skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GDPR question and "right to be forgotten", consent, etc., gets asked around this time in the Epicenter podcast with the founders: https://youtu.be/fdne9EvFNaw?t=3147

* Brian Platz addresses the question

* first goes through benefits of immutability in Fluree in context of auditing

* suggests one approach is storing PII (personally identifiable info) in encrypted manner in public fields, and storing the decryption keys separately -- the act of "forgetting" is the act of destroying the decryption keys

* another approach: on the public Fluree blockchain DB store a UID that has no public ties to PII ... and store the PII in a private corporate-side Fluree blockchain DB ... the Fluree system allows JOINs across Fluree systems, so internal corporate-side queries can do JOINs to consolidate public info with PII stored internally ... now to the "forgetting" part ... in spite of immutability guarantees, Fluree does have one escape, which is the possibility in the private Fluree (for which the corporation completely controls consensus) to "retract" that entity containing the PII, along with a tombstone and a full audit trail of the retraction

Both these approaches seem to address the right-to-be-forgotten pretty well. The Fluree guy also suggests that for the PII part perhaps Fluree isn't the system you want, and perhaps that should be stored in some other system.
Sir Issac Newton was a virgin too, just to add some balance to things.
Cherow CLI released
Another potential drawback is that if I were a teenager, I would get MoviePass and just treat the theater as my social club. If a movie was a boring drama that targeted older folks, I'd totally MST3K it with my pals[1]. Granted, I am formerly terrible teenager.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW4lHnLr-bE
That's a ridiculous assumption. I come from a more developing country than both Thailand and the Philippines.

Edit: I’m not white either.
What do you mean by embedded systems? What environment / language / ...?

Generally you should be able to achieve a lot of unit testing by writing system-independent code and moving all real-world interactions into a thin, simple layer. It may require specific restrictions though (for example using stdint types in case of C so that they don't change when testing locally)
One of the problems with this is our debt based economy. I would have ordained at one point if it weren't for the fact that having taken loans out for school means I'm ironically too poor to take a vow of poverty.
I'm not sure he is as "open" about this apparent motivation as you seem to think. He literally tweeted[1] "Lori, this is ridiculous. Creating a rocket company has to be one of the dumbest and hardest ways to “make money”. If it was about money, I’d just do another Internet company."

1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/976414452106055680?lang=...
Not to comment on the rest, but to perhaps ameliorate your tremor and myoclonus have you tried supplements of essential fatty acids (omega 3)?
To elaborate a bit: before the Haber process there were 1 billion people, and they were shipping bat guano from Chile to Europe to prevent hunger. After the Haber process, the population went from 1 billion to 7 billion in less than 100 years, but everyone was in preexisting cities which required heating and stuff.

Fossil fuels and nuclear power are unsavory but they can't be halted without catastrophic repercussions, people freezing and going hungry and unemployed. A world which works without those technologies is not a feasible option for most people, in much the same way as the population explosion almost eradicated subsistence living.

I think the most important thing about the Luddites is they're a reminder that a certain portion of the population in an industrial revolution sees the fruits of the new technologies, but is also experiencing a literally-unbearable negative impact from those same technologies. Which society holds the other hostage is a matter of perspective entirely.
In some languages you don't give field names, just types. You bind fields to names only when pattern matching. For example in Haskell:

type Year = Int
type Month = Int
type Day = Int

-- fields have no names, just types
data Date = Date Year Month Day

-- we bind fields to names only when necessary
next (Date y 12 31) = Date (y + 1) 1 1
next (Date y m d)
| d == daysOf m = Date y (m + 1) 1
| otherwise = Date y m (d + 1)
where daysOf = (!!) [0, 31, 28, 31, 30,
31, 30, 31, 31,
30, 31, 30, 31]

Is something like this what you mean?
Where to join startups in Canada
Hey, looking to work in a start up in Canada, preferably Montreal. I think I am going to graduate reallly soon with a Math/CS degree, any takers?
Pining for the fjords, eh?
It’s not really a ridiculous assumption; Thailand and the Philippines both have large sex tourism industries. In particular, for the past few years there’s been a large focus on illegal child sex tourism in those places.

Just explaining why your comment might have rubbed people the wrong way, though you might not have deserved it.
How does one follow from the other? If true, then weren't the huge proportion of men who never had kids be losers too?
I'm assuming we're roughly the same age given your peers taste in music. Ultimately, my love for Paul Simon's music comes from my parents - thats almost all they listen to.
> you do not have to let a tech company screaming “technological progress” in your face turn you into a paragon of passivity

This was the article's highlight for me. As a senior programmer I found myself saying "no" to more and more tech nowadays -- smart speakers are and will always be not welcome in my house, I carefully study mobile app permissions and deny everything but the absolutely necessary minimum (on my mother's phone as well), I am unplugging microphones and webcams when not using them, I refuse to buy washing machines and any kind of kitchen tech with touch screens (they are awfully non-durable, big surprise right?) and prefer tech with real, physical buttons.

