skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * If someone feels consequences of an offensive 2007 tweet, just delete it. Platforms should be required to make it easy to delete content.

...and I read that tweet in 2007, and quoted it in a blog post on my obscure, low traffic blog. Google will still find it.

> * Uphold social media to the same standards of traditional media, requiring truth and propagation of redactions and corrections. Libel and slander are well-established concepts.

What about the case where the damaging content is true? A key thing here is that what is acceptable changes over time. Something that can be a life ruining social faux pas today may have been pretty normal 20 years ago, and many people today won't accept the "oh, that was normal back then" explanation.

We used to be able to avoid these problems because it took effort to dig up records from 20 years ago, and from low circulation sources like local newspapers.

So, for example, if you did stupid things in your home town that ended up in your high school newspaper, and then 20 years later were applying for a job in a city in another state...the employer would probably not find that high school newspaper, even if you were applying for a fairly sensitive job in an industry like finance.

That's because to find things like that they would have to actually send someone to visit your high school library and comb through their archives of the high school newspaper. That's just too expensive to do routinely for job applicants, except for the most sensitive positions.

Nowadays, all that stuff ends up online from the start, and it is cheap and easy to find.

> * Demand discretion from friends. In college, my group had a strict "no-camera" rule when it came to embarrassing or unlawful shenanigans. My parent's generation had the same rule.

All it takes is one person in the group to slip up, or for you to overlook one third party who is not part of your agreement and who can see you. So really, the rule has to be don't undertake embarrassing or unlawful shenanigans. (And as I noted above, standards for what is embarrassing or unlawful can change over time, so it really needs to be don't do anything that could conceivably become embarrassing or unlawful in the next 50 or so years).

Essentially we used to balance privacy vs. public access kind of automatically, due to the limitations we had in information storage, indexing, and retrieval. We've removed most of those limitations, so the balance has been lost.
It's not clear to me how those two topics are related.

If it's about whether Google "knowingly" enabled sex trafficking, then it seems like a pretty simple argument is "sure, we knew about porn, but we didn't know about the sex trafficking" is a pretty reasonable defense.

Also, I don't know, I just work here.
Egypt arrests 3 suspected of planning church attacks
Ditto, mostly! There was one page of the Programmer's Reference Guide that had a grid showing the hex opcodes for each instruction and addressing mode, and after many adventures in hand-assembling code, this ended up being the most worn-out page in mine. :)
I can’t fault a low-level employee too much for enthusiastically defending their company. I can’t expect someone at that level to know about sound development practices.

What’s often lacking though is a clear path for reporting security issues to people such as this representative. They don’t have a process to flag something for the security team.
His songs are fantastic. My favorite line is the bleak description of graduation: "soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife / soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life".

However, the thing that I love the most is how he chose to live his life.

He didn't go on long tours, stay up all night to try to finish the next album, try to put his math skills to use on wall street, or otherwise chase wealth and fame.

He turned it all down to do what he enjoyed the most: faffing about with his hobbies, teaching math, and writing clever songs when he felt like it.
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Ask HN: Replacement for Facebook to keep grandma in the know
The main value I find on Facebook is to keep a handful of friends, relatives, and grandparents up to date with photos and small news items. I actually don’t feel it is the best tool for this anymore, but it works for now. My question is, what alternatives have you found? I kind of incision a phone all where you can still post photos and updates but the result gets turned it weekly email or maybe even snail mail newsletters. Thoughts?
There's something appealing about the idea that one's soul, or life force, takes some other form after death. Or that your life force is reincarnated, but with no memory of its prior life. I don't know how that would happen or if it's true, but the other thing I think is that the experience after your life ends, is the same as before you were born.

I don't really fear death. I'd rather my death not be painful, but I'll take what comes. It's part of the experience of living.
Also note the steroids OP listed are all orals, the list you have for steroids are oils that are injected.

All of these are used with a testosterone base. You don't want to run any of these without test. Some people back in the early bodybuilding days would use nandrolone (better known as Deca or the other variant equipose) as a stand alone cycle but that isn't recommended now.

Another thing that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere here is the use of HGH, IGF1, and insulin.

If you're training seriously for physical sport you need to be on an HGH cycle. This is something that isn't illegal(well its usually aquired illegally) and is prescribed through 'healtg and wellness' or anti-aging clinics.

