skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, don't assume people won't be interested in interesting things. Who is this general public, anyway? It's not an homogeneous group; it's made up of physicians, mechanics, teachers, lovers, Doomsday preppers, engineers, preachers, and all kinds of people who have special interests. The thing I see is that if you show them how it matters to them in their special role, rather than to them as members of this general public, they may well take an interest. Some of them may become very deeply interested indeed, if they needed such a thing but didn't know about it until you showed them!
Unless it's encrypted and ephemeral, treat every bit sent out to the internet, a public network, as your public persona.
> Those results, in fact, now have him wondering about how cultural practices such as leaving pottery and other tributes at the West Kennet long barrow persisted in the face of such upheavals.

This is the question that I find the most fascinating, and I am glad to see that I am not alone. If a new people did arrive, did they adopt some of the cultural practices of the people they displaced? Did/do humans tend to recognize places of spiritual importance and continue to honor them out of respect for/fear of the ancient gods of a place that they are new to? Displacement with or without competition is a major feature of biological evolution, it would be surprising if it _didn't_ apply to humans.
I'm assuming you do everything you should right? So... perfect body? Saving account? great family life? Work is flawless?

Life doesn't happen in a vacuum and specialization is a thing. People spend their time on different things.

Everyone should do A LOT of things but don't. You can't hold a billion people accountable for that. They thought for whatever reason this was a reasonable trade off. Turns out... maybe not.

Instead of being a fucking nerd about it, lets work to help people move to better services.

"ummmmm... actually, you should learn about GPG encryption for your files".

FFS.
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I think what bonds people is shared adversity. Thus, the longer you've known someone the greater the chance that you've come through some tough experiences together (e.g. school, war) and therefore that you trust one another. Perhaps this is how families work. Errors in how to relate cause suffering which paradoxically creates a closer family bond. There are far more occasions to suffer where people share the same space.
> ... instead tailoring an explanation to their personal situation and knowledge.

I’ve used this with success several times. Though you generally have to know the person well enough to know their “secrets”.
You could wrap it in tinfoil while not using it.
Buses with air brakes can cause very loud sudden noises. If they pass right beside you, you can only hope it won't cause any damage.
Amen. Once you upload it, you should just assume it’s out there forever. It’s probably worth assuming that virtually all anonymity can be pierced, if not now then within a decade or two.

With a few exceptions, anonymity online is ephemeral at best, subject to the motivation of the person/org trying to deanonymize you.
> I love Tesla to death and in most cases will defend them beyond the point of reason.

Wow, that attitude strikes me as a little creepy. If you admire Musk to the point of hero worship, that's perfectly fine. But why worship a corporation?
It can be useful to see what non-technical audiences are reading.

It’s not sleep deprivation, it’s the “quality of sleep”. Apple implemented Night Shift on iOS due to customer demand. Blue-blocking lenses have sold in the millions.
I have lost untold hours to this magnificent game.
I'm fairly tech savvy (ok, I'm an expert compared to my non-tech family and friends, but not compared to people here). I even had a copy of pgp on my Windows 3.1 machine shortly after Phil Zimmerman created it. I didn't understand it then, and I don't want to understand it now. The better and easier solution has been to avoid putting stuff I don't want anyone to know about me on the internet.
Password managers use client side encryption. They are not stored unencrypted on the manager's servers.
I grew up in a country with very strict gun control (Germany) and did almost the same thing that timonovici did. We used to collect blanks in the woods, thrown away by NATO troops during maneuvers. I don't remember what I was expecting, but I too remember the bang being so loud to make me dizzy - I think I wasn't sure for a few moments if I was dead or alive.

Just a few days ago I wrote a comment [1] about a boy who used to live a few kilometers from my house when we were children and lost half of his hand doing experiments in his parents basement.

I think fire and exothermic reactions in general are much too interesting for children to not find a way to experiment with them at one time or another, but parents should take care that children don't do it alone and that they do it in a safe way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16698251
Personal attacks will get you banned on HN. Please don't do that again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyber attack
It'd be neat if you added Firefox support. Cross browser support for extensions nowadays doesn't require much additional effort, and you get to reach more developers.
... holy hell, that was nasty.
Just my two cents, but BEAM has some nice features when it comes to distributed systems. You can basically exchange messages with any other process, provided that you know where it runs. If you have the right permissions, you can even spawn actors remotely. And it works out of the box.
The differences can be found here [0]. The current allocator seems to be a 'allocate once & never free' approach.

