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You could employ Face ID for that no?

The implication of "I wish I could hand my iPad to..." is that the person receiving the iPad would be able to use it, not just physically hold onto it.

I think that's too granular and is dependent on the apps offering Face ID as a secondary-layer authentication flow -- I think OP is suggesting an entirely different user profile that doesn't even have the same applications that the original (save for the default iPadOS apps, and even those should be logged out from your Apple ID). The cognitive overhead of "did I make sure to enable Face ID on x,y,z apps so that I can pass around my iPad without worrying about any personal data being accessible" is too high for spontaneous + casual device sharing.

Example: "Hey uncle ping00, can I use your iPad real quick to watch something?" "Sure nephew, <switches profile to Guest ,and hands it over> go nuts"


No this happens a lot. The only reason is tax benefits. They do need an office with alike 10 employees and a flower in it though (to ensure there are actually people there lol), but that’s about it.

So they either stay in NL, or do some sandwich with London or Dublin. It helps that the main Dutch party VVD is completely corrupt and only in there to enrich themselves.


Can't speak for their corporate structure, but according to this blog post about their new campus, they have 6,500 employees in Amsterdam alone. https://news.booking.com/bookingcom-officially-opens-new-cam....

>the main Dutch party VVD is completely corrupt and only in there to enrich themselves

I dunno what your yardstick is in NL, but everywhere else I lived and have friends, every major political party is there only to enrich themselves and their lobbyists, and not to aid the people voting for them.

Canada, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, you name it, same shit everywhere: privatize the winnings socialize the losses, while praising the GPD went up 0,2% while your salary staid the same and housing went up 10%.


In this case, booking.com was indeed a company founded in the Netherlands.

All of that sounds very fair.

Seriously stop posting f-ing paywalls. At least post an archived version with it.

Such bad form


This was settled many years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989): if there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.


I concur, screw the policy that was decided unilaterally anyhow. I never got the point of posting an article to a discussion board knowing it has a paywall that prevents a lot of people from engaging with it, unless you are some sort of a shill account looking to pad subscriptions. If archive posts are tolerated, probably in violation of publishers wishes anyhow, might as well pin these comments or even replace the link.

Dear OpenAI, either remember my privacy settings or open a temporary chat by default, this funny nonsense of typing in something only to find out you’re going to train on it is NOT a good experience.

There needs to be a law that says any user needs to set any limit on any service or subscription, and then the costs can not surpass this until the budget is upped by the user. At the same time, there should be real-time cost analysis, breakdown per service and predicted costs per day.

A law in which country?

Well, GDPR showed a bit that rather global impact is possible.

If you offer an open service on the internet you need to be prepared that users and misusers will cause costs.

However, if you block it for public access you as a customer are not offering a public service. It's the cloud provider offering a public service so it seems just a basic legal principle that it's the cloud provider who pays for misuse (attempts to access something that is not public). But of course big corporations are not known for fair contracts respecting legitimate interest of the customer before legal action is on the horizon. I wonder what made AWS wake up here.


Agreed. Don’t know what made them wake up, but I did file a complaint about their free tier dark patterns and the Luxembourg EU GDPR office got involved after my countries GDPR office tried it first, and apparently is busy with some bigger investigation, so that investigation might’ve spooked them (not my own application I don’t think)

Wow, about time. Preserving source formatting was the most moronic, idiotic default option I have ever seen

I’ve used Word since the early 90s (before the GUI version) and one thing has been consistently true for all that time: the defaults for many things in Word are not what I would intuitively assume them to be. Paste and “Paste Special” are perfect examples of this. And don’t get me started on “bullets and numbering”. How a feature used so often can remain so functionally broken for so long in such a popular piece of software just does my head in.

It makes a lot more sense when you consider copying from a document then pasting in another location. If you copy a header you want it to stay a header, if you copy coloured text you may expect it to be coloured.

It makes a lot less sense when pasting from other locations. Especially if for example you copy one sentence of a webpage that uses a specific font throughout, you are likely not expecting that font to be preserved, you weren't even thinking about it.

So probably they went for consistency, which ended up being the wrong choice. At the end of the day there are cases for both. Adding heuristics all day ends up confusing for the user so picking a default is hard.


There may be trade-offs and arguments on many sides, but the resolution is obvious and should be universal:

Hippocratic Defaults: First Do No Harm.

Principle Of Least Astonishment (POLA).

Provide all possible damage and astonishment in the right-mouse pop-up. Caveat Clickor.


There are certainly cases for both. The default case should be the simple one that you want most of the time, ie. don't drag formatting from one document to another, just drag the information.

ive liked it only for keeping a html-rendered-table and pasting it into excel (or word as a table) - but should be a special copy/paste feature vs auto-on by default. cant wait for apple to catch on - esp when working in a terminal and pasting to a chat/wiki/ect

but who knows, maybe thats why dark-mode vs light-mode is still hard to implement, they have to deal with how copy-paste formatting works behind the scenes lol

edit: typos, fixup ideas


You are always allowed to film any public service person on the job.

Including a proctologist?

Is that generally a “public” service for you? ;p

Yes. The public health system is free and my tax helps pays for the service. The employees work for the government.

That is still incorrect though. You paying taxes does not void their right to privacy. At least that's how it works in Germany.

Pretty much. Same in for example the Netherlands. Weed is technically illegal. But nobody cares. Police won’t stop you, unless you’re being a dick. That’s precisely the point.

But your cops can already do this as well, they’ll just name it disorderly conduct instead.

You could of course always choose to not break the law to begin with.


From computer science, read the title of the paper “attention is all you need” ;)

That’s not true of course, but motivation is key. Do they actually read the books, do they solve the problems themselves? Or do they read the summary before filling in the multiple choice question? The first stimulates learning, the latter temporary memorization


No, I think there is more to it then people what to admit. For example, there is a lot of comorbidity between ADHD and narcissism. There might be less social stigma about being the quirky inattentive ADHDer rather then the selfish narcissist but they are both attention disorders in some way. MRI scans of people diagnosed with NPD show that there brains prefer their dreams over reality. Meaning, there is a pathway in your brain for sensory information (exteroception) and a pathway for predictions your brain makes (interoception). For people with ADHD and NPD their interoception will often overwrite their exteroception when there is a conflicting signal.

Ooh! This is exactly what I see in my teens' friends - a preference for their fantasy world over reality. Do you have a reference?

Sorry, I can't find it anymore. I got it from the youtube channel by Sam Vaknin. He is a convicted coin man with NPD, so take everything he says with a grain of salt. That having said, his work tend to lack the sort of victim pandering you see in other narcissism "experts".

EDIT: there are a number of other studies on google scholar linking ADHD to psychopathy (in prison populations), just not the one with the fMRI scans.


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