skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're basing that claim on the numbers they're providing on deaths/cases, I don't believe it for a second.
At the end of the day, nothing is free. It's just a different payment scheme and Apple is killing that scheme. We don't even pay through our privacy or attention span. These are simply wasted in the process of offloading the payment to a different payment processor.

The game is not free, it just collects the payments through the candy shop. The offsetting of the payment includes you stop playing and looking at candy images and initiating the process itself requires us writing off our privacy so that the candy image guys can try to guess which candy we might like more.

What if everything is paid directly? Yes, there's Apple's %30 cut but there's also Google's cut and Facebook's cut in advertisement(which is not transparent and I hear that it's about %50).

Besides, huge resources are spent in running the system that tries to guess who would prefer to buy what. It comes at the cost of computational and human resources too, not just the privacy. That cost must be incorporated to the product price.

Is finding the product you look for through WOM, lists and publications that inefficient? Is it really impossible to find your customers organically? Do we really need the customer/product matching in exchange of money?

Do we really need an incredibly inefficient centralised communist system(the big agencies like FB) where the party members(the technicians in these companies) need to track everyone(the spying required to make the system possible) so that we can have free games and apps(which are not free but paid from the communal money that the central organisation collects from you)?
> Shouldn't users also give consent to what they share with Apple?

You give consent to share data with a company when you share it with that company. This straightforward relationship isn't an issue so long as the company's use of your data is in line with your expectations.

When you want to know what a company's incentives are, look at their financials. Money is the great truth teller. Does Apple have sources of revenue which rely upon use of customers' private data? I'm not aware of any.

Now ask the opposite question. Does Apple have a financial incentive to be a good steward of their customers' data? This is a very clear yes, as evidenced by their highlighting of privacy as a distinguishing feature. While it's stupid to trust a company's marketing, it's important to appreciate that Apple have wilfully staked a large part of their reputation on customer privacy. That would have been a monumentally stupid move if they weren't intending to live up to it.

> they put Apple first above everything else

A weird accusation. Setting aside immutable truths about the motivations of any corporation, Apple has famously placed their customers ahead of many other external concerns. Case in point—where they have actively defied the wishes of the FBI (and similar arms of many world governments) in the implementation of robust on-device encryption and cryptographic security.

> I only see them getting an exclusive view of user behavior on their devices.

Yes, and? Tell me, who are these other people that should have access to my data? Damn right it should be exclusive to Apple—people are paying them good money to be a trustworthy steward of their data.
Do not use Rufus to make Windows 10 install media. Rufus sucks for this purpose. It uses a weird partition scheme and custom bootloader that doesn't work with secure boot.

You don't need any of this shit. Partition the drive as NTFS, mark the partition as active through Disk Management, and simply copy and paste the contents of the iso into the drive.

For maximum compatibility, just use FAT32 instead of NTFS. The official images will fit in a FAT32 volume. If you have a custom image that's more than the 4GB max file size of FAT32, and your device doesn't support ntfs or exfat, then you can use a single command to split the wim file into multiple chunks as explained here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
Because Apple can't stop tracking in China?
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To START in Wuhan, the only place doing gain-of function on the closest known virus to SARS2 and to not find a natural source for it given the source was found within months for both SARS1 and MERS.
The situation likely arose as a tragedy of the commons. It’s why Apple taking the hammer to the business model is worth watching. A dominant platform like Apple has the ability to change the economics so we don’t end up with everything being “free” and trying to learn everything about you.

There’s some concern about how Apple is changing the economics of free apps. I personally have always had a problem with free apps destroying the opportunity for those that charge the user cash instead of data.
Uh, infecting a new type of organism is a pretty big evolutionary benefit though?

Saying there is no benefit is like saying there is no benefit for people people who switch jobs just so they get paid more.
Do you have an option to not accept those terms and use the software? Similar to what is shown now for the App Tracking?
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I think this is a really interesting idea. Would love to see these results and other experiments also compared in terms of resulting file size.
> I consider throttling BitTorrent “reasonable” and justifiable under purely “technical” reasons but clearly other people disagree.

So what you're saying is that there was a process for figuring out the inevitable ambiguities, and you just disagree with the ruling?

As an aside, I also don't see the "reasonable", "technical" justification for throttling bittorrent anymore than throttling https.
Opinion articles and FB posts, none of which back up GP's "literally the only substantial voice" claim... So you couldn't find anything, thanks for making my point for me.

