skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't fit the whole tweet, so just to be clear, she's talking about manual, non-legal requests:

> One of the surprising things about working on the slander series is how few people in the field, even experts, know that Google voluntarily removes some search results. (No court order needed!) You have to visit this generic url: https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?...

Down the thread, she adds this:

> Because so few people know about it, "reputation managers" are charging people like $500 a pop to "remove damaging information from Google results." And ALL THEY DO is fill out that form for free. Someone tried to hawk this service to my husband after he came under attack.

I didn't know about this service URL, and had just assumed "reputation managers", if they did anything at all, were limited to SEO spamming.

edit: Searched HN for mention of this link and found exactly 5 results, 3 of which look unique, and the earliest in Dec. 23, 2015:

https://imgur.com/EEUJn9M
I vehemently disagree. Education is a value in itself, whatever its impact on the economy or on technology is. People have an innate right to be as educated as they want (and can handle).

Of course, it doesn't follow that they have a right to be considered researchers or publish papers afterwards, and the plethora of bad research may be a real problem. However, it should be noted that academic pseudosciences are not a new phenomenon, and they have sometimes been much more destructive than some of today's examples. Race science, phrenology, medicine in the time of bloodletting and others have been respected academic pursuits created by elites, not the result of anything like over-education.
Thomas Cromwell is the historical figure "cromulent" triggers for me; the Wolf Hall trilogy is worthwhile historical fiction.
> not used in a failover way.

Aurora works like that. Read replicas are on standby and become writable when the writable node dies or is replaced. They can be used, of course, but so can other standby streaming replicas.
I would not even use facebooks apps right now if you cared about your privacy.

Also if you could sideload you could install firefox with its own engine allowing more finegrain control over browser settings in about:config or more privacy focused fork. This means if some reason you need facebook you can lock it down more than iOS does.

Although the best solution is don't use facebook.
I just saw his post, it's a great explanation.

It might also help to keep in mind that both regular disk drives and solid state drives remap bad sectors. Both types of disks maintain an unaddressable storage area which is used to transparently cover for faulty sectors.

In a hard drive, faulty sectors are mapped during production and stored in the p-list, and are remapped to sectors in this extra hidden area. Sectors that fail at runtime are recorded in the g-list and are likewise remapped.

Writes may usually go to the same place in a hard drive, but it's not guaranteed there either.
They stock plenty of third party Wine in my area, although the beer is all Trader Joe labeled. There are a handful of other things that aren't Trader Joe store brand or completely generic (yet?).

Not that it would matter here, the law in question sets the market cap miles above where Trader Joe's is.
kimono and winter
I doubt this is true. I almost always have send out personalised messages if possible (E.g. comment on something in their profile, something noteworthy in their fotos or something else). They just almost never respond(I would say <<5% even respond), and if they respond it's not much beyond an: "haha thank you" or something empty like that, with no follow up of any kind. It was impossible to keep any kind of conversation going no matter what I tried.

Now? I just gave up. I have better things to do then spend hundreds of hours without a single conversation going anywhere. Online dating is a useless black hole.
I don't think we really need stupidly rich people. Is taxation a planned economy?
If one country doesn't grow demographically, another one will
Not anymore. Now it's almost everything is EAR, and ITAR is restricted to a smaller subset nowadays. EAR is still painful but much less than ITAR - if you just want to use an EAR product and you are in a NATO country, handling the restriction is fairly smooth.
This is a bad post.

1. It complains about downvotes, which is one of many reasons your post is grey.

2. The main reason people throw electronics away is not because they break, but because they become obsolete: Big [citation needed] on shorter time scales. For longer time scales it's intuitively true but irrelevant. With Moore's law being toast, most hardware upgrades are extremely incremental. I don't get any more battery life on my iPhone XS Max than I do on the 6+ it replaced, it's not any more responsive, etc. Beige boxes haven't been a thing for decades. But, people holding onto their devices longer would absolutely result in less ewaste.

3. When you tell companies they have to build things a certain way, you remove the option for something better to evolve: That depends entirely on the nature of the requirements. Nobody's talking about the government dictating the whole BOM. No innovation is being stifled by requiring, say, user-replaceable batteries, unless we're talking about innovative ways to pad the company's bottom line. Let's not lose sight of the fact that repair-hostile design absolutely benefits the company and only the company at the end of the day.

4. baring the extra engineering/documentation costs: which are already done internally, so those costs are irrelevant. Every company that does repairs has documented repair procedures for their own people already. They can put PDFs on a freaking website. No idea what you mean by "extra engineering costs".

