skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're expecting an answer different than "yes" to either of these questions, it means you've made a very expensive mistake much earlier in the process.

The right time to ask if anyone will be using a specific portion of the app is when the feature is being proposed, not after it's been implemented and released. Replacing discovery up front with post-release telemetry is a sure way to lose money.

Conversely, if you're not making that mistake, then you don't really need telemetry to tell you what you already know.
I think it’s the height and resulting design differences. Switch sticks are half as thick compared to normal ones, and internal design don’t resemble classical 2-axis joysticks.
The core features used in a lot of apps include different flavors, like GitHub Markdown and others. The closest thing you have to a unified Markdown is CommonMark and even that is forked for GFM. Yes, headers, bold and italics text, and lists are nice but there is a lot more to take into account when you are trying to supplement docs that other extensions add.
I wish Musescore did this...
It’s hard to believe that hardware built on top of the original nVidia Shield is still being sold in 2021 at a full price.

It should be quite inspiring for startups really. It's solid evidence that your customers will pay much more than you'd think when the product you're selling is a great fit for their needs.

The lesson is that you shouldn't cut prices based on your instincts. Test the market, and only discount when your sales data shows that you actually need to. If you can sell a product for a premium long past the point where you'd expect to need to start discounting then the only thing wrong was your expectation. Believe the market.
You need to regularly audit all your warnings with ever tool upgrade to make sure they still apply. Auditing 10000 issues is too hard, so people will soon not be careful. When there are 10 you can check each quickly enough and ensure they are still valid.

With 10000 warnings that means that people have gotten in the habit of disabling warnings, so how many of them are real. I've tracked production bugs to someone disabling a warning - we regularly disabled that warning for correct reasons, but in the one case it wasn't a false warning.

Thus your disabled warning levels need to be small. Small is somewhat arbitrary, but it needs to be small enough that when the tool says something is wrong you trust it.
There are only a handful (<1%) of people who care about having Sentry (crash test collection) or GA (click or view analytics without PII) in an app. But those people are very vocal about it. So it looks like a lot of people care about it.

We are not even talking about tracking for ads or for surveillance. It is only about logs for crash analysis and UX improvement.
> Is there a word for that? Dismissing empirical evidence by clinging to philosophical assertions?

Freshmansplaining?
If you take out a hit on someone you have zero physical involvement. If you order troops into a certain death situation you have zero physical involvement. If you drive someone to suicide you have zero physical involvement.. Where did you get the notion you need to be pulling the trigger to be morally responsible for someone's death? I call that killing.
> but there are so many doing it.

Really? That's a weak argument if ever I heard one.

Perhaps it's time to take a stand and say "no more!"

What's to stop them adding in something else later that "accidentally" grabs IP addresses, and sends them "accidentally" to their third party analytics company who doesn't give a shit about your privacy. That company then takes their other data, joins it all together and adds to the picture of you that you never asked them to create!

When you open this door, there is no closing it.

The argument comes down to this (for me, at least): You got the software to this point without telemetry. Why do you need it now? Is the application all of a sudden unusable?

Edit: I forgot! They already take your IP address but my point still stands!
Eh, people are allowed to disagree or challenge Cormack, it doesn't bother me that they brought up that worry despite knowing he is an experienced respected person.

I do find it notable how many of my peer computer programmers/software engineers no longer believe in open source though. 15 years ago it was very popular to believe in open source, as a way of combating the power of giant corporations.

The dislike/distrust/desire to combat large corporations is still there, but there seems to be a popular and growing opinion that, as they have seen big corporations get only more powerful while using open source, this must mean that open source serves big corporations, and we should be anti-open source if we want to combat big corporations. So it's still anti-corporate, but now much more popular to be anti-open source.

The difference I guess is that now the idea is that open source privileges big corporations against smaller for-profit concerns, that it hurts the kind of "entrepreneurs" that the speakers want to be, hurts their ability to become rich themselves. Whereas before the idea was that open source would help "the people" against the corporations, not help some entrepeneurs get rich themselves.

ANYHOW. This is definitely a thing. Anyone who's been in this "scene" for 20 years is seeing it.