Again, where is any official BlackLivesMatter material on Daniel Shaver?
Already discussed in 2017[1] and 2014[2]. Blog post overview at [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823054
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8028777
[3] https://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/12/matter-anti-matter.htm...
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Good point. If you really understood or cared about privacy, you wouldn't be following the Google herd.

They probably already have all your personal info so why not verify it so they can be sure they have it right?

It's really what's best for your own protection. It's not like Google is "evil" or something. Mooo!
>My reading of the protocol is that even when the application asks for that, the compositor can still reject it, and the application must always provide a fallback to CSD.

Yes this is correct too. I assume it was mainly put there for GNOME :) I honestly don't fathom why you would want to be CSD only in general purpose compositor aimed for desktop users. It can make sense in specialized cases. But then again I believe GNOME doesn't want normal users, but rather users that will always do what they want them to do, aka the Apple mentality.

This is all made worse with the low-level libraries and programs that don't use the gnome toolkit, end up just drawing some very primitive title bar (sometimes even without any buttons), just so people can drag the window around under gnome compositor. I guess this is the kind of end user experience gnome devs want? Nah, they'll just tell users to use only their apps instead next.
There are some projects which I've migrated from bash to js, in the middle of the migration, we had a mix of both. This project would have been really helpful to make that migration quicker. Of course, it wasn't ideal, but there's always a journey before the destination.
Honestly, the reviews are a big reason why I use Amazon. Even if I know most of them (or all of them) are fake, I feel safer buying from Amazon when a product has hundreds of reviews, compared to an online store like Walmart which may have zero reviews for the same product. It's stupid, but there's a part of my brain that likes seeing those numbers I guess.

I wonder if there are any middle man review services out there that can offer product reviews to online stores, along with proper moderation.

If I see a product on Walmart.com I want to buy, but there are no reviews, I'll usually search for it on Amazon just to see reviews. But once I'm on Amazon, they usually have the better price and free 2-day shipping with Prime.
Um, I'd like to be able to parse this article. but I don't know what it is saying. Can anyone explain the gist of it to me in simple terms?

What does this mean?

"These sonograms are remarkably different from other sounds, as if birds “draw” with sound something that’s flying backwards in time."
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>> >"The (body image scanning) technology is sent to the airports without the ability to save, transmit or print the images,...and, once the image is cleared, they're deleted."

Perhaps from the machine, but what prevents a TSA viewer in the remote location from snapping an image of the screen with their smartphone, or wearing an always-on logging camera to the workstation?
But with child_process.exec you can at least pass values via env and have the shell script come from a file (which you can throw shellcheck at)

Also, spawning node from shell to spawn shell to spawn something like ls is madness. Node has fs.readdir already and there are util packs on NPM like fs-extra and friends.
Is this the moment San Francisco turns against fnnch’s honey bears?
Skimming a hundred or so reviews from first few of the 10,000, every review is five stars, posted at rates of ten or more per week.

So to the fakery professionals, it’s an industry leaderboard.

To you and me, who have need to spot fake reviews, it’s a singularly valuable sample of what to be on guard against. So thanks, Amazon, for clueing us in to just how rotten your system really is!
I edited the tail end of my previous comment to touch on this, which is to say that omitting the direct object typically involves using intransitive instead of transitive. For example, the intransitive "today I ate" instead of the transitive "today I ate pie" leaves you guessing what I ate. The verb "surprise" does seem to have an intransitive syntax per https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surprise which gives a similar sentiment as "surprisingly."
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Sometimes we have to deal with VMs admin'd by other people.
I'm curious about the 4% of users who enabled it. Did they get tricked into doing so? Was it an accident? Or do some people out there really genuinely want to be tracked?
Comp sci vs the natural sciences have an interesting split on this (though blurring more recently). Computer science tends to use "code" as a collective noun. Traditional usage in the natural sciences and parts of engineering is that "a code" (singular) is a single routine or piece of software to carry out some kind of numerical calculation or simulation. Then "codes" is just the normal plural when talking about more than one of them. So you find papers talking about things like "a new code for simulating preheating" [1] or "benchmarking simulation codes" [2].

[1] https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2008/11/009

[2] https://doi.org/10.1109/PAC.2003.1289206
Admit it and say sorry? Or at least say "it is regrettable".
> Lab accidents were going to happen and are going to happen regardless of where COVID came from. China as a nation isn't exactly responsible and whatever people do next will be more about geopolitics than about details like the virus' genesis.

The Wuhan lab where this supposedly originated from was a BSL-4 lab. These aren't accidents, this is negligence. The lab had safety problems and wasn't meeting BSL-4 requirements. Chinese researchers at the lab raised concerns about lack of qualified technicians, and lack of resources. This is negligence. If the Wuhan BSL-4 lab was the source of Covid-19, this is absolutely the fault of China. No one is blaming Chinese people or Chinese citizens for this, but China as a government is responsible.

