skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your downvotes are not because of propaganda. They are because your entire argument is whataboutism. When someone says X is bad and you respond with “but Y is also bad,” that’s not an argument—it’s off-topic and irrelevant.

Any time I want to show someone what whataboutism is, I send them to a China thread on HN or Reddit. It’s evidently one of the only tactics left in the “defend China” toolbox.
How we share the app state data between windows in the Akiflow Electron app
To get laid, now. It’s impressive in that regard.
Interesting, because said practice from German news sites seems to have the blessing of the data privacy authorities. Sadly I can't find the source. It must have been one of the data privacy newsletters I receive.

So the Norge argument here would go further and I would like to see this challenged to the European Court as this would provide a final verdict.

Currently I feel that different countries see these things quite a bit different.

On the other hand it would only mean that you can't have a free version refinanced through advertising, but would need to find other ways of converting users into paying customers while still providing a striped down free app for generating reach.
Even in C# there are plenty of dodgy answers and stuff that is plain wrong yet accepted and upvoted.
https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
Hi, i wrote a bit about this in my reply above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661575
Having grown up in America right when soccer was inching towards popularity, and having then lived in Europe for many years, I've always been puzzled by the violence associated with the game.

I can easily see it being a class-related thing in the UK, but the wealthy and cultured are very much into football in, say, Italy and Germany.

I'm very glad that kind of sports-violence culture isn't a worldwide thing, and it makes me sad that the same sport can be innocent enough to be associated with suburban "soccer moms" in one place, while celebrating the wrong team can get you killed in another place.
Please re-read what I wrote. I said I remember it from this book. Not that he came up with it, nor that he wrote the book, nor that I am contend with the quote, nor that I like it. Neither in one direction nor in the other. I hoped this was a place on the internet where I don't have to counter every possible misunderstanding beforehand. Is this about politics? If so, let me make it clear. I like to read books written by people I disagree with. Please don't misunderstand me, following is not comparable, but I have Ayn Rand and Hitler on my shelve as well.
Sounds idealistic not rooted in realism.
> "Go kill whoever you need to get rid of so we can move on."

Israel appears to be one of the Western nations where they are deepening ties and not bowing to US pressure to disengage:

* http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/17/c_1310316894.htm

* https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/16/us-israel-china-deals/

* https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-not-expected-to-j...
If you allow me to throw in an idea, and please correct me if you see fit.

In earlier times the Confucian pacifist ways of China were not up to the aggression of Western Europe, the US and Japan. In more recent times they learned to deal better with these foreign powers. The last thing they want is to give up their autonomy and culture and get run over by all these well meaning politicians that are very much after power anyway.

The moslim communities might be seen as a threat to Chinese conformity since they often hold very tight their moslim culture. The same thing might be happening around Falun Dafa. I don't really know how it started, but where we are now, they might be seen as a threat as well, since they are now quite aggressive in their wordings towards the Chinese government.
> I'd much rather spend money on an experience (or friends and family) than on buying stuff. [snip]... it's the total opposite of sitting alone in your castle acquiring shit that you hope to one day show off to people.

What makes you think that everyone buying stuff is doing it to show off to people. I'd much rather spend money on stuff than experiences. Experiences are ephemeral and, once completed, exist only in your memory. The stuff I buy is generally something that going to make my life better in a continuous and ongoing way. A pond in the back yard, a nicer car (I buy used, but I buy a nice used car, with the bells and whistles that I think are important), a console system to play with my child, etc. I spend most of my life in or around my house... spending my money to make that time better seems fairly optimal behavior.
I feel that "just the way they like" is honestly a pretty low bar to clear and in general are common sense and respectful things that you should be doing with user data in the first place.

- Tell people up front what you will do with their data

- Let them opt out

- Track what services your own service uses (Ex: your website -> google analytics)

- If people want to know what data you have about them tell them

- If people want you to delete their data (and there is no legal obligation to keep it) delete their data

- Take reasonable steps to keep user data safe

In this case Grindr was passing (per the article): advertising ID, IP address, GPS, location, gender, age, device information and app name to a bunch of Ad Services with "no control".

So beyond just "handling data" Grindr was getting paid (ads) for sharing your data to companies that could then also turn around and do whatever they wanted with that data.
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I can see why a simple text file is working for many people.

Anything that requires you to wait for a program to start, a window to appear, or a webpage to load is very detrimental to the mental mode of note taking because thoughts change even on the slightest of latency. It should be as immediate as picking up a notebook from the table that has a pen attached to it.
The entire purpose of an abstract is for fellow experts in the field to grok the paper quickly, not for the general public to get a hand-wavy interpretation of jargon.

