skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tone in this is... Less than stellar.

This is standard operating procedure, mainly dealing with deleted accounts, and reducing spam or bot actions on the site. 3.9M removed over the course of 500+ videos for a global account for one of the largest countries isn't all that surprising. They also remove likes and comments for spam reasons as well, which this "article" (if you can call it that) just so happened to ignore, I can't imagine why.

YouTube prunes accounts quite often, even streamers and boy bands will have their numbers rapidly changed to deal with spam or bots. This has been normal operating procedure for over a decade.
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I think you can support only debian distros like ubuntu. Then you would reach the common linux users that install things with the package manager. More advanced linux users would know how to get things running under gentoo or arch, I guess.
because I don't want all my stuff to break and I don't want to configure everything again, which is something that happened with all numbered Windows updates to date
Their respective permissions models mean Confluence and Slack made information more available, while Teams and SharePoint make it less available.
How did you find amazing people to date?
Dislikes removed, or bots banned (taking the votes with them)?
I'm on MacOS, not Windows, but I really concur with you on the notifications. They're huge, they stay on screen too long, and they can't be dismissed early. I hate that they chose not to go with the standard MacOS notification system.

Another MacOS annoyance: Teams seems to exist in every virtual desktop, so even if the main window is in (say) desktop 3 and I'm in desktop 2, if I cmd-tab to Teams it won't take me to desktop 3. I have to manually switch desktops to get back to Teams.
Laptops are still a thing. I imagine the age group of TikTok users includes a lot of students. A phone won't cut it for anything like schoolwork. The Surface line of Windows PCs and the multitudes of 2-in-1s are very touch-centric and can act as big tablets. The "sit in front of a desktop" association is a bit outdated.
"Flattening", the equivalent of denormalizing a graph, is one way to implement performant ACL Filtering[0]. This is the same strategy used in the Zanzibar paper to gain the desired performance out of their Leopard index system. I tend to consider this largely a performance optimization strategy and not a necessarily the "solution" to this problem. We actually just this week wrote about how Authzed[1] actually reverse walks the graph in order to implement this API.

Full disclosure: I'm a founder of Authzed (YC W21), which is a productized Zanzibar system.

[0]: https://authzed.com/blog/six-month-profile-page/

[1]: https://authzed.com/blog/acl-filtering-in-authzed/
> The average serious indie game makes $14k.

Source?
The Linux build isn't an afterthought, it's deliberately ignored because the costs of supporting Linux vastly exceeds the returns from Linux gamers.

If you want to sell your game, the smart money is in putting all your resources into the Windows version.
No it isn't. While this is a bad thing saying it is bought is hyperbolic.
What makes you think that it wasn't also happening during the last administration?
I think strong cultural investment is a good way to start and beneficial to canadians as a whole. I went on vacation to Haida Gwaii recently and really appreciated the Haida Heritage Center[1] but those places are few and far between - the funding for it actually originated in a standoff with the government[2] that was then invested and nurtured to accrue the value it has today. They host seminars and classes around culture and history while employing a number of reservation residents - I think it'd be wonderful if the federal government put a more serious investment into cultural preservation as a way to spur economic health.

There are other actions being called for by the tribes themselves but I hope that cultural investment ends up being part of the end solution.

1. https://haidaheritagecentre.com/

2. https://gwaiitrust.com/about/
On the contrary I doubt that the US military would give up advanced imaging technology, like reading car plates from space, for nothing. That's the Hubble. Nothing else comes close.
>Apple has required an Apple ID on their iPhones and iPads for years during setup.

No they haven't. The setup process encourages using an Apple ID, but it has never been required.
Sure, I absolutely think they should pursue it. I'm just saying, say the guy is rich once. You didn't even need to say it once, 95% of everyone reading knows very well that he is rich as hell. I don't need a visual to explain to me that 5 Billion is more than 30k
I really do like Windows, but it has a lot of issues for me:
Pushing its users to Microsoft Accounts, telemetry, ads, bloatware it automatically installs, and last but not least inconsistencies all the way through the OS - and adding another design-layer with windows 11 wont help that.
I think microsoft really need to address some of this and get back to the needs of "prosumers". I personally want a slim but nice looking OS.

