skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he’s saying that it’s dangerous to think that your messages are safe from being uploaded to other companies because even if your device protects you, the people that you message might be using devices that do not.

Ideally then you’d limit the amount of SMS messages you send at all, and use a secure messenger like Riot.im.

There is no such thing as 100% security and privacy but we should strive to achieve the best security and privacy that we can.
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Property owners set their own rates and don't get detailed directions from Airbnb for each stay.
I both agree and disagree.

Yes, definitely think before publishing, even if it's meant to be "private", say a self-destructing private message, because anything can be saved somehow.

On the other side, we change. Things that were relevant to me, things I genuinely thought to be true 16-18 years ago (I had a blog for a while now), I see a bit differently today, and I might like my current, tuned back views to be read, not the ancient ones from a disappointed teenager.
Concentration has a lot to do with it. More dilute solutions of HF may cause burns, but t it's unlikely to kill you.

Concentrated HF is another beast entirely.
For sure, although we definitely strayed into moral territory. Even limiting ourselves to authors though, that's a concept whose meaning is radically different nowadays (when it means anyone who can type - including on a touchscreen - and knows how to hit the publish button on Medium/Wordpress/Tumblr or wherever) to what it was in the past, when it meant having to go through at least some amount of gatekeeping at the relevant publication.

Would you really want some sort of naively politicised rant that you wrote as a teen and no longer believe to affect your ability to get a job in your mid-thirties? Would that even be fair? Of course not. Yet that's absolutely realistic in a digital world that forgets nothing and where permanent and total erasure isn't an option.

(To be honest, age isn't particularly a factor here: over a period of a couple of decades anyone's beliefs can change quite substantially, and plenty do. Granted, plenty also don't, but entrenchment is a choice, even if one made passively).
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Source? My gut tells me this is not true, but I'm willing to be convinced.
I use a google suites account for basic MDM features on a family of iPhones. Tried the osx server route on a mac mini and it certainly had 100x more control, but I found I really only needed the basics that were available in the admin panel.
> Definitely don't listen to the people at the bottom telling you how to run your life. Ideally, listen to people who started where you started, and rose to where you want to get.

There's a lot of bad advice there too. People like to attribute their success to something they did but most people have no clue why they are successful. Luck has a lot to do with it and sometimes people succeed in spite of things they think might help.
It is good to see Nvidia trying to create a virtual world like Google has. But the problem is Google has the real-life experience to use with their virtual California.

But honestly Nvidia is so far behind in SDC and without any patents it is hard to see them competing.

https://www.theatlas.com/charts/r1iEkmKkz

Yes obvious would agree. But Google implemented late 2014 and Nvidia did NOT in 2014 or 2015 or 2016 as far as I am aware?

AI is not a secretive area. So if Nvidia had something we would know. On the lack of patents puts them in a very weak position. Especially with SDC.

" but note that they had to go out and buy that expertise."

This is one of the more stupid things I have read in a bit on the Internet.

In late 90s Larry Page was asked about using AI to make search better. He shared we are doing search to make AI better.

TPUs did NOT even come from Deepmind. But honestly knowing what to buy is important. But Google is miles ahead of everyone without Deepmind. TF also did NOT come from Deepmind. So many other things. I would actually say the Brain team has done a lot more in actual production than even DeepMind. But DeepMind is Google and rather dumb comment, no offense. How old are you?

Yes the TPUs are very strategic. It is how they were able to do AlphaZero. Or more importantly their new Speech offering at a reasonable cost. Without the TPUs that would not be possible and that is a strategic advantage for Google and why Amazon and everyone else will copy.

Buying off the shelve can NEVER give you a strategic advantage.

Google does NOT run their inference at scale on Nvidia. But also training has been moving to TPUs quickly for Google. They offer a choice but with the TPUs half the price as it shows how much better they are.

You want to get TF to be the canonical solution and then use your fundamental advantages. Just business 101.

"The TPU is not heads and shoulders above the competition. "

We can see the TPUs are heads and shoulders better. Heck they are half the cost. Much bigger advantage than the iPhone. But more importantly they will improve far faster than anything from Nvidia.

"Basically, Google is not starting from a 'commanding lead' position like Apple did. "

Google lead in AI is much, much larger than any of Apple. Heck Apple market share is about 14% and Google with Android has over 80% market share.

"Larger ecosystems tend to beat fully vertical stacks in the long term. "

There is no Nvidia eccosystem that I am aware of? The AI eccosystem is built around TF.
I'm guessing it came from "another era" where you could buy stuff like this without an issue?

