skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have that experience too

Even people from right outside those cities have such a wildly skewed perspective

“Traffic and parking is so bad!”

Have you consider moving to the city

“Traffic and parking would be worse!”

You don’t drive if you are already inside it

cue confused worldview shaking look
> Snowden basically gave up his life to expose the same horrific crimes against humanity committed by the NSA

And now hiding in a county doing such crimes, that “horrific crimes by the NSA” looks like a child’s play in comparison.

Oh the irony.
So can the CIA.
Um, don't use it if you care so much?
That's really cool, but it seems to be monthly/annual data. I wonder how much longer before there are service providers with satellites providing live hourly traffic data without needing some sort of ground support. Something that can compete with Google's live traffic, which I imagine pulls data from the location of their ubiquitous phones...
You're right about it being up to the compiler if the conditions don't have side-effects.

The C++ standard's "as-if" rule[1] allows these kinds of transformations if they do not effect the "observable behavior" of the program. Interestingly, if the values are marked volatile the compiler outputs the "correct" short-circuiting code, even with optimizations[2]

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/as_if

[2] https://cpp.godbolt.org/z/dzTh1vPW9
What's this special? Don't other social networks do surveillance on every one?
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If you are not Chinese, then yeah fair enough.

If you are, the CCP kidnaps them to take them home for putting a toe out of line.

And by you and I participating in the CCP’s surveillance apparatus, we make it easier for them to pounce on those who are trying to steer clear of the CCP, sadly, the ones who the CCP likes to kidnap and bring home to torture.
Superblocks seem like they would be super-fun for a 24-year-old single or someone visiting on holiday, but would be a logistical nightmare for a young family. Is this so? or am I a frog stuck in a car-dependency well?
They'd need to find someone who owns a port-a-potty company and is also married/related to someone on the city counsel, which could be a challenge.
Its adware. It's also better than a lot of apps that fall into the crap category. For instance, maps will show me maps that are farily accurate. Many of the bundled apps i would get in the past - verizon maps or whatever - weren't actually able to do their purported job, just display ads until crash.
The US almost did, in 2020, bit there was a public uproar: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-06/trump-sign...
What kind of data can the app collect?

I don't use TikTok, but it seems to be video entertainment. It gets access to your location, and it knows a ton about what videos you like, but is that really all that useful? TFA cites "phone numbers, birthdays and draft videos" -- the first two are hardly secret, and the latter is specifically stuff that you were planning to make not-secret.

Sure, it's not great that they're following you, but TikTok is hardly alone in that. Your location is also a terrible secret.

I can see objecting to TikTok as a propaganda machine (even if the US is hardly in any position to be complaining about others' propaganda machines). But I'm unclear on just what kind of surveillance they think is going on here, or why the Chinese government would find it especially useful.
The only choices being MS or Google for auth, both with trigger happy defence mechanisms, is kind of annoying though.
What's this meant to do? What is the significance of the number I type? What app do I need to pick to handle the tel: scheme?
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> somehow they got 95% of responses say they are registered voters

That's 95% of people who are old enough to respond to the poll (under 18 are excluded without reporting) and don't hang up.

I don't find it strange that people who aren't registered to vote hang up without responding to the poll.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

You are incorrect.
Have you read any of Apple's financials?

It says right there, in every single one of Apple's quarterly and annual reports:

> Europe includes European countries, as well as India, the Middle East and Africa
The problem is, some think that these (and other) approaches are killing open source.

> If we normalize projects baiting developers with an open source license to gain traction and switching to a non-open source license to monopolize the returns on that traction, then the logical next step for investors will be skipping that first step entirely.

> And that, for the industry, is nothing but a dead end.

- redmonk.com/sogrady, https://archive.is/GN2Bd
Where should I put the message? My friends and family are smart (excuse me, old) enough not to use TikTok either.
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After using TikTok, twitter feels like using a windows 95 computer after using modern operating systems. American social media feels way too parasocial, untargeted and clunky to me now.

Tiktok has better content, the fyp learns what you like and so it surprises and delights. I think american social media has been overly focused on the top 1% of content producers and advertisers, so the consumer experience has languished at their expense.

TT is really a consumer-first design, and users get visibility even without followers - it actually connects people so it feels a lot less like shouting into the void. It's cool to find a good post from a stranger that nobody has liked or commented on yet - liking that feels impactful to that person. American social media pretty much only shows you stuff from who you follow or advertisers, so any interaction you have is easy to get lost in the noise.

(Also, for whatever reason, I see a lot less angry shouting on TT, whereas twitter feels increasingly like the 2 minutes of hate from 1984)

The ease of posting leads to the content being much less polished: instagram feels like my friends are doing PR to convince the people they know that they are cool/beautiful/successful sometimes - just feels fake and distant to me.

Through TT I've found a bunch of people with the same interests and sense of humor as me, and I enjoy getting little glimpses into their lives and vice versa.

I think some amount of the 'tiktok is evil' meme is propaganda rooted in sinophobia, tech company PR counterprogramming, and american quasi-journalist influencers fearing their platforms are dissolving. About 2/3 of the criticism I've read seems hypocritical (based on industry standards) and alarmist, so it makes me more skeptical of the remaining 1/3.

Facebook and google being cozy with the feds that have power over me scares me a lot more than the CCP - who can do little to impact me directly.
The issue with that line of reasoning is that it will result in a balkanized internet, accelerating what we're already seeing (US companies are under increased scrutiny in the EU, if the US bans TikTok I expect the EU to be more heavy handed on US companies).

We should expect end-to-end encryption and strong privacy from all applications, reducing the attack surface for malicious applications like TikTok or Google.
This is untrue and irrelevant to US citizens not wanting China to have access to our data.

If your Cambodian/Colombian/Panamanian sure, do everything you can to ensure the US gov doesn’t get access to your data if you fear we’ll help your gov kill and imprison you at will, (if that’s even really a thing) but here in the US, it’s not a concern and you’re acting like it’s the same.
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat etc etc

Social media apps are cancer, i get it, but why this organized wish to solely focus on tiktok?

It's super fishy, considering:

"Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok" -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

And how Google uses their monopoly position to promote Instagram over Tiktok

Google search > khaby.lame

And see what pops up first ;)
They could identify your Chinese-descent friends who aren't fond of The State and then coerce them into silence by threatening their family back home.
Slippery slope--There's a reasonable middle ground between "disallow all api access" and "allow all api access"
>I'm a big fan: it's like Ubuntu, but with much of Canonical's divisive changes reverted, and with a few other improvements

Hmm, I assumed that PopOS pretty much just added their own extra stuff to an Ubuntu install. I didn't realize they got rid of the default snap cruft?

Anyways, the last time I used Pop it had this weird upgrade to nowhere thing happened where it prompted me to update and then the update files were nowhere to be found.
> It is really important to someone like me who doesn't like seeing a hundred tabs and yet want to keep them in tree.

Yes! I love that I can context switch by opening and closing entire windows of (a manageable amount of) tabs.
Back to top working well!
It is even more amazing realizing what a small team made the game, and that it was written in assembly!

The game holds up very well. OpenRCT2 fixes a variety of bugs as well.

I highly recommend https://m.youtube.com/c/MarcelVos
Marcel Vos who explores the limits of the game engine, various rides, etc. Amusingly there are scenarios which require nearly zero effort to win.
How does a company like this need 7,500 people?
You could have a village of port-a-pottys for a long time for 1.7mill. On second thought, the person cleaning it daily would need a 200k annual city salary, so maybe not.
As most anything else it did not work in USSR either for the most part.
I haven't updated my LI profile for quite some time. I don't even care enough to login to see exactly what was the last update. I do know that a recruiter was emailing me about a company that I had already spent time working with and since moved on, but was after I quit updating the LI profile. Still haven't retired either.
> As a non-Chinese citizen, what exactly can the MSS do to you with all of that data?

- Use compromising info about you to provide China IP from your employer, and/or betray your country

- Use compromising info about a family member to force you to provide China IP from your employer, and/or betray your country

- Use compromising info about you to force a family member to provide China IP from their employer, and/or betray their country

- Use info about you to force your employer to fire you in case you have held anti-China views

- Use info about you, if you've held anti-China views, to prohibit companies from getting into contract with your company

- .... and the list goes on and on.
No it looks like she is on staff, maybe they changed their url structure.
If you were a rising star athlete and someone broke your legs, you'd have no problem finding a lawyer to represent you.
as compared to ?
Why Boys Fall Behind
Don't overreact to weak signals
So, this was clearly racist misinterpretation from the context, but I still didn't understand enough to know exactly why it was racist misinterpretation and was curious.

For anyone else curious, this is maybe a good read:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-to-speak-gibberi...

It starts with the knee-jerk conservative anti-woke reaction, which peaks here:

> A reader in the comments suggests that these students should listen to MLK’s oratory and take a lesson. Absolutely. King was a master of rhetoric. That is the way to change minds. The teachers who are instructing these kids in this sort of thing are guilty of intellectual abuse, as are the CEDA officials who reward it.

But the updates after that, explain what is really going on:

> Rod, this post needs a serious correction. While that debate was ridiculous, it is entirely typical of what college “cross examination” debating has been for decades. The trend has been for (mostly white) debaters to talk about nuclear war in a debate about education policy, the environment in a debate about military policy, post structuralism pretty much whenever they feel like it, etc. etc. It’s a ridiculous form of debate but it isn’t some weird black thing. The reason these black students are debating like this is that they are competing, in a league with teams from schools like Harvard and Yale, that rewards this style of debate.

And the author is slightly magnanimous in his apology:

> UPDATE.3: To be perfectly clear, I concede that I was wrong to say that this team broke the rules of debate by refusing to address the topic, instead choosing to rant about racism, and to say that the woman who looked as if she were having a psychotic break (which she does, to the untrained eye) was doing anything wrong. I learned from readers that the Towson team’s bizarre display is actually well within the rules and the custom of competitive debate. So, congratulations to them, I guess. I learned something new today: Competitive debate is a completely insane phenomenon.
We have term limits in several places (including California), I think TL proponents should make their case based on how that has worked out rather than pleasant hypotheticals. One downside I've seen is that it promotes a sort of legislative ladder-climbing mentality where ambitious legislators are primarily focused on using their office as a springboard to the next level of political power, and incentivized to propose changes with quite short-term payoffs.
Driver assistance systems for example. I don't want to pay for those features, but if I don't get them when I configure the car it's going to be much harder to sell the car a few years later. If those features can be activated later on, I won't lose money when I'll sell my car. So it reduces the initial cost of the car and then I also get a better resale value.
So you're saying special events, which are intended to attract crowds, are more vibrant when times when there is no special event? Perhaps we should just schedule never ending special events? This deserves more study...
Wayland's fine if you don't use Nvidia (which seems to be true of many things that Nvidia breaks).

That being said, I didn't mind Unity or Mir.
No. If I click the link it’s because I’m done with the search and found my target result. If I am unsure about it, I’ll open the link in a new tab myself using middle click or long tap.
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I Honestly thought it was common belief that corona come from that lab in china.

But now after reading this, I searched a bit and read up on it and I guess it is still a somewhat honest debate on the topic.

Even if it was lab made, it would be sort of stupid to dig in to it, due to the political nature of the matter. What happened happened, most likely the release would have been accidental, so why play blame games.
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I used to be a progressive and used to campaign for candidates. Then I stayed where I am and the rest of the bandwagon moved way way left. So, I will probably vote against any of the "progressive" policies, politicians and elections.

At this point, Florida and Texas have record net in-flux migration from California. Can't wait to see this competition completely kick California's butt. It is a shame, I am stuck here, I'd move otherwise. With all my heart, I want to improve California. I just don't see a way.
They are not subject to US law or accountability. Apple is compelled to turn over user data from iCloud to the USG over thirty thousand times per year without a warrant or probable cause via FAA702 which allows the federal government direct access to Apple (and Google et al) servers to download user data.

It hasn’t been subject to US law or accountability for a long time.
This is not true. There is not enough explanatory power in LCDM to explain the distributions of dark matter we apply to each specific galaxy, therefore there must be a proliferation of parameters.
light is great but first on the list is an aftermarket horn .. LOUD
Stiff prison terms
What’s fascinating is that it took this long for this very common sense opinion to be shared outside of right-wing circles because Trump said it first.
I don't think it's even possible to solve the public toilet problem without first solving the drug abuse problem. Everyone agrees it would be ideal to have toilet access to everyone, but no one has an answer for how you design a toilet that's impossible to abuse.
cars or other vehicles required to provide services prohibited. The aim is to make people use other modes of transportation than their cars in these areas.
Yes and I’m scared of the CIA too, what’s your point? Your consistent whataboutisms up and down this thread are as hilarious as they are sad.
https://archive.ph/pxenN
> One of the biggest perks of working downtown in a moderately sized or larger city is being able to go to the bathroom there outside of work hours.

I'm in a big city in Canada and there was a downtown farmer's market here for a while. Literally smack in the middle of the city, went up and down a few streets on Saturday mornings. Loved going, was a short walk and had lots of good eats, local produce, etc.

But no bathrooms. None of the local places would let you in if you weren't paying, and the only way I could make a head call was at the local YMCA -- and the only reason they let me in was cuz I was a member of their gym.

