skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a lot of the software I've written for businesses telemetry was critical in being able to get quick answers to things like "is anyone using this specific portion of the app?" Or "are the new users using the application yet? "
Nintendo Switch OLED Model Specs
In America, ADA absolutely matters. Algorithms like this can blatantly violate the law and open the company to significant liabilities. I've seen a company repeatedly lose expense lawsuits due to "following process" where the process did not take federal laws protecting workers into account.
> Do you read the source of every setup.py you run before running pip install?

I generally run make, setup.py, cargo build etc in the context of cloning a source repository. I certainly could do a better job of sanity-checking those things, but I do try. And I definitely try to avoid having sudo credentials cached when I do - to foil "sudo cp artifact /usr/sbin" and other awful things people do, because they found it convenient.

> Also, if you are untrusting of the source enough to verify their install script is safe, why would you install their template to run on your machine without verifying all of that too?

I generally trust people more to write "left pad" than install scripts. Many sysadmins are good programmers, few programmers are even remotely decent sysadmins in my experience.

> Finally, 10 line bash script might (as tbis example does) just call out to another curl | bash

In which case one has to chase down the rabbit, or give up.

Sometimes one will discover that the end game was downloading a gpg signed tar archive with the release artifacts - and one can go and do that.

> or to a pip install/npm install.

People do do awful stuff in makefiles and package install scripts, but for vanilla python/Javascript - the lazyness of programmers tend to work to our advantage - there be little extra madness/magic in there.

Sute, running pip install -r requirements.txt can do almost anything - but it's unlikely to run your package manager under sudo and mess up your system packages, or add something questionable to your package sources.
What is an energetic?
I've attempted to convince maintainers in the past to not do user-hostile things [0]. They seem to think they are entitled to a record of how I use their software on my own systems.

It's not clear to me why they would think this, but I think it is because you always get this if you offer software as a service and many people have been involved in working on these projects, despite the vast majority of software not being offered this way (indeed, 96% of IT is on-premises spend [1]). I think the people who have worked on these projects have carried this attitude of usage information is their information over to other domains, without realizing that they are different domains.

[0] https://github.com/matthewmueller/joy/issues/79
[1] https://siliconangle.com/2020/11/30/exclusive-aws-chief-andy...
That’s an interesting. It seems then that French cinema, or European cinema in general is more localized and thus rarely becomes an international blockbuster (with rare exceptions).

Mexico tends to export to Latin America (southern cone) altho one could argue that while there are regional differences, in broad strokes mainstream latam culture jives with each other.
Probably we shall take into account, that journalist like to spread bad news! Looking back at the previous variants, the vaccines keep working. This is good news! What will bring is into trouble are non vaccinated people which build a big resource pool for Covid-19 to become more aggressive.

Lockdowns, removal of rights or masks cannot eliminate Covid-19 (so called short term workarounds) but the vaccines can make it rather safe (i.e. solution). What we need to get done is vaccinating as much people as possible, Covid-19 only mutates when it has a pool to do so. So it is stupid saying "I'm healthy and don't need to be vaccinated", you're just postpone a problem in front of you until it becomes worse - either for you, your loved ones, humankind or your rights. So two problems remain, stupid people and getting enough people vaccinated quickly - especially third world! We have to care about Asia, Africa and so on or we will lose.

We get all vaccinated as toddlers against various diseases, sometimes it enough to not care about the illness anymore, sometimes we have eliminated the disease entirely and sometimes we need to repeat the vaccination (FSME/TBE). Clearly better than dying for preventable stuff.
One way to do this is to make it a part of a beta program rather than baked into the main app. That makes it slightly more manageable for the developers too.
I don't think it's underwhelming, and the whole "Switch Pro" didn't make much sense in the way Nintendo does their thing.

Nintendo Switch sells a lot in it's current form competing directly/indirectly with new gen consoles, and it's halfway through the Switch lifecycle, and Nintendo way - at least for handhelds - is to launch new versions, like themed ones, of the same hardware (even with minor tweaks - like New 3DS, 3DS XL, etc).

It works, why change it?

Because they can't get the lasted releases? They still get some, like Doom, but some would never run properly on this form factor, specially at this price point.

They sell entertainment, and they are pretty good at it. I'd even go through the length of saying Nintendo might position themselves more towards Disney then Sony Computer Entertainment, for sure they are between them and they're alone there.
I really hate dubbing and love hearing the actors talk in their native language even when I don't understand it. I'm extremely fast at reading subtitles too, so that's never a problem for me.

