skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many a man that says he cares about privacy also doesn't really care, to be honest.

One thing that has always irked me is the carelessness by which a man may give out, and is expected to give out, his full name.

Almost everyone has accepted that this is a bad idea on the internet, but in corporal social interaction full names are given out as if they be blowjobs, and so much information can be uncovered from a man's name.

It needs some serious revisiting and consideration how this works and I think in today's modern æra we probably need to do away with a single unified name for all purposes and allow citizens to operate under pseudonyms depending on the setting, at a minimum to keep one's professional and social life more separate.

Another issue is visible faces in public. My jurisidiction on the eve of the corona pandemic actually passed a lot to ban full-face covering, worded neutrally, but everyone knew it was about certain Islāmic garments. Supposedly it was necessary that every citizen's face be publicly recognizable, yet now we all cover it with masks to no problem whatsoever.

Even without a pandemic, a man should have the right to obscure his face in public and be unrecognizable for whatever reason he might desire.
The pandemic has taken surveillance of workers to the next level
Isn't this a good indication that the performance problem if gmail may not be related to the "bloat" of the frontend itself?
I've been happy with using Hosted Exchange on Microsoft. I own the domain so ultimately I can point the DNS to some other provider. Outlook stores the mails locally so I have a backup. I think the most important thing about E-Mail is to receive future E-Mails and not look at historical ones. In the end you can always ask the receipent to send you a copy of the email conversation - if you dont own the domain it get much harder to convince you actually own the email.
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Wow! Black Mirror's Nosedive (Season 3 Episode 1) [1] is straight out of reality.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/
> But if I had to guess, a lot of its mission became obsolete when post-1980s era NRO satellites when into service.

That is exactly what happened. Also it is a very politically charged event to blast a Satellite out of orbit (resulting shards). You can blast airplanes out of "your" airspace all day long and tell everyone to pound sand.
Huh, Anonymous Content sounded familiar so I did a quick search and I discovered that they are responsible for producing a lot of stuff I have really enjoyed: True Detective, Mr. Robot, The OA, Flint Town, Maniac, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
If the drugs become legal who do you think will be making and distributing them in the US? The same cartels and criminal organizations who traffic drugs today.

The end users will have a different experience but selling and trafficking drugs will remain illegal.
Vengeance is one of the basic human behaviours. It does not have to be rational.
It clearly is with this line:

> You have to take into account the increase in profit every ISP has to make every year

Not profit every year, but _increase_ in profit every year.
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Most people understand that there is a distinction between having nothing to hide from randos on the Internet asking about my life and having nothing to hide from the legal system of my country. Your line of questioning is not an argument for most people.
Of course cloud is a viable back up, similarly to physical drives.

Both have vastly different failure modes and typical backup should use both of them.

This way if all my backups are gone I likely have way more important issues that loss of files.

(and yes, my backups are encrypted)
If they despised the working class they would've pushed for removal of the useless rules the West has - health and safety, generous pensions for hard jobs(like miners), minimum wage, etc.
So happy that I didnt even notice this, because I stopped using Google's services :)
Imho, organizing code in a braindead way (like single-implementation-interfaces) just to be able to test it is one of the main problems of bad code and bad languages. You make your code harder to understand, more convoluted and less refactorable. The far better approach is to seek out side-effects and state and organize your code like you would in functional languages like Haskell. Then testing is just adding a) testing all the stateless, functional and stateful stuff by pushing through prepared test objects and b) testing the side-effectful stuff through mocked side-effects or a test-mode (which you need anyways for integration tests). Cleaner, faster, easier to understand, easier to reason about. Only problem is that Java is relatively bad to use in a fuctional style.
It's nice to feel high torque. (And high torque is not illegal per se)

Driving a car that doesn't accelerate well while hearing a sound like you are hurting your engine is unpleasant, even for passengers.
The big mistake in the system is that everyone in the world is relying on Google services... These problems would have less impact with a more diverse ecosystem.
Coincidentally, Google Authenticator was finally just updated on iOS after many years without update.
Mostly it is military, so you pass flight school and then get your orders. Sometimes you can ask for a specific assignment, if it isn't in demand and isn't below you, you can get it, but part of asking is knowing who to ask and how to ask for it. (My Uncle was in the Navy and he got a lot of choice assignments because he asked for them and most of his peers just went where they were ordered)
The point is that the majority of people live boring lives and don't have enough wealth to be a valuable target. I certainly fall into this category. I'm not important or interesting enough that anyone is going to look into me.
It's possible that one day I'll become very important and then I'll wish that I had kept various embarrassing things from getting out. It's also possible that I'll become a billionaire. Neither outcome seems likely enough for me to change my daily behavior.

