skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other news: „Is this internet-thing going to last?“ lol
Yes, I'm able to understand you guys are selling some sort of white & black shirts, but please also add a comparison on your website why anyone should prefer you guys over any other vendor or shirt company.
This is typical. As a techie, you're triggered by technical detail because you understand the technical details of that example that is intended to illustrate the size of the data collected.

Rest assured that this happens all the time and when people read news about a topic that they are an expert on, they cringe all the time. For example, a paraglider pilot will get triggered if the reporter uses the word "Jumped" in a story about a paraglider pilot who crash-landed and injured two more people. This is because paragliders don't jump but take off from hills etc.

Usually reporting on technical topics is very hard because you need to reach the non-technical audience so you will HAVE TO use illustrative examples and not exactly accurate descriptions so that can be absorbed by the non-technical readers. Unfortunately, this will put you in a position where can be called on by technical readers who are triggered by the "implementation details" of your story.

I do believe that calling out the 5GB illustrative example is missing the point of the article. It's just a way to portray size of the data collected on you, it doesn't have any meaning even if this data was 3Mb or 100Gb. For example, if it was 3Mb Google might have used it to convey how little data they collect on you as if the size that this data takes has any correlation about the impact, then why even bother with such an irrelevant point of the "article implementation"?
I wrote something like that more than once. My use case: I am given the account on the machine on which I do not have admin access, but I still want my tools that are not installed: tmux, git, htop, latest version of vim sometimes, dos2unix, ack, etc. So I create ~/usr, and start the process of downloading and compiling tar.gz, with all the proper flags, most importantly --prefix. I automated this with bash scripts to the varying degrees of automation, but has always been wondering if there is a better and established tool for this.
So where’s the meal plan app? ... I had similar idea and started with a spreadsheet, I havnt finished yet but thought the problem was interesting and would like to see how you solved it. My idea was to have a list of recipes that you pick for a meal plan and the app would output the grocery list.
At my last meetup. (Detroit Kuberentes) We heard the story of a company that was able to rebuild their entire production environment from scratch in 1 hr. They run on kuberentes, of course it's not the only story, I'm sure using something like Terraform/Cloudformation is also part of the story.
One solution there is to pick a frequency(cell/military bands) where the FCC really comes down on transmissions that aren't authorized.

Or you could randomize it, the RTL has a pretty wide receive range.
Not exactly fingerprint, but it may help to validate or not existing fingerprinting attempt.

E.G: you identify user has being x, so you push a unique content to it, and tell to cache. Then later, you have a 62% of change some browser is user x. You just check if it's using the cached version of not. It will confirm at least if it's user x.
I do agree that they are using buzz words to get attention, but the project is great and their mission is awesome. Moreover, we need more established entities entering the blockchain industry to support the crypto movement.
Non Facebook user question:

Are we being unfair by only pointing to how FB had a negative impact on the US election? They had a very positive impact on other elections and helped (indirectly) overthrow bad governments.
Lots of folks have explained it well in the normal terms used for it. Here's the comparison.

Compare it to init. Systemd is currently the dominant init for most Linux flavors. When your system starts and the kernel has done its thing, init takes over. It launches daemons, sets up networking, that sort of thing. After startup, it will relaunch things that crash, possibly do other things.

Kubernetes is sort of an init for an emerging pattern of cross-machine systems. Like systemd, it uses configuration to figure out what should run in what order, relaunches things that fail and manages networking (albeit in a very different context), that sort of thing.

There are huge differences because the problems are very different. But as a high level comparison, there are worse ones. (Especially if you're very charitable when interpreting "that sort of thing".)
> freaked out about the possibilities this technology offers.

I've owned a Rift DK1, Rift DK2, Gear VR, and Vive. I am a VR enthusiast. As profound as the experiences with VR are, after 500 hrs in each generation of headset I find myself bumping up with the hardware and network limitations. I'll apply for the first company to offer digital office space, and I'll sell my monitors once I can read bash for 3 hours straight as comfortably in VR as I can in flatland. We are just a long ways away on a lot of different technological boundaries. I'm not freaking out because it doesn't feel like we are almost there. It feels like we need a new wireless communication protocol, improved battery weight, better displays, more powerful GPUs, better software UX, better inputs, etc. etc.

