skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on infrastructure to support a certain class of applications (medical imaging devices) that have a lot of complex functional and nonfunctional requirements. I initially developed much of the system I own alongside the first product team which made use of my systems, and together we ran into a lot of painful issues and added functionality to support these use-cases.

Working with a new team who haven't yet shipped such a system to production has been supremely frustrating, because they haven't gotten far enough in the process to understand the classes of problems that my system solves. I've gotten a lot of pushback simply because they simply didn't have enough context to understand why you'd even care about this stuff - "Why are you bothering us with these problems? I'm sure we can figure this stuff out eventually."

But now, after working with folks for a year and a half, they're starting to come to me with questions about how to resolve certain things - and that's when I say "remember that stuff you didn't care about at all last year? fortunately my system already knows how to do that for you!"

Glad to know this is a systemic problem with humans and not a personal failing on my part!
"Predictive products" exist in many sectors (and have been for quite some time, all well within the capitalist system :-) The medical, insurance, finance sector etc. all collect data and predict specific outcomes with significant impact on people's lives.

In each of these instances there are fairly draconian regulations about what is allowed, both in terms of 1) data collection protocols 2) admissible predictive models 3) application scope - what can one do with the outcomes and 4) accountability / disclosure to the impacted individuals.

When she says "predictive products" (meaning behavioral based targeted advertising) should not exist (I think) she essentially says that the collateral damage of the practice far exceeds any benefits generated. Obviously not in monetary terms in the current market context, but in broader welfare terms.
Or if you couldn't find it in a library, you could call a librarian: company, city, university, or otherwise.

I enjoyed the film Desk Set. Katherine Hepburn is one of those librarians, working at a pseudo-NBC company in the 50s. (As a special bonus, it features early movie mainframe hijinks.)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/desk_set
Great, that means there is a potential market for it.

When Ford motors started cars already existed, when Facebook started social networks already existed, when Google started search engines already existed, etc.

In my opinion, getting demotivated for not being the first or being “the one” that came up with the idea prevents way too many people from starting their own thing.

In the end, execution and adoption are what really matters. In general is better to copy something and improve on it than trying to invent something completely new.
I wish you'd started with a reputiation of the body of research, and everyone's lived experience.

As the scholarship advances, and both the predictive and explanatory powers they afford us, I'll update my views as best able.

Meanwhile, if you can't entertain the premise that Facebook's profit model is a major net negative for humanity, we don't have much to discuss.
Ok, let's agree that some of us have a moral position against x and are benefiting financially from x but are too busy or too ignorant to do anything about it.

And, lets also agree that being employed a company is bad, the argument still seems to breakdown soon enough. Generally, the engineers are to blame because they make enough money and could choose other options, but not others capacities of employment e.g. a driver, cleaning staff, cook at one of their food courts etc. at the same company. They could've found other options too if they really wanted. Should a person making minimum wage now look into a company and its moral decisions in the past/present before taking up a job. Generally seems to come down to, oh its wrong but beyond a $ amount (an arbitrary line I just drew for myself), which just seems a very inconsistent moral position to me. Well, if you still think its a reasonable position to say its wrong but when the benefit you reap is > $x, can one of you tell me above what $ amount do the moral values apply?
We Are All Cattle Now
While that is a very good thing, I'll take lower taxes over that any day. Every 1% of taxes you save compounds mightily over a lifetime's stock market investing.

Full disclosure: I live in neither Scandinavia nor the States.
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What are the ethics of potentially identifying deceased people as baddies? Unless there is DNA evidence which remains(which I doubt), or they find incontrovertible evidence in his home or something like that(I also doubt), this is just a guess that will drastically affect his probably otherwise-normal family whether the allegations are true or not.
I live in the US, and there are 4 or 5 people I talk to via WhatsApp as our primary communications channel. I'm also a member of 2 or 3 group chats that are used occasionally that I get value out of. I managed to move one group chat over to Signal, but the others didn't budge. I also find that WhatsApp is often the go-to for short-term ad-hoc group chats, like for a bunch of people who are on a trip or vacation together.
This looks like a modification of the California version, and I like the original more than the remix.

The California version (CCPA) imposes restrictions on large businesses, and on data brokers. "Large business" is defined by revenue and number of data subjects. "Data brokers" are defined purely by deriving majority of revenue from sale of personal data.

Notably, CCPA does not have a lower bound on the size of data brokers. If your business is to sell personal data, then you are a data broker and CCPA applies, even if you're just one guy hawking a spreadsheet of a dozen data subjects.

