skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's no way you can delete your information from all of them without subscribing to a service to do it for you.

There is no way you can delete your information from all of them [period].

My personal recommendations to lessen data-associations:

1) Actually use cash

2) Shop at places which don't require membership (e.g. for discounts)

3) Buy a domain name which allows you to `catch-all@your.domain` and then give each requestor a unique-to-them "email address" e.g. WalMart @ JoeSmith2222333.com

4) Don't carry your cell phone with you everywhere; Don't sleep with your phone

5) Remove/unplug/disable voice assistants

6) Run LLMs/ChatGPT on local instances

7) Have your DHCP auto-issue an IP to your own local DNS server (e.g: PiHole)
In a place like Kenya that may in fact have been in the case
Standard in what way? It can't even do partial matches or words with close spelling. It's pretty much exact whole words only or nothing.
Pfft. I like my car.
You’d probably enjoy this episode of 99% Invisible, as well as the book that inspired it (if you haven’t already listened/read).

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/blood-in-the-machine/

I’ve heard Luddite used a couple ways. One is derogatory, the other is by people self-identifying as Luddites when they get tired of the endless pursuit of technology for technology’s sake, or they get tired of “smart” everything. Sometimes a nice mechanical tool that will last generations is better than the new fancy version that will be trash in a very short period of time.
People spending effort in order to talk to machines, instead of talking to people while enjoying life outside. Thats the spirit!
I highly recommend Redland Cotton sheets and towels and such. Each of their fitted sheets is labeled so you don’t get confused. And they otherwise make high quality products.
US to hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal money
Last I looked last year they did not support EPUB except by conversion through the email interface. Which is way better than it was.

But yes, they support USB mass storage.
> It’s a pretty bad deal for most people.

Bitcoin is extremely deflationary. Imagine (or read a history book) a society in which almost all wealth/income is derived from land (a "deflationary" asset the value of which only increases as population grows and 95%+ of it is inherited).

Bitcoin is that just much worse because unlike in the case of land you don't need labor and significant capital investment to make any money from it you can just hoard it get richer without doing anything, which means:

- no economic growth (why invest in anything economically productive but risky when you can just get richer by doing nothing)

- eventually 90%+ of all wealth will become inherited and people who were born poor/disadvantage will remember these times as a lost utopia.

> It’s a pretty bad deal for most people.

Yes and even if bitcoin is a "better deal" for you it will be a significantly worse deal long term for the people who follow you..
I thought the rest of the article had failed to load! This just feels like a thinly veiled affiliate marketing campaign.
Sounds like a great plan! Exercise is always beneficial for both the body and mind, and the two are closely connected.
One recent car that is closest to fitting your description is the 2023 Audi E-tron.
The world would be a better place if king size beds were square.
The chart ends in 2021 and shows a nontrivial increase that year. Real wages are up since the pandemic, with significantly higher growth at the 25th percentile of household income. You can see the data for 2022 here: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm.

The cost to purchase a house using a mortgage is indeed way up, but surely it is worse to focus on this specific metric rather than the general basket of goods.
It’s also possible it’s all a big reverse-psychology psyop. The US govt acts like it’s covering up captured alien spacecraft, but it gets “leaked” anyway, in order to make adversaries overly cautious about getting into a war, lest the US deploy reverse-engineered alien tech against them.
Discord is the one I struggle with. I have 30+ slack workspaces, but with the new design I can hide all of them except for the in context one. It's an improvement over the old UI.

Discord still doesn't have this, I belong to 100+ discord servers, and the notifications are a pure nightmare, impossible to find the server you want.
> It currently only supports local-machine Windows x64 debugging with PDBs, with plans to expand and port in the future. In the future we'll expand to also support native Linux debugging and DWARF debug info.

All languages that have compilers able to produce PDB debug symbols, and in the future all those that can produce DWARF symbols.

That's not restricted just to C/C++ as the sibling comment suggests.
Why play by their rules when the purpose of the data collection and processing was always against us? It should be a fight (legal or technical), not fake collaboration.
Stub article but on the main topic of Apple sideloading, I am of two minds.

I really dislike the lack of control from apple, but iPhone is a locked down special purpose computer with ALL my data. The worry is that all the apps we "need to have" for work or social things: YT, FB, Google will immediately pull their apps from the app store to get around Apple's privacy and security permissions which allow granular control. Market power of FB will just force users out of the app store and run a huge blackbox data vacuum.

So IDK exactly where I am on this issue. I could live without using FB marketplace obviously, but I have apps that are convenient to use occasionally from companies I dont really trust because I can at least control some of their data access.
For me, Reddit is basically my forum of choice (yes, the "old" version is in fact a forum).

