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The quote "If you do not pay, you are the product" implied that if you pay, you are not the product. That is, a profile won't be built around you to be tracked and manipulated.

Today it's more like "You are the product, whether you pay or not".
Same happened to me many years ago. QA dropped the prod db. It's been many years but if I recall, I believe in the dropdown menu of the MongoDB browser, exit & drop database were next to each other...Spent a whole night replaying the oplog.

No one owned up to it, but had a pretty good idea who it was.
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Hmm, there seems to be some holes in their system. A database might go down for any reason.

I also have daily backups, but I write logs (locally and regularly copy from the production server) for all database actions to disk for the purpose of checking through them if something goes wrong, or having the option to replay them encase something like this happens. SO you have your database backups as "save points" and the logs to replay all the "actions" for that day.
Fair. 'sucking' does work to describe the unloading. I guess the idea that the _speed_ of the erosion creates suction, is what bothered me.
Esperanto helps with that by being polysynthetic and allowing you to attach suffixes to extend words (agglutination)

For instance:

good - bon+e (-e makes adverb)

bad - mal+bon+e (mal- is like un-)

very bad - mal+bon+eg+e (-eg- intensifies)

to make bad - mal+bon+ig+i (-ig- makes active, -i makes a verb)

to make worse - pli+mal+bon+ig+i (pli- means more)

you can also string roots together like in German: man+sak+o = hand+bag+noun suffix = purse/handbag.

this, and the familiarity of the roots to Indo-European speakers, makes Esperanto very fast for Europeans to learn. a small number of roots and good grammar gives you a lot of return on your time.
In theory I agree. In practice I strongly disagree. As soon as I hit more than maybe 3 email addresses it became a burden to maintain and I totally regret it.

I could do <servicename>@example.com to make things easier but this is less secure than <random>@example.com
This post is embarrassing. "yeah we were drinking and accidentally nuked the prod DB. Not sure why. Shit happens!" Who would read this and think they should trust this company? Any number of protections could have been taken to prevent this and production access in any state other than fully alert and attentive shouldn't happen unless it is absolutely necessary for emergency reasons
It wasn't a value statement. I don't think it's the right way to go about it, but it would almost certainly be the most effective. These laser boxes aren't really a 'local' solution. They would reduce, not elimiate, mosquitos in the vicinity of one entry into a home. You would need a dozen to fully protect a single house.
The NSA is not a part of the "administration?" Or are you just being overly sensitive and defensive of the "administration" because in the current paper-democracy four-year cycle, it happens to be run by republicans (who are always good and entirely infallible)?
I suppose I'm not speaking clearly here. Generally yes, my tasks come from a combination of my team pushing priorities up from below (ideas for improvements, paying down tech debt) and the business pushing requirements down from above (strategic/financial objectives, promises to customers). Prioritization and assignment is usually a group discussion with everyone relevant.

The fact that priorities and schedules are decided with input and consensus from lots of people who aren't me is the crux of my point. The article is about personal task management. It, like any number of similar articles I've read, offers a system that presumes I can pick and choose what I work on today based on metrics of my own choosing, instead of being bound by a decision made with other people. The article expects I'm in an environment where nobody cares if I push tasks back 2, 3, 4+ days for reasons that have nothing to do with the project or team or business, but because of arbitrary restrictions on when I allow myself to do certain things. Unless I can make a business case that "theme days" or similar systems benefit the business, the business just sees needless, disruptive delays it didn't authorize.
A quick rundown https://sqlite.org/aff_short.html
Which is kind of interesting - because farm equipment doesn't have that sort of protection.

Product Liability in the Farm Equipment Industry - https://youtu.be/NdN577BbnSY?t=1166

Also: https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/agriculturallaw/2019/05/pr...

> When purchased equipment is altered, the manufacturer is generally released from liability unless the manufacturer could have reasonably foreseen that purchasers would alter the equipment in the manner that resulted in injury.

So if you could have modified a tractor in a way that was not obviously bad and the manufacturer didn't try to stop you from doing it, the manufacturer could still be liable.

Is it reasonable to believe that if the purchaser has the ability to modify the software, they will? If so, how does one rewrite the liability laws for farm equipment?

And while physical modifications may reduce manufacturer liability - what about software? And the ability to reset the software so that evidence of the changes are no longer present?

There's a challenge with the law for repair and liability for farm equipment that needs to be reconciled. That liability issue doesn't exist for other domains (modifying a personal computing device). You aren't likely to find a $6M claim against Apple for ripping someone's arm off - that is an issue with farm equipment.
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Why are these days gone?

Just a few weeks ago, I set up a read-only user for myself, and moved all modify permission to role one must explicitly assume. Really helped me with peace of mind while developing the simple scripts that access data read only. This was on our managed AWS RDS database,
Don't let the facts get in the way of the outrage machine!

