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Which case are you talking about? You have no links in the "no-log" section.

Other fatal flaws in that section, fwiw

>Starting with the obvious, if you pay for a VPN service, they have to keep your user account and associated payment information and your payment history. So, unless you are using a fake identity and an anonymous credit card (is that even possible these days?), your VPN account will be linked to your actual identity.

Plenty of VPNs accept bitcoin, and prepaid anonymous debit cards are widely available.

>Most VPNs limit the number of devices that can be connected at the same time. For that to work, well, they have to store a piece of information stating which device is connected, and what VPN account it is associated with. They have to associate your VPN session with your VPN account, as counting the number of sessions per account would be impossible otherwise.

This is addressed in the link above. Besides, it's possible to limit simultaneous connections without storing anything to disk.

>What's your point here, exactly? Because my point was you have to trust either party.

The difference is that no major ISPs are claiming not to log.
The point of the post isn't that you should trust your ISP.
Without those data inconsistencies to fix up every week, Joe would probably be out of a job.
He's right, however, managers can simply say, "We believe long term wealth maximization is dependent on not being assholes and getting the company regulated out of existence," and that will be the end of any shareholder lawsuit on the subject. US case law gives wide leeway to managers to determine what is best for the business.
The one thing I can't leave Spacemacs/Doom for is Org Mode. I have everything there now. Is it even feasible for Org Mode layer in Spacevim?
This is a bad take. FB has taken the most action out of any big tech company in terms of hiring human moderators and investing in their AI auto-detection. It's nonsensical and lazy to claim that there aren't serious technical challenges involved with creating a perfect detection system, even for a company like Facebook.
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Speaking of special relativity, people learning basic special relativity might find this simple special relativity calculator I made useful [1].

It's fairly primitive. The original intent was that it would be a base to play around with CSS on, and to maybe rewrite using various front end frameworks to learn them, and add features like named variables, showing Minkowski diagrams, cloning rows, and things like that. I never got any time for any of that, so it never got past the very simple stage, but is fine for doing things like figuring out the ladder paradox and things of that ilk when learning about special relativity.

[1] https://github.com/tzs/Physics-special-relativity-calculator
Just a thought—Couldn’t there be a service In front of ~5-1,000 different vpn services that would locally (depending on your subscription level) send each request to a random list of vpn providers (like a random dns provider? Somewhat complicating/obscuring the issue that arises with centralizing your traffic to single endpoint?
> Facebook has no clue what kind of stuff gets posted on their platform, and their AI isn't powerful enough to detect it. The idea that Facebook is causing/enabling such behaviors is ridiculous.

I contend as a society we should hold these massive tech orgs (who have more power than most governments) to the standard of moderating the content that's posted to their platforms. They have the money and profits to hire human moderators, the 'dumb pipe' defense doesn't fly for me anymore.

Twitter/Reddit should face harsh penalties for failing to moderate and remove content that encourages and indoctrinates extremists. I'm not talking about anything that's borderline, I'm talking about pure unfiltered hate speech that directly encourages violence.

The question then becomes who decides what's acceptable content, the only answer is regulations and legislation for this otherwise for-profit tech giants will be the ones who decide and they're more concerned with user-engagement than far reaching detached societal implications.
Republican Jews back Trump who backs anti-semites. Ethnicity or identity seems to be less important than the pursuits of power and profit, it would seem.
What about European based/GDPR compliant VPNs? Wouldn't they require to truthfully disclose if and what they log?
I found this pretty easy to do with ngraph.forcelayout[0]. I used it to build a basic VDOM-diff visualizing demo[1], which involved dynamically animating edge changes to a graph. If you need something like that, it's pretty easy with ngraph in case this library doesn't support it.

If you end up using this library, please let me know how it turns out! I'd love to see a demo of exactly what you're talking about. I ended writing quite a bit of mouse-event and panning/zooming code on top of ngraph so maybe this might be easier?

[0] https://github.com/anvaka/ngraph.forcelayout

[1] https://github.com/atlassubbed/play-relax-visualized
It's called Tor. And you don't even need a subscription for that.
I mean it’s not like YouTube has this problem solved either... are all tech companies just incompetent?
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Facebook makes a handy scapegoat: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo....
I might be ok with requiring this for drivers under 25, but for the general population?
They have power to reach everyone in the world. They don't have the capability to decide what content deserves this wide reach. To compensate and out of greed they encouraged sharing and spreading all types of content without merit. I am not asking for facebook to be a police of content... Users don't even have the capability to flag content.

