skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDPR has changed this.

FWIW I’ve seen comments from a privacy engineer at google who posted here and said they actually do work hard to delete your data.

I’d expect Facebook and google to successfully delete the data (after giving 3-6 months for backups to age out) but wouldn’t trust most smaller operations to do so. And yeah, that doesn’t mean ML models or whatever but just the retrievable copies of your photos and text posts.
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Because from my reading that's not the number of hours they used the machines, but the number of hours in which the machines were available to be used. And since they also state that their utilization figures only include emergency cases (and exclude scheduled scans) I don't consider it a particularly relevant source in the first place.
probably safe to say that the idea of a user on a platform like Facebook trying to obfuscate their history on the platform... is a short jog from an individual trying to avoid government backed hacking on them.

Facebook has many years of pretty smart work, and probably safe to say tens of millions of dollars just in meetings about specifically this (re costs associated with effort of user data retention).
For me personally, it does. However, I am not a typical member of gen z due to my high salary. Most of my friends, who all make much less than me, are more worried about immediate needs but climate change is a dark cloud looming over their heads
> But in the status quo, we cannot have everything: privacy AND free services like Google and Facebook AND these companies not being monopolies interested in data collection.

Great. Fuck free services, let me pay for the service and retain my privacy.
I don't think it's fair to distill everything down to good if it grows the economy, bad if it doesn't. For example, we keep hearing how oppressed minorities are, but in the last ~35 years, a single generation, California went from 66% to 37% white - is a 2% higher annual GDP growth worth becoming a minority for?
Of all the things in the rewrite which are essential to the need to rewrite, which would be feasible to replace later, and which fall in between? Minimize scope ruthlessly. It's always easy to expand scope when a core is working not the other way around. Even if the entire 2.0 system was complete the migration without impacting customers seems intricate. Staged infra updates FTW.
They could, but most people are coming out ahead now. That is more relevant.

Turns out that when some consumption categories outpace inflation, the people that consume the most of those categories pay more!
The processing of data is a core part of the service when it's how the service is paid for. Not consenting to your data being processed means the service can't be available. This is perfectly allowed under GDPR.

If you're not paying then the company is, and that's a cost. You can't demand that a service be provided to you for free without some greater provisions that subsidize that service. There's nothing illogical about this.

Your examples aren't the same thing. Regulations on how something is offered while being compensated is different from claiming that a service must be offered even if it can't be compensated. We've already discussed this with some of the biggest law firms in the world and I suggest you talk to counsel if you want further clarity.
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Since I bought a house, I have begun to truly appreciate the craft that goes into house construction and repair, as well as how little it's appreciated outside of the industry. Screw all the "project guys" who have their insane ideas of how something should work; they're not worth as much as a properly concreted fence post any day.

I'm still no DIY home guy but I love learning from professionals when I need something done. I've used Angie's List and Thumbtack successfully, but honestly there are still huge parts of matching crews to projects that are entirely offline and very inefficient.
> This is usually called a conversation.

You didn't even reply to said parent comment, so I don't see how "conversation" is your excuse.

Maybe next time you're proven wrong, you don't dig with renewed fervor and snark and instead only humbly admit your mistakes.
> A pencil is a 3D interface.

Is it? I’d say the VR analogue of a pencil is a pointing device, which makes the user interface the VR analogue of paper. And paper is fundamentally a 2D interface. There are some 3D actions like turning a page, but those are secondary and rare. You can move and rotate the paper as a whole in 3D, and that’s useful, but the same functionality can easily be added to VR 2D interfaces.

On the other hand, there are other types of art that are fundamentally 3D, such as sculpture and pottery – but both of those rely on feeling a 3D object with your hands, which partially bypasses the 2D limitation of vision, but isn’t yet possible to emulate in VR.

Then again, there’s also the common VR toy of a “pencil” that doodles in thin air, which is certainly interesting... though I’m not sure how well it generalizes to more abstract user interfaces. If you’re using such a system, you have to constantly rotate the object you’re drawing, and/or move your body around, in order to properly perceive the object in 3D. This is kind of a pain. If your primary goal is to create a 3D object, it’s an unavoidable pain and the benefit is well worth it; but if what you’re interacting with is just an abstract interface meant to manipulate something non-spatial, it’s probably better to avoid.
I've tried meditation on multiple occasions, using Headspace and other apps, as well as without any outside input. I've consistently meditated for over a month at times, but after that month, I still _hated_ it. I'm not someone who usually has a hard time getting into the habit of something, but I've never been able to get into meditating, and I never noticed any positive effects.

