skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't going anywhere and they aren't going to stop.

When Trump was in power the intelligence agencies were actively trying to undermine him and half of America loved them for it. They believed every anonymous intelligence official whisperings to journalists. Ate it up.

Divide and concur. You can just imagine the kind of operations they constantly do in foreign countries.

They are just too smart and the public is too dumb.
Yes, Apple and Microsoft are from a different generation when the rules of business still applied. Even Google is from the tail end of it, although they needed vast VC injections in the beginning and didn't really have a workable business model (but they knew it and saw it as a problem, hence their attempt to sell to Yahoo).

But there were lots of tech firms founded in Europe in the 1980s. ARM is the descendent of Acorn Computers which was the UK's attempt to compete with Apple, and that was just one of many examples. Acorn developed its own computers, its own RISC OS and so on.

If you look at the history of Acorn and the interviews with its founders, one of the things that killed them off was a small home market, very limited ability to sell into Europe and it being too difficult/slow to expand into the USA due to a variety of factors. So a lot of what you see discussed elsewhere on this thread.

And obviously Finland produced Nokia which ruled the roost for a long time in mobile, but again, most Americans don't realize that because Nokia managed to dominate everywhere except the USA, where a variety of structural barriers hindered growth.

SAP dates to that time too, I think. Possibly even earlier.
I know people are going to draw conclusions about safety nets and such, but they grouped in American AND Canada, though honestly who can know what that means in terms of grouping those two together (I have no idea how about Gallup's weightings between the two countries). But they did include Canadians as well in their misery index.
Yeah, curious, it's like when someone calls a taxi and says "Well I'm on Elm Street, I see the house in front of me has the number 73.".

That number isn't on display for this person to use, it's more for your friends and mailmen to find your house, but well...

I guess the problem is the worldwide database it's put in.
That their behavior is tied to people noticing what they're up to?
I had good teachers and Stewart and did pretty well (2001-ish, not sure how that translates, just one counter point - sorta)
I couldn't access this website with Firefox.

Firefox is doing the damage to themselves.
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I started freshman year intending to major in math, started with Calc 3. When the average grade among my classmates on the first test was a 56/100, curved of course, I knew something had to give. This was not the fun math I knew from before. A+ student up until this moment.
That's not what "axiomatic" means. Maybe you meant "self-evident"? But that's not true either: Not every country ravaged by war goes on to become an economic powerhouse.
Same. I was honestly getting anxious looking through all of that.
Don't forget that "non profit" in american hospitals often means a lot of profit for administrators and politically connected people like construction companies, test labs and other providers who can charge outrageous prices without any oversight.
Source on this?

A few years ago when the whole "people are tracking your phones using wifi probes!" story got popular I ran packet captures on an android and ios device and found that neither made directed probe requests (ie. the kind that contained SSIDs). The man page for wpa_supplicant (which is used for android) seems to confirm this:

scan_ssid
SSID scan technique; 0 (default) or 1. Technique 0 scans for the
SSID using a broadcast Probe Request frame while 1 uses a
directed Probe Request frame. Access points that cloak
themselves by not broadcasting their SSID require technique 1,
but beware that this scheme can cause scanning to take longer to
complete.

https://www.daemon-systems.org/man/wpa_supplicant.conf.5.htm...
I think it's the opposite. A good annotated code which can use SIMD instructions accelerates tremendously with -O3. -march=native -mtune=native generally improves things if you can saturate the cores with instructions, which can be measured by running perf record and looking to IPC & instruction retirement numbers.

When I was using Eigen on my code, the biggest performance boost came from -O3. -march and -mtune did minimal improvements on the systems which I've ran benchmarks on.
We blocked it as well. Since we deal with health data, it seemed unethical to allow Google to add people to the "possibly sick" bucket and use that as part of their marketing.
So you don't have issues with the lack of PDF reflow? I just want something that works for reading and doing math/cs while laying in bed.
No not at all. I wasn't bemoaning anything, myself.

I'm saying that is a part of the question of what the articles are discussing, not something as singular as poo-pooing hard work or making money. But questioning whether hard work with the goal being money really being a path worth its while on its own. Especially if you can get 90% of the life you want without all of the strife.

The article is illustrating people asking: "Will years of hard work accomplish what people claim it will for me?"

That was not a reasonable question in most peoples' minds pre-pandemic, and "no" wasn't a reasonable answer. I think it's a big question for the times, and it's a good one. It always has been, but it is now, too.

