skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See this[1] interview for a good explanation of surveillance capitalism, from the person that coined the term.

> The idea here is that what is being produced are predictions, predictions of future human behavior that are then sold to markets of business customers who have an interest in what people will do now, soon, and later. So that’s the sequence, the mechanisms of surveillance capitalism.

Information is power. Sometimes that power might be used to extract more profit. Sometimes it might be used for Cambridge Analytica style political manipulation. Don't limit your thinking to profit-related use cases. Power can (and will) be used for a wide variety of tasks. A good example of a company using surveillance data is Uber's "Greyball" software. From[2]:

> The program, involving a tool called Greyball, uses data collected from the Uber app and other techniques to identify and circumvent officials who were trying to clamp down on the ride-hailing service.

> One technique involved drawing a digital perimeter, or “geofence,” around the government offices on a digital map of a city that Uber was monitoring. The company watched which people were frequently opening and closing the app ... near such locations as evidence that the users might be associated with city agencies. Other techniques included looking at a user’s credit card information and determining whether the card was tied directly to an institution like a police credit union. [...] In all, there were at least a dozen or so signifiers in the VTOS program that Uber employees could use to assess whether users were regular new riders or probably city officials.

> When someone tagged [by Greyball] called a car, Uber could scramble a set of ghost cars in a fake version of the app for that person to see, or show that no cars were available. Occasionally, if a driver accidentally picked up someone tagged as an officer, Uber called the driver with instructions to end the ride.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-an...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
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Petabytes of user data and leads are still fuckin' weak.
The iPhone 4 was not 5", it was only 3.5". The iPhone 5 had only a 4" screen, the iPhone 6 was 4.7".
Having to throw out an iMac bought a year ago (there was at least one model without a T2 chip at that time IIRC) absolutely should count as unnecessary overhead, though.
I call BS on all of your reply.

Microsoft keeps backward compatibility with most of the past releases of its OS.

It's feasible, it's doable.
> Yeah but the semantic difference between "hide" and "quit" is a very technical one that doesn't need to exist.

Funny, because I think the exact opposite. "Hide" means, "stop showing it for now, but keep it around". "Quit" means, "I'm done with you and I expect you to not be doing any work until I start you again". It's a very significant usability difference.

> On mobile it doesn't happen, and we can thank Android for that

To this day I consider it to be the worst, most dumb idea Android ever had. I hate it. It's the reason I hated my first smartphone. It's the reason why, from the second phone on, I only ever buy top-of-the-line most overpriced flagships available - I have to overprovision resources to ensure the phone works smoothly, because there are countless of background processes doing god knows what, that cannot be killed and prevented from restarting.

I know best when I'm done with an app. I want to be able to kill it, and all its background processes, and I want them to stay dead until I change my mind. If I were designing a mobile OS, I'd make the distinction between "hide" and "quit" as clear as day, and make it an app store policy violation for an app to execute anything in the background after being "quitted" by the user (polling for notifications would be handled by the system).
I agree the burden of switching countries is too big. But as a share of that burden the beaurocracy of getting a new residence would be somewhere at the bottom. The biggest burden of switching to a new country within the EU would be language, culture (there's a lot of things in common but as many differences too) and family/friends. I did change country 2x and my biggest worry has always been first securing a new job. I never cared about the beaurocracy because I knew it will be sorted out sooner or later once I move.
Is Matryoshka TicTacToe a solved game?
This makes me wonder what are all the uses for old electronic equipments, by repurposing some of their chips. Is there any database/resource on this?
My hope is that the admin guys have already agreed on something they will cookie-cutter-copy, and that's why they suggested such a short implementation timespan. But yeah, it will be hard to keep the usual sharks at bay.
While it is pretty nice, I like Estonia's model even more. Achieves all the same things but requires fewer steps, all the while supporting multiple modes of logging in (with your phone, with a card reader, etc).
I'd personally grab something like https://github.com/hopkinskong/esp32-ssh-server and hack public key auth I to it, but I can imagine hacking some old 3G modems would be a lot more fun.
> The UART cable length limit makes it difficult to work with on a messy desk

Not sure what OP is running, but I’ve run rs232 at 115.2 over 50’ (or was it 100’?) for months at a time. Over dollar-store grade RJ-11. And one side wasn’t even sending +12/-12, but 0 and 5V.
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Perhaps you feel like speaking an outright lie to "protect" folks is totally fine, but I do not. We're just going to have to disagree.
Soon to hit the graveyard ?
I hadn’t thought of it that way. I guess it’s like shredding mail is completely normal, but in a digital world we’ve become accustomed to the idea that you keep every single letter forever.
If the sun stops shining (or turns into a red giant, which is on the schedule), we will have much bigger problems.
> Class mobility in US is largely a self-perpetuating myth.

