skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ownership -> All self-owned data can be removed from everywhere

> Decentralized -> And no one else can remove your data

How do you expect to be able to do that? Decentralization implies your are passing data to peers you do not control. They'll only remove data you ask them to if they are well behaved, but there is no guarantee of that.

It's like wanting to be able to delete emails that have already be sent,
The Right Not to Know: When Ignorance Is Bliss but Deadly
There is also a Javascript version of this at https://github.com/gimenete/dbdiff and a Go version at https://github.com/joncrlsn/pgdiff, each with varying degrees of completeness. As well as apgdiff (Java) https://github.com/fordfrog/apgdiff ( these tools have been tried many times, and I've been keeping track of them :D ), I'm really tired of writing db migrations. Will try this out!
Mark Zuckerberg finally breaks his silence on Cambridge Analytica scandal
zuckerberg is raised jewish don't throw around nazi facebook comparisons you're better than that
Metal in an unoxidized form, carbon and hydrgoen in nice forms known as "plastic", "paper", and "fossil fuels" are free energy. We don't consume the metal or the carbon/hydrogen, we consume the energy that has it in this nice usable form. More energy will get it back to that nice usuable form.

Incidinetally this is why I think Fusison/"Orders of magnitude better energy sources" (of which Fusion is the only viable one I'm aware of) are pretty much the most important thing for the overall continued stability of civilization.
It looks like Safari implements regular expressions slightly differently, and it leads to the parser behaving differently. Hope to be addressed by the end of the week.
Depends on what you're looking for. Advice on how to get motivated and inspired enough to put the work in, advice on how to hone your skills, or advice on sharing your work or getting it published?
no one cares sorry.
everyone knew what they were getting. you cant blame social media at all really. the internet in general is partisan. ppl flock to platforms that appeal to them. sorry its no highschool. you are no longer forced to hear views you oppose, that is the reality when your an adult. its a huge shame you all dont let it do. advertising in general is to appeal to people.
> People outside our bubble don't care

This time, it feels flipped. My Silicon Valley circles repeat that this will blow over in a week. Outside that bubble, wheels are turning for the first time (to my recollection).
Not having Facebook and not having a cellphone are two completely different things. If you don't have Facebook, you might miss out on some social stuff. Not having a cellphone is a bad idea, even just from a safety standpoint.

What if there is an incident and you need to call emergency services? Maybe you crash your car? Maybe you come across another crashed car, and can't contact emergency services because you don't have a cellphone?

I understand why you wouldn't want to carry around a cellphone all the time for privacy reasons (government tracking etc.), but why not get a $10 dumbphone and keep it turned off and in your backpack, or in your glovebox in your car? Nobody can track you if it's turned off.

I'm not sure about the USA, but at least in New Zealand, you'd only have to top up a few dollars every 6 months to keep your SIM active, and you don't need to register SIM cards in your name (although I know that other countries, like Australia, require this). Even without a SIM in your phone, you can still ring emergency services. There's no reason not to buy a $5 phone and keep it around just in case.
It's probably a good thing, at least on the Internet.
I don't see why AWS is alone in "Tier 1" on a list that claims to prioritize standard technology and outsourcing undifferentiated heavy lifting.

The post gives an example of switching from self-hosted MongoDB onto AWS DynamoDB. But AWS DynamoDB is proprietary technology, not standard. Amazon doesn't even claim that DynamoDB is standard; they argue that DynamoDB is the best in the world, worth the premium in price. It's not at all "undifferentiated heavy lifting."

It sounds like they made the right decision with DynamoDB, but they did it by violating the pillars of their own philosophy, adopting a differentiated proprietary solution for their scalability problems.
Nothing.

I hate working and would do nothing except read books, exercise, and watch tv until I died. I took 2 years off in my 20s to do this and it was heaven.

Now I have a chronic illness and have to work for the insurance. At some point I’ll be fed up with it, take whatever money I’ve saved up and just live until it runs out.
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Google did work that way. Page rank was used for ranking, which is fine. Page rank did not override the search query, which is what it now does.

Our complaint is that the results we get from our queries simply do not match the queries we are making.
In the span of about 3 sentences this article goes from giving a perfect example the dangers of social justice to then saying how important it is.

" The issue was perfectly tailored to resonate with Tumblr’s culture of social justice, and it worked. The vast majority of reblogs of the original post do not include any correction or further information.

Again, don’t get me wrong: anger is important. It’s a necessary part of social justice. "
We used apgdiff for automated schema diff generation. 2.4 was released many years ago and lacks compatibility with PG 10. Looking for alternatives. Thanks for the mentions.