5. forcing companies to create small quantity B2C supply chains and retail channels for consumers to purchase individual parts on obsolete models would be an absolute nightmare: That's somewhat fair, but there's no reason it needs to be any more of a retail channel than their ship/replace stuff already is. The infra is already in place, they're just shipping out parts instead of full devices. I think the word "obsolete" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.. a 2 years old phone is only "obsolete" by manufacturer fiat, because they can make more money by marketing tiny, incremental upgrades and simply refusing to support the still-useful device.

6. You'll just be cloned by an army of chinese competitors even faster: Not fast enough for this to be an actual concern. Shitty chinese clones happen with a quickness even today, yet for some reason people still spend billions on name brand devices. I do not foresee this meaningfully changing. Trademark/import law is still a thing, after all.

7. incumbent big companies may simply use this regulation as an opportunity to entrench their position in the marketplace: This is a weak meta-situational argument used by all big businesses against any and all business regulations. I do not see why this case is special.
You may like "location independent", already used for years. However "remote work" or "working remotely" are a lot more common and don't have pajamas connotation.
“First world problems” is also a related concept. Our priorities and judgements are very much borne from the larger context of our individual and group experiences.

Even the very definition of “greatest stuff in the world” is highly dependent on one’s particular circumstance and priorities.
I'm not conflating anything? I'm only pointing out, under prospect theory, people value avoiding a loss over a risk for a gain.

It's rational for someone who is currently healthy, in an age group with a 0.2% of COVID turning into anything more than a standard cold/flu, to turn down an immediate risk (orders of magnitude larger) that they will feel unhealthy for a couple days.
I think there is a slight difference because initially the hardware is sold at a loss for consoles. Manufacturers should be able to recoup that. But broadly, yes.
Minneapolis has the Northstar Line[1] which essentially matches what you're describing here.

Unfortunately, there's talk of shutting it down[2] due to low ridership stemming from the pandemic.

[1] https://www.metrotransit.org/northstar

[2] https://outline.com/smYCML (startribune.com paywall)
Yeah, who would buy it? It would be radioactive for any competitor. Even if they were willing to pay for it and launder the funds used, releasing any games that used any EA secret sauce would very likely be detectable. They'd need engage in a parallel construction of source code history to show how they arrived at their implementation independently.
Packer and other Hashicorp products support alternative VM drivers including bhyve and support for hyperkit.

The current ruby Vagrant supports plugins, but I'm not aware of bhyve or hyperkit support.

I would assume rewriting in Go means the same VM drivers as packer will be supported.
>why are we rewriting Vagrant in Go?

From [1]
I dont think Ruby would ever be able to compete in that space. Even Hashicorp, the company that was born out of vagrant left Ruby and Chose Go.
I am thinking someday Crystal post 1.0 would be able to put up a fight in that space.

I still remember I wrote somewhere, that one day Vagrant will be rewritten from Ruby to Go and got some very negative feedback from someone. ( It was in the Parker era.... )

Vagrant, and the whole HashiCorp products are all infrastructure product it makes sense to be running on Go rather than Ruby.

Nothing to say or ask really. But Thank You and congratulation. At some point I thought you have abandoned Vagrant. Its nice to see Hashicorp continue to update and take care of their first product. And honestly all the HashiCorp product are so much better or simpler than their competitors ( cough K8s cough ). Really wish you and your company continue to move forward with great products and services.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23457496
Your first source does not cite revenue. For reference, just Amazon's total revenue for 2020 was 386 billion [1]. Apple's was 274 billion [2]. I think your point still stands. FAANG alone obviously won't get us there, but taxing corporations generally would help (since other nations are able to afford state funded healthcare on a level of taxation only slightly higher than the US, despite having less income).

1. https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details...

2. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/FY20_Q4_Consolidated_Fin...
The elephant in the room here is that apple controls the browser and app store and therefore dictates limitations/experience pwa gives to developers/users.
...what? I've known of this for at least a decade. Do people expect Google to be some free-for-all of unmoderated knowledge that can be used to defame and degrade others?
Do STEM workers have succesful personal lives relative to people in other fields?

I have no idea, but there are some sterotypes that they are below average. Would be interesting to see studies on that.
We're not talking about western party constellations, and we're not talking about an underground opposition party.

