skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It literally isn't spying on you, it's allow you to find your after you've lost it.

almost no mobile device has a feature that is 'literally spying on you'.

the problem is when the devices have so many features that they can be easily turned into a consummate spy device by any nearby paying agency.

in other words : no mobile device is spying on you, but the people who control them definitely do, and they're often willing to sell the rights to do so to groups that are poorly vetted -- using a device with less capabilities necessarily gives the controlling party less options by which to gather data for whatever reasons they may be compelled to do so.

so.. the phone, lacking sovereignty , does not spy on you; but it's a big leaky gps/imu-enabled microphone camera that sits in your pocket or purse all day, and the list of groups with access to that leaky data-pipe increases every day with little concern and little reform regarding data retention policies and ownership rights.
Well, that partial change is the result of people just posting their papers and ignoring more draconian previous copyright transfers. Still, not remotely sufficient. The point is that with this text, you only have the specific rights defined by Elsevier, and those are kind of limited. It's not at all clear what rights people who copy the paper have.

So, for example:

* There's an "embargo period" during which you're censored, you need to shut up, can't post your article. Preposterous.

* In many venues, you need to use custom links to Elsevier's "Science blocked and obfuscated". I mean "ScienceDirect"... yeah, right...

* You seem not to have rights to post new versions, or other derivative works.

* Stuff I haven't thought of because I'm not an IP lawyer.
I think of the Pi as mostly a dust collector for many people who will find a use for it doing some mundane task like pihole or as a desktop replacement for monitor they don't use and setting it up but never using it. A practical use can be you temporarily use it for capablilities: it is never stable, still can collect dust most of the time, but it will be used for a specialized task you don't have the hardware for temporarily like flashing chips, or running some linux distro you want to try. I don't think that is a bad usage of it since it uses its strengths which is its flexibility, while it can be purposefully used semi-permanent temporarily unless you have a reason to upgrade.

Without a purpose before an impulse purchase, its usually stuck in the limbo of the paradox of choice.
That setting is enabled for me on iOS 15, and yet I have no such message on the power off screen.

slide to power off, Emergency SOS, Cancel

That's it. Nothing appears after I turn it off either.
This seems a bit much to enable good pizza delivery. The funders seem more interested in urban airflows for bioweapons attacks or other slightly more critical problems.
> Why is it that only when media companies moderate the content available on their platform do we suddenly not care about property rights?

I can't speak for what you're paying attention to, but plenty of people are wary of big cats in corporations and big cats in government. You can be against both.

The real false narrative is that choosing team red or team blue is the only interesting question and then you can turn your skepticism off.
I learned this the hard way back in highschool. I took extra gym classes, but during the winter I caught the flu and was really sick for a week or so.

Back at school, it was immediately obvious that my body was not where it was before. Concentrating was more difficult for a while, but the real difference was that during gym classes I got exhausted almost immediately.

What really struck me was that this exhaustion stayed with me for several months. It took me almost 4 months to get back to the level I was before the flu.

I've had that experience very much in mind during these covid days.
Meanwhile, news just in: Slovenia apparently suspended today the use of JnJ, after the death of a 20yo in the past hours, «...until all details related to this case are clarified» (Health Minister Janez Poklukar)¹.

And I have difficulties in matching this piece of news with the reported words of Matt Halprin: «YouTube will take down videos that claim such vaccines are dangerous».

And also wonder if this (possible) case fits within the «rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities» (the policy).

¹https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/29/slovenia-temporarily-sus...
Diabetes and obesity is a risk factor in almost every ailment including cancer and heart disease, not to mention Covid itself. Of course it contributes to filling up ICUs.
Sure, we don't need to preserve every single piece of scrap in our collective memory.

But archiving doesn't do that either. There are many more silent films archived than either of us have watched, for example.

Then sure, not everything needs to be archived. I believe there's a reasonable, subjective threshold of what you'd need to keep to get an idea of a person living in the time period.

Letting go and keeping are not incompatible ideas.
> I had the same experience. I wanted to know whether the “vector vaccines alter your DNA” claims had any truth to them, given that “dna altering virus” is definitely something that exists. As far as I can tell, this is (probably) false, but it was really hard to find any evidence beyond “prof. dr. X says this is a conspiracy theory, now get your vaccine they are safe and effective ™”. It was really frustrating; I’m not surprised that many people feel like they are being tricked.

This is a really frustrating perspective to hear.

> I heard this bogus claim about something I don't understand and wanted to know if it was true

> All I could find was doctors saying it was nonsense

> How could I know what the truth was?

