skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

If the US prints a million dollars, and some does a million dollars' worth of work in the US (or someone outside the US sends over a shipload of electronics in exchange for that big back of dollars) and moves that million dollars overseas, and those dollars never come back to be spent in the US, the US has gained. The US got a whole lot of work done, and did not have to give anyone goods or services in exchange.

The US has been doing this with a trade deficit for decades; giving people paper (or just numbers), which the US can make almost for free, in exchange for actual goods and services which people overseas happily send to the US. A trade deficit is free stuff. It's only a problem if the holder of all that paper comes back some day to spend it.

"When it gets sent overseas, it leaves the country and is spent elsewhere, so that is a loss in value for the originating country."

What value? The US did not give anyone goods or services, no goods from the US were transported to another country. What value was lost to the US? In the future, someone might come back with those dollars and exchange them for goods and services which they move outside the US. That would be a loss of value for the US, watching real goods and services go overseas.
Oh I'm sure - but without delving into philosophy, how would you know that something was deleted and tampered with vs. Immudb (for example) being compromised and turns out it's possible to delete something without you knowing vs. it never existed to begin with?

In my mind the only way to guarantee is to maintain a copy yourself and check against the "original", but if you're going to do that, then what I described is sufficient, no?

I only mention this because the project mentions that the history is protected by clients, which I imagine is similar to what I'm describing, e.g. copying and checking against the original.
I remember trying that with an old account a few years ago (suggesting your solution of just hiding the username) and was denied. Maybe things have changed since then though.
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We have several mailing lists you can converse on. We're happy to answer any technical questions.

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/community/get-inv...
> even that might not be true

It's not. For example, see SAP HANA's "Timeline Index" https://websci.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/publications/sigmo...
> In fact we have to really think hard on who they benefit

It will benefit air travellers whose planes will not get hijacked by the Belarus air force.
I am planning on not purchasing any new google smart home hardware. I am annoyed that my nest thermostat no longer has a way to interface with their API. I purchased it right before the Google acquisition and I would have gone with an Ecobee if I knew the Nest would be inaccessible to a regular user.

I believe having an open API is an important part of smart home hardware, even if most users don't use it.
That's kinda Meson I guess. I found it super pleasant - once you grasp the concepts and terminology; but the website is very informative.
Having a smart speaker with a display doesn't make sense for a bling person imao.
That’s completely unrelated to my point.

You’re appealing to centuries of free speech jurisprudence that constrains the actions of politicians. But the precise nature of that jurisprudence is to keep politicians as far away from the business of regulating speech as is possible.

Your proposal would purposefully involve politicians in the regulation of speech, contrary to that jurisprudence you point to. It is therefore not an internally consistent argument to point at the traditions you’re actively undermining as a reason why your actions will not have unintended consequences.
It’s the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, which sparked the largest ever protests seen in this country over the racist tendencies of of this country. One of the important take aways of those protests is understanding that these murders are not uncommon, but a part of what it means to be black in America. This has been the case for centuries. As long as we can safely say that the United States has an extremely racist past, it’s fair to say that skin tone has played a huge role in society.

How can you say that race’s role in the US has only recently become so large when there have been lynchings in the recent past, and it was legal to own someone who was black?

Surely we can consider those things as instances of skin tone being taken into consideration, no?
I haven't tried very hard yet, but magic has been fairly unintuitive for me. Perhaps it's just that I've been using git for so long.

There have been several times that I tried something with magit, and messed things up enough that I just dropped into a shell and did everything with the git command line
Mind you, Coinbase probably has an obligation to keep your data for x number of years for both tax and auditing purposes.
> your own music taste determines what you think constitutes good music taste

No, your own music taste determines what you think is good music. Taste is not about holding your own opinion higher than others', it's just about what you like or not.

