skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sued the government to keep from handing over customer data stored overseas. Isn't that a pretty strong stance on privacy?

They could certainly strengthen their stance in some areas, though, such as by including Bitlocker in all versions of Windows and using strong E2E encryption in Skypep. But I'm not sure that the majority of people would use Bitlocker anyway.
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Why not? Those "wires" will be thinner than human hair.
Marketing has an important function that improves people's lives: it helps to find products and services that match people's needs.
Until it starts going back up due to the sensationalist reporting.
Probably still the best if you are about to kill someone.
Play TLS 1.3 with curl
You can use ExpressCard to connect an external GPU. https://egpu.io/external-gpu-buyers-guide-2018/#expresscard2...
I'm wondering why to bother with immutable.js, when redux already requires that state changes has to be immutable.
There's also the CCC mark for the Chinese market.
There's no better standard than double standard
Late 90s were 2 decades ago :)
ipv6.google.com then.

I am pretty sure google has some more subdomains to block.
The core of this debate is the matter of what intelligence actually is. We don't really know, but the most common definition I have heard/read is that intelligence is the ability to generate new solutions when presented with previously unseen input. An ABS would not qualify under this definition, because its output is predefined rigorously for all possible combinations of input values.
Apparently there was a recent breakthrough in superconductors [...]

Recently in this case means mid 1980s. Is the ITER design really that old that they could not make use of YBCO superconductors?
In fact, the XC90 is already equipped with a radar-based emergency stop system from factory - that alone would have been 100% sufficient to prevent or vastly reduce the impact. But of course it looks like the system was disabled/overriden by the Uber's autonomous solution.
The network effect is a chicken and egg problem that can’t be solved with just finding a partner. A large part of why android succeeded because it solved the chicken and egg developer - user problem by being early enough, and by having a company like google put their full support behind it. Other platforms were late to the table incompeting with iOS (windows), or didn’t have the clout of a large competent software company backing it, or both.
This letter is interesting.. and paints a bleak future.

What is stopping someone who wants to make easy money (like me) from going on Fiverr and selling my GDPR request letters?

Example: 5$ for 5 (could be anything) GDPR request letters to any company of your choosing?

This way, a malicious actor can buy thousands of GDPR requests and DDoS anyone but big companies like Google.

The cherry on top is that they have 1 month to comply so after they remove the information, I can simply repeat the process after the time limit. So they will eventually have to implement some kind of banning process which will affect their FTUE/onboarding giving the competition an advantage.

I bet this is the most basic idea that will appear in the blackhat world where they can probably poison the data compliance of various companies so that their services get shuttered.
I think you are imagining something very different than what I am describing. Exposure of state simply allows you to decompose your structures -- which allows you to compose them again. This is exactly what you do in FP. Testing at branch points means that you write 2 tests. If you have n branch points it means 2n tests. If you test n branch points down, you need n^2 tests. You don't test functionality at every level -- because these are probes not tests. Your external API is irrelevant to its construction, which is the point of encapsulation. I can write internals that can be probed, or I can decide not to. But how you use it from the outside is not related. You can build as many layers of this as you want -- in the normal way.

I'm trying to imagine what you are thinking of, but I'm having trouble so it's hard to rebut your points.
which sounds like a lot until you remember that total world energy consumption is over 110,000 TWh. So using your numbers, you would need 88,000 topaz solar stations at a cost of $220 trillion.

Makes ITER look like a drop in the bucket.
Solving the Problem of Mass Integration in Cryptocurrency
No searches, no location, no device data, no Youtube history, no suggestions, no synchronised data... ghee, it is almost as if not using that Google account other than for accessing a Gmail account (which I only use for backup purposes) and blocking those cookies works...

It might be interesting to know that I use many Android devices, phones and tablets both. As those things all run without proprietary Google bits, Google does not have anything interesting to show me. I might miss out on some potentially handy services but that is a small price to pay for keeping my devices and my data under my control.
> 1) Conform to a standard set of protocols for how sensors provide data to a self-driving software system.

Doesn't exist yet, though.
I didn't downvote you, but it's most likely because Hancock's ideas are considered pseudoscientific. He has no academic credentials: has not subjected his ideas to peer review, or published in any recognized journals.

Plus, you basically said it yourself: "Hancock gave an unbelievable presentation on the topic..."

(That said, these lazy 'drive-by downvoters' are extremely annoying. If any of them are reading this, shame on you.)
It's such a shame that when using OpenWRT everything runs as root...
Using dicts/lists is more apt to flexible serialization/deserialization, versioning, changing data structures in fields/structure and are great for data/api prototypes that move into MVPs and eventually alpha/beta if not the final form.