And quite frankly, absurd practicalities aside, there is a lot of harm in having every paper accessible to all. There’s a wide divide between papers that have been accepted to a venue vs. important theory that has been debated and accepted by a scientific community and is worth presenting to the general public. And, the general public certainly cannot tell the difference.
The first. Remember:

- Iceland (population 350,000 or so) reached the quarter finals of the European championships, a tournament with, probably, stronger teams in the finals than the world championships. Only 13 teams from Europe can qualify for the latter. Looking at the world rankings, all of those are in the top 20 of the world, and, for example, Serbia, at 23 wouldn’t make it to the final 32.

- South Korea ended fourth at the world’s, mostly by wanting it more.

I don’t see why the USA wouldn’t be able to better than those, certainly if they get a bit of luck on their side.
In the United States, during 2020: << Of the 1,008 construction worker deaths in 2020, 368 were from falls, slips, or trips, 247 were from transportation injuries, 174 were caused by exposure to harmful substances or environments, and 153 were the result of contact with an object or equipment. >>

Source: https://www.constructconnect.com/blog/construction-worker-de...

Google also tells me by searching << united states Construction Workers 2020 >>: << Number of Jobs, 2020: 1,514,200 >>

That sounds rougly equivalent in total construction workers, but US is about 25% lower in rate of death.

What is more disturbing to me is the treatment of low-skill migrant workers in Qatar. It is terrifying, and it strikes me as the very definition of a modern slavery economy.
https://www.charlieshouse.org

And it saves lives too.
Can this help jet fighter pilots and F1 drivers?
To add to that - putting aside the present state of Sino-US relations, our prior beliefs should reflect what academic work on lying in politics tells us (1):

* lying in official diplomatic relationships between countries is rather rare

* within countries, democratic leaders are much more likely to lie to their population than autocrats

* countries with imperial ambitions and long-distance ventures lie more often than others

* within great powers, the depiction of the rival great powers is especially lie-ridden

In other words, for a person living in the US - it's likely that whatever US news sources tell you about China (or Russia) is mostly lies or exaggerations

(1) https://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/international-deceit/
Nanpa is the administrator of nanp

https://nationalnanpa.com/

But from what I can see, nanpa is also a Japanese word for something that sounds like random approaches on women in malls, etc. for dating. I forget the term in English.
With respect, that is easy to say when ~50% of the population is a potential partner and is easily determinable. When you are gay and the majority of guys are straight, finding partners organically is near impossible (unless you're in a gay bar or something).

I'm not condoning Grindr's actions or that people shouldn't use it with care, but it really has become a key part of LGBT networking in the modern era.
This comment is too funny, because the reality is that there is NO fixed amount of money, in fact the principal way the rich get richer is by printing more money and receiving it via the cantillon effect.
Just skimmed it, looks useful, with mentioning keypair I'm assuming they use RSA keys or something similar. Why the choice for asymmetric encryption?
You can argue with the (somewhat squishy) motivational theory but money is pretty much the classic extrinsic motivator in the literature. There's also an idea of internalized extrinsic motivation however like peer recognition. (Basically external motivations without an explicit carrot/stick.)

The line is somewhat blurry but there's probably a difference between playing a game and doing a job you don't really like because you're paid to do it.
How else are you supposed to get laid? I don't get this comment.
> The autocratic corrupt spying apparatus gov?

I thought you were referring to the US here until I finished reading the comment.
As if they aren't already.
>What aspect of GDPR is troublesome to you?

It tries to restrict data. Information wants to be free. It has no owner.
Thanks! any suggestion how to make it more prominent?
I enjoyed that too. Mac user at home, but school only had Windows 2000 PCs with IE5, Office and not much else. Meanwhile I carried around my USB drive with Firefox (tabs and bookmarks!!) and Open Office so I could then edit the same docs on my Mac at home. I was always in fear of one day the IT dept figuring out how to block it.
Heheh. I know exactly and that's okay dude. Live and learn. I spent a totally bunk couple weeks in Surfer's Paradise once for the cost of a whole summer in Uruguay. Can't always get it right. Beaches get boring on the higher end, or if you spend too long, too. Nothin like a couple weeks in a beach town to remind you never to retire to one :D
Forced sterilization of an ethnicity is genocide, and there's no debate as to whether this is happening.
> The EU is merely leading the way here, you can expect all of the developed world to have similar data protection laws on the books sooner or later.

While i do believe in being privacy conscious, i don't believe that this will be the case anytime soon (or at least until a generational shift happens). No business is interested in having to suddenly comply with such regulations and essentially no longer being able to utilize the data of individuals however they please.

Ergo, corporate interests will probably lead to lots of lobbying in this regard, just look at what happened with net neutrality and the advertising around it.

