skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's missing here is the ability to ERASE all of your data from any service at your desired level of granularity.

In other words, I ought to be able to tell Facebook to only keep a one month history on me and truly delete everything else, including from backups. If

I want a 100% erase of everything, I should be able to get that too. It should be a simple single button operation with suitable confirmation.

Perhaps I want all my pictures erased. It should be easy.

How about all of my facial recognition data for myself and my children? That too.

In other words, these services should not be allowed to store data on you that you don't want them to have. We should not toss out privacy just to protect someone's business model.

I had an interesting experience with Turo.com. It's a P2P car rental service. I decided I wanted to try it. To sign-up I had to give up what I would call deep personal info: Name, address, date of birth, credit card, driver's license and maybe a few more things (don't remember). I ended-up not using it even once. It just didn't fit my needs.

I contacted the company with a request to cancel my account and delete all of my personal information from their database. They refused. Well, they wanted to have the account go dormant at first. I pressed and they agreed to cancel the account. No data deletion though. I said: What possibly justification do you have to keep such sensitive information in your database and backups when I am not a customer and don't want to use your service? Well, long story short, they agreed to delete the data. My guess is they lied to me. Without a court order I have no way to verify that my data isn't sitting in multiple backups ready to be hacked or used by another company if they sell the company or go bankrupt and the database is sold as an asset.

The consequences of having your data stored in databases forever could come years, decades later, when an event lands your data in the hands of someone with nefarious intent or someone who might accidentally and without intention cause you and others harm.

This is just one example.

We really need a law that says our data is ours and we get to decide who can keep it, what they can keep, for how long and under what conditions. This isn't hard and it is common sense. Put a different way: Just because a 15 year old in a garage decides to launch an internet business it doesn't mean that 15 year old is entitled to own our data and do with it as he or she pleases.
I think Joe’s style benefits from being physically in the same room as the interviewee. Had it not been a remote interview I think it would have gone very differently.
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Not if you actually want to own your device (have root).
There's a sizeable difference between judges and cabinet officials who have long been media pundits (though I do mostly agree that it's disturbing) and folks whose primary experience is in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

The era of rampant, selective intelligence leaks to the media started when these very same people were in administration.
How about market capitalism?
holy false equivalence batman. it's definitely harder to buy/compromise firefox
>At first glance a spokesman agreed with us that the situation looks odd.

Seems like someone messed up somewhere and is probably being resolved.

In all honesty though, no app with IAP (especially easy-to-access IAP or IAP that can't be locked by a parent) should get an E rating. Fleksy should get a higher age rating for this reason, not because of an emoji.
I recently uploaded an update of a macOS app to the MAS. Apple rejected it saying that I needed to remove some entitlements that were not used. Of course I needed those entitlements but Apple didn't test the app properly.

Anyway I answered their rejection with the reasons why I needed those entitlements. Silence for 2 days. I finally asked for an appeal to the review board and in 1 hour the update was accepted and available in the MAS.

We lost 3 days because either Apple's automatic reviewing system failed, or their human reviewers failed.
Why Garmin watches have become common in some segments of tactical aviation
To be fair that is a pretty recent addition to Lisp, only added in the late 1970s. They might not be keeping up with the latest stuff.
> Why was it a disaster?

It was a long time ago so I don't remember the details, but it was just a slow, buggy mess. Maybe things have gotten better since then but the experience left such a bad taste in my mouth that I've not gone back to re-evaluate the situation. It's an expensive experiment to conduct in terms of both money and time. Also, the fact that Android is so intimately intertwined with Google gives me serious pause. At least with Apple there's a chance that my data is somewhat secure. With Google I know with certainty that it isn't because their entire business model is to surveil me and sell the data to third parties.
Maybe, but prior to the "Golden Master" release are you really testing your stuff, or Apple's?

Leaving such a small window between Apple getting its act together with the GM, and a hard deadline for third parties to get their act together, is rough.
Three years of investigation and multiple prison sentences and impeachment hearings. If that's nothing, I'd like to know what your idea of "something" would be.
That's great, we'll add that soon
AddressSanitizer (ASan) for Windows with MSVC
React Native Audio Playback
Huzzah! Another company asking me to work for exposure! Yay!
Not all there: My mother’s lobotomy
I don't fundamentally disagree with what you're saying, but with great power, comes great responsibility.
Do you have a reference for this? The linked article seems pretty clear that it is used both ways and "lead" is the original
The relevant metric is the torque at low (or 0) RPM, not the (horse) power.