[0] https://github.com/ziutek/emgo/blob/master/doc/spec.md
FT has a hard-stop paywall with no workarounds. Why are their links allowed to be posted here, and how do they make it to the front page, considering that the vast majority of HN readers do not have a paid subscription?

Edit: Apparently the Facebook workaround works for FT if you haven't been cookied there before. Open their links in an incognito window, and then use this bookmarklet - works on all WSJ articles as well.

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
Encryption isn't extremely cheap in fact it's rather expensive (especially on the scales were talking about) and none of the infrastructure providers provides any encryption of their own they just route traffic.
> WebDRM, WebAssembly

Those two things are nothing like each other. EME, the DRM mechanism, should never have existed, should certainly never have been "standardized" (to the extent that concept even makes sense for a feature that fundamentally exists to glue in perpetually non-standard proprietary plugins), and it's debatable whether more harm than good was done by Firefox trying to make sure people didn't have to switch browsers to run Netflix.

WebAssembly, on the other hand, is one of the most exciting technologies to come to the web in a long time.
Yeah.. and yet most of us buy the Ferguson.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL2YRDzpTL4
> great way to explain privacy limitations to a non-tech-savvy person is to walk them through using GPG.

Have you ever actually successfully done this? More than once? And they continue to use it?

It's a usability nightmare. https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/
If you're worried about FB analyzing/selling your data then "deleting" does nothing. It effectively just sets a boolean flag on a record in a database which is more like 'hiding'.

It may not appear anymore in the frontend but you can be pretty sure it's still being used by FB. Now that may change after GDPR but who knows...
I'm guessing this 48 hour timeout was as much about discipline as restoring any possible hearing loss.
Please don't reply to a bad comment with a worse one. Personal attacks, in particular, will get you banned here, and ideological or national rants are not much better.

Edit: Dismayingly, it looks like you've been making a habit of this. Would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart when commenting from now on?
> While I think many folks here would argue that assembler is outdated in general

Assembly is not outdated in general, it's just outdated as a human interface for big CISC programs. If you are working on very small micro-controllers it's not even necessarily outdated as a human interface since you might be working on a much more minimal platform in which case it's important you understand exactly what's going on.

What was probably meant in the article is that the particular assembly used in the CPUs of the CCS at the time is quite different compared to various modern micro-controller assembly (not compared to CISC like x86 or even ARM which are almost completely different beasts).

Sometimes these projects have custom silicon and so are even quite different to other commercial chips of the same era... Having a quick google, the CCS was NASAs first redundant computer, having two of everything, but at a fairly low level unlike say the mars rover with it's triple redundancy basically at the "whole computer" level. Interesting stuff, I wish there was more info available about all the details of these machines.
The scale you’d need to achieve to have even the most minor effect on facebooks vast infrastructure would be enormous.

I feel the effort you and countless opt-in people would expend could be redirected to much more fruitful efforts. Convincing people to delete their profiles, for example.
> There are industries where this kind of process is required and it truely shows in the quality of the results.

It also shows in the cost of building the software. Most software companies aren't willing to pay the cost of that process. Like it or not, you will almost certainly interact with software written by these companies, either directly or indirectly.
Modern PHP without a framework
I owned a tan Ford Aerostar for ten years, never got pulled over once.
Some information on CPUs used in spacecraft

http://cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html
ulimit is not a silver bullet for memory problems
Great idea! I'll make an FB app for that ;)
> That is intentional.

It's funny you are so sure of this.

And you essentially just called me wrong without providing a use case. My statement was I couldn't think of a use case for them to do this intentionally and your statement does nothing to disprove that.

Hiding a video can and probably is just an "UPDATE videos SET visible=0 WHERE id=123" And it is extremely common to soft delete things for hard delete later in case the user made a mistake or law enforcement requests it or any number of reasons.

Especially in large distributed systems where things often need to happen asynchronously.

Not permanently deleting a soft delete file is not necessary intentional. Anyone who has ever worked on a large software project knows about backlog stories (say, hypothetically, "free up space from soft deleted videos") not being done for years because other priorities keep pre-empting them.

Similar reason when writing in a garbage collected programming language the memory isn't freed immediately.

