skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like Friendica (along with most of these other "decentralized social media" things) is federated, not distributed in the way that Bitcoin is. They work kind of like email: each person picks one service to use, but users can follow each other across services.
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There will be no company to be outraged at, when all of your data is siphoned... progress!
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Perhaps. We could argue the semantics of it, but it feels within the spirit of the VRP. It directly impacts the secure and correct functioning of a (the!) core Google service.

The VRP page [0] talks about the "maximum impact" and this impacts users and advertisers, as well as businesses relying on organic Google traffic.

However, I take your point - I'm aware this is not a typical sort of issue for a bounty.

To reiterate - I am grateful to Google that they run the bounty programme and that they awarded a bounty for this. I've previously reported several issues (e.g. [1]) that have not been rewarded any bounty, which is the nature of the programme and absolutely fine.

[0] https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/
[1] http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/confirm-google-users-email/
not sure why you're getting downvoted for this. Those working for Google (or any large Silicon Valley firm) are usually among the top in their league and should be able to decide where they want to go based on their ideals/values, not because they have no other choice. Compared to the gazillions of engineers out there who are part of a 2nd or even 3rd party outsourcing chain (on crap salary and without rights in the company), Google employees are there because they want to. If the general opinion (in light of what we learned) now shifts towards a believe these companies are evil (which IMO they are) then I hardly feel sorry for the individual engineers. Googlers, Facebookers, Palantir guys should adapt and adjust or read "Who moved my cheese". Time for making these changes are now IMHO.
Imagine if Russian Google workers are making something for US military? I'm pretty sure it would be considered treason under Russian laws.
Not really. The octahedron defines the positions you pre-render the impostors from. The actual rendering uses a flat plane (like a regular billboard) but with a parallax shader and depth offset to make it look bent.
Sounds believable to me. The human eye doesn't have as broad of a field of view as the brain's post-processing would lead you to believe, so it's very easy for its search pattern to miss small objects.
Is this thing really decentralised (as in e.g. IPFS) or just federated (like Mail/SMTP)? The website does not offer many details.
When I worked in television news, long ago, it was under the wing of the independent news department. TV news, now, is under the programming department and beholding to marketing. Thus, you'll find "news" stories about products being introduced--even promoted--by "news stories" and pretty boys and girls. Especially on local TV shows where money is tighter and few stations employ full-time news personnel to actually dig into a story and are only "rip-and-readers" as we called them back in the day.
I rather trust a fairly recent review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538484/
I loved using bidet's in Europe and about a year ago learned that they are not actually expensive, I got one for like $20 that I was able to install myself and I can not recommend it more highly.
Well, some people are pretty certain that if there's one thing that will eventually destroy this planet, it must be science.
Note that none of this reflects my opinion, and is purely as objective a summary as I am capable of.

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There are many varieties of things in nature you can use to wipe with, in contrast to the modern choice which has been reduced to white paper with or without printed flowers.

One can carve sticks out of firewood, and use them to scrape residue off. It was important that the sticks had a smooth and sharp edge. They take about a minute to make. They are disposeable, and you could make them ahead of time. When you cut wood with an axe, you get a lot of tiny pieces of wood left which are great for this. You could not use human poop as manure in situations where the used sticks would cause trouble. You did not wash your hands, because you only held onto the end of the stick that hasn't been in your butt.

In case you were out and didn't want to make sticks, you could use moss. Or fruticose lichen (tree moss, old man's beard). The lichen is better than moss because moss is wet. In an emergency, snow works, but it is very cold. Hay and other forms of dead grass work too.

This worked because poop was less sticky in the old days. The types of food they ate made their poop come out in solid pellet form. They did get stomach bugs with the associated loose stool, but simply had to take it for the nuisance it was. Maybe try to get hold on some water to clean off.

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Edit: s/burning wood/firewood/ lest someone gets a really stupid idea...
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I don't think that's an appropriate analogy. If steel is the commodity in this example, then general AI techniques would be the analog for Google. Here, employees are complaining about a specific project working with the DoD, not generally working on AI:

"Google is implementing Project Maven, a customized AI surveillance engine that uses “wide area motion imagery” data captured by US government drones to detect vehicles and other objects, track their motions and provide results to the Department of Defense."
As a parent thank you! It is amazing the things a diaper managed to neatly contain. I always imagined there was a group dedicated to design things the elastic catch on the edge of the diaper.
> for when you want the entire world to be able to use it

True in 2004, today options are plentiful.
After Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Parameter Store got some much needed love last year (adding KMS encryption and versioning), I wrote a small utility for populating environment variables using a specific Parameter Store prefix: https://github.com/nlindblad/confidential

It can either write the environment variables out to a Docker compatible environment file or it can be used as a wrapper to run any executable/script with the environment pre-populated. The README contains various examples of those use cases.