Do you have any thoughts on my experiences?
I found your comment about higher metrics eye-opening. Your mom’s story is heartbreaking to hear. That was such a cruel thing for her boss to force it upon her like that.
A quick acetone vapor dip of ABS parts does a good job, at least for the vases and such that I have printed.

[edit] I found a page with some pictures for examples:

https://rigid.ink/blogs/news/acetone-vapor-smoothing
Yes, I'm very, very aware of this.
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So we should be approaching climate change with the attention and resources that we threw at the great depression, ww2, and the cold war - right?

But we aren't, not even close

I agree there have always/frequently been dire challenges facing us, but that is no logical foundation for arguing "it worked out ok before, it'll work out OK this time"
Isn't it partly expected though? I never looked at the stats for single income vs dual income families over time, but my instinct tells me that single income was much more common in the 80s, and dual income is much more common today than it was back then. So even if single income had drastically gone up, they'd be "competing" with dual income families on a global level.

And sure enough, when you look at house prices in an area, they very much seem priced for dual incomes.

All anecdotal and unverified guesses, mind you. But even a highly paid software engineer in SF will have no hope of competing with a DINK family of equally paid software engineers, for example. And there's more and more of those. I assume the market's following.
On the one hand, I totally agree with this as my experience with AR/VR interfaces as well.

However, I'm not convinced that this is due to any inherent limitations in our brain's ability to understand a third dimension, just that we are accustomed to only having to deal with two dimensions. I'm carefully wording this in terms of UI design in 3-D because I agree about the physical issues of eyes and focus.

For example, in many spaceflight simulators, the radar includes vertical bars to indicate height above/below your plane. That's a 3-D interface rendered onto a 2-D screen, though it's 3-D in VR. Once you learn to read it, you become highly effective at mapping what you see to a spatial understanding of what's going on around you.

The driver's controls in a car are also a good example of a 3-D interface demonstrating patterns that are inherently 3-D (twist knobs, paddles, H pattern gearbox, etc.), and it works mostly because you are expected to develop muscle memory.
For a simple example, it's likely that literally the entire population of the Republic of the Marshall Islands will have to relocate in the next few decades: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/risin...
This argument has been made since at least the industrial revolution. Replace "taxi driver" with any job that has previously been partially or fully automated away.
I'd argue that there are an awful lot of us who would like nothing better than to spend our time cleaning up the codebase, refactoring risky code, getting the whole thing under test, etc.

Unfortunately, most organisations only grudgingly fund such work, and if I were to spend a significant portion of my time on such work (without being on a team dedicated to a critical modernisation effort), my performance reviews and compensation would suffer accordingly.
Sure, that point of OP's post was pedantically incorrect ... but I think the overarching point they were trying to make is that the republicans haven't had a candidate elected by the popular vote since 1989 when GHWB was elected. Since then, both elections in which a republican president won the office, was while losing the popular vote ... that's THIRTY YEARS since the last true win.

Looked at from that perspective, yeah that feels pretty depressing that it keeps happening.
The laws are shitty but have zero effect on FastMail - they don’t provide an E2E solution so they already have your email unencrypted, no backdoors required.
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Don't see many Ferrari's, but I can tell you a Prius driver is almost certainly an asshole. They are either Top Gear driving or Hypermiling, either way its at least a nuisance and sometimes a menace.
The phrase "work ethic" pisses me off because it codes this idea that I should be a hard worker, which of course (because we live in the world we live in) refers to me busting my ass for somebody else's benefit.

Anyone who wants to criticize my work ethic can go and fuck themselves. I work incredibly hard, but at my job^[1] I do as little work as I can get away with (while retaining the standing I need to be comfortable) because they pay me as little as they can get away with. I don't see the problem.

^[1] Coveted tech job. It is a "great job" and in practical terms I feel lucky to have it. None of that changes the calculus of the business relationship that is employment.
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Or maybe just maybe the fact that I ended up having to play therapist for my sixth form and the fact that my generation is full of suicidal people willing to die for a revolution tomorrow if it came is a sign that there is something deeply wrong with our society.
It's exactly the same situation on Windows today. It just works.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4015386/windows-10-...
> Easier than what?

Easier than Boomers and Generation X, to be clear. I'd be willing to listen to claims that Millennials / Gen Z are doing well if you have some numbers to back those claims, so please, do change my mind. I'm not really interested in lists of economic recessions that happen to have names, especially since the 2008 recession also affected Millennials.
Is there a way to export the data beforehand? Just in case there are old photos or anything one may potentially want to keep saved...
I try to remind myself of that, but most of those had a simple solution of "don't do that thing". Don’t go to war, don't nuke each other, etc. I admit that that's a vast oversimplification of the forces at work during those crises, but the point is that they were in some way imminently stoppable. Climate change isn't like that. Even if we stop the causative behaviors in full today, which we won't come close to doing, the results will continue, have major consequences, be difficult to cope with, and be very difficult to reverse.
I read this article just before it got flagged away, and I'm glad to have read this. I liked this article because it brought me a new insight, or rather it put into words a feeling I have about the economy: that companies have turned traditional capitalism around by effectively providing loans to consumers, and returning capital to shareholders. A very intriguing insight.

