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How to tell if your Social Media account is being ghosted?
I came across that thread sometimes ago here on HN ;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436276

And surely this can be done to social media accounts as well right ? Short from banning you or outright censoring you, could all your activity ; posts, comments, etc... be penalized / downweighted automatically without you being informed ?

My question is 1 ) is this technically feasible ( I'm assuming it is ) and 2 ) is it being done by say Facebook, LinkedIn et al. 3 ) Is that in the terms and conditions ( I haven't read them yet because I'm assuming it's not in there whether this is a thing or not ). Anyone in the know ?
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We should start questioning why everyone is living in (mostly more expensive) apartments in urban areas with no garden :)
I tried some and I don't like their effect. Yes, I can sit down through boring stuff but the intrinsic interest becomes dries up while on these. It is true that I didn't try this treatment for extended periods of time but I may if I absolutely need to (but only temporarily, up to a couple of months or so). For now I try to enjoy my average productivity which comes in bursts and that is okay
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Once the illegal activity is defined as running the software itself, because it cannot be done legally, then all hosts become liable, regardless of what they host. Simply by launching it, you would have broken the law.
> near me

You are experiencing the same global pandemic the rest of us are, right? Remote work and all that? (It’s honestly not for everyone. I prefer some physical facetime myself or I... “get disconnected”)

> not a strongly-typed language

While this guarantees elimination of a class of bug, pattern matching plus guards cover most of the potential bug surfaces there IMHO. I know the language creators have been considering some directions to go, there
I intended it to be pretty open ended. Mostly interested in skills that are useful for _both_ solo and team work. I agree that there are some things that can be very useful for team work that are not as essential for solo work when it comes to programming. For example, being able to justify technical decisions to higher ups. Lots of communication skills are essential for teamwork.
Details aside, I think having a PAAS is awesome and something we’re really missing on AWS.
> Google only develop Android and Chrome to fuel their ad business

Maybe, maybe not. Loss leaders are definitely a thing. Nothing forces them to be "doomed to fail" however.

> those two product can’t turn a profit on their own, as proven by Mozilla

Proven? Mozilla failed, sure. That does not mean its a foregone conclusion.
While true, and while it may be the case that the propaganda which led to the genocide would’ve used a different route had Facebook not been available, they did allow themselves to be a tool of a state engaged in genocide despite the T&C giving them the means to prevent such use.
Every PR is good PR, as long as your name is written correct. Or something along these lines.
Like all DigitalOcean products, the App Platform provides predictable, easy-to-understand pricing that allows you to control costs to prevent surprise bills.

I can't see any features listed that enable me to control costs to prevent surprise bills. If a site got submitted to HN and hugged to not-to-death-because-it-autoscales then I'd wake up to a bunch of alerts and massive outbound bandwidth bill. I don't want that. I want something that stops that happening.
I actually have a question here, why would they re-release BC? Isn't the point of Classic to keep it in a certain period of time? When many people started the game and thought it was at its "peak"?

On a side-note: would it be interesting to have a second branch of the game, maybe not called Classic, that would follow the main-line of the game, but would be a large chunk of expansions behind? That way people could relive those old expansions as if they were the latest one released. Personally, I think I would be much more on board with that since the game would actually change over time.
Absolutely! I ran into the arff format when using Weka and it was a revelation:

https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/arff.html
wow. what a surprise to see this on hn today.

I am a product manager that works on programmable search engine. AMA*(that I can actually answer)

If you are interested in what has been changing recently, https://programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com/

Edit: and yes, this is a new name for what many knew as Google Custom Search Engine.
Also, here is our community site where a lot of Q&A happens:
https://support.google.com/programmable-search/community
Android can be profitable. All the ripoffs like OneUI and MIUI have a shitload of ads. So charge them a small amount per device.

Chrome will have default search engine as Google. It is already profitable.
>and to provide, often, a less-biased report on things.

This isn't what a journalist does at all though and I think they're pretty honest about this if asked.

At best they take the facts and induce bias to provide them in a way that is most palatable to their audience and mirrors the belief of their audience to get more views and therefore more ad impressions. At worst they see themselves as a class above normal people and their job is to ensure the people below them think the right way.

Essentially in a world where the actual events is transmitted via video over social media moments after they occur, seems pretty redundant that we need it filtered through biased individuals who's business only existed because newspapers used to be the most efficient way of doing that.
> Exit the session to reset it.

No, just run the reset utility.

You can also use the reset function in your terminal emulator, like the Reset command int he Terminal menu of Gnome Terminal.

The data contains escape codes which shift the terminal into the block drawing character set and change the foreground and background color. These configuration changes can be reset out of the way.