The Ohio version seems to have modified this so that data brokers have a lower size bound. I.e. it applies to any Business over X size, and data brokers over X/4. That's... I don't see the point. If you're gonna protect personal data, then the long tail of small-size data brokers is something that I would consider kind of a big concern. Like, datasets about medical conditions could conceivably be very small and I want that shit regulated into the ground.
Thanks. That's pretty compelling.
Yes, it is possible that I experienced a bug at least three times (2010, 2014 and 2020), certainly.

It might be the case, sure.

Last email (as of today) about permanent deletion was one year ago. During next year I will give it another try: log in and come back to you, then.
Why would you need to log into your computer with a yubikey? Wouldn't any computer (including the attacker's computer) work?
Sorta related if you don't want to hack that sort of thing yourself -

Hybrid Hot Water Heater Saves 69 Percent On Energy Consumption:

https://russell.ballestrini.net/hybrid-hot-water-heater-save...
When translating Russian, both are usually translated as blue. Синий is used about dark blue things, like the sea, and голубой about light blue things, like the sky.

But translating it to "dark/light blue" would be incorrect, as the lightness is not an important part of the words. It is just that Russian speakers are forced to specify the lightness, similarly to how German speakers are forced to specify the sex of their neighbor (Nachbar/Nachbarin). In most cases, Nachbarin should simply be translated to "neighbor".
A quick google doesn't show this guy on lists of common suspects.

Where did he come from and what is supposed to be his motive?
Also, in the US lights used to be a pure green but were updated to be a blue-green so that color blind people could differentiate the green from red. You can still see the original green in some super old lights that haven't been updated.
I concur.

Also I'm fascinated how in those days, in the US, anything was a business. Any microscopic hurdle can be turned into profit by selling your experience and whatever little trick you found to gain whatever little edge.

We're people, stop trying to have skills to win a spot in society.

This is all fear induced, because we all feel like we need a spot in the social tissue. But playing that game makes you often very shallow.

There's a lot to say about social dynamics and these are only the beginning and in the end it doesn't provide real value: long term quality bonds.
Anaerobic exercise may have a temporary bad effect on cortisol, how are the long-term effects though? In moderation I suspect it is a net positive long-term.
Time for another zodiac movie, this time including the subsequent murders and the eventual posthumous uncovering of the murderer. No matter how convincing the evidence it's just not satisfactory that the guy can't be tried.
What the hell is Mozilla doing? If they want to protect peoples' privacy, they need to ship Firefox with an adblocker by default, not ask people to install spyware to surveil ads.
Video (game) essayist Jacob Geller did a few videos which mentioned this work.

https://youtu.be/MjY8Fp-SCVk
https://youtu.be/Zm5Ogh_c0Ig

They're quite interesting, I think. The abyss really gets him going.

And a few more I really like:
https://youtu.be/oca8BnDMin4
https://youtu.be/mexs39y0Imw
https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k
https://youtu.be/Zkv6rVcKKg8
Norway has a very flat distribution of income. This means that most people don't need to worry about others knowing their income, it is more or less the same for everyone.

I imagine that this policy also helps with keeping the flat distribution, since people will know when someone is making more money and will request similar salary increases.
Did I truly need to gather the sentiments of my dead uncle's friends and coworkers to print out and share with his grieving parents? I'm going to say yes, I did. Of course, none of what I referenced precludes using a different platform for the same experience. I wish I had been able to gather those posts from WT.Social or some other platform I don't think is ravaging our culture. But that's not where the people are.

As for this:
"Or are the fleeting superficial connections that you maintain through social media simply distracting you from seeking truly meaningful interactions"

I have more than enough meaningful interactions in my life, and having less intimate interactions with a broader range of people doesn't distract or detract from those more significant connections. Sometimes, those less personal connections are what have eventually led to some of my most important connections.
This isn't accurate. There are certainly companies that have extremely in-depth Data Loss Prevention toolsets and teams - everything anyone downloads or moves is logged and alerts fire if things look out of the ordinary. Google clearly had tons of data about how Anthony Levandowski was able to exfiltrate lots of info when he left.

The issue that building these systems accurately so they are NOT a constant annoyance is difficult, expensive, and takes a large team to support well.
Startup is using sunlight and captured CO2 to make jet fuel
Right, just like a plane is a car with wings.
> If you want pay transparency to fight pay inequality, then anonymized pay based on role / job title should suffice.

It does not suffice.

We mostly do have this data in the US and wealth inequality keeps deepening.

The only purpose of the salary taboo is to keep rich people rich.
Well the legislation is pretty specific in terms of what facial recognition is allowed actually, and the scenario you are describing is listed and explicitly allowed.