Is anyone writing more about it and what's going on?
this sounds interesting. can you link your research or paper?
The "max efficiency" only does not work when you are forgetting about externalities (those are defined as "a side effect or consequence [...] that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved")

In your restaurant example, using "$/calorie" metric will minimize money spend, but will have a negative externality of reducing your happiness. Once you realize this, you'll want to update your cost function to something like "max(satisfaction) limit to total(calories)>needed_nutrition and total($)<budget" etc... and you can use your efficiency search again.

(and then you get to third-order effects and start to think about time spent planning... Python's sort() switches to simpler algorithm for small arrays because overhead of starting up a complex algorithm is too high. The same way, you probably don't want to formulate and solve an efficiency optimization problem for the task of choosing your lunch because this is actually not that efficient :) )
That equates to $1/month for 320 GB of storage.

Seems like a bargain, even at that scale.

Note: Apple charges $1/month for 50 GB of storage. That's ~84% margin Apple is making on their cloud storage service. Though granted they do give everyone 5 GB of storage for free, so the math will be lower (and they will still be generating a profit so long as 1 out of 5 are paying for iCloud storage).
Check out the last titles, I am barely exaggerating with these fictitious ones to not crap on actual ones:

- How to make palindromes with python

- A CSS lexicon,900 terms defined (120 pages)

- The buttons of a PS5 controller
Wait, if I read correctly, a streaming service for weather reports?

I mean, I know personally that meteorology costs surprisingly a lot of money, and I understand that (at least for now) America has pro bono weather alerts provided by their government (NOAA), but why there's channels (and now, streaming services) specifically caring for weather (aside from the government-operated ones)?
Yes, I was able to use one without issue.
It was 20 years ago, and the lecturer was a Vietnam Vet in his spry 60s, named Robert Milgram. I just looked at the faculty list and he is no longer there. It was a "Medieval English Literature" course that started with a long-assed tangent about the "Germanic peoples" and the Vikings, and all of that about Ragnarok and the Norse worldview was delivered by lecture over the course of several weeks.

I haven't ever been able to verify my particular understanding of their worldview, but I understand that it changed quite a bit after Christianity got a foothold. All that about rebirth and renewal after Ragnarok was a later addition. Or, my lecturer could have been mistaken, but I doubt it.

I wish I could be more helpful, but he did mention Tolkien as a Norse scholar quite a lot.
> The 4K and DLSS rumours didn't come true, unfortunately

How do we know that? What is to say they won't announce that next week? Was there something specific about the 6th July being the date we would find out whether the rumours were true?
I agree.
Even with Netflix I find myself looking for British, Australian or French productions I. Film and series as they seem fresh, less repetitive and deeper in character than recent American productions.
No, but it's much nicer to hold, comes in a bunch of cute colours, has a 1GB internal memory (so you can actually save games without immediately buying one of the dumb memory cards) and uses a standard charger.
What Is the Fastest Computer Language? 45 Languages Tested (HD)
Of course its false, these are successful franchises now!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2283336/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5033998/
Literally the first line of the article.
Even if we get someone to 1T, it will only be paper value as they’d never sell their actual shares (would tank the stock price at those levels).
Lots of closed-source software gets user feedback constantly, and it often becomes worse. I suspect this is due to a number of reasons:

- Users ask for things which are not actually good, and so the UI becomes worse.

- User feedback is difficult to consolidate, and so the mass of the user feedback makes the product worse.

- Users think they know what they want, but actually don't, and so the product becomes worse.
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This is an extremely unfair headline. The amount of data Audacity collects (or could possibly sell) does not compare to ANY closed source app on your phone. It's nothing compared to the amount of cookies the BBC website does not allow you to opt out of.

I totally agree that we should hold software to a high standard, and am upset that this is happening to Audacity, but this article implies that Audacity is somehow dodgier than TikTok, FB, Twitter, Google, etc. It's completely irresponsible.
audacity have done a text book piss off the community on going commercial.

They have done everything wrong.

banning use of the for under 13s not a good move IMHO.

They have a load of money and want to know how audacity is used?

How about just ask?
Isn't that a telling sign that this data collection has no place in an open source app? With that said, how does Firefox or Chrome get around this rule?
Out of curiosity, what makes you say "You can't get anybody to talk about this fact though, they shout you down and or run away from it"? Has that been your experience among your friends and family, or on certain web platforms?

You write "absolutely nobody at a high political level in the US wants to discuss." But the pinned tweet on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/chicagosmayor) lays out resources and tactics targeted toward specific high-need areas of Chicago to make the city safer (and links to the city's violence reduction strategy which goes into an impressive amount of detail: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/public-safety-and-viol...)