I never understood those countries, like Spain, which make dubbing some sort of national pride. No, Spaniards: dubbing sucks, you just don't know any better ;)
Prefixdate: Partial-precision dates and times in Python
Just like any other program:

How good it is will depend upon the quality of decisions that are made in designing it, starting with: What is the definition of "usefulness"?

I definitely think there is a room here to design a program that is more just in firing than a person would be. I guess it depends a lot on the benevolence or malevolence of our new computer overlords.
Not sleeping with a plugged in Ethernet adapter seems to be a problem with certain third-party adapters.
I'm using an old Wii ethernet adapter which works fine.
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Learning AI Algorithms on Google Colaboratory
Not worth when your revenue increases by millions of dollars every quarter.
Pivotal moment is when two outcomes are possible in a given scenario. Unfortunately, the current government has support of huge majority of people and is expected to be in power till 2030s. The pivotal moment came and went in 2019 elections and now there is little hope of any push back on draconian laws passed since then. Long has India looked at China in envy and now India is fast becoming China with in its democratic framework while the noose tightens around individual freedoms.
> Australians are a tiny minority in America. Most people have never met someone from Australia. Whether they are stigmatized or not is frankly irrelevant. They play almost zero cultural role in American English.

This is an odd counter argument. If there's so few Australians in the US, and they're so insignificant, you'd expect them to be more pressured into not speaking Australian English. But again, they're not being pressured into not speaking Australian English, if anything, Americans are expected to accommodate and make an effort to understand them. Why is this not the case for AAVE, which is very commonly spoken by far more people and a far more important variety of English in the US?

> Either AAVE is a separate dialect with its own internal grammar, or it’s an extension of Standard English that uses incorrect grammar. Which is it?

AAVE is a variety of English. Some of its grammar is different to Standard English.

Standard American English spoken with an African American accent is not AAVE, it's just Standard American English spoken with a different pronunciation.

Both are curiously stigmatized in ways Australian English is not.
Ignoring the title

This podcast is a nice observation of how different India is from a developed western country.

https://youtu.be/bGaztD29pe0

A must watch especially if you are looking for an alternative view
You're conflating bug reports and error reporting with telemetry and network access. You can't send telemetry via email or issue trackers, that's for bug reports.

> For example, how is it possible that Audacity even exists, got stable, and used enough to be bought, without telemetry, if it is so vital??

The obvious answer to this is "nobody said Audacity isn't good, this is about getting better".
Aside from what others have already replied, I think about how bad automated moderation on big platforms can be, and it doesn’t give me high hopes for this type of software.

Think of the stories of an overly aggressive algorithm banning someone for unclear reasons. This has happened to people’s Google accounts. Since Google has limited customer support, people often have a hard time contending the decision. They are locked out of an important slice of their digital lives (email, photos, etc). Can you imagine this happening except it’s your employer who fired you?
He's such an idiot

https://screenrant.com/original-office-show-ricky-gervais-ca...

> "Now [The Office] would suffer because people would take things literally...This was a show about everything — it was about difference, it was about sex, race, all the things that people fear to even be discussed or talked about now, in case they say the wrong thing and they are cancelled...I think if this was put out now, some people have lost their sense of irony and context."

> “…They’re even more scared now because people don’t take an explanation for an answer, they just say, ‘Well, I don’t want to see it, so let’s ban it.’”

Obviously the Office isn't in the limelight anywhere near as much as it used to be, but I never hear people having a problem with its tone or style of comedy. A few other sitcoms have had scenes removed from streaming platforms / boxsets (Peep Show, Fawlty Towers etc). But the Office I've never really seen mentioned in a similar way. In fact it's still pretty much beloved by everyone and regularly polls amongst the best British sitcoms of all time.
I returned one a couple of weeks ago and they sent it back fixed. I didn’t pay anything for this. All I had to do was put it in a box, attach a label, and take it to the post office.
I think the main discerning function is that most smart phone communication mechanisms are asynchronous first. For traditional dumb phones, the only async feature was really voice-mail and message recorder systems which, from my experience, lead right back to synchronous communication ("call me back please"). With the advent of SMS, we slowly pushed more into the world of async and people learned how to find more and more socially acceptable ways to increase those time delays to the point of ignoring. For myself, almost all of my comms on my phone are async. Synchronous communication is now the exception instead of the norm. If you call me, unless you're my family or very close friends, you will go to voice mail and you will be screened.
Been watching the episodes on youtube over the past weeks, some of them I remember from TV, but they are still great to see restored on youtube.
After my first startup, my CEO coach recommended I take a "transition period" that lasts as long as I want, to reflect, internalize the learnings from my experiences, and not rush into whatever I wanted to do next. I also used a book called "Transitions"[1] to help me with my reflection.