Insulin is probably going to be more common for weight lifting because it is an incredible anabolic hormone. There are huge risks to using it and can kill you if you mess up. Shockingly anyone can walk into Walgreens and buy it though.
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> It's amazing the effect a CEO locked in a cage for a few years like an animal has on the population of CEOs as a whole. Treat digital infrastructure like we treat real infrastructure. If people built bridges the way we build software infrastructure, rafts of executives would be rotting in prison.

Never going to happen. Especially in the current 'business friendly' administration. This [1] book does a great job at explaining why. I don't think we'll see a CEO behind bars for anything white-collar in our generation. Sadly. Judges and prosecutors are political animals too, you know.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute...
It can be lighter but what does that mean in practical terms if the cost of maintenance is monumental? I think with even just the barest bones practical computer with wifi + with email + browser + compiler and their dependencies is well beyond the scope of what one person is able to audit. You'd need a team of at least 20-30 individuals before that starts making sense.
Right, so, if we use virtual blocks the size of the physical blocks and either parity block or one of the data blocks are destroyed it is still possible to get the data. And with writes if a write fails our layer can just try to write a bit farther and farther until it succeeds.
I don't know, but it's a good argument to have.
Do you have website describing this work? I poked around a bit and found your blog, but not one specifically describing your work for VCs.

--A fellow techie that has done a wide variety of freelancing and consulting the past decade or so; your transition comment caught my eye...
Or the reef a competitor made from IBM hard drives offshore of IBM's Florida office.
Right, so there needs to be incentive structure to force property owners to make the most of the land. If the house is old and crappy, then taxes should force them replace the building with something more useful/more dense in order to offset taxes.
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Feds seize classified ad site Backpage.com over sex trafficking ads
If you use Chrome or Firefox, almost all of your data is hidden from the ISP - increadingly more sites use HTTPS, and use a CDN, and browsers are implementing DNS over HTTPS and have their own DNS resolvers. In addition, providers like Google are literally proxying your mobile requests to unrelated sites to capture even more data.

Google and CloudFlare can see probably more than 90% of your traffic without even trying. Google's business model is dependent on selling advertisement based on your data. Your ISP can see maybe 50%, and it's shrinking fast.

All of these companies exist because you agreed to them. You're paying them to continue this behavior, or using their free services. Stop agreeing to free services and stop using monopolies. Lobby your local government to overturn laws preventing municipal internet providers.

That won't happen though, because people don't really care that much about surveillance to go to those lengths just to stop it. Hell, the NSA is still illegally wiretapping US citizens.
Many people arguing against GDPR, right to be forgotten, etc do not support the DMCA at all. In fact, most in my experience deeply oppose the DMCA and even IP in general.
HGST won't be with us for much longer either due to the recent WD rebranding [1][2].

As part of the unification of our new Western Digital brand, the Ultrastar DC HC320 is being introduced under the Western Digital Data Center (DC) segment branding.

All new commercial and enterprise products going forward will carry this new Western Digital branding as we transition away from the HGST brand. Western Digital has gone through a significant transformation with the integration of multiple companies. Moving to the Western Digital brand for all of our commercial and enterprise products is the first step in unifying the brands in our portfolio.

[1] https://blog.westerndigital.com/western-digital-sets-new-hig...

[2] https://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc320
Analog wizards say that about RF engineers.
It works surprisingly well and it makes many operations faster than ext4. I noticed it especially when doing system updates.

And I've just read yesterday, that F2FS in Linux 4.17 will have further optimizations for low end systems. Yay.
Good article, but I'm not sure who it is targeted at. Companies/teams that do bad things the author recommends against (or don't do good things he recommends) are usually ran by people who either don't care or are pathologically clueless. They're not going to read this. If they do, they are not going to change the right thing. They will instead go to some business conference, listen to overhyped process consultants and force-implement more "agile" techniques that have nothing to do with what actually hurts their productivity.

Maybe, strip out most of the game dev stuff and write a small book? That might help. I don't know why, but books work on managers much better than articles. At least I can give or recommend someone a book without making it seem like an insult. "Hey, I've read this book by an engineer who worked on many large game projects. You should check it out."
> High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

That would be hilarious if it weren't the truth. But nobody actually wants to take the time to do it right so they end up doing it wrong and then taking a multiple of the time anyway.
The reason why I think it's anti-consumer is that by detaching the liability of fraud from the end consumer means detaching it from the whole system. No one really cares about the fraud if the consumer doesn't. The credit card company profits either way, but by removing any concern for fraud it makes more money.

I think a sensible solution is to split the liability between the merchant and consumer. Hiding it from the consumer hides it from the one party that would even care about prosecuting fraud.
No, if I understand correctly, he just bootstraps the nodes from each other, making sure they are initially strongly connected. I tried that too, but it didn't reliably help the problem.
Is this also applicable for androids?