And going a bit further back and higher up in level of government, didn't Trump delight in blaming democrats for murdery inner cities, specifically calling out Chicago and Detroit? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/25/trump-kee...

A quick Google search convinced me that this fact has been intensely covered in mainstream news sources, all of which focus on the same problematic cities that you mention, and explores the many contributing factors that make these cities hotspots of violent crime.

Just three examples from the first page of Google results for the unquoted query `homicide rate us cities`:

1. April 3, 2021. "The US saw significant crime rise across major cities in 2020. And it's not letting up" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/us-crime-rate-rise-2020/in...

2. April 19, 2021. "Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities" https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-ci...

3. June 1, 2021. "With Homicides Rising, Cities Brace for a Violent Summer." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/us/shootings-in-us.html

The reality I'm seeing is that lots of people are talking about urban violent crime hotspots, and that at least some local governments and communities are demonstrably working to address it.
cratermoon, please try this: https://sharetheboard.com

I think we share a lot of the same thoughts. We actually don't want to replace the whiteboard (or any other analog writing surface) at all, just make it easier for it to "communicate" with digital tools. Please try it out and share feedback.
Skimmed the article but failed to see any evidence for a zoonotic origin. Did I miss it?
No worries, here's an archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210706000825/https://twitter.co...
I struggle to understand this thinking. If (and I don’t know) this was a leak of a gain-of-function modified virus, it’s a scientific experiment that killed 10 million people.

We need to know so we don’t do it again.

I’m not concerned about whether the car driver was drunk, I’m more concerned about how the paramedics responded to the crash.
Interest in these click-bait type stories drops off dramatically for people who have ever implemented or even deeply thought about non-trivial models.
"Do not track" is a sensible default. Data sharing should always be opt-in, it's just good manners.

It's the disrespect of tracking agencies and web developers that killed the concept.
Whats the matter, is Ricky Gervais too challenging for you?

(ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adh0KGmgmQw)
What if I told you that it is, in fact, opt-out and explicitly made easy to disable in the build config? Don't you think it is a bit of an overreaction to say that "Audacity is now joining the ranks [...] of Google, Microsoft, <Insert Evil Corp Here>" when you haven't actually looked at the source of the issue?

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
>as for the lab leak, those in biological research would be a little bit more careful.

You say this as if you know that they're purposefully not being careful or something.
I don't understand why an academic linguist is more qualified than a traditionally educated scholar in India, who has deep knowledge of the classics. I don't deny that there were likely some influences, but the care and precision with I was taught recitation is something I have not encountered in any other discipline. I am an engineer, but if I start from the Ashtadhyayi, I don't see how things could have changed much.
As a Debian Developer, I don't share your view. Debian users want a unified release cadence. That's why they're using Debian. For example, they specifically don't want random packages to update, changing behaviour, because upstream bundled feature changes with bugfixes.

I understand that upstreams might get frustrated that their bugfixes haven't made it to stable distribution releases, but it's important to understand that expecting otherwise (except with manual, per-fix intervention) is generally against the principle of having a stable distribution release in the first place, and exactly why users are choosing to use stable distribution releases.

> Debian maintainers "patched out" something they shouldn't have

Debian sets its own policy about what is and isn't acceptable, in order to give users consistent behaviour across all packages. Again: Debian users want this consistency; users who don't want this use other distributions (like Arch for example, which aims for the opposite). An example is this topic: Debian maintainers generally patch out telemetry-by-default.

> I'm not interested in getting a bunch of bug reports for issues that were fixed 4 years ago, or introduced because Debian maintainers "patched out" something they shouldn't have.

I agree with this part. Distribution users should be reporting bugs to their distribution bug trackers in the first instance, and only sending reports upstream in cases that the bugs are confirmed to be relevant to upstream.
This is something I've wanted for so long! Amazing! Most sites hosting works such as those of St. Thomas Aquinas are often lacking, this looks great!
> They're (reasonably, in my opinion) looking for telemetry in order to improve the program.

By every metric they collect new Reddit is better than old Reddit.

From my perspective new Reddit is low density user hostile crap.
well india is a democracy and that is why you are able read about it here.
> I wonder what percentage of „movies and tv suck nowadays“ is just the poor discoverability on Netflix, Amazon, etc.

