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Ask HN: Facebook disabled account, how to make sure personal data gets deleted?
Long story short: Facebook has decided to disable my account due to "severe violations of Facebook Community Standards". I have not logged into my account for a half a year and was not active user before then. Recovering account is out of the question, as appeal must be sent 30 days after account was disabled, but nobody actually bothered to inform me about it. No matter, getting rid of Facebook is a win in my book.

Now for main question: How do I make sure that all of my personal data gets wiped from Facebook servers?
Incidentally the data download fails due to some "technical errors" and I cannot check what personal data is left on Facebook.
totally agree, you just DONT

I sold mine and waited 10+ years until kids are in the last two years of high schools, I also saved a bit during these years so I have some cushion to restart my startup dream. Maybe it's why there are a group of entrepreneurs in their late 40s and early 50s just like what I had?
“Substantial Amount” of FTX's Assets Stolen or Missing
i feel your pain. i myself spent quite some time writing this blog and still ended up causing confusion. These terms are quite interchangeably used at various places by various people. But yeah keep an eye on this thread and you might just find some right & easy definitions. good luck!
I think I agree with you, but would like to add that from reading the blog post, it sounds like Windows is actually doing this better than both Linux and Solaris (but my knowledge is a bit limited in this area).

I don't quite like the overcommit approach nor the "all address space must be reserved in swap" approach, because both can fail badly in some reasonable scenarios.

I think having a separate system call to commit/uncommit memory like Windows seems to have is probably a better approach than just having mmap()/munmap() system calls (without a way of communicating with the kernel about which parts of the allocated space you are using), because then you can have the advantages of sparse address space usage while not having the drawbacks of having the OS kill innocent processes.

This would also have the advantage that in fork(), the kernel would just need to reserve swap space for the amount of committed memory, not the amount of allocated address space, the latter of which could be much larger (by orders of magnitude).
So I came across this site which has >3k lines of JSON inlined. Despite reasonable overall size, Firefox refuses to view source, Edge does so reluctantly after a long while.
"[a, a)" and "a ≤ x < a" are actually shorthand for {x∈ℝ | a ≤ x < a}, which is the empty set ∅. This makes perfect sense.
> Either because it's permanent by default (blockchain, blockweave)...

https://coloradosun.com/2022/11/21/brush-eastern-colorado-se...

> Two school administrators on Colorado’s Eastern Plains were accused of possessing child pornography when they investigated a school sexting case last April. No one said the men were trying to distribute the images or had bad intent. The girl in the photos and her parents begged police and prosecutors to drop charges against the men. But one of them, 32-year-old Bradley Bass, is facing up to 12 years in prison and the possibility of being branded a sex offender. He’d have to give up his career in education, and wouldn’t be able to parent his toddler and baby boy.

> Bass violated a Colorado law that says even unintentionally possessing explicit images of kids is akin to having child pornography. Even parents could be prosecuted under the broad language of the statute.

That's not gonna be a fun collision between technology and the legal system.
> The Cobalt Authors forked H5VCC, removed most of the Chromium code -- in particular WebCore and the Chrome Renderer and Compositor -- and built up from scratch an implementation of a simplified subset of HTML, the CSS Box Model for layout, and the Web APIs that were really needed to build a full-screen SPA browse and play application.

So it's based on Chromium, but pretty far from it at this point.
Oh, this is knowable, a quick search says the top 1% owns 32% of the wealth (I know this isn't income, so not perfect) but given that I'm going to say I think 26% is either fine or too low.
Some of us may have them :)
Author here! I spent years lurking on HN before I took the plunge and decided to learn to code. I think this moment could be a great chance for those affected by layoffs to do similarly.
This is why I find documentation to be either useless or actively detrimental. Your documentation is the code. Unless you have a dedicated technical writer on the team whose full time job is to work with developers to document their code, it all just becomes an outdated confusing mess immediately.

Obviously this doesn't apply to public facing codebases. But trying to keep an internal codebase documented, other than fully finished self contained library level code, is a sisyphean task.
Sumatra PDF is also, AFAIK, the best Epub reader for Windows.
> has a pretty long-term and serious roadmap.

Considering it comes from google, does that mean three months or six months?
torrent Adobe Acrobat XI, and don't feel bad about it because it's Adobe.
That does not seem to jive with this graph unless lots of people are moving into the next quintiles regularly.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2021/10/2...
> opt-in telemetry is effectively the same as no telemetry.

That's an indication that people don't want this.
In my experience, every open source PDF Reader/Editor, is ATROCIOUS and messes up the formatting big time. I wish there was an alternative out there that was as good as adobe, but as with all of their other tools, the alternatives always leave much to be desired.

And then adobe takes advantage of that fact (Their product is second to none), and rail their customers by making their products expensive AF.