I got a cheapie sdcard, which slowed my phone noticeably. On amazon, reviewers say (as here) that random RW are the key metric, and (at that time), the sandisk sdcards were the best.
UNDER the wide and starry sky

Dig the grave and let me lie:

Glad did I live and gladly die,

And I laid me down with a will.

- Robert Louis Stevenson. 1850–1894
Same motherboard.
Yep that's exactly what you would do.

However, in practice, this usually is just not a good indicator of confidence. NNs are notoriously overconfident.
I'm past 50. I think it's kind of getting old. My hair (what there is left of it) is getting gray, my skin is not as supple, that sort of thing. It doesn't bother me. But, I still feel like "me" and not really any different from when I was 25.
We already have a lot of mass of random junk falling into the atmosphere from space all the time. A result from a quick google search:

> Estimates for the mass of material that falls on Earth each year range from 37,000-78,000 tons. Most of this mass would come from dust-sized particles.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/75-our-solar-syste...

I guess this means the Earth gets slightly bigger and gravity becomes slightly stronger over time, but it's a much smaller effect than, say, the ocean's tides creating drag that slows the rotation of the Earth.

Presumably, the materials we mine and bring back aren't going to have the same composition as micrometeorites, since space gravel exactly isn't economically valuable. As long as we aren't bringing back super toxic or environmentally damaging stuff that's rare on Earth, I'm not too worried. Also, I expect all but the most valuable elements (e.g. gold, platinum) will be re-used in space to build infrastructure.

It's interesting that a robust space launch economy could compensate for the thousands of tons of annual space gravel, and cause the Earth to maintain its mass at a constant value.
Is this where sex dungeons are bought and sold? You know, the kind of place you rent on KinkBNB.
And?

A privacy violation via legal means is still a privacy violation. I fully acknowledge that we don't know what Microsoft does with our data either.
I completely agree. In addition, unlike programming, electronics ends up with a lot of physical extras.

I haven't done an electronics project in years and I'm still stuck with all the extra parts in my toolkit and shelf.
> I wonder how long reddit NSFW subreddits last.

I'm curious about other apps as well. Snapchat in case people aren't aware is used very heavily for prostitution and porn.

Twitter to a lesser degree but I have noticed it is also used a lot for this.

Interestingly google pay is the most popular payment provider that is used for this. I wonder why snap cash isn't used.
Prostitution is illegal because it leads directly into slavery. Why rent who you can buy?
you forgot to mention feminists who really love to fight prostitution
They got into trouble because their application was denied (ostensibly because their satellites were too small to be reliably tracked by ground-based radar) but they went ahead and launched anyway.
Wow that must be cool to have your last name be "Politely"
Well, the main problem is HTML sucks. It can't do things literally everyone wants to do at one point or another.

One example, scrolling table with fixed table head. Why is that not something I can specify declaratively? Why is that next to impossible, even with the aid of JavaScript.

Where are tabs? Where are image carousels? Why is it that styling forms elements is still essentially impossible? Where are <select> elements with icons? Where are calendar date pickers that allow me to select multiple dates and ranges?

Why was three columns with header and footer declared the "Holy Grail" of CSS for a decade? And does anyone remember building rounded corners with <b> tags?

Basic basic basic structures that literally every developer is asked to build don't exist. Every developer everywhere has wasted ridiculous amounts of time making something barely functional which should have been stupidly simple.
> Compatibility
> The sharedspace component requires a browser with WebRTC support which means any recent version of the most popular mobile and desktop browsers.

Just a cautionary note... let's see, how to put this fairly...

When Mozilla announced the general availability of WebVR, they meant on Windows. Around that time, WebVR on Linux had achieved a milestone... of sometimes crashing immediately after starting, instead of always crashing before. It's been described as 'caring so little about Mac and Linux, that even the awareness of non-support has been limited'.

And even on Windows, Mozilla described WebVR as ready for use something like a year ago. And yet there's a thread here today, about trying A-Frame on Firefox, and being made sick, and this being a known problem.

So least at some points in the past, Mozilla's blog posts about WebVR's usability, have been... aspirational. Motivational. And not full and fair disclosure.
Yes, but I don't like to advertise on HN. If you want you can mail me.

There are two articles on the blog regarding this:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/due-diligence-survival-guide

https://jacquesmattheij.com/due-diligence-survival-guide-par...

Those are already more than 6 years old but they aged quite well.
I don't know if it's being done.