As a European I'm not into US politics, it's too bad it has become so divisive that a discussion is no longer possible, even if it contains relevant insights that may lead to opportunities for startups.
Can't argue with that, but I felt the original author I replied to took it way too personally. US politics is a joke of a democracy and more so now that they have elected a true buffoon as their president. I would argue as a nation, Trump was one of the worst options they could have picked, but since they have long since descended into tribality and unsound rhetoric I guess that's their equilibrium (with Russian aid or not).

While I think the original idea of fighting Chinese influence is a relevant point and much in the US's interest, it seems a little rash and foolish to extend that animosity on Huawei's ability to use Google Android. Like, seriously. If they are not using Android, they'll be using something else which will, with high probably, be not American. Oh well, not my headache.
You can drive a car without depth perception. You don't need to see the depth of cars/obstacles/the road if it can be deduced from geometry.
I think their statement is more general than what you're making it out to be. The goal of receiving better and more data puts pressure to have better imaging technology.
The thing I don't get is how bothered people are by it existence despite being able to just forward logs to syslog and then ignore it forever.

[Journald]
Storage=None
ForwardToSyslog=True

And then it's like it was never there. But technically it's better than if it was never there because you can still capture service stdout/stderr and it will show up in the syslog where on an older system it would just be dropped.
So many problems with this.

1. 300 million people are not registered voters. ~50-60 million are.

2. First Past The Post means people are voting for the candidate they hate the least, not the candidate they prefer.

3. The election wasn't very close. 2 million votes more for 1 of the candidates in 2016.

4. The electoral college "matters" in that without it, the Iraq war wouldn't have happened, nor Trump. Saying it's the people's fault is unfounded when the people did not vote for these things.
https://www.facebook.com/help/1701730696756992?helpref=hc_gl...

See "How do I download a copy of my information on Facebook?"
Plenty of contractors have set hours and come into an office. Several friends in software contracting firms for example do that. Also uber doesn't agree to pay you a damn thing. You could literally go work for 4 hours and make <$10.
There is no mentioning of exposure during MRIs. Is there none? I would have thought, CTs as well as MRIs are a problem because of exposure.
It's not about 'unrealistic expectations', we're just hyper-aware of how bad the world is, that does something to you when you're exposed to it from childhood.
I wrote a similar tool in Node a while back that can delete by year and category:

https://github.com/spieglt/fb-delete

And one to download all "Photos of you", which Facebook doesn't include when downloading your data:

https://github.com/spieglt/fb-photos
Guess I don't see any reason for a 4th (and even more if you consider Chrome variants) browser to exist.

It takes a lot to make me get off of Safari. About the only time I do is when I must have Flash for streaming services and then I use Chrome's integrated flash support.

I guess if MS adds all of the proprietary features of Edge on Windows so that macOS users can run locked in Windows web apps that might be a highly attractive reason but it seems they're not going to be doing that.

I'm wondering if they're using integrated Keychain support? I guess if it's build on Chromium perhaps not. Frankly for me that's a non starter.
Your feelings sound not unlike colleagues working in hedge funds who say it's hard to maintain motivation when your purpose at work is to optimize a percentage risk/return at the end of the quarter. Quarter after quarter. Year after year.

I think this correlates with the idea we expect to derive most of our "purpose" directly from our work [1]. Which certainly doesn't bode well when you are told to go to college for your "passion," find a job doing your "passion," and are now underemployed at a job that primarily just pays the bills.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...
Carmack already mentioned the existence of "true 3D" content, for which you get a 3D interface whether you like it or not, so to speak, so I didn't go into that.

But making everything 3D, because VR, is as silly as when the gaming industry made everything 3D, resulting in entire console libraries full of games that looked like shit even at the time, pushing 4 or 5 frames per second and having other incredible compromises, when the same consoles are monsters of 2D performance. As nice as it may be to have truly 3D content available in psuedo-real space, there's no reason to insist that when you want to set the shininess of a given pipe that you need a huge skueomorphic switch as big as an old car stick shift that you can visibly pull popping out of your UI or something when all you need is a slider. (If anything, I'd think minimalism in a VR environment is a good idea, both to contrast the other content and to prevent detracting from it.)

