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> After realizing that everyone ... post stupid things, We probably will stop caring about online privacy.

1. “We” never did care about online privacy to begin with, that's what made social media and all the other surveillance monetizers what they are.

2. Caring about online privacy is about much more than “posting stupid things”.
Yeah Facebook might not be around, but I'm sure there is an app that will archive everything so you could store it locally.

I don't understand your view though - you believe billboards are an exploiting everyone who sees them? That would mean all advertising should be stopped. I think many people, you included, misunderstand the economic benefit of advertising. It enables commerce that wouldn't take place if it was gone. If a Spotify competitor started out today with zero advertising it would never make it - how would you hear about it? How would anyone learn about it?

I work in digital advetising and see no reason to distrust the industry. Nobody is abusing data about you.. you are tossed into groups that contains millions of people similar to you. No advertisers cares who you are, about any of your data, any of your Facebook posts. They care that you just bought a razor and might want to try their new shaving cream.

I'm not sure what you mean by sneaky methods, but it's as simple as you visited a website or talked online about shaving, so now they know you're interested in shaving. Basic text analysis is most of it.

Edit - very true that most people don't understand it. But then again most people don't understand anything they use daily (the internet, any app, etc).
People don't just delete stuff, they replace them. Give them something new.
Is there a reasonable, open-source, distributed Facebook alternative?

I presume built on top of RSS / Atom / something feeds that are available only on authentication (so I can share with limited sets of people.)

I presume I have to keep running a server to host content. Maybe I can host encrypted content for my friends, too? So, federated. Maybe it even makes it easy for me to bill them, if the costs are prohibitive?

I'm pretty sure I'd want an Android App to talk to it. The Android app would talk to all of the servers that host my friends' contents.

It doesn't let me share with "Friends of Friends" directly. My friends would have to Reshare, I guess. And then I guess I can't interact with them.

Not sure how I want conversations to work. It'd be hard for me to offer a server to my friends, without me having access to their social data.

Maybe everyone needs their own server?
What gets me is that most news organisations are probably heavy Twitter bot users themselves.
Adding "ignore-scripts=true" to your ~/.npmrc helps here.
I agree with all of your posts above, and personally relate to both your sadness of being unable to believe and your sadness of seeing time wasted on fairy-tale nonsense.

That being said, the concept of panpsychism has merit insofar as it generalizes the idea that "consciousness may simply be what computation feels like from the inside". This, in my opinion, is an idea worth exploring – you don't need to take "conscious rock" woo-woo literally to wonder about substrate independence, different types of physicalism and emergence, etc. If the apparent absurdity of panpsychism can shock people into questioning our human gatekeeping tendencies around what consciousness is, then perhaps panpsychism is doing it's job fine.
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Hi

I am looking for tips and resource reccomendations on how to find good travel deals from a cost perspective. I'm not necessarily talking about very cheap travelling (e.g. hostels, couch surfing, ...), more about finding very good value for classic trips (aifare + decent hotels). Something in the other of Scott's Cheap Flights list, but for whole vacation packages?

Since I like travelling anywhere, ideally my only input would be my home airport and how many days I can get away for, and it will present my with a curated list of options, both including flights and accomodation

Thanks!
It might be worth $4 million per gram if you can sell it legally and in the open. If you have to keep it quiet, that's a whole different market.
Or see TCSEC that was how the market produced the first, security-focused systems. They were only ones to pass pentesting at the time with designs and implementations still stronger than most software today. Although it had issues, its core lifecycle requirements mostly work and are still used for high-assurance security implementations. Alternatively, the DO-178B standard (now DO-178C) that got more vendors writing well-documented, well-reviewed code that they run through all kinds of static analyzers and testing tools to avoid costly re-certifications. Two examples of regulations that worked so well that they raised the status quo for both security and safety.

People mostly mention bad or questionable regulations when the topic comes up. I figure the good ones deserve mention, too, esp given they worked better than the market. That's probably due to the absence in market of both liability for software failures and most customers' ability to evaluate security claims.

TCSEC Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evalua...

Bell Looking Back on TCSEC/TPEP
http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Bell-Looking-B...

DO-178B Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B
I'd like to read the paper before drawing such a conclusion. (the link to it seems to be broken)

"for 7 out of 15 comparisons, we found no significant difference" could mean all sorts of things. It could mean that 7 comparisons were perfect and 8 were complete garbage, as you suggest. Or it could mean that 7 comparisons were perfect and 8 had differences that were statistically significant, but the magnitudes of the differences were small enough that the results would still have been perfectly adequate for practical application.

