skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes network effect is pretty strong. BUT it is not getting stronger anymore, at least in the world I live in.

I mean I deactictivated FB long ago. So did most of my friends (from my school, from college, from my past companies etc. ) Even those who still have accounts never post anything. They don't even update their current city/companies etc.

Although I also noticed a trend of older people joining FB and being fairly active on it. But overall FB is definitely losing its appeal.

Sadly, people have ditched FB in favor of Whatsapp which belongs to FB.
Belle du Jour made £300/hr. I remember her doing a Q&A for readers of the Sunday Times (for US people: an influential conservative newspaper in the UK). All anyone cared about was that she paid her taxes.
You have to give Apple credit that they showed some restraint and didn't just add all the features to their new file system that they found in a table on some Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
A stitch in time, saves `kill -9`
I know of an accident where someone overran a cardboard container used to package washing machines. He thought it was empty. Unfortunately it was not. Some truck lost part of its load.

I think its safe to break always when encountering an ambiguous situation.
> One of the signals they were getting from that study was suicide rate. I'm not certain how it was measured; I don't care. I saw that it was measured and decided that it was not a place I could stand to work.

Where did you see that suicide rate was measured? Did you work at Facebook?
Global internet to ships using shortwave mesh radio network
How do you delete data from backups written to persistent media?

When having CQRS/ES architecture (immutable events), how do you delete that data where by definition events can't be modified/deleted.

Just two examples, but there is much more.
And we can't do shit about Trump and his encounters with sex workers.

Anyways, does anyone know if blockchaim based forums like steemit are affected by FOSTA?
Would you hire someone for a security position that chose to do an autoblitz by logging into their email account on LinkedIn?
All of them helped by compention own mistakes.

Excel started on Mac and as ported to Windows afterwards.

Visicalc was never ported to Windows, while Lotus never managed the transition in a good way.

WordPerfect was the king of wordprocessors in text based OSes, took too long to accept the world had gone GUI and was quite arrogant to their customers. There is even a book about its downfall, " Almost Perfect".

Sometimes Microsoft does not need to make too much effort, when their competition is good killing their own jewels.
That might not be so analogous. Does South Korea actually operate any businesses in North Korea?

(Aside: I'm currently a legal resident of the Republic of Korea.)
I run my own web server and email server for my law firm. I'm the only one with credentials to log in (ash), and probably the only one who would even know how to do it, and possibly the only one who knows we have servers.

And I still run w first thing almost every time out of habit.

What am I looking for? A session I accidentally left open somewhere else? Unauthorized access? A friend? Dunno...
> Are they? I was under the impression that they mostly work on referral fees/commission.

I like the idea of a travel agent and have tried many times, also for company travel, tried them; I have never had quotes less than 2x higher than finding myself. And others have similar results. Experiences may differ but this is what we generally find in NL / UK.
I guess there is nothing that restricts the amount of information you can send. Why not just document everything and refer to that instead? Is there anything in GDPR that states you need to give a specific answer tailored to the individual customer?
>It's celebrities that travel nearly most days of the years. Every place that's always in the news for something terrible is probably a destination at somepoint.

Given that market, why not charge for MinimalBook as a premium experience instead of postulating an ill-defined “marketplace”?
> There is something I find particularly revolting about sexual exploitation, having both your dignity and your agency taken from you.

To me, this sounds like the classic moral concerns one would think of regarding the legality of prostitution.
It's not just about viral videos.
People in general is being educated to trade being with possessing in the pursuit of an immediate short time satisfaction (which is sad because someone could take away what you have but not what you are). So it makes perfectly sense to me that driving people into sadness, paranoia etc. in many ways (news, music, movies etc.) could also be not just exploited but willingly planned for business reasons. This goes beyond the obvious "someone could invade the country -> buy more weapons" or "the big one quake/tsunami/plague etc. is coming soon -> amass food and stuff"; if people is being driven into thinking their life is miserable or they're in danger, most of them will seek immediate gratification by buying more of this or that.
It doesn't get you anywhere to compare numbers between research and industry because ITER won't even generate electricity to the grid.

I'm merely saying that if we have $20 billion laying around you can imagine the practical route of powering the Bay Area completely on renewables right now.

How many $20 billion experiments are we away from fusion reaching those numbers?

And also, why not expand Fission production. We have 5000 years of global energy powering Uranium fuel supply in the oceans. Power everything with nuclear and you have a cool 1000-2000 years of no scarcity to figure out Fusion.
I wonder why they bought volvo's when they don't wanted to use there radar system or were not able to use the radar system. And is it that easy to disable such an important feature which Volvo brag about ?
“Using a modified 3-D printer, they injected threads of water into silicone oil — sculpting tubes made of one liquid within another liquid.”