I personally know several millionaires who arrived in America with a suitcase and a dream.

> class-based social system where divider is your wealth.

The usual definition of a class is legal privilege based on your parents. This does not exist in the US.

> So when you come in poor, you stay relatively poor, and can hope your children will fare better (and most don't).

People aren't desperately trampling 1000 miles and throwing their kids over the wall just to be poor. In America, they have freedom and a darn good chance to do well. Communist countries are different, they have to build walls to keep their citizens from escaping Utopia.

> Read some german WWI literature

I've read about WW1 from actual historians.

What do think the beaten down German soldiers would have thought encountering masses of American troops better equipped and far better fed than they ever were?
Under the hood, Electron is powered by the Chromium rendering engine and NodeJS. So why do you view browser based and electron apps as different? Because you cant see the browser menu bar?
on the other hand they're hardly sorrounded with signs of ways of getting cash/succcess/yada yada "easily"

streamers, youtubers, onlyfans, influencers, fake/successful (survivor bias?) people on social media

those (mainstream) probably do not promote solid work ethic, or are healthly
As a small kid, I think I was fascinated by other people smoking. I mean come on: there's a gleaming fire stick coming out of your mouth!!

But also, even as a tiny boy with a single-digit age, I was wondering why anybody would voluntarily pick up a habit that everyone knows raises your chances to get cancer? I liked the idea of being "cool" (which to me was the only real "pro" point of smoking), but when compared to a terminal illness, there really never was any temptation for me.

In thinking back about how times have changed since those days, what I find even more interesting though is that smoking was all around you _all the time_. People smoked, you didn't even think about it twice. Inside restaurants where you ate, inside cars when you were given a ride, everywhere.

I remember going to clubs when I was a young man, and that feeling of waking up the next morning with you ears screaming and your clothes, your pillow, your hair, everything smelling of cold smoke. Disgusting.

Coming to think of it, I wonder why I wouldn't want to pick up smoking out of fear of getting cancer but obviously didn't mind ruining my hearing by spending hours each weekend in unreasonably loud clubs. I mean, I certainly found it perverted that in that environment, when you were talking to someone, you were literally screaming into their ear (just think about that...) but I kept going there every weekend.

I suppose in the end, I did it because I wanted to belong. Which, in turn, I'm sure is one of the major reason for people to pick up smoking...
Essentialy, you do the same thing as an FFT for separation.
A gaussian blur is a low-pass filter, and functionally the same as selecting all frequency component within a radius r of the DC component (assuming the DC component is in the center of the image). The radius r depends on the width of the gaussian kernel.

The only difference could be in computational time (might be that the FFT is faster) and will be different if you use a different kind of blurring (i.e. non-gaussian such as selecting a square region in the frequency domain).
Did you consider OpenLayers?

It's been around for a long time and is really powerful when compared to other open source web-based mapping/GIS options - unfortunately I never really need the advanced features in the projects I tend to work on.

https://openlayers.org/

Edit, my favourite from their list of examples: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/sea-level.html
Depression in my case. I started smoking before high school as something to fill the void, only realizing much later that I've been severely depressed for a long time. (SSRIs are an amazing tool in my case FWIW)

Once you get used to it, it's an amazing social tool -- making new friends/acquaintances becomes a piece of cake. I travelled a lot for work and, as a smoker, I would instantly integrate with the other smokers. It's just something fun that leads to pursuing other social activities together. I've seen ADHD mentioned in this thread and that makes sense, the habit as "something to do" is a powerful grip on top of the chemical addiction.
Yes. People's Daily is sort of a CCP newsletter. CGTN and Xinhua are also actual state outlets. Global Times is a tabloit, like Fox News.
I use Parallels. I honestly don't remember how I set it up initially (I still used Sierra on the host when I originally set it up, for a different reason, relating to the terrible setup process of that same software being unreliable, and not wanting to repeat it whenever I reinstalled my host OS).

I just did a quick test - if you make a bootable macOS USB installer (instructions here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372) and then use the 'New VM' wizard in Parallels, it detects the USB drive as an installer source. It may also detect a downloaded installer App too, but I don't have one (that isn't on a bootable USB drive).

Performance is not like native, obviously, but it's workable enough for utility programs. VMWare Fusion has an option to prefer an eGPU, so that may give better results than e.g. the Intel graphics if you're on a Mac mini (and have an eGPU). But I don't know specifically how Fusion does with macOS guests. I only have it so I can build Vagrant boxes that support VMware, I don't actually use it for anything else.
It's not uncommon among leftist to suggest systemic punishments and disadvantages for people who are born with certain physical and/or mental strengths and talents.
I would recommend against firejail as it uses SUID, essentially making any escalation bugs into running as root, instead of just as the given user.
Um, the government contracted with and paid private companies to produce armaments, because B-17s are of no use to consumers.
> The HOA is a direct democracy. It can vote to change the rules - you can give your input as a vote, but you're bound by the majority. It's the same system.

