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Ask HN: Account removal: What data does Facebook actually delete?
This is what they write themselves:

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

It's says "we store data for as long as it is necessary to provide products and services to you and others."

That is super vague, it could mean they could still for example, keep my information to provide birthdays gifts as ads to my mother?

It also mentions, the things they delete: "such as your photos and status updates." But they build a profile of you including buying information from 3rd parties. So they'll keep that, It's feel creepy that they get to keep all that metadata.

To conclude "Keep in mind that information that others have shared about you is not part of your account and will not be deleted when you delete your account." Does that mean, if 1 person shares my phone-number with facebook that is oke? I'm not sure what I gain from the fact they have that information.

I'm a EU citizen, how does that work, it feels this still conflicts with GDPR and next to that, how will they EU enforce this, is some Bob going over the facebook and go through all their databases looking for traces of people that removed their account? who decides how much information can they keep about me? How much data can they keep while still making it impossible for them to point it back to me.
Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14315277#14315887 (May 2017)

>Klathmon: take a look at the book linked at the bottom of that page which includes a pretty comprehensive section on improving RTT and TLS speeds in general
> I know hardly anyone anymore who can sit on a couch and read for even 5 minutes without a break in attention to do something on their phone.

I definitely don't align with this sentiment, sounds more like who you are surrounding yourself with. Many of my friends and coworkers are avid readers, and books are a common discussion topic.

There is also a flip side to how technology has affected our attention span. Consider how many people now "read" while driving, working out, doing chores. Yes we may crave more stimulation, but it means while doing laundry or dishes we are going to seek out audiobooks and podcasts. I read more than ever now that I can get just about any book instantly, and read on the go
A digital revolution (2013)
while, I'm sympathetic to your point, to play devil's advocate, think of it a bit differently as in "we'll never ask you to pay for map updates for this device". Of course that doesn't help you if the devices is working perfectly well and all you need are map updates
You buy a lot of the tokens now when they are cheap. Just a couple of cents. You then hold on for a long time.
But not petrol.
Dutch tax office, banks hit by DDoS cyber attacks
You can put whatever in the initramfs, but since Linux just boots as a UEFI executable with CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y, it would be somewhat silly to start up a full userland via systemd in the bootloader.

systemd-boot is a thing though, which is a pretty small UEFI application that reads a Freedesktop Boot Loader Specification config [1] from an EFI partition and tells UEFI to boot a kernel directly. Definitely no Linux or systemd-init involved though.

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSp...
The Precision Upon Which Civilizations Are Built
Fitness app Strava exposes the location of military bases
I imagine many of these soldier's higher ups are unaware that such networked 'workout by GPS' services exist to provide insight beyond a personal means. If so, I wonder why soldiers were permitted to run with GPS watches or phones.

Many professional endurance based athletes also do not track using GPS for similar reasons. Openly sharing training programs is an advantage to opposition and their coaches. Especially with Strava, where people are searchable by name like facebook.
L3 routing to the hypervisor with BGP
There's a bunch of (usually pretty arcane) software for generating cards. I like this because it takes JSON, as opposed to having to click around a GUI.

The real challenge though is to get a nice design. You should be able to put in some templates/generate some templates, and add image URIs/upload images. That would be truly awesome.
Quantas experiments with mustard seed biofuel on LA-Melbourne flight
Only very strong motivated reasoning would lead someone like Gates -- who would presumably consider himself 'rational' -- to take seriously a book written by an amateur historian in full-scale emeritus mode. Outside of his own field, Pinker's just a crank. He doesn't understand his sources, and isn't taken seriously by anyone that I've read so far who has the slightest interest in or understanding of historiography.

The source of Gates' wonky motivation can only be known to him (if he possesses enough self-awareness). We might guess that justification of the changes his corrupt dealings have been a part of (and made him in the process a leading megaconsumer) might have something to do with it.
How Goodyear Hid Evidence of 'Worst Tire in History' Linked to at Least 9 Deaths
Really? Google maps and mapping apps aren't able to be used over CarPlay?
Apple broke WebAssembly
I knew that they existed at least partially to protect the currency, but I had thought their mission had expanded the other way. I thought their original goal was VIP protection and they somehow got roped into currency protection
I agree that people probably overestimate the role of oil, but you have to keep in mind that the current world paradigm is not the world paradigm at the time of the Iraq war, and that there are very personal issues involving the Bush dynasty and its connections with the intelligence-executive infrastructure at play as well.

The US shale oil issue has also really flipped the script as well; it's something I don't think anyone was predicting at the time. The rapidity of solar and wind's rise is another surprising thing.