I do agree that a good electric car may start faster than a cyclist, however.
Android App for Dolphin Whistles Has Been Open Sourced
Dolphin vocalizations can only be understood with direct interactions using underwater whistles. This free Android app is for that:

DC Dolphin Communicator 2019

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sm.app.dc&hl=en_CA

With source code from:

https://gitlab.com/leafyseadragon/android-dolphin-comm-app

https://gitlab.com/leafyseadragon/android-acoustic-lib
Don’t bother. I work at a lab where some of the largest and best memristor based crossbars have been developed, and I can tell you it’s almost all hype at this point. There are significant problems with memristive circuits, and very little advantage over something a lot more mature such as NOR flash crossbars (we work on both). There are many competing device technologies to use for analog computation, it’s far from clear which one is better.
The highest cause of death among young men in the HG tribes of Papua New Guinea is other young men. It's an incredibly violent culture there. The !Kung tell a much different story:

Patricia Draper - (1978) Learning Aggression and Anti-Social Behavior among the !Kung:

In writing an essay on aggression in !Kung life, one encounters some of the problems outlined above. Aggression, conflict, and vio­lence—none of these are culturally elaborated preoccupations. Nor could one argue that a central cultural theme is concerned with an opposite set of values—the enforcement of peace and the uppres­sion of aggression. From this point of view, values about interper­sonal aggression do not qualify as an especially auspicious position from which to view the cultural terrain. Nevertheless, the !Kung are a people who devalue aggression; they have explicit values against assaulting, losing control, and seeking to intimidate another person by sheer force of personality. Furthermore, on a daily basis and over months of fieldwork one finds that overt physical acts by one person against another are extremely rare. In two years I personally observed three instances in which people lost control and exchanged blows: two twelve-year-old girls who wrestled and fought with fists; two women who scratched and kicked each other over a man (the husband of one of the women); and two men who violently shoved each other back and forth, shouted and sep­arated to gather weapons, only to be dissuaded by other people from their respective camps. In a fourth case I saw two women who had fought the night before. Lorna Marshall, an anthropolo­gist with much experience among the !Kung, makes a similar report:

During seventeen and a half months of fieldwork with the Nyae Nyae !Kung . . . , I personally saw only four flare-ups of dis­cord and heard about three others which occurred in neighboring bands during that period. All were resolved before they became serious quarrels. [Marshall, 1976, pp. 311-12]
So if we granular defined monopoly - HN could be defined as a monopoly.

But the fact that people have LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc accounts does show that people will use more than one service.

How many people are in multiple Slack groups.
The solution I think that the PDS2 "open" banking system has come up with is that all the API integrators are also subject to regulatory approval. So you can't just spin up a shadowy data-slurping shell and connect it to people's bank accounts.
> all that needs to be done is to make sure that the liability for leaked data falls on the user

I don’t think that was the point of what the parent commenter was saying.

As I read it, they were talking not about liability but the likely negative side effect of having more people be conned out of their private data that will then be abused.

Who is liable is a secondary concern. The main problem is the fact that people’s private data end up in the wrong hands.
The breadth is what I really come for. Like he interviewed John Carmack and Chuck Palahniuk, two people I've admired immensely but who come from two very different fields. Sure, he only covers surface level stuff, but if you knew nothing about writing, game design, or rocket science, you wouldn't get that within two podcast episodes anywhere else
Latest CarPlay I’ve had to unplug and replug my phone to get audio to output. And sometimes it just fails to even load CarPlay. Super weird.
And since I think v1803 or earlier you can basically do an OSX like in place reinstall keeping your files and apps or just files not to mention the actual Reset feature built into recovery that can do this without an install disk/usb. Quick, simple, and works very well unless the OS is shredded by bad GPOs or other changes most users won't be able to do themselves.

I don't think the author was up to speed on caring for their Windows install or simply messed with it enough to break it over time and should have been prepared for the issues that brings. I've stuck to a pretty clean W10 install since mid 2015 so when I reinstall I'm up and running after Ninite and a few other installs I keep on a file share like specific drivers or apps I don't want to download again. W10 is fairly robust unless you do things to break it like click through UAC prompts, edit Windows dir files without backups, or install unvetted software from the internet (spoiler: same wisdom applies to OSX and Linux)
I know a lot of people who could be in to this (both on the consumer and producer side). Great idea, good luck.

I do worry if you maybe missed the mark by not launching as a mobile app, though.
> Republican Josh Hawley and Democrats Mark Warner and Richard Blumenthal

Are they thinking in defensive terms - I mean how can this be weaponized?
Completely blank website in Firefox if the Enhanced Tracking Protection is enabled.
All of those are //excellent// points. You can tailor it to suit your needs. For me, the killer features are:

* It works in any standard browser.

* You own your data, and it's very hackable.

* Its learning curve is better than comparable tools (e.g. emacs).

* It lowers the friction between you and your machine, enabling you to upload a semblance of your mind into the machine with minimal effort.

