skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Letting people have sex without facing repercussions is seen as a negative by those of a strong (social) conservative mindset

They don't want to prevent abortions to stop killing babies, they are more concerned about making sure the new mother suffers the result of sex. Reducing aid to new mothers and post-birth babies is a pretty good indicator of this
I wonder how confident Thiel was of a Trump presidency back in May 2016, when he started being open about his support for Trump. Perhaps he was operating with more knowledge than available to the general public and national pollsters? I wonder how involved he was with CA for the purpose of the election. His $1.25 million donation in October 2016 seems even more interesting in light of all this.

I took out a bet on Trump when Thiel became open with his support. It was driven by my belief that he was operating with deeper knowledge about the state of the nation precisely due to his association with Palantir (mostly) and Facebook. I feel dirty about winning that one.
JavaScript! /s
OP's use case for Google Docs seems to be editing. Encrypting your document would mean that you wouldn't be able to edit it using Google Docs.
I'm pretty sure you also erased all the 2000000 backups that fb makes every minute
As much as someone can ditch Gmail for a POP3 account at some other email provider, someone can just as easily not use Facebook and communicate with people through email, SMS, iMessage, etc.

I do have to store my email and work documents on Google as it's the platform my employer uses.
why go through all that? who would go through all that? making your own life more difficult in spite of a company? it's not sustainable

note: I know that some people actually would. but philosophically speaking I just don't get it, it's almost like its missing some kind of deeper point.
You can already do that with Pascal since it supports unified memory you have an address space of 49bits.

Now it’s even faster since you won’t have to fetch pages from system memory or worse.

But this isn’t new NVLINK supported memory unification of this sort since it’s introduciton but never in this scale.

I’m pretty sure that if their numbers to be believed they have just made the worlds “fastest” single switched fabric.
I find that I will be making a change, notice a refactoring, and then get lost in the rabbit hole. I try to keep a pad of paper by me at all times now, and if I notice something, then I will make note of it, but keep moving with what I was doing. Then after I'm done, I can revisit the notes that are on my paper. Right now, a lot of those become backlog techdebt items that will get fixed in the future.
Good.

Experiments that do not significantly disadvantage or put at risk the candidate are morally fine in my opinion, and there is potentially significant upsides to everyone from doing them on a huge scale.

Example: A/B testing the color of the logo on my website is doing an experiment on the hundreds of thousands of visitors my site gets. It helps inform my design, but visitors are unaware they are part of an experiment.
I'd be quite interested in a script that deletes "everything before X".

I really haven't used FB much over the last few years, but there's plenty of embarrassing high school posts/comments I'd like to remove without purging everything. Doing it by hand isn't really feasible (we're talking a few thousand items here).
Where the heck did you get 100 million? By all accounts I've seen it should be far less than that.
And at the same time, it tries to invalidate the point of view being expressed. They don't want the government over regulating their business. Something that many, even in this forum agree with. But only in their own area of expertise.

Regulation for thee but not for me.
It's been a while since I was a student, but assuming that schools' attitude towards technology is still the same you'd probably get detention and your school-issued Chromebook confiscated if you tried to enable developer mode.
The Facebook Privacy Setting That Doesn't Do Anything at All
did they have foreign nationals advising their campaign? because using facebook APIs is not the issue. breaking federal election law is.
The standard is called eSIM, and it is in at least one phone.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16424740/google-pixel-2-x...
There are 20 years of corporate-backed work behind Photoshop's UI.

GIMP has nothing but to learn from it. There would be nothing negative about copying it outright.
The Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness
"How I added 5000 'erase' activities to my FB profile"
For them to evangelise it, it has to exist :) That said, they are incorporating anti-fingerprinting features as part of the Tor Uplift project. (See e.g. https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/07/10/mozilla-implementing-t... )
Nice writeup. Reading between the lines, while it sounds like they turned the ship late, ultimately "ran out of runway" means the investors gave up. Something was still fundamentally wrong, even after all the pivots.
"In the 1990's, a survey was done and found that something like 60% of Americans thought that the NASA budget was 25% of the entire federal budget (it's like 0.4% today)"

Of the remaining 75% at least 50% is spent on foreign aid :-)
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That's an extremely uncharitable reading of this article - he says nothing that suggests he wants everyone to publicly post their email logins and passwords.

This kind of hyperbole is not conducive to productive conversation about Facebook or privacy in general.
Fair. In this case, do the right thing and disable private messages.

Either offer it properly or do not offer it at all. It's irresponsible otherwise.
If 'Murica gets criticized for unintended "collateral" damage, may be it is deserving 'Murica gets credit for unintended kindness.

aventured has a point, actually has more than point. Your cheap ideological glasses are blinding you to them.
> iPhones are generally sold through carriers with the phone locked to that specific carrier.