TLDR: Adobe products are AMAZING. Their pricing structure and marketing techniques and straight up disrespect to their customers is absolute garbage.
I also hate this about Go, but its (partial) saving grace here is the `x, err := NewX()` pattern which (at least for me) tends to prevent a decent number of these issues in practice since usually either `x` is non-nil xor `err` is non-nil.

Makes the

// Java
name = personService.getPerson(123).getName()

problem less likely since you'd generally have to write:

// Go
person, err := personService.GetPerson(123)
if err != nil { ... }
name, err := person.Name()
if err != nil { ... }

Definitely more verbose than maybe

// TypeScript
personService.getPerson(123)?.getName()

but I think that's part of Go's tradeoffs -- much more likely that errors will be annotated more correctly (i.e., in Go you'd be more likely return an error like "failed to load person: 123" if it was the GetPerson call that failed rather than a generic error that doesn't describe which step failed)
Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development
Seems your anecdotal experience may be biasing you.

How do you get a high paying job? You identify the requirements and work hard towards them. Did you do that?

You can make $30k/yr making $14.42/hr @ 40 hours a week. Spend the extra 30 skilling up. When you make so little hourly, it doesn't even pay much to work more. Spend that time improving your skills instead.
Working for a library on rare fonts I've found Tesseract fantastic for custom training.

It certainly beats Abbyy from 10 years ago - maybe a low bar to clear.

I had to spend some time setting up labeling then did some supplemental training on UB-Mannheim datasets.

Tesseract is the only OCR FOSS solution that has reasonable performance.
We don’t know what else could happen with the example. Maybe a finance professional would have become a socialist and put their own effort in for societal improvements alongside donating.
The name of the thing I think you're looking for is verifiable computing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable_computing
Maybe not for you. I have experienced the Python 2 to 3. When I use Java, I’m happy I can rely on the compatibility.
Unless you can work remotely the main reason to move to urban areas is for jobs. There are next to no high paying jobs in rural America unless you start your own business.
Subtext – A multi-user BBS server for classic macOS
I mean, these things are credibly accused of violating the Federal Wiretap Act, it's not just about the walled garden:

https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/privacy/internet/ftc/EPI...

EDIT: other point I forgot - original article says they're bleeding money, so clearly $25 isn't sustainable right now anyways.
Web3 isn't one centralized entity that's either fake or true.

It's a bunch of bullshit, mixed with many slick ideas.

I believe in web3, but I also believe that art NFTs and crypto bros running grifter companies like MtGOX and FTX give it a bad rap.

Luckily, the ecosystem is now big enough that you can avoid that crap pretty easily.
I would discuss this with my wife first, and reorganize the economy so that her income could sustain both of you until you either make it or call it quits.
Also have a reasonable exit plan, like, when is it enough, so you know when to stop and go back to a regular job.
The case for dynamic, functional programming
Also check what your contract says. About non-compete clauses and exclusivity clauses.

If it’s green lights everywhere I will advise you to have another GitHub account than your professional one. And makes everything as separate as possible.
> Or are you saying that big ad spenders would come back but only if Twitter lowered its pricing?

Yes, that. Perhaps with stabilized trust they could lift prices back up.

> Did I claim that?

I think I addressed your 'if' as a 'since'; my mistake.
For me, there's been some kind of weird instability or resource leak that resulted in Windows Firefox getting slower all around and less stable the longer the application is running. It's been around and 100% reproducible (over an active session of a few days) for a couple of years.

The general problem used to feature some sort of bug where some window processes would completely fail to render/paint UI components - instead, rendering them as pure black. The rendering problem is gone, same with a correlated memory leak, but the complete performance slowdown that accompanied it is still there.

One day I'll submit a bug report or profiler trace or something, but I find it odd every time I see a post about stability or performance fix, it never happens to be the big one that I run into, regardless of the window device or extensions.

It makes me wonder if some users just have browsing habits that most others don't, so they hit obscure bugs more frequently. But since everyone has their own obscure habits, and thus bugs, there's a theoretical endless deluge of problems with no critical mass to justify prioritization or investigation.
React Native Core Contributor Summit 2022
Does this method still require hyper-v?
Class mobility in the US is incredibly overstated. The number one predictor of what socioeconomic class you'll die in is the one you were born in. In fact, we're not even more mobile than other developed countries: On the contrary, at 43% of bottom quintile household-income individuals staying there their whole lives, we rank pretty damn poorly.

Like, sure, it's a step up from "100% of serfs died a serf", but it's not good, either. It's certainly not "the American Dream". Maybe try "the Danish dream".
What "web3" project doesn't involve a cryptocurrency concept as a technological underpinning?
Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/hsX38
A family friend passed away in his late 50s due to his excessive consumption of illegally made alcohol* (stuff like mahua, taadi and something he used to call "pouch" which I am not really sure what it was really). Though, him not buying a normal whisky or rum was cause he wasn't that well off and the state he lived in has banned alcohol for years, and to procure it illegally you need to cough up extra money.