The only thing keeping me away from Linux at this point are games. I know, Proton opened huge possibilities but unfortunately it is not enough in my case.
Either games won't work because of DRM (e.g. FallGuys), or the game itself runs fine but needed mods to run online-multiplayer are not possible on Linux. (e.g. Command & Conquer 3 + CnC-Online)
As a Linux gamer, I’d say: just make sure the Proton version works, focus on fixing glitches there, don’t bother spending time on porting any code otherwise.

Pretty much all games I play are through Steam’s compatibility layer anyway, and nowadays it’s a very smooth experience.
> Plenty of tech workers

Would like to see the actual numbers of that. It certainly feels right, that high earners would self-select for high earning partners, but wondering what the reality is. It also feels like there are more single tech workers than married couples.
There is no bribery accusation. They said "sony bought their way". This is a vague statement that could include bribery, but also could mean "spent a lot of money on lawyers who found a judge that would side with them" or "sony spent a lot of money on lawsuits in many jurisdictions trying to find one that sided thier way" and a hundred other things.
CNNs drop in ratings would beg to differ.
This guy also has a bunch of posts on the same site denying climate change and rehashing conspiracy theories about fraudulent votes for Biden. I wouldn't take anything he says very seriously.
I am running and using 5 iOS on my M1 Macbook and they are useful to me. I wished we could continue sideloading iOS apps, but unfortunately Apple blocked that. And it sucks that devs can block installation of iOS apps on the Mac, although it is technically possible. This is artificial limitation purely for commercial reasons. Bad.
you're supposed to just write in all caps "why is the media silent about this" in classic unsubstantiated fashion
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I will check out those episodes. I have actually heard the thing about certain fruit and vegetables making more sense to buy from overseas than from cool storage. I guess ideally you only eat seasonal food but that leaves very little in the way of fruit and vegetables in German winter.
What time period are you talking about? The mortality rate you mention happened in 1830, but was an order of magnitude lower in the 1960s [0].

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041751/canada-all-time-...
I mean... when you threaten to nuke your own citizens, you gotta have someone running cover.
Given the state of multiplayer in Unity and the needs of an RTS game I would advise otherwise.
If you take an individual ID from a group of 100K IDs that represent a data segment, how do you back that out into PII?
> I swear nobody at Microsoft (and fewer people than I'd hoped on HN) actually talk to non-technical people that use their products.

>

> If they'd just added the option to move it I'd have no qualms [...]

I keep mentally blaming this on designers who want to be Steve Jobs (edit:)and Henry Ford and do daring leaps in design.

Edit: I've seen quotes like "if I asked people what they wanted they would say a faster horse" a few times. There's a time for that but most of the time it is time for boring (not really, I love much of it if I'm allowed to) work on getting things right: make it work in all major browsers, make sure tabs work, make sure it works fast etc.
How could it have been reworded to avoid the "fedora-tipping" connotation?

I'm being sincere here since I also appreciate book recommendations and I get probably half my book recommendations from HN.
I will admit I'm not a fan of surveillance based insurance, either. Just pointing out the alternative is individualising the cost via insurance or making all society pay for a few people.
Known by whom lol the flatearthers?
Love seeing the visuals here :) We work on scaling graph UIs, and I've been noticing the auth use case more and more!

The discussion on Flattening is super important, though for most teams, I'd also add this dances around the costs of an extra piece of intertwined DB infra.

For our internals, we ended up having to reject OPA and friends, including what Zanzibar does, because we decided our customers wouldn't want us to spend our infra innovation tokens on an extra DB and figuring out how it should intertwine on the hotpath for queries to the main DBs. For bigger/heavier sites like Carta (with especially complex rules) and especially high-traffic ones like Google, as hinted by the percentile charts, I can see their decision making way more sense. For most consumer & b2b sites though, I'm not as convinced, and especially long-term.