I still find it weird that it's a 50/50 split though. Maybe a lot of people aren't thinking so much about whose taste is better, but whose is more refined? Like how people who aren't into wine might not take their own lived experience as seriously as the words of an experienced sommelier?
I'll re-phrase. Imagine I'm a startup. If government force me to to delete some data, it makes my life easier, no data - no privacy issues. if someone tells me , I want to port my data to competitor, because my UI better then theirs, but they still prefer competitor, why should I care about this requests, why should i spent a single second of my engineers time to implement that?
Why is there no Shopify for SaaS?
I am still waiting for silicon valley to 'disrupt' research. Places like

https://www.the-odin.com/

look scary at first blush. But if you've ever worked in a molecular biology lab, you know how competition, FOMO, and other pressures force shortcuts that should never be taken. In addition, the high traffic and 'density' of 'dangerous' agents and reagents makes errors exponentially more likely. These places are also high profile and as such targets for espionage as well as 'other' events (rhymes with error-ist and starts with a 't') .The resulting irony is that professional mol bio labs might be less safe for the workers and the environment than someone's basement. A contained low profile workplace is safer based on epidemiological arguments. An 'error' there is much more likely to result in a failed experiment than a disaster.
Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately for the OP, I think the internet and real life will continue to blend together until it’s considered as natural as running water and electricity.
We're building something similar to this at Splitgraph, at least in the sense that we have immutable data in a Postgres-compatible DB with point-in-time queries across versioned, addressable snapshots. In our case, we apply the idea of immutability to "data images" that are analogous to Docker images. You build and push them in the same way, and then you can reference any "image" (version) [0] of data by addressing it with the correct tag.

For example, here is a link to a live query on our Data Delivery Network (DDN) that runs a JOIN on two daily snapshots (20200809 and 20200810). [1] In this case, these images are the result of a daily script that builds and pushes a new image each day. The storage costs are minimal, as each new image only needs to store the changed rows, rather than a duplicative snapshot.

Each immutable image is comprised of a set of small content-addressable cstore fragments uploaded to object storage, which we only load into the database when they become necessary to satisfy a query. When a query arrives at the DDN, we intercept it at the network level by scripting PgBouncer with embedded Python to orchestrate the infrastructure required to answer the query. The embedded code parses the AST of the query for table references, which it uses to "mount" a temporary schema for serving the query. The temporary schema includes an FDW that implements a "layered querying" protocol (think AUFS) to lazily download only the fragments required to satisfy the query.

(Also, we support live data. But that's for another time!)

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/docs/concepts/images

[1] https://www.splitgraph.com/workspace/ddn?layout=hsplit&query...
I think I read the claim somewhere else on HN very recently that the "fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine" is US-only.

In my opinion courts should be allowed to use all relevant evidence. Deliberately causing a miscarriage of justice is not the right way to punish a different person for having broken a different law.
Let's call it Autocmake.
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Another way of looking at this is: it's a great life extension hack!

One of the problems with cryonics is, how to motivate future people to revive you in the first place? Learning (and having it documented) a technology on which global economy is going to be critically dependent for decades to come sounds like it should do the trick.

(Another problem is, how to motivate earlier future people to keep you around until your value becomes apparent, which will likely happen only when your services are direly needed on short notice.)
Because the data isn't yours, it belongs to the customer.

That is the opinion that GDPR encodes into law
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Besides, that Germany is extremely bad suited for re-newable energies (little sun, wind at the wrong places, little hydroelectric power):

1. Yes, population growth may stop

2. Your argument with population numbers is totally irrelevant. Economics growth, which is linked to energy consumption, won't stop. If is stops, our society will likely collapse.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...

In fact, with injecting trillions of dollars in the economy and negative interest rates, we may already have reached the end game. Exactly at the time from predicted by the Club of Rome, I think they predicted trouble for around 2030.
The article those draw from is a bit more charitable, though not much more so: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pK4HTxuv6mftHXWC3/prolegomen...

As a side note, you can support just about anything you want with scripture, so it's not a great basis for an argument.
I've been skimming forward. There are three chapters on general statistical knowledge - maybe 1/3 of the book.

There are chapters on Probability, Statistics, and Regression. None of those chapters illuminates the subject at hand; they provide an explanation of the author's techniques. It's background. There are several other "background" chapters, that aren't about statistics, but also aren't about the subject at hand.

So it looks as if I read most of the meat yesterday.

I read most of the chapter on Regression, because I didn't know much about it, and the author relies rather heavily on regression analysis.
Cory said it best: https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/. Or at least I have not found it elsewhere being said in a better way yet.
Reminds me a lot of Fluree[0], an immutable, cryptographically verifiable, temporal database, but with RDF as a query language, which I think is very nice. SQL is nice because it's familiar but it's honestly not that hard to improve on.

[0]https://flur.ee/
Meson has different engine and requires Python. CMake is already nearly perfect in everything except syntax. Moreover, it requires only C++ to be built so bootstrapping is easier than in case of Meson.
You can see with your own eyes in Israel that this doesn't really work. Though i wonder how many more rats there would be without them. Similar in UK with the foxes.
Why the down votes ? Perfectly polite and mostly valid comment.
I said that I can understand the local residents' concerns, and I don't see how the fact of the prior event would do anything to alleviate those concerns.