In concrete terms: Let's say the synthetic data lets me build binary classifier that helps with a business issue, and has F1 scores of about 0.8. But if I had access to the real data, I could have got F1 of around 0.85. In that case, I'd happily take the data. As someone who's trying to solve business problems, it would be downright irresponsible of me to reject something that's better than what I currently have on the grounds that it's still less than some unattainable ideal.
Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I haven't heard of algosaur before, I'll take a look!
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I generally agree with this point, in the same way that I think that people are far too ready to call "hypocrisy" when the deed that is 'hypocritical' is just a small subset of the original 'evil'.

Having said that, I also think it's worthy to highlight the impact of the facebook sharing button, which isn't dealt with in the original article. The point is that it's not enough to say to individuals "don't use facebook"; you're still 'at risk' if you visit a site that uses the sharer widget, even if you don't have a facebook account.

As an aside to the aside, techcrunch has to be the first site I've encountered that redirects you when you scroll beyond a certain point of the article, or when you try to search in-page (unless that's a bug, of course).
I was in law school, planning to start my own law practice. Then I read the 4HWW, fell in love with the automated business model, and realized it was difficult in law.

I left law school, using LSAT tutoring and teaching to cover expenses while thinking of an automated product idea.

I had reached out to online LSAT tutors for tips when I first started tutoring. A few months in, one of them approached me to ask if I would write some explanations for LSAT preptests. He needed them for licsening reasons, but didn't have the time to write them himself.

This seemed like an automated product (he would pay me royalties, I kept the rights). I wrote a bunch. These eventually also turned into print books.

I later made the explanations free online. This site attracted a lot of users, and I made video courses to sell to them.

That's where I'm at now, it's the 8th year.
I'm without facebook account for almost a decade by now, I deleted it very early on. I never really missed it.

(Faceboook still sends me stalker/spam mails)
We've already come to terms with human imperfection in politics. Clinton was known as "slick willie" for his philandering. Obama wasn't known for much personal impropriety but his last name was Hussein Obama which is phonetically similar to both Saddam Hussein and Osama. Trump... well... my god Trump... the guy is such a walking scandal and fountain of political incorrectness he's just overflowed the integer and nobody cares. I mean his team is not even really denying the whole porn star thing.

The thing that concerns me about social media is the way it can be used as a training data set to train propaganda bots. Now that is scary.
> And this undermines trust in Google’s results

Google has been tweaking their search results since forever. I don't see how now this undermines trust in their search results.

They now want a little piece of the eCommerce pie and may incidentally help competition in that space as a result of it. How is this bad?
It actually wouldn't be too hard to build a MacOS tool for building scratch Docker containers with a cross-compiled Go binary. The docker image format roughly just a tar file containing a manifest json file and a tar file containing the root filesystem. *

Sure Lambda is pretty simple (just upload a zip!) and is very similar to what Google AppEngine has been doing since 2008 (AppEngine also uses zip). But you are signing up for complete lock-in...

Also, it's depressing to note that MacOS is now the only major operating system that does not have support for native Linux containers without the use of a VM. * *

* https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/image/spec/v1.md

* * https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DockerAndLinuxContainersOnWin...
To add to this - yes he's not the only one who talks about it, the idea is even on the wikipedia page for meritocracy.

Its worth following Chris, much of what he talks about is outside the world of regular media ideas, and usually has lots of interesting references.

On this topic - he often says that social mobility is not a great goal to aim for, helping working & middle classes achieve interesting & rewarding work with security is better goal.

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli...
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli...
The game had been out for a few years, but as a MOBA-style game (like DotA, or League of Legends; thus competing with two of the largest video games in the market period) it didn't attract a critical mass of players to keep the ongoing dev effort worthwhile.
Facebook shares slide after reports of data misuse
The “narrow threat model” actually applies to a very common social scenario where people share computers. For instance a family member might want to play Steam games, or print, or simply browse the web. Most people are not going to create a guest account for that. There passwords are then at risk if not adequately protected.

Even in work contexts, “hey can I use your computer to print something? Mine is frozen” is very common.

There was a similar discussion on the chromium tracker when they started storing passwords. I believe Chrome now use OS services (DPAPI on Windows and Keychain on MacOS) to protect passwords.
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I wonder which engine it works best with...
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sounds like most of the manufacturing issues I have been involved in...

'why did the machine break?'

'well the spec says to clean it using chemical X but the cabinet with X is 75 feet away and the cabinet with chemical Y is next to the machine so they used Y. They use X and Y interchangeably on other machine so the technicians (note: high-school grads, great guys but not chemists) thought it was interchangeable on this machine.'

