash of an email) as part of broader set of data you are collecting from the user ?

Not PII data, just stuff they enter in the app.

> Or are you collecting an email address (or hash of an email) and then sending it off to Facebook or other API in an attempt to build a picture ?

No.

But the details of your questions show, imho, that the concept of identity is non-trivial.

I can summarize it very simply: users sign up for an account, identified by an email adress (I don't care if it's real), as a service for the user to have an online backup and an easy way to sync data between devices or move them to Android. The goal is NOT to personally identify a user. But could a user be identified by the email address alone BY SOME ENTITY? Yes, probably. Do I do it? No. Do I share the data or offload it to a third party for data processing? No. Or does my rented self-managed VPS, where the backend runs, count as third party? I don't think so. But of course, I use a transactional email service to send emails to users. What about that? I do have a GDPR-compliant data processing agreement for that. But not sure what Apple wants from me in this case.

Thing is: It's not trivial and Apple's guide is insufficient. That's all I'm saying.

Edit: And to clarify – if it's complicated, data collecting entities such as Facebook could say "well, we did understand this differently" and simply don't tell the truth about the data they're collecting. I guess that is another point in this whole discussion: What if someone lies about their data collection practices? Any consequences? Are there downsides to lying about it?
> A high property tax keeps the price of housing down

Have you seen Austin prices recently, it's getting pretty hectic in "core" Austin.

> promotes a general attitude of anti-NIMBYism

This isn't entirely true. In the recent election there was a public transit bill in Austin which would raise prop taxes by 4% I think. Even though it passed there was a hefty amount of opposition to supporting it, and generally anything that deals with raising prop taxes.

Also in my local neighborhood (north central austin) there is plenty of nimbyism regarding planned multifamily construction.
Another cognitive bias at play is that people are bad at statistics.

I'm a great driver. I make a mistake maybe once a year (and I apologize for it by waving my hand). Whereas every day on my commute to work, I see a bad driver doing something dangerous. Guess what, I drive by more than 365 cars on my commute, so my stats are actually no better than everyone else. But it feels like it.
Mozilla FAQ:

> Will switching to a different browser allow me to use Flash?

>No. Adobe and other browsers will also end support Flash at the end of 2020. Even if you install an older version of Firefox, the Flash plugin itself will stop loading Flash content after January 12, 2021. See Adobe’s Flash Player End of Life information page for more details

Adobe:

> Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.

Am I only one who finds this disturbing?
I had this too but it eventually stopped happening on both my workstations at some point during 2020. Could be one of your extensions, is it happening even without any extensions (assuming trying a recent version of FF doesn't fix it already)
Personal area networking is certain to be a thing.

Phones can’t get much bigger, but we want more real estate for interfacing. The glasses certainly have the most long term potential, but imagine the phone becoming more about wireless radio and less time in hand. The watch loses some functionality to become smaller and have longer battery life. Maybe you move heart rate or blood sugar monitoring to a separate device, like a ring, and people can cherry pick which ones they like.

Or the phone merges into the watch and goes away entirely, some of it into the band. Apple had a patent on incorporating batteries into the watch band, but they never did anything with that. Pity.
If you want to avoid the bandwidth limits imposed on Youtube by your company while on the company network, 144p isn't all that bad, especially for audio-only stuff.
> You simply cannot ban emotional appeals in principle, because all appeals have an emotional component. This way lies a dystopia far more terrible than "grandpa shared some nonsense on facebook".

True enough. But are you implying (not saying you are, just asking) that ~"nothing can be done"?

"Banning emotional appeals....This way lies a dystopia..." is just one option - might there be other approaches that could improve the situation?
What does "Compositor:" say for you in about:support?
True, and not everyone's goal is to minimize their tax bill.
I've seen several versions of this; in one case, database keys were the concatenation of several fields, each of which had been converted to order-preserving integers. The concatenations themselves can be sorted, which is very useful. I'm not sure if there's an official term for this (ordered code?)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2463676.2467797

Might be what I was thinking of. I'm sure you can find other publications as well. I'm no longer at University and I've lost touch with that professor so I'm not sure their current research.
Do you have any information on that 10" tablet with E-Ink?
It's being outpaced by other browsers in a rapidly expanding field, not falling in usage.

Safari and Edge are defaults on iOS, MacOS, and Windows, and Chrome is the default on Android. I imagine we're primarily seeing the effects platform capture everywhere else.
ROM was usually very slow, so all ROM content was usually copied to RAM before execution. RAM size was therefore still an issue.
Somehow it's going on the S&P.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Detroit never diversified.
The parent is an interesting comment as I thought just everybody would learn about the periodic table of elements in school. Basic education seems to differ really widely.
I think it's more likely to have the same problem for most if not all topics, you just don't notice it. Somewhat related to Gell-Mann Amnesia...
Yet python never needed a case statement. It used to be simple to write and read language, unlike so many others.

Cramming in new statements just to check Enums types properly sounds... well wrong... The types don't do anything except make code harder to read. But I know that unpopular opinion here... I guess I just like old simple Python more.
Well, if you want to protect yourself you should understand this in more detail.