You can concat several subreddits together that recreate the forum experience of yesteryear. For instance one of the many I follow daily:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AZURE+CCDE+Intune+PowerShell+ccnp+m...

Not the greatest but it gets the job done (mostly)
Just the other day I was asking about how to get Blind to delete my data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38956329

I've tried customer support and made a GDPR takedown request. They just said "no" and now I'm stuck.
And I'm probably more like a load every week or two. While I do find a larger washer handy every now and then I'm sort of regretting I didn't replace both my ancient washer and dryer with something that could handle both or could be stacked when my increasingly dysfunctional washer finally gave up the ghost.
Understanding Domain-Driven Design (Part 1)
Oh first ISPs are fun.

I worked for the first commercial ISP in Hungary in 1995. At the time phone lines were still a hot commodity -- it takes a bit of time to fix decades of neglect, after all (Hungary was a Soviet satellite until 1989 and the wait time for a landline was ~ten years in the 80s). So supply side for lines was low and prices were high. On the other hand, the potential income for the ISP was limited because, well, it's 1995, not many people or businesses even know what Internet is good for. So how on earth did they afford the necessary many lines?

Well, see, they didn't. The guys running the place got wind of a CO in an older district in Budapest has excess capacity so they rented a flat next to the CO and drilled the wall. Presto! Plenty phone lines without installation costs.
You can do exploratory programming in Rust, it's just heavy on boilerplate code such as .clone() and Rc<RefCell<>> which would be avoided when writing more idiomatically. Rust even includes support for dynamically typed references and downcasting via the Any trait. It's not as dynamic as Python/Ruby/JS etc. but it's not that far off either.
Surprisingly, collecting data is free, but removing PII with dedicated services is paid .
I originally read about this story from https://aftermath.site/the-worlds-best-stereo-system-what-ha... in Dec 2023.

I was happy to start reading another treatment, with a new perspective, and from WaPo, who might have the funds to spend even more time on research. However, I found OP to be ignorantly disparaging on the tech side, and quite cold and glib in the human interest side.

Audiophiles are often foolish, and fathers are sometimes cruel, cold, and dictatorial. In my opinion this story doesn't justify its criticisms on either front. The author hears the stereo at its worst and can't get the wow factor. We have the story of one son who himself has truly cruel words for an ill old man, and for the rest, there were no vacations, there were lots of early mornings, etc.

To me, the above doesn't justify the depressive and dismissive subtext and resolution of the article.

The aftermath post is explicitly from the perspective of a fellow hobbyist obsessive, so it is not attempting to accurately state whether it was "worth" it, in an objective sense, as a listening experience. It has a prior that hobbyist obsession can be fulfilling for oneself, and most importantly, others that you share wtih. It also completely ignores/avoids his family life. But in spite of that, to me it provides a richer portrait.
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Samsung will beat the Apple. good for them.
ISDN absolutely was exhilarating “technology from the future” during the 90s and even into ~2000 era just before general cable/DSL proliferation.

It usually just worked consistently and at unbelievably high data rates vs theoretical “56k” even on 64kbit/s single channel. Meaning basically 2x IRL downloads vs 56k at usually tenable full hop bandwidth of constant 8kb/s.

I kept being mesmerized by “just the basics” of ISDN + TCP/IP; it all was working just so flawlessly. For years on end, and each time I went online. Pure wonder and amazement.
COSMIC SETI
This is heavily sensationalized.

They trained a model to be deceptive, alignment techniques used didn't remove the deception. It's a valuable experiment, but not that surprising.
I highly recommend https://easyoptouts.com/
There are holes in Europe's AI Act – and researchers can help to fill them
For all the capitalist system is concerned, it's as if he's a starving subsistence farmer in sub-saharian Africa, he's outside the economy and there are no money to be made supplying him with goods and services. The economy does not "collapse" compared to a virtual level where all starving people of Africa are housed, fed, card and amazoned.

I brought up an African country in another comment in this discussion: Eritrea. This is a country where a tiny elite owns pretty much all of the wealth in the country and the bulk of the population live in vast slums of unimaginable deprivation. There is no path for those people to achieve even the most basic working-class lifestyle because they have nothing to offer the wealthy aristocrats of their country.

If we are reduced to that situation, I consider it a collapse, and I think that people take for granted the belief such a collapse is impossible. It is absolutely possible. A wealthy elite tended by an army of robotic servants living in obscene luxury, maintained by a handful of samurai technologists, while untold billions live in squalor. Elections reserved only for the landed elite. The vast population left freezing in the darkness.

Well, you could say the same today: why would the capital owners pay stagnating or decreasing real wages if they sell their products to those very same wage earners?