Furthermore, it does matter. Finding the source matters. If nothing changes, and root causes aren't fixed, it will happen again. Just dismissing this as an inevitability is a dangerous attitude.
>> A global pandemic in which more people than ever before are applying for unemployment is a situation that COBOL systems were never designed to handle, because a global catastrophe on this scale was never supposed to happen. And yet, even in the midst of this crisis, COBOL systems didn’t actually break down. Although New Jersey’s governor issued his desperate plea for COBOL programmers, later investigations revealed that it was the website through which people filed claims, written in the comparatively much newer programming language Java, that was responsible for the errors, breakdowns, and slowdowns. The backend system that processed those claims—the one written in COBOL—hadn’t been to blame at all.

One can bet good money on the expectation that the mainframes will be the last component of a system to crash and burn. Though to be fair that's not to do with COBOL, per se, it's just that mainframes are rock solid.
What works is that we straight up give them housing, free needles, free-at-the-point-of-access healthcare, and treating addiction like we would treat a medical condition like diabetes-get them on a treatment plan without judgement.

The reason why there’s a ton of inefficient waste in Democrat cities is because of bullshit NIMBYism and constant resistance to just giving people minimum standards of living due to some notion of wanting to figure out who “deserves” it more.

We know what works. Needles exchanges work. Free healthcare works. Providing housing works. Strong social programs work.
>People aren't interested in whether you were right or not, what matters is the probability you will be right in the future.

All of this is speculative re: COVID right now, but in the general case how would (royal) you know the probability of someone being right in the future if you don't investigate why they were right in the first place? Or, maybe more importantly why you were wrong?

For example, if Fox News and Alex Jones come out in 4 hours after the first outbreak screaming "IT ESCAPED FROM A LAB IN WUHAN!!!", does that in any way influence what the scientific and medical communities are likely to explore? If you're directing resources for the WHO and you're 50/50 thinking of sending investigators to the lab or the wet markets, does this bias your decision at all?

My guess is yes.
... and what's wrong with them? Likely they misunderstood or mis-clicked.

4% is level with the Lizardman constant, i.e. the threshold of noise in the data:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
Nothing with computers is instantaneous. I strongly suspect that there is at least 15ms of latency in your setup, and probably much more. Different people have different sensitivity to latency, just because you don't notice it doesn't mean it isn't there.
Thank you for adding to the discussion.
I'm a lot less sure, and the lack of clear requirements makes me even less certain.

Also things like

>adding only hooks for you means that all the other terminals get no benefit.

Makes me quite concerned since these hooks weren't just for termite, as evidenced by tilix showing interest in this patch set.

>Implementing this in VTE would mean ruling out having any flexibility in the terminal using the library. [...] an implementation inside VTE won't satisfy the use case.

I think that the termite developer explained very clearly why the approach suggested by the VTE maintainer wouldn't actually solve the problem they were having, and the maintainer responded with a simple "wontfix" and no more discussion.

This is kind of the thing we're talking about. One project said they needed this, another project said they'd also appreciate this feature, and instead of discussing how to make this work, setting clear requirements and the like, it took 2 years to respond to the first patch submission and then the issue was just randomly closed in the middle of a discussion.
Luckily you can turn off the redesign in preferences with an account. You can use old.reddit but that's pretty annoying imo. The redesign is truly terrible and having 2 UIs, one of which has many strange user engagement oriented features, is very odd. Old users are used to their old ways and stick to them, never really seeing the totally different world new users see.. This causes an odd divide in user behavior. I have heard mods complain about this as their members will be complaining to them about things the mod never sees since they prefer the old design.

Also yeah, the way they intentionally murdered mobile browser access infuriates me to no end. Truly a prime example in "how to get users to migrate platforms by totally degrading the old one and pissing the users off as much as possible'. If you googling something on your phone and open a reddit link, you'll first hit an entirely useless amp link that tries to get you to use the app. Then you subvert that and get another useless page that tries to get you to open the app. Ignore that. Oh, you can only see 3 comments and couple layers deep but want to expand the more replies. Ok, press expand. Oh, I am in the app store now. Truly some cancerous design.
"according to collected data" - 1330 results

"according to my mom" - 400 results

"according to my dad" - 364 results

Nice to see that nearly double of the data doesn't come from the researcher's parents.
Why does it matter that the server was Indian?
> the goal is to fight misinformation

The misinformation is that people's belief of the world are based on statistics that were only true decades ago and haven't been updated. For example, the distinction between the developing and the developed world. The world has actually gotten better and we have reasons to be more optimistic.