> Take off the headset, and now reality itself feels broken. Your perspective and sense of your body indescribably off. Sometimes the effect lasts just a few seconds, other times it lasts the entire rest of the day

For me the only "broken reality" aspect of popping in and out is if my digital of physical body isn't where I expect it. The feeling never lasts more than 3 seconds, and it's more jarring than anything. I wonder if it's an age thing. My first HMD was a Virtual Boy when I was still very young.
NO, NO, NO. This is not all data Facebook/Google has on me. It's way less.

What I don't get in all of this debate: People grant FB/Google/any other app access to their data and seriously expect that their data isn't harvested? IMHO, there really is zero surprise that Facebook has your call and SMS history, if you granted access to that. Or every single login timestamp.

What is way scarier is that the dump you can download is probably far from complete. My Facebook dump shows rather few items, because I'm not a heavy Facebook user. But I'm quite sure that they have A LOT more on me, because of friends uploading my phone number, profile pictures, meta data from the WhatsApp acquisition.

The big scary question is: How do you access the data in your shadow profile that they won't give to you? How do you even prove that they have more on you than they admit?

Edit: Same for Google. I don't use a Google account most of the time and I bet they STILL have my entire search history associated to some kind of shadow profile.
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Only selected cities :(
Thanks for the nice words: it is actually pretty tricky to get this right. What works on "paper" often feels very weird in reality. Restricting the navigation in this way allowed us to minimize the chance that you get lost in a weird pose and it also makes sure that the phones will always stay within a certain region of the screen.
Kind of amazing that the Rust blog, something relatively new, is the top domain of all time.
Yeah, but I find it kinda hard to keep up with their development speed. Every year or so, I find out about Google having introduced a new option which is on by default and that Google has started collecting data from me again.
No company survives forever...every company eventually declines, and then either shuts down or gets acquired. It's clear Facebook won't just disappear--its assets (data) are too valuable.

Intriguing questions to ask: what happens when Facebook does eventually decline? How much is Facebook's data worth? Who will ultimately acquire it? And perhaps more critically: what will their intentions be?

This is why Zuckerberg's opinions / testifying don't really matter. He's created a tool that's more powerful and more dangerous than humans have any business creating. As with any such tool, it will be used to wreak havoc sooner or later...even if he's an innocent, well-meaning guy, he will not always be the one in charge of this power.

I think of Facebook's power as similar to that of the atomic bomb. Yes it's a triumph of human ingenuity, and it can be used for good, but there's a catastrophic flip side.
These aren't "opinion" articles. Their findings are reasoned and presented like facts. If the NYT wrote "Quit eating chocolate, your health may depend on it", would you perceive it as an opinion, or advice based on facts/research?
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Cambridge Analytica CEO is filmed saying they would send "Ukrainian girls" around a political candidate's house to get them embroiled in a sex scandal - or set up a bribery situation to publish it on the internet. How they generate creative that they feed to third parties. How they use proton mail with a 2 hour self destruct read after-timer so nothing can be traced back to them.

https://businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-secretly-fil...

And this guy is sitting around defending them?

Is that it or is he just one of those people who have op-eds delivered to them so they "feed the bloodstream of the internet?"

What about the fact that UK citizens were working on American campaigns in violation of US federal law? What about the Canadian company doing the same?

I'm sorry, but no.

You don't get to wave your hands and say "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" after all this shit.
How would you know if a potential employer does google-fu on you?
At GitLab we're making the application ready for Kubernetes, we have not switched yet. It required us to untangle many parts. For example we used to store uploads on disk before moving them to object storage, now it goes directly to object storage. There where many interactions between our applications https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html#com... over disk or sockets that we need to clean up.

When its done we expect to be able to scale the different parts of our application independently. This also makes it easier to detect problems (why did Gitaly suddenly autoscale to twice the number of containers).
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One data point: I've wanted to but so far have not made much progress. I'd say my biggest impediment has been documentation: I can get it installed, but making it work seems to be beyond the scope of the documentation. I got closest once I found out about "kubespray" to install the cluster rather than using the official Kubernetes installation docs process.

I spent a couple weeks not quite full time going through tutorials, reading the documentation, reading blog posts and searching for solutions to the problems I was having. My biggest problem was with exposing the services "to the outside world". I got a cluster up quickly and could deploy example services to it, but unless I SSH port forwarded to the cluster members I couldn't access the services. I spent a lot of time trying to get various ingress configurations working but really couldn't find anything beyond an introductory level documentation to the various options.

Kubespray and one blog post I stumbled across got me most of the way there, but at that point I had well run out of time for the proof of concept and had to get back to other work.