We ended up going with Casbin as it can do ARBAC policies + reuses our SQL DB. So it's more like adding a lib than infra, even though it does come with policy features like an analysis-friendly DSL. Likewise, that means we get a few ways to tune bulk queries: most are automatically fast by smart default roles & logic, some via special-cased app-level opts (so out-of-DB), and if we ever need to, we can always do optimized in-DB queries.

The options for policy engines for b2b apps is surprisingly slim. The whole experience has made me think that a SQL DB with a strong multitenant+arbac RLS story for Django/Rails/etc. users and a cloud autoscale-to-zero capability will make a killing for b2b SaaS's. Amazon Aurora and friends are close, but feels like it's still another couple years in practice.
they are integrating teams, onedrive, office, microsoft 365 stuff directly into windows 11. Doesn't that spark anti-trust concerns? Think about Microsoft was fined for anti-trust for integrating internet explorer into windows and making it the default. Looks like every platform holder is just using the dominance of their platform to push their other stuff.
Yes they fought through the means of consumer choice, the least oppressive means in history. And they lost.

Nuclear waste doesn't have fallout. Coal today is causing more radiation deaths than nuclear.
Not necessarily, because for that comparison to work you would need a proper NTFS driver. Does one such even exist for Linux? Looking at the Debian wiki [1] there's either a FUSE driver or a limited feature set kernel driver. Neither looks like a proper optimized "enterprise ready" driver. These work fine for accessing some files, but comparing these in a benchmark would no doubt show their weakness.

Now even if NTFS is inherently a slower architecture than ext4 or something, that does not change the fact that this difference would be minimal compared to the absolute horror show that is the Windows Defender slowdown.

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[1] https://wiki.debian.org/NTFS
40% smaller Windows updates? I think they are missing the point. It’s not the size of the download, it’s the time it takes for Windows to work out its package dependency treee, it’s ridiculous SxS system that was only ever a massive kluge, and the incredible number of forced reboots.

If it takes me no more than five minutes to run an apt update && apt upgrade —-yes with no reboots, how on earth is it that Microsoft is still so behind the eight ball? Note that apt upgrades everything in minutes, whilst Windows does not.
And considerably more than it would cost per user to host and maintain the service.
Check out these videos by Ian Hubert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFJ_THGj72U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM
Yes, it is possible to argue that users of Facebook are de facto unpaid employees. They produce the data that then Facebook sells, but does not pay any salary.
It would be interesting to see Facebook getting Ubered.
I wonder what would Youtube's CEO winner of Youtube's free speech award would think about it.
Then why talk about the number of channels they have when this is what you actually mean? Like I said, it just strikes me as dishonest in that specific way.
Structural problems which never gets addressed properly. We stand at 15%+ unemployment as of today. Tourism is a big industry causing massive swings as its seasonal. There is a big underground economy that is I remember being in the 20-25% range of GDP.
It would make the rounds on conservative media[1].

[1]: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/trump-complains-twitter-purged-...
> The tone in this is... Less than stellar.

Agreed. I got down to the "So odd for the most popular resident ever!" and realized I got duped into reading some ideologue's rant against the other team and now I have to question the data provided and wonder what context got casually discarded.
I really don't need microsoft harvesting my personal documents and telemetry to power a start menu.

I'd be happy if they could finally get round to answering questions like "open the file called file.ext", rather than doing something terrifying like guessing what I might have meant by uploading absolutely everything to their own servers.
Apple and Microsoft mostly don't compete. Mac share of personal computers is quite small. Microsoft isn't in mobile. Apple is not really a public cloud provider (iCloud is mostly a backup service.) etc.
"Will" ? It's already there. People simply aren't so interested in skirting the bans apparently.
It's similar to what Google does with other products like their Play Store.