From the article, in case anyone’s curious how 3D printing of liquids works.
There's so many things that can change your fingerprint that their methods are useless, unless you continue to use their products willingly and don't block their scripts. Without your willful participation, they are quite helpless.
My father's the same. He'll walk along through town minding his own business, and then see someone he thinks is a Muslim. That's when the shouting begins.
:( Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,357,338 tested so far.
If you have a $100k/year take home between you and a significant other, and you have a 50%+ savings rate which you invest, not very long at all. If you have a 5% savings rate, on the other hand, it will take a very long time.

Being frugal is incredibly helpful for all but the richest among us, and I'm amazed that people are so critical of it. I see so many people who would be so much better off than they are if they just didn't buy so much unnecessary shit.
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>So if the tech can pass a human driving test, is that ok?

That would be dumb, right?

There should be separate tests designed for a self driving vehicle and every single one of the SDV should pass the tests consistently before being put on road...

Until such laws and tests are devised, the all testing of SDVs on real roads should be suspended..
You started to see smog equipment in '75 but initially not everyone used catalytic converters. Some, like BMW and Mazda, used thermal reactors. Leaded fuel was common enough that part of the smog check was to ensure that a leaded nozzle couldn't fit.
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The regulation doesn't specify how a Subject Access Request is delivered, they encourage you to send it in writing, but it doesn't have to be.

As a business, you cannot dictate how or where your customers/employees submit a SAR, so you need to be ready to pick up on the fact that it could be asked anywhere.

So it is actually worse, because you need to train all staff up to recognise a SAR in all areas that you communicate with customers.
The autonomous vehicle era is in same stage which once passenger planes were in
A Crude Personal Package Manager
"Dumb fucks", part deux.

Yes, we will never learn.
Fear of uncertainty makes sense and something I haven't thought about too much in this project. Sad that the modern net has created such a 'gotchya' impression. I would think that this comes from everyone promising free but actually desperately looking for revenue somewhere.

I feel like this is solvable with smart policies and good institutional culture. One thought that I had was that a user commits to depositing say $2 to use for micro payments for the month, but doesn't actually get charged until the end of the month. This delays the pain point of spending money (thereby reducing it) but also may minimize the sensation of risks.
I wondered about that.

Facebook know what I visit a site with an embedded tracker. This isn't in my data dump, but things like "interest in X" are. Do they really use the tracking to influence those scores, then throw away the data?
Nah, people actually accommodate to being made separate and vulnerable pretty quickly. And they do it by forming new structures. This has been in the "population management" playbook for millennia: Assyria's famous for (among other things) breaking up foreign populations within its empire's borders and relocating them into a sort of "melting pot" in order to break down local power structures and foreign nationalistic identity and promote the formation of an Assyrian identity instead.
That's a good point. And it avoids general outrage against big entities or concepts, instead people just fight each other more.
Errr... serverless IS containers at least in the case of AWS.

Kinda weird to be saying “container technology will wipe out ....... container technology!”
This strategy doesn't work in the long run. The ban hammer came down swift on purpose. Only a fraction of Sugar Daddy's users will find their way to Sugar Baby and when the hammer comes down there as well, only a fraction of the community will move to the next one.

Someone on HN has a link to a real nice data guy that is hosting JSON of every Reddit (and HN!) comment ever made (or retrievable at least). If it was important enough to you, you could verify this with the recent fatpeoplehate fiasco.
What's the benefit to Facebook for catering to such people? Presumably, advertisers can only sell cars to people that can afford cars. Or is this where Cambridge Analytica comes in? Then the equation stops being about selling things and becomes selling consensus. Maybe that was the plan all along.
Why do they have to copy and paste? Why couldn’t they make a self service tool where they login and get all documentation that is required by law? The law says that you have the right to information, but does it say you have the right to a human responding with only the requested information?
You are not expected to delete data from backups, but you will probably want to put something in place where you ask for consent to store their name or something so that you can remove them again if you ever restore from a backup.
nobody cares because people do not have time or will or ability to properly evalute the implications and cost. the only thing i can see that could do something if there is some sort of regulation, without it facebook will be facebook and this is only the cost of the business.
Please tell me more about these illuminati thinkers and their strain of thought
Yeh, this is one of the reasons network effects are so powerful and so effective market capture. Anybody who wants to push against that is going to have to spend a lot of time and resource getting enough users to create even an echo of a network effect and overcome those individual insecurities that you mention.
If you’ve got it, flaw-nt it: flawed medieval manuscripts
I share your viewpoint and am currently thinking through a similiar small-scale deployment. How do you handle logging? For single boxes I'd just use logwatch and friends, but for aggregating log output (both system/application logs) from a small-ish Consul cluster I feel the options are complete overkill. I've had a look at ELK, time-series backed stuff (e.g. Prometheus), but all I really want is log aggregation with search capability and optionally Regexp-based alerting.

