skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to IT-required mobile crapware:

- Install it on a burner phone, not your real device.

- Install it on an Android emulator (e.g. Nox Player) on a laptop PC.
My experience had been the opposite.

PHP-FPM had been more resilient than the other services I run. Rock solid.
If they really really want to track people:

- Sir, you have to install this application, it's available on both iOS and the Google Play Store.

- Do you have a Debian package?

- Give me a moment to check our database of alternative OSes.. Why yes, yes, we do have this as a Debian package.

- ... Well... is the app truly compulsory?

- Yes Sir, indeed it is I'm afraid. Security, safety and all that.

- ...
I'm guessing they used some framework and the libraries they used ask for a broad set of permissions because they offer access to their functions. But they're not necessarily used.

Also considering they're asking for a permission for a protocol that was shut down 7 years ago, the framework must be quite old. Android permissions were less granular back then.

I know someone in Germany and their covid tracking app tells you when and where you were close to someone who was last tested positive. So everyone does it the same way, recording location.
A Story about Raspberry Pi Pico Spinlocks and Cortex-Debug
Yeah, we went the same places.

Usability, bootstrapping and privacy - the biggest problems as I see it ordered by difficulty (yup).

Privacy - make queries require some trust from you. Your software may decide what is allowed based on your needs, e.g. low trust have lots of limiting and global limits while letting close friends ask as much as they want, you could also take into account who are you replying to. Some other privacy issues could perhaps be solved with having a wallet of identities.

Usability - very hard, I think it must be weighted and I think it should be weighted in a way that's not algorithmic. It should be you explicit trust to somebody - that's a rock foundation that if you tell me you trust some person 80% I know it's you saying that and not what some algorithm computed. We have a really good idea about our social network trust in hour heads and we keep updating it, but it seems hard to transfer to a device or even verbalize. Assigning weights to each trusted person is just too much to ask even from the most engaged users. Some app could perhaps ask you whether you ask more person A or B from time to time after asking for a short list of your most trusted peers or something like that, but it is a hard problem which I see no clear solution to yet. Adjusting is also not obvious, if you got high trust result to say some mechanic and he turned out to be terrible you'd like to see which person did it come from and perhaps lower trust your trust to them.

Because they could be compromised. That's another problem. If it becomes what it can, billions will be spent to try to affect results. People can be compromised and have no idea. I think FB and such faced such problem already but it is easier to counter as a centralized entity.

Social consequences would be huge but it does not fix the world completely. E.g. there still would be stupid hubs. That is, many people are going to trust some celebrity and that celebrity is going to sell trust abuse power etc. But that's those people choice.

In short it just lets you query trust, but the way people assign it seems more like an education system problem. Part of my how much I trust somebody is how good is he at assigning trust. Some people I dont trust much not because I think they are malicious but because I know they can be influenced easily or are not careful about assesing their trust.

In my experience despite the Internet and all that comes with it, asking trusted people remains the best way to learn about many things. They just point me to something and I know its worth my time.

Would be nice if it could scale and not waste time on both sides.
The free market is great at creating solutions.
Something planned economy based governments are incompetent at.

Evil humans sometimes make bad solutions in a free market. Let’s stop blaming systems and start blaming humans for their corrupt & greedy behaviour.

Fighting about systems only helps corrupt politicians topple each other from place of power. Hence the funding that goes into obsession over capitalism, socialism, communism debates.
I would like a source for the first claim. When I read the preprint for this paper half a year ago it was actually one of their claims that to the best of their knowledge their Pong experiment was the first to show human neurons being ‘better’.
IMO visual representation of information is not a king, text is. Illustrations are great when I am trying to figure out something completely unknown. If you will produce some Really Great Illustrations, next thing you will be thinking about is to add just a little bit of work and to produce a video.
Why is arrogant? Because I'm claiming a moral value is objective?

I believe certain moral issues are objective. I'm not a philosopher or anything similar so I can't go into depth but moral relativism and subjective morality are debated subjects. Here's a great article on objective morality.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/excellent-beauty/201...
I don't see any cogent explanation for why it is desirable to worship tools and weapons. Strange reasoning
Agreed - neovim is plenty stable for me. The built in package management and git submodules in my dotfiles works really well and is dead simple.
Holding another group or person to the same/similar standard is often called "whataboutism" though. I will concede that that is probably misplaced (and malicious) application and not what was originally intended.