However, I shouldn't have stated my own interpretation that way.

> a down-playing of issues of serious concern

Unless we really know the state of the world, we won't come up with the right solutions. For things that have improved, we should be optimistic and celebrate the successes. We keep hearing about the hunger problem in Africa, but did years of initiatives work or not? Are education programs really working or not? Are our efforts actually making the world better? We never seem to hear the success stories in media.

That doesn't mean we rest on our laurels and stop fixing the remaining issues.
As a professional C++ programmer who hasn't used C since the compiler limited me to C89 (so 2015ish), I am very impressed by how clean C code can look these days. This was a great talk. There are a lot of really good things in modern C, and if I ever have to use C again I will have some great new tools. And I found the "25k allocations for a single character entered" in chrome extremely shocking; it definitely pays to think about allocations in C++.

Given the improvements, I found the warning not to use libc unless absolutely necessary very surprising. I suppose C++ has parts we know to avoid, but I wonder why, with all the improvements to the C language, there haven't been the same improvements to the standard library? It appears C programmers are used to rewriting pretty basic functionality for every new project, or carting around their personal utility library.

I'm also still not at all convinced by macros.
The impetus for this was to create a less blurred, more coherent preview image that is not the original image. Why is that? I suspect to entice people to want to pay for the images that are being previewed. The question is now: given there are different techniques, which techniques lead to a higher rate of purchases of previewable content (right)?
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It's not poorly written, it's a rhetorical use of irony. Like Mark Antony repeatedly asserting that Brutus and Cassius are "honorable men" as he describes how they brutally and unjustly murdered Caesar.
I don't understand why folks (here) are so up in arms about this? It's well known.

It's pretty easy to spot fake amazon reviews with very little effort, and buy accordingly. Also, no matter how tempted I only buy directly from amazon and never from their 3rd party sellers; just for easy returns. So on the off chance I get burned, the product goes right back. It's not that big a deal. It's not like I was going to independently find the best product on my own, without the help of amazon, without some trial and error.

Maybe I'm too much of a sociopath. Allowing fake reviews is great. It vastly increases amazon's footprint, making sure that the things I buy are and remain easily returnable. Scammers gonna scam. Let them.

It's also easy to spot incompetent users that leave 1 star reviews due to their misunderstanding of the product. Or 5 star reviews of blu ray before it's even released. That kind of thing. You know, you have to actually read the reviews ok? It's not too much to ask, honestly.

You cannot police this kind of thing to any reasonable degree and maintain cost/performance ratio where it "needs" to be. Maybe it's a little too loose now, but any improvement is going to be modest plus it will breed better scammers.

I really rue the death of flash. It was sooo easy to filter flash and ignore the drek. Now where are we? I don't consider these fake reviews to be a problem; indeed they are a benefit. Keep them easy to spot, please.
TV ads, billboards - yes. But internet ads are very different.
The TSA's proud culture of professionalism and integrity, of course.
It’s weird to see you gloss over the only interesting detail in this story, the hard evidence,

and then deep dive into conjecture, and your feelings.
And you support the extortion of sellers who are suffering quite a bit. If everyone would use Amazon, the world soon would be enslaved by one single retailer offering the lowest wages on planet earth with zero to no respect for human rights.
you are right, except sars-cov-2 happened to appear 500 meters away from said lab...
I took oral math exams in Germany 15 years back when studying there for a year. In many ways I actually preferred it to written. A nice thing about oral exams is that it allows the professor to quite effectively determine your skills very quickly. If you're stuck at small parts, they can give you a hint. If you then just start rolling, you clearly knew the subject matter. Or if you don't understand an area very well, the professor can switch to another area. Maybe you happen to know other parts of the course very well, but the first thing the professor asks is in one of your weak areas. The professor can also drill down into specific subjects you understand well and give you more and more difficult and detailed questions that you've maybe never even thought about at all and help you through them.

I think the system is great. The main downside is that one-on-one tests just don't scale. But other than that, I wish they would be more common in undergraduate studies in the US.
What's the benefit to me of enabling it?
Those places were already dissolving from Walmart, Amazon, 7-11, etc. These extra companies are at least diversifying the competition.
It's impossible to have a system where inventors can capture intellectual property "quickly and easily," because after about a year there will be so much captured intellectual property floating around that every engineer has to become a patent lawyer and licensing negotiator to keep their own addition to the pile from infringing.