> Operating in the EU is not a liability if you treat your users data in a respectful and responsible way.

I think that all of this boils down to profit margins and viewing people as just numbers on a sheet somewhere, to extract wealth from. Just look at how scummy many of the cookie banner implementations are, designers being paid to implement as many dark patterns as possible, at least up until lawsuits started.
That and because they're low hanging fruits since most of them are built on small budgets, often with outdated kernels and packages, that will never see any SW updates after sale, making exploiting them accessible to any script kiddie with a copy of Kali.
The actual exclusive license to make money from thin air is called being a chartered bank. Once a corporation is a bank it's major dependable income source is the creation of new M0 money supply as debt by giving out loans for far more money than the bank actually has.

This is the kind of centralized and nepotistic money creation we need to worry about.
You can regulate the NSA and CIA too, if you really want.
The source is not limited to the World Cup though, but all workers.
Trojan (Win32/Caynamer.A ML) in Unity 2021.2.7f1 install?
What is this, Slashdot ca 1996?

Private information in fact does have an owner: the user that it reflects on.
Installing a proxy, and then selling a “residential” proxy service can be quite lucrative. Residential IPs are generally treated with less suspicion in the risk systems of payment processors and merchants. Similar to the monetization models of “free”
VPN providers on mobile phones.
I agree with this. FWIW, Java (for instance) could treat testing as a privileged mode of execution, allowing for all properties (even private ones) to be get/set/interacted with as if they were public, for the duration of the test. This would simplify so many things and get rid of so much boilerplate code.
> if you don't control it, you haven't bought it.

I understand this well enough to at least keep offline backups of my paid content libraries (because I’m older and can afford the expense). Yeah, because of DRM it may be troublesome to access the content if my account was banned… but it gives me more ground to stand on (with our current unjust laws, both in court and in the court of public opinion) if I only claim that the content I already downloaded should still be accessible.

Your car analogy is interesting… If your car was paid off but got repossessed later because you said something nasty about the dealership on a forum, that would be a gross miscarriage of justice, even if they buried a clause deep in their sale terms granting themselves such an unconscionable right.
> jails require you to create a chroot and network interface,

They don't: you may chroot to /, share the host's network interface, or disable networking.
The Cruel Reality of Life in Modern Britain
>common sense and respectful things that you should be doing with user data in the first place

It's disrespectful to be nosey into what people are doing or to give them orders on what they can or can't do.

>So beyond just "handling data" Grindr was getting paid (ads) for sharing your data to companies that could then also turn around and do whatever they wanted with that data.

Good on them. They figured out a way to make money using information that they collected.
A fine of this size indicates to me they should harvest and sell more data to increase profits. Tens of millions would still probably be worth it to Grindr.

Imagine your a government who doesn’t like homosexuals. Pay a fee - $5-$10m and you’ll get a list of users globally. Probably with travel patterns. Next time they enter the country, arrest or block visas before they enter.

Nah, this fine (which I don’t even know if they’ll pay) is the cost of doing business.
I had a similar story. I barely got through linear algebra in university. The professor never suggested that linear algebra was useful for anything (except passing the course). Apparently the goal was to manipulate symbols. Applications were something for technicians, not academics. Everything was so abstract and seemed arbitrary. Theorems were developed and proofs were presented without ever providing any sense of why you would want to do whatever it was the theorem did. I had absolutely no intuition about anything related to linear algebra, I only had memorization to go on.

Then a decade or so later I encountered matrices in computer graphics and suddenly I found that a lot of that stuff was actually useful and piece by piece it started to make sense to me.

The way that course was taught didn't work at all for me. I wasn't looking for motivation in the sense that I want to use it, but more about what was the motivation for developing any of it in the first place.
In America, men (straight men) are clueless towards what women wear.

I have never met a man who cared about what color of anything they wear.

I have never heard a man even notice makeup, other than being too much.

And the big one--shoes. Men don't notice shoes. We just gasp at the price. I have a sister who because a multimillionaire making/selling shoes to women. She knew how they felt about shoes, and exploited it. Oh yea, throw in hand bags. I have never heard a male utter this sentance, "But did you see her handbag?"

Female fashion is not due to men. Men got a break on this one war. You can argue the mini-skirt was man's doing, but that's pretty much it.

(This is just for America. I have no clue to the rest of the world.)
There are alternatives, but due to their bad business practices ( such as illegally collecting and selling their massive database of user data, and probably things I’d never think of) impossible to overtake. Consider existing brand awareness, and ongoing massive marketing spend.
Reading is a great deal faster than watching videos.
Presumably doubling the speed must also make the presenters sound like chipmunks or voles or something. Perhaps just fiddling with the sound frequency also works.
In theory, yes. In practice... no, unfortunately. The people of America seem to be fine with it.