It seems to me Logstash provides what I want, but I sure as hell won't run 3 JVMs and a Redis instance to aggregate logs.

tl;dr How to handle log aggregation within a small-scale cluster without losing your sanity?
The easy part is providing the information about how the data is used because it's do once, reuse always. Just refer to a document.

The hard part is the right to be forgotten which requires the company to remove all information that pertains to a person. The tech stack still has to implement some stuff here in order to reduce costs and make it easier.

Having to contact your database administrator because you can't delete something without leaving dangling information all over is bad tech implementation which will probably require a huge rework for some companies.

I wonder how you can send the information to the client. If you use GMail then GMail will also know the personal information (they used to read your emails.. good stuff).
> Now Facebook is finally dying…

Doubtful. Facebook is not just facebook.com, it's the whole package of FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. People may uninstall the mobile app and limit their Facebook access to their laptops or desktop computers (that's a popular response among my colleagues), but I don't even know anyone who has actually deleted their account — aside from the folk who never had one, like me.

I also get the impression that usage of Facebook and related services differs greatly from country to country, and from demographic to demographic. This article¹ from 2014 on WhatsApp usage isn't joking; In countries like mine (the Netherlands) not using Facebook-owned WhatsApp (like me) is rather exceptional. If I had kids they would miss out on basically everything (playdates, birthday parties, changes in schedule for sports/scouts/etc.; not to mention becoming social recluses because all their peers (or their parents when they are younger) are on Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp) if I kept refusing to use Facebook's offerings.

Facebook is not going anywhere soon (although I wish it was).

1: https://www.wired.com/2014/02/whatsapp-rules-rest-world/
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Smartphones are an expensive luxury, not a necessity. I think the expectation is that people on the public dole should be trying to save as much as possible and try to get off of welfare.
This is totally reasonable. I feel like "Step One: Eye Contact" was a very, very good starting point on a journey for me.

You may find adhering to it confidence-building in situ long enough to develop more personalized (to you) skills.
iOS camera QR code URL parser bug
that's an even older people problem.

as a side note, the swiss banks did a massive job during WW2 hiding the identities of jewish customers who moved their wealth across the border. FATCA completely destroyed these secrecy laws.
There is more to it than that. And what's more, knowing things theoretically is very different that having to take a decision while you are exhausted, trying to take a decision before a big deadline, in the commute between work and the family, while your balance sheet is worrying you and you have social pressure from your workers, investors and colleagues. Also knowing they all will be affected by whatever you choose to do in many different ways, short and long term.

That's why living the experience is important. It gives you perspective on the decision process, which is more than just numbers.
A practical small sized fusor is a fantasy at this point. The only reaction that stands any chance to break even is the Deuterium-Tritium fusion, which generates one neutron for each tritium atom fused. Since tritium is not found in nature and has a 12 years half life, it needs to be produced by capturing the free neutron. The classic proposal is to line the reactor with a thick blanket of molten or ceramic lithium that will breed a tritium atom for each captured neutron.

This whole design is purely speculative, there is no practical instance of this process at industrial scale and there are significant doubts tritium self-sufficiency is even attainable -the neutron capture and tritium recovery efficiency must be close to 100% or you need a large ratio of neutron multiplication that brings its own problems of nuclear waste and contamination. Tritium is a particularly hazard with the nasty habit of replacing hidrogen in living tissue, seeping out of the tinniest pores and embrittling the reactor vessel and ducts.

Assuming all these problems are solved (which are themselves already researched for decades and worthy of 100s of patents), you will still end-up with a factory sized tritium production facility, not something container sized. BTW, did I mention tritium is the key ingredient for moving from clasic fission nukes to thermonuclear weapons? (never mention the classic proliferation appeal of any environment with plenty of neutrons)

And this is just one subsistem, one problem to solve out of a vast number. But hey, they've got a patent.
Also: https://github.com/superduper/BrightnessMenulet
>>having a second system running that can't coordinate with the self-driving system would likely make the combined system less safe.