These minor parties have to endorse whatever the main party says. Sure, they may be allowed to have an opinion about some new street in some village. But they may certainly not develop "alternative policies".
i think what pissed them off is trump winning in 2016. Which they then blamed on facebook and "disinformation".. (instead of hillary being the worst candidate in history) and the left decided they needed to take control of these companies so that doesnt happen again.
This is definitely a thought I have considered. It could potentially ease lot of hassle related to 3D scanning of houses by real-estate companies. Very often, those scans require expensive equipment, professional expertise to use those equipment and considerable time and effort to capture the entire residence. Even then,you will find many holes in those scans and floating debris. With our work, one only needs a sketch of the floorplan and photos taken from that house. Plan2Scene will use data to infer appearance of unseen surfaces.
There were loads of vendor-neutral identity ideas that all fell flat because nobody wants to sign up just for an identity.

This one is hilariously complicated; the thread ends with this call to action:

Want to get a portable web3 account?

Pick an Eth wallet: https://ethereum.org/en/wallets/find-wallet/

Get ETH (sometimes built into wallet, otherwise use a service like Coinbase)

Get an ENS name: http://app.ens.domains
* (Choose which is your username by setting reverse record at My Account)*

It's that easy!

I think the author underestimates how little most people care about their weak passwords, or centralised authentication.
This is talking about two different things, I think.

The "I want the total package" unrealistic-expectations person is prominent in both genders, even if "no fat chicks" t-shirts aren't as popular as they once were. The slob-with-hot-wife TV trope probably hasn't helped men's expectations here.

The "I'm gonna send a thousand dick pics and see who is down for a hookup" behavior, on the other hand, seems predominantly male-dominated. Even the women looking for hookups don't operate like that (you could debate chicken-and-egg here, around how they don't ever have to with all the dudes throwing themselves at them, but I'm not too interested in that). Those men result in a worse experience for BOTH women and men, but in a more acute fashion for the women on the receiving end of the creepiness than for the men who just have to try harder to manage to stand out above the background bullshit level.
Vitalk of Ethereum fame has an interesting concept how to make this less irreversible.

Problem here is the hard work needs to be done at the beginning. E.g. picture your grandparent needing help using the below.

As a power user, I like it.

Social recovery wallets: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
I would've thought more people would realize this from last years US election. That's too bad.
What will happen once their parents are gone?
What Happens When Rising Seas Shift Maritime Borders?
As media companies lose revenue (both circulation and ads) they get more desperate, and so they start doing things that damage their own trust and relationship with readers. The invasive and polluting ad-tech all over newspaper websites is a clear example of that. A lot of news websites are almost unusable with pop-up, pop-under, overlay and dark pattern ads, or video rolls that start without warning.

The end result is that they drive readers away faster than ever chasing after fewer and fewer crumbs.

[EDIT for typo - and thanks for well wishes too! :) ]
Tracing the on-chain transactions is easy.

But when you add in the existence of off-chain services like mixers and bitcoin exchanges, it can quickly become impossible to trace the flow of money if the attacker is putting any effort into trying to hide their traces.

Tracing the coins used in the ransom is easy, but chances are the attacker doesn't own them anymore. Tracing the attacker's actual funds is hard.
That's the thing though... 90% of attackers are bad at their job. Even if it traps mostly people who aren't investing IOCCC levels of cleverness into the problem or buying companies for the purpose of getting malicious extensions into the Chrome web store, it makes the system safer for the average user. Certainly safer than the system is if any script kiddie can just use the manifest V2 permissions to turn a clock app into a keylogger.

And if the model is as breakable as you claim, I don't worry about the fate of ad blockers.. after all, nothing prevents them from using the exploit you just described, right? Use a modified jQuery to add and remove a script tag to figure out what needs to be blocked?
It's organized crime. They've always operated like a business.
If you want to gain most of the protections of the GDPR, you could just use an EU proxy server, and have a registered email address with a well known European email provider. Your rights would be limited in the ability to file a complaint against a particular data processor, but you would get all the fringe benefits of law-abiding companies estimating that you fall under GDPR regulations.
The value might not be in the perps selling stolen IP.

If they can make new game builds, they can trojan them and hand them out as bootlegs. Boom thousands more intrusions.
I'm afraid that if I try to retort to each point we may end up talking past each other.

But I will say this, I think that your assumption in point 1 is wrong. I think that the mismanagement of the financial system worldwide has proven that there is no country currency invulnerable to manipulation.

Jeff Booth talks about this towards the end of this interview which is great in it's entirety IMO.

How Inflation Is Stealing Your Wealth | Jeff Booth | Pomp Podcast #572 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCqFjU9Wi4
> Alarm bells should have been raised among us developers when Apple suddenly asked everyone to shell out $99 for the "privilege" of making an app available on the "App Store", and treated it as something normal.

Somebody has absolutely no idea how high developer fees on proprietary platforms used to be.