Things like the removal of 1 star reviews [0] when an app rating goes down. They call this "review-bombing" protection.

And perhaps the easier option for this kind of official videos is disabling comments and like/dislike buttons for them.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-...
Somehow it is easier for me. Can it be that I can drag the mouse faster to the right as a right-hander? Maybe because the cursor is more often on the right, because of scrollbars on the right side? Maybe because many programs have their vertical menu on the left side (Outlook, Teams, etc) and therefore the left side would be too busy?

But maybe I am just used to it.
I'd trust one to boot reliably.

Maybe not securely. But, reliable enough.
US beekeepers continue to report high colony loss rates
I think it is going through a pupation period. :)
We don't ban books anymore. We ban tweets, or Facebook posts, or other social media contributions. The drive to censor remains.
Epic- such a relatable problem space.
Honestly, developers will probably have a better time maintaining Proton versions than writing native Linux ones. As long as your game has silver or higher on ProtonDB, you can have my money.
> This is assuming products are priced based purely on cost

No, I never made such assumption.

> if a company cut their advertising ... do they also follow through

This is a strawman. The price point for a single product from a single company is subject to a million forces so nothing can be said. The behavior of an entire industry is a different thing and costs don't magically vanish.

This is like saying that if I heat up some water I cannot prove that each molecule changed behavior so heat transfer does not happen.
A pleasure, researching articles is always fascinating.
I feel like this is a good time to shoutout to Baggers for the excellent "Little Bits of Lisp" Youtube series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0TsdytmGhc&list=PL2VAYZE_4w...
Tax is a joke to rich people, and that’s the exact reasons economic inequality is a problem..
This seems like a really interesting model! I'm looking for in-person classes and access to experts. But this resource seems to be a great solution to the roadmap problem.

Thank you! I really haven't heard of this resource before.
"And here on the left we see a perfect sample of how a good comment that most would likely agree with had it not been killed by communist speak."

Sorry, I totally agree with you but people have learned that anyone using words like bourgeoisie shouldn't be listened to.
While I don't agree with your perspectives, I'm certainly not going to call them nonsense or ill defined. I would not expect you to write a novel on hackernews laying out the full nuances of your thoughts, and I'd appreciate you'd extend me the same courtesy. Two nitpicks in your reply if I may. I would not propose on-reserve of first nations universities or anything like that, I would propose a total re-architecture of what you called 'normal' universities in collaboration with the first nations peoples. I mentioned Ojibway because in the discussion around this, there has been a feeling in the first nations that a push towards a wider adoption of Ojibway might be acceptable. However, I couched it in the event that was not the case, hence suggesting giving the power to the provinces.
Apple Executives claim: “Sideloading would eliminate choice”
My most recent attempt, last year, ended when xorg and Wayland both crashed, reliably, at least once per day, on two different distros (Fedora, Ubuntu) when just using the desktop normally—not even running games or anything like that. Nope. Not accepting that shit in the year 2021. 2000-me would have been like, OK, cool, Windows does that too. Not anymore.

... and that's just for my screwing-around desktop machine. Work goes on macOS. I wish I had other decent options, but it's the only game in town. No time or patience for messing with my OS, these days.
Have you stood in a shopping aisle at some point in your life, comparing the price of generic brand items with those brands that bombard you with ads every day?

Most people have. To them you might as well be proposing that the sky is a particular shade of red for all the time it'll take them to dismiss that thought.
If the parent's main point is that indie game developers, on average, don't make tons of money, he's right: https://twitter.com/GreyAlien/status/1227557601786912769
Given that Trump's preference for a well-done steak was turned into a major story, one would imagine a legitimate crisis of transparency like this would have been made news.
I'm a little shocked that this is getting so much traction here. The site (81m-dot-org) seems to be a right-wing "the election was stolen from Trump" site. Their "about" page says:

It is true that Biden won the most votes cast for a U.S. presidential candidate, amassing about 81 million votes. Such a popular president should have some truly epic YouTube numbers. Let's keep track. I'm sure we won't see anything weird happening, such as dislikes being thrown out in the wee hours of the morning.

