skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For someone who just wants to run some (intensive) OLAP graph queries on the “graph formulation” of a relational or hierarchical dataset every once in a while (maybe batch, maybe user-initiated, but either way <1QPS), but doesn’t yet have a graph DB and doesn’t really want to maintain their data in a canonical graph formulation, which type of graph DB would you recommend as the simplest-to-maintain, simplest-to-scale “adjunct” to their existing infra?

I.e. what’s the graph DB that best fits the use-case equivalent to “having your data in an RDBMS and then running an indexer agent to feed ElasticSearch for searching”?
> Or every g-ddamned time you start the car, depending if you have a first-gen or not.

My in-laws have a Ford Escape that does that.
Well, in order to implement it the car has to have a "phone" (mobile station) and a GPS. And I think (although not proven) that in order to meet the time requirement it has to keep both of them "warm", ie registered to network with a GPS fix. Which means at the minimum the mobile operators know where the car is at all times. And the car manufacturer has built almost all the hardware for full tracking.
Every time there's a corporate scandal of sorts (Boeing and Wells Fargo come to mind as recents), the people here scream for accountability.

So what say ye, Googlers, Facebook employees and others? Should fines or prison fall on your shoulders? Why do you continue to do it, knowing you are breaking the law? Knowing you are harming people? Glass houses and all that...
Formula 1 only so far, but the idea was to get beefier ones sooner or later.
> Assuming some country is happy for them to pay to have a port somewhere.

Because a port that you're only borrowing can quickly become a port that either you're trapped in or not welcome to come back to if either you or your host get involved in a military conflict.
Unless I'm a lawyer, I wouldn't trust myself to ensure I'm compliant with all laws. Would probably have to hire lawyers/do an audit which if you're just starting out might not have much money for. Money that could be better spent improving your product so you can provide a service and also make money.

Doesn't mean you can't try your best to be compliant, I still think no matter what you wont know for sure until you hire a third party.
I'd much rather see languages take advantage of characters outside of ASCII. There are already symbols such as ⇒ which could be used by a language.

This is a nice feature of APL, and the derivatives such as J which use plain ASCII are much less nice to work with.
The proposed ePrivacy Regulation[0] looked like it was set to introduce some very positive recommendations to curb the worst of advertising cookies and pop-up dialogs.

Article 10 of the draft regulation suggested moving consent settings into the browser so that you could specify whether you will accept various forms of cookies centrally and then have those settings apply to all sites.

A ruling[1] related to shady consent practices by a website called Planet49 seems to have shifted the regulatory window towards the idea that users have to definitively prove informed consent.

Meanwhile the latest draft[2] of the ePrivacy regulation has removed Article 10 and the mention of browser-based controls for cookies entirely and thus consent stays per-website.

I really wish the choice of privacy related to advertising was baked into the browser and enforced there. Given the above developments, it's the only route I can see that avoids pop-up fatigue for users. The number of pop-ups everyone has to deal with causes user experience friction and wastes everyone's time.

It'd seem reasonable to me for sites to be allowed to pair with advertisers to request additional consent via pop-ups if they want, but with the defaults in the browser.

That way a site would have to make a conscious decision that it's worth getting consent from a user in order to monetize them -- and users would only need to be informed and provide their consent when something outside their expectations is being requested.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's tracking this - I'm not a lawyer and all this is the bits and pieces I've picked up while reading on the web and trying to determine an analytics consent strategy for a project I'm developing.

Edit: NB: I realize there's a context of apps rather than websites in the article, but I'd hope and suggest that the fundamentals are the same, especially if & when PWA's blur the distinction between browser/mobile-OS as host.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_(European_...

[1] - https://www.cookiebot.com/en/active-consent-and-the-case-of-...

[2] - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONS...
The reason why I switched from SW development to veterinary medicine (looking back on it) is because I do much better with a service-oriented role instead of a project-oriented one. If I finish my notes I can put everything to bed each day and not have to worry about deadlines or doing parts of a project incrementally so I'm not swamped at the end. It's nice to help people but if I was more interested in projects, veterinary medicine would be a bad way to do it.
Maybe this has already happened, but wouldn't this be grounds for a lawsuit? If businesses are going bankrupt because of outright lies or negligence on a company's part, I would think you have grounds for damages and class-action lawsuit.