I think this case clearly demonstrates otherwise. Think of the factory fitted as fail-safe - if their own autonomous tech fails(like it did here) you have the one last system that will prevent collision(and it looks almost certain that it would have done that here).
Nope. You do not require that you only use software you compile yourself. Software that only uses local storage, for obvious reasons, does not need that.

That's why I'm saying that you only need to be watch out for cloud software. Local contact storage is of course fine.

It's just that neither android nor Apple/ios has that.
The founder (Durov) is a Russian in exile, fighting Putin's attempts to control the encryption keys. Secret chats are not affected, but cloud chats would be. Durov has stated he would rather see Telegram banned in Russia than give in, but the world will know in 2 weeks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/telegram-...
The difference is a military contractor built military grade tools for running an information operation and deployed those tools on the general public. That is new, and not a concept I can recall reading about in popular media coverage of online privacy. Edit: Even at this point, we're not seeing a lot of the news coverage focus in on this element of the story.
As opposed to what, more expensive Ubiquiti hardware that uses the same processors and radios?
I have some possible evidence to this theory.

At around x-mass / new year, Facebook flashed a message on my wall which said "in 2017, you received 0 birthday wishes". (Screenshot reported by others https://goo.gl/images/YWfsqb).

I thought it was amusing since it sounded like a bug, it looked like the engineer forgot to account for the special case where wishes == 0. However, putting your comment into perspective, I now think it was most likely a well-calculated tactic, perhaps generated by an AI as you suggested and I guess it wouldn't be shown unless it was A/B tested.

Interestingly, the message was shown around xmass / new year, where people tend to be more vulnerable to suicide / self harm.
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Are there any online tools or portals you would recommend to improve someone's presentation skills? Any specific courses? And what are their drawbacks?

Context: I often see developers who are extremely skilled give poor presentations. These performances seem to ruin an otherwise stellar content.
Although there are many companies who do offline (in person, 1 to n) training, it would be great to have your input on tools which achieve the same or better, but online. Thanks!
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Interesting. Is it required to delete data from persistent data immediately or is it sufficient to retain the $to_be_deleted_user_id for preprocessing when restoring a backup?

Same for event processing, can we get by with a preprocessing step that filters out data when reprocessing the event list?
What if you are servicing non-EU citizens in EU countries? Or EU citizens in non-EU countries?

An EU citizen buying a product in the US, while in the US, doesn’t pay EU VAT on that product. So it follows that they also wouldn’t be “protected” by European law, despite the color of their passport. US citizens aren’t protected by HIPAA when getting medical care in Britain or France.

Further irony is that many Europeans complain about US “imperialism” in areas such as foreign policy and intellectual property, yet get positively ecstatic over the idea of the EU claiming jurisdiction over companies or users that aren’t in the EU.

Being an EU citizen in the United States using an American product doesn’t make that American product subject to EU law — it doesn’t matter how bad people want to believe that is so.

When in a country, you are subject to that countries laws; you don’t get to bring your home country’s laws with you — except under treaty agreements.
this is a closely watched, public company with a market cap of $722bn. An optimistic analyst report is not the same as some garbage ICO
Yep which makes sense for play store etc., except samsung pre-installs the facebook app in this way. I would be surprised if facebook does pay samsung nothing for this. Similar how google pays mozilla to keep google as the default search engine.
Don't forget new cars, especially financed with debt.
The LF Deep Learning Foundation
The article says

>If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system that size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so.

I feel completely justified in my pointing out the consequences of that statement.

Based on your reply, it might as well have said, "at this rate by the time someone born today is in college, their watches will have six or eight fusion reactors each, depending on whether they are also using it for personal trasportation."

In other words, pixie dust. Don't blame me for having reading comprehension :)
My theory: the NeXT developers who were around for osx v10.0 and around then have all retired.
Ohh this Is why they have no customer support for their products.

We are the product.
On my personal dedicated server, I don't have any kind of "modern" things, I do everything the old way, so I do log manually. It's a feature, it's a way for me to learn old-school sysadmin (and I have so little things on here anyway automation is not needed).

For my startup, I often run bash on Heroku because I do migrations manually (again, it's a feature, I'm too inexperienced to have automated migrations that work everytime, I prefer to be already on it if it breaks). Sometime when something breaks I'll also poke around the filesystem (which is a copy, so no fear to break anything).

Basically, I'd say the smaller your team, your uptime requirements and your traffic is, the less you need automation, and the more you are susceptible to login directly to a box (I combine all of that: team of 1, no uptime requirement, not enough traffic to even max the most basic server).
That is such a relief. My mice have got much older these last 4 months and several are demented