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Twitter tanked 10% on the Trump ban announcement.

Trump pushed very hard to dump legislation that favours them.

Angela Merkel, Macron and the EU Comission have spoken negatively about the ban.

i.e. the most powerful people in the world are speaking up, against you. Bad.

Parler - their 'evileenemy' was the #1 download (!) on App Store before the ban.

There is serious talk of breaking up those companies and issues of 'free speech' are top spot in the headlines.

Empathically - no - those companies do not want to be in that position.

I think you're misinterpreting those leaks.

It makes certain individuals feel powerful, gives them the influence to 'stop Trump' - but in the end, it's a massive distraction for their business.

They will be fighting these fires daily for some time.

From a business perspective - they just want to make money. They don't want to be fighting political wars because if they're taking on the US, the EU and other governments, they're going to lose somewhere.

They don't 'make more money' by being able to ban Trump and Bannon under their own guise - they risk it.

But if an independent board acting according to government regulation bans Trump, well, then it's 'not their fault'.
> Yes, Apple does want access to your personal data. Yes, the deliberate crippling of firewalls on the macOS is an an ATTACK by Apple against its users towards this end. And yes, malwares can exploit the whitelist to hijack these whitelisted process.

You need to think about this from a security perspective rather than that initial emotional response. You claim but have no evidence that Apple wants personal data and will not obey their own privacy policy. Again, if you believe that, use something else because that level of unethical behavior is incompatible with the level of trust you’re placing in them.

Continuing the theme, Apple did not “deliberately cripple” the firewall. ipfw still works, a VPN still gets all of your traffic, but when they added a new user-level socket filter they made the decision to exempt core services which are either unsafe to disable or only have effect when you voluntarily opt-in to their terms of service. You may disagree with this but it’s not an attack without some evidence of malice.

And, yes, it’s possible that someone can find an exploit in something like Photos or iMessage. The question you should be asking is how often that would stop an attacker because they wouldn’t have permission to disable your local firewall rules. You can click allow, and that’s why malware commonly approves itself, too.

This kind of local firewall is appealing for giving the illusion of security but most people are not going to be able to meaningfully assess the risk (“oh, a connection to AWS. Narrows it right down!”) and in practice these tools train people to click allow because after thousands of false positives that’s always worked. Enabling one for the apps on the list is especially prone to that because they only access Apple’s own servers.
> But the definition of differentiable did not change, did it?

It did! In the title of this article they are describing a blatantly non-differentiable function (the rasterizer) using the word "differentiable". This is indeed a new usage of the word, only seen since the advent of automatic differentiation a few years ago.
Cloudflare WARP beta works somehow. And it isn't distributed through the App Store on Mac. So, it is definitely possible for WireGuard.
https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1299168966255017984
Here, from someone on the ground that night, you can clearly see St. John's Episcopal Church in the videos. The tabloid was reporting correctly.

The fact these sorts of things, including all the other violence and destruction going on at the time, were either ignored wholesale or played down by mainstream news sources, while also being actively encouraged in the next breath ought to be a source of shame for them. The country spent the last year being gas-lit.

Its no surprise at all why many people on the right distrust them.
The accountability goes out the window when the government exerts influences over mass media and the "votes" are made based on a disinformation campaign.
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I'm not from the US and I don't care about your tit for tat childish partisan politics. Your leader held a rally in your capital and encouraged his followers to literally attack your democratic institutions and therefore democracy itself. His failure to support democratic norms have led, and potentially will lead, to further deaths in your country. This is the discussion that you need to face. I don't care about point scoring between two teams that obviously only support the extremely wealthy in your country. Good luck fixing it.
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> What does "topology" mean in this context?

Some letterforms are not topologically equivalent and cannot be transformed into each other. For a simple example, lower case 'g' has a form in some fonts that is a loop with a descender, and in other fonts a 'two story' form where the descender connects to a lower loop.
Right, which makes it a genericized trademark.
The USA should be dissolved into thousands of sovereign city states. At the very least the existing states should dissolve the federal union.

The size of government should be reduced until its voters can meaningfully participate, and understand the scope of its responsibilities.

People who live in entirely different communities should not be governing each other. One office, like the US President, should not govern millions of people. A legislature of a few hundred should not govern hundreds of millions.
Or this is a distraction to make it look like not a nation state hack.
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For very popular community projects, you can indeed solve the problems by throwing some manpower at it.