That's why claims of hypocrisy against the other party, backed up with examples of the same behavior in other situations from them instead of you, can be cheaply dismissed as "whataboutism".
Is there a name for it?
How is it a fallacy? Isn't the whole idea behind it exactly what you said? The tragedy is not the commons itself, it's the tragedy of what happens to the commons.

After all, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is what happens to Romeo and Juliet.
Xiaomi have a similar feature, where only some specific combination of buttons/fingerprins would unlock the phone into the special mode containing the special apps (so more tailored for stuff you want to hide than the inverse).
I was more interested in "many" vs "majority". Those mean very different things.
some of them are, this is why there's a censorship threshold ( > 51%). Meaning that mixed transactions will take longer to make it to the chain
I would recommend learning to touch type. The benefits are many. I can look at the screen or something else while typing. Typing requires essentially no conscious attention. I can just think more easily while typing.

I also got a job from it once, when the company boss saw me coding away and was impressed by my typing speed! Silly I know, but it did happen :)

Really doesn't take that long to learn, a few weeks or months of a small amount of daily practice would get you to enough proficiency to use it for real. I used Mavis Beacon I think, but that was a long time ago.
> This is cheap enough to throw in the trash as you board for your flight home.

Maybe you know this and it's just an expression, but just in case: never throw electronics in the trash. At the very least the battery is toxic and needs recycling, but other parts of it probably too.
It seems like it adds a barrier, but wouldn't the scalpers just sell phones with the app and ticket loaded? Old Android phones are quite cheap.
No kidding. If we miraculously pull out of this nose dive before climate change erases us all we’re immediately going to be tossed into a world where AI makes us basically zoo animals for the ultra wealthy.
> As a simple example, Qatar has law about "public morals" where showing too much skin is considered indecent

Maybe that's just a bad example, but without knowing exactly how much skin is tolerated, that's just a normal law pretty much everywhere.

Does your country allow public nudity on stadiums and on public streets? If not, you've got the same law in your country... without knowing the "threashold" it's hard to say the Qatar law is unusual even compared to the most liberal western democracies.
The percentage of scientists is going to grow exponentially till non-scientist deplete, and might be even better benchmark of progress.
I think this has been long time coming. In no way the fundamentals supported the kind of valuation Tesla was given. I don't anymore believe company will fail, but it should be treated just like any other manufacturing company. Tech was always a kind of lie.
Invasion on Afghanistan rendered 9/11 relatively insignificant, except as a trigger - a Franz Ferdinand kind of event.

I suspect Marxist view of that is similar to their view on other cases of US destroying entire regions just to win the next elections.
> Even had a netbook (remember those terrible things?)

My recollection of Netbooks were how awesome those things were.

They were a really transformative form-factor for the time. Even if their relevance was short lived.
I am fond of the multiplication character too, but

1) it's not on any standard keyboard layout

2) it requires copying and pasting from a character map, alt code or html entity

3) it is usually reserved for mathematics
For a number of years I used to buy BIOS locked thinkpads off ebay for pittance, do this and sell them again as working. Made a small fortune. Most of them were from ex corps who just pulled the disks out and the disposal company didn't know how to do it.

Eventually my wife got fed up of boxes of bits of laptops everywhere.
It's for Quatar to decide what their laws are. They aren't telling other countries what their laws should be.

Why this condescending tone and sense of moral superiority?
According to https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/faq?lang=en it's optional in the esta although they remind you that they can reject for any reason.
Ergo, traspiling to a different language is not porting.
If you own your own site, you could rehash a press release on your own and use whatever “mega comment” title you choose. Hence not a level playing field for anyone else posting a link from a press release.

If the title, as we see here is very niche, it will not spur discussion from people not inherently familiar with why “Vogtle Unit 3” is any different from 1 or 2.

You’re adding layers of friction and reducing accessibility to information. People won’t research every oddball title they see and thus get stuck in content/ranking bubbles.

The title of the press release is targeting people with a lot of context. This industry has very long cycles and thus not a lot of people will have all the context.
Relative numbers at low end are common. Companies in many fields could swing hugely by single press release think of biotech or such.

Absolutely value is however more interesting, specially when we are talking about hundreds of billions. How did that happen in first place and based on what...
Bribes, some of which came out and are currently under investigation/prosecution.

Other reasons why it's a terrible idea: they have a small population, little football culture (in terms of absolute size), no infrastructure (all the stadia are newly built and some will be demolished afterwards; there aren't enough hotels); they have many laws incompatible with what usually happens at World Cups. There literally isn't a single positive thing to be said about Qatar hosting the World Cup.
Is this website even moderated anymore? Every time I visit Hacker News it gets even more extremist.
They employ slaves to build the stadiums. That's fine.