But even few years ago I visited a wolfram mine in Portugal on a job, and was told by the guy I worked with at the time that the miners are using stuff "banned long time ago in UK" to clean the tips of the guiding ropes which we were replacing. I was never told what it was, but nowadays I suspect it was HF.
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I recommend not just any chemistry course but specifically this one:

MITx 3.091 "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry"

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-solid-state-chemistr...

It's "archived" - good enough, everything is accessible, you just won't be able to get a "grade".

It's the gateway to "materials science" too. It is more at the edge of chemistry, towards physics and engineering. Not to mention that the teaching in this course is pretty good. Also, it is not dumbed down, you can go to MIT, take the same course and feel right at home. It's about properties of materials as a consequence of the chemical/physical properties of the components (atoms/molecules) and how they are structured (example: diamond and graphite are both made of carbon, then why are they so different).

If you want to get up to speed on "just chemistry" try Khan Academy, their explanations are pretty good and you can easily select what interests you because it is broken down into many small pieces.
Another big deal is that it'll get stored in server logs too.
'should'

Someone should redesign them, someone should rewrite OS support for them, and someone should pay for all that?
It's a sphere in human scale.
It's interesting but I can't help but think we'll look back at videos like these the same way we look at artists renditions of futuristic sky-cities with people flying jet packs to work. The future in this area is eventually going to be some kind of neural interface to inject sensation into our brains, not inflating bags of air in a jacket.
And.. if they can make them even more low power, as they have the CPU/GPU and Wireless (Bluetooth/wifi). they might get an even larger advantage on battery/performance.
Apple's Photo app's interactions are so incredibly broken that is nigh impossible to figure out how to properly remove photos from a service without accidentally deleting them across all devices you own.

Heh, I'm a programmer, and I'm scared to touch anything in that app :)
Wasn't it how everything worked back in the early mainframes and timesharing days?
Your last two points may be valid, I can't say I use any Google apps other than maps, but iOS has password management built in. When I first logged into an app using face recognition, it was one of those magical "wow" moments.
Let's throw all puns in the Punama Canal.

Also: A man! a plan! a canal! Panama!

is a pulindrome.
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It can't be easily undone if it was "clicked" by an automated process rather than a human being.
Unless you always pay cash - it should be trivial to link by the payment card number.
I've had to develop APIs for clients that could only do GET or POST requests. Sometimes you have to sacrifice correctness for what's actually possible.
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Not just browsers, but any service.
Also, they may have data that they just didn't "mine" yet. This may be data that they simply can't give you because it may concern you AND other people.
If you have users in the EU, but no actual physical or legal presence whatsoever within the EU, technically you "have to" comply. But if you do not do so, there will not be any consequences.

As such, effectively it is not in scope and does not need to be considered.

However there are cases where you might still run into trouble. For example, if you accept payments from people in the EU, you may well end up being forced to comply via the payment networks' presence in the EU.
Good discussion not long ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498341
From your punctuation I presume you're using swiftkey on Android :D

Such. Random. Punctuation.
Communication overhead is MORE relevant than it ever has been. Sure, large open-source groups can collaborate on a project, but each person needs to know the operating principles and what element of solution is being held paramount. Regardless of inputs, mathematics can "only optimize 1 variable". Large groups can offer a larger pool of situational knowledge, which is valuable, but if individual A knows a certain element MUST be included, they now have to convince a great number of people that they're actually right. "There are a thousand ways to skin a cat", but if you put 1000 engineers in a forum and ask them to skin a cat, each will chose and champion 1 of the thousand ways (exaggerated for effect) and if left alone will complete it. The artistry is in developing a system to discern a solution that is above average, within the agreed upon timeline. A 4 person team might only brainstorm the 4-10 most obvious solutions, but the discernment process is orders of magnitude simpler.
He's not a lawyer, but as a "GDPR implementation leader" I bet he talked to some:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-does-apply-eu-citizens-g...

But really, it's plain from the text.
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And with Apple you use Apple services which no doubt do the same invasion of privacy.

And if you don't want to see ads it's pretty easy, buy apps without ads rather than using ad supported apps.

> Similarly, a lot of the inconveniences you point out (e.g. LastPass), are also a way of protecting you from rogue apps (e.g. Facebook) from tracking everything you do on your phone. That level of integration means that any app can read anything in your browser and operate on it independently of a human action.

This is patently wrong. No rogue Android app has full access from tracking everything on your phone and your browser. There is security in Android, and you can selectively choose whether to enable them for certain features. For example having a custom keyboard is possible to enable the lastpass features, but you have to go and set it to on (the app can't do it). And you get warned that it can have access to what you type (it should it's a password manager). But point is that you have the option, but apps are locked down by default and can't just access everything like you have stated.
Usenix page: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon18americas/presentat...
> Idempotence is not the problem here, by the way. That just means calling the method twice has the same effect. But GET should have no side-effect, in an ideal world. Of course, in the case of unsubscribe links, it needs to have a side-effect to comply with the law.

Thank you! I felt like I was taking crazy pills with my understanding of idempotence.

Calling GET /door/open is idempotent too, but it's still gross in my opinion. The author makes it sound like that would be fine.
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There is a great rundown of the history of fluorine by Isaac Asimov in _Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing_ (it might be excerpted from his book _The Noble Gases_, I'm not sure. I couldn't find an online version of the text)
And every computable function can be expressed in Brainfuck. That doesn't mean that some algorithms are a lot more elegantly expressed when your language supports recursion.
> even though a home builder would go out of business without the sub-contractors. //

They wouldn't, because they could drop in a replacement contractor. In your example the house builder relies on contractors but not the specific set of people doing the contracting (as in the parent), so any contractor can be replaced readily from the pool of contractors.

In theory a contractor can send someone else in to do the work, as long as the work in the contract is completed. If you demand a specific person to do work then they're likely an employee.
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Want to second this and mention that as of iOS 11, the built-in keychain works inside apps. It's also the reason I've switched back to using Safari on the desktop as my default browser. Neither Firefox nor Chrome use the keychain properly (hard to tell whether this is Apple's intent).
Head phone jack is a big issue.

I have no desire to keep one on me at all times on the off chance that I will need it.

I just stop listening to music or using the device for that use case.

Basically dropping the functionality of the phone significantly, unless I’m home or near my tech storage locker.

This is assanine design.
No, they should've designed it correctly in the first place.
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I assume they mean General Purpose Computing.
> A single step, a button push, to confirm an unsubscription is fine.

No, it really isn't.

Lots of mailing lists operate exactly as the person you replied to mentioned where after unsubscribing you are given a chance to undo that action. That's a far more respectful way to operate.
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Not to mention the millions of people who don’t have a radical artery because it has been harvested to use as a coronary artery for coronary artery bypass grafts
The real problem here, as usual, is web browsers, the worst class of software ever written. We constantly come across these CSRF-style bugs that are only made possible by how stupid the browser and HTTP are, but instead of blaming the culprit and trying to deal with the source, we blame ourselves for not being accommodating enough. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me 5,000 times, shame on me. Oh, and occasionally invent hackneyed fixes like CORS.
Speaking of Google Phones, anyone here ha experience with Project Fi and want to share a little?
> This guide does not clarify one important question: Does a company in the EU have to apply gdpr guidelines for none European users

Does it really matter? Just give all users a fair treatment.
Google only gives support for paid things. I was a Nexus user for years and always got good service. I'm in Project Fi now and the service there is excellent. Just try getting support for a Gmail bug, if you're not paying Google money for your phone.
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Great writing by Gary A. Taubes who is now better known for writing about carbohydrates and sugar through books like "Good Calories, Bad Calories"
If your company is located in the EU the regulation applies to all your users worldwide. Actually i don't think what you are suggesting is a big concern - people were predicting that about the cookie laws.
Exactly this. This isn’t delusion or naivety. This guy was smart enough to build an app and gather together 500 million people on it.

With $20million per year in revenue, that means it would take over 700 years for Facebook to break even.

Any idiot would know that Facebook would change things up to profit from all those users and he knew it too. He just wanted to grab the money (understandstable) but now pretend like he had no clue (not understandable)
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I don't know why you get upvoted with so many false arguing.

1. I don't have technical issue.

2. Same apply with good android, you know the one that you don't buy.

3. I don't care about Facebook. Facebook as an argument...

4. What is revelent with this point?

5. Discord? Any other that Facetime beat it.
Many stereos and cars should accept Bluetooth connections by now, so I’m not sure what the problem is.
> This guide does not clarify one important question: Does a company in the EU have to apply gdpr guidelines for none European users.

Yes, the GDRP applies to anyone "in the Union". Someone on vacation from the US would be covered _while they are in the EU_.

If your company is based in the EU, then you must comply for all users, regardless of their current country or citizenship.
I had no idea these were photography, I always assumed they were renders.
I agree with the sentiment, but I'm not sure what can be done about it. Anyone can archive things privately. If you take away public archives, this means that only obsessive lunatics and the wealthy will be able to wield archived material as an instrument of power.