I don't mean anything conspiratorial about that. I just mean that, yes, China is dominant now, and there's a certain global socioeconomic-political dynamic. But at the time leading up to the Iraq war, the world was a very different place in terms of global politics and energy economics.

It is probably more fruitful to argue over whether or not the US government anticipated these geopolitical changes well enough. But to point to things that happened later as a rationale for what transpired before seems backward to me.

In some ways, the transition we've witnessed is from a oil-cold-war dynamic involving the US and Russia/USSR to a vacuum, made by renewable energy and Asian and European economic growth. As an American, I feel like we should sidestep issues about Euro-Asian supremacy and American-Russian decline, and take a hard look at what assumptions we often make, and what it increasingly looks like is that many of the old political blocs are starting to seem irrelevant to a prosperous future. I think America has a dominant role it can play, and will, if it just starts being forward-looking instead of backward-looking.
The Obama tariffs on flooding were back in 2012, not now (and in the original HN discussion on this, I posted about them).

Further, these new tariffs apply to Mexico and Canada, and will likely be world wide, or at least will need to be since there is global competition, not just Chinese competition.

I'm opposed to these tariffs not because of Trump, because of the specifics on the ground. Citing Obama's tariffs and not recognizing that they are different tariffs, in different situations, is needless politicization.
I know - the second season employs the I Ching world interchange too - it's how it concluded. The trade minister becomes pivotal, as written.

I'm bearing with it - I think it's hit closer to the mark than electric dreams did - but the only PKD anything which has been faithfully produced was A Scanner Darkly, in my opinion.
It combines quite a few popular trends:

- diy

- paper / offline

- game / boardgames

- simple & clear UI w/o flashiness

- not monetized / no data slurping / no email required

- no hype, no buzzwords

Not to mention that it just works. As to who needs it, I have no clue.

edit: Also the source is not minified or compiled.
Awesome! Just the tool I needed. I am developing my own board game and the hustle to create the cards to print and test was getting in the way of actually thinking about the game and the rules.

A small suggestion: add a image-top and a image-bottom fields where you put a URL and the PDF includes the image on the card.
Gotta think this is a response to the Dutch AIVD news from a few days ago: https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-...
OSM is probably better even in those areas. I recall my uncle did a bunch of mapping for OSM while 4x4ing around the place for the WHO's vaccination programmes.
> Hacking a car to kill people is a lot different than kicking someone out of a video game. Even people who SWAT don't anticipate their rival/victim being killed.

Sounds like you've never been to 4chan.
What I've seen that the POCs can actually do is not worth running around with your hair on fire, from what I've seen.

Note I did not say there is no reason to be concerned about Meltdown and Spectre... just that for most users, uses, and systems, it's not that important. In the next three-to-six months, if you care about security at all, unless you are already running a tip-top tight operation, your money and effort is better spent defending against the many already-realistic threats, rather than worrying about the vector that may someday be converted into a realistic threat. Meltdown isn't what is going to drag your business to a halt next week; it's that ransomware that one of your less-savvy employees opened while mapped to the unbacked-up world-writable corporate share that has all the spreadsheets your business runs on. At the moment, the net risk of applying the Meltdown fix comfortably exceeds by several orders of magnitude the risk that Meltdown itself poses.

And my point is precisely that for most users and uses, that panic was not justified. Those for whom that is not true (VM hosting companies) already know they need to be more aggressive. There was no point in pushing out patches that nearly bricked some computers.
I wonder if it is retaliation for this: Dutch intelligence agency spied on Russian hacking group

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-russia-cyberc...
What I think is strange is that employees at such bases are allowed to use smartphones that connect to all kinds of services like Strava, Google, Facebook and others.
Prepare for changes to macOS Server in spring 2018
NYT has a great writeup on the East Side Access tunnel. In short, the costs work out to 3.5bn/mile (!), there's ~200 "ghost" workers, and the usual spot of corruption and favoritism. It's a mess, and the MTA is deferring regular maintenance to pay for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
No one says it's either-or. We'll use both, of course. But the AI is the scalable part.

For applications that are cost-senstitive, we'll use AI alone. This creates a new industry in cheap intelligence, where human analysts have never been affordable.
I don't think people would believe the scale of these things unless there was video and/or photographic evidence (which there thankfully is)
Specifically bad union rules. European countries also rely on union labor and don't have this problem. Another factor mentioned in the article is poor management which seems to be a common theme in America.
Semiconductor Design Tools Vulnerable to Ken Thompson Attack
Time to fix can be worse if you've moved since your last fix, or if you're moving quickly. If you don't have a network connection to download the almanac info, it takes 12.5 minutes to receive in its entirety.
Reminds me of Snowden leaks - most of the stuff was pretty much obvious to anyone with any actual understanding of technology, and yet saying it out loud would get you labeled as a crackpot.
I find this title amusing...