The text is completely open so you can see exactly how they have scoped it.
Which Github auth issues are you referring to?
Use the power of NFTs and subNFTs to create and monazite an ever-growing story
I have a little theory. The best way is to pay attention to the group. Not a person, not you, the group.
We used OneTrust to comply with CCPA last year, so it is already being done on a state by state basis.
There are many applications that have no dependency on AWS at all, other than S3. This is one of the reasons projects like Minio exist.

If you don't care and just need some blob storage, this could be great.
Probably not everyone has disposable phone numbers or even know how to manage them, or even choose not to do it out of a personal decision
FBI Agent: “Who wants to be a firetruck?”

Mentally Impaired Guy: “Oh! Me! Me! Me!”

FBI Agent: (into secret wristwatch radio) “Get HQ on the line, I’ve got another major terror plot candidate on the hook!”
The author who wrote this has tweeted, on average, 1-2x a day for 10 years. https://twitter.com/jaronschneider

Twitter has by far become a more egregious platform for society (an information/propagation architecture that exploits how people process information, imo).

For me, Facebook is nothing more than a hometown forum. I havent logged on in months.
Be careful with this, they're probably watching peer lists, AFAIK it's illegal to download stolen data but IANAL.
Not sure if missing a /s but FTA:

The Case Breakers say they have identified the Zodiac Killer as Gary Francis Poste, who passed away in 2018.
So no one from the film.
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If everyone is paying the same taxes, this suddenly is not a problem! It really is a problem only when some people pay a lot of taxes and others pay close to nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill

For what it's worth, this stuff is culturally relative. The r-word is apparently "retard", and not an unsayable slur within my cultural sphere, to the best of my limited knowledge.
I know y'all are taking the piss. But real talk though: The consent-management space could do with some disruption. Like, for example, just a thought here, I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out: actually complying with GDPR. You'd think a tool whose entire job is to ensure compliance when gathering consent would actually gather consent in a compliant manner, but that's not the default behavior.
Sold a small SaaS product 2 years ago, which was marketed as an "AI" product.

Extract from the "model":

$yearsBetween = $comparisonItems->created_at->diffInYears(Carbon::now());
if ($yearsBetween <=1) {
$multiplier = 1.08;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 2) {
$multiplier = 1.12;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 3) {
$multiplier = 1.15;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 4) {
$multiplier = 1.22;
} else if ($yearsBetween <= 5) {
$multiplier = 1.37;
} else {
$multiplier = 1.41;
}

Those multipliers were just from a bit of human-playing-around-with-the-data.

The thing is, customers were happy with the result and, as far as I know, still are.
Internally it was always called the random number generator.
I don't think "need" matters here. They have a record of a transaction, and they want to keep that record. I don't think I have a right to demand that they delete that data.

The GDPR/CCPA/etc. likely has different requirements here, and probably requires deletion after they're no longer needed (for tax purposes or whatever).

But I personally have financial records going back decades, so I can't fault a company for wanting to do the same thing.
>No substance could ever match?

If you plot the area under the curve of addictive behavior engaged in over a lifetime, absolutely. People can quit substance addictions. You know that your addiction is harming you and actively destroying your life while you are engaged in it. Those feelings eventually lead most people to quit if they don't die. But social addiction is different. It feels like you're actually doing something useful and good, while it rots away your agency and sense of self. You become a mindless scroller whose tastes, preferences, ideologies, and overall cultural milieu become entirely mediated through engagement algorithms without you ever being aware of it.
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by name only. it is also not an HSM by commonly understood definition. epoxied chip isn't enough to declare HSM-ness
Nice, but this does not make any sense for people who are using tiling window managers. There already exists minimalist web browsers without menu bars etc. like Suckless software's surf, or the qutebrowser.
I'm not saying: By whatever means necessary we should enforce flatness of power.

Hierarchies are unavoidable and useful.

I'm more making the argument that cultural disgust at concentration of power, and a general erring on the side of flatness whenever we can would go a long way toward a healthier society.
It's not. I couldn't get through the first 2 episodes without rolling my eyes every 10 minutes. It's full of all the standard neuro-bunk that is everywhere these days. Making very obvious points about human behavior that neuroscience does not illuminate, but making it sound otherwise ("kids are more impulsive because their brains are different"...duh). And cherry picking studies to confirm some "blow-your-mind" point that is actually much more fuzzy and contentious than he is willing to describe ("brain rewiring ONLY occurs during sleep"...not remotely supported by any study anywhere, and conveniently he never posts any sources or studies in his description or on his website). The cherry on top was noticing that he invited noted neuro-bollocks offender Matt Walker (who wrote a book called "Why We Sleep" which literally never even attempts answer the titular question). I'd pass on this one.
>They don't even have to pretend to delete your account, they can actually delete it. But through some linguistic slight-of-hand (i.e., lying) they obscure the fact that your account is not all the data they have on you. Your "account", in a strict sense might just be your username and password. It happens to also be associated with the entire pile of data that is a profile. Once a user no longer has an account, it's what you call a "shadow profile".