I am never gonna give WiFi access to my TV. I am even considering making my home WiFi network hidden (not advertised). If you manually specify SSID and password you will connect alright but you can never see the SSID. I feel this might be a necessary default before too long. We'll see.

I did give WiFi access to my printer because accessing it through the router's USB port turned into a nightmare of problems and inconsistency. I disallowed it to make outgoing connections (through the router) anywhere but in the local network however -- I don't want it going to the internet.

Point is, new tech is marketed as "progress" for mercantile reasons by the big corps and me and many others aren't just taking their word for it when they say it's for the best of all of us.

My rather depressing observation has been that historically, ever since the 90s, technology and especially computers / phones aren't used to improve people's lives; they only complicate them and increase people's time, energy and money expenses. To actually improve your life with tech you have to go a lot of extra miles.

The marketed "progress" technologies don't deserve the benefit of the doubt lately. It's all but a historical fact that most "progress" is mostly "guys, here's a new market we just invented, please buy because we want the money".
Well, they are trivial, actually I ha e no idea of details
I guess they could, but they don't seem to want to. Cinemark's competitor gives you ONE movie (non-premium, non-3D, etc.) a month for $8.99.

Watching the ad for it preroll every time before a movie I've 'paid for' (with MoviePass) coming on has become a running joke between me and my partner that only people who are such luddites that they've never heard of MoviePass would remotely think it was a good deal.
Yes, consider pedestrians.
I doubt the issue is about simply sex, like, have sex and the problem goes away. This is the problem of being undesired, which I feel has more implications than sex.
Indeed, he should stick to his own race! /s

Seriously, the rhetoric around dating foreign women is absurd. Gross and exploitative? A consensual relationship? /Really?/

Compare, for instance, the socially mandated opinions we're supposed to hold around adopting a child from a foreign country versus "mail-ordering" a bride. Most of the moral arguments for the former apply just as much toward the latter, yet the latter is "gross and exploitative"--why?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the first is associated with movie stars while the second is mostly low-status men?
Nice!

So you look at Elon's entire history of ideas, and the one thing that caught your eye first was Hyperloop?

Why did you name the Hyperloop? Is Elon working on a Hyperloop company?

Those things you mentioned "hire people who execute well on ideas", "good business sense", "ability to raise money". Those are medicore skills?

We don't know each other in person, but from online-chatting with you, you sound like you have good intelligence. Can you do any of those?
Is it getting more and more common? Is there any evidence to support that?
It’s funny how women always consider it exploitative when men “pick up” an Asian woman. I met my wife in a Walmart in China and we are quite happy together.

My friend is married to a Philippine woman. She worked at Apple and is quite well educated. Even is she wasn’t - I don’t know what the problem is.
Why does the tech company need to be public? Is this just a proxy for “big”? Or do you actually care about the company having shares, perhaps because you like getting RSUs?
Chinese tech giant Alibaba breaks into Pakistani market by acquiring Daraz
I'll pass. I almost bought a system76 several times and at no point was it made obvious these are re-packaged Chinese white label machines.
I waited till I was married at 36 to have sex. No regrets. I consider it a sign of strength amidst my social and other weaknesses. YMMV.
You’ve posted this same question/comment, 3 times in this thread (and I’ve answered it below). You seem to be taking this somewhat personally.

I find it worrying that “Elon is a hyper-intelligent Superman” seems so closely tied up with individual identity in some cases... I guess creating hero’s sometimes makes the universe easier to deal with. But it has an overall negative effect on SV culture.
We have a situation at work where for security concerns, we want to grant a set of employees access to only a subset of a monolithic git repo. We investigated using subtrees, but it requires a little more manual intervention than we'd like.

So now I'm working on a project to write a single binary that can installed as a server-side git hook which would publish a subdirectory as its own repo, and then syncs commits and branches between the two.

Of course, it's not perfect. It won't be able to handle signed commits or tags. And the repository have to be on the same box (it uses symlinks, but that could in theory be worked around at the cost of a more complex setup script )

But it should be completely transparent to the repository users.
Same thing happened to Theranos...time will tell whether Tesla is a Theranos or a Waymo.
> - the world is dividing into “social haves” and “social have-nots”. It’s not a surprise that as wealth and inequality have taken off dramatically, we’d see social and sexual repercussions.

A horrifying driver of this is the fundamentally distinct natures of male and female sexuality: female hypergamy coupled with male promiscuity means that females can pseudo-mate with a smaller set of high value males, leaving many males in the lurch sexually. This is apparently not uncommon in history: the genetic record shows that females have had much higher reproductive success on average than males. What is new is the fact that the act is typically no longer fruitful.