Maybe in the U.S. Much less so over here.
ProtonMail is also a good alternative. It's secure and hosted in Switzerland.

I'd suggest that you start using a new email for identity with online banking, utilities and other essential services.

Better still, buy a domain and use that for the identity address so that you can move the hosting around as you see fit.
Well, from the article you cited:

>Mr. Kramer wrote that changing the emotional makeup of the news feeds had a minimal impact, prompting users to produce an average of one fewer emotional word per thousand words over the following week.

What I am saying is that I find unlikely that they can change the voting preference, if not that of really gullible (or if you prefer "very easy to manipulate") people.
I'm sure they could com up with removable upholstery (or upholstery covers) that they can clean separately and replace as often as needed. Its not a huge leap from floor mats and seat covers
I wonder how the rates compare to Google Fi? (Which is also compatible with iPad, even if it isn't advertized).
Which country doesn't want to corner supply markets? How is this different from if any other country would have done it?
Hey Guys! Would love to know your feedback on the service.
I'm curious if I could get a chuckle by saying "Hit by an Uber"...
The fact that there are two T-Mobile logos on that page side-by-side bugs me. Irrationally so.
Am I being naive?

I think so. The Space Shuttle was not incremental at all, it was supposed to be a great leap forward.

I think calling Apollo incremental is also a stretch. They build a rocket that's still the largest the world has ever seen and flew it twice before putting people on it a year later.
Here's a decent list of mail providers (with the exception of proton mail, because that's a walled garden): https://www.privacytools.io/#email

Personally, I've been using mailbox.org for ~3 years without any issues like you describe.
Time to Give Up on Identity Politics: It’s Dragging the Progressive Agenda Down
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This isn't new, the Apple SIM has been around since 2014:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_SIM
Probably not, but how much does that really matter? The main point of these erasures, IMO, is so 'analytics' providers can't sift through it... and I doubt FB makes their backups available to such providers.
> I'll try DDG again in six months to see if its improved, as I have three or four times now. Fingers crossed.

I've been doing this for years as well, and I'm much too lazy to do the !g trick. If you rely on google search daily to help get complex tasks done, DDG just doesn't cut it as far as I'm concerned.

For searches for the latest movie trailer or whatever? Sure it works great, but for me simple queries like this make up a tiny percentage of what I use Google Search for. It's easy to take for-granted now that we are so used to it how incredibly good Google's search results are.

I'd love to move to DDG, I really would, everything else about them appeals greatly to me, but every time I read an article by someone saying the made the jump I can't help but wonder what they actually use it for that makes it work for them.
> Price is the kicker here though.

Kids are a major kicker, for much of the population, until cars are not only self-driving, but can also on-demand automatically reconfigure with a variety of different configurations of child restraint systems, so that you can on-demand get a vehicle configured for your number, age, and size of children.
Common misconception. I suggest this article.

https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2016/01/01/0/
Can you pay for an unlocked iPhone in installments? I'm not prepared to throw down the price upfront honestly.
Antibiotic use in livestock became prevelant in the late 50s, so yes. In fact, they probably used more back then because it was yet to be discovered that it was causing resistance issues.
You didn't work back in the day when high end products where if you had to ask how much you couldn't afford it.

In 1980 or so my office mate was working on a way to measure the efficiency of different toilet designs - to try and save water.

I looked at using the then very new use of image recognition hardware (and I think neural nets) but sadly realised that with a base price of hardware at £250,000 around a million in todays money it wasn't practical.

Which was a pity as the organisation was into ml/ai back then and even hired one of the first knowledge engineers (as they wher called back then).
Having your own domain is definitely the way to go, for the exact reason you mention. You're free to change mail providers without having to change your mail address, which is nice for you and for your contacts!
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And paying more to see the movie just once in a controlled theater that isn't your own is so much better? You still have absolutely no control over the media and you are paying more money to more middlemen.
An idea.. imagine putting SSO stuff into a Container and setting First Party Isolation off for just that Container.
شركة مكافحة حشرات بالمدينة المنورة – بيت الخليج
It specifically says "aggregated and anonymized" data, not personal data. Even then, I imagine with the Facebook backlash, this will be heavily scrutinized.
'False equivalency!' seems to be a popular new phrase to prevent self-reflection. If the CA situation is only bad insofar as it helped the GOP, then that's fine, but if you're interested in broader change regarding privacy then a knee-jerk partisan supremacy won't benefit anyone.
Seems you select a carrier so it's whatever their rates are. The Apple SIM just allows you to use the same SIM rather than swapping out SIM cards for each carrier you might want to use (more useful when traveling internationally, I imagine, than when staying in one country).
Hiiiii Peter T.
If the link is buried, that is a violation of the GDPR. Contact details for the controller and the Data Protection Officer must be given at the point where data is collected: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/. There's also something else about an affirmative duty to facilitate exercise of rights, but that's less clear-cut.

