skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what do you do to make sure you don't accidentally delete/duplicate/edit a transaction and how do you import the latest transactions in an automated way?

I've never really had a problem with accidental deletions, duplications, or edits - it's a text file, and a transaction is at least 3 lines long (date and two postings), usually followed by a blank line. It's not like a CSV where the entire thing fits on a single line, and all the lines kind of blur together because they're so similar.

I commit my ledger file to git weekly, but that's more of a backup than anything else.

I manually enter all my transactions, so data import isn't really a problem I worry about (though I know ledger / hledger have ways of doing that).
I wonder if the author of xkcd is ever going to apologize for his comic on free speech.
I missed a mortgage payment, because my mortgage company launched their "new" website as a subdomain on a primary domain that wasn't registered to them. They sent an email from that same domain, directing people to the new site. I tried to verify the authenticity of the email with their customer service team, but, crickets. No one bothered contacting me until they wanted to chase me down for the payment, at which point, I told them what a horrible practice it was, and insisted they remove the late fee. They did remove the fee, but the site and all related emails still look like phishing attempts. Not surprising really, given that the majority of companies double-down on stupid when called out for their blunders.
Which generally requires collusion. There was no collusion. These are independent actors in a competitive space that arrived at the same conclusion independently.

People want free speech. You get free speech so long as your speech doesn’t unduly impinge on other’s liberties. That is the trade off we accept when we exchange the rule of force for the rule of law in a self governing, democratic society.

People are not complaining about business practices. People are complaining about not being able to say whatever they want over whatever medium they want even if other people get dead.
There's this movement in Canadian political circles that calls for us to have a population of ~100 million by 2100.[1]

Their argument is essentially that Canada has a lot of space (especially with climate change and all [2]), and by bringing in a lot of people from other countries, that will make Canada a more competitive country on the world stage.

In my personal opinion, I don't have anything against the movement, its just that all of these people are coming to either Toronto or Vancouver, and so those cities are becoming more and more competitive, meanwhile more conservative regions like Alberta and Quebec have a labour shortage.

Also, this might have a weird effect on French (I'm a french speaker so I might be a bit biased), but a lot of the people that are coming in right now (mainly from Eastern Europe, India, & China) only speak English, and not French. So we're seeing French go the same way as Scots or Gaelic did in the UK -- slowly dying.

Overall though, as long as we ensure that the population is distributed (I guess high housing prices are a good thing), and that people learn French, the 100 million thing isn't too bad.

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[1] - https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada-needs-to-get-to-100-milli...

[2] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Ko...
- Note right now, Only Toronto - Windsor has that light blue climate (same weather as New England), and in 2100 most of Canada will, while southern Ontario and BC will have the same weather as Washington or Normandy.
And it's being flagged on here, presumably because it's against certain users' political priors.
> These companies are unnecessary dinosaurs from a bygone era.

I personally believe this is wishful thinking (similarly when I read about how companies have "outdated business models"). Publishers sell prestigue and attention, and this can't easily be replicated, nor is it unnecessary.
The increase in research papers makes them even more valueable in my eyes.

This is despite me wanting to see many changes to publishing and science distribution.

edit: removed part that I deemed unecessarily hostile.
Red Kubes releases open-source Community Edition of its Otomi Kubernetes wrangle
I still don't know what to think about this.

On one hand, Parler was a hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism. So it's no loss that it's gone, and it took far too long to deal with it. And just like I wouldn't bat an eye for AWS taking down an ISIS recruitment site, I don't really see any loss here.

On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech - whether or not we agree with them? We talk about net neutrality, but shouldn't we apply the same standard to hosts like AWS?

Overall it feels like a legislative failure - in an ideal world, we have laws applied even handedly to deal with this. But in the absence of political will for these laws, what should be done? I think we are better off without Parler, but how can we do that in an even handed and consistent way?
> The laplacian in there feels like it's a "diffusion" term (as in the heat equation, things tend to spread and smoothen over time). Why isn't there ever a intuitive explanation in text books about this?

In an equation like

df/dt = k Δf

the Laplacian create a diffusion-like effect only if k is a real positive number. If k is a real negative number, it creates the opposite effect that concentrates whatever f represent and make it more spiky.

When k is an imaginary number, it is not like diffusion o anti-diffusion (I don't know the technical name). The associated operator is unitary and the behavior is different.

Many books about the heat/diffusion equations and Schrodinger equation have this discussion. And the generalized versions where k is a functions that depends on x or t, or is a complex number instead of a real or complex number.

For an intuitive idea of what is happening, the idea is that you consider at time=0 the function

f(x,t=0)=A sin(ωx).