But it's good that these alcohols are moving out from the unorganized into the organized sector. That can help with quality controls and help India have its indigenous alcohol drinks that it can export. Mostly, if I go to the alcohol shops, I can only find vodka,rum,whisky, wine and, beer but nothing from the authentic country side.

*He had a bunch of other things going on as well
This is a good point. And a lot of what these people inside are fed as a means to success are scams or lotteries. It's easy to become disillusioned pretty quickly when those don't work out.
not dynamically chosen though, at least in the case of earlyoom; whether to prefer killing the browser, or a random long-running process that has built up a couple gigabytes of RAM usage (or even just a bunch of small processes I don't need) will entirely depend on the intent (or lack thereof) behind the process, and what's currently happening in the browser.
I guess it keeps people who are firmly attached to the gender binary and heteronormativity from having to have their perspectives challenged?
If they qualify for government disability payments, doesn't that by definition make them unable to be counted as 100% available for employment? The author implies they are unemployed by choice but disability payments suggest that at least some of them have medical reasons to not be considered fully employable.
And you can easily edit password-protected PDFs by "Printing" as PDF and edit the "print out" PDF.
Same here but with 9.0. My only complaint is that it‘s a little wonky with a high DPI display.
That’s an impressive fact. I would have guessed birds would do most of that work.
Author here. I asked some devs this question:

Although you are required to do your job, you secretly believe it is pointless and should not need to be performed.

Turns out a lot of people answered yes, which is sort astounding.

( dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709599 ? )
Yes, I think there aren't many chains that could live on without VC money.
It's legit one of the reasons I'll have trouble ever leaving macOS. I've not seen anything as good at its particular niche. It's the perfect intersection of lightweight, snappy, reliable (so many other PDF tools are crashy or prone to getting in weird, broken states), and featureful.
WebAssembly back end merged into the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
I wondered as well. adobe pro always needed a subscription/paid license.
Now my ability to find something is limited by someone else's availability, and everywhere I've seen this culture it's devolved into the same 1-2 people answering all the questions as not everyone has a built up map of who knows what.
He was well liked enough in EA communities like Less Wrong, EA discourse, and the diff real time chats. It definitely wasn’t only puff pieces.
THis feels like the most salient assessment.
I believe productivity and work are essential to human happiness. However, I also think we need to dial it back a bit. What's the point of all this work work work, if you never have the chance to balance it with creative pursuits and other enjoyable activities? Likewise, without work, my other activities are not as enjoyable. Balance is key for me, but our culture seems to favor more work and more stress. Hopefully that can change to something more tenable for more people.
Is there a joke here I'm missing? This just seems childish.
I find that a shifting squiggly goal. I have not yet seen a "web3" without block chain / crypto.
> I always wondered why enums in java were allowed to be null.

Because they’re just the “type-safe enum” pattern, built in, with some compiler support (e.g. switches). Besides that they’re normal reference types.

> Could have just had some sort of 'default' attribute on a value.

Universal defaults are, if anything, even worse than universal nulls: they generate garbage states you can’t guard against at all.
This subreddit has 2.3 million users https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/
The rotate option under the view menu works, but doesn't let you save the rotated view. If you attempt to rotate pages from the edit menu, you get a pop up forcing you to subscribe to use that feature.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Immolation, According to Substack Founder
I'm with you on the success (or lack thereof) of the semantic web.

I don't consider gambling a good thing just because there are millions of gamblers. I feel the same about cryptocurrency.
It's not universalizable.

I'll admit it's tricky to figure out when this really matters. On the margins, it is clearly the case for plenty of people, maybe even most people, that they can do more good by earning to give than they can by directly providing charitable services. But by earning to give, you're relying on and presupposing the existence of other people doing the direct service provision. If everyone becomes a stock broker and no one becomes a nurse, the world does not end up better off. And the line where that happens is nebulous and not necessarily at the 100% mark or even at a majority mark. A world with more stock brokers and fewer nurses gradually gets worse. I don't know where that point is, but maybe at least when a charitable organizations reaches some threshold where the bottleneck to providing more service is labor rather than money? "Pay more" to solve the labor problem doesn't necessarily work, either, because if you pay your employees a high salary, then Givewell will rank you as less efficient and all those charitable people will stop giving you money. This isn't true of all non-profits, of course. Employees of the University of Alabama Athletic Department and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art can earn 7 and even 8 figures and still receive massive donations, but real charities usually can't do that.