You can't say the same today. The capital owners right now earn a profit by doing so and their wealth grows. If an AI revolution makes all of their workers redundant then they won't hesitate to lay them all off. McDonald's has already begun the experiment [1].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/first-ever-mcdonalds-served-robots-...
You are evidence for the argument made by the comment you replied to.

You think it is more important that the right (in your opinion) decision is made than the decision the electorate prefers is made.

This is actually a general argument in favour of rule by an oligarchy of experts rather than democracy.
If you can cook water, you can already make basically anything which doesn't require a convection oven. Which is most dishes. A more interesting question would be: What if you don't have hot water?
To be fair, with most of those, you're paying for a piece of art to some extent. I don't think anyone buying $500 cables thinks the cables themselves are worth that, they're buying them because they expect some tiny increase in sound quality which measurably and provably doesn't exist. Someone buying a $10k sweater isn't buying it for the engineering in the material, but for the perceived artistic value. Of course, there's also a grift involved here, where fashion brands can pass things off as having great artistic value just because they're associated with the brand. But at least the perceived value is subjective and not coming from something that can be measured not to exist.
I was under the impression that pet microchips have an incredibly short read range, like you have to actually rub against the reader, and on target. The cat would have to be already passing through the door to be scanned. Are they just jacking up the transmission power, which makes me wonder why all the existing chip readers wouldn't do that as well if possible?

I briefly looked at building such a chip reader until I saw the disance specs and realized it wasn't going to be practical to train a cat to rub the mid/back part of its neck on some protruding antenna
It's less mentally taxing when you know you can't visit a website compared to when you have to work to not visit it.
Maybe if this was an isolated incident then you’d be right, but the ICO has a history of being useless.

Keep in mind that merely building a complaint is a very high bar (which gives plenty of opportunity for the company to rectify the situation), so when a complaint does make it through I’d expect it to lead to appropriate punishment since the company already got a chance to address your concern if they wanted to.

I’ve personally submitted multiple complaints (spending large amounts of time and admin effort and in the process letting the companies involved rectify the situation) and I have yet to get any deterrent outcome from the ICO.
Out of all the ridiculous things, this one is actually not completely ridiculous. For low temperature physics applications, Oxygen-Free High Conductivity (OFHC) Copper is the only material that is sufficiently thermally conductive at low temperatures. I’m not an audio person, but I have a hard time imagining it would make much of a difference at room temperature; maybe similar performance with a slightly thinner cable?
A cautionary piece about the price of obsession.
It was I used the term "necessary evil" deliberately because they are as you implying basically just a tools.
"Necessary" because we need them, they are efficient way to drive progress and production using competition. Also using just profit as your main goal is very straightforward and therefore efficient.

"Evil" because it can allow you to dismiss any moral values and basically be completely
selfish without even noticing. You are just a small gear in the machine doing it's job. Even if it is doing some lousy
paperwork, hauling some cargo to the port and then finally dropping toxic waste into the ocean. Reason for this is that corporation is a tool for "atomization of work" when everything is blended into small tasks and people are completely detached from the consequences of their actions.

So we as a human individuals profit from them greatly but also it can harm us because "they" act as cynical sociopaths. By they I mean corporations. With the use of "necessary evil" I was being hyperbolic But it is still double edged sword.
It's a cautionary piece about the price of obsession - you can make the greatest niche thing in the world - but without others who share your passion, or passing that passion on, it often comes for naught.
Were these wires shielded in any way?
I don't find DP that difficult to be called Black Magic. Tree algorithms on the other hand, is much harder
TFA mentions CCPA and GDPR as the "teeth" that make it possible to request personal information removal from these bottom-feeders. The problem is that I don't live in Europe or California. So for me there's no legal requirement for these jackwads to delete my private information from their systems.

I would bet a non-significant number of Krugerrands that when many of them receive these requests they basically just set a bit in your record to indicate that you've requested "removal." The effect of that is that any reports they generate or other outside evidence that they're collecting your information largely go away. But without deep inspection by outside auditors, you really have no idea whether they're continuing to collect your information in a "shadow" profile of sorts. They're certainly incentivized to do just that if they can get away with it. At the very least, I doubt most of them have gone through the trouble of building filters on all their data ingress paths to drop telemetry on the floor if it relates to someone who's "opted-out."

In other words, I absolutely don't trust them to do the right thing, and I also don't trust the government's enforcement to be consistent and universally effective.

So the next-best thing I can do is deny them the telemetry in the first place. I do that by running privacy-oriented software on my computing devices including mobile, paying for everything I can in cash, filing my taxes with minimal involvement from any third parties, and using modes of transportation that don't report my location to anyone.
Hey. Thanks for the input. I have heard of rsync but did not try it out because I wanted to implement something simple on my own. And about the benchmark, I think comparing with cp makes sense as when targeting an empty directory it is really just measuring what time it takes to "copy". I guess it could make sense to do "sync" benchmark too but I really just measured the copy performance to be honest.
Depends on how new the car is since the regulations are evolving and a lot of these new things are quite recent.