OO can run into versioning issues with fields/structures changing and needing to have many versions of those over app iterations just dicts/lists. Database fields being added and removed and supporting old versions is more easily solved in basic dicts/lists that map to json/xml and the base of any language. Dicts/lists are very interchangeable across systems and are the base of API outputs and the ease of use in javascript, python and other dynamic uses.

There should be a reason you are using structured OO but many times it becomes as weight, though there are good times to use it and most projects have some of it. Good reasons are hardened/non-changing codebases, possibly native apis/libs to help understanding, but when it comes to rest/http apis usually you are building OO that consumes data simply to return to dicts/lists when output/input into the apis/client-side/etc.

Classes/OO/types can be built as well with objects that are based on dicts/lists that do have some internals and helper methods that get/set keys and values and perform actions if you don't want to do that with another context class/api, or wrap dict/lists so that the serialization/deserialization and versioning issues are not a problem as the flexibility of dicts/lists and the benefits that brings in simplicity are still there but there is more structure where needed.
In fairness: if management is choosing a Widget vendor, which offers volume licensing, then we're talking about a standard business model in many industries.

If management is choosing a Document vendor, one of which is offering cheaper OS licensing in order to lock the purchaser into a treadmill of neverending consultant fees and half-baked integration work where the vendor will constantly push unrelated services and licensing to fix their own products because of walled gardens obscured by lacking technical and business competence on the part of the purchaser, we're talking MS. It's a highly successful strategy, but it undermines their customers and has left a sour taste in many a mouth.

I don't know if Embrace, Extend, Extinguish counts as a "sinister plot"... I can't say I'm the most competent here to speak to what lies in the heart of "marketing" or "sales" people, much less at a giant like MS... I can say that the sellers I know would gleefully participate in sinister plots if it meant a better office and parking space.
I think that they want more features to differentiate their OS. And with focus on features quality will be inevitably lost, because sometimes you must stop, review stuff, refactor, fix all bugs, but it takes time and it's hard to justify that time to management which wants more features, not "useless" work. Current situation with Apple seems like a classic example of technical debt striking back.
sudo dmesg -w -H --level=err
While we don't strictly need fusion it would be nice to have. We cannot easily generate all the power we need when and where we need it from renewables. we can generate a significant fraction of it tho.
Plus for space based application fusion would be preferable.
We don't really know yet what state of the art is for autonomous vehicles. Until we have gathered a bit more data from different companies we can't say anything.

This accident might have been a fluke, it might have been caused by bad engineering, it might have been caused by many things. We can only compare once we have a sizeable sample of incidents, or a long enough time of non-incidents that we're confident the system works well.

And every software update could change something about it.
If Anker is so great, why don't they have TÜV/CCC/UL certified power supplies?
Well you are lucky. I have asked the same question on Reddit /r/reactjs [0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/84m529/styled_comp...
Are you sure Google is not a monopoly in search, even if is not a monopoly there are still rules on abusing a dominant position in one market. Microsoft abused the OS dominance to push a web browser, Google is doing similar things now but for some reasons the US government closes it's eyes on it.
(ex I should not see on a Google search results links to download Chrome, or to google products, or Google competitor disappearing from first page results)
> war criminals.

I dislike this kind of inaccurate rhetoric. I suppose one could make some claim that someone is at war with someone and Facebook exacerbated it, but the more strained your argument is the more easily people can dismiss you.

Facebook is psychologically manipulative. Facebook uses human attention for profit. Facebook moderates our connections with other people for its own gains. All these are accurate indictments of facebooks behavior. But if you call then war criminals and don’t articulate what war you’re talking about, it just sounds inflammatory.
I thought Facebook going down was way overblown too, so i decided to ask my friends, many are just there to buy clothes, social sharing or reading up shared news. They are normal, everyday users, who are not into tech at all. There answer were along the line;

1. What is Cambridge Analytics's?

2. I dont know what happen to facebook recently.

3. My data is being collected? So?

4. Oh

5. Can I still buy and shop on Facebook?

6. Why would I delete facebook?

I think it is clear, apart from those of use who really cared about tech, or those live in US felt being used as tools in politics, many around the world dont give a damn.

I am tempted to buy into Facebook stock as well ( may be for it to lower a little more ), while none of the post 2000 born teenagers i knew has a Facebook account, they knew IG.
Really IG is the new Facebook. Whatsapp is still growing.
CNN can’t do it on a personalized basis.

If Facebook’s AI knows that you hate nothing more than anti-vaxxers, it could choose to show you seemingly-randomly that your great aunt has liked an anti-vax page.