I suspect it's a common form of reasoning. It's committing so many mistakes all at once.

* Refusal to acknowledge that you might be considering nonsense and thus perceiving anyone saying it's nonsense as malicious

* Complete refusal or certainty in your inability to do basic research on things that are well documented by many organizations and easy to find BUT STILL SAYING ITS HARD TO FIND

* Not just lack of trust, but certainty of distrust for authority figures. Anything they say has negative value.

It's far more upsetting to me than hearing people with malicious political agendas being assholes.
> Where did you hear that?

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/06/07/you-probably-dont-need-d...
> Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.

Dr fauci himself admitted that he was giving bad numbers based on what he wanted the American public to hear.

This is the whole disconnect. The people like Fauci that we are supposed to blindly trust are clearly willing to deceive in order to satisfy their own goals. That's why people distrust him.
What do you suppose those computers are doing, then? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfb6aEUMC04&t=115s
You have to have goals, but the problem I face is that (government) organisations have been told to focus of "outcomes" so they spend a vast amount of time talking about trivialities (we know what the goals are and we don't need to spend ages consulting on them or documenting them in epic detail) and sod all time talking about the systems needed to achieve them (because that's hard). The results are... predictable...
DAO for a company in the EU without crypto.

A goap mechanism where you can define ( and later on vote) for company logic.
I have 'long flu', after having an adverse reaction to general anesthetic in the early 1990s I caught the Asian flu soon after and just never stopped being sick. I'm allergic to most things one can be allergic to, have MCAS, chronic inflammation, fatigue, etc. Not fun! But I was a long-accepted casualty of lax public health policy when it comes to the flu. Hopefully we will take the flu more seriously in future!
In theory, pi has infinite digits. You could publish a book of a trillion digits of pi, and you have barely scratched the surface: in fact you published a precisely 0.00000% of all digits of pi.

In practice, you "only" need ~42 digits of pi to draw a circle spanning the entire known universe (diameter of 8.8 * 10^26 m) and it will deviate from the ideal circle by less than the size of a proton (0.8 * 10^−15 m).

Having a theoretically infinite precision does not mean that it makes a measurable difference.
„Tesla policy is never to give in to false claims, even if we would lose, and never to fight true claims, even if we would win.“ —@elonmusk
Why doesn't it work? The goal is to stop the spread of dangerous misinformation among heavily used platforms. Of course some people are going to act like martyrs about it and move their following to some other platform. But it won't be one with the same potential to spread as much. Which is the goal.
Vaccination provides good protection against severe symptoms. However even a high level of vaccination won't be sufficient to end the pandemic.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
Not regulating their own platforms is just as dangerous, as is being repeatedly demonstrated.
AMB: The Ancient Machine Book Format
Squeezing something into a yes-no when the entire argument is in the question's premise is an unreasonable tactic.

"[What are your] suggestions for how to fight misinformation[?]" assumes that the priority is fighting misinformation. MrYellowP's major point is that the first priority is fighting censorship and the premise is misguided.

And it isn't explicit but I think I detect a secondary point that YouTube doesn't have a any good suggestions for fighting misinformation either. Doing something ineffective isn't better than doing nothing; their strategy is managing to get the anti-vax agenda in as headline news, and making the vaccine a more political issue (which is bad for its uptake).
> They’re called “function components,” not “functional”

They've been calling them functional components forever.
https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/packages/react/i...
I'm not sure why you're being a language nazi here. It's beside the points I was making anyway.

> The word you’re looking for is side effect.

Enough with your patronizing. Obviously it is using side-effects. That's the entire point I was making. Functions (as in the term from "functional programming") do not produce side-effects. Functions do not contain state. You know what is good at containing state? Objects. The whole paradigm of an "object" is exactly what React is trying to do with functions. It's nonsense. You can't call a hook function outside of React's apparatus. When React calls one of these hook functions, it has to dynamically switch out the context. Which is where my analogy to dynamic scoping comes from.

> an ergonomic problem with them with shouldComponentUpdate. No one wants to implement that function

Yes, well, as I said React has always been a mess and there are just as many problems with useEffect. Throwing out the entire API is just dumb. Libraries are no longer universal. You have to consider whether it's using hooks or not. Especially since they never formally deprecated lifecycle methods. They just shrugged their shoulders and went "here's hooks, use them if you like them."
I find hooks are best when used sparingly. I once worked on a project that went all in on hooks and some bugs were very hard to track down. Stale closures can be a headache too. I've been meaning to capture the gotchas I've seen into a website. Maybe I will one day. All in all, hooks get the job done but I'm not really a fan.
>That itself is categorically false. unvaxxed folks provide a tremendous wealth of externalities, such as undue burden on the healthcare system, behavioral and legal changes that require masking due to lack of critical mass in vaccinations, etc.

