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You're talking "rhetorical style".

I'm talking facts.

Someone is bullshitting here, all right, but it's not me.

I agree that this conversation isn't really serving any purpose, though.
When someone has a bad experience with a product I love, I try to help them, I don't put them down for trying to destroy my preferred brands reputation.

Apple users are always convinced that people experiencing problems with the product are intentionally complaining to damage Apple, rather than honestly having an issue
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Rule of thumb: Anyone talking about their honesty is not honest.
True. But population is on a decline, for all developed nations atleast.
Developing nations are the one rising, worst and worst each year.
Then every student will just declare bankrupty when they graduate and already have non-existent credit.
Not going to happen; Chrome is such a huge pile of code that it's pretty much guaranteed to be incorrect.

Thankfully, this sort of analysis tends to use "constructive logic"; in which case, we're told why some property isn't provable (either because we're given a counterexample proving it's incorrect, or we're told which assumptions/preconditions need to be proved first)
I have absolutely no idea what your point is.
Absolutely -- fair enough
You technicay don't, but the implementations on X are kinda terrible and can't do 1:1
Hmm, sorry if it didn't come across intended. I see it as related in that my idea is a solution to spam, including the specific issue in the Tell HN- you could replace whatever personal email you have in your Github profile with this new one, thus directing all spam to one central location
You could use the exact same argument even for many engineering degrees. A lot of people spend a lot of time, and money (from loans) trying to get CS degrees, only to fail to get through to upper division courses before changing majors. Is that money wasted? Should we move towards a model where your major is preselected for you before you attend college, based on your aptitudes, without you having any say in the matter? After all, we don't want to waste any money. What about if the major was preselected and you still failed to make any progress?
> but if you are able to make an insurance claim for something you generally do better in the long run making that claim than not

nobody has ever disputed that, but if you read my comment again, you'll see that I was discussing expected value of writing/taking a policy.

> that's the entire point of insurance, nobody would get it if it was a net negative when you had to use it.

in fact, on the topic I was discussing - everyone takes insurance policies even when they expect it to have negative net expected value - which all homeowners insurance policies are underwritten to have. Yes, if you make a claim you come out ahead, but on average you are expected to come out behind.

The fact that you also remembered some other thing that also works by the same method, is not particularly interesting or insightful. See:

> This is called a loan

Yes, indeed, loans also have neutral or negative expected return, so do lotteries, and that doesn't mean that insurance doesn't too. A is a member of S doesn't mean that the cardinality of S is 1.

You're trying to be cute and contrarian, in the finest HN spirit (it's also not cute or funny when anyone else does it, fyi) but you're going off on irrelevant tangents. Please, you're not furthering the discourse here, you're just being tangential and contrarian.

Please re-read the rules, it is very explicit that you need to take the most generous interpretation of a comment, and the reason that rule exists is because it's tiresome dealing with this contrarian nitpicking mindset. It's pretty clear that this statement does not imply in any way that you shouldn't make a claim if you have an event, only that taking a rider generally has a net-negative expected value - as does all insurance. Your entire comment chain here is the least-generous interpretation and should not have been posted.

> Generally speaking equipment riders are generally not worth it except for during a larger event (home burns down, etc) because of this - they get you on premiums if you don't make a claim (generally it ends up zeroing out after a couple years) and they get you on premium increases if you do make a claim.
Anything that requires bad people to stop doing bad things should be considered DOA.

Instead, our solutions should be adapted to a world where there is more and more fraud. Having to trust a phone call is already a lost cause.
No, we have not.

We have observed that we can generate a pair of particles and separate them, and when we look at the close one, we now know that the far one has the complementary property. You can't use that to send information. You could use it as a shared secret, but you still had to move the particle out where your recipient is for them to use it.

You can take a flashlight and shine it at the moon, and if you sweep the beam back and forth, you can make the notional front of illumination move faster than the speed of light -- but you can't modulate the signal faster than the propagation velocity c.

Time travel into the future is easy. Time travel into the past doesn't work in this universe.
> rather than having any material justification for why it's harmful

Material - During the bombings in Austin, Google provided a blanket location/data dump to the police of everyone with Google accs within x-miles of the event. That data, regardless of linked to the bombing in the end, is kept by Austin PD and likely the FBI, forever. You have given the police a warrantless log of citizens basically based on “well they use Google and live in Austin.”

If you don’t see the glaring material issues, that explains a lot about why Google is Google.
The attitude that if the government is using the data collected by tech companies to bypass constitutional limitation, then it's a problem with government and not big tech, is rather reductionist.
This is a tangled system and you cannot completely separate the issues as you so simply claim. Big tech colluded with government, and got nice advantages for their participation with the surveillance system. The citizen/consumer is massively under represented and underpowered to make changes to the system once it's in place.