The primary motivation was to have proper secrets management for my hobby projects that didn't rely on Ansible Vault, configuration files in S3 or having to use the AWS SDK in each project.
I don't think you can ever blame the engineer who designs the weapon, unless it is obviously ethically problematic like, a better iron maiden (as an example, I know it's probably a hoax device).

Merely offering a force projecting capability is not evil.

If you look at world history, the only concrete definition of who has most political power is this: it's the party with the most capability for projecting violence in a given area.

Small close knit groups that live outside of large populations can live independently and do without military force. Once you have a large population with more or less fixed hearth and home the party with most violence projection capability owns them politically.

This dynamic is played in almost ridiculously minuscule scale in the peloponnesian wars of the greek city states of antiquity.

The pathological manifestation of this principle can be viewed, say, in the rise of ISIS and the Somali warlords.

While a modern state is seldom a benevolent actor, at least in the western countries it's the best of known alternatives.

In this framework violence is a key tool of the state, just like good governance, tax collection, etc.

Given that violence is a necessity, in my opinion designing military instruments in itself is not evil. It's not as good as designing new vaccines, so there is some ethical scale in the matter, but I'm damned if I can put it in concrete terms.
Does FB make $5 a month off the average user? If not, $5 a year? Regardless of what FB makes, could $5 a year keep a FB clone alive at FBs current volume? Would people even pay that?
This sort of model also fits nicely with the AWS ecosystem. EC2 instances (virtual machines) can be given an IAM Role when they boot-up. An IAM Role is essentially an automatically generated access key which is unique to that EC2 instance, and has pre-determined permissions.

So in other words – a unique key is generated every time a virtual machine is created. It's fully automated, never shared between instances, and never needs to be handled manually. That key will give the virtual machine permission to access other AWS services, in this case the AWS Secrets Manager.

So as long as you're using EC2 instances, you won't need to worry about securely passing a 'master password' to your VMs in order for them to access secrets.
Auto-pilot will put massive pressure on states and municipalities to improve road maintenance - specifically lane indicators and fixes to "peculiar" roads/intersections etc. This will increase budgets, which will in turn create massive opposition to self-driving autos by those not wanting to pay more taxes for other people's fancy cars.

I travel/drive a good deal in the summer and for a few years now have silently (mostly) muttered to myself that if auto-pilot cars are going to use "painted lines" to navigate - they're "gonna have a bad time".

Poorly painted lines aside, think of how many "wtf" moments you have on the roads around your town - just down the road from my house is a road that just... ends (due to poor planning years ago). It's obvious to human drivers what to do (you're supposed to exit the paved road and drive over a hump to the dirt road that continues), but for auto-pilot? Not so much unless they make use of "data sharing" that would reveal the human solution to this screwed up piece of road.
I believe that the way Government contracts work does not allow non-citizens (perhaps non-residents?) to work on them.

(at least directly)
We could use these guys in our city. Power to the people.

The city’s approach is “see no evil” until you submit a see click fix ticket.

But you need to submit them for individual holes. My street looks like a lunar landscape, but the crew will show up and fix the single hole pictured in the ticket.
Got a link, brand, or model number for these "science" grade blades? I've been an on-and-off DE shaver for some years, and I've never heard of this option. I settled on Feather blades myself.
The media tends to push binary stories of humans vs AI. Science fiction, on the other hand, has long explored the complexity inherent in human, AI and cyborg interactions.
Because you could be doing whatever you want to do, instead of what your boss or board of directors or CEO wants you to do.

I would say that we absolutely don't need work to be happy, we need hobbies. A job can be a hobby, if you really enjoy it. But the vast majority of people don't really enjoy they work, and don't really have an option to switch to a job they would love.
Giving up political news didn't make me happier, but it certainly reduced that niggling feeling that everything is headed towards doom.

It's said that "an informed citizenry is the bulwark of democracy", and that's probably why many of us consume so much political news.

However, I feel seeing the news and expressing outrage privately or on social media have become low-effort excuses for not doing things that can actually improve our governments. Outrage does not affect anything except our own peace of mind and health.