However, there's this uncanny valley of somewhat popular, mostly solo maintainer projects where you get a steady stream of tickets (say one or two a week) yet there's no community to speak of, so everything falls onto you. It gets pretty annoying when you have a couple of these uncanny valley projects.
Or not. If your family is reasonable people they'll probably just keep their mouths shut an ignore it even if they don't agree with it.

People are pretty good at ignoring quackery in their own family. I think most people have a few relatives who are very much outside whatever the family norms are that are still treated with respect.
Cloudflare WARP is really buggy on iOS (for me at least)
it's nice to have contact information for packages
Here's another thread about this[0] titled "Ask HN: Why does HN hate humor?".

My reply to that thread:

>Humor is like seasoning: it enhances the meal; it is not the meal.
When a comment has substance (food/meal), humor can enhance it (seasoning).

>Furthermore, not all humor attempts are funny. Even professional comedians "bomb".. We can't force people.

>This, or the jokes go unnoticed because of HN's small font size.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278680
I personally see no benefit from a scenario like this and my gut reaction is to think "how would this end up costing me more money?" and I don't have a whole lot of money to spread around as is.
In that specific part did you saw, in the end, some books going away too?
Very good indeed :-)
Serious question, what makes you so sure about that? Isn't Google notorious for suddenly killing a product?
iirc, ipsec is considered somewhat of a security nightmare by modern standards, given that it difficult to fully understand and very easy to misconfigure in an insecure way. I would only recommend using ipsec over wireguard when legacy compat matters.
> Yet my recently hired collegue insists he spent more time learning from Youtube than from lectures at "proper" university.

Lots of people think they learn better from eloquent teachers (on Youtube or otherwise), and while that helps, it is far from sufficient to attain mastery of a subject. Mastery is achieved when you do; do practice problems, do timed tests, discuss concepts with those better, equal or worse than you, etc.

The value add of teachers at your school/university is that they assign problems to you at the average skill level of the class, and they give space for discussions, but most importantly change the difficulty of the course, or go over stuff in a different way if you fail to understand.

If you want to create good remote education, you will have to at least create these values as well.
No, it isn't. There isn't consensus on what weakly/strongly typed actually means, but C is strongly typed (with some unfortunate loopholes) by most definitions.
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16-18 are also made private but a 17-18 year old can change it.
If it is worth the wait, announce your response or make a list of notes from which you can build the long response after things calm down.
That is such a cool example of observable evolution!

I suppose there is no proof that they weren't always able to that to scale certain trees, but it's safe to say the advantage is really kicking in just now with scaffolding, lantern posts and birdhouses.

Back in school, I learned about the majority of the Biston betularia butterfly turning black at the oneset of large-scale coal industry and then turning white again after stricter emission regulations were implemented - but this is way cooler IMO.
Are we talking about _customers_ or _users_? They are two different things, often with competing agendas.

Its great that some American Google workers have decided to unionise (in practice, a significant proportion of their EU staff will already be unionised), and they are right to point to ethical issues as the reason for doing so. In the medium term, we are going to see some sort of professional regulation in software engineering, if for no other reason than to ensure that Terminator and Black Mirror don't become a reality.

The situation with customers and users is different. They already have ultimate power over Google since they can simply go elsewhere. The best way that we can keep Google decent is by ensuring that competing services can emerge. Unionising customers/users would actually make them more invested in Google which would be self-defeating.
Fair enough. It helps if at least the communciation is clear: Like "Fill it all or don't file" or "Try to file as much as you can".

I really don't want to make it later for devs that give me so much. I'd be ok with: "Closed: Too little info" from a bot. I may decide to have another crack at it later when I have more time.

Edit: Btw, I'm using software for fee but, I'm also beta-testing for free. It's not just a one-way street: "I derive value from a free product so I should never complain." Is that really true?

I also invest time beta-testing (some times for products that make money on support or are open-core or are a gateway to paid software). Sure there are trolls, but there are also many users that make crappy reports that really want to help but just don't understand how (or why their report is a waste of everyone's time).
If you don't care about credentials, then it is largely already here. I've been learning javascript online from the worlds best teachers.