A non-functional link is also a GDPR violation.

That said, I agree in general: it's a burden on me to make these websites respect my rights, and that's kinda bullshit. I either have to go through the hoops the site sets up, or I have to go through the bureaucratic hoops of the organization that judges the hoopiness of the website's hoops. But if I do care enough, there is now a stick to wield, which is an improvement.
The Myth of the “Real” Developer [video]
One is Telekom which looks like a distinct entity from T-Mobile.
Can you explain what "flaw-nt" is supposed to mean?
I think one is just T for Deutsche Telekom, whose corporate relationship to T-Mobile depends on the month and phase of moon.
Perhaps if you had to pass a background check, then you could be allowed to engage in approved speech? In 2018, speech can cause just as much damage as a car, and we all agree you need a license to operate a car. A license could probably help with the "fake news" epidemic too.

Sure, it's hard to totally stop people from using speech irresponsibly and hurting others, but if we aggressively prosecute unlawful speech, we could probably reduce the amount of harm done by people speaking their minds.
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> It’d be fair to say that I could’ve written an equivalent service in Ruby in a tenth of the time it took me to write this one in Rust.

Ha, I had the same feeling when I needed to create a simple REST service that'd just process a request using command line tools. Seems easy but Rust's tooling is full of rough edges. Code completion sometimes works sometimes doesn't, cargo cannot install dependencies only (without building source) so it's not good for Dockerfile layers, etc. etc. Borrow checker is not bad at all for people that worked with languages with explicit memory management (where you do ownership tracking in your head anyway).

Long story short I spent 2 days working on the service and had 80% done but figured out the rest would take twice as much if I want this to be production quality. I scraped the project and rewritten it in node, using one or two dependencies in 2 hours.

I'll be trying Rust again surely and I'm glad that articles like this one exist!
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> ...his brain literally cannot differentiate between identical and similar...

You're way out of civil and substantive territory with things like this. Please resist the temptation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's exactly the reason why I stopped using Multi Account Containers. Very annoying.

Are they planning to fix it somehow?
Identity politics isn't even a progressive idea. It's one of the central tenets of fascism.
technically yes, because verizon got sued into being required to sell unlocked phones.
Same, bit of a nightmare, but it did get there in the end.
You might be overly sensitive. My wife still runs an iPhone 6 (not 6s), on the latest OS. I can only just tell the difference between it and my 8 (also on the latest OS.) in app load times for giant apps. Otherwise (scrolling, network, etc.) there is no functional difference unless you're sitting there with a stopwatch.

Don't propagate the false "planned obsolescence" meme. It's tired and counter-productive, especially from a security standpoint.
It's a pun on "flaunt".
Since we're complaining about stupid stuff that's broken in macOS that shouldn't be, I'll add my Ethernet problem. Apparently, it's no longer supported to move between Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters without rebooting.

I have 2 Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters, one at home and one at work, and if I move between them my wired Ethernet connection stops working. The hardware is working fine and it even shows up properly in System Report but the networking stack is completely brain dead. One "solution" is to unplug the adapter, turn off wired Ethernet, wait 30 seconds, plug the adapter back in, turn wired Ethernet back on. Or I can just reboot.

This started happening in 10.12.x and I've filed a bug report for it with every release. Still no fix. WTF?!?
In case anyone is curious, there's a list of compatible devices on this page: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6330195?hl=en

I didn't know this was a thing. Is it new?
This is the next step in the outsourced Big Brother we've been building for the last twenty or so years. All I have to say is, Fuck off, Microsoft.
"The risk though, is that you could inadvertently friend an ISIS sympathizer in Belgium who get radicalized and does something evil and the next thing you know, Fed are knocking your door down at 3 AM and putting you in cuffs."

I understand the fear.

When I first started using FB, all my friends were porn stars. I came across this list of their emails, and I immediately friended them.

I did it because I really didn't like FB, people who had 500 friends, etc., but looking back it was a good move.

I regret unfriending them years ago.

I think calculated risks can be pulled off successfully.

I really hope companies like FB, and Google are decimated. My hope is all big data companies gets their due.
Microsoft to ban 'offensive language' from Skype, Xbox, Office
One of the differences of being in my 30s, rather than 20s, is discovering things I thought were very relevant and influential are sometimes totally unknown.