Edit - Migra does not compare pgdump outputs.
Thanks! Much appreciated response. +1
Hypnagogia
Paxos and RAFT aren't generally considered to be PoS systems. I can see that there are some similarities but saying "PoS is how Paxos and RAFT work" isn't correct by the usual meaning of PoS.
Counter-point, I've flat out said I have an offer at a company that's offering me double the salary you are, can you offer me something including an in name only title increase and been told no. Companies only see short term, not long term. There is also no guarantee of company loyalty. If the street doesn't go both ways which should the impetus always be on the employee to remain loyal. It's a business contract that should benefit both parties. I've increase my pay to over 5 times what I was making just 5 years ago by changing jobs. Should I feel bad about that? I'd love a company that paid me well and treated the relationship like a two way street. In fact any time I've left it's when the company lost respect for my work, not the work I've put in for the company. I've only been fired 1 time in my life and it was odious and not due to my performance but due to me not accepting public scoldings for things that I had literally no ability to control after a management change.
Of course you need to report them. If you used AMZN stock to buy bubble gum or shoes, you'd have to report it too. Just because it is named crypto "currency" doesn't actually make it a currency...
More energy will get it back to that nice usuable form.

Um yeah, but until we have fusion which isn’t anytime soon, you’re proposing that we keep transforming energy, with losses at each step. In reality, where we have to live, and our energy isn’t coming from hypothetical sources, reconstituting plastic and reversing metal oxidation makes no sense at all.
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Another ex-FB employee here. I can't believe this is even a thing people are wondering about.
Of course not the average employee can't access user data, it's an immediate firing offense.
Although you're going to get down-voted, that's an actual problem. We don't know the full state of discourse before interference, during interference, or currently so it's a bit hard for anyone to say 'this is specifically what they changed'.

It's a bit analogous to having a server that lots of people access. Then you notice that a bunch of people have been accessing it with write permissions that weren't supposed to write to it, but the data's totally disorganized, you don't have a backup to compare it to, and reconstructing the changes they made is a pain.

That being said, there's been quite a bit of individual changes identified at this time by going back and looking which are evidence that changes were made, but as far as how any of the changes add up to significant functional differences, we don't know.
Yep - as always in security, it's important to know who your adversary is.

If your adversary is the NSA(/GRU/Mossad/etc) - you're fucked. Throw away all your electronic devices, torch your house, and hope you make it to Belize before they shut the borders to you.

If your adversary is Law Enforcement, they'll get cell tower data (quite likely without a warrant by just asking), and they'll then mislead a court and jury about how accurate that data is: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-your-cell-phon...

This link: http://urgentcomm.com/psap/different-strokes says that since '05 wireless carriers in The US have been required to do better than just "which cell tower you're connected to", but for some percentage of connections they're required to provide 50 or 150m location accuracy - which they can apparently do using three cell towers and triangulation. Since they're happy to hand over cell tower data to law enforcement when asked (or possibly when asked with a warrant) - I wouldn't bet against then handing this E911 Phase 2 level of location accuracy over.

Somewhat more worryingly... The cell providers seem to be happily monetising that data too:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/15/mobile-phone-companies-app...
https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/9/4187654/how-carriers-sell-...

Now out of the four big technology companies - two of them own a mobile OS and so can do whatever-the-fuck they want with your phone if you're "in their camp" and of the remaining two, one of them actually sells you stuff to make a living, the other makes their money by surveilling you.

With Facebook's warchest - what do you reckon the chances are of them _not_ buying cellphone location data on the open market to add to their advertising-marketing machine?

I'm not saying I know they are - but I do know that the data about location down to perhaps 50m accuracy or less is legally required to be available to the cell operators - and they've been caught in the past selling that data - and Facebook have _very_ deep pockets to pay for data to match against theirs. (And there is almost _zero_ chance that whatever the cell companies might to to "anonymise" that cell location data, Facebook wouldn't be able to de-anonymise it by correlating to to other data they collect.)

But yeah, having your phone use a VPN no doubt helps...
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Try it here: https://wordbin.netlify.com/
A vague article with the usual unnamed sources. Why is this here again?
Imagine being the guy trying to strap in a bear.

"Are you sure it's too drugged to move?"

"Yes"

"Its claw twitched... its humongous claw twitched."

"That's fine. Pick her up and strap her in."
You know, that is not true.

Now, in your favor, they have not cared, despite the majority of this info being old, known.

Context matters.

This last election was very highly controversial. I get downvotes for more commentary, and I know why too.

It's OK, but it does make this discussion a bit harder.

Let's just say people have seen more about the ugly parts of politics than usual. The choices they had and why are troublesome too.

The parties both want to avoid accounting for their abuses, and or just working realities, when known are not popular, too.

Given things like this in play, and strong incentives for many "to put blame anywhere else", or onto "those other people", the conditions needed for this information to matter are ripe!

Should be no real surprise.