'well why aren't they interchangeable on this machine'

'Y reacts with the glue used to assemble the machine, which was a change in the newer versions because of EPA regulations, so doing this weekly maintenance task for 8 years was finally enough to degrade the glue'

'so why was chemical Y stored near here?'

'because X has to be kept so many feet from Y. Last year in the efficiency audit we found techs had to walk to far on average to get X so we moved the X cabinet, which resulted in us moving Y to here.'

'has Y been used on any of the other machines when it shouldn't have been?'

'we don't know and we aren't sure how to check'

Fault trees usually make for really interesting reading.
Yeah, this is going to sound mad, but I quite like only charging $50. I know some customers would be willing to pay more, but under the hood the product is the same and I personally feel good about giving people great value.

The above would have to change if I started doing serious sales, in which case I’d need a higher number to justify the time involved.
I'm going to train a model to detect pictures of Scarlett Johansson to prevent this type of attack in the future.
Sometimes google is a bit fiddly with the exact formatting but they usually get it eventually. I would love a feature like that in DDG.
Samsung stock did take a hit as a result of this. Another possibility is a fabricated leak for a pump and dump style scheme.

Seems indeed very little interest for Apple. I'm sure any effect of a public leak can be as efficiently done with regular phone call. By shear size, Apple is very close to all its providers, the "pride and prejudice" drama is creative license of the media to animate what is mostly regular boring corporate interactions.
Sure, but there's a big difference in how a company sees the value. If you're talking about a property the company found success with, they surely want to hang onto the copyright and exclusive control of those assets with which to make sequels and the like, or even remasters and re-releases as Nintendo often does.

I particularly feel we need to clear up the copyright drama for abandoned works in particular, but there's a reasonable point that plenty of companies do continue to use and sell their game content for a very long time.

A failed project has very little value for the purposes of monetizing again later, you don't make a sequel to a game that you didn't make a profit on (usually). So it's a particularly good category to give away to the community.
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You ever felt you are subsidizing others? Probably at the workplace? or somewhere else? Do you still subsidize others after realizing that you are subsidizing them?
I'd like to see a model which separates talent into many constants:

* job/income talent

* exploiting luck talent

* avoiding unlucky event talent

* mitigating unlucky event talent
Also, Google doesn’t also compete with those companies. I would bet if it were someone who they were competing with on another vertical , they’d be enforcing this policy.
Amazon pulled Chromecast because Google blocked it from working on fire devices, afaik
How convenient that they forgot to use it on the one action they never want you to perform
This is true. The psychological effects of anything are due to how one uses it. It doesn't matter how addictive something is made to be because a good deal of the addiction is psychological. Opioids are very addictive, but most hospital patients don't use outside of the hospital after their pain has been treated. It's because their pain is not psychological. People can become addicted to Facebook, and yes it was designed to be this way, but I can use Facebook for the purpose I intend if only I am self-aware and know my limits and can stay within those limits.

It's really like anything you can do-- anything. The threshold is defined by the person. The absolutist claim that anything is 100% bad is dangerous and false.

The tools we make and use are defined by us individually. The "mob" is the collection of people in certain echo chambers, and I'm sorry but if those people don't realize they're in an echo chamber, it's not the fault of the tools. We can't be going around limiting everything because the majority don't know how to use it. The majority will always be that way-- though I will note that I think this "mob" majority are better-equipped psychologically with each passing generation.
>In 2016, police seized 13 nuggets of pure aluminum, a material used in nuclear energy production.

Anyone know more about this? I have pure aluminum in my pantry at home.
I've been Social Sober for 20 days now. I didn't delete any content from FB, since I had been using a fake name on there for 5 years. I just deactivated the account and haven't logged back in since.

I honestly haven't noticed much of a difference in my life. I still work all day, come home and watch Netflix or play my Switch.

It's ok to not "know" what's happening. Just do it!
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Use of social media seems to be a exponential or power law distribution where a tiny fraction of people are responsible for most posting, then the next one percent down are half as active, then the next percent down is another half lower yet, and so forth. Not entirely different than criminal activity or any other hobby.

Similar to criminal activity, a very small number of very active social media people will simply be disqualified from office, and it won't really matter to most people.

"Either way social media is here to stay." Like CB radio, or telegrams, or pro sports, or newspapers, or TV, or vinyl records, or magazines, etc. Note that none of those have entirely disappeared, but have gone from utterly culturally dominant and universal, to "is that still around?".
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> duckduck.com isn't owned by DDG. Don't shorten a URL, people will think it's real, I tried it. :(

Sorry, typo. Fixed it.