People are generally not willing to endure even the slightest inconvenience for the sake of a philosophical concept like privacy. I've seen people make big changes in response to widespread negative outcomes (ie, coronavirus), but I couldn't imagine a similar response to an intangible issue like potential privacy violations.
You're being downvoted, because it's an uncomfortable truth that challenges people's beliefs that they, themselves, are not falling for the media manipulation, but you're correct.
This is an important phenomenon that I think is really tricky to tackle. Because, I think your observation is 100% true. But, it also comes off as rude.

But it really is probably the case that most people making general statements to the effect of "I've got nothing to hide" don't actually believe what they are saying, or they haven't fully worked out the implications.
I'm all for holding companies accountable for their supply chain management, but within reason. I can't see the US government accepting EU employment contract, health, safety and business practices imposed on the US arbitrarily. There has to be some flexibility. Let's be clear, the west has reaped _staggering_ economic benefits from opening up China. Of course there have been costs too, some of them painful, but that's always the way with economic change.
What ideas do you have? I find Goodreads has the features, but its UX is rather old-fashioned.
The time is always now.
Ask HN: If you write a book bout failure,& it doesn't sell,is it called success?
You could argue that there are some obvious things that should be kept secret, but not what can be tracked on the internet etc for purposes of providing you better recommendations or improving your life in general.

That being said I'm a very private person and I wouldn't want to give out any data, but just playing a devil's advocate here.
Oof. I was just getting used to the idea that we have a decent rally sim/game (Dirt Rally) again.

It's a niche genre that requires a specialized physics engine, and there hasn't been decent entrant after Richard Burns Rally (2004) or before that. That was/is maintained by community binary patches for years and years after it EOL'd.

Rally car physics can't be simulated with just any car physics model, there is a lot going on with tyres on loose surfaces, differential gears in the drive train, turbo chargers etc.

I can't see it being lucrative enough for EA to make a niche game like that.
Liquid Warping GAN – “Deepfake” for body motion
Faustian Bargain
Obviously they don't have the volume but their average quality is probably as good as any streaming service. Over 16 non-film/doc/kids series the mean tomatometer/metascores is a pretty solid 74/64 and there's 5 with 90+/70+:

Ted Lasso, Tehran, Mythic Quest, Little America, and Central Park.

I enjoyed the first 4 of those and haven't seen the last.
Do you have some reference I can follow about that? Because I thought that A2DP not supporting microphone was a Bluetooth protocol limitation.
Blast at Saudi Port Hits Oil Tanker as Red Sea Attacks Mount
If you have Android, go to Settings -> Privacy -> Permission Manager and double check the permissions granted to the apps on your phone. You would be surprised at what is there...why does a musical tuner app need to know my location??
They are absolutely correct, as was a commenter that explicitly described what "privacy" means.

The issue is that corporations, like Facebook, have some very sweet "desserts" to entice people to abrogate their privacy. Alternatives have always given great privacy (spinach), but little in the way of a replacement for the "candies" that Facebook offers.

Facebook is incredibly valuable, and can afford to hire vast armies of engineers and psychologists, all dedicated to getting their "product" (that's users) to make themselves more "productive." Think farmers, giving hogs higher-protein, better-tasting food.

Until alternatives can provide a better "dessert" experience, and only offer spinach, then the vast majority of users won't come to them.
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Negotiating is above-board in its own right, which means you've got the right to say, "No, that price is too low," and walk away from the exchange. But, in a broad sense, I'd argue it becomes an issue when you say, "If you don't pay me, I'm going to facilitate crime with this data (or at least make it easy for others to do so)!" Because it's contemptuous of the law—not to mention it's a power dynamic that can really jeopardize a person's agency and certainly leads us to a more corrupt society if it's not acknowledged formally for being untoward.

But I also think a lot of these companies are happy to frame negotiations as extortionate if someone has the audacity to counter their offer, and that's bullshit. But it would also be bullshit to try to drive up the price on a real bounty after the fact by threating to let the bountied person run free with a map to your house, so it's complicated and I can see the precedent in thought there.
Air Force Conducts Latest Hypersonic Weapon Flight Test
Frequently the evidence is that they saw a connection from <IP from within country> or that the document had some Cyrillic in it which is the internet version of "Russia woz 'ere" totally legit. Conveniently it's always whichever country is the media boogeyman of the week
> It's first in relatively recent time (last 30 years or so) that this has receded in importance.

That's what I mean by decades :-)

I'm 40 now, so this means at least since I was 10.
I wish you could think a bit before writing such thing.

How do you decide what is an ad and what is not an ad? What if I tell my friend, that my new TV is really good? What if I tell it to 10 of my friends? What if I send an email to everyone I know, saying, that my new TV is great?

Would you investigate, if the TV manufacturer paid me or not? How exactly would you do it? Or did they gave me a discount on the TV?