* Search and organization are mind-bendingly powerful.

* It is amazing at allowing you to reuse and reconstruct your work. It's designed to evolve.
If you are using a Google product (ie. Android), NSA most definitely already knows everything you do on it anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At a previous job I worked with someone who didn't see a buzzword they didn't like. Since nobody was stopping them, they designed an incredibly convoluted system using all the latest tech. In the end we replaced it with a JVM server and a Postgres database.

I occasionally check their LinkedIn and they're still spending 12-15 months every time at companies, being CTO or Big Data Strategist or whatever.
Who uses UWP apps? At my workplace we have managed desktops that lock out the Windows Store and I don't miss it at all.
Better Idea: Create a fund for startups that are building new social media platforms specifically to compete against Fb/Twitter/Reddit/Etc. Create pathways for them to compete and enter the public domain. Give them free national advertising slots. Only companies with less than 100M users can apply.
You must not play much PC. EVERY PC game has cheaters these days.
Are you using umatrix or something?
At its heart Picsplore is a brand new social network! Our focus is on your local area, we want to show you what’s new and exciting around you . It could be a band playing at a dive bar , a carnival , a house party , the possibility.
HotSpot profiling with JITWatch (2014) [pdf]
systemd and a New /home
Could you elaborate? You can search for the solution to any computational problem for which there is a binary function f(n) mapping candidates n to {0,1}, depending on whether it's a solution. Here, f is the "oracle", but it's only playing the role of representing the problem you're trying to solve, and I believe an f exists for all problems in NP.

If your set of solutions has N candidates, this requires only O(sqrt(N)) evaluations rather than O(N). If that function takes exponential time, then there is still of course no polynomial-time solution, but the quadratic speedup holds.

https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2166/gr...

There are some NP problems for which we know techniques that are faster than brute-force search, but even then we can generally speed up those techniques in the same way.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-78773-0_...

(I guess you could worry that for every problem there is an unknown techniques for classically speeding things up over brute-force search, but I thought this was known to be false, and in any case is unrelated to your point. I'm not an expert though.)
No, not really even close. The only red flag I see is someone attempting to link something ridiculous like Flat Earth with something with actual scientific backing like vaccines causing autism.
Try regular desktop Ubuntu then. It just works for that use case.
>breaks the responsibility up without breaking the career progression

How do you figure it does this? What you describe just seems like a basic, run-of-the-mill, cross-reporting model to me.
But, did anyone notice the totally irrelevant "get rich quick" kind of comments on the TechCrunch article? Aren't the comments there moderated?
Perhaps store it out to hdfs/blob storage. Then use some kind of unified processing layer to reconstruct history or parts of history when you need it? Eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059006#20062821

Or use a durable unbounded solution like Pravega instead of Kafka? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059006#20062821

edit: this could be problematic especially when data privacy laws are involved. See the comments from gopalv below.
1. The first two years of Pocket (getpocket.com) was a one-person business.

2. The first four years of Plenty Of Fish (POF.com) was a one-person business. https://codecondo.com/plenty-of-fish-adsense-earnings/

3. Overcast (overcast.fm)

4. stratechery.com
> I have a stash of replacement MBPs

You make it sound like they're t-shirts or something haha
I think people, in part, feel like they don't need to have as many kids because of the existing social safety nets. When times are extremely tough a big family isn't more mouths to feed, it's more workers/fighters/etc.
> It always fascinated me that the discussion of the leaked Clinton emails conveniently focused on the speculative source and motivation, never on the content of the emails with valid DKIM signatures

Because there was nothing in them that painted Clinton in a bad light. They were normal boring emails that were sensationalized in conspiracy blogs but recognized as normal boring emails by professional journalists.
“Facebook is about putting power in people’s hands… Giving people control of their money is important, too. A simple, secure and stable way to transfer money is empowering. Over the long term, this means that more people transact on our platforms — that’ll be good for our business.”
Then we'd have to apply for website licenses at the California Department of Cyber Vehicles. I hope my website is up to the Cyber Building Code. Yikes.
Rustcmb: Library for Statistical Testing of Cosmic Microwave Radiation in Rust
I think they fit in similar categories because many mecha animes deal with themes of exponential escalation, which I suspect was heavily influenced by the collective national experience of a total war that culminated in daily firebombings of cities, and ultimately (being on the receiving end of) the only wartime use of nuclear weapons in history.

However, both series deal with that escalation in different ways. While in TTGL, the escalation is purely physical - the villains get perpetually stronger and the heroes have to strengthen themselves to stand up to them - the escalation in NGE is more personal.

“Why do you pilot the Eva?”, Shinji asks Rei and Asuka, a question with an answer seemingly so obvious that nobody else in the entire series asks it. And yet it gets to the heart of Shinji’s development.

