skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unpopular opinion: Most web developers don't have a grasp of computer science or assembly, and act like computing resources are free. OTOH, obsessing about performance to the exclusion of usability is equally insane. Nuance, knowledge, and metrics are what's needed.
China always calls people and organisations who disagree with the government nasty names. Terrorists, propagandists, meddlers, revolutionists etc.

This continual name-calling of anyone who criticises any aspect of their government leads me to always doubt the sincerity of such accusations. Boy who cried wolf, writ large.

Could you provide independent sources that this Falun Gong spreads propaganda?
Well, at least that requires clicking (not to diminish this report) but five years ago it's a zero-click proposition (like Forbes: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3021113/forbes-malware-...). While I don't want to diminish their revenue, the fact that blocking online ads significantly strengthens your security posture is not lost to private companies and governments (like US CISA: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Capaci...) alike.
I've heard similar stories many times but every time it seems to be baader-meinhof effect/frequency illusion or that the linking is not via audio but something else. People have man-in-the-middle checked advertising traffic to see if they either stream audio or send spoken keywords to ad servers and they do not seem to do that. It's more likely that it saw your phone and your friends at similar locations and your friend had searched for the brand before, therefore linking your ad profile to the brand.

Do you think the apps on your phone real-time stream all mic audio or that they run speech-to-text on your device?
It's indeed quite ridiculous that a very tiny part of xcode requires Java, it's fun how Apple can keep such inconsistencies: why would a part of the development team of xcode use such a different tech compared to the rest of the software
Great point. Of course, part of the delay here is due to the time it takes for outcomes to manifest. Omicron has only been a variant of concern for four weeks. I think a high percentage of deaths from prior variants took at least four weeks.

That being said, data collection is fragmented and quality is inexcusably terrible across the board. I’m personally aware of multiple similar holiday superspreader stories in NYC. Two weeks after said events (an eternity in omicron terms) CDC was still reporting ~40 total cases of omicron nationally and there was no mention of these events in the press. Outcomes were very similar to those in the Norway event.
100% agree. All I’m saying is that to get double the salary from someone not obligated to pay it would mean that you’d need to be able to convincingly answer that question first.

It’s going to be a massive elephant in the room before the topic of money is even raised.
Taiwan is completely infiltrated by China. As soon as this plan is seriously discussed, China will invade Taiwan, and look like the good guys for 80% of the world.
And yet, we don’t do what is best practice for dealing with such an actor: disengage.

We (the US primarily, but also the rest of the developed world) have a tremendous opportunity with a still productive labor force and cheap capital to boot up manufacturing capacity we offshored to China, and we won’t have the chance again when China decides to act against other countries (economically or militarily).
I think lying is a reasonably fundamental part of human research, or at least obfuscation. You don't tell the participants what you're testing for, since you don't want the results to be biased, and often obfuscate what you're measuring.

I think the real ethical issue is actually that the email reads like it's coming from a lawyer. It's weirdly formal and cites that a response is legally required within 45 days. As other comments have mentioned, this has the real world consequence of heavy stress where most folks would (and should) lawyer up. This is the biggest ethical issue, since the study is costing its participants nontrivial money, and without consent.
why is this in my feed? send this garbage back to reddit please
Leftist Activists. Next question.
>> Why would they give up on this “charade” as you put it? They’re closer than ever to annexing Taiwan in 2021. They hold every card.

Except how the rest of the world would react.

It seems like a recipe for war.
I've heard it from more folks than I'd like to. And counting them all as crazy or paranoid is less believable than the alternative.
You're forgetting about Chinese intelligence. It would never work once the Chinese notice and it would only provide an actually valid casus belli
Human subjects research guidelines are very clear as to where the line is. If your research is gathering information about a person, then the subject is a human and additional steps must be taken to ensure responsible conduct (this applies in your first example case which is clearly ethically problematic because the subject was not informed). If the information you are collecting, is about a process or procedure or general data, even if it is provided by a human, the subject of the research is not a human and it’s at least not by default ethically problematic.

In regards to lying, I find such use of misdirection to be arguable ethical because 1) pseudo identities are entirely normal and expected on the internet so encountering one should not cause anybody undue stress, 2) it is not fraud, so it’s legal and does not cause harm, 3) because the experiment would not be possible without the appearance that the request came from an individual and not a research team, and 4) because if submitted to a corporation none of this discussion would even be happening. And 5) because California law requires organizations/websites to provide this information (in cases the law outlines) when it is requested which to me indicates these type of requests are supported/good/normal.

The text says: “this is not a CCPA request I just have some questions about the logistics if I were to file one” and includes a reminder that there’s possibly a legal obligation to provide these details. It’s not asking for personal details or information about a person.
An average semi engineering course in US/Canada will teach you a bit of everything, including physical device manufacturing.