The reset program also fixes the kernel TTY settings, but those are not messed up in this case.

Using the reset utility is like a combination of manually resetting the terminal with its menu command, and then running stty sane (using the GNU Coreutils stty which has the sane keyword) to reset the TTY settings.
"Functional BUT utilitarian" ?

You mean "Functional AND utilitarian" because for me these both are very welcome features.
> You need to get a job to make money so that you can spend that money on buying food

That is a good thing. I like my job and do not want to spend any time on having land and growing my own food. Better leave that to someone that likes to do that job. Everybody happy.
They recently increased the price of on-VM-storage by a minimum of 50% for larger plans (>100GB) in a pretty sneaky way, so I agree with the above sentiment. The pricing of recent releases is more towards large enterprise deployments or overly funded startups.
> Lawmakers should have been more careful about which mergers and purchases they approved.

What you're saying locks people into thinking that minds can never be changed with new information. That's wrong on so many levels.
I want to say what others have posted: this is a fantastic tool for learning technical writing and writing style. Good work, I'll be sharing it around today.
That's the size that is relevant to foveated rendering. But note that your actual physical fovea is even smaller than this, due to saccades.
I was at MS in the late 90s, left in 2000. It should have been broken up then. But to break up or be broken up is the wrong phrasing. It connotes a kind of destruction, to make something less than it was, but this is not the case at all.

Any value that something this large has, is in its ability to exhaust resources from the ecosystem, control the market, the workers and the ability to resist changing its behavior when better things come along. Companies exist in a system that should serve everyone and when an imbalance occurs the whole system morphs around them. They are no longer players but dictators, willingly or not. Their sheer size forces rules of the game in ways even they do not control.

Breaking up large companies isn't even about them. It is about us and the world we want to live in. Remember the wage fixing scandal between Pixar, Google, Apple and bunch of other companies in the bay? [1] They ultimately controlled where those people worked (and their horrible commutes), who they were friends with, what schools their kids went to and who they married. All because the execs at these companies wanted to maintain total control of the workforce and suppress wages. That is too much power for a company to have or wield. And these large companies due to their size alone are doing this on an unconscious level. On a conscious level they can do much worse.

Microsoft stagnated for what 10-15 years? But it isn't just MS that is stagnating, it is all the people in those markets. There were a bunch of us WITHIN the company that wanted the divisions repotted so each could grow on its own. If value is being lost when an organization that large is distributed to a smaller number of units, then the value is selfish, it only serves the org and not the system it operates in.

What is the end state if we let this continue? 20 large corporations in America and a field of small feeder gig economy vendors? We will all be serfs (NPCs) in a feudal corporate cosplay.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2012/01/20/doj_emails_anti_poach...
One thing I'd like to understand better about DDR5 is how well the built-in ECC is going to work to improve reliability. DDR5 comes with "chip level ECC" [1] of which the main purpose is to be able to better sell highly complicated memory chips with minor defects.

But as a consequence as I understand, it will allow for the correction of single bit memory flips. With regular DDR4 or previous generations, you don't get any error correction. Any bit error in your DDR4 modules has the potential to corrupt data. If you want to be protected from that, you will need to get ECC memory.

Unfortunately, anything with "ECC" in hardware for unfortunate reasons gets labeled with an "enterprise" sticker. And that means a certain price level, and a certain power consumption. (Yes I know you can get Ryzen boxes that work with ECC, but that's still PC sized hardware for hundreds of dollars).

If DDR5 can bring error correction to the masses - like in single board computers, 10W NAS boxes, smartphones - that would be pretty cool. But I'm not sure whether my reading of that is correct.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/comments/15912/ddr5-specification-...
Why, so they can put out a limply worded two sentence denial for every news outlet in the country to dunk on?

Bad press happens. I'm sure journalists love it when companies engage directly with them but I'm not sure that it results in more favorable coverage on average.

They still have a blog and a Twitter account. If they want to make statements they can tell the public directly instead of favoring specific journalists with private communications.
From what I have read a lot of the movement during COVID has been from major metro are to nearby smaller city.

For example in my midwestern city (Minneapolis) there was a recent article in the paper about home prices in a smaller (but touristy / historic )town ~2 hours away (Duluth,MN). The claim was a lot of people from Minneapolis were moving there.

I've read the same about SF residents moving to Sacramento or something like that.

You can work from home, still hit the office 1-4x a month, see family, etc. so it makes sense.
Hello. LINQ isn't at all limited to LINQ-to-SQL. That is simply one of the numerous IQueryable providers, which is also possible to implement yourself by doing some expression parsing.