She was watching The Voice on Hulu.

We know she didn't have to record something every 30 seconds or enter reading from the dashboard or enter something within 10 seconds of a light flashing.
There is sense in not building more services than you need. But many folks end up finding it hard to break away from their monolith and then it becomes an albatross. Not sure how to account for that.
Good catch. Wouldn't surprise me if there's 1 username/password for all their DB environments.
He tossed ballots but not political spam? Mean heaped upon mean.
Babylon Bee and The Onion are exactly fake news. It's humor and satire and looks like news but isn't. What else would you call it?

Somehow fake news started also being applied to news that was sourced and thought to be true when reported, but turned out to be wrong when new informatiom became available. And also, for some people, any news that disagrees with your opinions.
The best materials for protection are soft ones like silicone, plastic or leather. Soft materials wear down, so you wouldn't want them to be built-in to your $1000 phone. Better to have a $2 case you can swap out when it wears down (and it let's people customize their phone to suit their style)
Interesting. I just heard something about that in passing and it made sense. My father in law is type AB (and a lifelong smoker) and mosquitos completely ignore him. I'll have ten bites and they don't even get in his vicinity..
Honestly not a bad idea to install the interlocks on all cars.
I’m talking about a data protection officer bottleneck, keeping records of all processing, impact assessments, and waiting on prior consultation with government. Those are all ongoing costs and schedule risks that hurt even teams that have always complied. “Don’t track people” won’t save you from these.
I do a lot of work with middle/high school students. Without fail someone would yell "Why is it doing x!"...to which my standard reply is "Because you told it to".
Reliability, atomic updates, roll backs, proper backups, history management, proper schema, etc.
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I've done work on a proprietary embedded RTOS that has had high level versions of those barriers at least a decade before the C atomics model was standardized (and compiles them to the closest barrier supported by the target architecture).

I suspect that the OS and Architecture communities have known about one-way barriers for a very long time, and they were only recently added to the Arm architecture because people only recently started making Arm CPUs that benefit from them. And that seems like a more likely explanation than them having been plucked from the C standard.

Moreover, one-way barriers are useful regardless of what language you're using.
Why does the DB get corrupted? Does ACID mean anything these days?
I think you have a point, but there are more nuiances than that.

There are typically 2 types of data to collect: Transactional data and behavioural data.

Most transactional data, due to their important nature, are already generated and captured by the production applications. Since the logic is coded by application engineer, it's usually hard to get this data wrong. These data are then ETL-ed (or EL-ed) over to a DW, as described by the article.

For behavioural data, this is where your statement will most apply to. This is where tools like Snowplow, Posthog, Segment, etc come in to set up the proper event data collection engine. This is also where it's important to "collect data properly", as these kinds of event data changes structure fast, and hard to keep track over time. I'd admit this space (data collection management) is still nascent, with only tools like iterative.ly on the market.
Arguably this might be a change in multi factor productivity?
> How would someone paid $4/hour be expected to sustain themselves though?

By decreased living standards and working more hours. Take a look at farm labor for an example: the work is largely done by foreign labor where their opportunities in their domestic market is even worse.
Reminds me of the "Power Lines in Anime" series:

https://powerlinesinanime.tumblr.com/
parallel rewrites before the current prod system ever hits performance problems :)
> [..] referred to it as a backdoor

Because it was implemented in a flawed way.

> "In 2018 Christopher Domas discovered that some Samuel 2 processors came with the Alternate Instruction Set enabled by default and that by executing AIS instructions from user space, it was possible to gain privilege escalation from Ring 3 to Ring 0.["
I agree with you that it’s worthwhile to read what everyone has to say.

One problem is that Facebook and Twitter, not to mention the NYT and the rest of the media, are not that.

Social media places you in a filter bubble, and whatever you click on first shapes everything you’ll see forever, such that your entire worldview is shifted.

The media does essentially the same thing, tailoring it’s articles to match a particular target audience and then feeding them more and more of what they want to hear.

I don’t really know how we break out of this, but I think some level of decentralization - breaking up the social media networks so none of them have more reach than say, CNN, would be a good start.
> Do you lie to your business parters in the context of a transaction? We hit you with fraud, misrepresentation, or any number of torts. Do you threaten someone with bodily harm? Oh boy. Cyberbullying? Depending on your state, that might be a problem. Lying while under oath or to a federal agent? That's potentially a few years behind bars.

...and yet, ALL of those things happen routinely and without consequence on a COLOSSAL SCALE.

Folks on HN like to pretend that laws and courts function like clockwork or computer programs, executing flawlessly and automatically. They don't. People get away with stuff ALL THE TIME. And if it does ever end up in a court, "winning" is an iffy proposition even in the best possible circumstances.