In the short term, Cannes and the Oscars may be very relevant. Yet, if something were to happen where they lost relevance for a younger generation, in another decade or two not only the relevance will have vanished but so to would much of the popular awareness they even existed.
The average English word is 4.5 characters and the average English speaker speaks 110-150 words per minute. This means that at $16/1m characters, we can generate speech at a cost between $28.57-39/hr. Per Google's post, WaveNet now costs 50ms of TPU time per 1s of speech generated, meaning, at 100% utilization, a TPU can generate somewhere between $571.40-780/hr. Google's TPUs can be deployed (by third parties) at $6.50/hr. That's some sweet sweet margin.
It doesn't cover untagging, from I gather. Also, you can run it at 16x speed. It "deleted" ~15 years of history for me in less than an hour. And yes, it does miss a few things.
Actually, interestingly, perhaps that is "right-sizing" the cost of Taxi service?

Humans only at the beck and call of self-driving cars who cannot see well in the rain. Instead of "surge pricing" for high demand, it would be "human pricing" to pay for the "skilled" driver in the rain and snow.

ie: $1/mi during sunny days, $10/mi during snow days, instead of $7/mi every day of the year. Very interesting to consider, and honestly a bit scary thinking of so many people I've met who are using Uber to make a living. :-S
By the way, the backdoor comments are taken out of context in a very inaccurate way.

For Zooko's, literally the next tweet explains that he means for transfers in and out of fiat.

"And by the way, I think we can successfully make Zcash too traceable for criminals like WannaCry, but still completely private & fungible. …

… At least for as long as criminals want to cash out to fiat (years? decades?). …
"[0]

Since conversions to fiat are done via exchanges, which are regulated, it's pretty simple. This applies to Monero,Dash, etc.

Matt's, which he has pointed out before[0], was a point that it was possible, which is true for any system. If you follow the general debate on adding backdoors to encryption, you'll know he and almost all cryptographers are completely against them.

Its fine not to be a fan of them or think people should never admit even the conceptual possibility of limitations on privacy but neither quote was endorsing backdoors.

[0] https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202964416077824

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15370744
too bad this doesn't work in iPhones.

I have 15+ international SIM cards. Slightly inconvenient to have to buy one for each country I visit to avoid surprise roaming charges.
I would like to see software producers provide an API to download the latest release and a list of previous releases. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to automate the installation of (primarily desktop) software (Slack, IntelliJ, etc.)
Banning users from enjoying art because they use vpns or don't care for DRM is also wrong. It's hard to care about what feuds traditional studios and these streaming companies get into. They deserve each other.
It is hard to compete against a free beer OS originally developed with tech unlawfully taken from other companies.

So one either swims or joins the graveyard of companies that tried to fight it.
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Has anyone here worked with 3.1 as well as Xcode and can say something about the simulator experience of Android Studio?
They're rapidly heading down the path, at the very least.

Microsoft has been giving away their operating system for free in exchange for mining your personal data. Everyone who uses Windows 10 can expect to have everything on screen scraped, all their keystrokes logged, and all their files transferred to Microsoft for analysis.

What do you suppose their reason is for taking all this data?
Only if you're certain you're not Denethor
The resource vulnerabilities are nothing compared to US reliance on China's industrial ecosystem.

At this point if the the US and China halted trade, China would lose soybeans and corn (easily replaceable) while half the US manufacturing supply chains would be severed leading to truly eye watering inflation.

China will almost certainly threaten to use this leverage in the next 5 years to discipline the US.

Which is weird, because this is basically how the US has behaved toward developing nations which didn't follow its dictates.
Why not build a browser plugin that visits 5 random websites for each site you visit.
Remember that netflix also wanted to put a movie in us theaters. One chain said okay. Then the other movie companies said we will blacklist you and not send you an movies to show. This is just about commercial competition, the 'real movie theaters' are trying to block netflix et al. Netflix should just buy their own damn theater in LA and show movies there to get them on all the awards shows.
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Yes, you can buy an unlocked Phone from Apple and use the financing available on their website.
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Yes, IBM can start suing them with some substantial chance of victory under the new law established by these cases. It's fucked.

Or IBM could realize if they start doing that, it might show the insanity of the current law, and result in the law changing back to what it was and should be, API's not copyrightable.
> It seems the way this goes is "we don't have money for more than one mission, so we have to make it count." But now you only have one mission, so you have to make really sure it doesn't fail, and the cost starts running away.

This is recognized by NASA - in particular, I've recently seen one report[0] with a diagram explicitly mentioning this problem. It was called "The Tyranny of Space Transportation Costs", and depicts a spiral with nodes like "High Launch and Space Transport Costs" -> "Infrequent Launch" -> "Inability to Service" -> "Over Engineering" -> "Cost Growth" -> "Need for Extreme Reliability" -> "Higher Launch Costs" -> ...

That's one of the reasons NASA is interested in in-orbit mining & manufacturing - to enable rapid iteration on future missions. That seems to also be the reason why they've outsourced LEO transportation to private companies.

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[0] - "Stepping Stones: Economic Analysis of Space Transportation Supplied From NEO Resources". Found it on HN some time ago. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/eso_fin... (warning: 140-ish MB); the diagram in question is on page 9.