I took about a year off, in the end... I began by reading and running... I ran a few ultramarathons, which require 15-25 hours of training per week. I read a lot, particularly intense and complex books that require you to invest the time to actually read them and reflect on them.

In the second half of the year, I ended up traveling quite a bit -- Norway, China, Malaysia, Peru... Mainly to hike, but in every city I tried to set up meetings with startups and businesses to learn what the culture was like around work.

I think I learned more that year than in any year of my life.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZY23TS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
The article doesn't mention it but the researchers are using agent-based-modelling. It was nice to see the gif of what appears to be either NetLogo or Repast. I did research in that area for about 8 years and know a bit about the subject.

What they are showing is one of the main issues with agent-based-models (and I think every model, but it happens particularly with models trying to capture the behaviour of complex open systems): Garbage in -> Garbage Out.

Most likely the representation of the sheep/wolf system was not correct (so the modeling was not correct). Here "correct" means good enough to demonstrate whatever emerging behaviour they are studying. ABM is a powerful tool, but you must know how to use it.
Seems like a nothing story. Just looking at the game, there's obviously a constant decision to be made of chase more sheep or instantly die. It sounds like in the original model they had a max of 20 seconds, so it's not surprising that you would just tank your losses to maximize your score every now and then.

Anyone who tries to devise optimal strategies for things should be able to see this isn't especially interesting.

Social metaphors are wildly out of place.

They say "unintended consequences of a blackbox" but I doubt that's true. Make it a deterministic turn based game and run it through a perfectly transparent optimization model and I wouldn't be surprised to learn this was just the best strategy for the rules they devised. I really hate when people describe an ai as something that cannot be understood because they personally don't understand it.
That's true, but I don't know how many would bother installing the beta, especially given that most distributions use stable. This would be the same as opt-in telemetry.
Yeah, fair point.

I haven't been a 4chan user for a long time (pre-Sarkeesian era), so my comment shouldn't be interpreted as an expert opinion on the decline of 4chan.

That said, doxxing and raiding someone in this way just because they're unpopular wouldn't have been out of the ordinary in 2010.
Is the assumption that google is going to store, then attempt to decrypt the data at some point in the future? Or is the claim that google's services are less secure than Apple's would be? If not, then I'm not sure that this is worse at all. Sure, if you believe google to be actually malicious, then this would be a problem, but I don't think there's a reasonable argument to say that google would go to this length of maliciousness.
295AB are British laws, no one is making Indians keep them
> know which ones you can remove

I know the answer to that question. None. Never remove a feature.
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Strange.
I'm not sure this is overreaction.

Don't get me wrong, I've grabbed my pitchfork at times in the past and some of them have been massive overreactions but I think this is people saying "Oh ffs! Is nothing sacred?"

Audacity is now joining the ranks (yes, the scale is much different) of Google, Microsoft, <Insert Evil Corp Here>. Whether their intentions are evil or not (I don't believe they are in this case) is irrelevant.

For me, it's another nail in the coffin of owning my own stuff and not having to be connected all the time.

For example, why do I want to use an offline application that can potentially send information about me to foreign countries? What possible benefit is there for me in that?

Of course, I'd imagine that telemetry won't break my app if I don't connect to the internet but it's all part of a pattern of software becoming more and more about what the owners of the application can do to monetise me and what they can get away with (whether that's the plan for Audacity or not... they're still playing in the same field and can easily take a stand and say "we will never use telemetry").

Even if it's made to be opt-out, what happens if an update accidentally (or deliberately) switches it on again? Will it be "oops, sorry about that"!
As I said before, I can't dismiss the OP's personal opinion, but at the objective level I think boredom is an undefinable concept, proven by how what's boring to one person can be hugely invigorating to another (or even to the same person at a different time of their life).

Boredom with an entire medium is what really caught me here. I can appreciate being bored by, say, "1950s Westerns", once you have exhausted the majority of the genre, but being bored of the entire premise of movies in general suggests a very restricted diet or a lack of imagination.

But that's just my take. My favorite author absolutely detested music and almost listened to none in his entire lifetime. Different strokes and all that. But the idea of being wholly bored of one of the deepest, plentiful, and most creative media invented by man remains alien to me.
>> the only worse thing worse is a solution that challenges peoples assumptions.

I was naive and thought that if I actually solve the problem, people would be happy to have the problem solved. It turns out, people just get really angry because they feel embarrassed and humiliated that they weren't the one to solve the problem.
thank you. the idea of the ruiling party and their supporters is that "you elected us so we are free to do whatever the fuck we want and anyone against us is destroying the social fabric of the country by defying authority that elections gave us. "

they murdered an 88 year old activist in jail by prolonging his stay. next hearing, next hearing, next hearing and yesterday he fell to covid.

not to talk about thousands of political prisoners. their anti-terror law recently was found to have 2% conviction rate. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/2/india-terror-law-uap...

essentially they book everyone and anyone and years later they are found not guilty. justice won but the years lost for that person? no compensation for that

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/kashmiri-man-walks-free-af...