Again, it's not the unvaxxed doing that to you. That's who you're currently being told is what's preventing you from returning to normal. And again, the last last 18months have been an ever shifting goal post of "if group X would do then..." or "if we had just done Y then..." and yet here we are. Too bad HN doesn't have RemindMe!, as we could check back in a few months post mandate to see what dastardly group/cause/issue is the problem this time.

Those "tremendous wealth of externalities"? That's called living in a society. There's no getting around it. Lots of negative, bad individual choices/actions have Nth order effects on everyone else. Americans specifically make a lot of very, very bad choices over the course of decades that causes "undue burden on the healthcare system" (pick you fav from the CDC's health report). Just because they're not as visible and 1st order as COVID doesn't mean they're not there and a massive portion of the hospital's load.

>you do have the personal liberty to not vaccinate. That is not being taken away from you.
>never at any point is your choice to remain unvaccinated impinged upon.

Ok. Honestly, I don't know where people come from with this argument. "You don't have to, we'll just remove your ability to work, feed yourself, and pay for housing until you comply." These sorts of things are generally challenged because in practice, it's a de facto mandate/ban/whatever. "You're free to choose size of the whip," where previously there was no beating involved, is not actually that great of a deal.
There are loads of products this applies to, I think trying to charge small clients too soon is often a false long term strategy especially if you have growth and a plan!
Whose chips do the servers use? Who makes the power supplies?

In other news, some undesirables use the public transit system.
The city sent by an engineer in training with a lead meter. Not sure of the nature of the test but there are standard ones for lead.
"It [Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine. Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."

- Ada Lovelace, 1843
If you can lose your currency by forgetting a password or using the wrong device then you set things up incorrectly IMO. There are good ways of doing things where your keys stay on a device, or are only exposed to an offline machine with no network or persistent storage.

Obviously it gets a little more technical, that's why services that manage the keys for you are so popular.
That is not how plasma stealth works. The temperature of the plasma determines the minimum frequency of RF that gets through.

So you have to use a higher frequency radar and make sure the temperature of the plasma is not too high in front of the radar. You don't have to put the radar on the nose.

For optical sensors you would be imaging off-axis. So you can put the sensors pointing, say, 30 degrees below forwards relatively far back and there will not be much plasma in front of the sensors as it comes from compression and not friction.

There's a NASA PDF floating around that cites ~7000 K as the temperature of a plasma in front of hypersonic aircraft and concludes that radar is feasible then.
Do you have any evidence that location tracking actually works when the phone is turned off (even with the Find My Phone feature enabled)?
There's nothing that requires a microcontroller to be active during power-down to handle the issues you describe:

For transit passes and IDs, there need to be non-phone-based ways of handling that issue. It's equally possible to lose / have your phone stolen. Talk to the station agent, or have the police look up your license by name / address.

There's no need for a continuously-running microcontroller to read the power button. It's perfectly possible to have the power button feed power directly from the battery to a bootstrap power management IC, which then takes over supplying power to the main processor.

USB connections supply power, so it's easy to implement having the presence of power on the USB port boot the phone.
That varies by area. This is Eska water, from an esker in the north of quebec. It doesn't have lead pipes. The lead in Montreal's water comes from old city pipes.
The people who push that meme like to ignore that we, as a whole, very much did not do the things required to mitigate the spread of the disease.

It's very much "we tried absolutely nothing and we're all out of ideas" situation.
Contributor here: conceptually they are similar but Quandary is no longer under active development whereas Mariana Trench will be supported long term.
The last commit was made 5 years ago.
Researchers identify and clear efficiency hurdle for organic solar cells
I made one of these, that works for YouTube, Twitter, Tumbler, Reddit, Hacker News, Google Search, and Pinterest

You can enable/disable whatever you want. The point is to get rid of lame content.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sober-media/hfjclo...
Also phones scan CAPS URL’s just fine. So all you need is:

HTTP:// <SHORT DOMAIN> / CODE

Dropping S in HTTPS gives one extra character if you do a 302 redirect. This is fast enough if the server is hosted in same country (which it should be for health data).

6 alphanumeric dropping confusing O0I1 gives 32 chars. 4 digits allows 1M businesses. 5 is 32M. Probably enough.

To fit Version 1 (lowest possible resolution 21x21) using only capital letters including colon and forward slash, you have 25 chars available for low ecc, and 20 chars for medium.