India is much more VLSI, and applied skills heavy (Cadence,) thus they dominate there.

None of US multinationals will hire a fresh "average" US semi engineering graduate. Maybe MIT + 1 more top schools, but otherwise fresh grads have no chances on the job market against already experienced people coming from Asia to do their PhDs in US.
also tape your laptop's camera
Sen. Joe Manchin says no to $2T bill: ‘I can’t vote for it’
China has had only one leader who was educated in the West: Deng Xiaoping. Deng was sent to Paris in 1920 when he was 16 where he attented middle schools, in 1926 he studied in Moscow. He moved back to China in 1927.

Deng understood the West and was able to advance Chinese interests. Xi Jinping is complete opposite of Deng. Xi has no understanding of other cultures.

Russia under Putin bullies and plays brinkmanship due to political weakness. That seems to work for them under the circumstances.

Chine under Xi bullies because they are incompetent. China under Xi can't even bully right. Wolf Warrior tactics of Chinese diplomats works against Chinese interest. Nobody is scared and everyone wants to resist.
All logical systems must be grounded in axioms; your values are the axioms of your beliefs. You can logically derive inferences from your values, but your values cannot be derived from anything. Anything derived must rest on something lower, so there must be a lowest thing that is not a derivative.

This is a universal truth. It's as true in mathematics (Peano axioms) as it is in personal beliefs.
Maybe this is only the past couple of years, but it's not uncommon for Apple engineers to answer under the name "[Team Name] Engineer", especially to questions tagged with an associated WWDC session video.
Privacy in our world is long gone. Move on
It was specifically a Jim Cramer-coined term for companies whose stock was hot at the time--which correlated somewhat loosely with both comp and dominance. Netflix is somewhat of an outlier in various respects and arguably Microsoft should probably be on the list today--even if the WA-headquartered companies tend to pay less than the CA-based ones.
This is the App Store upload tool, derived from (and maybe the same as) the iTunes Store upload tool. It comes from Eddy Cue’s org that runs the store, not the Developer Tools team.

Honestly I would wager that the Developer Tools team has never been very happy about the size and quality (outdated JRE) of the upload tool
If China went democratic then Taiwan wouldn't have much issue with becoming part of it, right?

Once people taste freedom they tend to not want to give it up, no matter how messy.
But mobile apps are required to ask for mic/camera permissions.
Would you mind sharing the remaining 9? Thanks.
I am the only one who have accepted here?

I am the only one who don't care that much about Facebook knowing stuff about me?

I dislike Facebook and use it as little as possible for other reasons, but that some company knows about my favorite brands is low in my list of considerations.

I actually care about my privacy, it is just that governments and multinational companies are not my main focus. Too big, too far, at least for someone like me.
The Beatles said it best "It's the fool who plays it cool." Rationality without empathy often leads to psycho- or sociopathy.

Neither is more important in the mixed, messy bag of the human experience.
As a person who has watched this kind of thing happen a lot: I think a lot. I had a bunch of friends on tumblr who wrote and exchanged very similar fiction and art. The ones who were known to be trans, female, enbies, or non-white got harassed a lot. The one who was understood to be a white cis male got left alone. And this is on tumblr, where the ostensible position of a large part of the user base is that white cis males are Bad People by default...

So yeah, pretty sure it's that. I almost never get harassed by people who think I'm cis male, the bulk of the harassment came from people who thought I was transmasc.

Probably the furry stuff too, which is honestly sort of terrifying, do these people not know how much infrastructure relies on stressed and overworked furries?
Reduced death rate doesn’t change the fact hospitals are overloaded and you might not be able to get treatment for other emergencies.

> stay home

> don’t tell me how to live my life

I hope you see the irony there. If only it was that simple. You want to be out and about, unvaccinated, putting other people at risk, while the ones who took the vaccine and are trying to stay safe stay home? Yeah right.

If you want to live a “free” life you can go setup shop in an island somewhere away from civilization. Total freedom to do whatever you want.
I 'd say that the EU armies look better in paper than they would in practice.

One example is that several EU armies running out of precision bombs relatively early into the Libyan intervention [1].

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-runs-short-on-some...
with the "official" inflation at 7% that may not be an option

and I'd be interested to compare performance of both approaches (probably you're right, anything else is too difficult or expensive for retail investors and doesn't give extra return)

thank you for the exchange so far
Impressively colourful whataboutism.