I’m not sure if that would ultimately help drive engagement but I’m sure it’s something they’ve studied.
When a parent loses a child. (Death of a child)
How much of your information Facebook and Google store about you
Or, where available, htop.
> with almost zero incidents.

Sparse files are hopelessly broken, prompting Docker for Mac to roll back to qcow2 when using APFS[0] (HFS+ sparse files are fine).

[0]: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/release-notes/#docker...

EDIT: reference
Blocking Google Analytics is a good antidote against it collecting any data on you. Block it at the router, in the hosts file and by using adblockers (which also block other analytics "services").
> I've mentioned that before. You build a map of what's around the vehicle.

If it were that easy, everyone would have solved it already. Detecting distances, objects etc. from several varied sensors is exactly how you build this map. You can't just handwave the map into existence.
The problem is much deeper: in the roughly 25 years of WWW we have not really figured out better ways than ads.

In the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active users, ad rev was 12.779B thus if active users on average paid somehow a little under two dollars a month, it'd be the same. I am not saying, by far, that a flat fee is realistic, I am just showing there's a lot of room for improvement.
I intended that implication, but I don't think I have a whole lot more to say about it, unfortunately.

- On my Android phone, I use Orgzly to capture notes, tick off finished tasks, and see various filtered views of my agenda.

- I see there are implementations in Vim, namely Vim-OrgMode and VimOrganizer.

- If you want to embed something on the web, org-js is supposed to be good. There is also the GitHub editor, of course.

- Further out of my comfort zone, there is something for IntelliJ IDEA called org4idea, and I saw you should be able to get orgmode support in Sublime Text. I also found Organized for Atom, but that appears to be a sort of Markdown-Org mashup, so not necessarily the right thing.

- Then, as unwelcome as this last point may seem to some, it's worth pointing out that Emacs is not an editor in singular. If you don't like the default editor that ships with Emacs, there are other editors to choose from which all run in Emacs. This includes the seriously fantastic Vim port called Evil. From what I can tell, the AutOrg project is even specifically packaging Emacs+Org in a way to make it more approachable to beginners.

Note that many of the options have not successfully replicated the full Org feature set yet. However, in the context of this discussion I have limited myself to the features that are also supported by Google Docs, which are... not many.
I agree, humor is harder than it seems with text's tone deafness, and I'm just goofing around as well. Best as well to you
"Why would AI-driven vehicles not have dedicated, single-purpose subsystems such as anti-collision?
"

The answer is that they will. And probably already mostly do (at least for Waymo/Cruise/most of them). It's not clear why Uber's vehicle did not brake.
Nvidia GeForce Partner Program Allegedly Hurting Consumer Choice
While it might not make sense for the grid there are other applications as well - like nuclear subs, battle cruisers and carriers.
I’ve done a bit of research on this issue and the plume that is in the soil. It’s not that bad for several reasons.

The contamination is TCE. TCE is a carcinogen and responsible for the “cancer spike” in the Whisman neighborhood about a mile or two away. It takes many years of exposure to increase your risk of cancer though. But its effects are much more acute against a fetus. TCE is destroyed by sunlight. It only becomes a problem when it accumulates inside a building.

With that in mind, the houses in the community were built with mitigation techniques — techniques that are familiar to anyone who’ve lived in areas with radon. First the houses are built with vapor barriers. This is to prevent the TCE vapors from seeping in. Second, the foundation have internal ventilation and vanes to draw air out (called sub slab ventilation). This is why you see so many of them at the roof of these houses. The design was approved by the EPA. (Google uses positive air pressure to mitigate in their buildings)

The EPA also monitors the plume and have done checks inside the houses to ensure TCE aren’t getting in. Also, the remediation and cleanup of the soil has progressed faster than expected. It should all be cleaned up within a decade, IIRC. Lastly, the plume has migrated away from the neighborhood and is basically headed towards the 101 and Google.

The people who should be concerned aren’t the people living in the newer houses but the ones who live in the houses built before the TCE issue was recognized.

A place I was renting had the same issue but from a different plume. As a renter the landlord wasn’t required to tell me this. I found out completely by accident after I had already moved in. I can’t believe that is legal since there is an acute risk to pregnant women, especially when the building has no mitigation methods. This is often the case because many buildings in SV are fairly old.

Here’s an article that talks a bit about the plume and community:

https://mv-voice.com/news/2011/06/14/new-cleanup-efforts-for...