Not to mention the completely immoral act of gathering very private information without consent. I bet that most ppl twenty years ago, if asked if they would consent to giving an exact timeline of their activities to third parties in exchange to free entertainment would probably not readily agree.
Big tech lied to consumers until it normalized the new surveillance status que, that's immoral and wrong, even if it's extremely profitable.

Your individualistic perspective, where you dismiss any harms if they do not relate to you personally, is very short sighted. Authoritarianism can creep up on you, first it targets the weekest, and before you know it, it could be you. Surveillance tech is a tool for authoritarianism, apart from it's inherent immorality because of how it was hidden from the consumer, it is corrupting democracies and gives them a very authoritarian tint.

Could it be that you can not understand the harms because you actively took part in creating this reality?
I know it's condescending, but it's also human nature. Nobody likes to acknowledge he is a part of something harmful, and to deal with this cognitive dissonance we can put on very powerful blinders.
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Yes, the default concept for an Internet messaging service is "everyone can reach anyone". This isn't helpful for online services and businesses who need to reach their members/customers directly & securely, and with a rich content model (e.g. survey/form in message, and structured result in reply).
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PC's are intentionally gimped to prevent trivial copyright infringement.

Netflix forces you to use Edge on Windows or Safari on Firefox to stream in 4k because they integrate with the OS's DRM.

HBO Max doesn't allow 4k at all on PC's but I think will at least do 1080p if you use an approved browser.

I don't think Hulu will stream anything higher than 720p regardless of which browser you use. Disney+ is the same.

Good luck getting anything over 720p running Linux and Firefox.
Unfortunately no. maplibre-gl-js requires webgl for vector tile rendering. That's how you get snappy zoom performance, reduce the load on the end-user's cellular connection, etc.

Sick phone though I'm a little bit jealous :)
Thanks! This (to me) was way more interesting than the rest of the article :)
You're not going to win this "fight" on HN, I've been here for years. People here are convinced that every piece of data being collected is a moral evil.

They'll vaguely wave at things like DNS logs or server IP logs, and always assume that everything is always feeding huge tracking machines at big companies. They'll mix up tracking used for logs with tracking used for ads with tracking used to improve the product. There's no real understanding of what cohort sizes or signals are needed to make tracking meaningful. It's a mess.

IMO it's good to be sensitive about the data we send and hold tech companies accountable for how much data they take. I've also worked on big tech teams that collect data. But the arguments here are always so black-and-white that they don't make any meaningful point.
if they have a disclosure process, what purpose is served by the non-disclosure agreement?

what with non-disclosure being literally the opposite of disclosure & everything
Yeah, but “included in the cost” is not the same as saying “it’s free”, which I guess is what you’re also saying.
Those app rental scooters that are littered around city centers: you pay for distance as well as for time. And that's why they don't go very fast.
I knew what that was before clicking. Clicked anyway.
How does it compare to ArangoDB which is also a popular open source document-graph database? What features does it add/remove?
You are a little behind. Edge webview is included in Windows 11 by default. On Windows 10 the installer downloads it automatically. You don't have to do anything.
Ahh, got you. Yeah, that does sound like a pain.
I love that CircleCI flaunts it's speed compared to other providers, meanwhile we can clearly see the CircleCI steps take the longest in our builds.

Not to mention the constant failures.
The surveillance for higher status workers is more about always having a reason to manage out a worker more than actually optimizing anything, like they do with lower status workers.

We have this problem in the US armed forces rather acutely. Everyone is breaking many rules and regulations daily but the chain of command does nothing about the vast majority of infractions. Reserving enforcement for when they feel like it, for reasons having nothing to do with the actual rules.

This is anarcho-tyranny.

As a people manager in software I fight this kind of stuff, and I feel like only the most morally compromised managers push it.

It’s never an honest attempt to optimize the work. It’s a way to force you to provide evidence for your dismissal.
Your last two paragraphs don’t seem aligned with your first paragraph.
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Imagine believing china isn't a capitalist country. I know their party is called "communist" but you can slap any label on anything. Next you'll probably try to tell me north korea is democratic because it's in the name. Or McD's all-beef patties are 100% dead cow.
Bad marketing is bad. Good marketing you don't even necessarily perceive as marketing. This website is marketing for Y Combinator.
Valley is not suburban Omaha. They're in the same county, but Valley is distinctly a separate city and not a suburb. Even with how far West Omaha has expanded, there's no one in the area that's going to call it a suburb without laughing a little. Is that the best you could find?