On the other hand, I see that the storage cavities were created independently of, and some distance (horizontally and vertically) away from the flooded mine, which should answer their concerns that the flooding had made the proposal risky.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190215050528/http://www.aglres...
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> In my mind the only way to guarantee is to maintain a copy yourself and check against the "original", but if you're going to do that, then what I described is sufficient, no?

The attacker in that case could update your copy. But you have somewhat started to fix the issue.

To cover the case where a bad admin has access to the DB and any copies, you need to send a hash every so often to an outside source. In this case they use clients (I'm not sure exactly how they do this).

In fact you need a list of hashes one for every 100 rows for example. Re-generated the hashes and checking against an external source should detect a tamper.

In the case of Bitcoin (which is extremely tamper resistant) every node operator is a validator. The hashes are stored in a merkle tree.
Emacs is too laggy for me as my main editor.

But Magit is so good that I start emacs up just to use it as my Git interface if I can't get by just with the CLI.

Sadly there is no Vim plugin that is competitive. There is vimagit [1], but it's not on par.

[1] https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit
It is serviceable after time, and if you don't need nothing too fancy. Just remember that basically everything is a string.
> Exporting your personal data is only half of the story. Importing is the other half.

If we're wishing for things, I'd like to add the ability to have "live" exports/imports. By that I mean two services with comparable data types should be able to keep your accounts in synch, such that a change made on one service is reflected (after only a short delay) on the other service.

You would still have to visit Facebook if you wanted to see what your friends there were saying, but they would be able to see what you were posting on Mastodon, for example, without needing to create a Fediverse account.
sarasanctuary.org

It's am animal rescue and a non profit. Give it a shot.
If you don't mind, what music software did you start writing?
Erm... because you need to follow laws. Your company would file tax records, right? And follow fire and building regulations in the office, correct? So why would it not follow GDPR?
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It might make sense for a blind person with sighted family and friends.
Alliance of Democracies Foundation's yearly Democracy Perception Index from 2021[0] had 77% Chinese people seeing their country as having "just the right amount of democracy"[1], which is the exact same percentage as they found in Denmark so it really isn't as simple as that. It also isn't about Right Vs. Left because on a simple left-right axis the US is located further to the right than Saudi Arabia and Hitler[2] and however you see US politics it isn't comparable to Nazism. You need to include more than just left right to get a reasonably useable result.

I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with your point of view here just saying that when "just the right amount of democracy" can differ so much that #7 on Most democratic countries in the world[3] and #157 on the list agree they have the right amount of democracy then it isn't a surprise that countries that might differ a lot are seen as comparable by some and not others.

0: https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/initiatives/the-copenh...

1: Alliance of Democracies Foundation is chaired by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. This isn't just some cranks rating China based on scared citizens not daring to say otherwise.

2: Obama is pretty close to Hitler on a left-right-only axis but Trump, Bush, etc. are far to the right of Hitler. It is a broken comparison outside of local politics.

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Impressive! I like how this makes the browser's UI simpler and more predictable.

Also, this is especially useful for people using dark mode, since native context menus match that setting.
Yeah, this interests me because I'm thinking about how to use grafeas - it's role is critical for reliable software development going forward - but storing it's data in a backend like this would add one more layer of trust and verifiability to a software supply chain. There are some interesting possibilities with making e.g. public software repos' metadata clonable verifiable and queryable via local immutable copies.
Interesting. I live near the TI HQ in Dallas, so I thought I'd take a peek. The Bedford location apparently still exists as "Bedford Heights," and it does look like a mini TI. The Bedford Heights website does call out the "cyclone-proof roof," which they imported directly from the Dallas HQ blueprints.
Why people think it's a good idea for the build systems to reach out and grab code from the internet is beyond me.
> If maintainers feel like they need to close tickets only to keep order, than that's a problem with the tooling

Oh, yes. Yes it is!

I think you were downvoted because the first part of your answer is wrong, but this one hits right on the mark.
The way I finally got vim to stick was by integrating it into my existing development workflow.

I had tried to go all in on vim a few times but the learning curve always made me feel less productive than working in VS Code.

After adding the vim extension in VS code and gradually learning new commands, it stuck.