If k is real and positive, the amplitude of the function decrease with time. And when ω is big, it decrease faster, so the small features disappear very faster than the smooth parts.

If k is real and negative, the amplitude of the function increase with time, and you have the opposite effect.

If k is imaginary, the function just rotate in the complex plane but does not increase or decrease the amplitude. So you get a wavy effect instead of a diffusion effect.

The initial equation is linear, i.e. there is no f^2 or something like that. With some hand waving you can extend the simple cases where f is sin or cos to more complex cases. The technical details are in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform
> For people that mention software like Ledger, Excel and Google Sheets to do their accounting, what do you do to make sure you don't accidentally delete/duplicate/edit a transaction and how do you import the latest transactions in an automated way?

I make sure by reconciling my accounts weekly (verifying them against the actual bank/brokerage accounts). I don't import automatically, I found that that led to laziness on my part. The value proposition of this style, for me, was better awareness of my money (not a vague, "I have enough" or I have around $xxxx in my checking account and $xxxxx in my brokerage account).

However, there are tools to bring in transactions automatically and I did use them for a bit. There are tools that offer support for OFX, CSV, QIF and others listed on the linked page. I found OFX (not just with this, but in general) to be inconsistent across banks, and, when I did things "automatically", made it semi-automatic. I'd download the CSV of transactions and import them.
So I've not had a look at this software before.

I had a look at their website: https://hsd-dev.org/guides/win-install.html

It doesn't say that you require docker.
Docker is one of the options.

You could either build it from source using NodeJS or use node JS's package manager NPM to install it.

Docker is a containerisation platform that requires virtualisation support:

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/

The system requirements are as follows:

* Windows 10 64-bit
* Hyper-V and Containers Windows features enabled

So of course this method is not going to run on Windows 7 and it clearly has stated so.

Plus it's not a web browser. It's a blockchain DNS.
Risks of reputation damage cannot be allowed to override contract law. Instead, they should be able to just point to the contract and tell the deplatforming mob that they have to abide by it.

Otherwise, no contract will be worth the paper it is written on if a mob can just scream on Twitter and get a perfectly legal site taken down on very short notice. I'd be very hesitant to sign a contract with any company that doesn't include extremely high termination fees that would be sufficient to find a new host.
I don't understand their conclusion. They claim that the effect is a positive bias, but if that were the case, you'd expect the two lines to move roughly in parallel. Instead, they overlap, so that the bottom group is positively biased and the top group is negatively biased.

There is a suggestion that that's caused by "regression to the mean", but that's doesn't match my understanding of regression to the mean. "Regression to the mean" implies some kind of outlier. And the outlier here is a consistent effect where the least knowledgeable quartile was the most overconfident. That is, the Dunning-Kruger effect.

This isn't my area of expertise so perhaps I'm getting this wrong. And yes, I'm aware of the irony.
huh, looking at that chart.. I just can't help but think..

Is there a bar missing there?
Just one bar, maybe just two letters?

Perhaps even running in x86 emulation?

Hardcore borders on false advertising.
LG teases its Rollable phone with a unique resizable screen
I received my first donation ($13) in the summer last year and yes, it was a great feeling! Then I had the experience of immediately raising the bar for donations and hoping for larger ones :)

Congratulations!
Exactly this. One of the common claims is that the courts dismissed on technicalities and "refused to look at the evidence", when in actually many of the cases where dismissed specifically because the "evidence" wasn't compelling. Hence the Georgia judge chewing out Guiliani over their flawed affidavit collection for example.
Presumably they get a visit from the Secret Service, which is arguably much worse than a Twitter ban. Meetings with Federal Agents are not exactly easy going under normal circumstances. I can't imagine how it must feel if the the outcome of a poor interview is Federal prison.
They will probably do whatever Vice Media (the article authors) will do...

Vice seems to succeed and we all continue to read them despite them having only 8% black employees and even less in management.
https://company.vice.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
Or all sides do, but differ on their definitions of fair.
What is your definition of Free speach? In america we have a fredom of speach to protect the people from the government. Not to protect the government from the people. As a buisness owner i may refuse some one/entitiy service, it is how the free market works.
Sounds like Facebook is trying hard to be allowed to operate in China one day.

Imagine all those ads they can sell then
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood and no one follows this. Mostly feelings are negative toward Google because they are perceived to be contributing to gentrification. Also to some degree ordinary black people feel little connection to the hardcore STEM folks that Google focuses on hiring.
YouTube Vulnerability Could Allow Stealing Your Private Videos
The key thing here is that Parler _refused_ to do this.