Many, in my circles, have only casual understanding of the data issues. They appreciate the good, and as long as they get a lot of value out of the products, they will push cares away.

Most are asking great questions, and they are weighing the info they get, trying to understand.

It's more than I have ever seen, despite my own efforts to inform earlier.

What is most disturbing, to me, isn't the interest. That discussion should have happened years ago. "You are the product" means a lot more than many know, and it's not all bad too.

Many will evaluate all of this and make different choices. FB won't be the same for them. FB won't die either, but like the kids did, people will move on, seek alternatives and more agency as to what happens.

Good.

The disturbing thing is alphas, influencers linking all of this to every bad, deep state, nefarious actor, prediction of doom they can.

Not good.
It's strange, almost everyone I know (roommates, coworkers, random people on the street) has an iPhone X if they're an Apple fan. Goes to show how much of a bubble I live in in Silicon Valley.
I'm not sure it's fortunate coincidence, seems like Apple chose this path. As for greed, well, they're a corporation. That's a given. They're driven to profit by their very nature. If you need a phone you choose one, or you build one yourself.
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Maybe don't use them then?
It's totally anecdotal but I asked a few people about this and everyone had never heard, or seemed particular interested in hearing about Cambridge Analytica.

I mentioned the whole thing about phone contacts and the response was basically "Wow, sucks to be them I guess".

I wonder if it clicked that it probably affects them too.
This assumes that the middle manager knows what they are doing. Sadly in my case I haven't been lucky enough to get someone who understands the job, nevermind the process and politics which has just resulted in a lot of firefighting, inconsistent policies, and then being blamed when we don't know what the policies actually are. No matter where you are having the right people for the actual problems seems to be the correct plan of action.
It might be a bubble. In the DC area for ages it was blackberry, then iPhone, and now I see more high end androids, particularly among young professionals.
It's the reality of testing. You have no idea how many animals died to produce every drug you've ever taken:

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1676-5-horrifyin...
Yes I believe it does, at least to stay accurate. The idea is it is used as navigation and to show location aware services indoor which anyway requires you to have your phone out. Any moment you pull it out it will sync your position.

In addition we use the system to make smarter offices [0]. The lighting grid is used to track where employees are, and will be using ML. All to reduce the CO2 footprint by smartly heating only the right areas of a building at the right times, and do the same with airconditioning, lights, etc. see link below.

[0] http://www.lighting.philips.com/main/cases/cases/office/edge
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apologies for being a bit sloppy here
I have wondered about the mining rule, that coins are treated as income at the time they are mined. If I have a chicken and it lays an egg, is that a taxable event? If I have a 3D printer machine and it produces a widget, is that taxable also? From my understanding those are not taxable events even though the egg and widget have known market values at the time produced; only when you sell the egg or widget do have ordinary income tax. Even though cryptocurrency is property like the egg or widget, it is not treated the same way when mined. If I understand correctly, mined crypto is double taxed: once when mined and again when you sell/exchange it.
Go bears! ;)
I'd love to learn more about what consumer products people are interested in. I'm always looking for consumer trends and new product ideas. I analyze a lot of products for my Amazon business especially now that I've started getting into manufacturing my own products, so I could definitely use a service that can help gauge consumer interest in social media and quantify it.
It does not highlight the dangers of social justice. It highlights the danger of reblogging without fact-checking. You seem to equate "reblogging/sharing without fact checking" with "social-justice".
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TensorFlow for Raspberry Pi
The probability of getting cancer over a lifetime is more like 40%. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics
Some people with cancer die quickly, but most live with it for years of expensive treatments.
I still remember the first Snowden, who revealed to a shocked world that the NSA was involved in signals intelligence. I suspect that the next Snowden will reveal to a shocked world that 3rd party databases have a tendency to leak into other 3rd party databases.
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Thanks for that! That's a great video!
Bite me.
What if you are just out for a run?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=renTN4IlSjQ
What's the typical definition? With data races, you can access array values out-of-bounds, which seems like the most fundamental thing you'd want protection from in a memory safe language.
You only get to treat a corporate action as a non-taxable event if the event meets certain requirements and follows certain forms. As cryptocoins aren't actually shares in a corporation, I don't think you're going to get a non-taxable conversion.
Redux in a single function with RxJS
That's right, migra does not compare dump outputs.

I've found that the best parser of PostgreSQL dump files is PostgreSQL, and don't want to reimplement that.

Hence, migra works directly on database connections. If you have a dump file you want to compare, you can just create a temporary database and load the dump into that first. There's an example in the docs of how to do this easily.
With the exception of Jill Stein, who has been targeted? As far as I'm aware, the accusations against the Green party's candidate were credible. She also, frankly, is not really left of Clinton and has a number of ideas that are more "fringe nutters" and less politics.
https://www.google.com/ads/elections/

https://www.google.com/ads/elections/campaign-playbook/mobil...
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https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted...