A likely scenario. Although I'd say that removing a userid and password from their auth db doesn't qualify as "deleting" an account. Rather, that's disabling an account. And IIUC (I'm not in the EU and not familiar with all the details) the GDPR/EU privacy folks would likely agree with that assessment too.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge of the GDPR could weigh in on what sorts of fines could be levied against Facebook for pulling a stunt like that on European citizens?

Edit: Levied is a more accurate term than "leveled".
You assume all people are well socialised and already understand non-verbal communication. Some people do not recognise different faces, let alone facial expressions. This sort of checklists are very helpfull.
Yeah, but the Communist party is banned in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954
I was under the impression that Twitch streamers were able to be directly tipped by viewers (as opposed to being paid by the view or something by some centralized payment distribution point) and so while there would of course be a correlation on viewers to income, the variance is going to be high... some people are going to be much better at monetizing their user base than others, and I would at least expect the streamer's charm, business model, and audience targeting to swamp a mere 2x difference in viewers.
Public key encryption, especially PGP, is useless in a modern computing context. Windows has solved almost all identity management issues for the end-user base.

(did that trigger an emotional response?? It bothered me to write it)
For point of comparison, the maximal amount of information we could fit into a sphere the size of the observable universe is ~10^124 bits.

Someone should offer a public Library of Babel API that streams these books so folks don't need to store them individually.
Hang on, is this just a repo dump or not? Because it looks like a repo dump, in which case I would be very surprised if any passwords or other personal information is included, at least at a reasonable scale.
Only the real ones.
Sounds like something you could pull off with cage[1]. But Canonical backing it and offering support is likely to attract large corporate clients that, well, want that level of commitment/support.

[1]: https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/cage/
I wonder how often these "hacks" are just an engineer leaking the info.
So tell him no
I tend to assume that "pack in" products like XD are shovelware.

That is, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere are all excellent if not best-of-breed solutions. It is the same with Microsoft and Windows, Office and Visual Studio.

Companies with that kind of bundling strategy are always trying to slip new things into the bundle. Because they are relying on the power of the bundle, they never use quality as a marketing tool. So you know anything new added to the bundle will be crap and probably beneath contempt.
I like to think of myself as someone nice, I apply those techniques without thinking much about it. Still I regularly encounter people who don't like nice people, and seem to think they are somewhat suspect.
It’s a pretty reasonable hypothesis. Social drives are innate and are likely at least as powerful the drive for food, and may be prioritized higher.
+1. My news feed is like 90% memes and ads. I have like 3 friends that actually make interesting text posts that foster discussions. Everything else is a waste cognitive energy.
Isn't that "end in tears?"
GDPR is an EU law. It doesn’t automatically apply to people in the US. That’s the only reason I replied - your original framing left an implied suggestion that it might commonly or by default apply to US citizens, without discussing under what conditions. Arguing that you don’t have to be an EU resident leaves the misleading impression that the EU doesn’t have to be involved. I think it’s important to note that the EU part is required somewhere in the company-customer relationship for GDPR to have any say in the matter, and it’s important specifically because this is a common misconception and the misconception is being abused in some cases to coerce compliance where it’s not legally required. I know this as a US business owner that gets emails from US companies on behalf of US citizens that are demanding certain actions and rights under GDPR, without a legal basis to do so.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/hindenburg-the-new-evide... is the one I was recalling
If you ever heard about Maslow hierarchy, the status is way towards the top. Things like hunger, safety and not being in pain is much lower. So I highly doubt many people would forgo food and agree to be in constant excruciating pain just to be able to access facebook.
My current phone contract: 3.99€/month

My current twitch subscriptions: 11.97€/month

I can’t really see how they need my phone number to make it too expensive to be a bot.

And if that is the thing, then that’d makes them even more shady, claiming it’s for account security when it’s for their bit protection.
I imagine if some information like that was available... it would just come and go like nothing happened for most Americans.

Some spats here or there, and the typical social media outrage, but nothing significant.

Plenty of information out there about who makes how much and it doesn't really matter.
small correction: gcp will still charge you but at a reduced rate.
Do they also give discounts for assistive driving features like adaptive cruise control? Because a fair number of insurers do.
that's a neat idea, put it on github :)
Yes, as I'm sure many do here as well. Thats because the HN community is not representative of the average population
> the bug turned out to actually be two bugs sitting next to each other

I have to ask...did you check github after the fact to see if these were real bugs that they used your interview time to solve? Would be funny if there was a commit shortly therafter...