I'm speaking out of my butt here, I'm not a lawyer.
Considering he is an anarchist, I don't think he is trying to encroach on the rights of anyone.
Hi, i watched the video but they didn't seem to talk about something i would find important in the description of a packet network: what's the routing algorithm? Is there actually any? If this is meant to run large-scale only on top of some ip network using already configured routing tables then this lowers the interest a lot for me: this ends up "just" being another overlay network, albeit with cool concepts and pretty adaptable tunneling possibilities.
Imagine how many billion dollar ideas are just sitting on peoples hard-drives
My residential power costs just about that $0.28/kWh, though, so maybe the article is somewhat realistic
There are a few technologies that I’ve tried very earnestly to understand, only to find out that it’s basically black magic and there’s no use in trying to understand it. Those things are modern car transmissions, nuclear reactors, and SSDs.
That pre-war environment is a very different world from the financial crisis of 2008 and the Northern Rock event. Or Iceland. In the end the UK central government had to bail out local governments with uninsured deposits in the Icelandic banks: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-councils...
It's not the uploading that's the problem, it's the budget you spend on getting new Facebook likes or YouTube channel subscriptions.

Buying Facebook likes looked like a wildly better investment, but that was an illusion.
I'd say the opposite is more prevalent. People assume that HN is dominated by Bay Area thinking—which is to say, whatever caricature they regard as Bay Area thinking, since there's no single such thing—and then post what they imagine to be their minority/contrarian view against it. Usually they do so angrily or sarcastically, since people get defensive when they think they're going against a dominant view.

It's been many years since HN comments have been Bay Area-centric, if they ever were. HN now has far more users who identify against it than with it, at least among commenters. That's why I tell people that only 10% of the community is based there; it usually comes as a surprise.
That's not really the failing you get living here. I'm not saying it other don't have it much much worse, but at least the Danish government really like invading peoples privacy.
This makes sense, given that a very large amount of (most?) advertising intentionally attempts to make you feel bad about something, in order to make you more likely to buy their "solution".
You reminded me of something Cory Doctorow wrote about a few years ago. He wanted Mail Chimp to tell him all the mailing lists he was on and they wouldn't.

I don't know if they've changed it since then, but as soon as he mentioned it I thought that it was a great suggestion. There should definitely be a way that I, as the owner of an email address, can log into Mail Chimp and manage what they are going to send to me.
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There is such an option. Simply post a comment explaining why you submitted the site.
>And then there's the whole culture of snobbery surrounding Apple and their products that has existed since at least the mid-late 90's about how superior Apple products are to everything else always that's just kind of grated on me...well since then.

>Are you positing that someone manufactures a better and faster SOC for mobile devices?

Thanks for proving my point.
The one that comes to mind is the federal reserve report.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/changes-in...

Tl;dr

For reference, according to the last ECB report in the EU the total value of fraudulent transactions from cards issued by SEPA countries was 0.041% of the total value of transactions (€1.8 billion - That's over 5x less fraud). Only 19% of that was point of sale fraud

$3.6 billion card fraud in the US is point of sale - 10x more than the €342 million point of sale EU fraud.

Overall there is $2.62 billion of counterfeit card fraud, $3.46 billion of "Fraudulent use of account number" (whatever that is), $810 million "lost or stolen card" fraud (not an issue with chip and pin), and $360 million "fraudulent application" fraud.
They got a tiny slap on the wrist. $40M.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/facebook-pay-40-mi...
That question is addressed in the article:

"Their line is that advertising is trying to expose the public to new and exciting things to buy, and their task is to simply provide information, and in that way they raise human well-being. But the alternative argument, which goes back to Thorstein Veblen and others, is that exposing people to a lot of advertising raises their aspirations—and makes them feel that their own lives, achievements, belongings, and experiences are inadequate. This study supports the negative view, not the positive one."
They last a lot longer on a vehicle with regenerative braking.
We have a paper under review (since a year) describing the architecture in detail. We plan to extend the documentation on the website in the meantime.

As a sidenote: Our implementation predates the Cardano blockchain name
So, in the limit it's not observably different from death? Then it's death.
That's not true, I know of several projects that were very well written with cutting edge frameworks, elegant abstractions, full test suites and balanced 40 hour weeks. Of course none of them ever went live lol.
A large problem is content stealers. They'll post the entire video without attribution. Also Facebook for a very long time didn't do anything to prevent content stealing even with takedown notices there were too many. FB didn't have an automated system.

College humour was basically forced to put their entire video just to retain views.
If there is no threat from Office 365 then yes.

However, Office 365 is the real threat and moves like this are not helping...
Re: a 50 year old car with proximity sensors

That's pretty fascinating; I'd love to hear more about this.
One of my favorite sayings is "never compare yourself to others, for it will make you both vain and bitter. There will always be someone worse than you, and always someone better."
Ask HN: Know any autistic-friendly company?
Hi,
I'm looking for tech companies that are autistic friendly (it could be a special hiring process for autistic people, accommodations for sensory issues etc.)?