Though this doesn't work if you're learning microbiology and need access to a $1M laboratory.
IANAL - but I'm pretty sure the app platforms are breaking many laws here, not allowing people to freely donate. Like free speech, able to ask for help, freedom to do business, abuse of monopoly. They might be able to get away with a transaction fee, and a store fee, but they should not be able to censor text, links, etc. This is the new Mafia. If you don't play by their rules (theirs, not the law) your business dies!
That is how you become a $2 TRILLION company. Nobody gets a pass on giving up the cash.
The world's richest company. Absolutely unbelievable.
Still no. You don't seem to get it. Mumbles text problem exists, independently of you.
This whole rant looks like a personal thing for Greenwald. Ever since leaving the Intercept because of the Biden story he became very narrow minded. He's definitely in the wrong about Parler. The platforms have a rightful expectation that you can moderate the content on your site and it was proven that they have the right tools for the job. It was also shown that a huge part of the moderators were indeed MAGAs. It also seems to have incentivized users to spread disinformation [1]

Additionally: wasn't there a post recently about the investors being unknown? I read speculations about a Mercer involvement but other than that little is known. How can Greenwald make naive assumptions like this only looking at the public figures? Aren't there connections to Russia that had to be investigated? (Can't find source right now, it's on HN though)

[1] https://twitter.com/donk_enby?lang=en
Again, your posts abound in misunderstandings of history and urban legend. With regard to the Library of Alexandria, the library building probably no longer housed any books when it was destroyed by the Coptic hierarch; the library collection had been lost in past centuries.

With regard to Toledo, you appear to have read some pop-sci articles about it that made you excited, but you overestimate its impact. We know the provenance of the manuscripts of the Greek and Latin writers that have come down to us, and Toledo played absolutely no role in the transmission of most of them. Again, Greek and Latin manuscript studies is a well-established field.

Finally, none of what you have been posting is relevant to this subthread, and if you really want foreigners to appreciate the erudition of the Muslim world, getting your information right is important. With your carelessness about the facts, you are only damaging your own cause.
When I read your second line, for a second I thought you weren't finding anything relevant about customer advocacy groups and thought 'oh no... it's starting'.
While the parent comment is a bit pollyannish, this comment is overly pessimistic.
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I think there’s a React component.
Useless. It looks just like population density map.

Parler data normalized by population.
https://twitter.com/PeterCBlack/status/1348859919445807106
Clearly shows that low population density areas are more represented.

It's better but somewhat misleading too. Very small places like Lovin, Texas (population 300) are red hot because single person or family can turn them on.

Normalized by areas with 100,000 people or so would be better. or congressional districts.
I didn't know this, it is quite sad in fact if true. Do you have some more info?
Of course they can stop being nice at any moment and start doing nefarious things. But having the client open source means that when this happens, you can stop using it without data leaks, and until that happens, you can also be sure about the security of your data and exchanges. As a plus, you can run your own server for you and a group of friends/collaborators/whatever, if you wish. In my eyes that's a vastly better alternative than (I would say most, but it would be inaccurate) all the non-decentralized non-federative alternatives. Plus, their whole mission being secure messaging (as opposed to a nice-to-have side feature) will probably make it harder to do a full turn soon, I guess. Even if Signal is on to something eventually, I believe it does no harm to take full advantage of it while we can, as long as we are aware of a potential turn of events.
>Google sought to downplay the significance of the move by noting the company conducted “tens of thousands of experiments in Google Search” every year.

Assuming it's not just simple A/B testing, I'd be interested in a list of these tens of thousands of annual experiments to see what Google has been up to. It's messed up to think that even just searching Google on any particular day could be more or less accurate/helpful because we're in the middle of some experiment we never explicitly consented to.
> It literally costs hundreds of dollars to get a compatible test environment, while most other systems (including Windows) you can download and run a in VM for free.

Not even that; I've developed for Windows using Wine plus a mingw cross-compiler packaged by the Linux distribution I was using. Another alternative would be ReactOS in a VM.
as a reference: https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1183150368945049605
Can you elaborate on "Europe dug it's own grave here"?
In my opinion tech companies are not just shutting Trump down because he inspired his followers to enter the Capitol, they are shutting him down because he has become an actual threat to their operation. It's easy to see the consequences of a coup for social media companies like Twitter that had been partially shutting down Trump for months, not to mention how devastating it would be for the country's economy.

So in a way social media companies are setting a precedent to ban politicians and organization leaders that they deem a threat to them or to "democracy". Hopefully it won't become a trump card to ban innocent users.
> We do not set any cookies on redirects but do use cookies for authentication for users

You also set cookies on every request apparently. What are they for?

$ curl -Is https://t.ly/ | grep -ic set-cookie
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I agree. For me the biggest win is much less maintenance in the long run. Sandbox hacks will eventually stop working and will have to be replaced. If someone can't make the app they want without going around sandbox, then they should avoid App Store distribution instead of betting the product on "clever" workarounds.
Ultimately unions are about power - transferring an individual's minuscule power in the employer-employee relationship to themselves, to aggregate into something big enough to make a difference to the employer.

First question would be: how big would this union need to be to make Google do/not do things?