Had Parler done this these companies wouldn’t have distanced themselves from them. But also their whole brand is enabling those accounts so had they blocked those accounts they wouldn’t have a community.
anti trust action is needed against a few big tech firms, but this article for some reason frightens me. I dont understand the perspective and there seem to be contradictory undercurrents. I dont use any social network apps except occasionally browsing my couple of dozen friends feeds on my private Instagram account. I know Insta is not good, but I dont feel particularly threatened by it, since no discussion is ocurring (on my feed), just pictures and videos of music and places people have been, meals they have cooked.

I don't really care if Amazon crushes Parler. I also don't find back-doors, infiltration and R&D relationships with the government alarming or surprising. What matters to me is whether the government itself is corrupt.

I am a globalist and I do hope for more, not less integration between trade blocs. I think it would be beneficial to avoid the supply chain panic that underlies the extreme pursuit of labor cost arbitrage, but not in pursuit of national, but rather regional, balance of power and trade.

Surveillance is not going away. We cannot fight it. What can be combated is the willingness to harm others and the tendency to view others as separate from ourselves and as a danger to our interests.

But these tech firms are not yet absolute monopolies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, all display in my opinion anti-competitive and in some cases anti-consumer behaviour, but I think a new framework is needed to quantify harm in tech antitrust regulation.

I think Facebook is the most egregious offender because, as I have hyperbolically stated before, have constructed what amounds to a genocide machine. So while they are not "anti-consumer" in terms of price, they are anti-peace and stability of the system which hurts all of us. They disrupt the political process and not in a fun way.

Greenwald seems to be inviting pretty draconian anti-trust action, which would certainly be a bit controversial because some libertarians might not like it - ideologically the founders of Parler might be among them. On the other hand he seems to be stroking Parler as being some kind of underdog that is less bad somehow than other social networks. In my view Parler is only different in scale.

Again, Greenwald makes me very uneasy in this article because he comes out hard against "monopoly" but whose side is he on? I feel weird that I agree on paper that antitrust action is needed, but his article feels bought and paid for in some way.
> No matter how good the technology, it can eventually be censored if the law is strong enough.

I won't repeat sibling commenters here giving examples of where this is not true (US encryption mainly). I'm wondering if you have any examples of where it is true. What has been censored effectively?

As far as I've been aware, legal censorship has never worked. "Cultural censorship" (a.k.a. "taboo") can be quite effective, but I'm not aware of any examples where the law has been in any way effective at all in this area.

> you can see with Parler’s experience (ignoring political affiliation) that once a large group of people are organized against you, it’s simply in feasible to rebuild decades of infrastructure in isolation.

There's two issues with this. Firstly, you're conflating "a large group of people", with "the law": these are not the same thing. Far from it.

Secondly, Parler is not exactly a shining example of technical competency. I wouldn't hold them up as "the example" of technology -vs- legal censorship purely because there are much stronger/actually competent representatives of the technological side out there that would fair far better than Parler.

It's also notable that many of the learned "techie" individuals who might rally to defend some other technology were it under siege from powerful state & corporate censorship, in this case actually rallied against Parler. So Parler were up against far more than just the forces of legal censorship.
Did you register a new account just to issue whataboutisms?
Pentagon shattered speed record to give 1M people remote work tools
Wonder how much of the original BAMTech team (that migrated from MLB) are still there...
Hackers Compromise Mimecast Certificate for Microsoft Authentication
That's missing the forest for the trees. Instigating a mob to attack the Senate with knives and zipties is not the kind of free speech that needs to be protected.
I am coming to support the notion that ISPs and Internet Backbone providers should be treated as first class utilities like electrical companies and not be able to deny access except for things like non-payment. Otherwise we do run the risk of a physically balkanized internet.
I definitely agree. From a different perspective, I have a few free albums on Bandcamp under a Creative Commons BY-SA, just as a side project. Getting $5 or $20 here or there is really nice — it makes me feel like someone found my music worthwhile to them, which is a good feeling.
A 45W laptop chip isn't a full production item ;)
Most modern laptops use a much lower wattage part.
Yes, they should. No one is arguing they shouldn't.
"Telephone directory" is a term that pretty much no one uses for phonebook.
This is the beginning of an exciting new era when government's will lose the ability to effectively control access to information in their country.

Sure, Russia could shoot down the satellites, but the cost both in terms of missile cost and in terms of space debris would be extreme. Given that SpaceX is launching many starlink satellites in a single launch and reusing the falcon-9, SpaceX's costs will continue to get lower.

I'm sure the CCP will find a way to stop SpaceX and the great firewall will remain, but I'm less confident in countries like Iran or Turkey in being able to continue to censor and regulate their internet.
Parler is not gone, I don't think,
People are trying to address feature requests for keeping their messages backed up. Something which many people using WhatsApp really enjoyed having.

e.g. On reddit it's common for r/dataisbeautiful to have posts which show graphs/charts on texting activity from the beginning of relationships and stuff. Which requires some way of keeping that data around.
Unless you're talking about ham radio, encryption has never been banned in the US
I suppose that the article is talking about monopolies in their respective market (namely iOS app stores, Android app store, and "the cloud").