How about you look at the number of teachers employed by OPS vs DC West? They have one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school in that district vs OPS serving an area encompassing hundreds of thousands of residents.

You were excited about 100k/year in California? Please tell me that's not the Bay area where that still leaves them unable to purchase a home anywhere near the area.

You also understand extracurriculars are a lot of extra time and work for a bit of extra pay, right? One of the biggest complaints I've heard is that teachers are being forced into running extracurriculars because they already work way too many hours for the pay and for any kind of work/life balance.
Entanglement doesn't involve any form of communication.

Only the imaginary "wave function collapse" is faster than light. But collapse isn't actually part of quantum mechanics: there's no formula that would tell you when collapse is triggered. The many world interpretation doesn't have any wave function collapse at all; and it's a valid interpretation of the underlying maths. Any "wave function collapse" is merely an interpretation trick to map the quantum world back to the classical world as experienced by humans. You can't build technology out of imaginary physics.
Instead of cleaning out "some" apps, I would have suggested a complete wipe and clean install of his OS (after backing up, of course).

Better yet, an SSD is always a great speed upgrade (I'm assuming he has a mechanical HD), as well as adding/upgrading RAM. They can really breathe life back into old computers.
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You can easily draw lines between "I go to Hackernews.com to read the opinions of others and encountered an opinion I don't like" and "I have to listen to ESPN commercials at the gas pump and look at Jesus billboards when I'm driving down the highway". Other states have precedent for banning billboards actually.

If you want to take the other extreme of your extreme example here, you should be ok with people driving down the street and blaring advertisements from trucks at full volume day and night.
It's a PC, not a railroad.
Metadata

Tools and scripts can work off of it, design decisions are documented, suggestions can be made, inferences can be made (some dangerous, some not).

Why tag S3 objects if it doesn't enforce a schema? Maybe a bad analogue but I'm going quick right now :).
I agree with your post. It was just a sort of hypothetical because "entrenched gender bias" was mentioned by my comment's parent.
A fascinating article that teeter-totters between wild speculation about the condition of human society many decades in the future (which we are demonstrably bad at predicting) and tenuous cause-and-effect relationships. But there are also a lot of very interesting current statistics that I was not previously aware of.

When I was young, absolutely everyone studying the numbers was certain that overpopulation would result in the collapse of civilization at some point. Maybe sooner, maybe later, but always eventually. Now that population growth is slowing (and it's not at all certain yet that it WILL stop or reverse, just that the recent trend is toward that direction), the sentiment is that de-population is inevitable and will ALSO lead to a collapse in society.

Maybe this is a crazy idea, but what if human populations could reach a steady state? The Earth is a finite resource[1] and can only sustain so many of us. I don't have the foggiest idea how to structure or enforce such a thing but it seems like the most realistic goal.

(1. It should go without saying that off-planet human colonies are at best science fiction, and will be within our lifetimes.)
I don't own a smart TV. If I were to buy one, am I forced to connect it to my WiFi before I use it? Can't you just use one without an internet connection?

My dumb TVs have Chromecasts attached. I know I'm handing my data to Google, but I don't (yet) have to put up with injected commercials.
For those that might be unaware, the cited papers are by the Freakenomics Author Steven Levitt and this is a decades long campaign on this with Ted talks and Op-eds and everything.
Not sure if it counts but if it does, Morrowind hands down.
Then what's the issue? Apparently we already have right to repair in practice. Or is specifically that people want to be able to do this with Macbooks and iPhones? Vote with your wallet then.
It’s not so much that we take it for granted, the issue is there is so far no contradicting evidence. Humans could see other animals flying, but we don’t see things going faster than the speed of light.
>Yeah, I'll get right on voting for the candidate that has "limit the tracking of data by internet companies"

Again, your list of complaints revolved about the government getting their hands on all this data and using it for purposes you don't like. If you're upset about that, there's plenty of people interested in civil rights.

But if digital privacy is such a niche issue, how come Europe and the United States have GDPR?

>This is a Google issue... ...the FBI...

Again, you're upset with the behavior of the FBI, not Google. Vote for people who restrict the FBI's ability to request this data instead of getting mad at the existence of tracking ad data.

>I did, in fact, suggest an alternative business model, ads without tracking. One that was particularly popular throughout the internet right up until google took things over with doubleclick.

And the fact that Google captures information about what sites you've been to in order to make ad auctions more efficient is so odious to you that you want to move everyone back in time to a demonstratively less efficient business model which hurts ad buyers (other businesses) at least as much as it does Google? You must know your proposed business model isn't nearly as good, but you've yet to articulate what exactly we're getting for it that makes the cost worth it.