I have heard civilization called a the beta conspiracy, and I'm no longer sure that's wrong.
Totally agree. I am sick and tired of being judged by people - especially western women - who thinks I am exploiting some young Asian woman. It makes me quite angry sometimes - they don’t know anything about us or how we live.
I think it’s fine
I also had a similar experience. My parents liked his Simon & Garfunkel albums, and I picked up on them because I liked the singer-songwriter and folksy tendencies. It was a bit of an anti-mainstream and old school reaction to the stadium-rock that was popular in the 80's (plus the Central Park concert was bigger than any rock concert ever, so there).

Then he had a hit on MTV with Chevy Chase, but never caught on in the same way that someone similar such as Peter Gabriel ever did (it's strange that I never realized the similarities between them until now). My Def Leppard loving friends still thought his music and especially the African vocals were weird and uncool. I later gravitated more towards electronic music and alternative, but kept buying his new albums through college.

I still like his music, and my daughter now loves the Graceland album as well, so Paul Simon was cool-dad music for 2 generations. I think I get credit for playing sound of silence for her before it got popular again. But to me his music hasn't aged well. I guess I still remember it as singer-songwriter and folksy, but now when I listen, it's mostly pop. Despite being more complex than the 3- and 4-chord melodies he was trying to outdo, the melodies seem catchy but not moving, the lyrics a bit trite--it all sounds better when explained by a critic.

The backstory about the personality and disputes is mostly new to me--I had only heard about his falling out with Garfunkel. But growing up I didn't know much about any musicians, who was in which band, nor really care. With all the mini biographies on Wikipedia, I now learn a lot more about the music I listened to, and often find myself realizing the connection between some bands, for example having the same producer. But I never idolized Simon or any other musician, so the stories don't change my experience of the music, though I do feel for the other artists.

Someone mentioned the quality of the Simon and Garfunkel duo, and I agree. Wednesday morning 3am is the least pop of their albums, with the best harmonies. The other folk group I liked with harmonies was Peter, Paul, and Mary--another hand-me-down from my parents and also to my own kid.
No it is ridiculous. You just made an assumption and an accusation. While both these countries have a big sex tourism scene, I have found many of the girls I dated not really aware of it.

Most of them were attracted to the different physic and the novelty of dating a foreigner.

Sure it doesn’t help the local men but well, I don’t think I’m doing anything wrong here.

That’s something that really bother me on HN. Where people play judges with no relevant facts.
Fine, but Romans aside, no one mentions Japanese, Chinese or Nepalese history. Central African history is whisked away (you ask them if they're the same race, and see what answer you get). The whole conversation is clouded is a horribly eurocentric manner, and put towards a narrative.
The Hyatt Regency disaster was not the equivalent of missing a semicolon, that makes it sound like an accident. Procedures were not followed. A load bearing component was modified without proper testing/analysis.
Using compressed air is not so bad. Plus I like my MacBook Pro look new and shiny :)
Fit and finish are the hardest parts of the process to improve. The skateboard is generally machined and put together by heavily automated/standardized processes. Fit and finish can be automated, but the final quality control steps are done by hand.

Fit and finish is also the most important elements to most buyers. Nobody cares if the skateboard has oodles of praise if the dashboard panels are misaligned and the window makes a squeaking noise and Bob next door has a much cheaper car with a much nicer interior.
Yes it’s ridiculous. Stop this nonsense
Severe Bug Discovered in Signal Messaging App for Windows and Linux
I'm sure ISIS uses Microsoft products.
Oh hey! I used to do this before but a lot of people started complaining that they then had duplicate items in their RSS feed, like the one from the website and one from me as well.

Plus it will be hard to figure out which ones are coming from DiscoverDev, no?
Services! macOS comes with Automator for this. -- Wrap a automator workflow around that shell script and you get: https://www.dropbox.com/s/njjyfzdptrzno6h/Strip%20Formatting...

If you open it up in Automator, it'll let you see the steps, and prompt you to install it [which really just moves the file into ~/Services]. This makes it show up in every app's Services menu.

Once installed, you can head to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services, to set a keyboard shortcut for it.
Hmm...nope. I still don't set foot in a theater. Unless it's a new Star Wars or Avatar or LOTR, but they've made all those.
You need F#'s units of measure [1].

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/
Is 'proxy' new tech jargon? I've been hearing it a lot lately.
Why are those superior attributes to rationality?
I can relate to this,

I'm a 30 year old virgin, graduated with tech-related masters degree, and still a virgin.

I don't resent women, I love women and some of my best friends are women, but I can't see myself ever having a physical experience due to my physical shortcomings.