I wish you could see, that you can not ban advertising, without banning free speech.

It would be also great to ban lying in media, right?
This is a pretty damning assertion. Got a source?

Edit: Found my own. Oof.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
Interesting topic.

I think, most people have something to hide but they think they could hide it even if the circumstances getting harder.

If things are hard to hide and you can still manage to hide them, you will be questioned even less. Because who would go through all that trouble?
> You can't host your email on more than one "provider"

You can do split delivery and have your email be delivered to two different destinations. It's less common than it used to be but it's trivial.
I don't think it's just you. It does feel like the comment section quality has dropped since the lockdown began.
Which specialities are you hearing are getting skyrocketing offers if you don't mind sharing?
ETH is going to start it's parabolic move
Politics, corporate media and the vanity (acting etc..) seem more prone to selling your principles than say other industries.

Of course being saddled with debt and family obligations doesn’t help as well.
IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, etc. I'm sure any non-trivial Java IDE does this.
Single Point of Failure: The Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords (video, 2013)
For those at least you don’t have to install SolarWinds code on your server to use them. They’re endpoints for syslog. As long as your logs don’t contain secrets (they shouldn’t) then it’s not great but not terrible.
I've been in one of the chase cars as they talk the plane down. One of the most memorable experiences of my life. This was over 10 years ago, but they were using Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubushi Evos then (this was in Cyprus, btw)
And this in capitalism is known as "efficiency".
Considering the name of the ISP, it feels like a missed an opportunity not marketing "no data cap" as "no wave cap".
not sure if you're trolling but yeah, it isn't. algorithms are discovered. inventions require physical objects, so all software patents end up being 'method and apparatus'.
I've been having the issue you are describing on my XPS 9300 with Killer AX 1650 ever since my BIOS was updated in November and I just upgraded my BIOS on Dec 9th to 1.4.1 without realizing I can't downgrade. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? Thanks!
Yes but that was eons ago. The safeguards are well and truly in-place now. Not just one, several in fact.
If you pay for Google Services, they have an SLA (service level agreement) of 99.9% [1]. If their services are down more than 43 minutes this month[2], you can request “free days” of usage.

Edit:
Services were down from ~12:55pm to ~1:52pm, it's 57minutes. Thanks hiby007

[1] https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/sla.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...
If you are into podcasts there is an episode of Omega Tau with a U-2 Pilot on http://omegataupodcast.net/109-flying-the-u-2-dragon-lady/
In Argentina some of our public buses have a rev limiter, since the limit is lower for them (up to 60km/h).
I don’t think there is a moat, but simply riding the wave of an expanding market that’s going to get vastly larger is a great place to be. It’s not guaranteed to be particularly profitable, but worst case they can still just sell it off.
The article correctly goes through the history of personal computing but then just stops short of reaching the obvious conclusion: everyone pretty much has a 'personal computer' already (even feature phones count, kinda). There's no "next platform". PC technology spread is done. As with other technologies, the next waves will be about efficiency, price and (as TFA does say) changing the way we work and live around PCs/smartphones.

Consider previous technologies: planes went from the Wright Flyer to the 747 in 50 years or so. But there's little "next gen" for airliners after the 747, other than well, fuel efficiency, operational efficiency, safety, etc. Which made riding in one a lot more approachable to anyone and eventually made low cost carriers possible and world tourism and Instagram influencers, etc... But a modern jet engine would be recognizable tech to an engineer from 50 years ago.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. But it's no longer a gold rush, it will be an evolution-driven industry just like, well, everything else.
If we can genuinely recognise who we are now, one collective faction in life’s planetary tribe, where we are now, in the storm’s eye of our own creation, then what we must do becomes much much clearer and simpler. The journey ahead of us is not easy.
One the worst systems I worked on was tons of untested PL/SQL. Could not change anything without unknowingly breaking something.
Very nice. I didn’t know about the `set -E` parameter.
He wrote a lot about this in (imo his best novel) A Perfect Spy and his memoir The Pidgeon Tunnel
The analogy doesn't scale because additional years of fast-food work don't add anything to your prospects. On the other hand, additional years of software development add a lot to your employability so the value of getting your first job is much higher. Once you have several years of experience, the lack of a 4-year degree is far less harmful to your employability.
The real cost (building, etc.) will results in a way more carbon intensive production as anything else. If you consider that Denmark electricity is 66 to 75% oil/gas/coal produced, the real environmental impact of this farm will be disastrous.

The 250x less water is compared to open field production without water drop control, it will be at the same level of water consumption than all the greenhouses you see, they will not be better. This argument is as such not a good one.
Apple has that right. But sometimes the way rights are exercised can still be concerning to others.
The advantage of a custom domain name is: As long as you can update DNS records, you can have your mail easily hosted elsewhere.