And an updated one that tells you about the progress: https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2014/01/28/epa-reaches-3-milli...
That's not even close to the same. Windows 10 is the spying king: http://bgr.com/2016/02/10/windows-10-spying-investigation/

Did you forget about Prism? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...
yeah the names are still pretty random but occasionally you get some cool ones
Will you add a tomato to your payload? – Managing scope creep
You didn't check the link. People volunteerly shared fake news with their friends.
No, redundancy means making a backup of your primary system so it can take over, not having a completely different uncooperative system active at the same time.
It seems quite a lot of people around here have a thing for El Capitan. Coincidentally this is the last one called "OS X".
My issue isn't the discounting, it's the discounting on things that require large addition investments to get working 'properly' in a modern context, and large ongoing investments into that same suppliers ecosystem.

Office "needs" Sharepoint. Lots of Sharepoint and automation "needs" BizTalk. Neither of these are practically made to be customer managed, both require armies of external (MS partnered...), consultants.

This implicit subscription to supplier monotheism undermines correct business decisions and creates economic impedence against correct business action. Sharecropping has never been a good fit for businesses who need to lead.
I do. In science we share clusters/supercomputers.
Facebook's popularity is driven by that tic of just wanting to have a quick look to see what friends/family are up to, then getting stuck there because of addiction/manipulative techniques.

I can't see people feeling the same way about a site which is only about events, it's a different impulse... almost like tuning in to an adverts-only station. Nobody is on FB because of bands - although they're happy to find out what bands are up to when they happen to already be on the site (not knocking bands as a thing - the same applies to eg. my art page).

Some might say "it doesn't matter, it doesn't have to be as popular as FB" but at that point then why not just have a website?
https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

https://atom.io/packages/org-mode

https://github.com/ajtoo/vscode-org-mode

https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode

For more, search "[name of editor] org mode" in the search engine of your trust.
“Human hair” is much too thick for an invisible display. Do you have a more exact size?
School history emphasizes what happened, not why. And this missed how to avoid it. The assumption is it's avoidable, it can't happen here. Because.

The power of humiliation, destitute, scapegoating, and cult of personality.
I hope people do send lots of GDPR requests. I plan on doing so myself.

The answer is very simple. You should have a simple automated one-click method of knowing where all data relate to each user is, and an automated way of clearing it all. Job done.
4 Years of Data Science at Schibsted Media Group
That doesn't help. I'm in a similar position, but I'd like to know which data has eg. Facebook on me. If they write back "you have no account, we have no data on you" how I am to know that this is true (and it is almost certainly not)? With nothing on hand it doesn't make sense to go to a regulator.
I thought the rule was to not editorialize titles..?
Note: Video is from 2010!
That would only trap up the arms race. It would also rob Google of one of its advantages being its "simple" interface (although this is something they've been doing to themselves already by adding all sorts of unnecessary scripting to the search page - at least it still works with JS disabled, this in contrast to many other sites).
Search for "Pons and Fleischmann" to learn more about Cold Fusion :)
as a german i have to ask: like those remembering ww2 and the stasi?

data tropes are a whole different deal, when power shifts to the ugly
Encrypted.google.com is going away
So if the tech can pass a human driving test, is that ok? Because those are a very low bar in some countries (like the US).
this unz.com site seems to have pretty offensive content
Deeply agree: React will be dead (maybe not internally at fb, but to the rest of the world) long before facebook goes dead. Whether you consider it a trend or a point-in-time technology, it will be surpassed by something quickly enough.
What fascinates me is how marketing/media people seem to be detached from general public as they were living in some parallel universe. You would think nobody would like that their wife, daughter, ageing father would be tracked all over the internet, algorithms be used on them to target stuff to them and etc. However when adtech company proposes yet another tracking/targeting big data cross-device etc. algorithm it is always met up with standing ovation by marketing people. I guess as long as it makes advertiser/employer happy it is all OK.
Haha the same thing happened to me.

But also not having 24/7 reality TV disguised as "cable news" blaring all around me all the time helps a lot. US is anomalous in this regard.
All young people are on FB

Are they? My young teenaged (age 13-17) nieces/nephews have no FB presence at all. Their older siblings were on FB all the time at that age and still have FB pages, but are no longer very active - they mainly use FB to comment on their parents and other relatives pages.

While this is purely anecdotal, FB does seem to be losing young users:

https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/facebook-losing-users-faster-t...

If they are going to Instagram, then FB isn't really losing them, if they are going elsewhere, then it doesn't bode well for FB.
Ridiculous wishful thinking.
Part of the promise of cloud based document solutions, to my eyes, is being able to replace "edge databases" with user-facing user-editable spreadsheets.

Drain those IT projects of risk, get moving early, with a structure that lets the user guide the data modelling... Could be a nice local minimum :)
Nope, Facebook was about collecting and selling data from the very beginning. I'm only surprised they're not in the news for providing data for more nefarious companies and regimens.

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks