skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a pseudonym FB account that I am forced to maintain for this reason (specialist interest groups). It's the new phpbb even though it completely sucks as a forum tool. The same questions get asked over and over. But worse is better I guess.

I went to great lengths to keep my account completely anonymized, so the suggested friends list is a hilarious cross-section of global randos. Of course being a pseduonym account I could be banned at any moment.
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Agreed, as noted in the survey I linked to, 9 out of 10 people (in accordance to this survey, but even its more realistically 7 out of 10, its still a lot of people) claim to. I think its a few things:

1. Awareness. I don't think people are aware of how/what services are collecting data and how that data can be collected

2. Influence. Its hard, I imagine, for a lot of people to drop social media altogether. Its not all vanity. My wife has a disability that sometimes leaves her bedridden for weeks. Without social media, she wouldn't be able to communicate with our friends unless they call/text/come over, which they do, but its not always feasible one of those things will happen, so following them on Instagram and chatting via Facebook Messenger is really helpful in keeping her spirits up in those times.

3. Inertia. I think a lot of the current outrage against Facebook has been media driven, in particular, I think after Trump got elected -

(just a side note here before I continue, I'm talking about a criticism of media in general, not democrat vs republican politics or anything of the sort)-

I have a strong feeling, that I can't really substantiate, so take it as you will, of course (I acknowledge I could be wrong), large main stream news outlets started digging around about the mechanics of that election, and stumbled into the Cambridge Analytica scandal as a result, increasingly their practices came under fire, in part because I think some large media organizations (rightly, in my opinion) blame their data harvesting practices on getting Trump elected in the first place.

This also brings up another point I find so sad: despite the openness of the internet, the mass media still reigns supreme in being able to influence the masses, and I (anecdotally) feel like the power of freely and ubiquitously available knowledge via the internet has not had the impact on this sort of thing that one would have hoped. It was one of the promises of the internet in the 90s, that we would all vastly become more informed and it would take vastly less effort (and it does, if you are looking for it).
> Why is that a problem? Why is it something to fix? Why do we want to achieve perfect 50% ratios on people's motivations and desires?

I personally don't think it's a problem. The disparity in computer science is so big that it does, at least, deserve an explanation, however.
The line in the sand for me was when I purchased new socks and, fresh from the sealed plastic wrapper, they just didn't have that glorious new-sock feel. Washings later I can still tell the difference between the counterfeits I got online and the real ones I got in a store, and it is always a little let down when they come up in the sock rotation.
All I can say is that more or less the entire security community disagrees with you that RCEs in Java programs are as common as RCEs in C++ programs.
My school required 16 credits to graduate with a PhD. Also, MS and of course, PhD theses. I worked on an MS in dataflow distributed system security for 1 year before my advisor bailed out on the topic. No credits for thesis work, 2.5 classes per term for 3 years. 3 accepted journal papers is the standard graduation yardstick. Under these circumstances it was impossible to finish in 4.5 years (brilliant + lucky) or 5 years (very smart) I guess I made the mistake of sleeping (6.5yrs). My dad did it in 3 years but he went to a #1 school that wasn't insecure (Princeton, math) so not so many damned courses.
I'll add that as soon as you charge more than zero you'll lose revenue to some VC-funded copycat with no hope or intent of ever becoming profitable before the early stakeholders sell the worthless husk to some sucker. Those are the "ethical standards" so many here are fighting for.
There's also yacy which is the distributed search effort. Tiny by size, but worth mentioning.
I didn’t say renters dont pay.

What I’m saying is that you don’t (usually) get to buy a house for $0 down. So it’s never a choice of $2000/mo for rent vs $1000/mo for mortgage. It’s more like $20k cash + $2000/mo for rent vs $20k equity + $1000/mo mortgage. Over long enough time horizons the monthly payments don’t matter and it’s a question of which investment appreciates more.
I thought the same thing, but there's a rumor suggesting Microsoft may make Xbox One games available on Windows via the Windows Store. It seems a bit far fetched to me, but not impossible. If true, they might be right about not needing to cut it and still be able to threaten Steam.
I know there's been discussion of this topic in the Scuttlebutt community but I'm not up to date on it.

One thing that comes to mind is hierarchical deterministic wallets where many different keys can be generated from a fairly small seed which can be loaded onto multiple devices.

This also might have some ideas: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/documents/
Certainly the x86 decompiler improved! It hadn't existed. We also got graph view, a Python interface, a native Linux port using Qt, and 64-bit binaries.

IDA comes with amazing technical support. I've emailed complaints, then gotten a freshly-compiled build with a bug fix within a couple days. Funds are thus improving quality in ways that customers request.
I wanted to read that then the trying too hard ui made it impossible... at least on mobile.
What price you have set for your elearning courses?
My point is that people keep on saying Facebook is harming me through its data collection, but no one has provided an example. Same with you, you assert that Facebook is harming me without giving evidence or examples of how the data is being misused.
Sure, when you ask people they tell you they care about Privacy. But their actions prove otherwise. And actions are what matter. It’s an unfortunate situation but that’s just the reality of it, like it or not. I don’t.
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I'm currently reading a remarkable novel modeled after War and Peace: Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

https://www.nyrb.com/products/life-and-fate?variant=10949301...

It's astonishingly good, both as literature and as an indictment of war and totalitarianism, and I'd recommend it to anyone who loves War and Peace.
Well, Microsoft is at an impasse here: I work for a large Enterprise, and we of course use Windows almost exclusively, and perhaps this is not their target, yet I will say this: None of our apps are going through that store. They're all coming from direct from vendor purchases, of which Microsoft gets Zero.

under this model, it encourages (perhaps) some of the smaller/medium Enterprise vendors to give up having to deal with a payment system at all, in exchange for simplified distribution (if I read this correctly) and no more payment handling, and in exchange MS gets a 5% cut.

This to me makes complete sense. Most of the Windows ecosystem for software is mostly out side of Microsoft's hands. Indeed, it is the #1 strength of the platform beside its ubiquity.

I actually think this is a brilliant insight on the side of Microsoft, by inverting this model they get a non-zero slice of a a pie they previously did not have.

It also encourages more vendors to uptake the distribution model via their Store, which I think is ultimately what they want more than a cut of sales in aggregate.

Say nothing of the home user, who beyond MS Office perhaps never transacts at all with Microsoft when they buy other software.
This sounds crazy
> but they haven't found good ways to monetize it yet and one of these days they'll ruin it.

What I think is ad supportted _anything_ turns to crap eventually. It's a toxic business model.
30,000 wallets using 30,000 independent methods of encryption, else you crack one, you cracked many. It's clearly not practical or achievable for any human being.
Like all digital goods, the marginal cost of MSFT doing this is zero. I don't think they are losing money on this, in terms of pure margins, its probably quite lucrative (though in absolute revenue, maybe not so much).
The Istio project is not supposed to be tied to Kubernetes. It is supposed to be a general-purpose service mesh.

That being said, I have been looking for a while and I can't find anyone who uses it in production on a platform other than Kubernetes.
Rents are set by supply (number of units available) and demand (number and pay of nearby jobs). An exogenous change in maintenance costs affects neither supply nor demand. A landlord is not going to drop rent merely because they can maintain your apartment cheaper, nor are they able to increase rent beyond what people are willing to pay. If they sell the unit, it is generally to either another landlord (who charges market rent) or to an owner-occupant whose previous residence faces the same situation.

Fundamentally, landlords capture any and all surplus value.
Just another one of 10 thousand reasons why reCAPTCHA is utter cancer on the web.
I've been traveling a lot for the past few years and public wifi combined with a bunch of other things makes _my_ reCapatcha ask me to answer multiple queries every single time.

By this point if I see reCaptcha I just close the window unless it's something _really_ important.

Also reCaptcha isn't any more secure than any other recent captcha solution when it comes to bot protection FYI.
Also object recognition/tagging on Instagram photos
I wonder if this feature will be made available here in Australia given our shitty encryption laws.
Can we crowdfund some patent troll busting? Or take down Amazon's stupid one-click patent. Preferably using proof written on an 1800s parchment with quill ink.
Ghidra appears to use version control, with a need to merge changes. Merges could get ugly.

I think Binary Ninja's enterprise version might involve clients connecting to a server that maintains the database. It would be more like Google Docs if that is the case. Actions in the GUI would request atomic transactions on the server, then display the current state.
I have - once opened up the app store to search for things on windows. It was after searching the web - but I barely use windows so the fact that I did at all is pretty remarkable really.

I found things closer to what I was looking for than I did on the web too, but still came to the conclusion that what I was looking for doesn't exist (a good non-mobile app for marking up pdf's with a stylus - the closest I've found is Microsoft Edge of all things).
You are the one who seems to be using esoteric interpretations of language to come to a conclusion that you have yet to provide any argument or evidence for.

The problem of interpretation is at the reconciliation phase that's what I care about.
I mean, I spent 10 years working essentially around the clock. I burned out, my mental health crumbled, I isolated from friends, my marriage fell apart. I'd never ever go through that for an employer. It's funny. With complete freedom to choose when and how I worked, I worked myself to the bone. I'm much happier with a job where I'm defensive about my time and wellbeing
Bums me out that this doesn't get better coverage. Truly disturbing documentary, not some conspiracy theory shit. This is going on, and (virtually) nothing is being done about it.
Not 8f you are playing Dwarf Fortress. Losing is fun :)
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Is this for the old school cool calc.exe or the new Calculator Windows 10 app?
I seriously doubt that - that phrase doesn't make any sense to a Russian speaker as an expletive.

P.S. That word is not old fashioned, it's used a lot in modern spoken Russian. It's quite vulgar though, much more so than the English equivalent.
It was not the case at the time. Censors were bright guys, including e.g. great writer Goncharov, or Nikitenko, who hadn't written any novels, but left very thoughtful memoires. On many occasions censors of controversial books were reporting to the tzar personally, or were tzars themselves (e.g. Nikolay I censored Pushkin).

Most 19th century was depressing and stagnant time wrt politics, so books drew immense public interest.

That said, op's example would be automatically censored by the author himself, since this language was unprintable in 1860s.

I don't know about the Dostoevsky's places, always thought it was a traditional trope - places named with the first letter are ubiquitous in Russian novels.

Edit: also, it's worth noting that much censorship was made to make books suitable for morally unstable or easily agitated demographics, like women, so sometimes the motives for a particular edit could be hard to relate from modern relativistic perspective.
> Caveat: if something’s “free,” you’re the product.

Always great to see this opinion on free news sites.
Google for "fake death mafia" returns a bunch of articles that talk about this death, and conveniently have the phrase "in a region known for fake deaths".

I don't understand how that becomes a reference point for any region being known for fake deaths. The search results in fact make it look like someone used his death to slander a whole region.
Actually, every central bank is audited externally.

USA: https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/audited-annual-fi...

Canada: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/annua...

England: https://news.sky.com/story/kpmg-faces-fight-t
just russian
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Yeah, I'm in the same boat, but it's easy for me because I'm thoroughly unlikable and have few friends anyway.
See, this is the problem, nobody understands what Uber is.

It's a platform for turning random unskilled people with cars into a cheap, temporary, on-demand labor force. You don't have to invest in a vehicle fleet, you don't have to train anyone, you don't have to pay for medallions. You just grab a random yo-yo with a vehicle and a clean driving record and they start making you cash.

You can't do that with a Taxi. For a Taxi there's a huge capital, personnel, and operational investment. To become a NYC Taxi driver, you need:

An application, an $84 licensing fee, a $75 fingerprinting fee, criminal background check, $15 copy of state driving record, no outstanding traffic or parking tickets or child support payments (??), a medical examination [you pay for], a $26 drug test, a six-hour $50 defensive driving course, attend taxi school (24 to 80 hours, $125 to $325), $25 English written and spoken proficiency test (optional $20 prep test), and a $60 wheelchair accessible vehicle training course. For the license you may have to memorize lots of information about your municipality. Only half of license test takers pass. You can join a company and earn 2/3 your fare per day minus fuel costs, or rent a cab for ~$100/day plus fuel. If passengers pay by card you may pay up to 10% in fees. You may have to carry general liability even if your cab company insures you.

Or you can become an Uber driver if you have a new car, insurance, and a clean record.

To make money with a Taxi, you need to drive around 10-12 hours 5 days a week, ideally at peak hours. The base rate is around $10 an hour, but if you get good you can make double that. Tips can make up to 40% of income. Based on this, you can make minimum wage or higher.

With Uber, you drive when you want. But you can't drive an unlimited amount. So if you're doing this to support a family, you have to drive both Uber and Lyft and maybe work another job or two on the side. It's expected that this won't be your only job. You have to already be investing tens of thousands of dollars in a vehicle, and also already have other income.

This kind of driver never existed before. Someone who is partially wealthy, but needs more cash, but doesn't have time to go job-hunting and find part time work. Someone who never would have driven for a Taxi company, but will take their own car and time to make odd trips around the city for hours at a time. A non-Taxi driver who will do Taxi-like things.

So what's new is the Uber driver herself. She only exists now because she was formerly lower-middle class, and now she needs 3 jobs to support herself. It's the platform designed for the widening wage gap. And it is horrifying that that's where our economy is now: a slow, steady erosion of economic security for more and more of the country.
i can't even tell anymore...
Universal Basic Income plus the elimination of the minimum wage would be an interesting experiment.
What about iPhones that "failed" QC?
Glad Google released this as part of their Google Zero project.

Oh wait, they didn't. That's only for other people's bugs.
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The asymmetry (power imbalance) bothers me.

People are profiting from my data. All that activity is unknowable to me.

How is that fair?

If I don't get any privacy, then no one else gets any privacy either.

Alternately, establish that everything knowable about me is mine and gimme my cut.
7.5 years for myself, USA PhD at top-ten institution in Computer Science. This was straight from Bachelor's without Master's degree.
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Anyone who knows anyone with Crohn's or Colitis won't. This guy used an excuse. He could have used any excuse. The shit people with Crohn's and Colitis have to deal with is terrible. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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Again, not defending this I'm just being technical. You wouldn't need every permutation. 100 is probably plenty.
The article references there being no firm plan/timeline for this action.