My impression was that Kubernetes is targeted to the large enterprise where you're going to go all in with containers and can dedicate a month or two to coming up to speed. Many of the discussions I saw talked about or gave the impression of dozens of nodes and months of setup.

Other options I'll probably look at when I have time to look at it again: Deis https://deis.com/ , Dokku http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/ , Flynn https://flynn.io/ , LXC https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/introduction/ and (though I'd been trying to avoid it) Docker Swarm https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/
Redhat probably has the best production quality deployment for self hosted Kubernetes. They support running glusterfs: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/blob/master/i...

Personally I wouldn't do it unless you have a RedHat contract (or already have a team that manages glusterfs), but its worth looking at.
The downgrade by Moody's is why the stock is down as much as it is, imo, as it immediately impacts the discount rate (aka cost of capital) and makes it more expensive for TSLA to borrow money. The impact of the investigation on TSLA's future growth/financials doesn't seem quantifiable right now.
We know about GLTF but are not (yet) using it in production. Main reason for this is that our scene description is a bit more complex that the GLTF format currently allows.
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Let’s be honest. With the barrage of information (and sometimes ‘mis-information’) doing the rounds nowadays, you believed Email Marketing was dead & buried. Well, we have news for you.

https://www.engagebay.com/blog/heres-whats-working-email-mar...
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Something like this? - https://likenoise.com/
Mind sharing the excel?
What kind of noob "data consultant" must you be if you didn't know years ago you can opt-out of most of the google stuff? Google allows to deactivate/delete (we dont know if they do but at least its offered) most of the stuff he wrote about. Facebook is its own story, but then again..his own fault for using and pushing data up there
I don't remember where I heard/read it, but I always think about something someone said along the lines of "I want to be the person who creates a social media app, not the person using it every day"

I've found more and more time in the day the fewer social media accounts I have. I just wish the industry could step a little further away from LinkedIn. It's the only social media site I feel has any bearing on my career at the moment (I mean the only one employers ask about regularly).
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Permalinks is definitely something we want to add in the short run!
Except all the people whose careers are what they are today because of social media...
The point is, he failed to make any revisions. He was oddly disorganized. Even with quite a bit of coaching, he was unable to do what we needed.
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As ibn_ibid suggested, getting a translation of The Travels is really the best thing to do. It's a lovely read, with none of the archaic oddities of, say, more-or-less literal translations of Homer or older texts. I think that high quality is due to three things: an excellent translation by Mackintosh-Smith; the fact that the original material was written as reportage/prose, not poetry or correspondence; and that Ibn Battuta was just a damn good writer--Rusticello wrote like a paperback novelist forced to write nonfiction, and it showed.

Dunn's "The Adventures of Ibn Battuta" is also trenchant. But really start with The Travels.
Don't you think that's a bit over the top? So the license is unclear, which maybe means you want to be careful forking it and releasing an alternative version of some sort. But how many people do that? Using the software doesn't pose any risk that I can tell.
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> but a little top-down pressure can go a long way

"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The SRE Book teaches a lot of the lessons that this blog teaches.
https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
You better believe they're going to collect that user data though.
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I came here to ctrl+f "pgp" in the comments, but because he stored it on Drive.

Having your private key in a non-client-side-encrypted cloud is like keeping a vector representation of your hand signature on your website.
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I prefer Brewer's Yeast in a particular liquid form ;)

But I actually had to look up nutritional yeast as I hadn't heard of it here (Canada). It actually sounds like a promising supplement to my own diet. It seems like the only catch is that it doesn't produce B12 naturally, and I'll have to be sure to pick up the fortified version (unless they all are?)
Yes, very well put.
The problem with nail-biting is that it is mostly unconscious. To stop doing it you need to train yourself to be aware of the behaviour. I used this technique to stop nail-biting after 35 years...

Put one finger in your mouth. Bite down. Take the finger out, look at it and say out loud "I will not bite my nails". Repeat for each finger on both hands.

Repeat this process 2-3 times a day. After a day or so you will start to "catch yourself" when you start nail-biting. After a few more days you should find the nail-biting habit diminishes and then disappears altogether. If the habit starts to return after a few months (as can happen) then simply repeat the technique.
Take out an ad on your own name.
Every time I've shown people stuff like that, they shrugged: "so what ?". They. Don't. Care.

That's the problem, right here.