I'm well under-averagely endowed, a member of an undesirable race, and quite frankly think the age for acting as a goof for me has passed. I don't know how/when to ask women out, and I'm afraid if it'll be interpreted as sexual harassment. I'm no good looking chap for it to be considered flirting, might as well endure loneliness than social suicide.

I cry myself to sleep some nights, but at least I get to live a life where I can feed myself and distract myself by helping others through work/volunteering.

Cherish your loved ones, and don't take them for granted. The pain of never having those experiences is something I'll never wish for others.
It's upsetting this is getting flagged and people are flagging comments left and right. Sure, some people are saying objectionable things, but shutting down discussion of real issues that affect people is how people become alienated and distraught and suffer alone.
I'm with you on option 4. I used to spot a movie I wanted to see, and then see it. Now I want to see a movie, and then pick the movie to see. I can't think of too many products I've experienced such a behavioral shift from.

I'd change the title too and drop "moviegoing habits" to simply "habits". I'm probably out on average 2 nights more a week than I used to be. I'll stop on the way home from standing appointments to grab dinner and a movie, just to wait out traffic. I don't think I'd ever done this before in my life.

If I owned a restaurant near a theater, I'd figure out how to be a Moviepass affiliate, in a heartbeat. Assuming they can survive, of course.
I've had this happen to me as an interviewer. It seems good at first, but when I eventually bring the interview back into my 'can you design a simple data format, and then use the format you just designed' problem, I usually find the answer is no. I try not to let this bias me when I realize the candidate had led me astray, but it's hard when every candidate that leads me astray can't do my problem.
It was the claim that no other practical decentralized databases exist that turned me off. If you want I'll name a few.
Judging from the downvoting, it seems like a large proportion of people either misunderstand or disagree with your larger point, but you're absolutely correct.

One of the biggest fundamental drivers of radical Islamist terrorism is the deadly combination of polygamy and stratefied wealth created by oil. Turns out that when you have a population of young, angry, aimless men and ensure there's absolutely no hope of a lasting romantic relationship or procreation, they become much easier to radicalize.

Ultimately, social stability requires a critical mass of the population to be future-oriented and put their amygdalae in check. But that doesn't work if there is no hope for the future.
You’re right, thanks

I’m a non-fit person with poor posture myself, and I definitely worded that badly
I would say the fact that machine learning / neural network theory is featured in Nature is quite a breakthrough. And neuroscience for that matter is quite an associated field of research.

Friend of mine recently published a paper in Nature on quantum computing. There is immense prestige in doing so.
F# has units of measure [1], which are very nice for such a case you're describing.

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/
No you seem to be the one taking this personally. The topics you mentioned "superman" "alien" "individual identity" "hero" "universe"... seems like you are off on a tangent? I have no idea what you are talking about.

Even if you ignore all his other achievements, the man sent his car to Mars. And people are still sitting there going "meh, not impressed. Hyperloop. Average intelligence. Medicore".

THAT attitude has an overall negative effect on SV culture.
The author says setting a register like this is hard to read and maintain:

*(volatile std::uint32_t*)reg_name = val;

And the author's solution is to replace that one line with this:

struct DeviceSetup {
enum class TableType : std::uint32_t {
inphase = 0,
quadrature,
table
};

std::uint32_t input_source : 8;
TableType table_type : 4;
std::uint32_t reserved : 20;
};

volatile auto device_registers_ptr = reinterpret_cast<DeviceSetup*>(DeviceControlAddress);

I'm not really seeing the readability and maintainability advantages here.
Hyperloop is a mediocre (well, actually bad) idea. It indicates that Elon is not some genius level engineer.

I think you underestimate the degree to which luck plays a role in the development of companies.
Their CEO did an interesting interview a while back on This Week In Startups. As I recall he seemed to reflect this serene confidence in their ability to scale and had a keen eye for the unit economics... but that being said the service just didn't make a lot of sense. I feel like the target demographic is what actually didn't scale, and the brute force of the sanity check of people getting ready made food delivered for 12-15 bucks a meal was something that didn't resonate outside an minority of the upper middle class.
Although Haskell has a relatively powerful and useful type system, you are perhaps being a little kind to it here. Haskell also has partial functions, including quite a few dangerous examples in the standard library, various mechanisms to escape the type system entirely, and 27 different ways to handle errors, 28 of which look a bit like exceptions but need handling in 29 different ways. And it still can't handle basic record types very elegantly, nor dependent types such as fixed-size arrays/matrices. Haskell's type system does have a lot going for it and it also makes a useful laboratory for experiments with type-based techniques, but as far as safety goes it has never really lived up to the hype, and for all its advanced magic, it is surprisingly lacking in support for some basic features that are widely available in other languages.