And for the record I hate LINQ to SQL.
Rather than calling for backdoors, or secret rooms, this law explicitly prevents civil lawsuits or criminal prosecution for companies that refuse to install backdoors or use end to end encryption that they cannot crack.

I'm not really sure what the EFF is unhappy with about this act, since their complaints don't seem to be reflected in the text.

From the act:

CYBERSECURITY PROTECTIONS DO NOT GIVE RISE TO LIABILITY.—Notwithstanding paragraph (6), a provider of an interactive computer service shall not be deemed to be in violation of section 2252 or 2252A of title 18, United States Code, for the purposes of subparagraph (A) of such paragraph (6), and shall not otherwise be subject to any charge in a criminal prosecution under State law under subparagraph (B) of such paragraph (6), or any claim in a civil action under State law under subparagraph (C) of such paragraph (6), because the provider—

“(A) utilizes full end-to-end encrypted messaging services, device encryption, or other encryption services;

“(B) does not possess the information necessary to decrypt a communication; or

“(C) fails to take an action that would otherwise undermine the ability of the provider to offer full end-to-end encrypted messaging services, device encryption, or other encryption services.”.
Also not to forget that nothing in this system focuses on some mildly important things like taste :)
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reminds me of http://threevirtues.com/
We know from the Oracle lawsuit that Android is a multi-billion dollar business. Android may be open source but Google Play Services is not, so that's a few dollars of revenue for every phone sold. In addition, Google Play app store revenue for 2019 was $21.9 billion, and Google takes a 30% cut on most of that.
I think we're saying the same thing in two different ways, so I agree with your point. What I'm reading is a good "why" - why wasn't there time to prevent this bug.

Better is a subjective word, so I think I could have made my point more clear by instead writing "99% of bugs are there because there wasn't allocated enough time to prevent them"

Do you agree more with that statement than the one I originally posted? :)
The ability to learn and adapt. The first few years as a programmer you are going ton have a billion aha! moments. At every turn you will think you are a bad ass, only to be humbled. Have an open mind ready to learn and adapt.
Should be a mandatory read for anyone who shills for big tech here:

"Lack Of Anti-Trust Enforcement"

https://blog.dshr.org/2020/08/lack-of-anti-trust-enforcement...
Actually I like all the rules you proposed, except that smaller players should be exempt.

Not what you in mind probably, but here we are.
thank you! happy to hear about that :)
I built my first PC recently and was surprised that you have to give Windows 10 a Skype/Outlook/Microsoft account just to initialize the OS installation, even if you want to switch it into "local login only" after installation is complete.
I've found that posts related to anti-trust enforcement of big tech on here generally have these sort of sloppily-reasoned comments at the top.

The reality of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" hits home in pretty much every discussion I have on anti-trust.
So what? Considering how big these companies are, it's hard to claim that they can be bullied by lobbyists.
This has been my experience as well. I used to get about 3 colds per year, maybe 4 if I was unlucky.

I've been at home since March and haven't had symptoms of anything which is so great.
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I have lost count of all the Google Analytics alternatives. It seems there is a new one popping up every week. This is not criticism, but I'm wondering why there are so many people developing their own alternative product.

For me an attractive GA alternative has to be:

- 100% self hosted via Docker containers in Kubernetes
- Able to configure a connection string to a datastore outside my kubes cluster
- One deployment for the data gathering service
- Second deployment for an Admin tool/dashboard
- Provide at least basic metrics around acquisition, user device and location data

Nice to have:

- Open source so people can scrutinise the code before deploying and feed back bug fixes/feature requests, etc.

Can anyone recommend a GA alternative which ticks these boxes?
It's deeper than that, the shaders are _binary_ compatible.

> The only major assembly language change from GCN -> RDNA is DPP / cross-lane operations (kinda like pshufb from x86). But I'm not even sure if the PS4 had those instructions.

Yeah, it didn't. AFAIK, they were added in GCN 3, while the PS4 is GCN 1.1.
Not only that, but in this case, given that we don't have a theory of Quantum Gravity yet, the notion of "what happens" at the singularity is inevitably mystical.

The press release is glibly going from "science mode" to "mystical mode" and acting like it's all known by physics, which it's not. (I'm not really complaining ... it's a press release, after all.)
Facebook is far more dangerous to society than any patent troll.

Facebook is in the business of selling the ability to coerce people into doing things that are against their best interests. It's very dangerously good at it. Facebook has also turned a blind eye to its platform being used to organize politically-motivated violence.

It needs to be heavily regulated or shut down completely.