THey make people install an app. OMG the humanity!
It's really weird to redefine buying the phone OS used by 80% of the planet and 55% of the US uses as a willfully suspicious act. It's not about how many people you have time to date its picking a deliberately substandard algorithm when there are seventeen more readily at hand. It's about being bad at the game of life and then justifying bad strategy with bad logic. I would advise your friend to pick a better strategy.
He has comments from before this thread was created.
Books, sometimes HN. The only way to escape a clickbait is to not read the sources where some clickbait might be happen.
A Tech Pioneer’s Final, Unexpected Act (2018)
Canada didn't exist in 1812. It was "upper Canada," just one of the British North American colonies.
>Trevor Milton lied to Nikola’s investors — over and over and over again. That’s fraud, plain and simple,

>He faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all four counts.

If he would have taken large subsidies, like Musk did, it would've been much harder to jail him. Then he could let his imagination go - promise investors that they will make 100% return on investment per year ("buy Tesla for $30,000 and you make that or more per year renting it as a robotaxi"), promise superfast underground tunnels and deliver insecure tunnel with no ventilation/safety exists, with cars moving at 40 mpg, promise solar roofs, and many other things with absolutely no liability at all.
Have to chime in with others... FPM has definitely been the most reliable and easily tweakable system I've had in almost 20 years of PHP work, particularly since I run a lot of legacy code off the same server in different versions of PHP.

I feel like problems with monitoring may be down to lack of proper logging or experience. It's not like FPM is going to leak more memory than your code would in other running contexts. It doesn't "go down" since it spawns a new process for every request. My cold read is that there's something wrong with the code you're running, not with FPM.
I stumbled across this particular project while browsing recent developments in supercomputer operations/observability at ORNL ( https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1645803 ). Interestingly, per <https://ovis-hpcreadthedocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> and <https://github.com/ovis-hpc>, the whole system appears to be in active development and use across a number of HPC clusters in academia and in various labs. It has a particular focus on workload aware synchronised, approximately-zero-impact measurement gathering and machine/human decision operations and optimisation support. I was amazed that it hadn't appeared to have garnered more attention outside of academic/HPC circles ( plenty of formal papers/presentations however! - https://hmdsa.github.io/hmdsa/pages/docs.html )
seems pretty standard 'sugar for the crowd' type policies.

Perhaps the most nefarious one is the commitment to 'Swedish values' - without tightly defining what these are, and indeed regularly reviewing them as they change - then this could be subject to government abuse, particularly against religious groups
So sad. This reminds me of the story of Eric Sun who had an incurable brain cancer and fulfilled one final act.

Video (may make you cry)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OA8FJiz2ies

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/a-tech-pioneer...
"In order to do that you'd need to know the laws of the country because ignorance of the law is not a defence."

That is true for any country. You better inform yourself what the laws are and what their customs are in order to not break the laws or offense the locals.

Nobody forces you to travel to that country if their laws and customs conflict with your particular set of values.
Will they also build a new nuclear waste repository then or are they just going to dump the radioactive waste into the Baltic Sea?

Besides: Are they going to buy Uranium from Russia as the US are doing for their reactors?
Last summer I had to travel to South Korea for business, I was required to install a government app due to covid. Obviously this app was only for android and iOS. I had an iphone so i didnt have issues. But if i had a pinephone, i probably would had to board the next plane out of the country.

Crazy how our lives are becoming so dependent on private company techs.
Surly these permissions aren’t actually possible on iPhone? Apps can’t access other apps even with permission, or disable the lock screen etc.
Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere
Sol is the star of the Solar system, the home system of the human species.

On a more serious note: “Shit/Sorry, Outta Luck!”
There is certainly an issue with people being required to install government apps.

And this is an interesting case of that but this is wildly overblown.

I don't have to go to the world cup, it'll actually be really hard to go. I'd have to be desperate or wildly rich.

But I do have to use several government apps on my phone even if just installing them for a brief period. That's the really issue.

Installing an app on a luxury holiday in Qatar is such an absurd complaint given indebted servants bordering on our right slavery died organising it.
What you describe is rather 1995. Bloated vendor piece of software that tries to do too much and comes with a vendor manual.
> Evidence shows that people like that kind of format,

I agree, but I don't know that why people like that kind of format is settled. I suspect it's because the majority of today's software has to touch the web, and the only programming language built into web browsers happen to consume and produce that kind of format natively.