It's like writing "computing is going to supercharge surveillance" in 1960 or "the internet is going to supercharge surveillance" in 1990.

A technology that will "supercharge" everything will also supercharge this specific thing...

I'm not saying it isn't valuable to point out the potential negatives of a technology like this, I'm just saying it's a little amusing...
Do you envision people using the fast.ai library without ever taking the course?
I agree. I was mostly addressing your argument that the output of each field (engineering vs math) is a good marker of ability to innovate (which needn't be true because of their relative population size).
It also has a setting for private and public workouts that can be set as default. Whether or not a private workout adds to global heatmap data, I am unsure...
It seems like there's opportunity here. A little box with raspberry pi or similar device and two CAT5 connectors to be placed inline between the PLC and the network, as well as between the network and all other network based displays, interfaces, and sensors. This would allow non-hardened equipment on a non-hardened network to be easily retrofit with encrypted connections.

Edit: These already exist. [1] ;-( Oh well. Just need to have facilities start using them throughout the site.

[1] https://www.lifewire.com/best-vpn-enabling-devices-4140254
> I understand your concern but right now 30k Americans die in car accidents.

And a few thousdand died on September 11th, nearly 20 years ago. The collective fear from that made the world a far worse place than the actual death toll. If there's a terrorist attack that targets internet connected cars, what do you think the collective reaction might be?
This will be true until something uses Meltdown in the wild to cause massive damage. When a digital superflu comes, businesses and individuals will be faced with a choice: continue to use Intel and be vulnerable to a flu that is literally wiping out businesses, exchanges, hospitals, etc or replace ALL of their hardware with AMD.

Interestingly, I think AMD has a lot of motive to create such a superflu, or at least encourage it's creation.
Not everybody has to be amazed by the programming.

I guess

-some upvote because they like the idea (it could be monetizable via paid printing services, it lends itself to social - sharing of decks etc),

- some found it immediately useful

- some just found it refreshing that someone created something small to scratch an itch instead of going viral on a new blockchain.
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Whatever algorithm they use is sometimes a bit too greedy. There have been times where I've been able to manually drag my path to another freeway and make it faster
Easy hack to prevent remote control/hijacking of your car: drive a standard. It will never be able to start or drive anywhere remotely.
Heh. I want a self-driving car. But I don't want an Internet-connected self-driving car.

This trend of doing everything over the Internet for no good reason other than business model is growing from just ridiculous and user-hostile into something that's actually dangerous to people's lives.
I was thinking more of an AI which hires human workers to build drones. Perhaps for profit, by making cute children’s toys and deciding they need a LIDAR that “accidentally” has a mode where the beam is stationary instead of scanning rapidly, thus turning it into a fleet of thousands to millions of flying weapons.
Well there's a notional $2.2bn worth of Tether that someone's holding on to, which is certainly enough to have got the price of a perceived buy-and-hold asset like BTC moving a lot.

If you can issue yourself newly minted Tether notionally worth a dollar and exchange your own BTC for it on your own exchange it's also dead easy to start pumping the price with wash trades (in theory you could do this by faking USD transactions on your exchange too, and some exchanges probably have done at various periods in the past, but printing USDT would allow you to actually increase your BTC holdings by buying from real traders at the same time, without having to worry about honouring the dollar payments)
Heh, marketers play what if games too. The good ones just actually test their hypotheses (just like good devs).
And prices continue to drop precipitously. Given the tariff phase out, the market will probably return to 2017 equivalent in short order, and then continue to get cheaper in spite of the tariffs.
Potentially, yes. Instead of 30k spread across one year, the very possible opportunity for 30k in one mass-hack exists. I will defer to others to debate this. Perhaps financial regulators, safety departments, transportation regulators, insurance companies, etc. This is a very complex topic that would quickly turn into banter here. Everyone will have to decide for themselves the risk factors as it pertains to them.
The Differentiable Neural Computer
You could use a website like WhatToMine[0], together with an estimate of the hashrate of the specific CPU you are looking at, to figure out how much money you could generate with said CPU over a day of mining at 100%. Estimates can be obtained from crowd-sourced websites like monerobenchmarks[1].

Focus on CryptoNote-based coins: Monero, Electroneum, Sumokoin are some of them. These are still profitable with modern CPUs. Hashrate of a given CPU will be the same over any CryptoNote-based cryptocurrency.