To be clear, I'm sympathetic to the marginal focus. I don't vote. Why? Because obviously, one vote has never made a difference in any voting precinct I've ever lived in for any election. The vast majority of the time, a single vote will never make a difference in any election. But obviously, someone has to vote. And we're probably at a level of civic engagement in the US where the percentage of people who vote arguably leaves the country worse off, with an unrepresentative government and citizens who feel disconnected and ineffective and don't identify with or agree with the goals and mission of the their nation.

For all those reason, even though I don't vote, I'm not going to start a campaign trying to convince people in general that they also shouldn't vote. Earning to give seems in a similar category. Go ahead and do it, but it feels dangerous to advocate for it in a general way implying that it is what all sufficiently intelligent and high-skill people should do. You're creating a class-divided society where anyone who directly cares for others is looked down on as low status and ineffective. This is unfortunately much harder to quantify than "how many malaria cases can I prevent in the next ten years," but we know at some point it becomes a real problem. Inability to quantify doesn't make it go away.
That wasn't my take. He's saying the fact that women in similar circumstances have children, leave the work force for years and then return implies there's something at work beyond the age/demographic bucket. Similarly he also says this experience is unique from foreign-born men of similar demographics.
Binding or non-binding treaties? Because in diplomacy everyone is always making non-binding treaties, promises and threats - and that's where the betrayal comes in. I have heard of some people using binding treaties in diplomacy (i.e. three turn ceasefire between France and Prussia) but that has always struck me as a terrible idea because you're shifting moves into the open and things get boring and cliquish.
You don't. Stick to your paid job for now to capitalize (more), get more experience and network of contacts that might be useful when you make the switch to startup mode in years' time.
- Hard to onboard new hires
- Code breaks because of lack of understanding of dependencies
- Code changes become harder to manage

Anyone who finds these problems improved by a DSL isn’t spending time looking at what is actually making life hard for their coworkers, and therefore arrogance.

What helps me with those problems is tool selection. Picking community supported tools that fight some of these problems by allowing me to hire people who already know part of our system, and who can use a wider community as a knowledge base instead of just internal folks who have run off to work on other interesting things and don’t have the time anymore for something cool they did three years ago.

A veterinarian explained part of the dynamic to me quite some time ago: it’s better for your emotional relationship with your pet if a stranger does an uncomfortable procedure rather than you. If we use a tool with poor support at least we can bond over it as a team. If it’s Steve’s baby and he’s terrible at support that animosity turns inward, which is not just a problem, it’s the beginning of the end.
Powering them all the way down doesn't even work sometimes; you have to physically open the case and disconnect the battery. It's really annoying.
Just ignore Qatar and the FIFA and let them waste their investment.

Countries could pull out of FIFA and deprive them of their most lucrative markets. Then keep ignoring the FIFA and form a new association with more favorable standards. They don't own the stadions or the clubs or the players, so someone else can as well organize the matches. Seems easier, cheaper and more entertaining than trying to fix a decades old culture of corruption.

Why are we still listening to them?
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The murder rate in nearby Detroit is double that of Chicago. None of the cities with a higher murder rate than Chicago have a great reputation.
Fake news. Acrobat Reader (free) never let you edit PDFs. Reader has always let you rotate the view. <View> <Rotate View>. Clockwise and Counterclockwise!
OCR works for me in Monterey.
Couldn't rotate just be an in-app purchase?

I don't use it enough to need a subscription.
I have used PDFsam for years. It rules
I use firefox mobile and it has very strange behavior quite often. It's the only browser I would ever use because of the ad block. But sometimes tabs become blacked out and you can't refresh them, you have to close them and start new ones. And sometimes I have two different (consecutive?) youtube tabs, and the second tab basically fuses with the first tab, to where both tabs show the same content and the same video. I wonder if in both of these cases a tab process was killed. It's pretty common
Let me guess, their performance metric is SLOC? :')
Agreed, but the inability of Preview to edit text must be noted.
The guys from Scala.NET did mention .NET generics as one of the reasons they gave up on porting Scala to .NET.

That is also a reason why .NET needed the whole effort to create DLR and the dynamic keyword, while Java only needed to add one additional bytecode invokedynamic.
Danish scientists concoct fat-free whipped cream out of lactic acid bacteria
Providing one of the best infrastructure and preparations the World cup has ever seen, spending 220 billion dollars to do it, and introducing the world cup to a region that has been severely neglected historically, are all amazing achievements by Qatar.

And doing all that while showing your traditions and identity is even better.

Western governments claim to be the champions of Human rights, while Invading Iraq, Afghanistan and supporting the Apartheid occupation in Palestine.

The human right problems in Qatar are peanuts compared to what the West (governments) did in the Middle East.

Yet we don't go on a moaning spree every time the US hosts an event, or every time western politics get injected into sports.

It's our time to host sport events we have always dreamed of, and it's our time to show our culture like you always did.