Well, let's start with mandatory speed limit notifications. Which would be fine if all cars actually knew what the speed limit was. They don't always get this right. Which could mean that where you drive, your car will constantly be pestering you. And you can turn it off, but it'll be turned back on when you restart the car. Then a lot of new cars will ding if they don't think you are paying attention. For instance if you have to navigate the display or, again, if the system interprets what it sees wrong.
Then there's all the situations that the car, for some reason, feels are threatening. Like if I drive over temporary markings in the road. Or the car gets frightened by a shadow or snow on a sensor. Or if there is a bit of wheel slip because it's winter and I'm driving on solid ice.

I've even had "security systems" almost slam me into the guardrail at considerable speed. Because some idiot at BMW thought that it would be a good idea to not make the car understand how temporary road markings work. In Germany. Where the car is designed.

In that case I'll admit that I didn't notice the beeping as much as I was busy trying to stop the car from killing me. And to be fair, that bit of nonsense was on BMW and not the regulators.

The people who regulate these things aren't exactly drivers. Nor are they burdened by insight.
Lucid delivered just 6,001 electric sedans in 2023
uBlock + NoScript would also be good additions for desktop browsers. I'm impressed I can browse most of the web fine without scripts, or at most, with scripts hosted from the same domain.

May also try switching to Fastmail this year.
Here in the US we use both (three types really) for different scenarios; they both have benefits in terms of “quickness” to detect smoke, fire, or heat.

Source: am firefighter
The most notable advantage of Rust compared to GC languages is low and stable memory use and predictable performance, that will not generally drop due to some random GC pause. Both of these can be of interest even wrt. software that doesn't "need to go fast" in any absolute sense.
I'm not well versed in US corporate law, and few of us probably are given the complexity of common law systems. Leo E. Strine, Jr. I linked to definitely is:

"By so stating, I do not mean to imply that the corporate law requires directors to maximize short-term profits for stockholders. Rather, I simply indicate that the corporate law requires directors, as a matter of their duty of loyalty, to pursue a good faith strategy to maximize profits for the stockholders. The directors, of course, retain substantial discretion, outside the context of a change of control, to decide how best to achieve that goal and the appropriate time frame for delivering those returns."

In Finnish law I'm more familiar with it's very clear: "The purpose of a company is to make profit for its stockholders, unless otherwise prescribed in the company bylaws." (my translation)

My claim is that the idea that for-profits somehow have some benevolent interests is the main lie that keeps the populace from demanding more control over the corporations.
FOKD - FOrmally Known as D.
The Open Source Community Is Still Maintaining Flash Player Support in 2024
https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

I always go back to this list every year or so to look through the major ones. At least for my relatively unpublic life, I have never gotten readded after the initial time I went through to delete everything. YMMV if you are more prolific with your public persona than I am, but like other comments have said, don't trust those 3rd-party services to do this for you because many use Mechanical Turk type of labor with your personal info to basically walk through this list themselves (i.e. people that might keep your PII for nefarious identity theft purposes).

Edit: one thing I have that helps a lot that is unique is that my name is a slight misspelling of a famous athlete in a sport that is not at all popular where I live. When people search "_huayra_", they usually get results for "_huayrack_ the legendary athlete in some far-flung non-mainstream sport", in a sense.
You can buy a public information display and reject to set up the smart parts. It doesn't force any connectivity. Samsung has QH and QM models for that.
Author of the article here; my Ikea-bought sheets in Finland have the aforementioned three holes.
What percentage of laptop users do you think ever even consider installing a different OS?
Mine does. Even though it is an older car. And it is somewhat random. It doesn't like my laptop bag some days.
This article is a bit sensationalized and filled with inaccuracies.

> Title: "Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back."
- They got them back. Pretty quickly too.

> "the name of the company that had uploaded the songs. It was Warner Music, one of the big three labels."
- Warner did not upload the music, it was the individual that downloaded the songs from the band's soundcloud.

The artists uploaded their songs to Soundcloud. Someone else then took their songs and uploaded them to a distribution aggregator (Level) with different artist name and titles. When they tried to make a CD, the CD printer checked the content and was flagged. They sent takedown notices and got the pirated versions of their songs removed after a couple weeks.
I believe research related to mental health is lagging. While ancient therapies may have been effective in the past, we're now living in a completely different age, and coping strategies and treatments need to advance accordingly. It can be very challenging to fix things when they are truly broken. That's why starting with mental well-being is crucial for taking control of it and building resilience. Don't wait until things are truely broken.