They promoted a culture of greed over morality. It's a curse on humanity.
Some of them are valid concerns.

But the article should have touched on _how_ one would actually achieve the privacy levels that the VPNs claims to offer. For example, using TOR rather than a VPN is a much better guarantee of privacy against IP based tracking (and what the draw-backs of TOR is - such as accidental real-ip leaks via javascript).

A lot of users simply trust the marketing of VPN providers - because it's cheap, and it doesn't look like it'd do harm. Like how multi-vitamin pills are marketed as a cheap silver bullet for a complicated problem.
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I don’t know if I agree that this could have happened on any platform. Facebook’s core functionality is sharing; unlike twitch.tv, and self hosted services which by their nature have terrible discovery.

Only on Facebook could this have spread like it did.
No one has that kind of AI. It doesn't matter if you are a billion dollar company, the scientific innovation is nowhere close in the present day and age. Facebook is relying on deeplearning and machine learning, which is the current paradigm in computer science. This paradigm won't get us anywhere close to such a sophisticated object recognition for this kind of task, it performs abysmally at best.
No, but it's more intuitive that it's unmanageable at smaller scales. Nobody thinks Reddit or HN could start pre-vetting all submissions in the first place.
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We're making progress on an experimental version in Firefox DevTools. It's not on the roadmap, but it is easy to try and we'd love feedback.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...

This video highlights some of the existing functionality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5ai04TP5Y&t=4s

1. a realtime recording button
2. a timeline view of events on the top
3. the ability to scan back to a console message
4. the ability to rewind to a breakpoint
5. the ability to add a logPoint in the debugger and see the messages in the console quickly

I'll second other comments on the complexity side. Our architecture works on the Operating System level, which makes it fast and non-invasive, but the difficulty level in terms of pulling something like this off is very high as you have to understand the browser architecture from the system calls it makes, to way processes behave, to graphics, the JS engine, and DevTools architecture.

I think we're in a good place in terms of getting feedback and iterating on the product. There's lot's to do and it is very exciting!
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Most of these people just want some slack, there's a reason their jobs are the most sought after in China, easy and often with high benefits, some even allocate cheap condo that can save them hundreds of thousands of dollars if the city is big.

In essence they are the ones the party needs to somewhat pander to, coz the party relies on them.
Cool, see, I knew this was worth talking about. While I've learned about GPS as a way to gather meteorological data[0] via radio occultation, I never had to deal with the raw data stream myself. Thanks for your expertise.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_Observing_System...
The author does a good job painting propaganda in its awesome and terrible social media incarnation. The analogy between ISIS with the NZ maniac is a bit troublesome however and I'll tell you why. When I served in Afghanistan, as a mere child myself in the very early 2000's, I saw children in the street (if you can call it a street), dirty, unfed, walking over to a dirty stream washing what appeared to be glass out of the smallest one's foot - all in a town destroyed by whatever. Those children are adults now, how can I blame them for the hatred they must carry around. The western world created the hatred that is (was) ISIS, in the name of big oil. And we were warned of the consequence before stepping a figurative foot in the middle east. The Christchurch shooter, I don't know his story, but I'm sure his hatred didn't come from seeing an occupying force's unmanned aerial vehicle kill his loved ones at the tender age of 4. The NZ shooter's madness and the madness of ISIS are not the same. So My advice to the author is next time you want to preface 4 paragraphs of ISIS talk with a sentence about the a white supremacist to make yourself look less biased, remember that audiences are waking up to the theme of your article - propaganda.
Here's a cool new javascript framework that might help:

https://backbonejs.org/
Again, if nuclear power is such a great idea, why aren't more companies lobbying for it? The reality is that every place in the U.S. that it is economically feasible to build a plant, already has one. There's a nuclear plant in the middle of Kansas and it's barely viable. And that's ignoring the proliferation issue when we try and export any new versions of the tech to other countries that need new energy.

We're better off making solar, wind, etc. viable than pouring tons of money into a single area that we can't safely export to other places in the world.

And electrical energy is still only one part of the problem since we still need to replace the internal combusion enginees, and jet engines or at least find an alternative fuel source. Nuclear power isn't a panacea.
I figured it was something to that effect, but it's still helpful to call out the consumer protections since a significant portion of Apple's customer base is in the USA.
It's a sad reality that just makes the road less safe for everyone and hurts the environment :(
All you've demonstrated is that a person made some very cogent arguments for why Sharholder Value became a dominant driving force after the 70's and why it shouldn't be that way. However, many companies are now run in that fashion. And shareholder lawsuits against corporations when they feel the leadership has not acted in their best interests are exceedingly common. So, you have a "shouldn't be like this", but the reality is it nonetheless "is like this."
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> What's the reasoning for the current GPS time format and it's resulting issues?