>Double Fine's Tim Schaefer pegged the cost of submitting an Xbox 360 patch at $40,000 in an interview with Hookshot Inc. earlier this year

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/microsoft-comes-under...
There is still an awful lot we don't know about cellular biology, so I'm always a bit baffled when people that should know better say that this or that is (virtually) impossible. Fortunately, we're running the largest phase 4 clinical trial in human history, so in 25 years or so we'll have some absolutely great longitudinal data.
> I'm a big believer that people only care to preserve societies they have a stake in and if a large enough percentage of the population own nothing and offer no value it's very easy to see this causing a division

Wouldn't someone that is able to spend most of their time playing video games (instead of e.g. farming) want society to continue as it exists today? Without that society, wouldn't they be forced to fight/work for sustenance?
I wonder whether that performance penalty would actually affect a real-world application in a way the user would notice.
In Hindi, the word "booti" means medicinal plant (seems similar to "botica" here).
I work in support for AWS's security services, which includes both web auth and encryption services. I deal with plenty of IT professionals every single day that don't have a solid grasp on concepts like "don't attach your private key to a support case".

If IT professionals--who are presumably above average in IT knowledge since it's what pays their bills--don't uniformly understand how to handle asymmetric keys, what hope do most non-professionals have?

Do I know the exact profile of what the average computer user is? No, but I'd bet a paycheck that it doesn't include using crypto or private/public keys.
The Rasperry Pi really isn't the point here. It's really about general bad security hygiene. The section labeled "HACKERS DESCRIBED AS AN APT" covers the actual problems that allowed this to happen. The NASA combined with Rasperry Pi components of the headline are more clickbait than anything.
There is a 2018 paper called "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution" which is a collection of similar anecdotes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453
Yes and how many users would actually do that vs how many would be even further exploited by apps that bypass Apple’s policies?

For example you can’t release an app right now that requires location services access including background or it won’t start not because you can’t develop one but because it won’t pass Apple’s store policies.

Facebook might be shite for privacy in general but it can be much much worse if they are allowed to do w/e they want and they have a large enough userbase that it really doesn’t fucking matter if their EULA would force you to donate your first born to Zuck most people would still use it out of sheer peer pressure.
The situation between your country and mine are not the same. Black Americans are not the same as people termed black elsewhere.

As I explained, it's impossible for black Americans to use terms like Nigerian, as that history was erased by force.

Slavery may be over wherever you are, but the impacts here in the US continue. Explicit rezoning continued into the 1980s. It continues today in a more covert way, as proven by numerous studies that do things like send out identical resumes or loan applications with different pictures or names that signal particular racial backgrounds.

You are making what is commonly called the "colorblind argument." I'd encourage you to research it with an open mind.

Forged their own culture is entirely the right way to put it. Yes they were forced into their situation, but the culture they created was truly their own, as their response to that horror. Your comment on this point acts to attribute the creation of Gospel, Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Rock and Roll, and Hip Hop as a creation of the plantation owners, vs their victims. And that's just the examples from music.

Race is an essential part of the black American identity. Everyone I've ever talked to about this would respond to your comments as an attempt to erase a part of their identity, one that they are ultimately proud of, albeit in a complex and often bittersweet way. You don't get to make that choice for them, you can just decide whether you respect them or not.

If you want to learn about this with an open mind to the idea you're getting something very wrong, Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the very best writers on this topic. I'd suggest starting here: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/health-...

I'd strongly suggest one of his longer form essays or books as well, but that's a reasonable introduction to how the colorblind perspective remains harmful.
I'm guessing its worth a lot more for their street cred than anything financially.
Excel has a new function called LAMBDA, which makes Excel Turing-Complete. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult...) If you haven’t gotten there yet in your CS classes, Turing-Complete means you can compute anything that is computable, so provably as powerful as any other language.

Turing-Complete doesn’t say anything about convenience though, there are always reasons to play with embedding your favorite language into your other environments, so don’t let prior work stop you from playing and exploring! You will earn yourself many benefits by trying to do it yourself.

Excel, BTW, was fairly powerful as a programming environment even before the LAMBDA function, there have been multiple examples of crazy applications written in an Excel spreadsheet, video playback, games, ray tracing, etc. Here’s a ray tracing example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20764825
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET
This is a concern of mine on systems I design/maintain.

How do I mitigate a stolen cookie from successfully authenticating someone else?

Do I store user browser-agent/IP and check that on every request?
> acquisitions are part of what make the startup ecosystem work.

That's such BS. A startup whose only business plan is to get acquired doesn't deserve to succeed in a competitive market. If that route becomes nonviable and a bunch of silicon valley startups go under, then good riddance.

The US economy needs startups with sustainable business practices and highly competitive products and services. Not acquihire schemes.