As far as I can tell, atleast in my country, only two things lead towards any real change - 1)protests and 2)money. Either I should put in the effort to organize people and protest, or I should spend money trying to influence decision makers. Since I suck at the first and lack in the second, I decided to be apathetic towards everything political.
Well, self driving cars will/might make well over a third of the workforce redundant (the brother of my wife is a driver, that makes it personal for me), I think that this has the potential to create major tensions within society. My point is that innovations have the potential to be applied in different contexts. So what?
I refuse to buy the new MBPs for corporate use. Just keep buying the older model. The new one is an unmitigated, overreaching, disaster. Oh and BTW, if Apple discontinues the older MBP, I will NEVER buy a MBP with a Touch Bar. Utterly ridiculous. I look forward to reading about what a stupid technology blunder this was years from now in a listicle of tech mistakes.
There is little in the way of ethnicity. Ashkenazi Jews are an ethnicity, Jews in general, aren't. They even spoke different languages before Hebrew became a thing in early XX century, and many of them still do.
If Google doesn't, then Amazon or Microsoft will. If America doesn't get there, China will. And if China takes over, then these employees will be forced to work for China.
Until self driving cars start crashing in to you
Yeah, the trouble is though.. the tugboats got paid for and the steering gear didn't fail as it wasn't used.

Same here, he goes a different way and costs the company money and all of a sudden its not comparing the cost of the diversion with the cost of the loss of the ship and crew, its only comparing it to a safe but tense voyage.
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Yes there's a treasure trove just waiting to be mined and abused unfortunately.
They were "selected" because they were likely to fail, gave pithy interviews, and were young and hopeful. Facebook even gave them $50K - that is not competition, that is coddling a child.
Another thing is that this will only appeal to people who are generally tech-minded and not the average joe who uses social media.

Most people who uses social media etc. doesn't want to download a lot of things, access should be fairly easy and painless without some sort of "guide", which is what I can see as the downfall for this "social network"
I wouldn't go quite as far as saying people "have to" use Facebook, but there are fairly significant social costs to someone who chooses not to.

Many people's friends communicate primarily via Facebook, and you can't just get around that by using phones and emails. People have discussions, invite people to events and post important life updates on Facebook. Often the primary communication mechanism for an organisation or even a local business will be Facebook. And they often won't re-circulate all that information via email just for the benefit of people who don't use it.

And yet people insist on trivialising these costs, and blaming individuals for this massive invasion of privacy because they chose not to incur these costs, rather than questioning the circumstances that have led to people feeling forced to make such a choice.

Do you really think the people who are having their privacy violated explicitly chose that trade off because they're "lazy"? Or do you think, presented with a choice between signing up to a seemingly innocuous helpful website, or encroaching social isolation as their friends start using it, they chose the former?
I think there's two really important points here, and they're only loosely connected to each other.

1. Youthful trial and error is really powerful. I had access to a 286 during my formative years, along with the manual for DOS 4.0. I sat down with that manual and typed in every command to see what it did, until I got to one (I think it was RECOVER?) that overwrote all 30 Mb of the hard drive with garbage files. Then I had to learn how to install an OS. After that, I stopped entering random commands, but fortunately I'd already discovered BASICA and EDLIN.

2. Being able to hold a program in your brain and write it down in a notebook is a huge advantage. I've done all of my best work with pen and paper.
“Ethnicity” is a pretty broad and vague term. People don’t have to speak the same language or be the same race to consider themselves the same ethnicity.
They are also smart enough to know that their opinions matter within the company, and they can affect positive change. This open letter is one mechanism for doing that.
They don't have to. Please quit if you're against it. Americans and Canadians will gladly take these jobs.
Can autopilot v1 cars be upgraded to v2.5? I'm assuming since you mentioned a camera it's not just software.
Yes, if the bodybuilder can be software-upgraded remotely out of the coma.
And don't get me started about removing the glowing apple logo on the back of the screen. No reason for it -- now the back of the MBP looks just as shitty and cheap as every other craptop on the market.
I love how you mention Facebook, yet Facebook moved away from traditionally PHP and made their own PHP engine and has a lot of native code in C++.
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"No one cares that their personal data is being sold" is a HN talking point. A lot of people care.

Example: In the EU so many people care that legistators are taking measures to protect the people.

Perhaps it's just the people around you that don't care...?
The broader issue is how this may play to motivating people to discover/report these sorts of issues in the future. I have a couple of other ideas for search related attacks, but am not sure I'm going to explore them any longer.

Agreed. Relative to the value of exercising this exploit, your bounty is missing a few 0’s at the end. I hope that you at least get some professional credit for this, and that it translates to a financial boost. You certainly deserve it for discovering something like this and doing the right thing with it.
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Saying “When you drive you are in control” is fine, but you’re not always the only person impacted when you crash.

As we have no control over how others drive, statistics are more relevant.