In the case of political disinformation, the problem is even more intractable. Talking heads can lie their heads off to audiences of millions of people on incredibly powerful platforms. I don't just mean "lie", I mean deliberately say a demonstrable untruth with the intention of misleading others on serious matters and be completely unaccountable for it.

There's the recent example of Trump retweeting a completely fabricated story suggesting that Biden had members of Seal Team 6 who were involved in the OBL assassination "executed". Turns out the story was "launched" from Miami Florida at the "American Priority Conference" the week before. In a few short days, a disinformation campaign was able to fabricate a completely fake story, gain 3M youtube views, and "induce" the President to retweet it to 85 Million followers. The source story was then quickly pulled from Youtube, but everyone involved (Gary Franchi, Anna Khait, Nick Noe, and others) is totally free to do it all over again. They still got their twitter, facebook and youtube platforms, RIGHT NOW, during a super tense time right before the election.

These platforms are very much "owned" platforms. They're not like newspapers but they have the same responsibility to act with some level good human judgement. Laws aren't ever going to be able to keep up with this crap.
Well, there was a fairly huge streaming service called FM Radio that had a huge audience at the time.
This is true for cars - but not farm equipment.
As the article highlights, it's not the lack of data. It's a decision conscious/unconscious on the part of Google to smoothen out what it shows
Yes, I recall the California study was marred by fairly obvious problems - it was looking for the infection rate of a population. The population was known to have a low infection rate and the test had a high false positive rate. He got a result that indicated a ~1-2% infection rate but which was compatible with 0% infection rate and thus was essentially worthless.

He's push covid denialism in every conceivable forum open to him and aligned with overtly right wing ideological institutions like the Hoover Institute and the American Institute For Economic Research.

This stuff has been gone over so much by now it has skidmarks on it but I'll dust off the file I keep this stuff:

A nice article describing the similarity of Covid-denial and Climate-change-denial: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/04/coronavirus-d...

An article on the effort to spin the Santa Clara tests befor e they were even release: https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-circulating...

What's on with Ioannidis: https://undark.org/2020/04/24/john-ioannidis-covid-19-death-...

Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution, another Stanford Connected "minimizer" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-corona...

A summary of several related minimizers, with a similar program: https://arcdigital.media/what-the-federalist-doesnt-get-abou...

Aljazeera gives a broader discussion, why real scientist would do this: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-herd-i...
I didn't know that. I've only used shift-ins.
Anyone reading the above: please don't do this. Git is not made for database backups, use a real backup solution like WAL archiving or dump it into restic/borg. Your git repo will balloon at an astronomical rate, and I can't imagine why anyone would diff database backups like this.
The issue with restricting speech is selective enforcement, often based on political ideology.
Ha, if I do I'll post an update.

Yes, I agree, there's a lot of potential here to generate controversial and fairly fake content.

I've only spent a month playing with gpt2 and gpt3, and technical literature, historical, and political content all seemed very viable for mass production with AI.
I was responding to a person who said they were direct competitors. I agree that they're competitors in certain respects, insofar as they're both electric vehicles and both have their price spread constrained by the cost of batteries. But they don't directly compete with the same audience. A more reasonable direct competitor to the ID.3 is the Renault Zoe or Peugeot e-208. A more reasonable direct competitor to the Model 3 is the Polestar 2.

The Model 3 and ID.3 are a full size class apart and have wildly different driving character. In BMW parlance it's M340i vs 120i. In Mercedes parlance it's C43 vs A200.

It is too early to assess the relative build quality of the ID.3, though obviously VW do have strong form here and Tesla have weak form. But from a construction standpoint it's worth noting that the ID.3 is cheaply made, well below the standard of even the VW Golf. Despite the price tag, it's an economy car through and through.
It takes a lot more silicon to implement Jazelle than a single well-tailored ALU instruction. Moreover, while the market for "JVM on small Arms" never really took off, the market for "JavaScript on Arms of all sizes" is flourishing and has been for at least a dozen years.
I counted 6.

Fivetran, dbt, Preset (Superset/Airflow), Sisu, Imply and Databricks.

Though, as someone who's in this space a while, I think they did a decently fair job at articulating the 'modern' data infrastructure landscape.
> once you have named parameters, you don't need the parens.

Can you share an example of what this would look like in practice? I'm having trouble thinking of how this syntax would work.
Riding the Ballmer Peak is a precarious operation, but I simply cannot deny its occasional effectiveness.
The kind of work they are doing isn’t what makes them slaves either.
I appreciate the well-sourced synopsis of this whirlwind saga. In a section of your post, I think you are misinterpreting the specifications of Section 230.