GPS satellites and receivers last on the order of 20 years so it takes a long time to age out of legacy support. The latest generation of satellites, GPS-III, have a new week number format that allows for 13-bit week numbers (120 year rollover).

The reason for the low number bits in week number is simple, it's broadcast on a very low bit rate (50 bits per second) and every frame has the week number in it. So you get faster fixes if you don't pad out with useless zeros.
And how does this handle the streaming of real time content? The traditional submission would be a complete “video” with a start and end, not an “unpredictable” live feed that is ongoing.
> Yes, in many industries they are still heavily stealing IP but the notion that China is just copying the west is outdated.

It’s not outdated. You’ve contradicted yourself in the same sentence. You would have be right if XJ didn’t cripple China with his own vanity. China’s destiny went from future global innovator to staying a giant copier as XJ’s power rose.

Innovation cannot exist with lack of free speech and free thought.
Your vision for society is one in which private companies moderate civic discourse?

Sounds hellish — and very likely to be practiced disequitably, compounded with the power to silence critics of the system as extremists.
...to carbs bad fat good in the span of like a decade

Not at all. I remember it was a thing in the seventies. The low-carbs diet has been viciously attacked for many decades, so it comes and goes every few years. I first heard of it when Atkins popularized it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_diet

See how Wikipedia says it's "a fad diet" and its claims "questionable", implying that it doesn't work at all.

But now take a look at this other article, a couple links further:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis

"In glycolysis, higher levels of insulin promote storage of body fat and block release of fat from adipose tissues, while in ketosis, fat reserves are readily released and consumed.[5][7] For this reason, ketosis is sometimes referred to as the body's "fat burning" mode.[8]"

So it turns out it works?

Is it dangerous? Maybe, but I wouldn't trust the sources that I already know are lying to my face. Not to talk about my own experience, but that's valid for me, YMMV.

In HN there were some submissions past year about this guy that did the research in which Atkins based its diet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yudkin

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

Edit: I forgot to say what I started writing this comment for to begin with, that many millions did the Atkins diet at the time and vouched for it.
Why? If you're pulled over on the shoulder, it's for refuge from the traffic speeding past. How does it make sense to encourage slightly slower traffic to use a lane where at one time or another will be vulnerable people and stationary vehicles? Surely a safer solution is employing correct lane discipline.
What is a "cheap" money grab? What else should a business do? Is solving problems for their customers not acceptable?
What makes you say it's an easy problem? They were able to block 1.2 million copycat videos of the shooting, but 0.3 million still got through. YouTube also struggled to remove them and even went so far to disable uploads entirely for a period because their AI was insufficient. The difference is they just declined to release specific numbers so they took less flack.

When you literally have thousands of humans all determined to bypass these detection systems by modifying the video and disguising it in various ways some of them are inevitably going to slip through. Is that really an issue with the detection system, or is there something wrong with the people who repeatedly try and upload and share videos of mass shootings?
Damn. I don't even know where to begin.

It's true that VPN services at best provide less anonymity than Tor does. And that some, such as HideMyAss (which pwned that LulzSec dude) provide none. But PIA clearly does, as demonstrated now in two criminal investigations.[0]

Of course, in both cases, defendants pwned themselves through poor OPSEC. But at least PIA didn't give them up.

And the Facebook example. Nobody paying attention expects a VPN service (or even Tor) to hide their identity if they login using their real name. That's just stupid.

0) https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...
It does work for those renting. Whether those are who it needs to work for gets greatly distorted as time goes by. The cost is also not widely distributed, but can fall heavily on the property owner.
Ask HN: My employer is not letting me leave, what to do?
I have been working at my current workplace for well over 2 years now. I have not received a single raise since then. I have been assigned a role similar to a project manager but on paper I am still a senior software engineer. Now that I have officially resigned to move to a new position with better opportunities, my current employer is not allowing me to leave the company as the product I have been working on has too much dependencies on me. I have talked to them about hiring new people over the last years for the project but they were not really interested.

According to the contract I am bound to give at most a month for notice period.