At minimum you should be using https. Your ISP could generally know the domains you are communicating with (when and how much), but not about what. They also could not add metadata to requests. The ad tracking we're talking about in this post really needs those details, so the ISP isn't in a position to enable the kind of tracking Apple is blocking here.

You can go further and use a VPN. Then all your ISP knows is that you use a VPN, but would not be able to tell anything else. Of course, you need to trust your VPN provider (including to properly secure their service), but if you're paying for one, at least your interests are aligned. (You pay your ISP, but they operate as semi monopolies and your privacy is not their primary business concern, so your interests don't really align that well.)

I agree about not allowing ISPs to sell data, though I think it would be OK if properly anonymized.
> It is financed directly by the German state.

I would add that despite the funding coming from the government,

> The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, meaning that content is intended to be independent of government influence [0]

Specifically, the supervisory board of Deutsche Welle consists of 7 members that get elected by the parliament and the acting federal government and another 10 members that come from non-profit organizations like labor unions, religious groups, cultural and sports organizations, among others.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle#Aufsichtsgremie...
> I used to love Kate, during the time of KDE 3.5.

Same here. It greatly helped my move to a Linux-only desktop.

> With KDE 4, Kate became "literally unusable" for me

It's been a long time since the release of KDE 4, but that was what did it for me too (it's been so long I don't remember the specifics). I was able to keep using the 3.x version for a while. Once that started to become an issue, I moved basically everything to Geany. I just checked and I don't even have it installed - hard to believe, given how much I used to use it.
Nice! This is actually exactly what Portabella (https://portabella.io) started out as around 7 months ago.

I found that LocalStorage isn't reliable enough to keep all your important stuff, so my thought was to encrypt everything client side and store in LocalStorage + a database. On session startup you just check the lastEdited date of the LocalStorage version vs. the database version and take the data with the latest.

That way it's still offline first but you can also access your data on different machines.

Not trying to plug Portabella too much but I followed this logic and thought, how can I now allow people to share data? What if I give them different views? How about notifications? Pretty quickly I had fleshed out a full product.
That sounds like a good thing...
Depreciation in Firefox isn't going to cause that much corporate pressure to finally rewrite those ancient flash apps. When Internet Explorer drops it then they have a problem.
Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact
Is there a bug report for this? This sounds like a crazy issue that could not affect more than a handful of users with extremely particular setups.
What about marketing the token sale? Can a campaign for machine learning and blockchain revolutionary, proof of stack coin campaign be created? And then after the fraudulent token sale pitch is there a way to launder the money?
Excellent C++ debugging, easy to setup with CMake projects.
This is just ... not even approaching the truth. only by studiously ignoring history and cherry picking facts could get to your arguement.

Christianity vs islam is a long theme in our history.

You badly misread the crusades as well - the crusaders and the byzantines collaborated. In fact, the byzantines welcomed the crusaders and often helped them in military matters - the crusaders states were used as a buffer from the armies of islam.

The crusaders did attack and plunder constantinople, but this was after the first crusades ; in fact, a couple decades before the sack Latins were sold into slavery and massacred by the byzantines. Reading a single event and turning it into a pattern for latin and byzantine relations in the era is at best sophomoric and at worst dissembling.
I think cranking your hog on a video call with colleagues should be a fireable offense. You only have to do it once to be branded the Zoomjacker instead of a respected journalist. And frankly, other figures defending him probably did more to sour public opinion than if he had only apologized and shut up.
> To play Devil's advocate, how many of those would exist if they had been separate.

Who knows? How many alternatives died or resolved themselves to relative obscurity because Google managed to get a strangle hold on the market before their competitors could establish themselves?

Maybe Windows Phone would still exist. Maybe we'd be much further along with a truly open mobile Linux platform.

Maybe Firefox wouldn't be slowly fading into obscurity. Maybe Opera would be one of the top browsers. Maybe Edge would still be developing its own browser tech instead of just reskinning Chromium.

Maybe OSM would be the most popular map provider. Maybe Vimeo would be the go-to platform for video hosting. Maybe people would prefer store their files on Box. Maybe ads would have never have become such a popular monetization strategy and we might have seen some new and innovative strategies in its place.

Who knows?
This reminds me of EOF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Objects_Framework
Nice! Good writeup too.

When I click "Edit this page" I am asked to sign in. Is there a reason for that? I'd expect to see the source and be able to submit a PR as a normal repo on Gitlab.
Try highlighting a block of text and copy pasting it to some other program.

I already beat you to it cuz I used my mouse lol (and I don't have unwanted line numbers and garbo whitespace in the pasted text, to boot).
Thanks for the reply, that would indeed be an interesting alternative to static website generators
Funny to point this out. Bezos literally packed up his car and drove from NYC to Seattle in order to avoid Internet commerce taxes.
A new way to share beautiful-looking code
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Exactly. Modern shantytowns are a great comparison, and in terms of smells they're... fine. It's a total non-issue, unless indeed you're "extraordinarily dainty hypersensitive" I suppose maybe.

I'm not sure what air pollution you're referring to though?