Our culture definitely needs to evolve a little and become more forgiving of youthful ignorance. That's really the only long-term solution.

Perhaps this is also a good use case for services like Hermit[1], which allows limited sharing among friends and other writers. The notion of "trying out" an idea on a platform with enormous public reach seems foolish at best. Comics test their new material in hole-in-the-wall dive bars for a good reason!

[1] https://gethermit.com
Maybe I'm just stupid, but that seems very clear to me from article 3.1 [0]:

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

[0]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
I'm really not sure what your point is?
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HIPPA expires 50 years after a person dies, perhaps in the future these cards will be sequenced and crimes with DNA can be narrowed down to descendants.
LOL, she's fine. I mean't the number of phone related issues.

You want to know something else? I hardly ever use my iPhone and she's become a much better user.
Same here, that’s what I thought as well :-)
I’m sure that the big documentary channels will pick this up and we’ll see both journeys in a few years.
Seems to me that the land journey will be harder to complete. When you’re sailing it’s easy to keep a “straight line” without having to consider mountains, rivers, permissions, politics and any other obstacles associated with crossing land.
I remember having a similar issue in 2000, before any (meaningful) client-side javascript. Solution: each link that did something also had a request_id parameter, which was a timestamp in milliseconds. Two requests with the same request_id meant the user had clicked something twice, so any action would NOT be performed multiple times if the same request_id came in more than once.

This let users double click on links and have the action performed only once. In 2000, hyperlinks were still confusing to some users who were used to "double-click = open", especially for file icons.

EDIT: added text in italics because initial wording was confusing.
>"The real problem here, as usual, is web browsers, the worst class of software ever written."

Can you elaborate? What class of software is this specifically? And why is it the worst?
Kinda seems like he really just wanted to use the word.
Not very efficiently, which is kind of the point here.
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Not if the button issues a POST request.
You know what would be a better test? Check if there is a job contract between company and person.
Try getting some PRs into an estabilished open source projects, such as for example Apache Spark, Mozilla Firefox etc. These projects follow standard, modern practices of software companies, so getting your PRs (maybe a couple of bugfixes or a minor feature/extension) approved means you should be qualified for a junior developer position.
I don't see why the browser or HTTP is to blame here? GET is supposed to be safe, so what the browser is doing seem perfectly fine to me.
Get a ball and a piece of string. Put the string on any two points of the ball and pull it tight. You'll observe that the path the string follows is part of an "equator" of the ball.
I think a distributed ownership model is actually the most likely model for self-driving cars given the capital investment required.
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Swirling liquids are a lot like Bitcoin in that they go right down the drain?
The problem I have with that explanation is that it seems to assume the existence of a universal client. How many clients are examining responses and using that to build up a UI for actions with no anticipation of what those actions might be?
With the minor caveat that gdpr-info.eu looks official due to the .eu domain, but is actually run by 'intersoft consulting services AG' as advertising for their consulting service (the content is just the laws of course)
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Why not just keep the dongle attached to your headphones?
B is mis-stated in this article (and therefore in your summary): it's about whether the type of work is part of the type of business, not about the location. The decision gives an explicit counterexample that a plumber fixing a bathroom in a retail store does not fail test B and still counts as an independent contractor, because even though the plumber is on aite, the retail store isn't engaged in plumbing work.

(B would be a surprising change for consultants and trainers if it were about location, but it seems to avoid that.)
I think the guidelines for cookie laws are not comparable, since gdpr required explicit checking a box until the service can be provided as opposed to a not very intrusive box in the footer.
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AFAIK that simply means that GDPR applies even if your servers are in the US (or anywhere else outside of the EU).
1. I don't understand, why would Android phones have more technical problems than Android? I don't recall experiencing any major problems in 8 years of having android phones, and I've even experimented with custom ROMs and kernels and the like.

2. Granted, updates are an issue. Not with very popular and/or Google-supported phones, like the pixel.

3. Why so? How do you know fb doesn't spy on your sms?

4. Do they? Or do they stop working because updates cripple older phones' performance and battery to make you buy new ones?

5. Pure marketing nonsense.
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> cookie banner law, for example

The 'cookie law' is actually subtle genius.

If your site only uses cookies for operational reasons, such as enabling login or maintaining a basket, you don't need to inform the user.

So anytime you see a cookie-banner that indicates that the site is doing something additional with cookies. Like tracking for ad-networks. It's a yellow-flag.