Very happy to have learned vim but I agree that the learning curve is pretty steep usually. It was frustrating enough that I published an interactive vim course that helps people get over the hurdle.
What makes you say it's wrong?
I don't think it is as shallow as you make it seem at all.

Whatever technological / knowledge advancement any entity holds proprietary could probably be of more use when being shared with the world. Our technology enables us to have this kind of knowledge society, where knowledge is accessible at all times almost anywhere. I don't think that stopping knowledge from spreading can be a net gain, just because it enables a few selected individuals at some entity to gain from keeping it a secret. Such a thing should not be the basis of a business.
A great, fun, system is CSOUND

https://csound.com/
>We’ve been tracking the development of Fuchsia since 2016, starting from an ambitious experimental UI, to running on Google’s many internal testing devices for Fuchsia, ranging the full gamut of Google’s smart home and Chromebook lineup.
Because then work just becomes a more boring riff on the Nuremberg defense. You can't just be like "I'm just paid to write code and so will completely ignore any and all ethical issues with what my company does with it."

There's a reason the ACM code of ethics has "everyone is a stakeholder" and "avoid harm" as the top two overriding principles.

I can understand arguments about keeping political issues unrelated to your work and working relationships out but you this isn't that.
I know that HN doesn't like +1 posts, but soo much this.

Even worse is if you make me type them on a phone[1], I am actively hating you. As in I am actively going to recommend we switch from whatever products you support.

[1] Because you purposefully broke web app so you can drive your app usage.
> Russia would assassinate people and the assassins would have safe travel home.

They already largely do. Also, in many countries that have experienced illiberal trends recently, they can still get you emigrated abroad and they still have power over you abroad.

As the journalist Sarah Kendzior says “This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

To win something like this, it is better that large amounts of people who can stay be able to as long as feasibly possible. Once people leave en masse (sometimes there is no choice) the situation only gets uglier. But you do absolutely have to know when to leave.
On the other hand every single app at one point would happily import your contacts no matter how they were formatted...

The incompatibility is by design.
Could you say something, how the kernel is different from linux for example? Why would I want to choose Fuchsia for a smartphone, for example. Where is the advantage?
Check out Home Assistant. Not sure how well voice controls work with it but my automation is flawless so far. Really seems to help using local only open source firmware where I can and Zigbee for any sensors that aren't hard wired in (mostly for battery efficiency.)

I just read yesterday that Home Assistant is now automatically included in Raspian (Raspberry Pi targeted OS). I run my home and shop automation on Pi's but ultimately a NUC is probably a better long term solution.
Tried native-comp? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24117853
I’ve thought about this idea of what would make for a desirable utopia, and I can’t avoid the fact that either you would die at some point (which creates suffering due to the anticipation of the event) or live forever, which actually seems more horrific in a way — how could you possibly not go crazy after living trillions of years and thinking about the next trillion? The only real solution is to alter the human brain to no longer fear death or eternal existence.

The point about the pleasure/pain imbalance is interesting. Think about how people slowly develop tolerance to drugs/medications that make you feel better and require more of it to get the same effect, but with pain we have the opposite situation, where constant suffering leads to experiencing even more suffering in the future through the process of sensitization (there are some theories that a lot of chronic pain is due to this rather than the original injury). It really doesn’t seem fair how massive this imbalance is.

I’ve slowly realized that I probably won’t ever figure out exactly what will make me happy, but I definitely know what makes me unhappy, and it’s much easier to develop a life plan based on avoiding negative things than pursuing positive things.
Skimming that long comment, I still don't see any evidence for your claim. My best guess is you mean a different word than "democratic".
Where this is a real need, something will come up - somebody will develop a service, a utility that can be a bridge between the exported data and the new target. Without the export, this would not even be possible.
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I find that a lot more plausible as a primary cause. I've had a lot of that sort of misophonia, and ended up doing a kind of trauma therapy over childhood incidents including a situation where my Dad raged at me at the dinner table, parodying my mouth noises (presumably he, too, had misophonia)

Turned out, there was more going on in that situation than it seemed at face value. Revisiting the events with an adult capacity to look at context, suggested that my Mom and Dad were having a fight already and repressing it, and that I'd got in the middle. The total lack of context made it seem like the end of the world, and I'd call that a real specific trained aversive reaction if anything could be.

If this mouth-brain link exacerbates the problem, I wouldn't be terribly surprised, but I don't think that alone can cause it.