Are we supposed to order them by which may be even close to what we see with Taiwan or doesn't it matter at all?
Looks like CCP painted itself into a corner. Internally it has fostered the narrative that Taiwan is a renegade that should be brought to order for so long that citizens themselves now call for that. Walking that all back is tricky and would take a while since the government is worried about own popularity.
> After having lived on only £50 a year, Elwes left £500,000 (Approx £74,207,558 as of 2018) to his two sons who were born out of wedlock, George and John, (whom he loved but would not educate, believing that "putting things into people's heads is the sure way to take money out of their pockets")

Damn!

And yet, it is Macca and Ringo still alive.
Considering the CCP has along history of going after religion and is persecuting religion and religious people to this day, its difficult to believe that it's a 'racist cult' when prior to 1999 it was fine, and then the CCP realised it was gaining popularity and all of a sudden it's declared an evil cult that the CCP has used to blame everything on over the years.
> and blame it on women

My favorite retort to this: "men are rational and women are overly emotional as long as you never classify anger as an emotion."

The gender thing is baloney. Humans are irrational.
That's naive world view. Putin wouldn't have happened with capitalist errors under Yelzin.

And the west never cared about whom to work with as long the got their needed resources.
And the west has a long tradition of using countries with lack of environmental and human rights to produce their products or get needed resources.

We complain about Ukraine and Taiwan but about the Yemen we don't care. Because there seem to be good and bad tyrannies.
Russia, China bad, Saudi Arabia, Qatar good.
Iraq good as long they fought Iran, bad a soon as they attacked Qatar and threatened our oil.
its common knowledge that mathematicians are more religious than other scientist
This sounds like one small piece of common fingerprinting techniques.

It would have been nice to see the author address that possibility, but it seems fingerprinting is not mentioned.
That doesn't protect your microphone from being exposed though.
Manchin demonstrating once again that we do live in a democracy, at least a representative one.
Is this just click bait? I don't know the intricacies of Google's ad serving, but is this not just someone (e.g., an ads customer) slipping a request for camera and mic access into an ad script? But the title seems to suggest Google is doing something malicious here.
Check their refurb section. I picked up a freestyle for much much less than that.
Doctor Bonuses for Virtue Signaling
For a mainlander, Taiwan _is_ a region of China, think of it as Hawai for the US.

Where I live in the Midwest USA, nobody would care if Hawai'i claimed its independence in some not-harmful-to-tourists-nor-threatening-to-military-fuel-depots fashion.

That doesn't mean it would be easy. Much as was seen in the original USA annexation of Hawai'i, it is very common for interested parties to create violence where none naturally exists.
This kind of post is somewhere between depressing and surreal to me.

I live a long way outside the US - UTC+8 - and these sort of numbers are utterly unreal for most of the world. In my recent experience, pre-, during- and 'post-'pandemic, the vast majority of remote companies aren't willing or able to consider people outside their local timezone(s) and/or tax jurisdictions, while my local market is masssively under-developed compared with most other developed parts of the world, unless you can break into banking.

My most recent income was a little over a third of this, and that was with a bank, albeit on a devops-ish contract. I am a senior engineer - you could say mid-senior if you really wanted to pick holes in my CV - and I'm pretty much ready to quit the local market, and then likely relocate due to inability to pay rent otherwise...

Meh. Have a good end of year and stay safe, y'all.
Cute, but `last’ doesn’t show my last release :(
> eavesdropped conversations seem pretty useless unless you also have the whole context and information on the person you're targeting to be able to effectively misuse that data

Keywords (i.e. "perfume", "car", "phone", "notebook", "flowers", whatever) would probably be enough to "improve" targeted ads.

However, this would be a huge scandal if true, so your first suggestion, fingerprinting gone wrong, is more likely.
> That is until a "statistician" realized that all of the places on the plane that they found holes in were actually parts of the plane that could get hit and survive and return. They then started adding extra steel to the parts of the planes they found no holes or damage assuming that if those parts were hit the plane would get shot down and not return. After this change they started seeing a dramatic increase in the amount of planes returning from a raid.

This is highly likely to be grade A BS because it would be quite obvious to literally everyone flying an aircraft. It only make sense because the reader are not given a full minute to think about this.
The Caddy web server has a built in ACME compliant CA. Works well for a private CA, and it’s a couple lines in the config file.
You are also missing the part where the Taiwanese have always held an ambiguous stance towards reunification/independence.

I would bet that a Scottish-style ref in Taiwan (which would be tantamount to declaration of independence and hence, dead on arrival) may yield a surprising similar response: no majority support for independence.
Not a study but I've heard explanations that big companies have so much data their models are just that good. For instance they know who you're friends with, both your search histories, and location data. Knowing you friend searched for lawnmowers recently and now y'all are physically close it's possible that brand was discussed.

