skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to take this opportunity to share some relevant exercepts from In The Plex[^1] about Eric Schmidt, then-CEO of Google.

> One day Denise Griffin got a call from Eric Schmidt’s assistant. “There’s this information about Eric in the indexes,” she told Griffin. “And we want it out.” In Griffin’s recollection, it dealt with donor information from a political campaign, exactly the type of public information that Google dedicated itself to making accessible. Griffin explained that it wasn’t Google policy to take things like that out of the index just because people didn’t want it there. Principles always make sense until it’s personal,” she says.

> Then in July 2005, a CNET reporter used Schmidt as an example of how much personal information Google search could expose. Though she used only information that anyone would see if they typed Schmidt’s name into his company’s search box, Schmidt was so furious that he blackballed the news organization for a year.

> “My personal view is that private information that is really private, you should be able to delete from history,” Schmidt once said. But that wasn’t Google’s policy...

I guess they've since changed the policy a bit?

[^1]: https://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/14...
Well... coastlines are handled in a deep, dark, arcane part of OSM planet and data processing, but you're right. Rivers, on the other hand should be straightforward to change. We'll have some cleaned up examples in the near future.
They have not being doing "one thing" - they have been farming, having sing-songs, getting married, having kids, fighting wars, and so on.
More powerful? Yeah, sure. But honestly, many companies have made more powerful versions of Excel over the years and most of them have gone to the wall.

If you think of power in a different way, that of empowering users who typically have little or no technology experience, things get a bit more interesting. Anything you come up with has to be instantly obviously more useful in at least one way. Google Docs and Zoho are still viable products despite from a CS perspective being significantly less powerful.

Like many answers you’ve received, it comes down to the difference between technology, product design and commercial concerns.

The only product to ever supplant a world-wide dominant spreadsheet is... Excel.
> Inversely, with BTC, you would want to spend as little as humanly possible.

Sign me up. Hyper-consumerism has laid waste to our planet, commoditized every human interaction, and polluted our minds with its drivel.

Behold Denmark and its glorious decision to punish its citizenry for saving any amount of money at all. Hope you weren't thinking of saving your pennies for a ticket out of the renter's racket, Denmark would prefer you stuff it in stocks and pay them their cut.

It's time we seized control of the engine and refashioned it into a tool that serves our welfare.
How does “wheel” relate? In Sweden/DK/NO we call it “hjul” which is pronounced like the American nicotine vape brand juul, quite similar to English
Costs for raising a child is almost certainly lower, and they can likely work towards their top pay range before the age 25
Aside from that small part of a stolen and long lived cookie working on an untrusted device.
> It not that top colleges are biased against the lower classes, but that lower classes may just be less inclined to apply or score lower on standardized tests

Oh, my. This is such a straight-textbook example of not seeing systemic bias.
Effectively no one here thinks that. Asking a question is not the same as thinking that.
I think you're being a bit unfair. The parent comment describes a hardship, investing time, effort, and some sense of self-worth and seeing it vanish into nothing, and your response makes the parent seem entitled. "Like you want some kind of 'thank you for putting in some effort.'

If someone told you they were having a hard time buying a house and all their offers were silently rejected replying "The sellers owe you nothing" might be true, but it is beside the point.
Perhaps not in itself. The lack of scans is concerning though
Sony Music Is Wiping Out the Old Debts of Catalog Artists
While I don't love seeing great things like Freenode failing like that, I feel like exercising the community's ability to be flexible and fight for freedom might make this a net positive.
Have a look at https://wildland.io/2021/06/11/introducing-client-v0.1.html and examples which talk a bit more about the client usage. GLM seems to be a completely optional add-on feature, not something wildland is based on.
I think if they were working from home it would, obviously, be a different story. They could stash some cash away and be able to care for their aging parents in the future.
That's a different form!

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/legal-removal-reques...
Fully agree with this for 18-19 year olds, but at some point (25? 30?) it really does seem like coddling, or enabling at least. At some point you have to move out and support yourself.
You are making an assertion based on a model that is strictly in your head because it seems "right". Please check your history.
I remembered something, and I want to say as an aside, for anybody reading that at one point has to design a toy RNG from an ADC, as I had to some years ago, you should not take the last bits as they are--as was my first thought--, you should pass them through something like the von Neumann corrector [1].