Obviously not relevant for this kind of outage, but in the scenario outlined by GP - Google randomly kills you off, and there is nothing you can do - this is at least an emergency strategy.
looking forward to reading the postmortem
Blockstack STX Mining Challenge – Test Proof-of-Transfer Consensus
I would rather privacy to not matters, why? Because hiding information incur cost and inconveniences.

The only reason i may care about privacy is because the information can be used to hurt me.

What need to be solved is the issue of "information used to harm" instead of hiding the information(privacy)

What is the real issue of want to lock my bathroom door? Because someone could hurt me while I take a shit, but if that issue can be prevented, I wouldn't need bathroom door to be locked.
Australia storms: Byron Bay's Main Beach 'all but disappeared'
So to easily fix such down time, i have alerts setup for website, server and API using https://simpleops.io/

After that I realised how frequently you can get down time
How much data could have been exfiltrated? Surely not GB worth?
I think one of the reasons for user tracking is fraud detection. The moment you get rid off it, nobody would be willing to "risk" advertising on smaller, unknown websites. So maybe such ban would make monetization for small publishers much harder.
A better way to get the point across with people who claim "they have nothing to hide" is to ask them "do you want to give away your ability to hide something". Everyone's future is uncertain, and even the most transparent of people among us may come into circumstances where they would want some information to remain private. If you give away your privacy you don't just give it away today, it's gone forever.
After the success of vacuum trains, underground superhighways, solar roadways and rocket travel, I guess this is the next logical step? At least you have something to sink our money into, rinse and repeat. Maybe even involve some EU green & eco funds.
Had an amazing time playing Dirt 2,3 and rally. (Hope things don't change after this /s)
A bit of a pet-peeve of mine, but it is the power that makes the car accelerate, not torque. With gearing, any value of torque is possible at the wheels, but not for any given speed. A car with 300 Nm of torque but 100 kW of power will never accelerate faster than the same car, but with less Nm and say 150 kW of power. Gearing is suitably chosen according to power production, not torque. The answer to the question "At what RPM will I accelerate the fastest, for a given speed" is always the RPM at which peak power is produced - which may or may not be avaliable because of gearing, but usually you can come pretty close since the power curve is somewhat flat around a region of RPM. Typically.
> For example, there could be a huge untapped retail market for financial derivatives such as interest rate and fx hedges. However, it's very hard to access this market because historically anyone who has started selling such products has pivoted towards targeting degenerate gamblers in order to fleece them.

Tangential, but this is pretty much emerging in the cryptocurrency/digital assets/decentralized finance (defi) space. To your point, out-right or borderline scams are a-dime-a-dozen there right now and there are plenty of incentives to cut corners in order to get growth, but there are a lot of ethical and promising projects as well.
AMD Provides a CPU-Based HIP Implementation for When Lacking a GPU
But then you need an up-to-date database of allowed speeds on roads all over the world, and since those already aren't reliable when they're used as indicative data, I don't think that's a viable solution.

It also wouldn't work on road sections with variable speed.
Everything VPN Is New Again
What would you make the top speed? When I was a kid the speed limit was 55mph (100kmh). Then they raised it. Some states the speed limit goes up to 75mph, while in others it is 65. There is talk of going faster in some states. (and I might not even be aware of the rules in all states)
In any language?
The problem is when they start messing with content. Like content-blocking popups during the video with tiny "close" buttons.
These randos on the internet are people. And who works in government and/or the justice system? You guessed it! People!

The govermnent is not some sort of abstract infallible entity. It consists of regular people. And giving those people deep access to your private and personal life is going to be abused more than it will help.

Have we already forgotten what disastrous consequences moving toward such a totalitarian government has? Have we already forgotten about the horrors of the second world war and its aftermath?
For me it really depends on the project. When I joined my current company we were much much smaller (6 engineers total), and there was a lot of new stuff to be built. I could easily work 8+ hours in a day, of actual coding.

Now, I probably get closer to 5-6. Though that may be impacted as well by the pandemic, where work from home is finally catching up with my productivity (been work from home since March).
Depends on what I'm working on. If I'm working on something that I made from scratch and totally understand, and it's something that I'm skilled at, I can go for 11 hours. If I'm doing something totally new and trying to understand code that someone else wrote, I struggle to be productive for 2 hours.
Not sure if it's the same though. It doesn't work for me.

Why do we like to defecate in privacy? What is the evolutionary reason? Animals do this too. Dogs only get to business when you give them some privacy and they like to get in the bushes if they can. I would assume it's an instinctive drive to get away from the community, to go somewhere with little social activity, so we don't make our living spaces dirty and infectious with our feces.

I don't think this is the same kind of thing as trying to keep one's political opinions or salary private.
Google Suffers Worldwide Outage
or you know could spend 0 pence on something and just organise your folders