[0] https://whattomine.com/
[1] http://monerobenchmarks.info/

Edit: Just to add some real numbers. My home desktop is based on a Ryzen 1700. It is currently overclocked @ 3.4 GHz. I can get mine around $1.60/day worth of Electroneum at current prices. Estimated TDP is <80W (CPU alone), which at SoCal electricity costs results in $0.30/day. Profit is then around $1.30 a day.
All analysis I've seen indicates pretty much the opposite. Electricity is way less useful than diesel fuel. Our civilization critically runs on diesel and no one has figured out an even theoretically viable way to substitute in batteries where diesel is used in logistics, resource extraction, and pumping.
I'm going to regret this, but as the author of the blog post, let me be explicit about what I'm complaining about.

Apple used to care that their stuff kept working. The 68K example was that you could buy a computer, in 2005, that would still run software from 1990 or so. Now I'm worried about a computer I bought in 2014 being still able to run software which may have been updated last only a couple years before that. I don't think Apple cares much about this anymore.

As far as telnet and ftp, I'll even concede no one would probably use at least password secured stuff over cleartext in a WAN context (anonymous FTP is arguable). But "just install it from Homebrew" is only a solution as long as Apple lets it be a solution; see previous paragraph.

The iMac Pro is not a Mac Pro. It's an all-in-one desktop with high-end features. That appeals to certain people, but not to me. And I don't care for x86, never have.

If the post makes much about these issues and more than you think is warranted, it's mostly because they do personally matter to me, but I think they're emblematic of bigger problems with Apple. IMHO, Apple doesn't have an interest in legacy users, and certainly not in legacy users that have professional needs.

Clearly, pretty much everyone in this thread disagrees, and that's fine. Good luck with it.
Doesn't the change make it easier for new solar manufacturing businesses to open?
> a supposedly efficient capitalistic market

The 'new commanding heights'[1] of the modern U.S. economy are all the least capitalistic markets: education, healthcare, and housing.

Nor would I expect "local services" to be much more 'capitalistic' if you're referring to services provided by municipal governments.

[1]: [The New Commanding Heights | National Affairs](http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-new-c...)
>Do we need paxos-like consensus protocols?

...yes.
"Solar does no good at night,"

There are already several thermal storage solar facilities in operation, with more under construction. The best of these can maintain output all night long. One is in Spain, one in Australia, a prototype I believe is still operational in California.
For market based goods, the US does deliver pretty phenomenal, innovative and minimally priced outputs. Groceries, energy, technology, etc.

"Local services" are almost always driven by non-market based considerations. Politics, not economics, determines contract awards for public works. It's as far from the market as you can get. And our society receives commensurate "value."
> supposedly efficient capitalistic market

Unfortunately that's not what we have when dealing with regulations, red tape, unions, and somewhat unaccountable government agencies running the show.
To Fast or Not to Fast: What Are the Risks of Fasting?
I'm cynical enough to believe that the insurance company did a cost/benefit analysis beforehand and understood the regulatory risks of denying that coverage, and in the end, they still saved more than $6.4 million in denied claims to people who didn't have their *%it together enough to be part of the class-action.
Strava Fitness App Can Reveal Military Sites, Analysts Say
Well, it depends on your definition of "whole Linux". By it's nature, it can be stripped down fairly lean, especially if you know precisely which drivers you need, and don't need a lot of user-space support libraries, etc.

It is possible for *nix to be very minimal, less so than in the old days, of course. But speaking of the old days, when I earned my bread as a CPU logic designer, I recall one grizzled OS developer's reaction to the looooong errata list for the A0 stepping of some new silicon: "Pffft. I can bring up Unix on a broken washing machine."
Proof of Stake algorithms so far amount to various rationalizations on giving the wealthiest users more wealth.

To explain further, PoS blockrewards are settled as lotteries to stakeholders with each staked coin being granted a lottery ticket. Due to the all or nothing nature of newly printed coins from blockrewards, the wealthiest users will not just accumulate more newly printed coins on average but the statistical odds of them accumulating more of the future supply increases with time whereas poor users are entirely disqualified from thresholds required for "staking" and earning newly minted coins.
A pretty good article I read recently getting into the breakdown of what exactly we're paying more for in the US versus other places.

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/01/27/construction-c...
I am no economist, but the tariff could end up accelerating the decrease in prices as the foreign producers have a steeper gradient to overcome. If they are indeed dumping at below cost, they could also respond by lowering prices by the tariff amount.

If the tariff is applied to foreign assembled units, they could onshore the final assembly. Or start bundling non-tariffed systems so they are still cheaper in the end.

I could envision a cargo container with the panels and strandbeest-accordian support structure, plant on end in the ground and it would automatically unfurl (high school bleachers but with an alternating Z pattern) as the container moves along. Even with a lower pack density, deployment in hours would save the overall system cost.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Jansen
LEAPP – Microcontainerize your apps the easy way
Construction Costs: Metro Stations