I wonder what percentage of it is people having both higher expectations of them (in part becaise of competing entertainment) and exhausting the supply of what they do like faster (binging, etc.)
You know what else expresses lack of consent?

Lack of consent.

It’s very sad how this “you consent unless otherwise stated” ideology keep growing and growing.

“We’re not spying on you, it’s just that you never expressed not wanting to be spied upon”.

Here’s a very educational video on how giving consent works: https://youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8
VTWAX is the gold standard:

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If you don't want to dump $3K in one go, there's VT:

https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VT
Right, 2016. I should have added that to the title. Perhaps a mod can assist.
I'm not sure "do not track" would even be the right terminology here. We want to prevent apps from calling home or calling some telemetry or error reporting endpoint, sure. But is that "tracking" in the same sense as we're being tracked from website to website? I'm not aware of any malicious use of that data yet so we might not want to throw them in the same group as google and other advertisers and user data aggregators.

How about "enable telemetry" to also make it opt in rather than opt out?
A New Macroeconomics?
SOOO excited to see this! And to see websockets and durable objects supported too!

Thank you for making this!
Exactly, from technical perspective it's a nothing story.

It's interesting, though, how strong of a reaction general public had to this. The story must have strongly resonated with what some folks were already feeling. When you squint (pretend to understand the technology not at all) it's a tragic story. The situation of the wolf seems similar to the situation of some people. Chasing their careers in a highly structured, sort of dehumanized, environment of constant pursuit. "Supreme Intelligence" (that's what a layperson may think of AI) looks at a situation of the wolf and decides that it makes no sense to continue the pursuit. Moreover, what is "optimal" is the most tragic result - suicide.
Can anyone point me at a walkthrough of these concepts in a higher level language than assembly?
All of the top selling games on switch are nintendo titles
Actually, I would see this as a shifting of blame from the government's perspective. Anyone who runs a government should know that legislation will be broken. People will not comply with orders. Thus the government should implement extremely simple and transparent legislation - something that most governments tend not to do. This legislation should be possible to enforce. One of the best ways to gain empathy is to involve citizens in the process. Rather than blame the citizens, start by thanking those who do follow orders. Involve citizens in the process. I'm sure we could have used a lot more contact tracers and swabbers during the pandemic, how about training unemployed citizens and using them for this task?

I live in Singapore where due to our size and wealth we have been able to manage the pandemic, arguably better than most countries. Its not only the fact that Singapore enforces legislation that helped us. There are many instances where legislation has been broken, and not all cases will be prosecuted. But one thing that worked well is the government treated us well. The moment they announced a "circuit breaker" (not lockdown cause that sounds scary) the government accompanied that with multiple payouts through the year to ensure people have basic sustenance. Further, the prime minister thanked us for complying with orders rather than picking on the few that did not comply with orders. Also we lived though SARS, and every now and then get scares from the Avian Flu so pandemic response is something we have lready been conditioned bu.
The numbers are indeed arbitrary. But ultimately you want to avoid low utility/reward action and continue high utility/reward actions. That behavior, trying to avoid or pursue actions, would be indicative of the state of distress regardless of an arbitrary number attached to it.
In what way is Discord particularly privacy averse?
What if the company starts struggling to make payroll 3 months in? What if the employee works hard the first 3 months then stops showing up?

Regulations like that just entrench the biggest players because they can afford the legal headaches of firing. Great way to incentivize people to start companies elsewhere.
> Is it really so hard to just ask people?

Having worked on a variety of user-facing products for several years, I can tell you that it is hard. It depends on your audience but typically many users don’t report problems. If they do, they don’t give you enough details to diagnose the issue. And why should they? They’re not knowledgeable in how your system works. So you have to reach out to them and ask for more information. Maybe they need to reproduce the problem to give it to you. If you’re unlucky, they won’t be able to reproduce it. Even if they were able to, you have now taken more of their time.

The ask could be as simple as “hey this went wrong, but you can click here to send us the error info and someone will get back to you” and many users will STILL not share the information. You might think that they must not care that much but often times you’d be wrong. Users can be surprisingly irrational at times.
I want to believe this. With how varied the level of reaction was in the states, coupled with how spread the impact was, I'm not sure we can say just yet.

Even the places that were heralded as amazing are starting to fall. I see Vietnam is on a rise now. Thailand? Who is left?