Unless you're quite tech savvy, you can't sign up for Parler anymore by using a competitor. So, while I mostly disagree with Greenwald, I don't think this characterisation is unfair.
Telegram has various issues for the privacy concerned, namely that group chats are never E2EE and 1-to-1 chats are not encrypted by default, among other concerns[1].

Also Telegram is not open-source.

Also Telegram did some shenanigans with cryptocurrency a few years back[2].

Telegram does have better UX than Signal though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Security

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Telegram_O...
You're arguing that DoJ didn't create the opportunity for Aaron to kill himself, they merely seized upon it and got an even stronger outcome than they were hoping for.
Message delivery is quite unreliable sometimes, it's a bloated electron app, search doesn't really work for me, it has no message forwarding, etc. Video calls don't work at all, I just tried it a couple of minutes ago. It's just not nearly as good as it could be or as alternatives such as matrix are.

Edit: In fact, I just had to kill the desktop client because it stopped working and the UI froze while attempting to start a video call.
I accidentally clicked on the link in a browser without an ad blocker, worst mistake of my life. I forgot what a monstrosity the internet has become...
Do you need any evidence for this? Shouldn't this be handled in the same way you would patch a security hole even if you had no evidence it was being exploited?

I.e. shouldn't Reddit let a community exist, even if some users post content against the rules, as long as the moderators are putting a reasonable, good faith effort to ban such users?

(I don't know if what notadev said is true, or if Reddit bans communities just because users are posting bad content against the moderators will)
Not Vertica though that looks very interesting. I do have a lot of experience with Redshift though. The difficulty is most implementations of data warehouses are fairly bespoke, even down to query plan and execution so knowledge on Redshift may not completely transfer to Vertica for instance.
Who should be allowed to charge for peer-reviewed scientific research?
Handshake (Uncensorable Web) Explainer Video
If you have complex communication needs then this generation of voice software is still the best you can get.

For example, I play a good amount of Eve Online and we have a lot of ACL shenanigans. First, you have your fleet's main channel where most of the membership is going to be. So far so good.

At the top of the list are leadership channels. These guys can talk to and hear their own fleet but with can also instantly page other people in leadership (corp leadership and also other fleet commanders).

Then at the bottom of the list are specific group sub-channels. For example, your scouts and your logistics players need a good amount of coordination with each other, so they will have a lil room where they can talk at each other without tying up comms for the main fleet or distracting leadership with stuff that isn't actionable to them.

Then you can add in a whole extra layer of complexity if you are part of an alliance with multiple corps in it.

You basically can't do that in discord unless you want to have to switch between different channels the entire time. It might sound overkill but if you have 90+ players in your fleet you cannot get away with 'just put everyone in a big room'.
Their perfromance claims will result in M1 multicore level probably with more cores but nowhere close in single core regardless of their shockingly false single core claims.
While I generally disagree with Greenwald, he makes a good point here:

> So why did Democratic politicians and journalists focus on Parler rather than Facebook and YouTube? Why did Amazon, Google and Apple make a flamboyant showing of removing Parler from the internet while leaving much larger platforms with far more extremism and advocacy of violence flowing on a daily basis?
Not with big constructor slowly removing F1-F12 touches from the keyboard (Lenovo...)
One current model of what's happened/happening, is the US system of politics is broken (first-past-the-post voting in states, 2 seats per state, two party, polarization ... and now on top of that the drawback of the separately elected president is that now the Executive and the Legislation was in a deadlock), so the private sector stepped in its usual awkward way. (FB/Tw/YT profited from hosting recruiting content, they did some minor moderation to calm advertisers, but now real people realized that they have the capacity, right and maybe even moral duty to do something with the problem they helped to create, so reverse course, full throttle backward, bam-bam, ban, ban.)

It's not about illegal content. It's about politics and ethics. (And private companies can choose to do or not do business with whomever they want - except a few protected things. But there's a gay wedding cake somewhere too in this. Free association and free speech. Ethically it's hard to coerce anyone to say or not say something, and to host or not host some content.)

Furthermore, there's the power imbalance aspect. Twitter banning SciHub is probably Twitter abusing its power, Twitter banning Trump is less likely an abuse. (Though there very well could be and are exceptions.)
And in turn this misses that chronic lyme has become a catch-all self diagnosis people have for chronic medical problems with no clear cause. There is not really much evidence to believe it is a real thing.