Then that sounds terrible.
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Damn, MBP 2015 is the last proper macbook for me out there. Guess I'll have to keep it to run Apple ecosystem software.
Thanks for your feedback! Yeah that is what I or we in our team do, simply use it for a braindump. Some do use it as a diary.

My goal is and was to keep it minimal and simple at all cost. Soon going to add a "link" feature, where you can link a day in the future or past, simply to have a reference when you open that linked day.

This link in linked linking is a nice meta meme lol.

And well, custom file paths is the next thing to look into as well. Feel free to give me feedback here or on the github discussions over at https://github.com/lostdesign/linked/discussions

Just moved the repo over in my account.
Here's the dark truth: any kid like this that gets old enough to have a sense of self-protection around this exploitation is way, way less valuable than a new, younger, fresher one that is completely innocent.

You'll get the occasional one who's bright enough to sock money away secretly (from what little I understand, the rapper Chamillionaire was like this?) and pivot into being one of the exploiters with age and maturity, or just be able to make a graceful exit. The thing is, these kids are meant to LOOK like your classic MC Hammer, acting like lottery winners and living large. To figure out that you have to fake that while secretly being a bit cleverer, and pull it off, is impressively shrewd, and I don't think the system selects for it. The system is not assigning extra points for wise.

I would add that a systemic side-benefit to the group form seen here and in K-Pop is that it's easier to swap out kids and discard them, where in a more isolated celebrity model there's more of an incongruity behind building up a star only to then drop 'em and present a different, younger star to replace them. In a group house it's the house that is the star and it's easier to drop a kid.
linux sensors command, where ever that is.
I think the problem many people miss in this context is that it's not a bureaucracy or a technology problem — it's a cultural one. There's a reason cash is king in countries like Germany and Switzerland. As someone who lived in the latter as an expat for a while, they often simply prefer the option you can physically hold. Trust is the name of the game, and I think the cultural bridge will need to be crossed first before adoption becomes the norm.
I don’t see the appeal of chain smoking the first cigarette is nice but subsequent cigarettes does nothing for me.

One cigarette a day is about how much I can do and actually cognitively recognize the effects.

That is not to say that some part of me does not want to smoke more than one. Cause there is such a part of me. But I as a verbal entity can not justify it in any way. It just does nothing. In fact it makes me feel worse.
> It's 2021, people really aren't using the App Store like they used to

Got any figures on this decline?
The various authentication services are already supposed to integrate through EIDAS but I don't know how well that works yet. I'm seeing the button to use it on more and more government login pages so I think it's getting picked up more.

As far as I know, the Dutch government has been pretty slow in their EIDAS implementation, even (nearly?) missing some deadlines, maybe the Belgian government has a similar problem?
OP didn’t mention Microsoft though. But yes, we get it: Apple bad. Well done.
> So your solution to organizing files... is more files? How would multiple files use the same "tag" under that scheme, without duplicating it everywhere?

You could put the same file in multiple directories. You could have a file in ~/vat and symlink it to ~/urgent and ~/accountant.
Thanks for this. It's important that smokers yet to quit hear this message. Quitting is not impossible and it won't consume the rest of your life.

I gave up after 20 years of pretty much constant smoking. I will cave and have one with a friend who still smokes while drinking once in a while. Not perfect but better than smoking a pack a day.
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> I'd say this should be left to the national Governments.

As a Swede, I strongly disagree with this idea. My country is essentially a "democratic oligarchy" with a wealth inequality similar only to Russia.[1]

The current eID system in Sweden is a private oligopoly run by, amongst others, the Wallenberg family and a previous prime minister. This oligopoly is used to stifle competition.[2]

Since the politicians are so deeply involved in the banking sector,[3] the only real hope of change is that a higher power takes more control.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/747a76dd-f018-4d0d-a9f3-4069bf2f5...
[2] https://www.realtid.se/konkurrens-storbankerna-har-nekat-fin...
[3] https://www.expressen.se/dinapengar/toppsossarna-som-tjanar-...
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This is most likely bad news, unless privacy is the #0 priority
Nicotine was natural cure for ADHD at the time when there was no such diagnosis.

I am not kidding: my IQ raised at least 20 points when I started smoking at 16. I was suddenly the very best in mathematics (from barely acceptable level) and was able to concentrate in other studies too.

Unfortunately there was only two years left in school, so I was not able to fill the gaps to gain top marks at everything. Should have started smoking earlier.