Second question would be: emphasising that it takes away power from the individual (or in your idea's case, the individual Google customer), who would sign up to that?

What I could see is another company forming that resells Google Cloud, and gets better discounts and better representation because of it. Normal market stuff.
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Japan and EU race to develop 'green hydrogen'
Look at what EU "tech" companies pay vs what FAANG/Huawei pays.

A friend finished his PhD in ML and ended up taking a job at a FAANG in the EU as the tech companies from Germany and France were only willing to pay half of that.

You can't be at the top if you treat your SW devs and researchers as an IT cost center.
As an iOS developer I can relate, Apple makes amazing hardware, but their software development is often meh. I don't think it's malicious, its just they have so many thousands of teams, often working independently of each other, and your experience with them is like dealing with sightless people describing an elephant. Some teams do amazing things, some mediocre, some downright awful, like any company, but exaggerated because of their central importance in so many other peoples/companies lives. Some of this could be fixed but even there Apple is a huge operation and executives are of all kinds. I work for a F50 company (non tech) with an infinite set of teams and execs and its another mix of amazing/stupid.

No one company can uniformly manage so much code and hardware to boot and do it perfectly. There are things Apple could do to make it less irritating—the hard problem is picking which subset of horrifically irritating things to fix.
Social media is the equivalent of publishing a newsletter about those things with an audience of millions and database search access.

It has never been a "private" conversation or even vaguely similar to say, a discussion at a cafe.

People have not treated it that way though.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel

> 1,890,000

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank

> 2,747,943 (Including other races?)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip

> 2,047,969

We can see that at least 28% Arabs are citizens of Israel (not<25%). Since they live in "official" Israel.
All the others don't since they don't live in Israel. How is it a JEW related problem?

How did your sentence change the problem I suggested.
How does the word JEW make any of it practical?
In order to maintain the protections of S230, don't Twitter and other for-profit forums need to demonstrate that the status quo is manageable and safe?

> BBC research shows QAnon-related phrases and hashtags were used more than 20 million times on Twitter between January and September 2020.

There will come a time where Twitter faces pressure to purge its roster of troll and bot accounts that serve obvious political ends. Not just Russia but also Iran, China, Israel, DNC, GOP, and so forth....Twitter already knows which accounts are used for disinformation, not only from the accounts' content and commentary but also from evaluating and correlating IP data, time of activity, browser specs, and other usage data and metadata. However, they hurt their MAU every time they purge users.

In fact, that's precisely why they go after QAnon, I bet. That line of propaganda has fallen out of favor due to the death of Ashli Babbitt, and is on its way out the door with Trump's presidency. QAnon-shilling accounts are arguably likely to go inactive soon anyway, regardless of account suspension.

In this case, Twitter finds itself in a bit of a zugzwang because of its long history of inaction. Republicans and Democrats alike have taken the stance that S230 is not a tenable, effective policy for keeping internet fora safe and free of propaganda.

Personally I think Twitter has to cull far more than 70k accounts before I will believe they have put decent and truthful communication above the profit motive. Sure, propagandists are willing to set up troll networks and pay for ads, but the cost to our society is so great that Twitter can't just treat that kind of manipulative engagement as "easy money."
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> Not really, considering it doesn't enforce a single, consistent API, so most companies will still use something like TrueLayer (our local equivalent of Plaid) to aggregate all these separate APIs into a single consistent one.

That's not quite true. The CMA9 have to follow the Open Banking spec, and some other non-cma9 banks have decided to follow the same spec. In practise, there's some deviation from the spec between the banks (in part, due to ambiguity in the spec), but it's not like they're all pulling their own spec out of the air.

> Furthermore, "open" banking is very misleading because it's only open to corporations with deep pockets to obtain an AISP license/certification*, but doesn't even allow the account holder to gain API access to their own account. Unless you're lucky enough to be with a modern bank that provides that as a feature (which is legally separate from Open Banking, though often it's the same API), your only workaround is to sign up for TrueLayer yourself just to access your own account through them.

The 'deep pockets' don't need to be as deep as implied. I think it's <~£3k. It's not something that only big companies can afford, but I agree, it's not something that an individual would use to test out an idea, which would push them towards something like TrueLayer.
My pet peeve: there are still many developer-oriented sites (including this site) that can't handle special characters in search. For example, searching for `C#` or `C++` returns C, C++, C# results.
There is a meta play at worst. Like, someone showering you with 1 million dollars, no obligations and no strings attached, but having an ulterior motive. But, as in that scenario, it's in our hands to make the best use of what we are given.