Thanks,

Arik
Yea, at 20000 square feet...by the time you finish cleaning the entire thing, you'd have to start over, since where you started is already dusty.
That helps explain how much advertising is done for durable goods that we only buy every X years.
What determines the ignition timing without distributor?
Good point. I did spend a fair amount of time deciding on a name - it's surprising just how few good names aren't already being used in OSS. So I'd love some suggestions if anyone has any.
“Customer support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time”
To my understanding, what Facebook tried to present to online producers was that publishing native video directly on Facebook was insanely lucrative, not just that they should have a Facebook page.
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I hope I find a job on there.
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The entire problem with your logic is that you're assuming that humans will not and cannot do anything at all to change carbon levels, aside from relying on natural processes. That's completely ridiculous. Any attempt to fix the problem has to involve artificial actions: carbon sequestration, solar shades, etc.

Your entire mentality is "it took X years for nature to do this, so it'll take X years to undo it by natural processes, and oh yeah, we have to actually undo it so everything goes back exactly the way it was, instead of just making the end result satisfactory". This isn't helpful at all. As I pointed out before, we can reduce the amount of sunlight using solar shades; we don't actually need CO2 levels to go back to pre-industrial levels. We just need to prevent the temperature from rising so much, while we figure out how to deal with the CO2.

>This is equivalent to trying to remove smoke from your kitchen with a small fan while you continue to burn the food you are cooking on the frying pan. You just can't do it.

Yes, you really can. With a fan powerful enough, and a vent hood, you absolutely can. It really doesn't take that much, and it depends on how much smoke you're producing, but you seem to think you need a turbojet engine to clear the air in a small kitchen from a small cooking fire, and you really don't.

>If you want it done faster you have to stop cooking and use a much larger fan (more energy).

Here's the part you're not getting. The amount of energy you need to run a vent fan isn't anywhere near the amount of energy unleashed by your cooking fire. Even better, if you constrain the air supply, the fire burns itself out quickly, or at least is prevented from producing as much smoke.

>It's actually the most common sense science I've seen in a long time.

I've noticed that people who throw around the term "common sense" a lot do so because they really don't understand things very well, and think their intuitive understanding suffices, when in fact it doesn't.
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Thank you for sharing this. My personal take-away is that advertisment and even worse marketing are a plague to our society.
YouTube deletes videos attached to corporate accounts if their bills go unpaid? Have they done this in the past?
> the most damaging to society

While I agree that content archival is important, I would strongly argue that lost content is not on the same level as for example anti-competitive practices, even in terms of cultural impact.
Here's a good classic website with endless information on one topic...

https://www.collectingsnapon.com/
You are missing out on:

The ability to limit the frequency and amounts of direct payments. Pay for cable with direct deposit? Why allow the company to debit more than a hundred a month?

You miss Banks giving you virtual on demand credit card numbers for free, not as a service you have to pay with another company.

You miss by having anything years later than everywhere else, like nfc payments and contactless card payments. I had people think I was insane 2 years ago for paying with a contactless card. Many would think I was defrauding them in some way. This was in large cosmopolitan cities. Not the sticks.

You miss free transfers without the ridiculous low amount limits Zelle has and no restrictions on whether the recipient is a business or not.

You miss the ability to have all direct debits initiated by you on your home banking. Meaning someone having your account number is never a real issue.

And the list goes on.
Do you suppose they mostly use WeChat there?
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Interesting! Do you happen to know which encryption algorithm is used? I would think that, if the only goal is whitening (as opposed to robust security), a fairly weak algorithm would be used, or perhaps a strong algorithm with a reduced number of rounds.
Using advertising to create demand is only a tiny part of the advertising market, and arguably the worst way to spend your ad budget.

Most advertising is to maintain your market share in already established and very competitive markets.

E.g., Coca-Cola plastering their logo everywhere to prevent Pepsi from doing the same. It's certainly not to convince those who don't drink Coke to start doing so.
Using, no, but at some point there will have been meetings about where to use the marketing budget.

"We can buy Facebook likes, or YouTube subscribers."

"Engagement's so much better on Facebook, let's buy likes."

Facebook's incorrect (dramatically so - as high as 900% inflated) stats made buying a like look way more cost effective, so that's where the budgets went.
I was working on something similar (small mmo) a few years back and would have killed for at least one example that had been shared. Part of this was to see how they did gongs, part of it (more importantly to me) was to know that there were other crazy people out there doing the same thing!!
I'm gonna take the contrarian viewpoint here. Full disclosure: I'm in advertising.

The researcher states that increasing "aspiration" (their term) leads to dissatisfaction and more unhappiness. Sure! But aspiration is also why we invented the wheel, harnessed fire, founded fancy schools like Harvard, try to be good parents, etc. I don't disagree that ambition and aspiration can make a person unhappy. But it's also what drives literally all human progress.