You kind of just said it. What's the problem? But there's a giant argument about it going on throughout the entire thread, and people are asking others to back up their personal intuitions and experiences with data—like asking the wind why it blows in one direction versus the other.
I interviewed at DraftKings and didn't like it.
I guess it has a lot to do with worker's expectations.
in the 3rd world, for example, for the same job categories, the working conditions etc are much worse...
> The linux desktop has been a mess for years

Not my experience at all. Probably depends on the distribution and hardware.
You're ideological little sound bytes might make you feel good about yourself, but the more you know about an issue the more nuance there is.

The fact of the matter is that we knew the cold war was coming and we knew that we would need to beat the Soviets to space, that's why we tried to round up all the best minds we could, because the alternative risk was to lose the world to another regime as tyrannical and bloodthristy as the Nazis, but now with nukes.

They were wrong in Abu Ghraib, they were wrong in the Pheonix Program, they made many many mistakes and committed many atrocities.

But if you continue to view them as cartoonishly evil because it makes you feel smugly morally superior to pass judgement on people and situations that you have only partial information on based on your wikipedia browsing then please continue to do so.
I'm surprised that you mention food, clothing and healthcare. It's absolutely possible to ensure that every child has access to these things, so that the children of rich parents do not have a large advantage in these respects.
All of them have been done in practice, of course.
Maybe? I think one could make a good faith argument that they should.
Canada has a lot of the same problems, it is finally getting a bit better but we still have a long way to go.
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The "greyness" is nothing more than self fuffilling prophecies writ large. There is nothing forcing nations to act like the utter psychopaths they do. It is to their own detriment too. Seriously every remotely modern empire which has fallen has done so by fighting wars that didn't need fought and commiting travesties which were the root of their downfall. World War 1 ended ruling royals by fighting wars everybody already knew would be disastrous but thought nobody would be stupid enough to fight because it would be disastrous to the intertwined powerhouses.
That's not working (you can't save it) anymore but you can create your own here..! https://app.axolo.co/register/axolo-co/createyourown
Why wouldn't it? There's no time limit on using the funds and no time limit on reimbursing yourself for medical expenses.

Kinda like a backdoor Roth, no rules prevent it, so it works.
And the worst is that when you apply the "one weird trick" unexpectedly, you thoroughly confuse the graders. (In this particular case, it was an integration problem in which I used a substitution that wasn't taught by the professor.)
There's more in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture[1]

"The CIA had force-fed some prisoners orally and/or anally in order to establish "total control over the detainee."^[47] The report notes that CIA documents indicate "Chief of Interrogations [redacted] also ordered the rectal rehydration of KSM without a determination of medical need, a procedure that the chief of interrogations would later characterize as illustrative of the interrogator's 'total control over the detainee.'"^[1]^:82 of 499"

"The Committee found that "[a]t least five CIA detainees were subjected to 'rectal rehydration' or rectal feeding without documented medical necessity."^[48] These detainees are listed as Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Shaykh Mohammad, Majid Khan, and Marwan al-Jabbur.^[1]^:114 of 499"

"At least one prisoner was "diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an anal fissure and symptomatic rectal prolapse," symptoms normally associated with a violent rape.^[49] The report identified this detainee as Mustafa al-Hawsawi.^[1]^:100 of 499"

"CIA officials, including general counsel Scott Miller and deputy director of operations James Pavitt, were told that rectal exams of at least two prisoners had been conducted with "excessive force."^[49] A CIA attorney was asked to follow up on these incidents, but the report states that "CIA records do not indicate any resolution of the inquiry."^[1]^:100 of 499"

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...
Its hard enough to convince a friend to take unemployment checks, let alone go to a shelter or pull out a food-stamp debit card.

There's a toxic culture in the USA that looks down upon welfare. For those people, welfare doesn't exist, even if they find themselves in that environment. And since they've convinced themselves that they'll never take welfare, they expect others to follow by their own rules.

This culture leads to a particular anti-welfare voting pattern.
Apple was funded by DARPA? I don't think so.
They eventually did give me permission, but I never got around to cleaning up the code for release.
> The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was directly used by LBJ to start the war.

The US had been fighting the war since 1954.

> The act of Congress was called The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:

Acts of Congress may authorize or declare wars, but they only start wars if the armed conflict isn’t already underway when Congress acts.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution didn't start the Vietnam War (or US involvement in that war), much as the “Joint Resolution Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial Government of Japan and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same” of December 8, 1941, didn’t start WWII, or US involvement therein (though the latter was closer in time to the start of US involvement in WWII than the former was to the start of US involvement in the Vietnam War.)
Well, then we have a slightly different view on well-researched, neutrally reported facts.

And I somehow suspect you would be absolutely outraged by an equally poorly written summary that has the opposite viewpoint. Just a guess...
I liked all of Windows, mostly because I am interested in technology and it was always a big thing to install the OS and see it working on my PC.