They want me to give at least 3 months of time before I leave but I would lose the current opportunity in hand. What should I do?
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None of these tech companies have the ability to do that. What you are suggesting would mean the death of every social media company.
so uhhh how much are you paid per word and per post ? hmmm
A similar thing happened to my grandfather before he passed. There was a bit of a conflict within the family as to whether to let him go peacefully or to
try and keep him alive, but we ended up choosing to give him palliative care.

Personally, it was a mercy to see him die, it's strange to say but I was happy when he finally passed. He was a shell of a man in his final weeks, most his mind was gone after a series of strokes and he was being fed through a tube. He was alive in a technical sense, but he most certainly wasn't living.
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Yes, I'm always extremely wary of programmers who claim they advance so fast in the art that code they wrote in the last year or two is "garbage". It's more likely that they are just no longer familiar with that old code.
Google pretty much undeniably has the best ML people in the world and I see nonstop hate at YouTube for their automated filters false-positives so I don't think it is an easy problem.
This is very common where I live. One way out is through freelancing remotely. In Canada, you should be able to find some good remote jobs from the US.

Don't look on Upwork or freelancing marketplaces. Something like Toptal offers a good entry barrier and they take care of you as well.

Also I understand it's hard to do good work under those conditions, but you should try. My entry into freelancing was when I was working with an external contractor. He saw that I did an extremely good job and offered me some contract work.
I lost respect for freakonomics and their analysis a while ago. What I used to find pointed and creative I now see as willfully ignoring elemebts of reality to come to some conclusion that is notable mostly for it's faux-contrarian 'creativity.' they, along with Malcolm Gladwell, some take a complex issue...use complexity to dismiss existing reductivist solutions...and then substitute their own equally reductivist conclusion.

Add in that suddenly after Koch industries became a sponsor of their radio show/podcast they did a total softball interview of one of the Koch brothers with no disclaimer that they were a sponsor
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as someone who struggles with their lack of sexual activity and desirability, reading this article and included quotes greatly increased my desire to commit suicide.

i noticed that employment status is listed as a factor in the desirability of men. i have a stable job and fairly high income. to me this confirms my insecurities in that i am unattractive both physically and personality-wise.
This language looks incredible. I like the code examples and was really sold when I read its point number 2 about functions and no inheritance.

The only frustration I immediately notice is strong reliance on white space for syntax.

* This makes life harder in a modern world of various operating systems and high distribution. Some means of distribution mutilate white space. XML language design spent enormous effort considering for this.

* Line termination differs by OS. Now it’s largely just posix vs Windows, but there used to be even more variance and there could be more in the future.

* Parsing around white space is severely misunderstood by people who do not write parsers regularly. Just this weekend I encountered unique white space syntax added into React’s JSX to compensate for this that doesn’t exist anywhere else in either JS or XML.

* As somebody who maintains a popular code beautifier I have had to learn the hard way that people really enjoy flexibility around white space. They deliberately use my software instead of, or in addition to, the popular software coming out of Facebook because of the flexibility my software allows. The bottom line for many developers is that code beautification can be fully automated and is better performeded by computers and should never be a factor when authoring code.

* code beautification is also highly subjective. Everybody has different opinions on beauty and easy to read. Providing the means to allow developers to exercise those opinions dynamically and automatically makes people happy. So long as it’s just vanity the code stills executed and reads the same way.
You make it sound as though private companies are the only means through which communication occurs. T'was a time when companies had their own means marketing, people ran their own blogs, and there were no huge private companies controlling the majority of online discourse.

Anybody else remember email?

We'll never go back to it, but don't act like the social media-driven scenario we have today is all there will ever be. If things like Twitter and Facebook became moderated, and people became dissatisfied, they'll do the same as they ever did with social media: go elsewhere. (By the way, let's take a moment to remember Digg)

And maybe, just maybe, we can go back to a saner time where we don't have to defend the status quo, hideous as it is.
You're not wrong, but holding social media companies responsible to that level is a relatively new idea. That Facebook is doing that yet doesn't make them unequivocally evil.
The most populous nation on the planet has a misbalance of men:women. That’s all it really takes.
Facebook knows extremely well that their platform was instrumental to the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. They were (are?) in denial in accepting responsibility.

Facebook has no clue? Please.
I think that this could be a boon to pixel tracking. From my understanding, a site could embed multiple tracking pixels on a page to give a good approximation of how far the user scrolls and how long it takes them to scroll down the page, all without JavaScript.

I would be curious if this would also be apply to email clients that render using Chrome.
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