I am curious if this is in response to internet denizen traffic (Reddit,HN, etc.) or (probably more likely) to users leaving FB en-masse (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19322448)?
> Okay. So what's the evil end game of FB privacy?

Apart from the evil of "making people buy shit they wouldn't have otherwise" that applies to all advertising the end game is to do price discrimination based on profiles of the individual. If they know you're friends are raving about a holiday somewhere then you'll see a higher price than a casual browser. This way you can extract the maximum amount possible from your customers.
Yes, this is a set of problems that you need to care about. This is why there are so many Kubernetes-types working on "the service mesh". They all do a little bit too much for my taste (linkerd wants to provide its own Grafana dashboard and touch every TCP connection so as to measure it, Istio wants to molest _everything_ in your cluster and make even basic network connections be a full-fledged Kubernetes API object), but there are more reasonable solutions available. Envoy, specifically, is very good. You can use it for outgoing or incoming requests, and it can be configured to, say, retry retryable gRPC requests (solving your "the service is down" issue, at least if only one replica is down). It also scales cleanly to the amount of complexity you want; you can define your clusters in a file... or write a program that speaks a certain gRPC API so it can discover them for you automatically.

Latency is always going to be a problem and moving things to another computer certainly doesn't decrease it. Everything these days has pretty good support for observability; opentracing to inspect slow requests, prometheus to see how things are doing in general. You can get a handle on it and it doesn't cost much. My team is moving from a PHP monolith that has so much framework code that an empty HTTP response takes 100ms minimum to generate. None of our microservices are that slow, even when 3 or 4 backends and gRPC-web <-> http translation are involved. But it does set an upper bound and that's a reasonable concern to have.

Monolithic apps are not freed from latency; they read from disk, they talk to a database server, etc. So application developers already have this under control (or have filed it away in the "don't care" bucket); for example, every function in Go that does I/O probably takes a context. The context times out and it cancels your local operation just as easily as it cancels a remote operation. So I don't think this is a new concern, or one that people should be too afraid of, other than getting that last bit of performance out of the system.

As for proxies inside your cluster intercepting traffic to other pods and mutating headers in surprising ways... I recommend not running one of those. (Yes, those magical service meshes are some of those. If you don't know why you need one, I recommend living without one until you know you need one. It may be never!)

If you don't control your network, you won't have good luck talking to services on the network. It is orthogonal to microservices; you will be using the network more, so one that's bad will hurt you more. But in general, if you control your infrastructure and the nodes on it, you won't run into a "reverse proxy that mutates headers in a surprising way”. If there is one of those, I recommend killing it rather than not splitting up logical services into separate jobs.
I feel like I can call myself a "C++ programmer"; I was the lead for C++14 RTOS.

It's pretty hard to argue with the OP's logic.
I was a regular user of Facebook, now I'm not. I never used Instagram, but I can see that becoming as tedious as Facebook for people who do. I use WhatsApp every 5 minutes, but I don't think Facebook monetises it yet to any large degree. I have a hunch that as people leave the "whimsical" platforms, only the universally useful WhatsApp will continue to hold on to users. If they don't monetise it, they may well have to operate it at a loss. If they do monetise it and become greedy by killing the UX with ads, people leave anyway. They've got a very fine balancing act ahead of them. It won't be easy for Facebook.
I've always wondered if everyone is just acting to pass as neurotypical, when everyone is really just acting. And maybe there could be some way that everyone could just be real with each other and realize that no one is actually truly neurotypical. How do we tell if anyone is really neurotypical? And what would it look like if everyone was actually neurotypical?

Would this mean that the phases of energy that people are using to act normal is actually energy that we really don't need to waste?
>40 Gbps

40 or "40"?, because currently: "dual-port '40 Gbps' Thunderbolt controller has 32 Gbps of PCIe bandwidth total, and each port supports 22 Gbps"
There goes 1.5 million dollars in someone's money.[0]

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According to Wikipedia, Yahoo is also a Bing wrapper so I'm not sure what the point in using both is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
> Wonder why a switch isn't on their roadmap.

Just a guess but I bet it's because the cost would be higher than the extra revenue it would generate.
Seconding that. It sometimes happens to me even in one on one situations, I find eye contact extremely distracting and over-stimulating and I often have to look away to focus on what someone is saying or I get lost. Apparently this is weird.
For the record, I think ForeFlight is honestly the best app I've ever used. In terms of depth, reliability, and ease of use it is really unmatched not just in aviation but in any app I use on a daily basis.

Giving all the information and capabilities a pilot needs is a hard problem.
What kind of problems have you worked with that you compared against Hadoop/Spark?
RealVNC Enterprise works fantastic for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>not excuses to slow things down and stabilize around security so soon.

What sort of signal in the noise would tell us that it is indeed time to slow things down and stabilize around security?