As for Linux, I am trying every year or so to run it on the desktop and everytime nothing works as expected. It is either the wake up that dos not trigger one of the screens, ot the audio (a complete disaster) or something else. I am sure that there are solutions but this is really a patchwork.

It is interesting how this is in contrast with their headless servers - I ran so many things for years, now mostly in docker and it just worked. When not, the error messages were usually informative - compared to the MS Windows events.

This duality i snot really a problem 8 I have vastly different needs on both platforms (except for docker when I develop - but this works fine with WSL2).

I did not know that there are Windows versions that display ads, though.
"Signal Protocol" here means the encryption design/specification (including the higher levels of key rotation, ratcheting, etc), but not the actual network protocol.
To me, this is simple:

If the pages are not behind a login, then they are PUBLIC, and open to any sort of data gathering.

If the pages are behind a login, then they are PRIVATE, and have all the protections alongside it.

Frankly, this bullcrap about "it's not public, but we want to leverage the usage of the open web as it suits us" to build our monopoly crap is getting old.[0]

[0] - I don't care who the company is, whether Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, or some no-name company
We traveled to Japan for 3 weeks and used Airbnb exclusively. 2 out of the 4 places we visited were sub par. While the images and the reviews made us believe that we were getting an awesome place, reality was starkly different. In one of the places we left in the middle of the night with a 1 year old in tow! The bugs, general cleanliness of the place, lack of AC got to us. Airbnb CSR was not cooperative at all saying, despite me juggling between international calls/messages and we lost the full fee for 3 days. Because we didn't give the host a chance to fix the issue, a situation we thought couldn't be fixed. Mind you we spent ~$5K with Airbnb on that trip alone. Though I live in the Bay Area and have friends working at the company, I was done. I will stick to hotels unless Airbnb develops better mechanisms to handle these situations or builds consumer friendliness into its ethos.
I find this individualistic view of the problem fascinating.

It treats companies as individuals and thinks they're all different, which is bolstered by the BS terminology about "corporate culture" that the companies themselves push.

But to anyone who sees the big picture, it's obvious that this is capitalism. Under capitalism, you are a cog in a machine. Always have been, always will be.

This isn't some particular company treating its employees like trash. It's the entire system of commodifying all aspects of life in order for the line in the chart to keep going up indefinitely.

But individualism has people so utterly blind to this that they treat companies as people, which is dystopian to the max.
> Just because I make something possible, it doesn't mean that somebody else should take advantage of it ("hey, your car was unlocked, so of course I took it for a ride")

This is specifically prohibited by law. Now there are gray areas of things that are not prohibited by law that are usually not acceptable but I don't think this is even one of those. [1]

[1] Example might be if there is ketchup at a restaurant and no sign which says 'limit X packets' you could take all of the ketchup (does not violate any law) assuming you are in the restaurant as a customer.
Apologies for the late reply. I downloaded Style Space yesterday after you mentioned here, and the main problem really just was not being able to import my own photos.

A consumer play might be super interesting here; let users import their own photos, make their own outfits, share it with their friends, and add referral/affiliate links on the way to checkout. I work on consumer tech, so email's in my profile if you want to chat more.

Curation is becoming a big part of the next wave of online influence and you have a very unique opportunity to capitalize on that.
I never mentioned anything about a trial; however he was accused of rape[1] because he did not wear a condom during sex.

[1]https://www.law.cornell.edu/women-and-justice/resource/assan...
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> I couldn't get displayport chaining to work consistently under linux

But did you try to use hardware designed for Linux?
To be sure, I agree with your general standpoint here. I just couldn't resist when the argument is based on the somewhat random convenience of broadcasting an (often user selected) id of your network, while simultaneously holding that nobody is allowed to keep track of that id.

To be clear, I don't, at all, think this is a workable path forward. I also wanted to point out how brief a period of time this is. Imagine learning about some issue arising from movable type in the 15th century, being solved over a period of a few decades, helping the rise of some corporation/feudality long past.

When it comes to policy, how about making APs not broadcasting a public id, while making it illegal to track any traffic on any identifiers for the spectrum? Would that be called for? Or does the convenience of setting up a new AP make up for the fact that a corporation may make a few more bucks out of an improved positioning service?

I don't know, but I still find it funny that you would defend a particular decade in the early noughts, holding these few years as an ideal.
https://wego.here.com/ is a million times better. Because it's not Google, it's free, it's very good, and it doesn't report your location to Google.

I have no skin in this game - I have however been a very satisfied https://wego.here.com/ user since they were Nokia Maps back in 2012.
One possible explanation is that they want to erase all traces of some illegal|unsavory activity.
Yeah we're Teams/ AWS CodeCommit
True, but in many ways I am more afraid of living in a shelter than on the street, or more realistically, in my car. In your car at least you have some sense of ownership, safety, and personal space. In a shelter you are potentially surrounded by mentally ill unstable drug addicts. It makes sense that many people refuse to use shelters.