In other words, I think it's popular, but I think it's popular because it's the path of least resistance for interfacing with the web, which isn't necessarily a priority all the time.
No-one plays in the World Cup for the money.
>the guidance of the Party

Which, translated to western terms, is like guidance of the Department of Justice.

>politicians from two competing parties

Here the term “party” means something completely different from above. If you imagine the political system as layers, China places boundaries between those layers differently from the West, and if you continue to use the terms for those layers (“party”) without realizing this, you’ll arrive at silly conclusions.
You are right. My bad. Had been fooled by the karma of 1, and not checked comment threads. Sorry.
Saying that you are better by respecting the laws is extremism? Since when?
This article starts on a fundamentally flawed premise, and it made it quite difficult for me to continue.

I cannot direct quote because I’m on mobile, but he says “in my country we grew all these grains together, in varying thicknesses, and we left trees essentially in the middle of the fields for reasons x, y, and z”

Does anyone want to take a guess as to why modern farming is largely swaths of monoculture? Because we can HIGHLY optimize the amount of food we get by a) scientifically calculated fertilization, b) preventing undesirable cross pollination, and c) using pesticides that are specific to the pests that will be on a single type of plant.

I’m no agricultural scientist, but I would wager that monoculture farming is likely 5-20x more efficient than what this individual is describing.

Why am I so confident? The one thing that capitalism has proven to be WILDLY good at is the ability to turn a larger profit despite the downsides/costs. So what if it kills the environment a bit more? If there was a higher profit way to farm, we would be doing it.
I think laws against being gay are wrong, but I have to disagree with your argument that they are laws against existing. You can be gay "inside" but never act on it. That should suffice for you to not get "punished".
Welp, great to know I can’t escape false equivalency attempts to dampen COVID as a threat even in an article about an extremely larger threat; I mean not to me, who cares, but Qatar World Cup sounds like you might need to be an important businessperson to be there… that needs their phone… and will forget they installed it. That shit cray.
This probably gives you much better privacy than someone with just one phone, but I have read of people doing analysis where they identify phones that move together.

As always, it's a question of threat model, but if your opponent is a state, they definitely do this kind of thing.
The Low Cost of Cancelling Someone
There are too many people here who care more about delivering what they think is a clever counterpoint, while being proud of denying the existence of 'soft' forms of intelligence, empathy and morality.
You don’t need NVlink for that to work.
“In a major blow to America's seafood industry…” - says it all about how incredibly messed up our priorities are.
Xiaomi isn’t a company I would trust these days.
By your logic, any documentary that interviews prison inmates would be unethical.

Smaker asked ~150 inmates to participate, and only a tiny handful agreed.
It happens everywhere, from the developed countries to the far east. You have zero rights when crossing the border at immigration control, especially when your passport is weak or they believe you will not leave the country. They log into your IG and WhatsApp and check everything. Otherwise, they will deny entry. They made it legal. Sometimes a person has nothing to hide but nerves first time traveller and gets sucked into that void too.

Do you know the worst part? Once you unlock your phone and give them your passcode, they take it away and tell you to wait. So now have no idea what they are doing with your phone. Would you trust that device? That is why a burner phone is needed, I guess.
Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros
short term weather forecasts are amazingly accurate. this allows us to deliberately "extend" the "range" of buffer storage. and even today in some situations some energy intense heavy industries have to pause production for a few hours if there is a lack of energy supply.

It's a political problem, not a technical one, and we do not, absolutely not have to build up new parallel peaker capacity. we can simply keep select plants alive.
Let me add RVR 1909 (public domain) as I do not want to bothered with copyright related things.
They have a textbook approval system that prevents anything negative getting into classrooms.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_history_textbook_controv...
That article itself contradicts its own spin. It reads more like a hit job.

"More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago"

"death records are not categorised by occupation or place of work"

"There have been 37 deaths among workers directly linked to construction of World Cup stadiums, of which 34 are classified as “non-work related” by the event’s organising committee."

"its 2 million-strong migrant workforce"

6500 deaths in a 10 year span, out of a 2 million demographic. Only 37 of those 6000 were workers actually linked to the construction of the stadiums. Only 3 of those are confirmed to be dead on site.
It's very unclear what you're saying. Are you saying the Tipper Gore is/was right wing? Are you saying that censoring music isn't something from the right wing of the political spectrum?
I believe the term is "politically correct", yes?
Yes imagine a life where you play pong for orgasms.
Android 13 hardware support for mobile driver's licenses for some new devices