Does that mean it was unintentional? Not necessarily but it certainly is plausible that it was unintentional.
Imagine an alien race on brink of destruction and they have the same temperament as human for war. Would make an awesome Sci Movie
I don't think you have to both share the adversity as much as having empathy, listening and really caring (both in your words and in actions) to have a solid friendship. Being comfortable enough to share these things with someone is a huge deal, and sharing what you're going through with others seems to feel good for some reason.
What is the Future of the Web (2007)
Like you’ve predicted, first headline on Techmeme: “Tesla says Autopilot was engaged during fatal Model X crash on Mar. 23, and the driver didn’t respond to warnings to take control of the car before the crash”. Although the linked article has a different title; might’ve been changed.
Let's not exaggerate; using something like pip is incredibly easy compared to actually using the ML package. The hardest thing about ML is not setting it up...
They've recently (within the past couple months) enabled automatic renew for credit cards.
Looks elegant, but am not going to sunset the homebaked library solution yet I don't think, because of the proxy and polyfill overhead, and also because i prefer to freely assign a specific value if nothing:

TS-like syntax for clarity:

Function Nothing(vTestVar:any, vIfnull:any, sObjPath?: string, bStrict?: boolean) {... return vResultOfCheck}
When FB employees said that these freewheeling discussion boards were a core part of Facebook’s organizational focus, I could believe it. But now that they’ve faced the reality that everyone else lives with — that there’s is no such thing as a permanent perfect safe space — these discussion boards are now useless?

Leaks, when they happen, are only harmful to the employees if FB doesn’t pledge to stand behind employees. Zuck didn’t fire Boz, so why should other FB employees fear if FB was so committed to free expression as a core principle?

A company’s values aren’t proven when they exist in a safe space. It’s only when values operate in the real world — withstanding public scrutiny and even outrage — that we can know the company’s principles.
It's always amusing to me how people in tech want to have very private lives where they control their public image very carefully while building tools and networks which take away that ability from others.

From the Facebook engineers doing this while working on facial recognition to Peter Thiel going after Gawker while funding Palantir, this seems like a near universal double standard in tech today.
Automatic emergency braking is already mandatory for trucks in the EU.
Plus you have some French that surfaces all over the place in the UI even when you are a UK customer.

But that’s kind of OVH’s DNA. It originated as a bunch of servers hosted in a closet, and has been progressively hacking together more features cheaply, it’s kind of the duct tape and shoe string hosting provider, but it has prices in line with that style as well. A much more polished and support-focused provider wouldn’t charge these prices.
I don't believe so, at least not in the recent past. I purged my FB of all content about 18 months ago, and had to do it manually. Took several hours spread across a few weeks, whenever I could force myself to spend the time on it. For whatever reason I kept finding posts/comments for a few weeks after that; I'd go back to make sure I got everything, scouring the timelines, and there'd be something I missed somehow, quite bizarre.
Fatal Tesla Crash Raises New Questions About Autopilot System
True, but the fact that NPM seems to be the only repository where packages can be "re-published" further exacerbates the bad practices.

https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj

The fact that 9 packages could be "published over" _after_ the left-pad fiasco, shows lack of attention.

Tools should try to foster good practices, instead of worsening bad ones.
This study is like a bad penny.
They are also no longer fossil fuels, just chemically equivalent or at least similar hydrocarbons.

I wonder if language will eventually change to reflect that.
I've never had a Facebook account, but friends have told me that no, there is not. That would go against their user and content retention models, I'm sure. It makes sense that Facebook would make it as difficult, tedious, and painful as possible to delete content from their platform.
I imagine that the data in those downloads is a fraction of all the data Facebook collects. It seems that they disclose only what is required based on local laws, so it's unlikely they will ever disclose derived data unless forced to (for example, the location data they collect and combine to figure out which people were present at the same party etc.)
What's missing from all of these human interest immigration stories is: what should the law be?

If there are any conditions at all it will seem "unfair" compared with citizens. So we either have no laws at all, and make everyone a citizen who wants to be, or we do some "unfair" things sometimes.
Yes it would be delicious irony if the downfall of Facebook happened because of the very technology and data collection that they created.
>I know in the online music community that developing tinnitus is a fear/paranoia akin to fear of surveillance in the tech community

I wish I was in the online music community before getting tinnitus. My tinnitus doesn't bother me now, but it did make me unhappy for a couple of months
I'm 43 years old, and in my 20s I went to a few loud rock shows. I had the same experience as you for days afterwards, but at the last one I attended without hearing protection, something funny happened in my right ear. It was like someone turned the tone control right down, and loud noises would distort so badly I couldn't make anything out.