The web requests your browser sends to ad networks (or other colluding web properties) from vpn exit addresses, when analyzed as an aggregate, can be identified based on their time/length signatures. These would be correlated by the isp with traffic between vpn termination addresses and customer addresses. ISP can resolve a customer address to person.

Advertisers could add unique timing and size features to make this easier.
The great thing about death is that you won’t experience it. You’ve never experienced non-existence before and you never will. Being dead is just not something you’ll ever have to deal with.

This won’t be a popular view here, but lately I’ve begun to think that consciousness isn’t the kind of thing that can end. I used to think death was just inconceivable, but now I wonder if it’s fundamentally incoherent. I think one could make a phenomenological argument for the immortality of the pure self/ego (Husserl said some interesting things about this), but I won’t get into that here.

Either way, don’t worry about things you will never experience. :)
Of course not. But it is odd when the top rated comment directly below the video is essentially the armchair theory that was proposed.
That's great news. ProPilot sounds ideal for dealing with daily stop and go commute without the cost and risk of Tesla
Well, that isn't nearly all of the information. That is what they say, just like FB says they they don't abuse your privacy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

They have already shown that they are willing to violate people's privacy. That is useful information.
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Haha Hollister is totally commuting distance from San Jose! I live in Downtown San Jose and make the commute everyday. Opposite direction of traffic, beautiful drive! (although I do turn on autopilot quite often in the Tesla haha).
How did you learn about mindful meditation? I agree that there's a lot of noise in the self-help space, but I've found at least 5 books that I consider "must-reads" in terms of figuring life out. Maybe because I was raised by parents that were relatively poor/uneducated/young, but sometimes the best way to get this information is be taught it through a book.
Someone tried to rekindle the 1970’s saccharin scare in the early 90’s and a bunch of sodas and gums switched to aspartame. Which may be worse for you...
It's really telling that POF, CmB, Tinder, Match, Bumble, et al haven't made any moves. As though they did not anticipate impact.
Your recommendation is terrible. Mysql has data consistency issues. It's simply terrible to work with. It doesn't have real data types or complex indecies. The window functions they're adding aren't all that comprehensive. Window functions and ctes are in a pre release version, compared to what? Nearly a decade of production use? There are so many fewer gotchyas with mysql it's not even funny.

Just stupid things like "This version of MySQL doesn't yet support 'LIMIT & IN/ALL/ANY/SOME subquery'".

The query planner is crap and I've actually had it hang the instance.

The explain output is barely usable compared to postgres'.

Postgres supports a rich set of languages to write functions in.

Postgres supports rich set of column, row, and table access control.

Postgres supports returning syntax on updates.

As far as I know check constraints are still _silently_ ignored in mysql 5.8. silently! That illustrates exactly why I don't trust mysql and probably never will.

What is one advantage that mysql has that outweighs its enormous pile of garbage it brings along? What is one advantage worth not trusting your tool to work?
I think the current news media should share some of the blame for chasing dollars through emotion way more than journalism.

Shkrelli was a small bit player in that realm. Much larger companies with much more money and power are doing the same thing doing much more damage by sheer volume than Shkrelli. We certainly don't see article after article about that.
Not true, any carbonated beverage is acidic and not so great for your teeth. As with most things moderation is the way to go, but still, carbonated beverages are decidedly not good for you.
Federal record-keeping rules are pretty stringent. Generally speaking, you can't delete stuff. Especially important records. And public comments are a required part of federal rulemaking procedures--see 5 U.S. Code § 553(c) [0]--so they'd definitely fall into the "important" category.

In fact, the FCC's response to the bot activity was to point out that they aren't permitted to delete the comments, though a former FCC special counsel was quoted as suggesting that the FCC "might have an obligation under the Administrative Procedure Act to remove fake comments from its consideration."[1] But "removing fake comments from its consideration" isn't the same as actually deleting them, so I'd imagine that just means labeling them as "likely fake" and ignoring them in their deliberations. The same would apply to official FCC complaints. The FCC might ignore them, but they can't outright delete them without violating the law.

0. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/553

1. https://www.wired.com/story/fccs-broken-comments-system-coul...
I see why advertisers wouldn't like it, but how the heck isn't it good for users? You don't even have an explicit argument for that point, just the implicit "it might not be adopted." You're a bit disingenuous with your claim.

As for your proposed system, it could work, but the advertiser might be able to deduce a bit as they track them through engagement. A black box seems like the best system for users, and if Apple can force that on to developers more power to them.