As a pedistrian, I care about cars being on average less likely to kill me. If it means I’m safer I would rather the driver wasn’t in control of their own safety.

The ethical solution is the one with the least overall harm.

Of course being safer overall while taking control from the driver is unlikely to drive sales.
From other things I've seen from Schama I think he starts the book there because he is fascinated with the episode, not because he thinks it's the first solid evidence of Jews.

He sees Elephantine as countering widely held beliefs about ancient Jewish life (that it was all in Israel, homogenous, etc), containing interesting analogues to the present day, and being an altogether interesting story.

It can be more difficult to spin a good yarn from the older material.
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Seccomp, selinux, grsec, namespaces, blocking module loading and many others absolutely exist to take capabilities away (or can be used that way) from full user access (root or other) to limit what an unknown-at-the-moment exploit can do.
I have this C project based on CodingTrain videos that also ships an fbdev_runner: https://github.com/mar77i/cgbp
I would guess "we'll give you social network, not a total-surveillance tool" would qualify. I don't think the second part would have been a reasonable expectation.
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In short, it'd be magic.
Just send content as <img src=...> in a secondary server that can be deleted whenever.
Corollary to that is that they're not forced to work at Google. Google should work on ethical things if they want to keep their employees.
Yeah, having worked on a medium scale web service that sent email before the days of managed email list SaaS like MailChimp... I don't miss those days.
Your first mistake is that you limit yourself to what's "in", rather than what gets the job done "properly".

For serious long term business apps you want to use multiple technologies that all integrate with each other, where each are used for the tasks they suit best.
Heh heh, struck a nerve with some CCW holders ;)
A whole new spin on a databreach/dataselling : Don't worry, we just decentralized your data!
The new keyboards drive me nuts, too. Old ones were 100x better. How did they not notice how quickly and crappily the keys turned to degraded mushstate? Never left the clean room?
Answer for your given question: Java + Oracle. They'll both be supported by legions of enterprise devs until shortly before the heat death of the universe.

Real answer: it depends. You've told us nothing about your application's business requirements, operating environment, or staffing availability.

I'd also caution on the idea "put aside what your devs are already familiar with" - different tech can give you different velocities, but either you accept a much lower velocity for a long initial period while your team spins up OR you accept a significant recruiting cost to hire new devs & teach them enough about the business to make good decisions.
Dig little deeper on Youtube:
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In the US 5mW is the legal limit for laser pointers. I think that can be used as a guideline, 3mW IR is much less energetic than a 5mW green/blue laser, perhaps it's not powerful enough to cause huge concern? But I agree no amount of laser is safe for the eye. Police LIDAR guns are 905nm at 50mW, that can technically damage you too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDAR_traffic_enforcement#How_...
1. Companies are not democratic.
2. Being good at war is a good thing.
Not that it matters really, but I thought I heard this story quite a while ago, and in fact this article was published: MAR 15, 2017

"They also run the risk of being held personally liable if someone were to be injured by the pothole they attempted to fix"

This makes me uncomfortable - are municipalities held accountable for injuries caused by a pothole? Are they held liable for injuries caused by a fixed pothole?
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When I nuked my Facebook account I didn't bother finding a replacement.

The harder problem (for me) to solve is how to build up weak ties outside of social media.
Citizen, background checks, and for DoD, secret accreditation. So the chance of a Russian employee working on a DoD project are non-existent.
Never had an issue, you just have to squat deep enough.
“It’s not safe or legal for people to fill potholes on streets that are maintained by the city,” says Rivera. “They run the risk of being injured in a traffic crash.... They also run the risk of being held personally liable if someone were to be injured by the pothole they attempted to fix.”

Not legal? Everything starts being illegal when it's an embarrassment for the governement. As in capitalism's paralyzie? Let these guys decide if they want to run the risk to be injured.
In 2017 FB made $40B in revenue on 2B users.
> it doesn't get burning hot to the touch when doing actual work on it

The latest generation of Macs definitely run cool, fwiw. I've never once noticed the heat
Ugh. Yeah, I regret deeply buying cloth diapers for my twins. The economics looks better for twins, since you only need like 50% more, but the time premium is higher than expected with twins, so it ended up eating into too much prescious downtime. Worse is we couldn't get them to stop drinking the majority of their fluid intake before bed, and the pee at night required us to use absorbant disposables anyways. In the end I'm not sure they were a net positive investment, even ignoring the higher than expected opportunity cost of havings twins.
Federation is a form of decentralization.

What you're looking for is federated vs peer-to-peer decentralization.

Friendi.ca is federated and decentralized.