So unless you believe primitive man was living their best life and that everything that has happened since then is a regression (and certainly some people hold that view), I find it hard to swallow that aspirations are a bad thing.

Yes, there's a negative to them. But virtually every good thing people have ever done was because of their aspirations.

Therefore I don't agree with the notion that advertising is inherently bad because it raises people's expectations for themselves. I consider that a good thing even if it comes at the cost of a decrease in personal happiness.

HOWEVER (I can feel your hatred), there's a difference between motivating people to aspire to better things vs simply making them feel shitty about themselves so they'll buy your crap.

ex: When a fashion brand shows impossibly attractive people wearing their clothes, they're not showing us how to live better lives. They're simply making us feel shitty for not being models, and then hoping we'll make the conclusion that we'd look better if we bought those clothes. That doesn't make anyone's life better. That's just a shit sandwich all around.

ex: When a tech company shows us a bunch of people being really productive using their products, it can inspire us to want to be more productive. If their product truly can make us more productive (like the invention of the PC... no reasonable person would argue that PCs didn't make us more productive, right?), then that's great.

ex: Pharmaceutical drugs have been a fantastic boon for humanity. We rely on them constantly to extend our lives and improve our quality of life. Yet some (many?) drugs are nowhere near as beneficial as they are advertised (I'm looking at you, Fentanyl).

So I think the question is simply: does the product actually improve our lives in the way the advertising suggests? Or is it just a bait-and-switch?

Advertising isn't inherently bad, any more than aspirations are inherently bad. It boils down to what's being advertised and how honest the ads are about it.
We should strive to lie less to the poor about what they need to possess.
Given the residual income from their back catalog I doubt anyone will let that happen.
> The files will be easily recovered.

Not really “easily”. At the very least you’ll need a modded flash controller that can bypass the flash translation layer. Also, on SSDs with TRIM support you’re also racing against the garbage collector which will erase any unused (ie. deleted) blocks.
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It's a nasty problem. Ultimately those responsible are those consuming rhino horn; they're paying for poachers to murder rangers and render a species extinct.
A related thread, from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16399759. Others?
I've read about people removing the modems from their Teslas in the past.

Have they updated the software such that this isn't possible?
When I started my first business, a mentor gave me advice along these lines: identify the two or three pieces of equipment that are truly key to your business, and go high-end on those. Everything else should be as cheap as possible.
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The buyer says that the house seems "haunted" and that there are "paranormal activities". Haunted houses typically have lower values on the housing market, as demonstrated by horror movies like The Shining, etc. All jokes aside, it would've been better to convert it for commercial use, such as an office, rather than for it to be a residential unit, since all that empty space seems to be wasted.
Maybe we can just create a lower underclass that we make too stupid to care for growth by subjecting them to alcohol during pregnancy and provide them with drugs that will simply allow them to be content by being.
Without doxing myself by giving too much info about myself away, I can say with 99% certainty that this is not happening with Facebook or Apple.

The remaining 1% is if policy changed in the past few years (read: < 3 ), or if there was some top-secret team that few knew about working on this.

In general, these cases are coincidences based upon one or some combination of the following:

1) Search history that became "subconscious" and the person forgot. Annecdotally, check your history and see if you remember _everything_ you've ever searched for...you may be surprised. Android especially saves more than you might think

2) Related searches or characteristics relevant to the market. Example: during Black Friday in the 'States, many people are searching for TVs, so Amazon or Walmart will probably serve you ads for that in anticipation. Let's say with 10% odds, 1/10 people will see this ad and think "huh - I was just telling my wife we need a new TV. How did they know?" Law of large numbers and such...

3) The person installed malware that IS collecting sound samples, feeding that data to an ad-server, and actually performing this malicious behavior - but it isn't necessarily FB/Apple/etc. You tend to see this more on Android, as the Play Store has too many apps with malware like this, but it can happen on iOS too if the user isn't careful about privacy permissions.

Hope that long response helps answer your question =)
I discovered them a couple of years ago when I went to see a movie (The Greatest Showman) at McMenamins in Centralia, WA. Wow. I twas like going back in time. Oddly, one of my favorite things was the bathroom. Original porcelain from the 1920's or so, and the urinals didn't flush. Instead, wastewater from the sink drained into the urinals and flushed them. Very efficient!
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Thanks!

This is kind of depressing; I suspect that $40 million is barely a blip in Facebook's advertising budget, so the sad part is that this probably had almost-literally no effect on them.

I guess it's not a new thing for corporations to own the world, but it's always sad when I'm reminded of it.
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