I think that's probably the kind of crap Carmack is complaining about. We've already been around the same loop a couple of times already, and 3D, albeit on 2D surfaces, was one of them, so it's fair to look to the past instances of such BS and maybe this time try to move along the curve a bit faster. I'd say that if we can get this nonsense out of the way faster rather than slower, we're more likely to get to the truly useful 3D stuff that doesn't exist yet. Otherwise we risk 3D interfaces becoming something like the Wiimote, which IMHO was actually a really useful tool that has become despised solely because it was badly misused by so many games, because motion controls. (Another example we've already been through.)
...because it's the more respectful option?
The ozone hole actually existed and was solved by legislation. If people weren't panicking about it I don't think that would of happened. I'm not sure why you are calling it propaganda.
Facebook offers a data export:

https://www.facebook.com/help/1701730696756992?helpref=hc_gl...
Not that surprising. People tend to focus on their own personal/economic issuea rather than larger problems in the world as a whole. If you're struggling to pay rent, find a good job, keep up with others, get political representation etc, then stuff like global warming won't really register by comparison.

On the other hand, I suspect those with decent living conditions are probably more panicked about stuff like climate change. Feels you can focus more on big picture issues if your immediate lifestyle is going somewhat to plan.
I did it a while back (3 or so years ago) by scrolling through the dialog so that all of my "friends" were loaded, and then opened up the browser console and wrote a line of JS to toggle the checkbox to delete each of them and saved.

Not sure if that's still the interface today, but it worked for me back then.

* Edit: I checked, and you can still do this. It's under the main preferences dropdown -> News Feed Preferences -> Unfollow people and groups to hide their posts

It's no longer a checbox, but you can simulate a click in JS. Haven't tested so obviously YMMV
A standard 30 year mortgage requires 20% down...what’s the percent of households that can put down $70k to purchase a home?
The issue with social media and mental health is that the topic is just being researched.
Millennials and Z's are the consumers in which that technology is being tested and we don't really know all the effects and damages that this new thing is causing on people. We sure know that it is pretty addictive and causes some damages to people who use social media mostly passive and binge on it.

Another damage that Social Media does is that now most peoples attention span is quite short, really short actually, and it doesn't help for the workflow. Add the depression(FOMO?) caused from the "comparison is the thief of joy" produced by Social Media and you have a really bad mix that will make you fill like shit on the regular basis.
Yes it is, if data collection is required to provide that service in the first place. That is legal.
I recently posted some comments by Dave Ackley about 2D versus 3D, which I'll repeat here:

David Ackley, who developed the two-dimensional CA-like "Moveable Feast Machine" architecture for "Robust First Computing", touched on moving from 2D to 3D in his retirement talk:

https://youtu.be/YtzKgTxtVH8?t=3780

"Well 3D is the number one question. And my answer is, depending on what mood I'm in, we need to crawl before we fly."

"Or I say, I need to actually preserve one dimension to build the thing and fix it. Imagine if you had a three-dimensional computer, how you can actually fix something in the middle of it? It's going to be a bit of a challenge."

"So fundamentally, I'm just keeping the third dimension in my back pocket, to do other engineering. I think it would be relatively easy to imaging taking a 2D model like this, and having a finite number of layers of it, sort of a 2.1D model, where there would be a little local communication up and down, and then it was indefinitely scalable in two dimensions."

"And I think that might in fact be quite powerful. Beyond that you think about things like what about wrap-around torus connectivity rooowaaah, non-euclidian dwooraaah, aaah uuh, they say you can do that if you want, but you have to respect indefinite scalability. Our world is 3D, and you can make little tricks to make toruses embedded in a thing, but it has other consequences."

Here's more stuff about the Moveable Feast Machine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15560845

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236973

The most amazing mind blowing demo is Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc

And a paper about how that works:

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pd....

Plus there's a lot more here:

https://movablefeastmachine.org/

Now he's working on a hardware implementation of indefinitely scalable robust first computing:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A
Right but that won't help him if he crashes into the pacific in his private jet and is picked up by a Japanese cargo ship with no English speakers aboard.

A lot of people (myself included) believe that there is life after death and that you can't bring your money and possessions with you. But you can bring your knowledge with you. That's why I believe it's pointless to amass too much money in this life; it's better to amass knowledge, which you can take with you.
Hmm ... I wonder if they have an edit limit where old edits get erased if you keep editing, sort of like that trick someone came up with years ago for pinging the credit bureau so many times so that eventually your credit looked better since old items were erased or not considered for your credit score ... or something.
The book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport has a concept called Digital Declutter that’s a similar concept but towards distracting tech.