Although I wouldn't be shocked at all if mics were being used. I just feel like that would have been leaked by someone by now.
The reason for this isn't "cowardice", though. I've read a lot of things by practicing people in the field on reasons for which they don't think human challenge trials produce reliable enough data. (Basically: You don't get a representative sample, and you get an unrepresentative sample in ways that are very likely to result in you getting bad data.) There's other reasons to distrust them, and I don't think your assumption that "an absolute minimum of risk" is really on the table is even defensible. And on the whole I think we probably should be using them anyway, with caveats -- but your argumentation here is bad.
> We couldn’t hurt it if we tried

Even if we dug up every gram of fissile material on earth, made it into a bomb, and detonated it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyECrGp-Sw8&t=249
Exactly. Moreover, countries that support Taiwan don't do it to liberate "poor Taiwanese people from bad China's tyranny". Instead, they will use that as an excuse to back actions that support their own national interests. Exactly like what China does. Personally I understand everyone's point of view in this game, yet I wish Taiwanese people could be left alone to live as they wish. What's certain is that it's a more complicated situation that people tend to oversimplify, as usual.
I thought the Chinese bullying of Australia has been largely recognised as a failure. Australia just exported to elsewhere (e.g. a lot more coal to India).

If China invades Taiwan then most likely the USA goes to war over it. Anything else is to accept the final end of US leadership in the world. If we're going to end the world and kill billions then I guess it might as well be over something as honourable as Taiwanese freedom and in the broader name of freedom, human rights and democracy. Human civilisation could end in a far more banal way.
I was self employed for five years many years ago.

It’s easy to find clients - one of the best ways I did it was to go to computer stores and tell the salespeople if they got me a new client I would pay them $15 per hour in perpetuity for every hour I charged the client. I had 3 people that made more from me than their regular job.

Then there are chambers of commerce, LinkedIn messages and frankly just putting yourself out there. I met my long term side client studying for a certification while my oldest son was at a baseball clinic. My client saw the book I was reading and walked up to me and said, “Are you in IT?”
Don't believe either CCP or me? How about NYT?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-in...
Really impressive!
I did not like ubo one bit. Thanks for the downvotes, though. Really appreciated.

ubo is the best!!!
Now if only they had decent desktop screens...

I have gigabit internet and powerful desktop, with enough ram... But still they don't develop for my 1440p screen, but some crappy tablets...
Why does it matter whether Google did it or Google spread it around the world? It is equally repulsive behavior on their part.
I've only experienced it first-hand on youtube. After trying to learn spanish and talking spanish on the phone (but searched nothing on youtube in Spanish) Youtube offers recommendations in Spanish.
Also after I sneezed a couple of times it recommends something related to hay fever.
Lots more. I find these way more than circumstancial.
How do scientists know when the sun will begin to call it quits?
To play devils advocate to prevent this place from turning into an echo chamber:

You say "put principles over the profit of a few constituents", and that is a very widely held slogan or catch phrase.

Whose constituents? I, as a constituent, very much like not having a war going on where I could be drafted and sent to die for some people I do not know or really care about. I, as a constituent, very much like not having to pay 5k for a phone or 10k for a computer. I, as a constituent, like the cheap products that trade has allowed me to buy.

Whoes principles? America's manifest destiny principle is to take everything you can take and then fight weaker neighbors to take some more. Is it fair that we, Americans, got to do our dirty work in the past and make our country whole while other countries have to be plagued by a civil war?

The only actual principle that maters when it comes to countries is might makes right. The US was mighty so it could crush the Indians, the Mexicans, the Spanish and take what was "rightfully ours". The US was mighty so it could crush the CSA during the civil war. The US was mighty so they could use the threat of force to protect Taiwanese independence or de facto-independence. The UK was mighty so they could crush China and take HK. Now that China is (questionably? maybe?) mighty, they want to take back HK, they want to take over Taiwan. Now when other countries are mighty, the rules of the game suddenly change so that it is no longer might makes right but human rights and democracy and peace and sham pretending about principles?

I like human rights and I would generally support people being free (whatever that means), but is it not hard to see the hypocrisy in it all? Where were the principles when we beat up the Indians and Mexicans and grabbed up all of California? Where were the principles when we beat up all the LATAM countries who tried to have democratic elections. Where were the principles when we drone striked every adult man and called them all combatants since they were within the age range?
I deleted my facebook account 6 years ago or so and nobody noticed it at all. It's been a platform solely to consume shitposts and stalk others - that's it. Therefore my account deletion went completely unnoticed :)

However, unfortunately, I still use WhatsApp to this day - because of convinience.
Guys, you only need some wavelengths for your mega stove house for you galactic museum of amazing planetary flora anomalies.
Quite ironic that the website posting the article actually has googlesyndication.com.