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That said, I don't expect Washington to break up the tech giants. Meaningful anti-trust enforcement has not happened in decades and would go against very long standing, but unspoken, precedents against Washington harming large piles of money. Any action taken by the government would likely be for show (in no small part to pander to conservative fears over platform bias, and possibly to extract superficial concessions from the tech sector on this front), and would be very unlikely to survive the post-Trump Supreme Court intact.
Nanobox was acquired by Digitalocean. More details at https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-acquires-nano...
They mean stereoscopic movies. It is a normal camera trick but it doesn't work well in 3D? Adjusting your eye's stereo focus differently than the lens focus can be too straining.
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Do tell?
Supporting pre-existing Helm Charts and k8s manifests as artifacts is still on the roadmap, and that needs to be achieved first before we can achieve a GitOps philosophy like Weave Cloud.

Ps: Hofstadter looks cool!
when I get frustrated that's often a cue for me to take a break haha. It's been a nice way to deal with frustration for me.
> Lawmakers should have been more careful about which mergers and purchases they approved. Many of the issues we face with big tech is because lawmakers are to inept at seeing the long term consequences of the deals they themselfs approved.

A) The pool of lawmakers is in constant flux.

B) Most lawmakers are bribed by the very companies that they seek to regulate.

C) Companies lie all the time in their filings, and the moment they have the flimsiest of justifications, turn around and do the exact thing they promised not to

D) People who make a bad decisions in the past should be encouraged to fix it.
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It seems nearly impossible that they aren't back to price fixing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing
I really want to see the harm articulated. More and more we see vague 'problems' and 'harm' but it's never clearly stated. These companies provide damn good service and at a great cost. If we want to look at harm - why don't we look at the medical industry, drug industry, cable/internet -- these companies are outright abusive to their customers and extract massive amounts of money from them and are often granted monopolies by the government.
Then make very specific company-agnostic behaviors illegal, like with Freon. They didn't say "we ban company X from making any fridges", it was a general ban. If there's a certain behavior that's problematic (still not sure what specifically you would be referring to here), then ban that, not handpicked companies.

This is the TikTok crap all over again. They want to help national security and user privacy, but instead of banning data collection, they target TikTok specifically, because they know other US owned apps do very similar data collection.
I would also love to see more regulation around the same company owning several brands which appear to compete with each other.

For example their's only a handful of big tech recruiting firms, one of which has at least 4 brands which all report to the same home office. This in itself isn't wrong , but their needs to be much greater transparency.

Like if you own 5 different hotdog chains nation wide , and your HotDog Inc , you should have to put 'Dave Dogs, by HotDog inc'

In this manner if Dave Dogs get me sick I can avoid HotDog Inc in the future. Not likely to ever happen, but it would be nice.
The claim, not proof, was in the description. The maintainer is responsive and asks for details to reproduce. You keep ignoring the questions. "We sandboxed the entire VM using VM-level settings." Great, tell the maintainer what kind of VM you used and how it was configured. Without the maintainer will give up, close the issue as not reproducible and move on.
The article also notes that most of the work is project-based as well. So it's effectively contract work.
I'm not claiming they are being bullied by lobbyists. I'm claiming that the antitrust arguments have a long history of political motivation, as opposed to broadly beneficial economic motivation.
The FTC and DoJ approve mergers and acquisitions not lawmakers.
Facebook is not water, it is a thing both made by and employing people, people which many other people hold to a higher standard than Facebook has lived up to.

It wanted to move fast and break things. It did. People don’t like that it did.
Thanks for the feedback! Autoscaling is not yet supported on the platform (but is coming soon). Before autoscaling lands as a feature, insights based alerting will also land. You'll be able to setup alerts for scaling events, bandwidth, cpu, memory, and more that can be sent via email or slack.
The author's concern is an attack on decentralized consensus process, which isn't a problem for DKIM.
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I think some of my favorite programmers exhibit this quality in spades
I got quite excited at being able to stick my static sites on DO for free, but notice on this page[1] that only the first three are free, then it's $3/m/site.

Perhaps I've been spoiled by services like Netlify. I'd be interested to know what the benefits are of using DO's service over free alternatives.

[1] https://cloud.digitalocean.com/apps?i=6bf7f8
Or it's _really_ close, but the systems are complex enough that they feel they need to QA/cert the games again even if the vast majority of games require no changes.
Hacked page on mobile phone website is stealing customers’ card data
How does this increase compare with other regions?
I don't know how it is in the US, but I'm scared of even trying to be diagnosed in the UK. Once you're in the system as somebody with psych problems, a lot of things can get harder. I fear the risk is not worth satiating the curiosity.
Gradual social/political destabilization, caused at least in part and certainly accelerated by social media (FB/Twitter) and pervasive adtech in personal life (led by Google) seem to be the big ones here. Arguably as bad as Big Tobacco or Big Oil.