12 years this guy was imprisoned.
This is a conflation between the meanings of the word bias as “a weight” and “an ideological stance”. The thing that people take issue with is generally the latter, rather than the former.
So is the UX unusable right now?

Edit: >but if you want UX improvements to Audacity

You insinuated that the only way to improve the UX (your comments insinuates that it needs improving) is to use telemetry
That is a brilliantly-worded clickbait headline. I was expecting a salacious story about how Fox News (which is how I misread "Fox's New" - maybe you did too?) has biased presentation of weather data.
I'm so confused why their Cloud offering is so different than their Bitbucket Server.

Because Bitbucket Server had syntax highlighting probably for more than a decade now.
It is possible to create opt-in, on-demand reporting tools.

Someone I know well created one such, based on a common reporting template of a major Free Software project, after realising that the template itself was based on information readily obtained from the system. Fleshing that out a bit resulted in an automatic syste self-documentation tool. They'd introduced it to the support group at one former company, and informal feedback several years later was that this was the principle diagnostic utility for the team. There was no ongoing telemetry, merely a "here's the script, run it and send us the output". (If necessary, the output could have been automatically emailed or transmitted by other means.)

There are now several of these, the "About This Mac" utility on OSX, as well as several for Linux, of which I'm aware.

No, they're not app-specific diagnostics, but precisely the same principles apply.
Hi, thanks a lot for your detailed feedback. Appreciate it!

Yes, some of the issues which you mentioned, came up from others also regarding building the complex feature or if the company is shutting down or getting acquired.
Data residency issue came up with a fintech startup, which needed data locally in their country.

The way we might have to plan is, to have the source code option available in one of the top 5 programming languages and that shouldn't be consuming our APIs/Services, so it have to be 100% detachment from the platform, otherwise it kills the purpose.

To make it affordable/viable for us, we are planning to have a one time code export fee (so that people stick to the platform) and only choose that option when they want to do it for some reason like you mentioned above.

The good thing is that we will have to be very very GOOD, so that the users stick to us. If they are not happy with the service, then they can leave the platform and host themselves (atleast they will not have to start from scratch) and may end up building complex applications with the aim to export the code if things aren't working out.

One sideback i am seeing is that what is users are not able to use the code properly (everyone has their own coding standards) and then they might end up feeling frustrated and may need to do a lot of refactoring to make the code more readable in their standards.
Non-tech people might find it much harder to use the code and we may have to end up providing the one time hosting/deployment service as well or find partners who can do so on our behalf, otherwise code export will be of no use for these non-tech users.
> Disney has said they have the resources to pump out star wars movies every week but the chimp troupe doesn't have the finanical and cognitive capacities to handle it.

Source?
Companies like Apple and digital research were producing great UI/UX in the 80s, well before widespread internet usage made telemetry a viable option for companies.

(I mean the 1980s, just to stave off any attempts to send me back in time to observe computing in the 18th century).
> almost as if the project's purpose is not so much to create superior file transfer but more just to showcase a use of SPAKE2.

That's my feeling too. See my rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24519895
I was replying to "If you have to download the software they will get this info, full stop" . The full stop was not as full as they claimed ;-)
One big problem with MS-Office is that it defaults to proprietary formats (xlsx, docx and the like) but LibreOffice defaults to Open Document Format. So with LibreOffice you can avoid getting locked in to a particular office suite.
well india is a democracy so this is obviously not possible /s

edit:
yeah, one of the activits died yesterday while being incarcerated so yeah
Content consumption "binges" are just that, they leave a feeling of regret if remembered at all.
The New 3DS was actually a huge hardware upgrade, relative to the original model.

I actually thought at the time that it was going to be a stealth new console, similar to how the Gameboy Color was originally just “gameboy games, now in color”, but after a couple of years GBC-only titles were the norm. That didn’t happen, of course.
NetBSD Got COVID
On linux you can use network namespaces to deprive the program of access to the network (shouldn't be necessary, but this is the world we live in.)

$ sudo ip netns add jail # create a new net namespace with no access
$ sudo ip netns exec jail /bin/bash # launch a root shell in the new namespace
# su - your-normal-username # become non-root
$ ping google.com # see if network is accessible?
ping: unknown host google.com
$ ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
LOOPBACK MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

$ audacity & # See if you can track me without a network audacity...
[1] 4284
$ _