This is coming from someone who has never lived in a shelter, so I may be wrong, but it's definitely my fear and a source of motivation when working not-great jobs.
I don't see how you can look at the many coups against democratically elected foreign leaders who sought to nationalize their countries' natural resources being anything other than protecting the interests of American/British companies who wanted those resources for themselves.
sounds similar to aspnet razor pages. is it?
I agree. I was a little disappointed to see resources going towards this. It feels like they're seeking ways to create vendor lock-in, which my team fairly aggressively avoids. Next has generally been great about this, and part of the initial appeal. It's just React components inside of an easy-to-understand framework.

This, though - my instinct is to stay away from it, personally. It doesn't seem to be their wheelhouse and it doesn't necessarily make Next.js better.
This hurts me to read
It's power seeking to perpetuate itself. It more or less works the same in every part of the world and every country and always has. Thinking otherwise is a bit naive.
The military exercises Morrison was executing were obviously also pre-war. This was the official start of the war.
>Ask a random lower or middle class American if their quality of life has gone up in the last 20 years

What people say is often very different from the truth. It is hard to measure make an objective measure of quality of life, but that doesn't mean the subjective measure is actually correct.
What city did you work in before? I live in the midwest and have hopes to move to NYC one day but you're painting a picture between the world I live in now and the world I want to live in. Meaning, the more relaxed environment but "lower" pay (relative to the tech field but definitely well paying for where I live) place is where I live. NYC I somewhat envisioned as a bit more cutthroat if I wanted to live in Manhattan (which I don't) but maybe not so much if I wanted to live in Brooklyn, Queens, or even Jersey City.
I was born in the US and lived abroad for 10 years before returning recently. It was a big and very demoralizing culture shock when I returned and, being in the habit of being friendly to strangers, saw how withdrawn and mistrusting people here have become. More so because I'm in Austin, TX, which is widely reported to be a friendly city. Everyone is so obsessed with work and virtue signalling. I didn't notice how competitive Americans are until I had a frame of reference to make the comparison. Living in South and Central America, my impression was that people are far more accepting regardless of whether you are a career professional or a not, or your hobbies or political alignment. In Belize I made a dozen good friends within six months of arriving, and I haven't made a single friend in three years here. I've been extremely depressed since I returned. I'm considering leaving again now that the lockdown has made remote work easier to come by (which was the primary reason I returned to the US in the first place). I'm not trying to slander Americans, and I understand that you can't make sweeping generalizations about any group of people, but the pressure and stress of our society is overwhelming.
Most of them are overcrowded and often over capacity. People wait in line before they open and are sometimes turned away when they're full.
> There's a difference between people who don't think vaccines are good as a whole...and people who question a rushed vaccine developed with no FDA oversight or testing by companies who have absolutely no liability if things go wrong for a disease that has 99.99% survival rate for most people.
>
> And then there are questions about it even WORKING fully and one still has to wear a mask and you can still be contagious and it may not protect against other strains!

Yes, there's a difference between people who question vaccines as a whole and... a fabricated reality/false narrative.

The survival rate is not 99.99%, and the outcomes for "survivors" are all too often debilitating. The demand on our healthcare infrastructure is potentially crippling, as we've seen.

There has been FDA oversight... indeed the vast majority of the time from development to release of the vaccines in the US has been getting clearance from the FDA (you may recall the J&J vaccine was even paused by the FDA).

...and the liability shield is due to the never-ending unjustified legal claims that companies are invariably subjected to when they operate in this space.

There's a difference between critical thinking bells and having your bell rung. ;-)
Yes, I don't doubt at the federal level that parallel construction works better than it does at the local level, because the feds have jurisdiction over bigger crimes. Drug crimes, involving multinational criminal organizations, generally involve many participants and transactions, and you only need to break 1 participant in a conspiracy to unravel the whole thing. (And more importantly, due to the many overlapping crimes being committed toward the common end, there are simply more options for pursuing parallel construction or even just pursuing different crimes.)

But at the local level where most crimes occur, parallel construction is a fantasy for the overwhelming majority of cases. Cops would absolutely love if they could just parallel their way around tainted evidence, but in most cases, there's only one crime, and only one trail of evidence, and there's no way to parallel around that.

(And I speak from experience; I was a public defender before I went into tax. I've seen many more failed attempts at parallel construction than successful attempts.)
That's not the reason you keep seeing ads for products you just bought. Google was aware of your interest in the product yet was unable to track that you actually bought one. So they think you're still looking.