A while later, I was watching a Scrubs episode where one of the characters ruptured an ear drum. That sound closely matched what I remembered hearing, so I've worn hearing protection to every concert since. Even had people make fun of me for it, but as soon as I say "probably ruptured an eardrum at a concert," they stop laughing.

I have tinnitus from a different cause, though. When I was very small, 5 or 6 years old, one of my mother's boyfriends would haul me around by my ears. I remember that my ear started ringing one day, and it never stopped.

I have two tones in one ear, and I think three in the other. 37 years later and it's as bad as it ever was, sadly. I have learned to just tune it out, but I can still hear it if I choose to - annoyingly, when I choose to hear it, I have to wait until I forget about it.

edit: Forgot to note, the ringing is very, very high pitched. Remember what CRT televisions would sound like when you turned them on? Higher pitched than that.
This is no surprise, virtual delete is common design pattern.
Magnesium can help, but the PSA for the layperson should be about getting prednisone in the first 24 hours of an acoustic trauma. I almost want to write this in all caps because this will literally save your hearing.

I was lucky enough to learn about this right after my left ear stopped working (don't get me started about Apple earbuds) and managed to recover 90 percent of my hearing due to convincing my doc to give me a 2 week steroid course. He hadn't even heard of this before, but thank God for white papers online.

While I did use magnesium and vitamin E, they were supplementary to the prednisone which regrew the damaged cells. The tinninitus community is full of regretful people who wish they knew this.
As a non-Rust programmer, I'm finding the memory-mapped data example to be very opaque. Does anyone care to explain it?
An earlier HN link discusses the idea that the pulsar map is useless anyway.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044698
More like visible=false;
The Profile Engine has now been donated to the Internet Archive
If you can beat the HB and Ostwald processes, I say go for it.

You wouldn't try to beat those processes. You'd run them as usual but with hydrogen from water electrolysis instead of from steam-reformed fossil resources. Of course both levelized cost of renewable electricity and cost of running electrolyzers at low duty cycle need to decline significantly more before that could compete with the current status quo of cheap natural gas and no CO2 emission taxes.

Renewable ammonia made this way still seems more plausible for near-future commercialization than making liquid hydrocarbon fuels from renewable electricity and atmospheric CO2. Which is admittedly faint praise. The advantage that might eventually be significant is that it's easier to ship ammonia or simple derivatives of it from some remote but renewable-energy-resource-rich place, like windy islands, than to build electricity transmission lines.
How did the car not even apply the brakes? How could it fail that bad?
Exactly, iOS and Mac developers excepted, very little productivity gain comes from updating to the latest version of the OS right away before all the compatibility kinks have been worked out.

A lot of people have a (completely understandable) weakness for the latest and greatest though.
I really would appreciate a link shortening service automatically creating IPFS mirror!
Why is that painfully obvious?
I was excited about Perl6 until I ran a prime number crunching benchmark which ran slower than everything else. I'll stick with Perl5 or move to Ruby. We too use Mojolicious and are very happy with it.
My grandfather told me on his first day in the military he had to stand (without any hearing protection) next to the anti-aircraft cannons when they opened fire to “train” the ears. He did not have much hearing left when he was older...
"profanity" are still in the source code if you search in Mozilla central :-) well, depends on how one defines "profanity".
There is still the option to make your own client or just buy something like Tweetbot which has no ads.

But I hear you. I find Twitter unusable without 3rd party client, and I think that is affecting my experience in an indirect way as well. I think the fact most people see ML picked tweets has caused fewer people responding to what I share now versus 4 years back.
> Long question short: do we have a secure cell we can buy/make?

Nope, and there won't be until there's an (open-source?) baseband that can be audited either.
That is somewhat analogous to proof of stake, I guess?
I used to believe Twitter was better. But once you're above a certain number of active (i.e. publicly retweeting) followers there's a pretty high chance that your tweets will end up in the feed that is used to generate the twitter stream archives:

https://archive.org/details/twitterstream?sort=-publicdate

These are tar files that contain bz2 compressed newline separated twitter events as json. These include deletion events as well, so you can for instance easily estimate the time an auto-deleter is set to.

Yes, they're huge archives, but you could still probably process a year of these for particular targets for under $10 on EC2.

Whilst I'm impressed with archive team's efforts, I would be surprised if there aren't some commercial twitter stream consumers that absolutely dwarf this.

Treat everything you put on twitter as public forever and you won't go too far wrong.
Perl has sub signatures since 5.20.
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Amazon wants to make $1B TV adaptation of Three Body Problem