It's crazy to me how you can be in the center a huge edifice of planning, piping, conduits, etc. and still not be able to find a toilet.

edit: they did normally have porta-johns but didn't this morning. On at least one occasion I'd seen people tip them over, hopefully with no one in them.
Of course the lab leak origin is probably accurate, it appeared right in the vicinity of the lab and is the exact thing they were studying. This shouldn't be controversial, it shouldn't have been politicized to the point where the truth matters far less than whose narrative it supports. We should have taken it as an accident, learned lessons, improved processes, and moved on. Instead we tore ourselves apart, and now we're back to playing nuclear Russian roulette, with maybe half the chambers loaded this time. Good job humans.
Nearly content-free article. The meat seems to be:

> TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said that TikTok collects approximate location information based on users’ IP addresses to “among other things, help show relevant content and ads to users, comply with applicable laws, and detect and prevent fraud and inauthentic behavior."

> But the material reviewed by Forbes indicates that ByteDance's Internal Audit team was planning to use this location information to surveil individual American citizens, not to target ads or any of these other purposes. Forbes is not disclosing the nature and purpose of the planned surveillance referenced in the materials in order to protect sources. TikTok and ByteDance did not answer questions about whether Internal Audit has specifically targeted any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figures or journalists.

Right at the beginning. I thought the rest of the article would make this interesting, but instead it talked about what Uber did and what Facebook did (I assume to fill space), then told a story about people feeling suspicious and nothing interesting happening.

Forbes is a shitty outlet, like the International Business Times, where you float dubious stories, then get an army of bots and enraged nationalists to tweet links to them, then the NYT and WaPo both write stories about the Forbes story so they don't have to sign any claims it makes, but they can still spread them. Then I assume the FBI will open an investigation into the NYT story about the tweets about the Forbes story about nothing, and somebody on the floor of Congress will demand to know why we're treating China with kid gloves when at this very moment the FBI is investigating the NYT reporting on the tweets about the Forbes story about how TikTok collects location data just like everybody else.

This story should be taken as of a similar quality to the rest of Forbes' journalism (however little of it there is.)
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It also infers social graphs. I'm sure it has the option to collect contacts, but even without it, even the links you share are unique and embed your profile information (there is no easy way to share a canonical link to a video that doesn't link back to your own profile). It also no doubt does a lot of tracking based on IP addresses to find out which users are in close proximity or even share the same internet connection.
This article was rather light on details and didn't explain things very well. They don't tell how much the precession was, how it was detected, nor much else about it.
Not that huge. If, however, phone distributors would start providing non-Google app download hubs / stores as the default - _that_ would be more serious.
Great for young families.

Some superblocks sometimes have parks or playgrounds, you never have to worry about your kids getting run over or thrown in the back of a van, more people hang out outside because it isn't sulfery or loud.
Like the FBI did to Martin Luther King Jr?

This is just as much a problem in the US.
Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, OneLogin and custom solutions for enterprise customers are also available for authorization.
It won't overclock but it will function
By "the continent" I assume you are speaking about the rest of europe, and in that case I don't think you can say anything coherent about their systems.
That scares the shit out of me if I'm being honest.

years ago I read an article by bruce schneier talking about how he ran an open home network so if someone accessed illegal content he could claim it could have been anyone. His argument was that if it was secured the police would argue it had to have been him.

I got the point but disagreed.

a year or two later I was reading an article about a police officer that got convicted of accessing child pornography on the police computer systems. The chief of police was quoted as saying "we know it was him because he used his password".

My ass went home that night, opened up my home network, and I've ran it that way ever since.

of course it's not that simple, understanding why that chief of police was wrong (I'm not making any claims about whether that police officer did or didn't access that material) in his confidence is what caused me to suddenly strongly agree with Bruce Schneier.

So when I hear things like your dog story, I just know that confidence has to be misplaced, even if I don't fully understand why (although in this case I do).
It's a clique. A group of people with the same ideas.

"This is financially a bad idea" has been ignored since Brexit, and it bit hard.
This is more than just boardgames, it's peoples' careers and livelihoods, too.
+ OS-wide drag and drop that works in basically every application for many things, especially images. The number of times on Linux I try to drag an image out of Firefox and into an open file browser only to be met with the "not allowed" cursor is truly infuriating.
Yeah I was going to say much the same. Nobody with a large cloud bill is paying anywhere near list price. It's very hard to compare services apples to apples without actually getting a private quote from each side's sales team unfortunately.

This applies to all "enterprise software" too, btw. We've had quotes from vendors that started at 50% off list price, and then negotiated down further from there. It's pretty ridiculous.
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I needed a source of startup investors. They're all expensive