When you're dealing with "voting" on the internet (like Reddit, YouTube, or HN do), there's going to be vote manipulation. Some of it you might be able to catch early on. Some of it you'll end up fixing with batch jobs that identify "huh, there seems to be a few hundred users using this IP address and all watching this video and hating it at exactly the same time."

This blog linked here has such posts as "Something Rotten in Georgia" where she questions the accuracy of Georgia election results (https://phzoe.com/2021/01/06/something-rotten-in-georgia/) and "81 Million Ballots" where she says that "there is ample reasons to suspect that foul play bumped [the number of votes for Biden] by several million" (https://phzoe.com/2021/03/12/81-million-ballots/).

Are we really upvoting right-wing propaganda now?
Educational Assessments Are Valid, Reliable, and Predictive
I'm glad this guy has a sense of humor about this, but I really hope that Google does right by him and that he doesn't get stuck in their Byzantine customer service process.
The topic is not management vs. labor, but how it's explored is certainly that way. You're pro-office, say your management wants to get rid of the lease and make it completely remote. Do you get a chance to weigh in against that? Either way, the mechanics of this topic, like so many others, is disproportionately weighed in favor of management.
"Rather than news, the paper (nytimes) began to sell what was, in effect, a creed, an agenda, to a congregation of like-minded souls. Post-journalism “mixes open ideological intentions with a hidden business necessity required for the media to survive,” Mir observes. The new business model required a new style of reporting. Its language aimed to commodify polarization and threat: journalists had to “scare the audience to make it donate.” At stake was survival in the digital storm."

https://www.city-journal.org/journalism-advocacy-over-report...
Yes I did watch.

We are past those types of concerns over Linux.
The Cloud IS Linux.

Azure runs more Linux than Windows
https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-a...

About the Google projects...they cannot do any project that they wont get bothered with.

As Linus said, we win when Microsoft starts developing for Linux...I am not dismissing the concerns, but the issues with Linux are not the corporations issues.

Are things like C vs Rust, Linus not considering Security bugs more important than other bugs and the complexity of the kernel that makes difficult to recruit new maintainers plus the fact that testing is outsourced to the distributions.
Using algorithms to determine the order someone sees things in is, in my view, a social media company applying editorial content.

And therefore, if their editor (which is an algorithm for Facebook and Twitter) promotes something that’s slanderous or libelous, Facebook should be held to the same standards as an editor who could be prosecuted for that.

Same with someone who writes something on Facebook. Write something slanderous? You are like a newspaper reporter at this point. Facebook promotes it in the algorithm? Now their algorithm is responsible, too.

Facebook, nor its users, have any significant negative consequences for publishing anything that is false or misleading. Until that changes, I doubt the company’s behavior, nor individual posters, will change.
Agree, this was known in that you could read about it if you cared to, but was not taught in schools or acknowledged officially. A different approach would be to go the Germany route and confront the past head on and not shy away from it.
> Google is shunted out of the Microsoft eco-system

We'll see about this one. Last I checked, half of Microsoft's own apps couldn't run on Android if Play Services was disabled.
I'm a geek and I think Windows 10 is good. Sorry.
I've never known about this and never once had someone mention it to me. Which is exactly why I'm going to be doing it now.
> and being written about by major media publications.

I've never heard of OP's article and don't see much reporting on this by major "journalists."
im shedding a single tear for thiel's billions
Ok glowie. Simply trust that people wanted by or under the control of the US government will kill themselves at suspicious times, it's not something we can ever even begin to think about or understand.
I would sue for damage.

EDIT: Because they put an image with unterlated information together in such a way that it misleads people.
I have never seen a black bar ever be used.

although with some css mods you can change it to any color you like
I have no idea what that has to do with an imagined scandal... over youtube down votes... like none.