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Thorncorona··on How do I open the Mercedes EQS’s hood?
It's the precedent that is set.
Thorncorona··on Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
I don’t think these types of arguments that proclaim the internet is owned by private entities make any sense.

The point of the parent comment was to discuss advocacy for a alternative and your comment essentially is replying well this is how it is currently so nothing can be done.

Thorncorona··on A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
Since NSO is able to do these 0 click exploits on iphones does this mean they have have hacked apple engs as well and have copies of iOS lying around?
Thorncorona··on U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
It seems if Israel is receiving money from the US government and Israel controls the usage of NSO group weapons that are being targeted at the American government then there are problems yea?
Thorncorona··on One Einstein Is Worth a Legion of PhD Drones
I'm sorry but this is a load of drivel.

> It’s quite the opposite, because they’ve been trained in a particular way. They’re being trained to memorize this textbook, respond to this exam. They can’t think outside of the box.

Blanket statement citation required? Despite the fact that Korea / Japan with similarly rigid education systems produce innovators?

> Give me 10 innovative, creative, young physics graduates over 50,000 physics graduates who all are able to pass the exam with 100% efficiency any day.

Lets define an arbitrary boundary where the definition can change to support any conclusion and then derive a desired conclusion.

Thorncorona··on Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
For those interested here's the thesis written out by someone at the start of this year.

https://josephcollinsul.medium.com/the-uranium-bull-thesis-c...

Thorncorona··on 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack
Can someone tell me whether their 14in gives enough real estate when debugging in VS code with the terminal open?

A screenshot would be greatly apprecoated, thanks.

Thorncorona··on An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity
What do you believe would be a good line for posts?
Thorncorona··on Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account
This is some next level victim blaming for something that we don’t know happened, and can easily be handled by adults with communication channels.

It’s not as if devs go around with a visible scarlet letter for any malfeasance they get into. Nor is it reasonable brand people permanently.

Thorncorona··on Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen
Try ShareX
Thorncorona··on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
I can't tell if you are trying to be sarcastic so I will respond in good faith.

> Why the hell can't I be free to move freely to a place where other people accept me? Why is it that a parasitic entity (the state) has to say whether they allow me in or not?

Because when a community decides to provides services to a people it must now have standards to decide who to provide services too. There are only 2 possible ways to solve this.

1: provide services to everyone. naturally this doesn't work.

2: provide services to nobody.

> Governments, or states, are responsible for most of the destructive behavior we see in human history.

This is a consequence of the state's monopoly on violence. By joining a society you voluntarily give up power to the government in exchange for services and protections.

Wars occur as a consequence of this exchange of power when states look out for their own interests, which include the interests of its people.

> Society has never been so peaceful as today.

Because the state has a monopoly on violence and has gotten more effective at enforcing that monopoly?

> Most private entities (companies or the third sector) do good for the people and benefit nothing from the misery caused by state actors and their wars.

I'm not sure if you are aware of the other functions that states provide but some of the functions you may find beneficial are ways to resolve conflict without violence, protections to people, and a standard of living. These are again, enforced with violence. Seeing as you moved from Brazil to the Netherlands I'm sure you are aware of the benefits you are granted.

Thorncorona··on Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
> In which country the police has the worse death statistics in such situations (at least outside of some developing world backwater)?

In which countries are there as many guns available to the public?

> In which country would such people move forward with weapons drawn, shouting commands, and making things worse?

Is this not what you would expect to happen in a so-called armed conflict? The situation was successfully de-escalated.

Thorncorona··on Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
This argument doesn't make sense. Let's go over the series of events.

1. Someone calls 911 reporting an armed conflict reporting an active shooter situation.

2. Police respond, sending a SWAT team.

3a. Tense situation was resolved, unfortunately resulting in a heart attack.

3b. Suppose there was an actual gunman. The fast response would have saved lives.

You're sitting at home knowing post event debating the situation knowing the actual events that are taking place. The police only know 1 version of the events, which they hope are in good faith. In order to argue that the police's response was disproportionate, you would have have to known beforehand the report was bogus. But this is impossible, so the police must bring enough force to deal with a legitimate call.

The trade off here is due diligence versus response time. In the fast majority of cases, people don't abuse 911, so the polices' fast reactions are beneficial. You have to leave it up to society to minimize these types of edge cases.

Thorncorona··on Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources
FWIW I don't think that you can really do this without moderation. Financial news is one area where curation shines particularly strongly, considering how strong monetary and information gain collide.

Benzinga / Motley Fool / Seeking Alpha / Business Wire / Forbes aren't places to find worthwhile information.