[1] https://everything2.com/title/von+Neumann+corrector
Hey! Author of the thread here. Thanks for your comments!

> This is an extremely solved problem.

Not with the properties of Sign-In with Ethereum (SIE), which is single, user generated authentication credentials, a self-custody portable username in a naming system that isn't reliant on a trusted-third party, and that people are already getting for other reasons (to use Ethereum, so extra incentive to get set up, not just SSO incentive).

> ordinary home users are effectively tethered to their email accounts, because that's how you reset a login

Yep, and I don't expect that to change very much anytime soon, but there is a small but growing community of people tethered to their Ethereum wallets and ENS names and using those instead. Given the advantages and crypto incentives, I expect it to continue to grow. Note also that service can always re

> The actual last thing in the world home users want is an authentication system where credential loss is literally irrevocable.

Doesn't have to be. Depends on how your wallet provider works. There are already some wallet providers with social recovery, etc.

Note two other key things:

1) Crypto incentives (unrelated to sign-in) mean that the private key management industry ("wallet" industry) is already highly incentivized to make it very difficult for people to lose access to their accounts (because then lost money). That's part of my point: private key management has never been good enough for average people, but crypto incentives have spurred on an massive industry to solve this problem. And while it's not solved (still needs improvement), it has improved rapidly in the last five years to be much better than ever before, and I expect it to continue to improve.

2) What I've described is just on the user side. If a web2 service adopted this, they can always do things like require you provide an email address or other information, and they can still have a process for reassigning your account with them to a different Ethereum account.

> The actual last thing in the world corporate users want is an authentication system their IT department doesn't control absolutely.

Again, depends on what you want, you can make it so that a third-party has access to all of your company's employees Ethereum accounts.

> Internet identity evangelists tend to overlook the fact that people have multiple identities on purpose.

Yep. I don't expect this to replace everything else immediately, but I do expect overtime for this to become a ubiquitous option, such that a user could use their one Ethereum account everywhere if they wanted to. Also, re the need for multiple identities: as i point out in the thread, a person can generated as many Ethereum accounts and have as many ENS names as they'd like.
Does it still crash every 15 minutes because that is what it did for me when I tried Fedora 34?
Hmm, I don't know too much about how investment banks being LLCs incentivizes bad behavior. I mean, sure, if bankers screw up and sink their bank, they can't be sued (unless they did something illegal), but the owners of those banks still don't want that to happen. What happened there?

> a collapse of the financial system like we had in the 1930s doesn’t help anyone

Sure, no one likes to live in a depression. But that's kind of besides the point, which is that the bailouts were massively corrupt. Its also pretty dubious that these institutions failing would have lead to anything like the 1930s. For one, bank runs played a large part in the great depression. But the FDIC didn't exist back then, and private clearing houses were put out of business by the Fed (who then for some reason refused to act as lender of last resort when it ended up being needed). The government buying corporate stock was uncontionable tho. It was pure corruption there, helping the elites escape with more money than they knew what to do with while the rest of us suffered.
thanks :) database connectors are on our list!
I believe Amazon is more like 50%+ now, and to compared to brick & mortar... Wal-Mart is considered huge and still only ~10% of the market.

There are more than 3 grocery chains in your link, I think you may have overlooked the regional chains listed below.
If you have time to play video games then you have time to improve your education and social standing. Wealthy relatives don't live forever.
enso is awesome! I will also check the other links.
This is the wrong place to regulate that. If buildings need to adhere to certain fire safety requirements, you have a law that says people modifying the property need to follow those requirements. You don't make a law that says only the original builder of the house is allowed to repair the house.
I know I'm being pedantic here but if you're going to insist on writing Greek words with Greek letters you need to stop writing Latin words with the modern "u".
The Wiktionary quick summary of why it's disputed is one researcher's assertion that "slověne can't be formed from slovo because -ěninъ, -aninъ only occurs in derivations from place names". (Maybe słowianin < slověninъ is an exception, but you can see where someone might be skeptical if it's supposedly the only* exception!)

Sometimes etymologies that feel super-logical turn out to be more complicated historically. In many of these cases, the later perception that two words were related influenced their subsequent meaning or spelling, even if they were originally not related.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paronymic_attraction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology#Productive_forc...