Since the QR code is such low simple resolution we can use Low ECC.

That allows for a domain ending with .state.gov.country (assuming state is 3 chars, country is 2). For example:

HTTP://Q.NSW.GOV.AU/ABCDE

There’s your 32M codes available as a Version 1 QR.
At least you didn't accuse me of lying right away. I'll give it another 10 minutes.
While qualified immunity has its value in shielding officers from frivolous suits, it seems that damn near everything qualifies for immunity. What ever happened to an officers oath and that they have no duty to enforce unconstitutional or illegal laws/policies.

The current method what we get is officers doing anything they want under the color of law, even when they know better, and they throw up their hands with "immunity". Like those bad movies where they kill someone and be all like "diplomatic immunity".
Why weren't obscenity laws tossed out along with the sodomy laws?
FWIW, libharfbuzz has no hard dependencies at all and it is fully functional when built with all optional dependencies disabled.
If I had a product page featuring either a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses, which would get the most clicks?
But the problem is that people aren't even agreeing on facts.
Please read React documentation:

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/06/07/you-probably-dont-need-d...
Those two works have generated more publicity and awareness of the artist than anything he/she has produced. The Gallery should be ecstatic.

Personally, my guess he/she has doubled the value of his/hers existing works.
Sadly they don't solve conflict resolution. They just push the problem to the application developers. From [1]:

> All the DHT does is accumulate all these [updates] and present them to the application.

1: https://developer.holochain.org/concepts/6_crud_actions/
Have a look at Apache Artemis. Well architected multi-protocol broker with clustering.
That's ridiculous. Seat belts exist in all cars, and making it mandatory to use them imposes only the tiniest of costs. The cost/benefit is overwhelmingly positive and the anti-seatbelt lobby is nonexistent.

Motorcycles, as dangerous as they are, have a long history and an entrenched industry. Banning them would be a massive expenditure of political capital.
Running 14.7.1 and the Find My network setting says that it will enable my iphone to be found when turned off, but the power off screen does not say anything about that.
That's handy. And I am glad that it tells you when you power down, so there are no surprises.
Vaccines make people who are vaccinated almost entirely immune. The current outbreak is a plague of the unvaccinated largely
Hooks never grew on me.

I pretty much stopped paying attention to new versions after React 14.

KISS - keep it stupid simple.

I suspect that some Devs new to JS didn't like the various definitions of "this", and Hooks was supposed to help them out.
Note, Israel is not "one of the most vaccinated countries".

It's not even in top 25.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
The webex interface is perfectly fine, but if you are comparing it for the use case of zoom and skype, your target interface is wrong for the tool you're using. Webex is for working on something together. Multiple users using an application to manage some piece of hardware or software for example. Zoom and skype are for talking about something together.

Let's say you get a new server. It needs several teams to set it up - storage to provision/rescan/configure disk, infosec to do domain/antivirus/dlp work, db team to get the database going. They're going to share an rdp session over webex and hand it off to each other to type commands, with everyone observing and catching mistakes. Yes, it's possible to give desktop control to someone on zoom, however that is a secondary afterthought of zoom, while for webex it's the primary function. Right tool for the job - don't transport a piano in a sports car then complain the sports car is.. not great.
That doesn't help too much does it? Since you aren't permanently losing the money using a few 10s of thousands in cash isn't such a big deal.
It is recommended by FB:

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/06/07/you-probably-dont-need-d...
This thread was discussing whether moderation was needed or not for a forum and 4chan was brought up as a forum without moderation and all the issues with that.

You brought up /r/hermancainaward as an example of Reddit having a cesspool and tried to imply without evidence that moderating it had a hand in its creation, _and_ implied that it’s the same level of cesspool as a place like /b.

Even if we assume you are correct about it being the same level of cesspool, as we speak the Reddit admins have been instructing the hermancainaward moderators to clean up the board or be shut down, which would get rid of said cesspool.

The only thing shown is that people can be terrible as a group, but moderating at least removes the worst excesses. That does not show how to deal with those excesses in an unmoderated forum
i m more concerned about other services copying youtube and going very hard on any kind of covid evidence-seeking, e.g. the r/covid19 subreddit where scientific evidence is usually discussed
You assume the policy of pushing vaccination is sound, so the methods of its implementation are not totalitarian or it isn't a concern. But even if it was a sound policy from the standpoint of the state, the methods employed (censorship of communications on COVID and vaccines, restricting freedoms of unvaccinated) is still a totalitarian method.