Not that entities are selling people's privacy. Bad guys have always been there, and will always be. But usually people want to act against them.

In this situation people don't want to. We got a very sudden outrage out of sheer media amplification effect. It will fade. And they will go back to trading what's important to what's convenient.
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Why dream of creating something you personally have no interest in using?
I just finished reading this last week. I highly recommend as well. Key take away, understand the habit loop, (cue, response, reward). To change your habit you need to know what the cue is, and watch out for it. When it happens, you need to replace the habit with a difference response that gives the reward. Part of figuring out your cue is looking at People around you, Emotional State, Location, Time, Immediately Preceding Action.
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> after my first week he lamented that I "didnt seem very social" on the internet.

Ew...
I don't know about clickbait, but The Guardian, NYT and Bloomberg seem to be going very heavy on the Facebook stories. Is it because negative press sells or do they have a vested interest in seeing Facebook fail (as in they hope readership will surge)? Could be both, I guess.
What kind of job was this for?
NIO, the self-driving car company is doing this. They did a pretty detailed interview on their use case which includes a 120 PB data lake, and Cassandra, Kafka, TensorFlow, HDFS. You can read here: https://portworx.com/architects-corner-kubernetes-satya-koma... . (Disclosure, I work for Portworx the solution they use for container storage, but hopefully the content speaks for itself).
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Yeah, but if you make this and Spotify decides to do the same, then it's time-wasting.
So I clicked on several of the Google links in the article to see what info they had on me, and all of the resulting pages prompted me to sign in to Google to see the info. (Which I did not then do.) So... they're only gathering this info on people who use Google services while signed in? It's not like you need to be signed in to use search or maps. I thought that this article would be about how Google tracks you without being signed in, and even if you clear your browser's cookies.
I was trying out the javascript example, but managed to get a case where there is a negative conclusion but this goes against the introduction where it says negative conclusions are always definite.

My multiset was:

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, j, abc, def, asd, asds, 3g46stb6vy6vsyosyvosfsdfsdsah, oooooooooooooooo

Then trying oooooooooooooooo a second time, the bloom filter correctly says it might be in the set. The cuckoo filter says it is not.

I assume this is just a javascript bug in implementation, because previously the filter said it might be in the set, actually adding it to the set then gave a false negative when trying it again.
That is indeed a diffuser umbrella :) If you count all color separably we currently have over 1500 phones in our catalog. We plan to add these to Hotspot and also make sure that new phones are available on the Hotspot website close after launch. We will probably announce new releases on our Facebook page.

Moving parts is something we have experience with but have not included in the current version.

1.5MB might indeed sound a lot if you compare it to a single image. On the other hand if you look at a regular 360 viewer this takes often about 10MB of data. Also we want the phones to look really (really) good. This means that we need to put quite a lot of detail into things like corners and buttons.
As 8ytecoder said, Cal Newport has never been wishy-washy on this topic (please correct me if I'm wrong). He's also been pretty clear in interviews that deep work is incredibly beneficial for some professions and less so for others. I know there are careers out there where having a social media presence is important (PR, marketing, etc) and others where it's not necessary and would be a hindrance to getting deep work done.
After France NYC might make it illegal to expect employees to email after hours
Yes, they still would in places like Manhattan and Tokyo, but you're right that they wouldn't be necessary in many other high but still not super high density places.

Even assuming 4 people to a sedan, the space needed for the engine and the safe following distance makes the density very low compared to a bus/train that is long and can have people standing packed in.

4 people to a sedan only gives you a factor of 4 improvement, which is just not enough for places like Manhattan or Tokyo. They would still need to build a dozen down from like 50.
Wow, you weren't kidding, that font is rough.
Exactly, it’s our age’s retelling of mythology.
Have you tried comparing it to the credit card? The size of these kinds of cards are pretty standard internationally.
It isn't about who broke it. But if there is a person on the team who continually breaks things, does not learn from their mistakes and repeats them, or is not truthful when they break things, the team should react appropriately.
I think the point is that network operators want to use QUIC to measure network segments and make routing decisions. They are not necessarily trying to improve QUIC performance.
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Wikipedia says that cats have more difficulty digesting plant foods than meat. But that's still a pretty broad generalization and I'm not convinced that there's enough research to make a categorical claim like that, though I'm sure it's true of some plants (I also see some articles saying it's true for some meats.)
Can you explain what would offer this to you: we are happy to learn and take this into consideration!
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