You write:
"Until now, we’ve tolerated it because these companies said they would be neutral speech platforms. They would not put their thumb on the scale in favor of one side or another, in an attempt to influence public opinion or electoral outcomes."

There is nothing in Section 230 that requires online platforms to be neutral. In reality, the law was written to encourage, not discourage, online platforms to filter user-submitted content. It has no requirement for neutrality—political or otherwise.

Bad actors have used Section 230 as a shield for a lot of genuinely abhorrent behavior, and a growing number of critics are calling for the law to be curtailed.

Before Section 230, in the early web 90's the more effort a service made to remove objectionable content, the more likely it was to be liable for content that slipped through the cracks. If these precedents had remained the law of the land, website owners would have had a powerful incentive not to moderate their services at all. If they tried to filter out defamation, hate speech, pornography, or other objectionable content, they would have increased their legal exposure for illegal content they didn't take down.

The strategy behind 230 was to give the owners of online services broad immunity for user-submitted content, whether or not they engaged in content-based filtering. If the government guaranteed sites they wouldn't get sued for their moderation decisions, most sites would voluntarily engage in filtering.

Without Section 230, under common law and the First Amendment, there was emerging this distinction between publishers and platforms.
Wyden and Cox (the authors of Section 230) "wanted the platforms to be able to make editorial judgments without suddenly becoming liable for everything."

In his Oval Office speech last month, Donald Trump said that social media platforms get immunity "based on the theory that they are a neutral platform, not an editor with a viewpoint."

That almost perfectly describes the law as it existed before 1996, "the whole point of Section 230 was to allow online services to have the discretion to block content that they deem objectionable."

"There's an entire class of online interactions that didn't exist and exists only because of the legal protection."
This is why Section 230 tends to be popular among advocates of free speech.

"Section 230 allows sites like Facebook and Twitter—not to mention the comment section of Ars Technica & Hacker News—to publish ordinary users' thoughts without review or censorship. In a world without Section 230's protections, users might have many fewer opportunities for such unfettered self-expression".

I'm still wrapping my head around this issue in terms of the bigger picture of social media's positioning in our civic society. It sounds like you are going through the same process.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/section-230-the-...
I do believe that "do something for a set period and see what happens" is the wrong way to look at timeboxing.

Rather, (at least to me) it's "don't extend the deadline, instead reduce the scope". You slice your deliverables small enough so that if you miss the deadline, it's not an all-or-nothing situation. You can always deliver a usable subset of what you planned/forecast.

Take your example, "writing those two missing features today". You might just end up delivering one of those features if your forecast turns out to be inaccurate. It's more effective if the timebox is larger and the tasks are smaller.
as an english person, these tools all seem to be for working on butter that’s fresh out of the fridge; they’d be impossible to use on normal, room-temperature soft butter.

There’s something funny about inventing a tool to solve a problem that only exists for such a simple cultural reason (assuming butter goes bad quickly if not refrigerated)

Also, really odd how this article thinks of normal, unsliced butter— normal to everywhere else in the world but the US as some kind of pre-technological tradition.

edit: a friend pointed out to me that in lots of other places in the world, butter probably just melts to the point of becoming useless, so it has to be kept refrigerated, which is something I never considered before, feel pretty dumb about that
History has shown these groups have gotten things wrong time and time again, why should we let them determine what is legal to say?

How much harder would it be to fight for civil rights if that was deemed subversive or abhorent, and subversive or abhorent speech was prohibited?
Guy is writing a pity story in hopes of getting some more VC funding at some point down the line for his new business.

It's pathetic and I'm just angry I wasted my time reading through the whole medium post
Git repositories are compressed.
Yes. I could finally start a failed interlock story blog.
I was working in data analytics + data science a decade ago and we stored everything, not aggregates, and pushed them through hadoop. I have been "out of the game" since then. What has changed that is making people saying "store everything" is a new phenomenon? (genuine question bc I am clearly missing something.)
If you're in San Francisco, try buying a block of butter from Daily Driver on 3rd St in the Dogpatch. https://dailydriver.com/

The owners own a creamery up in Marin, and they make their own cultured butter in house. At $14 for an 8 oz block it is much more expensive than the stuff at Safeway, but it has a totally different taste.

https://sf.eater.com/2019/5/29/18643503/daily-driver-san-fra...
Anyone who has sent a bill to a company knows it's very very very hard to get some companies to pay bills on time (or at all).
Ubuntu 20.04 and Kali Linux 2020.2 on an old Dell Precision M6800. I have MacOS on my 2012 MacBook Pro too but the keyboard is dying on that computer so I don’t use it much
I did managed to crack the screens on both my Palm IIIx and a Nokia N73, so despite their bulky plastic cases, they weren't impervious (since the smartphone era I've also cracked only two screens - iPhone 5S and 11 Pro Max, only the former was caseless)