(lest the implication be misunderstood, it is that "hiding web pages" is a non-story, unless i have missed the authors point. online ads for candidates are still not regulated in the same way as similar ads on "traditional" broadcast media such as TV, radio, cable, satellite. google, twitter, etc. are still open for business.)
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How about a YC startup around this? I'm probably not qualified to work on this problem but have been thinking about it a lot. "One man's trash is another man's treasure"?

I would think the waste management companies have this on lockdown but maybe I'm mistaken.

Certainly seems worth doing and there seem to be profits possible in it (not to mention possible social and environmental benefits).
"And as a hobby dieter & big loser" - I love this.
> Another ex-FB employee here. I can't believe this is even a thing people are wondering about. Of course not the average employee can't access user data, it's an immediate firing offense.

Ironically, you're undermining your own point. The fact that they would be fired afterwards in no way contradicts the notion that they could access such data, and in fact suggests they can (hence the firing policy).
I have a difficult time coming up with a better solution than one: Facebook must be broken up under anti-trust law. Social network share is as dangerous as, if not more dangerous than, market share.
Certainly, right now we really are consuming that free energy, as OP suggested. It's not coming back.

But OP's point holds, all we are consuming is free energy (in the form of oil deposits, ore deposits, etc). And helium (in the form of gas, which escapes the atmosphere). Nothing else.
Does trust mean automatically taking for granted the truth of anonymous statements you read online?

If so that trust never should have existed in the first place, and it should be gone forever.
They weren’t helpless, they were complicit, at least if early reports are still accurate that Facebook (meaning the Facebook employees who were actually assisting CA) knew what CA was doing while they advised CA on maximizing their data haul via the same techniques the Obama campaign had used in 2012 that had never been disabled. Facebook looks amoral and negligent in this story: All they cared about was making money by selling more data to a client with bottomless pockets. CA was using the data to maximize the effectiveness of their ratfucking operation, that depended upon understanding how Facebook’s newsfeed algorithms worked.
no, that is not really what happened in 30s germany. You had a country in deep economical crisis, and huge political fight for power. Smart people were far from passive, on the contrary they took sides.
Whataboutism? There are bad posts on both sides?
Good point we shouldn't let Zuck et al use fiduciary as a scapegoat.
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity
I'm old and deal with the health "care" system more than anyone else here. What I've learned:
1) You are responsible for your own health. Eat less, eat better, and exercise more. Get enough sleep. Don't over worry. Don't drink too much. Don't touch recreational drugs. Your own health must be your number one priority. Teach your children this, too.
2) ACA, for whatever problems it caused, will save many of us from bankruptcy. "Us" being everyone who is or wants to be a founder.
3) The biggest problem with health cost is lack of transparency. If I could shop around, even a little, I could save tens of thousands of dollars a year. But it's hard to negotiate for price when nobody knows what anything really costs, or what you actually get for that cost; even the people selling it.
5) Every day you are in good health is a good day. Thank God, nature, or other deity(s) of your choice for your lack of health problems.
On locations: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT207056 (it is enabled by default)

On iMessage, the encryption keys are managed and accessible by Apple. Steve Gibson makes regular references in his podcast, like this episode: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-574.htm
Are you sure they are not? We only knew for sure Facebook was once there was a whistle blower.
Lets not forget another >$1B EU fine which they still didnt pay to this day (neither did Microsoft).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-06/intel-get...
I would buy a cheap condo here in Singapore. Rent it out and become a digital nomad.
Jimmy Dore is the only one I'm familiar with.
Back in the olden days, I was actually paid to work on a couple of HyperCard applications. One that sticks out in my mind was training material for using the university's astronomical observatory. My job was to write a plugin to show an actual star field animation so that the students could practice finding objects in the classroom before they got to try on the real equipment. The HyperCard stack had a whole interactive simulation where you could walk into different rooms, see the control panels, click on buttons and activate knobs, etc.

I'd have a hard time thinking of anything current that's general purpose and would be able to do something of that scope. Probably Flash would be the thing you would use, but without Flash I'm not sure. The nice thing about HyperCard was that the vast majority of the work could be done by people who weren't programmers. Even for my bit, I was still a student and it wasn't really that difficult to write the plugin (stupid Mac Pascal compiler bugs aside... :-P).
> Whatever Google does. I don't know the details.

Oh come on. You admit having no idea what Google does either, but surely that must be better than Facebook because you said so, until an FB insider replied and brought down your narrative.

Is it that hard to say "ok well, I stand corrected then" instead ?
Calling anyone on the left with reservations/questions about Clinton a Bernie Bro doesn’t ring a bell?
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