Thorncorona··on House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stronger online economy”
Regardless, you're being needlessly antagonistic.
Thorncorona··on Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
Was the second part of your comment really necessary?
Thorncorona··on Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless
The original meme stock was tesla. Get it right.
Thorncorona··on Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in claims
Privatize the profits and socialize the losses
Thorncorona··on Robinhood sued by family of 20-year old trader who committed suicide
RH's entire schtick is to be the amateur's investment broker. Their barrier to entry for margin and options is practically 0. When the only thing you need to do in order to get access to level 3 options is check a couple boxes, you're practically encouraging this type of activity. RH is breaking a ton of rules atm and there is a reason why most brokers are high touch for margin/options and unfortunately the Kearns' family is first hand evidence of this.

Most other brokers WILL NOT allow this. When I applied for options Schwab had a broker call me and make sure I knew about all the risks involved for the level I applied for.

RH was also down a couple times in March, which lost me a good amount of money. A week is a VERY long time if you're playing short-term options. There's also other issues where they were holding customer shares in margin when they had cash to cover, and when they've allowed customers to leverage 5k -> 1M of positions (a huge nono).

The conclusion here is that RH is a toy broker following the mantra of move fast and breaks things. Good if you're casually investing, but for options and serious investing with real amounts of cash it's worth getting a broker that is serious at providing reliable service.

Thorncorona··on Telegram's getting ads
What is your point? Users are offered a free and paid version.

Someone will always have to foot the bill, and telegram has been doing so for free for the last 8 years.

Thorncorona··on Princeton grad says Ivy League made him 'social climbing weasel'
Yeah but the number of kids doing it non-cynically is orders of magnitude smaller. I went to one of the top high schools in the country and pretty much all everyone who cared about Ivies inflated their resume to look like they cared about some flavor of the day cause.
Thorncorona··on AWS CloudShell
There are many ways I'd describe Amazon's UIs, but intuitive is certainly not one of them.
Thorncorona··on PayPal introduces new fee for dormant accounts
Oh there's more than that. I've done some work in the past in some video games, and used to get paid through a Paypal registered under a pseudonym.

But since now Paypal requires your name, DOB, SSN, banking info, to simply transfer money out, the money is stuck.

I can't use the money to pay for things, because they require you to link banking info DESPITE the fact that I have cash balance. So basically, I had cash that I couldn't take out or use.

Now finally, they are figuring out how to steal that money.

Thorncorona··on Guide to Effective Reading
Summarization of the article:

Meta-learning: one must learn how to most effectively learn before they can effectively read.

1. Learning is a combination of recall and understanding. One must have the ideas in their mind before they can process them and put pieces together. Use mental models to effectively partition articles and integrate bits of information.

Effective reading: using active learning processes results in enhanced information processing.

1. Know why you're reading.

2. Actively reading is a combination of adding information to existing knowledge branches and picking information which is relevant to you.

3. Approaches to do this: mind mapping, [question, evidence, reflection] -> asking questions about the stuff you're reading and answering them.

4. Remember through active recall/repetition.

It's a decent guide but quite verbose. Most readers are better off learning how to speed read and use memory palaces. Effective reading is built off those 2 pieces.

Thorncorona··on TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents
Very cool.

Consider the paper's abstract: "We introduce TLDR generation, a new form of extreme summarization, for scientific papers. TLDR generation involves high source compression and requires expert background knowledge and understanding of complex domain-specific language. To facilitate study on this task, we introduce SciTLDR, a new multi-target dataset of 5.4K TLDRs over 3.2K papers. SciTLDR contains both author-written and expert-derived TLDRs, where the latter are collected using a novel annotation protocol that produces high-quality summaries while minimizing annotation burden. We propose CATTS, a simple yet effective learning strategy for generating TLDRs that exploits titles as an auxiliary training signal. CATTS improves upon strong baselines under both automated metrics and human evaluations. Data and code are publicly available at this https URL."

The algorithm summarizes it as:

“We introduce TLDR generation, a new form of extreme summarization, for scientific papers that produces high-quality summaries while minimizing annotation burden.”

Thorncorona··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Hint: 'Personalized' algorithms simply mean tailored to one's biases. As in Google will show liberals only liberal articles, and conservatives conservative articles.
Thorncorona··on Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support
Ubiquiti also has a great set of security products.
Thorncorona··on Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court
If everyone is arrested for a valid reason then that implies nobody is arrested for an invalid reason. Good thing The Marshall Project keeps a list of news articles about people being falsely imprisoned :)

https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/507-wrongful-impr...

Thorncorona··on Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
> It's Apple's reputation that gets tarnished by this.

I guess we can't buy used or salvaged cars either now. Can't have manufacturers' reputations tarnished. What a load of crock.

Thorncorona··on Web by Google (TM)
That’s all and great, but as a user I simply don’t care. It’s like asking users to care about HTTP/2 or HTTP/3. Theoretically it matters, but in practice the only thing I care is that I can actually browse the web on my phone. And AMP for all it’s faults does a damn good job of making an ad infested web browsable on crappy internet connections.

Having it enforced by Google actually makes it easier to get funding by organizations since now administrators can’t simply just tell their devs to ignore standard.

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