> duckduckgo.com/lite has WONDERFUL ad highlighting

Yes. Have you figured out if it can be used as default search engine on Firefox? I haven't been able to... And I'm not talking about a "bookmark keyword", I managed to get that to work.
Hah, I worry about this. I started my business at 25. I've never had a job. I'm not sure how employable I would be if I ever needed one. I rarely work the same number of hours each day, and I don't keep a set schedule.

As such, a safety net is a bit priority. Enough so I could start another business if mine ever gets problems.
> 30 years from now, candidates for president of the United States will have their old social media posts under a microscope. Whatever dumb thing they posted in their teens will be brought to light.

In 30 years, the candidates for president will either be bizarre freaks like Trump, or the kind of people who locked down their social media profiles early or were good at covering their tracks.

> After realizing that everyone, even future politicians post stupid things, We probably will stop caring about online privacy.

People have been saying stuff like this for ages, I've seen no evidence things will play out that way. In fact, you're literally parroting points Mark Zuckerberg made circa 2010 [1], when he was trying to push more public content to increase "engagement" with Facebook.

However, many, many people are reacting to social media by caring about their privacy more. Facebook's original selling point was that was restricted to your peer group. Snapchat's selling point was self-destructing messages. People are locking down the privacy settings on their social media accounts private or deleting them entirely.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6966628/Face...
> Facebook is using us.

It's funny how people are just now realizing this.
On IPv4 it's a bit of a problem because of the number of legacy middleboxes that block things they don't know, some olders routers have problems with DF (always fun to debug).

IPv6 makes ICMP path MTU discovery part of the protocol and disabling ICMP can (and will) wreak havoc on reliable connections (though TCP can compensate)
I've generally heard the term used to refer to low-effort games that are basically just third-party assets packaged up and sold as a full experience, while having little to no "playable content". The availability of these assets could encourage this since they are freely available.
So far this thread has not mentioned the Cambridge Analytica scandal. I recommend watching this clip from the PBS NewsHour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-data-analytics-firm-....

To quote from the clip "Cambridge Analytica went to Facebook and said we’re conducting academic research with this app. Facebook apparently said O.K. and didn’t do a lot of diligence and through that, because they were able to get sort of the direct access from the people who installed the quiz app and then gather all the information from the friends of the people that had installed the app and that includes likes, you know their various posts, the pages that they subscribe to, just a ton of information. They were able to gather really detailed profile information on 50 million Americans."

The quiz was only a ruse to obtain much more valuable information. Sure FB recently ended their relationship with Cambridge Analytica, but they have probably known about this for months. There's a lot of anger at FB these days and deservedly so.
What's the EULA on those assets? Are they UE4-only?
That certainly makes more sense for desktop users. But remember the UX dark pattern for mobile touch screen devices: default is to capitalize the first letter of every sentence. On particularly old devices even in password fields have this.

No caps-lock key on many of those keyboards. And, no warning that the shift key has been single-key or perma-pressed.
Still sounds less financially risky then e.g. marrying with kids in same country which is way more mainstream. Unless you start playing with debt.
That's strange. I can cast to my firestick.
I haven't tried to. I just was commenting on having visited it upon your recommendation. :)
I definitely don't support the guy, but to an extent we're already here with Trump. If that guys twitter feed didn't kill his political ambitions it probably points to the fact that people don't really care about their politicians presenting themselves as squeaky clean. It will probably take a decade for this to become the new normal though.
What makes it even worse is that there are always people who will try to put forward the worst possible (mis)interpretation of what you said, ie: in the guise of social "justice", and the domain of what constitutes acceptable discourse (the overton window) is constantly shrinking. There is a fair chance that some of what you posted, which was considered perfectly acceptable and maybe humorous 10 years ago, is now considered toxic / harmful / triggering / misogynistic / oppressive / etc.

Heck, what you say now can put you in trouble today. There are a number of opinions that I hold which I consider to be fairly balanced and mild, but am afraid to discuss online, because I think they could put me at risk. If you upset the online twitter mob, they're not going to fight you with coherent arguments and thoughtful discourse. They're going to insult you, threaten you, publicly shame you, and maybe get you fired from your job.
This sounds very similar to my history. I've built a number of projects on the side, one of which my current employer purchased for a decent sum of money (and then hired me). I continue to build projects on the side, but I just don't have the necessary time to commit to them.

I finally bit the bullet last week and put in my 2 week notice to work on side projects full time. I have enough money to cover myself comfortably for several years, and I have no dependents - this is an opportunity I may never get again. I'm giving myself 1 year to see what I can build, and then I'll decide what to do.

Worst case I go find another job in a year.