As a non-speaker of Slavic languages, I'm pretty convinced about the "word" connection, especially with the example you mentioned about the Germans being called "non-talkers", since it's not very unusual for ethnic groups' autonyms to mean something like "speakers". But there are lots of etymologies that feel natural and straightforward and are later shown to have a folk etymological component.
Reminds me of ParticleLife (for example [1]), which has much simpler, but more random rules. There also emerge lots of interesting organism, but I rarely see replicators.

I used this as inpiration and to learn about Unity ECS and made a 3D version with WebGL support [2]; native builds obviously have much better performance. But it is all CPU-only. Anyway. What I found very interesting is dynamically switching between 2d and 3d. Most organisms survive the dimensional increase or reduction and just reconfigure itself to a similar structure.

[1] https://fnky.github.io/particle-life/
[2] https://particlelife-3d-unity-ecs.github.io/
"suture" and "sutra" are cognates in Latin and Sanskrit respectively. A sutra सूत्र is literally a thread or fibre. This also explains why it was calqued into Chinese as 經 (among other meanings, "weave").

Similarly, "joust" and "juxtapose" are cognates via French and neo-Latinate French respectively (ultimately from iūxtā, a Latin preposition meaning "near", "next to").

However, my most favourite pair of surprising cognates that I discovered recently is "durian" (the fruit) and "iwi" (a word loaned from Maori into New Zealand English meaning "tribe"). This one goes way back into Proto-Austronesian...
> The overwhelming majority of Bitcoin power usage is already green and that will only increase.

Is there any source for this, the first part, that it is currently powered overwhelmingly by green energy? Anything I can find suggests otherwise. And the part of the claim that Bitcoin will use a greater share of green energy in the future is not very meaningful if you expect that is also true of every other industry.

https://theconversation.com/bitcoin-isnt-getting-greener-fou...

https://www.infokreek.com/green-bitcoin-the-impact-and-impor...

https://medium.com/crypto-lucid/enough-with-bitcoins-greenwa...

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/05/bitcoin-mini...
looks interesting. Thanks for the link.
My company started doing a serious WFH 'experiment' about 18 months before COVID hit. The team I oversee consists of a dozen or so teams of about 40-50 developers each, with a manager that reports directly to me. I don't manage the devs directly, but deal with dev productivity and budgets for (amongst other things) staffing. So our N is not small, but not huge either.

50% of our devs - randomly selected - were offered the chance to WFH, and about 95% of them wound up doing WFH at least 3 days a week, rising to 5 days a week after a few months. The other 50% stayed in the office. The teams that went WFH and the other 50% don't work on the same projects or in the same location.

After about 6 months, we started looking at productivity metrics using a couple Pinpoint-like tools that we built. Simple metrics like: backlog change time, on-time delivery, workload balance, LOC/Checkins ratio, etc. We also tracked things like non-code calendar hours, time logging delays, and other non-development related activity.

Neither group knew what we were tracking or how often. The results were pretty clear as soon as 6 - 9 months in: WFH numbers sucked pretty hard. Everything was down across the board, and it seemed like WFH devs were spending 15-30% more time in non-development tasks, their PR reject rate was as much as 40% higher than office-based devs.

Things were so bad that if COVID had not hit, we were going to abandon the idea of letting people WFH altogether outside of extreme circumstances.

We aren't a unique shop. We're not doing anything out of the ordinary - we're developing on a variety of web and RT device platforms, but doing the same stuff in similar ways as other companies. We have a pretty flat team structure, and teams have a lot of flexibility and decision-making power, which has always worked well for us.

However, it's clear to me and the other execs that WFH absolutely does not work for us.
Your first three paragraphs are all focusing on structural flaws with my suggestion and not technical limitations of encryption itself. The debate has already moved from this is impossible to this is impractical. We can fix impractical. For example, we can design a way for content to be reencrypted with new keys if anything ever leaks.

>You will 100% be able to roll your own, and trivially too. You’ll just need to go to GitHub and grab the source code...