In the beginning, he’s a terrified teenager who is in way over his head. As time goes on, he becomes more confident in his ability to pilot the Eva, yet his experiences leave him a shattered husk of a human being.

I think (and this somewhat gets into spoiler territory for anyone that hasn’t seen NGE yet) that the answer to the question of what happens when someone is put through so much trauma that it destroys who they are is that there is nothing in a void. Community can help repair the damage but some things can’t simply be handled by the self, no matter how hard one tries, how dearly they want it, or how capable they are at other things. At least, that’s the impression I got from the ending.
No. Because that's the same argument FB could make.

No. Your data remains your data, even if you allow someone else to look at it. You should be able to allow others to look at it, or even delete it after having allowed others to look at it. Now in practice, you can't. I get that. But that doesn't mean that it's not your data.

Certainly your contact info is your data. I shouldn't be able to give a girl's contact info to some other guy without her consent. One, that's douchey. Two, it's not my data, so doing so violates her privacy.
I am really not a fan of the feeling reading a lot of this thread and linked materials gives me.
This conversation seems to be the status quo for many parts of the internet and I don't understand what the point is.

It starts with some empty taglines and talking points and then lots of questions like:

>What is your explanation for the success of Trump?

or

>Which laws did Trump break by the way?

That don't seem related to anything I said.

It just feels like pushing talking points or a push poll, by constantly asking someone to prove random things in order to provide some support to some weird concepts like because some user can't explain something... that means something or other...
A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gift for His Daughter
Based on their comparison chart it's literally just CloudFront (plus some edge cases if you're running IIS or ASP.NET on your origin with certain providers).
This, unfortunately, seems to be the norm here in Austin as well. There's an entire industry of building permit "expediters" you almost have to hire to avoid the nonsense. This 3rd party handles all communication with the relevant permitting authorities, and mostly correct plans get approved almost immediately.
I don't see how the meaning of the phrases “How to not RIIR” and “How not to RIIR” is different.
"Run the media" in this context doesn't mean there's some CIA commissar approving every article or broadcast. What it means generally is that access to "leaks", scoops, "anonymous government sources", "high level intelligence officials", etc is predicated on uncritically toeing the "intelligence community" line. Failing to do so means no more access, and you will be replaced by someone else.

Take the lessons of Manufacturing Consent and apply them to the contemporary political context instead of Vietnam and East Timor, even if the elite media seems to be aligned with your own political beliefs.
If we have an io.Reader which implements io.ReaderTo then it has a certain set of exported functions. If this is embedded in ioutil.NopCloser then all those exported functions will be available on ioutil.NopCloser. Wouldn't structural typing then ensure that ioutil.NopCloser implements io.ReaderTo as well as io.Reader?

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding!
Even if you assume that VPN provider is listening and analyzing all your traffic, it's still preferential to your internet service provider doing the same thing. Fost starters, the internet provider just knows more about you. You probably have a contract with them, they know your exact physical location and they have your SSN. A malicious actor from within internet provider having access to all this information could potentially blackmail you by revealing your porn logs to your spouse, or your unsavory private reddit history to your employer etc.

Second, your VPN provider could be in a different country, and that would make data mining your traffic slightly less interesting to them. It'd also make data acquisition via subpoena of some sort from your country slightly more bureaucratic.

Third, if you have reservations about your VPN provider, you can just cancel your account and go to a different one. Changing VPN providers takes 5 minutes, while changing internet service provider can take months, or in some cases might not even be possible.
Alternatively, you could have C/C++ as a third, discrete category somewhere in the middle of the C <---> C++ spectrum. For people who like namespaces, or overloading arithmetic operators for mathy vector/matrix/etc stuff in order to make the code more readable.
Yes, that's true, but it would be correspondingly more difficult to find an alternative. If a plugin is compromised you're much more likely to be able to easily find an alternative. So it's a trade-off either way.
Agreed.

Windows ME taught me a lot of storage, backup and organizational skillsets, because I did have to refresh it every month. Literally. For two years (yay for Norton Ghost).

To your point however, since Windows 7, I really haven't had a need to refresh any of my or family's systems.

It does take me ~10min to get rid of some junk upon new install, but only because I'm pedantic. In reality the couple of pre-installed things don't bother me.

I don't really know about "ads". I don't see them as screensaver (just nice rotating landscapes), and again, once I uninstall initial Start Menu games and crap, I don't see them there either.

Really, the most annoying thing is that I have to persuade it several times I've tried Edge and am making my choice with Firefox :P
At a personal level, I'm not a fan of this generalization that being an IT admin (or any other boring job) is inherently inferior than, I don't know, skateboarding or playing the guitar for a living.

Different people like different things.