I stopped smoking when there was no need to accomplish anything at age 40. It just happened quite effortlessly. I had all the monies I will ever need, and there was not too many opportunities available careerwise.
Jeff Bezos does not buy anything with every incremental thousand dollars. In some important sense, it's not even money that can be spent. When people talk about Bezos' wealth being $200 billion dollars, almost all of that is just the last trade price of Amazon stock times his shareholding. (In some sense, it represents the value of an institution that supplies people with stuff more efficiently.)

Suppose we take that $200 billion from Bezos, who only spends a tiny fraction of that on actual things for his personal use that use actual resources like land, materials, workers' time, etc, and instead try and spend all of it on stuff that uses those actual resources like food, healthcare, etc. The only way to do that is to find people who'll do the reverse trade - who'll take hundreds of billions of dollars they'd otherwise have spent on things made with actual resources that'd make their lives better, and instead buy shares of Amazon with them. This actual money that represents an actual claim on limited resources cannot come out of the pockets of Bezos or other billionares, because they don't have that much - it has to come out of ordinary people's pockets. Same with the shuttering of businesses during coronavirus; it's ordinary people who'll have to feel the consequences of all the goods not produced and services not provided, because they're the ones who consume them.

The approach where people like Bezos become billionaires through coming up with ways to supply goods and services to people more efficiently doesn't have this problem, because it works by making the pie bigger for everyone rather than just trying to change the size of people's slices. And I'd personally trust Bezos to do this much more than all the people who seem ideologically opposed to the idea such a thing is even possible...
Thank you so much.
> The idea here is that what is being produced are predictions, predictions of future human behaviour

This reminds of a scene in Winter Soldier, Zola's algorithm to predict the future. Another predictive programming?
I use https://www.saltify.io however I didn't know onetimesecret is open source, this is helpful as we use it a lot at work, seems worth building our own. Thanks for sharing that.
The solution is for docker-compose (or plain docker).

I don't think the reproducibility is out. It's the same app, the same image, the same intended user, you just inject, once, the local user and group ids.
A lot of the appeal of HOAs como from the obsession americans have of seeing their homes as investments. An illusion conveniently fueled by the marketing of banks and realtors.

Americans usually have this idea that a home is a valuing asset, because they mistake price inflation, fueled mostly by a constrained supply in some growing markets, with true asset valuation.

It is not like something magic happened in the bay area and trillions of dollars have magically been added as true value for the existing house, it was just price inflation most of the time.

When Detroit was an american economic power-house people probably thought that their properties would value indefinitelly.

But the thing is, even if a local supply constraint is sustainable over time, either because of real space limits (like in Manhattan where the only way to build new space is by first demolishing something) or because of zoning restrictions, nothing guarantees that the demand will stay strong forever. And even if local demand stay strong, we can expect it to decrease globally some moment in the future, as we enter a demographic transition where population starts to actually shrink instead of grow.

Take out the my-home-as-a-valuing-asset notion, and a lot of the drawbacks of this style of community (lack of privacy due to the absence of front yard fences/block walls, increasing fees, annoying restrictions) become more salient.
$395 for an 8k btu and $325 for a 6k btu seem very very expensive to me. It's been a little bit since I was in the market for window ACs, but a 6k BTU would sell for $100ish from home depot or lowes when on sale.

edit: 2 weeks ago Costco was selling an 8K for $150 - https://slickdeals.net/f/15030940-hisense-window-air-conditi...
Finland is also the only country that made rational choices in the setup of frequency auctions. Maybe better infrastructure delivers superior digital implementation of government structure because actual equal access to internet speed is guaranteed.
To be fair, Roosevelt in his 1945 State of the Union Address advocated for imposing forced labor on American civilians. Fortunately, that went nowhere.
This is completely inane speculation. "All the T2 Macs use the same firmware version......and therefore non-T2 Macs won't be supported in MacOS 12". Zero proof, but here we are, rewarding this drivel with thousands of page views and hundreds of comments
> Macromedia Fireworks CS4

Wow. I have fond memories of FW (in a job far far away).

I'd have _thought_ one of the alternative (i.e. non Adobe) vector apps that came out would be able to replace it though? No? (I'm not a designer by any means, I just happened to fall into a role where I ended up doing some really basic CRUD app UI design work because they had no one else).
The EU as a broader organisation wants that, and over time there has been a transfer of power from member countries to Brussels.
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> Not only is it silly to try to create a fairer society, life has extensively proved that it is silly.

Seems rather defeatist. Wouldn't you agree that different societies across the world vary in their levels of fairness? For that matter, how about different societies across time?
> the T2 has been around for almost six years (and has been in every new Mac for four)

You're mixing something up here. In October 2016 (so less than 5 years ago) Apple started offering the first devices with its T1 chip (MacBook Pro 2016). The T2 chip debuted in the iMac Pro 2017.
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