>duck duck go appears to be doing fine even though they aren't tracking users like crazy.

DuckDuckGo uses Bing search under the hood, and they're not making nearly enough money to do R&D on things like making the next BeRT. If only DuckDuckGo existed, search algorithm quality would stagnate and then get worse (which is bad because SEO is by definition adversarially optimizing against the ranking algorithm in order to get a page to rank higher than it naturally would, thereby imputing noise into the natural relevance signal. Google is aggressively innovating on this front and still struggling.)
Wait wait so your MBP was 4 almost 5 years old before the staining issue showed up? That doesn’t seem right…
> Do people still use last.fm?

Absolutely! https://www.last.fm/dashboard shows shows about 500 scrobbles (track listens) per second, in the "All Time Scrobbles" section of the page.

(Disclaimer: I work at last.fm.)
I agree. The whole article is pinned on the idea that infinite economic growth is not only possible, but critical. Even given that premise, it assumes that population growth is required for that.

I don’t feel like you need to be an economist or mathematician to understand that perpetual economic growth based on finite resources is no achievable.

Maybe instead of doubling down on the old model that has driven us to ecological disaster we should look for a new one.
This is actually a big deal since this includes the davinci model everyone uses and was the biggest obstacle to cost-affordable deployment of GPT-3.

The exemption for finetuned models is interesting: since they were 2x the price of the old prices, they're now 4x-6x more expensive than the base models. I bet that's how OpenAI really makes their money with enterprise.
How is it anti-democratic? I'm on board with a ton of criticisms of surveillance capitalism, but "anti-democratic" isn't one I understand.
For someone with large hands like myself, it can be a pain sometimes to deal with the space issues and angles. And those tiny screws.
100% and not just in tech: when a party’s incentives aren’t aligned with yours, you’ll often find yourself getting little help or even working in opposition to each other. We recently experienced this with filing for a health related insurance claim. My wife wondered why they kept losing stuff, not doing what they promised, or asking for more paper work. I kept explaining to her that while not necessarily malicious, they have very little incentive to improve that department.

Always try to find partners or counter parties who win when you do as well. I know we don’t always have that luxury but sometimes a little headache initially is better than being stuck with someone who works in opposition to you in the long run.

Thanks so much for sharing your story. We are in the process of outsourcing some of our Jenkins functionality and these stories are useful to hear.
The original poster said they paid their bill, they were assured they would not have their account suspended, then it was suspended anyhow despite them being fully paid up.

Your parent said OP did what they were supposed to and paid, but got cut off anyhow -- to which you replied "You don't know that. Maybe that's the case (I'm sure it happens sometimes), but most likely it isn't."

I'm not sure how to interpret that other than you saying OP is probably not being truthful in their account of the situation.
To move the expected value of cold calls closer to negative, isn't every person who is annoyed by a cold call morally obligated to give the caller the maximum amount of abuse?
In 1994 I was talking to my colleagues about IPv6 and they asked how soon we would need to start transitioning. "Not this year," I said. "Maybe think about it next year in the budgeting process."
Not sure this is as unique as the article makes out - camels were a pretty common animal for armies, including into the Second World War.
Someone added a front end wrapper for GNU software NzbGet to sell on Play Store
The author wrote a frontend around the NzbGet program and is selling and passing it of as their own. Is this allowed?
that's like saying "don't worry if the defender breaks your leg because the ref will call a foul"
Ok, what’s even the point of a “spam meeting?”

Are they just scheduling a random call so they can lecture you about their product for 30 minutes?
It would be interesting to know how many people use the tuner in their TV rather than cable, streaming, or the one in their DVR. Our TiVo use was supplanted by DIRECTV streaming in the past few years, but I don’t think I’ve used the built in tuner in about 15 years.

Is there any regulatory reason to include tuners in displays?
Nothing at all the first year as it's included in the price for XPS machines.
And this is where the education of women comes into play, providing even subsistence-level populations with birth control options. No parent wants to bring children into this world that they cannot effectively support, and no woman wants to be a brood mare.

Limited programs in Africa and Asia has shown this to be a wild success in slowing population growth, it just lacks widespread public funding and political will, as well as stable countries that aren’t having civil wars or genocidal religious purges.
Is nobody going to comment on the fact that emerging economies seem to spend more time coding? To me that says the metric is to some extend time wasted, because there’s more to being an effective, innovative company than churning out lines. This is similar to how emerging economies generally spend more time doing everything, and not accomplishing more (or doing so at the expense of certain human values, which will almost always creep into any advanced economy).
It depends what browser you're using and what parameters you're using on the XMLHttpRequest. They definitely get the IP, user agent (so what OS and browser), and potentially more.