Actually, as another commenter mentioned, they probably already are doing it. It would be stupid to think otherwise.
That's mostly pseudoscience.
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>My Windows 10 installation just BSODs when Firefox fills up the RAM if the page file is disabled.

I never had that happen. What actually happens is firefox just crashes, or the screen goes blank for a few seconds while the graphics driver resets.
This is really good to know. Years back they decided on making the program a painting app first and foremost so, not being an artist, I didn't really follow its progress. Knowing now that it does a solid job at photo editing tells me it is time to give it a second look.
When there's big money to be made there is corruption, take a look at for example the pharmaceutical industry.
They’d better apologize for the apology… or else…
That makes perfect sense to me. What China fails to understand is that this approach have it’s own problem, in respect to their role in the world. It protects China and it’s culture, but makes it impossible for western nations to depend on the country.
No thanks, we don't want it to become basketball.

I've never met a football fan in my life that complains about there not being 'enough goals'.

What an american take that is.
Notable issues:

1. Trend line doesn't fit very well (fails the eyeball test)

2. We don't see how many complaints occurred in pre-pandemic years, so it's hard to know the baseline comparison.

3. We don't know how the total number of sales compares by season. More candles may have been sold during months of complaint spikes; if we assume each candle has an equal probability of being defective, then an increase in sales will show an increase in complaints.
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Because it's a direct challenge to government authority.
Why can't organs be considered as a means of payment?

Not sarcasm - I think that while it's obviously a different scale, the reasons are similar and boil down to "we don't want that as a society" and "the environment this creates is not conductive to a free and informed rational decision". Many people don't understand the value of their data and the risk it poses, there is an information imbalance, there is a power imbalance (the company sets the terms, and you only get to take it or leave it).

The pre-GDPR situation also showed that the market doesn't really work, because everyone was collecting your data, people have limited energy and incentive to care because it doesn't cause immediately visible pain. It's similar to workplace safety - we don't allow employers to create easily avoidable dangerous situation in exchange for extra pay either, for similar reasons.

Most importantly, data grabbing is not necessary for advertising, it's just slightly more profitable and thus everyone does it, eventually pushing the "good" (privacy-friendly) players out of the market. If we want to change that, we need a de-facto ban (which a properly implemented GDPR would be, because so many people will click "No" if given a truly free choice that showing the popup won't be worth it).
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What's your favorite story from startup founders?
Because there is a well studied link and a clear biological pathway has been identified. [1]

I’m not in favor of coal, I know it has health consequences, but the existence of coal pollutants does not negate the existence of health consequences from nuclear disasters. I’m also not against nuclear, but it is clearly dangerous, both to health and environment and for proliferation. Considering and balancing these risks as well as climate risk is good governance.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626541/
I guess yes I do, although I've never really been that bothered by syntax highlighting, so I don't use it as much as most. When I do use it, it'll be subtle e.g. change from black to dark blue, or similar. But I also do a lot of my work in the shell, and while I like colour in things like a git diff, I don't care either way for syntax highlighting in code other than liking a grey for comments so it doesn't draw my attention away from the code.

However, actually I guess even syntax highlighting doesn't make too much difference if your background colour is black or white, because that still works well for mapping into YUV where the chrominance can be whatever the syntax highlighting is using and the background is either full brightness (white) or no brightness (black). Even black on white with red underlining can be done with the same chrominance.

The real problem, and what I really meant, is when you have things with e.g. red text on a green background, which just turns into an illegible mess when using YUV 420 (also my bad, the monitor actually does 420 not 422) because the chrominance is different, but the intensity is approximately equal.

So, for almost everything it works well. Youtube videos, code editing, text editing, etc. are all fine, but for some pathological use cases it looks terrible.
Mammoth: A type-safe Postgres query builder pur sang for TypeScript
Allow all properties and methods to be get/set/called freely by the test harness (such as JUnit in Java's case), as if they were public all along. The need for DI in testing would be greatly reduced, while keeping the public/private distinction intact while the code is running as normal.
People can be ignorant, lazy, not give a shit about the work they are doing, have poor learning ability and or skills, and cross their fingers, mashing buttons, hoping everything just works, and then expect everyone else around them to help them out of their screw ups.

If you've ever worked in CS, or known anyone that works in CS, you know that there are an absolute fucking shitload of these people. Often in roles they are unqualified for and with privileges and power no sane person would ever give them.
My kingdom for a fast, one-page, multiplatform notes app that could accomplish this
What do you mean "other purposes"? My only purpose of the monitor is for work. I need a monitor that's big enough and I don't like to have to make unnecessary head movements while working, hence vertical monitor. There is nothing extreme about it.