Github is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft won't let you host code that is designed specifically to break the law. That is the point. You would need to jump through a variety of hoops in order to avoid this. It wouldn't be impossible, but it won't be the default and most people won't go through the effort to do it.
>> To be eligible in your own right, you have to have paid into Social Security for a total of 40 quarters before becoming disabled

Looks like there are different rules for disability for young workers:

"To be eligible for disability benefits, you must meet a recent work test and a duration work test.

The number of credits necessary to meet the recent work test depends on your age. The rules are as follows:

Before age 24 - You may qualify if you have 6 credits earned in the 3-year period ending when your disability starts.

Age 24 to 31 – In general, you may qualify if you have credit for working half the time between age 21 and the time you become disabled. As a general example, if you become disabled at age 27, you would need 3 years of work (12 credits) out of the past 6 years (between ages 21 and 27).

Age 31 or older - In general, you must have at least 20 credits in the 10-year period immediately before you become disabled."

-- https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/credits.html
That site is not trustworthy because they just add a constant to existing government numbers.

Let's get real. Every statistic has a tracking error. The CPI will always be wrong because that is the nature of measurements. However, it's not so crappy that it is off by more than 1%.

Inflation usually happens with full employment. One problem is that inflation can also drive full employment, therefore the interest rate has to act as a moderator to prevent the economy from overheating as people constantly switch jobs for better pay. Lowering the interest rate is only possible because there is slack in the economy and we haven't reached full employment. If there was full employment the Fed would have to raise the interest rate because the market demands a higher interest rate but that is not the case right now.
No, that's just for incidental damage and probably legally mandated by your state. If your house burns down to due to DIY wiring, the insurance company won't pay out a dime (if the inspectors discover it).

Electricians have liability insurance provided by an organization specializing in policies for practicing tradesmen. If an insurance company fails to disqualify a homeowner's policy and pays out, it will then go after the electrician and his insurance to recoup their losses. Residential electrical fires are extremely preventable so insurance companies almost universally refuse to insure homes with DIY electrical work because the homeowner is the one liable.
> who gives af if there is a theoretical savings optimization possible, that's not your problem stop acting like it is.

In some families, caring and advising continues past the 18th birthday. Northern European culture is the anomaly in this regard.
Congratulations. You have won the argument "there is no perfectly secure system", which no one was arguing.
Could be. But lack of exercise would also lead to low T, and I'm quite confident that middle aged man without a job who lives with parents aren't exactly staying fit.
If the parents don't provide for them, what do you think would happen to the nephews? Do you think they would be homeless? I certainly don't.

The fact that the parents are providing a roof over their head and paying for their food/water/electricity/internet/clothes/games/etc is why they haven't had a job nor any desire for one well into their 30s.

Honestly, because the parents keep providing for them, there's no impetus for them to change, so they may as well do this into their 40s or 50s.

Minimum wage is enough to survive, and almost anyone that's not severely mentally/physically disabled can do most minimum wage work. In this case, it's not a matter of lack of ability, but lack of willingness.

That said, I have nothing against parents willing to provide housing/support if the child is working, still furthering their education, or need some help getting their feet back on the ground. But at this point, this is none of that, and just enabling their behavior.
As someone in a similar situation as OP's son (although undergrad) and looking to move out...

Independence and personal space MATTER, please consider how your son may feel about living close to you. It may hurt, but it's important to understand the mindset behind the decision.
We've got it ladies and gentlemen. The secret to halting population decline in the developed world is banning condoms.
" Technically yes, but they are removed when a person is found not guilty or released without being charged thus protecting the innocent and falsely accused. The mugshot sites capitalize on this by scraping the government websites and archiving them forever - until you pay a removal fee."

I don't believe anyone has an obligation to remove if someone found not guilty. The arrest happened, that's a fact. The information is public was made public by the government, that's also a fact.

From my understanding once something is made public you can't put it back in the bag. The government may do so on their own databases (Ie. Expungement, removal from government databases) but that doesn't apply to the public and especially not to publications who have first amendment right to publish public records.

I looked up the case you mentioned, it's still pending and the arguments made by the government are questionable

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180523/10224639892/calif...
There's no currently practical way to compromise. On theory we have homomorphic encryption which would be able to apply filters over opaque data. But it's not fast enough yet.
(Off topic) Curious why you think it's on the kid to pay for the parent?